Chapter Summaries

Shien overwhelmed Danas with a single strike, forced him to retreat, and annihilated the invading army in Taiger Forest. As Shien returned with Lilith, Danas resolved to begin the final act and end everything within three days.

• Shien blasted Danas beyond Taiger Forest, then returned with him badly wounded and ordered him to leave.
• Danas withdrew with the Queen Consort and the two Undead Knights after Shien warned that he would come for him in three days.
• Shien’s golden light destroyed the demonic constructs and Magic Lifeforms and freed the undead spirits.
• The battle ended in victory for the Goddesses and Elves, and Lilith joined Shien as he prepared to return.
• Danas admitted that Shien’s strength had surpassed his expectations and declared that he would end everything within three days.

After the war, the Goddesses and Elves faced the devastation of Taiger Forest, while Nadula prepared to restore it and the Elves began rebuilding their village. Shien freed Artemis from Danas's Limit Chain, and Nadula then demanded to know why he had let Danas escape.

• The war ended with no casualties among the Goddesses and Elves, though the battles had destroyed nearly half of Taiger Forest and the Elven Village.
• The Goddesses and Elven girls began worshipping Shien as a Hero, while Nadula's power offered a way to restore the forest and the Elves set about rebuilding.
• Artemis remained bound by Danas's Limit Chain, and Nadula and the Archmages speculated that a master of many magic systems had helped Danas develop it.
• Shien used Enchantment: Disperse to shatter the chains and release Artemis from the seal.
• Nadula asked Shien why he had let Danas go.

Shien defended his decision to spare Danas, saying he needed the demon alive for now and rejecting the expectation that he act as a selfless hero. He announced that the final battle against the New Primal Demon would begin in three days and left for the royal capital to explain his plan.

• Nadula questioned Shien for letting Danas go, and Artemis challenged him over choosing his own goal despite the ongoing war.
• Shien said he was not a hero who lived to protect the world and insisted that he needed Danas alive for now.
• Nadula and Sophie tried to ease the tension and remind Shien that they fought to protect those they cared about.
• Shien said he would explain his reasons when Lidas and Anima were present, then announced that he would settle matters with the New Primal Demon in three days.
• Shien left with Lilith for the royal capital, and Merika followed after Nadula gave her permission.

After Shien announced that he would resolve everything in three days, Nadula prepared the Elves and goddesses to return to the royal capital for a decisive battle. Shien planned to explain his intentions there, but when he returned to his room, Lasha was missing.

• Nadula comforted Artemis, who accepted that Shien had the right to follow his own principles but felt disappointed that this Hero did not need her as a companion.
• Nadula ordered the Elves to suspend reconstruction and prepare to travel to the royal capital for a decisive battle three days later.
• Yulin and Merika pressed Shien to explain his plan, but he said he would tell everyone after they returned to the royal capital.
• Shien calmed Yulin and Merika, sent them to prepare for departure, and said he wondered how many people would oppose him.
• Shien returned to his empty room, called for Lasha, and received no answer.

Shien spent a sleepless night worrying about Lasha, who had vanished along with the Stone Tablets, until she returned and explained why she had waited for him to summon her. After Shien accepted her need to pursue their shared past, Lasha confessed her feelings and offered herself to him.

• Shien stayed awake in the Queen's Palace, troubled by Lasha's absence and the disappearance of the Stone Tablets.
• Lasha appeared beside Shien's bed and asked why he had not ordered her to return using his command authority.
• Shien said he had expected Lasha to leave and would not stop her from doing what she needed to do.
• Lasha explained that she had come to care for Shien because he differed from the Heroes she had known, and that his refusal to summon her made her happy.
• Lasha kissed Shien, confessed that she liked him as he was, and offered herself to him.

Lasha confessed that she had faked Shien’s past intimacy with her to keep Laisha near him, then spent the night with him alongside Laisha. Before dawn, the two left the Elven Village, hoping their sacrifice would protect Shien and help the one they feared might return.

• Lasha explained that she had pretended Shien had slept with her so Laisha would stay near the Hero and the Demon Lord’s jewel.
• Lasha climbed into bed with Shien and declared herself his for the night.
• Laisha emerged from Shien’s room before dawn while Lasha waited outside, revealing that both women had been with him.
• Laisha and Lasha discussed Return to Origin and hoped their actions would make the one who returned hesitate to harm Shien.
• Laisha said she believed Shien possessed something that could bring salvation, and the two departed to do what they had to do.

