Chapter Summaries

After Li Yu explained how magic worked, his group rested while Hestia warned the gods that Li Yu’s world had powerful God Slayers. Hestia’s plan to display her Familia’s strength succeeded when Nangong Natsuki and Yor appeared in Orario, leaving the gods and adventurers wary of the newcomers.

• Ais decided to take Li Yu as her master, then returned to camp with Lefiya and the Amazon sisters while Bete followed.
• Li Yu told his group that magic relied on chanting and mental energy, and the group set aside questions about whether they could awaken it before resting for the night.
• At a banquet in Orario, Hestia described the other world and warned the gods about its God Slayers and the need to obey its rules.
• After the banquet, Nangong Natsuki and Yor arrived through a Magic Array to pick up Hestia, alarming the assembled adventurers, including Ottar.
• Hestia left with Nangong Natsuki and Yor, and the gathered gods recognized the Hestia Familia’s formidable strength.

After the Hestia Familia’s strength drew attention in Orario, Li Yu’s group continued training in the Dungeon and found their weapons badly damaged. Li Yu planned a final day of teamwork before returning to update their statuses and improve their equipment, and he left with Asuna to buy materials that could add a Sturdy enchantment to their weapons.

• Freya asked Ottar about Yor and Nangong Natsuki, and Ottar judged Yor especially dangerous, possibly stronger than Level 8.
• Li Yu and his companions spent another day fighting on the sixteenth floor, then returned to the eighteenth floor with materials for upgrading their weapons.
• Asuna complained that her sword had chipped and bent, and Li Yu explained that the group needed better weapons and deeper-floor materials.
• Li Yu planned for the group to fight together in a monster room the next day before returning to the surface to update their statuses and upgrade their weapons.
• Li Yu and Asuna visited the Dungeon market, where Li Yu bought nearly a million Valis’ worth of materials, mostly ores.
• On the way back, Li Yu told Asuna that the materials could be used to add the Sturdy enchantment to their weapons.

Li Yu prepared to forge Durable weapons for the group while Ais decided she wanted him as her master after losing to him with her own techniques and magic. The group departed the safe floor, and a newly respawned boss appeared just as they crossed the seventeenth floor.

• Li Yu told Asuna he planned to forge everyone blank weapons with the Durable attribute, and Asuna shared the news with Yukino Yukinoshita and Kato Megumi.
• Ais returned to the Loki Familia injured and declared that she wanted Li Yu to train her after he defeated her using improved versions of her magic and techniques.
• Finn and Riveria supported Ais's decision and proposed building ties with the Hestia Familia, while Loki agreed to leave the outreach to them.
• Finn confronted Bete about his behavior as Li Yu's group prepared to leave the safe floor and return toward the city.
• Li Yu led the group into the seventeenth floor, where a boss began forming in the wall, and he ordered the students to spread out in squads for a group battle.

Li Yu led his classmates in defeating Goliath, the seventeenth-floor boss, while developing a powerful magic cannon and copying Goliath’s regeneration ability. After collecting the boss’s Magic Stone and leg bone for weapon forging, he took the group to the sixteenth floor to farm monsters.

• Li Yu directed the group’s attacks against Goliath and used magic to suppress it while his classmates attacked its body.
• Li Yu modified Piercing Magic Bullet into a powerful beam attack that vaporized Goliath’s hand, then copied its self-regeneration ability.
• Li Yu used Space Teleportation and his new magic cannon to badly wound Goliath, while his classmates joined in attacking it.
• Li Yu finished Goliath with a strike to its neck, and the boss left behind a huge Magic Stone and leg bone.
• Li Yu said he would forge weapons from the drops, then led the group to the sixteenth floor to continue farming.

Li Yu led his classmates through an exhausting training battle in the Dungeon, then sold their haul and spent the proceeds on materials for forging their weapons. Freya became fixated on Li Yu after seeing his soul, while the group returned safely to the Hestia Familia, where Hestia welcomed them and had dinner prepared.

• Li Yu pushed his classmates to fight waves of monsters until their weapons broke, then collected the Magic Stones and led them back to the surface.
• Li Yu's group sold their loot at the Guild for 9.53 million Valis and ordered materials worth an even 10 million Valis for forging weapons.
• Freya watched Li Yu from Babel Tower, became overwhelmed by his dazzling soul, and considered having others test the waters because she feared his allies.
• Li Yu sensed someone watching the group as they walked back, but continued to the Hestia Familia with his classmates.
• Hestia spotted Li Yu's group returning unharmed, welcomed them at the entrance, and ordered dinner to be served.

