Chapter Summaries

Suren, Katyusha, and Yuta celebrated with the Daru Tribe and drank Immortal Poet's Honey Wine, whose magic unleashed Katyusha's poetic powers. As the wine carried them into the sky to watch the stars, they fell asleep together in the treehouse, and Suren drunkenly touched Katyusha before she bit him.

• Suren, Katyusha, and Yuta shared stories and fruit at the Daru Tribe's banquet, where Katyusha spoke of her dream to become a poet and invited Suren to visit her family's castle.
• Deer Chieftain opened the sacred Immortal Poet's Honey Wine, and Suren discovered that it temporarily enhanced comprehension and poetic inspiration.
• Katyusha drank the wine, recited a poem that summoned wind, and lifted herself, Suren, and Yuta into the air with the Wind Spirit.
• The three friends drank more wine in a treetop house and gazed at the stars, where Katyusha asked Yuta if she liked Suren and Yuta drunkenly agreed.
• As the three fell asleep, Suren groped Katyusha in his drunkenness, and Katyusha complained before threatening to bite him like the Big Bad Wolf.

After waking from a three-day drunken sleep beside Yuta, Suren found Katyusha’s farewell letter and learned that she had left the Emerald Sacred Land. Katyusha buried her past self in her story, transformed into Ekaterina, and entered the Sacred Realm.

• Suren woke naked beside Yuta after they had slept for three days and nights, and they shared an intimate morning.
• Suren found Katyusha’s letter, which thanked him and said goodbye, and learned that she had bitten his shoulder while drunk.
• Suren found Yuta waiting with her younger brother Aku after he left the treehouse.
• Katyusha said farewell to the Daru Tribe and reunited with her guards at the Silent Forest’s edge.
• Katyusha wrote that Miss Ugly Duckling buried herself in the past, establishing the story and transforming into a purple-haired woman named Ekaterina.
• Ekaterina manifested a flower-filled world as she walked and announced that she had entered the Sacred Realm.

Suren defeated Yuta’s younger brother Aku in a duel, earning the Daru Tribe’s respect and acceptance of his relationship with Yuta. The next day, Aku and several young Druids secretly left to aid the besieged Gray Wolf Tribe, which faced an elite legion of the Lu Ying Royal Family.

• Aku challenged Suren to a duel, and Yuta encouraged Suren to teach her younger brother a lesson.
• Suren and Aku fought hand to hand, then Aku transformed into a white wolf and used a four-element spell against him.
• Suren escaped Aku’s restraints with Spatial Ability, ending the duel; Aku admitted defeat and acknowledged Suren’s strength.
• The Daru Tribe’s elders, youths, and children welcomed Suren after the duel, while the Deer Chieftain and Grandma Wolf praised his abilities.
• Aku and several hot-blooded young Druids secretly left the sacred land to support the Gray Wolf Tribe against an elite legion of the Lu Ying Royal Family.

Suren and Yuta reached the Gray Wolf Tribe, where apprentice Druids were battling elite Lu Ying knights after trying to rescue their captured people. Suren intervened in his Mechanical Armor, killed a knight, and confronted the hidden Fourth-Tier protector, whose Rune Human Skin Umbrella blocked his blade.

• Several apprentice Druids from the Emerald Sacred Land secretly left to help the Gray Wolf Tribe, and Suren and Yuta traveled north to find them.
• At Lake Lodasil, Suren and Yuta spotted Lu Ying Royal Knight Legion soldiers and learned that the Gray Wolf Tribe had been captured and its settlement used as bait.
• Aku and the other apprentice Druids tried to rescue their people but were driven into a retreat, with three of their group killed.
• Yuta joined Aku and the surviving Druids in fighting the pursuing knights, while Suren watched from above and sensed a hidden enemy detecting him.
• Suren summoned his Mechanical Armor, killed an armored knight, and ordered Yuta and the Druids to escape as the Lu Ying soldiers faced him.
• A concealed Fourth-Tier professional appeared with a Rune Human Skin Umbrella, blocked Suren's Ship-Slaying Blade, and revealed a damaged Sealed Item whose powers interested Suren.

