Chapter Summaries

Allen seized control of his commendation banquet with a show of force, then challenged the nobles to test his sword. He exposed Falz's troubled fighting spirit in their duel and pressed him to show his resolve.

• Allen extinguished the banquet candles with a sword swing and ordered the ceremony to begin, while Reida's presence kept Pylemon from taking control.
• Reida lit a candle and restored order, as Falz recalled his family's harsh expectations and his older half-brother Chemon's achievements.
• Leus criticized Allen's display, and Allen invited someone to test his blade; Darius urged Falz to fight him.
• Falz accepted the duel, but Allen used Flow to stop his first attack and then shattered Falz's wooden sword during his next attempt.
• Allen and Falz exchanged blows, and Allen called out Falz's hesitation and demanded that he fight with greater resolve.

Allen turned Falz’s challenge into a spirited duel that reignited the Advanced Dojo apprentices and took over the Water God Style Main Dojo’s banquet. As the ‘Dawn’ Knight Order arrived, Sino led Chemon Eurus Greyrat inside to observe Allen.

• Allen fought Falz, broke his sword, and offered him a hand, but Falz refused to concede and promised to challenge him again.
• Allen called for more challengers, and the Advanced Dojo apprentices surged forward while Pylemon watched from the dining table.
• Isolte, Leda, Sylphy, Eris, Ariel, Derrick, Rudy, and Leus observed Allen’s impact, and Leus judged him a diligent Water Saint-rank genius.
• The seven members of the ‘Dawn’ Knight Order arrived while the banquet was still underway.
• Sino asked Chemon Eurus Greyrat whether he resented joining ‘Dawn’ early, then invited him into the dojo to take a look.

Allen used a staged sword challenge to draw attention from the nobles and provoke the people he wanted to act. After he sent a broken wooden sword flying through the crowd, it stopped spinning in front of a pair of hard leather boots.

• Allen defeated Kuri, who promptly admitted defeat, while nobles debated Allen’s skill and political ambitions.
• The nobles compared Allen to Leus Eurus Greyrat and speculated that Allen hoped to attract the attention of the princes; they also discussed his recent encounter with Ariel.
• Allen continued facing challengers while using Flow Sense to listen to the nobles and watch Leus and Falz near the entrance.
• Allen deliberately broke an opponent’s wooden sword and guided its tip past Falz and through the crowd.
• The spinning sword tip came to rest in front of a pair of hard leather boots.

Allen engineered the nobles’ ridicule into an opportunity to challenge Liemol, while Sino and Leta discussed the King’s intentions and the Water God Style dojo. Allen defeated Liemol with a lightning-fast strike, leaving the nobles stunned and Leta impressed by his Sword God Style progress.

• Allen’s broken sword blade parted the crowd, and the Dawn Knights arrived with Sino and Liemol at the Water God Style Main Dojo.
• Sino greeted Leta, who welcomed him into the dojo, while Liemol condemned Falz for losing to Allen and bringing shame on the Eurus family.
• Leta and Sino discussed the King’s gesture with the Golden Sword as nobles’ gossip pushed events toward another demonstration of Allen’s strength.
• Liemol asked Leta for permission to join the festivities, and Allen took Isolte’s blade and challenged him without armor or a wooden sword.
• Allen used the Sword of Light to place his blade at Liemol’s neck before Liemol could draw his own sword, then unleashed a shockwave that knocked nobles down.
• Leta praised Allen’s rapid progress in the Sword God Style, while Liemol stood stunned and the nobles reacted to Allen’s decisive victory.

Allen defeated Liemol with the Sword of Light, then confronted the nobles who questioned his victory and the Water God Style banquet. After displaying the Golden Sword’s power and condemning Asura’s decline, Allen received Leda’s recognition as the new Water King.

• Allen defeated Liemol with one Sword of Light strike, and Liemol acknowledged his loss.
• Allen taunted Pylemon and tossed his sword into Isolte’s scabbard, provoking Pylemon to accuse him of winning through a cheap trick.
• Allen took the Golden Sword from Sino and denounced the nobles and Asura’s supposed glory before the silent dojo.
• Allen drew the Golden Sword and carved deep marks into the armor of the five Dawn knights, demonstrating its power without striking their bodies.
• Leda laughed, took the Golden Sword from Allen, and declared that he had won every challenge match and deserved the title of Water King; no one objected.

