Chapter Summaries

Serafall and the others were captured after arriving in the Qin Empire, but Shefara transferred them away after meeting the Emperor, who had already guided them to their next destination. Back in Akasha's Chamber, Brunhilde prepared for the sixth round and Goll became infatuated with the knight they had encountered in history.

• Serafall's group discovered that they had reached the Qin Empire in the year 2221 and fled when suspicious people approached.
• After a week of being hunted, the group surrendered to General Wang Jian and was taken to Xianyang City to meet the Emperor.
• Shefara used her Transfer spell to escape with the others when they encountered the Emperor, who let them go and said he knew where they would arrive.
• Brunhilde and Goll returned to Akasha's Chamber, where Hlokk noticed Goll's lovestruck reaction to their historical experience.
• Brunhilde said the sixth-round opponent would be the dirty old man.

Shefara and her companions arrived in Brunhilde’s world and learned that Ragnarok could not be stopped as the humans and gods were determined to fight. Zeus entered the sixth round, and humanity’s representative was revealed as the King of Knights, Arthur.

• Shefara, Rossweisse, Serafall, and two others emerged beside Brunhilde and asked her to stop Ragnarok, but Brunhilde said it could no longer be stopped.
• Hrist led the newcomers to the arena, where they sensed the humans’ fanaticism and the gods’ fury and understood that both sides had become committed to fighting.
• Rossweisse watched the recap of the previous battle, recognized the injured Odin in the gods’ stands, and learned that Zeus was absent because he would fight in the sixth round.
• Heimdallr announced Zeus as the gods’ representative, and the frail old man transformed into a mighty figure radiating overwhelming divine pressure.
• Heimdallr introduced humanity’s fighter as the King of Knights, whose name was revealed as Arthur.

The sixth Ragnarok battle began between Zeus and King Arthur Pendragon on a barren planet where Zeus had killed Cronus. Arthur wielded an invisible sword, but Zeus fought barehanded and their escalating clashes began to reveal the golden blade.

• Heimdallr announced Zeus versus Arthur Pendragon and transformed the arena into a holographic view of the planet where Zeus had killed Cronus.
• Heimdallr gave the spectators glasses that let them view the fight from different perspectives.
• Zeus and Arthur exchanged their first blows, striking afterimages, while Arthur cut Zeus slightly and Zeus tore part of Arthur’s ear away with a shockwave.
• Zeus and Arthur fought at extreme speed, their clashes devastating the terrain and driving the air from the region.
• Repeated impacts against Arthur’s invisible sword created ripples that faintly revealed its golden blade.

King Arthur and Zeus escalated their duel as Arthur’s wind-powered attacks forced Zeus to draw his Lightning Sword. They fought at unimaginable speed across the seafloor, and after Zeus wounded Arthur with a near-light-speed thrust, Arthur prepared another attack.

• King Arthur detonated compressed wind at Zeus, carving a ravine through the ground and sending Arthur crashing into a mountain.
• King Arthur used a sword of wind and then compressed wind around himself to propel a rapid strike, forcing Zeus to draw his Lightning Sword to block it.
• Zeus drove Arthur away with his weapon and pursued him, their clashes tearing apart the seabed while spectators used Akasha-enhanced glasses to follow them.
• Zeus struck Arthur’s side with a near-light-speed thrust, but Arthur evaded a fatal follow-up and explained that Zeus’s other movements could not keep pace with the thrust.
• Zeus revealed that he was pursuing a state in which every movement could surpass light speed, then raised his guard as Arthur appeared to prepare another attack.

King Arthur and Zeus traded devastating attacks that vaporized the sea and reshaped the land, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain. As Zeus’s lightning engulfed the battlefield, King Arthur began activating the Star Holy Sword’s ritual programs to survive.

• King Arthur compressed the atmosphere into a blazing plasma sphere that struck Zeus and evaporated the sea around them.
• Zeus reveled in his injuries, transformed into a larger muscular form, and lifted a landmass as large as the Far Eastern Island Nation to crush King Arthur.
• Zeus summoned billions of lightning bolts, engulfing the land and vaporizing it as spectators wondered whether King Arthur could survive.
• The chapter explained that King Arthur’s Star Holy Sword used thirteen ritual programs that consumed increasing amounts of mana, and he began activating them to counter Zeus’s attack.
• Some gods believed Zeus had won, but others held back their judgment, and someone warned Brother Ares that he was celebrating too early.

