Chapter Summaries

Bai Yue returned Athena's snake after demanding that she become his subordinate, prompting the goddess to reveal her true form and unleash an unnatural darkness across the city. The anomaly alerted the people at Alice's mansion, where Alice identified Athena as its likely cause while remaining wary of Lucrezia.

• Bai Yue traded Athena's identity for the snake and then demanded that she become his subordinate.
• Athena recognized Bai Yue as a Disobedient God and transformed from a child into her graceful adult form while trying to escape his expanding Barrier Space.
• Athena invoked true night, extinguishing artificial light across the city and plunging its streets into darkness and panic.
• A blonde girl abandoned her plan to infiltrate a mansion and rushed to support the city after sensing the darkness.
• At the mansion, Lucrezia and Anne reacted to the approaching Disobedient God, while Alice awoke and told her head maid Ericsson that Athena had likely caused the anomaly.

Alice used Spiritual Vision to witness Athena resisting a false Greek world created by a shadow figure resembling one from her dream, then saw a mysterious woman confront John Pluto Smith during London’s supernatural crisis. The woman revealed that she knew Smith’s identity as Anne, and their battle began amid the Night Storm.

• Alice recognized Athena as she resisted a Divine Authority barrier trying to pull her into a false Greek world, and she spotted the shadow figure from her dream among its creators.
• A leopard traveled through the darkness toward Alice’s residence but was struck by lightning and vanished.
• John Pluto Smith summoned a Black Demon Bird, which attacked a nearby forest before a tornado blocked its strike.
• A disguised woman challenged Smith to test her strength, identified her as Anne, and prompted Smith to begin fighting her.
• The woman used the night to suppress the opposing Barrier Space.

Athena’s owls and snakes battled another Disobedient God’s army of beasts while Alexander confronted the disguised Erica, who used locusts and supernatural powers to keep him occupied. Liliana recognized Erica and, as the fight escalated, realized she was wielding Divine Authority as the new seventh God-killer.

• Athena sent owls, venomous snakes, and giant serpents against her opponent, but an army of wild beasts overwhelmed her familiars and pushed toward her.
• Alexander arrived, saw Athena fighting an unidentified Disobedient God, and decided to draw the battle away from the city before a disguised woman attacked him with locusts and a sword.
• The woman identified herself as Erica and challenged Alexander to show his God-killer powers, so he struck at her with lightning while sensing another God-killer nearby.
• Liliana Kranichar arrived invisibly, recognized Erica Blantre fighting Alexander, and watched Erica deflect his lightning with a hurricane.
• Erica turned the locusts into a deathly black mass that summoned skeletal warriors, and Liliana recognized that Erica wielded Divine Authority as the new seventh God-killer.

Athena used her identities as the Goddess of Darkness and Medusa to petrify Bai Yue’s beasts, but he revealed that her victory was an illusion and trapped her in a reenactment of her myth. Athena split into Metis and Medusa to attack him, and their clash left his sword close to breaking.

• Lilia realized that Erica had apparently used Divine Authority and slain a Disobedient God, then questioned whether the person before her was really Erica.
• Athena’s curse of death failed against Bai Yue’s beasts, so she used Medusa’s petrifying gaze to turn the army and Bai Yue into stone.
• Athena discovered that the petrified world was an illusion caused by Bai Yue’s plague, and he invoked her myth to trap her as an infant before she burst from Zeus’s head.
• Athena split into a girl-like Athena and a mature Metis, while Medusa also appeared, and Bai Yue identified their shared identities.
• Athena and her clones attacked Bai Yue with a scythe, repeatedly cracking his swords as he blocked her strikes and replaced each broken weapon.

Bai Yue used the myth linking Athena and Medusa to injure and weaken Athena, then revealed that his golden sword wielded an Authority copied through the Book of Omniscience and Omnipotence. Athena rejected his offer to become his subordinate and defended herself as his golden weapons threatened to pierce her barrier.

