Chapter Summaries

Hestia celebrated earning her first wages by taking Lin Yuan to the Hostess of Fertility, where his quick reflexes and cautious habits drew attention. After they left, Ryuu questioned whether Lin Yuan was truly inexperienced, while Syr said he had only just arrived in Orario.

• Hestia received her first wages and invited Lin Yuan to dinner at the Hostess of Fertility.
• Syr congratulated Hestia and asked Lin Yuan about his adventuring experience; he said he had been an adventurer for four days.
• Ryuu noticed Lin Yuan’s cautious seating and recognized that his habits seemed forged by long experience.
• Lin Yuan caught six falling mugs without leaving his seat, earning cheers from the tavern.
• Syr’s gaze reminded Lin Yuan of someone in the Tower of Babel, but he did not pursue the resemblance.
• After Lin Yuan and Hestia left, Ryuu told Syr that Lin Yuan did not seem new to fighting, and Syr replied that he had only just arrived in Orario.

Lin Yuan moved into an abandoned church basement with Hestia and explored the Dungeon through the eighth floor, mapping routes and monster activity. After Hestia updated his Falna, she marveled at his rapid growth and noted that he had only been an adventurer for five days.

• Hestia found an abandoned church basement for Lin Yuan and herself, and they moved in before noon.
• Lin Yuan explored the fifth through eighth floors, using spatial perception and traces to map routes and test how Killer Ants summoned reinforcements.
• Lin Yuan stopped at the ninth-floor entrance, returned to the surface, and exchanged his magic stones at the Guild.
• Eina questioned how far Lin Yuan had progressed in a day, marked his new route information on a map, and asked him to report his progress whenever he returned.
• Hestia cleaned the basement, prepared dinner, and updated Lin Yuan's Falna, which showed rapid growth across all five abilities.
• Hestia pointed out that Lin Yuan had achieved the gains in his status since becoming an adventurer, despite it being only his fifth day.

On his sixth day as an adventurer, Lin Yuan explored the Dungeon’s upper floors and met Ais on the twelfth floor. After reaching the entrance to the thirteenth floor and returning to Hestia, his status showed further steady growth.

• Lin Yuan descended to the ninth floor, defeated monsters with his growing strength and speed, and mapped his route through the Dungeon.
• He navigated the misty tenth floor using spatial perception and continued past the eleventh floor without being delayed by monsters.
• On the twelfth floor, Lin Yuan met Ais after she killed a silverback ape, and they traveled together briefly.
• Lin Yuan used spatial perception to choose a route and quickly defeated several armored beasts with Nameless.
• Ais noticed Lin Yuan was faster than he had been three days earlier and asked how he had improved; Lin Yuan credited combat, Falna updates, training, and prior experience.
• After parting from Ais at the entrance to the thirteenth floor, Lin Yuan returned to Hestia, whose status update showed his agility had risen to E 468.

Lin Yuan mapped the Dungeon’s routes through the seventeenth floor, where he discovered a vast monster forming inside a great wall. After returning to the surface and sharing his map with Eina and Hestia, he left the story as the magic stone within the wall began to pulse.

• Lin Yuan fought Hellhounds and Minotaur as he mapped the Dungeon’s increasingly complex routes through the seventeenth floor.
• Lin Yuan sensed immense energy and a developing monster inside a great wall, then confirmed the route to the eighteenth floor and returned to the surface.
• Lin Yuan exchanged his magic stones at the Guild and gave Eina the routes he had mapped for the Guild to verify.
• Lin Yuan showed Hestia his map of the first seventeen floors, and they ate dinner together.
• A tremor shook the great wall, and the enormous magic stone forming within it began to pulse.

Lin Yuan confronted the newly born Goliath on the seventeenth floor and fought it using only his sword and physical strength. He defeated the floor boss by cutting through its neck, leaving the Dungeon with a battle Falna could recognize as a feat.

• Lin Yuan entered the Dungeon and continued down to the seventeenth floor, where adventurers warned him that the floor boss was being born.
• Goliath burst through the cavern wall, and Lin Yuan chose to fight it without using Space God Slayer Magic or Boundary-Severing Blade.
• Lin Yuan dodged Goliath’s attacks, wounded its leg, and tested his strength against its fist, but the impact sent him flying and numbed his arm.
• Lin Yuan changed tactics, cut Goliath’s palm, and ran up its arm toward its shoulder.
• Lin Yuan struck Goliath’s neck twice with Nameless and severed its head, then called the fight a real battle.

Lin Yuan killed Goliath alone, brought its magic stone to the Guild, and gained recognition for the feat. After Hestia updated his Falna and found that he could level up, Lin Yuan chose to keep growing at Lv.1 because he had not reached his limit.

• Lin Yuan extracted Goliath's magic stone after killing the floor boss, and four adventurers confirmed that he had fought alone.
• Lin Yuan returned to the Guild, where the staff verified the subjugation and recorded his solo victory over Goliath.
• Eina asked whether Lin Yuan was hurt, and the Guild accepted the magic stone and paid him Valis.
• Hestia confronted Lin Yuan at the church, checked him for injuries, and updated his Falna.
• Hestia found that all five of Lin Yuan's abilities had reached SS and offered to raise him to Lv.2, but Lin Yuan refused because he could still improve.

