Chapter Summaries

Novia secured the Dragon of Albion’s willing partnership, completed a major Roman public works project, and advanced his plan to purge Judea’s Jews. The chapter ended with Zealot leader Doro Bar Kochba killing the Roman governor in Jerusalem, igniting the conflict Novia had been preparing for.

• Novia asked the Dragon of Albion to share his thoughts and struggles, and the dragon agreed while insisting it had chosen freely.
• Novia drained Lake Fucinus in three days and reported the accomplishment to Emperor Claudius.
• Nero invited Novia to her Senate speech, then delivered it cheerfully despite hidden gloom.
• Novia planned to provoke the Sicarii and use their violence to justify expelling Jews from Judea and killing those who would not acknowledge Jesus as the Messiah.
• Doro Bar Kochba ordered his followers to punish Christians who refused to deny Jesus, then killed the Roman governor during a meeting in Jerusalem.

Novia secured Claudius's permission to suppress the Jewish rebellion in Judea Province and led a Roman fleet there, determined to prevent anyone from escaping. As the fleet approached the coast, Novia addressed his soldiers and urged them to crush the rebels.

• Doro Bar Kochba declared himself the Messiah on Earth as the Sicarii massacred Romans and Jews who opposed them.
• After Judea's rebels destroyed the Twelfth Legion and seized its Eagle Standard, Novia volunteered to lead the Roman response, and Claudius granted him five legions and auxiliary forces.
• Novia ordered Roman troops near Judea to prevent anyone from escaping and set out with a fleet for the province.
• Nero joined Novia's expedition and reported that Jewish forces had fortified the coastline with sorcerous weapons.
• Novia addressed the Roman fleet, describing the rebellion's massacres and calling on the soldiers to crush the rebels.

Novia led the Roman campaign against Doro Bar Kochba, massacring the Jewish rebels along Judea’s coast while Doro prepared a human sacrifice in Jerusalem. As Nero’s army advanced toward the city, she learned that Novia had poisoned her since childhood and realized she had already gone mad, yet her devotion to him remained unchanged.

• Novia used the Dragon of Albion’s power to rout and slaughter the Jewish rebel army along Judea’s coastline, then ordered his troops to leave no one alive.
• Doro learned that his forces had been defeated and ordered people in Jerusalem to be gathered for a sacrifice to empower the growing magical entity within Bazdiloh.
• Doro sacrificed thirty thousand people underground and vowed to punish Novia when he reached Jerusalem.
• Nero’s army razed fortresses and villages as it advanced, and Nero ordered Jewish tunnels burned regardless of whether anyone was inside.
• Agrippina told Nero that she had poisoned her since childhood and that Novia had continued doing so, but Nero accepted this calmly and confessed that she was mad.

Novia led the Roman siege of Jerusalem and fought Doro Bar Kochba, who had used the starving city's people and Solomon's corpse as sources of magical energy. A sudden total solar eclipse cut Doro off from Solomon's power, but Novia was badly wounded and nearly out of magical energy as the battle continued.

• Nero asked Novia for orders, and he told her to have the Roman magi support his plan to destroy Jerusalem with the spear.
• Novia gave Nero water to ease her headaches, hiding his belief that her mother Agrippina had poisoned her since childhood.
• Novia unleashed the spear against Doro Bar Kochba after Doro revealed that he had sacrificed Jerusalem's people for magical energy.
• Doro regenerated after Novia's strongest attack and revealed that he was also drawing power from Solomon's corpse in the First Temple.
• A total solar eclipse darkened Europe and cut Doro off from Solomon's magical energy, while Novia realized he was wounded, exhausted, and still responsible for stopping him.

Novia used the Dragon of Albion’s power to destroy Doro Bar Kochba and Jerusalem, then returned to Rome for a week-long triumphal procession. He left Goetia’s twisted mana hidden in Solomon’s corpse and entered the ceremony with Nero beside him.

• Novia summoned the Dragon of Albion, whose unleashed attack annihilated Doro Bar Kochba and destroyed Jerusalem while sparing the First Temple.
• The Roman Empire renamed Judea Province as Syria Palaestina Province, banned Jewish civilization, and ordered Jewish scriptures and remaining communities destroyed.
• Novia visited Golgotha, returned Martha’s staff to Jesus’s cross, and promised to rebuild Jerusalem and build a church there.
• Novia found Solomon’s corpse and a mass of twisted mana he suspected was Goetia, then returned it to the body and reburied Solomon.
• Novia entered Rome’s Triumphal Ceremony in a decorated chariot, with Nero holding the Golden Laurel above him as the procession began.

