Chapter Summaries

Roy explained that he had provoked Satella's envy to help her control the Witch of Envy, while Echidna revealed that she feared Satella after seeing the Great Sin Witches' deaths in the Book of Wisdom. Pandora then confronted Satella and tried to make the Witch of Envy descend by turning her jealousy toward Roy and the other witches.

• Roy told Echidna that Satella's envy needed to surface before it could overwhelm her, though he admitted he had no solution to her condition.
• Echidna warned Roy that provoking Satella risked catastrophe and revealed that the Book of Wisdom showed Satella causing the Great Sin Witches' deaths.
• Roy and Echidna shared an intimate evening, leaving Echidna unable to detect Pandora's arrival at Satella's room.
• Pandora told Satella that she wanted freedom beyond their world and blamed Roy for sealing the Gate that had become her goal.
• Pandora urged Satella to destroy Roy, then encouraged her to kill Echidna, Camilla, and the other witches instead.

Pandora’s distortion of the world drove Satella’s Witch Factor wild, and Echidna’s Book of Wisdom revealed that Satella would kill the other Witches. As the Witches faced the threat, Satella declared that Roy belonged to her alone.

• Pandora exhausted her authority to twist reality and provoke Satella’s envy.
• Roy and Echidna discovered that Satella’s shadows were spreading through the castle, while the other Witches gathered in Echidna’s room.
• Echidna consulted the Book of Wisdom and learned that Satella would kill them all.
• Echidna explained that Pandora had exploited Satella’s unstable Witch Factor to cause the catastrophe.
• Roy asked whether the Book of Wisdom recorded his death, and Echidna said it recorded nothing about him.
• Satella’s resentful voice declared that everyone would die because Roy was hers alone.

Satella’s Witch of Envy personality erupted, overwhelmed the witches’ castle, and demanded that Roy choose her alone. Roy told Satella he loved her but refused to kill the other witches, leaving her reaction unresolved.

• The Witch of Envy emerged in Echidna’s bedroom and attacked the witches with her Authority of Shadow, while Echidna provoked her jealousy.
• Roy used his Mystic Eyes to protect Echidna from Satella’s assault, and Satella confessed that she loved him because he had given her everything.
• Satella promised to kill everyone so that only she and Roy would remain, then spread her shadows through the castle and shattered its barriers.
• Roy told Satella he loved her, but she demanded that he kill the other witches; Minerva, Camilla, Echidna, and the witches of Sloth and Pride reacted to her threat.
• Roy refused to abandon the other witches or kill them for Satella, and he braced himself for the Witch of Envy’s response.

Roy chose to help Satella regain control by defeating the Witch of Envy, and used his Divine Right to break the shadow-covered world. The Witch of Envy then launched another attack as her shadows spread across half the world.

• The Witch of Envy forgave Roy but blamed the other witches for taking his love, then unleashed her shadows against them.
• Roy declared that he would help Satella defeat the Witch of Envy, while Echidna and the other witches prepared to fight alongside him.
• Daphne used her Eyes of Gluttony to consume the surrounding shadows, and Roy summoned his Divine Right to unleash Sodom's Rocket Barrage.
• Roy's flames broke through the Witch of Envy's shadow barrier and destroyed Echidna's castle and the surrounding plain, but left the Witch of Envy unharmed.
• The Witch of Envy attacked again, spreading her shadows across the sky, earth, and ocean until they covered half the world.

As the Witch of Envy’s shadow devoured half the world, Fluggel, Reid, Shaula, and the Lionheart King reached the Great Waterfall and met Dragon God Volcanica. Volcanica asked them to help defeat Satella, and Fluggel and Reid agreed to fight for the people they cared about.

• Roswaal studied a forbidden reincarnation spell, then abandoned his attempt to help Echidna when the Witch of Envy’s shadow covered his home.
• The Witch of Envy’s darkness spread into Lugnica’s capital, where the palace panicked and learned the Lionheart King had left to seek the Dragon God.
• Reid identified the advancing darkness as Satella’s magic, and he and Fluggel told the Lionheart King that Satella was the Witch of Envy.
• Volcanica arrived at the Great Waterfall, explained that the Witch of Envy had voided his agreement to keep dragons off the mainland, and asked the group to help kill her.
• Volcanica revealed that he knew Fluggel came from another world and explained his duty as Dragon God to protect the world and the Dragon Species.
• Fluggel agreed to fight because he worried about Satella, and Reid agreed for the sake of his wife and child.

