Chapter Summaries

Chen Yu reunited with Seja in the Ice Elemental Plane and promised to help her complete her shaman trial by finding a powerful elemental to contract with. Meanwhile, Vampire Casimir arrived at the Swamp Fortress with gifts, but Little Flower refused him entry and kept him under watch while Chen Yu remained away.

• Chen Yu found Seja meditating in the Ice Elemental Plane, learned that the elemental creatures had vanished, and offered to help her complete her trial.
• Chen Yu and Seja approached a giant Ice Elemental, which attacked them; Chen Yu concealed his heat so Seja could escape with him.
• Chen Yu told Seja that the Swamp tribe was safe and learned that northern orc tribes might raid the White Horse Kingdom for food.
• Chen Yu decided to gather Slimes and fight the Ice Elemental, while Vampire Casimir arrived at the Swamp Fortress with gifts and apologized for the Black Fang Mercenary Group's attack.
• Little Flower told Casimir that the lord was absent and ordered him to leave, but he stayed outside the fortress as the Stinger Bees watched him.

Chen Yu led Isolde and his army into the Ice Elemental Plane to help Seja subdue the wandering Ice Elemental Giant. After the army defeated it, Seja formed a contract with the giant and discovered her new strength firsthand.

• Isolde stabilized the Planar Rift, and Chen Yu learned that Vampire Casimir had arrived at his territory seeking peace talks, but decided to leave him waiting while they entered the plane.
• Viola arranged for Isolde to provide cold-resistance potions, and Chen Yu led Pei Qi, Isolde, and the assembled forces through the rift.
• Chen Yu's army attacked the Ice Elemental Giant with artillery, Pei Qi's charge, an enormous Magic Pea vine, and the Stinger Bees until it surrendered.
• Seja approached the defeated giant and formed a contract with it, gaining a powerful connection and new strength.
• Seja accidentally slapped an ice crystal taller than herself flying, revealing her newfound power to Chen Yu.

Seja passed the Spirit of Life trial, gained a bond with an Ice Elemental Giant, and told Chen Yu that a six-legged moving castle was devouring Demonic Beasts while searching for something. After returning to the Prime Material Plane, Chen Yu sent Seja home with a promise of supplies, discovered Pei Qi had awakened an ice-controlling ability, and headed east toward the Goblin Legion.

• Chen Yu learned from the Ice Elemental Giant that a huge, six-legged structure made of stone, wood, and greenery was devouring Demonic Beasts, possibly to search for the Planar Rift.
• Chen Yu ordered the army to retreat and promised Seja an airdrop of food and other supplies for her Wildling tribe.
• Seja woke in her snow house and showed Semiya that she had passed the trial, but she kept the promised airdrop a secret.
• The army returned through the Planar Rift, and Pei Qi demonstrated her new ability by forming Ice Crystal Armor around herself.
• Chen Yu left Pei Qi to guard the rift and sent a winged Slime with Isolde to deliver supplies to Seja.
• Chen Yu flew toward the West Marsh to check on the fortress construction near the Goblin Legion's territory.

Hammer Bone and Grumg led Goblins to confront the Slimes after learning they had built an outpost in West Marsh. As the Goblins demanded they leave, the Slimes agreed among themselves to attack, leaving the standoff on the verge of violence.

• Hammer Bone dismissed human mercenaries and insisted that the Slimes in East Swamp were a threat to the Legion, then learned they had begun building in West Marsh.
• Grumg returned to assist with the Legion’s defenses, mocked Hammer Bone, and accepted his challenge to confront the Slimes.
• Slime workers rapidly built Cracked Stone Fortress while Metal Slime Big Brother led its patrols and defenses.
• Goblins ambushed the construction site, and Hammer Bone and Grumg arrived to find the completed outpost.
• Grumg demanded that the Slimes leave Goblin territory, and the Slimes decided to beat him up.

Chen Yu arrived at the outpost battle and used an empowered Magic Pea to rout the Goblin forces after the defenses had withstood their assault. The Goblins fled, the Slimes celebrated their victory, and Chen Yu collected alchemy seeds from captured Goblin Shamans.

• The outpost’s Artillery Arrays and Stinger Bees devastated the Goblin vanguard, while a Magic Leaves barrier stopped Grumg’s frost spell.
• Grumg drove the remaining Goblins into a frenzied assault, and Goblin Shamans’ fireballs failed to harm the Metal Slime leader.
• Hammer Bone battered the Metal Slime leader’s regenerating shield until Chen Yu appeared, prompting Hammer Bone to recognize him and flee.
• Chen Yu grew an empowered Magic Pea plant that launched giant peas, injuring Grumg and forcing both Grumg and Hammer Bone to retreat.
• Chen Yu let the Goblins escape, captured fleeing Goblin Shamans through the Stinger Bees, and obtained two alchemy seeds as the Slimes celebrated their victory.

