Recap / Isekai Walking

Recap for Isekai Walking. Spoilers are unmarked.

Volume 1: Elysia Kingdom

• Prologue: King Elysia has the seven teens summoned, greets seven "Heroes" until he sees that Sora's got lackluster stats and a glaringly non-combat skill "Walking," at which point he has Sora led out of the meeting room and his knights throw Sora out onto the streets of the royal capital.
• Sora meets "Pops" who shows him the ropes and suggests looking for a job at the adventurer's guild.
• Sora goes to the guild and is rightly intimidated by the rough and tumble atmosphere, but still registers. He gets some "helpful advice" to undertake a bunch of delivery requests.
• Sora completes all the requests, in record time, including the delivery of a letter. The letter's delivery results in a couple that's been dancing around each other, and actively shipped by the guild's entire crew, for 27 years (provided that's not a translation error) getting hitched. Sora learns that the guild is actually very warm and friendly, contrary to his initial impressions.
• Syphon, later revealed to be the leader of party Goblin Griefers, takes Sora to an equipment shop to outfit him in proper gear, for his first ever quest outside of the capital. Sora unlocks several skills, including a swordsmanship skill.
• While gathering herbs, Sora meets the spirit Ciel and then notices a battle thanks to his [Perception] skill. He investigates to find Chris and Rurika being overwhelmed by Wolfs monsters and comes to their aid, working together with them, the Wolfs monsters are defeated. Sora teams up with Chris and Rurika, who try to give him general adventurer knowledge, such as how to dismantle monsters for materials and the basics of basics in regards to magic. Chris and Sora almost immediately become very, very attracted to each other.
• Sora, Chris, and Rurika head to the adventurer's guild to report on the situation. The guild-master rightly smells trouble and gets directly involved. The situation is resolved quickly and decisively by deploying several high-rank parties to the area.
• Sora, Chris, and Rurika accept a goblin subjugation quest to try and get Sora his first such quest under his belt. When they get to the village that sent the request, they learn that the danger is far higher than advertised, but the village didn't have either the time nor the money to update the quest and rewards to match the new level of threat. Although the quest is completed successfully, Sora is mildly injured. In addition to the promised rewards, Sora gets the local recipe for bacon and a couple of bundles of the local timber used in its production. At this point, he reveals that he's been practicing space magic which he unlocked shortly after Chris brought up the topic as they were en route to the village. Although Rurika suggests Sora would be better off in a higher ranked party, he chooses to stay with them, both because he trusts them and because he knows if he joined a higher rank party as he is, his odds of survival aren't good. During the trip, Sora realized he was being watched and chose an [Appraisal Block] skill.
• Shortly after they get to town and Sora's recovered, Rurika drags him to a sparring pit because she's noticed that his footwork is amateurish, but his sword swings are elegant and deadly, and puts him through the paces to try and learn why there's such a disconnect. He puts up a good fight and even manages to impress her, but still loses, thanks to lacking experience.
• While on a delivery quest to the "pleasure district," Sora sees Chris coming out of the slave trader and after paying the trader some coin, the trader grabs her arm and tries to drag her back in. Sora calls out to her, causing the trader to withdraw. At this point, Chris and Rurika inform Sora that they are searching for two other childhood friends, Sera and Eris, who were taken in war by the Boschell Empire and perhaps enslaved, whereabouts unknown. Sora promises to help. Chris and Rurika give him tearful thanks.
• Sora, Chris, and Rurika take up an escort quest to a relatively nearby town, where they part ways, Sora promising to keep his eyes open and try and purchase Sera and Eris if he finds them.
• After doing a few herb gathering quests, an emergency orc suppression quest comes in. Having no experience subjugating orcs, Sora is hesitant and doesn't hesitate to proclaim his inexperience, but it's an "all hands on deck" situation, and Sora's going to have to deal with orcs eventually, so he goes with some more experienced adventurers to check it out.
• Sora and the band of adventurers reach the target village and learn that the place is on the verge of collapse, a group of 5 orcs holding most of the women captive while a larger group is scouring the forest. Sora agrees to help the village leader, a powerful adventurer in his own right, while the rest go with some knights to deal with the main group.
• Sora volunteers to act as bait while the villagers rescue their women and escape. He not only leads the five orcs away, allowing for a successful rescue, he single-handedly kills them all, but while he's collecting the loot, he's set upon by Number 13 of the Elysia Kingdom's intelligence division who tries to drag him back to the royal castle, under orders that she can't disobey thanks to her [Slave Mask]. After putting points into [Ailment Resistance] until he can resist Number 13's paralysis dagger, he and the intelligence agent were more or less evenly matched, and then Demon Ignis shows up, interrupting the fight, breaking the mask, and threatening to kill Sora, as a "summoned hero." Just in case. Unable to even flee, Sora negotiates with Ignis, agreeing to allow Ignis to place a curse on him where he can't even try to harm the Demon King, regardless of the situation, in exchange for his life. Sora fakes his death and Number 13's by leaving behind his and her bloody cloaks and his guild card. Then he flees in the direction of the Holy Kingdom.
• A side story between volumes reveals that the rest of the adventurers and the knights did well against the orcs, but when Ignis showed up, the knights were annihilated and the adventurers were sent back bloodied and broken.

