Chapter Summaries

Lin Yuan returned to Sardinia at twenty as the black serpent tried to use his ten divine Authorities to cross into countless worlds. He sealed the Authorities and dragged the serpent through the gate, then awakened as a child in an unfamiliar forest with a giant beast nearby.

• At seventeen, Lin Yuan stole the God-Slaying Spear with Prometheus's Grimoire and killed the spear-wielding god, gaining an Authority and a mysterious gate within his soul.
• Over the next three years, Lin Yuan fought ten divine battles, usurped ten Authorities, and became known as the King of the Void and the Boundless Devil King.
• At twenty, Lin Yuan returned to Sardinia and found the black serpent emerging through the gate, while its patterns spread across his ten thrones.
• Lin Yuan ordered the island's mages to evacuate, then used the last page of Prometheus's Grimoire to seal his Authorities and reject their thrones.
• Lin Yuan used Heaven's Imperial Gate to cross into the void and drag the serpent's claw through the rift, sacrificing himself to keep it from reaching the world.
• Lin Yuan later awoke in an unfamiliar forest in a child's body, with his Authorities gone and a giant beast approaching.

Lin Yuan, trapped in a child’s body with his former powers sealed, fled a monstrous black wolf through the forest. As the wolf lunged for the kill, Lin Yuan’s uncontrolled magic let him tear apart the distance between them and strike its forehead.

• Lin Yuan escaped the black wolf’s first attack and tried to summon powers whose names surfaced in his broken memories, but none answered.
• Lin Yuan improvised a vine-and-stone trap that sent the pursuing wolf tumbling down a slope, but it freed itself and attacked with wind blades.
• The wolf’s attack slammed Lin Yuan into a rock face and badly wounded his shoulder, while he realized his body had no healing power and his remaining magic was beyond his control.
• With the wolf blocking his only escape, Lin Yuan chose to fight using what remained rather than wait for a miracle.
• As the wolf lunged, Lin Yuan saw lines marking space, seized the line between them, and made the distance vanish so his fist struck its forehead.

After Lin Yuan nearly died fighting a Six-Eyed Horned Wolf, Makarov rescued and treated him. Learning that Lin Yuan remembered only his name and dying once, Makarov offered him a place in his guild in Magnolia.

• Lin Yuan struck the Six-Eyed Horned Wolf with nearly all his magic power, but the beast survived and prepared another attack.
• Makarov arrived, defeated the wolf with Giant's Fist, and caught Lin Yuan as he passed out.
• Lin Yuan woke at Makarov's camp with his wounds bandaged and learned they were in the Kingdom of Fiore, north of Magnolia.
• Lin Yuan told Makarov that he remembered his name and that he had died once, while keeping the snake out of his account.
• Makarov sensed vast, unfamiliar magic power within Lin Yuan and offered him food, shelter, and a place in his guild.

Makarov brought Lin Yuan to Magnolia and welcomed him into Fairy Tail, where Lin Yuan received a silver-gray guild emblem. When Makarov tested his magic, Lin Yuan’s power overloaded and shattered the crystal, leaving the guild hall in stunned silence.

• Makarov explained that a guild was a place where wizards gathered to take jobs, then led Lin Yuan to Magnolia.
• At Fairy Tail, Makarov stopped Natsu and Gray from fighting and introduced Lin Yuan as a newcomer with no home or memories.
• The guild members welcomed Lin Yuan, and Makarov registered him with a silver-gray emblem on his left shoulder.
• Lin Yuan felt the darkness sealed within his soul stir when the emblem was stamped onto him.
• Lin Yuan placed his hand on the magic-testing crystal, whose light surged before the crystal exploded and plunged the guild hall into silence.

Makarov brought Lin Yuan to Porlyusica to examine his rapid healing and abnormal magic power. Lin Yuan demonstrated that he could devour distance, but the power grew hungry and consumed a corner of Porlyusica’s house.

• Makarov took Lin Yuan to Porlyusica after finding that his magic power had crushed a crystal from within.
• Porlyusica found that Lin Yuan’s body healed unusually fast, resisted healing magic, and contained an unknown sealed power.
• Porlyusica’s probe revealed ten extinguished golden rings to Lin Yuan before the needle snapped and a heavy aura briefly surfaced.
• Lin Yuan told Porlyusica about the black-and-silver line that had erased five meters of distance the night before.
• Lin Yuan devoured the distance between two Magic Crystals, and Porlyusica identified his power as an unrecorded Slayer True Magic.
• Lin Yuan failed to stop the spreading power in time, and it silently consumed a corner of Porlyusica’s house.

