Chapter Summaries

Allen exposed Cole and Octopus’s deception, defeated Cole and the Sea Fish Race soldiers, and fought his way into R'lyeh. He reached the Bone Prison with Cole captured and confronted Octopus over the Sea God Orb, while Octopus threatened that Allen’s companions were still in its hands.

• Allen deduced that Cole still wore the Sea God's Garment and used Dragon Saint Battle Qi and wind pressure to restrain her and counter her armored tail.
• Allen hurled Cole into the Sea Fish Race soldiers with a North God Style throwing technique, then used her as a surfboard to crash into R'lyeh.
• Allen charged the soldiers’ formation and broke through toward the Bone Prison.
• Allen stood at the Bone Prison with the half-dead Cole, Octopus’s corpse, and the dimmed Sea God Orb, while eight Sea Fish Race prisoners watched.
• Allen pulled the translator from Cole’s scales and accused Octopus of concealing the Sea God Orb, but Octopus warned him that his companions were still captive.

Allen exposed Cole and Octopus’s deception, overcame the Sea God’s Garment, and fought his way into R’lyeh while using Cole as a weapon. He killed Octopus in the Bone Prison and confronted the remaining prisoners, while Octopus threatened him with the human women still in its hands.

• Allen revealed that Cole’s Sea God’s Garment was the reason Octopus had allowed her to leave, then stopped her attempts to attack him by using wind pressure against her tail.
• Allen hurled Cole into the Sea Fish Race soldiers with a North God Style throwing technique, then used her as a surfboard to crash through R’lyeh’s defenses.
• Allen charged the soldiers’ formation with Cole and fought his way to the Bone Prison.
• Allen killed Octopus with an Avalanche Drop, leaving the Sea God Orb among its remains, and faced the eight surviving Sea Fish Race prisoners.
• Allen pulled the translator from Cole’s scales and addressed Octopus, which threatened him by claiming the human women were still in its hands.

Allen used his strength to seize control of the confrontation with the octopus, then located Lokkishi, Melna, and Klaim held hostage atop a distant coral tower. He killed the hostage-taking split body with a precise Annihilation Wind Stab, leaving the octopus to face him without its leverage.

• The octopus recovered its body and blamed Allen for killing hundreds of Sea Fish Race soldiers, while Klaim urged an end to the fighting and offered to help him.
• Allen rejected the octopus’s demand that he obey, since he planned to reach Arkham, meet Laplace, and use Leviathan to return to his companions.
• The octopus revealed that a split body held Lokkishi, Melna, and Klaim at knifepoint on a distant coral tower.
• Allen explained how he had learned Secret Sword of the Undead’s wind-based sword techniques and challenged the octopus’s threat.
• Allen used Annihilation Wind Stab to pierce the split body’s head, freeing the hostages and declaring that he had held the initiative all along.

Allen used threats and staged displays of power to force Octopus to stop fighting and agree to help him return to Arkham. With the Sea Fish Race subdued, Allen asked Cole about Eris, and she confirmed that Eris had visited before.

• Allen deduced that Octopus had limited remaining uses of its ability and warned it that he could kill its soldiers with Annihilation Wind Stab.
• When Sea Fish Race guards attacked, Allen killed them and used their deaths to pressure Octopus, then wounded Cole when she tried to stop him.
• Octopus surrendered and agreed to help Allen return to Arkham, ordering the others to bring his companions over.
• Allen revealed that he had disguised Sky-Slicing Slashes as Annihilation Wind Stab and had used intimidation to hide his inability to attack from afar.
• Allen asked Cole about Eris, and Cole said Eris had come to the Abyssal Sea before.
• The Incarnation Manual announced that Allen's North God Style—Qiba Faction had reached North Emperor level.

Allen and Lokkishi traveled aboard a ghost ship through the Abyssal Sea, where Allen kept track of time and Melna cooked meals for the group. The chapter left Lokkishi eating seafood on Allen’s lap as they continued toward Arkham, still searching for the octopus.

• Allen woke Lokkishi and explained that Cole could not tell exactly how close they were to Arkham, while he planned to search for the hidden octopus again.
• Melna called Allen and Lokkishi to a meal, and Allen carried the sleepy Lokkishi out of their cabin.
• Allen teased Lokkishi awake by slipping his hand under her coat, and she admitted she was no longer sleepy.
• Melna served grilled deep-sea shellfish and fish brought by Cole, while she and Klaim remarked on Cole’s beauty and her interest in Allen.
• Allen sat cross-legged on the deck, settled Lokkishi on his lap, and fed her grilled clam meat.

