Chapter Summaries

Jiang Lianqiu learned that Vanir had been trapped inside the former Magic Kingdom’s underground palace and rescued Wiz, who brought word of his plight. Meanwhile, Aqua became upset after Jiang Lianqiu left with Eris, and the others wondered what danger he had gone to face.

• Latifa told Jiang Lianqiu that excavation of the underground Royal Palace had stalled because of a dangerous energy barrier, and Jiang said he had found clues that might let them safely undo it.
• Jiang Lianqiu healed Wiz with The Abundance Divine Power after she collapsed at the base, and Wiz revealed that Vanir had been sucked into the ruins and trapped there.
• Wiz explained that Vanir’s Mask Clone had reached her with news before losing its demonic power, and she showed Jiang Lianqiu the cracked mask it left behind.
• Cecily urged Aqua to attend the Aqua Festival in Alcanretya, but Aqua grew miserable when she learned Jiang Lianqiu had gone away with Eris.
• Megumin and the others comforted the drunken Aqua, while Alice said Jiang Lianqiu had left with Eris to save someone in a matter tied to the world’s safety.

Jiang Lianqiu brought Alice and the others to the buried Magic Kingdom ruins, where Alice and Latifa attempted to pass the barrier’s identity verification. The system detected a match and began processing their access, but the gate had not yet opened.

• Alice agreed to help Jiang Lianqiu, and she and the others traveled by Sky Shuttle to his desert base.
• Jiang Lianqiu led the group down a vast excavation pit and into an enormous underground cavern containing the sealed Royal Palace ruins.
• Latifa explained that she and Alice needed to work together to remove the barrier, while forcing the gate open risked collapsing the space.
• Latifa and Alice recited the ancient incantation on the identity-verification platform, which detected similar life signs and began scanning them.
• The system found no shadow contamination, detected a genetic component and weak energy echo, and reported that the minimum requirements were met.

Jiang Lianqiu used a scale from the Time Worm to open the ancient Magic Kingdom's sealed gate and discovered a vast, advanced Royal Palace. As the group searched it for Vanir, Jiang Lianqiu suspected that the Magic Kingdom's history had been erased from time itself.

• Jiang Lianqiu presented the Time Worm scale, which the gate recognized as a credential, lifting the blockade and opening the Bronze Giant Gate.
• Jiang Lianqiu and the others crossed a bridge to a floating Royal Palace, whose advanced design astonished them.
• Eris could not recall the Magic Kingdom's era or explain how advanced it had been, and Jiang Lianqiu suspected important information about it had been erased from time.
• Aqua sensed demonic aura and led the group through the palace toward Vanir.
• The group encountered small Masked Automatons bearing masks like Vanir's, and Wiz took their presence as a sign that he might still be alive.

Jiang Lianqiu and his companions reached Vanir in the Royal Palace, where Vanir’s amplified demonic nature exposed the girls’ private thoughts before Jiang Lianqiu subdued him. Vanir explained that the Demon King had recently heard mysterious voices from beyond the world and gained black flames from a Void Realm Lord, leaving Jiang Lianqiu to investigate his apparent connection to that power.

• Aqua struck a Masked Automaton with her scepter, causing it to explode and soot her, while more automatons appeared down the corridor.
• Darkness charged through the automatons, enjoying that she could hit them as they exploded, and the group followed their trail to the Royal Palace’s altar-like chamber.
• Vanir ignored Wiz at first, then revealed the girls’ hidden thoughts and admitted that his demonic nature had intensified his cravings for emotions.
• Jiang Lianqiu restrained Vanir and drained his power, prompting Vanir to mistake him for an Evil God of the Void Realm.
• Vanir said the First Demon King Yasaka had sensed an outside will, and that the current Demon King Yasakyoichi had recently heard mysterious voices from beyond the world.
• Vanir explained that the Demon King had found foreign facilities in ancient Magic Kingdom ruins and received pitch-black flames as a gift from the Void Realm Lord, which he could not control.

Jiang Lianqiu learned that the Magic Kingdom had been destroyed after its people pierced the false sky and attracted the Time Worm’s gaze, and that its Royal Palace had erased the kingdom’s history. Two days later, questions about the Demon King impostor and Aether and Yi Hai remained unresolved as the others resumed their daily duties in Axel, ending with Aqua rushing in and sobbing.

