Chapter Summaries

Finn explained that Bell had been terrified by Bai Yue’s presence, while Freya discovered that Bai Yue’s soul appeared to be an empty shell. Hestia’s Familia was being established as she chose a residence, and Eina warned Bai Yue to avoid attracting trouble in Orario.

• Finn stopped Bell and the others’ quarrel and explained that Bell had imagined things after being frightened by Bai Yue’s overwhelming aura.
• Freya spotted Hestia with Bai Yue, became intrigued by him, and decided to watch him develop before trying to claim him.
• Freya used her Insightful Eye on Bai Yue and was shocked to find that his soul was almost entirely hollow.
• Eina urged Bai Yue to keep a low profile in Orario, but he seemed not to listen while Hestia studied houses for her Familia.
• Hestia considered buying a residence owned by the Hephaestus Familia, while Eina turned Bai Yue’s face back toward her to demand his attention.

Bai Yue and Hestia registered their Familia and bought an estate before heading to Fuyuki Street to recruit a foxkin named Sanjono Shun'ichi. There, they discovered Shun'ichi was being forced into prostitution, while Aisya feared the Ishtar Familia’s coming sacrifice of the girl; the chapter ended as Shun'ichi entered Bai Yue and Hestia’s room.

• Hestia chose an estate, and Bai Yue and Hestia completed the property purchase and Familia registration with Eina.
• Bai Yue took Hestia to Fuyuki Street, explaining that he meant to recruit a woman who worked there and that she was still a virgin.
• Aisya worried that Ishtar would use a Killing Stone to sacrifice Shun'ichi, the foxkin she secretly protected.
• Aisya learned a customer had requested Shun'ichi and brought along a woman who resembled a goddess, so she went to investigate.
• Hestia saw Shun'ichi enter the room and realized the shy foxkin had been working at the establishment for some time.

Bai Yue offered a Killing Stone to ransom Shun'ichi, exposing the foxkin’s valuable ability and provoking Ishtar and her Familia to attack. As Furfurini charged him, Bai Yue used calculations about the room’s weak floor to set up a collapse, leaving the outcome of the attack unresolved.

• Hestia examined Shun'ichi’s back and discovered that her magic, Ten Thousand Treasure Hammer, was unusually powerful before Aisya stopped her.
• Bai Yue offered a Killing Stone in exchange for Shun'ichi, and he explained that the item could seal a foxkin’s soul and let others use her ability.
• Aisya realized Bai Yue knew about Shun'ichi’s ability and prepared to kill him, but Bai Yue calmly named a level-up as his goal.
• Ishtar arrived, ordered Furfurini to kill Bai Yue, and Furfurini burst through the wall to charge him.
• Bai Yue used his calculations of Furfurini’s weight and the floor’s weak points to make her brake over a vulnerable section, setting up a collapse.

A young man used his accident-causing ability to survive Frigg’s attack and resist Ishtar’s seduction. Ishtar realized he regarded her with disgust, and her rage left the confrontation on the verge of escalating.

• Frigg’s punch went astray after she sensed danger, and the floor shattered near Ishtar as another Familia member was injured protecting the goddess from flying debris.
• The young man explained that his ability was calculation: gathering information, predicting what would happen, and guiding events.
• Ishtar tried to seduce him, while Hestia attempted to interrupt and pull him away.
• The young man refused Ishtar’s advances and compared her to a fried potato ball contaminated by people’s saliva.
• Ishtar understood that his gaze had concealed disgust rather than infatuation, and she erupted in anger.

A young man provoked Ishtar, then fought Furfurini while protecting Hestia. His mysterious potions healed him and increased his strength until he defeated the LV5, leaving Ishtar at his mercy as he demanded Shun'ichi in exchange for the fox girl.

• The young man insulted Ishtar and kissed Hestia, provoking Ishtar to order her followers to attack him.
• Furfurini demolished the building to clear space, and the young man set Hestia aside before charging to keep the fight away from her.
• Furfurini struck the young man and sent him through a wall, but he recovered rapidly after drinking a potion and injured Furfurini in return.
• The young man drank more potions as Furfurini attacked, growing stronger until he knocked her out with a single punch.
• The young man held a blade to Ishtar's neck and demanded Shun'ichi in exchange for the fox girl, while Ishtar feared his threat and coveted his potions.

Ishtar traded the unconscious Tsubaki to Shun'ichi for the Killing Stone, and Hestia welcomed the foxkin into her Familia. As Orario reacted to the incident, Tsubaki woke in Hestia's home and learned what Ishtar had intended for her.

