Recaps

Bai Yue planned to use Xiang Yu's artificial body to maintain the Qin Empire after moving to his next character, while Brunhilde and Lantigreese arrived in Xianyang during the First Emperor's era. The sisters witnessed the World Tree seize two foreign gods and then felt the First Emperor's terrifying attention as his parade approached.

• Bai Yue learned that his next character could control both his current body and Xiang Yu's artificial body, which he intended to use to finish the First Emperor's body and suppress threats within the Qin Empire.
• Brunhilde and Lantigreese arrived in Xianyang with identification marks that Xiang Yu said would protect them from being treated as enemies.
• Two gods from the Far Eastern Island Nation appeared over Xianyang, but branches from the World Tree bound them, drained them, and dragged them away.
• The sisters noticed Xianyang's unusually precise stonework and watched the Black-Armored Soldiers escort the First Emperor, Ying Zheng, from the palace.
• Ying Zheng's gaze and aura terrified Brunhilde and Lantigreese, so Brunhilde pulled her sister aside as the Dragon Carriage approached.

Brunhilde and Lantigreese watched the First Emperor’s military parade and discovered that old Six Nations operatives planned to provoke a riot and attack him. One assassin began to suspect that ordinary-looking spectators were hidden soldiers, while the First Emperor’s gaze left him shaken.

• Brunhilde noticed that the First Emperor’s Black-Armored Soldiers seemed inhuman as she and Lantigreese followed his procession to the parade grounds.
• Brunhilde and Lantigreese spotted armed operatives among the crowd and inferred that they intended to cause panic during the ceremony, with assassination as a possible opportunity.
• An assassin from Yan State weighed the deaths of Qin’s citizens and former Six Nations people as justified, then focused his hatred on the First Emperor.
• The assassin worried that nearby spectators might be disguised soldiers and struggled to identify which people around him were allies.
• The First Emperor silenced the assembled crowd with a gesture and swept his gaze over it, leaving the assassin drenched in cold sweat.

Brunhilde and Lantigreese watched the First Emperor’s military parade and suspected the silent civilians were controlled living dead. When assassins attacked, the wounded civilians revealed mechanical bodies, but Brunhilde urged Lantigreese to consider a faint distortion in the scene, leaving her questioning whether the people around them had changed.

• Lantigreese and Brunhilde noticed that the civilians had fallen silent in perfect unison and suspected the First Emperor was controlling them.
• Brunhilde watched the First Emperor’s army march and sing alongside the king, ministers, and civilians.
• Six Nations assassins attacked civilians, but their victims continued singing despite fatal wounds that revealed machinery instead of flesh.
• Lantigreese realized that many civilians appeared to be mechanical puppets, while some genuine spectators remained among them.
• Brunhilde told Lantigreese to recall whether the scene had changed, and Lantigreese remembered a brief ripple before questioning the height of the person who had been standing before her.

Brunhilde realized the First Emperor had transferred suspicious spectators into a parallel Qin world, where a World Tree supported a technologically advanced city. After Ying Zheng sensed the Valkyrie sisters and left, another unseen gaze still held Lantigreese in terror.

• Brunhilde explained that the First Emperor had moved suspected assassins and insincere spectators into a parallel space, replacing them with mechanical actors in the real world.
• The fleeing assassins reached Xianyang City and froze in terror at its enormous, unfamiliar buildings.
• Brunhilde recognized the World Tree beneath Xianyang Palace and wondered how the First Emperor had made the world independent from the Main World Tree.
• Ying Zheng's powerful gaze found Brunhilde and Lantigreese, immobilizing them until he boarded his war chariot and returned toward the city.
• After Ying Zheng looked away, another unseen gaze locked onto Lantigreese and left her near collapse.

Brunhilde and Lantigreese entered the First Emperor’s vast, advanced Qin Empire and waited to be granted an audience. Brunhilde asked him to represent humanity in Ragnarok, and he questioned how she intended humans to fight gods; she began explaining her method for joining humans with divine weapons.

• The puppet citizens transformed into Black-Armored Soldiers, while living soldiers escorted Brunhilde and Lantigreese into Xianyang City.
• The sisters saw the enormous city and its structure built upon the World Tree, while Brunhilde worried that the First Emperor might keep them from returning before Ragnarok.
• After half a day of waiting, the sisters were summoned and entered the palace to meet the First Emperor.
• Brunhilde explained Ragnarok and asked the First Emperor to fight as one of humanity’s representatives.
• The First Emperor asked how Brunhilde expected humanity to defeat the gods, and she said humans needed compatible divine weapons and a way to unite with them.

