Recaps

At dinner, Allen encouraged Bell after Bete mocked him for freezing before a Minotaur, and his words stirred the adventurers gathered in the tavern. Loki and Finn recognized Allen’s growing influence and discussed Hestia Familia’s hidden potential, while Finn underestimated how quickly Bell might grow.

• Bete mocked Bell for freezing in fear before a Minotaur, and Bell admitted he had brought shame to Hestia Familia.
• Allen told Bell not to be discouraged by weakness or ridicule and urged him to keep moving forward with a hero’s mindset.
• Bell thanked Allen and vowed to keep advancing, while Bete choked on his wine and the tavern’s adventurers were inspired by Allen’s words.
• Finn praised Allen for encouraging Bell and reaching the hearts of low-ranking adventurers, predicting that his words would soon spread through Orario.
• Gareth and Loki discussed Allen’s defeat of Ottar and Hestia Familia’s hidden strength, while Finn believed the Familia would need many years to become a threat.

After Allen encouraged Bell through a difficult day, he warned Hestia that he would begin grueling training and exposed Freya’s disguise as Sil. Meanwhile, Hermes investigated Allen and the mysterious battle involving Ottar, deciding to contact the newcomer.

• Allen told Hestia that Bell had strong potential and warned her he would put him through hellish special training.
• Allen confronted Sil, revealed that she was Freya, and warned her not to interfere with him or threaten the Hestia Familia.
• Freya returned to her goddess body and remained fascinated by Allen and Bell despite Allen’s warning.
• Hermes questioned Asfi about Ottar’s defeat and learned that the Loki Familia’s leaders had brought him out of the Dungeon unconscious.
• Hermes tested a firearm from Allen’s shop and decided to make contact with Allen to learn why he had come to Orario.

Allen taught Ais how to improve her sword technique and tested Bell’s training, then decided to take him to the seventeenth floor of the Dungeon. Bell feared the danger, but Allen knocked him unconscious and carried him toward the entrance.

• Bell woke refreshed and hurried outside, where he found Allen sparring with Ais.
• Allen demonstrated how Ais’s predictable attacks left openings and offered to train with her every morning.
• Allen tested Bell’s swordsmanship, tripped him easily, and told him he needed to rebuild his fundamentals.
• Allen announced that Bell would train on the seventeenth floor, then knocked him unconscious and carried him toward the Dungeon.

Allen cleared the seventeenth floor and forced Bell to fight a Minotaur as an extreme training exercise. Bell defeated the monster after hours of combat, and Allen prepared to train him even more harshly.

• Allen and his pets hunted monsters on the seventeenth floor, and he chose a Minotaur as Bell’s sparring partner.
• Allen gave Bell the Phantom Blade and ordered him to kill the Minotaur before noon or die trying.
• Bell studied the wounded Minotaur and attacked repeatedly, improving his movements while narrowly avoiding death.
• The Minotaur grew stronger in a berserk-like state, but Bell dodged its attack and killed it with a strike through its throat.
• Allen praised Bell’s potential and warned him that his training would be like hell.

After a week of brutal training and Dungeon expeditions, Bell and Allen’s party reached Level 2, alarming Hestia with how quickly they had grown. Hestia decided to delay reporting their levels, while Allen prepared to confront anyone who tried to exploit the Familia’s rising fame.

• Allen trained Bell against stronger opponents each morning, while they and the three wolves hunted monsters in the Dungeon each afternoon.
• Allen, Bell, and the three wolves reached Level 2, and Allen gained three skills and two spells.
• Hestia worried that the Hestia Familia’s rapid growth would draw attention and trouble from Orario’s other Familias.
• Bell celebrated becoming a Level 2 adventurer, while Hestia explained that level-ups had to be reported to the Guild.
• Allen said they could ignore the rules and threaten any gods who challenged them, but Hestia chose to delay reporting their levels until the end of the month.
• Allen burned the status sheets and declared himself ready to make an example of whoever came after the Familia.

As Hermes questioned Hestia about Allen, Allen returned with several unconscious Hermes Familia members and forced Hermes to identify the gods investigating him. Allen warned Hermes to stay out of his affairs, then considered which of the three named gods to target first.

