Recaps

After Deanna and the children of Ellina's Home rescued Tiadam, he learned about the cursed Elrina Forest and refused their hopes that he would fight the Demon Kings. Mihar Dilanna revealed her connection to Tiadam’s father and offered him a place to return to, but Tiadam remained set on leaving.

• Chi treated Tiadam for a curse, and Tiadam realized his sword had been stolen.
• Deanna explained that she and Kilis had rescued Tiadam from Yetara’s estate and welcomed him to Ellina’s Home.
• Kilis introduced Kesas and Malidra and challenged Tiadam to prove himself before they would follow him against the remaining Demon Kings.
• Chi led Tiadam to the cafeteria, where Mihar Dilanna explained that Rosa Kevin’s curse had left the Forest Elves’ homeland barren.
• Ti​​adam rejected the idea of becoming a Hero, arguing that he wanted to protect only those close to him and resented that Mihar had not helped his family before.
• Mihar offered Tiadam food and money if he left, and told him Ellina’s Home would welcome him back; Tiadam declined the money.

Yalila ordered Lufa to drive Tiadam out of Oyana’s shop, and Lufa began separating the shop from its adjoining space to attack him. Oyana sensed trouble at Salat Church and hurried to leave, but Abelato stopped her and drew her into a dance at the memorial banquet.

• After cleaning the living room, Yalila refused to see Tiadam and told Lufa to attack him with flaming fists.
• Tiadam dodged Lufa’s attacks and called for Oyana, while Yalila ordered Lufa to seal the passage and use Oyana’s spatial division curse.
• Lufa cast the curse to split the shop from the adjoining space, and Oyana sensed unease as her wineglass shattered at Salat Church.
• Oyana left the memorial banquet in a hurry, but Abelato intercepted her and held her at the church.
• Oyana and Abelato danced together as the banquet guests praised their performance and joined the waltz.

Tiadam fought through waves of lesser demons while Yalila ordered Lufa to summon a mid-level demon to drive him away. As Tiadam’s power awakened and Eliyi sensed Destiny turning, Gundaljika appeared in the corridor to confront him.

• Lufa watched Tiadam battle lesser demons, and Yalila urged him to summon a stronger demon despite the risks and lack of a suitable vessel.
• Tiadam remembered standing alone at his mother’s funeral, where Oyana mistreated a silver-haired half-elf girl who had given him money.
• Tiadam vowed to save Yalila and shattered the clay monsters with one punch, causing the remnants of the Hero statues to tremble as Eliyi sensed the sleeping Hero awakening.
• Yalila watched Tiadam through Lufa’s scrying spell and dismissed his efforts while Lufa summoned Gundaljika into a glass bottle.
• Gundaljika entered the corridor amid green flames and darkness, then announced that Tiadam should prepare to die.

Tiadam fought the fire demon Gundaljika in Oyana’s Endless Corridor until Oyana rescued him, then Yalila rejected him and Oyana sent him flying from her shop. Meanwhile, Denolan sought dragon blood to make Refined Dragonblood, and Tiadam crashed into him, leaving both unconscious as Eliyi watched.

• Gundaljika attacked Tiadam in the Endless Corridor, and Tiadam briefly fell into a dark abyss before Oyana summoned the Water Demon Basatali to save him and banished Gundaljika.
• Oyana returned to her shop, where Yalila denied caring for Tiadam and Oyana sent him flying through the fireplace and out the chimney.
• Denolan lamented that he could not obtain dragon blood for Refined Dragonblood or escape Canfor’s divine miracles, and Eliyi appeared beside him.
• Eliyi pointed Denolan toward the sky, where Tiadam fell and crashed into Denolan, knocking them both unconscious.

Tiadam woke in an inn after his heartbreak, discovered he had wrecked an expensive vase, and tried to escape the bill before Eliyi caught him. With Tiadam deeply in debt, Eliyi assigned him to work with Denolan on a Dragonblood Gem business, and Tiadam recognized Denolan as someone from his bandit days.

• Tiadam woke in an Upper District inn and angrily cursed Yalila for leaving him.
• Eliyi told Tiadam that the shattered vase was worth at least thirty Kralimaya Gold Coins, and Tiadam tried to flee through the window before hiding in a wardrobe.
• Eliyi paid the innkeeper fifteen gold coins toward the damage and explained that Tiadam would have to pay the rest.
• Tiadam said he wanted to start a bread business, but Eliyi pointed out that he owed fifteen Kralimaya Gold Coins to both him and Mr. Molakasu.
• Denolan arrived to report that a merchant was willing to cooperate, and he and Tiadam recognized each other.
• Eliyi assigned Tiadam and Denolan to handle the Dragonblood Gem business with his financial support, then left them together.

