Recaps

Avia discovered the Church’s cruelty toward the Blackmore villagers and the Phantasmal Species, killed the priest responsible, and set out for the Cardinal of Wales. At the Church’s British headquarters, he confronted a force of knights and Executors and declared that he had come to kill.

• Avia found Blackmore’s corpse pinned by a Church Black Key and saw the starving villagers guarded by armed men.
• A priest told Avia that the Church despised the Blackmore villagers and had trapped and slaughtered Phantasmal Species seeking peaceful coexistence.
• Avia killed the priest and burned the church before heading to the Cardinal of Wales.
• The Cardinal ordered that at least one Blackmore villager remain alive and oversaw the Church’s experiments on captured Phantasmal Species.
• Avia arrived at the Church’s main branch in Britain, faced roughly a hundred knights and Executors, and said he had come to kill.

Avia fought the Church forces at the Wales Great Cathedral, where the Rhine Gold helped him unleash a golden strike that destroyed it. Altrouge Brunestud arrived afterward, caught the exhausted Avia, and found herself wanting to eat him.

• Avia killed the Church personnel blocking his path and clashed with Be-Zel, who refused to use his Principle Blood Ring against a human.
• The cardinal ordered the Church members to link their Magic Circuits and fire the cathedral’s collective Magecraft at Avia.
• The Rhine Gold protected Avia and connected him to the remnants of a machine beyond the planet, allowing him to launch a golden arrow that destroyed the cathedral.
• Altrouge removed Blackmore’s corpse from the mountain and left the villagers unconscious as she inherited what was his.
• Altrouge rushed to the destroyed cathedral, found Be-Zel and the exhausted Avia, and caught Avia when he collapsed.
• Altrouge smelled Avia and felt, for the first time, a desire to eat a human.

After Wales Cathedral's destruction was suppressed by the Church, Avia met Altrouge Brunestud and Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg in Constantinople and learned that Mabel Kiara had crippled Zelretch's Second Magic and helped corrupt the Church. Zelretch left Avia with a vague clue pointing to Britain in AD 419, and a ragged Dead Apostle arrived warning that they had been exposed.

• The Church blamed wandering magi, Dead Apostles, Phantasmal Species, and insufficiently devout Britons for the destruction of Wales Cathedral, while Be-Zel escaped severe punishment.
• Avia awoke in a Constantinople house beside Altrouge Brunestud and Fou, identified himself as a Hun, and recognized the princess and her magical hound.
• Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg explained that Mabel Kiara had wielded the Church's faith and the Codex Trithemius to wound him and destroy his ability to observe parallel worlds.
• Beneath the Papal Palace, an unnamed speaker killed Francesca and transferred her power into a prepared body, ordering her to keep contributing to the plan for Lord Novia's unfinished undertaking.
• Zelretch told Avia that his remaining clues pointed to AD 419 and Britain, then departed to avoid Mabel; Avia declared that he would act against the Church regardless.
• A blond Dead Apostle arrived at Altrouge Brunestud's house and warned her that they had been exposed.

Avia brought Altrouge Brunestud and her followers north to settle among the Huns, after Altrouge accepted his offer. Rua welcomed the arrangement, but Avia realized Attila had been left waiting in the Western Roman Empire and learned a three-headed dragon was harassing the Huns.

• Brad told Altrouge Brunestud that the Church had discovered the Dead Apostles after one of their guards was exposed, and she chose to meet Cardinal Jerome rather than flee immediately.
• Bishop Jerome delivered Kouhaku's message inviting Altrouge to his labyrinth, then ordered her and her followers to leave Eastern Rome.
• Avia offered Altrouge a place among the Huns, and she accepted after leaving the church.
• Avia and Altrouge traveled north, where Rua gave her Royal Guard territory and welcomed Avia's decisions on the tribe's behalf.
• Rua revealed that a three-headed dragon by the Dniester River was frightening the Huns' horses while Attila was away in the Western Roman Empire.

Avia encountered Odin while facing Zmey Gorynych and learned that Attila, the Giant God sealed on the moon, and Typhon’s dragon factor were all tied to looming threats. Odin brought Avia to Mount Etna, where Typhon had died, and bestowed Primordial Runes as they entered the volcano’s interior.

• Avia agreed to help the Hun elders, then dreamed of Meli and asked her to cry; his words led her to grieve for her murdered parents.
• Odin empowered Zmey Gorynych and sent it to kill Attila, but the dragon surrendered when it sensed Avia’s pureblood dragon presence.
• Avia discovered Odin had targeted Attila because the Giant God sealed on the moon showed signs of breaking free.
• Odin explained that Avia’s cursed Rhine Gold and Fafnir’s dragon factor were reviving Typhon, and Avia identified Mount Etna as Typhon’s death site.
• Odin showed Avia twenty-five Primordial Runes and transported them into the lava-filled interior of Mount Etna.

