Chapter Summaries

Ren massacred attacking vampires in the Tepes city while the faction’s elders discussed their blood shortage and plan to seize the Holy Grail. After surviving a rocket attack and a modern-weapons ambush, Ren headed for the Tepes government’s castle.

• Ren used Holy Cross-enchanted bullets to kill scores of vampires, sparing ordinary residents hiding in nearby buildings.
• Marius Tepes identified Ren as the attacker who had destroyed the human-world Blood Factories and ordered troops to stop him while preparing to advance the Holy Grail plan.
• Ren visited a vampire café, balked at its one-thousand-euro bill, and escaped before vampires fired rockets at the shop.
• Ren blocked a rifle barrage with a senjutsu barrier and killed the attacking vampires with his flaming bullets.
• Ren walked toward the Tepes government’s castle without encountering further meaningful resistance.

Ren entered the Tepes castle, killed a vampire elder, and rejected Marius’s offer to join the faction’s plan to use the Holy Grail to remove vampire weaknesses and rule the world. The vampires turned hostile after Ren mocked their ambitions and refused once more to join them.

• Ren entered the Tepes castle hall and identified the vampire queen and elders.
• Ren shot a lanky vampire elder dead after the elder challenged his count of the elders.
• Marius offered Ren wealth, women, power, and a place among the elders in exchange for joining the vampires.
• Marius and the elders revealed their plan to use the Holy Grail to remove vampire weaknesses and make vampires rule humanity.
• Ren refused the offer and mocked the vampires’ plans, prompting them to threaten him and demand that he join them once more.
• Ren rejected Marius again and insulted the vampires, leaving them humiliated and enraged.

Ren wiped out the vampire ambush and learned that Lizevim Livan Lucifer had lured the vampires into modifying themselves with the Longinus Holy Grail. After discovering that their bodies were being altered with Evil Dragon Factors, Ren purified the elders, while Marius survived behind a dark barrier.

• Ren used ClockUp and holy ammunition to kill the ambushing vampire soldiers, then offered the elders a chance to live if they revealed everything they knew.
• A vampire elder explained that Lizevim Livan Lucifer had told them Valerie carried the Longinus Holy Grail and had provided a way to strengthen vampires and remove their weaknesses.
• Ren questioned why Lizevim had helped them, prompting the elders to suspect his motives, but Marius insisted they should trust the results of their enhancements.
• Ren saw that the vampires’ status showed Evil Dragon Factor Modification in Progress and concluded Lizevim had secretly altered their bodies and souls.
• Ren fired purifying holy flames at the elders and Marius, burning the four elders to ashes while Marius blocked the flames with a dark barrier.

Marius summoned Crom Cruach to protect him, but Ren tried to capture the powerful Evil Dragon with Poké Balls and then fought him after the attempts failed. Ren left Valerie safely in a snowy field and attacked Crom Cruach with Ascalon, leaving their battle ongoing.

• Marius revealed that Crom Cruach was his bodyguard, and Ren tried twice to capture the Evil Dragon with ordinary Poké Balls, but Crom Cruach broke free both times.
• Crom Cruach attacked Ren with flames, while Ren used his purple armor and rescued Valerie from the vampire castle.
• Ren left Valerie in a snowy field and charged at Crom Cruach with Ascalon, whose dragon-slaying power burned and pierced the dragon's scales.
• Crom Cruach questioned how a human could be stronger than him, and Ren replied that humans stronger than him existed elsewhere.

Ren defeated and captured Clone Crom Cruach as a Pal, then received the Silver Arm of Severing and an Excalibur with six seals released as mission rewards. After integrating the Silver Arm Authority, he suffered intense pain as his body began adapting to its power.

• Clone Crom Cruach filled the battlefield with poisonous black mist and altered gravity, but Ren avoided his attacks and wounded him with Ascalon.
• Ren pinned Clone Crom Cruach with his holy sword, beat him until he could no longer resist, and captured him in a Master Ball as a Crescent Dark Dragon Pal.
• The black fog over the town dispersed, and the system rewarded Ren with Silver Arm of Severing and Excalibur (Six Seals Released) for completing the Rebellious Vampires mission.
• Ren integrated the Excalibur reward, releasing six restraints and greatly increasing the holy sword's power.
• Ren integrated the Silver Arm of Severing Authority and endured severe pain as his body began adapting to the divine power.

