Chapter Summaries

Ailande warned Halva that Nidhogg could escape the Iffis Realm and authorized him to wield Gedrimay against the Black Dragon. After learning he faced three thousand years of confinement for his prank, Valkyrie considered fleeing but began searching for a place to hide instead.

• Ailande told Halva that Nidhogg's strength was undeniable and that he might be unable to defeat him if he broke free from the Iffis Realm.
• Ailande authorized Halva to use Gedrimay against Nidhogg, and Halva solemnly accepted the responsibility.
• Valkyrie watched the Hall of Gods through his surveillance methods and despaired at Ailande's punishment of three thousand years of confinement.
• Valkyrie considered escaping beyond the World Tree but realized he had no way to travel there and that the Cosmic Beings Koma and the colossal wolf would likely devour him.
• Valkyrie decided to find a secret place to hide and regretted having stirred up trouble.

Tibalt, a cruel half-human, half-devil Planeswalker, arrived in a lush realm rich with mana and decided to cause trouble there. Remembering how Sorin Markov and Nissa had driven him from Innistrad, he resolved to investigate the realm before acting.

• Tibalt appeared beside a river in a primeval forest and delighted in the realm's abundant mana.
• Tibalt's experiments on living victims attracted devils and drew the attention of local sheriffs, who moved to arrest him.
• Facing execution, Tibalt devoured the devils seeking his soul, endured his victims' pain, and ignited his spark to become a Planeswalker.
• Tibalt terrorized Innistrad until Sorin Markov and Nissa defeated him, forcing him to flee and wander between worlds.
• Tibalt sensed the World Tree's mana in the new realm and decided to investigate its inhabitants before causing trouble.

Koma met with the giant wolf in a desolate Small Realm and told him that the Twilight of the Gods was approaching. They prepared for a war planned for about ten years later, while Koma focused on ending his long hunger and dealing with their enemies first.

• The giant wolf appeared on the mountain summit and asked Koma why he had come.
• Koma said the Twilight of the Gods was near and that the Demons, Goddess of War, and Einherjar would ignite wars across the Realms in about ten years.
• Koma said he would bring the Forest Elves and Shadow Elves into the conflict, while the giant wolf doubted the Goddess of War and Einherjar would remain allies.
• Koma complained that Nidhogg intended to claim the Scoti Pantheon, which Koma wanted to devour after being kept hungry for tens of thousands of years.
• The giant wolf urged Koma to seize the Scoti Pantheon, but Koma chose to face their pressing enemies before risking an internal fight.

In Skenfa Realm, the Forest Elves and Shadow Elves celebrated Koma’s divine decree and the coming release of their seven ancestors, believing they could restore the Enir Pantheon’s glory. Meanwhile, the disguised Valkyrie hid in Yomong, where a horned red-skinned stranger entered his tavern.

• Koma warned the giant wolf that Orsaga and Nidhogg could not be trusted, and the giant wolf suggested striking first once matters settled.
• In Yomong, Fairy king Harald announced that Koma’s divine decree had appeared and that the Enir Pantheon’s glory could soon be reclaimed.
• Harald announced that the seven ancestors sealed in the Yasper Trees would soon break free, prompting cheers from the Forest Elf and Shadow Elf leaders.
• Valkyrie hid in a Yomong tavern disguised as a Shadow Elf while evading his own kind’s search.
• A red-skinned, two-horned stranger entered the tavern and caught Valkyrie’s attention.

After eleven years exploring the World Tree, Tibalt entered a tavern in Yomong and became fascinated by Valkyrie’s visible despair. Valkyrie remained unaware of Tibalt’s murderous interest as the bartender misread Tibalt’s stare, making the tavern’s atmosphere tense.

• Tibalt wandered through Yomong, reflecting on his years exploring the World Tree and his desire to torment its inhabitants.
• Tibalt entered a tavern to try its drinks and pastries, then noticed Valkyrie sitting nearby.
• Valkyrie brooded over being a wanted god and feared being sent to the Hall of Gods for three thousand years of confinement.
• Tibalt saw Valkyrie’s misery and imagined torturing him, while Valkyrie failed to notice his attention.
• The bartender noticed Tibalt staring at Valkyrie and smiled meaningfully, leaving the tavern’s patrons feeling tense.

