Our Story Begins
My Isekai Life begins with a boy, named Yuuji, who is an explorer from the village of Phastan. Because he is classified as a Monster Tamer, most people assume he is weak and is often overlooked. He is however a very powerful sorcerer known as a sage. Ten thousand monsters attack the village, and Yuuji assists the other adventurers in defending it.
Yuuji can protect the village with a barrier and destroy the monsters with Dragon’s fire by feeding a dragon bone to one of his slimes. Simultaneously tracking the monsters with his slimes, as well as his wolf monster Proudwolf and forest spirit Dryad. His other slimes apprehend the culprit, a member of the Blue Moon of Salvation cult.
The cultist, on the other hand, commits suicide. This act leaves behind a magical lantern that he used to control the monsters. Yuuji passes out as a result of using too much magic. He then recalls a previous life as a Salaryman in Japan, so he flees the partying adventurers less he repeats his past.
Yuuji visits Kilia’s adventurer guild and is invited to form a party with the knife wielder Rodis, archer Tina, and spear wielder Lisa due to his tracking abilities. They take a job tracking a rock dragon. That night as they sleep, Yuuji dreams of falling asleep as a salaryman but waking up in the world of a game he was playing as a Novice Tamer.
Path to Becoming Overpowered
Despite his confusion, he tamed several slimes and immediately discovered the disused hut of a deceased sorcerer. He found that as the slimes read the sorcerers’ book collection he instantly gained all the skills and knowledge from the books and within minutes gained the title of Sage. Awakening he finds Rodis is missing.
Following Rodis to a bandit camp, they discover he is a bandit who lures and kidnaps adventurers to sell them into slavery. Yuuji turns the bandits’ camp into solid ice, and the girls realize one of them is Gelios, an infamous bandit and cult member with a large price on his head. He realizes the Blue Moon cult was behind the Phastan attack and appears concerned about a cryptic prediction Gelios made about a future disaster.
Yuuji, Tina, and Lisa continue to pursue the rock dragon. As predicted by the cultist’s prophecy, the moon and sky turn blue, and a blue dragon appears, forcing them to seek refuge in the nearby Delight Canyon. The rock dragon appears and prevents Yuuji, Tina, and Lisa from proceeding. Yuuji uses the slimes to cast a powerful fire spell on the Earth Dragon, causing only its skeleton to remain.
From Salaryman to Riches
The guild pays them 14 million gold for the dragon skull and the bounty on Gelios. Yuuji is coerced into attending a meeting with Guild Chief Rayard and Grand Cathedral representative Father Steyl. According to Steyl, in church legend, a dragon appeared and destroyed a continent before being defeated by a divine emissary who rivaled God’s power.
30 years ago the church performed a summoning ceremony to cause the emissary to appear one week before the dragon, but the emissary never came. Even without the emissary, Rayard orders the guild to attack the dragon at first light. In private, Steyl reveals a holy vision that directed him to gift Yuuji a church relic, the Dagger of Kethis, which can focus magic power. That night, as his slimes report that the blue dragon continues to grow larger, Yuuji fears many adventurers will die and comes to a decision.
Yuuji and his slimes launch an assault on the dragon. Yuuji is able to avoid the dragon’s attacks by using protective barrier magic and stabs it in the neck with his fire magic concentrated in the Dagger of Kethis, causing the dragon to explode instantly. Steyl flees after the dragon is mysteriously defeated, but Rayard suspects Yuuji. Yuuji, having attracted too much attention yet again, departs for Ricaardo, which Tina and Lisa describe as a completely ordinary place.
Looking For A Delicious Meal
Dryad informs Yuuji that dead dragons contain Dragon Grace, which has sprouted mushrooms around the corpse and can be used to make potions, red to increase Sage skills, and blue to restore depleted magic. Yuuji recalls first meeting Dryad dying after an unknown person drained her forest’s magic with a crystal, so he saved her with a magic transfusion before destroying the crystal, restoring her forest. Yuuji comes across the Village of Messias, which is shrouded in fog.
The villagers are suspicious of his presence, but they let him go after he assures them that he was simply lost. The villagers contact an unknown person as he leaves to reassure him that their plan to retrieve the Dragon Grace is unaffected.
