Recaps

Shien left the Royal Capital for the World’s Crevice to rescue Iris and the other hostages held by Geura. After freeing the captives, he confronted Geura and faced two resurrected Heroes while Geura fought the rescuers below.

• Shien learned that Geura had taken Iris, her Priestly Corps, and other captives into the World’s Crevice, then decided to rescue them himself.
• Shien left the Royal Capital and entered Cosmos, where he rescued Nobu from Note and agreed to follow him to the Crevice.
• Shien and Nobu fought through Geura’s soldiers and entered the Crevice, where Nobu drew the defenders away so Shien could infiltrate the town.
• Shien found Iris in the palace and freed her, then joined the Beastman Priests in rescuing the other prisoners, including Lilime and Lalame.
• Shien led the freed captives through the palace and fought Geura’s forces until Geura sealed the upper floor and confronted him.
• Geura revealed two undead Heroes prepared by the New Primal Demon, and Shien began battling them while Oz, Mafy, the Beastman Priests, and the Goddesses attacked Geura.

Shien awakened powers tied to the Demon Lord’s Jade and the Supreme God’s source, then sought answers about the Demon King and Danas’s plans. When Pandemonium attacked Lasha and Lilith to bring them to the New Primal Demon, Shien defeated her and let Lidas and Anima take her for questioning.

• Shien’s awakening collapsed the inner side of the world, and he tracked down Geura and killed him after refusing his offer of information.
• Danas abandoned Geura and began pursuing the revival of the Demon King, while Shien learned that the undead Heroes were Reinart and Philip, two Transcendent Class Heroes.
• Shien visited the Goddess, learned that Omnis and the Demon Lord’s Jade were connected to his new powers, and heard that the Demon King might be able to resurrect.
• Lasha told Shien that the Demon Lord’s Jade held the Demon Lord’s will and that she expected the Demon Lord to reclaim her body.
• Lidas and Anima described the Demon King’s strange conduct and her care for her daughters, while Shien considered visiting Artemis in the Elven Village.
• Pandemonium attacked Lasha and Lilith at House Poztut, but Shien arrived, sealed the area, and fought her as she imitated powerful figures and creatures.
• Shien bound and crushed Pandemonium with the Demon Roar Chain, then identified her as the Goddess who had blessed Geura and learned she had come to take Lasha and Lilith to the New Primal Demon.
• Lidas and Anima took the defeated Pandemonium for questioning, and Shien agreed to listen.

Shien traveled to the Elven Village, where the group uncovered Stone Tablets that recorded the Demon King’s loneliness and confronted the mystery of her past. Following the tablets’ power into an underground residence, Shien and Lasha found a message from someone named Nien, who claimed to be a Hero.

• Shien questioned Pandemonium and learned that the New Primal Demons had no headquarters, while Danas concealed his location and ordered members to collect ancient records and objects.
• Shien left the royal capital with Lasha, Merika, Lilith, and Yulin, then rescued Carol and the Elven magicians from pursuing undead and Magic Life forms in Taiger Forest.
• Carol revealed that the bundle Lasha carried contained Stone Tablets retrieved from ancient ruins, and Shien brought the group to the Elven Village.
• Shien and the others read the tablets, which described the Demon King’s visits with a girl, her growing loneliness, and her eventual despair.
• Artemis recalled confronting the Demon King and fleeing after realizing she could not defeat her, while Nadula urged the group to focus on Danas’s plans to revive the Demon King.
• Shien and Lasha used the Demon Roar Chain to find the hidden ruins beneath Taiger Forest and discovered writing in a stone bed.
• Shien used the Demon Lord’s jewel to reveal the hidden message, which began with Nien saying that she seemed to be a Hero.

Shien recovered his memories as the First Generation Hero’s son, learned the truth of the past from Othinus, and completed his transcendence. When Danas and the New Primal Demon attacked Elven Village, Shien intervened and let Danas withdraw after revealing their goals partly overlapped.

• Shien read Nien’s record, recovered memories of his mother Xiao Hui, and healed Lasha after his power erupted.
• Shien used his Holy Sword to break Nadula’s seal and purge the death aura from Artemis, then learned that his sword’s transformation would complete his transcendence.
• Othinus showed Shien how Nien had been forced to fight the Demon King, died by her hand, and was revived through the combined powers of the Hero, Demon King, and Goddess.
• Othinus revealed that Shien had inherited Nien’s Holy Sword and the powers of the Hero, Goddess, and Demon King, and Shien resolved to intervene in their cursed bond.
• Danas and the Queen Consort led an invasion of Elven Village while Shien remained secluded to complete his transcendence, and Laisha arrived to ask Lasha for help retrieving the Stone Tablets.
• Shien merged with his Holy Sword and the three supreme powers, completing the Hero concept and leaving him beyond the World Principle’s system.
• Danas defeated Artemis and the Queen Consort stabbed her, but Shien appeared, erased the battlefield’s magic, stopped Artemis’s sacrifice, and healed her.
• Shien told Danas he understood his goal and allowed him to leave, then appeared before him and pressed a hand to his chest.