Suren defeated Roxy Ruveo after the Necromancer trapped him in a sensory-stripping darkness domain, then claimed the man’s equipment and knowledge. He left the Chessboard space with the Human Skin Black Umbrella, aware that someone might have followed him.

• Roxy Ruveo summoned five hellhounds and sent them after Yuta and the others before Suren pulled him into the Chessboard space.
• Roxy Ruveo ate a Cursed Corpse Chunk, used Gold Quality Augment Armor, and unleashed Nightfall with the Human Skin Black Umbrella to attack Suren’s senses and mind.
• Suren revealed the Death God's Phantom, which frightened the resentful spirits into fleeing and broke Roxy Ruveo’s spell.
• Suren restrained Roxy Ruveo with Caged Bird and killed him, then stripped his soul to gain law fragments, necromancy knowledge, and Lu Ying Royal Secrets.
• Suren collected the crystal skull, the Wings of the Undead Phosphorus Sparrow, and the Human Skin Black Umbrella, discovering that the umbrella greatly expanded his Soul Perception.
• Suren dispelled the Chessboard space and prepared to move on, expecting someone to have followed him.

Suren escaped the Lu Ying officers, reunited with Yuta, and studied the summoning scroll he had taken from the hunchbacked old man. His experiment summoned a mythical Death Announcing Bird, whose mastery of the Law of Death could help Suren improve his own understanding.

• Suren used a Living Corpse as bait, then fled the Lu Ying officers through the forest and shook off their pursuit.
• Yuta sent Aku and the other youths toward the holy ground before finding Suren and having him treat her wounds.
• Suren and Yuta took shelter in a cavern, where Suren examined his spoils and read the Necromantic Creature Summoning Scroll.
• Suren spent more than a hundred thousand in materials to summon an undead creature, but the array produced a Second Tier Mythical Species called the Death Announcing Bird.
• Suren discovered that the bird understood the Law of Death better than he did and could help him improve his comprehension.

Suren used the Death Announcing Bird to scout the Skeleton Cavern and locate the Mind Flayer, then teleported into its lair and killed it despite its Lizardman puppets and a hidden Hell Spined Monster. He escaped with the Mind Flayer’s eggs, and he and Yuta fled as the enormous creature’s tentacles erupted from the ground.

• Suren formed a blood pact with the Death Announcing Bird, learned its abilities, and used its shared vision to find the Skull-Shaped Cave in Blood Mist Swamp.
• Suren sent the Black Crow into the cavern and discovered a Lizardman village, the Mind Flayer’s Incubation Pool, and the monster feeding on humans.
• Suren gave Yuta a Spatial Scroll and prepared to attack the Mind Flayer directly while she waited outside as his escape safeguard.
• Suren teleported into the cavern, resisted the Mind Flayer’s Soul Shock, summoned puppets to hold back the Lizardmen, and wounded the monster with his Spider Spears.
• A Hell Spined Monster attacked through the tunnels, but Suren killed the Mind Flayer, collected its eggs, and teleported back to Yuta.
• Suren grabbed Yuta and ran as more than a thousand pink tentacles erupted from the ground near the Skeleton Cavern.

Suren refined and fused a Mental Tentacles Augment Armor from the Mind Flayer, gaining the ability to manipulate objects and control living bodies through mental threads. After testing his new powers with Living Corpses and Yuta, he and Yuta decided to head for the Cursed Valley and investigate the ruins.

• Suren and Yuta escaped the Hell Spined Monster, and Suren began refining an Augment Armor from the Mind Flayer’s brain in a cave.
• After three days, Suren completed and fused the Mental Tentacles Augment Armor, which boosted his mental abilities and granted him controllable tentacles.
• Suren combined his Mental Tentacles with Witch’s Hair threads and used them to control Living Corpses through their nervous systems, making them move fluidly and freeing threads for more puppets.
• Suren tested his control ability on Yuta, who said she could feel his Mental Power invading her and might resist with willpower.
• Suren and Yuta spent the evening together, then agreed to travel to the Cursed Valley to explore the ruins and investigate the hope left by the Daru Tribe’s ancestors.

