Krai Andrey/Synopsis

All information below are accumulated from the main source: the light novel.

### Arc 1: Stifled Shadow

Krai Andrey reminisced his past with his friends five years ago. He stated how his life had changed after he realized how untalented he was.

Krai Andrey mentioned how the [First Steps] was founded and its function in society. Then three years after its founding, he invited all of his clan members to have a 'clan retreat'. Unfortunately, it went into disaster when the Prism Garden was born. At that time, everyone went terrified of how sadistic their clan master was.

In the current timeline, Krai bumped into a beautiful big-chest amber haired girl named Rhuda Runebeck during the 5th Recruitment Drive of First Steps. Next, Greg interjected and introduced himself. Then, later on Gilbert Bush was introduced after making a scene in the bar.

Gilbert Bush dared to call for the attention of Grieving Souls. However, Tino Shade confronted him to stop making a fuss. The two exchanged a hot discussion that led for Krai Andrey to drag away Rhuda with him. He didn't want to be swallowed in the tension between the two troublemakers. However, Tino Shade sensed his presence, and she unintentionally interrupted him to exit the building.

The lousy Krai met up with Ark Rodin who was escorted by Isabella Melnes. The two exchanged a few greetings before they went into deep discussion. Ark Rodin was expecting him to make a recommendation, so Krai obliged to accept it.

Krai recommended Gilbert Bush, but he declared in the public that whoever beat him up and stole his [Shot Ring] would receive a reward: a recommendation to join the Ark Brave. The whole crowd was bewildered when Tino Shade made a move and knocked down Gilbert in one kick. The whole bar was wrecked afterward.

In the next morning, Eva Renfied entered the clan master office elegantly. She showed off the headlines of the newspaper that contained the incident at the bar. The two exchanged a few words before Eva told him that he was summoned in the Associations. Despite his refusal, Krai surrendered and headed his way for the place.

Later on, he safely entered the building of the Explorers Association Imperial Branch, and he was greeted by Chloe Welter. She's a cute and adorable receptionists. Krai Andrey went for the office and quickly used his ultimate move (dogeza) in front of Gark Welter and Kaina Noss. He genuflected and asked for forgiveness.

Feeling such an incident was an usual errand, Krai Andrey simply teased Gark and Kaina to make a good decision. Thus, he aggressively requested to give him a [penalty game].

Krai, who believed it was the easiest, took the level 3 quest without a question, and he jokingly mentioned he would do the corpse retrieval. Gark retorted it, but he resigned to scold him any further.

Gark and Kaina simply smiled when he took the 'most difficult quest' after Krai left the office without realizing his grave mistake.

Krai went for the clan lobby, looking for the present of Ark Rodin. However, he was absent.
Thankfully, he found Tino Shade. His self-proclaimed disciple ran away when she read the contents, but she was caught easily by her master's chain dog relic.

Krai proposed she should form a party of 4 hunters. Tino Shade felt hopeless and accepted his orders.

In the next morning, Tino Shade looked helpless when the members of her party accepted her master's request.

Gilbert Bush, Rhuda Runebeck, Greg were invited in the lobby, but Tino Shade blatantly told them to resign if they didn't want to.

Meanwhile, Krai Andrey and Eva Renfied had a short discussion about it. Eva reminded her superior that Tino was still young to lead a party, but Krai corrected her that it was for her own growth. Besides, Krai firmly trusted her abilities because she was trained by his childhood friend.

A loud slam opened the door. Crying Tino went ahead and hit her head on Krai's stomach. She grumbled how awful the situation was. Eva scolded Tino that clan members except the deputy was not permitted to enter the clan office, but the crying lady ignored it.

Eventually, Krai went along and came with Tino down to the lobby. From there, he met vis-a-vis with her slapped party.

Gilbert hit him with a complaint aloud, but Krai feigned no mind. Greg was surprised to realize that Krai Andrey was the young level 8 certified hunter. He mentioned his position as the party leader of Grievers and the founding clan master of the First Steps.

Rhuda was shocked too, but Gilbert made it a butt of joke. Believing Krai was just a clown who used his clan members experience to earn the level.

To his surprise, Krai didn't deny it since he was really receiving it due to metric system.
Since Gilbert kept complaining, Krai made a decision to ask him to leave. With this kind of rejection, Gilbert implored for a duel between him and Krai. But Krai dodged the bullet by passing to Tino since she would lead them for the exploration.
A few minutes later, Tino and Gilbert prepared for the duel. Tino asked for an ice cream as a reward, and Krai permitted it once she won.

