Chapter Summaries

Artoria chose to enter Paradise to seek answers about her purpose and her uncertain future, while Riezel promised to come for her after finishing his own task. After Artoria disappeared into Albion's remains, Morgan left the ruined Britain with Riezel, and the two vanished from Storm Border.

• Artoria told Riezel she wanted to return to Paradise, not remain in Britain, and explained that she needed answers about her existence.
• Riezel agreed to let Artoria go and promised he would come get her after completing what he needed to do.
• Artoria entered Albion's remains in Dragon Bone Swamp as Chaldea prepared to leave the Britain Lostbelt.
• Morgan appeared without her crown and told Riezel she no longer considered the ruined Britain to be hers.
• Riezel and Morgan joined hands and vanished from Storm Border.

Riezel returned from the Fairy Kingdom of Britain Lostbelt with Morgan and another lifeform, then asked Morgan to retrieve Belti’s soul from the gap between planes. Morgan estimated the task would take at least a thousand years, but Riezel’s recovered Throne and twelve Holy Lances offered a way to shorten the process.

• Riezel ended his Dimensional Travel early and returned to the Great Source World with Morgan and another lifeform.
• Riezel brought Morgan to the place where Belti had sealed the Abyss Gate and explained that the Holy Swords’ seal prevented him from recalling her soul.
• Morgan confirmed that she could retrieve Belti’s soul by adapting Chaldea’s summoning and transfer systems, but estimated the work would take at least a thousand years.
• Riezel brought out Morgan’s Throne, which held vast stores of magical power, and the twelve Holy Lances he had taken from the Fairy Kingdom of Britain Lostbelt.
• Morgan explained that modifying the Holy Lances could neutralize the Holy Swords’ seal enough to open a passage to the gap between planes and improve the chance of recalling Belti’s soul.
• Riezel entrusted the work to Morgan, who promised to fulfill her commitment.

Morgan agreed to begin work on a soul recall experiment, and Riezel persuaded her to pursue a new Britain on the Akasha Continent instead of trying to restore the Black Land. Afterward, Riezel found Meiliuqina battling Abyss Creatures and learned she remained consumed by grief over Aurora’s death.

• Morgan estimated that she could conduct the first soul recall experiment in three months, and Riezel left her to work on it.
• Riezel suggested that Morgan build a new Britain on the Akasha Continent, promising to help her; Morgan decided to establish and unify a peaceful kingdom there.
• Riezel departed Mistergo and watched Meiliuqina destroy Abyss Creatures in the sky beyond the city.
• Meiliuqina told Riezel she felt useless and wanted to be left alone because she had failed to protect Aurora.
• Riezel recalled that Meiliuqina had chosen to travel with him to repay her debt for saving her life.

Riezel helped Meiliuqina find a new reason to live after Aurora’s death, and she eagerly accepted his promise that they would love and support each other. After half a month of fighting Abyss Creatures together, Riezel reached the limits of Level 9 and returned to the Akasha Continent, leaving Meiliuqina behind to protect Morgan.

• Riezel stopped Meiliuqina from treating herself as a weapon and urged her to move on from Aurora.
• Riezel promised to need and love Meiliuqina if she pulled herself together, and she happily agreed to a mutual relationship.
• Meiliuqina became clingy and followed Riezel closely as they explored the black land and fought Abyss Creatures.
• Riezel told Meiliuqina he would return to the Akasha Continent and asked her to stay and protect Morgan; she reluctantly agreed.
• After wandering the wilderness with Meiliuqina for around half a month, Riezel updated his Ability Value, reached his Level 9 limit, and opened a Dimensional Passage back to the Akasha Continent.

Riezel returned to the Akasha Continent after vanishing into another world, only to learn that Liz, Lilith, and Eulalie had caused a major disturbance while searching for him. As turmoil spread through Queen Tistis's Kingdom, he went to meet Yanifei, who awaited him in the First Queen's bedchamber.

• Riezel returned physically to the Queen's Palace and reunited with Liz, Lilith, Evie, Leo, and Eulalie.
• Evie explained that Liz, Lilith, and Eulalie had panicked when their contracts could no longer sense Riezel, and their actions had exposed their Sword Saint-level strength and stirred unrest in the palace.
• Riezel learned that the Queen's Palace had grown more complicated during his absence and agreed to meet Yanifei.
• Anna Arterloo and Rena Arterloo arrived on Yanifei's behalf, and Liz, Lilith, and Eulalie insisted on accompanying Riezel to her chambers.
• Riezel entered the First Queen's bedchamber, where Yanifei waited on the balcony and greeted him as Queen.