• Hermes visited Hestia’s shop and tried to learn about Allen, claiming that Orario’s gods and the Guild were concerned about his mysterious past.
• Hestia refused to reveal her Familia’s secrets and questioned whether Hermes was acting for other gods or Uranus.
• Allen arrived with Asfi and other Hermes Familia members unconscious, explaining that they had been lurking around the shop.
• Allen threatened Hermes with gathered magic until Hermes wrote down the names of Apollo, Ista, and Sannis.
• Allen warned Hermes not to meddle again and wondered which of the three gods he should target first.

Allen planned to use Bell’s involvement with Liliruca and the Soma Familia as an opportunity to confront Soma, while Hestia offered her support. Hermes abandoned the investigation into Allen and decided to leave Orario with his Familia, expecting Hestia’s Familia to bring a new storm to the city.

• Hestia asked Allen what he planned to do, and he explained that Bell’s connection to Liliruca could give him grounds to act against Soma.
• Hestia agreed to support Allen and warned him to watch out for Apollo and Ista.
• Hermes dismissed the commission to investigate Allen, deciding he was neither a Dark Faction member nor the kind of danger the Guild feared.
• Hermes told Asfi they would disappear for a while and observe how the gods and Familias responded to the coming upheaval.
• Hermes predicted that Hestia and her Familia would stir up a new storm, while Uranus’s position remained uncertain.

Bell defeated a group of Minotaurs, but Liliruca drugged him and stole his equipment before Sumo Familia members intercepted her. Allen appeared as they fought over the stolen goods, ready to use the attack on Bell as grounds for war against the Sumo Familia.

• Bell killed seven or eight Minotaurs alone and reflected on how much stronger he had become.
• Liliruca gave Bell drugged water, waited for him to lose consciousness, and took his weapons, equipment, and potions.
• Several Sumo Familia adventurers stopped Liliruca and seized the backpack, but one of them killed their leader to claim the goods for himself.
• The surviving Sumo Familia members admitted they wanted power and access to the Divine Liquor, then prepared to leave with the backpack.
• Allen confronted the Sumo Familia members while Silver Giant Wolves blocked the maze, and he declared that they were challenging the Hestia Familia.

Allen attacked the Sumo Familia headquarters over its members’ attempts to steal Bell’s weapons and armor, exposed the Familia’s crimes to the gathered crowd, and declared war when Sannis denied responsibility. Sumo arrived amid the confrontation and demanded to know what had happened.

• Sannis felt uneasy at the Sumo Familia headquarters before an explosion destroyed much of the building.
• A Sumo Familia member told Sannis that Allen had attacked over the attempt to steal Bell’s equipment and demanded compensation and a public apology.
• Allen entered the ruined headquarters with Bell and captured Sumo Familia members, then accused Sannis of ordering attacks on adventurers in the Dungeon.
• The crowd condemned the Sumo Familia as Allen demanded compensation and a public apology or declared all-out war.
• Sannis denied ordering the crimes, and Sumo arrived and asked what was going on.

After Sannis exposed that the Sumo Familia had funded Divine Liquor by robbing adventurers, Allen declared war and left with Bell, who offered Liliruca a place beside him. The gods set a War Game for three days later, with Sumo’s exile and the Sumo Familia’s property at stake if Hestia’s Familia won.

• Sannis revealed that the Sumo Familia had stolen weapons and armor from adventurers to pay for Divine Liquor, shocking Sumo.
• Allen declared the Familia war and left with Bell, while Bell invited Liliruca to come with him.
• Loki, Freya, Hephaestus, Apollo, Ista, and the other gods debated how to handle the Sumo Familia’s crimes and the coming war.
• The gods voted to hold a War Game in three days: if Hestia’s Familia won, it would receive the Sumo Familia’s property and Sumo would be sent back to Heaven; if it lost, it would surrender its own property.

With the Sumo Familia fractured and outmatched, Allen prepared Bell to fight them in the War Game and gave him a second enchanted blade. Hestia accepted Liliruca into the Hestia Familia, giving her a chance to atone.

