Chapter Summaries

Su Yang and White Night Yaksha arranged for No Name to develop a large-scale water facility using Snow White’s Gift as its water source. White Night Yaksha rewarded the Community with an Outer Gate Authority Certificate naming No Name a Territory Ruler, and Su Yang prepared to use the free water supply to deter objections.

• White Night Yaksha explained that she had asked Su Yang to obtain Snow White’s water-source Gift to help develop the East Area’s lower levels and encourage local Communities to compete.
• Snow White agreed to hand Tunis Falls to the Water Spirit Tribe, which would settle at the facility and obey Su Yang’s orders.
• Su Yang asked White Night Yaksha what reward No Name would receive for helping the region, and she signed an Outer Gate Authority Certificate for Russell to keep.
• Russell and Black Rabbit discovered that the certificate made No Name a Territory Ruler and granted it rights over the Outer Gate and its Gate of Boundary fees.
• Su Yang told Russell and Black Rabbit to record the names of any Communities that objected to No Name’s emblem or water facility and deny them access to its water.

After Su Yang returned the Proof of Authority, the Nameless Community celebrated, while Yō struggled with feeling less capable than her companions. The chapter ended with Calico Cat sneaking toward Su Yang’s clothes after learning he was bathing, while Su Yang washed Lily’s hair.

• Black Rabbit joyfully thanked Su Yang for bringing back the Proof of Authority, and Asuka and Yō accepted that they had lost.
• The Nameless Community held a banquet to celebrate their improved circumstances.
• Yō confided in Calico Cat that she felt defeated and worried she could not keep up with Su Yang and Asuka.
• After Yō fell asleep, Calico Cat slipped out and learned that Su Yang was bathing.
• Calico Cat saw women’s clothes in the changing room and headed toward Su Yang’s clothes basket in jealousy.
• Su Yang finished washing Lily’s hair while she enjoyed the massage of her fox ears.

Su Yang and Leticia discussed vampires, Pure-blooded Dragons, and the world’s uncertain history while bathing. The next morning, Su Yang stayed at the base and sent Yō, Asuka, Black Rabbit, Russell, and the Calico Cat to explore the South Area.

• Leticia explained that vampires descended from Pure-blooded Dragons, which arose through gathered energy, and that the dragon behind their lineage was called the Dragon Who Carries the World.
• Su Yang asked about dragons and Ghost Species, then told Leticia that his hometown was more advanced and that children there were not sent to fight for survival.
• Su Yang found animal fur and a message carved into his clothes after leaving the bath.
• Su Yang decided to stay at the base, saying he wanted to sleep in, while the others prepared to leave.
• Su Yang urged Yō to make at least a hundred friends and warned her to watch out for phantasmal beasts in the South Area.
• Yō, Asuka, Black Rabbit, Russell, and the Calico Cat left, and Leticia offered to prepare breakfast for Su Yang.

Su Yang inspected the Community’s newly fertile farmland and learned that Lily’s family had tended it for generations and that her mother inherited a divinity from Mitamashin. Lily’s mother had been taken by the demon lord, whose identity remained unknown, leaving No Name with little information about its old enemy.

• Asuka and the others discussed removing the tiger statue by the Boundary Gate, and Black Rabbit explained that they would visit the Dragon Griffin’s Harvest Season and the Great Divine Tomb during the Eve Festival.
• Su Yang visited the farm and admired how Mel’s power, wood ash, crushed plants, and Dean’s plowing had transformed the land.
• Lily told Su Yang that she came from a family of farm managers descended from a white fox granted divinity by Mitamashin.
• Leticia explained that Lily’s mother had inherited the divinity and been taken by the demon lord, while she and Lily’s mother had been imprisoned separately.
• Leticia said she still did not know the demon lord’s true identity, and even White Night Yaksha had been unable to uncover it.

Su Yang reassured Lily that he would help find her missing mother by asking Uka no Mitamashin at Heaven's Gate after Harvest Season. Meanwhile, Asuka and Yao discovered Andouward beneath the Water Tree, where they were greeted by a familiar voice.

• Su Yang and Leticia agreed to investigate Heaven's Gate after Harvest Season to learn where Lily's mother was.
• Su Yang encouraged Lily to restore the farm, and she thanked him and Leticia before returning to work.
• Leticia told Su Yang that she had been forcibly separated from her out-of-control Host Authority, which remained sealed.
• Asuka and Yao arrived at Andouward and saw the Water Tree's vast roots, waterfalls, and crystal waterways covering the underground city.
• A flock of horned birds appeared, and a familiar voice welcomed Asuka, Yao, and Black Rabbit to its homeland.

