Chapter Summaries

After Shien destroyed the Ryusica Family and the noble district, the kingdom tacitly supported him, and nobles flocked to House Poztut seeking his favor. As Shien settled into a quiet routine, Merika began training to discover why the Goddess of Nature had taken an interest in her, until something interrupted their peaceful days.

• Rumors about Shien's power and the destruction of the Ryusica Family spread through the capital, and a royal decree stripped the family of its title and territory.
• Nobles blamed the Ryusica Family, avoided challenging Shien, and brought gifts to House Poztut in hopes of gaining his friendship.
• Shien received only House Razahad, Jacinta and the Demon Race embassy, and the Pope and the temple representatives, leaving Vivian to handle most visitors.
• Laisha escaped the crowded estate with Lasha, while Aiyi slept, Tier trained, and Lumya and Merika sought Shien's reassurance.
• Shien encouraged Merika to uncover what made the Goddess of Nature favor her, and Merika joined Lumya and Tier in training.

Roxie told Shien that the kingdom would announce their engagement and his promotion the next day, with marriage expected soon afterward. As Shien faced the prospect of marrying Roxie, Roxie remained delighted and urged him to prepare.

• Roxie told Shien that people had stopped openly challenging him after he revealed his strength and gained the support of powerful allies.
• Roxie warned Shien that Demon Race members, a Goddess, human nations, and suspected Old Demon Faction members had come to the royal capital to investigate or approach him.
• Roxie explained that noble families had ordered their young masters not to provoke Shien, with some families even restraining or punishing them.
• Roxie told Shien that the kingdom had approved their marriage and that her father would announce their engagement and promote Shien to count the next day.
• Roxie said Shien would likely become a marquis after their wedding, while Shien realized he was about to get married.

Roxie publicly announced her engagement to Shien, and the royal capital erupted over the news while largely overlooking Shien’s promotion to Count. At House Poztut, Shien faced congratulations, teasing, and Aiyi’s jealousy as he wondered whether Roxie would rush them into marriage.

• The royal palace announced that Roxie had chosen Viscount Poztut as her fiancé and would hold an engagement banquet in three days.
• Roxie appeared before the gathered crowd, praised Shien, and asked everyone to accept their engagement.
• The people of the royal capital reacted to the engagement, while news of Shien’s promotion to Count received little attention.
• Everyone at House Poztut congratulated Shien, and Laisha and Lasha teased him about his closeness to Roxie.
• Lasha revealed how much Shien had spent on desserts for Roxie, prompting Aiyi to complain that she had received far fewer treats.
• Shien insisted that an engagement did not mean an imminent wedding, though he worried Roxie might hurry him into one.

Shien and Roxie’s engagement became a kingdom-wide celebration, while Shien spent the preparations at ease and Nien lamented that she had not been the first to marry him. The day before the banquet, Harvis visited Shien with news that House Laifirut was withdrawing its assassination unit and Warren from the royal capital after being intimidated by Shien’s strength and backing.

• The royal family suppressed protests, arranged a grand engagement banquet for Shien and Roxie, and declared a kingdom-wide holiday for the celebration.
• Ria took charge of organizing the banquet, while Shien relaxed at home with Lilith and made peace with Aiyi, who said she would attend.
• Nien learned of Shien’s impending marriage and vowed that she would be the next one to marry him.
• Harvis visited Shien with Rocket and congratulated him on his engagement to Roxie.
• Harvis told Shien that House Laifirut’s elite assassination unit and Warren planned to leave the royal capital and abandon their attempt to strike at Tier.

Shien let Harvis pursue House Laifirut’s retreating assassins while Nadula kept her knowledge of their plans secret. In the Divine Realm, Anima discovered that Lidas had gone to the Human Realm.

• Shien suspected Moro would not abandon her objective because of his strength, but he agreed to let Harvis track Warren and intercept House Laifirut’s elite assassins.
• Harvis left with Rocket, who challenged Shien to a future fight, and Shien dismissed the idea.
• Nadula decided not to tell Shien what she knew about House Laifirut because she feared exposing that she had been monitoring him.
• Anima confirmed that the seal protecting the Hero Summon ritual remained intact and decided to search ancient records for clues about its activation.
• A Goddess hurried to Anima and reported that Lidas had run off to the Human Realm, leaving Anima stunned.