Volume 2: Holy Kingdom

• Sora and Number 13, later revealed to be named Hikari at birth, start the volume hiding in a cave, with Sora trying to learn the intelligence agent's intentions, now that she's no longer under the influence of the [Slave Mask], in the meantime feeding her some warm bowls of soup until she's had her fill. She states that she no longer has any intention to carry out her orders to drag him back, because he's the first person, ever, to feed her a warm meal. Cue Tear Jerker, in universe.
• Sora takes Hikari to the nearest town and passes her off as an orphan he found abandoned by the side of the road, to explain why she has no ID and lacks proper clothing, having many experiences with caravans and merchants that weren't as pleasant as the experiences he had in the royal capital of Elysia. The guard gives Sora two options, take her to the local orphanage or make her a [Special] slave until she's of age to get her own ID. Hikari insists on the second option.
• After getting Hikari Made a Slave and properly dressed and fed, Sora joins the merchant's guild and books passage on a carriage to the Holy See for the both of them. Along the way, the caravan comes across a town that was besieged by a large group of orcs. As the caravan is resting the horses, the orcs attack again. Sora, Hikari, and the adventuring party Bloody Rose, also booked passengers, helped repel the attack. As a result of Sora refusing to help escort the merchants, for free, the hired adventurer escorts, Bloody Rose, and everyone save the two entitled twits, found their wagons sabotaged while the merchants had fled in the middle of the night.
• After making repairs, everyone had to pitch in and bolster the town's defenses, only to see the two merchants who abandoned the caravan come running back, kiting a large group of orcs with them, with the merchants simultaneously being arrogant and demanding rescue. The only silver lining is that the merchants' actions have unwittingly discovered the general direction of the orc nest.
• After repelling the attack, Bloody Rose, Sora, and Hikari go to the cave the orcs were using as a camp and prison. The rest of the adventurers stay behind to protect the town and tend to the non-combatants, including the two extremely entitled merchants who act as if they deserve the very best treatment possible and just can't resist causing trouble, no matter how often Locke, leader of the adventurers abandoned by them, kept making it clear that either they get used to living like all the other non-combatants, or take their chances with their orc "friends."
• While rescuing the captive women, killing orcs as they go, and seeing many, many of the women being victimized, Sora and Leila, the leader of Bloody Rose, encounter a [Named] orc lord, Lloyd. After an epic battle, resulting in the orc lord's death, and all the captives freed, the caravan and town hold a celebration, eating the orc meat, before the caravan takes off to the capital.
• After arriving at the capital, the two merchants of Aurora company flat out lie, and shamelessly, to the guild, getting Locke put in chains and tried to have Sora evicted from the guild, and possibly heavily fined. Yor Apostle, one of the members of Bloody Rose, put a kibosh to the plan by using her clout as the daughter of Cardinal Dan Apostle to call in a Veracity Officer. The Living Lie Detector took statements from everyone involved and summarily declared Locke innocent and the two merchants plus the guild master guilty. Sora demanded concrete compensation of one platinum coin for the affront, and demands Aurora company's privileges be stripped from them for 10 years.
• As Sora is waiting for the final judgement from the Merchant's guild, he peruses the slave market in the Holy See and finds Sera, one of the two friends Chris and Rurika are looking for and tries to buy her, finding himself 200 gold coins short, even though the slave trader did offer Sora a discount after being recommended by a relative Sora's on good terms with, it still a bit too big a gap, so Sora asks Sera be put aside a while to gather the needed funds.
• Sora gets the compensation he demanded, but instead of keeping it himself, has the guild use it as restoration funds for the village that was almost destroyed by the orc attack, part of which Aurora Company is responsible.
• As Sora is selling his services using alchemy and other methods to try and raise the funds, Mia, the Saint, trying to flee from her duties crashes into him, claiming she's being chased by scoundrels and needs rescue. The "scoundrels" in question are actually her retainers, trying to drag her back to her duties. In the chaos, a poisoned sniper's arrow nearly takes Mia's life, but Sora took the hit himself instead, and with his [Ailment Resistance] skill is already immune to the poison. For her safety, Sora brings Mia to Cardinal Dan Apostle's house.
• Sora eventually earns the money he needs to buy Sera, but in the process learns that Mia's would be assassin is somehow connected to the country's official church.
• Mia returns to her duties to prepare for an annual celebration, only to learn the pope and a significant number of The Church have condemned her as a fake and demand her death.
• Dan Apostle risks being branded a heretic, or worse, to rescue her and smuggles her into a safehouse. Sora meets with Dan and agrees to try and smuggle Mia out of the capital.
• Sora and Mia are set upon by a nameless assassin who, of her own free will, tried to murder Mia and Leave No Witnesses. Sora intentionally takes the assassin's dagger to his own hand to create an opening and punch the assassin into unconsciousness.
• Sora disguises Mia by dying her hair, temporarily changing her eye-color with magic, and taking her to the slaver to have her temporarily become his slave only for her to declare herself his slave, for life. The assassin Sora captured is in turn disguised to be Mia's body double. Sora takes the nameless assassin to the pope's angry mob and when she's strung up, getting pelted by random objects, uses a silenced pistol with a magic bullet to burn the assassin to death, at which point the demon Asto reveals himself as a demon and mocks the crowd for being so easy to fool with a fake prophecy and an engineered monster stampede. The pope himself can only pull off a mute Thousand-Yard Stare as the revelation dawns on him and the very same angry mob drop to their knees, wailing, and pray to their patron goddess for forgiveness.
• Sora rides the slaver's caravan out of the city, fleeing said monster stampede, at the price of giving the slave merchant a magic bag full of supplies. Onward to Majolica.