Avia returned to Attila after learning Odin’s runes, and the two reunited through a fierce sparring match. A year later, as rebellion erupted in Gaul, Avia left Attila and went to Mount Etna to confront the awakening Typhon.

• Avia promised Odin he would handle Typhon and the giant god, and Odin gave him runes to study.
• Attila waited in Milan, then attacked Avia when he returned; they fought, and she welcomed him back with a smile.
• In AD 422, the Bagaudae Revolt broke out in Gaul, and Western Rome sent Attila and Avia away while calling Aetius back to command the Praetorian Guard.
• Avia recalled Aetius’s warning that Rome would fall, though he intended to destroy the corrupt Western Roman Empire.
• Avia sent Attila back toward the Hun tribes and traveled alone to Mount Etna, where Typhon’s awakening made the volcano flare more violently.

Avia confronted Typhon beneath Mount Etna and learned that she had become one with the One-Day Fruit, whose power reversed wishes. He freed her from the seals binding her, leaving Typhon Ephimelos able to choose her own life.

• Avia entered Mount Etna’s magma lake and found Typhon waiting in its depths.
• Typhon transformed into her mechanical body, attacked Avia, and revealed that she had absorbed the One-Day Fruit and could no longer be stopped by Zeus.
• Avia recognized that Typhon was trying to make him voice a wish and told her he understood the hardships she had endured.
• Typhon admitted her hatred of the gods and heroes who had condemned her to die, insisting that she would revive and take revenge.
• Avia wished that Typhon would no longer soar freely through the skies, and the seals on her body broke, freeing her.
• Typhon celebrated her freedom, discovered Avia had left, and found herself no longer focused on revenge.

Typhon followed Avia after realizing she had forgotten to eat him, while Avia uncovered the Divine Era Magi’s involvement in the Bagaudae Revolt and reunited with Siegfried. Siegfried set out to kill the North Sea Kraken, where Merem Solomon arrived to assist Foaublo on Van-Fem’s orders.

• Typhon left Mount Etna and told Avia she had forgotten to eat him, then continued following him in her Ashen Scorching Armor.
• A month after leaving Mount Etna, Avia learned from Typhon that Zagreus and a Dragon Kind–Bull Kind being were involved in the Bagaudae Revolt in Gaul.
• Avia met Siegfried again by the Rhine, and Siegfried explained that he had intended to help suppress the revolt.
• Siegfried told Avia he was heading to the North Sea to kill the Kraken.
• Merem Solomon told Foaublo that Van-Fem had sent him to help, and Foaublo asked what had happened to the Dead Apostles originally assigned to accompany him.

Avia, Siegfried, and Beowulf fought the Kraken in the North Sea, and Avia used Typhon’s power to destroy the monster. After the storm cleared, Beowulf met Avia and Siegfried and introduced himself.

• Merem Solomon admitted that he had eaten their associates, while Fuabro Lowain warned him about the White-Winged Duke and refused to discuss his orders.
• Siegfried explained to Avia that he would hunt the Kraken to protect the Scandinavian islanders, and the monster rose from the sea as they traveled by boat.
• Beowulf confronted the Kraken, endured its attacks, and gained strength from golden runes associated with Odin.
• Avia unleashed Typhon’s power and destroyed the Kraken with a devastating torrent, ending the ancient creature’s life.
• Beowulf rowed over to Avia and Siegfried after the storm passed, learned their names, and introduced himself.

Avia and Siegfried returned to Geatland with Beowulf after defeating Kraken, and Beowulf asked Avia to help slay Grendel. Meanwhile, Van-Fem learned of Kraken’s death and discussed the Anchor of the Storm and welcoming a princess, while Avia spent the night watching Typhon tend the palace garden before preparing for the fight ahead.

• Beowulf introduced Siegfried and Avia to Geatland’s citizens, crediting Avia with defeating Kraken and saving them.
• Avia learned through Typhon’s thoughts that she remembered Albion and continued to insist that she would eat him.
• Merem Solomon told Van-Fem that Kraken had been slain, and Van-Fem connected the event to changes in the era and Mount Etna.
• Van-Fem explained that mages were seeking Britain’s Anchor of the Storm and resolved to welcome their absent princess.
• Typhon moved struggling plants to warmer places in the royal garden while Avia watched through the night.
• Beowulf apologized to Avia for asking him to face Grendel and admitted that he was no match for the demon.

