Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• The Savior defeats the Pig Emperor in seconds, then has Skeleton Resurrection turn defeated enemies into an army.
• His ally, Skeleton Resurrection, infiltrates the Netherworld Pig Emperor’s territory, wipes out those who discover it, and urges a preemptive attack on the Pig Emperor’s ancestor.
• Fallen Angel Lia warns that the ancestor is level 1,000 and the Savior’s weapons may be inadequate. The Savior instead uses Lia’s level-10,000 hair to forge powerful weapons—secretly plucking enough over a month to leave her bald.
• The Savior’s enhanced skeleton army attacks the Netherworld Pig Emperor. Its soldiers retain 470% of their former attributes, skills, and Blessings; they also explode when destroyed and wield +10,000 swords. The Pig Emperor’s forces are overwhelmed, and he is killed when he tries to seize a sword that explodes in his hands.
• Over the month, the Savior clears the surrounding Netherworld Dungeons, preventing their monsters from being summoned into other worlds. However, he learns the Great Tomb still contains four beings above level 1,000, and he has gained no ground toward surpassing that threshold because divine sparks are scarce.

Character developments

• The Savior remains ruthless, strategic, and distrustful of nonhumans, but uses his growing power to eliminate monsters that threaten other worlds. He treats Lia as both an inconvenience and a source of high-level crafting material.
• Lia shifts from awe and attraction to fear, pleading, and reluctant cooperation. She accepts giving up hair to support the mission, but does not realize the Savior secretly takes far more than she agreed to.
• Skeleton Resurrection proves an exceptionally effective and loyal tactical partner, though it objects to the Savior’s enthusiasm for mass destruction.
• The Netherworld Pig Emperor recognizes the threat too late: he dismisses the skeletons, then becomes desperate when their unusual enhancements overturn the battle.

Character interactions

• Lia praises the Savior and flirts with him; he rebuffs her with insults and denies rescuing her, insisting he saved a chicken.
• When Lia clings to him, the Savior considers her potential experience value and tests her hair as crafting material. Their mismatched assumptions—she thinks he wants intimacy, while he wants ingredients—drive the comic tension.
• The Savior and Skeleton Resurrection enthusiastically agree on attacking threats before they can retaliate, while Lia reacts with disbelief at their idea of “infiltration.”
• The Pig Emperor’s ministers reassure him, but he recognizes that the disappearance of neighboring monsters signals a larger danger. His army cannot withstand the skeletons’ repeated resurrection, explosions, and superior weapons.

Significant themes

• Power and escalation: The Savior’s increasingly powerful Blessings turn ordinary undead troops into an overwhelming force.
• Pragmatism versus morality: He pursues security through preemptive extermination and treats allies as resources, even while claiming to protect people.
• Comic mismatch and irony: Lia interprets the Savior’s behavior romantically, while he sees her as a source of materials and experience.
• Limits of strength: Despite sweeping victories, the Great Tomb remains out of reach, and the shortage of divine sparks exposes a bottleneck in the Savior’s growth.

Key events

• Lia questions the Savior’s plan to collect multiple Divine Sparks. He hopes to combine them into an “Infinite Divinity,” but learns that becoming a Multiversal God would require mastering vast amounts of Divinity—and likely killing gods.
• The Savior asks Lia where Paradise is, apparently considering taking a chief god’s Divine Spark. After hearing how Paradise treated her, he decides not to attack it, though he dismisses her Order God as a weak, third-rate deity.
• Lia explains that the chief gods of Universe 42 went mad while investigating the Infinite God’s legacy; the Time God fell, and his Divinity is being contested. She also describes how exceptionally powerful gods such as Death and Revenge can be.
• The Savior’s attempt to gain a Blessing that would instantly locate a Divine Spark fails, but he receives a Blessing that points him toward one. It opens a portal to the Abyss. He scouts it with a Puppet, which is quickly corrupted, then enters with Lia.
• They arrive in the Revenge Temple, where Lia realizes they have found the missing Revenge Divinity. The temple is full of dead Vengeance’s Chosen. The Savior deduces that the Goddess of Vengeance has been killed and finds four portions of her Divinity unclaimed.
• Fearing whoever killed the goddess, the Savior erases the pair’s memories of the scene, takes the Divinity and artifacts, and retreats.
• Elsewhere, Chen Feng worries that he has used up several Divine Sparks the Savior might need to reach level one thousand.

Character developments and interactions

• The Savior remains ambitious and calculating, seeking powerful Divinity while carefully avoiding risks to his true body. He uses his superior knowledge and many abilities to stay in control, even as he jokes about danger.
• Lia is compassionate and dutiful but naïve. Her willingness to spend all her Divine Power saving a Hero led Paradise to strip her status and exile her. She remains loyal to the Order God and is repeatedly alarmed by the Savior’s plans and casual insults.
• The Savior teases Lia’s intelligence, but he also relies on her knowledge of the gods and uses her account to assess Universe 42. Their exchanges mix her anxiety with his irreverent confidence.
• Chen Feng’s closing worry links the episode back to the Savior’s larger power-leveling goal.

Significant themes

• Power and its cost: Divine advancement requires enormous effort, sacrifice, or violence.
• Institutional hypocrisy: Paradise punishes Lia for doing more than her assigned duty, while its Angels prioritize efficiency and quotas over the Heroes they send to die.
• Knowledge as danger: Secrets about the mad gods and the Infinite God may carry lethal consequences, prompting the Savior to erase memories.
• Caution beneath bravado: Though the Savior jokes and appears fearless, he relies on scouting, duplicates, and contingency plans to manage threats.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Feng travels toward Luka City with Xia Mei; his other companions cannot come. The city, founded by the Hero of Love and Alice the Sixteenth, is a rare place where humans and Monsters coexist peacefully. Its Teleportation Tower is unexpectedly closed, forcing travelers across Demon King territory.
• At a checkpoint, Dragonkin soldiers demand treasure or gourmet food. Chen is about to use teleportation to bypass them when he meets Jill, a pleasure-house reviewer, and Kail Meow, a cat-eared Beastwoman. They agree to share a carriage and the toll.
• Jill explains his work and shows Chen a photo guide. One page warns travelers about Hyena-Folk, and Jill’s distressing story implies he had a painful encounter with them.
• Jill offers to treat the group to a pleasure house in Luka City, but rules out Elf establishments because Elves may look young despite being thousands of years old.
• Xia Mei objects to the idea of visiting such places. Jill argues that Succubus establishments provide life essence without requiring Succubi to kill adventurers, framing the arrangement as mutually beneficial.
• Before the carriage reaches Luka City, an explosion rocks it. The driver spots a monster, leaving the group startled: such an attack seems out of place near the peaceful city.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng remains opportunistic and irreverent, sizing up the checkpoint and probing Jill for information about Luka City’s establishments. He is amused by Kail’s extreme smoking and Jill’s photo guide.
• Xia Mei shows discomfort with pleasure-house culture and briefly threatens to leave, while reflecting sadly on how she might have avoided crossing worlds.
• Jill presents himself as a worldly, good-humored reviewer, but his warning about Hyena-Folk hints at a traumatic experience. He also sincerely believes his visits help Succubi and adventurers alike.
• Kail Meow is introduced as a composed traveler with an unexpected, extravagant smoking habit that contradicts her claim that she does not smoke.
• The group’s easy, comedic banter gives way to shared alarm when the carriage is attacked.

