Chapter Summaries

Sajyou Aika met Novia expecting to reject him, but instead fell for him and asked to accompany him on his dangerous trip. Meanwhile, Shion Elnatan Atlastraxia learned that Novia was connected to the ancient Institute Director Shiyali and reacted with jealousy.

• Sajyou Aika planned to reject Novia after their blind date, but blushed and panicked when she met him.
• Novia arrived at the restaurant and considered joining the Sub-species Holy Grail War in the Alcatraz Seventh Labyrinth.
• Sajyou Aika used magecraft to tidy herself, paid the bill, and invited Novia to eat at her home.
• Novia told Sajyou Aika he had not fallen in love at first sight but genuinely liked her, then asked her to wait for his return.
• Sajyou Aika asked Novia to take her with him, promising she would not cause trouble.
• Shion Elnatan Atlastraxia dismissed a request concerning the Alcatraz Seventh Labyrinth, then recalled finding Shiyali's recorded message to Novia and grew displeased by their apparent closeness.

Novia and Aika entered the Alcatraz Seventh Labyrinth as the Sub-species Holy Grail War began, but Novia absorbed the energy meant for a Servant instead of summoning Nero or Melusine. On the second floor, they met Shion, whose inexplicable reaction to Novia’s name left her searching for an explanation.

• Shion recalled her resentment toward Pope Novia and accepted a trial assigned by the dean, though she disliked dealing with the Holy Church.
• Novia and Aika reached the labyrinth entrance, where he sent away the Mage’s Association’s outsourced personnel to keep them from being killed by Wolfgang Faust’s Great Serpent.
• Aika analyzed the labyrinth’s six hundred sixty-six Solar Magic Circles and destroyed the Great Serpent when it attacked; three marks appeared on her hand as Novia’s magical energy surged.
• At the labyrinth’s lowest level, Wolfgang Faust began the ritual and noticed a blond man appear behind him.
• Novia failed to summon a Servant and absorbed the incoming magical energy; he and Aika fought through the first floor, cooked monster meat, and continued downward.
• On the second floor, Shion met Novia and Aika, felt her heartbeat quicken when she saw Novia, and began questioning her reaction after he gave his name.

Shion recognized Novia as the reincarnation of Shiyali and tried to capture him, but their reunion brought her to tears. After Aika and Shion clashed over Novia, he restrained them and urged them to accept one another, then told Aika he wanted her to live as a genuine human and not hide her tears from him.

• Shion's Thought Partitions agreed to attack Novia with Aether Lines, but the threads stopped just short of him.
• Novia called Shion by her former name, Shiyali, wiped away her tears, and asked her to keep him company.
• Aika and Shion traded insults and prepared to fight over Novia, who restrained them with his power and told them he would not let any of the women he loved go.
• Shion and Aika reluctantly agreed to stop fighting, though Aika struggled with Novia's declaration that there were two other women he loved.
• Novia told Aika he cared for the person she had become and hoped she would live as a human rather than make him her entire world.
• Aika said she would cry only where Novia could not see, and Novia asked her not to hide from him when she cried.

Novia, Aika, and Sion advanced to the fourth floor after Novia destroyed Wolfgang Faust’s Artificial Dragon, while Wolfgang prepared to use Novia as the final sacrifice for his transformation. A distant masked figure felt a long-dormant heart beat and called out to Novia as he confronted Wolfgang.

• Manaka confessed that she liked Novia, and Sion led the group onward to the labyrinth’s third floor.
• Wolfgang Faust revealed that he had harvested Servant Spirit Cores through seventeen Sub-species Holy Grail Wars and explained the Holy Church’s violent defeat of Crimson Moon’s forces.
• Novia withstood the Artificial Dragon’s attacks, hurled it backward, and destroyed it with the Blue-black Armament.
• A masked figure sensed a heart beating again after thousands of years and called out to Novia from another timeline.
• Novia, Aika, and Sion reached the fourth-floor Holy Grail, where Wolfgang identified Novia as his final sacrifice, and Novia vowed to kill him.

Novia reunited with Melusine, who destroyed Wolfgang Faust and his summoned Servants, ending his ritual. After the survivors gathered at the hot spring, Shiyali investigated the collapsing magic circle while Aika mysteriously began using her Command Spells.

