DanMachi Volume 18 will be released on January 24, 2023. All spoilers should be posted here. Feel free to discuss the volume in the comments below
Note: Don't read anything below the gallery if you don't like spoilers
Link to the Sample
https://r.binb.jp/epm/e1_275643_01122022182902/
Chapters[]
- Double Role II
- Chapter 6: A Goddess’ Journey ~Orario’s Revelation~
- Chapter 7: After this Battle is Over We’re Getting Married
- Monologue VI
- Chapter 8: Faction War
- Chapter 9: Words of Flowers to You
- Epilogue: Double Cast
Hestia is most likely the one that says Chapter 7's title based on the Japanese pronouns and speech pattern used in the title.
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Spoilers[]
- Prologue takes place in Heaven.
- The goddesses of Beauty were feared but they were generally spoiled like princesses with a virgin Goddess placed near them to act as a stopper. In Freya's case Odin manipulated her surroundings to make it seem like she had freedom but in actuality it was more a prison to keep her inside. This was because Freya's power was able to overcome virgin Goddesses with Freya herself noting that the 3 great virgin Goddesses of Olympus were probably the only ones that could stop her. .
- Freya thinks to herself in one line of the prologue that if she went to out of line Odin might have her killed with his spear.
- A new goddess named Idun is in a flashback in the prologue. She was the one who encouraged Freya to search for her Odr.
- Chapter 1 begins with Ryu noticing that her hair has grown longer and was blond at its roots at the beginning of the chapter, because Syr was always the one that dyed and cut it for her.
- Bors gives Ryuu a broken pieces of her branch from her Alf's Lumina wooden sword.
- Asfi also informs Ryuu of Astraea's location which was 剣製都市（ゾーリンゲン）Solingen, which is a city far in the East, which Hephaestus found Welf previously in the series.
- The sample ends with Ryu leaving to meet Astraea.
- Ryuu raised from Level 4 to Level 6. She is the first one in history to achieve a consecutive level up.
- Ryuu gained a new magic, Astraea Record, a new skill, Astrae Varmas, two new development abilities, Mage and Chain Attack, and a new weapon, Alf's Justitia.
- Bell became Level 5. He gained a new skill, Vanadis Tevere, and a new development ability, Chain Attack.
- Upon activating his bestification skill, Ottar is shown to gain the power of a Level 8.
- 47 Familias and over 800 people participate in the War Game.
- After Bell and Ryuu finish fighting someone, she confesses to him.
- Ryuu's Magic Astraea Record has the effect of being able of using the previous Astraea Familia members magic.
- She uses Agaris Alvesynyth and Gokou, which are Alise's Flame Enchant Magic and Kaguya's Magic.
- Bell's new Skill Vanadis Tevere activates whenever Charm is targeting him. It heavily incresases all of his stats while continuous replenishing his health and mind.
- Bell and Ryuu join the battle against Ottar who is already in combat with a dwarf (it is not specified who is the dwarf in the raw). It's around this time when Ryuu confesses to Bell, with him unconsciously responding before realizing the what the words from her mouth were and froze blushing as usual.
- The Loki Familia was banned from participating to prevent them accidentally killing each other. Finn agreed and in exchange the familia got information about Floor 60th and onwards.
- Asfi was also banned from the War Game due to her ability to fly.
- Heith is a Level 4. Originally a fighter, she became a healer after seeing her limit in fighting, though never expecting to become one of Orario's top 2. She easily defeated Bors.
- Cassandra was put in charge of long range/wide area healing.
- Hogni lost against Ryuu because his curse weapon greatly drained his stamina making him too slow to keep up with Ryuu's attacks. During the fight it was revealed that all curse weapons have a negative side-effect that it inflicts their users whenever they pour their magic into the weapon or cut someone with it. The curse weapons' side-effects vary by weapon, but some of those side-effects could be; temporarily lowering of the user's status, or the weapon might drain the user's mind or stamina, among other side-effects. Hogni's weapon "Victim Abyss" side-effect is only that it drains his stamina.