Entering Ricaardo Yuuji learns the snow is unusual and none of the villagers were prepared for it, as such the firewood has already been used up. Disappointed he can’t try Ricardo’s famous cuisine without cooking fires, Yuuji figures out how to use his slimes to dry out freshly chopped trees to make perfect firewood. The town chef, grateful for the wood, cooks Yuuji one of his finest dishes in gratitude.
Investigating Unusual Snowfall
Yuuji joins the local foresters and surprises them by procuring enough wood for the entire town to last several weeks, although the rest of Ricaardo is still short on wood. Yuuji is served another meal, but the chef reveals that it is not his best because the fields where the town grows its famous herbs are plagued by monsters that eat them. Proudwolf and the slimes assist in locating and defeating the boar-type monsters. They also discover a crystal orb, which is Dragon Grace refined into a cursed crystal that is absorbing all of the magic in the area and causing the snow. Yuuji follows other crystals set in a circular pattern to the pattern’s center and, despite Dryad’s displeasure, destroys the forest around the center, revealing an old house with a trapdoor leading underground.
Yuuji discovers an enormous machine that uses stolen magic absorbed by the crystal orbs to produce Dragon Grace. The slimes explore the cave and emerge in Messias, proving all the villagers are Blue Moon cultists. Their leader Javier is furious Yuuji’s destroying the forest also damaged the machine. Working in secret the slimes swallow all the cult’s sacred texts and treasure.
Yuuji decides to kill the cultists until Javier mentions the Cleansing Flame, a weapon that will destroy the area if the cultists die, including Ricaardo village. He decides to let them live, but all of the cultists commit suicide in order to activate the Flame. Yuuji works quickly to recover the slimes. By combining every magical barrier he knows, creates a new spell called Total Isolation Barrier, which prevents the Flame from spreading beyond Messias.
Assassins Pride
The snow starts to melt and the Ricaardo villagers celebrate Yuuji as the Firewood Hero and reward him with Chef’s true finest meal since he now has access to his herb field again. The texts are booby-trapped with a spell that turn them blank, except for a list of the cult’s targets, which includes Yuuji. Elsewhere, two assassins with an identical list choose Yuuji as their next target.
On the advice of the villagers, Yuuji heads for Boginia, a town famous for outfitting tamed monsters with armor. The assassins follow him to determine if he is a threat to the cult. Aware of their presence, Yuuji considers killing them but worries this will draw the cult’s attention; instead, he decides to find a way to have his name removed from the assassin’s list.
Reaching Boginia Yuuji puts on a convincing display that he is a penniless idiot and a drunk. He also attempts to pretend to be an amateur monster tamer while batting several Bull monsters, but his warrior instincts are too strong and he accidentally reveals his skill with a sword. The assassins are confused but eventually conclude he is a complete novice with some natural sword skills, and leave to report to their employer who reveals to them about Messias’s destruction.
Protect Thy Father
The slimes overhear the assassins discussing their next target, Father Steyl. Unwilling to let that happen, Yuuji has his slime set off an ice explosion, freezing the assassins solid. With the assassins dealt with Yuuji is able to act normally again and asks Boinia’s best armorer, Geigel, for armor for his slimes. Geigel agrees but claims there is a problem with a monster at a nearby volcano.
Geigel reveals to craft suitable armor he must have a jewel from a Blue Lesser Fire Dragon. The volcano is a nest for Lesser Fire dragons, and Blue Lessor Fire Dragons are the rarest. Yuuji learns from the guild the only way to defeat one would be to fatally cool their bodies. The only option available is a river, which is home to a giant monster piranha. On the way, Yuuji tames several red fire slimes who help him capture the piranha for a large bounty. He also defeats multiple dragons using water summoned by magic and collects their jewels. His slimes eventually locate a blue dragon which is defeated by ice magic.
Returning to the guild Yuuji collects multiple quest rewards for killing 202 dragons, 2 blue dragons, and the piranha. With an abundance of jewels Geigel crafts armor for the slimes and Proudwolf. This vastly increases their speed, though gives warning his most powerful spells could damage or even destroy the armor. The only way to craft stronger armor is with a jewel from a true Flame Dragon, which lives in the lava of the volcano and rarely comes to the surface. The remaining Lesser dragons suddenly go mad from the same cultist spell that made 10,000 monsters attack Phastan. The Flame Dragon itself emerges from the volcano.
