Chapter Summaries

Ista and Hermes discussed the Life-Killing Stone and Haruhime, while Broly learned that Ista planned to sacrifice Haruhime to empower her Familia. Broly rejected Aisha’s suggestion to secretly hide Haruhime and devised a plan to force the Ista Familia into a War Game.

• Ista asked Hermes to investigate whether Freya was interested in a child from the Hestia Familia, then used her charms to collect his payment.
• Aisha asked whether Broly would risk war to save Haruhime, and Haruhime agreed to be redeemed after Broly told her he wanted to meet her.
• Aisha revealed that Ista intended to sacrifice Haruhime and use the Life-Killing Stone to spread Haruhime’s level-boosting magic across the Ista Familia.
• Aisha proposed secretly taking Haruhime away and seeking the Loki Familia’s protection, while Haruhime worried about what would happen to Aisha.
• Broly proposed provoking the Ista Familia into a War Game by having Bell visit Haruhime and then claiming that she had beaten him.

Broly recruited Bell for a scheme to provoke Ista Familia into a War Game, then learned Ista wanted him because she suspected Freya favored him. Freya agreed to pretend she had taken a liking to Broly in exchange for his promise to find her a fated encounter, while Bell went to the Pleasure District to meet the fox girl.

• Broly asked Bell, Daphne, and Cassandra to help stage an injury and provoke Ista Familia, and Bell agreed to go after explaining the plan to Anna.
• Hermes warned Hestia that Ista had become interested in Broly because she believed Freya favored him, and Freya secretly reacted angrily to Hermes's advice that Broly keep his distance.
• Broly proposed using Ista's interest in him to encourage her to accept a War Game, and Hestia suggested Freya pretend to favor him while Hermes reported what he saw.
• Hestia and Broly asked Freya to cooperate, and Freya agreed on the condition that Broly help her find a fated encounter.
• Hermes informed Ista that Freya had taken a liking to Broly, and Bell arrived in the Pleasure District asking to visit the fox girl.

Bell and Hestia staged an assault by Ista Familia to force a War Game and rescue Haruhime, while Ista wagered Broly as the prize. The War Game began in the Pleasure District, where Broly faced Frini and turned cold after she threatened Ais.

• Bell asked Haruhime to hit him, then staged his own injuries and accused Ista Familia of assaulting him while Thor spread his identity through the crowd.
• Broly and Hestia challenged Ista Familia to a War Game, and Ista agreed after demanding Broly as the stake if her Familia lost.
• Gamblers mostly bet against Hestia Familia, while Lyu borrowed money from her former coworkers to join the betting pool.
• Anna teased the bandaged Bell about his supposed interest in SM, and they turned to watch the War Game before their flirtation went further.
• The War Game began at Ista Familia's headquarters in the Pleasure District, and Frini charged Broly with Manpouchi magic active.
• Frini threatened to make Ais watch Broly become her plaything, and Broly dodged her attack as she froze behind him.

Broly defeated the Ista Familia and confronted Ista, who tried to use her Charm authority to make him surrender. He ignored her Charm, struck her when she refused to abandon her plan to sacrifice Haruhime, and Ista was sent back to Heaven for using divine power in the Lower Realm; Freya arrived as the War Game ended, just as Hestia asked whether Broly had been Charmed.

• Broly used Bliss Finger to incapacitate the Ista Familia’s Battle Courtesans and male members as he advanced through the Pleasure District.
• Broly told Ista her Familia had lost, but she invoked her Charm authority and asked whether he thought she was beautiful.
• Broly praised Ista’s beauty but still demanded that she concede and give up sacrificing Haruhime; Ista refused.
• Broly punched and grabbed Ista, prompting her to release divine power and be sent back to Heaven.
• Freya gathered her Familia and arrived at the Pleasure District as Hestia asked Broly whether Ista’s Charm had affected him.