• Vanir told Jiang Lianqiu that the Demon King impostor was searching for the Underground Royal Palace and the truth behind the Magic Kingdom’s fall, and that it mistook Jiang for the Progenitor it pursued.
• Vanir revealed that Nishide Kanade and the Magic Kingdom broke through the false sky, drew the gaze of the Time Worm, and were driven mad by the taboo that followed.
• Vanir explained that Nishide Kanade turned the Royal Palace into an alchemical array that erased the kingdom’s rise and destruction from history, prompting Jiang to wonder whether the Time Worm was connected to his own missing records.
• Two days later in Axel, Yuyu questioned Megumin about why everyone was acting normally, while Darkness struggled with her duties as the acting lord.
• Megumin said Jiang was at the base recovering the Magic Kingdom’s heritage, and Aqua then burst into the residence crying.

Aqua’s desire for a festival was resolved when Alice proposed holding it alongside the Eris Festival, while Jiang Lianqiu’s investigation into the Demon King’s disappearance made progress with Vanir’s help. After Jiang invited his friends to the festival, Darkness nervously asked him how to get along with them, and he teased her about being cold on the outside and cloying on the inside.

• Cecily urged Aqua to return to Alcanretya, but Alice suggested holding a joint festival with the Eris Cult, and Darkness approved the plan.
• Aqua happily thanked Jiang Lianqiu for his hard work after the merchants agreed to the joint festival.
• Jiang Lianqiu explained that researchers had traced the forbidden power to mutated Aether affected by Psionic Energy, but they still could not explain the Lord of Mesmerizing Sound’s whispers.
• Jiang Lianqiu said Vanir was helping his people investigate the Demon King’s disappearance by analyzing residual magic at the castle site.
• Jiang Lianqiu invited his friends to the festival, and Darkness admitted she was anxious about hosting them and asked him for advice.
• Jiang Lianqiu reassured and teased Darkness, calling her cold on the outside and cloying on the inside, and Darkness demanded that he explain himself.

Aqua's Goddess Thanksgiving Festival began in Axel, drawing crowds from other towns and turning the commercial district into a lively celebration. Jiang Lianqiu explored the festival with Zhu Yuan and Tsukishiro Yanagi, then grew concerned when Zhu Yuan mentioned that miasma was receding in parts of the Lyrmnian Void.

• Stelle and March 7th exposed that they, Firefly, and Hanabi had been secretly watching Darkness, who fled the bedroom in tears.
• Aqua eagerly helped around the household as the festival approached, then rushed out early on the morning it began; Darkness followed to keep an eye on the Cult of Axis.
• Jiang Lianqiu woke beside Firefly and learned from Megumin that she and Firefly would wait for Alice and Yuzuha before joining the festival.
• Jiang Lianqiu arrived in Axel's crowded festival grounds and learned that Princess Alice had sent Satou Kazuma to help plan it, while Kazuma added swimsuits, costumes, and a fireworks display to the festivities.
• Zhu Yuan and Tsukishiro Yanagi joined Jiang Lianqiu in festive outfits, and Zhu Yuan told him that miasma was gradually clearing from previously dangerous areas of the Lyrmnian Void.
• Jiang Lianqiu became concerned about the receding miasma, but a commotion ahead drew his attention before he could think further.

Jiang Lianqiu toured the festival and dealt with the Cult of Axis followers’ chaotic, misleading stalls, while Aqua sabotaged Eris’s lottery with her bad luck. After exploring the festival with Aqua, Jiang Lianqiu ran into Satou Kazuma, who revealed he had planned many of its activities.

• Jiang Lianqiu stopped Cecily from selling giant tadpoles and had Sirius replace them with goldfish.
• Jiang Lianqiu saw Cult of Axis stalls falsely advertising squid, ordinary fish, and painted chicks, while some sellers were arrested and Sirius reported that Christina was selling real antimatter bombs.
• Zhu Yuan reconsidered allowing the Cult of Axis to spread in New Ailidou, but Jiang Lianqiu said it was worth trying because both the Cult of Axis and the Eris Cult worshipped genuine gods.
• Jiang Lianqiu found Aqua interfering with Eris’s lottery and realized Aqua’s bad luck was preventing customers from winning; Eris admitted she had been tricked into helping Aqua.
• Aqua dragged Jiang Lianqiu around the festival, where they encountered Satou Kazuma, who said he had planned many of the festival activities.

