Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng used his Alucard Template System to defeat a Sword-Spined Tiger and bring its meat back to the restaurant where he worked. After learning that the corrupt Empire needed change, he returned to find the kitchen worker amazed by his huge haul.

• Lin Feng summoned four Earth-Splitting Dragons with Level Zero: River of Death, and they killed the Sword-Spined Tiger.
• The system added the Sword-Spined Tiger to Lin Feng’s servants, raising his experience to 4.00 and bringing him closer to earning a skill point.
• Lin Feng carved up the beast and loaded its meat onto a handcart to replenish the restaurant’s ingredients.
• Lin Feng recalled how corruption and violence plagued the Empire and believed his growing power could help change it.
• Lin Feng returned to the restaurant, where a kitchen worker excitedly praised him and gaped at the meat in his cart.

Lin Feng returned to the restaurant and reunited with Sheele before joining the staff for the dinner rush. When drunken members of the Gathered Heroes Group attacked a regular customer, Sheele confronted them, and Lin Feng rushed in to help.

• Lin Feng returned with Danger Beast meat, praised Sheele's cooking, and teased her about breaking plates.
• The manager told Lin Feng to accept a better opportunity if one arose, and Lin Feng agreed.
• Lin Feng helped the kitchen prepare for dinner until a scream and crashing dishes sent him rushing into the dining room.
• Lin Feng found drunken thugs smashing the restaurant and saw their leader holding a regular customer by her hair.
• Sheele stepped forward to demand that the thugs release the woman and warned them she would notify the Imperial Guard.
• The thugs claimed the restaurant was on the Gathered Heroes Group's turf and challenged Sheele's threat.

Lin Feng drove the thugs out of the restaurant with his newfound shadow ability, then followed them to the Gathered Heroes Group’s courtyard. After tearing open its iron gates, he faced the stunned guard.

• Lin Feng stopped the thugs from attacking the restaurant staff and defeated two of them with his strength.
• Lin Feng used Form Transformation to merge with and control his shadow, trapping the fat leader until the remaining thugs fled with him.
• The fat leader threatened the restaurant and named the Gathered Heroes Group, prompting Lin Feng to follow the men after reassuring Sheele.
• Lin Feng tracked the four thugs to a secluded courtyard and tore its iron gates open with his bare hands, shocking the guard.

Lin Feng broke into the Gathered Heroes Group’s headquarters and attacked its members after hearing them threaten Sheele and the people at her shop. He overwhelmed the gang and summoned undead apostles, then moved in to finish off their gold-chained leader.

• Lin Feng killed the guard outside the lit room and overheard the Gathered Heroes Group plotting revenge and violence against Sheele and her companions.
• Lin Feng smashed into the room, killed a charging thug, and wounded the gold-chained leader with a thrown dagger.
• Lin Feng killed the thugs who rushed him, absorbed their souls, and summoned the dead as undead apostles with Level Zero: River of Death.
• The undead apostles attacked their former comrades, terrifying the remaining gang members as Lin Feng ordered the apostles to stop.
• Lin Feng surged forward with his unrestrained leg strength and appeared before the gold-chained leader, punching him in the face.

Lin Feng slaughtered the gold-chain boss and his men at the Gathered Heroes Group's headquarters after they threatened his people. When dozens more gang members attacked with machine guns, Lin Feng used his vampiric abilities and Level Zero to turn the dead against them, leaving the survivors trapped and terrified.

• Lin Feng killed the gold-chain boss and hunted down the thugs who tried to flee.
• A surviving thug blew an ox-horn whistle, summoning the Gathered Heroes Group members from the rest of the building.
• Lin Feng fought off the attackers and survived their machine-gun fire by transforming into shadow.
• Lin Feng used Level Zero: River of Death to revive dead gang members as servants, who turned on their former comrades.
• The gang's survivors fled or cowered as Lin Feng waited at the door, and the headquarters became a blood-soaked morgue.