Makarov kept Lin Yuan from taking jobs until he could control his dangerous magic, so Lin Yuan trained at the Guild and learned to adapt to its chaotic routine. After he made a pebble move half an inch with precise magic, Natsu challenged him to a fight without magic.

• Porlyusica made Makarov repair her damaged house and warned him not to let Lin Yuan experiment with magic around crowds.
• Makarov forbade Lin Yuan from taking a job and began training him to control his magic, but his exercises repeatedly damaged objects and furniture.
• Lin Yuan quickly mastered physical training without using magic, earning the Guild's joke that he was a genius who couldn't use magic.
• Lin Yuan stayed in the Guild's old dormitory, worked to pay for room and board, and gradually learned to navigate its noisy everyday life.
• Lin Yuan moved a pebble half an inch by carefully compressing his magic, and Natsu challenged him to fight without using magic.

Lin Yuan defeated Natsu in a no-magic sparring match, but their brief contact stirred a dormant seal within Lin Yuan. The chapter ended as a golden lightning bolt appeared in the clear night sky.

• Makarov set the rules for Lin Yuan and Natsu's fistfight while Gray and the Guild members gathered to watch.
• Lin Yuan used practiced grappling moves to throw and pin Natsu, but Natsu broke free and continued fighting.
• Lin Yuan lured Natsu toward the boundary and redirected his charge, sending him out of the circle to win.
• Natsu accepted the loss and promised to win next time, then Lin Yuan pulled him to his feet.
• Natsu's dragon-like fire magic escaped briefly, causing pain in Lin Yuan's chest and awakening a tremor in one of his ten dormant seals.
• A low rumble sounded within Lin Yuan as golden lightning flashed across the clear night sky.

Lin Yuan entered a dreamlike hall of ten chained thrones and discovered that reclaiming the lightning throne’s power would open a rift for a black snake. He chose to seal it and rely on his present abilities, waking with the thrones dark and the danger contained for now.

• Lin Yuan saw ten chained thrones in a black hall and recognized the awakened lightning throne as a source of his former power.
• As Lin Yuan loosened a chain, memories of a lightning wielder and a bloodied figure with his face returned, while a black fissure opened beside his body in the real world.
• Lin Yuan realized the chains also sealed a rift where a black snake waited, and he pushed the chain back into place despite the pain.
• Lin Yuan rejected the snake’s temptation, deciding to start from nothing and keep training rather than risk unleashing it.
• The snake withdrew and the thrones went dark; Lin Yuan woke at dawn and told Makarov he would practice controlling the magic he had now.

Mirajane Strauss arrived at the Guild with Elfman and Lisanna, and Makarov welcomed the siblings despite Mirajane’s demon-like arm. Lin Yuan identified her power as unstable Take Over Magic, and Mirajane attacked him after interpreting his warning to keep away from her family as rejection.

• Mirajane Strauss brought Elfman and Lisanna to the Guild, where Makarov offered them membership and food without asking them to leave.
• Erza introduced herself and told Mirajane that harming Guild members was forbidden.
• Lin Yuan sensed the demon magic in Mirajane’s arm and recognized it as Take Over Magic that she could potentially control.
• Lin Yuan warned that Mirajane’s unstable magic could hurt her siblings and other ordinary people if they stayed close to her.
• Mirajane accused Lin Yuan of thinking she was a monster, shattered the floor, and punched toward his face.

Lin Yuan and Mira fought after she misunderstood his warning about her magic, and Makarov stopped them before they could further damage the Guild. He made them repair the damage and clean up, leaving the two working in silence without forgiving each other.

• Mira attacked Lin Yuan, and they traded blows as he tried to explain that he was concerned for Lisanna and Elfman.
• Makarov pinned them both down, while Erza reprimanded them for fighting and damaging the Guild.
• Lisanna and Elfman clarified Lin Yuan's intentions, and Lin Yuan admitted he had explained himself poorly.
• Mira admitted she had started the fight but refused to apologize, and Makarov ordered both of them to repair the Guild and clean up.
• As they worked at sunset, Mira said she had not forgiven Lin Yuan, and he replied that he had not forgiven her either.