As Shien and Roxie’s engagement celebration swept the kingdom, Lyon envied Shien’s rise while Ryley prepared to bring Lumya’s seven younger sisters to the royal capital. The Goddess emerged from the temple, furious that someone had taken an interest in her Blessing Bearer, Shien Poztut.

• The kingdom celebrated Shien and Roxie’s engagement, while adventurers in Lamigium lamented Shien’s success.
• Lyon brooded over Shien’s rise and his own failed ambitions as his two teammates fussed over him; he resolved to become someone people envied.
• Ryley told Lumya’s seven dog-eared younger sisters that she would take them to the royal capital, where they repeated a mistaken belief that Lumya lived with her man.
• The Goddess emerged from the temple’s Inner Sanctum and vowed to confront Shien Poztut for taking her Blessing Bearer.

As the kingdom’s nobles and citizens prepared for Roxie and Shien Poztut’s engagement banquet, Shien’s companions dressed for the occasion at House Poztut. Shien and the others departed for the royal palace on Yulin, with Lilith among them.

• Citizens gathered outside the royal palace and hoped Roxie’s engagement to Shien Poztut might still be called off.
• Vivian, Merika, Lumya, and Tier dressed in formal gowns to attend Shien’s engagement banquet.
• Aiyi complained about wearing her red formal dress and kept her pillow held in front of her, prompting the others to suspect Shien had seen her body.
• Shien denied the girls’ suspicions, then patted Lilith’s head as she stood beside him in a white dress.
• Yulin flew out from House Poztut with Shien and the others bound for the royal palace.

Shien arrived at the royal palace for his engagement banquet with Roxie, accompanied by Aiyi and Lilith, while dignitaries from across the Three Races gathered to witness the event. Anxi brought Roxie to meet Shien, and the chapter ended with Anxi accepting him as a worthy match for his daughter.

• Yulin flew Shien and his companions to the royal palace, where nobles and foreign dignitaries discussed the engagement and the political ties it represented.
• Shien entered the Royal Hall holding Aiyi’s and Lilith’s hands, and the assembled guests bowed to him and Aiyi.
• Ria greeted Shien and directed everyone’s attention toward the throne as Anxi and Roxie emerged from a side passage.
• Anxi led Roxie toward Shien, whose companions and the guests admired her bridal appearance.
• Anxi greeted Aiyi, then told Shien through his relieved and satisfied expression that he accepted him as a match for Roxie.

At her engagement banquet, Roxie and Shien formally became betrothed, and Anxi granted Shien the title of honorary Count. As Shien kissed Roxie before the assembled guests, Ria began to hope she might one day fall in love herself.

• Anxi welcomed the guests, praised Roxie and Shien, and formally betrothed them before the assembly.
• Aiyi applauded first, and the guests gradually joined in congratulating the couple.
• Anxi granted Shien the title of honorary Count and urged him to treat Roxie well.
• Roxie told Shien that meeting him was the luckiest thing that had ever happened to her, and he pulled her close and kissed her.
• Ria told Shana that she wanted to fall in love and find someone who loved her in return.

During the engagement banquet, Shien and Roxie greeted the guests, and Harvis told Shien he was preparing to move against Warren Laifirut. Yule reminded Shien that he still had an unused chance to enter the temple’s Inner Sanctum, leaving him curious about the rare opportunity to connect with the World Principle.

• Shien and Roxie greeted the banquet guests, and Shien enjoyed provoking the jealous young nobles.
• Harvis told Shien that Warren had left the Royal Capital and that he was watching him, then offered to deal with House Laifirut in exchange for future cooperation.
• Roxie questioned Harvis’s motives, but Shien said he understood the situation and left the matter to the prince.
• Shien and Roxie thanked Yule for attending, and the Pope blessed them and encouraged them to serve the Human Race.
• Yule reminded Shien of his unused opportunity to enter the Inner Sanctum, and Roxie explained that it let people contact the World Principle and gain insights or power.
• Shien decided to remember the opportunity for later, though he doubted his strength would ever improve slowly enough to need it.

