Chapter Summaries

Bai Yue used his Noble Phantasm to trap Mekar in a reenactment of myths that ended in his death. After making Mekar kill himself, Bai Yue faded from view, while Erica witnessed the god’s apparent defeat.

• Mekar found Erica and the Pale Rider, then attacked them with a storm and lightning, threatening to sink the island.
• Bai Yue invoked Sword, Famine, Death, Beast (Bird in a Cage), pulling Erica and Mekar into a barrier that reenacted Mekar’s myths.
• Erica shielded Bai Yue from Mekar’s lightning as the reenactment showed Mekar’s mythological death at the hands of Mot.
• Mekar revived as locusts, but Bai Yue continued narrating how Christian culture transformed him into the demon Baal and summoned the Book of Raziel.
• Bai Yue used the Book of Raziel to control Mekar and ordered him to tear off his own head, killing him as Bai Yue’s figure faded.

Erica helped the Apocalypse Knight destroy Mekar by passing him the myth of Hercules, then chose two of Mekar’s Divine Authorities. She woke in her bedroom with the Apocalypse Knight embodied beside her, while a mysterious girl appeared holding a large disk.

• Erica explained that Mekar’s myth had spread to Greece and become the prototype for Hercules, then conveyed the details to the Apocalypse Knight with a kiss.
• Erica watched Mekar burn as Hercules had, and Mekar revealed that the original God of the Bible was dead before vanishing.
• The Apocalypse Knight offered Erica two Divine Authorities, and she chose The Pursuer and the locusts before losing consciousness.
• Erica woke in her residence and realized the events had been real when she sensed a connection to the Apocalypse Knight.
• Erica found Ariana Hayama Ariarudi serving tea to the embodied Apocalypse Knight, who called himself Lord Bai Yue.
• A twin-tailed girl holding a large round disk appeared, looking lost.

Bai Yue and Erica discussed the Last King and the danger of new God-killers, then discovered a witch had been spying on them through a cat familiar. The next day, Erica and Bai Yue set out to visit the witch, but Ariana’s car broke down before she could take them there.

• A woman arrived at the Gods’ Domain seeking the authority of the Disobedient God, but found Mekar stripped of his authorities and learned nothing from him.
• Erica explained the world and Disobedient Gods to Bai Yue, who recognized the setting and asked about the Last King.
• Bai Yue connected unexplained God-killer disappearances to the Last King, who would awaken when enough God-killers existed.
• Erica caught a witch’s black cat familiar eavesdropping, and the witch invited Erica and Bai Yue to visit her home.
• Ariana’s car broke down on the way to the witch’s home, so Erica told her maid to wait in town.

Bai Yue and Erica visited the witch Lucrezia Zola, who had been investigating the gods and the Last King. Lucrezia accepted Bai Yue’s offer to become his possession, then asked how that differed from becoming his Saintess.

• Bai Yue manifested a white horse by drawing on Erica’s power, and Erica considered bringing a friend to meet him as a potential contractor.
• Bai Yue gave Erica a diaper for emergencies, leaving her embarrassed and exasperated.
• Lucrezia recalled witnessing Mekar’s battle with Bai Yue, Erica’s role in helping him kill Mekar, and Bai Yue granting Erica Divine Authority.
• Bai Yue arrived at Lucrezia’s cottage and offered her the choice of becoming his possession or his Saintess.
• Lucrezia immediately accepted becoming Bai Yue’s possession, then asked what distinguished that choice from becoming his Saintess.

Lucrezia became Bai Yue’s Saintess and asked to claim authority from another Disobedient God on Sardinia. She later revealed the schemes surrounding the Prometheus Secret Manual, which had been tampered with to turn its young bearer into a God-killer.

• Bai Yue transformed Lucrezia into a Saintess, and she asked to choose authority connected to another Disobedient God on Sardinia.
• Lucrezia explained her research into The Last King, Guinevere’s effort to resurrect him, and how Alexander Gascoigne had killed King Arthur instead.
• Lucrezia used Spiritual Vision and reported that the God of War had recovered at least half of his incarnations.
• The next day, Lucrezia examined the returned Prometheus Secret Manual and revealed that it had been tampered with to make the boy who delivered it become a God-killer.

Lucrezia rejected a secret deal to help turn a boy into a God-killer, choosing instead to study her mysterious master. In the forest, Erica’s master fought the War God in a sword duel and dominated him, but the War God prepared to use his other Authorities.

