Chapter Summaries

Fatro outmaneuvered a black-robed attacker while the battle against Dibogo and the other monsters ended abruptly. After finding Fatro alive amid the castle ruins, Urudius heard him say he had seen something impossible, and Molly understood his whispered reaction to the Fourth Beast.

• Fatro told the black-robed attacker that he could see the future he wanted, then a distorted whisper sounded behind the attacker.
• Dibogo attacked Urudius with human sword techniques, but Urudius severed its tentacles with a Silver Holy Blade.
• An explosion rocked the castle, and Dibogo, Explosion Bear, and Fenrir suddenly died as the other monsters fled.
• Criolla ordered the soldiers to restore the defensive line and noticed the dead monsters' magic cores were missing.
• Urudius found Fatro standing among the castle ruins, and Fatro said he had seen something impossible before reacting to the Fourth Beast.

Moss returned from the canyon camp after her agents failed to identify their mysterious opponent, and she ordered the five surviving ratfolk to hunt them down. Moss and Molly concluded that the attacks were driven by revenge, but they had no idea who was seeking revenge against whom and could only wait for the next move.

• Umeilu returned with Moss and reported that the enemy had blown himself up before she could discover his identity.
• Moss reprimanded the five ratfolk, expelled them temporarily from the Ten Shadows, and ordered them to investigate the enemy and repay the humiliation tenfold.
• Moss refused to resynchronize Molly with her main consciousness, saying Molly's independent changes made her valuable as an experimental subject and assistant.
• Moss asked Molly to assess the recent events, and they agreed that the enemy's real target was not Fatro and that revenge was likely their motive.
• Moss and Molly considered whether the Boundary God Cult was retaliating against the Empire, but Moss found no clues and said they would have to wait and see.

Moss and her party completed their trek through Avocado Swamp and began returning to Asiala with a merchant caravan. As Moss examined the magic cores from Fenrir and the other monsters, she discovered one contained an unexpected ability.

• Moss and Baiya used a stone pillar to scout Avocado Swamp while Moss's Slimes enjoyed the surroundings.
• The party crossed the swamp over two days, and Shalina mapped nearby monster locations before rejoining them on the main road.
• The party met a traveling merchant caravan and rode with it toward Asiala, while Falan shared a drink with Mr. Anka.
• Shalina climbed onto the carriage roof, admired the grassland view, and fell asleep beside Moss.
• Moss examined the three magic cores from Fenrir and the other monsters, then found something surprising in one of them.

Moss absorbed the Undead Bird’s magic core and chose the rare Crimson Gold Demonic Eye talent, enduring temporary blindness as King of Infinity transformed it into a special talent. She recovered her sight and arrived with the merchant caravan at Asiala, newly able to perceive strange energy.

• Moss inspected the Undead Bird’s magic core and searched its many abilities for a talent related to souls.
• Moss spotted Crimson Gold Demonic Eye in the core’s ability list and chose it before the plundering opportunity expired.
• Moss went blind after acquiring the talent, then swallowed two Mana Crystals while King of Infinity evolved and integrated her abilities.
• Moss regained her sight and saw golden eyes in a water mirror, along with strange energy drifting around her.
• Moss returned to Asiala with the merchant caravan.

Shalina and Moss arrived in the city with Falan’s group, who returned to the Adventurer’s Guild to report their scouting intelligence. The Goblin King’s presence was confirmed, but Ponsgal’s crisis had pulled away the army and western scouts, leaving the Guild short-handed as Falan began to explain who was behind the trouble.

• Moss woke Shalina by pretending Enrique was nearby, and the two teased each other before Enrique found them on the carriage roof.
• Falan led the group into the city and to the Adventurer’s Guild, where Lofilia told them the eastern scouts had returned, the western commission had been interrupted, and the northern team was still missing.
• Falan showed Lofilia the Marker Crystal, whose map projection confirmed the Goblin King’s presence and showed goblins spread throughout the forest.
• Falan said the Guild needed to send a new scouting team, but Lofilia revealed that Ponsgal had been attacked and Asiala’s army had gone there five days earlier.
• Falan angrily referred to people who had already made their move, and began explaining their identity to Lofilia.