Allen shared deep-sea seafood with Lokkishi while Melna and Klaim watched, and he noticed the fish bore dragon traits. As Allen pondered the creatures’ origins, Melna’s attempt to serve Lokkishi turned into an intimate, embarrassing scene that left him stunned.

• Allen fed Lokkishi shellfish, and she blushed after realizing she had bitten his finger.
• Allen recalled Lokkishi’s private sexual curiosity and her shyness about intimacy in front of others.
• Allen noticed that one deep-sea fish had dragon-like wings and asked Melna about the seafood’s origins.
• Melna explained that the creatures came from waters near the former Dragon World and carried dragon bloodlines.
• Melna insisted on feeding Lokkishi, then used the moment to stimulate her while Allen sat beneath her robe.
• Allen confronted Melna about her behavior, and she said helping the master and mistress was part of her duty.

After reuniting with Lokkishi aboard the Abyssal Sea, Allen realized the ship might help him reach Zenith and the others quickly. Melna revealed that Aisha had sent her back to change the present, while Lokkishi learned she was important to Allen, Aisha, and the world; the chapter ended with Allen wondering whether Aisha would become his fourth wife.

• Lokkishi grew embarrassed after Melna teased her, while Klaim pretended not to notice.
• Allen considered how the Abyssal Sea could provide faster transport to find Zenith and the others.
• Melna explained that Aisha had sent her from the future to alter events, and that she had been the only automaton assigned to the Archipelago.
• Lokkishi connected Melna's mission to the Secret Sword of the Undead incident and asked whether she had helped Allen save her at Purgatory Volcano.
• Allen reassured Lokkishi that she was indispensable to him, Aisha, and the world, and Melna told her that Aisha had respected and wanted to save her.
• Allen concluded that Melna's family roles implied Aisha might become his fourth wife, leaving Lokkishi surprised by the number.

Allen deduced that Aisha had sent Melna from a future in which he and many others died in Royal Capital Arus, and persuaded Melna to reveal the plan. Melna began explaining that events had already diverged, leaving Allen to learn what happened next.

• Allen reasoned that Orsted would mistake him for a Human God Apostle and that the Human God would arrange for him to die in Royal Capital Arus.
• Allen inferred that Aisha had gained Time Magic and planned to change the royal capital tragedy while preserving the future she remembered.
• Allen challenged Melna to reveal everything, arguing that their presence in the Abyssal Sea showed Aisha's plan had already gone off course.
• Melna told Allen that he was supposed to come ashore three days later and find Aisha and the others in the Land of Conflict.
• Melna explained that a snowstorm near the Dragon King Kingdom and Lokkishi's condition would delay Allen's journey, and Allen asked whether he would contact anyone during that time.

Melna recounted how Allen’s future ended when Orsted killed him outside the Millish Temple, after Allen brought Aisha and Isolte there to investigate the Millish Faith. Allen pieced together the Human God’s role in the tragedy and learned that Aisha had blamed herself for his death.

• Allen questioned Melna about Rudy, Silent Seven Stars, Orsted, and the future group’s research into Time Magic, learning that its use could destroy bodies and souls.
• Melna explained that Aisha distrusted Orsted, challenged him, and was badly burned, while Rudy continued contacting him; Allen suspected the Human God had caused the disaster.
• Melna described Allen reuniting with Aisha and the others in the Land of Conflict, then returning to the royal capital and dancing with Aisha at a victory banquet.
• Melna said Allen died outside the Millish Temple the day after rumors identified him as Saint Millish’s reincarnation and a Divine Child, prompting him to investigate the Millish Faith.
• Allen deduced that Orsted mistook him and Isolte for Human God Apostles and killed him after he pushed Aisha and Isolte out of danger; Melna said Aisha blamed herself for his death.

Cole found Y'thlps and urged the angry octopus to cooperate with Allen as the Sea Fish Race formation neared the end of the coral strait. Aboard the ship, Allen learned more about the deaths of his loved ones and heard that Aisha and Rudeus had investigated the Millish Faith, leaving him with unresolved questions about Divine Children and his own past.

• Cole found Y'thlps absorbing mana and told it that Allen wanted information about the journey and the Anti-Sea God Cult rebels.
• Y'thlps agreed that after fifteen Abyssal Sea days it was time to meet Allen again, and it spotted the coral strait's opening ahead.
• Allen asked Melna who had survived after his death, and she said she had never seen Lokkishi, Eris, or Zenith again and that Lokkishi had died in despair.
• Allen questioned whether Divine Children were vessels of the Human God and asked Melna whether Aisha had investigated the Millish Faith.
• Melna explained that Aisha and Rudeus found Human God Apostles in the Pope's faction but learned that the Millish Divine Children's powers came from the Reincarnation Art, whose source remained unknown.
• Melna said Rudeus and the Dragon God concluded that Allen possessed the Cycle Secret Art and was a reincarnated Hero.

