Chapter Summaries

Sendogi Yuma tried to take Akatsuki Nagisa’s body and the Fourth Primogenitor’s power to locate and break the Prison Barrier, where her mother was imprisoned. Azer confronted her and warned that using Nagisa’s power would endanger her life, but Yuma said her contract left her no choice, so Azer vowed to stop her as her guardian attacked.

• Sendogi Yuma summoned her guardian, Azure, and prepared to take the sleeping Akatsuki Nagisa’s body.
• Azer arrived and identified Sendogi Yuma as the Azure Witch and an LCO officer who had been created to free her mother, Sendouki Aya.
• Sendogi Yuma admitted that she needed the Fourth Primogenitor’s power in Nagisa to distort Itogami Island’s space and reach the Prison Barrier.
• Azer warned that using the Fourth Primogenitor’s power could drain Nagisa’s life force and shorten her lifespan.
• Sendogi Yuma explained that her contract required her to rescue her mother, and Azer declared that he would stop her.
• Azure attacked Azer.

Azer defeated Sendogi Yuma in a battle on Itogami Island’s shore and knocked her unconscious. When her guardian began acting under Sendouki Aya’s control, Azer destroyed it as well.

• Azer took Sendogi Yuma away from Akatsuki Nagisa and Kojo to the coast so their fight would not endanger them.
• Sendogi Yuma summoned Azure, but Azer countered its attacks, blasted it back, and bound it with chains of light.
• Azer used silver blades to sever the space around Sendogi Yuma, restrained her with light, and knocked her unconscious.
• Azer told Sendogi Yuma that LCO’s plan would have failed on Itogami Island even without him, then flicked her forehead and warned her not to underestimate the island.
• Azure went berserk under Sendouki Aya’s control, but Azer cut the guardian apart with a barrage of spatial slashes.

After Azer stopped LCO’s plan, a fairy-like girl awakened Aurora Florestina inside Akatsuki Nagisa and seized control of her to use her in a scheme involving the king of beasts. Nagisa vanished, and Azer set out to find the girl responsible.

• A fairy-like girl appeared beside Akatsuki Nagisa and awakened Aurora Florestina by touching her forehead.
• Aurora refused to help the fairy-like girl test the king of beasts, but the girl activated Frozen Mode and took control of her.
• The fairy-like girl and Aurora vanished from Nagisa’s room, leaving Akatsuki Kojo confused.
• Azer returned to find Nagisa missing and remnants of Aurora’s magical power in the room.
• Himegi Yukina said she had hypnotized Akatsuki Kojo and Sendogi Yuma, and Azer asked her to take them to Endo Master while he went to find someone.

Azer raced to the Keystone Gate after Akatsuki Nagisa’s immense magical power triggered an island-wide emergency, only to be confronted by powerful envoys from the War King Domain and Extinction Dynasty. The chapter ended with Azer asking whether they were sure they wanted to stop him as a battle loomed.

• Akatsuki Nagisa’s surging magical power set off alarms across Itogami Island, while the Aldikia royals discussed La Folia and Yaze Natsune’s decisions to remain with Azer.
• Azer flew to the Keystone Gate, where the island’s protective doors had trapped panicking tourists and Nagisa’s magical power gathered at the top.
• Peresh Arador and Iblisbel Azazel sent their near-Progenitor-level Familiars against Azer as he approached the Keystone Gate.
• Azer repelled the Familiars and landed in the plaza, where Arador identified himself as the War King Domain’s envoy and Iblisbel introduced himself as a prince of the Extinction Dynasty.
• Iblisbel asked whether Azer had come for the Fourth Primogenitor’s vessel, and Azer challenged the two men as he turned his Spirit Power into magical power.

Azer fought Arador and Iblisbell at the Keystone Gate, answering their powerful Familiars with Divine Beasts from the Mythological Era. After his beasts overwhelmed Iblisbell’s Familiars, Azer struck Iblisbell with azure flames, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Arador attacked Azer with his Familiars, but Azer summoned the Nemean Lion, which repelled Envious One and tore it apart.
• Arador used Arrogant One to cut the Nemean Lion through space, then sent more Familiars against Azer’s summoned Orthrus, Cerberus, Chimera, and Sphinx.
• Iblisbell sent Qebehsenuef, Domtef, and Harpy against Azer, who summoned the Caucasian Eagle and several dragons to fight them.
• Iblisbell summoned Meliseg, a poison Familiar stolen from Maevia, but Azer’s Nine-Headed Hydra destroyed it with its venom.
• Azer unleashed Blue Fire Fall, engulfing Iblisbell in azure flames.

