The entire city is swallowed by a wild frenzy, amplifying every bit of hatred between the light and dark factions until it feels like an all-out war could erupt any second. Luffis quickly realizes this isn’t a skill—it’s moon magic. And since Jupiter only uses wind magic, he couldn’t possibly be responsible.
She dashes over to Aries, telling him that someone else clearly wants the city destroyed—someone other than the demons. She asks if he has any idea what’s going on. Aries hesitates and asks what she would do if, “hypothetically,” one of the Twelve Heavenly Stars caused this… out of loyalty to her.
He’s terrified she’ll be furious once she learns this disaster is Agakaros’s doing. But Luffis, instead of exploding, says she’ll definitely smack some sense into them—but she’d also be secretly pleased by the show of loyalty, even if it’s the most catastrophically misguided loyalty imaginable.
Hearing that, Aries suddenly realizes what he must do to make up for hiding this from her earlier. He decides to handle everything himself. Unfortunately, if Agakaros is the mastermind here, Luffis knows Aries stands about as much chance as a snowball in a volcano. He might be marching straight into danger.
Meanwhile, in the heart of the city, Agakaros is happily flooding the place with negative energy so the Heaven-Winged will destroy themselves. And it’s working a little too well—the city is already half on fire.
Up on a rooftop, Jupiter watches the chaos and finds it absolutely hilarious how easy it was to make both sides tear each other apart. Once the Heaven-Winged finish crushing themselves, their nation will fall. His job here is done.
He plans to leave before the ten minutes Venus bought him are up—mainly because he really does not want to bump into Libra. But of course, the universe hates him, because she appears right behind him a second later.
Jupiter can’t believe Venus let her escape so soon. She was supposed to stall Libra for ten whole minutes! But as things stand, his chances of running away are basically zero—Libra has already analyzed all his attack and evasion patterns. He might as well start writing his will.
Libra calmly tells Jupiter that his chances of beating her are less than 1%. But if he surrenders, she’ll spare him. Jupiter, being Jupiter, refuses and tries to sprint past her. Unfortunately for him, she’s already seen that trick before. She shoots him in the back before he even clears two steps. His reaction time drops by 20% from the pain, which basically makes him a lagging online character.
Worse, Libra has a full stock of homing missiles courtesy of Luffas, so dodging is pretty much impossible. As they close in, Jupiter whips up a massive wind barrier—but Libra predicted that too. She punches straight through the barrier and sends him crashing into the ground like a ragdoll.
Jupiter can’t believe that even a grazing hit from her deals that much damage. And with Libra predicting every move, fighting her is basically suicide. So he tries to hide his presence by using wind magic to silence the area around him. Sadly for him, Libra casually reaches through the “silence” and grabs him by the neck. She tells him it’s pointless—she can track him no matter what.
Now genuinely panicking, Jupiter fires wind blasts at her palms, loosening her grip just enough for him to bolt away as fast as he can.
Meanwhile, Aries arrives at the city center to confront Agakaros. Agakaros immediately assumes Aries is here to stop him, but refuses to undo his Berserk spell until the entire city is reduced to rubble. Besides, he honestly doesn’t think Aries has the strength to stop him anyway.
Aries doesn’t budge.
They release their energy at the same time. Agakaros fires a deadly laser, but Aries counters with a flaming fist, then raises a wall of fire to block the next barrage. He knows he’s at a disadvantage against Agakaros’s arsenal, but he refuses to back down. Spotting an opening, Aries propels himself forward and punches straight through Agakaros’s chest.
It turns out the “Agakaros” Aries blasted was only a duplicate. The real one has been floating above the whole time, quietly charging up a giant spirit bomb like he’s auditioning for another anime. He hurls it straight at Aries, fully intending to kill him—but Luffas jumps in at the last second and blocks the attack.
She immediately yells at Agakaros, calling him a complete idiot for nearly killing Aries for real. But he barely hears a word. The moment he realizes the woman standing there truly is Luffas, his eyes well up with tears. He’s overwhelmingly happy to see her again—basically a lovestruck golden retriever in demon form.