Significant themes

• Human–Monster coexistence: Luka City’s history and Succubus establishments suggest that cooperation can replace violence and starvation.
• Culture clash: Xia Mei’s discomfort contrasts with Jill’s practical, earnest view of customs that differ between worlds.
• Comedy and danger: The chapter mixes bawdy humor and eccentric characters with the sudden threat of an unexplained monster attack.

Summary

Key plot points and events

• Chen Feng, Xia Mei, Jill, and Kail Meow encounter a Red Dragon attacking travelers. Jill identifies a reverse scale beneath its throat as the dragon’s weakness; Chen Feng tests the claim by throwing a stone at it, and the dragon immediately collapses.
• Luka City patrol officers restrain the dragon, who turns into a Dragon Girl named Emma. Jill recognizes her as a considerate acquaintance, but Chen Feng’s appraisal finds no sign that she was controlled or intoxicated, leaving Jill uncertain about his judgment.
• The group discusses how humans and Monster Girls obtain food in a city where hunting monsters is forbidden. Kail Meow offers Xia Mei a drink, but Chen Feng notices the atmosphere smells suspiciously strong. He discovers the “water” is 96-percent-alcohol Water of Life—and Kail Meow drinks it without concern.
• On arrival in Luka City, Chen Feng reunites with the gate guard who once escaped Magic City with his help. The city is lively and full of Monster Girls working and traveling alongside humans.
• The temporary group splits up. Seeking the Sword Saint, Chen Feng asks Jill where to find the city’s “strongest shop.” Jill misunderstands his meaning and directs him to the largest Dragon Maid Shop.
• Chen Feng requests the shop’s two strongest Dragon Girls, believing they might know where the Sword Saint is. The staff interpret his request as an unusually bold proposition.
• The Dragon Girl sent to his private room turns out to be Gle, his niece and the Demon King. Chen Feng realizes how compromising the situation looks and, to avoid the consequences, asks for someone else.

Character developments

• Chen Feng displays overwhelming strength, caution, and resourcefulness, but his literal, goal-focused questions repeatedly create comic misunderstandings. His encounter with Gle leaves him scrambling to preserve appearances.
• Xia Mei proves loyal by volunteering to distract the Red Dragon, though she is also the one who drinks the alcoholic “water” and spits it out.
• Jill offers useful knowledge about the dragon’s weakness and Luka City, but his personal anecdotes and mistaken directions show how his perspective can mislead the group.
• Kail Meow remains languid and eccentric: she complains about the heat, smokes, and treats extremely strong alcohol as ordinary water.
• Gle is revealed to be working at the Dragon Maid Shop, prompting Chen Feng to confront the awkward reality of finding his niece there.

Significant themes

• Miscommunication and comic irony: Chen Feng’s search for information is repeatedly mistaken for something else, culminating in the Dragon Maid Shop.
• Caution and appearances: Chen Feng’s habit of checking for danger helps him detect the flammable drink, while his unexpected reunion with Gle shows how easily circumstances can look incriminating.
• Coexistence: Luka City presents humans and Monster Girls living and working together, raising questions about food and the boundaries between species.
• Power and competence: Chen Feng’s immense strength contrasts with his inability to control the misunderstandings around him.

Character interactions

• Jill warns Chen Feng and Xia Mei about the Red Dragon, then shares his history with Emma; Chen Feng challenges Jill’s interpretation of her character.
• Xia Mei’s reaction to the drink contrasts with Kail Meow’s casual attitude, while Chen Feng investigates the strange liquid.
• Chen Feng warmly reconnects with the former gate guard, who offers to buy him a drink.
• Jill’s interpretation of “strongest shop” sends Chen Feng and Xia Mei into the Dragon Maid Shop, where Chen Feng’s request alarms the staff.
• Chen Feng and Gle recognize each other in the private room. His attempt to avoid a disastrous misunderstanding ends with a terse request to “Send someone else.”

Plot points and events

• Chen Feng tells Gle she is too old to be a Dragon Maid, prompting her to punch him through the ceiling and floor. The shop’s customers treat the injuries as routine.
• Gle explains that the Horned Dragon King and several elite Red Dragon officers have vanished. Some officers later attacked humans, though Emma appeared lucid and showed no sign of ordinary mind control.
• Chen Feng suspects someone altered the dragons’ memories or beliefs without leaving a detectable curse. Gle pressures him into helping investigate.
• Xia Mei’s initial guess that Chen Feng is the culprit is quickly disproved. The group learns that a giant customer requested several Dragon Girls who subsequently disappeared.
• The giant’s room shows no signs of having been used by a dragon and a giant, suggesting the suspect used a Shapeshifting Spell. Chen Feng concludes the enemy may be able to control Dragons and could target Gle at the next day’s public celebration.
• Gle says Luka City’s lord is also missing, but insists this happens frequently. When Chen Feng sees the candidates’ campaign promises—including the Succubus’s pledge to make adult entertainment free—he abruptly decides she is an excellent mayor.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng shifts from dodging trouble to leading the investigation, using practical reasoning to interpret the evidence. He agrees to help Gle after she threatens to tell her parents about his embarrassing encounter with her. His enthusiasm for the Succubus’s campaign exposes his self-serving tastes.
• Gle is furious and embarrassed after Chen Feng teases her, but remains focused on the crisis. She reluctantly relies on her uncle’s insight and follows him to ensure he does not abandon the investigation.
• Xia Mei eagerly takes on the role of detective, though her first deduction is wildly wrong. She helps gather clues by questioning the receptionist.
• The receptionist protects customers’ privacy while still sharing relevant information and explaining the shop’s security measures.
• The chapter’s comedy comes from the contrast between the serious threat to the dragons and the characters’ irreverent reactions, including the shop’s casual attitude toward catastrophic injuries and Gle’s outrageous local election.

Significant themes

• Manipulation and unreliable appearances: A person can have memories or beliefs altered without showing the signs of a conventional curse or mind-control spell.
• Investigation through inference: Chen Feng solves the room’s mystery by noticing what isn’t damaged, rather than relying on a portrait or magical reconstruction.
• Power, politics, and absurdity: Luka City’s election platforms are extravagantly impractical, while the Succubus’s popular promise reveals the voters’ priorities.
• Comic irreverence: Violence, public danger, and political crises are repeatedly undercut by jokes and self-interest.

