Chapter Summaries

Riezel and Liz watched rival underground factions fight over a mysterious object in Sinyele’s abandoned warehouse district. When Kamon warned that the city’s authorities might arrive, the spectators rushed into the battle to seize the object, and Riezel recognized a strange black patch on Kamon that stirred a familiar sensation.

• Riezel and Liz arrived above the warehouse district as Yad and Kamon fought over an object sought by the surrounding factions.
• Riezel used Clear World to assess the powerful fighters and noticed an unperceivable black patch on Kamon that triggered an inexplicable fluttering sensation.
• Libum arrived and told Tricksters that Sunset Tavern had refused to provide helpers, then ordered her faction to protect Yad if the battle turned against him.
• Kamon warned the spectators that the Oasis Knights and city lord might arrive, prompting Leo to demand the object and the other factions to charge.
• Dragon Horn and Tricksters joined the melee as the warehouse district erupted into chaos.

Riezel used Time Magic to take the box from the short Swordsman as he escaped the chaotic battle. After time resumed, the short Swordsman attacked Riezel to reclaim it.

• Leo unleashed Demon Sword Skills and slaughtered fighters around Kamon, growing stronger as he absorbed blood.
• Kamon threw the box to Yad, drawing the attackers’ attention away from himself, and Yad cast a powerful fire spell to cover Libum’s escape.
• Libum fled with the box, but Brute was buried beneath rubble and a veteran True Swordsman struck her down and seized it.
• The short Swordsman escaped from the pursuing fighters with the box while Yad and Kamon continued fighting.
• Riezel froze time, took the box from the short Swordsman, and resumed time; the short Swordsman then slashed at him.

Riezel took the box after killing a veteran True Swordsman with one strike, then escaped with Liz and suspected the box was connected to the Ancient Magic Civilization or the Hero Clan. Sinyele remained in chaos as the factions continued fighting and searching for him.

• The short swordsman attacked Riezel with a Special Grade Sword Skill, but Riezel used Radiant Golden Crimson Body to avoid harm and killed him with Lightning Slash.
• The witnesses froze in shock, and Libum recognized Riezel as the expert she had tried to recruit.
• Riezel declared that the box belonged to him, teleported away from the crowd, and returned to Liz before escaping with her using Teleportation Magic.
• Leo attacked Yad and Kamon, forcing Dragon Horn, the Tricksters, Libum, and the Brute to continue fighting.
• Riezel examined the box with Liz and suspected it was connected to the Ancient Magic Civilization or the Hero Clan before heading to an inn.

Riezel opened the Qiluo Metal box and found a second Beast Hide Scroll, whose image showed the Queen and her followers building a structure in the desert that might be the Ancient Ruins of Sinyele. As Riezel prepared to sleep, an armed group surrounded the inn and pounded on the door.

• Riezel used Reality Slash to open the Qiluo Metal box and found a blank beast hide inside.
• Riezel revealed the second Beast Hide Scroll and compared its image with Liz's scroll.
• Riezel recognized the Queen's desert construction scene as possibly depicting the ruins built to receive Moslo's Sword.
• Riezel found nothing else in the box, repaired it with Complete Repair, and put it away.
• Riezel saw an armed group surround the inn, and someone pounded on the door.

Riezel and Liz fought off an assault by the City Lord’s Oasis Knights, but the knights disrupted Riezel’s magic and detonated Magic Bullets in the room. The chapter ended with the explosion engulfing them.

• Oasis Knights broke into the room, and Riezel kicked one aside while Liz blocked another’s attack with Moslo's Sword.
• More Oasis Knights burst in through the windows, ceiling, wall, and floor, splitting their attack between Riezel and Liz.
• Riezel caught the veteran captain’s sword, kicked him through the furnishings, and disrupted the other knights’ attacks.
• Riezel used crimson magic waves to disintegrate a wall, forcing the Oasis Knights to dodge instead of blocking.
• The knights used a disrupting Magic Item to fill the room with blowing sand and destabilize Riezel’s magic.
• The Oasis Knights threw Magic Bullets, triggering a massive explosion inside the inn room.

Riezel and Liz defeated the Oasis Knights who attacked their inn, then questioned them about their purpose. Riezel gave the captives a choice: confess or face the city lord.

