Chapter Summaries

Broly noticed that Ais’s swordsmanship had fallen behind her improved stats and proposed helping her study it by imitating her fighting style. He used Lili’s Transformation Magic to become a child-sized Ais, but the training plan was interrupted by the others fussing over his transformed appearance.

• Broly brought Lyu to the Loki Familia training ground, where they found Ais sparring with Theiona and Theione.
• Broly joined Ais and Lyu in a three-way sword fight and pressured them with his superior strength and skill.
• Broly explained that Lyu’s progress was limited by her Ability Value, while Ais had reached a technical bottleneck because her stats had improved faster than her swordsmanship.
• Broly suggested that Ais face an imitation of her own swordsmanship and used Transformation Magic to take on her child-sized form.
• Theiona cuddled transformed Broly, Ais rescued him, and Riviera and Leffia reacted with surprise to the sight of two versions of Ais.

Broly used Transformation Magic to help Ais overcome her swordsmanship bottleneck, and Riviera found a Pendant that made his transformation more accurate. Riviera then arranged for Ais, Leffia, and Theiona to move into Hearth Manor with Broly, leaving Lyu worried about Sheele’s romantic prospects.

• Riviera tricked Leffia into thinking Broly transformed into Ais’s daughter, then Broly explained the transformation was meant to help Ais break through her swordsmanship bottleneck.
• Riviera suggested amplifying Broly’s Transformation Magic with an Item, and the Pendant she found let him transform into adult Ais and perform her swordsmanship.
• Riviera questioned Broly about his relationships with Ais and Leffia and suggested they live together at Hearth Manor.
• Riviera persuaded Ais and Leffia to move to Hearth Manor, and Theiona joined them while Tione chose to stay with the Captain.
• Lyu worried that the move and Riviera’s matchmaking would threaten Sheele’s chances with Broly.

Freya, disguised as Sheele, persuaded Lyu to move into Hearth Manor to keep an eye on Broly, while secretly hoping Lyu would grow closer to him. Lyu moved in and joined Ais and the others at the bath, where Theiona began scrubbing her back.

• Lyu told Sheele that Ais and other Loki Familia girls were moving into Hearth Manor, but Sheele said she trusted Broly and had not decided whether to make their relationship official.
• Sheele asked Lyu to move into Hearth Manor and watch over Broly, and Lyu reluctantly agreed after Sheele pleaded with her.
• Miya questioned Sheele about sharing Broly, and Sheele admitted she felt some discomfort but remained confident Broly would fall for her goddess form.
• Lyu asked Broly to stay at Hearth Manor, and he welcomed her and arranged a room beside Ais and the others.
• Lyu joined the women in the bath, where Theiona pulled her over and began scrubbing her back as Lyu struggled with her guilt and unexpected lack of resistance.

Broly taught Ais, Theiona, and Lyu how to sense and use Qi as a way to strengthen their bodies. Ais and Theiona began practicing it, while Lyu reluctantly accepted the same instruction after Theiona pushed her to improve.

• Broly explained that he could share his [Qi Gong] Development Ability with Ais and offered to teach her how to use Qi.
• Broly discovered that his Qi became uncontrollable beyond two centimeters from his body, so he guided it through Ais by touching her and helped her awaken and circulate her own Qi.
• Ais felt Qi strengthen her body and began practicing the Ki Cultivation Fist to become familiar with it.
• Broly awakened Qi in Theiona, whose newly developed energy was much weaker than Ais's, but she welcomed it as another way to boost her combat ability.
• Theiona urged Broly to teach Lyu, who reluctantly accepted and learned to sense and use Qi.

At the Bountiful Mistress, Broly helped Lyu recover from exhaustion, while Sheele and his companions encouraged them to grow closer. Later, Leffia thanked Filvis for helping her master Parallel Chanting and reassured her that she was not a Banshee.

• Sheele resolved a wrong-dish complaint and sent the distracted Lyu to rest after Lyu admitted she felt tired from using Qi.
• Broly transferred Qi to Lyu by holding her hand, and Ais and Theiona agreed to call him and each other by name.
• Broly told Ais and Theiona about Lyu's lost companions and her revenge, prompting them to offer to help Lyu find happiness.
• Sheele teased Lyu about her feelings for Broly and asked her to watch over him and the Sword Princesses after she moved to Hearth Manor.
• Leffia thanked Filvis for helping her master Parallel Chanting, then told her that their Dungeon expedition proved Filvis was not a Banshee.

Leffia returned to Hearth Manor after learning Parallel Chanting and joined Ais, Broly, and the others in preparing a fried-food welcome banquet. The group planned to distribute fried food to children at the Daedalus Street Orphanage the next day, and Broly began helping Leffia sense Qi.

