Chapter Summaries

Belti examined Riezel in a medicinal hot spring and found no trace of Abyssal contamination, crediting Sacred Sword Malfa’s protection. She asked about his life before arriving in this world, and Merlot and Naisha joined them to hear his story.

• Belti explained that she had prepared the hot spring with alchemical reagents and ancient magic potions to cleanse and examine those who soaked in it.
• Belti used purification magic to examine Riezel and found his body in excellent condition, with no trace of filth or Abyssal contamination.
• Belti told Riezel that his injuries had frightened everyone and asked him to describe his experiences before coming to this world.
• Riezel agreed to tell Belti about his past and learned that records about the saviors’ homelands had largely vanished.
• Merlot and Naisha arrived in the hot spring and asked to hear Riezel’s story, and he agreed.

Riezel told Merlot, Naisha, and Belti about his journeys across other worlds and discussed how his strength compared with the leaders of the Empire and Holy Sword Church. He learned that the Abyss Kings were far stronger and that their descent into the Source was nearly impossible, while Belti urged him not to take reckless risks.

• Riezel recounted his experiences in several other worlds, keeping the Dimensional Cube secret from Merlot, Naisha, and Belti.
• Merlot and Naisha said Riezel might be strong enough to challenge the Grand Chairman of the Empire's Supreme Council and the High Archbishop of the Holy Sword Church.
• Merlot and Naisha explained that the final wielder of the Sacred Sword Moslo had been stronger than those leaders but was gravely wounded after subjugating an Abyss King.
• Riezel wondered whether an Abyss King might appear in Mistergo, but Merlot, Naisha, and Belti explained that the Abyss could no longer meet the harsh conditions required for Abyss Kings to descend.
• Belti took Riezel's hand and pleaded with him to avoid recklessness and advance steadily.

Riezel spent seven days fighting Abyss Creatures in the Black Land, rapidly improving his abilities but failing to find opponents strong enough to help him Level Up. He then told Merlot, Naisha, and Belti that Abyss Creatures had grown restless and seemed to be actively searching for him.

• Riezel continued charging into battles with Abyss Creatures, but found no opponent as powerful as the giant black snake.
• Riezel hunted for seven days, raising his Strength and Endurance to Stage C, Dexterity and Agility to Stage B, Magic to Stage A, and improving two Development Abilities.
• Riezel concluded that the Abyss Creatures in the area were not strong enough to provide the Great Achievements he needed to reach Lv.10.
• Riezel told Merlot, Naisha, and Belti that Abyss Creatures had become restless and seemed to be actively looking for him.

Riezel realized the Abyss Creatures had been coordinated against him by a powerful figure, likely an Abyss Demon Lord, and decided to stop delaying and take the others into Mistergo. He brought Merlot, Naisha, and Belti through the Gate of Darkness, where they saw the danger he had warned them about.

• Riezel and Merlot concluded that someone powerful in the Abyss was directing groups of Abyss Creatures to target him.
• Merlot, Naisha, and Belti warned that the Abyss side might strengthen Mistergo’s defenses, so Riezel agreed to set out immediately.
• Riezel and the three women armed themselves and left the Underground Shelter after seven days inside.
• Riezel opened a Gate of Darkness to Mistergo and warned the women that true hell lay beyond it.
• Riezel entered the Gate first, and Merlot, Naisha, and Belti followed, only to see a terrifying sight on the other side.

Riezel and the girls reached the ruined, monster-infested Mistergo, where he explained the dangers and identified the Abyss Gate as their eventual destination. He chose to investigate the Grand Saint Palace first to uncover the truth behind the Reinayl Clan’s destruction, then cast a barrage of buffs on the girls before they entered the city.

• Riezel surveyed Mistergo and warned Merlot, Naisha, and Belti about its dense Abyss Aura, powerful creatures, and dangerous terrain.
• Riezel pointed out the Abyss Gate above the Royal Palace and said they would close it after he completed his investigation.
• Merlot and Naisha admired Belti’s resolve to help close the gate, and their relationship with her grew closer.
• Riezel said they would visit the Grand Saint Palace to investigate the Reinayl Clan and Ancient Magic Civilization.
• Riezel cast numerous spells to buff the girls, leaving them astonished by his magic.

