Chapter Summaries

Duke Mog and merchants pressed Momol for repayment, hoping to exploit a dispute over the Mora System and force the Demon Country Federation to seek their help. Rimuru and Mo Li arrived, and Rimuru recognized Mog’s scheme as the confrontation continued.

• Duke Mocha instigated the merchants’ demand for repayment while Duke Mog prepared to intervene and pressure Momol.
• The merchants confronted Momol over their contracts as he waited for Rimuru and Mo Li to arrive.
• Rimuru and Mo Li entered with their aides, silencing the merchants and frightening Mog with Mo Li’s reputation.
• Mog introduced himself to the Demon Lords, but Mo Li ignored him and went directly to give Momol instructions.
• Rimuru sarcastically excused Mo Li’s behavior and warned Mog, who privately hoped the dispute would make the Federation owe him a favor.
• Rimuru realized Mog intended to damage the Federation’s credibility and resolved that his scheme would fail.

Rimuru resolved the Demon Country Federation’s economic crisis by paying its debts and blacklisting the merchants, then met with allied leaders to discuss cooperation. The meeting ended with the guests learning that both Veldora and Azhdaha guarded the Great Underground Labyrinth’s hundredth floor.

• Duke Mog tried to make the Federation owe him a favor, but Rimuru interrupted him and paid the merchants with Dwarven Kingdom gold coins.
• Rimuru ended future cooperation with the merchants and placed them on the Federation’s economic blacklist, resolving the crisis.
• Rimuru summoned Hinata Sakaguchi back to Liyue City and discussed cooperation with Dovagon, Emesia, and the other allied leaders.
• Veldora and Azhdaha complained that no challengers had come to the Great Underground Labyrinth, prompting Dovagon, Emesia, and Hinata to ask about its hundredth-floor boss.
• Rimuru revealed that both Veldora and Azhdaha were floor masters on the hundredth floor, shocking the gathered allies.

Rimuru revealed that Veldora and Azhdaha jointly guarded the Great Underground Labyrinth’s hundredth floor and explained its generous rewards, including Mo Li’s inheritance. After the cooperation meeting ended, Hinata stayed behind to challenge the labyrinth, while Rimuru began checking it for loopholes.

• Rimuru revealed that Veldora and Azhdaha were both bosses of the labyrinth’s hundredth floor, shocking Dovagon, Emesia, and Hinata.
• Rimuru disclosed the hundredth-floor rewards, prompting Dovagon, Emesia, and Hinata to express interest in obtaining Mo Li’s martial arts and spell inheritance.
• Mo Li recalled that the inheritance consisted of techniques and experience he had shared with Rimuru and the monsters.
• Rimuru, Dovagon, Emesia, Hinata, and the Blumund envoy concluded their cooperation talks, and Dovagon and Emesia departed the Demon Country Federation.
• Hinata stayed to challenge the labyrinth and help Shizue train her students, while Rimuru began inspecting the labyrinth for loopholes.

Rimuru upgraded the Great Underground Labyrinth with beginner-friendly features, survival items, rewards, and monster equipment drops, turning it into an even greater source of income. After the renovations, she relaxed in Mo Li’s arms until Diablo knelt before her with a request.

• Rimuru inspected the labyrinth and found adventurers dying or getting stuck on its simple first floor, so she added guidance, safe features, toilets, and vending machines.
• Rimuru, Ramiris, Veldora, and the others introduced Record Orbs and Return Whistles, letting adventurers save their progress and leave the labyrinth safely.
• At Momol’s suggestion, they created monthly achievement rankings and rewards for first-time defeats of Labyrinth Guardians, including a huge prize for clearing the final floor.
• Rimuru and the others added monster equipment drops and an appraisal office, prompting more adventurers to buy Return Whistles.
• After the renovations, Rimuru rested in Mo Li’s arms, and Diablo knelt before her to make a request.

Diablo asked Rimuru for permission to recruit hundreds or more than a thousand demon acquaintances as subordinates, and Rimuru approved after Mo Li judged the plan beneficial. Diablo then set out to find them, while remaining convinced that Mo Li had misled Rimuru.

• Diablo knelt before Rimuru and asked permission to recruit subordinates so he could delegate minor tasks and stay near her.
• Diablo said several old acquaintances—potentially more than a thousand demons—would be willing to serve if Rimuru provided them with bodies.
• Rimuru worried the demons could threaten the Demon Country Federation, but Diablo insisted they would not be able to force him into a difficult fight.
• Rimuru asked Mo Li for his view, and he said the recruitment would benefit the Demon Country Federation.
• Rimuru approved the request and promised to prepare more than a thousand bodies, then Diablo left to find his companions.