The Witch of Envy’s Death Return revealed itself to Roy, who recognized it as the foundation he needed for the Mercury Formula and joined the Witches’ battle. When Volcanica, Fluggel, and Reid arrived, the Witch of Envy attacked them, leaving Fluggel bewildered by her jealousy of his relationship with Roy.

• The Witch of Envy cut Roy’s attack short by triggering Death Return, reversing the world to a point before she was wounded.
• Roy retained his memories and concluded that Death Return reversed time, making it the foundation he sought for the Mercury Formula.
• Roy joined the Witches’ battle and prepared to hold back the Witch of Envy while giving Satella a chance to regain control.
• Volcanica, Fluggel, and Reid arrived, and Roy recognized an opportunity to pursue the Golden Formula as well.
• The Witch of Envy recognized Fluggel and Reid, demanded to know where Shaula was, and attacked them for approaching Roy.
• Fluggel tried to defend himself with Yin magic and protested that he and Roy were both men, while the Witch of Envy’s shadow hands reached for the newcomers.

Roy concealed his true strength while leading the others against Satella, whose repeated Death Returns had made her increasingly skilled and dangerous. As the group weakened, Roy urged Volcanica to reveal its way of defeating her, and Volcanica began explaining a blessing that could give others power equal to its own.

• Satella attacked Fluggel out of jealousy, and Volcanica shielded him and Reid before Roy and the others joined the fight.
• Roy persuaded Volcanica to work with the group, while secretly holding back to make the dragon reveal its blessing.
• Satella's repeated Death Returns restored each battle and let her master combat techniques, leaving Roy's allies badly injured and exhausted.
• Minerva healed the group's physical injuries, while Roy warned Volcanica that Satella would destroy the world if they failed to stop her.
• Volcanica said it could grant others power equal to its own, but that accepting the power required death.

Roy used Satella’s Death Return to repeatedly receive Volcanica’s Dragon God’s Blessing and learn its principles for his Golden Formula. After twelve cycles, he stopped the others from killing Satella and apologized to her for the suffering he had caused.

• Roy and Satella exchanged a glance, and she used Death Return to create repeated opportunities for him to study the Blessing.
• Roy received the Blessing twelve times and deciphered most of its principles, while Satella repeatedly died in battle against Fluggel, Reid, and Volcanica.
• Roy realized Satella was enduring the cycles for his sake and decided he had learned enough.
• Roy’s golden-red sword split the shadowy world and forced Fluggel, Reid, and Volcanica to halt their attack on Satella.
• Fluggel recognized Satella’s gentle personality, and she asked Roy whether she had done enough.
• Roy smiled bitterly and apologized to Satella for making her suffer.

Roy separated the Witch of Envy from Satella and sealed her at the Great Waterfall, allowing Satella to regain control of herself. As Roy comforted Satella, Pandora distorted space-time, separated everyone into parallel worlds, and revealed that she had prepared to capture the exhausted witches.

• Roy used the Light of the Right to tear the Witch of Envy's personality from Satella while leaving her power intact.
• Volcanica suggested the Great Waterfall as a place to contain the Witch of Envy, and Roy sealed her there with his Grand Ritual of Sealing.
• The witches celebrated their survival, and Roy comforted Satella and told her to apologize to Dona and the others for her attacks.
• Pandora suddenly distorted the world and separated Roy from everyone else into different parallel space-times.
• Pandora told Roy she had provoked Satella's envy and waited until the witches were exhausted so she could capture them.

Roy and Echidna waited for Pandora’s distorted world lines to converge, hoping to find the other Witches before their souls vanished. When the Witches and the others returned, Roy saw that all seven Witches had survived as damaged souls.

• Roy and Echidna agreed to wait on the plain because they could not travel to the distorted world lines to find the other Witches.
• The aftershocks of Pandora’s Authority faded, and the scattered world lines converged, restoring the Witches, Fluggel, Reid, and Volcanica to the plain.
• Fluggel questioned what had happened to the Witches, while Volcanica realized that they had all been deceived.
• Roy inspected the Witches’ damaged souls and noted Satella’s guilt, Camilla’s fear, Sagittarius’s indifference, Daphne’s complaints, and Minerva’s anger.