Riezel and the girls entered Mistergo, where chaotic spatial forces and the Abyss Aura thwarted their attempts to sneak in. After Merlot and Naisha fought their way through the horde, Riezel unleashed a vast Blizzard to freeze the area and ordered them toward the Grand Saint Palace as Abyss Creatures continued to pursue them.

• Riezel's transfer spell was interrupted outside Mistergo, and the Abyss Aura broke through his invisibility spell, exposing the group to nearby Abyss Creatures.
• Merlot charged through a breach in the city wall, while Naisha used her magical barrier and trump cards to protect Riezel and Belti from the horde.
• Riezel cast Ecstasy: Fimbul's Winter, freezing the ground, ruined buildings, and Abyss Creatures across an area several dozen kilometers wide.
• Riezel cast Ramul on Merlot and Naisha, then directed them toward the Grand Saint Palace and carried Belti after them.
• The group raced across the frozen landscape as more Abyss Creatures rushed toward them.

Riezel and his group fought through Mistergo’s dangerous terrain and reached the Grand Saint Palace beneath the Abyss Gate. After sealing the entrance against the pursuing Abyss Creatures, they found the palace eerily empty and suspected a dangerous presence inside, but Riezel led the group onward.

• Riezel used Purple to blast a path through Thorny Blood Vines, then led the group past more dangerous terrain and Abyss Creatures as they crossed Mistergo.
• Merlot spotted the Abyss Gate above the city and pointed out the Grand Saint Palace nearby.
• Riezel used Blue to hold back powerful Abyss Creatures while he and the others entered the palace, then raised a curtain to seal its entrance.
• Inside the ruined palace, Riezel and the girls found no Abyss Creatures and suspected the building was a forbidden ground or occupied by something dangerous.
• Riezel told the group there was no reason to retreat and led them deeper into the palace.

Panisa discovered that Riezel, wielder of Sacred Sword Malfa, had entered Mistergo and the Grand Saint Palace, and decided to seek reinforcements to kill him. He recruited Bokamo and planned to lead an assault through a strengthened gate, while Bokamo prepared to increase his strength by finding a meal.

• Panisa watched scenes of Riezel's group entering the Grand Saint Palace and recognized Riezel as the Savior who had wounded him before.
• Panisa judged that Riezel was too strong for him to defeat alone and flew to the shattered continent to ask Bokamo for help.
• Bokamo mocked Panisa for seeking strength, but agreed to join the mission after Panisa invoked the Abyss Lords' decision to kill the new Savior.
• Panisa revealed that Abyss Believers had performed a blood sacrifice to strengthen the gate and said he would descend with an army, summoning the Barbarian God if necessary.
• Bokamo cursed Panisa's plan, then set out to prepare for battle by finding a meal that would raise his strength.

Riezel led Merlot, Naisha, and Belti through the Grand Saint Palace, where a strange rain killed the three women almost instantly. He revived them and brought them to safety, but the deadly rain remained unexplained.

• Riezel led Merlot, Naisha, and Belti through the Grand Saint Palace toward its rear hall.
• The group entered a plaza where an unexplained rain fell, and the drops dissolved Merlot, Naisha, and Belti despite Riezel's attempt to heal them.
• Riezel marked the three women's souls and used True Revival to bring them back to life.
• Riezel protected the revived women from the rain, comforted them, and led them away from the plaza.
• Riezel took the women to the shelter's hot spring, prepared clothes and tea for them, and helped them recover from their ordeal.

After reviving Merlot, Naisha, and Belti, Riezel investigated the strange rain that had dissolved them and learned that each had experienced a different deathlike vision. He left the weakened girls in the shelter and headed across the rain-soaked plaza toward the Grand Saint Palace’s central hall to investigate further.

• Merlot, Naisha, and Belti told Riezel they had seen different visions before dissolving, and each recalled a possible clue: a cry, a black shadow, or a foul smell.
• Riezel suspected an ability had used the rain as a medium to cause unavoidable deaths and ordered the newly revived, weakened girls to stay behind while he scouted.
• After Riezel left, Belti wondered whether she could learn revival magic and use it to save more people when the Abyss Gate was closed.
• Riezel examined the drizzling rain with his Clear World but found nothing unusual, then walked toward the central hall of the Grand Saint Palace.