After reporting an alleged assassination attempt against the First Prince, Falan and Baiya stayed behind to prepare the report while the others collected their rewards. Moss advanced to Silver Rank and declined Shalina’s invitation to join an Adventuring Party, then agreed to return to the Azure Green Inn with the group.

• Lofilia learned of the alleged assassination attempt against the First Prince and went to notify the guild master.
• Falan and Baiya stayed to handle the report while Shalina, Enrique, and Moss went to collect their commission payment.
• Shalina received 630 Gold Coins, and Moss advanced to Silver Rank, gaining access to new guild privileges.
• Shalina invited Moss to join an Adventuring Party, but Moss declined because she was used to adventuring alone.
• Shalina gave Moss her share of the mission payment, and the group agreed to return together to the Azure Green Inn.

During the night, Moss de Witt arrived at the inn and rented a double room. The next morning, Moss and Molly revealed they had switched identities, with Molly taking Molly von Nilia’s place and Moss posing as Moss de Witt, a Gold-grade adventurer.

• Siliver woke to the rain and rented a double room to the cloaked newcomer, who gave her name as Moss de Witt.
• Shalina, Bella, and Molly met in the morning, and Molly declined Shalina’s invitation to join the group because she had other plans.
• After Shalina and Bella left, Molly met Moss and revealed that she had transformed into a human body.
• Moss and Molly agreed that Molly would act as Molly von Nilia while Moss took Molly’s identity.
• Moss changed into a boy, confirmed his Gold-grade adventurer registration, and left the inn praising Regis.

Moss used Cognitive Obstruction to gain access to the library’s second floor, where she began searching historical records for clues about her enemy. She wondered what Molly was doing and reflected on the difficulty of maintaining two identities.

• Moss decided she needed to investigate quickly rather than spend time completing adventurer quests, and she went to the library with a reading pass.
• Moss used Cognitive Obstruction to keep Koji from recognizing her and applied for second-floor reading access.
• Koji explained the library’s restrictions and helped Moss establish the contract required to enter the second floor.
• Moss surveyed the library’s books but chose Ancient Historical Records to search for traces of powerful past countries, organizations, or figures.
• Moss considered how Molly’s human form had shaped her choices and wondered what Molly was doing.

Molly completed a batch of gathering commissions in the eastern forest by controlling monsters with her Magic Eye of the Soul. After testing its powers and theorizing about Dibogo, she prepared to return to the city as the regional crisis continued to unfold.

• Molly broke a Long-horned Rabbit’s horn for a commission, then used her power to make it gather herbs and summon other monsters.
• Molly collected more than a dozen types of herbs and noted that the guild had redirected gathering work to the eastern forest after goblins occupied Hill Forest.
• Molly welcomed the obedient monsters returning with herbs and used her Dominion Imprint, strengthened by the Magic Eye’s soul-control abilities.
• Molly theorized that Dibogo was a parasitic Magic Eye creature that consumed souls, learned skills from them, and suffered mental effects from soul-burning residue.
• Molly demonstrated that her black water could purify souls and corrode tree trunks, then dismissed the monsters and decided to head back.

Molly completed her guild commissions and accepted an urgent mission to find the missing Crody Exploration Adventurer Group in the Uluo Lomi Maze. After receiving a map of its first five levels, she set out to buy equipment for underground exploration.

• Molly submitted herbs and monster materials to Lofilia and collected a reward of 23 Gold Coins and 87 silver coins.
• Lofilia told Molly that the Crody Exploration Adventurer Group had been sending distress signals from the Uluo Lomi Maze, where monsters were growing stronger.
• Lofilia explained that the abandoned mines had transformed into a maze after a World Gate appeared and monsters surged from underground.
• Molly accepted the urgent commission to locate the missing group and help evacuate adventurers, while warning that she could not guarantee success.
• The guild gave Molly a map of the maze's first five levels, and she headed to Orodos Magic Item to buy underground equipment.

