Recaps

Ian learned about shikigami and the Spirit World, then successfully fused with Beidou and displayed his extraordinary power at the academy. The day ended as Ian recognized a blood-soaked swordsman teaching the final class.

• Teacher Mozi taught the students about shikigami types and urged them to bond with their spirits rather than command them.
• Princess Matsumoto argued with Kon, while Ian calmly asked Beidou to shrink and watched the dragon comply.
• At Teacher Mozi’s suggestion, Ian fused with Beidou, gaining dragon horns, eyes, scales, and greatly enhanced strength and magic.
• Ian attended classes on cursed words, ritual magic, and strengthening, and compared Eastern and Western magic systems.
• Ian joined the commoner students for lunch and answered their questions about spiritual energy control.
• Ian recognized the blood-soaked swordsman leading the strengthening class and anticipated an interesting lesson.

Ian recognized Zure as a rival seeking the Origin Grimoire, then secured access to nearly every book in The Library and strengthened his ties with the commoner students. He warned Mido that her prophetic gift would attract powerful factions, then headed to The Library to search for knowledge and clues to the Origin Grimoire.

• Ian identified the new instructor, Zure, as the dangerous rival also pursuing the Origin Grimoire and concealed his suspicions during the lesson.
• Principal Hirano challenged Ian about his conspicuous displays of talent, and Ian persuaded her to grant him the highest-level reading permit for The Library, excluding the Imperial Family's secret archives.
• Ian taught the commoner freshmen to gather spiritual power through familiar everyday metaphors, and they mastered its basic transformation.
• Ian warned Mido not to fall for him and to beware nobles and the Imperial Family seeking to control her prophetic talent, offering to help if she encountered trouble.
• Ian set off for The Library to study its books and seek clues to the Origin Grimoire.

Ian finished studying the academy’s Onmyodo and discovered the diary of Onizuka, a transmigrator whose ideas had shaped the Yamato Dynasty. After Princess Matsumoto warned him about a dangerous academy exercise, Ian secretly investigated below the academy and found a heavily sealed bronze door tied to the capital’s defenses and the Heavenly Dao Will.

• Ian reviewed the region’s magical systems and concluded that the Land of the Sun’s Onmyodo was an unfinished combination of disciplines.
• Ian read Onizuka’s diary, recognized him as a transmigrator without a cheat ability, and learned that his educational reforms had helped shape the Yamato Dynasty.
• Princess Matsumoto warned Ian about the dangerous Spirit Calamity Purification Exercise and urged him to beware nobles and Imperial Family members.
• Ian planted a mental mark on Princess Matsumoto as he left, then summoned an invisible ninja puppet in his dormitory.
• Ian sent the puppet beneath the academy and discovered a massive bronze door protected by a complex sealing formation and connected to the capital’s defenses.
• Ian sensed the Heavenly Dao Will beyond the door and suspected that something more than the Origin Grimoire was sealed there.

Ian failed to break the academy door’s seal after its defense exiled his puppet to a parallel dimension, then arranged for Zure to supervise the Spirit Calamity exercise. At the exercise, Ian led the students in containing contaminated villagers without killing them and located the demon’s source, where a Red Oni emerged as Ian waited for a chance to draw out Zure.

• The sealed bronze door exiled Ian’s puppet to a parallel dimension, and Ian identified the spatial defense and considered the dimension as a future resource source.
• Ian used a psychological suggestion on Principal Hirano to have Zure assigned as a supervising teacher for the Spirit Calamity exercise.
• Ian led the first-year students into the ruined village and ordered them to restrain the contaminated villagers rather than kill them.
• The students raised a barrier around the village and bound the villagers while Mido’s Three-Eyed Crow located the source of the demonic energy in a thatched hut.
• The hut exploded, revealing a Red Oni, and Ian watched from above as he waited for an opportunity to draw out Zure.

Princess Matsumoto's Five-Element attacks appeared to defeat the Red Oni, but the demon transformed into a far more dangerous Mask Demon. Meanwhile, Ian defeated the forces sent to capture him and revealed to Zure that Richita was alive, leaving Zure demanding answers.