Riezel was attacked by Kibutsuji Muzan and a Crocodile Dragon in a rain-soaked, empty realm where his Infinity and shikigami summoning failed. As the two enemies battered him and claimed revenge, Riezel realized something about his situation.

• Riezel stepped into a puddle and found himself transported to an empty plaza beneath a torrential storm.
• A Crocodile Dragon from Riezel’s past charged him and struck with strength far beyond what its level should allow.
• Riezel discovered that Infinity did not protect him, and he fought the Crocodile Dragon while trying to understand the anomaly.
• Kibutsuji Muzan appeared, declared that he had returned from hell for revenge, and attacked Riezel with his Whip-like Appendages.
• Riezel failed to summon Great Serpent, then took blows from Muzan and the Crocodile Dragon that left him bloodied in a crater.
• As Muzan and the Crocodile Dragon charged again, Riezel smiled and said he understood.

Riezel escaped the false memory space created by an Abyss Creature and killed the creature responsible for Merlot, Naisha, and Belti’s deaths. He emerged unharmed and entered the middle hall with summoned Guardian Throne Angels as protection.

• Kibutsuji Muzan and the Crocodile Dragon attacked Riezel, who activated Domain Expansion: Infinite Void and paralyzed them with an overwhelming flood of information.
• Riezel explained that the Abyss Creature had drawn victims into false spaces built from their memories, where remembered injuries and deaths became real.
• Riezel used his Memory Magic and Unrestricted ability to recognize the deception, found the worm-like Abyss Creature, and crushed it.
• Riezel emerged from the domain unharmed, decided to tell the girls only that he had avenged them, and approached the middle hall.
• Riezel summoned Guardian Throne Angels to act as meat shields, then entered the middle hall.

Riezel searched the Grand Saint Palace’s rear hall for clues linking the Abyss invasion to the Reinayl Clan’s destruction, but found nothing and decided to investigate the royal palace instead. After Merlot, Naisha, and Belti risked leaving the shelter to find him, Merlot asked whether he had searched the library.

• Riezel explored the rear hall with summoned monsters, found no Abyss Creatures, and discovered that its rooms and treasures were ruined or tainted.
• Riezel found no clues and reasoned that the royal family might preserve information because many of its members likely carried Reinayl Clan blood.
• Riezel decided to visit the Royal Palace, but hurried back to the rear hall entrance after his monsters warned him that Merlot, Naisha, and Belti had arrived.
• Merlot, Naisha, and Belti explained that they had left the Underground Shelter because they feared Riezel had been gone too long; Riezel scolded them and had Malfa remove the Abyss Aura from their bodies.
• Riezel explained his search and his dilemma, and Merlot asked whether he had found the library.

Riezel and the others searched the Grand Saint Palace for its hidden library, believing it might hold clues about the Reinayl Clan and the Ancient Magic Civilization. Belti found the library in the back courtyard, inside a withered ancient Sambia tree.

• Merlot, Naisha, and Belti explained that the Grand Saint Palace's library was likely concealed or transferred to protect its valuable books.
• Riezel and the women searched the palace for hours, finding an armory, equipment, Magic Items, keys, and some preserved but improper books, but no library.
• Belti found Riezel in a corridor and told him she had discovered the library.
• Belti led Riezel, Merlot, and Naisha to the courtyard behind the rear hall, where she identified a withered Sambia tree whose rare trait allowed a space to grow inside it.

Riezel and his companions discovered that the withered tree was a Sambian Tree containing the Grand Saint Palace’s library, but opening its Pocket Dimension required a Treant incantation. Naisha opened it by speaking the name Eulalie Reinayl, which was said to have mattered greatly to the Sacred Sword Moslo’s final wielder, leaving Riezel stunned.

• Belti explained that Sambian Trees could preserve Pocket Dimensions containing treasures, and the group suspected the Grand Saint Palace’s library was inside the withered tree.
• Merlot and Naisha said they knew the Treant language, while Belti admitted she did not know the specific incantation to open the tree.
• The girls tried Treant words, names, and dates as Riezel tested magic to reach the Pocket Dimension, but nothing worked at first.
• Naisha spoke the name Eulalie Reinayl, and a vortex appeared in the Sambian Tree’s trunk.
• Naisha revealed that Eulalie Reinayl was the incantation and a name important to the final wielder of the Sacred Sword Moslo, leaving Riezel stunned.