Lin Yuan helped Mira understand that fear of hurting her siblings was making her Take Over magic harder to control, and she briefly restored one finger to human form. When Lisanna approached, Mira’s fear surged and Satan Soul went berserk, leaving the guild hall in danger.

• Lin Yuan noticed Mira’s demon arm changed with her emotions and asked what she had been thinking when she defeated the demon.
• Mira explained that she had grabbed the demon to protect Elfman and Lisanna, and Lin Yuan said her conflicting fear and protective instincts were causing her magic to resist her.
• Mira recalled the church incident and managed to shrink her arm enough to restore the skin on one finger.
• Lisanna entered with dinner and ran toward Mira, whose fear of hurting her made her magic surge uncontrollably.
• Mira’s Satan Soul transformed further, spreading demonic power across her body, shattering windows, and sending tables and chairs flying.

Lin Yuan used spatial magic to contain Mira’s rampage and help her regain control, though the fight wrecked the guild hall. Makarov ordered Mira and Lin Yuan to repair the damage before they could sleep.

• Makarov and Erza watched as Lin Yuan protected Lisanna and Elfman while Mira attacked him in her demon form.
• Lin Yuan folded space so Mira kept circling and returning to her starting point, but she smashed through the guild hall floor.
• Lin Yuan realized Mira could still hear them, and Lisanna and Elfman used talk of cake to reach her.
• Mira spoke, agreed to calm down in exchange for two pieces of cake, and returned mostly to normal before demanding her cake from Lin Yuan.
• Makarov pinned Mira and Lin Yuan and ordered them to repair the hall overnight, and they threw broken boards at him as he walked away.

Lin Yuan, Mira, and Erza struggled to repair the guild after their fight, while Mira showed growing control over her demonic arm. A request from Sunken Bell Town revealed a church whose bells rang at night as residents vanished, and Lin Yuan sensed an aura like the eyes from his dream.

• Makarov ordered Lin Yuan and Mira to compensate the guild for the damage, and Erza joined their repairs after accidentally splitting a board.
• Lin Yuan and Mira argued over the repairs, including a missing piece of table that Lin Yuan said his space-eating magic might have consumed.
• Mira briefly restored her little finger to normal, and Lisanna celebrated her progress as Lin Yuan counted how long she maintained control.
• Mira and Erza nearly fought over strawberry cake before a postman delivered an urgent request from Sunken Bell Town.
• Makarov learned that a church's bells had begun ringing at night and someone had disappeared each day, while Lin Yuan sensed a familiar aura on the request.
• The postman named the place the Sleeping Church.

Lin Yuan, Mira, Macao, and Wakaba investigated the disappearances in Sunken Bell Town and traced them to a hidden ritual record in an abandoned chapel. They discovered that the next intended sacrifices were children, including a nine-year-old grocer’s child.

• Lin Yuan and Mira joined Macao and Wakaba on a job investigating the disappearances in Sunken Bell Town.
• The mayor told them that nine townspeople had vanished after the midnight bell rang, and Mira noticed their homes formed half a circle around a chapel.
• The group found fresh footprints and a hidden compartment beneath the lectern in the abandoned chapel.
• Lin Yuan read a booklet describing sacrificial rites and a note listing the missing townspeople as sacrifices.
• Wakaba found the next list of names, revealing that the intended sacrifices included the grocer’s nine-year-old child and three other children.

Macao led Lin Yuan, Mira, and Wakaba to the Sleeping Church to investigate the disappearances and the bell that had been luring children toward the northern mountainside. They found the nine missing people beneath the bell tower, where a nameless idol rang its bell and opened dark red eyes.

• Lin Yuan detected a black thread in Noi's shadow and helped wake him after Wakaba and Mira pulled him away from an open window.
• Macao arranged for the town's children to be guarded, then led the team toward the Sleeping Church before midnight.
• Wakaba found an underground entrance, and Mira tore down part of the church wall to reach it.
• The team fought six animated statues by cutting the black threads controlling them.
• Macao, Mira, Wakaba, and Lin Yuan found the nine missing people bound by black threads beside a nameless idol.
• The idol rang the first midnight bell and opened its dark red eyes.

