Chapter Summaries

Aesc discovered that Novia had arranged for Habetrot to make bridal clothes and, believing he might marry her at her coronation, invited him to explore Salisbury's great cave. Novia, Aesc, Mab, and Muryan traveled to the cave, where Mab claimed her connection with Novia was confirmed by the timing of her receiving the Star of the Southern Sky.

• Mab cuddled Novia and eagerly shared food and chocolates with him while Aesc watched from the rooftop and struggled with her jealousy.
• Aesc decided to investigate Salisbury's great cave and followed Muninn to the workshop, where Habetrot was making clothes at Novia's request.
• Habetrot's mention of bridal appeal led Aesc to suspect Novia intended to marry her at the coronation, so she invited him to the cave and brought Mab and Muryan along.
• On the way to Salisbury, Novia explained that his recent sleep had been magecraft training, and Mab said her Star of the Southern Sky had appeared at the same time.
• Aesc asked Novia to confirm that the timing was only a coincidence, and he answered seriously.

Novia explained to Aesc that Cernunnos’s remains beneath the Great Cave of Salisbury produced the curse protecting Britain, and that the fairies’ original sin had made their world doomed to destruction. As Novia supported Aesc’s choice about her mission to complete the Holy Sword, Aurora visited Kurich in Londinium and tried to recruit her against the queen and Novia.

• Novia, Mab, Aesc, and Muryan teased one another during their journey to the Great Cave, where Aesc’s hidden close-combat strength became a subject of discussion.
• Novia told Aesc that Cernunnos’s remains lay beneath the Great Cave and explained that the Six Original Aesc had poisoned him and abused the last human, leaving the fairies burdened by an original sin.
• Novia explained that completing the Holy Sword would erase Fairy Britain and told Aesc he would support whichever path she chose.
• Aurora visited Kurich in Londinium and claimed that the queen treated the Fang Clan as disposable guards while a human controlled the kingdom.
• Kurich pretended to agree with Aurora’s accusations as Aurora suggested that a fairy of strong lineage should rule Britain.

As Londinium neared completion and Aesc prepared for her coronation, Aurora spread rumors and plotted to poison the ceremony wine so she could destroy the city that threatened to surpass her popularity. Clara’s admiration for Londinium exposed her disloyalty, and Aurora crushed her beneath her foot.

• Kurich rejected Aurora’s attempt to recruit her against Aesc, tore off one of Aurora’s wings, and later learned that Novia already knew about Aurora’s scheme.
• Novia described Londinium’s design and discussed Aesc’s frightening combat abilities with Kurich while the city was completed and filled with bustling markets and clanspeople.
• Clara visited Aurora after learning of her injury, and Aurora confirmed that Clara had spread rumors meant to stir unrest among the fairies before the coronation.
• Aurora planned to poison the coronation wine and use the resulting chaos to destroy Aesc, Mab, and Londinium, believing the fairies’ resentment would draw the clan chiefs into rebellion.
• Aurora noticed Clara’s admiration for Londinium, accused her of betraying her, and crushed her beneath her foot.

On the day of Aesc’s coronation in Londinium, Novia and the clan chiefs discovered that fairies had poisoned the wine, but Novia drank it without concern. As Aesc approached the Coronation Seat, Novia suddenly faltered, and Aurora believed her plot had succeeded.

• Habetrot helped Aesc dress for the coronation and walked with her to the Round Table Sanctuary.
• Novia, Mab, Kurich, and Muryan learned that guards had poisoned their wine, and Novia drank his glass after dismissing the threat.
• Aesc arrived at the sanctuary, and Novia escorted her to the Coronation Seat before beginning the ceremony.
• Novia began to sway and faltered during his speech, alarming Aesc and the gathered fairies.
• Aurora watched Novia collapse and believed he had died from the poison.

Aesc’s coronation was disrupted by fairies who exposed her past and turned Londinium against her, while Novia survived the poison and left to undergo magical training. After the city erupted into violence, Aesc abandoned her hope of saving the fairies and ordered them to slaughter one another for three days, leaving the Round Table Sanctuary as Londinium’s only pristine structure.

• Novia reassured Aesc that the poison had not harmed him, then departed with Kurich as the fairies interrupted the coronation and accused Aesc of being a witch and a false queen.
• Aurora used Wind Message to ignite a riot across Londinium, while the Earth and Mirror Clan chiefs rejected Aesc and Kurich killed the fang fairies who opposed her.
• Muryan spread Insect Space across Londinium, and Aesc used magic to kill thousands of fairies before declaring that she would give the last survivor a pardon.
• Over the next three days, fairies across Britain were forced to fight one another, unable to reincarnate as Huginn and Muninn preserved their souls.
• At the end of the slaughter, the Round Table Sanctuary remained the only pristine structure in Londinium.