Volume 3: Kingdom of Majolica

• Upon entering the border city, Sora's party tries to gather information about the local climates. After completing a hunting quest, while Sera and Sora are dealing with the guild's dismantler, for wolf meat to make lunch, Mia and Hikari have the distinct displeasure of their first contact with adventurers from the Boshell Empire, calling themselves "The Sword Party." The arrogant louts treat Mia and Hikari as sub-humans and try to boss them around, despite being well aware the two are owned by someone else. They are dismissive towards Sora and Sera as well until the guild itself intervenes and they click their tongue before leaving.
• After crossing the border, the party reunites with Leila and Bloody Roses at the agricultural town of Rokia.
• Upon entering Majolica's capital city, the party learns the adventurer's guild is centered around a dungeon and Sora wants to investigate the fifth floor for medical herbs. All of Bloody Roses is sworn to secrecy about Mia's escape from the Holy Kingdom, especially Yor Apostle, as the "let's get rid of Mia" faction of the church used human agents to try and kill Mia independent of Cardinal Astos, and would probably still try to kill her if they knew she's alive, even if it means being implicated as demon accomplices.
• The Boschell Empire adventurer party rears its ugly head again. This time, they completely ignore guild etiquette and try to boss around a local, demanding he be their porter, and refuse to take "no" for an answer. The guy happens to be a member of the local branch's top adventuring clan and the clan gives them, as newcomers, one warning, cool it with the arrogance and go through the guild request board to hire a porter, instead of walking up to random adventurers and trying to bully them. The Boschell's refuse to heed the warning and try to pick a fight with the leader, Ash. The Boshell party's leader finds his head getting grabbed with a vice-like grip, struggling helplessly as his face turns red, then blue, then white in panic before being dropped to the ground, unconscious. The three other members got real humble, real quick and dragged the guy out, after being informed that there will be no second "warning."
• Sora and crew go into the dungeon, taking their time working their way to the fifth floor to see if there are medical herbs Sora can work with to boost his alchemy skill and earn some coin. They encounter Fred's party who are there to deal with a subjugation request of a dark wolf, which is only supposed to be encountered on the lower floors. The "dark wolf" they were hunting not only turned out to be the superior species Shadow Wolf, that none of their weapons or spells worked against, but acted like a floor boss, locking down the entire fifth floor, preventing any kind of escape, even the magical [Return] stones Fred's party had didn't work. Most of Fred's party was wiped out before Fred came into contact with Sora, and the two parties tried to strategize how to deal with the beast. Fortunately, Mia was in Sora's party and Sora himself had crafted a [defective holy sword] that can only be swung once. the battle was even harder than the fight with Lloyd, the Orc Lord, but there were no further casualties once Sora got into the fight.
• Sora has Sera send a letter, in code, through the adventurer's guild to Chris and Rurika to have them all meet in Majolica. The reason for the cloak and dagger stuff is that he's playing dead to avoid Elysia Kingdom coming after him and his "adopted sister" Hikari.
• Sora fashions special eyeglasses from the monster stone of the shadow wolf that allows whoever sees them to track the flow of magic. This helps Mia's and Yor's magic training immensely as the party continues to challenge the dungeon.
• Sora and crew try to challenge the first floor boss on floor 10, but keep repeatedly being shoved aside by people who aren't actually waiting for their turn, but instead holding up the line until the people who hired them show up. Sora and crew get tired of being polite after the third occurrence and when challenged, beat up the paid benchwarmer to get their turn. After the fight, they complain to the local guild-master Reese, but several of the parties involved in this fiasco are member of Ash's Clan, and they lie during the meeting when Sora is filing the complaint, which soon causes friction with Ash's clan, to the point that Sora is strongly considering leaving the city, if it were not for waiting for Chris and Rurika to arrive. Fortunately, there's a magic tool that tracks who and when people enter the dungeon, so the liars were caught lying, and their clan was not amused.