• Lucrezia decided not to accept the new deal, which offered secrets and spells in exchange for secretly helping make the boy a God-killer.
• The white horse reclaimed its power and transformed into the boy Disobedient God, who faced Erica and the others in the forest.
• Erica attacked the boy god with Mekar’s power, but he easily blocked her strikes and demonstrated the strength of a true Disobedient God.
• Erica’s master engaged the War God in a close-quarters sword fight, repeatedly wounding and suppressing him even after he strengthened himself with a Word Spirit.
• The War God used another Word Spirit to escape the pressure, acknowledged that he could not match Erica’s master in swordsmanship, and announced he would use his other Authorities.

Veleslan used his Golden Sword and mythological Words of Power against Lucrezia’s master, the Pale Rider, but the Rider’s ability to reenact myths left him badly wounded. Veleslan healed himself with the Ram incarnation and summoned the sun through the White Horse, while the Pale Rider transformed into pestilence to face its judgment.

• Veleslan controlled the wind and struck at the Pale Rider, but the Rider’s Words of Power pulled him into overlapping mythological battles and wounded him.
• Lucrezia recognized Veleslan’s ten incarnations and watched as his Golden Sword severed the linked myths, though the wounds inflicted on him remained.
• Veleslan invoked the Ram incarnation and restored himself to full strength.
• Lucrezia realized Veleslan’s remaining White Horse incarnation could summon the sun, which threatened to counter the Pale Rider’s pestilence.
• Veleslan summoned the immortal sun, and the Pale Rider erupted in black mist and began transforming into pestilence.

Bai Yue’s Pestilence overwhelmed Veleslan’s sunfire because the Black Death’s victims blamed the sun for the conditions that caused the plague. After Veleslan learned Bai Yue’s true origins and warned him to beware of fate, the God of War vanished, leaving Lucrezia and Erica to reckon with his defeat.

• Veleslan summoned sunfire against Bai Yue’s plague mist, but the mist devoured the flames and sent undead figures surging toward him.
• Lucrezia realized the Black Death’s victims hated the sun because weakened solar activity had helped cause the Little Ice Age and the disasters that fueled the plague.
• Veleslan accepted the undead’s judgment, became infected with the Black Death, and used his Golden Sword to learn about Bai Yue.
• Bai Yue told Veleslan that he had inherited the former God of the Bible’s legacy but had come to this world out of curiosity, not to fulfill the dead god’s commission.
• Veleslan warned Bai Yue to beware of fate through their exchange via the sword, then vanished as he returned to myth.

Lucrezia chose the Divine Authorities of Strong Winds and Goats, then received Bai Yue’s magic replenishment. The story shifted to Lady Aisha’s dangerous cave, where Saint Raphael and her knights dealt with a monster that had emerged from it.

• Lucrezia chose Strong Winds and Goats for their teleportation and lightning abilities, and the Divine Authorities entered her body as she fell asleep.
• At the entrance to the Gods' Domain, Pandora questioned Veleslana about his lost Divine Power and Divine Authority, but he gave her a cryptic answer and left.
• Lucrezia woke beside Bai Yue, refused to wear the clothing he offered, and began having her magic forcibly replenished.
• The chapter introduced Lady Aisha, whose uncontrollable cave could connect to other worlds and accidentally transport people or release monsters.
• Saint Raphael and her knights sealed off Lady Aisha’s cave after defeating a powerful monster that had emerged from it.

Aisha became stranded in a parallel world where humans wielded god-slaying Divine Artifacts, and she joined the church as an apprentice nun. She learned that church nuns were being sent to another world to repair its damaged Biblical Pantheon and feared they meant her own world.

• Aisha emerged from a Fairy Corridor in a parallel-world city, encountered a Chimera, and was mistaken for a nun after trying to heal an injured person.
• Aisha learned from Nun Aisha that the world’s God of the Bible had died in a civil war and that King Solomon had succeeded him as leader of the Gods Alliance.
• Aisha joined the church as an apprentice nun and learned about Sacred Gear holders and the powerful Saintess Aisha.
• Lady Griselda selected Aisha and other nuns for a mission to another Parallel World, where they were to stabilize the church after the Biblical Pantheon had been wiped out.
• Aisha worried the mission concerned her world and recalled how her past journeys and interventions had failed to change history.

After arriving in a transformed version of her world, Lady Aisha learned about the angels’ mission to correct a distorted church. Meanwhile, Erica sparred with Lucrezia and lost, then Lucrezia received a call from someone who addressed her as Grandma.

