Chapter Summaries

Arro and White Deer arrived at Lan'er Village, where Village Chief Old Max directed them to an empty Hunter's Small Courtyard outside the village. Arro rented it for a year with a Gold Coin, while White Deer decided to look around the village before continuing her journey.

• The Butcher argued with Thelry about Old Jerry's death and the reward money before villagers spotted movement near the forest.
• Arro arrived with White Deer in a carriage pulled by Elks, and Old Max warned them that they could stay only outside the village because a Werewolf had recently killed six people.
• Arro asked Old Max to lead them to the Hunter's Small Courtyard and paid a Gold Coin to rent and maintain it for a year.
• Arro asked whether White Deer would eat before leaving, and she chose to go into the village to see what it was like.

Arro and White Deer moved into Hunter's Small Courtyard after Old Max showed them the vacant home. Arro explained how ignorance and fear could make people behave like animals, and Old Max's spiteful threat left them expecting trouble.

• Old Max led Arro and White Deer to Hunter's Small Courtyard, where Arro approved of the clean, furnished Main Room.
• Arro ordered Old Max to leave, and Old Max shut the door before muttering that White Deer was a Demonic Beast and he would collect their corpses tomorrow.
• Arro heard Old Max's threat through his Master Level Cat Form Fist - Running senses, and White Deer remarked on humans' changing emotions.
• Arro explained to White Deer that isolated people without knowledge could act on animal instincts and that a person should face and loudly intimidate a hesitant predator.
• Arro compared Old Max to a beast that had seen a fiercer animal, tucked its Dog Tail between its legs, and barked as it left.

Arro secured the Hunter's Small Courtyard and prepared for a night of rest in his Magic Phoenix Golden Armor. White Deer consulted the Ancestor's Soul about the three Demonic Elves sealed in the Demon Tree, and it asked her to bring them for examination.

• Arro blocked the gap in the courtyard's Thorn Wall with Wooden Carts, then completed his routine and meditated in his golden armor.
• White Deer returned to the Ancestor's Soul, which questioned her about pleading for a wizard and warned her not to trust wizards.
• White Deer explained that she had sealed three Demonic Elves in the Demon Tree's Natural Magic Power Crystal and asked why they had not awakened.
• The Ancestor's Soul said their birth may have been accelerated by magic or Abyss Power and asked White Deer to bring them for examination.

Arro left Lan'er Village for Walter Town and learned that the villagers’ fearful rumors were about a Demon Hunter they called a humanoid monster. He continued on without waiting to see the mysterious figure.

• White Deer delivered elk to Arro and hurried away to build a place to live.
• Arro heard villagers accusing a Demon Hunter of stealing, carrying curses, and bringing bad luck.
• Arro asked the villagers for directions and learned that the road led to Walter Town.
• The villagers said a difficult-to-describe humanoid monster called a Demon Hunter would soon appear.
• Arro decided not to wait and drove his elk carriage out of the village toward the Outside World.

Arro encountered a Demon Hunter fighting a werewolf and used magic to help him gain the upper hand. The Demon Hunter killed the werewolf, leaving Arro and his new ally together after the battle.

• Arro heard a carriage being attacked and saw a werewolf emerge from the wreckage to attack a strange young man.
• Arro recognized the young man as a Demon Hunter and remembered that werewolves needed human flesh to avoid becoming irrational beasts.
• The Demon Hunter warned Arro to stay back, then used silver powder to corrode the werewolf's fur.
• Arro cast a Trip Spell and a Dust Raising Spell to trip the werewolf and blind it.
• The Demon Hunter threw a bottle whose scent weakened the werewolf, then drove his silver sword into its heart.

Arro met Rett, a Demon Hunter from Manticore School, after Rett killed a Werewolf that had devastated Arro’s cart and eaten its Demon Tree bark. Arro negotiated for the Werewolf’s corpse as compensation, and Rett questioned why he wanted it.