Jiang Lianqiu watched the festival conclude and shared a tender evening with Aqua, who tried to win his affection using Cecily’s advice. As Aqua fell asleep in his arms on a mountain overlooking Axel, Jiang Lianqiu followed the stream of Eris’s faith toward another place.

• Jiang Lianqiu learned Kazuma had helped organize the festival to give him a chance to relax, then received Kazuma’s VIP voucher for the Succubus Shop.
• Firefly confronted Kazuma for trying to send succubi after Jiang Lianqiu and punched him in the face.
• Aqua thanked Jiang Lianqiu for supporting the festival, kissed him, and tried to present herself as a worthy romantic partner.
• Jiang Lianqiu discovered Aqua’s secret notebook of Cecily’s seduction instructions and learned Aqua had tried using an aphrodisiac that she purified into water.
• Jiang Lianqiu took Aqua to a mountain overlooking Axel, held her on his lap as the festival hymns turned into a noisy dispute between the cults, and watched her fall asleep.
• Jiang Lianqiu followed the stream of faith flowing toward Eris to another place.

During Axel’s festival, Jiang Lianqiu spent time with Megumin and Yuyu, then reunited with Zhu Yuan and sensed something strange about her. After spotting an unusual octopus-like Beast Girl, he met with Black Swan, Yi Xuan, Alice, and Ukibo Yuzuha to discuss clues about Yi Hai and the anomalies affecting the world.

• Jiang Lianqiu encountered Eris chasing a self-aware, perverted suit of armor that had mocked her figure.
• Jiang Lianqiu won prizes at festival games with Megumin and Yuyu, then followed them to defend Axel from nocturnal insects during the fireworks.
• Megumin was arrested after casting Explosion Magic above the town, while Yuyu went after her and Jiang Lianqiu returned to the festival.
• Zhu Yuan unexpectedly arrived despite believing she was supposed to be working, and Jiang Lianqiu noticed a brief purple flash and sensed something unusual about her.
• Jiang Lianqiu spotted an octopus-like Beast Girl who disappeared into the crowd, then used his senses to find Black Swan, Yi Xuan, Alice, and Ukibo Yuzuha.
• Black Swan said she had clues about Yi Hai’s appearance and sensed that Axel and the world were shrouded in an atmosphere like Taiyi Dream.

Black Swan traced the world’s anomalies to Strawberry Parfait, a missing Proxy whose unusual dream ability had interacted with Jiang Lianqiu’s lingering Psionic Energy. The group concluded that Strawberry Parfait and the Demon King were trapped in her dream, while Jiang Lianqiu agreed to help Herta investigate the world’s origins later.

• Black Swan explained that the anomalies began in New Ailidou and linked them to Jiang Lianqiu’s power and a strange girl seen in a Hollow.
• Ukibo Yuzuha identified the girl as Strawberry Parfait, her missing online friend, and Zhu Yuan asked Qing Yi to check for missing-person reports.
• Black Swan said Strawberry Parfait could perceive and recreate the past, and that her ability may have changed after encountering Jiang Lianqiu’s Psionic Energy.
• Jiang Lianqiu reasoned that Strawberry Parfait, rather than himself, might have caused the mesmerizing influence and other disturbances, and Black Swan warned he may have helped create a Void Realm-like being.
• Karos reported that Theia had absorbed Psionic Energy and offered Herta’s proposed Void Realm Simulation Experiment; Jiang Lianqiu agreed to help later.
• Black Swan concluded that Strawberry Parfait and the Demon King were inside the girl’s dream, while Jiang Lianqiu distracted her beneath the table and she accidentally stepped on Zhu Yuan.

Jiang Lianqiu explained that Aqua and Eris might have originated from a Simulated Void Realm, making them unusually attuned to Psionic Energy. The revelation left Eris facing more meditation training on top of her exhausting divine duties.

• Changye Yue punished Aegis, Aqua, and Stelle over the armor's behavior and Aqua's earlier mistreatment of March 7th.
• Jiang Lianqiu invited Aqua to his room, prompting the household to assume he was proposing to her and sending Aqua into an embarrassed scuffle with Megumin.
• Jiang Lianqiu gathered Aqua and Eris and explained Black Swan's theory that Theia's impact created the conditions for their births and the world's gods.
• Jiang Lianqiu connected Aqua's natural meditation and both goddesses' Psionic Energy affinity to their possible origins in a Simulated Void Realm.
• Jiang Lianqiu urged Eris to begin meditating, while Eris lamented that her goddess duties left her no time to rest.