Brunhilde agreed to become the First Emperor’s divine weapon, but the forging left her unable to tell what had happened to her. Back in Akasha’s Chamber, she chose Lu Bu Fengxian for Ragnarok’s first match and asked Lantigreese to become his divine weapon.

• The First Emperor agreed to participate in Ragnarok if Brunhilde became his divine weapon.
• Brunhilde began the forging and felt the First Emperor’s power examine and break down her body and soul before she lost consciousness.
• Brunhilde woke in Akasha’s Chamber with Lantigreese beside her, but neither knew what the forging had changed.
• Brunhilde considered which candidate to send against Lord Thor and chose Lu Bu Fengxian for the first match.
• Brunhilde told Lantigreese she was counting on her, and Goll realized Lantigreese would become Lu Bu Fengxian’s divine weapon.

Brunhilde’s attempt to summon Lu Bu Fengxian was interrupted when the Hegemon King appeared and declared that he would represent humanity in the first match. As Thor was announced as the gods’ fighter, Goll worried whether the Hegemon King could defeat him.

• Goll protested Brunhilde’s choice of Lu Bu Fengxian, but Brunhilde assigned Lantigreese to him anyway.
• The summoning panel turned black, and the Hegemon King emerged, seized Brunhilde, and demanded to know who had given his chosen person to someone else.
• The Hegemon King said that His Majesty had sent him to represent humanity in the first battle, while Lantigreese recognized him as her lord.
• Brunhilde and Goll entered the arena viewing area, where Brunhilde insulted Zeus after he made a lewd remark toward her.
• Heimdallr announced the no-surrender rules and revealed Thor as the gods’ vanguard, leaving Goll anxious about humanity’s chances.

Xiang Yu entered Ragnarok as humanity’s first fighter, while Emperor Gao of Han revealed that the First Emperor had yielded him his realm and could have united the world if the gods had not interfered. Xiang Yu’s ordinary spear shattered against Thor, but Brunhilde saw that the attack had drawn a trace of blood and believed humanity could win.

• Heimdallr introduced Xiang Yu and declared that the Hegemon King had withdrawn from history on the First Emperor’s orders.
• Emperor Gao of Han confirmed that the First Emperor had bestowed his realm on him and could have ruled all humanity if the gods had not interfered.
• Zeus, Hermes, and Odin discussed Xiang Yu and the mysterious preparations behind humanity’s challenge to the gods.
• The horn sounded, beginning the first battle of Ragnarok between Xiang Yu and Thor.
• Xiang Yu struck Thor with an ordinary spear, which shattered on impact, but Brunhilde celebrated because the attack had slightly wounded him.

Xiang Yu dispersed Thor's lightning strike with a spear thrust and met Thor in a rapid weapon clash. Their fight left Thor struggling, and Xiang Yu knocked Mjolnir into the air.

• Zeus and the other gods considered Xiang Yu's wound on Thor and wondered what hidden strength Brunhilde's fighter possessed.
• Thor unleashed a pillar of lightning, but Xiang Yu struck first and dispersed it before it reached the arena floor.
• The gods and spectators reacted in shock as Brunhilde watched Xiang Yu's unexpected feat.
• Xiang Yu and Thor clashed at tremendous speed in the arena, generating powerful shockwaves and heat.
• Xiang Yu struck upward and knocked Mjolnir out of Thor's hands.

Xiang Yu destroyed Thor’s Járngreipr and challenged him to unleash his true power, only for Zeus to reveal that the gauntlets had actually suppressed Thor and protected Mjolnir from him. As Thor and Mjolnir awakened, Xiang Yu summoned a metal box and allowed its cables to pierce and suspend him, leaving the arena stunned as his own trump card began.

• Xiang Yu broke Thor’s gauntlets, discarded his spear, and urged Thor to show his true strength.
• Xiang Yu realized Járngreipr had restrained Thor’s power and prepared to use his own mechanical ascension for a full-strength battle.
• Mjolnir began to crack open and beat like a living creature, while Zeus explained that Járngreipr had protected Mjolnir from Thor’s strength rather than protecting Thor from the hammer.
• Xiang Yu summoned a metal box, whose cables bound and lifted him before piercing his body, stunning the spectators.