• Arro introduced himself as a Wizard Apprentice, and Rett identified himself as a Demon Hunter from Manticore School.
• Arro examined the Werewolf’s injuries and the shattered Demon Tree bark, suspecting the bark had helped it heal despite its silver wounds.
• Rett claimed the Werewolf as his prey and told Arro to leave, but Arro argued that Rett owed him for the damage.
• Arro explained that he had acted out of admiration for Rett’s commitment to hunting Demonic Beasts, then used Rett’s thanks to press for compensation.
• Rett offered the bounty, but Arro asked for the Werewolf’s entire corpse instead.
• Rett warned that Demonic Beast corpses could be dangerous, and Arro said he might know more about that than Rett did.

Arro learned that the Demon Hunter Academy had been expelled from the Countess’s territory amid an impending war connected to the academy. He tried to hire Rett to explain why the Saint Fernando Empire was invading, but Rett refused to treat the question as a Demon Hunter’s duty.

• Arro and Rett repaired the Wooden Cart and gathered scraps while discussing how to handle the Werewolf’s corpse.
• Rett told Arro that his former academy was in Scarlow City and that its leaders had dismissed its students and forbidden them from entering the Countess’s territory.
• Rett revealed that a war caused by the academy was coming, and warned Arro to leave before the fighting spread.
• Arro asked whether the Saint Fernando Empire’s invasion was the cause, but Rett gave no explanation and urged him to leave.
• Arro raised an Earth Block to stop Rett from walking away and offered Gold Coins as a bounty for information, but Rett said the request was outside a Demon Hunter’s duties.

Arro paid the demon hunter Rett for information and learned about the hunters’ origins, oath, and role protecting ordinary people from Demonic Beasts. He traveled through the Viscount Territory and reached Mannheim Market, where his arrival drew the attention of the carriage attendants.

• Arro offered Rett gold and persuaded him to accompany him along the road while sharing general information.
• Rett explained that demon hunters gained fixed Transcendent abilities through potions, swore an oath renouncing family and political ambition, and mostly protected common people from Demonic Beasts.
• Arro considered Rett’s praise of the Countess with caution and decided there was no need to investigate further, since he already understood the reasons behind the academy’s closure and the war.
• Arro’s deer carriage passed peacefully through the Viscount Territory, and he considered improving it with a Power Core.
• Arro revealed his Magic Phoenix Battle Armor and drove into Mannheim Market; an old woman abandoned her attempt to demand a fee, and attendants recognized the Moonlit Dancer’s carriage.

Arro took Demon Tree bark to the Potion Shop to sell and replenish his supplies. After the Patrol Team recognized him but chose not to confront him, the Potion Shop offered one Magic Stone per hundred pounds of bark.

• Arro took samples of Demon Tree bark to the Potion Shop, hoping to sell it and buy potions and ingredients.
• Passersby recognized Arro as the Moonlit Butcher, and several Mysterious Persons hurried away from him.
• A Patrol Team recognized Arro, but its Black Robed Apprentice rebuked a young member for suggesting they arrest him and let Arro leave.
• The young Patrol Team member asked whether they should ambush Arro later, and the other members quickly stopped him.
• The Potion Shop's Aged Elder explained that the Demon Tree bark contained too little Abyss Power to be useful as abyssal potion material and offered one Magic Stone per hundred pounds; Arro accepted.

Arro negotiated with a shop owner over materials and a potion-brewing handbook, but the old man challenged him over killing young predators near the market. Arro defended his actions and left without the book, while the shop owner condemned him as cruel.

• The shop owner offered Arro seven Magic Stones for his materials, and Arro asked about learning to brew Purification Potions.
• The old man offered his Beginner potion-brewing handbook for free if Arro answered a question, then named a price of two hundred Magic Stones when Arro asked to buy it outright.
• The old man asked why Arro had killed young people who preyed on Passersby, arguing that many were merely children driven by hardship.
• Arro rejected the old man's sympathy for the predators and said he could not empathize with evildoers.
• Arro left the shop after trading insults with the old man, abandoning the offer of the handbook.

