Synopsis

The chapter begins with concerns about the protagonist's extended time inside a demonic chamber, a place of trials. He then appears in a void where he loses his senses but feels comforted. He briefly blacks out after grabbing a black sword and awakens, discovering he absorbed demonic plasma energy. Meanwhile, an Imugi serpent is shedding its skin and transforming, and is attacked by a mysterious person, and the protagonist experienced a trance, not unconsciousness.