Shien and Roxie encountered Laisha and Lasha, whose presence in the royal palace risked drawing the Three Races’ attention. As Roxie considered warning Shien about their dangerous connections, Nadula, Aiyi, and Lilith sensed a new arrival entering the Royal Hall.

• Shien and Roxie found Laisha and Lasha concealed from the guests by Laisha’s Cognitive Interference magic.
• Roxie recognized Laisha as the former Old Demon Faction member who had infiltrated the palace ten years earlier, but admitted she could not catch her.
• Laisha teased Shien about their closeness, and Lasha’s remark about sharing Roxie’s burden made Shien rush away with Roxie while Laisha called after him.
• Roxie worried that Shien’s connection to the sisters could draw the God and Demon Races’ attention, though she also considered that they might protect him.
• Nadula, Aiyi, and Lilith sensed something and saw an unknown figure silently enter the Royal Hall.

Goddess Lidas appeared at the Royal Hall and confronted Shien, whose power repelled her pressure. As she approached him, she tripped over her own feet and fell, leaving the assembled guests stunned.

• Lidas appeared in the Royal Hall, and everyone except Shien, Aiyi, and Lilith knelt to greet her.
• Lidas asked Shien whether he was Shien Poztut and released a pressure that Shien's power dispelled.
• Shien stepped forward and challenged Lidas, while Roxie tugged at his sleeve and Nadula worried about what would happen.
• Lidas walked toward Shien, tripped over her feet, and fell face-first onto the floor.
• Lidas tried to stand, fell again, and began crying while the hall watched in stunned silence.

Lidas confronted Shien over his engagement to Roxie, then revealed Lilith’s identity as a powerful evil god. Aiyi and Lilith stood with Shien against Lidas, and the chapter ended as another voice challenged Lidas by asking what would happen if they joined in too.

• Lidas arrived at the Royal Hall and accused Shien of stealing Roxie by becoming engaged to her without permission.
• Shien pointed out that gods had no right to interfere in their Blessing Bearers’ marriages, leaving Lidas temporarily speechless.
• Aiyi arrived with Lilith, and Lidas identified Lilith as the Daughter of Magic, a sealed evil god powerful enough to rival Demon Lords.
• Lilith took Shien’s hand, and Aiyi warned Lidas that they would protect him.
• Lidas restored her overwhelming divine presence and warned Aiyi and Lilith that they could not stop her.
• An unseen speaker challenged Lidas by asking, “What if you add me too?”

Sela and Anima arrived at Shien and Roxie's engagement banquet, escalating the confrontation with Lidas before Anima persuaded the powerful guests to move to the side hall. Their appearances left the guests newly aware of Shien's extraordinary influence, while Laisha slipped away to avoid Lidas.

• Sela arrived with the Demon Race envoys and warned Lidas that the Demon Race would protect Shien, making clear that fighting her at night would be dangerous.
• Anima appeared and urged Lidas, Sela, and Aiyi to stop the confrontation and continue their discussion in the side hall.
• Anima apologized to the guests, promised a gift from the God Race, and spoke respectfully to Shien, astonishing everyone at the banquet.
• Anima led Lidas away, Sela took Aiyi, and Anxi escorted them to the side hall.
• Laisha fled with Lasha to avoid being discovered by Lidas, while Shien and Roxie reunited and sighed in relief.

After Shien and Roxie left their engagement banquet, Tier struggled with the fear that Shien no longer needed her and left Vivian behind. She then clashed with her father, Aridia, who warned her about people coveting her blood, while Warren watched their encounter.

• Shien and Roxie left the banquet, and the nobles and temple clergy reacted to the Goddesses and Demon Humans gathered at the palace for Shien.
• Vivian revealed that she knew Tier had received Lidas's blessing and urged her to approach the Goddess, but Tier declined and chose to walk alone.
• Vivian told Tier that Shien still needed her, and Tier admitted that Vivian could not understand her selfish fear of being left behind.
• Tier encountered Aridia on her way out of the palace, and he warned her to watch out for thieves coveting the blood in her body.
• Warren witnessed Tier and Aridia parting with hostility and smiled coldly.