Denolan told Tiadam how he had ended up with the Refined Dragonblood formula, and Tiadam explained its power and the danger of researching it. They prepared to attend a mysterious merchant’s dinner, while Yetara learned the undead would attack Canfor within two days and began planning a defense and possible escape.

• Denolan recounted his return to the village, his encounter with the elf, and his decision to work under Eliyi with the Refined Dragonblood formula.
• Tiadam explained that Dragonblood Gems were weapons made from concentrated dragon magic and that refining them was a forbidden alchemical art.
• Denolan showed Tiadam an invitation to dinner from a prospective merchant partner, and Tiadam agreed to go after arranging preparations.
• Yetara learned that Rosa Kevin's Curse and the Ouston Church's free holy water had affected tax collections, then complained about Bishop Labrador and the church.
• Yetara was told that undead creatures would breach Canfor's barrier within two days, so he planned to gather local forces, request Holy Knights from Lapidemi, and prepare to flee if necessary.

Tiadam and Denolan went to a blacksmith in Canfor’s Upper District to buy magic-resistant weapons before a banquet, but Tiadam’s attempt to skip the queue sparked a fight with the Red Daggers. The chapter ended with Tiadam fleeing dozens of pursuers while Denolan escaped with the weapons.

• Tiadam explained to Denolan that magic-resistant gear could help them survive a banquet hosted by mages, and they joined the long queue at a blacksmith’s shop.
• Tiadam threw a stone at a man near the front of the line and blamed Tute, a bald member of the Red Daggers, prompting Tute to recognize him over a past robbery.
• The Red Daggers surrounded Tiadam after he taunted Tute, while Denolan asked the goblin blacksmith about buying two weapons with elemental resistance.
• Denolan gave Tiadam’s cloth bag to the goblin, who sold him a warhammer and included a dagger for free.
• Tiadam fought his way out of the encirclement and fled as dozens of Red Daggers chased him, while Denolan squeezed through the crowd carrying the weapons.

Rosa Kevin negotiated with Eliyi for funds and people to rebuild Labi Village, while Tiadam and Denolan made their way to Yetara’s banquet. The chapter ended with armed maids surrounding the two newcomers and confiscating Tiadam’s dagger before they could meet their host.

• Rosa Kevin asked Eliyi to hand over the people listed on her scroll to help populate Labi Village, including Canfor’s lord Yetara.
• Tiadam scolded Denolan for buying a heavy warhammer and discovered he had hidden a Mithril dagger, then threatened him against betrayal before accepting him as a partner.
• Denolan released a magical dove that transformed into a carriage, and Tiadam and Denolan rode its white horses toward the banquet.
• Tiadam and Denolan arrived first at Yetara’s manor, where Ivena’s maids demanded that they bathe and change before meeting their master.
• The maids drew Mithril blades and surrounded Tiadam and Denolan, and Ivena collected Tiadam’s dagger as part of the manor’s security measures.

As undead monsters threatened Canfoer, Yetara’s council debated their origins and how to respond, while Cardinal Labrador blamed the outbreak on cursed food and denied the church sold holy water to monsters. Meanwhile, Tiadam and Denolan bathed at a wealthy residence and discovered their stern maidservants watching over them.

• At Yetara’s council meeting, he rebuked Brother Abelato for interrupting and had him leave the banquet hall.
• Von Molakasu represented his absent brother and presented a gemstone that projected Archmage Dilanna into the meeting.
• Dilanna said the undead came from Rosa Kevin’s evil power but that there was no proof the evil god had been resurrected, then relayed Green Milan’s suspicion that someone in the church had traded holy water to monsters.
• Oyana dismissed Green Milan’s suspicion, while Cardinal Labrador claimed cursed food had turned people in the slums and villages into undead and insisted the church lacked enough holy water to help them.
• Yetara, Dilanna, and Von set aside their accusations and agreed that the council should focus on dealing with the monsters outside Canfoer.
• At a wealthy residence, Tiadam and Denolan bathed in a hot spring and noticed two expressionless maidservants standing guard beside the door.

Tiadam and Denolan attended an elven banquet, where Yalila exposed them as humans and stirred the Forest Elves against them. As the elves prepared to attack, Tiadam confronted them and demanded to meet the person backing them.