After returning from the Dungeon, Li Yu and the students updated their Falna and discovered their battles had become visible as level progress while strengthening them. The next morning, Li Yu began planning to forge weapons for the group, advising Xia Yu to revise her impractical sword design.

• Hestia welcomed Li Yu and the others home, and they ate dinner before bathing and gathering to update their statuses.
• Hestia found that Li Yu's status showed lv4 progress at 68% and two new spells; Li Yu believed the progress might be an experience bar leading to a breakthrough at 100%.
• Hestia updated everyone's statuses, and the students felt their magic power and True Qi had increased; Asuna reached 51%, Yukino Yukinoshita 45%, and Kato Megumi 40%.
• Li Yu told everyone to rest and said he would begin forging weapons for them the next day.
• At breakfast, Xia Yu showed Li Yu her sword design, and he explained that its hollow blade and decorative features would make it fragile before suggesting practical revisions.

Li Yu began forging growth weapons for his classmates, with each weapon able to improve as its owner added better materials. After completing weapons for Xia Yu, Asuna, and Yukino, he began making a dagger for Kato Megumi.

• Xia Yu gathered the students' weapons and designs, and Li Yu began forging growth weapons with help from the students and Hestia.
• Li Yu completed a durable sword for Xia Yu, and Yor praised its craftsmanship when she examined it.
• Li Yu finished the rapier Shimmering Light for Asuna and decorated its hilt with green accents.
• Yukino accepted Li Yu's suggestion to switch from a dagger to a katana, which he named White Snow Sleeve.
• Kato Megumi chose to keep using a dagger, and Li Yu decided to forge her an Azoth Sword.

Li Yu forged weapons for the Hestia Familia while recovering quickly enough to finish the remaining work the next day. Ais arrived with Riveria and Lefiya seeking Li Yu as her master, but he introduced her to Yor instead, and the chapter ended with Yor beginning to test Ais's strength.

• Li Yu forged weapons for more than twenty students in one day, then rested and resumed the work the next morning.
• Ais, Riveria, and Lefiya visited the Hestia Familia residence, where Ais asked Li Yu to take her as his student.
• Li Yu declined to teach Ais himself and asked Yor to become her teacher; Yor agreed after Nangong Natsuki supported the idea.
• Yor took Ais aside for a test while Nangong Natsuki led Riveria toward the hall and Lefiya followed Ais.
• Ais attacked Yor with her magic, but Yor blocked her strike with a dagger and sent her flying with a blow.

Yor helped Ais understand why she had stalled before reaching Lv. 6, and Ais agreed to study with her instead of joining expeditions for a while. The Loki Familia and Hestia Familia formed an alliance, while Li Yu finished forging weapons for his classmates and gave Yor a pair of daggers, leaving the students ready for her combat lessons.

• Yor accidentally kicked Ais hard enough to make her cough up blood, then explained that Ais's impatience was hindering her progress toward Lv. 6.
• Ais agreed to pause Dungeon expeditions and study swordsmanship with Yor, with Riveria approving the arrangement.
• Nangong Natsuki offered to teach Lefiya, and Riveria accepted; the Loki Familia and Hestia Familia also established an alliance.
• Li Yu completed weapons for his classmates and planned a short training period before their next Dungeon trip.
• Li Yu gave Yor a pair of daggers, and Yor invited everyone to learn battlefield techniques from her the next morning.

Ais learned a new way to control her Ariel magic from Li Yu and decided to move into the Hestia Familia to grow stronger. Loki objected, but Ais went ahead, and Loki's arrival at the Hestia Familia sparked a brawl with Hestia.

• Li Yu explained that Ais could freely control the wind after chanting Ariel, then demonstrated a powerful vortex spell that Ais quickly learned but could sustain for only five minutes.
• After dinner, Ais told Lefiya she would move into the Hestia Familia, and Loki argued against the plan until Riveria supported Ais's decision.
• The next day, Ais arrived with her luggage, and Yor welcomed her and arranged for her and Lefiya to settle in.
• Loki confronted Hestia at the Hestia Familia, and Li Yu told everyone not to intervene as the two goddesses began fighting.
• Loki tried to leave to find Ais, but Hestia grabbed her and dragged her back into their fight.

After Loki and Hestia ended their fight, Li Yu introduced a new Beginner Magic spell, Life Sense, and gathered his classmates to teach it. Riveria asked whether the Loki Familia could learn it too, leaving the question of access and compensation to Li Yu.