The duel started and ended quickly. Tino stood victorious against Little Gilbert. But he didn't surrendered and stood on his ground. Trying to savor his dignity as a treasure hunter, Gilbert denied to use his Purgatory Sword.

Krai Andrey stepped in and told him a short speech. Gilbert was astounded when Krai activated and unleashed the full power of his relic without touching its handle. He commented later that Krai Andrey was a monster.

Later that moment, Eva and her clanmaster have exchanged a few words after that event. Eva assumed Krai reformed him, but Krai denied it.
In the lobby, Tinoa Shade told the whole group to write their last will. Rhuda slammed the table in shock.

Soon the team ventured into the specified location: the White Wolf's Den.

Greg suggested to withdraw. Rhuda seconded it. But Tino adamantly declined. Because they were facing a 'thousand trials'. Therefore, they must proceed at all cost because it was part of their training to grow stronger than before and overcame their weaknesses.

Tino Shade and the slapped party was amidst of discussion when the modified wolf phantom with a human body jumped down and attacked them in surprise.

Tino was overwhelmed and dismayed when she saw it with her own two eyes. Asking the reason for her beloved master why she needed to the trial was a bit unreasonable.

A few minutes later, the slapped team succeeded to enter the place without losing a member. Tino's leadership managed to pull it off. She retrieved a short black sword relic, and she temporarily used it as her primarily weapon.

Gilbert Bush realized that his Purgatorial Sword had run out of mana. This increased their leader's anxiety.

Once they arrived the boss room, they planned it once. Tino revealed the reason to everyone that they were selected accordingly. Everyone was blessed with the trial of fire. Therefore, they must finish the quest even it would cause them to die.

Inside the boss room, the battle didn't go well, but they managed to pull it off. Greg lose his sword, and his death was coming for him. Thankfully, Rhuda saved him before the so-called boss hit him with its large sword.

Tino went behind on the boss, but she received a mild injury on her right thighs before she stabbed its back neck with her relic sword.

Everyone finally heaved a sigh of relief afterward.

At that moment, Krai discovered that the penalty game was dangerous quest when he asked a favor to a clan member to charge his dog relic. He was petrified and almost hurled when he heard a bad news. Level 5 hunter and his team were their targets to rescue. Krai told them it was part of his apprentice that made his clan members commented it was a terrible fit for a clanmaster. A man who supervised and trained the Grieving Soul to a trial of fire.

With this predicament, Krai who felt guilty decided to follow them. He equipped himself with several 'defective' relics. Eva caught him on sight, and she was surprised to find out that he was carrying a dangerous capsule: Sitri's slime. But Krai denied it before he went to venture alone in the night.

But as the slapped party begun to search for the targets, four huge humanoid phantom wolves appeared. They were assumed as the real boss of the whole Den.

Everyone were overwhelmed with fear. Gilbert and the rest of the team implored Tino Shade to evacuate immediately. But Tino insisted to stay because she was their party leader.

As they were hopelessly bewildered, a small human rocket missile hit the two phantoms. He knocked down both of them in a blink of an eye.

Who was the missile? It was none other than Krai Andrey. He used the phantoms as a cushion to make an emergency landing.

Tino Shade and her party members were surprised to his sudden entrance. Krai singlehandedly held off the four bosses and instructed Tino Shade to exit the place. In the last moment, Krai Andrey threw away the capsule to buy them a time.

They hailed from the boss room and ran as far as they could. As Krai Andrey stopped moving, everyone followed. Krai used a [Healing Hope], a medical relic to heal Tino Shade's right thigh. Gilbert Bush commented Krai only used a relic for healing which made Krai admitted angrily inside his head that he really used it. Krai was supposed to be in the back, but the slapped party followed him from behind. The job should be on the thief hunters, but since he was a high-leveled treasure hunter, the slapped party made him take the lead.

As they approached the two-way tunnel, Krai Andrey planned to cross the first one, and he would take a U-turn. However, he eventually led them to the current location of the exhausted party of the level 5 treasure hunter 'Rudolph Davout' and his 'missing party' in the quest. Everyone were overwhelmed in surprise, especially Greg who couldn't believe it. Greg was impressed in hopeless bewilderment when Krai used a high-level thief ability without doing anything.

The group packed up and headed off for the escape route, but they halted their advances when Tino Shade sensed a powerful forces coming closer in their distance. Everyone was alerted and equipped their weapons.