• Ishtar agreed to give Tsubaki to Shun'ichi in exchange for the Killing Stone, while planning to reclaim what she had lost later.
• Hestia accepted Tsubaki into her Familia, and Aisya feared Ishtar would retaliate.
• Shun'ichi gave Hestia a bottle of his elixir as they returned, while Freya grew curious about him and Eina heard rumors of the dispute.
• Tsubaki woke in Hestia's home and learned she had been transferred from Ishtar's Familia to Hestia's.
• Hestia explained Ishtar's intentions toward Tsubaki, who showed no hatred toward her former goddess.

Hestia welcomed Shun'ichi into her Familia and learned how she had been cast out of her family and sold in Orario. While updating Shun'ichi's status, Hestia discovered that Bai Yue's blood had added HP and MP values; the chapter then shifted to the morning preparations at The Feastful Famer, where Bai Yue noticed the elf girl Ryuu Lion.

• Hestia reassured Shun'ichi that she was a virgin and could live as a normal member of Hestia's Familia.
• While cleaning their new mansion, Shun'ichi told Hestia how she had been disowned after accidentally eating a sacred offering, then captured and sold to Orario.
• Hestia comforted Shun'ichi and later updated her status, where Bai Yue's blood added HP and MP values that began to rise.
• Bai Yue explained the new values to Hestia and suggested testing them by taking Shun'ichi into the dungeon.
• The chapter shifted to The Feastful Famer before opening, where Bai Yue's attention was caught by the elf girl Ryuu Lion.

Bai Yue used Goddess Asteria’s emblem to persuade Ryu to consider guarding him, and she agreed to take time off to learn about her Main God. At the Dungeon entrance, he chose the wary supporter Liliruca Arde to join his party, but she tried to refuse him.

• Bai Yue showed Ryu the emblem Goddess Asteria had given him and offered news of her Main God as payment for Ryu’s guard services.
• Chloe Lolo and Anya Fromel suspected Bai Yue of targeting Ryu, but Ryu stopped them and said she would take the day off to meet him.
• Liliruca Arde waited at the Dungeon entrance for a party to hire her while avoiding adventurers she considered dangerous.
• Bai Yue approached Liliruca and hired her as a supporter, but she claimed she had already contracted with another party.
• Bai Yue offered to wait half an hour and promised Liliruca a larger share of the gains, leaving her reluctant to join him.

Shun'ichi fought monsters in the Dungeon while Bai Yue had Ryu inspect her status, revealing that her values changed without a god's update. Elsewhere, Cecil and Asteria Familia investigated a devastated mountain region and worried it might conceal a new Dungeon.

• Lily followed Bai Yue and a masked companion after Bai Yue called her by name, then fell near a sharp fragment and nervously went with them.
• Shun'ichi killed a goblin and survived three more when Bai Yue's thrown pebble caused two to die in accidents and she stabbed the last.
• Bai Yue asked Ryu to read Shun'ichi's status, and Ryu saw her attributes and HP rise without any update from a Main God.
• Shun'ichi showed Ryu a status sheet Hestia had copied that morning, and Ryu realized the displayed values had changed on their own.
• Cecil and the women of Asteria Familia reached the ruined mountains near Zollingen and debated whether the devastation was a natural disaster or the work of a god.

Astrea found a fragment of a god’s soul and decided to travel to Orario after her investigation, while Ryu learned that Shun'ichi’s status updated automatically. Bai Yue tested whether Shun'ichi’s ability could strengthen herself, and Ryu checked her status again after the foxgirl fought several War Shadows.

• Astrea showed Cecilia a godhead fragment that only gods could touch and suspected it was connected to Bai Yue.
• Astrea ordered Cecilia to prepare for a trip to Orario once they had investigated the pit.
• Ryu realized Shun'ichi’s status values updated automatically and warned her to keep the ability secret.
• Bai Yue asked Shun'ichi to use the Ten Thousand Treasure Hammer on herself, and the spell successfully strengthened her.
• Shun'ichi fought three War Shadows until her enhancement faded, and Bai Yue’s group intervened to save her from the last monster.
• Ryu checked Shun'ichi’s status values again at Bai Yue’s request and was stunned by what she saw.

Ryuu witnessed Bai Yue survive a surprise attack by a Level 5 assassin and kill them with a brutal counterattack. The Dungeon then collapsed amid abnormally appearing Man-eating Flowers, which Ryuu suspected had been sent to rescue the assassin’s body.

