Chapter Summaries

Ashiya Douman trapped and consumed Rei-Fuku, then used his absorbed power and misfortune to manipulate the heavens and align the celestial bodies. Goll warned Brunhilde about his plan to break Ame-no-Minakanushi’s seal, but the duel’s aftermath revealed a terrifying display of astronomical power.

• Rei-Fuku transformed his divine weapon into eight bladed legs and tried to pierce the Black Sun, but Ashiya Douman trapped him and swallowed him.
• Goll reached Brunhilde and warned her that Ashiya Douman intended to break Ame-no-Minakanushi’s seal, but Brunhilde reminded her to prioritize humanity’s victory.
• Ashiya Douman emerged from the Black Sun surrounded by black flames and curses after absorbing Rei-Fuku’s power and misfortune.
• Ashiya Douman spread his arms, and a flash from the Black Sun ended the duel before the arena’s sky shifted between day, night, and a star-filled expanse.
• The spectators saw the planets and Black Sun aligned in a row around Ashiya Douman, who appeared to hold a miniature Solar System in his hands.

After Odin’s Gungnir pierced Ashiya Douman’s manifested body, it carried his original corpse’s skull toward Venus, revealing that his plan involved a sealed prison there. The gods saw the headless corpse emerge on Venus and realized Douman had reached the prison, leaving them fearing what he might release.

• Odin attacked Ashiya Douman with Gungnir, and the strike exposed a pentagram gate on Venus as the other stars vanished like illusions.
• Shiva explained that Venus was a God's Prison sealing dangerous evil gods and Apocalypse Beasts, while Odin grew alarmed when Gungnir failed to return.
• Odin asked Susanoo whether Douman’s original corpse had been destroyed, and Susanoo confirmed that it was no longer in the Human World.
• Heimdallr magnified the view of Venus and showed a headless skeleton in Onmyoji robes emerging from a metal coffin.
• The gods realized Douman’s corpse had reached Venus inside a human-made rocket shielded by a metal box, and Brunhilde feared he might release something from the prison.

Odin’s spear shattered Venus’s barrier, triggering Ashiya Douman’s explosive release of monsters and provoking the gods to vow war. Star God Weng emerged into a new conflict, but a vast metal construct arrived and subdued the Apocalypse Beasts and evil gods before taking the compliant survivors away.

• Odin’s spear struck and shattered Venus’s barrier, then pierced Ashiya Douman’s body as his talismans transformed into countless explosive dolls.
• Ashiya Douman’s dolls detonated in a massive blast, and a dark vortex filled with monsters appeared before the image cut out.
• Zeus rallied the gods, who shouted for war, while the tournament continued as usual.
• Star God Weng emerged from his seal, reclaimed Rei-Fuku’s power, and saw a colossal metal construct appear through a connection between spaces.
• The construct’s forces subdued the Seven-headed, Ten-horned beast, the other Apocalypse Beasts, and many evil gods, then took Star God Weng and other survivors through the closing space gate.

Bai Yue learned that the Primal Gods planned to infiltrate and target another mythological Earth world, while the gods struggled to choose a fighter after three consecutive losses. The fourth round remained undecided as Hades challenged Shiva for the right to take the stage.

• Bai Yue reviewed intelligence that Otherworld Gods were infiltrating a parallel Earth world ahead of a possible invasion.
• The gods gathered after three straight defeats, and Shiva demanded to fight in the fourth round.
• Shiva challenged Hades when Hades claimed the fourth match, and their clashing auras shattered the table.
• Ares tried to dissuade Hades, but Hades's glance made him quickly deny that he meant Hades should back down.

Odin refused to study the ten rings Njörðr brought him, while Njörðr used his secret access to reach a hidden gate. A mysterious intruder then infiltrated the Divine Temple and beheaded guards, exposing a threat to the gods’ plans for humanity.

• Odin returned to his private lounge, where a messenger showed him a figure who asked him to study ten divine rings; Odin refused.
• Njörðr, a former Vanir accepted into the Aesir, learned that half the Gate of Heaven was under his allies’ control and took the rings toward a hidden gate.
• Njörðr opened the gate with deliberately flawed runes and stepped through its light curtain to a floating island, where a contact took the box from him.
• The gods in the Divine Temple discussed Odin’s refusal and Njörðr’s usefulness, then the figure on the Supreme God Throne sensed that an intruder had infiltrated them.
• The intruder struck at the temple’s viewing image, which returned to show guards beheaded before they could react.
• The gods recognized the intruder as someone who had infiltrated the Pantheons and Human World, where their group was fomenting conflict to create an opportunity to destroy humanity.

