Chapter Summaries

Allen Boreas Greyrat stopped the attack on Princess Ariel, and Ariel publicly identified him as her knight. After entering the cabin, Allen found Ariel held at knifepoint by a maid assassin and moved to stop her.

• Allen killed the attackers aboard the ship and ordered the Street Guard Corps to keep people away from the corpses.
• The mayor ordered the Street Guard Corps to take over Ariel’s protection, but they backed down when Allen looked at them.
• Ariel leaned out the window, named Allen Boreas Greyrat as her knight, and reassured the crowd on both banks.
• Allen entered the cabin and found Ariel wearing only a shirt while a maid in underwear held a dagger to her throat.
• The maid said she wanted to escape by boat with Ariel as a hostage, and Allen tore open the window and pointed out the boats.
• Allen grabbed the maid’s wrist and snapped it as Ariel watched, unable to move.

Allen killed the maid assassin who had poisoned Ariel, then rejected Ariel’s offer to become her knight as she tried to recruit him after the attack. He escaped onto the riverboat roof while Ariel concluded that contact had been made and reconsidered how to survive the Succession Conflict.

• Allen restrained the maid assassin, broke her wrists, and killed her by driving her dagger into her forehead.
• Ariel recognized Allen Boreas Greyrat and asked him to become her knight, using provocative behavior to test his self-control and win his support.
• Allen asked how far the poison had spread and told Ariel he would arrange help before turning toward the window.
• Allen spotted V. T. escaping by boat and told Ariel that her attempts to recruit him would work better on others.
• Allen leapt from the cabin window onto the riverboat roof, leaving Ariel to decide that she had already made contact with him.

Allen returned to the broken Brugge Bridge and asked Rudy to launch him toward the fleeing V. T. Rudy trusted Allen and sent him flying across the river, where Allen caught V. T. and used his time-reversal ability to return to the moments before the bridge attack.

• Allen waved to the crowd across the river, then returned to Sylphy, Isolte, Rudy, and Eris on the broken bridge.
• Allen told Rudy that V. T. had escaped and asked him to use Sonic Shockwave to send Allen after the boat.
• Allen reassured Rudy that he trusted him, and Rudy agreed to launch him while Sylphy and Eris went to help the poisoned Princess Ariel.
• Rudy's magic hurled Allen across the river, and Allen deflected V. T.'s sword auras before landing on the boat and trapping him.
• Allen mocked V. T.'s preparations and raised his hand, triggering his ability to reverse time by three minutes.

Allen fought V. T. and a group of assassins underwater, where their preparations and magic disrupted his techniques and left him trapped in a coordinated attack. As blades and an Ice Spear closed in from both sides, Allen adapted to the water with Flow Arcana and prepared to unleash his Dragon Saint battle aura.

• Allen used Twenty Slashes to repel the assassins' attack, but V. T. intercepted the strike before Allen plunged into the river.
• Underwater, Allen's Twenty Slashes lost speed and V. T. blocked his sword while a chain-wielding assassin attacked from behind.
• An assassin froze Allen's arm with Ice Pillar, and a Water Cannon shattered the ice and blasted him backward.
• Allen was surrounded beneath the bridge as V. T. attacked from behind and a Water Magician sent an Ice Spear toward him.
• Allen adapted to the underwater currents with Flow Arcana, slowed his perception of the attack, and brought his palms together to release his Dragon Saint battle aura.

Allen survived V. T.'s underwater ambush by using his battle qi and a heightened sword technique to kill the attacking assassins, then captured V. T. and returned to Ariel's boat. As the people cheered, Allen looked toward Ars and declared that the royal capital should bear his name too.

• V. T. and the assassins attacked Allen underwater, having taken his sword and deprived him of his senses.
• Allen used Dragon Saint Battle Qi to repel the attacks, then combined Sense Flow and Thought Flow to locate the assassins around him.
• Allen unleashed Sword Realm Deprivation and killed thirty-two attackers, while several survivors fled toward Ariel's boat.
• Allen pursued V. T. to the boat and captured him despite having exhausted his Dragon Saint Battle Qi.
• Allen crushed the mast, raised V. T.'s head into the sunlight, and heard the people cheering.
• Allen looked toward Ars and declared that the royal capital should bear his name too.