Albion transformed into a human and rejoined Novia, but her hunger drove her to bite him before she regained control and apologized. As Novia showed her around Rome, she grew possessive of him and clashed with Nero, who discovered Albion had injured her teacher.

• After 147 days and 20 hours unable to speak, Albion shaped a human incarnation, entered Novia's room through the 'spear,' and announced herself before biting his shoulder.
• Novia explained that Albion's transformation had left her desperately hungry, treated her wound, and accepted her apology before taking her for a walk around Rome.
• Albion followed Novia through the city while struggling with an unexplained urge to eat him, and she resolved to suppress it if he truly meant to stay with her.
• Nero appeared as Albion tried to ask Novia about his promise to remain with her, and the two women immediately felt hostility toward each other.
• Novia introduced Albion to Nero as his friend, and Nero restrained herself after noticing the blood from Albion's bite on Novia.

Nero left Novia and Albion after Novia encouraged her to keep singing. Novia reorganized the Burial Agency, sought Locusta, and urged the apostles to compile their writings into a New Testament; Peter, heartened by Novia's words, decided to give him the key he carried.

• Nero teased Albion, then left after Novia told her that her songs made people happy and encouraged her to continue performing.
• Narubareck agreed to place the Burial Agency under Novia's command, recruit members by ability, and send others to serve churches across the Roman Empire.
• Novia ordered Narubareck to end the family rule that defeated members had to die and asked him to find Locusta in the forests of Gaul.
• Novia proposed compiling the apostles' letters and scrolls into a New Testament and having them guide Christianity's development across the provinces.
• Peter recalled his guilt over denying Jesus, but Novia and Paul reassured him and renewed his confidence.
• Peter grasped the key hanging from his chest and decided to give it to Novia.

Novia received Peter’s Keys of Heaven and brought Locusta to Rome to develop an antidote for a poison that had afflicted someone for more than ten years. As Claudius’s health failed in October 54 AD, the emperor summoned Novia to discuss what would come next.

• Peter gave Novia the Keys of Heaven, and the Christians began compiling the New Testament before preparing to spread Christianity across their provinces.
• Narubareck found Locusta living at Luke’s church, where Luke had sheltered her for years, and brought her and Luke’s books to Rome.
• Novia asked Locusta to create an antidote to Agrippina’s poison formula, and she estimated that the task would take three years.
• Novia put Locusta in charge of palace food safety as Christianity continued to spread through the Roman Empire.
• In October 54 AD, Claudius fell gravely ill and summoned Novia to the palace on October 12 to discuss the future.

Novia secured Claudius’s deathbed order making Christianity the Roman Empire’s sole legal religion, and Nero succeeded him as emperor. After Nero’s coronation, Novia kissed her, then returned home to face an angry Albion, whose feelings for him had been hurt.

• Novia entered Claudius’s room despite Brutus and the Praetorian Guard, and Claudius asked him to baptize him and protect his children.
• On October 12, 54 AD, Claudius made Christianity the Roman Empire’s sole legal religion; the next day, Novia baptized him, and Claudius died that evening.
• Nero became the fifth emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and went to the former Pantheon to receive Novia’s blessing at her coronation.
• Albion bit Novia and vanished before Nero arrived, while Nero asked Novia to close his eyes and revealed a white coronation outfit she had designed.
• Nero demanded a reward for her outfit, and Novia kissed her before declining her invitation to return to the palace.
• Novia returned home and found Albion waiting angrily; he told her not to be willful, and she demanded to know what he meant.

Novia used Albion’s jealousy to change her feelings toward him, then worked with Nero to formalize the Holy Church and convened its first Ecumenical Council. The council appointed Novia Pope and ended with his covenant calling believers to unite against inhuman threats.

• Albion bit Novia after he told her he hated her, then pleaded with him not to hate her and tried to erase Nero’s scent from him.
• Nero learned Novia had taken leave, approved Lucius Longinus as commander of the Praetorian Guard, and asked Novia to accompany her to Greece.
• Novia invited Nero to join the Christian council in Rome, and she agreed because she did not want to be separated from him.
• Novia convened the Ecumenical Council, established Easter, renamed Christianity the Holy Church, and was elected its leader with the title Pope.
• Novia declared the Holy Church a covenant and urged believers to unite and eliminate nonhuman enemies who threatened humanity.