Roy created the Golden Supreme Heaven and preserved the Great Sin Witches there, but Pandora’s distorted history threatened to erase their identities unless the world continued to remember them. Roy promised to spread their names, while Satella served the witches at their tea party.

• Roy sent Echidna’s soul into his Sea of Consciousness and created a world by speaking commands of creation.
• Roy placed the seven Great Sin Witches’ souls in the Mindscape World, where they regained bodies and Echidna recreated their Witch’s Castle.
• At the tea party, Echidna revealed that Pandora’s false history was making people remember Satella while forgetting the other witches.
• Echidna warned that forgotten witches could lose their identities, and Roy promised to cause trouble in their names so the world would remember them.
• Satella brought pastries and tea to the witches and quietly served them while Echidna’s teasing failed to provoke her.

Roy consulted the witches about controlling Witch Factors and using Death Return, then returned to the Real World and collected all seven Great Sin Witch Factors. He discovered that a new personality was growing within Satella’s body and concluded that she would be Satella’s daughter, leaving him expecting her to call him Father.

• Echidna assured Roy that witches could reclaim their Witch Factors and blessings, and agreed to create more inferior Books of Wisdom at his request.
• Satella offered to endure repeated deaths so Roy could analyze Death Return, but Roy chose Fluggel as the test subject and asked Satella to bestow the Authority on him.
• Roy returned to the scorched grassland, collected the Witch Factors, and found Satella’s body left behind by Pandora.
• Roy discovered a new personality growing inside Satella’s body, consuming her body’s energy as it developed.
• Roy reasoned that the new personality would be born as Satella’s daughter and said she should call him Father.

Roy accepted the Dragon-Blessed King’s offer to lead Lugnica’s new Sage Council, then found Fluggel digging a hole to leave a lasting mark before his death. Fluggel planned to plant a Fantasy Tree, and Roy was left with him as his life neared its end.

• Roy carried Satella’s body to Fluggel, Reid, and Volcanica, and told them Pandora had destroyed the Witches’ bodies.
• Fluggel and Reid discussed their shortened lifespans and plans for their final years; Reid named his transformed sword the Dragon Sword, and Roy agreed to travel with them.
• Three years later, Reid had died, the Lionheart Kingdom had become the Dragon-Blessed Kingdom of Lugnica, and the king offered Roy leadership of the Sage Council.
• Roy accepted the king’s offer to remain in Lugnica and govern through the Sage Council.
• Roy found Fluggel digging a hole and learned that he wanted to leave tangible proof that he had existed; Fluggel dismissed his title of Sage as insufficient.

Roy gave Fluggel the Fantasy Tree seed, which Fluggel planted with his life before leaving to die. Roy then chose the village orphan Regulus Zernias as the Bishop of Greed, and approached a young thief in Lugnica with an offer to buy her.

• Fluggel told Roy he planned to plant a tree and leave the title of Sage to Shaula so she would be protected.
• Roy gave Fluggel a magic-fed seed, and Fluggel poured his magic and life into it until the Fantasy Tree sprouted.
• Fluggel left the tree and vanished into the distance to die, while Roy bid farewell to Sage Fluggel.
• Roy found the orphan Regulus Zernias in a village of the Flagey Empire and gave him a Witch Factor, naming him the Bishop of Greed.
• A young thief crawled out of a wealthy family's sewer in Lugnica after stealing silver coins and said she needed money to escape the slums.
• Roy appeared behind the thief and offered to buy her.

Roy established the Witch Cult by recruiting Capella Emerada Lugnica as its Bishop of Lust and gathering followers through Gospel Books. He instructed the cult to follow the books, spread chaos, and preserve the witches’ names, while Regulus chose the Flagey Empire as his first target.

• Roy revealed Capella’s royal parentage and painful past, then offered her the Witch Factor of Lust.
• Capella accepted the Witch Factor and joined the Witch Cult as its Bishop of Lust alongside Regulus Zernias, the Bishop of Greed.
• Roy described the cult’s mission as following the Gospel Book, bringing chaos to the world, and ensuring the witches’ names were remembered.
• Roy explained that Gospel Books drew dangerous criminals and twisted people into cultists who would carry out high-risk missions.
• Regulus announced that he planned to attack the Flagey Empire, and Roy cut off his rambling with a command to be silent.