Gry offered to carry Yao, Black Rabbit, Asuka, Jin, and Calico Cat to the town, then spotted Peritons near the Outer Gate and flew toward them. The group reached the town, where Gry explained the Harvest Festival’s importance in celebrating Andouward’s revival.

• Gry greeted Yao and the others, introduced itself, and offered them a ride to the town.
• Yao asked about antlered birds, and Gry identified them as Peritons that had violated the rules and wanted to kill humans.
• Gry took off with the group, while Yao flew alongside it using the flight Gift Black Rabbit had inscribed on her boots.
• Jin nearly fell from Gry’s back, Asuka struggled against the wind, and Calico Cat asked Yao to make Gry slow down.
• Gry descended over the town and explained that the Harvest Festival commemorated Andouward’s recovery after its roots were destroyed in a war ten years earlier.

Gry left to drive off the Peritons while Yō and the others explored Andouward and met Aisha and Jack. As Jack explained how North Area technology and the Dragon-Griffin Alliance helped revive the city after a demon lord attack, the group learned that Andouward’s Great Spirit had been injured and remained dormant.

• Gry took the Rook and jockeys to drive away the Peritons, leaving the group to explore Andouward.
• Yō asked Black Rabbit about Peritons, then met Aisha, who urged her to enter the Hippocampus Jockey Race.
• Jin explained what hippocampi were, and Yō decided she wanted to win the race and make friends with phantom beasts.
• Jack greeted Jin and Asuka, confirmed that he was organizing the competitions, and accompanied the group into the guest dormitories.
• Jack explained that North Area crystal waterways helped revive Andouward after a demon lord attack ten years earlier.
• Jack told the group that the Great Spirit above Andouward had been injured in the war and remained dormant while the Dragon-Griffin Alliance helped protect and restore the city.

The Nameless Community traveled through Andouward's underground city with Pumpkin Head Jack to meet the Harvest Festival organizers. Along the way, they learned about Dragon Griffin's revival and how alliances let Communities help one another against demon lords.

• Black Rabbit explained that someone from the North Area had helped Dragon Griffin recover enough to hold Gifted Competitions again.
• Jack invited the Nameless Community to meet the organizers, and they set off through the underground city after putting away their luggage.
• Yao bought and quickly ate grilled White Bull cheese, amusing Jack and prompting Asuka to question why Yao offered only the wrapper.
• Jack led the group up the Water Tree in a water-powered box elevator and along its wooden paths.
• Black Rabbit explained that Dragon Griffin consisted of six allied Communities and that alliances could let members intervene when a demon lord attacked one of them.

At the Harvest Festival, Asuka and the members of No Name met Sara, who welcomed them to Andouward’s main camp and explained her role in creating the underground city’s crystal waterways. Sara then discussed the absent Azure Flame Demon, rumored to be powerful enough to seal demon lords.

• Asuka reflected that alliances might fail to help Communities in danger, and a tree spirit thanked him for saving her younger brother during the Fire Dragon Birth Festival.
• The tree spirit explained that Andouward had sent the invitation while the Great Spirit slept, and that the alliance chairman had also invited No Name.
• Sara arrived, corrected Russell’s accusation that she had leaked Salamandra’s technology, and invited No Name and Vesp into the great tree.
• Sara explained that she had invented the crystal waterways herself and asked whether Jack’s recommended contestant had come.
• Aisha identified Vesp’s leader as the North Area’s strongest, and Sara described the Azure Flame Demon’s rumored power to seal demon lords before questioning how her strength measured up.

Russell and No Name met Sara at the Harvest Festival, where she explained the Dragon-Griffin Alliance and invited them to return for dinner to discuss the Giant Race demon lord that attacked Andouward. The group toured the festival and registered for competitions before heading back to their dormitory at sunset.

• Sara thanked Russell for No Name's help against the Demon lord and invited the group to enjoy the Harvest Festival.
• Yō asked Sara about the Dragon-Griffin Alliance and learned that it included six communities, including Six Wounds, which handled agriculture and commerce.
• Sara showed the group an order form for Black Rabbit-eating Grass, and Black Rabbit hurried everyone away to the exhibition hall.
• Yō destroyed the enormous Black Rabbit-eating Grass with lightning, while Black Rabbit insisted the plant should be burned.
• The group toured the markets, collected seeds and seedlings, tried on traditional clothing, and registered for several Gifted Competitions.
• Sara asked Pumpkin Jack and Aisha to invite No Name to dinner so she could discuss the Giant Race demon lord that attacked Andouward ten years earlier, and the group returned to the dormitory at sunset.

