Chapter Summaries

Roa continued training with Gale and steadily adapted to his swordsmanship as Instant sharpened his thoughts and reactions. During their latest duel, Roa interrupted Gale’s Light Katana and defeated him with Light Return, leaving the gathered onlookers stunned.

• Est told Roa that he needed to grow up before vanishing from the training hall.
• Over the next half month, Roa trained with Gale and helped Eris and Rudeus improve, while Eris said she had apologized to Nina but did not know if Nina had forgiven her.
• Roa’s sparring with Gale improved his swordsmanship and advanced Instant, making his thoughts and reactions faster.
• Gale began their latest duel in a forward stance and blocked Roa’s opening slash, then countered with a Light Katana aimed at Roa’s right arm.
• Roa used Instant to interrupt Gale’s Light Katana and struck him with Light Return, defeating Gale in front of the astonished crowd.

Roa defeated Gale and became the new Sword God, while persuading his former master to remain at the Holy Land of Swords and continue teaching. Rudeus settled in among the students and impressed the boys with his detailed knowledge of girls’ measurements.

• Roa defeated Gale in their sparring match, and Gale acknowledged that Roa had surpassed him.
• Roa declined to take over Gale’s role at the Holy Land of Swords, explaining that he needed to pursue other work and that the students still needed Gale.
• Gale accepted Roa’s kindness, stayed at the Holy Land of Swords, and declared Roa the new Sword God.
• Rudeus befriended the younger students and advised a bashful boy about talking to girls.
• Rudeus recited girls’ measurements and explained his calculations, earning the boys’ admiration and jealousy over his cute fiancée.

Rudeus taught the boys at the Holy Land of Swords how to court girls, while Eris and Nina continued their awkward feud. Roa’s swordsmanship then surged during a spar with Gale, and he took control of their rhythm as he began to break through his bottleneck.

• Rudeus advised the boys to show their strengths to attract girls, but one student rushed off to confess to Eris and was later heard screaming.
• Eris treated Nina’s nod as acceptance of her apology and left, leaving the two girls and Nina’s circle to ignore one another.
• Eris improved under Gale and Roa’s instruction, while Gale began giving Roa more detailed guidance and training.
• Roa’s sword caught up with Gale’s during their spar, and Roa’s heightened awareness helped him break through his bottleneck.
• Roa’s attacks disrupted Gale’s rhythm, and Gale struggled to counter as Roa took control of the exchange.

Roa and Gale fought until Roa reached the peak of his ability and defeated Gale, advancing the Sword God Style to the Divine level. Gale accepted his defeat and agreed to remain at the Holy Land of Swords for a few more decades.

• Gale sensed Roa's breakthrough and kept parrying his attacks, waiting for him to reach his peak.
• Roa and Gale prepared for a final clash, each watching for the slightest opening.
• They launched their attacks at the same time, and Roa remained standing while Gale fell to his knees.
• Roa received a system notification confirming that he had advanced the Sword God Style to the Divine level.
• Roa helped Gale up, and Gale accepted his retirement while agreeing to keep watch over the Holy Land of Swords.

Roa promised Gale he would defeat the Dragon God, turned down Gale’s attempt to match him with Nina, and was formally recognized as a Sword God and teacher. At the end of Eris’s month-long visit, Roa refused her request to go home with him, as he still had responsibilities to attend to.

• Roa promised Gale that he would defeat the Dragon God, then politely rejected Gale’s pitch for his daughter Nina.
• Roa checked his status panel and felt proud of how far he had progressed.
• Gale announced that Roa was qualified to become the Sword God and told the disciples to treat him as their teacher.
• Rudeus led the disciples in greeting Teacher Roa, while Eris proudly called Roa her teacher and family, and Nina reflected on her feelings for Chino.
• At the end of her month-long visit, Eris clung to Roa and asked to go home with him, but Roa refused.

Roa established new school rules and tournaments at the Holy Land of Swords after Eris, Rudeus, and Ghislaine departed. He decided to travel to another world before the Displacement Incident and asked Gale about leaving, but Gale wanted to know if Roa was sure.

• Roa turned down Eris's request to stay with her, then made a written promise and agreed to certain conditions before she left with Ghislaine and Rudeus.
• Roa discovered that Rudeus had become popular among the male disciples for teaching them how to find romantic partners, and he warned the students to behave during training.
• Roa introduced weekly assessments and bi-monthly sparring tournaments to encourage the students to improve.
• After half a month of quieter days at the Holy Land of Swords, Roa decided to visit a new world and prepare for the Displacement Incident.
• Roa went to Gale and told him he wanted to travel, and Gale seriously asked whether he was sure.

Roa left the Holy Land of Swords after Gale warned him about the Dragon God and arranged for the Water God to challenge him in April. He entered a new world through the system and awoke before Aqua, who offered him a choice of reincarnation or heaven and promised he could take one thing from his previous life.

