Chapter Summaries

Roxie told Shien that monsters near the royal capital had been acting strangely while suspicious people linked to demon executive Jacinta lingered nearby, raising fears of a plot and a diplomatic crisis. She explained that she was investigating alone because the Goddess of Fate’s blessing would guide her to the problem, and Shien wondered whether he could leave.

• Roxie explained that monsters near the royal capital had abandoned their habitats, grown restless, or disappeared, while suspicious people had also been seen in the area.
• Roxie said the suspicious people appeared to be demons connected to Jacinta, who had remained in the royal capital after his audience and refused to explain why.
• Roxie explained that the royal family feared Jacinta’s activities could lead to harm or a diplomatic crisis, while her father watched him and her sister sought information from the demons.
• Roxie told Shien she was investigating the unnatural phenomena alone because the Goddess of Fate’s blessing would guide her to whatever needed to be resolved.
• Shien questioned whether Roxie’s luck would really lead her to a clue and asked what would happen if he wanted to leave.

Shien and Roxie discovered a mountain filled with monster mana and entered it to investigate, suspecting a large-scale ritual was underway. A colossal, unfamiliar creature burst from the ground and attacked them.

• Roxie led Shien through the area until they found a mountain radiating faint, evil mana and surrounded by monster mana.
• Roxie refused to return for reinforcements, fearing they would alert Jacinta, and dragged Shien into the mountain.
• Shien and Roxie sensed that mana was flowing through the mountain as part of a large-scale ritual.
• Shien and Roxie wondered whether Jacinta and his allies were planning something in the Human Realm and whether Jacinta belonged to the Old Demon Faction.
• Shien warned Roxie to move, and both escaped as the ground exploded and an unfamiliar colossal creature emerged.

Shien and Roxie fought a level 90 half-human, half-centipede monster with dragon wings, whose attacks failed to defeat either of them. After Roxie survived its Dragon Breath with Heroic Spirit Guard, she joined Shien to attack it together.

• A level 90 monster charged at Shien, who escaped its attack with Instantaneous Movement after his Tinder spell failed to stop it.
• Shien used his Magic Sword to split the monster’s Dragon Breath and remain unharmed.
• Roxie cut the monster in half with her Magic Sword, but it regenerated and attacked her with Dragon Breath.
• Heroic Spirit Guard protected Roxie from the Dragon Breath, and she landed beside Shien.
• Shien and Roxie raised their Holy Swords and prepared to attack the monster together.

Shien and Roxie fought the regenerating half-human, half-centipede monster, whose Dragon Breath forced them to stop holding back. Roxie unsealed Heresu while Shien used Enchantment magic to trap the monster, leaving it restrained as Roxie charged with her radiant Holy Sword.

• Shien and Roxie repeatedly wounded the monster while dodging its Dragon Breath, but it kept regenerating.
• Shien cut through the Dragon Breath with the Holy Sword enhanced by the Magic Sword, while Roxie suspected the monster’s Semi-corporeal skill was restoring it.
• Shien urged Roxie to unseal Heresu after the monster’s breath began vaporizing the mountain.
• Shien used Enchantment: Bind to split the earth and trap the monster, then cast Enchantment: Harden to strengthen its restraints.
• Roxie leaped toward the trapped monster with Heresu shining brightly in her hand.

Roxie killed the half-centipede monster with the Holy Sword after Shien used Enchantment Magic to enhance her attack. When they went to examine the corpse, it vanished completely, leaving them with no explanation.

• The monster unleashed Dragon Breath, but Roxie charged through it under the protection of Heroic Spirit Guard and the Holy Sword.
• Roxie combined Magic Sword with the Holy Sword’s Sacred Power and bisected the monster with a single golden slash.
• Shien praised Roxie, and she asked about his Enchantment Magic; they discussed why she focused on warrior skills instead of studying magic.
• Shien and Roxie approached the monster’s corpse, but it smoked, turned illusory, and vanished without leaving anything behind.