• Kinji and Princess Matsumoto attacked the Red Oni, and her Five-Element chain of spells pierced the demon and made it erupt into a forest of thorns.
• The Red Oni survived, transformed into a Mask Demon, and Ian secretly amplified its demonic energy to mid-tier demon strength.
• Teacher Kuruna and the other escorts were blocked from entering the village, while a hidden chief ordered the operation to continue despite the princess's danger.
• Ian annihilated the samurai, Onmyoji, and ninjas trapped with him, then confronted Zure and revealed that he knew about Zure's family.
• Zure transformed into an angel after Ian mentioned Richita, and Ian told him that Richita was alive before demanding answers in return.

Ian and Beidou defeated the angel Zure after a fierce battle, then Ian tried to extract Zure’s memories about Elysium. A hidden Heavenly Dao Will destroyed Zure’s soul, but Ian recovered fragments that confirmed three separate Heavenly Dao Wills existed in the universe.

• Beidou attacked Zure with lightning, but Zure’s Solar Magic pierced the thunder dragon until Ian healed it and ordered it to use Lightning Release Tactics.
• Ian countered Zure’s Solar Flare with ice, water, and metal magic, then unleashed a storm of ice swords that forced Zure to reveal his Solar Avatar.
• Ian summoned the True Thousand Hands Buddha while Beidou protected him, and their attacks drained Zure’s magic until Ian bound him with sealing chains.
• Ian used Soul Extraction to search Zure’s memories for information about Elysium, but a Heavenly Dao Will wrapped Zure’s soul in black chains and destroyed it.
• Ian retained a few fragments of Zure’s memories and concluded that three distinct Heavenly Dao Wills existed in the universe.

Ian uncovered Elysium’s hierarchy and learned that its God sought Transcendence, then discovered that Late Emperor Yeguang shared Princess Matsumoto’s body. After ending the battle, Ian healed the wounded students and restored the demonized villagers, leaving the witnesses astonished.

• Ian read Zure’s memories and learned about Elysium’s four levels, God’s Transcendence plan, and the Origin Grimoire’s possible role in it.
• Ian returned to the village ruins and recognized the fallen attackers as expendable agents of the Onmyo General, whose actions could stir political conflict.
• Ian entered Princess Matsumoto’s Soul Dimension and discovered that Late Emperor Yeguang’s soul coexisted with hers after a failed Reincarnation Magic ritual.
• Ian weakened Red Oni, allowing Princess Matsumoto to defeat it, and healed the injured Imperial students with Spring-Rejuvenation Talismans.
• Ian cast a vast spell that reversed the Spirit Calamity’s corruption and restored several hundred villagers, astonishing the students and Yeguang.

After the Imperial Family exploited the failed assassination to curb Arata Seimei’s power, Ian entered Princess Matsumoto’s dream and forced the Late Emperor Yeguang to reveal the truth about the bronze door beneath the academy. The chapter ended with Ian learning that the Grimoire sustained the Mental World and its Onmyodo system, and deciding that Matsumoto and Yeguang still had a role to play.

• Prince Nobunaga arrived at the battlefield, but Ian intimidated him into leaving with Princess Matsumoto without answering his questions.
• Arata Seimei confronted the shrine maiden, who refused to help him and considered Ian and Miko as new pawns in her effort to rescue her brother.
• The Imperial Family ordered Arata Seimei to accept the creation of the Three Heavenly Guardians, and he submitted rather than risk an immediate conflict.
• Ian summoned Princess Matsumoto into a dream, threatened her until the Late Emperor Yeguang emerged from her soul, and questioned him about the bronze door.
• Yeguang revealed that the door contained a Grimoire that formed the core of the Mental World and powered the continent’s Onmyodo system, Shikigami, and alternate dimension.
• Ian released the dream cage and told Matsumoto and Yeguang to stay alive because they would be useful before the final upheaval.