Arrow prepared to make bombs to deter anyone hunting him, then received a letter from Ian warning that Holy Light could disrupt the Abyss Power in his armor. Ian claimed he had found a way to counter the flaw and promised to meet Arrow in half a month.

• Arrow decided to make bombs quickly so he could retaliate against anyone who probed or attacked him.
• Arrow asked Shopkeeper Harvey for a large quantity of Inferior Ice Crystal Stones, and Harvey told him Ian had left a letter.
• Arrow read Ian’s warning that Holy Light could disrupt the Abyss Power in Arrow Garner’s armor.
• Arrow learned that Ian claimed to have found a way to address the flaw and planned to show him the finished product in half a month.
• Arrow burned Ian’s letter with the Melting Spell.

After Arro received no reply from White Deer through the Emerald Jade, he suspected a tree demon had interfered and flew toward its territory in his Magic Phoenix Golden Armor. The chapter ended with the tree demon confronting him and asking if he meant to declare war.

• Arro activated the Emerald Jade twice, but no message came back from White Deer.
• Arro blamed a tree demon, activated his Magic Phoenix Golden Armor, and flew from Lan'er Village toward the forest.
• The Butcher saw Arro take flight and dropped to his knees in shock.
• Arro flew over the Sea of Trees, hoping to reach the tree demon's territory and contact White Deer.
• A voice from the trees asked Arro why he had invaded its territory and whether he was declaring war.

Arro confronted the tree demon over White Deer’s disappearance, but learned she had left the forest and was expected to return. The tree demon offered to use White Deer’s Covenant of the Heart to locate her, while Arro watched for any attempt to tamper with it.

• Arro arrived in Golden Armor and demanded that the tree demon release White Deer, while using a Purification Potion to calm his anger.
• The tree demon denied imprisoning White Deer and warned Arro to leave, but neither side attacked.
• Arro asked when White Deer had left, and the tree demon showed him a Treehouse it had made for her.
• The tree demon said White Deer had left yesterday morning and promised to return before dawn, though she had not come back.
• Arro showed the tree demon White Deer’s Covenant of the Heart, and it offered to activate the token to sense her location.
• Arro tossed the token to the tree demon while secretly monitoring it for signs of tampering.

Arro learned from an oak that his target was about fifty li northwest, then flew toward the area while reflecting on the dangers of the Magic Strike Technique. The chapter ended with Benson ordering a girl restrained amid the wounded soldiers.

• An oak used the jade stone to locate Arro's target northwest, about fifty li away, and Arro threatened to destroy the forest if it had lied.
• Arro flew toward the location and recognized how Abyss Power intensified his violent emotions.
• Arro decided to avoid using the Magic Strike Technique against human enemies and considered developing flying armor as a safer alternative.
• Benson spat out a bloodstained tooth, tossed aside a frail girl, and ordered his men to tie her up.

Knight Benson captured the green-haired girl after she attacked his convoy and ordered the wounded counted, the carts inspected, and the Little Sprites and their strange stones secured. Arro spotted the battered convoy from above when his token heated, and the chapter ended as the soldiers formed up beneath him and the girl suddenly moved.

• Knight Benson questioned and kicked the green-haired girl while his soldiers called her a witch and feared her curses.
• Miller recognized a word in the girl's speech as “elk,” prompting the soldiers to argue about their dead elk and deer blood.
• Knight Benson ordered the girl locked in an iron cage, the wounded counted, and the Little Sprites and their stones loaded onto usable carriages.
• Knight Benson guarded the girl and imagined winning a reward from Viscount Corey when a strange howl sounded overhead.
• Arro noticed his token heating and spotted the convoy below, while the soldiers gathered into a disciplined formation.
• Knight Benson looked up and failed to notice the girl suddenly move.