Suren and Yuta reached the ancient relic in the Cursed Valley and discovered it stood atop a colossal tree that might be the transformed body of a Daru Tribe Great Druid. Mr. Mirror identified the site as a possible Burial Ground of Gods and warned that the seal must not be destroyed, leaving Suren to delay the Lu Ying military until she arrived.

• Suren and Yuta entered the Cursed Valley, protected themselves from its Necromantic Mist, and survived an ambush by a Human-faced Rotten Flower.
• Yuta spotted a moss-covered Giant Race totem, and the pair found the remains of an ancient city wall deeper in the valley.
• Suren scouted beyond the wall with Black Crow and saw a vast relic built across the roots and branches of a giant gray elm.
• Yuta recognized the tree as possibly the result of the Daru Tribe's lost sealing divine art, Tree Realm Seal: Burial of Gods, which may have cost many Great Druids their lives.
• Suren contacted Mr. Mirror, who explained that the site might be a Burial Ground of Gods connected to the War of the Gods and warned that its seal contained a catastrophic danger.
• Mr. Mirror said she would arrive within three days and ordered Suren to do what he could to stop the Lu Ying military from destroying the seal.

Suren and Yuta explored the ruins beneath the giant tree, where Yuta felt protected by her ancestors and Suren discovered a damaged relief that seemed connected to his All-Seeing Eye. After Suren rescued Daru Tribe warriors from Royal Legion soldiers, he learned that the Legion was breaking through a giant Cursed Space at the tree’s core, which might reveal the truth behind the ancient battle.

• Suren and Yuta entered the giant tree’s root-covered ruins, and Yuta said its presence weakened the negative effects on her.
• Suren and Yuta explored a ruined temple and found reliefs depicting giant warriors, myths, and a one-eyed god who appeared to receive a symbol from a tree.
• Suren suspected the relief’s one-eyed figure and fallen symbol were connected to his sacrifice and the All-Seeing Eye, but the carving was too damaged to reveal more.
• Suren and Yuta saw Royal Legion soldiers chasing Gray Wolf Tribe warriors and attacked before the soldiers could send a signal.
• Suren used Mental Alchemy: Shadow Killing Technique to control and kill the soldiers, then learned that Daru-stained cloth protected the Legion from the tree’s dangers.
• Suren learned the Legion was using a Sealed Item to break through the final Cursed Space at the giant tree’s core, which he suspected held the truth behind the ancient battle.

Suren and Yuta discovered that the Lu Ying Royal Holy Judgment Legion had sacrificed tens of thousands of Daru people to Nergal's Death Banner and was preparing to breach the dangerous Druid's Gate of Burying Gods. After the legion entered the Cursed Space, Suren decided to follow and investigate.

• Suren and Yuta observed the legion's fortified camp, identified Nergal's Death Banner, and realized its soldiers had sacrificed captured Daru people to strengthen it.
• Hidden scouts detected Suren and Yuta, who escaped into the forest while Legion Commander Barrett received the Empress's order to break the seal within three days.
• At dawn, Barrett led the Judgment Pirates up the giant tree, where the legion fought through powerful Mutated Monsters as Suren and Yuta followed at a distance.
• Suren appraised the Druid's Gate of Burying Gods and learned it was a chaotic Cursed Space with no main consciousness, where living people could lose themselves forever.
• The legion entered the Cursed Space with Nergal's Death Banner, and Suren told Yuta that he wanted to go in after them.

Suren entered the Druid's Gate of Burying Gods Cursed Space alone, where he discovered a ruined city filled with spatial rifts and powerful undead. He found Two-Headed Silver Giant Corpses made of Activated Silver, killed them with the Black Scythe, and continued into the city with their valuable remains.