Ian learned that Yamato Tasuke used the Origin Grimoire to create the Spirit Realm from humanity’s imagination, and that Yakou had destroyed the gate-opening tokens while seeking control of the Grimoire. Ian began preparing to unseal it, while his No. 9 clone gathered the Clover Kingdom’s leaders to revise their plan for invading Elysium.

• Yakou explained that Yamato Tasuke created the Spirit Realm with the Origin Grimoire, turning human myths and belief into spirits, and that a Shikigami’s attempt to seize it caused the Spirit Calamity.
• Ian concluded that Allen had given Tasuke the Grimoire to help reinforce the seals on God and Satan, and learned from Yakou that all gate-opening tokens had been destroyed.
• Ian used Dream Oblivion to erase Yakou’s and Princess Matsumoto’s memories, then sent paper puppets to spread a Reverse Unsealing Array across the Imperial Capital.
• At the Wizard King’s Castle, Yami told Ian’s No. 9 clone that the leaders’ Mad Emperor simulation had ended in total defeat, even after they used their strongest plans.
• Ian’s clone revealed that the simulated Ian had used only 80% of his power, then opened a map of Elysium’s four layers as the leaders prepared to revise their invasion plan.

Ian planned the invasion of Elysium, assigned the battle teams, and prepared defenses in the Spade Kingdom and Underworld. The Floating City reached the Origin Wall, where Hermione and Pheobe prepared to enter a new dimensional universe.

• Ian divided the Elysium invasion into three echelons, equipped the elite squad with Demon Hearts, and assigned Nero to seal the fourth layer while he confronted the god.
• Ian warned the Magic Knights that their Grimoires might fail in Elysium and ordered them to study Arcane Runes; he assigned Dorothy communications duties and sent Nacht to scout Elysium in advance.
• Ian refused Richita's request to join the battle, revealing through Telepathy that her survival made her a hidden variable and a trump card against the god.
• Ian placed an Earth Matrix beneath the Spade Kingdom, then left spatial beacons and explosive arrays across the first six layers of the Underworld.
• The Floating City arrived at the Origin Wall, and Hermione told Pheobe that passing through it would take them into a new dimensional universe.

Hermione and her companions infiltrated the KonoSuba world by posing as reincarnated travelers, then broke their seals after arriving in Axel. They discovered the world’s class system restricted their magic and headed for the Adventurer’s Guild to register and unlock their abilities.

• Hermione led the expedition team to Earth in 2017, where they spent three months exploring and adapting to the world’s rules.
• The team drank Total Sealing Potion, staged their deaths in a Japanese bus accident, and met the goddess Eris in the afterlife.
• Lily interrogated Eris about the new world, and the group’s extravagant wishes were rejected; they chose the Quick Growth skill instead.
• The five arrived in Axel and used their stored Unsealing Potions to restore their power.
• Snape found that class restrictions prevented him from casting magic, while Battle Aura still worked, so Hermione led the team toward the Adventurer’s Guild to register for classes.

Hermione and the others registered as adventurers in Axel, tested their extraordinary attributes, and chose classes suited to their plans. After studying the world's skill system, they left to hunt monsters and gain skill points.

• Hermione's group entered the Adventurer's Guild, and Snape's murderous aura stopped the adventurers from staring at Pheobe.
• Pheobe used her charm to collect enough money for the group's registration fees.
• Hermione's card showed maxed attributes and immeasurable magic power, and she identified their unknown ability as Battle Aura.
• The group chose their classes: Flitwick became an elemental archer, Snape an archmage, Lily a crusader, Pheobe a high priest, and Hermione an Adventurer.
• Hermione explained that Quick Growth would let them gain enough skill points to learn skills across class boundaries.
• After analyzing their new skills, the five left the guild to hunt monsters and investigate ways to increase their skill points.

Hermione led Lily Potter, Snape, Professor Flitwick, and Pheobe through monster zones outside Axel City to master their new class skills. After they cleared the Giant Frog Plains and began sweeping other areas, an unexpected incident stopped their hunt.