Luffas was planning to punch him upon arrival, but seeing how emotional he is, she decides he doesn’t deserve the beating anymore. She understands that he was deeply worried about her and why he wanted revenge on the Heaven-Winged, but she firmly tells him she has no intention of harming Mirra or any of them. Then she asks if he’s willing to undo his Berserk spell.
Agakaros agrees instantly—zero hesitation. Luffas, relieved, says she’ll overlook the chaos he caused this time. From now on, he is to assist her instead of the demons. Agakaros happily transforms into his human form, swears loyal service to Luffas again, cancels the Berserk spell, and slips into her shadow like an obedient ninja.
However, when Luffas assumes this will stop the civil war, Agakaros quickly corrects her: the spell only amplified emotions that were already there. Even without it, the light and dark factions still hate each other and are moments away from turning the city into a battlefield.
Luffas realizes this situation is far worse than expected.
Right then, Dena pops back in and announces she has a way to stop the war before it erupts. Luffas is relieved she returned safely, but Agakaros looks confused. He doesn’t remember knowing Dena… yet for some odd reason, he vaguely recalls her standing somewhere in the background 200 years ago.
Meanwhile, Jupiter is still sprinting for his life because the last thing he wants is to get caught by Dena. But no matter where he runs, she appears right behind him like a horror-movie jumpscare on legs. At this point, Jupiter is convinced she’s scaring him on purpose.
Dena keeps calmly reminding him that surrendering is his smartest option. After all, there are no civilians nearby—meaning she can activate Braxium whenever she wants, no consequences. She gives him ten seconds to decide before she attacks. Jupiter instantly loses every ounce of fighting spirit he had left and falls to his knees, begging for forgiveness as he surrenders.
In the town square, both the light-winged and dark-winged factions have gathered, one wrong glare away from starting a full civil war. But just before the first punch can fly, Marra steps forward and urges everyone to put down their weapons. He reminds them that this kind of infighting is exactly what the demons want.
Luffas is relieved to finally see Marra again, but she’s shocked when she notices one of his wings is missing. She turns to Dena and asks what happened to him.
Dena explains that this is another side-effect of the Demon King’s curse. Not only did it seal away half of each hero’s power, but it also took away one body part. That’s the same reason Amigra can no longer walk. Luffas thinks it’s a cruel fate—especially for Heaven-Winged, who build their entire identity around flight. Marra… will never fly again.
Dena notes that Marra’s speech doesn’t seem very effective, but Luffas tells her it actually is. Without him there, the war would’ve already started by now. Still, Marra alone can’t calm both sides down.
Right then, Libra arrives—dragging a defeated Jupiter behind her like a captured troublemaker. She announces to the Heaven-Winged that they can do whatever they want with him now.
However, that still doesn’t give the Heaven-Winged enough information to work with, so Dena steps forward to give everyone the full story. She explains that the man lying before them is Jupiter, one of the Seven Luminaries serving the Demon King. Many of the light-winged probably recognize him—he personally chatted with them several times, pretending to be friendly while plotting their downfall.
Dena admits she knows they’re all itching to tear each other apart right now, but she asks them to stop and think: Who benefits the most if this nation destroys itself? After a moment of reflection, the crowd realizes the obvious—this whole disaster was orchestrated by the demons. Their anger shifts instantly toward Jupiter.
Meanwhile, Jupiter, lying on the ground, looks up at Dena… and freezes. With her smile and expression, she looks exactly like Venus. Suddenly, all the pieces click in his head. Of course! That’s why Libra returned earlier than expected—it was all part of Dena’s plan from the start. Feeling utterly betrayed by someone he thought was an ally, he snaps his restraints and charges at her in a desperate attempt to strike back.
But before he can even take two steps, Dena casually impales him through the chest. Jupiter tries to gasp out a warning to Libra, insisting that the woman in front of them is actually one of the Luminaries. But Libra is having none of it—she cuts him off mid-sentence… literally. One clean slice, and Jupiter’s head hits the ground.
Dena politely announces to the stunned crowd that the problem has now been resolved. The people stare in complete silence. Sure, they were furious at Jupiter, but none of them expected to witness a full-blown decapitation that quickly—or that professionally.
Luffas understands why everyone is speechless. But speaking of speech… she wonders what exactly Jupiter was trying to say about Dena right before Libra turned his head into an unplanned collectible.