Azer defeated Arador and Iblisbell at the Keystone Gate and headed for its top floor. Vattler warned that Azer had held back and discussed the danger posed by his unrevealed powers, while Arador resolved to urge the War King to avoid conflict with him.

• Azer blasted Iblisbell with Blue Fire Fall, then intercepted Arador’s attack and knocked him into a building with a punch.
• Azer struck Iblisbell down and his Divine Beasts defeated the Familiars summoned by Arador and Iblisbell.
• Azer left for the top floor of the Keystone Gate, while the injured Arador and Iblisbell realized he had spared them.
• Vattler appeared and told Arador that even the three of them attacking together likely could not have challenged Azer, who had held back.
• Arador recalled Azer’s Hundred-Headed Giant and resolved to warn the War King against provoking the King of Magical Beasts.
• Vattler said the War King would listen, the Extinction Dynasty’s leader would likely let the matter rest, and the Chaos Realm’s leader should learn the lesson herself.

Azer confronted Jada Kucukan, who had abducted Akatsuki Nagisa and activated the Fourth Primogenitor’s Frozen Mode inside her. Jada challenged Azer to fight as Nagisa’s body was overwhelmed by the awakened power.

• Azer arrived at the Keystone Gate and recognized the girl posing as Aurora Florestina as a fake.
• Azer identified the girl as Jada Kucukan, the Third Primogenitor, and demanded to know what she had done to Akatsuki Nagisa.
• Jada explained that Nagisa held Aurora’s complete Fourth Primogenitor power and that Frozen Mode had awakened it without Aurora’s restraint.
• Azer sensed Nagisa suffering and directed his killing intent at Jada, who welcomed his reaction.
• Jada released her immense magic power and challenged Azer to show what he could do.

Azer fought Gada atop the Keystone Gate, overwhelming her with his weapons and powers until she unleashed a devastating spatial attack. Just as he prepared to kill her, Gada used the sleeping Akatsuki Nagisa and her Ice Demon Bird to freeze the Keystone Gate and survive, leaving Azer facing Nagisa’s unleashed power.

• Gada summoned successive Familiars to attack Azer, but he deflected their attacks and destroyed her thundercloud Familiar.
• Azer countered Gada’s ice, fire, and spatial Familiars, then wounded her with Hyōrinmaru and Shinso.
• Gada summoned Sotorol, whose spatial attack Azer absorbed and redirected with Jewel Treasure, tearing away half her body.
• As Azer prepared to finish Gada with the Holy Spear, Akatsuki Nagisa awakened under Gada’s control and unleashed a freezing Familiar that encased the Keystone Gate and nearby buildings in ice.
• Gada regenerated from her injuries and told Azer that controlling Nagisa had saved her from death.

Azer confronted Gada while Akatsuki Nagisa’s unleashed power froze Itogami Island, then fought the two Progenitors’ Familiars in the sky above the island. Gada escaped Azer’s seal with Nagisa’s help, but Azer weakened her and turned to deal with her first.

• Akatsuki Nagisa’s Frozen Mode spread across Itogami Island, freezing its residents and the Keystone Gate as Azer demanded that Gada release her.
• Gada refused, recognizing that Azer was restraining his strength to avoid destroying the island and its people, then chose to continue the battle.
• Akatsuki Nagisa and Gada summoned Familiars and attacked Azer with lightning, fire, lava, and space-breaking assaults, but he evaded and countered them with the Seven Treasures.
• Azer trapped Gada with Maiden Treasure, but Akatsuki Nagisa’s Rainbow Flame of the Underworld Princess severed the seal and freed her.
• Azer appeared behind Gada and repeatedly halved her power, while Nagisa summoned the Purple Manticore and Azer used Layman Treasure to block her with copies of himself.

Akatsuki Nagisa manifested all twelve of the Fourth Primogenitor’s Familiars, but Azer defeated them with Eternal Spear Gungnir and rescued her. After Gada explained the Fourth Primogenitor’s safeguard system, someone interrupted Azer as he questioned whether she was begging for mercy.

• Akatsuki Nagisa summoned all twelve of the Fourth Primogenitor’s Familiars, straining her body and draining her vitality.
• Azer abandoned Gada, teleported to Nagisa, and threw Eternal Spear Gungnir, which pierced the Familiars while Yagrush and Aymur destroyed the last two.
• Azer weakened Nagisa’s power, healed her with the Penglai Jade Branch, and restrained her with the Female Treasure.
• Gada admitted defeat and explained how to activate, deactivate, or destroy Frozen Mode.
• Azer asked Gada if she was begging for mercy, but an unidentified speaker interrupted to ask permission to say a few words.