• Ryuu examined Sanjono Shun'ichi’s rapidly rising stats and realized the fox girl was close to reaching the limit for leveling up.
• Bai Yue shoved Ryuu out of the path of a Level 5 assassin’s greatsword, then survived devastating attacks by rapidly healing with elixirs.
• The assassin tried to destroy Bai Yue’s elixirs, but Bai Yue used his healing and strength to tear the assassin’s head from their body.
• Man-eating Flowers appeared on the floor as the Dungeon began collapsing, forcing Ryuu to escape with Sanjono Shun'ichi.
• On the thirteenth floor, Ryuu told Bai Yue she believed the Man-eating Flowers had helped the assassin’s body escape under a Beast Tamer’s control.

Bai Yue explained that the assassins were Chimeras connected to the Evilus, then tried to help Sanjono Shun'ichi gain experience by having her finish off weakened monsters. On the seventeenth floor, he pressed against the Wall of Sighs, which began to absorb him and crack.

• Bai Yue identified the strange attackers as Chimeras connected to the Evilus and suggested they could reach the surface.
• Bai Yue concluded that Shun'ichi had reached her ability limits and needed to defeat stronger monsters to level up.
• Ryu led Bai Yue, Shun'ichi, and Lily down to the fifteenth floor, where Shun'ichi killed a weakened Minotaur after six strikes.
• Shun'ichi continued finishing off weakened monsters near the seventeenth floor, but her abilities did not change.
• Bai Yue asked Ryu about the Floor Master, then pressed against the Wall of Sighs and drank potions as the wall began to absorb his arm and crack.

Ryu fought the abnormal, seven-meter-tall LV5 Floor Master Goliath on the seventeenth floor while Lily watched in fear and the fox-girl repeatedly extended Ryu’s enhancement. Ryu unleashed her Light Wind spell but was knocked off course, leaving her trapped between Goliath’s hands as Ais and Lefia headed down to investigate the battle.

• Lily realized the Floor Master was an unusually powerful LV5 Goliath and could only hope Ryu would defeat it.
• Ryu dodged Goliath’s attacks, damaged its knee, and drove her wooden sword into its eye, while the fox-girl extended her enhancement at the cost of her strength.
• Ryu began chanting a decisive spell as Goliath’s berserk attacks shook the seventeenth floor.
• Ais recognized that the commotion exceeded what an LV4 battle could cause and took Lefia to the seventeenth floor to investigate.
• Ryu concentrated her Light Wind spell on Goliath’s exposed weak point, but the monster’s thrown weapon knocked her off course and its hands closed in on her.

Ryu defeated the Floor Master with help from Lily, then refused Bai Yue’s offer to join his familia. He proposed that she instead join his party, but his request to touch her bare back left her wary of the potential cost.

• Ryu shattered the Floor Master’s magic stone, and Lily collected its fragments and rare hide.
• Ais and her companions rested by the river, where LeFia noticed Shun'ichi’s status showed LV.2 despite her claim that she was LV.1.
• Lily concluded that Shun'ichi’s status could update itself and that she had risen to LV.2.
• Ryu heard about the dangers posed by the remaining Dark Faction members and refused Bai Yue’s offer to join his familia.
• Bai Yue offered Ryu a place in his party and said he needed to touch her bare back to test whether she could receive real-time status updates.
• Ryu considered the bargain but worried that touching her back might bring risks beyond the price Bai Yue described.

Ryu visited her former Familia’s graves with Bai Yue, then encountered a wise Gale Songbird he identified as a Xenos. After revealing that Xenos were intelligent monsters born in the Dungeon, Bai Yue raised a possibility about what happened to the souls of those who died there.

• Ryu laid flowers at her former Familia members’ graves, and Bai Yue added a bouquet of his own.
• Ryu and Bai Yue found a bedraggled adventurer being pursued by a robed monster, but Bai Yue stopped Ryu from intervening and the monster killed the adventurer.
• Bai Yue identified the pursuing creature as a Xenos, and Ryu followed him as it trailed them toward a cliff.
• Ryu and Bai Yue discovered a blood trail ending at a concealed opening in the rock wall, and Bai Yue questioned the Gale Songbird about the people it had tried to silence.
• The Gale Songbird revealed its unusual, human-like appearance, and Bai Yue explained that it was a wise monster born in the Dungeon.
• Bai Yue asked how the souls of those who died in the Dungeon were handled, prompting Ryu to suspect that the Xenos might be connected to them.

Bai Yue revealed Knossos, an artificial route linking the Eighteenth Floor to the surface, and Ryu agreed to guard his party for a month in exchange for a status update. The chapter ended as an orange-haired elf watched Ais face an opponent with her sword drawn.