Avia, Beowulf, and Siegfried confronted Grendel, who had eaten his mother and preyed on people across Scandinavian Island. Avia overcame Grendel’s Leviathan skin and killed him, ending the threat alongside the previously defeated North Sea Kraken.

• Beowulf told Avia about his resolve to protect others, and Avia learned that Augustine was preaching in Jötunheim.
• Grendel ate his mother and set out to devour the people of Scandinavian Island.
• Avia, Beowulf, and Siegfried attacked Grendel, but his Leviathan skin resisted their blows and magic.
• Avia broke through Grendel’s defenses and recognized that he was wearing Leviathan’s skin.
• Grendel begged Avia for mercy, but Avia killed him after seeing the remains of his victims.

Avia met Augustine outside Geatland's capital, declared his intention to destroy the Church, and explained a distinction between the city of God and earthly institutions. Augustine agreed to develop and spread the teaching, while Avia reaffirmed his resolve despite his regrets.

• Sinfjötli killed a fire dragon in Jötunheim and sensed someone releasing runes in the distance.
• Augustine answered an invitation to Beowulf's palace, where Avia met him and led him to a mountain outside the city.
• Avia declared that he intended to destroy the Church while preserving its achievements and Rome's culture through Augustine.
• Avia explained that the city of God was an invisible community founded on goodness, while earthly institutions included the tangible Church.
• Augustine agreed to complete the teaching Avia entrusted to him, and Avia said the subject had belonged to Augustine all along.
• Avia reaffirmed that the Church had to be destroyed and acknowledged his regrets as a meteor shower crossed the sky.

Avia and Siegfried left Scandinavian Island after discussing the City of God with Augustine, but Sinfjötli caught up with them by leaping aboard their boat. He explained his connection to Siegfried and presented Avia with a gift he had found in a remote Werewolf Village.

• Avia asked Augustine to complete the subject of goodness and told him the church must be destroyed, while Augustine agreed to take up the work.
• Avia and Siegfried departed Scandinavian Island, and Siegfried promised Beowulf he would return to fulfill his wish.
• A werewolf rushed to the port, and Beowulf hurled him onto the departing boat so he could reach Avia and Siegfried.
• The werewolf identified himself as Sinfjötli and learned that Siegfried was not Sigurd, though the two had similar essences.
• Sinfjötli said he had found a Star Drop in a remote Werewolf Village and offered it to Avia.

Avia accepted Sinfjötli and the werewolf tribes as allies against the coming calamity, while Kihara destroyed the city at the heart of the Bagaudae Revolt. Attila struggled with her growing feelings for Avia, and the sealed Sefar began to understand a new purpose beyond destruction.

• Avia accepted the golden werewolf Sinfjötli's gift and agreed to join forces with him and the Norse werewolf tribes against the calamity.
• Kihara confronted Zagreus and Okuninushi in Gaul, then used silver starlight, ether cannons, and a phantom moon to destroy them and raze the city.
• The Holy Church announced that the Bagaudae Revolt had been suppressed and that no one had survived the city's destruction.
• Attila practiced with Photon Ray and recognized that her thoughts about Avia were disturbing her concentration.
• Sefar observed Attila's feelings and began to understand that it could seek meaning in life beyond destruction.

Avia returned with Typhon, and Attila welcomed them while revealing her worry that he had been gone so long. Typhon struggled with jealousy and fear around Attila, but after Avia introduced them, Attila reassured her that she and Avia would help her.

• Attila greeted Avia and asked whether he had been safe during his absence.
• Typhon silently watched Avia and Attila’s closeness, while a Phantasmal Species in Avia’s Rhine Gold teased her into introducing herself.
• Typhon introduced herself to Attila but became terrified by the power she sensed from her.
• Avia realized the seal on the Moon might break and considered visiting the Giant God Ruins, but decided to stay with Attila for now.
• Avia teased Typhon until she relaxed, and Attila promised that she and Avia would help her.

Avia considered the Hunnic Empire’s next campaign and met Van-Fem, who came to see Altrouge Brunestud. Van-Fem told Altrouge that Zelretch had given her false hope and asked her to join the Dead Apostles in eliminating a future princess so she could become the planet’s strongest and primordial One.

