Chapter Summaries

After defeating the fifty-four Giant Guards at the city gate, Riezel helped Liz recover and adapt Love Breathing to Moslo's Sword before leading the group into the Ancient Ruins. They entered the silent, ruined city and spotted a temple ahead while avoiding the Giant Guards still wandering within it.

• Riezel confirmed that no more Giant Guards were coming, and the exhausted Maypros Family knights rested after defeating all fifty-four.
• Riezel taught Liz to maintain Total Concentration: Constant and explained how to adjust Love Breathing to suit Moslo's Sword.
• Raven and Master Nibod received Giant Guard cores from Riezel to study, while the group recovered for ten minutes.
• Raven led the Maypros Family party into the city, and a Black Shadow appeared briefly after they had passed through the gate.
• The group moved quietly through the ruined streets to avoid the Giant Guards still inside, and Diego pointed out a temple ahead.

Riezel discovered that the temple's barrier suppressed magic, then left an illusion with Liz while he went elsewhere. In a hidden watchtower, the Black Shadow began a prayer that stirred the ancient city, but someone confronted him before it could take effect.

• Raven, Master Nibod, and Riezel examined the barrier blocking the temple, and Riezel determined that it suppressed magical effects.
• Liz suggested breaking the barrier with physical force, and Raven prepared to strike it with his Rebel's Sword.
• Riezel left an illusion beside Liz and used the Retainer Contract connection to travel elsewhere.
• The Black Shadow entered a secluded watchtower and activated a dusty Magic Circle with a prayer asking the gods to punish the intruders.
• As the city began to tremble, an unseen person spoke behind the Black Shadow, causing him to rise and the Magic Circle to go dark.

Riezel confronted a mysterious priest linked to the Magic Dolls and fought through the priest’s powerful, tracking light attacks and spell-reflecting Mirror. The two ended the chapter facing each other with killing intent after neither gained a clear advantage.

• The mysterious priest attacked Riezel with meteor-like flashes, and Riezel evaded them with High-Tier Teleportation.
• The priest’s tracking flashes injured Riezel and eventually shattered his Aura of Strength, while Riezel’s Magic Disintegration failed against them.
• Riezel’s Dragon Lightning and Chained Dragon Thunder were absorbed and reflected by the priest’s Mirror, but Riezel used Decomposition Magic to destroy it.
• The priest reflected Riezel’s Arcing Ray with a second Mirror, but Riezel slapped the returning beam aside and advanced through the priest’s flashes behind a Greater Magic Shield.
• Riezel struck the priest with Thunder Breathing’s Thunderclap and Flash, but the priest’s white robe stopped the blade, and a burst of flashes blasted them apart.
• Riezel and the mysterious priest steadied themselves more than ten meters apart and resumed their hostile standoff.

Riezel used Time Magic and Energy Absorption to overpower the Mysterious Priestess, discovering that she was a woman and taking her scepter. After paralyzing her, he questioned why she was guarding the city, and her answer led him to suspect she came from the Ancient Magic Civilization.

• Riezel used Time Stop, but the Mysterious Priestess's Magic Mirror cracked the frozen space and restored her consciousness.
• Riezel touched the Mysterious Priestess and asked if she was a woman, then released Time Stop and was blasted back by her light attacks.
• Energy Absorption drained the priestess's power while strengthening Riezel, and he seized her crystal and Golden Scepter.
• Riezel paralyzed the priestess with Contact of the Undead and questioned her identity and purpose.
• The priestess said she guarded a city protected by the great gods, prompting Riezel to suspect she was from the Ancient Magic Civilization.

Riezel tried to learn about the masked priestess and discovered that magic could not control or read her mind, so he threatened her with summoned Cannibal Rats. The priestess revealed that other outsiders had deceived her before, leaving Riezel to reconsider how to question her.

• Riezel guessed that the priestess might have survived from the Ancient Magic Civilization, but she did not recognize the name and refused to explain her role.
• Riezel failed to affect the priestess with mental, memory-manipulation, and information-extraction spells.
• Riezel summoned Cannibal Rats and threatened to let them attack the priestess unless she answered his questions.
• The priestess accused Riezel of being an outsider and said previous outsiders had deceived her after she welcomed them into the city and temple.
• The priestess demanded a swift death and threatened to curse Riezel, and he fell silent after hearing her explanation.

Riezel stopped fighting Maya Fite and persuaded her to explain how outsiders had deceived her, suspecting they were connected to the plot against him. Maya recounted how they stole treasures from the temple, but she could not say when it happened because she spent most of her time asleep.

