Recaps

Claude led Hao Ren, Vivian, Lily, Bai Huo, and Tutanin to a hidden chamber, where they met Mimir, a Guardian Giant whose severed head had advised the Demon Hunters for millennia. Mimir revealed that he had waited for Vivian to arrive and help resolve the trouble connected to the Demon Hunters’ curse.

• Claude invited everyone to meet the master of his inherited memories, and Hao Ren agreed to follow him.
• Claude led the group through a secret passage to a sealed chamber behind the ritual hall.
• Hao Ren and the others found a giant head on an altar, which introduced itself as Mimir, the Wisdom Giant.
• Mimir explained that the Norse myths had distorted his history and that other giants were not like him.
• Vivian could not remember Mimir, and he explained that he had chosen to stay with the Demon Hunters to delay their curse until she arrived.

Mimir explained the forgotten origins of the Demon Hunters and revealed that Vivian had once given them Corpus and been honored as their fourteenth leader. The chapter ended with Claude entering and paying his respects to Vivian as a Saint.

• Mimir confirmed that Claude was the collective bearer of inherited memories from generations of First Attendant Officials and had served as his Spokesperson.
• Mimir said the coming Cataclysm of Madness had been set in motion when the First Saint touched the Sword of Sin.
• Mimir recounted how the Demon Hunters arrived on Earth as a weak, scattered people and built their society under thirteen leaders.
• Mimir explained that a friendly Vampire befriended the Demon Hunters and gave them Corpus, a safe realm filled with relics of a super-civilization.
• The Demon Hunters honored Vivian as their fourteenth leader, and Claude entered to pay his respects to her as a Saint.

Mimir revealed how Vivian had been the Demon Hunters’ Fourteenth Saint and how the First Cataclysm of Madness began after the Thirteen Saints used the Sword of Darkness. The chapter ended with Vivian realizing the sword had erased her name and memories from the Demon Hunters, and was designed to target the Creation Goddess.

• Mimir explained that Vivian had discovered Colperth and given the Demon Hunters a safe home, becoming their Fourteenth Saint.
• The Thirteen Saints rejected Vivian’s warning and performed a ritual with the Sword of Darkness, triggering the First Cataclysm of Madness.
• Vivian returned to Colperth, interrupted the ritual, and fought the corrupted Demon Hunters for days, while the First Saint was mortally wounded by the Red Moon.
• Mimir explained that the Cataclysm magnified the Demon Hunters’ hostility toward other races and drove them to hunt those they deemed heretics.
• Mimir revealed that a curse erased Vivian from the Demon Hunters’ memories and made it dangerous for them to speak her name.
• Vivian concluded that the Sword of Darkness had killed her name after failing to kill her, and that it had been made to target the Creation Goddess.

Mimir explained how the Sword of Darkness corrupted the Demon Hunters and revealed the truth behind the first Cataclysm of Madness. Vivian and her friends learned how she had once stopped the disaster and prepared for its return, and Mimir directed them to records about the Fourteenth Saint.

• Mimir said the Sword of Darkness had turned the Demon Hunters’ hostility into a deliberate, unquestioned mission and that the Cataclysm’s end had lifted the restriction preventing him from speaking.
• Vivian and Mimir explained that the saints had quietly shielded Vivian and arranged for her to receive a blood crystal so she could return and deal with the sword.
• Mimir revealed that the Twelve Saints had been corrupted by the sword’s whispers and had released it themselves, despite Betoris’s warning that it would eventually overwhelm them.
• Mimir said Betoris sent out the blood crystal, the other saints tried to contain the corrupted Elder Council, and he cultivated Claude to act as a messenger and spokesperson.
• Hao Ren and Vivian discussed whether Mimir’s account was true, and Vivian admitted she could have faced disaster if she had come to Colperth alone.
• Mimir told Vivian that records about the Fourteenth Saint and early excavations of Colperth were kept in the room behind him.

Hao Ren and the others entered the First Saint’s sealed chamber and examined relics preserved from the Demon Hunters’ earliest days on Corpus. Lily then recognized the chamber as a place she had designed, suggesting she had a forgotten connection to the First Saint’s life.

• Mimir explained that the First Saint had sealed records about Vivian and the Fourteenth Saint in the chamber, which could only be opened after the shadow in the sacred land was eliminated.
• Mimir told Hao Ren that the Demon Hunters eventually trusted him because he, too, had fallen under the Sword of Darkness’s whispers.
• Claude led the group into the chamber, where Vivian identified records about the colonization of Corpus and Hao Ren began scanning the relics.
• Tutanin admitted he still doubted the stories, and Vivian agreed that Mimir might not know the whole truth.
• Lily saw a woman appear briefly, then found a hidden compartment in the stone bed and claimed she had designed it before behaving as if she knew the chamber.