The Flame Dragon
The slimes spot two men heading for the fire dragon carrying barrels. They mention they came from a town called Ordarion. They avoid Yuuji’s trap, proving they are experienced, but they are captured regardless. To avoid interrogation they commit suicide, proving they were with the cult. Dryad confirms the barrels contain cursed water, a weaker version of the cursed crystals. These are designed to enrage the Flame Dragon. It begins to rain, which enrages the Fire Dragon who never emerges during the rainy season. Because water and fire don’t mix, duh! Terrified, the villagers evacuate Boginia while Yuuji stays behind to confront it. The dragon is so hot its presence dries up a river.
Yuuji uses ice magic to slow the Dragon down while using a barrier to dam the river. Afterward, he releases the collected water once it rises high enough and completely submerges the giant Dragon. This only enrages it and it attempts to destroy Boginia. Yuuji is forced to use his strongest ice spell and freezes the Dragon solid, killing it.
The slimes collect the dropped Flame jewel and also discover an object near the volcano. Yuuji gives the Flame jewel to Geigel who promises to craft armor never seen before. He then discovers the object is an artificial rainmaker. The cult made it rain to enrage the dragon on purpose.
Prelude to the Awakening
Yuuji reaches Ordarion and identifies cult members who refer to someone called Walter. Father Steyl explains that in his youth he founded the Blue Moon Church to honor dead adventurers. Walter joined the church and quickly became Steyl’s right-hand man. Soon after Steyl and his loyal followers murdered all other church members except Steyl. They established the cult with the goal of cleansing the world of all sin and corruption, meaning all of humanity.
By divine revelation, Steyl is convinced Yuuji is the divine emissary and it is his destiny to defeat Walter. Steyl does not tell Yuuji the whole truth about his revelation. Walter receives a divine revelation the emissary will be victorious if Steyl is killed. Steyl leaves Ordarion so Yuuji has the slimes follow him to where Walter resides with the rest of the cultists. Believing Yuuji is the emissary Steyl plans to let Walter kill him so Yuuji will be victorious. Steyl is suddenly betrayed by his own servant Johann. Johann has been in contact with Walter, who has known about Yuuji the entire time. Yuuji arrives just in time to save Steyl.
Walter places himself inside a machine that infuses his body with Dragon Grace, mutating him into a dragon. Yuuji outfits Proud Wolf and a slime with their armor, allowing them to destroy part of Walter’s body. Walter absorbs Grace from his monsters, healing himself and growing larger. Coordinating his slimes, Yuuji traps Walter in nets and destroys his body. Before dying Walter prays that the Revelation will begin.
The Sage Awakens
Walter’s machine activates upon Walter’s death, absorbing his corpse, his monsters, and even Johann, to summon a one-eyed man who calls himself Sage. Steyl is forced to reveal the rest of the Revelation to Yuuji, that the death of a teacher shall cause the Emissary to be victorious; he had assumed it would be his death that made Yuuji victorious, but it is clear it meant Walter’s death would resurrect the original emissary that died centuries ago fighting the original blue dragon.
Sage, using magic similar to Yuuji’s, attempts to kill him and destroys the cave to escape into the sky. Despite a ferocious fight Yuuji and his slimes are unable to defeat Sage. Sage begins the Salvation of the world by activating multiple rainmaker machines powered by Grace, creating rainclouds that rain Grace over all the land, infecting monsters across the world.
The monsters begin attacking nearby villages. Sage claims he will provide Salvation by destroying the world. The slimes reveal that in every village he has visited adventurers and citizens have risen up in defense of their homes, inspired by Yuuji. Steyl receives a new revelation; when the sun and moon unite divine judgement will be bestowed.
Protecting His Home
Sage questions Yuuji about why he insists on defending the world. Yuuji only responds that he likes the world the way it is. Yuuji concentrates his most powerful spell, Divine Judgement, into the Dagger of Kethis. This creates a light so bright that it temporarily eclipses the sun, just as in Steyl’s revelation. Sage is killed after being stabbed with the dagger. Despite the fact that the entire village is celebrating, Yuuji chooses to remain silent once more. Elsewhere, the remaining cult members dismiss Walter’s death as insignificant. They continue working on a new machine, The Purifier, that will destroy the entire continent. And, with it, their ultimate foe, the Black Dragon of Judgement.
Eavesdropping through his slime Yuuji is irritated that the cult hasn’t given up. Yuuji learns from local guild leader Meggia after that defeating dragons and Sage has made him famous across the continent. This makes his desire to live in obscurity impossible. There the anime ends and I am seriously hoping for a second season!
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