• Leffia accepted Filvis's invitation to form a party and later returned to Hearth Manor, where she found Ais and the others cooking.
• Hestia welcomed Ais and the others to Hearth Manor with a Tempura feast, and Leffia noticed Ais and Theiona treating Lyu with new familiarity.
• Leffia told Ais she had learned Parallel Chanting, and Hestia invited her to help distribute fried food to children at the Daedalus Street Orphanage the next day.
• Leffia asked to bring Filvis along, and Hestia agreed that Filvis could help if she wanted to come.
• After the banquet, Leffia agreed to develop Qi, and Broly began helping her sense the Qi in her body.

Broly awakened Liliruca’s Ki and apologized to Hestia for failing to ask before bringing Ais and the others to Hearth Manor, then comforted her with a loving kiss. The next day, Leffia invited Filvis to help at the Orphanage on Daedalus Street, where Dionysus ominously told Filvis to go without worry.

• Broly awakened Liliruca’s Ki, and she clearly sensed it as he guided it through her body.
• Broly apologized to Hestia for not asking her opinion before Ais and the others moved into Hearth Manor, and Hestia asked him to kiss her lovingly.
• Lyu lay awake remembering her fallen Astrea Familia companions and imagined distributing food to children with them before crying herself to sleep.
• Leffia planned to invite Filvis to the Orphanage, while Ais and Theiona quickly fell asleep in their new room.
• Leffia invited Filvis to the Orphanage on Daedalus Street, and Filvis hesitated before seeking permission from Dionysus.
• Dionysus told Filvis that everything was under control and urged her to go, hinting that her friends might learn the truth about the master of Daedalus Street.

Broly, Hestia, and their companions brought a feast to the Daedalus Street Orphanage, where Lyu told Broly about her deceased friend Adi Falma and the compassionate justice she had taught her. The chapter ended with Broly deciding to visit Adi’s grave and secretly considering whether he could resurrect her with help from Aqua.

• Sheele gave Broly the Bountiful Mistress Tavern’s surplus ingredients, and Hestia bought more supplies to prepare a feast for the orphanage children.
• Hestia caught a man stealing meat on the way through Daedalus Street and offered him food in exchange for helping push the cart and cook.
• Lyu remembered how Adi Falma had forgiven people driven to theft by hardship, and she told Broly about Adi’s compassionate approach to justice.
• Broly said he wanted to lay flowers at Adi’s grave, then privately considered checking her remains and asking Aqua to resurrect her.

Hestia and her companions brought food to an orphanage in Daedalus Street, where they met Ponea, the Poverty God, whose praise of the age of monsters angered Ais. Broly spoke with Ponea and persuaded her that poverty was not valuable in itself, leaving Ponea to reconsider what she truly sought.

• Hestia arrived at the orphanage with a cart of ingredients, and the children welcomed her as the director arranged for them to unload it.
• Ponea revealed that she governed poverty, asked Hestia to share the food, and described the age of rampant monsters as wonderful.
• Ais objected that the age of monsters had brought grief and loss, while Ponea maintained her different view of the era.
• Broly approached Ponea and told her that Ais was troubled, then explained that his own soul shone brighter after gaining many things than it had when he was poor.
• Ponea admitted that she valued the determination people found while pursuing what they wanted, agreed to explain her changed view to Ais, and wondered whether she had misunderstood her own divine purpose.

Hestia and the others visited Ponea’s orphanage, where Ponea told Ais that Broly had persuaded her to change her mind. Broly then agreed to teach Qi to several adventurers, while the Loki Familia discussed who would be willing to let him help them sense their Qi.

• Hestia listened as Ponea explained how the orphanage gathered donations, while Liliruca reflected on her past in the Soma Familia and her gratitude to Broly.
• Ponea told Ais that Broly had persuaded her to reconsider, lifting Ais’s gloomy mood and prompting her to ask Broly to train Qi with her.
• Lyu and Theiona joined the afternoon training, and Filvis asked Broly to teach her; he explained that she would need to sense Qi through physical contact or wait until he could stimulate it from a distance.
• Broly promised to teach Liliruca Qi that evening and arranged to teach Bell as well before heading to the Loki Familia Residence with Ais and the others.
• Loki, Finn, Gareth, and Riviera discussed making a list of Familia members willing to let Broly touch them to learn Qi, and Loki teased Riviera about becoming Ais’s dowry maid.

Broly asked Hestia whether the dead could be resurrected, hoping to help Lyu see her deceased friend Adi again, but learned that Gods could not revive souls who had returned to the Underworld. Bell then shared a tale about the Sage Dio Orpheus and Resurrection Magic, and Broly volunteered to investigate it with Eina.