Jiang Lianqiu agreed to arrange for Aqua and Eris to recruit believers in other worlds, hoping the cross-world faith would help locate a missing Demon King and a sleeping figure. Later, Cecily encouraged Aqua to thank Jiang Lianqiu with a nighttime visit, but Aqua feared she would make another mistake.

• Darkness asked Jiang Lianqiu to hear what she still had to say, and Jiang Lianqiu let Aqua recruit believers in other worlds under strict instructions to follow a script.
• Aqua described how her efforts to spread the Cult of Axis in Japan had led to authorities locking up her followers, so Jiang Lianqiu said he would arrange professional help.
• Eris asked Jiang Lianqiu for assistance too, and after Aqua teased her, Eris kissed him and received the same promise of carefully managed recruitment.
• Jiang Lianqiu explained that spreading faith across modern Earth and New Ailidou could create ripples in a higher dimension and help his people find a sleeping figure and the missing Demon King.
• While bathing Aqua, Cecily sensed that Aqua's powers had grown since meeting Jiang Lianqiu and urged her to use his recruitment plans as an excuse to visit him at night.
• Aqua hesitated over Cecily's proposed nighttime raid, worried she would fail and get scolded again, while Cecily offered to plan it for her.

Jiang Lianqiu arranged for Huanlong to help spread faith in Aqua and Eris, while agreeing to let her try Herta’s Simulated Void Realm experiment. He then answered Aqua’s summons and found her tied up in a gift box, with Cecily staging a dramatic rescue scenario.

• Cecily and Aqua nervously resolved to try to win, even if they died trying.
• Jiang Lianqiu asked Huanlong to plan the goddesses’ faith propagation, and Huanlong explained that Aqua and Eris needed to participate from the start.
• Huanlong asked for Hanabi’s help and access to the Void Realm; Jiang Lianqiu refused direct access but agreed to let her try Herta’s Simulated Void Realm experiment.
• Aqua messaged Jiang Lianqiu to come to her room, where Cecily greeted him in a revealing nun’s outfit and claimed Aqua had a gift for him.
• Cecily sealed the room and urged Jiang Lianqiu to open a gift box, revealing Aqua bound inside and pretending to be asleep.

Jiang Lianqiu reunited with Aqua and Cecily, then arranged for Kazuma and Mikami Kyoya to return to modern Japan on a mission while helping spread their faith. The chapter left Jiang Lianqiu at Fumizuki Academy as Hoshimi Miyabi arrived after completing her report-writing training.

• Jiang Lianqiu freed Aqua from the ribbon, embraced and kissed her, and Aqua and Cecily later took the initiative to care for him.
• Kazuma and Mikami Kyoya returned to Japan with permission from the goddess and Princess Alice, reunited with their families, and transferred into F Class.
• Yoshii Akihisa and the F Class students mistook Kazuma and Mikami Kyoya's private conversation for a romantic relationship.
• Tsukishiro Yanagi told Jiang Lianqiu that religious groups were spreading smoothly and discussed stepping down as principal and adapting summoning technology for New Ailidou's VR Training.
• Hoshimi Miyabi entered Jiang Lianqiu's office and told him she had finished her training in organizing reports.

Jiang Lianqiu learned that Aqua and Eris’s visions had revealed a colossal dragon corpse and a Time Worm, while Herta connected their discovery to the fall of the Immortal Dragon God. New clues from Bailu’s inherited memories suggested that descendants of the Zelo race had contacted the Dragon God before its fall.

• Hoshimi Miyabi reported that preventive Aether Energy devices had stopped Hollow Outbreaks, while Tsukishiro Yanagi said the world’s Void Outbreak Signs were declining.
• Sirius alerted Jiang Lianqiu that Aqua and Eris were in trouble, and he found them shaken after their consciousnesses were drawn into a vision.
• Eris said Karos had used the crystals from the Video Selling Siblings to amplify their visions, and Aqua described a huge scaled bug emerging from a colossal dragon corpse.
• Herta identified the vision as a possible clue to the fall of the Immortal Star God and recounted what Welt and Dan Heng had learned about Bailu’s ancestral memories.
• Herta explained that Bailu had deciphered ancient records linking the fallen Immortal Dragon God to descendants of the Zelo race, who may have introduced it to the Void Realm.