King Arthur’s holy sword struck Zeus with enough force to split the earth, but Zeus survived and transformed into a terrifying, compressed form that left the spectators paralyzed with fear. The chapter ended as Zeus revealed his true power and prepared to continue the fight.

• King Arthur’s golden beam shattered Zeus’s Lightning Sword and carved a vast scar across the planet, leaving the spectators unsure whether Zeus had been defeated.
• Serafall noticed that the records of King Arthur’s past seemed false and found speculation that Brunhilde had an expert guiding her.
• Hermes confirmed that Zeus was still alive, and Zeus staggered to his feet despite his grievous wound.
• Zeus praised King Arthur as a worthy opponent, then squeezed and compressed his own body until he transformed into a shriveled, corpse-like figure.
• Zeus’s overwhelming presence froze Irina Shidou, Lufy, Rossweisse, and the Otherworld Miko with fear.

King Arthur used his self-destructive magical-power body to battle Zeus, whose final form wielded the Lightning Sword, and their clash ended with Zeus’s sword shattered. Both fighters remained gravely damaged, and King Arthur pressed his attack despite his dwindling life.

• Zeus entered his terrifying final form, Atum, and struck King Arthur with enough force to split the earth.
• King Arthur’s blue flames healed his wounds as he rebuilt his body with magical power, revealing a desperate transformation that would kill him when his power ran out.
• Zeus attacked again, but King Arthur blocked with his Golden Sword and unleashed a torrent of light against Zeus’s lightning.
• King Arthur’s Golden Sword overwhelmed Zeus’s Lightning Sword, shattered it, and sent Zeus flying with fragments embedded in his body.
• Hermes noted that King Arthur was in even worse condition than Zeus, but King Arthur immediately attacked again with another torrent of light.

As King Arthur and Zeus’s battle neared its end, Zeus revealed that his Lightning Sword, Hades’s bident, and Poseidon’s trident had once been one ancient weapon: the Spear of Victory. Its dazzling power left humanity despairing, but King Arthur named his own sword Excalibur and faced Zeus without backing down.

• King Arthur’s repeated slashes wounded Zeus, but King Arthur’s body grew increasingly transparent as his magical energy drained.
• Zeus stopped King Arthur’s fifth slash with Poseidon’s trident and Hades’s bident, which resonated with the Lightning Sword fragment in his mouth.
• Zeus explained that the three Greek divine weapons had once formed the Spear of Victory, wielded by Uranus and later used in the war against the Primal Gods.
• Zeus reunited the weapons and raised the Spear of Victory, while Brunhilde and many humans lost hope in King Arthur’s chances.
• King Arthur declared that his sword was named Excalibur as Zeus’s spear shone with a radiance that seemed to promise victory.

King Arthur and Zeus unleashed their victory-themed weapons in a final clash that devastated the planet’s surface. Both fighters vanished in the blast, and Ragnarok’s sixth round was declared a draw.

• Adamas realized that Zeus’s Spear of Victory had affected morale, while Poseidon explained that its power imposed the causality of victory.
• King Arthur released the ninth, tenth, and eleventh seals on his sword, restoring humanity’s confidence as light gathered around it.
• Zeus hurled the Spear of Victory at King Arthur, freezing space-time and cracking Arthur’s body apart.
• Arthur’s sword erupted with light that struck Zeus and broke down his body until he evaporated.
• The arena’s spectators witnessed a planet-wide aurora and enormous crater, then learned that the sixth round had ended in a draw.

Zeus and Arthur died together, leaving the sixth Ragnarok match a draw and prompting the gods to prepare to reclaim their world. As the Akasha System showed Thor and Xiang Yu’s stories, Serafall noticed that this world’s First Emperor looked exactly like the one from a Parallel World and questioned Goll about their connection.

• Heimdallr announced that Zeus and Arthur had both perished, making the sixth match a draw.
• The gods gathered beneath the Supreme God Throne and received a decree to prepare to reclaim their world.
• The Akasha System screened stories about Thor and Xiang Yu, while Rossweisse sensed that Xiang Yu’s apparent mistakes and battlefield successes concealed a deeper plan.
• Serafall asked Goll to show her this world’s First Emperor, then recognized that he looked identical to the First Emperor from the Parallel World.
• Serafall pressed Goll on whether the two Emperors were the same person, and Goll emphatically denied it.

The footage revealed more of humanity’s Ragnarok fighters and Shaka’s plans, then followed King Arthur into a corrupted Avalon. It ended as Arthur stepped into the lake at the Lady of the Lake’s silent invitation.