Shien woke alone and set out toward the unknown final act as Danas and the Queen Consort began a ritual in the Canyon of Gods to resurrect the Demon Lord. A pillar of light rose from the ruins, signaling that the final war was beginning.

• Shien woke to find the woman from the previous night gone, then washed, dressed, and left to face what came next.
• The Queen Consort and Danas arrived at the Canyon of Gods, where Danas explained its strange power over space, dimensions, life, and death.
• Danas revealed that he had gathered ancient ritual mediums and the Queen Consort’s necromantic knowledge to prepare the Demon Lord’s resurrection.
• Danas declared that he sought to resist his predetermined fate and called for the resurrection of the strongest power.
• The twin girls began the ritual as the Queen Consort rose into the air and Danas opened his Magic Book.
• Mysterious power stirred across the Canyon of Gods, and a pillar of light rose as powerful beings across the three realms sensed the coming final war.

Sera and Shafna discussed the broken passage to the Human Realm, Shafna’s feelings for the Hero, and the rebellions disrupting the Demon Realm. They recognized that Danas had used the rebels to delay the demon lords from repairing the passage, while the state of the Human Realm remained unknown.

• Shafna joined Sera on the castle roof and teased her for watching the sky in hopes that the passage to the Human Realm would reopen.
• Sera warned Shafna not to let her flirtation with the Hero make Aiyi think she meant to steal him, while Shafna insisted she had no intention of marrying him.
• Shafna told Sera that Lyd, Camilla, Milu, and Aiyi were still away suppressing rebels across their territories.
• Sera explained that the New Primal Demon had armed the rebels to keep the demon lords occupied and delay their return to the Human Realm.
• Sera wondered what was happening in the Human Realm, then she and Shafna suddenly felt a wave of dread.

A mysterious palpitation spread through the Demon Realm, and Sera sensed that something grave was happening in the Human Realm. She decided to use the Rainbow Demon Diamond to reach it, but Shafna argued that her Mind-Weaving Demon made her the safer choice and asked to go instead.

• Sera, Shafna, and demonkin across the Demon Realm felt an inexplicable palpitation that made their hearts race.
• Aiyi ordered her dragons to head for the Moon Demon Territory, while Lyd and Milu and Camilla also set out to find Sera.
• Sera told Shafna to retrieve the Rainbow Demon Diamond, explaining that it could break through the barriers between worlds but could not guarantee where its user would arrive.
• Sera decided to use the Demon Diamond to search for a path to the Human Realm, despite the danger and uncertainty.
• Shafna objected that the demon race needed Sera to lead them and offered to go herself, using her Mind-Weaving Demon to sense the Human Realm's direction.

The Demon Lord’s resurrection triggered disasters across the realms, and Shien arrived in the Kingdom of Mithra to calm them and gather the world’s leaders. He prepared to reveal the world’s oldest secret, leaving the assembled figures awaiting his explanation.

• The Goddess watched disasters spread across the Human Realm and recognized them as signs of Clatiss’s resurrection, while reflecting on the ancient conflict between the Demon Lord and the Goddess.
• Roxie, Lidas, and Anima saw the royal capital descend into panic and feared that an existence capable of destroying the world had returned; Lidas’s Authority failed to provide answers.
• The Queen’s Palace arrived over the capital, and Shien’s magic dispelled the disasters as he descended before Roxie with Lilith, Yulin, Merika, and the others.
• Shien told Roxie and the others to gather everyone capable of making decisions, promising to explain what was happening.
• At the Divine Hall, the rulers and leaders of the Kingdom of Mithra, the Goddesses, and other factions assembled as Shien began the meeting.

Shien revealed the Demon King's tragic past and explained that she started the war to create a Hero capable of killing her. He admitted he had let Danas revive her, prompting Artemis to angrily reject the idea that the Demon King should be spared.

• Shien told everyone that he was the First Generation Hero's son and explained the tangled history between the Demon King, the Supreme God, and his mother.
• Shien reasoned that the Demon King had started the war to train a Hero strong enough to kill her, though he still did not understand why earlier Transcendent Class Heroes had died challenging her.
• Shien argued that the Demon King had targeted Heroes rather than seeking to destroy all life, and said the unresolved regrets among the three figures had led to the present crisis.
• Lidas, Anima, and Nadula realized Shien had let Danas go so he could revive the Demon King, and Shien confirmed that he wanted her brought back to life.
• Artemis erupted with magical power and declared that she would not accept the Demon King's survival when her actions had caused countless deaths.