Broly and the gods discovered that Ista’s Charm had affected him only partially because of his Skill, and Hestia purified the remaining influence. After the War Game, Broly accepted Haruhime and invited Aisha to join his Familia, while Aisha and the others left him with suggestive offers; Broly then taught Bell special techniques to pursue Anna.

• Freya confirmed Broly had been Charmed by Ista, and Hestia used her purification flames to remove the effect.
• Broly learned he could not travel to the Heavenly Realm to kill Ista, so Hestia promised that she and Hephaestus would punish her when they returned there.
• Aisha handed Haruhime over to Broly, declined his invitation to join the Hestia Familia, and left to seek new work in the Pleasure District.
• Broly offered to heal Bell, but Bell refused because he wanted Anna to keep caring for his injuries.
• Broly realized Bell and Anna had been intimate and began teaching Bell special techniques to advance their relationship.

After freeing Haruhime, Broly let her choose where to go, and she decided to join his household and repay his kindness. He then set out to meet Freya and help her find her destined encounter, using information he gathered from Sheele, while Hestia tried to keep his household’s growing romantic tensions under control.

• Broly told Haruhime she could return to the Take Mikazuchi Familia, but she chose to go home with him and repay his kindness.
• At Hearth Manor, Haruhime tried to attend Broly in bed, and he stopped her; the next morning, she helped him and prepared breakfast, stirring jealousy among the women in the household.
• Hestia agreed to speak with Liliruca while Broly went to the Freya Familia to honor his promise to Freya.
• At the Tavern of the Bountiful Mistress, Broly asked Hill about Helen’s preferences so he could understand Freya better, and Helen shared what she knew.
• Broly kissed Sheele goodbye and left for the Freya Familia’s base, confident he could help Freya find her fated encounter.

Broly took Freya around Orario to search for her destined encounter, and the day ended with them dancing at Hero Bridge. After Broly revealed that he knew Freya was Sheele, he told her he considered their promised encounter binding and regarded Sheele as his future wife.

• Broly persuaded Freya to search for her destined encounter in Orario, and she went out with him dressed inconspicuously while Hedding secretly arranged for familia members to follow them.
• Broly and Freya spent the day looking at people and eating street snacks, but they found no one who matched Freya's ideal encounter.
• At Hero Bridge, Freya asked Broly to search with her again another day, and they finished the dance they had left incomplete before.
• Broly asked Freya what she thought of him as an encounter partner, then asked whether she would drink Peach Love that night.
• Freya changed back into Sheele after Broly explained that her gestures and details about Helen had revealed her identity.
• Broly told Sheele that he would not force her to accept an encounter, but he considered her promise binding and regarded her as his future wife before leaving.

Broly led an eleven-person party into the Deep Floors, where Haruhime’s level-boosting magic and a talisman pendant made Lyu far more effective against the monsters. After Cassandra dreamed of a blue dragon pursued by Dragon Hunters and a green-armored Monkey Knight, she warned Broly that he might miss his chance to become a great Dragon Knight if they did not return.

• Cassandra persuaded Daphne to join Broly’s party by describing a Precognitive Dream, and Broly also invited a fox person girl from the Ista Familia.
• Broly’s party descended to the 37th Floor, where Lyu struggled against the Death Arena’s monster horde until Haruhime and then Broly used level-boosting magic on her.
• At camp on the 39th Floor, Broly asked Tsubaki to make a pendant for his talismans; Lyu’s Rabbit-Cow-Dragon Talisman greatly increased her combat power and endurance.
• Filvis tried the pendant, warned Broly that it could provoke greed, and returned it to him.
• On the sixth day in the Dungeon, Cassandra dreamed of a blue dragon chased by Dragon Hunters alongside a green-armored Monkey Knight, then urged Broly to return before he missed his chance to become a great Dragon Knight.

After Cassandra’s Precognitive Dream led Broly’s group to return from the Deep Floors, they found Vinnie, a frightened dragon girl, being chased by Adventurers. Broly protected her from the hunters, who recognized him and fled, leaving Vinnie with his group.