Ren endured the painful strengthening of his body while Lizevim watched the Tepes Faction's defeat and unleashed hundreds of mass-produced Evil Dragons on Tepes and Carmilla territory. As the cities burned and vampires struggled to resist, Valerie set out to find the powerful man the spirits said might stop the monsters.

• Ren endured the lengthy, painful strengthening process and shook the ground as he struggled through it.
• Lizevim discovered that Crescent Moon Dark Dragon had been captured by an unknown human, then spoke with the five Evil Dragons he had revived.
• Lizevim revealed his next plan as hundreds of enhanced Tepes vampires transformed into mindless Evil Dragons and filled the city skies.
• The Evil Dragons devastated cities in both Tepes and Carmilla territory, overwhelming the vampires who tried to fight them.
• Valerie heard from the spirits that a powerful man might stop the Evil Dragons and headed east to find him.

Ren endured a painful bodily enhancement while Valerie asked him to save the vampire city, and he rescued her from attacking evil dragons. After claiming Valerie as his own, Ren promised to take her into the sun, while the destroyed castle left her with no home to return to.

• Valerie approached Ren during his enhancement and begged him to save the city, but he pinned her down and used the distraction to ease his pain.
• Mutated evil dragons attacked Ren and Valerie, but Ren crushed one and slaughtered the rest with his holy sword.
• Ren returned to Valerie and declared that she belonged to him after clearing the city of dragons.
• Valerie accepted Ren's claim and said she had never seen the sun or been allowed outside the castle.
• Ren promised to take Valerie into the sun and put a fur coat on her.

After looting Tepes territory, Ren carried Valerie to the Carmilla Faction and found its city under attack by mass-produced evil dragons. He began rescuing civilians while Valerie hid nearby and watched the battle.

• Ren assessed how his strengthened body and skills had grown more powerful, then asked Valerie to locate Tepes’s treasury and the nobles’ vaults.
• Ren looted the Tepes government treasury and the five great nobles’ hidden stores before leaving the ruined faction with Valerie.
• Ren remembered that Lizevim might have attacked the Carmilla Faction too, so he flew there with Valerie.
• Ren and Valerie arrived to find evil dragons ravaging a snow-covered Carmilla city, where the surviving army struggled to defend its residents.
• Valerie urged Ren to save more people, and he rescued a vampire mother carrying two babies before she fled to a shelter.
• Valerie hid in an empty room while Ren went out to save more vampires.

Ren rescued Elmenhilde’s vampire squad from the mass-produced evil dragons, but she refused his offer of help because she believed vampire affairs should be handled by vampires. Ren protected civilians and arranged for Heaven to send reinforcements as the Carmilla Faction’s defenses faltered, while Elmenhilde later regretted refusing him.

• Ren appeared before Elmenhilde’s squad and swiftly beheaded the evil dragons surrounding them.
• Elmenhilde thanked Ren but declined his offer of help, insisting the vampires would resolve the conflict themselves.
• Ren used Super Acceleration to kill dragons attacking civilians and redirect other dragons toward the vampire army before rejoining Valerie.
• Ren called Griselda and urged Heaven to intervene, arguing that Carmilla was in danger and that aid could support a peaceful alliance.
• Elmenhilde regrouped with other vampire squads and realized the dragons could threaten her entire race, but Ren was nowhere to be found.

Angels led by Griselda arrived in Carmilla City and helped Ren defeat the Evil Dragons, which had been transformed from vampires, many of them Carmilla traitors. After Ren explained Lizevim’s plan to unseal the Beast of Revelation, Gabriel prepared to report the danger to Heaven, while Ren declined to go with her.

• Elmenhilde watched angels descend into Carmilla City and fight the Evil Dragons while treating wounded vampires.
• Griselda’s elite angels helped turn the battle around, and they destroyed the final Evil Dragon.
• Ren told Elmenhilde that the Evil Dragons had been transformed from vampires using a Longinus, and that many had been traitors from the Carmilla Faction.
• Elmenhilde thanked Ren on behalf of the Karnstein Family, introduced herself, and heard Ren demand payment for saving civilians.
• Ren warned Carmilla and Gabriel that Lizevim intended to unseal the Beast of Revelation, prompting Gabriel to say she had to return with the news.
• Gabriel offered to take Ren with her, but Ren refused.

Ren left the meeting after arranging compensation and city repairs, then returned to the human world with Valerie and went to retrieve Ophis. He took Ophis with him after warning her to obey him and resist anyone who tried to abduct her.