Allen returned from killing V. T. and confronted Cascade City’s Street Guard Corps over its failed security, ordering them to cleanse the city. He then found Ariel closely holding Sylphy’s hand and rejected Derrick’s attempt to recruit him and his companions, leaving Ariel intent on handling the recruitment herself.

• Allen’s boat began sinking under the crowd’s thrown Styrian Divine Attendants, so he swam back to the ship while the cheering spectators urged him ashore.
• Allen learned that Eris had stopped the Street Guard Corps from going upstairs and ordered its members to cleanse Cascade City, then send people to collect Puxi’s body.
• Allen entered Ariel’s cabin and found her holding Sylphy’s hand while Rudy, Isolte, and the recovered Derrick stood nearby.
• Derrick introduced himself as Ariel’s guardian mage, and Allen told him that he had killed Huirin Redbat.
• Derrick apologized for involving Allen’s group in the assassination plot and offered compensation, then urged them to join Ariel’s service.
• Ariel objected when Derrick tried to recruit them on her behalf, insisting that she would approach them herself.

Lokkishi fell asleep at her desk and dreamed she was teaching Allen, Sylphy, and Rudy about the ancient worlds. In the lucid dream, Allen proposed that the Human God was the villain, leaving Lokkishi eager to hear more from him.

• Lokkishi slipped in the bathtub, and her maid revealed that the maids could see what she was doing and offered to help.
• Lokkishi fell asleep at her desk while reading a history book and dreamed of the days she stayed with Allen, Sylphy, and Rudy in Buena Village.
• Lokkishi taught the group about the seven worlds and the Dragon God’s destruction of them, while Allen asked questions about the legend.
• Allen suggested they invent a story to explain the unclear history and named Laplace as its protagonist.
• Allen proposed that the Human God was the villain because the Human World had benefited from the Dragon God’s defeat.

The chapter explained how Ars was divided into six districts and why the Millish Church was housed in the Free Zone. It ended with an author’s note about struggling to write because of persistent sleepiness after quitting smoking.

• Ars was described as a city built across rolling hills and divided by five circular walls into six districts.
• The chapter explained that the Free Zone housed influential institutions, including the Millish Temple, the Water God Style Main Dojo, and the Magic University.
• King Cavanis placed the Millish Church between the Noble District and Commoner District so it could be watched, but its popularity forced it farther outward.
• The author said they had been too sleepy to write and wondered whether quitting cigarettes or their mental state was responsible.

Ariel attempted to recruit Allen by offering him the status of Inner Chamber Guest, while Derrick recalled how long he and his fellow Magic University students had been fixated on Allen and Ariel. Ariel asked Derrick to confirm her offer, leaving him nearly suffocated by the situation.

• Derrick remembered how Magic University students hated the Water God Style Main Dojo but eagerly followed Allen’s achievements to study their rival.
• Derrick recalled first seeing Allen at an awards ceremony and Ariel at Magic University, and how both had left lasting impressions on him.
• Ariel thanked Allen for coming to their aid and began explaining her recruitment offer as Derrick emerged from his memories.
• Ariel offered to make Allen an Inner Chamber Guest as proof of her sincerity in recruiting him.
• Ariel turned to Derrick and asked him to confirm her offer, leaving him feeling as though he could barely breathe.

Ariel tried to recruit Allen by provoking him with an offer to make him her Inner Chamber Guest, then turned her attention to Isolte and Sylphy. Allen stopped the recruitment talk and redirected everyone to the situation aboard the ship.

• Ariel apologized for Derrick’s behavior and explained why she wanted Allen to join her camp.
• Ariel offered to make Allen her Inner Chamber Guest, shocking Allen, Derrick, Sylphy, and Isolte.
• Ariel reassured Sylphy and Isolte that Allen had respected her while saving her, easing their concern and winning their trust.
• Ariel asked Isolte and Sylphy to become her retainers after judging that they were important to Allen.
• Allen stopped the discussion and turned to Derrick to address the situation, walking toward the bed.