• Maid Number One and Maid Number Two inspected Tiadam and Denolan before they changed into aristocratic clothes for the banquet.
• Tiadam encouraged Denolan to endure the formal clothes for their cause, and Denolan began hoping he might become a king.
• Tiadam and Denolan entered a hall filled with Forest Elves, and Tiadam explained how to distinguish male elves from female elves.
• Yalila appeared, insulted the two humans, and blamed humanity for Elrina Forest's ruin, drawing the Forest Elves into an angry crowd.
• Tiadam shielded Denolan and planned an escape, then attacked a Forest Elf to distract the crowd.
• A Forest Elf blasted Tiadam backward with magic, and Tiadam challenged the gathered elves to introduce him to their boss.

At the Round Table Council, the leaders assigned Tiadam Qi Yadala to face the undead monsters, despite widespread doubt that he could succeed without the Holy Sword. After the council ended, Cardinal Labrador ordered the Church to promote Tiadam as a hero while secretly preparing to flee Canfor, and Archmage Dilanna confined Denolan in a room of mirrors.

• Viel Nas and his maids discussed how quickly they could kill fifty Forest Elves and watched to see how Tiadam would treat those who wanted him dead.
• Ivena announced the council’s plan: Oyana’s coven would supply potions, Abelato’s martyrs would purify the land, Molakasu’s Red Dagger Guild would assess damage and help rebuild, and Tiadam Qi Yadala would eliminate the monsters.
• Witches and others mocked the decision, while Dilanna defended Tiadam’s Hero’s Bloodline and faith that the Holy Sword would answer his call; Yetara later angrily condemned the council’s leaders.
• Cardinal Labrador told Abelato to spread rumors portraying Tiadam as a hero, sell the Church’s properties, and prepare a teleportation array so the Church could escape Canfor.
• Deanna brought the bound Denolan to Dilanna, who released him into a room full of mirrors and disappeared, leaving him trapped inside.

Oyana realized Archmage Dilanna intended to use Tiadam’s Hero’s Bloodline to make him a Hero and strengthen her influence, while Oyana feared the consequences for the Witches’ Coven. At Veir Nas’s banquet, Tiadam fought a group of Forest Elves as Yalila watched and then moved deeper into the manor.

• Oyana ordered Lufa to contact Yalila, then learned that Dilanna was backing Tiadam as a potential Hero and feared either his success or failure would threaten the Witches’ Coven.
• Oyana told Lufa to warn Yalila to behave around Tiadam and report what Veir Nas and Dilanna were planning, but Lufa could not reach her because of magical interference.
• At Veir Nas’s banquet, Tiadam fought about thirty Forest Elves while Veir Nas cheered him on and Yalila watched from beneath the protection of two maids.
• Tiadam hid behind dining tables and dug arcane energy spheres from his wounds as the Forest Elves prepared a barrage of nearly a hundred missiles.
• Yalila smiled after the missiles struck Tiadam’s shelter, discarded her cake, and headed deeper into the manor to handle business.

Tiadam fought off the Forest Elves while Yalila infiltrated Veil Nas’s estate and was captured. After Veil Nas contacted Oyana about Yalila, Oyana prepared to go to the mansion and rescue her apprentice.

• Tiadam used the Forest Elves’ spell timing and casting delays to defeat them at close range.
• Yalila entered Veil Nas’s mansion, but the butler recognized her as a Half-Elf and threatened to report her.
• Veil Nas’s maids severed Yalila’s hand, took her Spider Hairpin, and left her calling for help.
• Veil Nas contacted Oyana and asked whether Yalila was her apprentice, then ended the connection without offering to release her.
• Oyana ordered Lufa to open a magic array to Veil Nas’s mansion so she could bring Yalila back herself.

Tiadam caught Archduke Veil Nas when she pretended to fall, while the church announced him as Canfor’s prophesied Hero. After Eliyi explained that Dilanna had tested Denolan’s magical talent, Denolan found Tiadam exhausted but alive among the Forest Elves and carried him back toward the inn.

• Veil Nas asked Tiadam to be her boyfriend, then deliberately fell from the balcony, and Tiadam caught her.
• Dilanna left a golden spider hairpin for the Archduke as a token of friendship before departing with her maids.
• The priests announced that the High God had named Tiadam, a former bandit, as Canfor’s Hero.
• Eliyi explained that Dilanna had used the Chaos Mirror to test Denolan’s magical talent and told him to find Tiadam.
• Denolan imagined Tiadam had fought fifty-one Forest Elves to protect their deal, then found him sprawled among them, exhausted and covered in lip prints.
• Tiadam asked Denolan to carry him part of the way back to the inn.

Eliyi and Dilanna forced Tiadam and Denolan to face the undead besieging Canfor, revealing that the city's survival depended on them becoming Heroes. Tiadam accepted the burden and declared himself a Hero, while Denolan remained frightened.