Shien told the goddesses he would face Danas and the Demon Lord in two days, while warning them that the Supreme God likely supported the Demon Lord’s revival. Just as he left the choice of whether to join him to the others, Aiyi and Shafna arrived and offered to go with him to meet Mother.

• Shien acknowledged the Demon Lord’s crimes and said he had let Danas go so he could speak to her face-to-face as a descendant of one of the Three Who Began.
• Shien announced that he would face Danas and the Demon Lord in two days, though the goddesses feared they could not win if the Demon Lord revived.
• Iris and Sophie suggested asking the Supreme God to help, but Shien explained that she had released the Demon Lord’s Jade and likely supported the revival.
• Shien told everyone they could decide for themselves whether to join him, thanked them, and prepared to leave the divine hall.
• Aiyi and Shafna arrived through a passage opened with the Rainbow Demon Diamond, and Aiyi reunited with Shien and Lilith.
• Aiyi told Shien that she and Shafna understood the situation and would go with him to meet Mother.

After the Demon Lord’s resurrection became imminent, Aiyi and Shafna explained why they and the other Demonoid Sisters had respected their mother’s wish not to return and revealed how Sister Sela had uncovered Shien’s identity. They asked Shien to help reach their mother and ease her pain, leaving him silently weighing their request.

• Anxi, Ria, Iris, and the Human Realm’s other leaders left the divine hall to make preliminary preparations, while the Goddesses stayed to discuss the Demon Lord’s resurrection.
• Shien returned to House Poztut with Yulin, Lilith, Aiyi, and Shafna, and they exchanged news about events in the Human Realm and Demon Realm.
• Aiyi and Shafna said they had known the Demon Lord’s Jade was inside Shien and that their mother’s will had seemed to reject resurrection, so the Demonoid Sisters had chosen to protect Shien rather than resurrect her themselves.
• Aiyi and Shafna explained that Sister Sela had investigated Shien, discovered his connection to the First Generation Hero and the Three at the Beginning, and shared what she learned with the Demonoid Sisters.
• Shafna asked Shien to help their mother resolve her past pain, and Shien lowered his head and remained silent as he considered the request.

Danas resurrected the Demon King, claiming he wanted her to reform the world and reveal its deepest truths, but she exposed those motives as lies. She revealed that Danas was her incarnation, born from the despair she felt after losing the Demon King, and the chapter ended with his true purpose laid bare.

• The Demon King manifested in the Canyon of Gods, and Danas welcomed her as she confirmed her identity and lamented that she had failed to die again.
• Danas told the Demon King that he had resurrected her to reform the world, while concealing his fear that she might kill him.
• The Demon King saw through Danas's explanation and rejected his claim that he had resurrected her to uncover the world's truth.
• The Demon King explained that Danas's actions had been driven by an instinctive order to pursue and resurrect her.
• The Demon King revealed that Danas was her incarnation, born from the despair she had felt after losing the Demon King.

Danas learned that he was the Demon King's incarnation, and the revived Demon King discovered that the Hero Shien might be the child of her long-lost friend. After Shien sensed her gaze, the Demon King withdrew and accepted that he might kill her in the coming final battle.

• The Demon King explained that Danas had been born as her incarnation and that his unusual abilities came from her power.
• The Demon King asked whether the age had a Hero, and Danas said Shien was the strongest Hero in history.
• The Demon King looked across space and time at Shien and recognized that he carried her gemstone, the Goddess's gemstone, and powers tied to all three supreme forces.
• The Demon King wondered whether Shien was her friend's child, but stopped herself from going to meet him when he looked toward her.
• Danas told the Demon King that Shien would come the next day for a final battle, and she accepted death at his hands as redemption.

Shien sent the Demon King's and Supreme God's jewels back to their owners and resolved to end the conflict himself. As the Human, God, and Demon Races gathered for the final battle at the Canyon of Gods, he left the Goddesses with a promise that he would not lose.