Quý Yizhulan Balada and Aisodegur Yaziz arrived to ask Azer to spare Gada, but Azer warned that the three True Ancestors could not intimidate him. Quý offered compensation, including a USB drive containing the Heavenly Tribe’s research on artificially creating Vampires.

• Quý Yizhulan Balada and Aisodegur Yaziz appeared atop the Keystone Gate, joining Gada and making all five kings capable of ruling the world gather on Itogami Island.
• Quý asked Azer to spare Gada because her death could destabilize the Chaos Realm and the Sanctuary Treaty, while Aisodegur said she had come to protect what she considered beautiful.
• Azer rejected their plea, reminded them that they had helped provoke him, and raised the Shinso to show that the True Ancestors could not threaten him.
• Quý offered to make Itogami Island and its assets Azer’s property and to help him found a country.
• Quý gave Azer a USB drive containing the Heavenly Tribe’s research on artificially creating Vampires.

Quý offered Azer the Primogenitors’ research into artificially creating Vampires as a bargaining chip, giving him a way to save Akatsuki Nagisa and Aurora. The Primogenitors agreed to make Itogami Island Azer’s territory, and after they departed, Azer received notice that he could return to the Library and end his life experience.

• Quý explained the origins of artificial Vampires and offered the research data to Azer as a bargaining chip.
• Azer considered ways to save Akatsuki Nagisa and Aurora, rejecting options that would put Aurora under Athena’s control or risk sending her somewhere unknown.
• Quý summoned Nangong Nayue to witness the agreement, and she agreed if it meant the Primogenitors would leave Itogami Island.
• Quý declared that the Primogenitors would make Itogami Island Azer’s property and formally announce the decision through the Sanctuary Treaty Organization.
• Elsword and Gada accepted the agreement, and the Primogenitors and their other guests left the island.
• Azer received a message that he could return to the Library and settle his life experience, and he realized his peaceful life was ending.

After the Borou Festival incident was covered up, Azer became Itogami Island’s ruler and arranged for Aurora’s restoration before leaving for the Library of Fantasies. There, the Library made the worlds he had experienced real and summoned his companions to join him.

• The Artificial Island Management Corporation blamed the island’s upheaval on spacetime instability, while Akatsuki Kojo and Akatsuki Nagisa remained unaware of what had happened to them.
• Nangong Nayue persuaded Sendogi Yuma to choose a new path, and Yuma thanked Azer for stopping her from hurting Akatsuki Nagisa.
• The Three Great Night Empires and Sanctuary Treaty Organization secured Itogami Island for Azer, and the Three Sages declared him independent of the Lion King Organization.
• Azer gave Nangong Nayue Quý’s USB drive and asked her to use its research materials to create a new body for Aurora, then left Itogami Island after the Borou Festival.
• The Library of Fantasies made the worlds Azer had experienced real and granted him the authority to summon people from them as assistants.
• Azer’s companions appeared in the Library of Fantasies, and he welcomed them.

Azer returned to Sui Zhi Town after several years away and reunited with his childhood friend Mating Lu Hua. As they joked together in the busy town, a blade embedded in a shrine stone began to glow, hinting that change was approaching.

• Azer reached Sui Zhi Town by taxi and frightened the driver into fleeing by claiming the previous driver had died after visiting.
• Azer entered the crowded town and noticed how much busier it had become with tourists visiting its famous hot springs.
• Mating Lu Hua greeted Azer, and he recognized his childhood friend after being surprised by how much she had changed.
• Azer recalled his arrival in this world, his family ties to Sui Zhi Town, and how he had visited there during school holidays.
• Azer and Mating Lu Hua teased and wrestled with each other in the street.
• A blade embedded in a massive stone inside a Sui Zhi Town Shrine began to glow unnoticed.

Azer returned to Sui Zhi Town and reunited with his childhood friend Mating Lu Hua, who took him to see the Kasuga Festival parade. At Tatsumi Shrine, Azer felt a strange heartbeat and stared toward the shrine, leaving the source of the sensation unknown.

• Azer and Mating Lu Hua caught up as she explained that Azer's mother had asked her to meet him and help him settle in at Shinato Inn.
• Mating Lu Hua teased Azer for neglecting Sui Zhi Town despite winning the national kendo championship, and Azer recalled his unusual talent for handling weapons.
• Azer and Mating Lu Hua encountered the Kasuga Festival parade, and she persuaded him to follow it to Tatsumi Shrine to watch the Shrine Maidens' Kagura Dance.
• At Tatsumi Shrine, Azer felt a strange heartbeat, clutched his chest, and stared toward the shrine.