Lily reacted strangely in the secret chamber, and the group discovered that she was the reincarnation of the First Saint. Mimir began probing her mind to uncover the buried memories of her past.

• Lily spoke and cried without understanding why, and Hao Ren supported her as she became disoriented in the secret chamber.
• A phantom appeared, and Claude identified it as an Echo of the First Saint before it merged with Lily.
• The Data Terminal confirmed that the phantom had returned to Lily rather than possessed her, and the group examined evidence about her identity.
• Mimir offered to investigate Lily's soul and memories, and Hao Ren agreed after instructing the Data Terminal to monitor the mental connection.
• Lily relaxed her mind before Mimir, who guided her toward memories of the snow-covered wilderness and village where her life in this world began.

Mimir guided Lily through her memories and revealed how the First Saint’s fragmented soul eventually entered a newborn husky. The group learned that Lily was the First Saint reborn, though she had no memories of her former life.

• Lily recalled her childhood with her adoptive parents and sled dogs, and how she discovered her ability to transform.
• Mimir redirected Lily’s backward journey through time, where she remembered Vivian warning others about a cursed sword and directing them to Colperth.
• Lily reached her oldest memory of Vivian offering a safe place for people fleeing the frost giants.
• Mimir explained that Vivian’s red moon had split the First Saint’s soul, and one fragment eventually entered a newborn husky.
• Hao Ren suggested the First Saint’s memories had been lost when her soul merged with the husky, and Lily lunged at him as Vivian warned him.

Hao Ren and the others learned that Lily’s memories belonged to the First Saint, whose soul had been worn down after being reborn in a dog’s body, but Lily remained unaffected by the recovered fragments. As the Spirit Realm Bell Tower began to recover, Hao Ren and Vivian stayed behind to speak with Mimir, who was surprised to learn Hao Ren had led the operation; Hao Ren ended by asking Mimir where he came from.

• Lily insisted she was more upset by Hao Ren’s teasing than by learning about her past life, and said her recovered memories felt like someone else’s experiences.
• Mimir confirmed that Lily’s returning Soul Fragments had restored only scattered memories and had not changed her.
• Izax received Lanina’s message that the tower’s distortions were subsiding and Hassu had awakened, so the group prepared to meet the others.
• Hao Ren worried about how to reveal Lily’s identity to the Demon Hunters after their losses and the collapse of their administration.
• Vivian thanked Mimir for his help, then explained that Hao Ren had turned the tide and was her very good friend.
• Hao Ren asked Mimir whether he knew where he had come from.

Hao Ren and Vivian learned that Mimir knew only part of the truth behind the supernatural races’ origins and promised to tell him about his homeland and fellow kind. As Corpus recovered from the civil war, Hao Ren and the Demon Lord’s Army helped restore order while the army remained encamped in the alien space.

• Hao Ren asked Mimir about the supernatural races’ origins, and Mimir confirmed that scholars suspected they were not native to Earth.
• Hao Ren and Vivian told Mimir they knew where the supernatural races came from and had news about his homeland, and Mimir agreed to wait for them to explain.
• The Godslaying Sword’s influence faded, allowing survivors and trapped Demon Hunters to recover as the Spirit Realm Bell Tower returned to normal.
• The surviving Demon Hunter leaders assembled a governing team and began rebuilding order in Corpus with help from Hao Ren and his companions.
• Hao Ren kept the Demon Lord’s Army in Corpus after their spatial passage was destroyed, and the soldiers established a temporary camp while helping with recovery efforts.
• Lanina told Hao Ren that the Demon Lord’s Army had fought for him as their king and lord, and Hao Ren thanked her for their help.

Hao Ren gathered the Demon Hunters’ new leaders to reveal the truth about their history and the Saint Group. He presented ancient records and artifacts, leaving the elders poised to learn what their order had concealed.

• Hao Ren met Hassu, who was recovering from soul detachment syndrome, and told him to gather trusted elders for an important announcement.
• Hassu agreed to summon the New Elder Council, including Bai Huo and Tutanin, after Hao Ren confirmed the meeting concerned the First Saint.
• Lanina gathered Hao Ren’s companions, and Hassu assembled the Demon Hunter leaders in the Great Temple, where Lily promptly fell asleep on the table.
• Hao Ren addressed the elders and had guards bring in ancient Demon Hunter scrolls, documents, and holy artifacts.
• Elder Grigori recognized the objects as records from the order’s founding, and Hao Ren told the elders that the documents held the answers to their questions about the Saint Group and the Sword of Darkness.