• Professor Flitwick tested Snipe and discovered that his arrows hit through seemingly impossible turns of luck.
• Lily Potter and Hermione fought the giant toads with swordsmanship, while Pheobe used Reflection and Manipulation to kill monsters and gain experience.
• Snape adapted his beginner spells into lethal attacks, then learned Fireball and secretly froze Lily’s path, causing a toad to swallow her.
• Lily cut her way out of the toad, and Snape photographed her slime-covered armor until Pheobe teased them and Lily and Pheobe bickered.
• At sunset, Hermione’s group left the cleared plains and swept through other monster zones around Axel City to max out their skills.
• An unexpected incident forced the group to stop their hunt.

Severus Snape, Lily, Hermione, and Pheobe studied the laws and magic of the world while hunting monsters and researching ways to use its system. At Wiz’s Magic Item Shop, Pheobe and Hermione tried to recruit the lich Wiz as Ian’s new wife, just as Kazuma Satou’s party arrived.

• Snape cast Explosion Magic for Lily’s camera, while Pheobe tested Resurrection and Holy Purification on a dead Unicorn Rabbit.
• Hermione theorized that the world operated under System Laws and proposed bringing their source code back to the Empire.
• Luna asked the group to stop killing beginner-area monsters, and Snape teleported them away without giving her a ride.
• The group turned their castle into a magic laboratory, while Hermione learned skills and Snape studied potion recipes.
• Pheobe and Hermione offered Wiz a place in Ian’s imperial harem and promised to clear her debts and support her shop.
• Kazuma Satou’s party entered Wiz’s shop, and Hermione said she had something to discuss with them.

Hermione and the Arcane Squad paid Kazuma’s party to study Aqua’s divine abilities and Megumin’s Crimson Demon Clan genes. They left with samples and data that could lead to powerful magic and genetic breakthroughs, and planned to continue testing them.

• Hermione revealed that the Arcane Squad came from London and offered Kazuma one million Eris to let Aqua and Megumin take part in experiments; Kazuma accepted after persuading them with promises of money.
• Hermione and Snape examined Aqua’s Godhead, discovering how it converted faith into magic, purified harmful influences, and enabled Holy Magic.
• Pheobe determined that the Crimson Demon Clan’s genes had been artificially modified with magic circuits that gave its members exceptional magical talent.
• The Arcane Squad completed the experiments, paid Kazuma, and arranged further tests, while Snape planned to develop a Divine Magic Potion from Aqua’s blood.
• Pheobe sent the Crimson Demon genetic data to the Floating City’s mainframe, and Hermione called the world a treasure house.

Hermione and the others discussed their research and strategy in this world, then identified a way to use causality to develop Arcane Spark and true Holy Spells. The group prepared to begin work, but a sudden visitor interrupted them.

• Pheobe told Hermione that her analysis of Crimson Demon DNA and Aqua's goddess blood was progressing rapidly, supporting Ian's Law Interference Theory.
• Hermione described how she, Lily, and Snape had struggled to understand the Adventurer Card, Divine Flame, and skill-upgrading potions.
• Hermione, Snape, Lily, and Pheobe agreed to avoid conquering the world and instead help Aqua defeat the Demon King, then use her to investigate the Heaven Realm.
• Hermione proposed that the world's level-up and skill-point systems were built on causality, and suggested creating an Arcane Spark to turn causal feedback into spellcasting power.
• Snape revealed that Aqua's purification ability had accelerated their progress toward the Seventh Tier, and Pheobe planned to collect more specimens and recruit Wiz.
• Someone knocked heavily on the laboratory door, interrupting the group's plans.

Kazuma’s party learned that the Mobile Fortress Destroyer was approaching Axel, so Kazuma asked the Arcane Squad to handle it. Filius disabled and captured the fortress, then was ordered back to help develop a weapon against the Demon King, while Pheobe continued trying to arrange a meeting between Wiz and Ian.

• Luna told Kazuma’s party that the Destroyer was heading for Axel, and Kazuma decided to find the Arcane Squad instead of confronting it himself.
• Pheobe called Filius back from his adventure and ordered him to defeat the Destroyer and bring it back intact.
• Filius pierced the fortress’s shield, shut down its self-destruct sequence, removed its Corona Stone, and teleported the Destroyer to the base warehouse.
• Filius received orders to return to work on a strategic weapon based on Megumin’s Explosion Magic and sighed over the end of his vacation.
• Wiz declined Pheobe’s marriage proposal but agreed to meet Ian before making a final decision.
• Pheobe left the shop planning to hunt an ancient dragon and then take Vanir’s mask to reach Hell.

