Chapter Summaries

Riezel defeated Woodworth and rushed to rescue Artoria and the others, but a colossal Unnamable Thing emerged from the sea outside Norwich. Its ominous presence spread fear and despair across the city.

• Riezel watched Woodworth vanish, sensed a threat at Norwich's harbor, and turned toward it.
• Artoria, Mashu, Da Vinci, Tristan, and Oberon struggled against Woodworth's Fang Clan elites as Mors flooded into Norwich.
• Riezel appeared behind the Fang Clan fairies and destroyed them with one use of Moon Breathing, Sixteenth Form: Moonbow: Lone Remaining Moon.
• Riezel urged the group to flee because a greater threat had appeared, and they saw a gigantic black Unnamable Thing rise from the sea.
• The Unnamable Thing spread a pitch-black Curse of fear, helplessness, and despair across Norwich.

A colossal antlered monster approached Norwich, paralyzing the city with fear, and Riezel opened a Gate so Artoria and the others could escape. After promising Artoria he would find her, he opened more Gates for survivors and flew toward the harbor, where a pillar of light engulfed him and the monster.

• The antlered monster emerged from the sea, and Riezel used Lion's Heart to free the people around him from their terror.
• Riezel opened a Gate and persuaded Artoria, Mashu, Da Vinci, Tristan, and Oberon to leave Norwich rather than risk their lives while Fujimaru Ritsuka remained unconscious.
• Artoria asked whether Riezel would catch up with them, and he promised, "I'll find you."
• After the others left in the carriage, Riezel opened several Gates around Norwich to help survivors escape.
• Riezel flew toward the harbor as the sky vortex intensified, and a pillar of light swallowed him and the monster.

Riezel was transported to an unknown shore in another time and space, where he fought Norwich’s colossal Calamity. After wearing it down with Holy-Attribute magic, he destroyed it with Fallen Sky.

• Riezel arrived on an unfamiliar foggy coastline alongside Norwich’s Calamity, which transformed into a gigantic hand of condensed curses.
• Riezel dodged the Calamity’s attacks and repeatedly struck it with Holy-Attribute magic that burned away its cursed body.
• Riezel defended himself against the Calamity’s fast curse waves while the prolonged battle devastated the coastline and nearby forest.
• After roughly two hours, Riezel completed his Super Tier Magic and used Fallen Sky to vaporize the Calamity and level the area.

After defeating Norwich’s “Calamity,” Riezel met Ash, a former Savior who looked exactly like Artoria, and explained that Morgan’s Water Mirror had sent him from Queen’s Calendar Year 2017 to Fairy Calendar Year 400. Ash recognized the magic that had brought him there, leaving Riezel in the distant past with a new encounter underway.

• Riezel defeated Norwich’s “Calamity” with Fallen Sky, vaporizing it and leaving a massive crater.
• Riezel called out the hidden observer, and Ash emerged from the forest and introduced herself as a traveling mage.
• Riezel noticed that Ash looked just like Artoria, though her manner and temperament were very different.
• Riezel told Ash that he had come from Queen’s Calendar Year 2017, and Ash recognized the magic system associated with the Mirror of Union.
• Riezel understood that Morgan had used the Water Mirror to send Norwich’s “Calamity” and him into the past, where he had arrived in Fairy Calendar Year 400.

Riezel explained to Ash that Queen Morgan had sent the Calamity into the past, and they discussed the danger it posed to Britain’s fragile peace after the War of Autumn. Ash then questioned Riezel’s nature, and he revealed that Morgan had blessed him and bound him with baffling vows.

• Ash thanked Riezel for revealing his origins and questioned why future Morgan had sent the Calamity into the past.
• Ash explained that Britain was nearing peace after the War of Autumn, with Uther set to become the New King.
• Riezel warned that the defeated fairies could still rebel, and Ash fell silent at his distrust of them.
• Ash sensed that Riezel was unlike the fairies of Britain and guessed that he was human with a Great Fairy’s blessing.
• Riezel confirmed that he was human, had received a Fairy’s Blessing, and had formed vows because of Morgan.