• Riezel dismissed the Cannibal Rat swarm, ended Maya's paralysis, and introduced himself before asking her name.
• Maya insisted Riezel was her enemy if he intended to take anything from the city, but agreed to talk about the outsiders who had deceived her.
• Riezel explained that he believed those outsiders had plotted against him and were connected to the Magic Dolls and Underground Beast Alakron.
• Maya said six or seven outsiders had claimed Alakron swallowed them, gained her trust, and persuaded her to let them into the city and temple.
• The outsiders knocked Maya unconscious and stole treasures from the temple, then disappeared before she could pursue them.
• Maya said she did not know when the theft occurred because she only awakened when the Giant Guards activated, leaving Riezel to understand why she seemed unfamiliar with the Ancient Magic Civilization.

Riezel learned the seven intruders’ code names and their connection to the Heretic Assassins while questioning Maya about the stolen temple technologies. Maya warned him to leave before she activated the city’s hidden great magic, but something suddenly shocked her.

• Maya explained that forbidden technologies, including Magic Doll creation, had likely been taken from the temple’s sealed chamber.
• Maya identified the seven intruders as Sky Hunter, Giant Soldier, Tyrant, Ba Snake, Gigabyte, Fire Princess, and Ice Maiden, and said Sky Hunter appeared to lead them.
• Maya recalled the intruders frequently mentioning the Heretic Assassins, prompting Riezel to renew his attention to the organization.
• Maya insisted that the temple’s barrier could not be breached by Riezel’s companions and urged him to leave before she activated the city’s hidden great magic.
• Maya suddenly cried out that something was impossible.

Liz unexpectedly passed through the temple barrier while carrying Moslo's Sword, prompting Maya to recognize her as a descendant of the clan that could enter the temple. After Riezel forced Maya to release Liz, Maya agreed to take the group inside.

• Maya flew to the temple, and Riezel followed her to the plaza where Raven, Master Nibod, and the Maypros Family knights had stopped before the barrier.
• Liz appeared inside the temple barrier, and Maya seized her hand while demanding to know how she had entered.
• When Liz cried out in pain, Riezel threatened Maya with the pressure of Sun Breathing until she released Liz.
• Liz explained that Moslo had pulled her through the barrier while she watched Riezel's phantom, and Maya recognized Moslo's Sword.
• Maya said Liz belonged to a clan with descendants who could pass through the barrier, then offered to take Riezel and the others into the temple.

Riezel and Liz entered the ancient temple with Maya, while Raven and Master Nibod followed with half the knights and left the Kaz brothers behind. Maya recounted how a god had taught humanity magic, then revealed a cube-shaped statue as their god, leaving Riezel and Liz stunned.

• Maya opened the temple barrier and led Riezel and Liz inside, warning the others not to wander, touch anything, or approach her.
• Riezel reassured Raven and Master Nibod that Maya was unlikely to be luring them into a trap, then entered with Liz.
• Raven and Master Nibod followed with half the knights, leaving the three Kaz brothers and the rest of the knights outside.
• Inside the temple, Riezel and Liz recognized the murals as resembling artwork from other Ancient Magic Civilization ruins.
• Maya explained that a god had descended long ago, taught humanity magic, and helped people fight monsters.
• Maya knelt before a cube-shaped statue and declared it the god humanity had worshipped, shocking Riezel and Liz.

Riezel recognized that the cube worshipped in Maya’s temple was the Dimensional Cube and inferred that it had enabled humanity’s rise in the Ancient Magic Civilization. After Raven and Master Nibod entered a temple trial, Riezel asked Maya about the Hidden World, and she answered that she knew only of The First Land.

• Maya explained that she had survived from an ancient era by becoming something other than human and had remained dormant beneath the earth with her city.
• Maya offered Raven and Master Nibod access to knowledge if they passed the temple’s trials, and they accepted.
• Riezel identified the temple’s cube as the Dimensional Cube and read the murals as an account of how it helped humanity gain power and fight monsters.
• Riezel recognized the Golden Sword in the murals as Moslo’s Sword and wondered how it had come into Liz’s possession.
• Riezel asked Maya whether she knew of the Hidden World, and Maya said she knew only of The First Land.

Maya revealed that Sinyele was the First Land and advised Riezel and Liz to search there for clues about Liz’s origins. She returned a powerful ring to Liz, confirming that she belonged to the clan that wielded Moslo’s Sword, and lamented that the clan’s final treasure had returned too late.