• The Oasis Knights bombarded the inn room with Magic Bullets, but Riezel and Liz emerged unharmed as Riezel's defensive magic stopped the blast.
• Riezel used chained lightning to strike the Oasis Knights, then wounded their captain with a Thunder Breathing sword slash.
• Liz used Love Breathing to cut down the remaining knights, and Riezel and Liz gathered the injured survivors in an intact room.
• Riezel explained that his Aura of Strength had protected him from the Magic Bullets and asked the captives why they had come.
• When the Oasis Knights refused to answer, Riezel electrocuted them and demanded they confess or be taken to the city lord.

Riezel interrogated Bordo with Memory Manipulation and learned that the City Lord had ordered the Oasis Knights to punish anyone who touched the Forbidden Item, dead or alive. After discovering Bordo was an honorable knight who knew little else, Riezel spared him and decided to visit the City Lord's Mansion.

• Bordo mocked Riezel for threatening to confront the Sword Saint at the City Lord's Mansion.
• Riezel paralyzed Bordo with Contact of the Undead and used Memory Manipulation to search his memories.
• Riezel found that Bordo had been an upright knight who had risen to become one of Sinyele's strongest Oasis Knights.
• Riezel carefully searched Bordo's recent memories and learned the City Lord had ordered the knights to punish anyone who touched the Forbidden Item, dead or alive.
• Riezel spared Bordo and decided to visit the City Lord's Mansion.

An unknown youth openly attacked Sinyele's City Lord's Mansion, defeating its mages and knights as he advanced toward the city lord, Sglanto Bayard. Sglanto armed himself, but the chapter ended before the two met.

• The youth blew apart the City Lord's Mansion's Great Gate and demanded that Sglanto Bayard come out.
• Sglanto woke, recognized the intruder's approach, and took a weapon from a cabinet.
• The Mansion's mages attacked the youth, but his defensive magic left him unharmed.
• The youth used Sacred Vocation: Mirror to absorb and reflect the mages' spells, causing explosions among the defenders.
• An Oasis Knight ordered the mages to stop casting and led the knights in a charge.
• The youth used Sacred Rite: Aurora to bombard the charging knights as he continued through the Mansion.

Riezel confronted Sglanto at the ruined City Lord's Mansion after returning the knights Sglanto had sent to him. Sglanto recognized Riezel as the young Sword Saint and mage, then accused him of violating Ginas Kingdom's agreement with Sinyele.

• Sglanto arrived at the City Lord's Mansion and demanded to know who had attacked it.
• Riezel identified himself, returned Bordo and the other captured knights, and challenged Sglanto over his threat to disregard Riezel's life.
• Sglanto charged and punched Riezel, but Riezel's Radiant Verdant Body blocked the blow and his counter-kick sent Sglanto crashing through a fountain.
• Sglanto recognized Riezel as a Sword Saint and asked whether he was the newly risen Riezel Brihaut.
• Sglanto questioned Riezel's purpose in Sinyele and accused him of breaking Ginas Kingdom's agreement not to interfere in the city's affairs.

Riezel challenged Sglanto’s authority in Sinyele, prompting the city lord to deploy his forces and attack him. As arrows closed in under a magic-interference barrier, Riezel reached for the blade at his waist.

• Sglanto’s distrust of other Sword Saints made him wary of Riezel, whom he saw as a threat to his rule over Sinyele.
• Riezel rejected Sglanto’s attempt to invoke the Ginas Kingdom and argued that he had no obligation to explain why he had come to Sinyele.
• Sglanto accused Riezel of threatening Sinyele by approaching forbidden items and declared that he would punish the newcomer.
• Sglanto drew an unusual amber weapon embedded with twelve gemstones, whose magic seemed powerful enough to rival a World Item.
• Sglanto ordered his mages to activate a magic-interference barrier and his knights to surround Riezel and fire arrows at him.
• As the arrows surged toward him, Riezel chuckled and reached for the blade at his waist.

Liz infiltrated the City Lord's Mansion and entered Sinyele's private library to search for information about the ruins while Riezel kept Sglanto occupied. Riezel used an unfamiliar sword skill to repel Sglanto's barrage of magic arrows, leaving Sglanto to wonder whether he had mastered a second Special Grade Sword Skill.