Shien and Roxie defeated the half-human, half-centipede monster, while figures in the Demon Realm mourned the loss of a juvenile and continued their plans to gather sacrifices for their King. After searching the mountain and finding no remaining clues, Shien revealed that he had learned Celestial Magic, and he and Roxie argued as they headed back.

• Figures in the Demon Realm learned that the juvenile in the Kingdom of Mithra had been defeated and discussed their lack of sacrifices and the other juveniles still active.
• Shien and Roxie searched the mountain with Jacinta's wand but found no clues; the monsters and strange magical phenomena had disappeared.
• Roxie regretted that they had not captured the monster alive, and Shien explained that Enchantment Magic's Imprisonment trait could have sealed it.
• Shien described Tenfold Star Ring, an advanced Celestial Magic spell that could imprison the monster, shocking Roxie by revealing he had mastered the rare magic.
• Shien joked that he had cheats, and he and Roxie argued until night fell.

Shien met Nien again in the sacred temple and confronted her about summoning him as a Hero despite the Demon King having been defeated a thousand years ago. Nien revealed that she was neither Supreme God Omnis nor any known Goddess, then showed him an image of Omnis sleeping among flowers.

• Shien and Roxie returned to the royal capital, and Shien advised Roxie to test the demon official for a reaction to the monster's defeat.
• Shien returned to House Razahad, found Vivian and the others still away, and went to the bathhouse to wash before bed.
• The bathhouse suddenly transported Shien to the sacred temple, where he met Nien again.
• Shien confronted Nien about summoning him as a Hero and the danger his identity posed to the peace among the Three Races.
• Nien said she was not Omnis or any known Goddess and claimed she had the deepest connection to Heroes and Hero Summoning.
• Nien showed Shien an image of a sleeping Goddess and identified her as Omnis.

Shien met the sleeping Supreme God Omnis and learned from Nien that someone in the Old Demon Faction was trying to create a new Demon Lord. Nien kissed Shien before sending him away, calling him the one she had waited a thousand years for and her only hope.

• Shien saw Supreme God Omnis sleeping in a flower bed and noticed she looked exactly like Nien.
• Nien explained that Omnis had slept since the Divine Realm's birth after defeating Demon Lord Clatiss and losing interest in the world.
• Nien revealed that someone was trying to create a new Demon Lord and warned that the effort could reignite war among the gods, humans, and demons.
• Nien said she did not know the mastermind's identity but believed they were an influential member of the Old Demon Faction.
• Nien kissed Shien, told him he was the one she had waited a thousand years for, and sent him away from the temple.

Laisha confronted Nien about the true reason for the Hero Summon and Nien’s identity. Nien revealed that she summoned Shien because Heroes were the purpose of her existence, then sent Laisha away as she called Shien’s name in tears.

• After Shien left, Nien confronted Laisha, who had hidden herself and entered the temple through Space Magic.
• Laisha challenged Nien’s explanation for summoning a Hero and demanded the truth about the Hero Summon and Nien’s resemblance to Supreme God Omnis.
• Nien revealed that she and Laisha were both carelessly created and discarded, and Laisha realized Nien had summoned a Hero to fulfill her own purpose.
• Nien declared that summoning Heroes was the meaning of her existence and that Shien was her anchor.
• Nien used distorted space to swallow Laisha, who cried out, “Hero Summoning Ritual!”
• Left alone, Nien gazed at the sky and wept as she called Shien’s name.

Shien told Aiyi that a beautiful Goddess had forcibly taken his first kiss, then mocked Aiyi for supposedly lacking kissing experience. Aiyi punched him out of her room, and later tried to reassure herself that she did have experience before falling asleep dreaming of Shien.

• Shien woke Aiyi and complained that a beautiful Goddess had forcibly kissed him, taking his first kiss.
• Aiyi dismissed Shien’s complaints, but he argued that he regretted not taking the initiative and had lost out on the experience.
• Shien called Aiyi an elder and asked whether she had experience kissing someone.
• Aiyi punched Shien through the doorway and shut him out of her room.
• Aiyi insisted to herself that kisses from her sisters and another person counted as experience, then fell asleep dreaming of Shien.