Yanifei recounted how she had subdued Queen Tistis’s Kingdom’s nobles and forces, proven her royal blood by drawing the Inheritance Sword, and become the leading heir to the throne. Riezel recognized her as the First Queen, and Yanifei began to explain that her survival was tied to old matters.

• Yanifei offered Riezel the Arterloo sisters and said she would give him her kingdom if he defeated her.
• Yanifei had confronted the Royal Scions and their supporters, defeating the nobles, Knight Orders, Sword Saints, and the Strategic Class Mage who opposed her claim.
• Yanifei had defeated Shalti and drawn the Tistis Family’s Inheritance Sword, confirming her royal bloodline and right to succeed Queen Tistis.
• Queen Tistis’s Kingdom’s factions had accepted Yanifei as the foremost heir, leaving her close to being crowned Queen.
• Riezel asked whether Yanifei was the First Queen, and Yanifei confirmed he had finally asked before saying her survival was tied to old matters.

Yanifei explained how she escaped the Tistis bloodline Curse by transferring her soul into a new body, and how Cloria had served as her Doll. After revealing the source of the current Queen’s Curse, Yanifei sought Riezel’s aid and proposed joining forces with him, while he offered to try to remove the Curse.

• Yanifei recounted her failed efforts to cure the Tistis bloodline Curse and her decision to transfer her soul into a newly refined body before falling into a frozen slumber.
• Yanifei explained that Cloria was her Doll and that the current Queen awakened Cloria to save the kingdom, only to be afflicted by the Curse lingering around Yanifei’s old body.
• Yanifei said she would save the current Queen if she did not challenge her claim to the throne, and Riezel left the kingdom’s affairs to her.
• Yanifei tried to recruit Riezel, declared her plans to conquer the continent, and proposed having descendants with him and his companions.
• Riezel offered to help lift the current Queen’s Curse using his knowledge of cursed techniques.

Riezel used Heavenly Restriction of Evil Removal to purge the Beast King's Curse from the current Queen and from Yanifei, then received the royal records and route to the Kasafegeer Mountains. He planned to leave for the mountains the next day, while Yanifei declared she would not let him die before she conquered him.

• Riezel activated Heavenly Restriction of Evil Removal, burning away the Curse from the current Queen, Yanifei, and Eulalie while Lilith suffered from the holy power.
• Riezel pulled Lilith out of the technique's range, then told the Arterloo sisters that the current Queen's body and mind were too weak for her to wake soon.
• Yanifei realized Riezel could dispel the Tistis Clan's bloodline Curse and handed him parchment records and a map of the Kasafegeer Mountains.
• Riezel said he and Lilith would leave for the Kasafegeer Mountains the next day, and Liz became tense at the prospect of returning to the Hidden World.
• Yanifei told Riezel she would not permit him to die before she conquered him, and Riezel said the Blizzard could not threaten him through Infinity.

Riezel studied the route to the Kasafegeer Mountains and decided to enter the Blizzard alone before bringing the others through a Gate. He then opened a blood-locked box using Eulalie’s blood and discovered a letter revealing her Reinayl ancestry and her father’s final mission.

• Riezel learned from Yanifei’s documents that the Blizzard around the Kasafegeer Mountains was too dangerous to cross while protecting the group, so he planned to scout ahead alone or send resistant monsters.
• After spending time with Liz and Eulalie, Riezel wondered whether the Heavenly Restriction of Evil Removal had affected Eulalie because black smoke had risen from her during its activation.
• Riezel used Eulalie’s blood to open the Box of Identification, confirming that it required blood from the Reinayl Clan.
• Riezel read a letter addressed to Eulalie from her father, who described defeating an Abyss king, the destruction of Mistergo, and his efforts to prepare Eulalie to protect the Source and the Akasha Continent.

After reading a letter from Eulalie’s parent, Riezel deduced that the Abyss’s invasion of the Great Source World and the disaster that destroyed the Ancient Magic Civilization had occurred at the same time, and suspected the parent’s polluted soul had caused the Calamity King’s appearance. He left Eulalie and the others at the Queen’s Palace and entered the northern polar Blizzard alone, reaching it in under an hour.