Allen became the Water God Style’s newest Water King, intimidated Pylemon, and left his name ringing through the royal court. Darius recognized Allen as the person named in the Divine Oracle, while one final plot remained before the Royal Capital Arc ended.

• Reida declared Allen the Water God Style’s newest Water King, and the dojo raised no objections.
• Allen confronted Pylemon, warned him against drawing his sword, and declared that he would take the headship of the Notos Family.
• Sino and his knights left the dojo, while Liemol exchanged a knowing glance with Allen and later explained to Sino why he had pushed Falz to improve.
• Liemol said Allen was a worthy new goal for Falz, then teased Sino about his feelings for their master.
• The nobles resumed their banquet and began speaking Allen’s name, while Darius watched him and recognized him as the person foretold by the Divine Oracle.

After the banquet, Allen rejected Derrick’s plea to join Ariel’s faction, declaring that strength—not political power—was the reason to become king. Ariel arrived just as Allen noticed her outfit, leaving their reunion on a teasing reveal.

• Allen escorted Leus and Falz from the dojo, and Leus promised to explain the incident to the Water God.
• Allen watched Darius leave, then decided to postpone any move against him until after May 10th.
• Derrick urged Allen to join Ariel’s faction and warned him not to kill James, but Allen insisted that strength would make power come to him.
• Allen sensed Ariel’s arrival and drove away the nobles’ attention with his killing intent.
• Ariel appeared in a lake-green court gown, then revealed the black cutout beneath her skirt when Allen asked what she was wearing.

Allen told Ariel he intended to kill James, and she warned him that doing so in the Royal Capital would leave him without allies and make him a target. Allen remained committed to his plan and revealed that the Royal Capital was only a transfer station; as a commotion sounded at the dojo entrance, he was ready to set the Great Transfer plan in motion.

• Ariel teased Allen by exposing her underwear, and Allen struggled to respond to her uninhibited behavior.
• Ariel asked Allen why he had come to the Royal Capital, and he said he planned to kill James.
• Ariel warned that killing James in the Royal Capital would provoke the nobles and royal family, leaving Allen with no power to defend him.
• Ariel reflected on her own uncertain position, and Allen encouraged her to find another path to life.
• Ariel offered to help Allen as a friend, but Allen decided he was done trying to guide her and prepared to advance the Great Transfer plan.
• Someone called for people to make way as a commotion arose at the dojo entrance.

Allen followed Pylemon after persuading him and overheard him plan to exploit the Succession Conflict by drawing James into the Second Prince’s ranks. The chapter ended with Allen questioning whether the System’s Persuasion ability depended on the Human God, and the System avoided answering directly.

• Pylemon left the dojo in a fury, while Allen dismissed Ariel and slipped away from the nobles.
• Allen silently boarded Pylemon’s carriage and listened as Pylemon raged about Allen, James, and the Succession Conflict.
• Pylemon learned that Allen was Philip’s hostage and decided to exploit James’s suspicion of Allen by making contact with the Second Prince.
• Pylemon planned to provoke James into striking at Allen, then use the resulting damage to the First Prince’s power as an offering to the Second Prince.
• Allen returned toward the dojo, pleased that Pylemon had become a useful ally in his scheme, and asked the System whether Persuasion involved the Human God.

Allen returned to Boreas Manor after gaining fame as a Sword King and Water King, where he confronted his family over their treatment of him and Sasha. He met James in the study and began a chess game that turned into an argument about the Succession Conflict.

• Allen saw nobles praise him after his overnight rise to fame in the royal capital.
• Allen ordered Steward Lyle to put his belongings back in his old bedroom and struck Viri when he objected.
• Allen refused Lady Boreas's attempt to excuse his brothers' behavior and asked where Sasha was.
• Allen watched Sasha arrive from garden work and ordered her to be cleaned up and returned to service.
• Allen asked where James was, then entered the study and challenged him over the family's actions and his support for Princess Ariel.
• James dismissed the significance of Allen's reputation-building strategy, and their chess match continued.

Allen confronted James in a brutal game of Fast Chess, intimidated him, and gave him ten days to settle their conflict. On May 10, after ten days of seclusion and repeated meetings with James, Allen waited in Boreas Mansion as the story left the outcome of their talks unresolved.