Xiang Yu vanished inside the metal box and emerged in a transformed state, then fought Thor evenly after both revealed their full power. The chapter ended with the arena shaking from their clashes as the spectators wondered which of them would win.

• A halberd pierced Xiang Yu as he was hoisted by the cables, and his body vanished as the metal box cracked apart.
• A transformed Xiang Yu emerged from the shattered box, his aura cold and deathlike and his power comparable to Thor's.
• Thor raised Mjolnir while Xiang Yu took a combat stance, and both charged at terrifying speed.
• Thor and Xiang Yu exchanged blows, producing shockwaves that cracked the arena, created a vacuum, and drove Heimdallr to dodge.
• Shiva became excited by Xiang Yu's power and decided he wanted to join the Ragnarok battle.
• Liu Xuande asked Guan Yu whether Xiang Yu could win, while Goll and Brunhilde watched the evenly matched fight with hope and uncertainty.

Bai Yue, fighting as Hegemon King Xiang Yu, pushed Thor into a fierce exchange of increasingly rapid attacks, but Thor’s black-lightning strike shook the arena and left the outcome uncertain. As the smoke cleared, both Thor and Xiang Yu were still standing.

• Brunhilde and Zeus observed Xiang Yu’s artificial body as the battle continued.
• Thor accelerated his Mjolnir swings, and Xiang Yu used predictive calculations to disrupt his rhythm while matching his speed.
• Thor charged Mjolnir with black lightning and unleashed a devastating strike that filled the arena with dust and shockwaves.
• The gods’ spectators cheered when Thor appeared through the smoke, believing Xiang Yu had been defeated.
• Heimdallr spotted Xiang Yu standing alive beside Thor and realized the battle was not yet decided.

Xiang Yu’s mechanical body survived Thor’s devastating hammer strike, and a replay revealed how he had wounded Thor with a hidden sword. Both fighters declared that they had only one strike left, leaving the match’s outcome undecided.

• The smoke cleared to reveal Thor badly wounded and Xiang Yu apparently charred, but Xiang Yu’s outer layer peeled away to expose a transformed mechanical body with four arms and a sword.
• Brunhilde identified the mechanical warrior as Xiang Yu, while the gods reacted with shock and suspicion at the human-like divine weapon.
• Shiva grew eager to fight and urgently applied to participate in a later match after watching the clash.
• Heimdallr replayed the final exchange, showing Xiang Yu reveal a sword hidden inside his halberd, wound Thor, and lose two arms while holding off Mjolnir.
• Thor and Xiang Yu each said they had only one strike left, and the arena fell silent as everyone awaited their decisive attack.

Thor and Hegemon King Xiang Yu unleashed their ultimate forms and collided in a devastating final exchange. Xiang Yu appeared defeated, but Heimdallr realized the clash had decided the victor in a way the spectators had not seen, leaving the outcome unannounced.

• Thor fused Mjolnir with his arm, transforming the hammer into an axe-hammer, while Xiang Yu shifted into a four-armed Mechanical Demon Form.
• Thor and Xiang Yu charged at each other, their black lightning and azure flames erupting in a collision that filled the arena with light, mist, and shockwaves.
• The light and mist cleared to reveal Thor apparently unharmed and Xiang Yu grievously damaged, struggling to remain standing.
• Heimdallr learned through the Akashic Records that the clash had not ended as the spectators believed, while Thor remained motionless.
• Ares celebrated what he assumed was Thor's victory as the gods cheered and some human spectators lost hope.

Humanity won the first Ragnarok match when Xiang Yu killed Thor with a sword fragment clenched in his teeth. Brunhilde celebrated the victory, but Loki warned that Thor’s death had angered Odin and could accelerate humanity’s destruction.

• Ares and the other gods sensed the oppressive mood among the pantheons, while Brunhilde urged Goll to celebrate humanity’s victory.
• Heimdallr’s slow-motion replay showed Xiang Yu bite a fragment of his shattered sword and cut Thor’s throat as they crossed paths.
• Thor’s body shattered, and the human spectators celebrated as Heimdallr announced Xiang Yu as the winner of the first match.
• Some gods protested that the duel was unfair, but Odin’s threatening voice made Heimdallr silence them and confirm the result.
• Shiva resolved to push for a place in the next match, while Loki left Odin and visited Brunhilde and Goll.
• Loki congratulated Brunhilde, then warned that Thor’s death had enraged Odin and could hasten Ragnarok.