• Riezel read the letter explaining that Eulalie’s parent had left her treasures and hoped she would defend the Great Source World’s Empire from the Abyss.
• Riezel connected the Empire’s destruction and the Ancient Magic Civilization’s fall eleven thousand years earlier, and suspected the parent’s soul pollution had led to the Calamity King’s arrival.
• Eulalie woke and silently watched Riezel, while the Little Princess clung to him in her sleep; Riezel drew Eulalie into his arms.
• Riezel told Lilith to guard everyone at the Queen’s Palace and departed alone so he could reach the Kasafegeer Mountains faster.
• Riezel used High-Speed Movement to reach the northern polar region in less than an hour, then charged into the nearly absolute-zero Blizzard.

Riezel crossed the deadly Blizzard into the Kasafegeer Mountains, where he discovered frozen human figures and realized living creatures inhabited the forbidden region. An Ice Dragon attacked him, and their clash ended with the dragon crashing down at the mountain’s foot.

• Riezel navigated the magical Blizzard using the Clear World and followed his route map to the Kasafegeer Mountains.
• Riezel found a frozen Sword Saint and then many more human-shaped ice sculptures, concluding that creatures had brought the people there.
• An Ice Dragon attacked Riezel with a freezing breath, but he emerged unharmed.
• Riezel fired Red at the Ice Dragon, which dodged through the Blizzard and charged him.
• Riezel and the Ice Dragon clashed, and the dragon fell heavily at the mountain’s foot.

Riezel defeated an Ice Dragon in the Kasafegeer Mountains and forced it to lead him to the Teleportation Magic Circle. He found the frozen Underground Altar and uncovered the circle leading to the Hidden World.

• Riezel evaded the Ice Dragon’s attacks, wounded it with his techniques, and blasted it with Crimson Lotus.
• Riezel collected the dragon’s blood and used Cursed Speech to force the injured Ice Dragon to guide him toward the Teleportation Magic Circle.
• The Ice Dragon tried to bite Riezel again, so he killed it with Dismantle: Soul Severing Blade and stored its body in the Dimensional Cube.
• Riezel flew through a deep cave passage into the Great Hollow and discovered a frozen Underground Altar.
• Riezel cleared ice and snow from the altar, revealing a Magic Circle leading to the Hidden World.

Riezel’s group activated the Teleportation Magic Circle to the Hidden World with Moslo’s Sword and entered it. As the circle began to close, five Sword Saint-level strangers arrived and followed them through.

• Evie confirmed that the altar held a Teleportation Magic Circle to the Hidden World, and the group realized it needed a key to activate it.
• Liz called to Moslo’s Sword, which recognized Riezel’s Holy Sword power and reacted even more strongly to Eulalie and her Shadow Sword.
• Moslo’s Sword activated the circle, and Riezel led Liz, Eulalie, Lilith, Evie, and Leo into its light.
• Five Sword Saint-level figures reached the Great Hollow just as the circle was closing and rushed through after Riezel’s group.

Riezel and his companions arrived in the Hidden World, where Evie explained how its magically created lifeforms and shared history had shaped a peaceful land. Evie and Leo led the group toward the Temple at the world's heart, where they hoped the priests would address Riezel's Retainer Contract with Liz.

• Riezel cast Mass Flight to save the group after they appeared in the sky and began falling.
• Riezel saw animals living peacefully together, and Evie explained they were magical creatures created to survive by absorbing Magic Essence.
• Evie described how the Ancient Magic Civilization's survivors had transformed the empty Pocket Dimension into the Hidden World over eleven thousand years.
• Riezel asked about their next step, and Evie invited Liz to visit the Temple while Leo hoped its priests could undo the Retainer Contract.
• Riezel agreed to go, and Evie and Leo led the group toward the Temple at the heart of the land.

Riezel's group used a Temple teleportation circle to reach the Hidden World's headquarters, where the Temple welcomed Liz as their returning princess. The High Priest appeared and told Riezel that he had been waiting for him.

• Evie and Leo led Riezel's group to a city Temple branch and used its teleportation circle to travel to the Temple headquarters.
• Riezel's group arrived in a hall where priests, clerics, and knights had gathered to greet them.
• Lilith shielded Riezel and Liz nearly drew Moslo's Sword as the crowd's imposing presence startled the group, but Riezel recognized that they meant no harm.
• The priests and everyone in the Temple knelt before Liz and welcomed her return, leaving her bewildered.
• The High Priest appeared, explained that he had sensed the group's arrival, and told Riezel, "I've been waiting for you for a long time."

Riezel and Liz met the High Priest, who explained the limits of her precognition and offered to reveal what the Temple had learned about Liz’s origins. She began by telling them that Temple records showed no royal bloodline survived the disaster that destroyed the Ancient Magic Civilization, making Liz’s existence a mystery.