Tibalt told a northern dwarf that many worlds existed beyond the World Tree, while Valkyrie wondered whether Tibalt could help him escape. The dwarf listened with sincere curiosity as Tibalt explained that the World Tree occupied only a tiny part of the Multiverse.

• Valkyrie sensed scrutiny in the tavern, disguised himself as a disgruntled drunkard, and mistook Tibalt and the tavern keeper's attention for a threat from the Scoti Pantheon.
• A northern dwarf bard climbed onto a chair and captivated the tavern with stories of the World Tree's realms.
• Tibalt joined the dwarf in conversation and described wondrous places beyond the familiar realms.
• The tavern's fairies mocked Tibalt's claim that other worlds existed, but Valkyrie recognized that such worlds were real and wondered if Tibalt came from outside the World Tree.
• The dwarf asked Tibalt sincerely whether other worlds existed, and Tibalt explained that the worlds together were called the Multiverse, Dominia, and that the World Tree was only a tiny part of it.

Tibalt killed an elf who mocked Planeswalkers, then met Valkyrie, a god of the Scoti Pantheon, who asked him for help reaching another world. Tibalt considered the request as a profitable deal and began thinking of Valkyrie as a possible test subject.

• Tibalt crushed an elf who insulted him and seekers of the unknown, then forced the watching elves to their knees with his power.
• Valkyrie, who had been pretending to be drunk, became excited when he realized Tibalt was a Planeswalker.
• In a quiet alley, Valkyrie revealed his identity as a god of the Scoti Pantheon and asked Tibalt to take him to another world.
• Valkyrie explained that he had moved the Hall of Gods without authorization and been sentenced to three thousand years of confinement.
• Tibalt decided that helping Valkyrie could be a profitable deal, then considered using him as a test subject.

Tibalt bargained with Valkyrie for information about the World Tree, secretly intending to kill him after extracting everything useful. Years later, they approached the sealed Endless Storm Domain, where Emiryna and Domilia watched them enter after Orsaga ordered them to spare the red-skinned Tibalt for now.

• Tibalt convinced Valkyrie to provide research-worthy information in exchange for help leaving the World Tree in a few years, while planning to kill him afterward.
• Over the following years, Valkyrie led Tibalt through several domains and revealed secrets and valuable resources.
• As their agreed departure time approached, Tibalt brought Valkyrie to the barrier around the Endless Storm Domain, hoping to profit by helping its trapped devils and demons.
• Valkyrie concealed himself and Tibalt and worried about the nearby Goddesses of War, while Tibalt confidently prepared to cross the barrier using their combined powers.
• Emiryna and Domilia observed the pair and, after Emiryna relayed Orsaga's order to leave the red-skinned Tibalt alone, allowed them to enter the domain.

After Orsaga transformed the Endless Storm Domain into a perpetually violent environment, Tibalt and Valkyrie entered and struggled through its catastrophic weather. They headed toward the Flame Giant Tower and encountered Demons whose brutality astonished them.

• Orsaga replaced the Domain's former patchwork order with constant fighting, lethal storms, and randomly formed magma monsters.
• Tibalt and Valkyrie entered the Domain, where a lightning strike vaporized the mountain beneath them and forced them to hide.
• Tibalt and Valkyrie realized the lightning was natural weather and watched flaming meteors scorch the land.
• Tibalt and Valkyrie agreed the local Demons had a harsh existence and set off toward the colossal Flame Giant Tower.
• As they approached the tower, Tibalt and Valkyrie encountered exceptionally violent Demons, leaving Valkyrie unsure whether Demons were truly so formidable.

Valkyrie and Tibalt reached the Flame Giant Tower, where Tibalt was compelled to enter and Valkyrie followed him inside. They emerged into a hall full of powerful Demons and faced the terrifying red shadow on the throne, leaving both men frozen with fear.

• Orsaga's command prevented the demon gods in the Endless Storm Domain from stopping Valkyrie and Tibalt as they traveled to the Flame Giant Tower.
• Valkyrie urged Tibalt to leave, but Tibalt was controlled into entering the tower through its opened gate, and Valkyrie followed because he could not escape the domain alone.
• After the gate shut, Tibalt revealed that he had been controlled, and the two men discovered they could not leave the tower.
• Valkyrie and Tibalt emerged from the corridor into a great hall surrounded by powerful Demons, where their summoned creatures dissolved upon seeing the red demonic shadow on the throne.
• The shadow turned its gaze on Valkyrie and Tibalt, filling them with terror as Valkyrie forced a strained smile before the assembled Demons.