• Suren told Yuta about the dangers inside the Cursed Space and left her behind before entering alone, while Yuta resolved to seek the Daru Tribe's ancestors' relics herself.
• Suren used Black Crow to scout the Cursed Space, concealed his vitality with corpse aura, and entered an intact city illuminated by lava spilling from spatial rifts.
• Black Crow was struck by a tentacled monster, and Suren climbed the city wall before heading toward a central temple near the sounds of fighting.
• Two Two-Headed Silver Giant Corpses appeared in front of Suren, and he recognized their regenerative metal bodies as Activated Silver.
• Suren restrained the giants with his Mechanical Armor and used the Black Scythe to sever their heads, then stored their corpses and collected two Silver Tier Cursed Materials.

Suren discovered a temple mural that might reveal the origin of the All-Seeing Eye, but a visual illusion led him into a deadly encounter with Abbas Thousand-Eyed Flesh Mountain. After killing the monster and learning of a dangerous maze beneath the palace, he noticed the mural held a hidden secret.

• Suren reached the city center and saw that the Lu Ying Royal Legion had lost nearly half its forces fighting powerful anomalies before heading toward the palace.
• Suren used Black Crow to explore the Giant Temple and read reliefs linking a bearded man's sacrifice, strange runelike Symbols, and the origin of the Cyclops Tribe to the All-Seeing Eye.
• Suren realized he had been trapped in an illusion, shot himself to break free, and found Abbas Thousand-Eyed Flesh Mountain before him.
• Suren escaped the monster's visual attack and killed it with his puppets, then harvested its soul and obtained a Thousand Illusions Magic Crystal.
• Suren learned from the monster's fragmented information that a dangerous maze lay beneath the palace, and his All-Seeing Eye revealed that the temple mural was not as simple as it seemed.

Suren discovered and acquired an imitation Primal Rune in the ancient city, then entered the Underground Palace in pursuit of the Lu Ying Royal Legion. He escaped a looping spatial staircase and followed the legion’s trail into a maze where human and monster corpses marked their passage.

• Suren ate a Mind Flayer Egg and drank Immortal Poet's Honey Wine to enhance his comprehension, then copied a symbol onto the relief and activated an Imitation Primal Rune.
• Suren left the temple as monsters approached and entered the palace, where he saw a colossal statue of a Hecatoncheires seated on a throne.
• Suren descended into the Underground Palace and discovered that a spatial restriction made its staircase repeat every three hundred and five steps.
• Suren used Witch's Hair to map the distorted space, crossed a spatial barrier, and realized the Lu Ying Royal Legion seemed to know the Underground Palace well.
• Suren followed the legion’s traces through a root-covered underground maze and found corpses of its members and various monsters.

Suren discovered that the Lu Ying Royal Legion was trying to crack the seal in the Hall of Valor, and he decided to stop them by drawing the Underground Palace’s poisonous monsters toward them. When a Poison Sorcerer moved to disable his lure, Suren attacked, risking exposure to prevent the legion from resuming its work.

• Suren followed the Lu Ying Royal Legion through the monster-filled maze and found the Hall of Valor, where the legion was preparing to crack a seal around a Black Iron coffin.
• Suren realized that the legion’s mission came from the Empress and that he could not persuade its members to abandon it; meanwhile, Barrett and his adjutant recognized the Black Crow and suspected Suren was following them.
• Suren used Annistora's Highly Poisonous Incense Burner to lure poisonous monsters toward the legion, then hid in the maze as the creatures rushed past.
• The legion identified the incense burner, and a Poison Sorcerer emerged from an Orochi to disable it.
• Suren fired a beam from a Chessboard at the Poison Sorcerer, hoping to kill him before the legion could stop the monster influx.

Suren fought off a Royal Family team trying to reach Annistora's Highly Poisonous Incense Burner, killing the Poison Sorcerer and illusionist with help from an unknown Assassin. The Assassin revealed that someone had sent him to protect Suren, but their brief reprieve ended when Barrett arrived.

• Suren withdrew from his chessboard domain to escape the Poison Sorcerer's Whale Explosion Technique, but the plague blast burned and poisoned his arm.
• A monocle-wielding illusionist trapped Suren in a painful illusion, but Suren used Soul Perception and concealed threads to strike back while the Poison Sorcerer moved toward the incense burner.
• A hidden Assassin unexpectedly killed the Poison Sorcerer, distracting the illusionist long enough for Suren to expose and kill him with Thread Control Secret Technique: Flowerfall.
• The Assassin told Suren that someone had entrusted him with keeping Suren alive, and Suren suspected Katyusha had arranged his protection.
• Suren collected the enemies' spoils and prepared to keep guarding the seal, but the Assassin sensed someone approaching and warned that it was Barrett.