Allen exposed Ariel’s lack of safe choices after the assassination and staged a public confrontation to force Cascade City’s officials to respond. He identified James as the architect behind the plot, but let him leave while making clear that he had found him.

• Derrick and Ariel explained that pursuing the nobles risked alienating potential allies, while returning to the royal capital would cost Ariel support in Cascade City.
• Allen rejected Ariel’s attempt to recruit him, then threw a corpse from the ship and shouted that another assassin was attacking.
• Allen confronted the nobles and Street Guard Corps at the dock, threatening the nobles until Ariel vouched for the officials and urged him to stop.
• Allen identified himself as a member of the Boreas Family and demanded an explanation, while James watched from a tower and prepared to leave.
• James and his butler discussed how they had covered their tracks, and Allen seized a municipal official involved in the assassination and hurled the man’s head toward James.
• James dismissed Allen’s gesture as a child’s bluff and hurried away while Allen remained on the bridge.

James’s plot to kill Allen and secure his place as Boreas family head was revealed as Allen exposed and killed conspirators in Cascade City. James fled, while Allen prepared to use Persuasion on the mayor and left a future confrontation with James for the royal capital.

• James reviewed his three-outcome scheme, which tied attacks on Allen and Ariel together, and felt unsettled after seeing Allen kill a municipal official.
• Allen confronted the nobles, seized a conspirator, and forced him to identify who had let an assassin disguised as a bridge worker into the plot.
• The conspirator named James, then changed his claim to the First Prince; Allen killed him before he could continue.
• The mayor killed the second official, and Allen warned him that the First Prince had implicated him before giving him an hour to choose a side.
• Allen saw James flee from the tower and decided to save his daily Persuasion for a conversation with the mayor, while postponing his confrontation with James until the royal capital.

After killing a noble lord, Allen advised Ariel and Derrick on using the assassination attempt to strengthen their position and accepted Ariel’s offer of passage to the royal capital. As Ariel rallied the city, Isolte offered to kill James for Allen, leaving his plans and her intentions unsettled.

• Allen returned to the cabin, advised Derrick and Ariel to use the assassination attempt to deter the nobles, and rejected Ariel’s request to extend his borrowing period.
• Ariel offered Allen and his companions passage aboard her fast ship to the royal capital, and Allen accepted.
• Municipal officials brought Ariel ashore with suspects from the assassination attempt, and she postponed her city visit to address the crowd on the broken bridge.
• Allen considered how his actions had changed the original story and worried about how Orsted might respond to him as a new variable.
• Isolte questioned Allen about his plans against James and offered to be his blade and kill James if Allen could not act himself.

Allen promised Isolte that he would explain his plans after they reached the capital, while Ariel’s successful speech in Cascade City strengthened her public support. As the group sailed back to Ars, Ariel studied Allen and his companions, then recorded their recruitment prospects in her notebook, marking Allen as extremely difficult to obtain.

• Allen promised Isolte he would tell her more after they reached the capital, but Ariel’s speech interrupted their conversation.
• Ariel’s promise of a brighter future won loud cheers from the people of Cascade City, and her party departed by riverboat at sunset.
• Allen downplayed his role in Ariel’s success and introduced Eris, Sylphy, Isolte, and Rudy to Ariel as the group discussed returning to Ars.
• Ariel assessed Allen’s abilities and gentle treatment of his companions, then asked him to introduce them.
• Ariel wrote recruitment profiles for Rudeus, Sylphiette, Eris, Isolte, and Allen in her notebook, labeling Allen’s recruitment difficulty extremely difficult and resolving to obtain him.

After a day of sudden danger and political upheaval, Ariel prepared to approach Allen and set out secretly at midnight, only to meet Isolte on the stairs. Meanwhile, Sylphy and Isolte planned to keep Allen close after Ariel’s appearance, and Sylphy prepared to stand watch.

• Ariel reflected on the assassination and the succession struggle, then decided to invite Allen and his companions to the palace.
• Ariel changed into a red coat and quietly left her cabin in the middle of the night.
• Ariel encountered Isolte on the second-floor staircase as Isolte watched the moonlit river.
• Sylphy recalled Isolte’s plan to keep Allen within their sight for the next day and resolved to stand watch that night.