• Cassandra described her Precognitive Dream about a dragon and a Monkey Knight, and Broly decided the group would return to the surface.
• On the 19th floor, Theiona killed a Flame Bird that had been chasing Vinnie, and Broly recognized the dragon girl as the dream’s dragon and a new Capture Target.
• Broly healed Vinnie’s injuries and reassured her, and she hid behind him when her pursuers caught up.
• Broly offered the Adventurers compensation for Vinnie, but their leader threatened him before recognizing Ais and the others, then ordered his group to retreat.
• The Adventurers revealed they belonged to the Iklos Familia and feared Broly, whom they called the Fake Novice and the Extreme Desire Tyrant.

Broly named the Little Dragon Girl Vinnie and used Ais’s Gift Ribbon to ask her to look after the monster. Ais gradually warmed to Vinnie while caring for her, and the chapter ended with Broly sensing a watcher overhead and Guros realizing how dangerous he was.

• Broly introduced himself and his companions to the Little Dragon Girl, learned she could speak, and told her that her name was Vinnie.
• Broly asked Vinnie to join him, then used Ais’s Gift Ribbon to request that Ais look after her; Ais accepted despite her hatred of Dragon-type Monsters.
• Ais fed Vinnie dinner, taught her to eat with a fork, and helped her learn to thank people; Vinnie slept in Ais’s tent, and Ais’s Happiness Value recovered overnight.
• The next morning, Ais patiently taught Vinnie to brush her teeth and helped her pack up camp, while Vinnie grew affectionate toward her.
• Broly sensed someone watching the group, jumped to the ceiling to search, and found nothing; Guros, a Stone Dragon nearby, changed his flight path and feared Broly’s strength.

Fels learned that Broly had rescued an intelligent dragon girl named Vinnie and brought her to Hearth Manor, then arranged for the Guild to help keep her existence secret. The chapter ended with Fels revealing that a force in the Dungeon captured intelligent monsters and smuggled them to the surface for sale.

• Reed and Guros told Fels that a dragon girl had escaped Poachers but was taken away by a group of Adventurers led by a powerful young man.
• Fels recognized Broly's companions from Guros's description and told Uranus he wanted to use the encounter to learn how other gods viewed intelligent monsters.
• Broly brought Vinnie to Hearth Manor, where Hestia agreed to shelter her and insisted that the Familia keep her identity secret.
• Broly, Lyu, Haruhime, and Theiona agreed to protect Vinnie's secret, and Fels offered the Guild's help while seeking the views of several gods.
• Fels said that a force in the Dungeon captured intelligent monsters and smuggled them out through the Black Market, prompting Theiona to connect it to Loki's investigation.

Broly agreed to expand Miss Fels’s Resurrection Magic research and set out to recruit specialists, while his relationships with Sheele, Cassandra, and Daphne grew closer. The next morning, Lyu planned to leave Orario to seek Astraea, and Daphne realized she would now be Cassandra’s concubine too.

• Miss Fels explained that prosthetics had helped a resurrected chicken survive longer and asked Broly to recruit Amide and Haici for the Magic Research Lab; Broly agreed to approach Freya about Haici.
• Broly confessed to Helen, while she was playing Sheele, that he liked both her and Freya as Sheele, and he kissed her before she left.
• Lyu saw Broly and Sheele kissing, then decided to visit Astraea to update her Ability Value and announced that she would leave Orario for a while.
• Broly thanked Cassandra for her Precognitive Dream, and Cassandra asked him to treat her and Daphne as he treated his other wives.
• Cassandra brought Daphne along with Broly, and the three spent the night together; the next morning, Daphne accepted that she would become Cassandra’s concubine.

Broly visited Diankate Familia to recruit Amide as a technical advisor for his Magic Research Lab, clearing up a misunderstanding that he meant to court her. After she signed a confidentiality agreement, he revealed that the lab was researching Resurrection Magic and that he had already revived someone.