Ian completed a major study of the Cosmic Will and considered using it to spread his variants across the multiverse. Mikoko sought his help finding her missing brother, and Ian discovered that her brother Yami was alive on the Western Continent, though he delayed taking her there until they finished other work.

• Ian finished his research on the Cosmic Will and ordered Morgana to archive it and destroy the papers.
• Ian confronted Mikoko, who knelt and swore a Blood Oath to ask for his help finding her younger brother.
• Mikoko showed Ian a portrait of her brother, whom Ian recognized as Yami Sukehiro.
• Ian traced Mikoko and Yami's bloodline and learned that Yami's memories of drifting to the Western Continent had been fabricated by God.
• Ian told Mikoko that Yami was alive on the Western Continent, declined her Blood Oath Crystal, and promised to take her there after they completed cleanup work.

Ian Bones sent a clone named Xiao Yueqiuman to protect Bones Advanced Magic Academy as a Level Seven Spirit Calamity devastated Kyoto. Beneath the academy, Ian obtained and fused the Spade Original Tome, claiming the puzzle’s third fragment.

• Ian Bones created a clone and named it Xiao Yueqiuman, then sent him away to carry out the plan.
• A colossal hand descended from black clouds, destroyed the Imperial Palace, devastated the Yin-Yang Protection Bureau, and failed to break Bones Advanced Magic Academy’s defenses.
• General Shinta healed himself and gathered survivors, while Mikoko persuaded many of them to seek safety at the academy instead of the Imperial Palace.
• Mikoko led the survivors through the corrosive mist to the academy, where Xiao Yueqiuman maintained a golden barrier and the headmaster asked them to contribute psychic power.
• Ian Bones used Substitute Talismans to open a sealed underground chamber and obtained the Spade Original Tome.
• Ian Bones fused the Spade Original Tome with his own Original Tome and claimed the third fragment.

After gaining partial control of the Cosmic Will, Ian discovered the seal holding a god would fail within twenty-three years and moved to confront Lucius in the Underworld. He defeated Lucius’s attacks but was interrupted by Dante, Zenon, and Morris, whom he declared he intended to capture for their powers and possessions.

• Ian merged the Spade Original Tome into his soul, gained authority over the Spirit Realm and partial control of the Cosmic Will, and learned the god’s outer seal would collapse within twenty-three years.
• Ian left Qiuman to rebuild order in the Eastern Continent, then traveled to the Underworld after one of his powerful avatars was destroyed.
• Ian found Lucius, who revealed that he had absorbed the powers of Astaroth, Beelzebub, and Lucifero and claimed Satan’s throne.
• Ian and Lucius fought with Time, Gravity, Space, and Anti-Magic, and Ian pinned Lucius with Anti-Magic arrows before trying to seal him.
• Dante, Zenon, and Morris arrived to protect Lucius, and Ian announced that he wanted two things belonging to him and intended to claim Morris as prey.

Ian defeated and contained the Dark Triad and Lucius, then entered the Underworld’s Eighth Layer and uncovered the truth about God and Satan’s ancient war. After concluding that God had engineered the conflict to pursue Transcendence, Ian collected Satan’s remains and the Diamond Kingdom Grimoire to create a powerful undead.

• Ian neutralized Dante, Zenon, Morris, and Lucius, then sealed them inside an Anti-Magic Domain while his Shikigami fought the mutated Demon army.
• Ian entered the Eighth Layer, found Satan’s remains, and learned that Morris had served God in exchange for forbidden knowledge.
• Ian extracted Astaroth’s memories and discovered that Satan had tried to strengthen God’s seal before dying, while God had concealed his true strength during the ancient war.
• Ian concluded that God had orchestrated the war to pursue Transcendence and raised his threat level ahead of the coming Elysium invasion.
• Ian collected Satan’s bones and retrieved the Diamond Kingdom Grimoire to make an ultimate undead.