• Riezel and Liz entered a private room with the High Priest while Eulalie and Lilith waited outside and Evie and Leo departed to receive their rewards.
• The High Priest explained that her unusual appearance came from her Aether affinity and offered Liz an immortality-elixir formula, which Liz declined.
• The High Priest described how difficult and costly it had been to foresee Liz’s existence and predict her return to the Temple.
• The High Priest said she had investigated Liz’s origins and offered to tell her what the Temple had discovered; Liz gathered her courage and asked to hear everything.
• The High Priest affirmed Liz’s status as a descendant of Reinayl, then revealed that historical records showed no royal bloodline survived the destruction of the Ancient Magic Civilization.

The High Priest explained why Liz’s Reinayl bloodline seemed impossible, since records showed the royal family had ended with Eulalie. She proposed that Liz descended from the Previous King’s sister, who was taken to Another World as a baby, or that Liz was the sister herself.

• The High Priest told Liz and Riezel that the royal bloodline should have ended with Eulalie, making Liz’s existence a mystery.
• She explained that the Temple’s records showed no Reinayl descendants had been lost among the people or survived outside the Hidden World.
• The High Priest revealed that Eulalie’s father had a younger sister who was injured before birth and died shortly after being born.
• She said the Previous King’s Mother took the baby away and was last seen at the Temple where God was enshrined.
• The High Priest conjectured that Liz was either a descendant of the Previous King’s sister, saved in Another World, or the sister herself.

The High Priest argued that Liz was the Previous King's Sister, since the Holy Sword recognized her pure Reinayl bloodline, and explained how Liz’s mother had taken her to another world after she died as an infant. The High Priest then revealed that she had met Mia seven years earlier, shortly before Mia died, and shared what Mia had said about fulfilling her final oath.

• The High Priest explained that the differing flows of time between worlds made it possible for Liz to be the Previous King's Sister, and that the Holy Sword’s recognition ruled out her being descended from Reinayl blood continued in another world.
• The High Priest said Liz’s father had died in battle and her mother had taken her, dead as an infant, to another world in search of a way to save her, but had likely died before returning.
• The High Priest admitted that she did not know how Liz had returned to the Akasha Continent after more than ten thousand years had passed.
• The High Priest told Liz that she had met Mia in the Hidden World seven years earlier and sensed that the aged woman was near death.
• The High Priest recalled Mia saying she had fulfilled her final oath by raising her benefactor’s daughter and returning her to her homeland, and that she was ready to die.

The High Priest pieced together Liz’s origins, revealing that Mia had saved her and brought her to the Akasha Continent before leaving for the Hidden World. Liz learned she still had family in Eulalie, while Riezel asked the High Priest what had happened to the Hidden World’s god, and she said the god had disappeared.

• The High Priest explained that Liz’s mother had revived her in another original world, entrusted her to Mia, and eventually left the world.
• Mia raised Liz, gave her the Beast Hide Scroll and Sacred Sword Moslo, and later left Liz with Hermulin before traveling alone to the Hidden World.
• The High Priest revealed that Mia had disappeared before her death and that Liz was likely Eulalie’s aunt, prompting Liz to rush out to speak with Eulalie.
• The High Priest told Riezel that the people of the Hidden World revered the Reinayl descendants and that Liz’s trust in him was unusual.
• Riezel asked where the temple’s god had gone and why records of it ended after the Ancient Magic Civilization’s destruction.
• The High Priest said their god had disappeared.

Riezel read the Temple’s account of the Ancient Magic Civilization’s destruction and connected its calamity to the Abyss and the Previous King. After confirming his suspicions, he asked the High Priest to take him to a place containing something Queen Eulalie had left behind, saying he had the key to enter.

• Riezel found and read “The Last Glory,” which described a black fog appearing in Saint Lansri and the Calamity King attacking the Temple’s God.
• Riezel learned that Eulalie used the Holy Sword to knock the Dimensional Cube into a rift, where it disappeared, and that the Holy Sword’s radiance purged the fog while the Calamity King corrupted the continent’s monsters.
• Riezel reconstructed how Eulalie and humanity fought the Calamity King, sealed it at the cost of the Ancient Magic Civilization, and founded the Hidden World after the survivors fled there.
• Riezel connected the calamity to the Abyss and concluded that the Previous King, whose soul had been corrupted, was behind the Ancient Magic Civilization’s destruction.
• Riezel left the library and told the High Priest to take him to the place where Queen Eulalie’s belongings had been brought, claiming he had the key to enter.