Chapter Summaries

Yano lured two Rusty Keys thieves into a hidden fortress in the Dungeon Mist Zone and captured them, while his Slime boss planned to use the ransom to ensnare the entire guild. The chapter left Jimmy bound in the fortress as Yano prepared to carry out the plan.

• Alice decided not to enter the mist and waited with Karen for Moriarty and the thieves to emerge.
• Scarface and Jimmy became lost in a magical fog loop and discovered a fortress with what looked like a treasure chest inside.
• Yano defeated the two thieves, demanded one hundred Gold Coins per prisoner, and let Scarface go to notify Rusty Keys.
• Yano searched the prisoners and made Jimmy write down guild members’ names and base locations.
• A Slime emerged from Yano’s chest, bound Jimmy to a pillar, and told Yano to capture the whole Rusty Keys guild.

Chen Yu discovered that magical identity tokens made from demonic beast organs could be eaten and began digesting their traits. Yano disguised himself as a Rusty Keys thief to rob adventurers, while Alice and Karen concluded that Yano was far more capable than they had realized.

• Yano sorted the loot from the Rusty Keys thieves, and Chen Yu learned that their wooden identity tokens were dried Magic Organs.
• Chen Yu swallowed four Magic Organs and received a prompt that Tail-Cutting Lizard traits were recorded and a talent was gestating.
• Yano proposed robbing other adventurers, and Chen Yu told him to wear the thieves' clothes so the crimes would be blamed on Rusty Keys.
• Yano ambushed adventurers in the mist zone, claimed to be a Rusty Keys thief, and stripped and robbed them, spreading fear among those waiting outside.
• Alice and Deputy Karen noticed the Rusty Keys thieves had not emerged and praised Yano's quick thinking and ability to endure adversity.

Chen Yu gained new talents and discovered that stripped talent gel could be consumed by other creatures, while Rusty Keys prepared to retaliate against Yano and conceal its human-trafficking dealings. The chapter left the guild’s Shadow Fang Squad on its way to capture Yano.

• Yano knocked out a female ranger, looted her pouch, and returned to the Little Black Room with the spoils and another guild badge.
• Chen Yu gained Magic Power Stripping and Stealth, then used his new talent to remove Pain Numbness and expel it as a gel lump.
• A poison frog ate the gel lump, gained a gray Mana sheen, and seemed unable to feel pain before Chen Yu beat it and watched it flee.
• The Rusty Keys Guildmaster decided to capture Yano publicly if he had been taken for ransom and sent the Shadow Fang Squad, led by Yulian, after him.
• The Guildmaster and an aristocratic man discussed blaming Mr. Moriarty for their dealings with the Greenskin dwarves and eliminating him if necessary.

Yano told Chen Yu that adventurers had fled the Mist Zone and that Rusty Keys had sent people after them, while a Demonic Beast army gathered as reinforcements. The Shadow Fang Squad entered the fog to find Yano and destroy his Magic Array, believing rumors that he was a perverted thief who stripped adventurers.

• Yano reported that adventurers were avoiding the Mist Zone and that Rusty Keys had dispatched people, while Chen Yu revealed that reinforcements had arrived.
• A formation of Stinger Bees and beetles assembled before Chen Yu, and he said he would bring a second formation to test a new blessing on Yano.
• Yulian led the Shadow Fang Squad toward the Mist Zone and ordered the team to destroy any Magic Array structures with Dispeller Type III bombs.
• Adventurers at the entrance whispered that a thief from Rusty Keys had robbed and stripped people, and Razor Weasel repeated the rumors to Yulian.
• Yulian concluded that Yano was framing Rusty Keys and led the Shadow Fang Squad into the fog.

Alice suspected that Moriarty was using goblins to search for them, while Chen Yu tested a talent-granting slime ball on Yano as Rusty Keys' elites entered the mist zone. The chapter left the Shadow Fang Squad advancing toward Chen Yu's crude fortress after destroying its mist-concealing Magic Array.

• Alice spotted goblins scouting the mist zone and reasoned that following them might lead to Moriarty; she also suspected Yano might be a formal Knight backed by a mysterious force.
• Chen Yu gave Yano a slime ball made with Magic Power Stripping, and Yano gained Stealth as an instinctive talent.
• After a Scout Bee Soldier warned that Rusty Keys' elites were approaching, Chen Yu and Yano hid behind a rock near the Little Black Room while the elites entered the area.
• Razor Weasel reported that the thick fog ahead was likely caused by a Magic Array, and Old Chimney destroyed its node with an alchemical bomb.
• The Shadow Fang Squad saw Chen Yu's crude fortress emerge through the mist, and Razor Weasel volunteered to scout ahead.