• Gabriel left Valerie in Ren’s care and warned him not to let her abuse the Longinus, while Griselda arranged repairs and a peace agreement with Carmilla.
• Ren gave Elmenhilde his address so she could repay her debt, then teased Valerie about being jealous of her.
• Ren took Valerie outside at dusk, where she saw the setting sun for the first time, and promised she would see it again the next day.
• Ren flew with Valerie to the former Khaos Brigade base and told Ophis he had come to take her away.
• Ren instructed Ophis to listen to him, stay with him, refuse anyone who tried to take her, and avoid hurting others if she had to fight.

Ren returned to Kyoto with Valerie and Ophis, the Infinite Dragon God, and introduced Ophis to the people at the Himejima Family estate. He claimed Ophis was his pet, but nobody believed him.

• Ren brought Ophis and Valerie from Romania to Kyoto, where Valerie became weak in the sunlight and he gave her a parasol.
• Jeanne questioned Ren about the vampire conflict, then recognized Ophis and shouted in alarm when Ophis identified herself.
• Lavinia explained Ophis's identity to the gathered girls, and Ophis's presence frightened the Four Fiends Sacred Gears.
• Ren falsely claimed Ophis planned to destroy Kyoto, then admitted he had been joking and called her his pet.
• The girls dismissed Ren's claim as absurd, and Asia offered to treat what she thought was his brain disorder.

Ren adjusted to Ophis and Valerie settling into his home while the girls took them shopping, and the factions faced growing alarm over Lizevim and the Beast of Revelation. The system then opened a new dungeon for Ren, who asked how time would pass between worlds before deciding whether to enter.

• Ophis confirmed that Ren was her owner, and the girls questioned her and Valerie about their needs before planning a shopping trip.
• Ophis revealed that she wanted Great Red's head and did not wear underwear, prompting the girls to take charge of her daily necessities.
• Ren accompanied the girls to the mall, where he spotted Rossweisse fiercely competing for discounted goods.
• The factions debated how to respond to Lizevim, while Valerie sunbathed and Ophis played games with Kuroka at home.
• The system announced a new dungeon, and Ren asked how time would flow between the dungeon world and his own.

Ren entered a rainy forest dungeon with his skills and equipment intact, then flew toward a light and gunfire near an armed camp. There, Guran Hasaev attacked Liana Karyana, Kojou Akatsuki, and Nagisa Akatsuki in a cave, transformed into a divine beast, and prepared to face them.

• Ren prepared for the dungeon by stocking up on ammunition and learning barrier spells from Lavinia, then entered with his skills and equipment intact.
• Ren arrived in a rain-soaked forest, spotted an armed camp, and flew toward a burst of gunfire and a beast’s roar.
• Guran Hasaev defeated Kojou Akatsuki outside a cave and entered to confront Liana Karyana, Kojou Akatsuki, and Nagisa Akatsuki.
• Liana sent her familiar Eclipse Wolf Skoll to attack Hasaev, but he crushed it with one hand.
• Hasaev transformed into a divine beast and declared the superiority of beastmen over vampires.

Ren arrived at the ruins on Gozo Island, killed Hazarov, and confirmed that he was in the world of Strike the Blood. The Fourth Primogenitor awakened and froze the mountain while Ren remained unharmed, leaving her questioning what era he came from.

• Hazarov killed Liana’s golden and silver wolves, and their destruction caused the ruins to collapse as Liana fell from magical backlash.
• Ren revealed himself beside the damaged ice coffin, identified the sleeping girl as the Fourth Primogenitor, and killed Hazarov by tearing apart his transformed body.
• Ren confirmed with Liana that the group was on Gozo Island in a world with Itogami Island and three Primogenitors, and recognized Kojou Akatsuki and Nagisa Akatsuki.
• The Fourth Primogenitor awakened and released a powerful ice familiar, forcing Kojou Akatsuki, Nagisa Akatsuki, and Liana to flee as the mountain froze.
• The Fourth Primogenitor asked Ren what era it was, then introduced herself as Lady Fourth Primogenitor and questioned why he could withstand her cold.

Ren tested the Fourth Primogenitor’s strength after she awakened and tried to make her his Pal, then defeated her with a weapon that burned her from within. The wounded Primogenitor demanded to know what Ren had done to her.