• Soma was banished to the Heavenly Realm after his conflict with Sannis and the Sumo Familia erupted.
• Allen gave Bell a fire-enchanted longsword and told him to attack the Sumo Familia in the War Game three days later.
• Bell worried that he was not ready to fight other adventurers, but Allen and Hestia assured him he was strong enough.
• Liliruca asked Hestia for a chance to atone and join the Hestia Familia.
• Hestia accepted Liliruca on the condition that she avoid the Sumo Familia's bad habits, and Liliruca tearfully swore her loyalty.

Bell charged into the Sumo Familia’s War Game stronghold, using his fire and ice swords to break through the gate and defeat many opponents. Sannis’s magic sword failed to harm Bell because Allen’s shield accessory absorbed the lightning, leaving Bell to press his attack.

• Allen told Bell to show Orario his strength, and Bell rushed toward the Sumo Familia’s gate.
• Bell blasted the gate apart with his flaming sword and quickly defeated roughly half the Sumo Familia before entering the inner city.
• Loki and the watching gods reacted to Bell’s quick-cast magic and surprising strength, while Hephaestus examined his unusual swords.
• Sannis drew a magic sword and unleashed lightning that struck several adventurers but left Bell unharmed.
• Bell realized Allen’s rabbit-shaped accessory had shielded him from the attack.

Bell rejected Sannis's attempt to excuse his actions and overwhelmed him in their duel, while the watching goddesses recognized Allen's influence on Bell's fighting skills. The chapter left Sannis on the defensive and Demeter newly interested in Allen.

• Sannis accused Bell of being lucky and blamed his cruelty on the Sumo Familia's dependence on Divine Liquor, but Bell dismissed his excuses.
• Bell charged Sannis with his twin swords, and Sannis drew his weapon to fight back.
• Bell used his speed and skill to steadily overpower Sannis, who relied on self-enhancement magic just to defend himself.
• Demeter marveled at Bell's techniques, and Loki explained that Allen had trained both Bell and Ais.
• Demeter became interested in Allen after hearing of his talent and seeing his appearance.

Bell defeated Sannis and secured victory for the Hestia Familia, stunning Orario with his rapid growth and powerful magic. The gods celebrated Hestia’s win, while Sumo was sent back to the Heavenly Realm and his Familia faced an uncertain future.

• Finn, Tione, Bert, Ais, Gareth, and Riveria discussed Bell’s astonishing strength and the Hestia Familia’s likely elite approach to recruitment.
• Lefiya announced that Bell had defeated Sannis, leaving the Sumo Familia defeated amid the castle’s ruins.
• The gods marveled at Bell’s final attack, and Loki suggested giving him a resounding nickname before leaving.
• The gods congratulated Hestia while Sumo sat alone, then Guild enforcers sent him back to the Heavenly Realm.
• The defeated Sumo Familia faced transfer to other gods or departure from Orario, with possible retribution for their past crimes.

After the Hestia Familia won the War Game, Allen and Bell collected the Sumo Familia’s assets and joined Hestia’s celebration. Allen warned that the victory was only the beginning, as two enemies remained, and confirmed that Liliruca had joined the Hestia Familia.

• Allen praised Bell’s growth and took him to the Sumo Familia headquarters to collect the spoils of war.
• Eina estimated the Sumo Familia’s property at no less than sixty million Valis, and Allen ordered all assets, including its land, weapons, and equipment, converted into money.
• Allen and Bell went to The Primal Goddess tavern, where Hestia and the others celebrated the War Game victory.
• Allen stayed sober and told Liliruca that two enemies had yet to reveal themselves, then asked whether she had joined the Hestia Familia.
• Liliruca confirmed that Hestia had changed her Falna and guessed that Allen meant the Apollo Familia.

Allen learned that Hyacinthus of the Apollo Familia had met privately with Sannis and sent Liliruca to investigate, giving her a firearm and telling her to keep Bell out of it. The morning after the tavern revelry, Bell discovered he had been covered in lip marks but learned he was still a virgin, and he fled to scrub them off.