• Allen and James played Fast Chess while arguing over their influence and prospects in the Succession Conflict.
• Allen used his killing intent to frighten James, then placed a hidden black chariot on the board and challenged James’s confidence in his slower strategy.
• Allen told James he would give him ten days and declared that everything would be decided on May 10.
• Allen returned to his bedroom and began writing a letter, while Gravel and Darius discussed Allen’s abilities and ambitions at the First Prince’s residence.
• Over the next ten days, Allen stayed inside Boreas Mansion, turned away visiting nobles and Ariel, and met with James, who grew increasingly gloomy.
• On the morning of May 10, Allen sat at his desk beside poisoned tea he had neutralized and a letter bearing the First Prince’s seal.

Allen’s timed letters revealed that he intended to kill James, seize the Boreas Family, and draw Paul’s family into the Succession Conflict. As Paul set out for the royal capital and Allen tried to locate Lokkishi, the system vanished—then a god returned before Allen could leave his room.

• Allen’s letter reached Sauros, Hilda, and Philip, and Sauros ordered the Boreas household to pack and leave for the royal capital.
• Allen’s letter to Paul revealed that he had killed James, planned to take the Boreas Family’s position, and wanted Paul to reclaim the Notos Family’s standing by joining the Succession Conflict.
• Paul prepared to rush to Allen’s aid, but Zenith stopped him, and he decided the family would travel together to Roa City before heading to the capital.
• Allen repeatedly tried to locate Lokkishi through the system, but the panel disappeared after answering him in gibberish.
• Allen picked up his scabbard and the First Prince’s letter, but froze at his bedroom door when he saw a god had returned.

Allen received a message from Lara, then left Boreas Manor after declaring that he would take the family-head position from James. As he walked toward the royal palace, he killed the assassins following him and returned to the manor, where Sino and Lilfa found him seated beside James’s severed head.

• Lara’s message vanished before Allen could question her, but it reassured him that he was on the right path and told him to trust his companions.
• Allen pried the chess king from James’s hand, destroyed it, and left Boreas Manor with the First Prince’s letters as James begged him to stay.
• Allen told James he would take the Boreas Family headship, then walked toward the royal palace as nobles watched and James was dragged back inside.
• Seven assassins attacked Allen in an alley, and he killed them before continuing through the upper Noble District, leaving a trail of dead pursuers.
• Sino and Lilfa learned of the killings and followed the blood trail to Boreas Manor, where they found Allen drinking tea beside James’s severed head.

Allen Boreas Greyrat exposed Pylemon’s plot, killed James and the conspirators who had poisoned him, and emerged as a Sword of Light. With Gravel publicly backing him as head of the Boreas Family, Allen positioned himself to reshape the succession struggle and pursue his plans for Fittoa and Buena Village.

• Pylemon watched the nobles gather outside Boreas Manor and believed James’s death and Allen’s imprisonment would destroy the Boreas Family and weaken the First Prince’s faction.
• Allen returned to the manor, explained how he had manipulated Pylemon and James, then decapitated James in the study and displayed his head to the family.
• Allen killed the eldest Boreas son after he attacked, exposed the mistress’s poisoned tea, and forced her to drink it; he then offered Sasha her freedom, which she accepted.
• Allen revealed his plans to avoid the Great Transfer by taking control of the Boreas Family and motivating Paul to reclaim the Notos family headship, while Sino and Lilfa confronted him.
• Allen demonstrated his Emperor-class Sword of Light and explained that James had plotted against him; Gravel arrived and publicly declared Allen should lead the Boreas Family.
• Ariel and Darius arrived as Allen joined hands with Gravel and declared that he would rekindle the glory of Boreas.

Isolte saw how Allen’s reputation reshaped the rumors and social attention around the Boreas family while Rudy and Eris became absorbed in an Allen figurine. In Cascade City, a mysterious dragon-scaled man investigated the Puppeteer’s workshop and declared that Chaos’s son was dead, an event that had never happened in the past.

• Isolte passed Boreas Manor and heard nobles credit Allen with changing the Succession Conflict while spreading their version of the Boreas Incident.
• Isolte found noblewomen gathered outside her residence, while Rudy mourned that his Allen figurine had sold for 2,000 gold coins and Eris played with another one.
• Sylphiette told Isolte that Allen had not returned, and Isolte relayed that their family members had reached Cascade City after traveling day and night.
• In Cascade City, a hooded stranger entered the Puppeteer’s abandoned attic and destroyed a puppet with a touch.
• The stranger examined a divine servant and revealed silver hair, golden eyes, and dragon scales before declaring that Chaos’s son was dead.