• Ais, Broly, and the others left Hearth Manor for their separate errands, while Haruhime and Theiona agreed to look after Vinnie.
• Broly arrived at Diankate Familia, where members mistook his visit as an attempt to abduct Amide and blocked him from reaching her.
• Diankate heard Broly out and led him to Amide, who initially rejected him as a suitor.
• Broly explained that he wanted Amide's prosthetic expertise and offered her 100 million falis a month as a technical advisor, with irregular leave allowed for her medical duties.
• After Amide signed a Guild-certified confidentiality agreement, Broly revealed that his lab was researching Resurrection Magic and that he had already resurrected a mason.
• Amide realized Broly's resurrection had been mistaken for her healing, and she had taken the blame for the inexplicable recovery.

Broly hired Amide as a technical advisor to improve prosthetics for Resurrection Magic and agreed to teach her the spell despite its severe risks. On his way to the Freya Familia, he learned that Bell’s attempt to defend him had spread rumors branding him the “Extreme Desire Tyrant,” and he continued on, accepting that his reputation had suffered.

• Broly explained that Resurrection Magic required complete remains and asked Amide to improve prosthetic technology; Amide accepted the advisor role and requested Resurrection Magic as payment.
• Broly warned Amide that Resurrection Magic consumed enormous mana and could still fail, but Amide insisted on learning it, and they arranged for her to begin advising him the next day.
• Broly met Bell and Yamato Mikoto carrying potions to help Soma Familia members overcome their Divine Wine cravings, then asked about rumors surrounding his nickname.
• Bell and Mikoto explained that Bell’s failed attempt to reveal why Broly had fought the Ista Familia had strengthened rumors that Broly had acted out of lust and had forced the Loki Familia to give him women.
• Broly learned that stories about his fight with the Kali Familia’s Amazon warriors and his techniques had made “Extreme Desire” seem like a sexual title, while Bell had also cleared his own reputation.
• Broly told Bell not to blame himself, said reputation did not matter much to him, and continued toward the Freya Familia’s base.

Broly asked Freya to lend him Haici to help with his Resurrection Magic research, but Haici’s heavy healing duties made it difficult for her to leave. After Broly defeated the Freya Familia in combat to take over their training and please Freya, she kept him at her side for morning tea, while Miss Fool began informing three Chief Gods about the Otherworlders.

• Broly asked Freya to lend him Haici, and Freya said Haici could decide for herself whether to help.
• Haici agreed to help Broly if he had a close relationship with Freya, then explained that her healing workload prevented her from taking on more work.
• Haici said the Freya Familia’s training could only stop if someone took their place in pleasing Freya, so Broly volunteered.
• Broly leaped into the Battle Wilderness and knocked out the Freya Familia fighters, including Allen, Hedding, Hegni, the Flame Gold Four Brothers, and Ottar.
• Freya asked Broly to spend time with her every day until he returned Haici, then kept him for morning tea and sweets.
• At Hearth Manor, Miss Fool began informing Loki and two other Chief Gods about the Otherworlders.

Fels explained Uranus’s plan to seek coexistence with intelligent monsters, and Loki and Hephaestus agreed to offer discreet support after consulting their Familias. Meanwhile, Broly’s daily battles against the Freya Familia rapidly increased his Ability Values, and he offered to train them as well.

• Fels told Loki, Dionysus, and Hephaestus that Uranus was secretly protecting Otherworlders in hopes of finding a path to coexistence with intelligent monsters.
• Dionysus rejected the idea but agreed not to oppose it openly because his child was friends with Hestia Familia members; Loki and Hephaestus offered limited, mostly secret support.
• Ais said she believed peaceful coexistence was possible if intelligent monsters did not harm people, and Finn said Loki Familia could assist in secret.
• Broly brought Freya’s homemade sweets to Vinnie, then returned to the Battle Wilderness the next day and learned that Freya’s Familia had been frustrated by his daily victories.
• Ottar recognized that Broly grew stronger after each day’s battles, as his Ability Values rose from 21s to 27s in three days.
• Broly offered to train the Freya Familia members, and they accepted in hopes of becoming stronger.