Orsaga effortlessly killed Valkyrie and Tibalt, then explained that Tibalt’s pain magic lacked depth and forced him to experience a far greater pain. Tibalt’s head became covered in countless mouths shrieking as the chapter ended.

• Orsaga said he had no orders, killed Valkyrie, and threw his head onto the burning door.
• Tibalt, terrified by Orsaga’s power, cast his strongest pain spell at him.
• Orsaga took Tibalt’s spell without reacting, then revealed that he had already killed Tibalt.
• Orsaga told Tibalt his pain magic was immature and said torturing hundreds of trillions of beings would give it more flavor.
• Orsaga made Tibalt experience a terrible pain, covering his head with countless mouths that cried out.

Orsaga drove Tibalt mad with extreme pain and declared that the promised time was near. Three years later, as the realms prepared for what was coming, Orsaga awakened in Iffis Realm and emerged in his vast Black Dragon form.

• Orsaga inflicted level 20,045 pain on Tibalt, who went mad and was tossed aside.
• Orsaga announced that the time he had anticipated was almost here, while the demons in the hall remained silent.
• Three years later, Valkyries and heroic spirits gathered in silence in Asgard Realm, awaiting the final countdown.
• In Bitajia Realm, armed Fairies rallied near Koma's temple, eager to reclaim their former divine thrones.
• Demons in Endless Storm Domain grew frenzied as catastrophic storms ravaged the realm and their King's promised destruction approached.
• Orsaga awakened in Iffis Realm, shook the land apart, and emerged as a Black Dragon vast as the starry sky.

Nidhogg’s roar broke the seal of the Iffis Realm and unleashed a wave of destruction across the World Tree. As war spread through multiple realms, Koma reclaimed his power and destroyed the Aska Realm, leaving the giant serpent to continue its rampage.

• Nidhogg roared through the Iffis Realm’s sealing barrier, and his cry reverberated across the World Tree.
• Mishir and Phyllis sent Goddesses of War and heroic spirits through a gateway to attack other realms, while demons and fairies also launched assaults.
• Koma reclaimed the power that had been divided from him and struck the Aska Realm, territory of the Dwarf Race.
• The Dwarf Royal Court unleashed its primordial fire, but Koma bit into the flames and smashed the court.
• Koma’s impact shattered the Aska Realm and its barrier, destroying the realm as he continued climbing the World Tree and laying waste to everything in his path.

Nidhogg attacked the Scoti Pantheon’s Hall of Gods, overwhelming its defenses with his Black Mist-wreathed claw. As the Black Mist consumed the gods, Ailande made a final attack for the glory of his people.

• Nidhogg flew above the Hall of Gods and declared that he had come to destroy the Scoti Pantheon’s god king.
• Ailande, Halva, Thorav, Egan, and the other gods launched their strongest attacks, but Nidhogg’s claw smashed through the Hall of Gods’ defenses and trapped them in Black Mist.
• Halva’s power and body were consumed by Black Mist, while Esika realized that poison in the World Tree sap used to make Titanium Crystal had caused the corruption and then vanished into the mist.
• As the Black Mist eroded him and his people, Ailande refused to show fear and poured everything he had into his divine spear.
• Ailande hurled the spear’s golden radiance like a comet through the darkness.

The Fates Goddesses struggled to understand how the World Tree’s destruction had deviated from fate as Nidhogg burned the World Tree and its realms. In Bitajia Realm, a black giant wolf destroyed the human tribes’ last stand and left the realm in darkness.

• The Fates Goddesses observed that Ailande had died by Nidhogg’s hand and that the Goddesses of War had become destroyers of the World Tree, contrary to their expectations.
• Nidhogg praised Ailande for scratching his scales, then unleashed Dragon Breath that spread destruction up the World Tree and erased realm after realm.
• In Bitajia Realm, a black giant wolf set out to claim its freedom from the World Tree, killing everything in its path with its authority of slaughter.
• The human tribes’ great leader rallied warriors and civilians to charge the approaching wolf, and they all met their deaths.
• The wolf’s advance destroyed Bitajia Realm, silenced its sun and stars, and brought darkness over the realm.

Orsaga burned Karfei Realm to magma, then moved through the World Tree as the flames spread toward its crown. He entered the Fates Goddesses’ hidden space, drained the Spring of Wisdom, and left the three goddesses under his control.