Key plot points

• Chen Feng, Gle, and Xia Mei head to a café while discussing recruiting powerful allies for an upcoming mission. Gle has agreed to help, but Chen Feng still wants extra support, including the Sword Saint.
• They encounter Kail Meow being fired for drunkenness, smoking, and dangerously serving Water of Life as a cocktail. Chen Feng gives her money for shelter despite her misconduct.
• Over dessert, Gle explains that the Ghost King is searching for something in the Undead Kingdom and has killed her officers, turning them into Bone Dragons. She identifies the Ghost King Cloak as a powerful artifact that grows stronger as its wielder kills entire universes. Chen Feng suspects the Ghost King is collecting its components.
• Gle describes the Sword Saint’s extraordinary blessing: each time he “takes off,” he gains a level. He has supposedly been doing so for at least five hundred years. Chen Feng wants an invitation to the Sword Saint’s party and plans to ask Jill, who may know him.
• Gle explains the Sword Saint’s feud with the Nightmare Queen, Alice: after defeating her, he showed no interest in her, which she considered a profound insult and led her to order his capture.
• Xia Mei reveals that she senses a ticking clock within herself. Chen Feng tells her to focus on it, helping her gain some control over her Time Divinity. She then hears an urgent voice asking her to approve a time-reversal request.
• Once Xia Mei approves, Chen Feng realizes the request has been relayed to him. Because it targets all of Luka City, he concludes that a powerful, previously unnoticed figure must be present.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng balances caution and preparation, seeks allies, and feels responsible for the Ghost King’s rise because his earlier actions helped Gle’s mother discover Gle’s father. He also recognizes the new reversal request as a potential threat or mystery.
• Gle shares painful history about her family and the Ghost King, while remaining determined to avenge her officers. Her playful appetite contrasts with the serious danger she describes.
• Xia Mei shifts from unusually quiet and unsettled to discovering her ability to sense and act on time-related powers. Her impulsive willingness to approve the request prompts Chen Feng to stop and investigate.
• Kail Meow is shown as charming but irresponsible; Chen Feng nevertheless offers her practical help.
• The Sword Saint and Alice are introduced through Gle’s account, which frames their conflict as a comic but humiliating misunderstanding.

Significant themes

• Power and preparation: Chen Feng insists on backup, while the Ghost King Cloak demonstrates how power can escalate through mass destruction.
• Responsibility and consequences: Chen Feng connects his earlier choices to the dangers now facing Gle’s family.
• Misunderstanding and humiliation: The Sword Saint’s indifference, rather than romantic rejection, sparks Alice’s vendetta.
• Time and hidden threats: Xia Mei’s awakening and the city-wide reversal request suggest that time manipulation—and an unknown powerful presence—will drive the next events.

Plot and key events

• Chen Feng agrees to investigate trouble near the Dragon Maid Shop, but the Reverser who requested help abruptly cancels—apparently after being killed by whoever he was pursuing.
• Chen Feng and his companions find Jill badly injured after he failed to win a mysterious party invitation. Jill explains that the contest took place in a small, unmarked shop. Chen Feng suspects the invitation is connected to the Sword Saint.
• The shop turns out to host an endurance tournament: contestants must withstand increasingly painful attacks without defending themselves, dodging, or healing. The winner receives the invitation.
• After Ailu the Insect King wins the initial contest, Chen Feng offers to buy his invitation. Ailu insults him and refuses, so Chen Feng provokes him into a match.
• Ailu’s insect swarm lets him share the pain of attacks across many bodies, giving him a major advantage. But Chen Feng barely reacts to the referee’s whipping, and Ailu’s confidence falters.
• In the elemental round, Ailu challenges Chen Feng to fire. Gle intervenes with Dragon Breath, which attacks the insects’ bodies, minds, and souls through their shared network. Ailu’s whole colony is overwhelmed, and he loses.
• Ailu wakes after midnight insisting he was not at his best. The shop’s tree-spirit referee tells him the truth: Chen Feng never even blinked—the match was an old master playing with a brash youngster.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng remains calm and self-assured, though Ailu’s insult to humanity makes him choose a direct contest rather than simply taking the invitation with Time Stop.
• Ailu begins arrogant, relying on his swarm’s shared endurance, but becomes increasingly uneasy when Chen Feng withstands the lashes and Gle reveals her power. He ultimately loses but makes excuses.
• Gle is playful and protective of Chen Feng. She first explains the tournament and later demonstrates her true-dragon power, decisively ending the match.
• Xia Mei shows concern for Chen Feng during the whipping. Their easy conversation contrasts with the brutal spectacle.
• Jill is physically restored but emotionally exhausted by his failed attempt; Chen Feng arranges for him to rest.

Significant themes

• Hidden strength and mistaken confidence: Ailu mistakes Chen Feng’s composure for a trick or weakness, while the apparent contest becomes a one-sided demonstration of the gap between them.
• Power and endurance: Ailu’s numbers and unusual swarm ability seem formidable, but Gle’s attacks exploit the shared connection that gives the colony its strength.
• Comedy through contrast: The grim, blood-scented venue and extreme violence sit alongside casual banter, absurd tournament rules, and Chen Feng’s matter-of-fact reactions.

Plot and events

• Chen Feng, Xia Mei, and Gle receive an invitation supposedly to a Sword Saint’s party. Gle refuses to go, while Chen Feng warns Xia Mei that the invitation—or its sender—could be dangerous.
• Despite his suspicions, Chen Feng steps through the portal, deciding that being cautious should not mean avoiding every risk. The portal leads not to a party but to a damp cave filled with spider monsters and cocoons.
• They find the Spider Empress, a powerful Demon King, hosting a bizarre bondage party. When Chen Feng tries to leave, she attacks with several magical eyes that curse, paralyze, corrode, distort space and time, and greatly increase skill costs.
• Chen Feng’s system-based attributes and protective abilities shield him from most effects, but he is briefly paralyzed. Xia Mei responds decisively by using the Eternal Sword to kill herself, triggering Reversal and restoring them to the moment they entered the cave.
• Chen Feng suspects the Spider Empress has been influenced, since she is normally neutral toward humans. He also fears the Slime Queen and Nightmare Queen may be in danger.
• A second attempt to escape prompts another attack. Chen Feng tests his theory and concludes the Empress can see the future rather than read minds: she anticipates actions he is about to take, but does not react when he merely thinks of escaping later.
• Unable to act against an opponent who can foresee his moves, Chen Feng looks for an indirect strategy and gets an idea from the coffee in his hand.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng is wary but willing to take calculated risks. His caution, tactical thinking, and ability to analyze the Empress’s powers keep him alive, though he recognizes that direct action is futile.
• Xia Mei is frightened at first, but acts immediately when Chen Feng is attacked, using Reversal to save them both.
• Gle stays behind, dismissing the party as unpleasant and potentially dangerous.
• Chen Feng explains his doubts to Xia Mei, who initially accepts his warning without fully understanding it. Their exchange highlights his habit of weighing risks and her growing willingness to trust his judgment.