Ian prepared for the coming assault on Elysium, strengthened his will by extracting it from alternate Astas, and redirected several research projects toward the final battle. He learned the war would begin in a few days and joined the Clover Kingdom’s gathered fighters.

• Ian fortified all six layers of the Underworld, controlled its mutated angel-demon creatures, and found Elysium’s defenses far more powerful than expected.
• Ian ordered Sally to grow a new body for Julius and learned that repairing the World Gate would take three to five years, so he redirected Clone No. 8 to repair the Planet-Destroyer Cannons.
• Ian used alternate Astas’ willpower to raise his own to the Seventh Scale, but the extraction damaged their souls and left them powerless; he ordered their healing and arranged for their loved ones and peaceful lives to be restored.
• Ian rejected Clone No. 7’s World-Stealing Project until after the battle, approved Clone No. 2’s life-sacrificing forbidden magic, and gave Lucius’s body to No. 2 to study karma.
• Ian gave Satan’s bones to Clone No. 6 and Sally for their ultimate undead project, then went to meet the Clover Kingdom’s captains and elite fighters as the assault on Elysium approached.

Ian sent the Royal Knights through a portal to invade Elysium, while Nero and Dorothy established support systems and relayed Nacht’s intelligence. The Knights overwhelmed the first and second floors, but Yuno faced four Seraph Lords on the third floor, twice the number Nacht had reported.

• Ian briefed the Royal Knights, promised to use Time Magic to restore them if they died, and sent them through the portal to Elysium.
• Nero sealed Elysium’s fourth floor against reinforcements, while Dorothy established secure dream communication and received Nacht’s report about the enemy defenses.
• Langris trapped most of the first-floor angels with Spatial Prison, resisted their mental attack, and defeated their fused giant form.
• On the second floor, Jack fought the angels using Arcane Runes after a golden magic circle disabled the Knights’ magic books.
• Yuno defeated the third-floor angels, but four Seraph Lords appeared where Nacht’s intelligence had predicted only two.

Yami assigned the expeditionary force to fight the four Seraph Lords while Ian prepared a coordinated ambush. After O Plan subdued the lords, the elves completed their ritual and Ian entered Elysium, where the war remained unresolved.

• Yami divided the fighters among the four Seraph Lords, and Yuno, Asta, Mereoleona, Fuegoleon, Noelle, Yashir, Vangeance, and Yami engaged their assigned opponents.
• The fighters struggled against the Seraph Lords' powerful abilities, while Noelle and Yashir discovered that True Magic let their physical attacks bypass Dispersal Magic.
• Ian confirmed that the expeditionary force was holding its ground and ordered Dorothy to signal the front line when the elves' summoning ritual neared completion.
• The Fifth Tier Magic Knights used Apparition to strike the Seraph Lords from behind, and Asta sealed the wounded lords' mana with Anti-Magic Cuffs.
• Charmy fed the exhausted fighters, Vanessa confirmed that everyone had survived, and Yuno stayed alert as the elves completed their ritual.
• Ian entered the realm of the gods through the arcane pillar of light.

Ian Bones confronted Eve in Elysium’s Fourth Tier and learned that she had manipulated his curiosity to draw him there. Eve revealed her plan to escape the universe by consuming Ian’s soul, and the two prepared to fight.

• Ian Bones entered Elysium’s Fourth Tier and found Eve waiting beside a pool and throne.
• Eve admitted she had planted a psychological suggestion in Ian, amplifying his thirst for knowledge to guide him to her.
• Eve explained how she and Adam had provoked a crisis that forced the Cosmic Will to create Alan and the Original Grimoire, before Alan and Adam joined forces to seal her in Elysium.
• Ian deduced that Eve had taken part of the Original’s Authority, while Eve confirmed only part of his theory and refused to reveal her full plan.
• Eve declared that she needed to consume Ian’s soul and memories to achieve Transcendence, and Ian drew his staff as they prepared to fight.