A little while later, once the crowd finally disperses, Marak meets with Libra to thank her for helping capture Jupiter, and he politely invites her to the castle so he can thank her properly. But Dena immediately refuses, declaring that the only person she takes orders from is her master. (Honestly, she says it with so much confidence that even Libra looks like she’s taking notes.)
Just then, Marak notices Luffas standing behind him and assumes she must be the “master” Libra mentioned. He invites her to the castle instead, and Luff agrees. Once they reach a private room, Luff drops her disguise, revealing her true form.
Marak is both overjoyed and emotionally wrecked at the same time. He regrets everything from the past, and the moment he starts bringing it up, Luff realizes he definitely isn’t a player like she was hoping—he’s someone who’s lived in this world since the beginning… and he’s currently a whole emotional disaster.
Marak confesses he doesn’t believe he has what it takes to be king and claims Luff should have remained their ruler. But the moment he says that, a surge of emotion hits Luff. Even though she personally has no real attachment to the narrative of this world, she knows the original Lufas had no regrets about her defeat. Hearing Marak call it “a mistake” feels like he’s insulting her entire legacy.
So she tells him firmly to take pride in himself. After all, he was one of the heroes who defeated her—he earned his throne. This is his nation now, and she won’t be giving advice or interfering anymore. She believes he’ll manage just fine… even if he looks like he desperately needs a vacation.
Luff then gets embarrassed about her emotional outburst—she’s not the type to get all fired up like that. She asks Libra to delete any photos she might have taken. But Libra pauses… because she has absolutely no idea what a “photo” is. Aigokeros and Aries stare blankly as well.
Luff realizes photography probably doesn’t exist in this world. But then—suddenly—a memory surfaces. Back when she first arrived in this world, she distinctly warned that no one should have any “photos” of her. And Dena, without missing a beat, continued that conversation as if she understood exactly what photos were.
Which now makes Luff’s head go: “Wait… how did she know what that meant?”
So Luffas realizes something is definitely off. Dena knew what a “photo” was—something nobody in this world should understand—so that means she’s hiding something big. Luff immediately asks Dena for a private chat, and Dena gives her the kind of creepy smile that screams, “Oh yes… I’ve been waiting for this.”
Luff gets straight to the point: she asks Dena who she really is, because there’s no way she’s just an “advisor.” Dena casually admits she lied about her identity, claiming it should’ve been obvious from the start. After all, when Luff returned to her tower after 200 years, the place still looked like a haunted house. If Dena were truly a loyal advisor, she would’ve at least dusted one shelf in two centuries.
Luff also knows Dena can’t be one of her old subordinates, because Libra would have recognized her instantly. Dena confirms she’s neither an advisor nor a servant—she simply knew Luffas had an NPC with that character design, so she hijacked that identity to get close to her.
The moment Dena uses the term “NPC,” Luff freezes. If Dena knows that word, then she must be a player just like her. But if that’s true… why did everyone claim they recognized Dena?
That’s when Luff remembers: Dena once mentioned she could implant and edit other people’s memories. Everything clicks.
Dena admits it outright. She implanted false memories into Aries the moment she met him. As for Aigokeros, he spent a lot of time hanging around demon territory, so Dena was able to slip into the demon castle and rewrite his memories as well. But with Libra, she hit a wall—memory manipulation doesn’t work on Golems. They don’t have human memories, just system records.
Dena smirks and says she was incredibly lucky some of Libra’s data files were already damaged… otherwise none of this would have worked.
If Dena went so far as implanting memories in others, then Luff starts to worry that maybe her own memories were tampered with too. But Dena quickly shoots that down—apparently Luff’s willpower is so ridiculously strong that memory manipulation just bounces off her. Even if Dena had tried to force fake memories into Luff’s mind, it would’ve taken a full year of nonstop concentration. And honestly, no one has that kind of patience—not even a suspiciously cheerful memory-hacking demon.
So the only way Dena could fool Luff was by playing the role of the “loyal NPC adviser.” The best she could do was subtly nudge Luff’s thoughts so she wouldn’t question things too deeply. But she never expected Luff to be a player, which kind of ruined her whole long-term mastermind plan.