• Orsaga’s unleashed Heavenly Fire melted Karfei Realm’s ice, destroyed its Undead Creatures and treasures, and turned the realm’s sun and stars into flames.
• Orsaga left Karfei Realm as it continued burning and collapsing inward.
• Two days later, the flames had spread across the World Tree’s crown, which had become a canopy of fire.
• Orsaga tore into the Fates Goddesses’ hidden dimension, where the three goddesses calmly watched him arrive.
• Orsaga drained the Spring of Wisdom and absorbed the World Tree’s accumulated records and information.
• Orsaga left after controlling the three Fates Goddesses, who made no attempt to resist.

Orsaga emerged from the burning World Tree as a Red Dragon of overwhelming power, then vanished into the void. In Tachyon World, the dragon-worshipping Sarkanwo returned after centuries of travel, carrying the power to change his homeland.

• The Black Giant Wolf and the giant serpent left the burning World Tree with billions of Enir Pantheon, sensing terrifying powers growing within it.
• Days later, Orsaga emerged from the World Tree after fusing Nidhogg with his Demon Form incarnation, then disappeared into the void as the tree crumbled to nothingness.
• In Tachyon World, humans had exterminated the dragons centuries earlier, and legends of a hidden dragon power inspired many ambitious treasure seekers.
• Sarkanwo grew up worshipping dragons and obtained the Apocalypse, a ritual left by Malz that granted him special power and knowledge.
• Sarkanwo awakened his Spark, traveled through worlds for centuries, and returned to Tachyon World with the power to change it.

Sarkanwo began his journey into the past to save Wujin, while Imokku, Ulamo, and Kojire followed him and concealed his presence in the Timeline. In Wujin’s lair thousands of years earlier, Sarkanwo witnessed two Elder Dragons fighting, and the chapter left him awestruck by their power.

• Sarkanwo reflected that saving Wujin could prevent the dragons’ extinction and used the Magic Ritual he had prepared to begin Time Travel.
• Imokku, Ulamo, and Kojire sensed Sarkanwo’s journey and followed him into the past, unaffected by changes to the Timeline.
• The three Ozhaki discovered that another Elder Dragon had caused Wujin’s death and concealed Sarkanwo’s presence as a traveler from the future.
• Sarkanwo arrived thousands of years in the past at Wujin’s cyan-crystal lair, where two Elder Dragons fought with immense power.
• Sarkanwo watched the battle and felt enthralled and awestruck.

Sarkanwo secretly rescued a fragment of Wujin’s soul from the golden dragon and brought him to a primitive world where he could recover. Wujin promised Sarkanwo a reward, while realizing that his revival would alter Sarkanwo’s history and erase the magic ritual that had made him a fanatical Dragon Cultist.

• Sarkanwo recognized the two battling dragons as powerful Planeswalkers and decided to hide rather than intervene directly.
• Sarkanwo watched the golden dragon summon Past Bodies from the River of Time to attack Wujin, then secretly intercepted a fragment of Wujin’s soul and fled.
• Sarkanwo explained the situation to Wujin, who accepted his account and felt relieved to have survived.
• Sarkanwo brought Wujin to a primitive world where Wujin planned to reclaim power from the races he had created there.
• Wujin promised Sarkanwo a reward and realized that his revival would correct the Timeline, potentially erasing Sarkanwo’s loved ones and the ritual that had shaped his beliefs.

Wujin began resurrecting in the primordial world, but figures from the Timeline interfered and altered his consciousness. As the Timeline’s correction erased Sarkanwo’s past and made him an impossible extra, the Ozhaki’s hidden influence began reshaping him, while Nicol Bolas mistook Wujin’s disturbance for a contingency plan.

• Wujin used the primordial world’s abundant energy to begin reforging his soul and body as Sarkanwo watched.
• Wujin saw three familiar Ozhaki among four indistinct figures, but a force from another Timeline suppressed him and flooded his resurrection ritual with foreign influences.
• The Timeline’s correction blurred Sarkanwo’s memories and emotions, revealing that his ancestor’s altered fate meant he should never have been born.
• As Sarkanwo questioned his existence, the Ozhaki’s hidden power began changing his personality and consciousness.
• Nicol Bolas sensed a distant disturbance, assumed Wujin had left a contingency plan, and declared that Wujin was worthy of his brother.