Riezel told Aesc that Morgan called him her husband and explained that he planned to investigate the mysteries of Fairy Calendar 400 before returning to the future. Aesc shared her own questions about Britain and led Riezel to meet her companions, while their shadows merged as they left the ruined shore.

• Riezel told Aesc that Morgan was the fairy who called him her husband, though he did not consider himself her disciple.
• Riezel explained that he would stay in this era to unravel its mysteries and privately considered how the Dimensional Cube could eventually take him back to the future.
• Aesc said she planned to attend Uther's coronation, collect the major clans' Bone Clocks, and return to Paradise afterward.
• Aesc revealed that she wanted to understand Britain's Calamity, the hole in the land, the tree, and why the island had become as it was.
• Aesc offered to introduce Riezel to her companions, and the two left the ruined shore together.

Riezel and Ash traveled through the forest as he told her about Artoria and challenged Ash’s belief that fairies were worth saving. The chapter leaves Ash confronting the truth of her own motives while Riezel recalls how Britain’s fairies persecuted her.

• Riezel used High-Tier Item Creation to make a black robe and told Ash that only a few people in future Britain could use magecraft.
• Riezel caught Ash before she walked into a tree, and they continued through the forest as she asked about Artoria.
• Riezel described Artoria as a foolish but compassionate fairy who joined him on a journey to save Britain.
• Riezel argued that Ash saved fairies only as a means of protecting Britain, leaving her unable to answer.
• Riezel recalled how the Rain Clan raised Vivian before four clans destroyed Orkney, forcing her into a life of persecution despite her efforts to protect Britain.

Riezel challenged Aesc over her determination to keep saving Britain, then explained that his conflict with Morgan was personal and that he did not dislike her. He and Aesc reached her forest campsite, where he met her companions Tetetlot and the Black Knight, Eckert, while Sage Grim was absent.

• Riezel warned Aesc that her indecision could get her and those around her killed, and she questioned why he opposed Morgan despite sharing her view of the fairies.
• Riezel said he opposed Morgan because he wanted to settle their personal dispute, accepted Artoria to keep her from being manipulated, and did not dislike Morgan.
• Riezel and Aesc walked to her campsite in the forest, where Tetetlot greeted Aesc and met Riezel, whom Aesc introduced as a passerby.
• Aesc introduced the wary Black Knight, whom Riezel recognized as Eckert, the blacksmith who would later be Artoria's grandfather.
• Aesc explained that Sage Grim, her magecraft teacher and a Heroic Spirit, was her third companion but was not at the campsite.

Aesc introduced Riezel to Tetetlot and the Black Knight, who questioned his origins after learning he was stronger than Aesc. Riezel revealed that he was neither a British fairy nor a fairy at all, then agreed to travel with them, while privately recognizing the beginning of an ill-fated bond.

• Aesc introduced Riezel as a mage and told Tetetlot and the Black Knight that he had removed a powerful Calamity and was at least as strong as she was.
• The Black Knight questioned whether Riezel was a fairy from outside Britain because no one there knew of him.
• Riezel said he was not a fairy and demonstrated his power by appearing behind the Black Knight through spatial movement magecraft.
• Aesc confirmed that Riezel had spoken truthfully, and Tetetlot and the Black Knight eased their suspicions.
• Aesc invited Riezel to travel with them, and he accepted.
• Riezel privately reflected that their ill-fated bond had begun and touched the Stake embedded in his chest.

Riezel traveled with Aesc’s party through Fairy Britain and identified the World Tree as an Imaginary Tree, discovering its immense stores of magical energy. After half a month on the road, the group reached the Great Cave.

• Aesc led the group out of the forest, and Riezel stopped to look at the enormous World Tree on the northern horizon.
• Riezel told Aesc and the others that the tree was an Imaginary Tree, then used Clear World to see the vast magical energy inside it.
• Riezel learned that the group was traveling through Fairy Calendar 400 Britain, where Salisbury and the Ash Great Cathedral were major landmarks.
• Tetetlot revealed that Aesc’s Spear of Selection had been sealed in the Ash Great Cathedral after it became a dangerous weapon.
• Aesc’s party traveled across Britain for half a month, subjugating Mors and investigating ruins, before reaching the Great Cave.

