Recaps

Shien’s growing closeness with Roxie and his encounters with Sera and Nien reshaped his life in the Royal Capital. After leaving with Aiyi and Lasha to investigate the Old Demon Faction, he arrived in Jeritry, where an unseen group began following them.

• Shien became a viscount and hosted a banquet where Sela revealed that Aiyi was the Dragon Demon and announced she would stay at his manor.
• Sela recognized Shien as someone chosen by the gods, and Shien warned her not to involve him in Three Races politics.
• Shien completed his study of Enchantment Magic and decided to travel to Duke Streim’s Territory to keep his promise to Aiyi and investigate the Old Demon Faction.
• Shien spent the night with Roxie, and the two called themselves husband and wife before she returned to the palace.
• Shien departed the Royal Capital with Aiyi and Lasha on Yulin and reached Jeritry, where he told Tris he had come at the Princess’s request to investigate the faction.
• As Shien walked through Jeritry with Aiyi and Lasha, he called Aiyi his wife and carried her when she objected to being treated like a child.
• A group quietly followed Shien’s party through town while carrying a bundle containing a sleeping golden-haired figure.

Shien brought Emerald to Cosmos, where strange spatial disturbances and the Old Demon Faction’s presence disrupted the city. After defeating Capeline Ragna and reconnecting with Roxie, he followed Emerald to a thorn-covered temple that appeared to be causing the upheaval.

• Shien discovered that four Magic Life intruders had died by their master's orders, then took in the girl they had carried, who introduced herself as Emerald.
• Shien ignored the crowd seeking Yulin's dragon materials, frightened a Furso Count Family representative with the dragon, and left Jeritry with Aiyi, Lasha, and Emerald.
• Tris warned Shien about a legend tied to Emerald, but Shien left with her for Cosmos after Taylor challenged him and fled in tears over Shien's proof of his relationship with Roxie.
• Shien entered sealed Cosmos with his Royal Token and learned that people, buildings, and monsters were appearing in the wrong places as the Old Demon Faction's presence was reported.
• Shien's use of Enchantment: Movement shook the city and worsened its shifting streets, while Capeline Ragna confronted him and fought him with the Replica Sacred Sword.
• Shien defeated Capeline with Starry Arrays, released her knights, and later told Roxie about the encounter as she warned him against pursuing the imperial Princess.
• Emerald led Shien through Cosmos's shifting alleys to a black, thorn-covered temple, where he sensed mana that was transferring people and buildings elsewhere.

Shien uncovered that Emerald was Lilith’s rational half-body and tried to find a way to reunite them without erasing her. When the Old Demon Faction disrupted Lilith’s seal, Shien entered the Dark Temple and confronted Danas, the leader of Mirage.

• Shien broke into the Dark Temple with Emerald and found Lilith’s sealed body, but the Beastman Priests and Saintess Iris restored the seal before he could free her.
• Shien took the unconscious Iris to the inn, where he healed her injuries and learned that the sealed god was Lilith, whose return could bring disaster to the world.
• Iris revealed that Emerald was Lilith’s rational half-body, and Shien promised to help Emerald reunite with her without being erased.
• When evil energy spread from the Dark Temple, Shien flew toward it as Iris ran off, then warned Capeline and the knights not to enter the affected area.
• Shien entered the temple alone, fought the maddened creatures, saved Mafy, and learned that the Old Demon Faction had interfered with Lilith’s seal.
• Shien and Mafy found Oz and fought the Old Demon Faction’s black-robed members, while Iris remained somewhere inside the temple.
• Shien, Mafy, and Oz reached a hall where Old Demons performed a ritual around Lilith’s crystal seal, and Shien stopped Mafy and Oz from interrupting it.
• Danas appeared with four powerful black-clad demons, revealed that he led Mirage and had lent Magic Life creations to the human who destroyed the spatial node and abducted Emerald.

Shien and his companions stopped Danas’s plan by helping Emerald reclaim Lilith’s body and reason, though Cosmos was destroyed. Afterward, Shien’s identity as a summoned Hero drew the Goddesses’ attention, while conflict with the Streim Family and Roxie’s wish to marry set up what followed.

• Danas revealed his plan to free Lilith and rule the world with her evil creatures, but Shien refused to join him and fought his forces.
• Danas’s followers sacrificed themselves to break Lilith’s seal, and Lilith emerged as the Fallen Goddess as evil aura overwhelmed Cosmos.
• Shien contained the city’s residents and fought Lilith, while Emerald merged with her original body and struggled to regain control.
• Emerald reclaimed her reason and identified herself as Lilith, stabilizing her soul and ending the immediate threat to the world.
• Anima told Shien that she could not take Lilith back to the Divine Realm, and Shien secretly discussed his Hero Summon with Nien.
• Anima offered Shien a way to enter the Divine Realm, while Iris and the others reported on Cosmos’s destruction and the search for the hidden mastermind.
• Barry tried to force Shien to reveal what he knew, but Lilith freed Shien with her evil aura and Aiyi destroyed the attackers before the group departed for the royal capital.
• Anima and Nadula agreed to investigate Shien’s summoning, while Roxie told Ria that she wanted to get married.