• Liz used Riezel's concealment magic and Bordo's map to reach the city lord's private library.
• Liz knocked out the two knights guarding the library with her Spiritual Power and entered through its weakened magical defenses.
• Liz began searching the library shelves for secret records about the ruins.
• Sglanto's magic arrows bombarded Riezel, who deflected them with Moon Breathing: Fifth Form: Moonlight Calamity Vortex.
• Sglanto recognized Riezel's unfamiliar sword skill and wondered whether he had cultivated a second Special Grade Sword Skill.

Riezel revealed a second Special Grade Sword Skill and unleashed Moon Breathing against Sglanto and the Oasis Knights. Sglanto empowered himself with the Amber Blade and clashed with Riezel in a destructive duel that left the surrounding knights unable to intervene.

• Sglanto ordered the knights to throw Magic Bullets at Riezel, who drew his blade and used Moon Breathing to blast the projectiles away and threaten the Oasis Knights with sweeping Blade Winds.
• Sglanto absorbed magic power from the gemstones in the Amber Blade, increasing his strength beyond Lv.7, and stopped Riezel's attack with a massive slash.
• Riezel sent a barrage of Blade Winds at Sglanto, who shattered each one with the Amber Blade before charging into close combat.
• Sglanto gained the upper hand in their sword clash and forced Riezel backward, then pursued him as their weapons repeatedly collided across the City Lord's Mansion.
• The knights watched the Sword Saints' battle in fear and realized they could not interfere.

Riezel discovered that Sglanto’s immense strength came from an explosive sword skill fueled by the Amber Blade’s stored magic power, and that the power was fading as its gems dimmed. Riezel switched to Thunder Breathing and overwhelmed Sglanto in the air, ending the chapter as something tore.

• Sglanto’s advantage dwindled when one of the Amber Blade’s gems dimmed, and Riezel realized his opponent’s power was temporary.
• Riezel explained that Sglanto used a magic-consuming explosive sword skill and the Amber Blade’s stored magic to boost his strength beyond his usual level.
• Riezel changed from Moon Breathing to Thunder Breathing, causing Sglanto to retreat in alarm.
• Riezel’s lightning-fast slashes drove Sglanto into the sky and forced him to parry repeated attacks.
• A tearing sound rang out as Sglanto struggled against Riezel’s assault.

Riezel overwhelmed Sglanto and the Oasis Knights, wrecked the City Lord's Mansion, and declared the fight finished for now. He teleported away as the barriers fell and the mansion burned, leaving Sglanto buried in the ruins and the surviving knights scrambling to find him.

• Riezel used an endless barrage of Thunderclap and Flash to break through Sglanto's defenses and knock him into the ground.
• Riezel repelled the Oasis Knights with Thunder Breathing, then wounded Sglanto with successive attacks and kicked him down again.
• Riezel unleashed Moon Breathing, Sixteenth Form: Moonbow, Lone Moon, sweeping the knights and nearby buildings into destructive Blade Winds.
• Sglanto charged Riezel with a powerful sword strike, but Riezel blocked it as the second gemstone on the Amber Blade dimmed.
• Riezel told Sglanto he was no longer his opponent, punched him into the ruins, and teleported away as the mansion's barriers collapsed.
• The City Lord's Mansion became a Sea of Fire, while the surviving knights searched for Sglanto and tried to rescue people.

After the City Lord's Mansion burned, rumors and unrest spread through Sinyele while the authorities sealed the incident as top-secret. Sglanto, furious over Riezel Brihaut's victory, agreed to cooperate with a mysterious girl to obtain an item in the ruins and kill him.

• Sinyele residents spread rumors about the City Lord's Mansion burning, while interested factions sent investigators who found the incident had been sealed as top-secret.
• The ruined mansion and the secrecy surrounding it left Sinyele in growing turmoil.
• Sglanto destroyed his temporary residence in rage over his defeat by Riezel Brihaut.
• A mysterious girl confronted Sglanto and questioned whether he could defeat Riezel, especially since Riezel's magical power had been sealed.
• Sglanto accepted the girl's offer of cooperation and said he needed the item in the ruins to kill Riezel.
• The girl told Sglanto they would set out once he had recovered from his injuries, then disappeared.