Molly visited Orodos’s magic-item shop to prepare for exploring a labyrinth and bought several items after learning their benefits. She left with her purchases and planned to find an alchemy workshop to buy potions.

• A Mage rejected Orodos’s Light Necklace before Molly arrived and asked whether he owned the shop.
• Orodos explained that the necklace could purify and restore people within its light, so Molly bought it for 1,300 Gold Coins.
• Orodos recommended a Magic Waist Pouch, and Molly bought two after testing its storage space.
• Molly bought a Shining Stone Lantern and two hundred each of the Explosive Sound Bullets and Stink Bullets, but declined a Purified Water Pouch.
• Molly left after spending more than five thousand Gold Coins and set out to find an alchemy workshop for potions.

Molly traveled through Uluo Fortress toward the labyrinth, where she tamed a Giant Rock Scorpion and turned it into a luxurious mount. Little Ball then told Molly that the Master needed her to verify something about the World Gate in the labyrinth.

• Molly reached Uluo Fortress and showed the guards her commission order from Asiala and the Adventurer's Guild.
• Ronora Otto von Weissel, commander of Uluo Fortress and the marquis's son, warned Molly that she had seven days to explore the labyrinth before the seal was activated.
• Molly continued through the monster-infested wilderness and subdued a Giant Rock Scorpion, making it her new mount.
• Molly traveled toward the labyrinth in comfort with Slimes and Little Ball, while Little Ball explained that the Master needed Molly to verify records.
• Little Ball told Molly that the matter she needed to verify in the labyrinth concerned the World Gate.

Moss reviewed clues about the ritual and the enemy faction, speculating that they might be gathering monsters to create a Demon King. She ordered the Shadow Mice to investigate the southern towns and monitor the Goblin King, while Molly was left facing a solo trip to the labyrinth’s depths to find the World Gate.

• Moss abandoned her search through history books and reconsidered her reconnaissance clues, including the Goblin King’s dealings with humans and the possibility that beastfolk were involved.
• Moss connected the ritual in Xiris City to the ritual that turned monsters into demonfolk and realized the enemy’s plans may have begun months before the imperial royal family arrived.
• Moss questioned whether the enemy sought revenge or instead aimed to gather monsters and create a Demon King, but she could not confirm the theory.
• Moss ordered the Shadow Mice to search towns to the south and monitor the Goblin King, and she mentioned investigating the labyrinth to the north.
• After Little Ball left, Molly realized she was expected to go alone to the bottom of the labyrinth to find the World Gate.

Molly arrived at a town devastated by the maze and accepted a rescue commission to find the missing scouting party. After entering the maze, she activated a necklace to conceal her sound and set out for the fifth floor.

• Molly reached the town and learned that evacuation was underway because the maze had grown more dangerous and the scouting party had gone missing.
• Guild Master Lyons doubted Molly could handle the rescue mission until her killing intent made him recognize her strength.
• Lyons gave Molly a crystal that opened the maze’s seal and explained that routes below the fifth floor changed unpredictably.
• Molly passed the army’s inspection, entered the old mine tunnel, and opened the maze’s enormous stone gate with the crystal.
• Molly activated her Sound Absorption Necklace and headed toward the fifth floor.

Molly endured the first floor’s shifting passages and discovered that the labyrinth’s Magic Power fluctuations followed a regular pattern, while Moss learned that Lyons had concealed the anomaly for Beastkin who bribed him. Moss began investigating the Radmia Church’s history for clues about the ritual, and Lyons returned to the guild unaware of what had happened.

• Molly suspected Lyons was hiding information about the labyrinth and concluded that she might have been deliberately targeted because of her identity as the Child of Divine Favor.
• Molly examined a spear trap and recognized that the labyrinth created traps and changed passages through fluctuations in its Magic Power.
• Molly waited for the next regular fluctuation, entered a newly formed opening, and realized she had solved the labyrinth’s pattern.
• Moss questioned Lyons under an illusion, and he admitted that cloaked Beastkin had paid him 5,000 Gold Coins to conceal the anomaly for half a month.
• Moss connected the ritual’s Common Tongue and Beastkin characters to religion and began researching the Radmia Church’s missionary history.
• Moss released Lyons from the illusion, and he returned to the guild, anxious about his unfinished work.