Aesc used Albion’s blessing in an attempt to summon Lancelot, but summoned Fairy Britain’s Albion instead and recruited her as Knight Melusine. After the fairies slaughtered one another, Aesc faced Aurora, the last survivor, and killed her with fire that rapidly aged and consumed her.

• Aesc heard Mab’s version of the Lion King story and decided to have a summoned Lancelot eat the fairies’ souls.
• Aesc borrowed Mab’s blessing from Albion and summoned Albion instead of Lancelot.
• Aesc promised Albion she could touch Novia if she ate five billion fairy souls, then named her Knight Melusine.
• Mab confessed to Melusine that she had the same feelings for Novia.
• Aesc awaited the last survivor of the fairy slaughter, and Aurora arrived seeking the promised pardon.
• Aesc used Water Mirrors and accelerated aging to burn Aurora to nothing.

Novia awakened in Fairy Britain after witnessing Azathoth and the evil gods in a dream, then learned that Aesc had emptied Britain of its fairies to pursue her ambition of becoming Vivian, the creator god. He prepared to return to Chaldea to help his students, while Aesc accepted that he would leave and received coordinates to find him later.

• Aesc had Huginn and Muninn fragment the fairy souls, released their restraints, and allowed them to reincarnate before Albion's white light drew them into darkness.
• Novia met the evil god in Ritsuka Fujimaru's form and saw Azathoth's realm, where the other evil gods gathered around the throne.
• Novia awoke as Aesc kissed him, and he learned that she had named the white dragon Albion Melusina.
• Mab told Novia that Aesc wanted to become Vivian and build a Holy Sword Factory, while Aesc claimed she could eventually reach the Holy Sword's power.
• Novia decided to return to Chaldea to assist Ritsuka with trouble in the Sixth Singularity, and Aesc pleaded for him to keep visiting her.
• Novia gave Aesc coordinates so she could find him after he left.

Aesc secretly followed Novia after he left Fairy Britain, landed in the Inner Sea of Stars, and met Baobhan Sith while preparing to create a world as Vivian. Back in Chaldea, Novia discovered Ritsuka and Mash had entered the Sixth Singularity, where corrupted Molay summoned the Mother of Proliferation and Ritsuka began transforming into a vessel for Azathoth.

• Novia gave Rhine gold to Mab and Melusine, asked Aesc to help find Muryan, and prepared to leave Fairy Britain.
• Aesc declared she would become Vivian, secretly followed Novia, and arrived in the Inner Sea of Stars instead of Chaldea.
• Aesc met Baobhan Sith and invited her to become one of her Knights of Creation.
• Novia returned to Chaldea after thirteen days and warned Ritsuka and Mash that Molay was corrupted and Jerusalem's ruler was not Richard the Lionheart.
• Molay summoned the Mother of Proliferation, and Ritsuka began changing as she walked toward the Third Temple.
• Molay praised the Lord of Prosperity as Chaldea's communications with Ritsuka and Mash were cut off.

Novia arrived in the Sixth Singularity and learned that Charlemagne was sheltering people from corrupted land near Jerusalem. After Hassan of the Zealot brought him to the Mobile Holy City, an aged voice called him “elder brother,” and Novia recognized the wounded Charlemagne as Carl.

• Novia questioned Chaldeas during his Spiritron Transfer, while Kama used a reverse summoning circle to reach Chaldea and encountered the Old Man of the Mountain.
• Kama cried out for Kavia, causing the Old Man of the Mountain to stop his attack and declare that her love revealed the light of salvation.
• Novia met Hassan of the Zealot in the Sixth Singularity, where she explained that she served the wounded Charlemagne and was searching for people untouched by the corruption.
• Novia found a boundary between desert and corrupted land, and Hassan reported that Richard the Lionheart had likely been corrupted or destroyed.
• Carl called Novia his elder brother, and Novia followed Hassan to the Mobile Holy City to meet him.

Novia met Carl the Great in the Mobile Holy City and learned that Jerusalem had become the cradle of an Outer God’s birth. After Carl captured the Hassans who had entered the city, Novia agreed to visit their venerable one after going to Jerusalem, then glimpsed an unknown woman through an unprecedented fluctuation.

• Novia invited Hassan of the Zealot to accompany him and entered the Main Hall to meet Carl the Great.
• Carl told Novia that an entity called the everlasting, ever-present Lord of Fertility had devastated the Human Order and made Jerusalem its cradle.
• Novia reassured Carl that he would stop the Outer Gods, and Carl used his power to bind the Hassans who had entered the Mobile Holy City.
• Cursed Arm Hassan identified Hassan-i Sabbah as the Hassans’ venerable one, and Novia deduced that the figure in the temple was connected to the Himalayas Mountains.
• Hassan of the Zealot asked Novia to meet the venerable one, and Novia said he would go to Jerusalem first.
• An unprecedented fluctuation briefly dazed Novia, who saw a woman.

