Chapter Summaries

At Eris's birthday ball, she stunned the nobles with her flawless dancing, and Philip publicly credited her tutor, Rudeus Greyrat. Rudeus was left under the scrutiny of the assembled guests as Philip introduced him as a rare prodigy.

• Sauros declared Eris's birthday ball open, and the orchestra began a court waltz.
• Eris accepted a young noble's invitation and effortlessly outdanced him and every subsequent partner.
• Sauros, Philip, and Hilda watched in astonishment as Eris demonstrated her dancing skill.
• Edna credited Eris's transformation to the special instruction of her tutor, Rudeus Greyrat.
• Philip stopped the orchestra and summoned Rudeus before the ballroom, drawing every guest's attention to him.

Rudeus announced himself as Eris’s fiancé and the incarnation of the Primordial God, drawing a crowd of nobles at the birthday ball. Eris rescued him from their attention, and the two ended the celebration with a spectacular final dance.

• Rudeus declared himself Eris’s fiancé and the Primordial God, prompting the crowd to hail him.
• Nobles surrounded Rudeus with requests and invitations until Eris intervened and led them away.
• Eris scolded Rudeus for claiming she was his fiancée, but accepted his invitation to dance.
• Rudeus and Eris performed a dazzling final waltz that earned a standing ovation and brought the birthday ball to a close.

After the nobles’ feast, Rudeus secretly saved food for Eris and Ghislaine, who had been unable to eat while maintaining their manners. The three ended the night together in Rudeus’s room, where the exhausted women happily devoured his hidden feast.

• Rudeus sampled the banquet dishes and found their taste disappointing despite their elaborate presentation.
• He noticed Ghislaine eyeing the roast meat and secretly stored food from the feast for her and Eris.
• Eris endured the nobles’ conversation without eating, while Ghislaine continued her security duties.
• After the guests left, Eris and Ghislaine collapsed in Rudeus’s room and complained about the exhausting evening.
• Rudeus revealed the food he had saved, and Eris and Ghislaine eagerly feasted while he watched them.

Rudeus gave Eris a Quasi-Emperor Rank growth-type vest for her birthday, which strengthened her through increasing gravity. After a night of celebrating, Ghislaine left Rudeus to care for the drunken, sleeping Eris, and he tucked her into bed while sleeping on the sofa himself.

• Ghislaine gave Eris a protective ring from the Doldia Tribe as a birthday present.
• Rudeus exchanged 1,500,000 Emotion Points for the [Witness to the Sword Bearer's Ascension to Godhood] vest and presented it to Eris.
• Rudeus explained that the vest would steadily increase its gravitational load and temper Eris's body and Touki toward Quasi-God Rank or God Rank.
• Eris put on the vest, felt its immense pressure and strengthening effect, and tearfully thanked Rudeus.
• Rudeus, Eris, and Ghislaine drank and shared stories until Ghislaine went to sleep and Eris passed out drunk.
• Rudeus carried Eris to bed, tucked her in, and slept on the sofa.

Eris accidentally kicked Rudeus through a second-floor wall after waking up clinging to him, but he healed himself and repaired the damage with magic. Rudeus told Eris to wash up and meet him at the training grounds.

• Eris woke up wrapped around Rudeus and kicked him through the bedroom wall in a panic.
• Rudeus landed in the courtyard, recalled how Eris had crushed him in her sleep, and pretended to be badly hurt when she apologized.
• The maids rushed to investigate, but Rudeus called the destruction intense morning training and persuaded them to keep quiet.
• Rudeus healed his injuries and used magic to restore the shattered wall while Eris watched in amazement.
• Rudeus gave Eris twenty minutes to wash up and told her to meet him at the training grounds.

Rudeus began Eris’s combat training by teaching her to control Touki, and she successfully used it to withstand his attack. After their sparring match, Rudeus teased Eris about the previous night and left her shouting after him.

