Chapter Summaries

Riezel destroyed the Gem Tower and its Magic Doll army, then discovered that Alakron was sustaining the Liberation Ritual on its own. Sky Hunter appeared and revealed that the Holy Envoys had completed their mission and that only one final step remained before the world’s end.

• Riezel expanded Demon Subjugation Kitchen Shrine, annihilating the Magic Dolls and destroying the Gem Tower while sparing Lainey.
• Riezel sent Lainey through a Gate of Darkness so she could speak with Yuri, then reunited with the Little Princess and Eulalie after they defeated Ba Snake and Tyrant.
• Riezel saw that Alakron was absorbing magic power and maintaining the Liberation Ritual despite the Ritual Tower’s destruction.
• Sky Hunter approached without Riezel noticing, identified himself as the Holy Temple’s founder, and said the other Holy Envoys had completed their mission.
• Sky Hunter announced that only the final step remained before the world would meet its end again.

Riezel exposed Sky Hunter as an Abyss King, and Sky Hunter revealed his ancient enmity with Eulalie before escaping. When the Fire Dragon King attacked, Riezel destroyed it, leaving him and Eulalie facing each other in silence.

• Riezel identified Sky Hunter as an Abyss Creature, and Sky Hunter confirmed that Riezel was not from this world.
• Sky Hunter attacked Eulalie with Abyss Aura, but Riezel rescued her and Liz, and Eulalie counterattacked him.
• Sky Hunter stopped Eulalie's sword and said their battle from over ten thousand years ago would resume once both had reclaimed their full power.
• Sky Hunter summoned the Fire Dragon King, which unleashed a devastating blast of fire at the Hungry Great Wilderness.
• Riezel used Hollow Technique: Purple to tear off the Fire Dragon King's wing, then killed it with Cleave.
• Liz rushed to Riezel as Eulalie stared at him in shock, and the two stood facing each other without speaking.

Eulalie revealed that the Fallen King, whom Riezel and Liz were pursuing as “Sky Hunter,” was her father, the Previous King, corrupted by Abyss power after his battle in another world. As they raced underground toward the Underground Beast Alakron, she explained how his transformation had destroyed the Ancient Magic Civilization and warned that he now sought to destroy the world.

• Eulalie regained her former self and told Riezel and Liz that they had to stop “Sky Hunter” before the Akasha Continent faced another Calamity.
• Riezel, Liz, and Eulalie pursued “Sky Hunter” underground toward the Underground Beast Alakron, which was still undergoing its liberation ritual.
• Eulalie revealed that “Sky Hunter” had once been her father, the Previous King of the Ancient Magic Civilization.
• Eulalie explained that the Previous King returned grievously wounded after defeating an Abyss King in another world, with his soul eroded and corrupted by a Blood Sacrifice Ritual.
• After the Previous King died, his body revived as an Abyss Creature and a new Abyss King, becoming the Fallen King and spreading Abyss Aura across the continent.
• Eulalie said she used the Holy Sword to hold back her fallen father, but the battle cost them the “god” and led to the destruction of the Ancient Magic Civilization.

Eulalie explained how she failed to kill the fallen Previous King and sealed his body and soul separately eleven thousand years ago. Riezel realized that Sky Hunter was the King’s escaped soul and Alakron was his body, which the ongoing Liberation Ritual was about to unseal; Eulalie believed Riezel could stop him.

• Eulalie told Riezel and Liz that she had used Sacred Sword Moslo to sever the fallen Previous King’s body from his soul, then sealed them separately at the cost of her life.
• Eulalie revealed that the King’s soul escaped its weakening seal and returned as Sky Hunter, while his body awakened as the Underground Beast Alakron.
• Riezel deduced that the Liberation Ritual was meant to remove the seal inside Alakron so the King’s soul could reclaim its body.
• Riezel and Eulalie explained that Sky Hunter had founded the Holy Temple and used its envoys to gather the ancient technology required for the ritual.
• Liz feared that modern civilization could not withstand the Calamity King’s return, but Eulalie told Riezel that he could stop the King.