• Broly invited Bell to dinner at Hearth Manor after awakening his Qi, and Hestia served a meal of sea bream.
• Broly asked Hestia about resurrection, and she explained that divine rules made it practically impossible for Gods to revive the dead in the Lower Realm.
• Hestia suggested Broly use Transformation Magic to comfort Lyu, but Lyu declined the offer.
• Bell recounted his grandfather's tale of the Sage Dio Orpheus, who created Resurrection Magic, and Hestia said humans would not be forbidden from achieving resurrection.
• Broly agreed to investigate the Sage's Resurrection Magic with Eina, and Lyu thanked him.

Broly sought out the Ancient Sage’s Resurrection Magic and learned it from Fels, who was secretly the Sage herself. He proved he could revive a recently killed chicken, but the attempt to resurrect it after it had been cooked failed, leaving Lyu doubtful that he could bring back her friends who had been dead for seven years.

• Broly and Lyu laid flowers at Adi Falma’s grave, then Broly asked Eina at the Guild for information about the Ancient Sage, Dio.Orphis.
• Eina introduced Broly to Fels, who offered him a Magic Book containing unverified Resurrection Magic and warned him it could occupy a precious Magic Slot.
• Broly learned the magic, and after he left, Fels revealed in her thoughts that she had once been Dio.Orphis, the Sage who created it.
• At the cemetery, Broly revived a chicken after killing it and repeated the feat after cutting it into pieces, but each resurrection consumed more magic power.
• Broly tried to revive the chicken after it had been cooked into soup, but his magic power ran out before it returned to life.
• Broly promised Lyu he would try again when his magic power grew, while Lyu doubted he could resurrect her friends after seven years.

Broly tested Resurrection Magic on dead chickens and learned that it required enormous mana and intact vital bones. After Lyu’s friend Adi’s incomplete remains were dug up and assembled, Broly found too many bones were missing to resurrect her, but suggested they search for magic that could repair remains.

• Naza sold Broly thirty-five top-grade Mana Recovery Potions for forty million Falis.
• Broly used thirty-one potions to resurrect a dead chicken, then tested how missing bones affected Resurrection Magic.
• Lyu resolved to return to adventuring to earn the money needed to resurrect her former friends, especially Adi.
• Broly, Lyu, Hestia, Ais, Leffia, and Theiona secretly dug up Adi’s grave and brought her remains back to Hearth Manor.
• Broly and Lyu spent ten hours assembling Adi’s bones and discovered that nearly a quarter of them were missing.
• Broly reassured Lyu that they could look for magic to repair remains, though Leffia noted that such magic was unknown.

Broly went to Fels seeking magic that could restore the missing parts of Adi’s remains, but his demonstration of Resurrection Magic revealed that it worked for him and not for its creator. Fels offered to help research restorative magic in exchange for Broly’s cooperation in discovering why Resurrection Magic behaved differently for them.

• Broly left Hearth Manor to ask Fels whether her Magic Books contained a way to repair Adi’s incomplete remains.
• While the others bathed, Lyu thanked them for assembling her friend’s bones and decided she might not be able to honor Sheele’s request to keep watch.
• Fels offered Broly another Magic Book, believing he had come to complain that her Resurrection Magic was useless.
• Broly demonstrated that he could revive a dead chicken, while Fels’s own attempt repaired its broken neck but left it dead.
• Fels revealed that she was Dio Orpheus, admitted she had created Resurrection Magic, and said she would help research magic to restore missing remains.
• Fels asked Broly to help investigate why Resurrection Magic worked for him but not for her, then bowed before him.

Broly and Fels tested whether Resurrection Magic could bring back a dead person, while Lyu resigned from the tavern to earn money for restoring her friends’ remains. The experiment succeeded, and Fels arranged for the resurrected mason to return home under a secrecy agreement.

• Lyu told Mama Miya she was resigning to earn money for her goal, and Miya accepted while offering her continued support.
• Lyu apologized to Sheele for being unable to fulfill her earlier request and explained her plan to resurrect her friends; Sheele offered to help if needed.
• Broly told Hestia and the others that Fels could not directly restore the incomplete remains but would research a way, then revealed that Fels was the Sage Dio Orpheus.
• Fels brought a recently deceased mason to Hearth Manor and asked Broly to demonstrate Resurrection Magic, supplying Mana Recovery Potions as his mana ran low.
• Broly’s spell resurrected the mason, who remembered his death and feared for his family before Broly calmed him and Fels explained the situation.
• Fels confirmed the mason had fully returned to life and arranged for him to go home after he signed a confidentiality agreement.

After Fels learned that Broly’s [Lucky] Development Ability might explain why his Resurrection Magic could find souls, Broly used the Horse Talisman to repair the girl’s existing remains. Hearth Manor gained several planned residents and a new research lab, while Fels continued preparing for resurrection research.