Significant themes

• Caution versus recklessness: Chen Feng believes that a run of good fortune can breed arrogance, so some risk—and even a setback—can keep him alert.
• Adaptation under pressure: The heroes survive through system protections, Reversal, and careful observation rather than strength alone.
• Foreknowledge and strategy: The Spider Empress’s future sight turns ordinary plans against her opponents, forcing Chen Feng to seek an unexpected, indirect solution.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Feng escapes the Spider Queen’s cave with Xia Mei by exploiting her spider physiology: coffee’s caffeine affects her like an intoxicant, bypassing her resistance to ordinary negative effects.
• Back in Luka City, Chen explains that Time Reversal has many counters, though a sufficiently powerful Time God could overcome them all. He believes becoming the next Time God is the only way to prevent the Great Calamity.
• Skeleton Resurrection reports digging up the Spider Queen’s mother. The skeleton is only level 89, since Lilith grew powerful by devouring others; Gle reveals Lilith had nearly been eaten by her mother and later took revenge.
• Gle punishes Chen for the grave-digging joke by launching him far underground with a devastating throw. Chen survives through the Life Divinity, but learns that Gle can inflict enormously greater damage than he expected. She warns him not to dig up her family again.
• Gle says she can face only one Demon King at a time. The group therefore needs the Hero of Magic, who is as powerful as the Demon Kings. Chen uses cheats to scan Luka City and discovers the Three Demon Kings, the Hero of Magic, and dark elf Peloro—an agent of the King of the Undead—are all hostile. The Hero of Clubs is also present at the Hero of Magic’s residence.
• Suspecting that Demon Kings’ sudden hostility toward humans has a cause, Chen questions Emma, a dragon imprisoned after attacking people. Her hatred seems genuine, not the result of altered memories or perception. Chen suspects he understands what is happening and teleports the group away.
• They arrive at the Sword Saint’s gathering, which turns out to be devoted to erotic Monster Girl merchandise rather than an assembly of warriors. The Sword Saint, Hao, lies unconscious after a marathon of “taking off.” Chen’s attempt to reverse his condition fails: the Sword Saint is so powerful that the spell costs 900 Points. Chen calculates that Hao is likely above level 1.8 million.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng shows resourcefulness, using caffeine, spatial teleportation, cheats, and careful investigation to handle threats. He also recognizes the limits of his powers and the scale of the danger.
• Gle shifts from teasing Chen to serious concern about the Demon Kings’ behavior. She demonstrates overwhelming strength, protects her family’s dignity, and admits she cannot fight multiple Demon Kings at once.
• Xia Mei reacts with alarm to Gle’s apparent time-control powers and embarrassment at the Sword Saint’s gathering.
• Skeleton Resurrection remains comically eager to unearth famous figures, despite repeatedly finding that the targets are not dead or have no bones.
• Chen, Gle, and Xia Mei work together to investigate the hostile Demon Kings and seek allies, while Gle and Chen trade jokes and warnings.
• Emma’s apparent loyalty to her own Demon King complicates the idea that the King of the Undead simply brainwashed the Demon Kings.
• The Sword Saint is introduced as an absurdly powerful potential ally, but his debauchery leaves him unavailable at a critical moment.

Significant themes

• Power and its limits: Chen’s abilities are formidable, but Gle and especially the Sword Saint reveal how vast the gap between powerful beings can be.
• Causality, time, and the Great Calamity: Time Reversal is not absolute; overcoming its counters requires godlike power.
• Deception and investigation: The group must distinguish genuine motives from outside manipulation, rather than assuming the Demon Kings were simply controlled.
• Comedy amid danger: Grave-digging, exaggerated combat, and the Sword Saint’s scandalous gathering contrast with the looming threat of the King of the Undead and the Great Calamity.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• After two days of repeatedly triggering Lethal Tempo, the Sword Saint collapses and may be permanently unconscious. Chen Feng realizes the Sword Saint’s repeated “takeoffs” caused memory loss, leaving him unable to help against the Dark Elves.
• Chen Feng takes Gle and Xia Mei to the Hero Residence in Luka City, hoping to find the Hero of Clubs, a healer. Gle’s attempt to break through the barrier triggers level-4000 homing spells, killing Chen Feng; Xia Mei’s Reversal restores them to a nearby Save point.
• The Hero of Magic, Maiya, refuses to meet them. Chen Feng discovers the residence’s barrier attacks intruders at or above level 100, but repeated attempts by Xia Mei and the Bone Great Worm fail. He eventually uses the Bone Great Beast’s disguises to spy inside.
• Maiya is secretly imprisoning and torturing Monster Girls, while planning to replace city patrol captains with disguised agents and attack the other heroes at the next celebration. She intends to turn the captured Hero of Clubs into an obedient servant.
• Chen Feng infers that Maiya’s bitterness toward Luka—who left her behind when he ascended with the Nightmare Queen—has become hatred of Monster Girls. Gle warns that exposing the prisoners could spark a war.
• The Hero of Clubs is being confined in Alcohol Mist Magic, which prevents him from healing himself. Chen Feng spots Kail Meow, whose low level, stealth, and tolerance for alcohol may make him the ideal rescuer.

Character developments

• Chen Feng stays resourceful and analytical, using the Advisory System, repeated Reversals, and surveillance to uncover Maiya’s plans. He also recognizes that the Hero of Clubs needs an unconventional rescue.
• Gle is impulsive and easily angered, especially by Maiya’s insult, but her knowledge of the city’s history helps reveal the stakes. Her food obsession repeatedly drives the comic scenes.
• Xia Mei continues to show courage and compassion, repeatedly risking herself to enter the residence and urging the others to save the prisoners.
• Maiya is revealed as a powerful and ruthless antagonist, driven by resentment over Luka’s abandonment and determined to eliminate Monster Girls and seize control of the celebration.
• Kail Meow unexpectedly emerges as a possible solution: despite his drunken, shabby appearance, his traits fit the rescue requirements.

Significant themes

• Cunning over brute force: The group’s direct attacks fail, so Chen Feng turns to observation, loopholes, and unconventional allies.
• Power and abuse: Maiya uses her strength and authority to imprison and torture vulnerable people while disguising her intentions behind public celebrations.
• Resentment and prejudice: Maiya’s personal heartbreak has become hatred toward an entire group, with potentially disastrous consequences.
• Comedy amid danger: Reversal mechanics, Gle’s appetite, and Kail Meow’s habits provide humor alongside serious revelations.

Character interactions

• Chen Feng and the Demon Sword trade darkly comic remarks about the Sword Saint’s condition.
• Gle’s impatience repeatedly clashes with Chen Feng’s careful plans, while Xia Mei’s willingness to help moves the group forward.
• Chen Feng teases Gle about her intelligence and appetite; she responds with kicks and threats.
• Maiya’s conversation with her patrol captains reveals her deception and cruelty to the spying group.
• Xia Mei’s plea to rescue the prisoners momentarily alarms Gle, who fears the political consequences.
• Chen Feng recognizes Kail Meow’s unlikely usefulness and begins forming a rescue plan.