• Bai Yue used Words of Power to merge Athena and Medusa in the false myth, spreading Medusa’s beheading wound onto Athena and weakening her.
• Athena realized Bai Yue’s Authority was draining his strength and tried to break his sword before he could abandon the frozen myth.
• Bai Yue’s steel sword and the scattered swords revealed golden blades that severed the Divine Power coating Athena’s weapon.
• Bai Yue explained that the Authority belonged to him and came from the Book of Omniscience and Omnipotence, while Athena inferred that he had acquired Veleslan’s power.
• Bai Yue offered to make Athena his subordinate, but she refused and raised a wall of darkness against the rain of golden weapons.
• The golden weapons pierced deeper into Athena’s barrier, leaving her in danger of being struck.

Bai Yue defeated Athena by exhausting her power, then used Lucrezia to replenish his own and sealed Athena’s divinity. He questioned the now-childlike goddess about the Mythological World, but she knew little about what had happened there.

• Athena and Bai Yue’s powers collided, shattering their Barrier Space until the real world showed through its cracks.
• Bai Yue summoned Lucrezia, replenished his strength through her, and captured the weakened Athena.
• Bai Yue explained that his version of Veleslan’s Golden Sword could seal all three of an opponent’s divinities, though using it exhausted his power.
• After replenishing his magic again, Bai Yue sealed Athena and teased her while she vowed revenge.
• Bai Yue asked Athena why gods left their myths to wander the Earthly World, but she had no answers about the Mythological World’s strange coercion.

Athena hinted that Bai Yue was free from a mysterious woman’s control, while Alice, Alexander, and John investigated two unknown God-killers connected to Lady Aisha’s cave. Pandora revealed that Mekal and Veleslana had returned to mythology and their authorities had been taken, but she never found the expected reincarnation vessel.

• Athena suggested Bai Yue had forgotten a woman who controlled the entire stage, then recognized that he had no threads of fate and was free of her control.
• At Alice’s estate, Alice described her dream of a figure near Lady Aisha’s cave, and the group connected it to Athena’s battle and the two unknown God-killers.
• Alice said the cave might reopen at the next full moon, fifteen days later, while John and Alexander admitted they could not identify the authorities used by their opponents.
• John crossed to the Realm of the Undead and asked Pandora about the two new God-killers, learning that she had performed no reincarnation rituals since Salvatore.
• Pandora revealed that Mekal and Veleslana had descended in Sardinia, returned to mythology one after another, and triggered a reincarnation rite, but their authorities were already gone and the expected vessel was missing.

John told the Black Prince and Alice that Lucrezia might be connected to the recent God-killers and Divine Authority. Alice used Spiritual Vision to investigate Lucrezia, who had prepared a counterattack, and Alice ended the chapter mortified and refusing to let anyone enter her room.

• Pandora suspected Lucrezia because she possessed the Prometheus Secret Technique, but John noted that the technique had not been used and considered a connection to the Divine Realm of the God of the Bible.
• Pandora told Anne not to act recklessly, and John and Anne returned from the Netherworld to tell the Black Prince and Alice what they had learned.
• Alice agreed to investigate Lucrezia with Spiritual Vision, after the Black Prince restored her spiritual strength by reversing her personal time.
• Lucrezia sensed Alice spying on her and staged an intimate scene with her companion to counter Alice’s investigation.
• Alice screamed, collapsed, and vanished from her Spiritual Vision, then threatened to kill herself if anyone entered her bedroom.

Alice was left embarrassed after Lucrezia’s spell linked their physical senses, while Erica tried to recruit Liliana by offering her Divine Authority from the god they served. Liliana resisted, but Erica threatened to expose her secret romance-writing hobby, leaving her pressured to join.

• Alice refused to let anyone enter her room, and Ericsson mistakenly believed her embarrassment came from her poor health and physical condition.
• Alice recalled that Lucrezia had used a spell to link their senses after Alice witnessed Lucrezia in a suspicious room.
• Erica defeated Liliana in a rooftop duel without using Divine Authority and explained that the god she served had granted her power.
• Erica urged Liliana to serve the same god, claiming Liliana already believed in that deity, and insisted they go meet their lord.
• Erica threatened to publish Liliana’s secret romance-writing notebook if she refused to join.