Krai Andrey stepped forward because he had still a pride of a treasure hunter. All of them except Krai were frightened when two mask humanoid people appeared out of the tunnel. Tino Shade turned into a scaredy-cat when she recognized the female one. Everyone except Tino heaved a sigh of relief when Krai Andrey recognized the person on the laughing bonehead mask.

Liz Smart appeared in an instant in front of Krai Andrey. The missing people and the slapped party except Tino Shade were bewildered when she unmasked herself. Liz was disappointed when they failed to recognized the most powerful members of the Grieving Souls.

Liz Smart was embarrassed to see Tino Shade. She felt humiliated because her disciple was saved by Krai Andrey, and she couldn't even cleared the trial that her master bestowed to her. Thankfully, her anxiety and rage were ease down when Krai Andrey interjected to calm her down.

Liz Smart saved the day when she beat down the boss whilst she's lecturing her disciple of how to finish them off easily.

In the next morning, Eva reported to Krai and she congratulated him, but Krai ignored it because Tino should do the reporting. Krai wanted to retire, but Liz Smart told him that the Grievers would retire too. Therefore, Krai Andrey had to hold it off and resumed his duties as the clan master and their party leader.

### Arc 2:

Krai Andrey had had the tendency to put himself into misery. He was aware of the consequences of losing the Sitri slime and its potential imminent risk for the Empire. Our protagonist tried his best to look for it, but eventually, he resigned after he contemplated the possibility that it didn't exist at all.

The Imperial Capital was busy nowadays. The Explorers Association and the Imperial Government sent their an investigation team and the Crimson knight order to scrutinize the White Wolf's Den. Two of the Imperial Knights mentioned Thousand Tricks apparent involvement in the quest last time.

After a few days, Eva Renfied entered the clan master's room and reported the aftermath. Eva found her boss polishing his relics with a sloppy face. She aforementioned about the following: the Association was seeking for details about the White Wolf's Den, and how should they dealt with it. Krai commented that he wasn't the leader, and he only followed up with Tino and her slapped party. From his point of view, Tino Shade was the leader, so she should receive the whole credit, excluding him like usual.

Krai was deeply concerned about the slime, so he subconsciously asked Eva if there was 'anything happening within the capital.' Eva was shocked to hear it as there was nothing crossing into her intelligence network.

Note: In the manga, it didn't illustrate the perspective of Eva Renfied about Krai Andrey's moniker origin.

Eva wanted to explore it by asking him for details, but Krai told her that it wasn't serious. With this predicament and random comment, Eva mobilized her intelligence network group to scrutinize the situation in the Imperial Capital. She told them to gather information whether it was unusual, random, unnecessary, and important.

Krai paid a visit in the underground training area to pick up Liz Smart. There, he encountered with salutation from the nameless clan members, and he was a bit calm to talk with them. As he walked closer to the place, Sven Anger pummeled him with complaint about his beasts.

Krai stopped the training of Tino and Liz for a short period. He invited her to walk with him to eat some 'ice cream'.

As Liz Smart was almost convinced enough to stop their training, Tino grabbed her leg to stop her. Weakened Tino Shade was willing to continue, so Liz Smart implored Krai to exit the building. She didn't want Krai to see the disgruntled situation of Tino. Krai and Sven exited the room and headed to the lounge.

On the underground tunnel of the Imperial Capital, there was a peculiar place where no one should even exist and living in. Noctus Cochlear was overwhelmed in worry from the sudden investigation. He even mentioned that 'even Gods didn't predict it that it would eventually happen'. He was also paranoid about the existence and interference of 'Thousand Tricks'.

Krai Andrey, Sven Anger and Henrick were on the lounge. The two founding party leaders were talking about the White Wolf's Den. As Krai was contemplating the situation, he proposed Sven to take the quest of the expedition, and he sent him a message for Gark that he was too busy. Henrik felt disappointed at the clan master, but Sven Anger corrected him that he shouldn't underestimate their leader. Because the party was revolving for him, and the clan was revolving for him too. Therefore, Sven Anger reminded that his words should be taken seriously, and he firmly stated that Krai Andrey was undoubtedly a 'beast'. Only Ansem Smart could hinder his schemes.

In the next morning, Krai Andrey was dreaming about the destruction of the Imperial Capital. He foresaw the whole city was scotched in fire, the crowd were running away, and a beautiful girl with a short pink hair was talking with him happily. She looked like she was enjoying the despair of the others whilst chatting with him. Then, Krai Andrey woke up and heaved a sigh of relief. The nightmare was over. But he later discovered that Liz Smart was sleeping on his bed with him. He pointed out that she might be the reason for his nightmare. In the next scene, Krai Andrey and Liz Smart resumed their plan on a date outright.