Lin Feng killed the Gathered Heroes Group and returned to the restaurant carrying a heavy sack, while the Imperial Guard began investigating the massacre. Sheele found blood on Lin Feng’s trousers and checked him for injuries, but he insisted he was unharmed.

• Lin Feng killed the Gathered Heroes Group members who tried to escape, then washed the blood from his hands and feet.
• Ogre learned that the Gathered Heroes Group had been wiped out and considered who could have killed them, including Night Raid.
• Ogre lied to Seryu about the group’s payoff and decided to investigate the killings.
• Lin Feng returned to the restaurant carrying a heavy sack, and Sheele noticed blood on his trousers.
• Sheele checked Lin Feng for injuries, but he told her he had not been hurt.

Lin Feng shared the treasure he took from the Gathered Heroes Group with the restaurant staff, then hunted an Earth-Splitting Dragon to test his undead gunner servants. Meanwhile, Ogre investigated the gang’s deserted compound and found that nobody would tell him what had happened.

• Lin Feng explained away the blood on his clothes and revealed the gold and treasure he had taken from the Gathered Heroes Group.
• Lin Feng proposed dividing the treasure between a relief fund for the poor and equal shares for the restaurant staff, and everyone agreed.
• Lin Feng returned to his room, reflected that his life had changed since he began eliminating evildoers, and rested for the night.
• Lin Feng hunted an Earth-Splitting Dragon with three undead machine gunners, and the servants brought it down after a difficult fight.
• Ogre surveyed the Gathered Heroes Group’s abandoned street and found that passersby claimed not to know what had happened to the gang.

Ogre recruited Lin Feng into the Imperial Guard after witnessing his extraordinary strength, and Lin Feng decided to accept the opportunity despite concerns about danger and corruption. Sheele chose to go with him, and the two set out for the Thirteenth District guard station the next morning.

• Ogre saw Lin Feng haul a heavily loaded cart at remarkable speed and invited him to join the Imperial Guard.
• Lin Feng considered the invitation while the restaurant workers encouraged him to pursue his ambitions.
• Sheele worried that joining the Guard would separate them, but chose to accompany Lin Feng after the workers urged her to follow her heart.
• The manager warned Lin Feng that the Guard was corrupt and dangerous, and Lin Feng resolved not to run from injustice.
• Lin Feng and Sheele left for the guard station early the next morning.

Lin Feng went to the Imperial Guard station with Ogre’s recommendation and passed a hand-to-hand enlistment test against Wave. He and Sheele were accepted and told to report for duty the next day, leaving them to find a new home and say goodbye to the restaurant.

• Lin Feng entered the station alone while Sheele waited outside, and Seryu welcomed him as a candidate for the Imperial Guard test.
• Ogre returned and arranged a weaponless duel between Lin Feng and Wave, with victory going to whoever landed two hits first.
• Lin Feng used his speed to get behind Wave and tap his spine twice, winning the test without seriously hurting him.
• Ogre praised Lin Feng’s speed and ordered both Lin Feng and Wave to report for duty the next day after completing their enlistment forms.
• Lin Feng left the station, collected Sheele, and prepared to find a new place to live and say goodbye to everyone at the restaurant.

After passing the Imperial Guard screening, Lin Feng and Sheele said goodbye to their restaurant coworkers and celebrated at a bar. Lin Feng teased Sheele with a dice game, secretly rigging his rolls, as the two looked toward their new life together.

• Lin Feng and Sheele told their coworkers they had passed the Imperial Guard screening, and the staff congratulated them while hiding their sadness at the pair's departure.
• After completing the handover, Lin Feng and Sheele went to a nearby bar to celebrate and bid farewell to their old lives at the restaurant.
• Sheele asked Lin Feng for a sip of alcohol, and the drink left her flushed and woozy.
• Lin Feng tried to teach Sheele a simple dice game, but his first shake shattered the dice, startling the bartender.
• Lin Feng used his shadow ability to turn his dice up to sixes, and Sheele accused him of cheating after he kept rolling thirty.
• Lin Feng reflected that he could use his abilities to get rich through gambling but did not want to become like the thugs in the Gathered Heroes Group.