Arro found White Deer trampled beneath Knight Benson’s foot among soldiers carrying deer hides and remains of the Demon Tree, and confronted the army. He used Magic Strike Technique—Fear Pressure to intimidate them and force the knight to choose whether to fight or leave.

• Arro searched the army from the air for White Deer and initially found no trace of her.
• Arro recognized White Deer beneath Knight Benson’s foot and connected her presence with the slaughtered spiritual elk and the Demon Tree’s remains.
• Arro drew his crystalline greatsword as the soldiers formed ranks, but considered how to confront the army without putting White Deer at greater risk.
• Arro unleashed Magic Strike Technique—Fear Pressure, filling the air with black mist, flames, and a demonic shadow while weakening and frightening the soldiers.
• Arro demanded that Knight Benson either attack him or agree to leave with his army.

Arro drove the soldiers into panic with Abyss Power, then faced Knight Benson after Benson refused to let him pass and ordered the wounded to flee. Benson attacked with Holy Water on his sword, but Arro unleashed a combined technique that engulfed him in flames.

• Arro used Abyss Power and a display of flames to terrify the soldiers and break their defensive line.
• Knight Benson refused Arro's demand, identified himself as Viscount Corey's loyal Guard Captain, and ordered the wounded soldiers to withdraw.
• Benson revealed Holy Water that repelled the Abyss Power and stopped suppressing the maiden, whose twisted arms were visible as she escaped the mud pit.
• Arro descended and challenged Benson to attack, while Benson charged at him with his Holy Water-coated sword.
• Arro combined several techniques into a modified Sword Drawing Heaven Severing Technique, and its massive fire moon swallowed Knight Benson.

Arro defeated Knight Benson and rescued White Deer, who recovered enough to stand with the help of vines. She then revealed why she had concealed the fact that the wizards wanted to awaken an Abyss Little Sprite.

• Arro gained experience from defeating Knight Benson and concluded that Mist Body Technique had helped him win by deceiving the Knight.
• Arro approached the badly injured White Deer, who said she had known he would come to save her.
• Arro asked whether White Deer objected to his use of Abyss Power, and she answered by singing a lyric about a splendid flame blooming in deep black.
• White Deer used nature's power and vines to stand, then asked Arro for a favor.
• White Deer told Arro that wizards wanted to awaken an Abyss Little Sprite and that a Little Sprite still being nurtured was the best material for their Household Servants.

Arro learned that the three reborn Little Sprites had been sent to Lix City, the Viscount Territory’s capital, but decided he could not pursue them immediately. White Deer stayed behind to heal and tried to refine Heli’s song while Arro dealt with the soldiers who had transported the Sprites.

• White Deer told Arro she could identify the reborn Little Sprites only from within three meters, and Arro left to question the people who had taken them away.
• White Deer began healing her injuries and sang part of Heli’s song, but lamented that she could not fully understand its story or refine it properly.
• Arro learned from a frightened guard that the Little Sprites had been sent to Lix City and that the journey there could take up to a day.
• Arro decided the many country paths made interception impractical, then conjured a Light Sphere and warned the soldiers that he would curse them to keep them from revealing what happened.

Arro and White Deer prepared to travel to Lix City to pursue the lost item, while White Deer warned him that using Abyss Power could deepen his connection to the abyss. The chapter ended with Arro carrying her into the carriage as they set out.

• Arro used the Light Sphere on the soldiers, who feared Viscount Corey would discover their curse and planned to flee with their families into the mountains.
• An older soldier urged the group to use the distraction of Arro’s journey to Lix City to escape before Viscount Corey could focus on them.
• White Deer insisted on accompanying Arro rather than going to the Castle, despite noticing his emotions were in turmoil.
• White Deer warned Arro that repeated use of Abyss Power would strengthen his connection to the abyss, but Arro knew he might need it against powerful enemies.
• Arro lifted White Deer into the carriage, and she noticed that he was nervous as he carried her.