Black Rabbit told Asuka and Yō about her lost homeland and her benefactor, Lady Canary, before a Giant Race attack struck Andouward. Black Rabbit held off the giants below while Asuka and Yō flew outside, where the defenders were struggling in a chaotic battle.

• Black Rabbit explained that a demon lord had destroyed her Moon Rabbit homeland and that No Name had taken her in, then named Lady Canary as the companion who brought her to the Community.
• Yō prepared to leave the dormitory to search for Phantasmal Beasts, but an attack shook the building and a giant smashed through its wall.
• Black Rabbit rescued Yō and identified the attackers as human Phantasmal Beasts of the Giant Race, remnants of an illegal demon lord faction.
• Black Rabbit stopped Asuka from summoning Dean in the underground city, knocked down one giant with her Vajra, and stayed behind to fight three more.
• Yō carried Asuka to the surface, where they saw Andouward's defenders battling roughly two hundred giants without unified command.

Asuka summoned Dean to turn back the Giant Race’s assault and help the residents of Andouward establish an organized defense. Just as the giants began retreating, mysterious music covered the battlefield in thick fog, and the three giants pursuing Sara attacked Asuka and Dean.

• Yō and Asuka saw Sara flying through the sky with three powerful giants pursuing her, so Asuka chose to reinforce the most dangerous point on the ground.
• Asuka summoned Dean, whose sudden landing halted the battle and whose strength let it defeat several Giant Race warriors.
• Dean’s victories boosted Andouward’s morale, and the Dragon Griffin communities reorganized the residents into a unified battle line.
• The Giant Race began withdrawing, but music from plucked strings brought thick fog over the battlefield and blocked Yō’s view.
• The three giants who had pursued Sara turned and attacked Asuka and Dean.

Yō rushed through the fog to reach Asuka and found that a masked woman had slaughtered the Giant Race. After the survivors regrouped at Andouward’s Harvest Festival main camp, Russell asked Sara why a demon king had attacked despite supposedly being destroyed ten years earlier.

• The Giant Race restrained Dean, and Yō tried to reach Asuka but was struck by the crowned, masked giant and crashed onto the river surface.
• Yō used wind to stir up the fog, and Gry and the other phantom beasts answered her call by creating whirlwinds that cleared it.
• Yō found Asuka unharmed beside the corpses of the Giant Race, whose heads, necks, and hearts had been severed.
• A bloodstained masked woman confirmed that Yō and Asuka were safe, then left without answering Yō’s questions.
• After the attack, Russell asked Sara why a demon king had appeared when one had supposedly been destroyed ten years earlier.

Sara explained that Giant remnants were gathering with Killer Species phantasmal beasts to reclaim the sealed Eye of Balor, and warned they might attack during the Harvest Festival. She revealed that the South Area had no Floor Master after one was defeated by an unidentified Demon King, leaving Andouward vulnerable and the unicorns missing.

• Sara apologized to Jack, No Name, and the others, then explained that Giant descendants and Periton-led phantasmal beasts were gathering under some kind of magic.
• Black Rabbit identified the Giants’ Host Authority as the Art of Invasion, which let them forcibly start land-wagering games and expand their community.
• Sara showed the group a sealed stone that she identified as the Eye of Balor, a Gift capable of killing many gods when unsealed.
• Sara said the Giant remnants wanted the Eye and would likely attack during the Harvest Festival, while Aisha explained that Vesp was not suited to direct combat.
• Sara revealed that the South Area had no Floor Master after one was defeated by an unidentified Demon King, and said Giants had attacked a herd of unicorns that had since disappeared.

Sara explained that the Harvest Festival would test whether the Dragon-Griffin Alliance could become a Five-digit Floor Master alliance and secure the authority needed to fight the giants. She offered Balor’s Death Eye as a reward, revealed Russell’s Community could win it, and gave him a new Gift before Yō woke in the medical center and spoke with Asuka.

• Sara told the Nameless Community that she planned to have White Night Yaksha act as the South Area’s ruler and help appoint Dragon Griffin as Floor Masters.
• Sara said Dragon Griffin needed to win the Harvest Festival to gain Host Authority and declare war on the giants, and asked Jack for help.
• Sara offered Balor’s Death Eye to the Community with the greatest military merit and restricted the possible recipients to Vesp or No Name.
• Sara revealed that White Night Yaksha’s new Gift for Russell had been kept with her, and Russell opened the box to find a ring bearing the Pied Piper flag.
• Yō woke in the medical center after the battle and talked with Asuka, who had come to visit her.