• Maya identified Sinyele as the First Land, prompting Riezel to connect it to the Dimensional Cube and the Ancient Ruins there.
• Riezel asked Maya about Liz’s origins and Moslo’s Sword, and Maya said the First Land might hold clues to Liz’s identity.
• Maya led Riezel and Liz to a ring kept in the temple and said it belonged to Liz’s clan.
• Maya explained that only descendants of Liz’s clan could wield Moslo’s Sword and safely take the ring.
• Moslo’s Sword pulled Liz toward the ring, and, after Riezel encouraged her, Liz took it from the glass pillar.
• Maya privately called the ring the Hero Clan’s final supreme treasure and said it had returned too late.

Riezel learned that Dimensional Travel was reserved for descendants connected to Moslo's Sword, but the temple held few surviving records to explain its history. He copied Maya's powerful growing spells, and after Raven and Master Nibod completed their trials, the group left the temple with their gains.

• Riezel studied the temple murals and concluded that only chosen people connected to Moslo's Sword had undergone Dimensional Travel.
• Maya showed Riezel the library's empty shelves and explained that thieves had stolen the temple's valuable books and treasures.
• Riezel asked Maya to teach him Sacred Rite: Aurora and Sacred Vocation: Mirror, then used All-Rounder to gain both spells.
• Raven and Master Nibod returned wounded after passing their trials and received the remaining books and Magic Items from Maya.
• Maya ordered everyone to leave, and the group reunited with Kaz and the others outside as the temple's barrier concealed itself again.

Riezel sent Raven, Master Nibod, Liz, and the others back to Besare, then stayed behind to test his strongest fire magic against the enormous Underground Beast Alakron. After engulfing a vast uninhabited area in flames and badly burning the beast, he concluded that he had achieved Strategic Class and vanished.

• Riezel opened a Gate to Besare's Training Ground and asked Maya whether anyone could escape Underground Beast Alakron's body.
• Maya explained that she was bound to the city and revealed that someone from Liz's clan had searched for Alakron and spent time with it.
• Maya wished Riezel and Liz a peaceful life, revived the Giant Guards, and returned to the city as Raven, Master Nibod, Liz, and the others went through the Gate.
• Riezel stayed behind, teleported to a remote underground realm, and found the enormous creature swimming beneath the earth.
• Riezel unleashed Sword of Surtr with Magic Maximum Effect Area Expansion, setting fire to a vast area and severely burning the Underground Beast Alakron.
• Riezel declared that he had achieved Strategic Class and disappeared, leaving the land burning.

Riezel was summoned to the Maypros Family residence, where Raven confronted Riton Hatite over his son Ofilit’s crimes and his own complicity. Raven revealed he intended to punish Riton, leaving the count trembling before the furious Sword Saint.

• Rumors about Riezel, Raven, and the Maypros Family spread through Besare before the family’s warning suppressed them.
• Riezel stayed in Peaceful Town with Liz while Master Nibod remained at the Maypros residence.
• Butler Nobon invited Riezel to meet Raven, and Riezel arrived at the Maypros residence with Liz.
• Raven had knights escort Riton Hatite into the council hall, where Riton called him brother-in-law.
• Raven accused Riton of enabling Ofilit’s crimes, accepting bribes, trafficking in illegal goods, and colluding with a mysterious organization.
• Raven asked how he should deal with Riton, radiating killing intent as the count trembled before him.

Raven confronted Riton over his and Ofilit’s crimes, and Riezel stopped Riton’s attack before uncovering his dealings with the Magic Doll Jack. The Maypros Family’s conflict with Riezel ended as Raven pledged to purge the territory and investigate both the Mysterious Organization and the Heretic Assassins.

• Raven accused Riton of covering up Ofilit’s crimes and vowed to investigate missing people and corrupt nobles throughout Maypros Territory.
• Riton charged at Riezel, but Riezel used Time Stagnation and then absorbed Riton’s strength when the spell ended.
• Raven permitted Riezel to use Memory Manipulation on Riton, revealing that Riton had worked with Jack to send Magic Dolls into Alakron, guide it toward Besare, and plan to capture Anti, Fanny, Gale, and others as hostages.
• Riezel’s search left Riton mentally incapacitated, and Raven ordered the knights to take him away before apologizing to Riezel.
• Raven promised to purge Maypros Territory and seek the king’s investigators, while Riezel urged him to investigate the Heretic Assassins for possible ties to the Mysterious Organization.

Gigabyte met with Fire Princess at the hidden base in Maypros Territory and learned that their organization would abandon its operations there after Riezel Brihaut disrupted their plans. Fire Princess ordered him to avoid provoking Riezel, while the leader sent Tyrant and Ba Snake to investigate what Riezel had done inside the Sacred Beast.