Molly explored the maze’s second floor, discovered signs that adventurers had used its plaza as a safe zone, and reasoned out how to navigate the shifting passages. After rescuing herself from an ambush by invisible attackers, she identified them as goblins.

• Molly landed on the second floor through a safety magic array and found traces of an adventurer market in the plaza.
• Molly sent slimes and swarms of rats through the passages to search for people as a stranded group worried about hunger and hoped their distress signal would bring help.
• Molly sensed the maze’s stable areas and used its repeated changes to predict the route ahead.
• Invisible attackers shot at Molly, but she used a sonic shockwave to reveal and incapacitate them.
• Molly confronted the attackers and recognized them as goblins.

Molly questioned five Goblin Hunters and learned that powerful monsters had driven the goblin tribe up from the lower maze levels, likely because the World Gate’s defensive mechanism had been triggered. After confirming that two people had survived, she descended to the third level, where an explosion gave her a possible lead on their location.

• Molly used rough brainwashing to question five Goblin Hunters without placing a spiritual brand on them.
• The Goblins explained that powerful monsters had appeared below and forced their tribe up from its level.
• Molly connected the shifting monster populations to the World Gate’s defensive mechanism and suspected a Demon Person-level existence waited below.
• The Goblins confirmed they had seen traces of humans, and Molly concluded that two people had survived before descending to the third level.
• A black tide swallowed the Goblins after Molly left, and a bloodstained Black Rat returned to the main group.
• Molly heard a distant explosion on the third level and sent her rat swarm through the passages as she hurried to find the survivors.

Naliya and Rick fought through the goblins pursuing them in the maze, then struggled with hunger and exhaustion after five days trapped underground. When the shifting passages connected them to Molly’s route, Molly rushed toward them, but the chapter ended as Rick warned Naliya of danger.

• Naliya and Rick used an explosive sphere and a gas-filled sphere to disrupt the goblins, then fled deeper into the passage.
• Molly heard an explosion and sensed that the maze was changing as she ran through it.
• Naliya and Rick rested after escaping the goblins, and Naliya revealed that they had been trapped for five days since encountering a terrifying monster on the fifth floor.
• Naliya tried to make the starving Rick eat the dead goblin, but he resisted in horror.
• Molly realized the passages had connected and led the people behind her toward the scream, while deep-red lights appeared in the darkness.
• Rick shouted for Naliya to watch out, and a bang followed.

Naliya relived the goblins’ ambush, Rick’s death, and her own brutal torment before waking in a restored body beside the resurrected Rick. Molly von Nilia revealed that she had brought them back with her Soul-Reconstruction Flesh-Creation Resurrection Technique.

• After eating goblin meat, Naliya remembered the ambush in which the goblins killed Rick and attacked her.
• The goblins beat and burned Naliya, then left her blackened body alive as the Giant Goblin chewed on her foot.
• Naliya awoke in a smooth, restored body and found Rick alive beside a small white creature.
• Molly von Nilia introduced herself as the adventurer who had rescued them and announced her resurrection technique.

Molly explained that Rick’s body had been restored, while his soul still carried memories of his death. She argued that death compressed a person’s possibilities into information she called the soul’s Information Entropy, leaving Naliya uncertain whether the resurrected Rick was truly the same person.

• Molly told Rick that his body had completely recovered and that his lingering headaches came from information about his death remaining in his soul.
• Rick found his blood-soaked, ruined clothes and realized that he really had died.
• Naliya asked Molly whether Rick was still the same person, and Molly questioned what truly represented a person's existence.
• Molly explained that death did not erase a person but transformed their existence into information, which she called the Information Entropy of the soul.