• After encountering some starving orphans in the city district with food stalls, Sora and crew this is the last straw and decide to rent a house, using "maid training" as a pretext to take the starving orphans in and shelter them.
• At the recommendation of Leila and Yor, Sora visits the renown local magic academy, especially the library, to try and get some pointers and learn more about the lore of the new world. He makes several discoveries, not all of them pleasant.
• As Sora is in the library, Chris and Sera head to the address of the rented house, as pointed out by the guild, compliments of Sera. Confused at first upon seeing the two junior maids and Taliyah acting as their mentor Taliyah tells them they've got the right place and welcomes them. In moments, Tears of Joy abound as Sera, Chris, and Rurika are all reunited. This repeats when Sora comes home, since they presumed he was dead after his escape from Elysia. They wanted to buy Sera's freedom too, and Sora would have let them, but the slave contract under which Sera is bound wouldn't let him. At this point, Sora shoos out Taliya and the two orphans and reveals to the rest that he's an otherworlder, and everything that went on in Elysia. Chris responds by showing him, privately, that she's an elf. Sora believes her, but after she leaves, he notes that her appraisal said "High Elf." He's not sure if she knows the difference. After a good night's rest, Chris and Rurika join Sora in challenging the dungeon.
• As the party reaches floor 15, Sora and party learn, while searching for the stairs to floor 16, that minerals like magic gems, magic ore, and mithril can be found and mined on the 15th floor. Naturally, Sora gets a bit carried away and has to be forcefully stopped. Hikari has no complaints because his mining lured in Rock Birds, the local monsters, and she loves the taste of Rock Bird meat, especially when Sora cooks it. Ironically, they find the stairs on the way back up, after they've been searching for two days straight.
• Sora calls Leila over, knowing she's very influential in town, and reveals to her that magic ores, even mithril, can be found on the 15th floor, because he's interested in leveraging this information. The next day, he's called for a meeting with the town lord, Bozen, to learn Leila's his daughter, and Bozen is very, very interested in this discovery. Sora's party, among a few others, are sent down into the dungeon with professional miners to survey the 15th floor. The expedition is a roaring success, making Bozen very happy indeed.
• Sora and crew continue challenging the dungeon, having little difficulty, even though the 16th floor and below are known for problematic undead monsters. The issue happens when they reach floor 27, as someone triggered a monster parade trap and two very well-known parties, 1000 coins and Bloody Roses are in trouble. When all hope is lost and Leila is about to be petrified by a cockatrice's petrifying breath, along comes Sora, who is now immune to it, thanks to his [Ailment Resistance] skill, and he kills the monster. With the help of Rurika and Chris dismantling the cockatrice, he's able to brew antidotes to the petrification, even for those who have been completely petrified, provided they weren't shattered. After some investigation by the rescue teams, lead by Ash, it's revealed that the whole thing was due to the Boschell party setting off the monster parade traps and luring monsters unto other adventurers. The fate of the Boschell party is not known, but it's not likely to be kind, as the guild really looks down on attempted murder. One of Leila's party members, Casey, for reasons unknown, has a particularly bad reaction to the cockatrice's breath weapon, and even Sora's revolutionary medicine can only temporarily pause the spread, not cure it, and healing magic isn't enough to even stem the tide.
• Sora and crew leave the orphan maid trainees with Taliyah in Bozen's mansion and head for The Dragon Kingdom to try and find a magic nut that can only be found in the Dragon Kingdom that might, just might, have the extra oomph his potions need to cure Casey.