• The audience watched King Solomon’s battle and learned that the God of the Bible had secretly controlled the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons, while Serafall and the others withheld what they knew about the Primal Gods.
• The footage showed Ashiya Douman’s schemes and the Old Man of the Mountain beheading a god who tried to assassinate him.
• Shaka told Goll that the next god representative’s destructive urge had reached its limit, admitted he had considered fighting for humanity, and reassured her that she had guessed the next match correctly.
• The footage briefly covered Siegfried, then showed King Arthur searching for Avalon and finding a dark island filled with hostile plants, monsters, and a deadly lake.
• A figure of light appeared above the lake, seemingly inviting King Arthur into it, and he stepped into the patch of water where she had cleared away the darkness.

King Arthur fought the Primal God's upgraded Beast of Revelation 666 at the Main World Tree while it forged the Star Holy Sword, and he defeated the monster with the newly formed weapon. Afterward, Serafall suspected Odin of being a traitor, while Brunhilde searched for a human fighter to face a god.

• Odin and his ravens realized that the Main World Tree was being corrupted by a seven-headed monster created by the Primal God.
• King Arthur evaded 666 with the Barrier of the Wind King while the World Tree forged the Star Holy Sword from information sent by the system.
• King Arthur endured a serious blow, then used the unfinished Star Holy Sword to destroy 666 and received healing from the World Tree.
• The World Tree regained its radiance, and Odin concluded it had chosen King Arthur because it distrusted the gods and could not reach the Heavenly Realm.
• Serafall told Shefara that she suspected Odin had caused chaos in the tournament, and Brunhilde searched Akasha's Chamber for a human who could challenge a god.

As Ragnarok’s seventh round approached, turmoil erupted across the pantheons after Zeus and Hades’s deaths. The Gods’ battlefield revealed itself as a vision of the Indian god Shiva at the height of his power, and he was announced as the Gods’ seventh representative.

• The arena filled with humans, gods, Asura Gods, and Buddhas as spectators gathered to learn the location and fighters for the seventh round.
• Adamas learned that Thanatos had removed him from his post guarding Purgatory, while Hermes reported rumors of a succession dispute and unrest spreading through several pantheons.
• Heimdallr transported the spectators to a mountain realm, where storms and lightning introduced the Gods’ representative.
• Brunhilde explained that the spectators were witnessing a delayed display of the god’s past rather than literally traveling back in time.
• A four-armed, blue-skinned figure danced atop a colossal elephant as an elephant herd charged down a snowy mountain.
• Heimdallr announced Shiva as the Gods’ seventh representative, and the Indian Pantheon erupted in cheers.

Shiva entered the seventh Ragnarok match armed with four divine weapons, and Humanity answered by sending Gilgamesh, the ancient Hero King. Gilgamesh’s entrance stunned the arena as Heimdallr revealed that he had killed a Main God thousands of years earlier, and the chapter left Shiva questioning whether Gilgamesh’s flying craft was the real Vimana.

• Shiva appeared amid an apocalyptic display, carrying a trident, Divine Bow, divine staff, and sword.
• Heimdallr announced Gilgamesh as Humanity’s representative and described his victories over Ishtar and the Bull of Heaven.
• Heimdallr revealed that Gilgamesh had killed a Main God, shocking the gods and prompting speculation that the victim was the Babylonian Pantheon’s Main God.
• Gilgamesh arrived aboard a glowing flying craft that Brunhilde recognized as the Vimana.
• Shiva asked Gilgamesh whether his flying craft was the real Vimana, and Gilgamesh told him he would find out by experiencing it.

The seventh round of Ragnarok began with Gilgamesh and Shiva unleashing devastating attacks from their Vimanas before fighting and trading volleys of arrows. After their battle ravaged the arena, Shiva launched a flame kick at Gilgamesh, but lightning from a divine weapon interrupted him, and Shiva destroyed the weapon with his sword.

• Gilgamesh attacked Shiva with Vimana, and Shiva answered with his own Vimana after surviving the initial blast.
• The two Vimanas collided and exchanged fire before Gilgamesh and Shiva charged at each other, struck simultaneous blows, and were blasted into distant mountains by twin explosions.
• Gilgamesh and Shiva resumed their fight by firing opposing volleys of Light Arrows, and their attacks left the battlefield riddled with holes.
• Shiva filled the sky with poisoned arrows, while Gilgamesh countered with golden arrows that turned the black barrage into a poisonous sea around him.
• Shiva leaped toward Gilgamesh with Tiger Claw Flame Dance, but lightning from a vajra struck at him, and Shiva pierced the divine weapon with his sword.