Roy established the Witch Cult as a force in the world and discussed its Bishops’ abilities with Echidna. He told Satella that a new consciousness had been born from her surviving body, leaving her joyful at the prospect of their child as time advanced nearly three hundred years.

• Roy ordered Regulus to attack the Flagey Empire alone and permitted Capella to bring disaster to Lugnica.
• Regulus conquered the fortress city of Gokura before retreating from the empire’s Divine Generals, while Capella’s forces captured a city in Lugnica.
• Echidna discussed the Witch Cult’s growing notoriety and the powerful authorities granted to Regulus and Capella.
• Roy told Satella that her body had survived and that a childlike consciousness had been born within it.
• Satella worried about the child’s future, and Roy promised to raise her and arrange for Satella to meet her once Echidna mastered Soul Materialization.
• Nearly three hundred years passed.

Roy and Feltona searched Elior Forest for Emilia, whom the elves kept hidden because she resembled the Witch of Envy. They found her after she slipped away from her home, and Emilia was delighted to see Roy.

• Hughes chased Emilia through the forest and warned her that Feltona would be upset if she wandered off.
• Emilia asked why people kept her from the village and said she wanted to grow up, help Feltona, and find her father.
• Roy had entrusted the infant Emilia to the elves, and Feltona had raised her as her daughter while the elves concealed her resemblance to the Witch of Envy.
• Roy met Feltona at the trading post, where she praised his help in improving life for the elves.
• Feltona and Roy went into the forest to look for Emilia after learning she had left her home without triggering its Magic Circle.
• Feltona confronted Emilia, and Emilia turned to Roy and called out to him happily as her dad.

Roy reunited with Emilia, who had secretly left her room, and Feltona gently taught her to keep her promises. The chapter ended with Emilia asking about her birth mother, and Roy describing Satella as beautiful and very gentle.

• Feltona arrived and questioned Hughes for failing to keep watch over Emilia, while Emilia admitted she had sneaked out because she missed Roy.
• Roy reassured Emilia, and Feltona explained that breaking promises betrayed people's trust; Emilia promised to keep hers.
• Roy pulled Puck from Emilia's hair and explained that the cat was an Artificial Spirit created by a Witch.
• Hughes praised Emilia's potential as a Spirit User, but Feltona insisted she should enjoy her childhood; Roy stopped their argument when Emilia became worried.
• Hughes nearly mentioned Emilia's resemblance to her mother, prompting Emilia to ask Roy what Satella looked like and what kind of person she was; Roy said she was beautiful and gentle.

Pandora appeared in Elior Forest with Regulus and tried to take Emilia, threatening the elves with the Black Snake. As Emilia and Puck prepared to resist, Pandora unleashed the serpent on her, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Roy reunited with Emilia and returned to trade discussions with Feltona while Hughes and Archie stayed to watch over the girl.
• Regulus confronted Emilia and said he had come for her at the Witch's instruction, then Pandora appeared and revealed she had sent him.
• Pandora tried to take Emilia and threatened to poison the forest with the Black Snake if she refused.
• Hughes urged Emilia to run to Roy, while Regulus blocked Archie from reaching her with a throw of sand.
• Puck asked Emilia to form a contract, and Emilia declared she would protect Archie, Hughes, Feltona, the elves, and Roy.
• Pandora released the Black Snake's poisonous gas and sent it lunging toward Emilia.

Roy rescued Emilia after she unleashed devastating power against Pandora and the Black Snake, then revealed that he had weakened Pandora’s Authority and could now defeat her. Pandora’s plans collapsed, and Roy warned her that her remaining life was coming to an end.

• Emilia used Feltona’s magic to freeze the Black Snake and the surrounding forest, then collapsed from exhaustion.
• Hughes took the Witch Factor of Sloth to gain strength, but Pandora ordered Regulus to stop him.
• Roy’s Angelic Art, the Sword of Judgment, erupted through Emilia, severed Pandora’s arm, and destroyed the Black Snake.
• Roy held and comforted Emilia, then used Moses Parts the Sea to sever Regulus’s legs.
• Regulus blamed Pandora and threw sand at her, so she used her Authority to erase him from the forest.
• Roy explained that he had analyzed Pandora’s Authority over three hundred years and stripped it of its power to alter history; Pandora could only retreat as Roy declared her era over.