Volume 4: Dragon Kingdom

• Sora and crew cross a dangerous mountain path to get to the kingdom, since time is of the essence and the safer route takes way too long, Casey's potions would run out by then. After finding an inn, Sora goes to the local slave trader trying to find info on Eris, but no luck, leaving only two viable remaining options a Hidden Elf Village in Black Forest or going back to Elysia's royal palace where Human Sacrifice may well be occurring if the book Sora read in the Majolica library is accurate. Sora also presents the introduction letter to the local lord seeking permission to go to the island source of the magic nut Sora needs to craft an improved petrification antidote. Sora was turned away due to the magic nut being unavailable.
• The next day, Sora is called back to the lord's mansion and tasked with a bandit suppression mission in exchange for access to the island where the magic nut can be found. Too Desperate to Be Picky, Sora agrees and Hikari insists on going with him.
• Sora and Hikari go with a squad of knights disguised as adventurers deploying a Defensive Feint Trap to lure the bandits out. The nature of the quest forbids the rest of Sora's party from attending. As the operation is underway, the head knight Richard and Hikari have a private chat. Hikari speculates that Sora might have difficulty with the mission, not from lack of skill or strength, but because Sora doesn't have that much experience fighting (and killing) humans. Hikari herself has no such compunctions, to Richard's horror.
• When the inevitable fight occurs, Sora tries to take the bandits alive, if he can, until Hikari is critically wounded, trying to protect him. Sora pulls out all the stops and uses lethal force. He is able to save Hikari's life.
• The town lord, impressed, grants Sora a permit to visit the island where the nuts grow. When Sora and crew arrive, they learn why the nuts aren't available. The tree is exclusive to a local dungeon and the floor where the tree grows has been invaded by minotaurs which have taken position to keep anyone from approaching the tree. In order to get the nuts they need, Sora's team must defeat the minotaurs.
• Guided through the dungeon by Yunin, one of the princesses, over several days, Sora and party reach the tree and see nine minotaurs claiming the tree as their territory. After carefully preparing their strategies and tactics, Sora's party defeats the minotaurs and claim their share of nuts, no more, no less. The tree shines, as if rewarding them.
• Sora and party enjoy some minotaur barbeque, take minotaur monster stones, and the nuts they need, and Sora takes Hikari, Mia, and Sera to the island's slave trader, which specializes in Slave Liberation. Sera is happy to be freed. Mia needs a bit of convincing, but once Sora's made it clear that she is still precious to him and is more than welcome on his journey, slave or not, and provides her an ID from Bozen making her a legit citizen of Majolica, she agrees to be freed. Hikari, when offered her freedom, has a panic attack and hysterically refuses to be freed, even if she's informed that Sora has no intention of abandoning her. She's lived her whole life as a slave and simply can't function any other way. Resigned, Sora lets her keep the slave collar, hugs her, pets her on the head, and the party leaves the island.
• When Sora and party reach the inn, the receptionist tells them they have an important guest on the second floor. Sora and crew find Leila and Casey there, with the latter's condition being especially dire, Leila stating that Casey couldn't risk waiting for treatment as her condition's deterioration was escalating, even with healing magic and the potions petrification antidotes Sora left behind. Quickly, but without rushing, Sora uses the magic nuts and other ingredients to brew an even better petrification antidote that he feeds Casey. Although the antidote works, Casey still needs weeks, if not months, of physical therapy to recover. After learning that the kingdom of Elysia is pushing for an offensive on Black Forest, Sora and crew bid Leila a hearty "good luck and safe travels" and leave with Black Forest in mind, but to get there have to go through Chris, Sera, and Rurika's home country of Eldos.