Gark Welter, Kaina Noss, and the other selected trusted associates went a visit on the First Steps Clan Building. As Krai and Liz Smart went down on the lounge, they encountered the visitors. Liz Smart assaulted Gark angrily. Kaina and Krai including the associates went on the mess hall to tackle the topic that his visitors was seeking on him.

As Krai Andrey was looking for the slime, Liz Smart caught on hand a civilian. This civilian was accused of stalking the two of them. Fortunately, Krai Andrey implored Liz to let him go that made Liz realized how great he was. She played along for his scheme, but Krai had no idea what she's talking about. Afterward, it was later revealed that the man who got caught by Liz was none other than a member of Akashic Tower.

Sophia Black appeared on the secret base: the old ice cream shop.

Notus Cochlear, Flick and the other trusted members were discussing about the situation. Sophia Black came in and persuaded everyone to fight them head on.

The Associations, the Crimson Knights and Crosses were exploring the den. Henrik commented that it looked like they were cleaning up the mess for the clan master which in turn Sven Anger laughed it off.

Eva Renfied assembled a large number of their clan members. Krai was shocked that she used the data from the Association to accumulate the same power of Ark Rodin. He was also surprised to know that they used his 'comment' as a reference.

Liz Smart kept pestering Krai Andrey. She wanted to go because she wanted to fight.

The ending was simple. Liz Smart cried in disappointment as she failed to defeat the Golem Akasha. Sven Anger, Gark Welter, and the members of the coalition team were surprised on his appearance. Tino was trembling in fear as the Golem dashed forward on their location. Krai Andrey's [Owl Eye] ran out of gas, and he only glimpsed a shadow of a formidable foe. As everyone were hopelessly glimpsed the approaching death of the clan master, the Golem Akasha was bounced back on the ground and tossed away from the shock made by Krai Andrey.

The clan master didn't flinch and made a move. Everyone including the knights order and the unbelievers dropped their jaws in awe. Some of them commented, "Thousand Tricks is a fighter!?" Afterward, Sven Anger came to report to Krai Andrey who was sitting beside at Tino Shade.

Flinch brought the innocent Talia Wydman into their secret base in the old ice cream shop.

### Arc 3:

Krai Andrey attended the meeting with the Third Order, Explorers Association, and Sitri Smart. Krai negotiated with the government that he would likely bought the Malice Eater, Akasha Golem, and the other stuffs. At first the order hesitated, but thanks to Gark Welter's opinion. He convinced them to let it be handled by Krai Andrey. Everything were allowed to be purchased except the golem.

As the meeting ended, Gark Welter, with his secretary Kaina Noss, went after him to discuss about the topic earlier. Gark won't ask what would happen to the Malice Eater, but he literally warned him about the 'dragon slayer' Arnold Hail. But Krai Andrey didn't pay attention to it, and he only recalled that he was also a 'dragon slayer'. With this normal reaction, Gark smirked and left him.

On the central part of the city, Arnold Hail and his party members were strolling. Arnold Hail commanded his crew to find the strongest hunter in the city, marking his regime as the most powerful treasure hunter in the Empire.

### Arc 4:

A cat fight was starting to ignite between the Smart Sisters in the shop named Magi's Tale. Matthis Cardol was having a rough time to calm the storm. Tino Shade was trying to help, but to no avail.

### Arc 11: The Code Fortress

Krai Andrey was teleported inside his office. His vice clan master, Eva Renfied was surprised to see him in person alone. After for a short briefing, Eva reported about the upcoming promotion of Krai Andrey. But this was the certification he wanted the least.

Krai left the report to Eva and he stayed in the clan house to take a rest. Before she exited the room, Eva welcomed him back.

Gark Welter and the Association staff selected members paid a visit at the clan house.

Krai escorted Eva Renfied. Krai split up from the crew, and he headed for the cafeteria. Krai Andrey met a treasure hunter from Galista. His name's Kaizer Zigurd. Then, Krai met also the little girl named Saya Chromis. Both of them were notable level 8 treasure hunters of their own branch.

The three of them exchanged a few words before they ended it. Saya was called by her adopted mother. Then, the two male treasure hunters followed suit. Kaizer used his special technique to blitz their way for the conference room.

The Association, the Imperial government and the three level 8 certified treasure hunters met up in the meeting.