• Gigabyte joked with Fire Princess about Ice Maiden refusing to meet him and discussed how close he was to becoming a Sword Saint.
• Fire Princess asked about Riezel Brihaut, and Gigabyte explained that Riezel had already interfered with their activities in Maypros Territory.
• Gigabyte admitted that he had joined Count Hatite’s plan to assassinate Riezel, using a high-level Sacred Relic to summon a Sacred Beast.
• Fire Princess told Gigabyte that Riezel and Raven Maypros had returned safely and were sweeping through the territory, forcing the organization to relocate its Magic Doll production.
• Fire Princess warned Gigabyte and her Heretic Assassins not to approach Riezel until Tyrant and Ba Snake finished investigating the Sacred Beast.
• The people vanished from the base, leaving only the so-called doll materials behind.

Riezel learned that the Maypros Family had rescued recent captives but found no trace of the Magic Dolls, who had withdrawn. He declined King Hermulin’s offer of three treasures to stay in the kingdom and left with Liz, who asked to return to the royal capital.

• Raven explained that the Maypros Family’s Knight Order had rescued people abducted in the past two or three months, but had found neither older missing people nor the Magic Dolls.
• Riezel concluded that the Magic Dolls had withdrawn to a base outside Maypros Territory and warned Raven that the knights would have been in danger if they had confronted them.
• Raven told Riezel that King Hermulin had offered him up to three treasures from the Kingdom’s Treasury if he stayed and pledged loyalty, but Riezel refused.
• Raven arranged for Fanny and Finn to return to Elysir Territory while Master Nibod and Anti stayed to study with the Court Mages.
• Riezel left the Maypros Family estate with Liz, and Liz asked to return to the royal capital.

Yuri's longing for Riezel was interrupted when he unexpectedly arrived at Franzer Villa with Liz through a Gate of Darkness. Liz explained that she wanted to ask King Hermulin about her origins, and Yuri offered to escort her into the palace.

• Marilyn called out Yuri for repeatedly spacing out and urged her to contact Riezel, but Yuri panicked when Marilyn tried to call him herself.
• Yuri fired Decomposition Magic to stop Marilyn, and Riezel emerged from a Gate of Darkness with Liz and disintegrated the spell before it hit the bookshelf.
• Riezel explained that he had brought Liz back from Besare, prompting Yuri and Marilyn to question how he had crossed the kingdom so quickly.
• Liz told Yuri and Marilyn that she wanted to ask King Hermulin about her mother and her own origins, including her connection to Moslo's Sword and the Ancient Magic Civilization.
• Yuri rejected Riezel's offer to request an audience because the king might use it to claim a favor, and instead offered to take Liz to the palace herself.

Riezel explained to Liz that she was likely descended from the ancient Hero Clan and that the Hidden World might be where her people had secluded themselves. Liz resolved to find it and gave Riezel the mysterious ring Maya had entrusted to her, which he appraised with powerful magic.

• Yuri concealed Riezel's return from the royal capital, and Riezel agreed to stay hidden at Franzer Villa.
• Liz returned from meeting her father, Hermulin, and told Riezel that he barely remembered her mother.
• Riezel connected Liz's ability to wield Moslo's Sword to the Hero Clan and concluded that her mother likely belonged to it.
• Riezel suggested that the Hidden World was the Hero Clan's refuge and that Liz could find answers about her mother there.
• Liz thanked Riezel, resolved to seek the Hidden World, and gave him the mysterious ring Maya had entrusted to her.
• Riezel used Tenth Tier High-Level Item Appraisal on the ring to reveal its true nature.

Riezel learned that Liz’s unnamed ring could absorb and amplify the power of countless people, then agreed to safeguard it. While Liz searched the palace for clues about her origins, Riezel summoned invisible guards and used Dimensional Travel to send his consciousness to Avalon Le Fae.

• Riezel identified the ring as a weapon capable of absorbing others’ power and unleashing it with enormous force, and Liz insisted he keep it safe.
• Liz returned to the palace to search her belongings and former rooms for clues about her mother and Grandma Mia.
• Riezel updated his Ability Value, considered saving his Dimensional Energy, and decided to travel to another world while he remained confined to his room.
• Riezel summoned Eight-Limbed Blade Assassin Bugs to guard him and selected the unnamed ancient treasure to bring along.
• Riezel activated the Dimensional Passage and sent his consciousness to Avalon Le Fae.