Novia learned from John that his vision of the apocalypse identified Novia as the Holy Spirit and foretold calamity connected to Nero. As Nero prepared to leave for the Greek peninsula, Novia kissed her and told her she only needed to listen to him.

• Novia established the Holy Church in 55 AD as its founder and first Pope.
• John secretly told Novia about the Pre-Revelation Scripture he had seen, which depicted Novia as the Holy Spirit and described future calamities and the apocalypse.
• Novia asked John to write down the vision as the New Testament’s final chapter and keep it secret until it was finished.
• Novia considered the vision’s descriptions of himself and wondered whether Nero might be connected to the foretold calamity.
• Nero visited Novia after postponing her departure for the Greek peninsula, asked him to keep calling her Nero, and said she could do anything to stay with him.
• Novia kissed Nero and told her she did not need to do everything she had offered, only listen to him.

Novia left Rome to investigate Armageddon, the prophesied final battlefield, after giving Albion the name Melusine to help restrain her urge to eat him. At the site, a vision of Rome’s founding appeared, linking Romulus and Remus to the prophecies Novia feared.

• Nero announced that she would travel to the Isthmus of Corinth to dig a canal, while Novia prepared to leave for Armageddon.
• Novia told Albion he feared her hunger but wanted her to live, then named her Melusine and let her bite his shoulder once more.
• Melusine carried Novia across the Mediterranean and confessed that she loved him, wanted to stay with him forever, and desired his body.
• Novia reassured Melusine that he would not abandon either her or Nero, and Melusine returned to the spear to recover her mana.
• Novia reached the plain north of Jerusalem and recognized it as the final battlefield described in the Book of Revelation.
• An earthquake brought forth a vision from the Sibylline Oracles depicting Romulus and Remus’s rift and the origins of Rome’s bloodshed.

The chapter recounted Romulus’s final transformation into the Supreme God and Nero’s painful childhood and devotion to Novia. In the present, Shiyali arrived at the Praetorian Guard camp hoping to see Novia, but he had already left for Armageddon.

• Remus fought Romulus to prevent Rome’s rise, warning that the Child of Dawn would bring destruction, but Romulus defeated him and later became the Supreme God to bless Rome.
• Nero celebrated the opening of the Isthmus of Corinth canal and remembered how Novia’s kindness had rescued her from an abusive childhood and made him the center of her world.
• Lucius told Shiyali that Novia had left for Armageddon and offered to pass along a message.
• Shiyali declined to leave a message, while Lucius recognized her affection for Novia and tried to encourage her to express it.

Shiyali recorded a message for Novia in a stone, but he received it without learning how to hear it. While Nero remained away from Rome, Novia rejected Agrippina’s claim that Nero was doomed to repeat her family’s past, as Nero’s request that Locusta make poison exposed her grief and left her sobbing alone.

• Shiyali gave Lucius a stone containing a recorded message for Novia, congratulating him and saying she looked forward to seeing him again.
• Novia received the stone from Lucius after returning to Rome, but he did not know how to play its message; Melusine asked whether Shiyali liked him, and Novia assured her they were friends.
• Novia visited Agrippina, who predicted that Nero would eventually kill him or be killed by him because of her nature and family history.
• Novia insisted that Nero was her own person and said he would accept her past because he was her teacher.
• Six days before Nero was due back in Rome, she ordered Locusta to use a supposedly poisonous liquid to make a stronger poison, but Locusta discovered it contained no poison.
• Nero began crying, sent Locusta away, and sobbed alone.

After Nero returned to Rome, her despair triggered a transformation into the Beast of Sodom, but Novia calmed her and used the power of Rome’s seven hills to delay it. The next morning, Novia stayed with the unconscious Nero and began writing about there being only one god.

• Nero returned to Rome after six days and collapsed into darkness while pleading with Novia not to abandon her.
• Nero began transforming into a dragon, and Melusine warned Novia that she was becoming the Beast of Sodom.
• Novia promised Nero he would not abandon her, and she briefly regained control before dropping the Primal Fire and breaking down in tears.
• Novia asked Melusine to gather the magical power around Nero, and the radiance of Rome’s seven hills delayed her transformation.
• Novia carried Nero to bed and decided he would take responsibility for preventing her flames from harming anyone.
• The next morning, Novia wrote about there being only one god while Melusine opened the window and asked what he was writing.

Novia killed Agrippina, then went to Armageddon to stop Nero’s apocalyptic transformation by channeling the Primal Fire. He devoured the three beasts of the Apocalypse and faced Moses and Noah, insisting that he would oppose the Book of Revelation as Satan if necessary.