• Bai Yue speculated that intelligent monsters might be the souls of dead adventurers, while Gale Songbird explained why she had killed an Ikelos adventurer.
• Bai Yue led Gale Songbird and Ryu to an Orichalcum gate concealing Knossos, and Ryu revealed its history as a passage built by the dark factions.
• Gale Songbird warned Bai Yue and Ryu that Zagnoth had been active on the Thirty-First Floor before departing to report what she had learned.
• Bai Yue offered Ryu a real-time status update after she guarded his party for a month, and she accepted the deal.
• An orange-haired elf watched Ais take a battle stance against an opponent.

Bai Yue accepted Ais’s invitation to spar and revealed that his speed, skill, and strength far exceeded what the onlookers expected. After he drank an elixir and suddenly overwhelmed Ais, Tione and Tiona rushed to intervene as she hurtled toward the ground.

• Ais used Tempest and attacked Bai Yue at full speed, but her sword cut only an afterimage before he redirected her force and sent her flying.
• Tione recognized that Bai Yue had used Ais’s momentum against her and estimated that he was a powerful Level 5 fighter, while LeFia watched anxiously.
• Bai Yue and Ais exchanged dangerous blows, and he cut a wound into her abdomen as Tione reassured LeFia that Ais wanted the fight.
• Tione explained that she had suggested the spar after Tiona wanted to test Bai Yue with a sneak attack, and noted that Bai Yue was gradually weakening himself while matching Ais through superior technique.
• Bai Yue drank an elixir, surged in strength, and struck Ais with his palm, sending her tumbling through the air.
• Tione and Tiona rushed toward Ais to intervene as Bai Yue closed in on her.

Bai Yue drove Ais into a desperate fight, then fought the Amazon sisters and left Tione and Tiona motionless. Ais unleashed a storming attack that tore across the eighteenth floor, and LeFia rushed to help her after she was thrown down.

• Ais barely parried Bai Yue’s fatal-looking strike, and Tione and Tiona charged in to stop him from attacking again.
• Ryu suspected Bai Yue was forcing Ais into a genuine life-or-death battle and wondered why restorative elixirs made him stronger.
• Bai Yue sent Tiona flying, pierced Tione with his sword, and left her motionless after she completed her petrification spell.
• Bai Yue caught Tiona’s heavy strike, disarmed her, and left her limp on the ground before turning toward LeFia.
• Ais gathered all her wind into a powerful attack, shattered Bai Yue’s sword, and blasted a massive scar across the eighteenth floor.
• LeFia ran to the fallen Ais and searched for a panacea to treat her injuries.

After Ais’s attack, Bai Yue revealed that he had staged the Amazon sisters’ apparent deaths to test Ais’s limits, then explained the drawbacks of divine blessings and the curse-like marks on his back. The group left the Dungeon with the revelation that the faction behind his curse could easily defeat the Loki Familia without Loki.

• Ais panicked when Tione and Tiona appeared dead, but both sisters revived and rushed toward the area she had destroyed.
• Lily explained that Bai Yue had made the sisters look dead to provoke Ais, and Tione found him impaled on crystal shards while a masked elf healed him with a powerful potion.
• Bai Yue admitted he had wanted to see Ais’s limits, and the others discovered distorted, blackish-red script on his back that looked like a curse.
• As the group returned to the surface, Bai Yue explained how divine blessings enabled rapid growth but made further progress dependent on status updates.
• Bai Yue confirmed that he was cursed and said the powerful faction behind it could easily wipe out everyone in the Loki Familia except Loki.

After Ais reached Level 6 from her fight with Bai Yue, the Loki Familia learned he was likely another Level 6, while Ais stopped LeFia from revealing his secrets. Bai Yue ordered powerful elixirs and left with Hestia to recruit a Pallum supporter from her struggling Familia.

• Ais noticed Bai Yue’s body had become stiff from a curse, so she carried him back to the Guild after their friendly return from the Dungeon.
• Loki updated Ais’s Status and discovered she had reached Level 6, apparently gaining the experience through her intense fight with Bai Yue.
• Riveria questioned how Ais could have leveled up, and LeFia suggested Bai Yue had provoked her into losing control before Ais stopped her from sharing his secrets.
• Loki failed to coax the secret out of LeFia, while the other Loki Familia members backed Ais and told LeFia not to listen to Loki.
• Bai Yue commissioned unusually potent elixirs from Mi’er, then left with Hestia to find the Pallum girl he had invited to join his Familia.