After six days of fighting monsters in the Dungeon, Lin Yuan reached the limit of his Level 1 abilities and asked Hestia to level him up. He became Level 2, gained the [Hunter] development ability and discovered a powerful new spatial spell, [Heavenfall].

• Lin Yuan spent six days exploring the floors below Rivira and fighting monsters with Nameless instead of using Space God Slayer Magic.
• Hestia confirmed that Lin Yuan’s five abilities had reached their limit at SSS and inscribed the [Hunter] development ability into his falna.
• Hestia leveled Lin Yuan up to Level 2, and he felt his body and senses advance to a higher stage.
• Hestia discovered the new spell [Heavenfall], which folded the sky above its targets and brought it crashing down.
• Hestia warned Lin Yuan not to test [Heavenfall] at home or in the city, and Lin Yuan accepted the warning.

After Lin Yuan reached Lv.2 just fourteen days after registering as an adventurer, the news spread through Orario and drew offers from rival Familias. Lin Yuan refused to leave the Hestia Familia, but Apollo became fixated on recruiting him.

• Hestia registered Lin Yuan's level-up, and the Guild confirmed that he had reached Lv.2 fourteen days after registering as an adventurer.
• News of Lin Yuan's unprecedented progress spread through Orario, and gods gathered at Hestia's stall to try to recruit him.
• Hestia rejected the offers and declared that no amount of money would take Lin Yuan from the Hestia Familia.
• Lin Yuan turned away envoys from several Familias and refused Hyakinthos Clio's invitation to Apollo's banquet.
• Apollo reviewed Lin Yuan's achievements and decided he wanted him, regardless of whether Lin Yuan was willing to transfer.

Lin Yuan and Hestia attended Apollo’s banquet, where Apollo accused Lin Yuan of attacking Hyakinthos and demanded that Hestia hand Lin Yuan over or face a War Game. Hestia refused the challenge, but Apollo’s Familia surrounded them when they returned to the abandoned church.

• Lin Yuan persuaded Hestia to attend Apollo’s banquet so they could learn what Apollo was planning.
• Apollo presented a bandaged Hyakinthos and accused Lin Yuan of attacking him, though the other gods appeared skeptical.
• Apollo demanded that Hestia remove Lin Yuan’s Falna and hand him over, then challenged her Familia to a War Game.
• Hestia refused the War Game, and Lin Yuan left the mansion with her.
• White-cloaked figures appeared on the rooftops as Apollo Familia members blocked both ends of the street outside the abandoned church.

Lin Yuan drove off Apollo Familia members who attacked the church, but Apollo escalated by having the church and Hestia’s fried potato ball stall destroyed. Hestia accepted a War Game and vowed to claim Apollo Familia’s possessions and drive Apollo out of Orario.

• Lin Yuan defended the church by defeating Apollo Familia members without killing them and warned their leader to stay away.
• Lin Yuan and Hestia reported the attack to the Guild, but Apollo denied ordering it and avoided immediate punishment.
• Apollo Familia members set fire to the church, destroying its furnishings and supplies.
• Apollo Familia members smashed the fried potato ball stall and left a sun emblem, while Apollo demanded a War Game in exchange for ending the attacks.
• Lin Yuan offered to attack Apollo’s mansion, but Hestia stopped him and accepted a War Game, setting the terms that Apollo Familia’s possessions would go to them and Apollo would leave Orario.

Lin Yuan prepared for the War Game by testing Heavenfall, then faced 117 Apollo Familia defenders alone in a siege battle. He unleashed the spell over the fortress, leaving its defenders and the watching gods staring up at the sky as he lowered his hand.

• Hestia and Apollo agreed to a siege War Game, wagering Lin Yuan’s transfer to Apollo’s Familia against the disbandment of Apollo’s Familia and Apollo’s exile from Orario.
• Lin Yuan practiced Heavenfall on the seventeenth floor, learning to control its area and pressure so he could incapacitate opponents without killing them on a large scale.
• The War Game began with 117 Apollo Familia members defending the fortress while Lin Yuan stood alone outside its walls.
• Lin Yuan stopped the arrows and magic with a spatial barrier, then spread Heavenfall’s black-and-silver sky over the fortress.
• The defenders and watching gods saw the sky descend as Lin Yuan lowered his hand and invoked Heavenfall.

Lin Yuan defeated the Apollo Familia with a single spell, winning the War Game for the Hestia Familia without killing any defenders. After Apollo left Orario and his property passed to Hestia, she and Lin Yuan claimed his mansion as their new home.

• Lin Yuan crushed the Apollo Familia's defenses with his magic, incapacitating all 117 defenders without killing anyone.
• Lin Yuan tore down the Apollo Familia's sun flag, and the adjudicator declared the Hestia Familia the winner.
• Apollo watched the defeat in shock, while Hestia celebrated and Freya declared that she wanted Lin Yuan.
• The Apollo Familia was disbanded, its property went to Hestia, and Apollo left Orario under the Guild's supervision.
• Hestia hugged Lin Yuan outside Apollo's former mansion and called it the Hestia Familia's new home.