A heavily armored assassin infiltrated the gods’ headquarters and killed Divine Soldiers before their captain’s death-triggered weapon cast him Outside the Universe. In Akasha's Chamber, Brunhilde learned the gods’ choice for the fourth round and weighed whether to commit a powerful human fighter.

• The gods investigated the mysterious assassin, whose killings had repeatedly disrupted their plans, and sent Divine Soldiers to search their headquarters.
• The assassin beheaded a Divine Soldier Captain, whose life-bound weapon severed and transferred the hall’s space, apparently throwing the assassin Outside the Universe.
• The gods discussed the people released from Demon Star as potential allies and suspected the Norse Sea God had led the assassin to them.
• Goll asked Alvitr and Hlokk who would fight in the fourth round while Brunhilde considered the human candidates with Reginleif.
• Brunhilde received a message revealing that the gods had chosen a heavyweight fighter, and Reginleif urged her to give their all in every round.

Brunhilde reconsidered her strategy for Ragnarok’s fourth round after learning that the gods might have hidden powerhouses, while investigating a warning about the Old Man of the Mountain. An accidental trip through Akasha’s Chamber sent her and the other Valkyries into a past scene, where they hid from someone nearby.

• Reginleif warned Brunhilde that the gods might have powerful fighters beyond those already revealed, so Brunhilde decided each match had to be fought for victory and considered sending a human king against the King of the Underworld.
• Brunhilde noticed a warning that the Old Man of the Mountain was isolated from the Akasha System and might be left behind when the spectators returned.
• Brunhilde found that the Old Man of the Mountain had been summoned after the third match, despite her not having chosen the fourth-round spectators, and wondered who had summoned him.
• Goll accidentally bumped Brunhilde, causing her to activate a historical search record and pull the group into a past scene inside Akasha’s Chamber.
• Brunhilde realized the group had entered a scene where someone was using Akasha’s Chamber, silenced Goll, and led the Valkyries into hiding.

Brunhilde discovered that gods were secretly investigating an assassin who could kill across time, and she looked into the medieval Assassination Cult behind him. As she prepared for the fourth round, she called Hlokk along, leaving Hlokk to realize she might be chosen to fight.

• Brunhilde and Goll overheard God of War Mars and another god discussing an early end for humanity and the Primordial before the other god entered the Akasha System’s past footage.
• The unfamiliar god returned as a corpse, and Mars later discussed avoiding Akasha search records while investigating the assassin through the real world and the Assassination Cult.
• Brunhilde and the Valkyries reviewed the cult’s history and its doctrine of killing evil, while Goll worried that Brunhilde might travel into the past and die.
• Brunhilde told Reginleif to prepare for the fourth round and headed for the arena, then called Hlokk to join them.
• Hlokk noticed Brunhilde’s guilt and realized she might be sent into the arena despite Reginleif’s apparent assignment.

The gods sent Hades into the fourth round after three consecutive losses, while Humanity summoned Hasan-i Sabbah, the first bearer of the Old Man of the Mountain title. Loki suspected Brunhilde had chosen Hasan to sacrifice the match and keep Humanity’s strongest fighter from facing Hades, leaving the fighters’ confrontation about to begin.

• Heimdallr received the fourth-round matchup and announced Hades, the King of the Underworld, as the gods’ representative.
• Hades entered the arena, and the gods’ spectators celebrated while Ares declared that Hades would surely win.
• Heimdallr announced Humanity’s representative as Hasan-i Sabbah, the first to bear the title Old Man of the Mountain.
• Loki accused Brunhilde of sacrificing the match to keep a stronger human fighter from facing Hades, and Ares grew furious.

Heimdallr’s summoning brought the Old Man of the Mountain, Hasan-i Sabbah, to the arena amid a spatial rift pouring Titan blood. After Hades drove Heimdallr away, Hasan learned the stakes of Ragnarok and declared Hades his enemy; Hades answered by cutting open his chest and coating his weapon with blood.

• A greatsword tore through space, opening a rift that spilled Titan blood and frightened Heimdallr and the watching gods.
• Hasan-i Sabbah emerged in black armor carrying a greatsword and shield, and Brunhilde’s terminal identified him as the human known as the Old Man of the Mountain.
• Brunhilde mocked the gods’ fear, while Hades silenced the arena with his killing intent and demanded to know who Hasan was.
• Hades ordered Heimdallr to explain the tournament, then knocked him out of the arena before he could finish.
• Hasan declared that humanity’s fate could only be decided by humans and vowed to cut down Hades, who then slashed open his own chest and covered his weapon with blood.