Plot and events

• Chen Feng assigns Kail Meow to rescue the imprisoned Hero of Clubs, reasoning that the Hero of Magic is away and that Kail’s catlike abilities make her ideal for a stealth mission. He offers her cigarettes as payment; she agrees.
• The plan immediately goes awry: drunk Kail walks in the wrong direction, mistakes Chen Feng’s seaweed camera for food, and nearly gives herself away. She eventually follows a trail of edible seaweed to the Dungeon.
• At the entrance, Kail’s smoking draws the guards’ attention—but her enormous cloud of smoke conceals her, and her toxic fart knocks out the warden. She steals the cell key and frees the Hero of Clubs.
• The Hero warns her that the cell is filled with magically enhanced Alcohol Mist, which could incapacitate her. Kail instead inhales and drinks it, unfazed by alcohol that would overwhelm most people.
• After Kail breaks the Hero’s Anti-Magic Shackles, she lights a cigarette while standing in the alcohol-filled cell. The resulting explosion blacks out the surveillance feed and badly injures her. The Hero, a powerful Restoration Healer, revives her with a basic Healing Spell.
• The Hero of Magic’s level-999 head maid arrives to stop them. She threatens the rescuers, but Xia Mei kills her with the Eternal Sword. Chen Feng chastises Xia Mei for using her real name in the outside world, where she is known as Saint Spirit Venerable Bull Face.

Character developments and interactions

• Kail Meow proves both highly unreliable and unexpectedly effective. Her drunkenness, appetite, smoking, and indifference to danger wreck Chen’s careful plan, yet her toughness and bizarre abilities allow her to succeed.
• Chen Feng shifts from confidence in his “airtight” strategy to frustration and resignation as Kail repeatedly derails it. He and Xia Mei celebrate her rescue, then react to the explosion with exasperated humor.
• Xia Mei worries about relying on Kail, supports the operation, and ultimately intervenes against the head maid.
• The Hero of Clubs begins as a desperate prisoner, becomes Kail’s shocked but grateful ally, and uses his healing skills to save her after the explosion.
• Gle punctures Chen’s self-righteous frustration by pointing out that trusting Kail with the mission suggests he did not consider it especially important.

Significant themes

• Chaotic competence: Careful planning is repeatedly undone, but improvisation and unconventional strengths still achieve the goal.
• Comedy through contrast: The heroes treat a dangerous rescue as a serious operation, while Kail blunders through it as if food, drink, and cigarettes matter most.
• Unpredictability and resilience: Kail’s odd habits cause danger, but her extraordinary tolerance and durability also make her uniquely suited to survive it.
• Caution and identity: The ending underscores the need to conceal one’s real name and public identity while operating in dangerous territory.

Plot points and events

• Dream Tenth Seat, Chessmaster, explains that his ability turns people into books, revealing their past and part of their future. In the Five Seats of Vengeance’s story, he discovers Chen Feng is the last seeded contender and learns that the Dark Elves plan to manipulate the Hero of Magic and the Three Demon Kings into war.
• Chessmaster finds that plan dull and asks Dream Ninth Seat, Chronicle Historian, to rewrite the story so monsters can overwhelm the Demon Kings, the Hero of Magic, and the Dark Elves. Chronicle Historian can alter text and settings, though only two characters at a time.
• Meanwhile, Chen Feng notices his usual system has become a monster escort system, with powerful monsters available to hire—including enemies and beings ranked among the strongest in existence. He realizes the system’s rules no longer match what he remembers and suspects an outside force has altered it.
• Chen Feng’s deductions and the system’s notifications reveal that Chessmaster and Chronicle Historian have been using narrative-layer abilities against him. A figure named Proficiency intervenes, knocks the two unconscious, and begins repairing the system—changing it back into a demon king escort system.
• Before the repair finishes, Chen Feng quickly selects something from the monster list. Kail Meow then returns from a rescue mission, lands on a mysterious white egg, and wonders whether it is edible. The chapter ends on this cliffhanger.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng is shown as observant and analytical: he detects the system change, tests whether it is real, and considers possible enemies behind it. He also acts quickly when Proficiency starts undoing the change.
• Chessmaster is playful and spectacle-hungry, openly preferring violent, thrilling battles over a conventional plot.
• Chronicle Historian is powerful but cautious, warning that introducing overwhelming monsters could disrupt the story’s power balance and provoke the Upper-Level Narrator.
• Proficiency protects Chen Feng and rebukes the two Dream Seats for targeting him, then repairs the system.
• Kail Meow provides a comic, abrupt contrast to the cosmic conflict by treating the unexplained egg as a potential snack.

Significant themes

• Narrative control and agency: Characters’ lives and systems can be rewritten by beings operating outside their world.
• Story conventions versus spectacle: Chessmaster rejects predictable fantasy plotting in favor of chaos and dramatic battles.
• Uncertainty and altered reality: Chen Feng must question his own assumptions when the rules of his world change.
• Comedy amid high stakes: Meta-fictional gods, system notices, and Kail’s appetite undercut the chapter’s ominous revelations.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Feng stops Kail Meow from eating the white egg, which Appraisal identifies as a level-zero Formless Demon—a supposedly impossible creature with zero attributes but immense potential.
• He meets Karen, the Staff Hero (also called the Hero of Clubs), and recruits him against the Hero of Magic. Karen reveals his Restoration Divine Spark can alter a creature’s appearance, memories, and attribute distribution. He had used it to fake his escape and turn the revived head maid into an ally.
• Chen Feng brings Karen to heal the unconscious Sword Saint. Karen unleashes an exhausting arsenal of healing magic, but the Sword Saint remains unresponsive—until Chen Feng mentions Monster Girls, prompting a brief, indecent murmur before he lapses back into unconsciousness.
• The group investigates why the Hero of Magic plans to attack the Four Demon Kings. They conclude the Dark Elf has likely given her two World Items: one that changes alignment, and another powerful combat item, possibly the strange glove Karen noticed. The altered alignment would make the Demon Kings easier to provoke into war, while the combat item explains the Hero of Magic’s confidence.
• Chen Feng plans for everyone to attend the next day’s celebration and try to seize or expose the World Items. With the Sword Saint unavailable, the group considers appealing to the Demon Kings if diplomacy fails. Chen Feng then remembers they have a Monster of their own and wonders whether they could fight instead.
• In the final scene, Chen Feng discovers the white egg has sprouted hundreds of huge smoking pipes. Kail Meow is lounging on it and smoking them all at once, apparently delighted.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng shifts from cautious negotiation toward considering force, while using his knowledge of the setting to connect the Dark Elf, the World Items, and the planned attack.
• Karen proves both powerful and resourceful, with unusually versatile restorative abilities. He quickly allies with Chen Feng once he learns of their shared opposition to the Hero of Magic.
• Xia Mei contributes sharp deductions, correctly recognizing that the Hero of Magic must have gained equipment or an item. She also volunteers to risk herself and even plead with the Demon Kings if needed.
• Gle remains focused on food but offers the possibility that the Dark Elf’s scheme involves the Deep Demon. Her anger at mistreated Monsters underscores the stakes.
• The Sword Saint cannot be revived despite Karen’s extreme healing efforts; his crude, Monster-Girl-related mumbling is played for comedy.
• Kail Meow treats the mysterious, potentially world-threatening Monster like a comfortable smoking lounge, highlighting the gap between its ominous importance and the group’s chaotic behavior.

Significant themes

• Power and strategy: The party weighs diplomacy, manipulation, and direct combat as ways to prevent a larger conflict.
• Manipulation and moral responsibility: The Dark Elf’s suspected alignment-altering item raises questions about whether the Demon Kings’ hostility is genuine or engineered.
• Uncertainty and hidden potential: The Formless Demon’s impossible stats suggest that appearances and conventional measures of strength may be misleading.
• Comedy amid danger: The chapter contrasts looming war and powerful artifacts with absurd healing rituals, sexual jokes, and Kail Meow’s extravagant smoking.

Key plot points and events

• At the Sword Saint’s party, Kail Meow finds a Monster covered in smoking pipes and tries smoking beside it. Chen Feng realizes it copies nearby abilities and effects. After he teleports it away, it copies Spatial Teleportation and sends a hidden army of roughly a hundred thousand Monsters elsewhere.
• The Monster also copies the Hiring System, making Chen Feng its “employee” and forbidding him to attack it. Chen Feng sees its power as a potential advantage in the coming war.
• Skeleton Resurrection reports finding the sealed grave of Luka, the Hero of Love. While searching for it, Chen Feng and Gle discover that Gle’s subordinate Emma has been influenced into siding with the imprisoned Dark Elves and condemning Gle for failing to save them. Chen Feng advises Gle not to argue with her while she is under the Evil Personality’s influence.
• They reach an orphanage on the eve of the Luka Festival, where the Director recounts Luka City’s history: successive Alice rulers tried benefits, memory erasure, and force to reconcile humans and Monsters, but each approach caused new injustice or conflict. Alice the Twentieth ultimately chose elections and hope for gradual trust.
• Gle privately explains that Alice the Nineteenth accepted blame for the bloodshed that followed her harsh rule, concealing the wider causes to prevent Luka City from collapsing into hatred.
• At the Hero of Love’s statue, Chen Feng uses his Starstone Ring to begin a trial. The Appraisal System reveals the legacy, the Fourfold Slash of Love: it requires a Love God artifact ring and the affection of four nonhuman women who see Chen Feng as more than a close friend. Two flames light from the ring; feeding Gle cake raises her favorability and lights a third. Chen Feng searches for a fourth target.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng remains pragmatic and resourceful, using appraisal and systems to understand the trial rather than relying on a dramatic last-minute revelation. He also recognizes the copied Monster’s battlefield potential.
• Gle is hurt and angry at Emma’s accusations but remains open to Chen Feng’s perspective. At the orphanage, she reveals her vulnerability and uncertainty about whether humans and Monsters can truly coexist. Her favorability toward Chen Feng rises during the trial.
• Emma believes Gle abandoned their people, exposing the strain between them and showing how the Evil Personality has reshaped her outlook.
• Kail Meow supplies the comic catalyst for discovering the Monster’s copying ability, despite her reckless smoking habit.
• The orphanage Director offers a compassionate account of Luka City’s history, while the children’s affection for him contrasts with the city’s troubled past.

Significant themes

• Fragile peace and historical memory: Attempts to force equality, erase painful memories, or suppress conflict fail; acknowledging history and working through differences offer a more durable path.
• Cycles of blame and hatred: The Alice rulers’ choices show how injustice and retaliation can deepen divisions, while Alice the Nineteenth’s sacrifice reflects the cost of preventing a city from tearing itself apart.
• Love as power: The Hero of Love’s legacy makes affection a literal source of strength, turning personal bonds into a test and potential weapon.
• Adaptation and escalation: The copying Monster magnifies whatever it encounters, illustrating how power can rapidly spiral beyond its user’s control.

Key plot points and events

• The Luka Festival opens with lively celebrations across the city, while Chen Feng’s group mingles with vendors and prepares to attend the ceremony.
• Karen disguises herself with Body Modification as a voluptuous older woman, taking the name Kaila, so she can accompany the group without being recognized by the Hero of Magic.
• Jill declines Chen Feng’s invitation to the festival and goes to the prison. Convinced Emma had a reason for attacking the caravan, he plans to speak with her and seek her release on bail.
• At Festival Square, Gle explains the ceremony’s unusual traditions and the histories and abilities of the Demon Kings. Chen Feng learns that the Slime Queen can create powerful duplicates, while Alice the Nightmare Queen can erase victims by amplifying their fear and is difficult to kill because she can hide inside dreams.
• The Hero of Clubs reacts furiously when the Hero of Magic arrives, but Chen Feng urges restraint.
• Curious about the World Item on the Hero of Magic’s hand, Chen Feng uses Appraisal despite the risk of exposing himself. Xia Mei immediately draws the Eternal Sword and invokes time reversal, resetting events to a minute earlier and undoing the appraisal.

Character developments

• Chen Feng balances caution with curiosity: he worries about the coming battle and the Demon Kings’ powers, yet cannot resist investigating the Hero of Magic’s World Item.
• Karen / Kaila shows how completely the Body Modification Technique can alter someone, adopting a new appearance and identity to stay concealed.
• Jill acts on his faith in Emma, choosing to investigate her situation rather than join the festivities.
• Xia Mei remains anxious around the Spider Queen but helps protect the group by reversing time after Chen Feng’s risky move.
• Gle is informative about her fellow Demon Kings, though her enthusiasm for the festival’s cake makes her an easy distraction.

Significant themes

• Celebration beside looming danger: The city enjoys a joyful festival while the characters anticipate conflict and quietly gather intelligence.
• Disguise, secrecy, and risk: Karen’s transformation and Chen Feng’s concealed appraisal show how the group must hide its intentions.
• Trust and judgment: Jill’s confidence in Emma contrasts with the suspicion surrounding her actions.
• Power and its limits: The Demon Kings’ formidable abilities prompt Chen Feng to assess how they might be fought.
• Learning through repetition: Xia Mei’s time reversal gives the group a chance to undo a dangerous mistake, though Chen Feng jokes that she should set her save points less narrowly.

Character interactions

• Chen Feng awkwardly misinterprets a milk vendor’s sales pitch, prompting Gle to scold him for wasting tea.
• He asks Kaila to keep the Hero of Magic from recognizing her; Xia Mei is flustered by Kaila’s altered appearance.
• Jill and Chen Feng part on friendly terms, with Chen Feng respecting Jill’s decision to help Emma.
• Gle explains the Demon Kings’ powers to Chen Feng, while his questions reveal his concern about the coming fight.
• Xia Mei responds decisively when Chen Feng appraises the Hero of Magic, using the Eternal Sword to rewind time and erase the evidence.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Feng uses repeated Appraise and Reverse attempts to expose the hidden mastermind: Peloro, a disguised Dark Elf carrying two World Items—the theft-powered Shepherd Glove and the morality-altering Serpent Staff. Xia Mei reveals she has been approving an enormous number of Reversal requests, apparently after the Monster itself reversed her powers repeatedly.
• The group decides to let Peloro’s plan unfold until he clashes with the three Demon Kings. Gle explains why they have not attacked first: the Serpent Staff affects only one target at a time, so it would be ineffective against the vast Monster army.
• At a public ceremony, Chen Feng discovers that the flower bouquets are rigged with explosive Demigod Fire Runes. He has Gle accept one to provoke the attack and reveal the Hero of Magic’s hand.
• The explosion erupts across the city and toward surrounding Monster territories. Chen Feng stops time and reverses the catastrophe, saving the crowd. Gle, who is immune to Reversal, remains burned and pretends to be dead.
• Gle’s fall is mistaken for an assassination. The Demon Kings accuse the Hero of Magic and humans of an attack, sparking a confrontation. The Hero of Magic begins using the glove to drain the Demon Kings’ strength.
• A spatial sniper then attacks Peloro with the Bone Great Beast’s True Damage. The strike appears to deal enormous damage, but Peloro’s health bar does not change.

Character developments

• Chen Feng demonstrates how effectively he combines appraisal, time control, and tactical patience, though the scale of Xia Mei’s Reversal activity shocks him.
• Xia Mei is shown to have little control over her Save/Reversal ability: she can approve huge numbers of requests, but the Monster may be manipulating or overwhelming the process.
• Gle is willing to play her assigned role, but her Abyssal immunity leaves her uniquely vulnerable to the explosion; she uses humor and a fake death to avoid further trouble.
• The Hero of Magic is revealed as a ruthless conspirator willing to cause mass casualties to conceal her attempt to start a war.
• Peloro remains confident and heavily protected, resisting even an attack designed to inflict unavoidable True Damage.

Significant themes

• Information and counterintelligence: Chen Feng’s appraisal exposes disguises, hidden powers, and sabotage.
• Manipulation and unintended consequences: Carefully planned actions—such as Gle’s staged death—are misunderstood and rapidly escalate the conflict.
• Moral costs of strategy: Chen Feng risks using Gle as bait, while the Hero of Magic is willing to sacrifice an entire population.
• Limits and unpredictability of power: Reversal can undo catastrophe, yet Gle’s immunity and Peloro’s apparent resilience complicate the outcome.

Character interactions

• Chen Feng teases Xia Mei about the burden of reversing time, then realizes her power has processed an astonishing number of requests.
• Gle challenges Chen Feng’s decision to use her as bait and jokes about alternatives, but ultimately obeys.
• Chen Feng’s group chooses to observe the enemies’ conflict rather than strike prematurely.
• The Demon Kings interpret Gle’s collapse as an attack and turn against the Hero of Magic, while she insists she has not yet detonated the trap.
• The chapter ends with an attack on Peloro, whose apparent invulnerability leaves Chen Feng stunned.

Plot points and events

• Monster forces launch a coordinated assault on Luka City, turning the streets into a battlefield. Humans and Monsters suffer heavy casualties.
• In prison, Emma is freed by Jill, who is gravely wounded by a giant stinger. Despite his injuries, Jill worries about the Monster girl he believes may also be hurt. Emma is moved by his concern and tries to find him help.
• Seeing the city’s devastation, Emma questions whether she truly wants to return to the endless violence of her former life.
• Elsewhere, Chen Feng’s Bone Great Beast is disabled when a summoning Dark Elf’s ice attack blows its soul out of its body. Chen Feng uses his Primordial Spirit to retrieve and restore the soul, then sends the Beast back into battle.
• The Dark Elf summons a powerful ice wolf and an immortal Phoenix. Gle engages the Phoenix, while Chen Feng’s Beast attacks the Dark Elf, but the enemy’s power and the mounting casualties make victory by force seem costly.
• Chen Feng repeatedly reverses time and tries different ways to persuade the three Demon Kings to cooperate. They reject his warnings, distrust him, or attempt to recruit Gle. In several attempts, they kill Xia Mei, who comes to plead with them.
• After many failures, Chen Feng concludes that the Demon Kings will not negotiate unless confronted with force. When Xia Mei offers to kneel to prevent further conflict, he tells her not to. He then teleports a mysterious white egg into the venue, preparing to attack.

Character developments and interactions

• Emma shifts from confident anticipation of rescue to shock and doubt as she witnesses the slaughter. Jill’s selfless concern for others affects her deeply.
• Jill remains compassionate despite being near death, comforting Emma and worrying about another Monster girl.
• Chen Feng demonstrates ingenuity and confidence in handling the soul attack, but his repeated failed negotiations exhaust his patience. He ultimately chooses force over further appeals.
• Gle protects herself from the ice wind and fights the Phoenix, showing formidable strength, though she initially resists helping Chen Feng.
• Xia Mei repeatedly risks herself to appeal to the Demon Kings and even offers to kneel. Chen Feng’s insistence that she stand up highlights his refusal to accept her humiliation.
• The Demon Kings remain hostile and suspicious, rejecting Chen Feng’s attempts at cooperation and treating appeals as weakness.

Significant themes

• The cost of war: The attack devastates Luka City, and both humans and Monsters die in large numbers.
• Compassion amid violence: Jill’s concern for others and Xia Mei’s willingness to risk herself contrast with the cruelty around them.
• The limits of negotiation: Repeated failures convince Chen Feng that appeals alone cannot change the Demon Kings’ behavior.
• Strength and agency: Chen Feng rejects Xia Mei’s submission, while Emma’s doubts suggest that even a long-standing identity shaped by violence can be questioned.
• Different systems of power: Chen Feng’s cultivation-based abilities provide solutions to problems that conventional magic and combat cannot address.

Chapter Summary: “Demon King vs. Monster”

Key plot points and events

• Chen Feng deliberately releases the Formless Demon into Luka City while the Hero of Magic and the three Demon Kings are fighting, intending to let the monster disrupt both sides rather than wait for them to weaken each other.
• An Elf Archer accidentally strikes the monster’s egg-like body with an arrow, triggering its growth and first transformation. It fires countless tracking spines, killing the archer and bringing down a Dragon. After the Dragon’s breath hits it, the monster grows wings and a turtle-like head and unleashes an enormous blast that tears through the city.
• The Spider Queen confronts it. Her Corrosion Evil Eye appears to destroy it, but the monster reassembles. Her Cursed Evil Eye also fails to kill it: instead, the creature evolves and gains its own Evil Eyes.
• The monster rapidly adapts to the Spider Queen’s attacks, rising from level 350 to level 5,840 and reflecting her abilities with greatly increased force. It kills her, though a defensive skill grants her a limited resurrection.
• The Slime Queen steps in and creates thousands of clones. The monster counters by producing 100,000 clones, each with the same level, skills, and attributes as itself. The chapter ends as the Slime Queen realizes she is badly outmatched.

Character developments

• Chen Feng reveals his ruthless strategy: he wants the monster to throw both factions into chaos. He is also quick to recognize the Spider Queen’s likely survival skill and remains composed as the fight escalates.
• The Spider Queen begins confident in her level advantage and specialized Evil Eyes, but her confidence collapses as the monster evolves beyond her expectations. She uses her spatial ability to escape before being overwhelmed again.
• The Slime Queen initially relies on her formidable ability to create thousands of clones, only to face an even greater version of that tactic.
• Xia Mei is concerned by the Spider Queen’s apparent death, while Gle awkwardly denies having understated the Slime Queen’s cloning ability.
• The Hero of Magic welcomes the monster’s arrival because it may relieve pressure from the Demon Kings, showing little concern for civilian casualties.

Significant themes

• Escalation and adaptation: Every attempt to defeat the monster seems to give it new forms, skills, or greater power.
• The danger of underestimating opponents: The Spider Queen’s appraisal and level comparison reassure her, but the monster’s capabilities defy those measures.
• Cruelty and opportunism: Chen Feng and the Hero of Magic both treat the catastrophe as a strategic advantage, with civilians treated as expendable.
• Subversion of combat expectations: Abilities that normally guarantee victory—corrosion, curses, paralysis, and cloning—prove ineffective when the monster can copy and amplify them.

Character interactions

• Chen Feng explains his aggressive plan to Xia Mei and later comments on the Spider Queen’s tactics.
• The Spider Queen confronts the monster, then becomes its victim and escapes into alternate space.
• The other Demon Kings react with alarm and send the Slime Queen to take over the fight.
• The Slime Queen’s mass-cloning strategy is immediately challenged by the monster’s vastly larger, fully capable clone army.

Plot points

• While Luka City is overwhelmed by more than 100,000 monsters, Chen Feng and Gle watch the battle—and briefly stop for food after Chen offers gold.
• The Hero of Magic clashes with the Nightmare Queen, using her superior power and World Item to batter the Demon King. The Nightmare Queen escapes into a koala girl’s pleasant dream, but a strange, eye-covered monster enters it and leaves her barely alive. The monster also cripples the Spider Queen and destroys nearly all of the Slime Queen’s duplicates.
• Having devastated Luka City, the Hero of Magic prepares to finish off the three Demon Kings. Wolf Emperor Fugarlo and the Dark Elf attack her, but the Hero uses the Shepherd’s Glove to drain their attributes.
• The Dark Elf reveals that she has a matching World Item, Hermes’s Cattle-Herding Glove, which transfers back the attributes absorbed by the Shepherd’s Glove. She had deliberately lost to the Hero earlier to provoke her into attacking the Demon Kings and weaken them.
• The Dark Elf’s magic accidentally reveals her thoughts, exposing her plan to make the Demon Kings cannon fodder for the Great Tomb. Despite her advantage, she is overwhelmed by the Hero, a demigod summon, and attacks from the mysterious monster. The Hero falls, but the Dark Elf’s scheme is also compromised: the Demon Kings now have reason to hate her.
• Planning to drain the Demon Kings’ experience and use their attributes to summon a stronger beast, the Dark Elf turns her attention to the monster rampaging through the city.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng and Gle: Their comic exchange over food contrasts with the catastrophe outside; Gle’s alarm gives way when Chen offers gold.
• Hero of Magic: She celebrates the destruction of Luka City and initially seems confident that her World Item will secure victory, but the Dark Elf’s countermeasure and the monster’s intervention bring her down.
• Dark Elf: Her apparent defeat is revealed as a calculated move, but her secrecy fails when her thoughts are spoken aloud. She remains ruthless and focused on serving her lord, even after her plan begins to unravel.
• Demon Kings: The Nightmare, Spider, and Slime Queens are left severely weakened by the eye-covered monster. The Dark Elf’s intention to exploit them further threatens to turn them against her.
• The eye-covered monster: It emerges as a powerful, mysterious force able to penetrate dreams and other dimensions and devastate multiple Demon Kings.

Significant themes

• Power and countermeasures: The paired gloves turn the Hero’s attribute-draining weapon against her.
• Manipulation and unintended consequences: The Dark Elf engineers the conflict but loses control of its outcome.
• Overconfidence and shifting alliances: Both the Hero and Dark Elf misjudge the dangers around them.
• Comic contrast: Chen and Gle’s casual meal provides a humorous counterpoint to the city’s destruction and near-apocalyptic combat.

Plot points and events

• The Dark Elf attacks the Formless Demon with the World Item Shepherd’s Glove, expecting its attribute-draining power to make the Monster an easy target.
• Instead, the Monster’s ability reflects the effect. The Dark Elf’s attributes collapse—including its Intelligence and Luck, which plunge to vast negative values—and the Monster gains an “Attribute Theft” skill alongside abilities copied from the Nightmare, Spider, and Slime Queens.
• Chen Feng receives a warning to protect his employer, but dismisses the danger. The system later credits him with protecting the Monster despite his doing nothing.
• Unable to escape and desperate to survive, the Dark Elf sacrifices the attributes stored in Hermes’s Cattle-Herding Glove to summon Glasya-Labolas, the twenty-fifth-ranked Demon God.
• The summoned winged hound is invisible to most observers and rapidly tears through the Monster’s many doppelgangers. The Monster then vanishes, fights it out of sight, and returns after destroying it.

Character developments and interactions

• The Dark Elf shifts from smug confidence to panic, then makes a last-ditch attempt to summon a powerful demon. Its faith in the World Item proves misplaced.
• Chen Feng remains amused and unconcerned, joking about the Dark Elf’s defeat and choosing to watch rather than intervene.
• Xia Mei can see the invisible demon and alerts Chen Feng to its presence.
• The Monster demonstrates that it can reflect even World Item effects, acquire others’ skills, and defeat a formidable opponent without visible effort.
• The Dark Elf and the Monster are locked in an escalating confrontation: the Dark Elf tries to drain and then overwhelm the Monster, while the Monster turns the Dark Elf’s own weapon against it.

Significant themes

• Overconfidence and reversal: the Dark Elf assumes its legendary weapon guarantees victory, only to be defeated by the very effect it relies on.
• Power escalation: the Monster absorbs new abilities and dispatches a high-ranked demon, underscoring the widening gap between its strength and its enemies’ expectations.
• Comic deflation: dramatic threats and system warnings are undercut by Chen Feng’s irreverent commentary and the Monster’s effortless victory.