Rimuru learned that the pay-to-win party Green Chaos was rapidly advancing through the Great Underground Labyrinth by exploiting its rules, while Hinata Sakaguchi’s solo run reached the deeper floors. After a Holy Knight boasted that Hinata could defeat anything in the labyrinth, an Emperor devotee replaced the guardian of the ninetieth floor and waited for her party.

• Mo Li supported Diablo’s search for his companions, and Rimuru promised him over a thousand bodies to possess before he departed.
• Momol told Rimuru that Green Chaos had used Record Orbs, Return Whistles, and multiple parties to advance quickly through the labyrinth without breaking its rules.
• Rimuru convened a meeting and learned that Green Chaos included several A-rank fighters and a captain with concealed strength.
• Ramiris reported that the Holy Knights had reached the seventieth floor before failing, after which Hinata Sakaguchi challenged the labyrinth alone and defeated the guardians of the sixtieth, seventieth, and eightieth floors.
• After a Holy Knight boasted that Hinata could defeat the labyrinth’s monsters, an Emperor devotee drove out the Nine Demon Luo and took a place beside a spear in the ninetieth-floor boss room to await Hinata.

Hinata Sakaguchi pushed through the Great Underground Labyrinth to its Ninetieth Floor, where Xiao awaited her as the boss. Xiao fought the Holy Knights first to wear himself down and make his duel with Hinata fair, leaving her with a new respect for him.

• Hinata Sakaguchi led the Holy Knights from the Eighty-first Floor through the Ninetieth, defeating each floor boss despite the growing difficulty.
• At the Ninetieth Floor boss room, Hinata sensed danger and found Xiao waiting with his spear.
• Xiao challenged Hinata and the Holy Knights to attack together, but Hinata refused to join them.
• Xiao fought and defeated the Holy Knights while Hinata watched, then faced her after his strength had been worn down.
• Hinata understood Xiao had tried to make their fight fair and regarded him with respect.

Xiao fought Hinata Sakaguchi in the ninetieth-floor BOSS room after wearing himself down to make their battle more even. He defeated her after both fighters unleashed their trump cards.

• Xiao and Hinata Sakaguchi clashed at full strength, and their battle badly damaged the BOSS room.
• The awakened Holy Knights realized Xiao had held back when he fought them earlier, while Hinata struggled to land a blow on him.
• Hinata Sakaguchi sent Xiao flying and summoned sacred armor with her Demon-Shattering Spirit Particle Slash.
• Xiao put on his yaksha mask, gathered his strength, and charged Hinata with Wind Wheel Both Sides.
• When the dust cleared, Xiao was still standing and Hinata Sakaguchi was kneeling and exhausted.

Xiao defeated Hinata Sakaguchi and the Holy Knights on the Ninetieth Floor, though the battle left him exhausted. After Rimuru learned that Hinata’s attempt to clear the labyrinth had destroyed the floors between the Fiftieth and Ninetieth, she and the others decided to enter the fray themselves by creating alt accounts.

• Xiao defeated Hinata Sakaguchi in the Ninetieth Floor boss room, and she accepted her defeat and vanished from the labyrinth.
• Xiao ordered the Holy Knights to leave, and they used their revival bracelets to return outside before he collapsed from exhaustion.
• Rimuru watched the battle recording and marveled that Xiao had beaten a Saint while still at the Demon Lord Seed stage.
• Rimuru learned that Hinata’s attempt to clear the labyrinth had destroyed the floors between the Fiftieth and Ninetieth, which Ze'Chion and Yapitto could not yet restore.
• Rimuru, Ramiris, Veldora, and the others decided to intervene by creating alt accounts.

Rimuru and his companions created alternate bodies, leveled up in the labyrinth, and defeated Green Chaos, then continued battling adventurers until an urgent report called Rimuru back to his office. There, Shuna caught him trying to escape, while Momol waited anxiously to report and Rimuru called out to Ari for help.

• Rimuru, Ramiris, Veldora, and Ruotuo created alternate bodies and possessed them using Soul-like items and Magic Essence Cores.
• Rimuru and his companions leveled up in the labyrinth with Revival Auras and powerful equipment made by Kurobei and Kaijin.
• Rimuru and his companions defeated Green Chaos on the forty-ninth floor, ending his labyrinth conquest.
• Rimuru and his companions kept battling adventurers in the labyrinth and earned the title “The Will of the Labyrinth That Brings Death.”
• Rimuru received an urgent message and headed back to his office, where Shuna caught him and dragged him inside.
• Mo Li sat calmly with tea while Momol waited anxiously to report, and Rimuru called out to Ari for help.