• Shien let the red jewel return to the resurrected Demon King and called for the blue jewel to return to the Supreme God, declaring that he would represent only himself.
• Vivian, Tier, Aridia, and the others returned to the royal capital with the surrendered Dwarves, while Nats was handed over to Nadula for judgment.
• Monster armies converged on the Canyon of Gods as the New Primal Demon gathered its forces for the decisive battle.
• Lidas, Anima, Nadula, and Artemis told Shien that the Goddesses would commit their strength to the final battle alongside the assembled forces of the Human and Demon Races.
• When the Goddesses asked whether he would face the Demon King alone, Shien said he would not lose, revealed a powerful surge, and left the divine hall.

On the eve of the final battle against the resurrected Demon King, Shien wrestled with guilt over allowing the resurrection, but Roxie found him and walked with him through the capital. Roxie revealed that the necromancer beside Danas was likely tied to the royal family’s ancient past, and said her ancestor, Mitra’s queen, had mysteriously disappeared.

• Shien wandered unseen through the royal capital as its people prepared for the decisive battle, questioning whether he had made the wrong choice by letting Danas resurrect the Demon King.
• Shien recognized that he did not regret choosing the Demon King, the Supreme God, and the first Hero, despite feeling guilty about the danger facing everyone else.
• Roxie found Shien, took his hand, and walked with him through the streets while both concealed themselves from the crowd.
• Roxie asked Shien about the necromancer who had called her a descendant during the previous battle in the royal capital.
• Roxie explained that the necromancer likely survived the destruction of Ereii and was connected to the Princess whom Mitra married after the final battle a thousand years earlier.
• Roxie told Shien that palace records showed her ancestor, Mitra’s queen, had suddenly disappeared rather than dying of old age.

Shien and Roxie discussed the suspected identity of the necromancer as the first Queen Consort, Lainy, and the painful history that may have driven her to become a Death Great Spirit Body. Roxie resolved to confront Lainy on the battlefield, and she reminded Shien that he, too, was choosing to face a dangerous opponent for personal reasons.

• Roxie told Shien that the first Queen Consort had disappeared after Hero Mitra's sacrificial death, and investigations had never uncovered why.
• Shien reasoned that Lainy must have suffered a bitter experience with Mitra and the Kingdom of Mithra, since she had become a necromancer and joined the New Primal Demon.
• Roxie said her father and sister likely knew something about Lainy's identity, and declared that she wanted to meet and speak with her.
• Shien warned Roxie that Lainy was a Transcendent Class opponent and that Roxie had little chance of surviving a fight with her.
• Roxie said she had asked the goddesses to leave Lainy to her, citing her Holy Sword and her desire to make her own choice.
• Roxie asked Shien whether he was doing the same, leaving him speechless.

Shien and Roxie comforted each other and promised to marry after the coming battle, while Aiyi and Shafna watched from above and discussed their hope that Shien could save their mother. They decided not to enter the battlefield themselves, leaving the Demon King's fate in Shien's hands as the decisive battle approached at dawn.

• Roxie admitted she had brought up Lainy Mitra to ease Shien's turmoil, and Shien promised to marry her after the battle; they kissed in the street.
• Aiyi and Shafna watched the couple and agreed that both would marry Shien after the crisis was over.
• Aiyi and Shafna regretted failing to notice their mother's despair and concluded that Sela had allowed the Demon King to die a thousand years earlier to fulfill her wish.
• Aiyi and Shafna reasoned that their mother would be waiting for Shien in the deepest part of the battlefield, so they decided not to go there and risk interfering.
• Shafna privately vowed to make all six sisters Shien's lovers if he saved their mother, while Aiyi agreed that the sisters should share good things.

Tier visited her mother's grave and confronted Aridia about her decision to fight in the coming battle rather than return to House Elbain. After declaring she would change both herself and her family, she returned to House Poztut and reunited with Vivian, Merika, and Lumya before the battle.

• Tier stood at her mother's grave and resolved to grow strong enough to stand beside and protect Shien.
• Aridia urged Tier to return to House Elbain and avoid the dangerous battle, but Tier insisted she would fight with her friends.
• Tier told Aridia she rejected the lives he and her mother had chosen and vowed to surpass him and change House Elbain.
• Aridia accepted that Tier would not be persuaded and privately resolved not to die before she defeated him.
• Tier returned to House Poztut, where Vivian, Merika, and Lumya welcomed her for a quiet gathering before the battle.