• Lady Aisha and the nuns were taken to Heaven, where they saw Gabriel and traveled through gates to a war-scarred world and a modern Earth with a floating continent and enormous aircraft.
• Lady Aisha learned that Angel’s Blood could give humans supernatural powers while turning them into murderous monsters, and that the group’s mission was to correct a distorted church.
• A Valkyrie told Griselda that the Akasha Main System remained unstable and that Odin’s destruction of the Godhood of Fate might have resulted from its abnormalities.
• Erica fought Lucrezia, using her Words of Power and illusions to attack, but Lucrezia outmaneuvered her with magic and left her unable to move.
• A telephone rang at Lucrezia’s house, and a caller greeted her as Grandma.

Alice sought Lucrezia’s account of the Disobedient God’s return to myth and offered her access to research on a strange monster in exchange. Lucrezia revealed that she served the man who had answered Alice’s first call, and after Alice sent her the promised file, Lucrezia began opening it.

• Alice learned that a monster from Lady Aisha’s cave remained after being killed and planned to offer it for research in exchange for Lucrezia’s information about Sardinia.
• Alice called Lucrezia but first spoke with Bai Yue, who teased her into calling him Grandpa.
• Alice called back and asked Lucrezia about Sardinia, but Bai Yue drained Lucrezia’s magical power while she spoke, leaving her breathless.
• Lucrezia told Alice that Bai Yue was the man she would serve and teasingly invited Alice to serve him too, prompting Alice to hang up.
• Alice sent Lucrezia a file by email, and Lucrezia downloaded it and worked out its extraction password.

Lucrezia, Bai Yue, and Erica examined photographs of a dissected monster sent by Lady Alice, while Bai Yue suspected it resembled Hades’s Chimeras. In the Astral Underworld, Susanoo’s group continued plotting to make Kusanagi Godou a God-killer, and John Pluto Smith was summoned to learn that history had changed again.

• Lucrezia showed Bai Yue photographs of a monster and asked whether it came from the Mythological World.
• Bai Yue recognized similarities between the creature and Hades’s Chimeras, while Erica realized Lady Alice had sent the research offer.
• Lucrezia considered joining Lady Alice’s research and teased Bai Yue by mentioning the Princess’s qualifications as a witch and potential Saintess.
• Susanoo and his allies discussed the accepted Prometheus Secret Technique and their plan to turn Kusanagi Godou into a God-killer.
• The Time Keeper summoned John Pluto Smith to Plutarch’s Mansion after changes appeared on the stone slab recording history.

Anne Charlton learned that Lady Aisha had opened a passage to a Parallel World and that an unknown being had entered their world. She traveled with Alice to investigate the captured being, but the chapter ended with them seeing Lucrezia affectionately kissing and giving money to a handsome young man.

• Elder Yu told John that Lady Aisha had opened a passage to a Parallel World and that an unrecordable being had appeared in their world.
• Anne Charlton ordered Jobenster to set aside the King of Flies investigation after learning that Europeans had captured something emerging from Lady Aisha's passage.
• Anne contacted Princess Alice, then traveled to meet her and inspect the captured being, which Anne said might threaten the world.
• Alice told Anne that Lucrezia was coming to examine the being, and Anne recognized her as the witch of Sardinia.
• Anne and Alice saw Lucrezia passionately kiss a handsome young man and give him a card, prompting Alice to suspect he was Lucrezia's kept pet.

Alice, Lucrezia, and Anne examined the monster’s remains and discovered a human-like soul and a numbered mark, while Bai Yue explained how myths bind gods and how his true descent might erase his own mythology. The chapter left Erica wondering what would happen to Bai Yue as the myths surrounding him disappeared.

• Lucrezia teased Alice about finding a lover, embarrassing both Alice and Anne during the ride to the laboratory.
• Alice and Lucrezia examined the monster’s preserved remains, where a mage revealed a human-like soul and a string of numbers engraved on its heart.
• Bai Yue recovered his strength after Erica unknowingly replenished his mana, and he explained how human beliefs shape gods and bind them to their myths.
• Bai Yue asked Erica to search for the Apocalypse Knights, and she found that records of the Pale Rider’s deeds were gradually disappearing.
• Bai Yue told Erica that his true body had left the Mythological World, leading her to wonder whether a god’s myths vanishing would cause madness or other consequences.

Bai Yue considered how to gather more Divine Authorities without exposing himself as an Apocalypse Knight, then took Ariana shopping and offered her a way to gain power. After kissing her, he gave Ariana a blessing, and she sensed supernatural power within herself for the first time.

