Chapter Summaries

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.

After Hajun pulled Beelzebub’s heart from his chest, the heart’s tendrils overwhelmed and devoured him. Beelzebub transformed and declared himself Satan, leaving the gods terrified by the power he revealed.

• Hajun tormented Beelzebub by crushing his exposed heart, but tendrils erupted from it and spread across Hajun’s arm.
• Hajun severed his own arm, yet more tendrils engulfed him and began devouring him as Beelzebub’s heart took control.
• Hades suspected that Satan’s curse and Beelzebub’s strange heart were behind the reversal, while he watched to see what King Solomon would do.
• Beelzebub’s heart consumed Hajun, returned to Beelzebub’s chest, and repaired the wound.
• Beelzebub transformed into a horned, winged figure and proclaimed, “I am Satan!”
• The gods recoiled in terror as Satan’s appearance and gaze made them fear for their lives.

King Solomon transformed into Goetia to confront Satan, revealing strength that overwhelmed the demon who had terrorized the arena. He seized Satan by the face, leaving Satan frightened and unable to understand what Solomon had become.

• Satan grew stronger by feeding on fear and threatened to make King Solomon suffer eternal torment.
• King Solomon sent away the Supreme Four Pillars of Demons and summoned countless Magic Arrays that layered over him.
• The Magic Arrays vanished, revealing King Solomon transformed into the monstrous Goetia, with branching horns and a single eye in his chest.
• Satan attacked Solomon, but Solomon caught his arm, dodged his blades, and tore the arm off with ease.
• Satan recoiled in fear as Solomon identified his form as Goetia and seized Satan by the face, lifting him into the air.

King Solomon transformed into a Demon God King and used enormous eyeball-covered tentacles to contain Satan’s Void God - Chaos. Satan survived the tentacles’ attack and vowed revenge, leaving the gods and humans unsure what Solomon would do next.

• Satan escaped King Solomon’s grip by tearing off his own head, while the gods recognized Solomon’s transformed body as a Demon God King.
• Satan unleashed Void God - Chaos, a forbidden technique that formed a destructive black sphere and threatened to collapse the Heavenly Realm Space.
• King Solomon’s giant tentacles burst from beneath the arena and wrapped around the black sphere, stopping its expansion and saving the surviving spectators.
• The tentacles pierced Satan and focused a barrage of laser-like rays on him, but his voice soon echoed from all directions as he swore to repay King Solomon’s humiliation.

Satan released a swarm of virus-bearing Pāpīyas Seeds from the arena, threatening to spread Underworld Taboo Number Thirteen throughout the Heavenly Realm. The seeds stopped outside the arena when they encountered a horrifying sight: seventy-two enormous tentacles made from countless humans.

• Satan sent the Pāpīyas Seeds flying from the arena to spread the virus and blamed King Solomon for forcing him into this situation.
• Hades warned everyone to isolate those who had begun mutating, preventing the Main Gods from attacking the swarm while Void God - Chaos remained nearby.
• The broadcast resumed and showed the seeds stopping outside the arena as Heimdallr struggled to describe what he saw.
• Brunhilde and Goll saw that the arena had been dragged into a Different Dimension, where enormous tentacles covered in people surrounded it.
• Void God - Chaos vanished, revealing seventy-two tentacles made from countless humans and leaving the spectators horrified.

Brunhilde and the gods discovered that Solomon had summoned billions of human souls from past eras, whose despair was tormenting Satan as they sought revenge for humanity’s trials. As Solomon’s body and the constructed dimension collapsed, the souls returned to history, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Brunhilde scanned the tentacle pillars with her Akasha System terminal, which overloaded after identifying millions of genuine human souls.
• The pillars drew energy from the humans to attack the disease-spreading pests, then impaled an archangel and exposed Satan’s heart within him.
• Solomon appeared on a throne outside the arena and explained that the summoned souls were avenging the despair and deaths caused by humanity’s repeated trials.
• The souls linked their accumulated despair to Satan, leaving him screaming as Solomon’s body succumbed to corrosion and began to collapse.
• The different dimension fractured and the tentacle pillars broke apart, while the souls bowed and returned to their places in history.

After King Solomon vanished, the gods decided Ragnarok would continue, while Brunhilde recovered fragmentary data about humans who had hated Satan. She prepared for the third match by choosing a representative from the Heian Period.