Gilgamesh and Shiva exchanged homing weapons before Gilgamesh unleashed a barrage of divine weapons and the Chains of Heaven. Shiva discovered that the chains accelerated toward Divine Power and began draining his strength, leaving him bound by the arm.

• Gilgamesh and Shiva were struck near their hearts by homing weapons, but both kept the tips from piercing them.
• Gilgamesh launched repeated divine weapons at Shiva, and Shiva realized many were duplicates that he could destroy.
• Shiva shattered the pursuing spear and other weapons, but then Gilgamesh’s chains appeared and chased him.
• Shiva learned that releasing more Divine Power made the chains move faster, yet he could not evade them without using power.
• Shiva struck at the chains with his sword, but they wrapped around his arm and began rendering him powerless.

Shiva survived Gilgamesh’s mass detonation of Divine Weapons, though he was gravely wounded, and the battle continued as Gilgamesh began unleashing a strange power from his own heart. The chapter ended with Gilgamesh’s deafening heartbeat filling the arena and an overwhelming pressure descending on everyone.

• Shiva severed one of his arms to trick the Chains of Heaven into binding it, then fought off Gilgamesh’s weapons with destructive punches.
• Gilgamesh launched and detonated his Divine Weapons, nearly piercing through the flat arena world and leaving a vast abyss and spreading cracks.
• Shiva emerged alive from the explosion and slashed Gilgamesh, destroying his golden armor and badly injuring him.
• Gilgamesh plunged his hand into his chest and clutched his heart, causing an unnaturally rapid heartbeat and immense pressure to envelop the arena.

Shiva unleashed a terrifying transformation that overwhelmed Gilgamesh and left him on the defensive. Gilgamesh’s enlarged golden arrow then shattered the sky into a falling sea, and he launched an attack against Shiva as the flood descended.

• Shiva’s heart accelerated as he triggered a secret technique, surrounding himself with flames and a destructive aura that caused spectators to see visions of a ruined world.
• Shiva attacked Gilgamesh relentlessly, while Gilgamesh’s Chains of Heaven blocked the blows but could not prevent their force and heat from injuring him.
• A giant golden spear, revealed to be Gilgamesh’s earlier arrow, fell toward Shiva and vanished above him.
• Red patterns spread across the sky, which cracked and shattered to reveal an enormous sea falling from above.
• Gilgamesh took the initiative and attacked Shiva, meeting his hand head-on.

Gilgamesh used the Chains of Heaven and a world-crushing flood to trigger a catastrophic steam explosion that tore the battlefield world into pieces. Shiva survived and began his genuine world-destroying dance, forcing the gods to evacuate the arena as destruction threatened the entire space.

• Gilgamesh sacrificed an arm to bind Shiva with the Chains of Heaven, then summoned a vast flood that collided with Shiva's flames.
• Gilgamesh's plan triggered a steam explosion that split the world into four great continents and countless fragments, while chains sheltered him from the blast.
• The gods could not find Shiva, but his close friend sensed that he was alive, and Brahma and Vishnu recognized the danger of what he might do next.
• Brahma and Vishnu ordered Heimdallr to transfer the arena out of the space, while Brunhilde issued evacuation commands through the Akasha Sub-terminal.
• Shiva appeared dancing amid a pillar of fire and mist, and the gods realized he was performing the dance that could destroy the world and the surrounding space.

Shiva opened his third eye and covered the arena world in conceptual World-Ending Fire, but Gilgamesh revealed EA, a sword that erased space and appeared capable of countering the flames. The match continued with the gods and Humanity watching to see which power would prevail.

• Shiva completed the Dance of Destruction and opened his third eye, spreading World-Ending Fire across the flat, round world.
• Heimdallr teleported the arena to the Central Heavenly Realm as the flames threatened to burn through its barrier, while the gods assumed Shiva had won.
• Brunhilde explained that Gilgamesh could not counter the conceptual fire by repeating his earlier explosion, and spectators saw him emerge from the Chains of Heaven holding a strange sword.
• Gilgamesh called the weapon EA and awakened it; its spiraling blade drew the flames away and erased the space around it, stunning Odin and the other gods.
• Goll and Brunhilde regained hope as Shaka eagerly anticipated his own fight, and Brunhilde assured him that the gods would not disappoint him.