Novia’s arrival prompted a mysterious divine presence to descend, while Kama waited anxiously in the Azrael Mausoleum for Kavia. When Kavia finally appeared, Kama clung to him as Novia held her.

• A voice identified itself as the light that descended into the material world, and the One God reacted with wrath to the force about to manifest.
• In the Sixth Singularity, Kama impersonated the Old Man of the Mountain with his mask after he gave her his Grand rank and sent her to await the light of salvation.
• Kama watched the mountain village and fretted over Kavia’s absence, regretting that she had once told him to be thrown away.
• Kavia appeared beside Kama in the Spirit Mausoleum, and Kama buried her face against him and clung to him.
• Novia filled the Spirit Mausoleum with light and held Kama as she trembled.

Novia told Kama he had remembered a mysterious woman who might be his mother, prompting Kama to fear losing her place in his life and declare that she would protect him. In a separate scene, Charlemagne entertained the Mountain People while Hassan of the Zealot recognized his theatrical manner and heard him recall Novia’s praise for sincere effort.

• Novia told Kama that he had remembered a woman who might be the mother he had never met, while privately considering stranger possibilities about their connection.
• Kama panicked at the prospect of a real mother, but Novia reassured her with a kiss and told her he was only guessing.
• Kama declared that she would protect Novia and insisted that her place in his life belonged to her.
• Charlemagne spent five days helping and entertaining the Mountain People while Hassan of the Zealot and the other Hassans waited for Novia to emerge from the Spirit Mausoleum.
• Hassan of the Zealot told Charlemagne that his behavior seemed chuuni, and he replied that sincere effort was cool, echoing something Novia had once said.

Charlemagne and the Hassans discovered that Richard the Lionheart and corrupted Knights of the Round Table were advancing on the Mountain Valley under Cradle Jerusalem's orders. Charlemagne confronted Richard, and as the battle escalated, he chose to stand his ground despite the enemy's overwhelming strength.

• Charlemagne asked Hassan of the Zealot about the people living in Novia's apartment, but she refused to discuss her lord's private affairs.
• A lookout reported a smoke signal, and Cursed Arm Hassan and Charlemagne saw Purgatory Flame forming fiery walls around the Mountain Valley.
• Richard the Lionheart led Mordred, Percival, Lancelot, and other knights toward the valley, while Richard's flames stopped at its edge.
• Richard charged Charlemagne, and the two fought in a fierce clash as Charlemagne tried to understand the knights' corruption.
• Mordred attacked with Clarent Blood Arthur, and Charlemagne realized Cradle Jerusalem had altered the knights' Spirit Origins and memories.
• Charlemagne recognized that his side faced overwhelming odds but resolved not to flee the path he had chosen.

Percival’s intervention with Longinus brought Novia, the First Pope, into the battle, where his presence halted Richard’s Purgatory Flame and aided Charlemagne. Richard recognized Novia and accepted that fighting him was his gravest sin, while reflecting on the guilt that had led him to embrace purgatory.

• Charlemagne unleashed the Twelve Paladins, but Richard’s flames and the attacks of Tristan and Lancelot overwhelmed his Holy Swords.
• Percival saw Longinus regain its radiance and sent the Holy Lance toward Charlemagne, where a pillar of light appeared.
• Novia emerged from the light and stopped Richard’s Purgatory Flame while his power restored Charlemagne and strengthened Percival.
• Percival identified the silver-haired man as Novia, the First Pope, and the Knights of the Round Table recognized his legendary identity.
• Richard saluted Novia, recalled his failed contest with Saladin and his life’s sins, and said that taking up arms against Novia was his greatest sin.

Richard summoned the Round Table knights to unleash his Purgatory-fueled Noble Phantasm against Novia, who answered with the Spear of Longinus and brought the flames to an end. Meanwhile, Kama emerged from the Spirit Mausoleum wearing King Hassan’s mask, leaving the Hassans confused about the venerable one’s whereabouts.

• Novia agreed to help Richard reach Saladin in Purgatory, while Richard declared that he would continue challenging Novia.
• Richard called on Lancelot, Tristan, and Gareth, then used their strength to manifest three lions from the fires of Purgatory; Mordred refused to help.
• Novia raised the Spear of Longinus, invoked the Bible Foundation, and unleashed a cosmic white light that ended Purgatory’s flames.
• Cursed Arm and the other Hassans sensed Novia’s presence, while Hassan of the Zealot suspected that the being inside the Spirit Mausoleum might not be the real venerable one.
• Kama emerged from the Azrael Mausoleum wearing King Hassan’s skull mask and said that Novia still had 36,545 days of responsibility to fulfill.