• Rudeus created a Saint Rank Healing Barrier and invited Eris to attack him with wooden swords.
• Eris’s first two wooden swords broke against Rudeus’s, so he taught her to guide Touki around her blade instead of relying on brute force.
• Eris mastered Touki, used the Sword God Style’s Silent Longsword, and clashed evenly with Rudeus until he knocked her down.
• Rudeus pointed out that the healing barrier had already healed Eris, then teased her about using him as a body pillow.
• Rudeus left to talk with the maids, while Eris shouted for Ghislaine to stop him.

Sylphie trained on the plain, pushing her wind magic and physical abilities in hopes of catching up to Rudeus. By following his advice to let mana flow naturally, she awakened a strange wind domain, then repaired the damage and hurried to bring her father his meal.

• Sylphie practiced punches and high-speed movement, lamenting that she still fell far behind Rudeus.
• Sylphie unleashed a powerful wind punch that carved a deep trench through the grassland, but judged her strength insufficient.
• Sylphie calmed herself and let mana flow naturally, sensing the air around her and awakening an invisible domain that repelled objects.
• Sylphie approached an ancient tree, and the pressure from her domain snapped it in two without her attacking.
• Sylphie realized she was late bringing her father his meal, repaired the trench, and left with the meal basket.

Roys brought Sylphie lunch at the watchtower and recalled how Rudeus had once demonstrated his extraordinary ability to create and shoot a mana arrow. He encouraged Sylphie to keep working hard, and she vowed to grow strong enough to stand beside Rudeus, leaving Roys to accept her feelings and bless her.

• Sylphie surprised Roys at the watchtower with a hot meal, and he reflected on how much she had grown.
• Roys remembered Rudeus creating a mana arrow and destroying a distant target with it.
• Roys recalled asking Rudeus to protect Sylphie, and Rudeus confidently promised he would.
• Roys urged Sylphie to keep working hard because Rudeus was outstanding.
• Sylphie vowed to keep up with Rudeus and earn the right to stand at his side, and Roys gently ruffled her hair in acceptance.

Rudeus reflected on the years of study and training that had brought him and Eris and Ghislaine to new heights. When Ghislaine asked to see his magic, their conversation turned awkwardly intimate until a maid interrupted them, and they left for dinner pretending nothing had happened.

• Rudeus gained nearly ten million Emotion Points, completed three books on magic and swordsmanship, and placed anti-theft curses on them.
• Eris developed the Saint Rank secret technique Crimson Lotus Waltz, while Ghislaine advanced her Touki from Advanced Rank to Saint Rank.
• Ghislaine asked Rudeus to demonstrate his Saint Rank magic and asked how far he had progressed in Touki; he said he had reached Saint Rank and expected to reach King Rank soon.
• Rudeus asked to touch Ghislaine's tail, but she refused because it was too sensitive and allowed him to touch her back muscles instead.
• A maid entered the classroom and caught Rudeus with his hand on Ghislaine's waist, then screamed and fled.
• Rudeus and Ghislaine went to the dining hall side by side, acting as if they had only been discussing magic.

Rudeus attended a surprise eighteenth birthday celebration at the Boreas estate, where his staged tears moved the household and prompted Hilda to declare that he should marry Eris. The party ended with Rudeus learning that Paul and Zenith could not attend, leaving him visibly lonely as the other guests stood awkwardly by.

• Ghislaine followed Rudeus into a lavish birthday celebration, where Eris presented him with flowers and wished him a happy eighteenth birthday.
• Rudeus used a curse to make himself cry and apologized for feeling like an outsider, moving Eris and the guests to sympathy.
• Sauros raged about House Notos and demanded that Rudeus inherit House Boreas before Philip dragged him from the dining room.
• Rudeus asked whether Paul and Zenith had come, and Eris explained that Paul was busy near the Great Forest and Zenith was caring for a feverish Norn.
• Hilda embraced Rudeus, declared him part of the family, and insisted that he marry Eris before Philip took her away.