Lin Feng gave Leone two gold coins after she claimed a bandit had stolen her wallet, while Sheele drunkenly fixated on Leone calling them a match made in heaven. Outside the bar, Leone celebrated her successful scam and spoke with Akame, who warned her to be more careful.

• Sheele became tearful and dizzy as she drank with Lin Feng in Margaret.
• Leone approached Lin Feng and Sheele, claimed she had been robbed, and asked to borrow two gold coins.
• Lin Feng gave Leone the coins without asking for an IOU, while Sheele blushed and repeated Leone's comment that they were a match made in heaven.
• Leone left the bar and privately celebrated receiving genuine gold coins from a wealthy patron.
• Akame warned Leone that her scams were damaging her reputation, and the two disappeared into the night.

Lin Feng reported for Imperial Guard training at three in the morning and endured Ogre’s deliberately grueling first-day exercises. After discovering that training increased his Alucard System experience, Lin Feng began to see the drills as another way to cultivate his strength.

• Lin Feng left Sheele asleep and went alone to the station, where he found Wave practicing punches before dawn.
• Wave let Lin Feng into the station, and Lin Feng found a note ordering him to stand at attention in a red circle until Ogre woke up.
• Lin Feng stood in the circle for hours before Seryu and Ogre arrived, and Ogre praised his dedication and issued him armor and casual clothes.
• Ogre privately planned to use Lin Feng to collect taxes by force and considered making him a squad leader if he performed well.
• Lin Feng joined the guards’ basic drills, saw his Alucard System experience rise from 4.09 to 4.12, and continued through punches, kicks, and conditioning exercises.

Lin Feng investigated Captain Ogre after Wave warned him to be careful, using his shadow transformation to follow Ogre during a street patrol. He overheard Ogre meeting a grotesque man who showed him a large payment in gold coins.

• Wave told Lin Feng that the station’s training did little for him and warned him to be careful around Captain Ogre.
• Lin Feng began his first street patrol and learned that Captain Ogre had slipped away to smoke.
• Lin Feng pretended to lose his baton, then used Form Transformation to search the area as a shadow.
• Lin Feng found Captain Ogre whispering with an ugly man in green cloth and evaded Ogre’s sharp senses by hiding in the man’s shadow.
• The ugly man revealed two pouches of gold coins, and Ogre asked whether they contained his daily turnover.

Lin Feng uncovered signs that Ogre was taking a cut from an illegal merchant by arranging scapegoats, while Night Raid prepared to assassinate Ogre. On his day off, Lin Feng arrested a purse snatcher and wondered whether Ogre’s scapegoats were ordinary people.

• Ogre accepted gold from a merchant and agreed to provide scapegoats for the merchant’s shady business.
• Lin Feng emerged from hiding and concluded that Ogre might be profiting from illegal trade, but he still needed evidence to learn the full extent of Ogre’s actions.
• Najenda briefed Night Raid on a mission to kill Ogre, assigning Akame to carry out the assassination.
• Lin Feng left Sheele a note telling her not to cook and went out on patrol during his day off.
• Lin Feng caught a masked purse snatcher, returned the purse to its owner, and took the thief to the guard station.
• Lin Feng recalled Ogre’s mention of scapegoats and wondered who they would be.

After hearing a bandit accuse Ogre of torturing prisoners, Lin Feng let him go and reconsidered the captain’s reputation. Seryu then brought Lin Feng to the station’s aptitude testing room to test his compatibility with her Teigu, Koro.

• A bandit told Lin Feng that Ogre had tortured and branded him, and begged not to be taken back to the station.
• Lin Feng released the bandit and left, deciding that punishments should fit the crimes committed.
• Seryu found Lin Feng and hurried him into the station, where she introduced the aptitude testing room.
• Seryu explained that Teigu were forty-eight powerful weapons made from Danger Beast parts and described Koro as the Teigu Hundred-Handed Giant.
• Seryu had Lin Feng wear a testing bracelet and lie beneath the equipment to measure his compatibility with Koro.