• Hestia explained that Broly’s [Lucky] ability might help him find souls in the vast Underworld, and Fels concluded it could be why her own Resurrection Magic failed.
• Hephaestus and Tsubaki arrived after seeing the Light Pillar, and Broly used the Horse Talisman to mend the girl’s broken bones without restoring missing parts.
• Tsubaki said she would move to Hearth Manor, where Broly had promised her a forge, and revealed that Hephaestus planned to live there too.
• Fels requested a Magic Laboratory at Hearth Manor so she and Broly could research repairing incomplete remains, and the Hephaestus Familia’s Engineering Team built one.
• The next morning, Ais greeted Fels as she carried fresh bones into the lab, then greeted Lyu and the incomplete remains she called Miss Adi.

Broly accepted Eina’s commission to escort her on an ecological survey and brought Lyu into his party, then led the group through shortcuts to the 25th Floor. The party split up to train and explore, leaving Eina alarmed by their lack of caution.

• Broly stopped Fels from testing human bone repair on pig bones and asked her to try bone regeneration magic on animal remains instead.
• Leffia asked Broly to transform into Little Ais so she could wipe away her sweat, and Lyu asked to join his party to earn money for her friend’s resurrection.
• Broly welcomed Lyu into the party and agreed to sell her monster drops for a ten-percent commission.
• Broly’s party met Eina at Central Plaza and escorted her through Killer Ant nests and Dungeon Gaps to reach the 25th Floor in under an hour.
• Ais, Leffia, Filvis, and Theiona left to train, while Eina worried that the group had split up in the dangerous Lower District.

Broly escorted Eina through her voluntary survey of the 25th Floor, then returned to Hearth Manor and helped Fels test Resurrection Magic on patched-together animal remains. The experiments revived malformed or uncoordinated chickens, leaving Fels to consider costly prosthetic materials and dangerous research into consciousness.

• Broly sliced an ambushing Monster Fish in half with his tail, prompting Eina to reconsider rumors that he relied on luck and to remind him to certify any level increase with the Guild.
• Eina surveyed the 25th Floor’s terrain and Monster distribution, recording safety advice while Bell and the others explained her work to Lyu.
• Broly led the group back with their collected drops, and Lyu asked to hunt near Ais and showed interest in farming Monsters at the Death Arena on the 37th Floor.
• Eina reminded Broly to update his level information before parting with him at Babel Tower, and Fels then brought him to the Magic Laboratory to test Resurrection Magic.
• Broly revived remains assembled from different species into a stable but grotesque Chimera Chicken, while remains repaired with same-species bones produced an ordinary-looking chicken with conflicting consciousnesses.
• Fels killed both revived chickens, recorded the results, and considered using mana-conductive materials as prosthetic bones.

Broly confirmed that he would join the Loki Familia’s expedition and began awakening Qi in its members, while Theiona agreed to join his Crystal Palace. Tsubaki and Hephaestus moved into Hearth Manor, where Broly helped them relax and spent the night with them; Fels discovered the household arrangement before dawn.

• Tsubaki asked when she and Hephaestus could move in, and Broly invited them to Hearth Manor the next day.
• Finn confirmed Broly’s participation in the Loki Familia’s expedition and asked him to awaken Qi in its members; Broly activated Qi for twenty-three Familia members.
• Theione encouraged Theiona to pursue Broly, and Theiona accepted his Crystal Palace invitation; Ais also asked to encounter him.
• Tsubaki moved into Hearth Manor, where Broly bathed and massaged her and Hephaestus, then Hestia, Liliruca, Tsubaki, and Hephaestus helped him manage his Qi and blood.
• Broly slept with Tsubaki, Hephaestus, Hestia, and Liliruca, and Fels arrived before dawn and agreed to keep the arrangement private.

Broly joined the Loki Familia’s expedition with Tsubaki and revealed that his Crystal Palace Space could store supplies and be used by people he had encountered. As the team entered the Dungeon, a black-robed figure followed them, while someone ordered Ye En to sabotage the expedition.

• Broly accepted Freya’s amulet, then had Tsubaki store it in Crystal Palace Space, cutting off its surveillance and protective effects.
• At the expedition meeting, Tsubaki demonstrated the Portable Space, and Broly explained that it was his ability and that Tsubaki and Theiona could use it after encountering him.
• Finn arranged for the Loki Familia to bring extra supplies in Crystal Palace Space, while Broly refused a special share of the proceeds from stored drops.
• Loki discovered that Theiona had gained a Wings Skill after agreeing to encounter Broly, then the Joint Expedition Team departed for the Dungeon.
• A black-robed figure followed the expedition into the Dungeon, and an unnamed speaker ordered Ye En to cause trouble and lure the team to their deaths in the Deep Floors.