• Allen asked Liliruca about the Apollo Familia’s connection to Sannis, and she revealed that Hyacinthus had met privately with Sannis several times.
• Liliruca agreed to gather information on the Apollo Familia, and Allen gave her a short gun while warning her not to involve Bell.
• After the revelry, Allen helped the drunk members of the group back to their rooms.
• Hestia and Bell woke with hangovers, and Hestia noticed lip marks covering Bell’s face and neck.
• Allen confirmed Bell was still a virgin and teased him about the women who had kissed him, prompting Bell to rush to the bathroom.

Allen explained that he had let goddesses leave kiss marks on Bell to revive his sense of crisis and accelerate his growth through Liaris Freese. He discussed divine power and the Dungeon with Hestia, demonstrated his control over magic power, and left to meet Lily while scouts watched the house.

• Allen told Hestia that Bell needed pressure to keep growing and explained how crisis and admiration strengthened Liaris Freese.
• Hestia explained that divine power was a purer form of magic power and that the Dungeon could kill Gods by making its monsters evolve to slay them.
• Allen shaped magic power into violet flame and crystallized it, telling Hestia that he sought the Dungeon's secrets and the source of its hatred for Gods.
• Allen told Hestia to rest, then left to learn what information Lily had gathered and take her to train in the Dungeon.
• Allen used Track Humanoid Creature and En to spot scouts from nearby Familias, whom he suspected belonged to the Apollo Familia or Ishtar Familia.

Lily investigated the Apollo Familia and was attacked by trackers, but Allen rescued her and learned Apollo had joined forces with Ista to prepare for war. Allen remained confident and decided to train Lily to use the powerful gun he had given her.

• Lily bought information about the Apollo Familia and was followed through Orario's alleys.
• Lily used Allen's short gun to destroy one tracker, while Allen and his Shadow Wolf King cornered the other two.
• Allen questioned the trackers, who said a tall man in a gray cloak had hired them to follow Lily.
• Lily told Allen that Apollo was buying magic swords and materials and that someone from the Ista Familia had secretly joined Apollo's forces.
• Allen dismissed the threat and told Lily he would give her special training to help her control the gun, frightening her.

Allen’s companion Vilnalasath hatched from the red dragon egg and examined how Dungeon magic power affected Allen. When Vilnalasath tested a modified Ten-Tails Divine Tree as a way to harvest that energy, the Dungeon retaliated by empowering and rapidly evolving its monsters.

• Lily completed Allen’s brutal training and proved she could hunt monsters alone on the twentieth floor.
• Allen sensed the dragon egg trembling, sent Lily back alone, and traveled to the fiftieth floor to witness it hatch.
• The Red Dragon Vilnalasath emerged, transformed into armor, and explained that magic power amplified the body without endangering life when depleted.
• Vilnalasath proposed using the modified Ten-Tails Divine Tree to gather Dungeon energy and condense it into a Magic Fruit.
• The tree began extracting energy, prompting the Dungeon to send monsters and then empower them to evolve rapidly.

Allen’s attempt to harvest the Dungeon’s magic power triggered a rampage of empowered monsters, including a Fallen Fae avatar. As Allen fought the Fae and Vilnalasath battled a Great Dragon, the chapter ended with the Fae raising another defensive spell and attacking with vines.

• Allen unleashed his full arsenal against the monsters surging from the fifty-first floor, while Vilnalasath grew to enormous size after absorbing magic crystals.
• Allen ordered Vilnalasath to slow her magic-power extraction, and she transformed into a Great Dragon to fight another dragon as Allen targeted monsters capable of powerful magic.
• A giant flower bud emerged from the ground and released a Fallen Fae avatar, which Allen recognized as a weapon created to fight Dungeon monsters.
• Vilnalasath urged Allen to kill the Fae before it damaged the Ten-Tails, and Allen struck it with the upgraded Ragnaros Sword.
• The Fallen Fae blocked Allen’s blow with defensive magic, then layered on another spell and sent vines after him.

Allen interrupted the Fallen Fae’s chant, killed its projection, and collected its strange magic crystal before Vilnalasath demonstrated her evolved power. After learning that she could fuse Nen and Chakra without changing his existing abilities, Allen agreed to undergo the fusion.