• Eliyi persuaded Veyil Nas to sponsor Tiadam but was redirected to discuss the plan with Dilanna.
• Eliyi and Dilanna told Tiadam and Denolan they had to drive back the undead around Canfor without help from anyone in the city.
• Eliyi warned Denolan that Canfor's residents would become the undead's prey if the pair failed, while Dilanna explained that people could be sacrificed to create Heroes capable of wielding the Holy Sword.
• Tiadam chose to fight, declared himself a Hero, and carried the trembling Denolan with him.

Veyir Nas visited Yetara and offered him news about a Hero's Bloodline. As monsters threatened Canfor, Tiadam became the residents’ celebrated Holy Son, Oyana prepared an escape, and Labrador sold the Ouston Church’s lands to Eliyi for gold.

• Veyir Nas teased Yetara about his age and changing names before asking whether Hero's Bloodline interested him.
• Residents hailed Tiadam as the Holy Son while Denolan worried that they could drive back the monsters.
• Oyana told Abelato that her teleportation circle would let her escape with Yalila before the monsters reached the witch shop.
• Labrador waited anxiously for Eliyi to buy the Ouston Church's farmland and property deeds.
• Eliyi arrived with a chest of gold, and Labrador justified selling the church lands as a way to fund Canfor's reconstruction.

As monsters breached Canfor’s Holy Wall, Saboxijiao searched for Tina and Masha and sought refuge in Meilanergo Church, where Mr. Latopil claimed the girls had been taken to become nuns. Tina and Masha had escaped the city together as the wall shattered.

• Saboxijiao pounded on her door, begging Tina and Masha to come with her to Meilanergo Church before the monsters invaded Canfor.
• Saboxijiao searched the house for her daughters and recalled her family’s history, including Andrei’s illness after Rosa Kevin was slain and the hardship that followed.
• Saboxijiao went to Meilanergo Church, where Mr. Latopil comforted her and said Tina and Masha had once had the chance to become nuns.
• Saboxijiao joined the church’s residents in singing hymns to the hero Tiadam as they sought protection from the monsters.
• Tina led Masha away from the city, and a golden bolt of lightning flashed as the Holy Wall shattered.

Eliyi watched Canfor’s residents and the undead converge as Saboxijiao lost her faith and became a monster. A black power saved Mr. Latopil from the Giant Dead, and the people hailed it as a miracle sent by the High God.

• Eliyi observed the undead advance through Canfor while residents gathered at the barrier separating the Lower District from the Upper and Central Districts.
• Oyana learned from Lufa that the teleportation array would need at least two more hours to connect, then watched Lower District residents plead for her to take their children.
• Saboxijiao recalled the promises made by Ouston Church and, calling them liars, transformed into an undead monster.
• The Giant Dead pursued Mr. Latopil to the edge of the Upper District, where a black ray severed its reaching hand and purplish-red flames burned it.
• Cardinal Labrador declared that the black power was the High God’s miracle, and residents from both districts knelt and praised it.

Tiadam was restrained by Veil Nas’s maids while Denolan joined Canfor’s residents in praying for a newly proclaimed savior. As undead monsters pressed against the witch’s barrier, Veil Nas and Yetara prepared to flee, while Talatala learned that a new god was responsible for the decaying power around Canfor.

• Veil Nas’s head maid and the other maids bound Tiadam to a bed and refused to let him act, while he worried about Denolan’s safety.
• Denolan prayed with Canfor’s residents and remembered Tiadam choosing to face the undead despite doubting that he was a hero.
• Tiadam gave Denolan a pouch of coins as compensation and told him to return it if Tiadam drove back the monsters.
• Veil Nas and Yetara discussed their prepared teleportation arrays as they waited for the witch’s barrier to fail and traded accusations about their pasts.
• Talatala told Risala that it and its kin were cleansing Labi Village, and Risala explained that a new god born within an Ancient One had caused the decay around Canfor.

Leichina died in the fire that Fanafuna set, and Canfor briefly seemed saved as the undead tide receded. A gigantic undead rose from the swamp, leaving the city in danger again as Denolan considered his first step toward changing his fate.

• Leichina crawled from his burning room and saw Fanafuna disappear into the flames before he died.
• Eliyi watched the witches’ barrier expire as the undead retreated and Lower District residents poured into the Upper District.
• Veil Nas departed Canfor, while his butler explained that he had kept Tiadam imprisoned to prevent the city from panicking during the Grand Duke’s escape.
• The crowd threw rotten food and stones at Tiadam, then turned to praise him as the High God’s incarnation when the Giant Dead appeared.
• Cardinal Labrador used a church teleportation array to leave with one million gold coins, while believers gathered around Mr. Latopia as their new spiritual leader.
• Rosa Kevin urged Denolan to make a choice, but a colossal undead rose from the southern swamp and began turning Canfor’s residents into undead.