Andouward faced a massive Giant Race assault led by a mysterious harp-player whose music incapacitated defenders, and Russell formed a plan that depended on Yō’s ability to fly. Yō watched from high above as Russell and the others rode Gry toward the front lines, waiting for the predicted chaos to begin.

• Gry warned Yō and her companions that an enormous Giant Race force was attacking and urged them to seek help from White Night Yaksha.
• Gry explained that a hidden, human-sized harp-player was using a divine-level Gift to weaken the defenders, while a masked knight continued fighting on the front lines.
• Russell revealed that he had received a Gift from Thousand Eyes and asked Yō to support his plan by taking advantage of her ability to fly.
• Yō flew a thousand meters above Andouward and watched the giants overwhelm the phantasmal beasts while waiting for Jin’s signal.
• Russell, Asuka, and the others rode Gry toward the front lines, and Asuka’s Gift enabled Gry to fly faster and dodge the giants’ weapons with ease.

Russell tested Spirit Enforcer in battle, summoning Pest to unleash the Black Death against the Giants while Asuka took over the Gift. In the fog, Yō tracked down the harp player and seized his Golden Harp.

• Asuka explained that her Gift temporarily added her Divinity to others, and Black Rabbit guarded Russell while he prepared his Gift.
• Jin used Black Death Spot Divine Son to summon Pest, who struck down nearly a hundred Giants with black wind.
• Pest complained about Su Yang enslaving her, while Asuka and Russell discussed her restrictions and the power of Spirit Enforcer.
• As Russell's group fought through the dense fog, Yō used ultrasonic sonar to locate the harp music.
• Yō flew through the fog, snatched the Golden Harp from its hooded player, and carried it back into the sky.

Su Yang began planning to strengthen the Nameless Community by training its children and expanding its territory. After visiting Andouward, he told Black Rabbit he intended to defeat the Giant Race during the Eve Festival and build a Community whose fame would reach their missing companions.

• Russell arranged a long-term partnership with Vesp, and Jack introduced Pei Si to the group.
• Su Yang decided to teach some of the Community’s children basic ways to grow stronger.
• Jin told Yō that Pest’s highest command authority belonged to Su Yang and that the artifact kept her safe.
• Su Yang climbed the Water Tree in Andouward and admired the landscape with Black Rabbit.
• Su Yang told Black Rabbit he planned to expand the Community, raise its fame, and resolve the threat from the Giant Race during the Eve Festival.

Su Yang and Black Rabbit prepared to confront the lawbreaking Giant Race, but a mysterious enemy used their harp to launch an attack. Leticia was captured and declared destined to be resurrected as Satan Dracula as a mythic Pure-blooded Dragon appeared in the sky.

• Su Yang agreed with Black Rabbit to rest before teaching the lawbreaking Giant Race a lesson, and he asked about the powerful retainer of the Halloween Queen.
• Pest arrived at No Name after the Gifted Competition and learned that she had become a subordinate; Leticia welcomed her and directed her to Russell.
• A smiling poet attacked Leticia with an ominous melody and announced that the Trojan Horse operation had succeeded, naming her Satan Dracula.
• Su Yang recognized that the Giant Race's harp was a Divine Weapon from the Book of Calamity and urged Black Rabbit to have it destroyed.
• A mysterious voice announced Leticia's resurrection as Satan Dracula, dark clouds and lightning engulfed the sky, and a Pure-blooded Dragon appeared.

A dragon’s attack plunged Andouward into chaos, and Leticia revealed that defeating the Thirteenth Sun was the key to breaking her Gifted Competition before she was captured. Yō woke from a nightmare to find the city under attack, rescued Kirino from collapsing ruins, and heard that the Giant Race had joined the assault.

• A gigantic dragon attacked Andouward with lightning, while scales transformed into creatures that assaulted the residents.
• Leticia told Su Yang, Black Rabbit, and Izayoi to attack the Thirteenth Sun, then the dragon swallowed her and her contract document fell over the city.
• Yō woke from a nightmare to the sound of the Golden Harp, then lightning destroyed the dormitory and sent her tumbling toward the cliff.
• Yō rescued Kirino from the collapsing ruins and carried her through the burning roots as the city came under attack.
• Yō heard that the Giant Race was attacking from another side, and warning bells rang across Andouward.