• Asuna, Riveria, and the others let Loki and Hestia fight until they stopped, then Loki agreed to let Ais visit Li Yu while requiring her to come along every day.
• Li Yu shared the spells he had developed from Miach's grimoire and asked Nangong Natsuki to help teach the students Life Sense and a calming spell.
• Li Yu told the students they would not be taken into the Dungeon unless they mastered Life Sense, and the class began practicing it.
• Riveria asked to learn Life Sense for the Loki Familia, and Nangong Natsuki told her to negotiate with Li Yu and offer suitable compensation.
• Yun Shu successfully learned Life Sense but found that it consumed her magic power quickly, so Li Yu gave her a Blue Potion to test alongside it.

Li Yu taught the Loki Familia Perception Magic in exchange for rare materials, then spent the day forging a powerful staff. He finished the weapon and planned to return to the Dungeon once everyone had mastered the magic, though he had not yet named the staff.

• Riveria asked Li Yu to teach the Loki Familia Perception Magic, and he agreed in exchange for top-grade materials to forge a staff.
• Riveria delivered the materials, and Lefiya and Riveria quickly mastered the magic after Nangong Natsuki explained its principles.
• Li Yu began forging a staff from a Holy Emperor Tree branch and planned enchantments for efficiency, amplification, range, penetration, and stability.
• Li Yu finished the silver-white staff with five embedded gemstones, and his friends congratulated him.
• Li Yu urged everyone to master their magic so they could return to the Dungeon and go deeper, but he had not yet chosen a name for his staff.

Li Yu organized preparations for the Familia’s upcoming Dungeon expedition and asked Riveria to demonstrate her ice magic so he could learn a spell for fighting the twenty-seventh-floor boss. He and Riveria moved to an open area to begin their exchange, drawing several curious onlookers.

• Li Yu named his new staff Meli and reminded everyone to master Perception Magic before the Dungeon expedition in two days.
• Yukino Yukinoshita asked about supplies, and Li Yu assigned Asuna to organize purchases, including herbs and antidote potions from the Miach Workshop.
• Li Yu instructed Asuna to prepare food, fruit, and other necessities for forty-two people, then told the Familia that those who had mastered Perception Magic should help with shopping.
• After giving Asuna 5 million Valis, Li Yu stayed behind to teach the others and asked Riveria to demonstrate her ice magic in exchange for teaching her a spell.
• Riveria agreed, and Li Yu led her outside while Nangong Natsuki, Lefiya, Yor, Ais, and Hiratsuka Shizuka followed to watch.
• At a nearby wasteland, Riveria noticed Li Yu’s newly forged staff and was surprised that he had made it in one day.

Li Yu learned Riveria’s magic and taught her three spells of his own, astonishing her with his talent. Asuna then collected medicinal ingredients from Miach for Li Yu’s preparations, and Miach arranged to visit their camp.

• Riveria demonstrated five spells, and Li Yu memorized them before choosing three to learn.
• Li Yu taught Riveria Piercing Magic Bullet, Piercing Magic Cannon, and Purification Magic, while learning her spells after brief explanations.
• Nangong Natsuki offered to teach Riveria, Ais, and Lefiya a basic spell for storing weapons.
• Li Yu returned to camp to prepare purified water and medicine.
• Asuna brought Li Yu’s ingredient list to Miach, who had all the requested supplies and offered to deliver them personally.

Li Yu helped the Miach Familia prepare medicinal ingredients and learned three processing spells from Miach, allowing him to produce potions at astonishing speed. Asuna and the others returned to find barrels of finished medicine ready for bottling, and Yukino recognized that Li Yu could work like a factory.

• Miach and Naza delivered the medicinal ingredients to the Hestia Familia, where Miach offered to help Li Yu prepare potions.
• Li Yu impressed Miach with his pharmaceutical knowledge, then learned how to use magic to extract medicinal essences.
• Miach taught Li Yu extraction, fusion, and separation spells, which Li Yu mastered and used to process all the ingredients into potions.
• Asuna and the others returned to find their classmates bottling barrels of finished medicine, and Asuna was stunned that everything had been processed.
• Yukino Yukinoshita told Asuna to help because the Hestia Familia would no longer lack medicine, while recognizing that Li Yu could produce potions like a factory.