Azer returned to Tatsumi Shrine for the Kasuga Festival, reunited with his cousins Kurama Rentaro and Kurama Koharu and their childhood friend Mating Lu Hua, and watched Sui Zhi Town’s Shrine Maiden perform Kagura. As the dance captivated the crowd, Azer saw a pair of white beast ears appear on the Shrine Maiden’s head.

• Azer’s heartbeat began pounding again when he entered Tatsumi Shrine, recalling that the same strange feeling had frightened him as a child.
• Mating Lu Hua called over Kurama Rentaro and Kurama Koharu, and Azer reunited with his cousins after several years apart.
• Rentaro and Koharu welcomed Azer back, and the four childhood friends teased one another as they caught up.
• The Shrine Maiden emerged before the shrine hall and began the Kagura Dance, silencing and captivating Azer and the crowd.
• Azer noticed small white beast ears appear atop the dancing Shrine Maiden’s head.

After witnessing the shrine maiden’s beast ears during her Kagura Dance, Azer began to suspect that Sui Zhi Town’s Inugami Possession legend concealed a real secret. At Tatsumi Shrine, the Divine Sword Muramasa glimmered only for Azer, whose pounding heart drove him to want to draw it.

• Azer recalled Sui Zhi Town’s curse legend and wondered whether the town was hiding something supernatural.
• Azer asked to enter the shrine, where the sight of a sword embedded in a rock made his heartbeat grow stronger.
• Azer reunited with Kurama Genjurou, who praised his kendo achievement and told him to move into Shinato Inn before discussing work the next day.
• Kurama Genjurou explained that the festival’s sword-drawing event let visitors try to pull the Divine Sword Muramasa from its stone.
• Azer saw Muramasa glow when no one else could see it, and he felt an overwhelming urge to draw the sword.

Azer drew Muramasa, the Divine Sword that no one in Sui Zhi had ever been able to pull from the rock, and the shrine suspended the festival while the Chief Priest prepared to deal with the unprecedented event. Azer was left waiting alone at the shrine until a voice from Muramasa answered his joke about it being a cursed Magic Sword.

• Azer followed an inexplicable impulse to the platform and effortlessly drew Muramasa, feeling the sword resonate with him.
• Mating Lu Hua, Kurama Rentaro, and Kurama Koharu watched in shock as Azer held the sword he had drawn.
• Kurama Genjurou ordered the visitors to leave, suspended the sword-drawing ritual, and sent word to the Chief Priest, Mr. Anqing.
• News of Azer drawing Muramasa spread through Sui Zhi, and Mr. Anqing learned that Azer was Kurama Genjurou's grandson and part Sui Zhi by blood.
• Mr. Anqing decided to tell his daughter Yoshino and arrange a response while Azer remained at the shrine, waiting hungry until nightfall.
• Azer joked that Muramasa might be a cursed Magic Sword, and a voice from the shrine insisted that Muramasa was not one.

Azer met Muramasa, the Divine Sword’s administrator, and learned that the sword had chosen him as its Master. At Tatsumi Shrine, Chief Priest Asatake Anqing introduced his daughter, Asatake Yoshino, whose complicated expression and sharp gaze greeted Azer.

• Azer saw a floating girl who identified herself as Muramasa, the spirit residing within the Divine Sword and its administrator.
• Muramasa explained that Azer had become her Master because he had drawn the sword, while Azer sensed that Muramasa itself had a separate sword spirit.
• Kurama Genjurou and Asatake Anqing arrived, and Kurama Genjurou asked Azer to hear the Chief Priest’s request about the Divine Sword.
• Asatake Anqing introduced his daughter, Asatake Yoshino, who entered and looked at Azer and the swords in his hands with conflicted resolve.

Azer explained that Muramasa had called him to draw the sword, and the blade’s response confirmed that he was a wielder unlike any before him. Asatake Anqing asked Azer to move into Tatsumi Shrine and proposed that he become engaged to Yoshino, leaving both of them stunned as the arrangement was declared settled.

• Azer recounted how Muramasa had drawn him toward Tatsumi Shrine as a child and again during the sword-drawing ceremony, and Muramasa shimmered in response to him.
• Muramasa admitted she had never seen the Divine Sword respond to a wielder this way and suggested that Azer was special.
• Asatake Anqing asked Azer to move into Tatsumi Shrine, transfer to a school in Sui Zhi Town, and accept the family’s support.
• Azer questioned whether he could accept the support, so Asatake Anqing proposed an engagement to Yoshino as a reason for him to stay.
• Yoshino protested that her father had never discussed an engagement with her, but Anqing insisted the arrangement was settled after Kurama Genjurou urged Azer to wait and see.