Yano and Chen Yu ambushed the Shadow Fang Squad with traps and Stinger Bees, but Yulian turned the battle around with his skills. Chen Yu sent Yano to confront Yulian, who judged him to be a weak fighter relying on traps and demonic beasts.

• Yano and Chen Yu hid behind a mushroom rock as the Rusty Keys elites broke Yano’s illusionary formation with bombs.
• The Razor Weasel dodged Yano’s first two traps but was stung by bees Chen Yu had concealed beneath a mushroom tree.
• The Shadow Fang Squad rushed to rescue the Razor Weasel, and a swarm of Stinger Bees attacked them.
• Old Chimney scattered poison powder to kill many bees, but leaf-covered bees hurled stone spheres that broke his arm and sent him flying.
• Yulian used Shadow Step and Blade Dance to kill the leaf-covered bees and turn the battle around.
• Chen Yu told Yano to fight Yulian, who assessed Yano as an ordinary fighter relying on traps and demonic beasts.

Yano defeated Yulian and captured the Shadow Fang Squad, while Chen Yu collected their loot and grew stronger. After learning of the capture, Rusty Keys Guildmaster Hades decided to push the Goblin Legion into attacking, despite the risk of drawing the kingdom’s knights.

• Yulian attacked Yano, but Yano blocked his strike and knocked him unconscious with Secret Technique: Torrent.
• Yano locked Yulian and the other newcomers in the Little Black Room, and Chen Yu collected their loot and consumed the Magic Organs.
• Chen Yu’s Bronze, Tough Carapace, Hallucinogenic Factor, and Stealth levels increased.
• Yano returned with Moriarty, a Rusty Keys thief who claimed to have important intelligence.
• Hades learned that Yulian and Shadow Fang had been captured and decided the Goblin Legion would handle the matter, despite the risk of attracting the kingdom’s knights.
• The nobleman left Hades alone in the office, and another thief entered and hurriedly departed.

Yano and Chen Yu learned that Rusty Keys and its leader Hades were involved in trafficking women to the Goblin Legion, and that the goblins might come after them. After Moriarty revealed that Alice Arevalo was also in the dungeon, Chen Yu decided they should flee and hand the captured criminals over to her for bounty money.

• Yano dragged Moriarty into the Little Black Room and intimidated him into revealing Rusty Keys' trafficking ties to the Goblin Legion.
• Chen Yu learned that the Goblin Legion raided Kingdom border villages and traded enslaved people for weapons and other goods.
• Yano frightened Moriarty into claiming Hades had forced him to kidnap women and planned to make him a scapegoat.
• Moriarty revealed that Silver Blade Knight Alice Arevalo was in the dungeon, making Yano worry she knew about his past actions.
• Chen Yu decided they should leave before the goblins arrived and deliver the captured Rusty Keys criminals to Alice for bounty money.

Alice and Karen captured Moriarty and left Gray Mist Lake as the goblins moved into the abandoned dungeon. Back at Swamp Castle, Chen Yu planned how to invest the recovered treasure, then sensed a woman at the western outpost and wondered why Arthur had hidden from her.

• Alice and Karen loaded Moriarty and the captured Rusty Keys thieves into a prison wagon, and Alice said they had to return to prepare for the Summer Magic Tide.
• Hammer Bone killed Hades after Hades blamed Moriarty for the Rusty Keys’ defeat, then ordered goblins to investigate the Eastern Marsh.
• Yano brought the recovered gold and spoils to Swamp Castle, where Chen Yu persuaded Count Bran to move into the treasury and guard it.
• Chen Yu considered trading Magic Organs to improve his territory’s creatures and develop a Black Iron Stinger Bee colony.
• Chen Yu sensed a woman at the western outpost and noticed that Arthur had hidden when he saw her.

Alice followed a mysterious watcher into a sunny clearing and found her younger brother Arthur alive as an undead, but neither sibling met the other. After Alice left, Arthur decided not to approach her because the kingdom and Arevalo would not accept the undead.

• Alice stopped the prison wagon after sensing someone watching her from the woods, then pursued the figure into a clearing.
• Alice found a flowerbed and a docile Bone Warhorse bearing the Arevalo Family crest, then left a silver Lineage emblem beside the flowers.
• Arthur emerged with the slime and admitted that Alice was his younger sister, but said he did not want to make things difficult for her.
• The slime told Arthur that they might meet again when the time was right, and Arthur interpreted their separation as a trial.
• Count Bran found the melancholy Arthur, encouraged him to help gather stones, and Arthur agreed.