Erica brought Liliana to Bai Yue, who offered her Divine Authority and contracted with her while she was distracted. After Liliana learned that the silver-haired girl was Athena, Bai Yue showed Athena a photograph of a dismembered monster and asked if she knew it.

• Erica used photographs of Liliana writing to pressure her into joining them, then led her to a villa.
• Liliana entered Bai Yue's Barrier Space and was offered two Divine Authorities, but she became distracted by what she had just witnessed.
• Bai Yue contracted with Liliana while she was still lost in her thoughts, granting her Divine Authority.
• Liliana asked about the silver-haired child, and Erica revealed that she was Athena, the sealed goddess.
• Bai Yue showed Athena a photograph of a dismembered monster and asked whether she knew it.

Erica and Liliana learned that the unusual monster was connected to Lady Aisha, while news of Xitiangong’s reopening appeared to be bait to draw God-killers into a scheme. In Japan, Yuri Maritani accompanied her younger sister Kō toward Xitiangong, uneasy about the trip, and Ena Kiyōin joined them.

• Erica and Liliana examined a monster from another world, and Lucrezia said its arrival was related to Lady Aisha.
• Erica learned that the Far Eastern Island Nation planned to reopen Xitiangong, and Lucrezia suspected the announcement was intended to lure their side.
• In the Netherworld, Princess Ruri questioned Susanoo’s plan to leak the news, while Susanoo expected Sect Leader Luohao and possibly Salvatore Doni to respond.
• Yuri Maritani accompanied her younger sister Kō toward Xitiangong, while Kaoru Sayamiya worried the trip might conceal a conspiracy involving Susanoo.
• Ena Kiyōin joined Yuri, Kaoru, and Kō in their vehicle.

Ena Kiyōin came to Xitiangong under her grandfather’s orders, accepting that Kō might be sacrificed for the country’s protection, while Kaoru Sayamiya feared what awaited the sisters. Meanwhile, Bai Yue and a silver-haired girl arrived in the island nation, where the God-killer Luohao challenged him and was knocked back in their martial arts duel.

• Ena Kiyōin told Kaoru Sayamiya that she considered her and Yuri Maritani friends, though she secretly supported her grandfather’s plan and expected Kō to be sacrificed.
• Kaoru Sayamiya worried that Yuri Maritani and her sister would face danger at Xitiangong but believed she could not stop the plan.
• Bai Yue and a silver-haired girl arrived in the island nation and searched for a place to stay after leaving the airport.
• Luohao noticed Bai Yue’s seemingly ordinary movements, tested him with a pebble, and recognized his exceptional martial arts.
• Luohao attacked Bai Yue, and they fought with powerful strikes until he knocked her several meters back.

Luo Hao lost a martial arts contest to Bai Yue and summoned him to Xitiangong the next day, while Lu Yinghua mobilized his family’s forces to find him. Elsewhere, Bai Yue prepared to begin an act with Athena, and Yuri Maritani’s Spiritual Vision activated as dusk fell.

• Luo Hao acknowledged that Bai Yue had surpassed her in pure martial arts and invited him to Xitiangong at a quarter past noon the next day.
• Luo Hao told Lu Yinghua she planned to let Bai Yue slay the beast so he could become a God-killer and fight her again.
• Lu Yinghua learned that Luo Hao had not asked Bai Yue’s name, then called on his family’s forces to locate him.
• Bai Yue asked Athena to begin their plan, and she questioned whether he intended to turn the country into the land of the underworld.
• Yuri Maritani’s Spiritual Vision activated as she stood with others watching the city at dusk.

Yuri Maritani sensed a foreign Disobedient God descending on Tokyo and spreading a plague beneath a black curtain. After seeing a vision of millions dead, she warned the others, while Touma Amakasu reported that the darkness could cover half the country.

• Yuri Maritani used Spiritual Vision and sensed a goddess who called herself the Queen of the Underworld, then saw a foreign god's shadow over Tokyo.
• A black curtain spread from Tokyo, stopping the car and vehicles across the area as swarms of owls and snakes flew overhead.
• Yuri Maritani saw the snakes spread a plague that left people gravely ill and envisioned the land buried beneath millions of corpses.
• Ena Kiyōin, Kaoru Sayamiya, and Yuri's younger sister pulled Yuri out of her vision, and Yuri warned them that the Disobedient God was spreading a plague.
• Touma Amakasu reported that the black curtain continued to spread and could eventually cover half the country.