Jiang Lianqiu and Herta traced the Simulated Void Realm, Hollows, and the missing crystal to the Immortal Dragon God’s fall and a Time Worm that erased history. Herta also suspected that Jiang’s Mech Servants were actually the vanished Eradication Protocol, then took charge of researching Aqua and Eris; days later, a group of Cave Robbers drove through a Hollow while fearing a rumored Skateboard-Demon.

• Herta gave Jiang Lianqiu an ancient Jade Slip describing the Immortal Dragon God’s attempt to reach an unnamed power beyond reality, and Jiang realized the God had suffered backlash from the Void Realm.
• Herta explained that the Dragon God’s cursed corpse created the Simulated Void Realm, whose Psionic Energy caused the Secondary Disaster that gave rise to Hollows and the Progenitor of New Ailidou.
• Jiang and Herta connected the missing crystal to Jiang’s past efforts to control Psionic Energy, while Herta proposed that a Time Worm had devoured the portion of history containing it.
• Herta warned that Jiang’s Mech Servants might actually be the victorious Eradication Protocol, citing Screwllum’s discovery of traces resembling the Anti-Organic Equation and the absence of evidence that the Protocol had been destroyed.
• Jiang found that the Mech Servants on the Command Link accepted the possibility without distress, while he wondered whether their former Eradication Protocol technology could be recovered.
• Herta took over research on Aqua and Eris and promised an answer about locating the Simulated Void Realm within three days; several days later, Cave Robbers driving through a Hollow spoke fearfully of the Skateboard-Demon.

Syd intercepted a truck carrying a sealed cocoon of corrupting miasma and forced its Cave Robber crew to open the carriage. The boss sabotaged the cocoon’s stabilizer, and a gigantic Yi Hai emerged as Syd faced it alone.

• The Cave Robbers’ truck crashed into Old Syd, which had been hidden by Optical Stealth, and Syd appeared above the mech.
• Syd repelled the Cave Robbers’ gunfire with an Electromagnetic Field and attacked them with Small Floating Cannons before climbing into Old Syd.
• Syd ordered the Cave Robbers to open the carriage, and the boss warned that its cargo contained a dangerous monster.
• The Cave Robber boss destroyed the cocoon’s stabilizer and fled with his henchmen as the cocoon began to pulse.
• Syd approached the cocoon, which cracked open, and a gigantic Yi Hai burst out of the carriage.

Syd was nearly overwhelmed by a powerful Yi Hai until Alice and Yuzuha came to her aid, and Jiang Lianqiu arrived to defeat the monster. Afterward, Syd recognized Trigger and learned that Jiang Lianqiu was the man Will-o'-the-wisp said had run off with her.

• Syd dodged the Yi Hai's attack but was left airborne and nearly ensnared by its tentacles.
• Alice rescued Syd with precise sword strikes, and Yuzuha joined the fight with her Umbrella Gun and Ah Fu's help.
• Jiang Lianqiu blocked the Yi Hai's claws as they closed on Yuzuha, then blasted the monster apart with a powerful kick.
• Jiang Lianqiu checked on Alice and met Syd, who mistook him for a Defense Force officer.
• Jiang Lianqiu called Trigger over, and Syd recognized her as Charon and recalled that Will-o'-the-wisp had said she ran off with him.

Jiang Lianqiu discovered that Syd had innate Psionic Energy, while Black Swan and Hoshimi Miyabi exposed the dangerous dream-made illusions in a Hollow and cleared the corrupted town. The group reunited, and Black Swan became interested in Syd's unusual memories.

• Syd told Jiang Lianqiu she was investigating a wish-granting Great Treasure and said she felt they were the same kind of person.
• Jiang Lianqiu examined Syd's hand and realized her innate Psionic Energy had suppressed her mental development.
• Black Swan revealed that the peaceful town was an illusion created by a sleeping being's power, and Hoshimi Miyabi destroyed its corrupted flowers.
• Ju Fufu and Yi Xuan joined Hoshimi Miyabi, and Black Swan explained that others had also struggled to act against the illusions.
• Jiang Lianqiu's group arrived, and Black Swan noticed Syd's interesting memories while Syd politely waved to her.