Allen questioned Melna about Aisha’s plan and learned that an earlier event involving Cor had diverted him into the Abyssal Sea. He reassured Melna that she was his companion, then confronted the octopus about its hidden mana and its knowledge of the Abyssal Fish.

• Allen asked Melna how Aisha’s mission was supposed to unfold, and Melna explained that she was meant to help him obtain the Prophecy Art and rescue Lokkishi.
• Melna recounted how the Corpse Soul Demon Beast Tide disrupted her mission, while Allen realized Cor’s attack had caused the crucial deviation from Aisha’s plan.
• Allen encouraged himself to keep changing the future, and Melna recalled Aisha’s instructions to support him and Lokkishi.
• Allen told Melna she was his companion rather than his maid, and Lokkishi agreed that Melna should not call her mistress.
• Cor and the octopus climbed onto the ship, and Allen asked the octopus whether it had still possessed mana during their ordeal.
• The octopus ate an Abyssal Fish and remarked that human cooking wasted the flavor of fish that had grown for decades beneath the sea.

Allen challenged the octopus’s battle plan as the ghost ship approached the strait’s exit, but an Arkham ambush forced him to defend the group from a volley of bone-spike arrows. He protected the ship’s occupants with his swordsmanship and realized the octopus had deliberately set up the attack to pressure him into charging ahead alone.

• Allen questioned the octopus about its plans, and the octopus described an old strategy to bait Arkham’s army and attack the capital from the opposite direction.
• Allen rejected the octopus’s vague proposal to charge through the enemy and demanded an explanation of how his companions would be protected.
• As the ship left the strait, Arkham’s Spike Chariots fired a rain of bone-spike arrows at the Sea Fish Race formation and the unshielded ship.
• Allen used Flow Arcana and his swordsmanship to destroy the arrows around his companions, protecting them while the spikes pierced the ship beyond his defensive range.
• Allen confronted the octopus about the ambush, and the octopus urged him to lead a charge against the enemy’s Spike Chariots.

Allen ignored Octopus’s hostage ultimatum, exposed his hidden extra eyeball, and killed him before locating and capturing the last eye. He returned to his companions with the captured eye sealed in a fish-bone cage as the next arrow volley approached.

• Octopus demanded that Allen choose between charging at the Thorn Chariot troops or advancing under the Sea Fish Race’s protection, while threatening Allen’s companions as hostages.
• Allen pretended to accept a joint charge, then identified and tore out Octopus’s disguised fourth eyeball, causing Octopus’s body to collapse into sliced flesh.
• Allen discovered the remaining eyeball hidden in a mud-like creature beneath the Sea Fish Race formation and pinned it with a sword strike.
• Allen returned to the ship and trapped the eyeball inside the fish-bone cage he had made, then showed it to Cole as the next volley drew near.

Allen captured Y'thlps’s remaining eye and used Cole’s knowledge to assess the rebel forces, then prepared to defeat the Thorn Chariot troops swiftly. He left Cole to protect Lokkishi, Melna, and Klaim while he went to fight alone, agreeing to return within half an Abyssal Sea hour.

• Allen imprisoned Y'thlps’s remaining eye in a bone cage, and Cole calmed the seafolk soldiers.
• Allen questioned Cole and learned that Arkham had about twenty thousand troops, including roughly fifteen thousand rebels in the Thorn Chariot forces.
• Allen concluded that a swift, overwhelming victory would reduce resistance on the route to Arkham and declared he would defeat the Thorn Chariot troops within half an hour.
• Allen told Lokkishi, Melna, and Klaim to stay with Cole, then took Y'thlps as a hostage and set out alone.
• Cole agreed to protect the others and set a half-hour deadline, and Allen paused after hearing her call it an Abyssal Sea hour.

Allen realized that fifteen days in the Deep Sea equaled a year outside and that Aisha’s rescue deadline was only three minutes away, so he unleashed a blazing attack and headed toward Laplace. A year later, Aisha was still trapped in the Farming Town basin, repeatedly trying to contact Melna and burying the mercenaries she killed.