Yano returned to Iron Boot Town to send a letter to Laura, while Chen Yu taught Little Flower the Common Tongue and continued developing the Slime Kingdom. In the dungeon, Chen Yu reached the Sulfur Hot Spring Area and chose a Hotland Giant Mosquito as his next target.

• Yano returned to Iron Boot Town with a supply list and planned to write to Laura about their circumstances, an astronomical telescope, and the parchment translations.
• Chen Yu took Little Flower to the treehouse, began teaching her the Common Tongue, and let her sleep when she grew tired.
• Chen Yu oversaw the fortress's expanding walls, farms, mushroom fields, and Stinger Bee patrols before connecting his consciousness to a Slime in the dungeon.
• Slime Sister caught Chen Yu trying to leave the nest, but he later slipped away and explored toward the Sulfur Hot Spring Area.
• Chen Yu's talents leveled up, and he split off Tool Slime to practice Magic Power Stripping.
• Chen Yu spotted a Hotland Giant Mosquito whose explosive tail attack caught his interest.

Alice told two kingdom knights that East Swamp showed no large-scale goblin activity before leaving Iron Boot Town with Karen. Meanwhile, Chen Yu gained Magic Explosion from Hotland Giant Mosquitoes and prepared explosive bee soldiers, whose eggs hatched two days later.

• Alice told two knights surveying Swamp Forest that East Swamp had no signs of large-scale goblin activity and suggested they investigate West Marsh instead.
• Alice and Karen left Iron Boot Town as Alice warned that the coming mana tide could stir the goblins.
• Chen Yu gained Magic Explosion by digesting Hotland Giant Mosquitoes and tested it by detonating a small blob of gel in the swamp.
• Chen Yu gave Magic Explosion to a Queen Bee, which produced ten fast-growing bee soldier eggs.
• Two days later, Chen Yu's Life Drain, Magic Power Stripping, and Magic Explosion levels increased, and he went to see the Queen Bee and the baby bee soldiers.

Chen Yu showed Count Bran that the Stinger Bees could fire explosive stingers, then learned about the coming summer demon tide and strengthened Queen Bee’s Magic Explosion talent. At the western outpost, three Goblin scouts approached, and the big-nosed Goblin trampled the flowers before discovering a tall shadow behind it.

• Count Bran challenged the Stinger Bees and fled when their explosive stingers blasted the ground beside him.
• Count Bran explained that summer Mana surges drive hordes of Demonic Beasts toward the kingdoms, prompting Chen Yu to prepare his territory for the demon tide.
• Chen Yu upgraded Queen Bee’s Magic Explosion talent to Lv.2.
• Three Goblin scouts crept toward the western outpost, where the big-nosed Goblin stomped on the flowerbed.
• The big-nosed Goblin turned and saw a tall, silent shadow standing behind it.

Arthur pursued and killed the goblins who had trampled his flowers, but he and the Slime King became lost in West Marsh. They ended up back at Arthur’s marked starting point, leaving the Slime King wondering whether Arthur’s talent for getting lost had spread to him.

• Half-Eared Goblin fled from the forest, and Arthur chased the goblin squad into West Marsh after the Slime King gave him permission.
• Arthur charged after the fleeing goblins, killing them because they had stepped on his flowers.
• Arthur killed the goblins spying deeper in West Marsh, but the sight of the trampled flowers left him feeling forlorn.
• Arthur told the Slime King he was lost, and the Slime King directed him to follow the scorch marks and corpses back.
• Arthur and the Slime King returned to the old tree bearing Arthur’s cross-shaped marker, and the Slime King wondered if Arthur’s knack for getting lost was contagious.

Chen Yu and Arthur spent the night in the goblin-held forest while Count Bran hurried to find them at dawn. Meanwhile, Chen Yu’s slime hunted monsters in the Sulfur Hot Spring Area, gained Flame Resistance, and returned to find strange Elemental Monsters blocking the Slime Nest.

• Count Bran worried about Arthur’s disappearance, then promised to search for him in West Marsh the next morning.
• Arthur reassured Chen Yu through the little Slime and spent the night beside a bonfire, remembering Count Bran and keeping Alice’s silver badge and a dried flower core close.
• At dawn, Count Bran flew into the western marshes to find Arthur.
• Chen Yu’s Little Fatty hunted monsters in the Sulfur Hot Spring Area, gained Flame Resistance, and improved several abilities.
• When Little Fatty returned toward the Slime Nest, he found strange Elemental Monsters blocking its entrance.