Aesc led Riezel and their companions to the Great Cave to investigate Britain’s early history, but the cave’s influence drove Tetetlot and the Black Knight away. Riezel and Aesc decided to descend together, and Riezel began lifting them into the air with Mass Flight.

• Tetetlot questioned why the Mors and magical beasts that had attacked them on the way to the Great Cave were absent nearby.
• Aesc explained that she had come to investigate the cave and uncover what happened when the original six A-Rays formed Britain.
• Tetetlot and the Black Knight recoiled from the Great Cave, while Riezel and Aesc remained unaffected.
• Riezel saw ash rising from the cave and warned Aesc that descending could awaken something dangerous and threaten Britain.
• Aesc and Riezel agreed to descend together, clasped hands, and used Mass Flight to begin their descent.

Riezel and Aesc descended into the Great Cave and discovered the terrifying entity at its bottom, which attacked them with cursed hands. Aesc was dragged into the darkness, and Riezel plunged after her.

• Riezel used Mass Flight to take Aesc into the Great Cave, then raced downward with her through the darkness.
• At roughly 7,500 meters, Riezel warned Aesc that she was about to see Britain's most primitive sin, and she recognized the immense entity at the cave's bottom.
• The entity awakened and sent cursed hands after them as Riezel tried to carry Aesc back toward the surface.
• Riezel realized the hands were targeting Aesc, but a smaller hand grabbed her foot and dragged her into the darkness.
• Aesc told Riezel to run before disappearing, and Riezel transformed into a streak of fire and plunged into the Curse after her.

Aesc relived the ancient memories of Britain’s creation and sank into the Sea of Curses, where she began to give in to her hatred and despair. A flame-bearing youth reached her in her inner world, rekindled her resolve, and helped her break through the darkness as they escaped the Sea of Curses.

• Aesc remembered how the Six Fairies befriended a god, sacrificed it, and used its corpse and the sole human to create Britain.
• Aesc’s rage over Britain’s sins and the Miko’s suffering overwhelmed her, and an inner voice urged her to stop saving people and destroy everything.
• Aesc entered her frozen inner world, where her appearance changed as she became a Witch.
• A flame-bearing youth entered the inner world and told Aesc that the world should not be allowed to change her.
• Aesc took the youth’s hand, and his flames restored her appearance and her resolve to be a savior.
• The youth and Aesc burst through the darkness of the Sea of Curses and shot toward the cavern’s entrance.

Riezel and Aesc escaped the Great Cave after Riezel forced its terrifying Curse back inside. Aesc warned that something more dangerous than a Great Calamity lay beneath it, so the group teleported away before it could awaken.

• Tetetlot and the Black Knight waited outside the Great Cave as its ominous Curse grew stronger.
• Riezel burst from the cave carrying Aesc and drove the Curse hands back inside with a fiery slash.
• Tetetlot and the Black Knight gave Aesc and Riezel a medicinal brew as they recovered.
• Aesc revealed that a threat worse than a Great Calamity lay beneath the cave and urged everyone to leave before it awakened.
• Riezel used High-Tier Teleportation to take Aesc, Tetetlot, and the Black Knight away from the Great Cave.

After recovering from the Great Cave, Riezel found Aesc wrestling with the danger it posed and the weight of her past. She admitted that she cared only about preserving Britain, and after Riezel confirmed that her plan would fail, she resolved to become king herself.

• Riezel rested in the fortress he had created and woke after nightfall to find Aesc watching the stars.
• Aesc admitted that she wanted Britain to endure, not to save the fairies, and recounted centuries of purging Calamities only to be persecuted and driven into her coffin.
• Aesc explained that she had distrusted Riezel and considered removing him, but his connection with Morgan and his actions in the Great Cave had unsettled her.
• Aesc asked whether she would fail, and Riezel told her that she would.
• Aesc concluded that neither fairies nor humans could be trusted to rule Britain and decided, “Become king. I'll do it.”