Hao Ren presented evidence that Vivian had led the Demon Hunters during their lost century, and Elder Grigoriwen confirmed the records through recovered childhood memories. He declared Vivian the surviving Fourteenth Saint and Supreme Leader, then revealed that Lily had an even more shocking connection to her.

• The elders examined ancient records documenting the Demon Hunters’ rise, and Grigoriwen confirmed they were authentic.
• Grigoriwen recalled Vivian leading the Demon Hunters and early excavations in Colperth, matching the records.
• Hao Ren explained to the elders how Vivian helped the Demon Hunters rise and how the Sword of Darkness caused the Cataclysm of Madness.
• Hao Ren identified Vivian as the Fourteenth Saint and the Demon Hunters’ Supreme Leader, leaving the elders and Vivian stunned.
• Hao Ren woke Lily and told her to call Vivian “Ancestor.”

Hao Ren revealed to the Demon Hunter elders that Lily was the reincarnation of the First Saint, and Lily shared memories that supported her claim while urging the elders to focus on the consequences of the Demon Hunter War. After she insisted she was still Lily and left the decision to them, the elders discussed what to do with the revelation for two hours.

• Hao Ren told the Demon Hunter elders that Lily was the reincarnation of the First Saint, and Elder Grigori asked for evidence.
• Lily recalled giving Grigoriwen a shoulder scar because he had peed in a barn, prompting him to begin believing her story.
• Lily described her memories of the ancient Demon Hunters and argued that the elders should consider the future after the war had wiped out generations.
• Lily said she did not care about being called the First Saint and declared herself their ancestor, then returned to eating snacks.
• Hao Ren asked whether Lily or the First Saint had spoken, and Lily said she was Lily and had simply gone into serious mode.
• The elders discussed what to do with the revelation for two hours, after which Hao Ren left the temple.

Hao Ren and the Demon Hunter elders agreed to keep Vivian and Lily’s identities secret for now while preparing to reveal the truth gradually. As Hao Ren and his companions left Corporeus for Athens, the Demon Hunters faced rebuilding their order and the consequences of losing their defenses.

• Hao Ren and the elders agreed that Vivian was the Fourteenth Saint and Lily was the reincarnation of the First Saint, but decided to disclose their identities gradually.
• Hao Ren, Hassu, Elder Andal, and Grigoriwen discussed the Demon Hunters’ history, the Hunt War, and the danger posed by the Supernatural Races outside Corporeus.
• Hao Ren said he and Vivian would travel to Athens to meet representatives of the Supernatural Races and contain unrest among their families.
• Hao Ren and his companions prepared to leave Corporeus, taking Mimir’s Head with them aboard Giant Turtle Rock Platform.
• Mimir said farewell to the Demon Hunters, and Giant Turtle Rock Platform departed through a rift above the Tower of Stars.

Hao Ren told Mimir the history of the Dream Plane and its destroyed guardian races, then learned that Mimir remembered arriving on Earth in a spaceship that landed safely. Hao Ren realized Mimir may have come deliberately and urgently asked where the ship was, hoping its records could explain how the alien races reached Earth.

• At Kuiper Station, Mimir described feeling familiar with the stars, and Hao Ren explained that Mimir had once traveled through space as a guardian from another world.
• Hao Ren told Mimir about the Creation Goddess, the Dream Plane, the guardian races, and the catastrophe that destroyed their home.
• Mimir said the news was no worse than the disaster he had long feared, and Hao Ren promised to find a way for him to meet other surviving guardians.
• Mimir recalled that he had arrived on Earth alone aboard a vehicle that landed smoothly on an open plain, unlike the other alien races.
• Hao Ren concluded that Mimir may have brought the ship to Earth deliberately and asked where it was, hoping its records had survived.

Hao Ren learned that Mimir’s lost spaceship might be among the scattered fragments of Yggdrasil’s Nine Kingdoms, then brought his household to Athens as supernatural factions grew restless after the Demon Hunters’ upheaval. He told Hesperis that the hunting would end, and her shocked reaction left the consequences of that news unresolved.