Kama arrived with the Hassans and watched Novia, Charlemagne, and Percival return victorious from battle. Charlemagne’s teasing about Kama’s feelings for Novia left her flustered as the group continued talking.

• Kama told the Hassans that King Hassan had lent her his rank and introduced herself as the goddess of love, while Hassan of the Zealot suspected she had already used the rank.
• Kama and the Hassans watched a huge lion fight in the valley, and Hassan of the Zealot identified it as Richard the Lionheart.
• Novia, Charlemagne, and Percival returned after winning the battle, and Percival explained how Novia’s Ecumenical Council had established procedures for later popes.
• Kama wondered who Charlemagne’s sister was, and Charlemagne said that Attila was Novia’s childhood sweetheart.
• Charlemagne teased Kama about her feelings for Novia, leaving her unable to deny them as Novia smiled and she gripped his hand.

The Lion King summoned the Knights of the Round Table and explained her plan to preserve a select portion of humanity, splitting the knights over whether to obey her. Molay lured the Lion King and her knights into Jerusalem, where an Outer God’s influence overwhelmed them and made Ritsuka Fujimaru and Mash the next targets of her plan.

• The Lion King told the Knights of the Round Table that she intended to preserve chosen humans in a new Camelot, and gave them until sunset to decide whether to follow her.
• Percival and Gawain led opposing groups of knights as the Lion King’s followers and rebels prepared to fight.
• Molay interrupted the confrontation, urged the Lion King to enter Jerusalem and meet her king, and revealed that the Lion King possessed the true Holy Grail.
• Molay led the Lion King and the knights into Jerusalem, where green mist, monstrous eggs, and an Outer God’s power overwhelmed them.
• The Lion King realized the Outer God had once drawn her into its service, while the account revealed that Richard and Charlemagne had also been affected and that Molay had lured Ritsuka Fujimaru and Mash to Jerusalem as a new cradle for a god.

Molay discovered that the awakened Lion King had become a strange being who possessed the true Holy Grail and spoke of humanity’s future. In the Mountain Village, Novia’s group encountered Xuanzang, who had been trying to reach Jerusalem to rescue Sun Wukong, and learned that Siddhartha had not answered her messages.

• Molay found the Lion King awake and heard her describe herself as Artoria, Rhongomyniad, and the possessor of the true Holy Grail.
• Mordred and Percival told Novia’s group how Molay had led them into Jerusalem, while Charlemagne discussed facing Gawain.
• Novia used his connection to Xuanzang to summon her presence near the Mountain Village.
• Xuanzang recalled that Sun Wukong had warned her not to enter Jerusalem because he was holding off the Outer God with the Ruyi Jingu Bang.
• After Novia discovered her, Xuanzang introduced herself to the group and said Siddhartha had failed to answer her messages.

Xuanzang urged Novia and the Servants to go to Jerusalem to save the world and Wukong, while Sun Wukong helped Ritsuka Fujimaru resist the Outer God’s offer of release. Charlemagne fought Gawain at Jerusalem’s gates, and Novia’s group arrived to face the corrupted Mash and Galahad.

• Xuanzang asked Novia and the Servants to hurry to Jerusalem, where Sun Wukong was helping Ritsuka Fujimaru.
• Sun Wukong challenged Ritsuka to choose whether to keep fighting, and she summoned him as Sun Xingzhe.
• Charlemagne intercepted Gawain at Jerusalem’s gates and extinguished the Imitation Sun with Joyeuse, blocking the sunlight that empowered Gawain.
• Novia and the others reached the gates, where Mash stood under Molay’s influence and Galahad introduced himself as an enemy.

Novia and his allies entered the corrupted Jerusalem and confronted Jacques de Molay, whose Outer God had transformed the city into the Temple Tower. Molay accepted that Novia would defeat her, but she was determined to defend the place tied to her memories as a Templar.

• Galahad Alter possessed Mash and fought Percival, then unleashed his Noble Phantasm, which stripped the Holy City's gate of its defenses.
• Novia and the others entered Jerusalem as green mists, foul air, and ritual chants revealed the city's corruption.
• Novia recognized Jacques de Molay as the one who had turned Jerusalem into the Temple Tower and challenged her about swallowing him into it.
• Molay explained that her plan to manifest the Mother of the Abyss had failed and admitted that Novia had cornered her.
• Molay recalled her former hopes as an ordinary young knight and asked Novia to destroy the Temple Tower, her shameful gravestone.