After spending another month traveling Britain with Aesc, Riezel found the answer he had sought and prepared to return to his own time. Aesc revealed her true name as Morgan le Fay, and Riezel left two of Mashu’s armaments hidden in the future before departing with Morgan’s Ring.

• Riezel continued exploring Britain and fighting alongside Aesc, growing closer to her through their conversations and sparring.
• Riezel told Aesc he was leaving, and she revealed that her true name was Morgan le Fay before calling him her future husband.
• Riezel reviewed the items he could bring back and chose to assimilate Morgan’s Ring while leaving Mashu’s armor and weapon behind.
• Riezel preserved and concealed Ortho-naos and Longevity beneath the ruins of future Norwich so he could retrieve them later.
• Riezel assimilated Morgan’s Ring and completed his return from Fairy Calendar 400.

After returning to Franzer Villa, Riezel decided to continue with Liz to Neutral City Sinyele in search of clues about her origins. He bypassed the Maypros border defenses with Teleportation Magic and entered the desert Neutral Zone, where he planned to fly onward with Liz.

• Riezel reviewed his improved Ability Value and decided to return to the DanMachi World later to surprise Loki.
• After secretly exploring the Franzer estate, Riezel reunited with Liz and set out for Sinyele.
• Riezel informed Yuri of his departure, opened a Gate to Besare, and left Maypros Territory with Liz without alerting the family.
• Riezel and Liz crossed the Maypros border defense line undetected using Teleportation Magic and entered the desert Neutral Zone.
• Liz explained that Sinyele was the Neutral Zone’s only oasis and that travelers faced sandstorms, quicksand, and magical beasts in the wilderness.
• Riezel decided to fly across the desert with Liz despite the risk of encountering a sandstorm.

A young man and a girl arrived in Sinyele and went to the Sunset Tavern to ask about ruins unearthed nearby. The tavern’s patrons reacted as if the ruins were taboo, leaving the young man unsure how to investigate them.

• The young man and the girl entered the Sunset Tavern, where mercenaries and underground figures gathered.
• The young man ordered Snake Blood Wine for himself and fruit wine for the girl, then paid the server to answer questions.
• The young man asked the server about ruins unearthed near Sinyele, and the entire tavern fell silent.
• The server returned the gold and refused to discuss the ruins, while patrons whispered that asking about them was dangerous.
• The young man concluded that resolving the matter would not be easy.

Riezel and Liz visited the Sunset Tavern in Sinyele to seek information about the Ancient Ruins, but the subject proved taboo and the tavern's patrons took an interest in them. After Riezel intimidated the crowd with a quiet threat, the pair left, unaware that some patrons had begun following them.

• Riezel and Liz reached Sinyele after a dangerous journey through the desert, where Riezel had fought people who threatened Liz.
• Riezel learned that the Sunset Tavern was the best place to gather information and brought Liz there to ask about the Ancient Ruins.
• Riezel realized that Sinyele's leaders and the two kingdoms had concealed the ruins, suggesting the subject was taboo.
• Riezel sampled Snake Blood Wine and learned that it could gradually improve the body's physical abilities.
• A female mercenary teased Liz about her innocence and propositioned Riezel, while the other patrons mocked them and focused their attention on Liz.
• Riezel revealed part of his sword, frightening the tavern's patrons, then left with Liz as several people slipped out to follow them.

Riezel and Liz searched for a way to learn about Sinyele’s forbidden ruins, but Libum approached them with an offer to trade information for their help. A distant explosion and firelight interrupted their conversation, sending Libum running toward the outskirts as Riezel and Liz went to investigate.

• Riezel told Liz they would seek information about the ruins through Sinyele’s underground forces, or approach the city lord if necessary.
• Riezel and Liz noticed Libum following them, and she introduced herself as a member of the Tricksters mercenary group.
• Riezel exposed Libum’s virginity and guessed that she wanted to trade information about the forbidden ruins for their help.
• Libum warned that the city lord and the Oasis Knights punished anyone who discussed the ruins, but Riezel continued to ignore her offer.
• An explosion lit the outskirts of Sinyele, and Libum ran toward it as Riezel and Liz followed to investigate.