Momol told Rimuru that the Council had invited her and Morax to a meeting about recognizing the Demon Country Federation as a member state, and Rimuru prepared to attend alone. Mo Li revealed that he would stay to oversee Azhdaha’s awakening, which was ready to begin.

• Rimuru fled into Mo Li’s arms to hide from Shuna, who had caught her after she played in the Great Labyrinth.
• Momol reported that the Council had invited Rimuru and Morax to discuss the Demon Country Federation’s membership and terms.
• Rimuru impressed Momol and Shuna with a confident explanation informed by [King of Wisdom], then planned to travel west for the meeting.
• Mo Li declined to accompany Rimuru because he needed to handle Azhdaha’s awakening personally.
• Mo Li confirmed that Azhdaha was ready to awaken and said he would watch over the process in case anything went wrong.

Mo Li prepared to oversee Azhdaha’s awakening with human souls obtained from Guy, while Rimuru left with several Demon Country Cadres for the Western Council Meeting. The chapter ended with Azhdaha heading to the Great Underground Labyrinth to break through his Demon Lord Seed bottleneck.

• Mo Li decided to personally guard Azhdaha’s awakening, wary of the danger if anything went wrong.
• Rimuru accepted that she could not accompany Ari and considered how Azhdaha’s awakening could strengthen the Demon Country Federation ahead of a possible war with the Empire.
• Azhdaha eagerly asked Mo Li whether he could awaken, driven by his frustration at repeatedly losing to Veldora.
• Mo Li confirmed that the human souls he had traded for from Guy should be enough for Azhdaha to awaken.
• Mo Li chose the Great Underground Labyrinth as the awakening site, while Rimuru departed for the Western Council Meeting with several Demon Country Cadres.

As Mo Li prepared Brother Azhdaha for his awakening, Kagurazaka Yuuki warned John Rostia and Mariabell that the Demon Country Federation’s strength made a direct confrontation too dangerous. The chapter ended with Mo Li and Brother Azhdaha ready to begin the awakening, which had not yet started.

• Rimuru left with several Demon Country Cadres to attend the Western council meeting while Mo Li prepared Brother Azhdaha’s awakening.
• Kagurazaka Yuuki told John Rostia that Rimuru suspected him, that Rimuru was too powerful to challenge lightly, and that the Demon Country Federation’s other powerhouses were even more frightening.
• Mariabell and John Rostia discussed avoiding a direct clash with the Demon Country Federation while Mariabell pursued economic dominance instead.
• Kagurazaka Yuuki said he might defeat Rimuru under certain conditions but warned that the consequences of attacking him could be unbearable.
• On the Great Underground Labyrinth’s 100th Floor, Mo Li asked whether Brother Azhdaha was ready, and Brother Azhdaha eagerly agreed to begin his awakening.

Mo Li supplied Azhdaha with human souls to begin his Demon Lord awakening, while Guizhong secretly sent him additional power from afar. Azhdaha completed his evolution as an Earth Elemental Dragon King and became a Complete Dragon.

• Mo Li gave Azhdaha one hundred thousand human souls, triggering his Demon Lord evolution.
• Veldora and Ramiris arrived on Floor 100 and watched as Azhdaha's evolution began.
• The World Voice confirmed Azhdaha's sacrifices and began reforging his race.
• Guizhong sensed Azhdaha's awakening and used her King of Games authority to send him a glowing white mass of power.
• Azhdaha's race evolved successfully into Earth Elemental Dragon King (Complete Dragon).

Azhdaha completed his awakening in the Great Underground Labyrinth, evolving into the Rock Dragon King and gaining the Ultimate Skill [King of Earth]. His Demon Lord’s Blessing empowered the dragon lizards he had named, and the chapter ended with his strength fully stabilized.

• Azhdaha’s evolution began, and his body transformed into a massive Gilded Giant Dragon as Mo Li contained his growing pressure.
• Azhdaha gained numerous resistances and inherent skills, then evolved [Guardian of Earth] into the Ultimate Skill [King of Earth].
• The World Voice announced Azhdaha’s Demon Lord evolution and bestowed its blessing upon the dragon lizards connected to him.
• Azhdaha’s named dragon lizards fell asleep from the blessing, then awoke with greatly increased strength.
• Azhdaha opened his eyes on the hundredth floor and emerged as the Complete Dragon Rock Dragon King.