Chen Yu’s Slimes repelled the Goblins’ attacks and built a stone wall overnight, while Chen Yu gained Rapid Reproduction. Meanwhile, Yano reached the Stonekin’s home in Gor, learned of his people’s origins, and arrived with Chen Yu at a town where his return was reported to the castle.

• The Slimes worked through the night to build a wall as Goblins tried to harass them, and Goblin scouts fled to report the construction at dawn.
• Grumg decided to seek Lord Casaric’s aid, while Hammer Bone was tasked with contacting the Black Fang Mercenary Group.
• Chen Yu gained Rapid Reproduction from the Swamp Giant Mosquito and considered strengthening the fortresses’ defenses.
• Nili and Lyon told Yano that the Stonekin might descend from servants of the Stone Giants, and that his distant relatives could be waiting at the fortress.
• Yano reached Fluorescent Town with Chen Yu and learned from Chen Yu that the Black Fang Mercenary Group’s force had been defeated.
• Captain Karn recognized Yano as an outsider Stoneborn and hurried to notify the Stonekin at the castle of his arrival.

Nili brought Arno and Chen Yu to the Stone Castle, where Arno learned about his grandfather Hoven and met three ancestral phantoms preserved by a potion. After Arno agreed to attempt the Shadow Trial, Nili introduced Chen Yu as the envoy of the Slime territory that had defeated Black Fang’s elite regiment.

• Nili told Arno that the Stonekin had secretly been blamed for the Vampires’ cheap Magic Scrolls and lent Chen Yu a quartz crystal that let him speak through mental power.
• Nili showed Arno Hoven Belmont’s portrait and explained that his grandfather had left to seek a cure for Petrification Disease and never returned.
• Nili summoned Solomon, Lancelot, and Cameron by pouring an azure preservation potion into cups, and Arno told them that his petrification symptoms had vanished and he could control petrification.
• Cameron suggested Arno take the Shadow Trial, and Arno agreed despite being a warrior rather than an assassin.
• Nili told the ancestors that the Slime territory had defeated Black Fang’s elite regiment and revealed Chen Yu as its envoy.

Chen Yu and Yano stayed in the Stonekin territory after the ancestors invited them to witness the Shadow Trial, which could affect the succession of the Grand Duke of Stonekin. Chen Yu planned to strengthen Yano for the trial, while Casimir continued waiting outside East Swamp Fortress for the lord to return.

• Chen Yu greeted the Stonekin ancestors, and Yano introduced himself as a descendant who had joined the Slime Kingdom; Solomon welcomed them and invited them to stay for the Shadow Trial.
• After Chen Yu and Yano left, Solomon and Cameron discussed using the Slime Kingdom as an ally against the Vampires, while Lancelot agreed to let the visitors proceed under Nili's watch.
• Nili explained that Yano had to find Shadow Creatures in the Fluorescent Forest and form contracts with them, and warned him that the trial concerned the succession of the Grand Duke of Stonekin.
• Yano decided to seek out Karn and attempt the Knight Trial before the Shadow Trial, while Chen Yu planned to boost him with martial arts and Pills.
• Casimir remained outside East Swamp Fortress, waiting for the lord, and the Slime on the wall again told him that the lord had not returned.

Chen Yu obtained an Eight Gates Golden Lock Array and beginner alchemy materials, then returned to Cracked Stone Fortress and began studying alchemy with plans to use lava as earth fire. Meanwhile, a Bat Slime carried supplies toward Seja, who killed a snow elk but then heard beastfolk approaching.

• Chen Yu met Yang Hongli, received the Eight Gates Golden Lock Array, and asked him about array principles.
• Chen Yu bought alchemy books, Fire Control Technique, and formulas for Bone Tempering Yellow Pills and Spirit Awakening Pills.
• Chen Yu realized he lacked an alchemy furnace, recalled the lava channel in the mining area, and returned there to study alchemy.
• A Bat Slime led a supply convoy toward Seja through the snowy wilderness.
• Seja and Semiya hunted in the snowfield, and Seja killed an adult snow elk with an Ice Cone.
• Seja heard a herd approaching as beastfolk said something was happening nearby and went to investigate.

Seja and Semiya discovered that the Frostbone Tribe was plundering the savages and intervened, with Seja challenging Gron to buy the tribe time to escape. The savages fled toward Nabdah Peak, but Gron injured Semiya and orc reinforcements arrived.

• Seja and Semiya followed Ulf and Kira to the savage tribe, where Gron and the orcs were seizing food and demanding to know whether Lizardfolk had entered the snowfields.
• Gron accused Brutu of hiding the Lizardfolk who had helped the tribe, and Seja revealed herself and challenged him to a duel.
• Seja stopped Gron's hammer with her strength, threw him down, and took his weapon while Semiya killed three orcs and helped the savages break through the encirclement.
• Gron summoned a frost wolf and pursued the escaping savages, who ran toward Nabdah Peak as Brutu used Wind Chill to speed them along.
• Gron entered a berserk state, charged Semiya, and injured her before more frost wolves arrived as reinforcements.