Riezel and his companions searched the Grand Saint Palace’s ancient library for clues, with Riezel summoning Great Death Mages to help. At the library’s deepest shelf, he found a sealed box and learned that only someone of the Reinayl Clan could open it.

• Riezel, Merlot, Naisha, and Belti entered the long-abandoned library inside the Sambian Tree and marveled at its vast collection.
• Riezel summoned Great Death Mages and sent them to search the library while he and the others looked for clues.
• Riezel explored the library’s shelves, then sensed unusual magic from a wooden box at the top of a massive shelf.
• Riezel used Infinity to block the force protecting the box and took it down, but he could not open it.
• Riezel appraised the box and discovered that a person with the Reinayl Clan’s extraordinary bloodline had to use their blood to open it.

Riezel found a blood-locked Box of Identification that he believed had been left for Eulalie Reinayl, and stored it to open later with the surviving Reinayl descendant. After the group returned from the library, Merlot, Naisha, and Belti agreed to form Retainer Contracts with Riezel before they continued toward the Abyss Gate.

• Naisha, Merlot, and Belti examined the Box of Identification and identified it as a relic made with lost Magic Alchemy Technology.
• Riezel refused to force the box open, fearing its countermeasures would destroy what was inside, and decided to have a Reinayl descendant open it later.
• Riezel stored the box in the Dimensional Cube and named the Abyss Gate as the group's next target, which Belti was ready to face.
• Back at the withered Sambian Tree, Riezel proposed Retainer Contracts to strengthen and protect the girls and keep them connected when separated.
• Merlot, Naisha, and Belti accepted Riezel's proposal, with Belti reaffirming her wish to serve him.

Riezel formed lifelong Retainer Contracts with Merlot, Naisha, and Belti, whose shared terms required him to help the Source repel the Abyss. He gave each of them a powerful treasure, then stored the Sambian Tree and its library in his Dimensional Cube.

• Riezel and the three women signed high-grade Retainer Contracts, binding them together as they pledged to help him oppose the Abyss.
• Naisha and Belti explained why they had never taken retainers before, while Belti reaffirmed her wish to devote herself to helping others.
• Riezel gave Merlot the Curse of Death, Naisha the Demon God's Blessing, and Belti the World-class secret treasure Chant of the Radiant.
• Riezel used his power to uproot the Sambian Tree and stored it in the Dimensional Cube so he could keep its valuable library.

Riezel and his companions faced the arrival of two Abyss Demon Lords after the protective curtain around the Grand Saint Palace shattered. Riezel shielded the others and stopped Panisa’s meteor attack, while Merlot and Naisha entered battle and Belti prepared to heal them.

• Riezel sensed danger as the black curtain around the Grand Saint Palace cracked and shattered, exposing the group to the surrounding Abyss Creatures.
• Two enormous Demon Lords descended in Abyss Demonic Fire, and Riezel protected Merlot, Naisha, and Belti from their overwhelming pressure.
• Panisa recognized Riezel, mocked him, and launched a rain of demonic fire at the Grand Saint Palace; Riezel stopped the meteors with a spirit incantation.
• Panisa ordered the Abyss Creatures to attack, and Riezel shared Holy Sword Power with Merlot and Naisha, who charged into battle.
• Belti began chanting healing magic, while Riezel summoned the Divine Dogs to protect her and turned his attention back to the sky.

Panisa watched Merlot, Naisha, and Belti hold off his Abyss Creature army while Riezel confronted Bokamo, a powerful Abyss Demon Lord whose attacks could break through Infinity. Riezel and Bokamo traded devastating blows, leaving their battle raging above Mistergo as space shattered around them.

• Merlot and Naisha slaughtered Abyss Creatures while Belti and her Divine Dogs attacked and healed their allies, their strength boosted by the Holy Sword Rune and Riezel's secret treasures.
• Panisa prepared to attack the girls, but Riezel struck him from above before Bokamo drove him back.
• Riezel questioned Bokamo, who demanded the Holy Sword and revealed that Panisa had chosen him to counter Riezel's spatial defense.
• Bokamo's punch broke through Infinity and shattered space, forcing Riezel to evade his follow-up attacks and withstand his Abyss Demonic Fire.
• Riezel split Bokamo's flames with Dismantle, then met Bokamo's punch with a Black Flash, shattering the space around them.