• The Fourth Primogenitor offered to turn Ren into her vampire descendant, but Ren refused and presented a Poké Ball as her new home.
• The Fourth Primogenitor attacked Ren to drink his blood and learn what had happened while she slept, but he evaded her with Super Acceleration.
• The Fourth Primogenitor used the Witch of the Azure Ice to blanket the ruins in frost and attack Ren, draining her limited magic power.
• Ren wounded the Fourth Primogenitor with the Cross of the Purple Flame Sacrificial Lord, whose strange energy suppressed her magic and burned her body and soul.
• Ren urged the weakened Fourth Primogenitor to behave, and she angrily demanded to know what he had done to her.

Ren captured the Fourth Primogenitor with a Master Ball, then confronted Nangong Nayue, who demanded that he hand the vampire over. The system assigned Ren a quest to establish an Empire of the Night, leaving him facing a new goal and Nangong Nayue’s claim.

• Ren weakened the Fourth Primogenitor and captured her in a Master Ball, making her his second Pal.
• Nangong Nayue watched the capture from outside the ruins, then teleported behind Ren when he appeared near her.
• Ren claimed he was a tourist, but Nangong Nayue identified the captured girl as No. 12, who contained the Fourth Primogenitor’s soul.
• Nangong Nayue asked Ren to hand the Fourth Primogenitor over so she could take her to the Demon Sanctuary in the Far East.
• The system assigned Ren the quest to establish an Empire of the Night with at least 220,000 square kilometers of territory and 500,000 people.

Ren agreed to travel to Itogami Island with Natsuki Minamiya and Pal, then ended a dispute over the Fourth Primogenitor by bringing her out of a Master Ball. The Fourth Primogenitor appeared confused, while Natsuki and Liana were left stunned by Ren’s method of capturing and releasing her.

• Ren agreed to go to Itogami Island with Natsuki Minamiya and Pal, and Natsuki accepted his company after weighing the risks of refusing him.
• Natsuki returned to the camp with Ren, where Liana Caruana questioned what had happened to the awakened Number Twelve.
• Natsuki declared that the Demon Sanctuary in the Far East would take custody of Number Twelve, but Liana objected and invoked her right to participate in the Feast of the Crimson.
• As Natsuki and Liana prepared to confront each other over the Fourth Primogenitor, Ren told them to ask the person concerned what she wanted.
• Ren threw a Master Ball and released the confused Fourth Primogenitor, leaving Natsuki and Liana astonished.

Ren kept the Fourth Primogenitor under control and explained that her awakening would make the Feast of the Crimson inevitable. He persuaded Nangong Nayue to take them to Itogami Island by promising the conflict would not endanger her students or the island, while Liana considered hiring Ren as a mercenary.

• The Fourth Primogenitor failed to harm Ren after becoming his Pal, and Ren told her he could explain how to hurt him later.
• Liana offered to become the Fourth Primogenitor’s retainer, and the Primogenitor accepted despite recognizing Liana’s ulterior motives.
• Ren warned Nangong Nayue that Itogami Island could only delay the Feast of the Crimson, not prevent it, and Nangong Nayue agreed to take them after he promised to protect what she cared about.
• The Fourth Primogenitor relinquished control to Number Twelve after Ren knocked her and mocked her, leaving Number Twelve timid around him.
• Nangong Nayue learned Ren was a mercenary, and Liana considered hiring him to help her win the Feast of the Crimson before noticing Number Twelve watching her.

Ren accepted Kojou Akatsuki’s request to protect Nagisa Akatsuki and brought her, Aurora, and Nangong Nayue to Itogami Island, where he arranged to stay at Nangong Nayue’s home. The group headed there by taxi, while Ren’s new quest revealed that World Anchor Fragments could eventually let him travel back to the island.

• Nangong Nayue told Kojou Akatsuki that she would take Nagisa Akatsuki to the Demon Sanctuary, and Kojou asked Ren to protect his daughter while she stayed on Itogami Island.
• Kojou Akatsuki’s request triggered Ren’s Doting Father quest, which offered a World Anchor Fragment that could help him establish travel between worlds.
• Ren agreed to protect Nagisa Akatsuki, and he, Nangong Nayue, Nagisa Akatsuki, and the Fourth Primogenitor left for Itogami Island while Liana stayed behind temporarily.
• Nangong Nayue arranged resident IDs for Ren, Aurora, and Nagisa Akatsuki, and Nagisa complained about the island’s heat while Aurora moved close to Ren for relief from it.
• Ren told Nangong Nayue he would stay at her home and accept missions on his own terms rather than join the Security Corps, and Nangong Nayue agreed to cooperate with him.
• Nangong Nayue called a taxi to take the group to her home, and Ren asked why she had not used spatial transfer magic.