At Rudeus’s eighteenth-birthday banquet, Eris gave him a powerful staff, and Philip later offered to let her marry Rudeus if he helped reclaim the headship of House Boreas. Rudeus agreed and equipped Philip and his wife with powerful magical protections, warning them that a calamity was coming.

• Eris presented Rudeus with the Arrogant Water Dragon King, a staff commissioned by House Greyrat for his coming-of-age birthday.
• After the banquet, Philip told Rudeus that Eris’s brothers were being held in the royal capital because Philip had lost the succession struggle.
• Philip asked Rudeus to help him reclaim the headship of House Boreas and offered Eris’s hand in marriage in return.
• Rudeus gave Philip and his wife magical sleeves, protective rings, and storage pouches stocked with supplies.
• Rudeus warned Philip to keep the items on him at all times because he feared an irreversible calamity would soon befall the land.

Rudeus confessed his love to Eris, and they spent the night together. The next morning, after healing and teasing each other, they agreed to go for a walk.

• Eris came to Rudeus's room to keep him company, and he told her he had fallen in love with her and wanted to protect her.
• Rudeus and Eris kissed and spent the night together, earning Rudeus nearly a hundred thousand Emotion Points.
• Rudeus healed himself and Eris, then gave her a mental recovery potion.
• Eris embraced Rudeus so tightly that she broke his ribs, and he healed himself with magic.
• Rudeus suggested that they go for a stroll together, and Eris shyly agreed.

Rudeus and Eris were caught in the Fittoa Territory Teleport Incident and hurled to a barren wasteland. After surviving a dangerous fall, Rudeus put Eris to sleep and drank a sleeping potion so he could seek out a man he called disgusting.

• Rudeus carried Eris through the sky as the Fittoa Territory Teleport Incident began and a vast curtain of white light erased Roа City and the surrounding land.
• Rudeus held Eris as the teleportation disaster swept them away, scattering hundreds of thousands of people across the world.
• Rudeus and the unconscious Eris appeared high above a desolate wasteland, where Rudeus plunged toward the ground with layered defensive barriers protecting them.
• Rudeus landed in a crater and confirmed that Eris was alive and breathing steadily.
• Rudeus gave Eris a sleeping potion, then drank one himself, intending to meet a man he called disgusting.

Rudeus met Man-God in a white mental space and pretended to be an awestruck, naïve mortal while probing him with jokes. Man-God grew wary after Rudeus joked that his children might one day kill him, then told Rudeus to rely on and help the man beside him after waking; Rudeus was left alone as the vision faded.

• Rudeus encountered Man-God in a white space and pretended not to know who he was.
• Rudeus flattered Man-God and repeatedly asked him for powerful gifts, but Man-God offered only advice.
• Rudeus joked that his future children might cause a disaster and kill Man-God, earning a surge of Emotion Points and making Man-God wary.
• Man-God told Rudeus to rely on the man beside him after waking and help him, then vanished as the white space faded.
• Rudeus dropped his innocent act and sneered at Man-God after he was left alone.

A sudden white light engulfed Buena Village and scattered Paul, Norn, Lilia, Aisha, Sylphie, and Zenith across distant places. Paul and Norn landed in a grassland, Lilia and Aisha in a desert, Sylphie survived a fall into a forest, and Zenith awoke in a snowy wilderness with her memories missing.

• Sylphie visited Zenith, Norn, Lilia, and Aisha, and Paul returned home after dealing with frequent monster outbreaks.
• Paul noticed a swirling distortion in the sky, and a pillar of white light rapidly engulfed Buena Village.
• Paul awoke with Norn in a grassland and found that Zenith, Lilia, and the others were gone.
• Lilia landed with Aisha in a desert and resolved to protect her daughter.
• Sylphie used Levitation to slow her fall into a forest, then got up and set out to survive.
• Zenith awoke in a snowy wilderness with fragmented memories and saw a distant, ancient building.