Warren confronted Tier in the royal palace and persuaded her to consider leaving with him by revealing something that shocked her. Meanwhile, Lidas tried to stop Roxie and Shien’s engagement, and the chapter ended with her throwing a tantrum despite the other Goddesses’ objections.

• Tier sensed Warren watching her, but confronted him unarmed when he approached in Royal Knights armor.
• Warren admitted he had secretly followed Tier and explained that he had abandoned his plan to kill her after seeing Shien’s power.
• Warren told Tier something that left her shocked and silent, and she agreed to consider his proposal while warning him not to deceive her.
• Nadula sensed Warren’s conversation with Tier but turned her attention to the argument in the royal palace reception room.
• Lidas declared that she did not approve of Roxie’s marriage to Shien, while Anima, Sera, Aiyi, and Lilith tried to reason with her.
• Roxie explained that Lidas’s overwhelming sense of responsibility made her stubborn, but Lidas continued to insist that she opposed the marriage.

At his engagement banquet, Shien challenged Lidas for opposing his marriage to Roxie without asking what Roxie wanted. Lidas acknowledged that she had caused the trouble and said she would handle it herself, leaving her response unresolved.

• Shien asked Lidas whether she valued Roxie's wishes and challenged her for rejecting the marriage without consulting Roxie.
• Roxie and Anxi tried to stop Shien, but Sera and Aiyi encouraged him to continue, while Anima explained that Lidas respected her other Blessing Bearer's choices too.
• Shien argued that his marriage to Roxie was mutual and approved by the royal family and kingdom, so Lidas had no reason to oppose it.
• Anima offered to apologize for Lidas, but Lidas stopped her and said she would handle the matter herself.

After Shien challenged Lidas, the Goddess of Fate apologized clumsily, prompting Aiyi and Sela to explain the immense limits and power of her fate-manipulating authority. Shien concluded that Lidas could not control his fate, but recognized that she remained a formidable threat who could manipulate other things in battle.

• Lidas apologized to Shien, then injured herself by bowing into a table and falling to the floor.
• Aiyi explained that goddesses wield innate authorities tied to their domains, and that Lidas’s authority let her manipulate fate.
• Sela and Aiyi said only Supreme God Omnis, Demon Lord Clatiss, and Lidas herself were wholly beyond Lidas’s fate manipulation, while Devils and blessed people also had protections.
• Aiyi described Lidas as the strongest goddess, capable of overwhelming Devils, while Sela and Mitra could only contend with her under certain conditions.
• Shien reasoned that Lidas could not manipulate his fate because he was blessed by Supreme God Omnis, but she could still use her authority over other things against him.

After Shien’s engagement banquet, Anxi recognized how exceptional Shien had become and felt relieved that Roxie had refused to bring him into the royal family. As Sera departed, she warned that Shafna might visit and eat Shien without leaving his bones, leaving him frightened by Aiyi’s urgent advice to avoid touching or meeting her eyes.

• Shien insulted Lidas by calling her the oldest woman in the world, and she collapsed in the corner while Roxie and Sera scolded him.
• Anxi reflected on Shien’s standing with the God and Demon Races and realized Roxie had been right to prevent him from marrying into the royal family.
• Lidas recovered enough to leave the palace with Anima, while Sera prepared to return to the Demon Realm.
• Sera told Shien that Aiyi’s public declaration of protection had attracted the interest of her Demonkin sisters, who might come looking for him.
• Sera warned that Shafna might visit and eat Shien without leaving his bones, and Aiyi told him to avoid touching her or making eye contact.

After the engagement banquet, Shien returned to House Poztut and reflected on the gap between his strength and the world’s most powerful beings. He decided to visit the temple and train so he could grow stronger.

• Shien returned to House Poztut with Aiyi and Lilith after the banquet, while Vivian's Squad, Laisha, and Lasha had already gone back.
• Lasha took the sleeping Lilith from Shien, and Shien went to the bathhouse to rest after the exhausting day.
• Shien considered the three tiers of power in the world and judged that even with the Holy Sword, he could only threaten beings such as the Three Great Goddesses and Six Great Demon Lords.
• Shien recognized that he needed more levels and skills to make better use of the Holy Sword and his Unique Skill.
• Shien decided to visit the temple and train himself further.