Chen Yu’s Slime Nest was attacked by Lava Demon Bats, and Little Fatty was killed while helping defend it. Chen Yu created a Flame-Resistant Little Fatty Type II and sent it toward the Lava Well for revenge as he continued preparing Swamp Fortress for the demon tide.

• Six Lava Demon Bats attacked the Slime Nest, and Slime Big Brother and its two Metal Slime brothers fought them at the entrance.
• Little Fatty killed one demon bat with Lesser Arrow Technique, then wounded two more while Slime Big Brother shielded him from the others.
• A demon bat’s lava whip struck Little Fatty, melting him, and Slime Big Brother smashed the two wounded bats while the last pair fled.
• The slimes mourned Little Fatty as a hero, while Chen Yu woke in Swamp Fortress and formed a replacement with Flame Resistance and Magic Explosion.
• Chen Yu sent Little Fatty Type II and an Earthwork Slime toward the dungeon to seek revenge, then returned to work on the Fortress Wall as he awaited Yano and supplies.

Yano joined Chen Yu’s workers to complete the wall around Swamp Fortress, which gained protection from environmental damage and became a sturdy barrier. Meanwhile, Arthur remained lost in the rain after Count Bran returned to the territory, and he headed toward a mountain for shelter.

• Kenken regained his enthusiasm for building a dam after falling for a new lady beaver across the Reed River.
• Yano arrived at Swamp Fortress and was astonished to find a nearly completed wall surrounding its eastern side.
• Chen Yu asked Yano to help the workers fill the wall’s final gap, and Yano helped place the last mud bricks.
• The Slime Lord title made the completed wall seamless and increased its durability and resistance to environmental damage.
• Count Bran explained that the fog had made travel difficult and returned to his nest, leaving Arthur in the forest.
• Arthur encountered a goblin patrol, became lost again, and followed his undead horse toward a mountain to escape the rain.

During a feast at the Swamp Fortress, Chen Yu improved his skills by eating Magic Organs, and Yano finished setting up a telescope. The discovery of goblin scouts approaching the fortress’s massive wall left an invasion looming.

• Count Bran persuaded Little Card to give him its roasted Moss Monster meat and praised its loyalty while eating.
• Chen Yu’s skills improved after he ate Magic Organs brought back by Yano.
• Yano aimed the telescope through the treehouse roof, and Chen Yu briefly looked at the stars.
• Count Bran heard venomous bees buzzing, then an explosion sounded northwest of the fortress.
• Bone Shatter’s goblin scouting party broke through a dungeon wall and followed Poison Fang through the swamp toward the East Swamp.
• Bone Shatter and Poison Fang emerged before the enormous Swamp Fortress wall, mistaking it for a monster.

Bone Shatter’s goblin scouting party attacked Chen Yu’s fortress and was destroyed by the Queen Bee’s explosive stingers. Chen Yu traced the goblins to an underground passage leading into the dungeon and decided to build an outpost near it.

• Bone Shatter sent goblins to scout the fortress, but they failed to find an entrance and tried to break through its wall.
• The Stinger Bees attacked the goblins, and their explosive stingers killed Bone Shatter, Poison Fang Shaman, and the rest of the party.
• Chen Yu explained that he had given Queen Bee the Lv.3 Magic Explosion skill, then learned from Yano that the goblins had come from deep in the Swamp.
• Chen Yu rode Little Card to an abandoned village and discovered a newly opened underground passage leading toward the dungeon.
• Chen Yu and Little Card entered the passage, defeated the goblins stationed nearby, and identified a suitable place for an outpost near the fog zone and Slime Nest.

Chen Yu finished a temporary Illusionary Formation at the outpost while the Little Fatty brothers led the Slimes to safety, and the King’s life energy healed Slime Big Brother. By morning, Chen Yu was back at Swamp Fortress preparing for the Goblin Legion’s next attacks.

• Chen Yu and Little Card built a crude Illusionary Formation to confuse goblins who returned to the passage at night.
• The Little Fatty brothers returned to the Slime Nest, where Little Fatty revealed he had survived and invited the Slimes to move to the King’s territory.
• The Slimes began their migration, but the injured Slime Big Brother could barely continue and said farewell to Little Fatty.
• Little Fatty’s Nanny Brother used his life energy to heal Slime Big Brother, and the Slimes resumed their journey with renewed hope.
• Little Card carried Chen Yu back to Swamp Fortress at dawn, where Chen Yu considered how to strengthen defenses against the Goblin Legion.