• Allen noticed that the Deep Sea’s time units and the sea folk’s slow growth implied a time difference, then confirmed with Cole that Leviathan’s time ran twenty times faster than the outside world’s.
• Melna revealed that Aisha’s planned rescue date was three hundred and seven days after Allen entered the Deep Sea, leaving him only three minutes to reach her.
• Allen ordered Melna to protect Lokkishi, then vanished as a blazing figure and set the sea ablaze with a massive attack.
• Laplace stood atop Leviathan’s heart and welcomed Allen as the prophesied guest, the child of destiny, and the Ship of the Deep Sea.
• A year later, four-year-old Aisha killed Farming Town’s final two mercenaries and made her 1,342nd failed attempt to contact Melna through Summoning Magic.

Aisha dreamed again of Allen rescuing her family on November 3rd, but realized that her year-long rescue plan had failed and feared Allen and Melna were dead. She awoke in a ravine beside a mercenary’s corpse, shaken by the dream’s new words of comfort.

• Aisha relived the memory of Allen arriving to save her family and recognized that her younger self had not known him.
• Aisha remembered using Listening to contact Melna and realized it had failed for over a year, leading her to fear that Melna and Allen had died.
• As the dream shattered, Allen’s phantom comforted Aisha and told her she had worked hard.
• Aisha awoke after exhausting her mana, saw the mercenary she had killed, and found her repeated notes of “Failed” written in the mud.
• Aisha remained dazed because Allen’s comforting words had never appeared in the dream before.

Aisha’s secret graveyard was discovered by Lilia, who mistook the dead mercenaries for the work of a lurking assassin and decided to flee Farming Town. As Aisha worried about Allen and tried to keep her identity hidden, an approaching war threatened the Marquise Mercenary Nation nearby.

• Aisha panicked when Lilia found her among the corpses, then broke down crying as Lilia scolded her and comforted her.
• Dawn revealed the many grave mounds Aisha had made, and Lilia concluded that an unknown Advanced Swordsman had been killing mercenaries.
• Lilia quickly packed their belongings and prepared to leave, while Aisha failed to persuade her that Allen might be responsible for the killings.
• Aisha recalled that the Marquise Mercenary Nation faced a crisis in 417, since Ghislaine had not been transferred in this loop.
• The Dikut Kingdom and Broz Empire prepared to ambush Mercenary King Marquise’s returning forces twenty-five kilometers south of Farming Town.

Eris Boreas Greyrat completed her morning sword practice and raced Rudy's magic-stone car down the mountain to the Sword God Style Main Dojo. She arrived in time for the trial that would push her toward becoming a Sword Saint.

• Eris finished one thousand empty swings on a snowy peak and set out for her trial battlefield.
• Eris recalled how she had stolen Rudy's off-road car after knocking him down and leaving for the Sacred Land of Swords with Ghislaine.
• Eris struggled to start the car, then launched it down the mountain at high speed and raced through town, alarming its residents.
• Eris skidded to a stop at the Sword God Style Main Dojo and was thrown onto the entrance stone slab.
• Sword Saints emerged from the dojo holding wooden swords, beginning Eris's advancement trial.

Eris entered the Sword Saint Trial determined to prove herself and earn permission to leave the Sacred Land of Swords, believing Allen was there and hoping to bring him back. After defeating seven young swordsmen with a powerful strike shaped by Allen’s teachings, she faced a one-on-one match against Nina, while Ghislaine continued hiding that Allen was missing.

• Eris had come to the Sacred Land of Swords to find Allen, improve her swordsmanship, and eventually return to the royal capital, but Gal had twice stopped her from leaving.
• Eris began the Sword Saint Trial by facing seven upper-ranked young practitioners in a melee and swiftly defeated them all.
• Eris used a fierce, precise sword strike inspired by Allen’s teachings, and Gal recognized its resemblance to Reida’s Water God Style.
• Ghislaine told Gal that Allen had still not been found and asked him to keep Eris at the dojo for her sake.
• Gal announced that Eris’s next opponent would be Nina, who had recently grasped the form of the Sword of Light.

Nina Falion challenged Eris Boreas Greyrat at the Sacred Land of Swords, confident that her perfected Sword of Light form would defeat Eris’s unconventional momentum. Eris found her resolve and unleashed the Sword of Light, defeating Nina as Ghislaine and Gal watched.

• Nina confronted Eris over their earlier duel and challenged her during the Sword Saint trial.
• Nina prepared to use her polished Sword of Light form, while Eris stood ready with the Iai Slash Allen had taught her to develop into momentum.
• Ghislaine predicted Nina would win because Eris could not use her Combat Faction techniques, while Gal questioned whether his own Sword of Light relied on form or momentum.
• Nina gained the upper hand, striking Eris and sending her flying, but Eris recalled Allen and resolved to reach him on her own.
• Eris sprang back with a brilliant Sword of Light, cut Nina, and left her standing beside a deep crack in the ground as Eris walked toward the dojo.