Allen tested how Healing Magic treated an old wound before trying to sleep, but Sylphy arrived late at night dressed as a cat and invited him to sleep with her. Meanwhile, Ariel asked Isolte to become her retainer, admitted her doubts about claiming the throne, and left determined to try despite the danger.

• Allen used his Healing Spell Rune on the scar from V. T.'s sword aura and concluded that an older wound took longer and more mana to heal than a fresh one.
• Sylphy visited Allen's cabin after midnight in a revealing cat-themed outfit and asked him to sleep with her.
• Isolte and Ariel spoke beside the river, where Ariel asked Isolte to become her retainer and explained why she had doubted her ability to rule.
• Ariel acknowledged that she could not confidently control Isolte's power but said she would still try to claim the throne rather than wait to be killed.

Ariel reflected on her failed attempt to recruit Isolte and returned to her room, where she found her notebook covered with “Get him.” In Allen’s cabin, Sylphiette admitted she wanted him to like her, and he reassured her that he liked her for herself; they shared a quiet moment together.

• Ariel climbed to the third-floor deck and worried that her actions had made Isolte harder to recruit.
• Ariel returned to her bedroom and noticed her notebook was densely marked with “Get him.”
• Allen found Sylphiette waiting outside his cabin and apologized for not noticing her in the cold.
• Allen wrapped Sylphiette up and asked why she had dressed as she had before.
• Sylphiette admitted she wanted Allen to like her, and Allen told her that he liked her herself, regardless of what she wore.
• Allen and Sylphiette gazed at each other in the moonlight beside the Artiel River.

After kissing Sylphy, Allen learned how she imagined Silent Casting Healing Magic and began to suspect that Healing Magic was actually a form of regression. The chapter left him struggling to suppress the implications of his theory about the magic system.

• Allen kissed Sylphy, who returned the kiss and then fell asleep on his lap.
• Allen asked Sylphy about Silent Casting, and she explained how she controlled Water Magic without chanting.
• Sylphy described Healing Magic as restoring a target by imagining its intact form and returning damaged parts to that state.
• Allen connected Sylphy's explanation to the healing of a tree and reasoned that Healing Magic might be Regression Magic.
• Allen theorized that Healing Spell, Detoxification Spell, Divine Strike Spell, and Barrier Spell were branches of Regression Magic.

Allen deduced that Healing Magic was a human adaptation of Regression Magic and wondered whether the marks inside him were remnants of a completed reincarnation spell. Isolte interrupted his spiraling thoughts with an intimate proposal, and the group arrived at Ars, the royal capital.

• Allen reasoned that Healing Magic, barriers, and the dragons’ reincarnation arts relied on manipulating mana through Regression Magic, then questioned whether the marks inside his body had already served their purpose.
• Isolte entered Allen’s room, teased him about Sylphy, and pressed him to explain why he was going to the royal capital rather than joining Dawn or accepting Ariel’s invitation.
• Isolte offered to kill James and later return to become Water God, proposing that she and Allen live with Sylphy and Lokkishi.
• Allen reassured Isolte that he was back and belonged to her, and Isolte said she belonged to him too.
• Allen and his companions reached Ars, the oldest city in human history.

Allen and the others traveled through the Artiel River Dam, where Rudy discovered that magic circles powered its locks and Ariel reflected on the kingdom’s neglect of magical infrastructure. As the ship entered the next lock chamber, a white-haired girl pulled Allen close, leaving him wondering about their moment together.

• Ariel waved to the cheering crowds as her ship reached the Artiel River Dam, and Allen recalled Demon Dragon King Laplace’s role in Orsted’s struggles.
• The dam’s magic circles raised the first gate, held the ship in place, and lowered the water barrier behind it.
• Rudy recognized the magic circles powering the locks, while Derrick explained how the dam’s water level lifted ships through its chambers.
• Ariel told Rudy and Sylphy that the dam was the royal capital’s only surviving example of magic used for public convenience, and admitted she no longer considered such projects a priority herself.
• The ship entered a second lock chamber, where a white-haired girl tugged Allen close before the gate shut and darkness surrounded them.