• Wolfgang Faust activated his Heroic Spirit Core and unleashed his controlled Servants against Novia, but Novia summoned Albion through their bond.
• Melusine arrived, reunited with Novia, and kissed him before Wolfgang's panic interrupted them.
• Melusine killed Wolfgang with a single sword strike, and Brad revealed himself before leaving the unsealed labyrinth after Novia spared him.
• Melusine took Novia to the hot spring and used magecraft to keep Shiyali and Aika out, while Shiyali inspected the self-destructing Solar Magic Circle.
• Shiyali suspected the magic circle's modifications involved the Atlas Institute and the Holy Church, then noticed Aika lying near the hot spring as her Command Spells were consumed and her face flushed.

Novia left the labyrinth after spending the night with Melusine, then accepted a mysterious traversal into an unknown era. He arrived in 418 AD as a fourteen-year-old Hunnic hostage in Milan, where Attila demanded that he leave with her.

• Draco reflected on her failed experiment to bind someone through the Alcatraz Seventh Labyrinth and longed to see Novia again.
• Novia and Melusine emerged from the hot spring, while Sajyou Manaka and Sion watched them with flushed faces.
• A system notification offered Novia a five-minute traversal to an unknown era, and he chose to go despite the risk.
• Novia awoke in 418 AD as Avia, a Hunnic youth held as a hostage in Milan, and wrote King Lua about their situation.
• Attila confronted Avia at the door and begged him to leave Milan with her.

Avia left Attila in Rome to hunt an Evil Dragon Fafnir and bathe in its blood, hoping to strengthen himself as the Church’s persecution and rigidity threatened to make bloodshed necessary for change. In the forest near the Rhine, he met a scratched young man named Siegfried, who learned that Avia was a Hun.

• Attila asked Avia to give her a cuter name, and he brushed the snow from her head while explaining that destroying people only hid problems rather than solving them.
• Attila confronted Avia about leaving her behind and offered him her Sword of Mars, but he said he would kill a dragon, bathe in its blood, and then defeat her fairly.
• Avia considered using the Giants’ ruins but abandoned the idea because he worried that doing so while Attila was alive might affect her.
• Avia went to the forest near the Rhine to seek Fafnir and met a scratched young traveler, offering him a leaf.
• The young man introduced himself as Siegfried and recognized Avia’s gentle manner as a sign of justice.
• Siegfried learned that Avia was a Hun.

Avia and Siegfried discussed Avia’s loyalty to the Huns and agreed to slay Fafnir together. After confronting the dragon at the bottom of the Rhine, they defeated it, though Fafnir warned them that the Rhine Gold was cursed.

• Avia explained to Siegfried that he remained with the Huns because they had adopted him and were his kin.
• Avia invited Siegfried to join him in slaying Fafnir, and Siegfried agreed that they would win together.
• Avia and Siegfried found Fafnir sleeping at the bottom of the Rhine beside the Rhine Gold.
• Avia and Siegfried attacked Fafnir together, overcoming its defenses and regeneration with repeated strikes.
• Avia and Siegfried delivered the final blows that killed Fafnir, which warned them that the treasure was cursed.

After killing Fafnir, Avia took the cursed Rhine Gold from Siegfried and parted ways with him before traveling to Britain in search of the Star Sword and a way to address the Church’s corruption. While waiting for fae in Avalon, Avia was paralyzed and carried off as their prospective meal, then heard an unknown childlike voice.

• Siegfried tried to take the Rhine Gold’s curse upon himself, but Avia claimed the treasure, arguing that he had contributed most to defeating Fafnir.
• Avia reassured Siegfried that he would accept the curse and spend the gold freely, then left with the Rhine Gold as Siegfried watched him go.
• Avia headed for Britain, hoping to investigate the Church’s corruption and find the Star Sword beneath Avalon.
• After waiting four days in a forest on Avalon, Avia attracted a group of fae, who paralyzed him and carried him away to eat him.
• As the fae took Avia through the mist, his body was nourished by unfamiliar magical energy, and he heard a childlike voice speaking nearby.

Avia rescued Meli, a young Half-Nightmare, from the fairies and agreed to search Wales for her missing parents. Half a month later, he reached the Church-controlled region and noticed signs of a strange, oppressive magecraft as crows flew toward a distant height.

• Meli pretended Avia was her father and invoked the Great Mother to persuade the fairies to hand him over.
• Meli used magecraft to take Avia back to Avalon Island, where he recovered and learned her name and nature.
• Meli asked Avia to go to Wales and find news of her parents, who had gone there and never returned.
• Avia agreed to help Meli, and half a month later he arrived in Wales, where he sensed a maze-like region steeped in disturbing smells and powerful magecraft.
• Avia heard nearly ten crows take flight and looked toward the distant height they were flying toward.

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.