• Gale warned Roa never to strike first against the Dragon God unless he was certain he could win, and told him the Water God would challenge him in April.
• Roa said goodbye to the students and left the Holy Land of Swords, looking forward to spending winter with his family.
• Roa searched for a new world, chose true-body traversal, set the time ratio, and began the journey.
• Roa awoke in a strange place and recognized the blue-haired girl before him as Aqua.
• Aqua told Roa he was dead and offered to send him to the New World as a hero or to heaven, promising he could bring one thing from his previous life.

Roa chose Aqua’s space-crossing ring, Traveler’s Fantasy, and was sent to a new world with his powers sealed. After discovering he could convert the local mana to loosen his restraints, he met adventurers Valda, Sasha, and Kadir while seeking a nearby town.

• Roa asked Aqua for an item that could cross barriers between worlds, and she gave him a ring with severe mana and life-force risks.
• Roa assessed his sealed abilities, found that his restraints would take about sixty days to fully undo, and asked Aqua to send him to another world.
• Aqua transported Roa to a grassland, where he identified the ring as Traveler’s Fantasy and began drawing in the world’s mana.
• Roa used Pure Body to convert local mana and discovered he could cast some intermediate magic despite the restraints.
• Roa met adventurer Valda and her suspicious companions, Sasha and Kadir, and said he wanted to become an adventurer.
• Valda introduced herself and her companions, apologized for their accusations, and reached out to pat Roa’s shoulder.

Roa arrived in Axel and went to the Adventurers Guild to register, learning about the town and how adventurers worked. He paid the registration fee and listened as the receptionist began explaining the adventurer system.

• Roa learned that the nearby town was Axel, a peaceful hub for beginner adventurers that also attracted skilled quest-takers.
• Valda invited Roa to join her group, showed him to the Guild, and lent him the money he needed to register.
• Roa entered the Guild, surveyed its quests, and noticed the blonde receptionist was someone he recognized.
• Roa introduced himself to the receptionist and paid one thousand eris to register as an adventurer.
• The receptionist began explaining that adventurers handled monster extermination and other kinds of work, and were divided into classes.

Roa registered as an adventurer and learned how the Guild’s level and class system worked. When he touched the status card, it erupted in golden light and revealed that his level-one attributes were extraordinarily high.

• The receptionist explained that the card tracked adventurers’ levels, Experience Points, attributes, and class-based skills.
• Roa filled out the registration form and wrote down his age, appearance, and an arbitrary weight.
• The receptionist worried that fifteen-year-old Roa might be a noble putting himself in danger, but he insisted he could handle adventuring.
• Roa touched the status card, causing it to shine brightly and draw the Guild’s adventurers’ attention.
• The receptionist checked Roa’s results and told him his level-one attributes surpassed those of many adventurers in their twenties.

Roa accepted several monster-slaying quests and headed into the fields to hunt Giant Frogs. He killed one with a single Water Lance and saw that the kill had raised his experience by about a third.

• Luna introduced herself to Roa and said his impressive stats would let him choose an advanced class.
• Roa accepted quests to slay Giant Frogs, goblins, and hobgoblins.
• Roa went into the grassy field and found a Giant Frog after searching for about ten minutes.
• Roa killed the Giant Frog with a Water Lance and checked his adventurer card, which showed his experience had increased by about a third.
• Roa gathered mana at his fingertips and began chanting Water Lance.

Roa defeated a giant toad, gained a level, and learned that his system awarded him unusually high attribute gains. In the forest, he ambushed a goblin hunting party and left the survivors to face him as a whistle summoned more goblins.

• Roa killed the giant toad, set its corpse aside for later harvesting, and reached level two.
• Roa spent his five attribute points on strength and continued through the grassland into a forest.
• Roa spotted a goblin hunting party and attacked it with Flame Slice, killing the three goblins at the front.
• A surviving goblin blew a bone whistle while the other two survivors aimed their bows at Roa.

Roa defeated a Goblin hunting party led by the Goblin King, then gained enough experience to reach level seven. After putting out the fire and distributing his attribute points evenly, he decided to keep leveling before returning to Luna.

• Roa killed three Goblin archers with Earth Pillar and picked up a short sword from the burned Goblins.
• A group of Goblins surrounded Roa, led by a three-meter-tall Goblin King who initially challenged him to fight alone.
• Roa infused the short sword with Demon Sword magic, pierced the Goblin King's abdomen, and kicked him down, killing him.
• Roa cast Great Fireball at the fleeing Goblins, earning five level increases and reaching level seven, then used Water Splash to stop the flames from spreading.
• Roa wondered how he would claim a reward from Luna with the Goblins' bodies burned, then spent his thirty attribute points and twenty Skill Points evenly and chose to keep leveling.

Roa hunted the One-Hit Bear, a monster feared for killing adventurers with a single blow, and defeated it with magic before finishing it with his broken blade. The kill raised his level from one to twelve and loosened his restraints, leaving him feeling more confident in the world.