As Canfor fell to the undead, the clergy discovered Lord Labrador had fled, while witches and mages prepared to escape. Tiadam answered the residents’ hopes and set out to fight the monsters with Denolan, while Yetara, Oyana, and Dilanna’s group remained in place for now.

• The clergy broke into Lord Labrador’s confessional and found it empty, with its valuables and Kralimaya Gold Coins gone.
• Yetara delayed leaving Canfoer City, and Oyana decided to wait until Yalila woke before departing.
• Witches and mages activated their teleportation arrays as Canfor’s residents accused them of abandoning the city.
• Chi learned that Eliyi was an incarnation of Modraki and that she had been invited to join the hero’s mission against the Demon King.
• Tiadam faced the cheering residents, questioned whether he could bear their hopes, and agreed to take Denolan with him to fight the monsters.

Denolan and Tiadam faced the Giant Dead as chaos spread through Canfor, while Klauna and Yetara’s demons joined the fight inside Yetara’s Blood Barrier. The Giant Dead’s attacks proved able to corrode demon souls, and Imira realized the monster was a remnant of the Demon King.

• The Giant Dead’s attack knocked Denolan down, and news of Tiadam’s death triggered looting and violence across Canfor’s Upper District.
• Ivena sent demons to restore order and help Klauna exterminate lesser undead, while Klauna rescued Denolan and the unconscious Tiadam and flew toward the Giant Dead.
• Yetara raised the Blood Barrier around the Giant Dead and directed the demons to attack it inside the barrier.
• Imira charged the Giant Dead with her Demon Spear, but it split into two masses and blasted away half her body with a Lamentation of the Dead.
• A blade-and-axe demon was struck by the Giant Dead’s projectiles and reduced to dust as the attacks corroded her soul.
• Imira recognized that the Giant Dead was a remnant of the Demon King left behind from ancient times.

Klauna and the demons brought down the Giant Dead, but Yetara’s death collapsed the Blood Barrier and let the monster rise again. After the demons banished it into nothingness, its severed head formed another creature, which a beam of white light destroyed.

• Klauna led the demons in attacking the Giant Dead, and Imira directed the melee demons as they shattered its ankles and brought it down.
• A wounded Forest Elf girl stabbed Yetara to death, causing the Blood Barrier to collapse and the Giant Dead to reassemble.
• Pervi and Lanta chose to continue toward Elrina Forest to hunt dragons instead of helping Canfor.
• Klauna fought the revived Giant Dead while the demons prepared a magic circle, then lured the creature into it and banished it into nothingness.
• The Giant Dead tore off its head before being swallowed, and the head became a new creature that a beam of white light erased.

Tiadam awakened the Holy Sword’s power and destroyed the Giant Dead, while survivors began considering how to rebuild Canfoer. Paladin Deqilai’s search for the creature behind the undead instead uncovered a nest of humanoid spiders in the southern ruins.

• Tiadam reached for a mysterious sword in the darkness and agreed to become a hero and gain power.
• A pillar of light erupted from Tiadam, purifying the Giant Dead and the victims absorbed into it.
• Klauna caught Tiadam and Denolan as they fell from the sky and carried them toward Canfoer’s Upper District.
• Yetara accepted the Demon King’s suggestion to shift the city’s rebuilding efforts toward Labi Village.
• Deqilai led a squad, including Tarimilan, through the southern ruins to find the zombie that had created the Giant Dead.
• Spiderwebs ensnared a paladin, and black-and-red humanoid spiders burst from underground as Deqilai ordered his squad to prepare for battle.

Leichina awakened as an undead in the ruins of Labi Village, while Rosa and Talatala concealed what he had done before his recovery. Elsewhere, Deqilai and the Holy Knights were surrounded by Spider Demons and struggled to survive as more enemies closed in.

• Leichina woke from a nightmare and asked Talatala whether he was a monster, but Rosa knocked his head into a pit before the two decided to hide what had happened to him.
• Snow began falling over Labi Village as Talatala and its kin digested the village’s decayed soil and the Demon King’s power recovered.
• Deqilai fought Spider Demons that trapped the Holy Knights in webs and devoured one of his subordinates.
• Deqilai summoned an agricultural Golem and told Tarimilan to lead the surviving Holy Knights toward Alderbu.
• The Spider Demons attacked from underground, killed two more Holy Knights, and encircled the group as Deqilai’s miracle began to weaken.