• Allen smashed through the floor with a Truth-Seeking Orb, interrupting the Fallen Fae’s chant and sending both Great Dragons and the Fallen Fae to the fifty-first floor.
• Allen broke through the Fallen Fae’s magical defense, severed its head, and collected the unusual crystal left behind by its projection.
• Allen wondered whether the fae shared a divine origin and resolved to find the Fallen Fae’s true body deeper in the Dungeon.
• Vilnalasath used rose-colored flames to burn away a Great Dragon’s life energy, revealing the power she gained by integrating Nen and Chakra.
• Vilnalasath told Allen the fusion would not affect his existing abilities, and Allen agreed to begin while she warned that he would temporarily lose access to both powers.

While the Dungeon’s monsters went berserk across Orario, Finn led an Allied Forces to protect the eighteenth-floor supply base, where they helped fight an evolved Goliath. Bell killed the Floor Master with a powerful strike, and afterward he and Lily realized Allen was still missing in the deep floors.

• The Guild sealed the Dungeon entrance and sent Finn and an elite Allied Forces to secure the eighteenth-floor supply base amid reports of evolved monsters.
• Finn’s group reached the camp and joined the adventurers fighting an enormous, strengthened Goliath.
• Lily fired a special bullet to launch Bell into the air, and Bell struck Goliath’s head with his charged Hero’s Strike, killing it.
• Finn and Gareth discussed Bell’s exceptional growth and the Dungeon-wide monster frenzy while Lily checked Bell for injuries.
• Bell asked where Allen was, and Lily said Allen had sent her back alone and remained somewhere in the deep floors.

Uranus learned that the entire Dungeon had rampaged and ordered Fels to investigate whether a rule-breaking god or the Fallen Fae had caused it. At the gods' council, the assembled gods demanded answers while Hestia privately suspected Allen was responsible.

• Uranus questioned Fels, who reported that every floor had gone into a frenzy before the Dungeon calmed and enhanced monsters remained to be cleared.
• Uranus explained that a god's unauthorized use of divine power or the Fallen Fae's schemes could have triggered the rampage, then ordered Fels to investigate suspicious gods.
• Loki and Freya called for the culprit to be found and punished, and the other gods supported their position.
• Hestia silently suspected Allen had caused the disturbance but kept her suspicions to herself.

Allen and Vilnalasath left the Dungeon after planting the Ten-Tails Divine Tree, which would slowly drain its power over several months. Allen planned to avoid disrupting Orario’s gods and leave once the Divine Tree produced a Magic Fruit, while Apollo and Ista secretly allied to target Hestia’s Familia.

• Vilnalasath estimated that the Divine Tree would need several months to spread through the Dungeon before it could condense a Magic Fruit, and Allen agreed to wait.
• Vilnalasath said Allen’s life energy would take about two more weeks to merge completely, then returned to her little-dragon form and joined him as he left the Dungeon.
• Allen saw Orario’s Guild members struggling with the Dungeon’s unprecedented rampage and explained that he would not interfere with a world whose humans depended on the gods for protection.
• Allen said he would leave quietly after the Divine Tree produced its fruit and might only act in secret against gods who angered him.
• Apollo and Ista allied against Hestia’s Familia, with Apollo claiming Allen and Ista claiming Bell as their respective targets.

Allen returned to Hestia’s shop after the Dungeon rampage and admitted that his attempt to draw magic power from the Dungeon had caused it. He showed Hestia a purified magic crystal, leaving her amazed and asking how he had made it.

• Hestia worriedly asked Allen where Bell and Lily were, and he told her they were resting in the Dungeon’s safe zone.
• Hestia accused Allen of causing the Dungeon rampage, and Allen admitted that he had accidentally triggered it while drawing magic power.
• Hestia warned Allen that people who absorbed monster crystals had become corrupted by the Dungeon and gone mad.
• Allen explained that he wanted only pure magic power and showed Hestia a crystal purified by the Divine Tree.
• Hestia confirmed the crystal was free of Dungeon contamination and asked Allen how he had purified it, but he called it a secret.