Volume 5: Republic of Eldo

• Sora's party gets to the border and is challenged by the guards, who are all quite wary after the war with Boschell and the call to arms from Elysia. They are able to get past the border checkpoint when Chis and Rurika reveal on their ID that they are native born residents of Eldo.
• The party stops at Chris, Sera, and Rurika's home town of Nahal and find the place in a miserable state. Already having a hard time feeding its people, due to poor soil, the discovery of a nearby ruins brought in swarms of researchers, adventurers, and other officials, leading to the town's food situation becoming critical, famine just one meal away. Sora tries his hand at alchemy to make basic fertilizer. Thanks to his fame in Majolica for making Full Potions and Petrification Antidote, the process to try and find fertilizers (known as soil medicine to the locals) that would improve their crop yields is welcomed with open arms.
• Chris has a Prophetic Dream regarding the ruins and Sora does his best to help her investigate.
• While investigating the ruins, Chris and Sora trigger a certain magic puzzle left behind due to being an elf and otherworlder respectively. The end result is a holographic recording of a man named Yukata who was a summoned "hero" from centuries ago, brought to fight the Demon King, but at the cost of his classmates, learned the Awful Truth, the kingdom of Elysia is always the one to summon Tyke Bomb heroes to keep in a Gilded Cage to deal with the Demon King that rises as a result of brutal war among the humans and when their job is done, their magic skills are stripped away and they're disposed of. The promise to return home is a bold-faced lie.
• The ruins come under attack by monsters and intelligence agents of Elysia Kingdom. Hikari is paralyzed with fear while the mastermind of the attack tries to kill Sora and Chris for being an otherworlder and elf respectively.
• Sora and crew are greatly underestimated by the intelligence agent mastermind Shuza and he withdraws after all his monsters were defeated, trying to escape with a smoke screen. Sora catches up to him, but he self-destructs before Sora can learn anything and has to walk back to the others due to using up all his MP in the chase.
• In the aftermath of the attack, and not knowing why Elysia sent special forces in the first place, the ruins are sealed off and the party heads off towards the Black Forest, figuring that if they return to Nahal, it would be difficult to leave again, and there's nothing further they can do to help.