Riezel reviewed records Liz took from the City Lord's Mansion and learned that Sinyele's Ancient Ruins had repeatedly devastated expeditions from Sinyele, the Ginas Kingdom, and the Rebru Kingdom. After finding the ruins' location on a hidden map, he asked Liz whether she wanted to go, and she agreed.

• Liz gave Riezel documents about the Ancient Ruins of Sinyele that she had taken from the City Lord's Mansion's secret archive.
• Riezel read a record describing how Sglanto Bayard and expeditions from the Ginas Kingdom and the Rebru Kingdom suffered heavy losses exploring the ruins.
• Riezel found a map hidden with the record and memorized the route marked with a red X.
• Riezel told Liz he knew where the ruins were and asked whether she wanted to go.
• Liz firmly agreed to visit the ruins with Riezel.

After razing the City Lord's Mansion, Riezel and Liz stocked up on supplies before leaving Sinyele for the Ancient Ruins. Libum tracked Riezel down and offered a trade for the Forbidden Item, only to discover that he did not know what it did.

• Riezel and Liz decided to buy supplies before leaving Sinyele, and Riezel considered selling monster meat later to earn money.
• Libum spotted Riezel and Liz while buying medicine for her injured brother and suspected Riezel had destroyed the City Lord's Mansion.
• Libum followed Riezel as other factions also noticed him, then approached him before they could interfere.
• Riezel warned Libum that she could not force him to hand over the Forbidden Item, and Libum offered to trade supplies and valuables for it.
• Riezel asked what the Forbidden Item did, and Libum was shocked to learn he had taken it without knowing its purpose.

Riezel gave Libum the Qiluo Metal box after revealing that it contained only a Beast Hide Scroll, then left Sinyele with Liz to find the forbidden Ancient Ruins. After breaking through the ruins’ concealment and defenses, Riezel and Liz descended toward them.

• Libum explained that the box came from forbidden Ancient Ruins and that the factions fighting over it believed it might contain a treasure capable of making someone a Sword Saint.
• Riezel told Libum that he had found only a Beast Hide Scroll inside the box and gave her the empty box, while watchers in the alleys noticed it and pursued her.
• Riezel and Liz finished gathering supplies and flew out of Sinyele toward the Ancient Ruins, where a sandstorm and flying magical beasts delayed their arrival.
• Riezel used Decomposition Magic to break the barrier hiding the Ancient Ruins and destroy the traps and defenses around them.
• Riezel asked Liz if she was ready, and the two flew down toward the revealed Ancient Ruins.

Riezel and Liz entered the Ancient Ruins after Moslo's Sword drew them there, discovering that the temple concealed a maze already explored by groups of intruders. Inside, Riezel summoned magical guides and followed them deeper into the temple.

• Riezel found that Moslo's Sword was strongly drawn to the Ancient Ruins and stopped it from pulling Liz toward the Great Gate.
• Riezel and Liz spotted recent footprints leading to the gate, suggesting that others had entered the ruins before them.
• Riezel and Liz pushed open the Great Gate and entered the temple's maze, where the gate closed behind them.
• Riezel summoned Fairy Queen's Blessing and Tripod Bird's Guide to find a route through the maze.
• Riezel and Liz followed the two guides deeper into the passage.

Riezel and Liz encountered a Humanoid Treant disguised as an injured girl in the Temple Maze. Riezel exposed and fought the monster, whose unusual resistance to fire and powerful roots made it far stronger than expected, then cut its body apart with Severance.

• Riezel and Liz continued through the maze, where rising heat made their journey uncomfortable.
• Liz explained that travelers used Return Magic Crystals to retrace their footprints and escape the maze.
• Riezel stopped Liz from approaching a crying girl, recognizing through Clear World that the apparent girl was a monster surrounded by human bones.
• The girl revealed itself as a Humanoid Treant and blocked Riezel's fireballs with a branch shield that barely burned.
• The Humanoid Treant unleashed a mass of roots, and Riezel blocked them with Stone Wall before cutting through the roots and the monster with Severance.