Seja, Semiya, and the savages escaped the Frostwolf Riders with help from the Bat Slime and its supply-bearing swarm, then reached a cave at Nabdah Peak. Shaman Brutu offered for his tribe to follow Putu, while Seja revealed that the Envoy had sent food and equipment.

• Gron and the Frostwolf Riders attacked the savages, but Seja struck Gron while Semiya fought off the riders.
• With the savages surrounded, Seja prayed, and the Bat Slime arrived with Stinger Bees and beetles carrying supplies; Gron broke free of its chaotic influence and ordered a retreat.
• Seja and Semiya led the savages to a cave at Nabdah Peak, where Seja healed the injured and Shaman Brutu offered the tribe's devotion to Putu.
• The savages returned with firewood and food, and Seja told Semiya that the Envoy's bags contained the supplies it had promised.

Seja and Semiya received supplies from Chen Yu’s Bat Slime, and the starving savages joined the Slime Kingdom in exchange for shelter. Back in the Obsidian Mining Area, Chen Yu successfully refined Spirit Pills, sent a batch toward Gore and Yano, and turned his attention to Yano’s training.

• Seja and Semiya opened the sacks and found food, tools, cold-resistant armor, a staff for Seja, and daggers for Semiya.
• The savages ate a hot meal, and the Bat Slime noticed faint white halos appearing around them.
• Brutu accepted the Bat Slime’s invitation, and the savages swore to join the Slime Kingdom and guard its snowfield border.
• Chen Yu used his flame and object-manipulation abilities to refine Bone Tempering Yellow Pills and found that the first pill improved his vitality.
• Chen Yu produced thirty Spirit Pills, stored them in Bat Slime Number Two, and sent it toward Gore and Yano through Cracked Stone Pass.
• Chen Yu turned his consciousness toward Yano to check on his martial arts training.

Yano discovered that he had reached the Sword Scripture’s Sword’s Cry realm after only a day of practice, then set out to collect training Pills for the upcoming trials. Nili retrieved the Pills for him, while Yano’s morning also brought unwanted attention over his notorious nickname and an unpleasant breakfast.

• Lyon, Ella, and Mask secretly watched Yano meditate, then left to prepare for the Shadow Trial, with Ella announcing her plan to train alone.
• Yano tested a punch and found that it produced the sharp, penetrating wind of Sword’s Cry; Chen Yu reassured him that his rapid progress was normal and said Pills were on the way.
• Yano disguised his face to avoid recognition, but townspeople greeted him as the Clothes Plunderer, and Nili appeared to tease him before offering to collect the supplies.
• Nili vanished into the shadows to retrieve the Pills, while Yano and Chen Yu went to a Cave Dweller restaurant and struggled through its insect-filled food.
• Nili returned to the restaurant, rescued Yano from the chef’s attention, and brought him a bag of glowing Pills at the cabin.

Chen Yu refined Spirit Pills and planned to recruit Lizardfolk into the Slime Kingdom, while the Slime Scholars began installing a fortress array he named the Kingdom's Shield. He returned to East Swamp to deal with the Vampire Casimir, who had been left nearly drained by mosquitoes and was asking the Slimes for blood.

• Nili returned with Yano and watched as Yano placed a crystal ball in his mouth, absorbed its medicinal power, and wildly swung his sword.
• Chen Yu refined more Spirit Pills and Talent Balls, then decided to recruit the Lizardfolk to build a swamp warrior army for the Slime Kingdom.
• Chen Yu found Slime Scholars embedding objects in the fortress walls to install the Eight Gates Golden Lock Array and renamed it the Kingdom's Shield.
• A Metal Slime continued ignoring Casimir, who had grown weak after swamp mosquitoes drained him and begged the patrol for blood.
• Little Card told Little Flower and Anvil that the Vampire outside seemed almost dead, and Chen Yu's message arrived saying he had returned.

Chen Yu turned away Casimir’s offer of cooperation until the Vampires returned the Goblin Legion’s bounty, then learned the Lizardfolk planned to flee north ahead of the magic tide. He decided to lure them back to his territory before they migrated.

• Chen Yu disguised himself as a crowned skeleton and met the weakened vampire Casimir, who asked for blood and received life-energy-rich gel instead.
• Revived by the gel, Casimir claimed the Vampires regretted Calvin’s actions and wanted to cooperate against the Goblin Legion, but his gift-bearing bats had been eaten by a swamp squirrel.
• Chen Yu demanded the full bounty the Vampires had received from the Goblin Legion as proof of their sincerity, then sent Casimir away with Little Card.
• Chen Yu told Little Flower Slime and Anvil that he did not intend to ally with the Vampires and planned to expand into The Gloomy Lands after dealing with the goblins.
• After Little Card confirmed Casimir had left, Chen Yu learned that the Lizardfolk planned to migrate north in about half a month to escape the magic tide and decided to lure them to his territory.