Allen reviewed Orsted’s history and the risks of openly opposing the Human God, then resolved to strengthen himself and continue his plans against Darius. After learning that his family had reached Cascade City safely, he discussed the political fallout with Isolte and Sylphy, while the chapter ended with Asura’s king waking from a dream.

• Allen considered the silent system, Lara’s cryptic advice, and the danger of contacting Orsted, then decided to focus on increasing his strength and advancing his plans against Darius.
• Isolte confronted Allen for keeping his dangerous plans from his companions, then told him that Hilda and the others had reached Cascade City and that Hilda was resting with a cold.
• Allen learned that Arifa wanted to visit him and refused, then explained how his letter had prompted the First Prince to intervene before the conflict escalated.
• Isolte and Allen discussed how rumors had misread the First Prince’s letters as an attempt to recruit him, while Sylphy asked how Allen would handle Ariel’s visit.
• Asura’s king woke in the Silver Palace and said that it had been a dream.

Darius met with King Gravel, who arranged for him to receive Sauros, while Allen discussed supporting Princess Ariel with Sylphy and Isolte. As Sauros arrived in Ars, Allen and Darius confronted each other near the river dam, with the rest of the Greyrat family aboard the ship.

• Darius reassured First Prince Gravel that he would accept Allen’s growing influence, then refused his steward’s suggestion to kill Allen or Sauros.
• King Gravel discussed Allen and Sauros with Darius during a chess game and ordered Darius to bring Sauros to the capital.
• Allen explained that Paul should join Ariel’s faction to reclaim the headship of the Notos family, and Sylphy and Isolte agreed to support her.
• Isolte asked Allen to share his plans with them because they were family, and Allen agreed.
• Darius and Allen met beside the Artiel River Dam as Sauros’s ship arrived, while Philip, Hilda, Paul, Rolls, and Norda watched from aboard.

Allen reunited with Sauros and his family in the royal capital, then learned that Zenith had suddenly fallen ill and rushed back to Cascade City. As the Great Transfer began, Allen saw the sky twist into unnatural colors and a countdown appear.

• Allen confronted Darius about his role in past assassination attempts, while Darius dismissed them as accidents and whetstones.
• Sauros ignored Allen’s killing of James and went with Darius to answer the king’s summons.
• Philip and Hilda welcomed Allen home, and Philip praised his decision to kill James while Hilda embraced him.
• Allen learned from Paul that Zenith had fallen ill in Cascade City and hurriedly boarded a ship to return alone.
• Allen realized Zenith had undergone Divine Child Transformation ahead of schedule and saw the Great Transfer countdown begin as the sky’s colors warped.

Allen rushed back to the Styrian Well during the early Great Transfer, convinced that Cascade City would be safe, and encountered Orsted along the way. As the transfer engulfed him, he was struck down and then recognized the voice and figure of Hilda as he experienced his birth as Allen Boreas Greyrat.

• Allen retraced his route to the Styrian Well while reasoning that the Great Transfer’s range could not extend beyond the Fittoa Region.
• Allen passed Orsted in an alley, and Orsted recognized him as an anomaly before leaving to investigate the eastern sky.
• Allen saw Lilia, Norn, Aisha, and the vacant Zenith across the canal but stopped before calling out to them.
• Orsted appeared behind Allen, looked toward Zenith and the others, and vanished; Aisha then noticed Allen and drew Lilia’s attention to him.
• Allen was struck by severe soul pain, and the Great Transfer’s light swept over him and engulfed the city.
• Allen heard Hilda’s voice and saw her figure as she named him Allen Boreas Greyrat.

Orsted pursued the Great Transfer’s mana surge, used the Front Dragon Gate to protect himself, and found Nanahoshi at the transfer’s center. As Allen fell into the transfer, the world reshaped the dead summoning victim into him; by dawn, Roxy stood amid Cascade City’s destruction, mourning Allen and the others who had vanished.

• Orsted noticed Norn and the collapsing Summoning Magic, then used the transfer circle hidden beneath Styrian Well to travel to the geothermal lake in Snow Valley.
• Orsted summoned the Front Dragon Gate, which diverted the Great Transfer’s mana, and hurried east to Witten.
• Orsted found Nanahoshi beside a dead man, questioned her, healed her broken leg, and took her away.
• The world absorbed the dead man’s remains and corrected them into Allen as he fell through the sky.
• At dawn, Roxy mourned Allen on the shattered bridge while the chapter revealed that Zenith, Lilia, Aisha, Norn, Allen, and countless Asura citizens had been transferred.