Kaoru Sayamiya learned that a plague was spreading after a Disobedient God darkened Japan, while Bai Yue revealed he had used Athena’s power to experiment with rewriting mythology. The chapter ended at Tōshōgū Shrine, where Touma Amakasu identified the spreading disease as the Black Death.

• Kaoru Sayamiya accused Ena Kiyōin of being connected to her grandfather’s plan and warned government departments to prepare for disaster.
• In the Netherworld, Susanoo and the others discussed Athena’s interference and watched the black curtain recede.
• Bai Yue told Athena he had spread the plague as a channel for experimenting with rewriting mythology, and Athena considered his unusual power and nature.
• At Tōshōgū Shrine, Kaoru Sayamiya and Touma Amakasu found that symptoms were spreading rapidly across the country.
• Touma Amakasu told Kaoru Sayamiya, Ena Kiyōin, and Kō that the plague was the Black Death.

Alice arrived at Tōshōgū Shrine and helped Yuri Maritani recover enough to use Spiritual Vision, revealing that the plague-spreading Disobedient God was in Tokyo and that Athena was following a mysterious figure. Alice warned that at least three God-killers would be needed to fight the threat, then demanded that Kaoru Sayamiya and Ena Kiyōin explain what had happened at Xitiangong.

• Kaoru Sayamiya ordered Miko Princesses with Spiritual Vision to search for the Disobedient God while the others discussed Athena, Anshiela, and The Last King.
• Alice traveled through the Spirit World to Tōshōgū Shrine and soothed Yuri Maritani, whose terror had prevented her from using Spiritual Vision.
• Alice and Yuri used Spiritual Vision and saw a childlike black silhouette with a snake-shaped shadow, as well as the mysterious figure Alice had seen twice before.
• Alice interrupted the vision after sensing extreme danger and concluded that Athena appeared to be following the mysterious figure, who was likely behind the abnormalities.
• Alice said the Disobedient God remained somewhere in Tokyo and warned that at least three God-killers would be needed to confront her.
• Alice demanded that Kaoru Sayamiya and Ena Kiyōin explain what had happened at Xitiangong and why it had suddenly been developed.

Alice and the veteran God-killers learned that Susanoo and the Historical Compilation Committee planned to create a God-killer by exploiting the Monkey God Lord. As God-killers began heading to the Far East, Alice warned Ena that the scheme could cost many lives and declared that the country might have to be sacrificed to protect the world.

• Kaoru Sayamiya explained that the Monkey God Lord had been imprisoned and made a Guardian God, and Alice warned that Sect Leader Luohao and several powerful allies had arrived in the country.
• In London, Alexander, Tony, John Anne, and Alice discussed the possibility that a Disobedient God could use Pandora-like powers to create God-killers, and the King of Swords rushed toward the Far East.
• Alexander and John decided to travel to the Far East and ordered their factions to watch Marquis of Voban, who might also pursue the mysterious god.
• At Tōshōgū Shrine, Ena Kiyōin revealed that her grandfather intended to create a king to protect the country, and Alice identified that grandfather as Susanoo.
• Ena refused to ask Susanoo to stop or release the Monkey God Lord, so Alice warned that the country might have to be sacrificed for the world's safety.

Kaoru Sayamiya learned that several God-killers were converging on Japan as the Black Death spread, and she suspected Kusanagi Godou was central to the looming crisis. Meanwhile, Bai Yue and the now-human Athena left their hotel and headed for the Shinkansen.

• Kaoru Sayamiya learned that the Black Death had infected nearly half the population and that Amakasu had identified Kusanagi Godou as the person tied to Ena Kiyōin’s plan.
• Amakasu reported that Salvatore Doni had arrived in Hokkaido, then warned Kaoru that Marquis of Voban was also heading toward Xitiangong.
• