Chapter Summaries

Greg watched Vivian Kahn investigate the Eight-Legged Lady’s death and considered helping her avoid the tragic fate he remembered from the game. He escaped unseen, though Vivian sensed something near his hiding place before returning to the investigation.

• Vivian told the Student Council that the person who killed the Eight-Legged Lady had to be a powerful student at the Academy.
• Greg collected the remaining golden radiance spider silk while Nightmare teased him about his interest in Vivian.
• Remembering Vivian’s destined death and her final words to Lilith, Greg resolved to help her if the opportunity arose.
• Greg slipped through a fissure and vanished into the darkness.
• Vivian sensed something near the rock wall where Greg had escaped, but dismissed it as her imagination and resumed her task.

Greg hid in his Dungeon camp while students searched the passages, and he wondered whether they were pursuing a special bounty. He anticipated that the original game's first chapter would conclude the following night with Sylvia’s kidnapping and Victoria’s rescue.

• Greg concealed his tent and smoking rack as student parties searched the Dungeon in unusual numbers.
• Greg considered joining a possible special bounty but decided not to leave the Dungeon without knowing its details.
• Greg prepared jerky and waited for Nightmare, who had disappeared into the deeper levels again.
• Greg checked the time, settled in for the night, and expected Sylvia’s kidnapping to trigger the first chapter’s final event the next night.

Greg planned to stop Audrey Hope from kidnapping Sylvia before the abduction could succeed, since Victoria was still recovering from her shoulder injury and would miss the rescue. The chapter ended with Audrey asking a mysterious black crow whether following its instructions would give her son an aptitude for magic.

• Greg suspected that the Church of Light’s internal factions or a hostile force had manipulated Audrey Hope into targeting Sylvia.
• Greg learned that Victoria would remain hospitalized during the kidnapping and decided to rescue Sylvia himself.
• Greg planned to intervene before Audrey could abduct Sylvia, then went to sleep before carrying out his plan the next night.
• At the Academy’s faculty residences, Audrey stood anxiously before a black crow with ominous red eyes.
• Audrey asked the crow whether obeying it would give her son an aptitude for magic.

Audrey Hope accepted the crow’s offer to do anything to give her son magical aptitude, despite believing the plan would blaspheme against the Goddess of Light. Back in the Dungeon, Nightmare questioned Greg about the preparations he was making for that night.

• The crow urged Audrey Hope to choose her son’s future over her faith in the Goddess of Light.
• Audrey Hope decided to accept the deal and asked what she needed to do, pledging to do anything for her son.
• Greg woke and found Nightmare arranging oddly shaped stone fragments she had collected around the Dungeon.
• Nightmare told Greg the fragments were not rubbish and asked what he was preparing for that night.

Greg prepared to intercept Associate Professor Audrey before she could capture Sylvia, then realized that Lily Carlo was actually Lilith Kahn in disguise. The revelation left him horrified that he had unwittingly caused trouble for Gray Hair.

• Greg decided he could use his knowledge of Associate Professor Audrey's plan to stop her before she imprisoned Sylvia.
• Nightmare asked Greg to pursue her and offered jerky as a chance to raise her affection; Greg gave her some.
• Nightmare praised Greg's appearance and said even the hypocritical woman who padded her chest might be attracted to him.
• Greg recalled that Lilith Kahn owned a Magic Device that could disguise her appearance and concluded that Lily Carlo was Lilith Kahn.
• Greg covered his face and lamented that he had screwed over Gray Hair.

Sylvia brooded over Greg’s failure to visit her after their Dungeon expedition, especially after learning he had visited Victoria. An explosion near the female dormitory disrupted her thoughts, leaving the academy in alarm and speculation.

• Sylvia learned from Victoria that Greg had visited her in the hospital but had not come to see Sylvia since their return from the Dungeon.
• Sylvia questioned why she kept thinking about Greg and hesitated to seek him out, worried she would disturb or annoy him.
• An explosion erupted near the female dormitory, shaking the building and startling its residents.
• The girls in the dormitory looked toward the blast and saw dark smoke rising as they speculated about its cause.

Audrey incapacitated Sylvia with a vial and carried her out of the Academy using flight magic. Greg spotted them as they left and realized Sylvia's abduction was already underway.

• Sylvia prepared to investigate an explosion, but Audrey appeared at her bedroom window and demanded that she come along.
• Sylvia suspected Audrey and tried to gather magic, but Audrey opened a vial that drained her strength and made her collapse.
• Audrey lifted the unconscious Sylvia and used Wings of Wind to fly away from the dormitory.
• As Sylvia lost consciousness, she glimpsed Greg arguing with Alchemy Department students beside the explosion crater.
• Greg noticed someone flying away while carrying another person and realized the abduction had begun before he could get involved.

Greg waited outside the girls' dormitory to catch Associate Professor Audrey attempting to kidnap Sylvia, intending to stop her without disrupting the plot more than necessary. While he kept watch, Nightmare teased him about male bodily functions and remained unapologetic when Greg mocked her secondhand knowledge.

• Greg hid near the girls' dormitory and waited for Audrey to approach Sylvia's window so he could catch her in the act.
• Greg explained that intervening before Audrey committed a crime could make him look like an attacker, so he planned to restrain her during the attempted kidnapping.
• Nightmare asked Greg whether his restless mood meant he was experiencing a recurring special time for male creatures.
• Greg learned that Nightmare's ideas about male sexual pressure came from overhearing believers talk.
• Greg teased Nightmare for being a novice who relied on hearsay, but she defended curiosity and said she had no use for shame.

After Greg struggled with being deceived by Lilith Kahn, an explosion nearly killed him outside the dormitory. He confronted three Alchemy Department researchers who insisted the blast was an experiment, leaving him furious at their excuse.

• Greg refused to tell Nightmare how Lilith Kahn had deceived him, and Nightmare teased him for being played.
• Greg spotted dark smoke rising from the lawn and was caught in a sudden explosion.
• Greg used Intangibility to survive the blast, then was thrown across the lawn by the force of the explosion.
• Greg found a huge crater with unstable mana glowing at its bottom.
• Three Alchemy Department researchers emerged from a hidden tunnel and claimed the explosion was a controlled experiment.
• Greg cursed at the researchers for denying that they had caused an explosion.

After an alchemy experiment left Greg in a crater, he cursed the three students responsible before spotting Sylvia being carried away and racing after her. The alchemists then recognized him as Greg Sass and worried that his rumored connection to Chloe Ivy could bring them trouble.

• The chapter described how Alchemy Department students built secret escape routes beneath their underground laboratories to protect themselves from disastrous experiments.
• Greg recovered from an explosion and unleashed a furious stream of insults at the three alchemy students who had caused it.
• Greg spotted Sylvia flying away from the Academy, threatened the students, and hurried after her.
• Aiden recognized Greg Sass and told his companions a rumor that Chloe Ivy's admission and scholarship had been connected to Greg.
• The three alchemy students feared the consequences if Chloe Ivy really had ties to Greg.

Sylvia awoke in a forgotten forester’s cabin, where Professor Audrey Hope revealed she intended to sacrifice Sylvia in a ritual. Greg burst through the roof and found Sylvia tied up, arriving just as the ritual was about to begin.

• Sylvia regained consciousness in a dilapidated cabin and found Professor Audrey Hope waiting in the shadows.
• Audrey told Sylvia she was a chosen vessel blessed by the Goddess of Light and said she needed to sacrifice her in a ritual.
• Audrey took out bottles and a stone tablet as Sylvia struggled helplessly against her ropes.
• Greg crashed through the cabin roof and spotted Audrey and the bound Sylvia.

Greg reached the cabin ahead of the game's usual timeline and found Sylvia awake while Professor Audrey still retained her sanity. After freeing Sylvia, he faced Audrey, but Nightmare recognized that the tablets she carried resembled fragments she had collected in the Dungeon.

• Greg arrived at the cabin by a direct route and found Sylvia bound but conscious, unlike in the game's usual sequence.
• Sylvia called to Greg, and he freed her while reminding her that he had promised to help if she got into trouble.
• Audrey recognized Greg, insulted him, and demanded to know why he had pursued her alone instead of reporting her to the Academy.
• Nightmare urged Greg to examine the tablets Audrey was holding, noting their patterns resembled the fragments she had been collecting in the Dungeon.

Greg learned that the tablet and Magic Circle could plant an Outer God’s seed in Sylvia’s soul, turning her into an apostle, and realized Professor Audrey’s attempt may have already corrupted Sylvia before the original game’s rescue. Reconsidering Sylvia’s seemingly happy endings, Greg feared the influence of the Fallen Mother might have endured beneath them.

• Nightmare identified the tablet’s patterns as traces of the Fallen Mother, an Outer God associated with twisted desires, mental corruption, and primal instincts.
• Nightmare explained that the Magic Circle could plant a seed in a mortal soul, feeding on negative emotions until it transformed the subject into an apostle.
• Nightmare distinguished chosen emissaries from apostles, who were corrupted mortals that lost much of their will but could wield aspects of an Outer God’s authority.
• Greg inferred that Professor Audrey had activated the Circle and that Sylvia’s unconsciousness and Audrey’s madness in the original game resulted from the spiritual interference.
• Greg reconsidered details in Sylvia’s good endings and wondered whether the Fallen Mother’s influence had persisted beneath her apparent happiness.

Greg rescued Sylvia, defeated Audrey, and discovered that the tablets and sedative gas were connected to the Fallen Mother. Before he could summon the Academy, a hooded man arrived and demanded the contraband and Sylvia, threatening to kill them in the Mother Goddess’s name.

• Audrey attacked Greg with a wind spell, but he countered it with a water arrow and wounded her cheek.
• Greg used the rope to stop Audrey from opening the bottle, caught it, and learned from Nightmare that its contents carried the Fallen Mother’s aura.
• Audrey lunged for the bottle, but Greg knocked her down, restrained her, and rejected her claim that her crimes were for her son.
• A hooded man broke into the shack, demanded the tablets, the Breath of Slumber, and Sylvia, and threatened Greg with death.

Greg confronted the hooded follower of the Fallen Mother, who killed Professor Audrey and demanded the stone tablet, the Breath of Slumber, and Sylvia. Greg held the man off so Sylvia could escape, and the fight ended with the hooded man questioning whether Greg followed an ancient lost deity.

• The hooded man killed Professor Audrey after she pleaded for his help, then demanded that Greg hand over the items and Sylvia.
• Greg ordered Sylvia to flee toward the Academy and stayed behind to face the hooded man.
• Greg fought the hooded man with fire and water magic, glimpsed a scaled tail beneath his cloak, and realized he was a Demon.
• The hooded man trapped Greg with an axe strike and earth spikes, but Greg blocked the blow with his Dark Bracer.
• The hooded man saw Greg's fading armguards and asked whether he followed a deity lost to time.

Greg fought the hooded man, whose spiritual erosion and earth magic nearly overwhelmed him. He devoured the power in the tablets and Breath of Slumber, survived the man's final attack, and emerged with stronger dark magic and upgraded armor and spells.

• The hooded man used spiritual erosion and earth magic against Greg, but Greg resisted the corruption and struck him with Dark Wave.
• Dark Wave inflicted several debilitating effects, but the hooded man wounded himself to fight through some of them and renewed his attacks.
• Nightmare told Greg he could absorb the Fallen Mother's power from the tablets and Breath of Slumber to strengthen his shadow magic, despite the danger of corruption.
• Greg used Dark Bracer to devour the tablets and vial as the hooded man unleashed Earthshatter, destroying the shack and collapsing the ground around him.
• Greg survived the blast with expanded dark armor, and his system notifications showed that Dark Bracer and Dark Wave had advanced to Dark Erosion Armor and Void Erosion.

Greg survived the hooded man’s attack and defeated him with [Void Erosion LV2], revealing the attacker as a Guardian of the Demon King Cult. Greg recognized him as one of Melina Belladonna’s trusted confidants, linking the attack to her.

• Sylvia feared Greg had been buried when the wooden house collapsed, then saw him emerge alive, protected by the Dark Erosion Armor.
• The hooded man attacked Greg again, but Greg blocked every strike with his armored arm.
• Greg cast [Void Erosion LV2], inflicting severe status effects that killed the hooded man.
• Greg approached the corpse and recognized the dead Scaled Demon as a Guardian of the Demon King Cult and one of Melina Belladonna’s confidants.

After defeating the hooded man, Greg collapsed from exhaustion, and Sylvia caught him as she realized she had fallen in love with him. As Greg lost consciousness, a mature woman appeared above the ruins, signaling another powerful presence.

• Greg recognized Melina Belladonna as the Demon King’s illegitimate daughter and the leader of the Demon King Cult, and learned she was connected to the Fallen Mother.
• Greg’s armor receded as his strength and mana gave out, and he collapsed after worrying about Melina’s future arrival at Glory Kael Magic Academy.
• Sylvia caught Greg and held him while he lay unconscious in her arms.
• Sylvia realized she loved Greg, while worrying that he might care more for Victoria, and secretly savored holding him close.
• A mature woman’s voice sounded above the ruins, and Greg lost consciousness wondering whether another powerful enemy had appeared.

Wendy recruited slum girls into the Night Church by promising that Ellie would protect them from the Gray Rat Gang, then persuaded the sleepy Ellie to attack the gang. As Ellie set out, she nearly collided with a mysterious young woman with deep purple eyes.

• Wendy told the slum girls about the Night Church, but they feared retaliation from the Gray Rat Gang.
• Wendy claimed Ellie had reached the Hero Domain and reassured the girls that the gang could not threaten them, while Ellie slept beneath her cloak.
• Wendy woke Ellie and proposed defeating the gang to free the girls and secure the church a base in the Royal Capital.
• Ellie agreed to Wendy's plan, and Wendy announced that the deputy bishop would bring justice to the slums.
• Ellie headed toward the gang's territory and nearly collided with a mysterious young woman dressed in black.

Ellie encountered Melina in the slums before continuing to deal with the Gray Rat Gang. Melina warned her followers not to confront Ellie, then learned that Rockthorn had died while assisting Audrey Hope.

• Ellie questioned Melina, who recognized her as a sister and then left the alley.
• Ellie set aside her suspicions and headed off with her sword ready to deal with the Gray Rat Gang.
• A hooded follower offered to eliminate Ellie, but Melina refused, judging her to be a Hero Domain powerhouse and ordering her followers to keep watching.
• The follower reported that Rockthorn’s life mark had gone out while he was assisting Audrey Hope and monitoring the seed implantation.
• Melina stopped and asked whether Rockthorn was dead.