After waking in the Biegoya Region, Rudeus and Eris met Rujierd Superdia, who had rescued them and offered to protect them on their journey home. Before sleeping, Rudeus learned Void God Concealment Veil to hide himself from the Man-God’s detection.

• Rudeus woke beside Eris and thanked Rujierd for saving them, then introduced himself and learned the green-haired man was Rujierd Superdia.
• Eris panicked when she saw Rujierd, but Rudeus coaxed her into greeting him by promising to give her a new sword.
• After they shared information, Rujierd insisted on protecting Rudeus and Eris until they reached home, and they agreed to travel together toward Rikarisu Town.
• Rudeus built two earthen forts and shared one bed with Eris, who refused to sleep in the neighboring fort with Rujierd.
• Worried that the Man-God could detect him, Rudeus used a mana-expansion potion and cast the God Rank Void God Concealment Veil.

Rudeus exchanged one million Emotion Points for the Quasi-Emperor Rank sword Tyrannical Dragon King's Frenzied Roar as a gift for Eris. After sharing system-shop breakfast with Rujierd and Eris, he presented Eris with the sword and invited her to draw it.

• Rudeus bought Tyrannical Dragon King's Frenzied Roar for Eris, spending nearly all his Emotion Points.
• Rujierd offered Rudeus roasted demon beast meat, but Rudeus disliked it and used the System Shop to get soup dumplings and soy milk.
• Rujierd tried the dumplings and admitted they were better than demon beast meat.
• Eris woke hungry, ate the breakfast Rudeus produced from his Magic Pocket, and happily asked for more.
• Eris remembered Rudeus's promise of a new sword, and he revealed Tyrannical Dragon King's Frenzied Roar and offered it to her.

Rudeus gave Eris a greatsword and took her flying with Rujierd, but their adventure was interrupted by a flock of Black Wyverns. Rujierd moved to hold off the flying creatures and ordered Rudeus and Eris to escape.

• Eris drew the greatsword Rudeus had given her, then cried as he told her they were family.
• Rudeus and Eris rode flying swords into the air, and he used Object Manipulation to lift Rujierd onto his spear as well.
• Rudeus accelerated their flight until Eris begged him to slow down, then refused to teach her flight magic yet.
• Rujierd sensed approaching danger and spotted dozens of Black Wyverns closing in on them.
• The Black Wyverns landed, and Rujierd stopped Eris from charging before stepping forward to hold them off and ordering the others to flee.

Rudeus released Eris from her two-year restriction and sent her into the battle against the Black Wyverns. Eris slaughtered the dragons with her newly unleashed power, leaving Rujierd stunned.

• Rujierd fought the Black Wyverns alone as their coordinated aerial attacks drove him onto the defensive.
• Rudeus told Eris she could join the battle, and she released the restrictions she had endured for two years.
• Eris rushed in and killed two Black Wyverns with a single greatsword slash, prompting the others to attack her with fireballs.
• Eris transformed her greatsword into twin swords and used Flame Hell: Thousand Blossom Slash to kill the remaining Black Wyverns.
• Rujierd stared in shock as Rudeus praised Eris, who excitedly threw herself into his arms.

After Eris learned a new sword technique, Rudeus taught her Delicious Magic to improve their unpleasant wyvern meat. The three travelers prepared to head for a town with an Adventurers' Guild, where Rudeus planned to build his rank and influence.

• Rudeus praised Eris for devising a sword technique, and they nearly kissed before Rujierd interrupted them.
• Rujierd gathered the black wyvern remains, and the group roasted some of the meat, which Rudeus and Eris found unpleasant.
• Rudeus taught Eris the Delicious Magic incantation, and she transformed her roasted meat into a fragrant meal.
• Rudeus revealed that the spell worked without chanting, teasing Eris and prompting her to glare at him.
• Rudeus reflected on Rujierd's losses and the possibility of Demon God Laplace's early resurrection, then decided to seek an Adventurers' Guild and rise to S-rank.
• Rudeus, Eris, and Rujierd packed their gear and set out toward the road ahead.