Azhdaha awakened as the Complete Dragon and declared his intent to judge True Dragons and Demon Lords. Mo Li stepped in to confront him, leaving Azhdaha torn between backing down and fighting despite expecting to lose.

• Azhdaha awoke after receiving the Demon Lord's Blessing, and his overwhelming aura shocked Veldora and Ramiris.
• Azhdaha transformed into human form and declared himself a Complete Dragon destined to rule the earth and judge True Dragons and Demon Lords.
• Veldora angrily prepared to fight Azhdaha, but Mo Li stopped him and said he would handle Azhdaha himself.
• Mo Li activated Eightfold Deification, equipped his Divine Gear, and summoned the Piercing Rainbow Spear.
• Azhdaha realized Mo Li was his opponent and, unwilling to back down after awakening, took a stance to fight him.

Mo Li tested Yodrah’s newly awakened strength in a fight and left him battered but impressed by his durability. Veldora mocked Yodrah’s swollen face, and Mo Li departed after warning him to prepare for less peaceful days ahead.

• Yodrah challenged Mo Li, insisting that his awakening made him a Complete Dragon and ruler of earth and mountains.
• Mo Li fought Yodrah, who charged at him, and defeated him in close combat.
• Yodrah complained that Mo Li had nearly ruined his handsome face, while Mo Li realized how remarkably durable he was.
• Veldora laughed at Yodrah’s pig-headed appearance, and Yodrah threatened him while Ramiris tried to hide her amusement.
• Mo Li told Yodrah to learn his new strength because peaceful days would not last, then vanished from the Great Underground Labyrinth.

After Azhdaha awakened, Mo Li warned that troubled days lay ahead, while Rimuru attended the council and was handed demands she regarded as a humiliating treaty. Rimuru and Hinata were left furious at the councilors, setting the stage for a confrontation.

• Mo Li told Azhdaha to master his new strength and warned that the days ahead would not be peaceful before vanishing.
• Ramiris claimed she knew what Mo Li meant and began recounting a gathering of Demon Lords held after the Demon Lord Banquet.
• Xiao refused Mo Li's offer to awaken him, saying his cultivation was insufficient despite his extraordinary strength.
• Rimuru investigated Duke Mog and the merchants behind the Demon Country Federation's economic crisis; Duke Mog died after being shot with a sniper rifle.
• Rimuru and her companions attended the council, where its chairman presented a Letter of Request containing demands Rimuru found intolerable.
• Rimuru and Hinata grew furious at the councilors after reading the letter.

Rimuru confronted the council over an outrageous treaty, then learned that mental interference had altered its terms. When Prince Elrick, Rayner, and Gamma arrived and threatened to control and subjugate her, their insults drove Rimuru to unleash her Demon King’s fury.

• Rimuru destroyed the table and demanded that the councilors explain their proposed treaty, which would force the Demon Country Federation to provide the Silverion Kingdom with costly concessions.
• Raphael detected and removed mental interference in the meeting hall, after which councilors said someone had altered the treaty without authorization.
• Rayner entered with soldiers and a Dominion Orb, while Gamma and Prince Elrick revealed they had summoned him to attack the Demon Kings.
• Elrick and Rayner mocked Hinata, Rimuru, and Morax, and Elrick boasted that he would control Rimuru and Veldora with the Dominion Orb.
• Rimuru stood and declared that she was a Demon King as she and her companions released terrifying auras, while Hinata moved aside, recognizing the danger.

Rimuru confronted Prince Elric, Rayner, and Gai after they insulted him and challenged his authority as a Demon King. Benimaru and Shuna swiftly defeated the challengers, leaving Prince Elric and Duke Gama in disbelief.

• Rimuru declared himself a Demon King and radiated killing intent at Prince Elric, Rayner, and their allies.
• Prince Elric and Rayner mocked Rimuru, while Gai stepped forward to fight him; Hinata Sakaguchi stayed out of the confrontation after Rimuru told her not to interfere.
• Benimaru and Shuna asked Rimuru to leave the fight to them, then Shuna attacked Gai and Benimaru engaged Rayner.
• Shuna beat Gai nearly unconscious, while Benimaru broke Rayner's weapon and crippled his arm and leg.
• Prince Elric and Duke Gama stared in disbelief after their strongest fighters were defeated.