Hades infused his blood into his divine weapon and transformed it into a powerful lance as he prepared to face Hasan-i Sabbah. The two fighters exchanged a single, seemingly decisive attack, but the chapter ended before revealing the result.

• Hermes explained that Hades's blood could further evolve a divine weapon, and Hades's twin-pronged spear transformed into a lance.
• Hasan-i Sabbah introduced himself as Humanity's assassin and summoned a deathly aura that seemed to form a bell in Hades's mind.
• Hades heard the bell and sensed that it foretold his death, while the spectators watched in alarm.
• Hades and Hasan-i Sabbah advanced and appeared to exchange positions, ending back to back in post-attack stances.
• The arena's air began to tremble as the spectators tried to understand what had happened.

Hades and Hasan-i Sabbah exchanged a single strike in the fourth round of Ragnarok, after which Hasan-i Sabbah returned to history rather than remain in the arena. Hades declared himself the loser, leaving the gods and Heimdallr stunned.

• Hades and Hasan-i Sabbah struck at tremendous speed, creating an air explosion that damaged the arena stands.
• The spectators saw a wound open on Hasan-i Sabbah’s neck, and he sheathed his sword before vanishing from the arena and promising to answer humanity’s call.
• Heimdallr explained that Hasan-i Sabbah had broken free of the summoning and returned to history, not died in the match.
• Zeus realized Hades had used his blood to give his weapon the power to bestow inevitable death, and Heimdallr confirmed that Hasan-i Sabbah’s condition meant the gods had won.
• As Heimdallr began announcing the result, Hades interrupted him and said, “I lost.”

The Old Man of the Mountain killed Hades in the fourth round of Ragnarok, and Heimdallr declared Hasan-i Sabbah the winner. In another world, the gods learned of Hades’s death and welcomed news that Adamas and Poseidon had left their posts, though the assassin remained a grave threat.

• The Old Man of the Mountain killed Hades with a death curse, and Hades acknowledged him as a truer embodiment of death before vanishing.
• Bai Yue analyzed a box of ten rings he had brought back and discovered that the broken system had reacted, allowing him to connect with the other world.
• The gods realized Hades had died, and Ares grieved while Hermes warned him not to attack the Valkyries.
• Brunhilde and Goll learned that humanity had won the round, and Heimdallr announced Hasan-i Sabbah as the victor.
• The gods in the Divine Temple feared the Old Man of the Mountain after seeing him kill Hades, then received news that Adamas and Poseidon had left their posts.

Brunhilde learned that Shaka suspected a hidden conspiracy behind Ragnarok and that the blood on Old Man of the Mountain belonged to the supposedly vanished Titan race. As she worried that the Primal Gods might be returning, Adamas arrived furious over Hades’s death and attacked her sisters, but Poseidon appeared to stop him.

• Shaka warned Brunhilde that gods might attack her after Hades’s death, questioned whether she had another purpose for Ragnarok, and revealed that the blood on Old Man of the Mountain belonged to the Titan race.
• Brunhilde connected Shaka’s warning and the Titan blood to the forbidden Primal Gods and suspected their faction might be behind a conspiracy involving Ragnarok.
• Adamas entered Akasha's Chamber and threatened Brunhilde’s sisters, prompting Brunhilde to ask whether he had opened the Abyss of Naraka again.
• Adamas said he would honor his promise to Hades but vanished and appeared beside Hlokk, preparing to attack her.
• Poseidon appeared, drove Adamas away from Hlokk with his presence, and threatened to execute him for disgracing Hades.

Brunhilde recalled how she met a human dragon slayer who became the Evil Dragon Fafnir, and how the God of Trickery manipulated her into attacking him. As the fifth round approached, the God of Trickery’s plan to forge an identity on another world reached 90 percent completion.

• Zeus stopped Poseidon and Adamas from fighting, then warned Brunhilde that he looked forward to the fifth round.
• Brunhilde learned that the sixth match’s god had been chosen and recognized the scheming figure as someone she had complicated feelings about.
• Brunhilde recalled meeting a human who wounded Fafnir, helping him forge Gram, and watching him slay the dragon.
• Brunhilde discovered that Fafnir had survived and learned that the dragon had transformed into the human she loved.
• Brunhilde secretly stabbed the dragon’s vulnerable spot with a one-use Pseudo Divine Artifact, and Odin’s messenger revealed himself as the God of Trickery.
• The God of Trickery’s plan to use a stolen signal device to forge a legitimate identity on another world reached 90 percent completion.