Li Yu finished preparing potions and supplies while Ais and Lefiya joined the Hestia Familia's Dungeon expedition to the 27th floor. As the group departed, Loki grew furious when Li Yu marked the two with the Hestia Familia's communication emblem, and Hestia's teasing only made her angrier.

• Miach praised Li Yu's talent, offered to teach him more in Orario, and left with Naza.
• Li Yu organized the students' potion bottling and confirmed they were ready to join the Dungeon expedition.
• Ais asked to accompany Li Yu's group, and Riveria arranged for Lefiya to go with her while she stayed behind to study magic.
• Li Yu and the students packed their supplies into Space Backpacks, repaired their armor, and set out the next morning.
• Li Yu placed communication marks on Ais and Lefiya, prompting Loki to protest that they bore the Hestia Familia emblem.
• Hestia arrived to see the group off, and she and Loki traded insults about their Familias.

Li Yu sent Hestia to recruit new members while he led the group into the Dungeon to establish a camp on the eighteenth floor. After setting up near the nineteenth-floor entrance, he began building a Position Magic array, drawing Ais and Lefiya’s curiosity.

• Li Yu told Hestia to recruit newcomers for the Familia, and she agreed to look for suitable recruits while he was away.
• Hestia parted from Li Yu’s group at Babel Tower, then left for the Guild as Loki argued with her and Riveria dragged Loki away.
• Li Yu led the group quickly through the Dungeon to the seventeenth floor and explained they would camp on the eighteenth floor and explore deeper for up to half a month.
• Ais and Lefiya shared information about the lower floors, and Lefiya guided the group to a quiet campsite near the nineteenth-floor entrance.
• Li Yu and the others set up their tents beside a river, and Li Yu began laying out a Position Magic array to protect their temporary base.
• Ais asked Li Yu what he was doing, and Lefiya recognized the magic as similar to the array at the Loki Familia’s base.

Li Yu learned Lefiya’s tracking spell and talents, then taught her Ais’s Ariel through her Elf Ring. Lefiya realized the method might let Li Yu pass magic on to others, but he concealed his ability to learn her unusually versatile magic.

• Li Yu set up a Position Magic array around the camp, and the group finished preparing before lunch.
• Li Yu asked Lefiya to teach him her spells in exchange for teaching her Ais’s Ariel, and she agreed.
• Li Yu learned Arcs Ray, Fairy Pursuit, and Double Serenade, then studied Arcs Ray’s tracking effect for his Piercing Magic.
• Li Yu used Lefiya’s Elf Ring to teach her Ariel, and she successfully cast it after learning its chant and effects from him.
• Lefiya asked Li Yu to learn her Elf Ring and teach it to others, but he claimed he could not learn it and decided to hide parts of his status panel.

Li Yu declined to learn Lefiya’s elven racial magic, while agreeing to learn future spells for her to pass on to Ais. After Liang Feifan discovered he had bought earth dragon dung, Li Yu organized the students into smaller teams and sealed their camp before they set out.

• Li Yu told Lefiya he could not learn her racial magic, and agreed to learn other magic first if she wanted to teach it to someone else.
• Li Yu explained to Asuna, Yukino Yukinoshita, and Kato Megumi that Riveria’s magic was not racial magic and that he adapted its principles to cast it.
• Lefiya identified Liang Feifan’s purchase as earth dragon dung, and Li Yu stopped him from pursuing the scammer and warned the group to inspect Dungeon materials carefully.
• Li Yu assigned Ais and Lefiya to separate four-person teams, and told them to collect all Magic Stones and materials for later storage.
• Li Yu activated the camp’s Magic Array, creating a spatial barrier around it as the group prepared to depart.

Li Yu tested whether Yukino Yukinoshita could provoke the Dungeon into spawning monsters by gathering the Divine Blood in her body. The test worked, and after Yukino summoned more than a hundred monsters, Li Yu cast a protective spell as the group prepared to fight.

• Li Yu led Asuna, Kato Megumi, and Yukino Yukinoshita to a spacious cavern to test whether Divine Blood could trigger monster spawns.
• Yukino gathered some of her Divine Blood, and the Dungeon responded by spawning monsters around the group.
• Li Yu, Asuna, Kato Megumi, and Yukino fought the monsters while Yukino repeatedly gathered her Divine Blood to summon more.
• Li Yu asked Yukino to gather all her Divine Blood and hold its aura longer, causing more than a hundred monsters to appear.
• Li Yu cast Riveria's Life-Binding Phantasm, shielding himself, Asuna, Kato Megumi, and Yukino as they faced the surrounding monsters.