Riezel, Liz, and Eulalie reached Lanaye, the ancient holy city that had been sacrificed to seal the Fallen King inside Alakron. They entered its Temple, where the Fallen King awaited them and demanded the God within Riezel.

• Riezel, Liz, and Eulalie found Lanaye inside Alakron and learned from Eulalie that the city had deliberately become the seal’s foundation by luring the Fallen King into being swallowed.
• Eulalie explained that the Hero’s Ring was an unfinished attempt to unite humanity against the Fallen King, and that Lanaye’s reappearance meant the Liberation Ritual was nearly complete.
• Riezel found Maya’s fresh skeleton beside the Temple gate and learned from Eulalie that Maya’s watcher’s duty had ended, lifting her immortality.
• Riezel, Liz, and Eulalie entered the Temple and faced the Fallen King, who questioned Riezel about the God and its connection to him.
• Riezel challenged the Fallen King’s curiosity, and the Fallen King demanded that Riezel hand over the God within him.

Riezel fought Sky Hunter in Lanaye’s Temple after the Abyss Aura flooded the city, overwhelming the Abyss King’s temporary body with his powers. Sky Hunter’s soul was wounded, and Riezel prepared to reveal an even more formidable technique.

• Abyss Aura surged through Lanaye, but Riezel walked through it unharmed while Moslo's Sword shielded Liz and Eulalie.
• Riezel and Sky Hunter exchanged attacks, and Riezel’s Cursed Energy, Clear World, and Black Flash blasted Sky Hunter’s body into black mist.
• Liz celebrated Sky Hunter’s apparent defeat, but Eulalie warned that the battle was not over as his Abyss Aura continued to rage.
• Riezel struck Sky Hunter’s mist with Dismantle: Soul Severing Blade, causing him to scream in pain and shock.
• Riezel formed the Dandain Seal and declared that he had killed gods before.

Riezel’s confrontation with the Fallen King triggered a continent-wide earthquake as the Underground Beast emerged in its true form: Abyss King Alakron. Eulalie identified Alakron as the destroyer of her kingdom and told Riezel that only he could defeat him.

• The Fallen King sensed Riezel’s attack and revealed his true form, causing the earth to shake across the Akasha Continent.
• Yanifei, Saint Nidor, Yuri, Lilith, and others rescued citizens and brought them to the protected palaces as cities collapsed.
• Shalti rescued Mediste, Isaac, and Lainey, then watched the Hungry Great Wilderness and wondered whether the Sacred Beast or something else had been unleashed.
• Abyss King Alakron emerged beneath the Hungry Great Wilderness and crushed the ancient city of Lanaye.
• Riezel, Eulalie, and Liz arrived through a Gate of Darkness and saw Alakron’s monstrous true form.
• Eulalie identified Alakron as the former king of Reinayl and the destroyer of her kingdom, then told Riezel that only he could defeat him.

Alakron embraced his identity as the king of the Abyss and vowed to destroy the world, but Riezel confronted him and began a fierce battle. After Alakron shattered Riezel’s Infinite Void with a spreading darkness, Riezel recognized it as the power Eulalie had warned could drag everything into the Abyss.

• Alakron reflected on how his former identity and resolve had faded, then embraced his desire to destroy everything he once protected.
• Riezel confronted Alakron and declared that the king could not destroy the world because he was there.
• Alakron struck Riezel with overwhelming punches, a devastating hurricane, Abyss Demonic Fire, and a roar that slowed Riezel’s movements.
• Riezel countered Alakron with Blue, evaded his attacks, and wounded him with Dismantle: Heavenly Net.
• Riezel expanded Infinite Void, but Alakron’s darkness swallowed and shattered the domain before it could fully form.
• Riezel retreated from the darkness and realized it was likely the power Eulalie had warned could drag everything into the Abyss.

Riezel used the Holy Lance to halt Alakron’s Abyss World and struck the Abyss King, but Alakron survived and believed he had won. Riezel then revealed a bleak, blade-like weapon and told Alakron it was his end.