To clarify things, Dena (or rather Dimma, as Luff now realizes) explains that she isn’t a normal player. She was actually a beta tester. The company hired her to test the new Half-Elf race that was added in an update. And as a bonus perk—definitely not legal—she was allowed to peek at all character data in the game. That’s how she knew Luff had placed an NPC in her tower. Luff, of course, thinks this sounds like a major privacy violation… because it absolutely is.
But moving on—Luff remembers that Dena once mentioned manipulating Agokaro’s memories while he was at the demon castle, which means she can enter and leave the place anytime she wants. Dena casually confirms this. She drops her final truth bomb: her real demon identity is Venus of the Seven Luminaries.
Originally, Venus planned to keep pretending to be Luff’s adviser until Luff and the demons destroyed each other. But now that she’s been exposed, she says her only option is to crush Luff and turn her into a pawn. Luff laughs and asks if she seriously thinks she can do that when her level is only 300.
Venus smirks, flips her fake status screen, and reveals her true level:
Level 1,000.
So yeah… Luff just unlocked the “Oops, she’s actually terrifying” difficulty.
So, Venus is basically on the same power level as Luff, which is not exactly comforting. She shoots into the sky and throws up a giant barrier around Luff—basically telling the rest of the world, “No touching, this is our boss fight!”
Then Venus fires a giant laser straight at Luff. Luff blocks it without even getting a scratch, which annoys Venus enough that she decides to crank up the drama and pull a full-on “budget Gilgamesh” move. Hundreds of blades come flying at Luff. Luff panics for half a second… until she realizes the DPS is embarrassingly low. She casually blows all the blades away and even creates a few of her own to return the favor.
But before her swords can reach Venus, Venus opens a portal and yeets them right back at Luff. Forced to dodge, Luff flies into the air. She tries to tackle Venus out of the sky, but Venus simply teleports away like an annoying mosquito with cheat codes.
Then Venus casts a water spell that somehow makes vines sprout from the ground and try to grab Luff. Luff responds with a thunderous axe kick because subtlety is not her thing. She charges at Venus again, but Venus insists it’s pointless since she can teleport whenever she wants.
Unfortunately for Venus, Luff has already started reading her portal patterns like a cheap manga. So the moment Venus pops out of a nearby portal, Luff is already there, fist ready. Venus narrowly dodges and counters with a punch, landing a clean hit.
Luff doesn’t even flinch. She just tells Venus that punches won’t work on her because Venus, despite being strong, is still a backline mage. Her melee stats just don’t match Luff’s tank-level HP. Luff then open-palm strikes Venus so hard she crashes straight into the ground.
Luff urges Dena to give up because there’s no way she can win like this. Sure, a backline mage can fight on the front lines, but that requires a bunch of countermeasures—none of which Dena even bothered using. Meaning only one thing
Although Dena really was a beta tester, she only ever tested the balance of skills. She never bothered with real gameplay—because once your character hits max level, why keep sweating, right? That means she has zero idea what it means to be a true hardcore grinder, while Luff is basically the queen of tryhards. So in terms of pure gaming skill, Luff is leagues above her.
Luff politely asks her to stop fighting since there’s no point in dragging this out. Dena asks if that means Luff is willing to forgive her despite all the lies. And while Luff acknowledges that yes, Dena deceived her, she also helped massively on their journey. So Luff isn’t planning to hold a grudge… but she does want an explanation for why Dena chose such a weird and roundabout method if her goal was simply to destroy the demons.
Dena goes silent for a moment. When she finally speaks, she claims she still hasn’t lost yet. She has one last technique, and she’ll only admit defeat if Luff can survive it. Then Dena completely rips off Pain’s Chibaku Tensei, summoning a gigantic meteor aimed straight at Luff. She teleports out of the blast zone, basically shouting, “Good luck! Have fun!” while Luff is left with a falling apocalypse.
Luff could simply fly away, but the meteor is so huge it would wipe out Galahorn on impact. So she has no choice but to face it head-on. She rockets upward toward the meteor and, despite the insanity of the situation, she feels no fear—because she knows she’s got this.
She activates her Iron Kick and stacks it with Weak Point Strike, pouring all her power into one blow. The meteor literally disintegrates instantly. To the people watching from Galahorn, it probably looked like someone set off the world’s most overpowered fireworks.