Shien visited Roxie and went with her to meet Jacinta, the Demon Realm executive known as the Tyrant Dragon, after learning that the monster they had encountered might be connected to the birth of a new Demon King. At the embassy, Shien sensed Jacinta’s immense power and learned that Jacinta had come partly to find out who defeated his former subordinate Kilian.

• Shien learned that Migis was still at the guild and Vivian and the others had spent the night away on an important mission.
• Shien went to Roxie’s chambers and told her he wanted to visit Jacinta because he could not stop thinking about the monster and Nien’s warning.
• Shien and Roxie traveled to the Demon Embassy, where Shien sensed a source of mana stronger than nearly anyone else in the Royal Capital.
• Roxie explained that Jacinta was the level-ninety-plus Tyrant Dragon, a veteran of the war a thousand years earlier who had fought the Hero.
• Shien realized that Jacinta had once commanded Kilian, but Roxie said Jacinta had wanted to capture and execute Kilian after his betrayal.
• Shien sensed no hostility from Jacinta but recognized how dangerous he would be, then entered the embassy with Roxie.

Shien and Roxie met Jacinta at the embassy, where Jacinta praised Shien for defeating Kilian. Shien and Jacinta nearly clashed after Shien pressured Jacinta’s twin subordinates, but Roxie stopped them before the meeting room became a battleground.

• Jacinta arrived with two identical level-eighty-eight demon subordinates and welcomed Roxie and Shien to the embassy meeting room.
• Jacinta praised Shien for helping defeat Kilian and said Kilian had possessed exceptional potential before choosing the wrong path.
• The twin demons glared at Shien, so he used his pressurization skill to force them to struggle under his aura.
• Jacinta countered Shien’s aura and challenged him, turning their standoff into a contest of strength.
• Roxie released her own powerful aura and ordered Shien and Jacinta to stop, and they both withdrew their pressure.

Shien and Roxie questioned Jacinta about his stay in the royal capital and a dragon-breathing monster. Jacinta hinted that he opposed the people behind the monster and warned them to watch those around them.

• Roxie asked Jacinta why he had stayed in the royal capital and whether his subordinates were making unusual movements.
• Jacinta denied intending harm to the Human Realm but avoided directly answering whether he knew about the events around the capital.
• Roxie described a half-human, half-centipede monster with dragon wings and Dragon Breath, and Jacinta scorned it as worthless while revealing his interest in dragons.
• Shien and Roxie suspected Jacinta knew about the monster and might be acting against its masterminds, but they remained cautious.
• Before leaving, Jacinta said the monster had been defeated and warned Shien and Roxie that those who wanted to use it might soon act.

Shien and Roxie discussed their meeting with Jacinta and concluded that he was likely investigating the monster’s hidden mastermind while revealing little. They agreed to have the Knights seal off areas around the royal capital, while Shien planned to question a powerful demon that night.

• Shien and Roxie judged Jacinta to be guarded and suspected that he was hostile toward the monster or its controller.
• Roxie worried that their investigation had run out of leads, and Shien suggested secretly monitoring Jacinta’s subordinates.
• Shien proposed using an investigation of suspicious activity to justify sealing off the areas around the royal capital and force Jacinta to cooperate.
• Roxie agreed to dispatch the Knights and warn people to avoid the affected areas.
• Shien said he would visit the library and later question a powerful figure from the demon side.

After spending the day studying magic, Shien ran into Lasha, who revealed that she and Laisha had secretly followed him to the capital. Lasha told him Laisha had been missing since the previous night, and Shien took Lasha with him to investigate.

• Shien decided to specialize in Celestial Magic and Enchantment Magic and forgot his four elemental magic skills.
• Lasha stopped Shien on the road and told him she and Laisha had followed him from Lamigium to the capital.
• Lasha revealed that Laisha had been missing since the previous night and had instructed her to seek Shien if anything happened.
• Shien told Lasha to return with him first, and she agreed.