• Mimir explained that Yggdrasil’s destruction had scattered the Nine Kingdoms and that finding his spaceship might require locating Svartalfheim or Jotunheim.
• Hao Ren invited Mimir to Athens, and Mimir agreed to leave the Spirit Realm Bell Tower and see the outside world.
• Hao Ren and his household traveled to Athens Sanctuary as supernatural families faced growing tensions after the Demon Hunters’ disappearance.
• Hao Ren and Vivian visited Hesperis’s antique shop, where Hesperis said she had sealed the sanctuary’s entrance to keep hotheaded youngsters from causing trouble.
• Hao Ren told Hesperis that he had visited the Demon Hunters’ headquarters and that the hunting would end, prompting her to break a chunk off the counter.

Hao Ren and Vivian learned that the Hunt War would end and traveled with Hesperis to Shadow City, where young supernatural factions were growing restless. They arrived as a crowd confronted the city council, and Vivian rushed toward the disturbance.

• Hao Ren told Hesperis that the Hunt War would end and that the Demon Hunters would stop initiating hunts if balance was maintained.
• Hesperis opened a passage to the sanctuary and explained that young families were causing unrest after investigators destroyed unmanned Demon Hunter outposts without facing retaliation.
• Hao Ren and his companions saw a tense, mostly deserted Shadow City and learned that younger factions had begun doubting the Demon Hunters would return.
• A red flare rose near the Great Hall as a united crowd of young families gathered to pressure the council.
• A young Vampire called the city corrupted and urged the crowd to drag the supposed traitors out of the Great Hall, while Vivian charged toward the commotion.

Hao Ren and his companions discovered that the riot outside the Athens Sanctuary’s Great Hall was being organized and that the guards were not seriously opposing it. Vivian beat the Night Demon youth leading the chants, scattered much of the crowd, and headed into the Great Hall to confront whoever was causing trouble there.

• Nangong Sanba, Lily, and Hao Ren noticed that someone was inciting the disordered crowd and that the guards appeared to be cooperating with the rioters.
• A dark-skinned Night Demon youth led chants demanding that humanity be enslaved and condemning Heiserana, while Vivian watched him.
• Vivian confronted the youth and repeatedly slapped him, telling him that he was being used as a weapon and revealing that she was the Red Moon.
• Some rioters fled after Vivian called out the people behind the youth, and Hesperis told Vivian that he belonged to the Finkel family.
• Vivian admitted she had probably never hit the youth’s father, dismissed the detail, and walked toward the Great Hall to find who was causing trouble inside.

Vivian and Hao Ren entered the Athens Sanctuary’s leadership meeting after Vivian dealt with troublemakers outside, where factions argued over how to respond to the Demon Hunters’ disappearance. Hao Ren revealed that his group had just returned from the Demon Hunters’ headquarters, shocking most of the assembled family leaders.

• Vivian recognized that multiple groups were fueling the disturbance outside the Great Hall and led Hao Ren’s group into the meeting without an invitation.
• Vivian reunited with Heiserana, stopped her from pouncing, and brought her to the table as the group took seats.
• Jean Lucas explained that the sanctuary was divided between cautious conservatives and radicals who wanted to reclaim the world by attacking Demon Hunter strongholds.
• Vivian criticized the leaders for playing political games and built pressure before Hao Ren could take control of the discussion.
• Hao Ren announced that his group had just come from the Demon Hunters’ headquarters, startling most of the attendees.
• Hao Ren realized that only the ancient beings had known about Vivian’s plans, while the ordinary family leaders had been kept unaware.

Hao Ren told the Alien Creature leaders that the Demon Hunters’ hunt had ended because an ancient evil spirit had controlled their hunting instinct and was now sealed away. He left the leaders to consider the truth and turned the meeting toward how they would handle the new situation.

• Hao Ren announced that he and Vivian had returned from the Demon Hunters’ headquarters and knew what had happened there.
• Hao Ren told the gathered family leaders that the Demon Hunters had survived their upheaval and that the hunt was over.
• Hao Ren described the cause of the Hunt War, Vivian’s becoming the Fourteenth Saint, and the First Saint’s reincarnation as a husky, while withholding other details.
• Hogworth asked whether the thousands-year war could be dismissed as a misunderstanding, and Vivian urged the leaders to pursue their people’s interests through negotiation.
• Hao Ren reminded the Alien Creature leaders that Vivian and Lily were now honorary supreme leaders of the Demon Hunters.
• Vivian declared the old scores settled and called for a discussion of what to do next.

Vivian explained a proposed new order in which supernatural races could leave their sanctuaries but would not interfere with human civilization, while the Demon Hunters ended their hostilities. The chapter left the family leaders considering the terms for a new organization to regulate the races.