Lin Feng watched Seryu successfully bond with Koro, then became concerned by her extreme devotion to Captain Ogre after she angrily rejected rumors that he took bribes. Back home, Lin Feng found Sheele upset that he had left a note telling her not to cook.

• Lin Feng and Seryu tested their compatibility with Koro, and the results showed that Seryu was a close match.
• Seryu celebrated being chosen by Koro and explained that Master Ogre had trained her and advised her to modify her body.
• Lin Feng mentioned rumors that Captain Ogre took bribes, and Seryu became furious and defended him before calming down.
• Lin Feng privately suspected Ogre had influenced Seryu and resolved to learn more while improving his standing in the Imperial Guard.
• Lin Feng returned home and found Sheele upset about his note telling her not to cook.

Lin Feng overheard Captain Ogre and several merchants discussing their corrupt arrangement and the profits they shared, but he could not find a safe way to expose them. Before he could act, a young woman broke into the guard station and attacked the wanted oil merchant Jamal.

• Lin Feng submitted the taxes he had collected to Captain Ogre, then hid in shadow form to listen as Ogre met with his guests.
• Ogre and the merchants complained that Lin Feng disrupted their exploitation of the poor, while the oil merchant Jamal delivered a chest of gold profits to Ogre.
• Lin Feng considered how to gather evidence against Ogre without endangering himself or Sheele, but the sound of breaking glass interrupted him.
• A young woman entered through a shattered window, identified Jamal from a wanted notice, and stabbed him with her sword.

Akame attacked the Imperial Guard station and killed Jamal and two of his men, then cornered Captain Ogre. Lin Feng summoned a hellhound to stop her, allowing Ogre to escape, and offered to kill him himself if Akame explained her reasons.

• Akame killed the oil merchant Jamal with a single slash and revealed herself as a member of Night Raid.
• Akame killed two of Jamal's men and pursued Captain Ogre, while Lin Feng decided to prevent her from killing him.
• Lin Feng acquired Familiar Summoning and summoned a hellhound that blocked Akame's attack on Ogre.
• Ogre escaped through a shattered window while Akame struggled against the hellhound.
• Lin Feng dismissed the hellhound and told Akame he would kill Ogre himself if she gave him a sound reason.

Akame showed Lin Feng evidence that Ogre had framed and murdered innocent people, and Lin Feng promised to handle him so Akame could leave without a fight. The next day, Lin Feng received a message to meet Ogre at a bar and agreed to spar with Seryu before heading there.

• Akame showed Lin Feng photographs and records proving Ogre’s crimes, including his collusion with Jamal and the framing of innocent people.
• Lin Feng told Akame he would take care of Ogre and promised she could report the mission as her own; Akame left the evidence behind and departed.
• Lin Feng heard that Ogre had taken leave, then learned from Wave that Ogre wanted to meet him at a tavern on Bar Street that night.
• Seryu asked Lin Feng to spar with her and Koro, and Lin Feng agreed while suspecting Ogre might be setting a trap.
• Ogre waited alone in a booth at the luxury bar Margaret, believing Night Raid would not attack him there.

Ogre suspected Lin Feng had helped Akame attack him and resolved to eliminate him. At the training ground, Sheele brought Lin Feng homemade herb-baked rice, while Seryu prepared to test her combat partner, Koro.

• Ogre recalled framing and killing Seryu’s parents before deceiving her into becoming his student.
• Ogre connected Lin Feng’s visit to the station with Akame’s attack and suspected Lin Feng was Night Raid’s informant.
• Ogre decided to remove Lin Feng to secure his own position.
• Sheele brought Lin Feng lunch and revealed she had made the herb-baked rice herself; Lin Feng praised her cooking.
• Seryu announced that Koro was her combat partner and began a test by ordering, “Koro, arm.”