• Bai Yue realized that absorbing more Divine Authorities and unlocking his final EX gear could help his identity transform from Pestilence toward death.
• Bai Yue decided to conceal his Apocalypse Knight nature and rely on Erica and Lucrezia to fight Disobedient Gods, while Erica went to retrieve an Age of Gods object from the Crimson Copper Black Cross headquarters.
• Bai Yue took Ariana to a shopping mall and chose several maid outfits for her to wear indoors.
• Bai Yue asked Ariana whether she wanted special powers, and she admitted she wanted to stay by Erica's side but worried that granting her power would waste it.
• Bai Yue kissed Ariana and bestowed a blessing on her, allowing her to feel supernatural power within her body.
• Ariana tried to activate the power she had received.

Ariana briefly summoned a cross-shaped greatsword after Bai Yue protected her, while Anne told Alice that the monster came from a Parallel World. Alice probed the monster’s soul and saw memories of a demon-summoning criminal who was tortured in Hell before being taken for experiments, leaving her terrified by what the Grim Reaper revealed.

• Ariana briefly summoned a greatsword nearly as tall as herself, and Bai Yue explained that his protective power had given her magical talent and temporary buffs.
• Anne told Alice that the monster came from a Parallel World, and Alice agreed to probe its soul to learn about the other side.
• Alice sent her Spirit Body to the Sage Council and began examining the monster’s heart and soul while excluding Lucrezia from the room.
• Alice saw the soul’s memories of a human criminal who summoned a demon, sold his soul for power, and killed pursuing police officers.
• Alice watched the criminal die at the hands of a Grim Reaper and suffer in Hell for decades before he and other souls were taken away for experiments.

After spying on Hades’s invasion preparations and his plan to use human souls to create monsters, Alice warned that Lady Aisha’s cave had to be destroyed before the enemy could enter their world, then vanished. Anne went to report the threat as Pluto Smith and sought out the foster mother of the God-killers.

• Alice watched Grim Reapers discuss Hades’s plan to invade another world while 666 and his dragons devastated Norse and Greek mythological worlds.
• Alice learned that Hades had a powerful invading army and that more than five hundred thousand human souls were being used as seeds to create Chimeras.
• After exhausting her spiritual power, Alice collapsed and warned Anne that Lady Aisha’s cave had to be destroyed to prevent their world from being destroyed, then disappeared.
• Anne and Saint Raphael examined Alice and discussed destroying the Fairy Corridor, while Anne decided to report the danger to Lord Smith.
• Anne traveled to the Netherworld, transformed into Pluto Smith, and went to the entrance of the Gods’ Domain to visit the foster mother of the God-killers.

John asked Pandora to summon Aisha after Alice warned that the cave threatened the Human World, but Aisha had vanished beyond Pandora’s reach. Erica returned to London to investigate Alice’s coma and found Bai Yue training Ariana, then accused him of causing the crisis and was punished as he reached into her skirt pocket.

• John told Pandora that monsters had emerged from Aisha’s cave in a Parallel World and that Alice had fallen unconscious after warning the Human World was in danger.
• Pandora could not sense Aisha and worried Anne would enter the cave or try to kill her, while considering whether other gods had encountered beings from the Parallel World.
• Paul sent Erica to visit the unconscious Princess Alice and pledged the Crimson Copper Black Cross’s support for her.
• Erica arrived at the villa and found Ariana training with a magical sword, then learned Ariana could now use magic.
• Erica accused Bai Yue of having something to do with Alice’s coma, and he drained her magic power as punishment before reaching into her skirt pocket.

Bai Yue investigated Medusa’s origins and learned that Erica was about to explain her hidden identity before Lucrezia summoned her to investigate a suspected otherworldly monster. A silver-haired Disobedient God followed the Gorgon’s trail to the city, where Bai Yue provoked her by telling a story about Athena and realized she had taken the bait.

• Bai Yue considered whether Medusa and her mother Ceto had been reshaped in mythology like Athena and Metis, but he lacked enough information to determine Medusa’s original identity.
• Erica began explaining Medusa’s true identity as the trinity Holy Mother of Darkness, but Lucrezia called her away to help investigate a monster suspected of coming from another world.
• A silver-haired Disobedient God tracked her snake’s intermittent presence across several cities and concluded that someone was luring her into the city for a purpose.
• Bai Yue told Erica a story claiming Athena had impersonated Medusa to slander her, and the approaching silver-haired girl angrily denounced it as nonsense.
• Bai Yue questioned the girl about her version of Athena’s story, and she realized he had deliberately provoked her to draw her attention.