Volume 6: Demon Kingdom

• On the way to Black Forest, the party has to skirt the border towns of the Boschell Empire. This inevitably brings Sera in near miss with Marx, one of the abusive slave-masters she was saddled with. The guy has a grudge-match with her because his incompetents caused many of her companions to die and her retaliation when he tried to strike her to vent his frustrations caused him to be demoted from his lofty aristocratic position by his father and left his face scarred.
• Marx rounds up the local police with some cock and bull story, and a few bribes, to try and hunt her down like a beast which leads Sora and crew to go to Black Forest a bit early, after Hikari suggested using Monster-PK tactics.
• Marx and his corrupt guards wind up walking into a noise-maker trap which lures a swarm of monsters at them, reducing their numbers from over 30 to less than 4, with Marx himself playing the role of a helpless casualty.
• Marx tries to backstab Sera when she heads to their direction, which was an especially stupid move because she uses Hikari's paralysis dagger on him and every last one of the 4 remaining officers who attacked her. Without any ailment resistance, the paralysis normally takes 3 days, on average, to wear off, now Marx gets to know the feeling of unadulterated fear Hikari and her companions faced every time he sent them off to Black Forest under suicide missions, and since he and his army of compromised guards are days away from the nearest town, and at least a day away from the highway, the chances that someone will show up to rescue them before more monsters are drawn in by the smell of blood are remote.
• The party follows the directions they got from the Dragon King and find the hidden village, but the search for Chris's friend Elis was a bust. Still, there is some good news, Sora finds one of his fellow summoned teens who was earlier captured by Ignis and brought to the village to be away from Elysia kingdom propaganda and brainwashing. Sora does not recognize her because she's become far more outgoing and energetic than she used to be when he last saw her.
• As Sora and crew are making plans to invade the royal castle of Elysia to look for Eris, Ignis arrives and mentions that the Demon King has summoned them to an audience. Everybody is rightfully quite nervous as they head to the throne room, where said "king" has an entourage of about 20 demons, not including Ignis. After the room is cleared, the demon king reveals herself to be... ELIS, the elf Chris and Rurika have been searching for!
• The twists keep coming! The "heroes" wearing slavery masks, high level adventurers, kingdom operatives, knights, etc. go into battle with the Demon King while Chris is missing. Sora and crew return to the Demon King's castle using a magic tool to find her, and after fighting their way through a bunch of human supremacists and the Elysia operatives, they reach the throne, to see the heroes down for the count, Chris frozen in terror, and the Demon King and Ignis.
• Then for the biggest wham yet! Mia "tries a new spell" to free the heroes, only for goddess Elizabeth to descend and possess her, showing that the recording Sora found stating that the goddess is behind everything, making both the Demon King and the "hero" summoning, just to amuse herself.
• Goddess Elizabeth proposes a Sadistic Choice. Either kill Elis "the demon lord" or Mia has to die. Mia, trapped and helpless in her own body, wishes Sora to kill her if that's what it takes to stop the Mad God. After a heated fight, she gets her wish, and Sora puts Mia into suspended animation to drive out the evil goddess.
• Goddess Elizabeth, enraged, tries to possess Chris, just to stick it to everybody present that things didn't go her way. She is then driven back to her own realm, at horrific cost, by the demon chancellor.
• Sora, unable to forgive Elizabeth for her villainy, follows the Demons into her divine realm in hot pursuit, leaving Hikari and the rest behind to protect Elis and Mia's helpless body. The instant Sora enters the divine realm, Hikari's Slave Collar breaks, and the subliminal conditioning to which she was subjected as part of her assassin training takes over, causing her to lose control of her body and try to kill Elis. Sora's fellow summon Kotori is mortally wounded restraining Hikari until she can be subdued. Meanwhile, Sora and crew are in a battle to the death with Elizabeth, in her own realm, where she has all the advantages.
• Most of the Demons lose their lives in the fight while Elizabeth repeatedly gloats and tries to provoke everyone into being Blinded by Rage, until Sora unlocks several new skills and overpowers her with semi-automatic fire with bullets composed of her Kryptonite Factor. Elizabeth finally goes down, for keeps, Sora himself nearly dying in the process. The Dragon King appears to make sure she dies and then bring Sora and the survivors back to the mortal realm.
• The rest of the volume explores Elizabeth's tragic backstory of how all her fellow gods either left her behind or died, leaving her to maintain the world alone, and she slowly but surely turned evil as she was Driven by Envy.