Brunhilde’s past revealed how Loki’s conspiracy led to the Dragon-slaying Hero’s death and inspired her to develop divine weapon forging. As the fifth round began, the Hero prepared to face Loki, while the arena’s introduction left the identity of the next fighter uncertain.

• Brunhilde recalled that Loki had staged the evil dragon attacks, manipulated her, and tricked the gods into accepting his explanation for the Hero’s death.
• The dying Hero had transformed Brunhilde into a weapon and struck Loki, inspiring her to teach divine weapon forging to her Valkyrie sisters.
• Reginleif worried that Brunhilde had summoned the Hero from before he knew of her betrayal, but Brunhilde trusted him to fight Loki.
• The Hero received instructions from his future self, merged two cards, and prepared to enter the fifth round.
• Shiva predicted the gods might lose the fifth and sixth matches, while Odin believed Loki could win because he was Sovereign-class.
• Heimdallr announced the gods’ four consecutive defeats and began introducing a cunning fighter associated with treasures, but had not yet revealed his name.

Siegfried faced Loki in the fifth round of Ragnarok, while Loki tried to unsettle him by exposing Brunhilde’s past. Siegfried remained unmoved and struck Loki so hard that he seemed defeated at once, but Loki got back up after turning his head around.

• Heimdallr introduced Loki as the gods’ representative and Siegfried as humanity’s Dragon-slaying Hero, while Odin briefly appeared disguised as Loki.
• Gondul teased Brunhilde by declaring she would confess her love to Siegfried if he won, and Brunhilde watched his arrival with painful memories of their past.
• Loki told Siegfried that Brunhilde had used him to complete her trial, but Siegfried ignored the accusation and urged Heimdallr to start the match.
• Loki opened with a lightning-fast chain-blade attack, but Siegfried caught the weapon, pulled Loki toward him, and punched him into the arena wall.
• Loki staggered upright and rotated his head a full turn to restore it, frightening Goll after she had assumed he was dead.

Siegfried countered Loki’s Gungnir and Laevateinn attacks, then shattered a swarm of imitation Gungnirs. He revealed that Loki belonged to the Giant race, leaving the gods stunned and Loki exposed.

• Loki attacked Siegfried with Gungnir, but Siegfried caught and crushed the spear.
• Loki summoned more Gungnirs and attacked Siegfried from both sides with Laevateinn; Siegfried blocked the sword, avoided serious injury, and kicked Loki back into the wall.
• Loki tore open a rift in his abdomen and unleashed dozens of imitation Gungnirs at Siegfried.
• Siegfried’s blue spearheads destroyed the incoming Gungnirs, and he mocked Loki for being abandoned by the Giant race.
• Goll and Brunhilde were shocked when Siegfried identified Loki as a member of the Giant race, and the gods began questioning Odin.

Loki admitted he was a Giant and, after the gods jeered at him, broke Gleipnir to release Fenrir. As the terrified gods recognized the wolf’s presence, a giant claw emerged from Loki’s dark rift and split him in two.

• Loki admitted he belonged to the Giant race, and some gods demanded that he leave the arena.
• Loki threatened to kill the gods, then tore Gleipnir from the rift in his body and broke it despite Odin’s alarm.
• Brunhilde explained that Gleipnir had bound Fenrir, and Gondul and Goll realized Loki had released the giant wolf.
• A terrifying presence and Fenrir’s roar came from Loki’s rift, frightening the gods who recognized the monster.
• A huge claw emerged from Loki’s chest and tore him in two, revealing only darkness inside his divided body.

Loki's body opened to reveal Fenrir, which attacked the Dragon Slayer and rampaged through the gods' stands. Odin intervened with Gungnir and sleep-inducing divine weapons, eventually making Fenrir collapse.

• Fenrir emerged from Loki and fixed its attention on the Dragon Slayer as the gods panicked.
• Fenrir lunged at the Dragon Slayer, but he dodged and counterattacked before Fenrir struck back and sent him crashing through a wall.
• The Dragon Slayer blasted Fenrir into the Roman gods' stands, where it wounded Mars and devoured gods, growing larger and healing as it ate.
• Odin attacked Fenrir with Gungnir and repeatedly drove sleep-inducing needles into its wounds.
• After Odin used more than twenty needles, Fenrir staggered, fell asleep, and collapsed.