• Riezel found that his magic attacks could not affect the darkness of Alakron’s Abyss World as it swallowed the land and pursued him.
• Riezel released Holy Sword Power to invoke Holy Lance—Anchored, creating a Torrent of Light that stopped the Abyss World’s expansion.
• Riezel fired Shining at the Lance of Annihilation (Rhongomyniad) into Alakron’s darkness, breaking through it and forcing Alakron to block the strike with his hands.
• Alakron survived with bloody hands and declared himself superior, believing Riezel had used his strongest attack.
• Riezel told Alakron that the Holy Lance was not his ultimate move, then summoned a seamless blade from the Dimensional Cube Storage Space as the darkness advanced again.

Riezel used The End, a weapon that could force the end of anything with a future, to tear apart Alakron’s darkness and wound him. After discovering that Alakron’s soul had been irreversibly corrupted by the Abyss, Riezel began casting a brilliant Magic Circle to grant him salvation.

• Riezel drew The End and walked into Alakron’s darkness, slashing it and the connected Abyss apart.
• Riezel explained that The End could bring the future of anything it touched to an irreversible conclusion.
• Riezel used his abilities to draw Alakron close, severed one of his arms, and bound him with ribbons formed from his blood.
• Riezel cut through Alakron’s Abyss Demonic Fire and seized his soul with Idle Transfiguration.
• Riezel recognized that Alakron’s soul was inseparable from the Abyss’s corruption and began casting a Magic Circle to grant him salvation.

Riezel used his Reincarnation Magic, Eternal Poem, to cleanse Alakron’s corrupted soul and send him toward rebirth. Eulalie watched her father’s soul depart, and Riezel reassured her that he would be reborn.

• Riezel restrained Alakron, restored his original form, and chanted the spell for Eternal Poem despite Alakron’s pleas not to be reincarnated.
• Riezel destroyed Alakron’s body and used Eternal Poem to cleanse the corruption from his soul.
• Eulalie and Liz arrived as Alakron recognized his daughter, apologized to her, and disintegrated into a ray of light that flew away.
• Liz rushed into Riezel’s arms, and he confirmed he was unharmed after defeating Alakron.
• Riezel stood beside Eulalie and told her Alakron would be reborn as sunlight returned to the battlefield.

A month after Riezel defeated Alakron, he and Yuri discussed the continent’s reconstruction and agreed to keep the truth of the battle from the public. Yuri planned to confront her father over the damage he had caused, while Riezel announced he was going out to pick someone up.

• Riezel and Yuri shared tea at Franzer Villa and discussed the year’s events and the continent’s recovery after Alakron’s defeat.
• Yuri said nations were investigating the disaster, and Riezel explained why they would find no evidence and why he would not reveal the truth.
• Yuri said she had sent Lainey home and planned to return her mother and eldest sister to the Franzer residence so they could confront her father.
• Riezel reflected on the fates of the other Holy Envoys, including Shalti’s continued sword practice and Yanifei’s failed attempt to take her back.
• Riezel told Yuri he would leave that afternoon to pick someone up.

Riezel arrived in Mistergo, where Meiliuqina had cleared the city of Abyss Creatures, and found Morgan preparing to reopen the path to the Abyss. After retrieving Belti, Riezel planned to help Morgan establish a nation on the Akasha Continent before venturing into the Abyss for new adventures.

• Riezel arrived in Mistergo and reunited with Meiliuqina, who eagerly welcomed him and explained that she had wiped out the city's Abyss Creatures on Morgan's orders.
• Meiliuqina told Riezel she no longer served Morgan and instead wanted to serve him as his lover, while Riezel went to meet Morgan alone.
• Riezel found Morgan completing a spell formation powered by Holy Lances and the Throne, preparing to retrieve Belti from the Abyss.
• Morgan told Riezel she was ready to establish a peaceful human kingdom on the Akasha Continent, and Riezel agreed to assist her.
• Riezel looked forward to exploring the Abyss after bringing Belti back and helping settle matters on the Akasha Continent.