• Avia decided to target the Sasanian Empire and conquer Persia before the Vandals occupied North Africa.
• Avia noticed Van-Fem’s presence by the Dnieper River, and Brad the White Knight prepared to fight him before Avia arrived and accepted Van-Fem’s invitation aboard the ship.
• Van-Fem told Avia that Kraken had been destined to survive in the North Sea and that another creature would take its place after Avia killed him.
• Van-Fem asked Altrouge whether she had met Kishua and said Kishua had given her false hope.
• Van-Fem asked Altrouge to help eliminate a princess who would be born eight hundred years later, then apologized for Zelretch’s illusory promises.

Avia prepared the Hunnic Empire to exploit a war between the Sasanian Empire and the Hephthalites, while Altrouge Brunestud considered Van-Fem’s offer to help her become One of the Primordials. After the Sasanian king died and its forces withdrew from the Caucasus, a Hunnic army advanced toward Pharsalus as the chapter ended.

• Van-Fem told Altrouge Brunestud that she had a younger sister, Arcueid, and proposed that she kill and devour her to become One of the Primordials.
• Altrouge Brunestud left with Avia and said that if she could not become One, she would make a spectacle of herself.
• Avia prepared the Hunnic Empire for a possible campaign against the Sasanian Empire and arranged policies for governing its diverse peoples.
• Six months later, Avia learned that the Hephthalites had invaded the Sasanian Empire and killed its king, while the Sasanian forces guarding the Caucasus were transferred away.
• A Sasanian envoy traveling to negotiate with the Huns witnessed a vast force advancing across the steppe, and the chapter shifted to the thinly defended city of Pharsalus.

After the Huns destroyed Pharsalus, Avia led his forces through northern Sasanian territory while Altrouge Brunestud joined him. Investigating a death-bringing mask and a nightfall bell, Avia and Altrouge reached a sacred temple where a strange darkness consumed the light and sensation around them.

• Wolfmen disguised as sorcerers seized Pharsalus, and Attila ordered the Huns to invade Armenia while Avia advanced against the Sasanian Empire.
• The Huns crossed the Caucasus, destroyed Pharsalus, and split their forces toward Armenia and the Sasanian heartland.
• Avia's army devastated northern Sasanian territory as Altrouge Brunestud reflected on how battle let her escape her grief, and Avia explained that her knights were fighting sorcerers.
• Avia planned to pressure the Sasanian Empire into accepting his demands while preserving its forces in Armenia, then investigated reports of a deadly mask and a bell associated with death.
• Avia and Altrouge followed a path through a valley where life and death blurred and reached the sacred temple's entrance, where a phenomenon swallowed the light and erased the feel of wind.

Avia helped Altrouge Brunestud survive a confrontation with the Old Man of the Mountain, and she resolved to become the Primordial One and share her glory with Avia. Five months later, Avia and Attila defeated the Sasanians at Nineveh, secured an alliance through a treaty, and marched into Fars to confront the Gupta and Hephthalite armies.

• The Old Man of the Mountain challenged Altrouge Brunestud, but Avia intervened and persuaded him to let them leave the Valley of Shadows.
• Altrouge Brunestud told Avia that she wanted to become the Primordial One and ensure that he received the glory he deserved, and Avia agreed to work toward that goal with her.
• At Nineveh, Attila's forces struck the Sasanian army from the west while Avia's cavalry attacked downhill, routing the Sasanians and killing an estimated fifty thousand soldiers.
• The Sasanian Empire accepted Avia's treaty, which imposed tribute and recognized the Huns as allies in exchange for Avia becoming supreme commander of their allied army.
• Avia and Attila entered Fars in May AD 426, where the Gupta and Hephthalite armies had conquered territory and plundered the Sasanian heartland.

After defeating the Gupta and Hephthalite empires, Avia and Attila shared a quiet stroll in the Hunnic winter camp, while Altrouge received gifts from Avia and invited him to Millennium Castle. There, the Dead Apostles gathered to wage war on the True Ancestors, and Avia encountered the Magus of Flowers.

• Avia and Attila strolled through the market, and Avia suggested that someday they try living as something other than warriors.
• Altrouge discovered the dried flowers and handmade gifts Avia had sent, then said she was grateful to him.
• Avia agreed to accompany Altrouge to Millennium Castle, where she asked him to stay close to her.
• Altrouge, Trhvmn, and Van-Fem led the Dead Apostles in assembling an army against the True Ancestors at Millennium Castle.
• Avia spoke with the Magus of Flowers in Altrouge's encampment and asked whether the Magus had been with him all along.

Avia and Altrouge Brunestud fought their way toward Millennium Castle’s final door, where Kishua tried to stop them. Avia recognized Kouhaku, and the chapter ended with Kouhaku remembering Novia as the Church’s past and future came into focus.