Suren fled through the labyrinth as Barrett pursued him, and Cortez sacrificed himself to buy Suren time. After Barrett forced Suren into a dangerous space-time zone, Suren escaped his immediate grasp and heard Yuta grieving as though Suren were dead.

• Suren fled when Barrett arrived, while Cortez stayed behind to delay the Sixth Tier commander.
• Barrett killed Cortez and chased Suren through the labyrinth, smashing through walls as Suren used Spatial Displacement to escape.
• The Black Crow warned Suren about a Chaotic Space-Time Zone, and Suren stopped to tell Barrett that breaking the seal would unleash deadly forces from the Burial Ground of Gods.
• Barrett chose loyalty to the Lu Ying Royal Family over Suren's warning and struck him through the wall into the dangerous zone.
• Suren survived the blow and heard Yuta apologizing for arriving too late and asking how Suren could be dead.

Suren discovered that he was trapped in a Time Anomaly Domain where one day inside equaled ten years outside, and Yuta could communicate with him across timelines through the Wolf Claw Amulet. He learned from his future corpse’s notebook how to escape, but its final warning revealed that he had forgotten the origin of the Imitation Primal Rune, hinting at an unknown presence in the Cursed Space.

• Suren realized Yuta was crying over his corpse in another timeline and used the Wolf Claw Amulet and written messages to communicate with her.
• Yuta found Suren’s notebook on the corpse and read that the Time Anomaly Domain made one day inside equal ten years outside, and that Suren had spent more than twenty days there before escaping too late.
• Yuta read the notebook’s detailed instructions for breaking the domain, which let Suren skip his earlier exploration and prepare to escape more quickly.
• Yuta read Suren’s warning that something in the space had made him forget where the Imitation Primal Rune came from, and Suren realized he could not remember its origin either.
• Suren told Yuta he was going to crack the space and urged her to be careful before beginning his escape attempt.

Suren followed notes from another timeline through the Underground Palace, taking the Hecatoncheires King's arm and crown to solve the Time Anomaly Domain and return to the passageway. He then found evidence of a mysterious force that erased memories, but forgot about it again as he tried to contact Yuta.

• Suren used the notebook's route to reach the Giant Hall of Heroes and opened the Hundred Fiends Suppressing Demon Coffin with Mechanical Armor.
• Suren bound and collected the Arm of the Hecatoncheires King, Briareus, then absorbed the hall's Giant Race phantoms with the Human Skin Black Umbrella.
• Suren used the arm to open the Giant treasury, took the Giant King's Crown, and restored it to the statue before moving the guard statues into their proper positions.
• A golden hourglass appeared, and Suren took the Sands of Time through the Gate of Time, returning to a passageway where Yuta and his corpse were absent.
• Suren found notebook entries describing a mysterious Power of Forgetting and a possible Third Party Force, recorded his suspicions, then forgot them and called Yuta.

Yuta found Dagda's Magic Cauldron and, after sensing the God of Nature, gained a powerful new Totem that restored hope to the Daru Tribe. Meanwhile, Suren watched Barrett defy the Empress's secret order to unseal the ruin, and Jaeger responded by revoking his command.

• Yuta revealed that she had found Dagda's Magic Cauldron, and Suren accepted why she had kept it secret.
• Suren and Yuta watched the Holy Judgment Legion open the coffin and find it empty as the Cursed Space collapsed into the real underground ruins.
• Yuta sensed the God of Nature's call, received a divine surge of power, and gained a high-level red Totem.
• Barrett argued that the ruin should remain sealed, but Jaeger presented the Empress's command token and ordered the seal broken.
• Barrett refused the order, declaring that opening the ruin was too dangerous, and Jaeger revoked his position as commander of the Holy Judgment Legion.