Turk began his shaman trial to gain the power to guide the Rotten Moss Tribe, defeating a Glow Mushroom Person and resisting a tempting illusion as he traveled through the swamp. After failing to find a Slime before nightfall, he slept in a tree, where a Slime sent by Chen Yu arrived beneath him.

• Shaman Shazak sent Turk into the Swamp Forest to defeat the first creature he encountered, ignore the second, and find a Slime to complete his trial.
• Turk killed a Glow Mushroom Person and gained the ability to identify plants and animals.
• Turk resisted the lure of a gemstone, unknowingly passed the second trial, and gained an instinct for finding his way through the mist.
• Turk searched for a Slime all afternoon, then spent a dangerous night sleeping in a swamp oak.
• Stinger Bees discovered Turk, and a little Slime riding a beetle mount arrived beneath his tree for Chen Yu's recruitment opportunity.

Turk accompanied Chen Yu to the Slime Kingdom, mistaking the journey for a sacred trial and marveling at the kingdom’s prosperity. After the Slime King promised its subjects food and shelter, Turk asked for the Rotten Moss Tribe to join the kingdom.

• Turk woke to find Chen Yu, a Slime, resting on his chest and agreed to help the envoy return home.
• Chen Yu directed Turk west into the Swamp, where they met Little Card, a drake who carried them to Swamp Fortress.
• Turk arrived at the Slime Kingdom and was astonished by its busy, thriving residents and buildings.
• Chen Yu welcomed Turk and offered him food, then promised the kingdom would protect its subjects from hunger, cold, and outside threats.
• Turk asked the Slime King to accept the Rotten Moss Tribe into the Slime Kingdom as loyal subjects.

Turk returned to the Rotten Moss Tribe after meeting the Slime King, who had offered the Lizardfolk a place in the kingdom if they could reach it safely. After Shazak and two warriors verified that the Slime Kingdom was real, Shazak ordered the tribe to migrate there instead of continuing north.

• Turk became a qualified Lizardfolk shaman and left the Slime Kingdom with Little Card to return to his tribe.
• Chen Yu told Little Flower that the Lizardfolk needed to earn their place in the kingdom and ordered her to prepare Slime Academy students to teach martial arts and select pill-refining scholars.
• Turk arrived at the Rotten Moss Tribe by riding Little Card and told the Lizardfolk about the Slime Kingdom and its offer of protection.
• Shazak believed Turk after sensing his natural aura and set out with Turk, Ake, and Quinn to inspect the kingdom.
• The four reached the Slime Kingdom, saw its fortress and thriving residents, and confirmed Turk's account.
• Shazak ordered Turk to return and prepare the tribe to migrate to the Slime Kingdom instead of continuing north.

Chen Yu accompanied Yano to Stone Castle Town’s Knight Training Ground, where Yano planned to take the Knight Trial before the Shadow Trial began. After watching Yano’s preparation and betting Nili over the result, they arrived and met Karn, but the trial had not yet started.

• Chen Yu watched the Slime Scholars relocate toward Cracked Stone Fortress to begin studying alchemy near the magma.
• Yano broke through to the fourth realm of the Sword Scripture while training, and Nili warned him about taking the Knight Trial so close to the Shadow Trial.
• Yano set out with Nili and Chen Yu for the Training Ground, where Nili explained the Cave Dwellers’ history and the demands of becoming a Knight.
• Chen Yu accepted Nili’s bet: if Yano lost, he would give her glowing crystal spheres, while Nili promised a trick for finding Shadow Creatures if Yano won.
• Karn greeted the group at the rudimentary Training Ground and led them inside.

Yano used Chen Yu’s talent orb to bond with a Lizard Mount and faced Karn in a knightly duel, recovering the instincts buried since his youth. The duel ended with Yano’s powerful strike driving Karn and his mount backward, revealing strength beyond that of an ordinary warrior.

• Yano admitted that he had no mount, so Karn provided him with an unassigned Lizard Mount for the duel.
• Chen Yu gave Yano a talent orb, which helped the Lizard Mount grow affectionate and responsive toward him.
• Yano and Karn began their duel as Nili and Chen Yu watched from the spectator area.
• Karn used his Lizard Mount’s speed to circle Yano and launch probing spear attacks, while Yano drew on his old knightly instincts.
• Yano feigned an opening, dodged Karn’s spear with his mount’s help, and struck Karn’s shield with a powerful slash that forced him and his mount backward.