• Typhon exposed Meli’s false claim that she was Avia’s little sister, while Avia and Altrouge prepared to attack Millennium Castle.
• Dead Apostles attacked the castle from three directions, allowing Altrouge and Avia to reach the final door guarded by the wounded Kishua.
• Kishua warned Altrouge that Crimson Moon’s principles could destroy her and that the planet had already chosen Mabel Kiara, but Altrouge insisted she wished to be king.
• Avia charged Kishua so Altrouge could advance, but Kouhaku’s spatial lock appeared to restrain the Grand Sorcerer.
• Avia recognized Kouhaku, who recalled Novia and heard the silver-haired man thank him for his years of service.

Avia confronted Crimson Moon after she possessed Altrouge Brunestud, while Altrouge had chosen to spare Arcueid and face her sister again when she had grown. Avia and Crimson Moon began a battle in the Millennium Castle as Kishua kept the True Ancestors and Dead Apostles in a temporary truce.

• Kishua was bound by Kouhaku, then discussed Crimson Moon's strength and the plan to deal with her and her allies with Avia.
• Altrouge Brunestud entered Crimson Moon's chamber and began killing the unawakened Arcueid, but stopped and decided to fight her sister another day.
• Crimson Moon's guiding will surfaced in Altrouge Brunestud's body and took control of her.
• Avia entered the chamber and challenged Crimson Moon to die for good.
• Crimson Moon and Avia unleashed their powers against each other in the Millennium Castle while Kishua reassured the True Ancestors and maintained their truce with the Dead Apostles.

Avia and his allies destroyed Crimson Moon’s behavioral principles and defeated her with Typhon’s Cosmos-Rending Thunder, leaving Altrouge Brunestud free. Altrouge admitted she could never become the King of the Moon as Avia carried her from the chamber.

• Meli used illusions to unsettle the True Ancestors while Kouhaku extracted Crimson Moon’s behavioral principles and sent them back to her through Altrouge Brunestud.
• The returned principles caused the Magic Sword: True World to manifest, and Avia confronted Crimson Moon over her plan to restore the Age of Gods.
• Avia summoned Typhon and combined their powers to fire the Cosmos-Rending Thunder, which tore apart Crimson Moon’s behavioral principles.
• The Magic Sword: True World transformed into silver particles, and Avia gave its power to Typhon as an upgrade.
• Altrouge Brunestud woke free of Crimson Moon’s control, and Avia carried her as she confessed she had wanted her sister dead but could never become the King of the Moon.

After Avia rescued Altrouge, Kishua named him the new leader of the Department of Mineralogy and supreme commander against the Holy Church. Avia then asked Meli to retrieve a sword from Avalon, and she entered the hidden land to search for it.

• Avia reassured Altrouge that her followers chose her for her resolve, and Altrouge promised to return and fight Arcueid fairly.
• Kishua discussed the threat posed by Mabel Kiara, Ate, Beelzebub, and the R'lyeh Manuscript, then appointed Avia commander of a new alliance against the Holy Church.
• Avia asked Kishua whether François Prelati had fought in the Millennium Castle War, and Kishua recalled only the mage Francesca, who had died.
• Avia suspected Francesca had joined with Beelzebub and identified Mabel, Francesca, and possibly Cthulhu as enemies.
• Avia asked Meli to retrieve a sword from beneath the lake in Avalon, and Meli requested that he someday show her a face twisted in pain.
• Meli reached Avalon and opened a path through the water while searching for the sword.

Meli found the Holy Sword beneath the lake and learned from the Great Mother that she could take it to give to the human who had asked. Avia reached the Moon Cell through the Giant God Ruins, learned why it had drawn him in, and considered taking control of it to help contain threats from beyond the solar system.

• Meli discovered the Holy Sword floating above the Lake Rock, and the Great Mother told her the Ladies of the Lake were not responsible for it and that she could take it for an exchange.
• The Great Mother recalled Meli's Nightmare father entrusting his child to her before dying to save the woman he loved.
• Avia opened a hidden entrance in the Alps and explored the Giant God Ruins until he found the Alien Star Key and touched it.
• Avia learned through the Alien Star Key that the Moon Cell was an ancient alien observation device that had grown powerful enough to control planetary operations.
• The Moon Cell drew Avia into its center after contact with an object bearing traces of Wilpha 02, then refused his request for help because it had to maintain her containment.
• Avia considered taking control of the Moon Cell, which warned him that it was the final destination reached by many parallel worlds without Crimson Moon.