Lin Yuan and the Fairy Tail mages rescued nine missing people from a statue that used fear and false promises to coax them into offering their names. As the group fought the statue, Lin Yuan found a hidden serpentine carving underground, and its threads reached into his soul and cracked a divine throne’s chain.

• Macao, Wakaba, Lin Yuan, and Mira found the nine missing people connected to the statue by black threads, and Wakaba woke them with his smoke.
• The statue’s voice and illusions bewitched the townspeople, but Macao’s alarm let the mayor and guards break the spell.
• Lin Yuan realized the statue relied on fear and willing sacrifices rather than real blessings, and Mira struck it apart, only for it to reassemble.
• Macao protected the missing people, Wakaba prepared to lead them out, and Lin Yuan traced the threads to a hidden serpentine carving beneath the church.
• The statue recognized the ancient thrones within Lin Yuan and sent a thread into his forehead, opening a tiny crack in the chain closest to the lightning.

Lin Yuan rejected the statue’s attempt to offer him power and helped his companions evacuate the missing people as the statue unleashed a fear-based command that forced everyone to kneel. The chapter ended with Lin Yuan still standing against the command, confronting the statue and denying it the right to rule him.

• Lin Yuan refused the golden lightning and swallowed the black thread, stopping the crack in his soul from spreading.
• Macao and Wakaba moved the nine missing people toward the stone door while Mira and Lin Yuan held back the statue’s attempts to trap them.
• The bronze bell shattered into shifting black characters that showed each person their fears, and the statue revealed its shadow-filled body.
• The church sank under the statue’s command, forcing Wakaba and Macao to kneel after they got all the missing people through the door.
• Mira resisted with her demon claws but was driven to one knee as the statue’s black magic suppressed her power.
• Lin Yuan resisted the command through the essence left from slaying a god, stepped between the statue and the others, and challenged its authority.

Lin Yuan and his allies fought the nameless statue in the Sleeping Church and discovered that its bell was summoning the townspeople. The chapter ended with Lin Yuan folding every route between the church and the outside into a loop, trapping the church in its own space and cutting off the bell.

• The nameless statue tried to force Lin Yuan and the others to kneel, but Lin Yuan folded the distance carrying its command and sent it back at the statue.
• Macao freed Mira with purple flames, while Mira and Wakaba attacked and restrained the statue.
• The statue rang a second bell to summon the townspeople, and Lin Yuan realized the bell was hidden deeper below the church.
• Macao agreed to stop the bell, and Lin Yuan assigned Macao to mark the church's foundation with flames, Wakaba to map its passages with smoke, and Mira to protect him.
• Lin Yuan folded every connection between the church and the outside into a loop, cutting off the bell and trapping the Sleeping Church in its own space.

Lin Yuan and his allies destroyed the nameless idol by exposing and striking the black line that sustained it. The idol proved to be only an outer shell, while a much larger presence remained underground.

• Mira, Macao, Wakaba, and Lin Yuan fought the idol as its six stone arms regenerated through black writing.
• Wakaba traced the regeneration to a black line running behind the idol and deep beneath the church.
• Macao, Wakaba, and Mira distracted and restrained the idol while Mira split open its back.
• Lin Yuan used Zero-Distance Crushing Fist to destroy the exposed connection point and shatter the idol.
• Macao found no core in the rubble, and Lin Yuan sensed that something larger had severed its connection before the black lines fled underground.

Lin Yuan, Macao, Wakaba, and Mira fought a cursed object beneath the church that fed on fear and threatened to collapse the building. Mira chose to take over more of her demon power herself, and she transformed without losing control as the battle continued.

• The cursed object burst through the church floor, revealing a mass of mouths and threads that fed on fear.
• Lin Yuan identified the creature as a cursed object, while Macao, Wakaba, and Lin Yuan attacked it and tried to contain its growth.
• Mira faltered when the creature repeated villagers' insults and threats, but Macao and Lin Yuan helped her resist.
• As the cursed object devoured the church and healed from their attacks, Lin Yuan said they needed to destroy most of it in one blow.
• Mira decided to fully use Take Over, and her horns, scales, and demon wings emerged while she remained clear-minded.