Broly and Fels completed research into soul-housing prosthetics and magic-stone-enhanced resurrection, then offered Lyu a choice for reviving Adi. Lyu chose an ordinary resurrection, while Astraea returned to Orario and reunited with the goddesses at Hearth Manor.

• Fels revealed her identity as the sage Dio Orpheus and recruited Amide to research soul-housing prosthetics and Haici to repair broken remains.
• Broly used the Sheep Talisman to let Amide observe souls, and he resurrected Second Senior Brother so Fels could examine how its soul and body bonded.
• After a week of research, Broly explained that magic-stone prosthetics could grant revived creatures magical abilities but caused mana hunger, and Lyu chose ordinary resurrection for Adi.
• Broly estimated that repairing Adi's remains would cost Lyu another 200 million falis, and the group began preparations for her resurrection.
• Astraea returned with Lyu and arranged to stay with Hestia, while Loki and Freya visited Hearth Manor for a welcome banquet.
• Lyu told Liliruca that she had asked Astraea to leave Orario because she feared revenge would tarnish Astraea's name, and Freya concealed Sheele's identity from Astraea.

Broly searched the Dungeon for Lyu and found her cornered by Rivera Town adventurers after she killed one of their men while pursuing a surviving enemy from her former Familia’s destruction. He paid Modo to end the standoff and backed Lyu, but explosions revealed that another group had begun a hidden attack.

• Broly spoke with Astraea about Lyu’s past and promised to make her happy.
• When Lyu failed to return from the Dungeon, Broly went looking for her and learned that adventurers were hunting Gale for an eighty-million-Falis bounty.
• Broly found Lyu surrounded by Modo’s adventurers on the 27th Floor and declared that she was his fated encounter.
• Broly paid Modo eighty-two million Falis to leave, then asked Lyu why she had killed the man; she said she had been seeking information about an enemy who had escaped her earlier revenge.
• Modo searched for the dead man’s closest companions, but Tucker and others were missing, and explosions shook the area as they carried out a plan to attack.

Jialuo lured Lyu and the Rivera Town adventurers into a trap on the 27th Floor, releasing Zagrat and drawing out Anfisbena. Broly defeated Zagrat and captured Jialuo, while Lyu killed Anfisbena and finally took revenge on the enemy who had haunted her nightmares.

• Jialuo arranged for Fire Stones to damage the 27th Floor labyrinth, bringing forth Zagrat and Anfisbena as part of his plan to kill Lyu.
• Lyu recognized Zagrat as the monster that had killed her companions, while Broly reassured her and sent her to fight Anfisbena.
• Zagrat reflected the adventurers’ magic, but Broly destroyed it with one punch as Lyu went after the Two-headed Dragon.
• Broly used a Magic Stone device to trace the trap’s source and captured Jialuo as the Rivera Town adventurers subdued Tucker and his group.
• Lyu defeated Anfisbena, then stabbed Jialuo through the heart and ended her pursuit of revenge.

Broly arranged for Bell to take over the Resurrection Magic while he entered the Underworld to find Adi’s soul. There, Erebus refused to help unless Broly defeated the legendary Chardo and Alphea, and Broly accepted the trial.

• Broly gave Mordo the Guild Drafts and a beast-taming whip, asking him to care for the two Lemton Serpents.
• Broly brought Lyu to Hearth Manor, where he publicly began resurrecting Adi with the support of the assembled gods and Shakti.
• Fels and the others realized that finding Adi’s soul among the Underworld’s dead could take too long, so Broly had Bell assume the Resurrection Magic.
• Broly used the Sheep Talisman to enter the Underworld and met Erebus, who refused to search for Adi’s soul because it would disturb the dead.
• Erebus summoned Chardo and Alphea and offered Broly a chance to challenge him if Broly defeated them; Broly accepted and asked whether they would fight him together or one at a time.