• King Solomon disappeared without explaining the truth about Satan, leaving many mysteries unresolved.
• Shiva, Hades, and Zeus discussed the mysterious madness of their collaborator and agreed to continue Ragnarok.
• Goll confirmed that King Solomon could not be summoned, while Brunhilde repaired the damaged terminal to retrieve its data.
• Brunhilde recovered incomplete records suggesting the humans had come from Heaven's territory and had died during a trial.
• Brunhilde stopped investigating and chose the third-round representative from the Heian Period of the Far Eastern Island Nation.

Brunhilde sent Goll with Hrist to observe a human from the same era as her third-round candidate, while she prepared the match. The gods chose Bishamonten as their representative, but the Seven Lucky Gods claimed that all seven of them would fight, prompting outrage from both sides.

• Brunhilde chose a human for the third round and sent Goll to witness another famous figure from his era, restricting her from returning until she had watched long enough.
• Brunhilde contacted her chosen Valkyrie, who said she would wait for the human near the passage to the arena, then Brunhilde headed to the match.
• Zeus and Hermes discussed the gods’ choice, with Zeus agreeing to send a fighter who was not a heavyweight champion despite the gods’ two consecutive losses.
• Heimdallr announced Bishamonten as the gods’ representative, accompanied by the other six Seven Lucky Gods.
• Daikokuten declared that all seven Seven Lucky Gods were contestants, drawing protests from Heimdallr and boos and disapproval from spectators on both sides.

The Seven Lucky Gods merged into Rei-Fuku, who faced the unexpected human Ashiya Douman instead of Sakata Kintoki. The chapter ended with Rei-Fuku recognizing Douman as an enemy and demanding the fight begin.

• Bishamonten and the other six Lucky Gods merged into one body, which emerged as Rei-Fuku.
• Heimdallr explained that Rei-Fuku had originally been one god, while Brunhilde realized Humanity’s entrant was not Sakata Kintoki.
• Brunhilde identified the unexpected Onmyoji as Ashiya Douman and discovered that he had abducted and restrained Sakata Kintoki.
• Ashiya Douman told Heimdallr to start the match, and Rei-Fuku reacted with furious recognition and threatened to kill him.
• Rei-Fuku pulled a massive black axe from his body and glared at Heimdallr as the match’s start remained unannounced.

Ashiya Douman replaced Sakata Kintoki in Ragnarok’s third round and battled Rei-Fuku, whose power grew as he absorbed misfortune. Goll returned to Akasha’s Chamber and learned the fighters had been changed while Douman transformed the arena and darkened the sky.

• The Valkyries and gods accepted Ashiya Douman replacing the fighter, and Heimdallr began the third round between Douman and Rei-Fuku.
• Goll recalled that Dōma Hōshi had defeated Abe no Seimei and the Seven Lucky Gods, while Brunhilde recognized Douman’s strength and Rei-Fuku’s intense hatred of him.
• Rei-Fuku repeatedly struck Douman’s paper-doll decoys, absorbing the misfortune of his missed attacks and growing stronger.
• Douman turned scraps of paper into tiny explosive dolls that bombarded Rei-Fuku and sent Heimdallr crashing into the arena wall.
• Rei-Fuku unleashed a massive circular strike that cut away much of the platform, but Douman landed on his weapon and declared that the fight would end as the sky changed from day to night.
• Goll returned to Akasha’s Chamber, saw the live broadcast, and asked Hrist why Douman had replaced Sakata Kintoki in the third match.

Goll recognized Rei-Fuku as the Seven Lucky Gods and warned that Ashiya Douman’s old conspiracy involved them, but Brunhilde would not take her calls. In the arena, Ashiya Douman intensified the audience’s gloom to feed Rei-Fuku’s misfortune, and Rei-Fuku’s aura spread that misery further as the fight continued.

• Goll told Hrist that Rei-Fuku was the true form of the Seven Lucky Gods and warned that Ashiya Douman had once schemed to break Ame-no-Minakanushi’s seal.
• Hrist tried to contact Brunhilde, but Brunhilde ended the calls and stopped answering.
• A black sun appeared above the arena, and Brunhilde noticed that the audience was growing gloomy as Ashiya Douman deliberately fueled the atmosphere of misfortune.
• Rei-Fuku transformed his weapon into countless blades and attacked Ashiya Douman, while stray blows also cut off Heimdallr’s shadow.
• Ashiya Douman emerged from the black sun, pulled Rei-Fuku toward him with his blade, and struck him into a crater with a punch.
• Rei-Fuku rose and unleashed a black aura that made Heimdallr and many spectators collapse into despair, while Hermes explained that their misfortune fed Rei-Fuku.