As Ragnarok’s second round approached, Brunhilde chose Adam as humanity’s fighter, but a powerful figure appeared and asked to take the match instead. Meanwhile, Odin was urged to send a demon into the arena in exchange for the possibility of resurrecting Thor, and the chapter ended by revealing the cursed god’s lonely past.

• Xiang Yu questioned Brunhilde’s motives for starting Ragnarok, then left with a card depicting a dead figure.
• Bai Yue considered Ragnarok a way to expose hidden enemies and used the card to test whether someone belonged to them.
• An uninvited guest told Odin that someone could resurrect Thor if Odin sent a demon to fight in the second round; Odin let him go without giving a clear answer.
• Brunhilde selected Adam as humanity’s representative, but a figure emerged from a virtual panel, stopped her, and asked to take the match.
• The cursed god’s backstory revealed that Satan’s curse kept others away from him until three people befriended him despite his reputation.

Beelzebub entered Ragnarok as the gods’ representative, and King Solomon emerged to fight for humanity. Their pairing stunned the arena, especially the angels who recognized Solomon.

• Beelzebub’s past revealed that he had killed Lilith after his destructive nature awakened, and he later sought a death he could not bring upon himself.
• Odin arranged for Beelzebub to represent the gods, alarming Zeus, the Lord of Heaven, and the spectators.
• Heimdallr announced that King Solomon would represent humanity, prompting astonishment among the gods and angels.
• The crowd recalled the legends linking Solomon to the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons as the two representatives prepared to face each other.
• Heimdallr explained that the famous book The Key of Solomon had been written long after Solomon’s time and contained false spells.

King Solomon opened a passage to Hell and summoned all seventy-two Demon Gods during his fight with Beelzebub. The Demon Gods knelt before Solomon, while Baal glared at Beelzebub, exposing a possible rift between them.

• Beelzebub summoned seventy-two monstrous demons he had modified and challenged King Solomon to call on the Seventy-Two Pillars of Demons.
• King Solomon opened a vast Magic Array that formed a passage to Hell, filling the arena with black Miasma and the aura of Demon Gods.
• The darkness briefly revealed the Supreme Four Pillars Gods before lightning illuminated all seventy-two Demon Gods in the arena.
• The Seventy-Two Pillars of Demons knelt before King Solomon, astonishing the gods and humans watching.
• Spectators questioned whether Beelzebub was truly Baal after noticing Baal glare at him with open hostility.

Baal and the other Seventy-two Pillars of Demons recognized themselves in Beelzebub’s cloned monsters and tore them apart, prompting the gods to challenge the fairness of the match. King Solomon began proving his command over the demons by unleashing an immense quantity of magic power, while Heaven’s Vice-Lord considered forcibly summoning the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons.

• Baal and the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons sensed that Beelzebub’s seventy-two monsters had been made from their genes and slaughtered them in the arena.
• The gods demanded that Heimdallr invalidate the match, while humanity’s side argued back and the arena descended into a shouting match.
• Zeus silenced the crowd and told King Solomon the match would continue only if he proved that the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons truly obeyed him.
• King Solomon released a vast pillar of visible magic power that engulfed the arena, convincing many gods that he could command the demons.
• Heaven’s Vice-Lord grew furious and considered summoning the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons himself to challenge King Solomon’s control.

King Solomon used power drawn directly from the Cosmic Origin to prove he could command the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons, and Zeus allowed the duel to continue. Beelzebub countered the demons’ assault with precise physical vibrations, then recognized that Solomon was altering the extensibility of space.

• Odin realized King Solomon drew seemingly limitless magic power directly from the Cosmic Origin, a dangerous connection that could eventually consume him.
• Zeus asked the gods whether Solomon had the right to command the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons, then declared The Final Battle Between Humans and Gods would continue.
• Baal attacked Beelzebub, but a physical vibration from Beelzebub snapped his hand and sent the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons flying.
• Beelzebub rushed King Solomon and missed a devastating hand-blade strike as the altered space distorted the distance between them.
• Beelzebub swung his staff at Solomon but was rebounded into the arena wall, then identified Solomon’s magic as an alteration of space’s extensibility.