With the crisis over, Luff approaches Dena and calmly asks if she wants to continue the fight. Dena admits defeat—because if her strongest spell did nothing, then there’s clearly no winning this. Luff asks if she’s finally ready to talk, and this time, Dena agrees.
Dena begins explaining that she arrived in this world right after Luff was sealed away. She simply took over the avatar she used to play as. Back then, plenty of powerful characters still existed—tons of people above level 500, although true level-1000 monsters were rare. Even stranger, every bit of data about players who weren’t featured in the novels had completely vanished.
That’s when Dena realized something terrifying:
This isn’t the game world—this is the world of the published novels based on the game.
This revelation hits Luff like a truck-kun because she had never considered that possibility. The game had a system where major player actions could be turned into official “history” through novels. But only a handful of players ever actually got written in. After all, the player base was massive, the number of authors tiny, and many players didn’t want their embarrassing in-game mistakes immortalized forever.
But that raises a question:
If this world follows the novels… why is a beta tester like Dena even here?
Dena explains she looked everywhere and found no one in the same situation. Everyone she knew—every character belonging to her former friends—was a native of this world from the start. So she assumed she was the only player transported here.
Luff says there could still be others and maybe Dena just didn’t notice them. Dena admits it’s theoretically possible… but realistically, it’s too late to know now. Most people from that era have long turned into history, dust, or side characters mentioned once and never again.
And, honestly, the truth should have been obvious.
If all the high-level players from the game had been present here, there is no way the demons would’ve pushed humanity to the brink like this. They would have been wiped off the map in Patch 1.0.
Dena was extremely frustrated—not only had she been separated from her friends, but she ended up stranded in a world teetering on destruction. She wasn’t strong enough to defeat the Demon King alone, so the best plan she could come up with was to infiltrate the demon upper ranks and slow their conquest from the inside.
That’s why, when Luff finally returned, Dena intended to nudge her—okay, manipulate her—into fighting the Demon King and eliminating him once and for all.
The explanation sounds convincing, but Luff can’t shake the feeling that something doesn’t quite add up. She can tell something in Dena’s story is “off,” but she can’t pinpoint what it is. When Dena asks if she has more questions, Luff focuses on only one:
“Are you my enemy or not?”
Dena quickly assures her she isn’t. Sure, all the deception might look hostile, but she wouldn’t blame Luff for thinking of her as an adversary. Surprisingly, Luff responds by inviting Dena to return and continue serving as her adviser.
Dena is stunned.
“After everything I’ve done… are you sure?”
But Luff doesn’t care about all that. She still owes Dena for all the help she’s provided along their journey, and honestly? Having a subordinate with secret plots sounds like it would make life more entertaining.
Dena, still bewildered, asks whether Luff is really a player, because her reaction sounded incredibly in-character. Luff laughs and admits that her player memories and her character memories have been mashing together, so she ends up acting like her in-game self a lot.
But the real reason she wants Dena with her?
She’s simply happy to have found someone else stuck in the same bizarre situation. Yes, Dena tried to push her into fighting the Demon King, but Luff was going to do that anyway, so honestly, nothing has changed.
Dena is genuinely moved by Luffa’s acceptance, so she agrees to serve as her adviser—properly and loyally this time—until the Demon King is defeated.
But just a few moments later, Luffa’s subordinates rush in, panicking about the giant meteor they saw earlier. They ask what on earth happened. Luffa can’t exactly explain, “Oh yeah, I had a 1v1 anime boss fight with Dena,” so she casually replies that she was attacked by a “mysterious force.”
Surprisingly, everyone just nods like this is perfectly normal Tuesday behavior, so Luffa moves on and tells them to prepare for the journey to retrieve Parthnos.
Since they’re already discussing important matters, she asks Agokuros if he has intel on the rest of the Heavenly Stars. Luckily, he does.
He reports that Scorpius is currently aligned with the demons, while Lyon is in the middle of a war against the vampire princess Benetnash. That alone sounds like a disaster waiting to explode.
But Agokuros has one more juicy update: apparently, the kingdom has managed to successfully summon a hero.
Cut to the castle of Levitine, where royal magicians finish their ritual—and in the center appears a boy who looks exactly like your standard “average anime MC,” the kind that screams, “I have plot armor!”