Shien brought Lasha back to House Razahad, where Aiyi reacted strangely to him and then recognized Lasha as Laisha’s maid. After learning that Lasha had lost contact with Laisha, Aiyi asked her to explain what had happened, while Shien realized Aiyi and Laisha had both crossed paths with him before reaching the royal capital.

• Shien returned to House Razahad with Lasha, where Aiyi backed away from him and warned him not to come closer.
• Lasha knelt before Aiyi and addressed her as “Your Highness,” revealing that they recognized each other.
• Aiyi mocked Lasha for wandering through the royal capital while resembling the wanted Laisha, and Shien confirmed Lasha was nearly powerless.
• Lasha explained that she had lost contact with Laisha and had come to find Shien on Laisha’s instructions.
• Aiyi said she had met Laisha after Shien dealt with Bedo’s Old Demon Faction, then asked Lasha to explain the trouble.

Shien learned that Laisha had been secretly watching him to investigate why he was summoned, but she disappeared after following him to the Divine Realm. Aiyi urged everyone to wait and protect Lasha, leaving Laisha’s fate uncertain.

• Lasha told Shien that she and Laisha had kept watch on him, hoping to uncover the reason for his Hero Summon.
• Shien recounted encountering a dragon-winged, half-human, half-centipede monster and being summoned by the Goddess; Aiyi recognized the monster as a shameful creation of the demon race.
• Aiyi reasoned that Laisha had followed Shien to the Divine Realm after discovering the Goddess had summoned him, and Lasha said Laisha was capable of escaping even powerful pursuers.
• Aiyi advised them to wait for Laisha to return and told Lasha to stay with Shien for her safety.

Jacinta learned that Roxie had deployed the Knights to seal off the Royal Capital and suspected Shien had influenced her decision. Aiyi appeared at the embassy and ordered Jacinta to investigate a matter involving forces from both the Demon Realm and the Human Realm, revealing that she had come to find an interesting existence.

• Jacinta concluded that Shien was becoming a key figure in the kingdom and decided to watch what changes he would bring.
• Jacinta planned to approach King Anxi to deal with Roxie's blockade, but Aiyi's voice suddenly sounded in his room.
• Jacinta stopped the twin demons from attacking the intruder and knelt when Aiyi appeared.
• Aiyi asked Jacinta about the thing that had appeared in the Human Realm, and he reported that both Demon Realm and Human Realm forces seemed involved.
• Aiyi assigned Jacinta to handle the matter, then said she had come to the Human Realm because she had found an interesting existence.

Jacinta was shocked to discover that Aiyi had awakened and come to the royal capital, where she intended to stay beside someone who interested her. Aiyi vanished after ordering Jacinta to keep her presence secret and handle any resulting trouble.

• Jacinta recalled Aiyi’s long slumber and feared that her arrival in the Human Realm would alarm both the kingdom and the Demon Realm.
• Jacinta guessed that Roxie Lusti Mitra had attracted Aiyi’s interest and asked whether Aiyi planned to remain in the royal capital.
• Aiyi said she would stay beside that person and would not return to the Demon Realm for the time being.
• When Jacinta cautioned that Aiyi’s absence would cause a commotion if discovered, Aiyi ordered him to manage matters and not disturb or send anyone to find her.
• Aiyi vanished, and Jacinta warned the twin demons to behave before worrying about how to avoid upsetting her.

Shien woke to find Lasha acting as his maid while Milady was away, but her thorough care left him horrified. He headed to breakfast determined to find a way to sense people approaching him.

• Lasha woke Shien and explained that caring for him was her job until Milady returned.
• Shien discovered Lasha had changed his clothes, including his underwear, while he slept without him noticing.
• Lasha admitted she had also taken care of Shien's normal morning physical reactions, leaving him mentally shaken.
• Lasha told Shien that breakfast was ready and followed him toward the dining room.
• Shien realized he had not washed up, and Lasha said she had already handled it; he resolved to look for a skill that could detect nearby people or wake him when touched.