• Novia left Melusine and went to the Temple of Quirinus, where he killed Agrippina and apologized to Romulus Quirinus.
• Half a month later, Novia and Melusine prepared at Armageddon to use the Primal Fire connected to Nero against the coming Apocalypse.
• Leviathan, Ziz, and Behemoth manifested, while Heaven’s Gate and Hell’s Gate appeared over Armageddon.
• Novia used Phantom Albion to devour Ziz and Leviathan, then killed and consumed Behemoth with a cross staff.
• Moses and Noah appeared in their true bodies and warned Novia that the Book of Revelation could not be stopped without harming his spirit.
• Novia admitted he had failed as Nero’s teacher and declared that he would stand against the Book of Revelation as Satan.

Novia received the Roman gods’ blessings and crossed the sea of light to confront Yahweh, refusing to let Him kill Satan or begin the Book of Revelation. The chapter ended as Novia attacked Yahweh and their clash unleashed overwhelming divine power.

• Moses destroyed Noah’s abyssal flood and fought Novia, warning him that angels would come even if he won.
• Romulus Quirinus arrived after battling the Vice Regent and gave Novia the gathered authorities and blessings of Rome’s gods, sacrificing their influence on the present world.
• Moses held back from opening Hell’s Gate, while Noah sent Novia the particle of knowledge and Zohar radiance as he crossed the sea of light toward God.
• Novia met Yahweh and rejected His plan to purify humanity, declaring that he would stop Him from killing Satan and initiating the Book of Revelation.
• Yahweh removed the Roman gods’ authority from Novia and attacked him, but Novia invoked the God Paradox and launched a magically empowered strike.

Novia gave up his key to Heaven to stop the Beast’s birth and spread keys and hope throughout the world, accepting that his body would die. After asking Shiyali to send Melusine’s remains back to Albion, Novia vanished into the Mediterranean, and his ultimate destination remained unknown.

• Novia comforted Nero and Melusine in the sea of blood, encouraged Nero to choose her own happiness, and disappeared as the sea turned blue.
• Novia sacrificed his key to Heaven and used his final strength to end the coming destruction, restore the devastated land, and give everyone in the world a key through their connection to him.
• Moses and Noah witnessed the Beast’s transformation being stopped, then Hell’s Gate closed and Heaven’s Gate opened as they vanished.
• Shiyali offered Novia a contract that could preserve his mind and soul, but he asked her to send Melusine’s remains back to Albion instead.
• Novia entered the Mediterranean and disappeared, leaving Shiyali with no way to know where he had gone; later accounts said he had gone to Heaven.

The chapter presents Novia’s uncertain fate after the Age of Gods and the lasting influence of the Holy Church he established. It then details his possible Lancer and Ruler forms, including their abilities and Noble Phantasms, and explains that he would destroy his growing Spirit Origin before it reached its final stage.

• The account says no one could confirm whether Novia reached the Kingdom of Heaven, died, or traveled to another world.
• The chapter describes how the Holy Church continued to spread the principles Novia had wished to promote.
• Novia’s Lancer profile presents him as a first-century Christian leader fused with Albion and armed with powerful dragon-based abilities and Noble Phantasms.
• Novia’s Ruler profile describes him as the first Pope, a reformer of Rome, and a figure empowered by Church faith and Roman authority.
• The profile explains that Novia’s Words of Revelation Holy Spirit Noble Phantasm could elevate him toward divine authority, but he would destroy his Spirit Origin before it reached its conclusion.

Novia returned to modern Bucharest, learned that Nero had carried out his plans and awaited his promised return, and discovered that Goetia and Draco were preparing to reshape human history in hopes of bringing him back. Meanwhile, Sajyou Manaka rejected her parents’ attempt to set her up with Novia, unaware that he had just arrived in the city.

• Novia woke in a taxi driven by Sajyou Hiroki, accepted a cross pendant as an orphanage keepsake, and introduced himself by name.
• Hiroki dropped Novia off in Bucharest, where Novia realized that Hiroki’s daughter was the thirty-seven-year-old Sajyou Manaka, who still looked fourteen.
• Novia read that Nero had become Rome’s emperor and second Pope, enacted his plans, and vanished while waiting for the person who had promised to return.
• Goetia and Draco discussed placing Holy Grails and using them to sever the torrent of history, hoping to create a world where Novia existed.
• Sajyou Manaka refused her parents’ plan to arrange a meeting with Novia, dismissing him as no prince on a white horse, then remembered to log into a game.