Chapter Summaries

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.