• Roa entered the forest to hunt the One-Hit Bear without accepting its quest, planning to claim the reward by bringing back its body.
• Roa found the bear eating a Magic Beast’s corpse and began preparing a surprise attack.
• The One-Hit Bear sensed Roa’s magic, charged, and smashed through his Earth Fortress.
• Roa struck the bear with Flame Slice, Earth Pillar, and Icicle Edge, leaving it badly wounded and pinned to the ground.
• Roa cut off the One-Hit Bear’s head with his broken blade, killing it and gaining enough experience to rise four levels, from level one to twelve.

After killing One-Hit Bear with ease, Roa returned to the Guild and told Luna what he had done. He hired adventurers to help retrieve the beast’s corpse and set out with Luna and three muscular brothers.

• Roa confirmed there were no more nearby Magic Beasts and headed back to the Guild to learn a skill and consider changing classes.
• Luna scolded Roa for killing One-Hit Bear, and he offered to take her to the beast’s corpse.
• Roa offered Luna three hundred thousand Eris for her help, then offered adventurers five hundred thousand Eris to move the corpse.
• Several adventurers volunteered, and Roa chose a scarred burly man who brought his two muscular brothers along.
• The three brothers posed together, and Luna sighed at the state of the Guild.

Roa and Luna inspected the slain monsters, including the One-Hit Bear, and Roa sold the collected materials to the Guild for fifty-five million Eris. Luna then explained how Adventurer Cards listed learnable skills and discussed the classes Roa could choose, leaving him considering his options.

• Luna and Roa checked the monster corpses while the three brothers collected them, and Luna counted five Giant Frogs and thirty-six Goblins, including a Goblin King.
• Luna saw the destruction Roa had caused in the forest and warned him that a spreading fire could have cost him part of his bonus.
• Roa led Luna to the One-Hit Bear's corpse, and she examined it and praised him for defeating the monster.
• Luna offered to help harvest the One-Hit Bear's valuable organs, and Roa agreed to sell them to the Guild.
• Roa collected fifty-five million Eris at the Guild, where Luna explained learnable skills and outlined several classes suited to his stats.

Roa exposed the demon Ultima, who had possessed Armando Delac and tried to control him. Roa challenged Ultima to enter his mental world, confident that his power and the goddess's blessing would let him defeat the Advanced Demon.

• Armando Delac provoked Roa and challenged him to a duel for the chance to meet the Princess.
• Roa sensed an evil aura, and Ultima's attempt to control his mind failed as the system granted him Demon's Whisper.
• Roa subdued Armando, and Ultima revealed that he was an Advanced Demon who had possessed him.
• Ultima threatened to kill Armando, but Roa said he did not care and then proposed a game.
• Roa offered to open his mental world to Ultima, and both entered the contest confident they would win.

Ultima entered Roa’s spiritual world to seize control of him, but Roa trapped both Ultima’s clone and main body and overwhelmed their souls. As Roa tormented the demon, Ultima threatened him with vengeance from Banir, though Roa doubted Banir would care enough to retaliate.

• Ultima entered Roa’s spiritual world and discovered a vast, vivid flower field that made him uneasy.
• Unable to escape through his own power, Ultima contacted his main body, and Roa appeared behind them in the demon’s world.
• Ultima’s main body offered Roa money, beauty, power, or a Magic Item in exchange for releasing the clone, but Roa demanded his soul.
• Roa overpowered Ultima’s spiritual world, dragged in the demon’s main body, and fused the two souls inside a cage above a scorching ocean.
• Roa intensified Ultima’s torment with a second sun, and Ultima warned that Banir would avenge him.
• Roa dismissed the threat, knowing Banir was powerful but believing the demon was unlikely to seek revenge for Ultima.

Roa defeated Ultima in his mental world, then traveled with Claire to the Royal Capital after agreeing to a magical examination. There, he met the Princess, whose power and unusual ornaments caught his attention.

• Roa erased Ultima in his mental world and gained enough experience to level up twelve times.
• Claire decided the implicated boy would not be taken to the Royal Capital and promised Roa compensation for involving him in the incident.
• Claire brought Roa through a teleportation array to the Royal Capital, where a mage examined him and confirmed he was fine.
• Claire led Roa through the palace to meet the Princess, who watched him with curiosity.
• Roa sensed that the Princess was exceptionally powerful and noticed magical energy in her necklace and grape-shaped head ornament.

Roa met Princess Alice at the Royal Palace and, after earning her trust, listened as she revealed how lonely and confined she felt. He decided he might take her along on an adventure, though he had not yet acted on the idea.

• Claire introduced Roa to Princess Alice, who surprised Claire by speaking to him directly and thanking him for his help.
• Roa told Alice he planned to stay in the Royal Capital for a month or two to gain experience before returning to his town.
• Roa patted Alice's head, and Alice said she liked it, leaving Claire shocked and jealous.
• Alice admitted she had long wanted to hear about adventurers and asked Roa to tell her about his life outside the palace.
• After Claire left, Roa considered Alice's longing for freedom and decided he might take her along to do something daring.