Beelzebub sent waves of regenerating monsters against the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons, who drove the battle into a divine sandbox while Solomon watched and deliberately let the fight continue. As Beelzebub began absorbing the demons’ energy and fallen monsters, the Supreme Four Pillars of Demons warned the others to stop using pure energy attacks.

• Beelzebub summoned modified monsters, whose remains fused into new creatures when they were killed.
• Demon God Baal moved the combatants into a divine sandbox that enhanced the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons and suppressed their enemies.
• The Seventy-two Pillars of Demons fought Beelzebub and his army while Solomon watched from outside, intending to buy time and exhaust the monsters.
• Goll and Brunhilde worried that Solomon was underestimating Beelzebub, whose calm expression suggested he was holding back a trump card.
• A Supreme Four Pillars of Demons discovered that Beelzebub was absorbing their energy and the dead monsters, and warned the others not to use pure energy attacks.
• Some demons ignored the warning and continued using pure energy attacks.

Beelzebub endured the demons’ combined assault and revealed thirteen cloned Sixth Heaven Demon Kings, Pāpīyas, whose overwhelming darkness alarmed the gods. Hades identified them as ancient underworld berserkers, while the force behind Beelzebub’s demon army was left furious that he had used its resources to create them.

• Two Supreme Four Pillars and many other demons intensified their attacks on Beelzebub, but his laughter emerged from the devastation after the blast.
• A gigantic egg cracked open, revealing the horned Sixth Heaven Demon King Pāpīyas.
• Shaka sensed that Pāpīyas had no perceivable points of light in its soul and recognized it as a uniquely dangerous being.
• More eggs cracked open, producing thirteen identical figures as darkness covered the sky and alarmed Brunhilde, Goll, Ares, and Loki.
• Hades arrived and identified the figures as ancient berserkers of the underworld, the Sixth Heaven Demon King Pāpīyas.
• The sponsor behind Beelzebub’s modified demon army realized he had used its resources to create the thirteen powerful beings instead.

King Solomon used a light-bending illusion to fool the Papiyas into tearing apart one of their own instead of him. The Papiyas realized their target had escaped their attack and turned their attention back to Solomon.

• The Papiyas overwhelmed the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons, and Demon King Papiyas killed Demon God Baal by piercing his chest and pulling out his heart.
• The sandbox world exploded, destroying much of the arena, but King Solomon and Beelzebub survived; the Papiyas regenerated from their injuries.
• The Papiyas rushed King Solomon and appeared to rip out his heart, alarming Goll, Brunhilde, and Heimdallr.
• The spectators realized that Solomon had used light refraction and reflection to disguise his position and make one Papiyas look like him.
• The Papiyas laughed at Solomon's trick and called the encounter interesting.

King Solomon used an unprecedented summoning to stack demon gods from different points in time, giving the Supreme Four Pillars Gods enough strength to kill four Maras. The remaining Maras adapted, while Solomon’s rising magical power hinted that something was beginning to awaken.

• A Mara devoured the heart of another Mara, and the twelve remaining Maras grew stronger as they turned their attention back to King Solomon.
• King Solomon summoned the Supreme Four Pillars Gods, and their overlapping forms and Magic Arrays baffled the onlookers.
• The Supreme Four Pillars Gods suddenly killed four Maras, leaving Heimdallr and the spectators stunned by the reversal.
• Zeus realized King Solomon had stacked demon gods from different points in time to strengthen the Four Pillars Gods.
• The stacked Four Pillars fought as inflexible berserkers, allowing the surviving Maras to steal bites; Solomon’s magical power rose slightly as the opening began to loosen.

Pāpīyas regained his full memories and power after absorbing the Pāpīyas Seeds Beelzebub had cultivated. He shattered Heavenly Punishment and turned toward Beelzebub, leaving his next move unclear.

• Three Pāpīyas sacrificed themselves so another could grow stronger by devouring them.
• Pāpīyas caught the Supreme Four Pillars of Demons’ attacks with his body, tore off their arms, and swallowed them.
• Pāpīyas demanded that Beelzebub hand over the remaining pieces of him, declaring that he remembered being the Sixth Heaven Demon King.
• Beelzebub released his jars of Pāpīyas Seeds, and Pāpīyas absorbed the creatures as Hades watched helplessly.
• Pāpīyas fully awakened, grew more powerful, and tore apart Heavenly Punishment.
• Hades contacted Zeus to prepare for the threat, and Pāpīyas turned toward Beelzebub with a cruel smile.