• Jean Lucas asked Vivian how the Demon Hunters would act, and Vivian said they would stop hunting unless the supernatural races declared war.
• Hogworth argued that the supernatural races needed a place in the world, while Izax said leaders should seek profit rather than honor.
• A Night Demon lord warned that some supernatural beings still believed humanity could be defeated and enslaved again.
• Hao Ren projected a devastated Earth and warned that even victory over humanity would leave only a few thousand survivors amid ruin.
• Jean Lucas called for a middle path, and Vivian laid out her agreement with Hao Ren to let supernatural races leave the sanctuaries while creating an organization to regulate them.

Vivian and Hao Ren proposed a new order to let the Others safely enter human society under a supervisory council, with Mimir representing the Demon Hunters. The Others named the organization the Shadow Council and began discussing its leadership, but several representatives objected to Vivian becoming its chair.

• Hao Ren introduced Mimir, who revealed that he had advised the Demon Hunters for more than two thousand years and could represent their organization.
• Vivian proposed allowing assessed Others to leave their sanctuaries under a council that would regulate and monitor them.
• Jean Lucas warned that divisions among the Others could make a unified supervisory organization difficult to establish.
• Heiserana proposed the name Shadow Council, and the representatives accepted it after rejecting other suggestions.
• Heiserana proposed appointing Vivian as chair, but Jean Lucas, Hogworth, and the Night Demon Ms. cited reasons to oppose her.

Vivian declined to chair the proposed Shadow Council but secured her customary right to attend and advise its meetings. Outside the Great Hall, she explained that the supernatural families had no desire to destroy the comfortable modern world they had come to enjoy, and the Sanctuary’s shadow dome was nearing its end.

• Vivian rejected the chairmanship and accepted a special seat in the Shadow Council.
• Jean Lucas confirmed that Vivian would retain her longstanding privilege to participate in supernatural councils and meetings.
• Hao Ren and Vivian left the meeting hall and observed that the plaza had emptied after the earlier protest.
• Vivian told Hao Ren that the families had staged the plaza turmoil to evade responsibility, not to prepare a war against humans.
• Vivian explained that the supernatural races valued modern comforts and wanted to enter the new world freely, and Hao Ren looked up at the dome that would soon become a formality.

As the Shadow Council took shape in the Athens Sanctuary, Hao Ren left the meetings to investigate the fate of the Nine Kingdoms. Hela confirmed that their spaces still existed and revealed she had the spearhead of Gungnir, which might help locate them.

• Hao Ren left the Shadow Council discussions and wandered Shadow City with his family while Heiserana remained at the meetings.
• Ganrudal voiced unease about supernatural beings entering human society, and Vivian explained that the council's agreement would restrict their interference.
• Hela arrived after Hesperis sent her to Vivian, who directed her to Hao Ren.
• Hao Ren asked Hela about the Nine Kingdoms, and she confirmed the Demon Hunters had severed their links to the material world without destroying the spaces themselves.
• Hela produced the spearhead of Gungnir as a possible means of finding the Nine Kingdoms.

Hao Ren learned that Gungnir's spearhead could help locate the Nine Kingdoms, then returned from the Athens Sanctuary after helping stabilize the Shadow Council. He reported back to Raven 12345, who had finally returned to her office.

• Hela explained how Gungnir shattered during the battle with Fenrir and gave Hao Ren its spearhead so he could trace the Nine Kingdoms.
• The Data Terminal said it could amplify the spearhead's signal to search for the Nine Kingdoms, and Hao Ren stored the fragment.
• Hao Ren left Mimir in the Athens Sanctuary, where the old giant had become an important mediator between the Demon Hunters and Otherworlders.
• Hao Ren returned home, slept for a day and night, and then went to submit his report to Raven 12345.
• Hao Ren found Raven 12345 in her office, researching over a bowl of instant noodles.

Hao Ren reported his discoveries in Corpus Space to Raven 12345 and showed her the Godslaying Sword. Raven identified the blade as a fragment of a world, leaving Hao Ren wondering which world it had come from.

• Hao Ren told Raven 12345 about Corpus Space, the Others, and the Shadow Council.
• Raven 12345 reviewed the Data Terminal’s technical report and concluded that the Creation Goddess’s origins could not be determined from the ruins.
• Hao Ren opened the sealed case and released the Godslaying Sword, which trembled in fear as Raven 12345 examined it.
• Raven 12345 handled the sword and explained that its material was a world fragment, containing the rules of the world it came from.
• Hao Ren wondered whether the sword had been torn from the Dream Plane.