Volume 7: Collapse of Elysia Kingdom

• The volume focuses on the Beast King, using the call to arms, as an excuse to infiltrate the Elysia Kingdom, posing as adventurers, in order to target King Elysia, while the king himself, oblivious, plots and schemes to summon even more unwitting "heroes" to engage in territorial expansion via conquest.
• Kotori is revealed to have survived Hikari's rampage, Eris is no longer a "demon king" with Elizabeth's death, and Kotori is made the Master in a master/slave contract with the "heroes" who had originally led the charge against Eris, to keep them in line, the alternative being their deaths. The heroes are not happy about it, but soon learn the truth of how King Elysia had exploited and abused them, and after getting fully prepared with replacement equipment and some training by Rurika and Chris, being sent as part of the force to attack Elysia's royal castle, both to prevent any future summoning and to rescue the elves that may be held captive there.
• As Sora is invading the castle, he meets with the Royal Capital adventurers, who are helping the beast-men, and reveals that he faked his death to escape the kingdom's special forces, who were trying to kill him, and they all join forces to learn that indeed elves were sacrificed to summon the "heroes" and the kingdom was planning to summon more, Morrigan, the kindly orphanage attendant was put in a mask of slavery and forced to make a magic trap that summoned shadows to defend the captives, and if the shadows were damaged, the captives took the damage instead, and lastly, hero with the [Saint] job was shoved into the place where the holy sword was kept to serve as a battery for the castle's magic barrier, with the rest having been lied to that she was taken away for medical treatment while they were sent after Elis. To say that everyone thinks the king's actions mean death is too good for him would be an understatement.
• After Sora and crew finish storming the castle, the Beast King barges into the throne room and has a nice chat with King Elysia, taking advantage of the latter's human supremacy and a hidden transmission device to provoke an Engineered Public Confession where the king gloated about all his crimes, misdeeds, sacrificing elves, kidnaping, brainwashing, and exploiting otherworld heroes, and the entire black-ops program to abuse the holy hell out of the descendants of past heroes by giving them Training from Hell starting at a very early age and making them earn slave-mask that can't be removed safely, making them little more than dolls with short and cruel lives. In the end, King Elysia and his entire court are condemned and made into criminal slaves themselves.
• With the king taken down, all his sins exposed, and his captives freed, especially [Saint] Miaru, the city's barrier against monsters fails and a monster stampede that was not engineered took place. Thankfully for the capital, the planners of the attack saw this coming and mounted a defense.
• Aftermath: With Goddess Elizabeth dead, there's no longer a Demon King, and with the Royalty of Elysia captured and turned to criminal slaves by their own laws, neither the country of Elysia nor the Demon Territory have barriers to protect from the monsters of Black Forest, so the "Demons" of the Hidden Elf Village have to migrate and the Royal Capital of Elysia has its own issues. Sora and crew help the migration to the Eldo Republic, where the demons have their best chances of successfully integrating, since the republic is very inclusive of any and all races.

Volume 8: Eldo Republic 2

• The migration from the hidden village in Black Forest to the town of Nahal in the Eldo republic is going smoothly with Morrigan at the helm, and the summoned Heroes are finally free of Elysia's tyranny, but without ID, they can't do much, so they're getting ID as residents of Eldo Republic until they get a good feel for what they want to do. Sora's experiments in creating fertilizer have borne fruit, literally, and the town prospers.

Volume 9: Dragon Kingdom 2

• Though the volume is actually quite long, it all boils down to Sora heading back to the Dragon Kingdom, going to the bottom of the dungeon, speaking with the Dryad God Eliana, getting the magic nut he needs to brew an elixir and bringing Mia back to life. He succeeds in exchange for the oath to scour the other 7 dungeons of the world for the remaining gods who are all missing. Sora decides to start with the dungeon in Majolica that he's about half-way done with.

Volume 10: Majolica Kingdom 2

• On the way to Majolica, Sora and crew stop in the Holy Kingdom to bring Dan Apostle up to speed regarding Mia's survival. Hikari and Yor's younger sister Yuri briefly reunite and Dan asks Sora to deliver a letter to Yor, and it seems the aftermath of Elizabeth's death is felt heavily by the church.
• After leaving the Holy See, Sora's group visit the village attacked by orcs way back in Volume 2, and it's almost unrecognizable. The citizens don't recognize Sora right away, but when he whips out the mask, they immediately welcome their savior and herd Sora's crew to a less-crowded inn near the farmlands. Sora and crew spend the night and leave again in the morning.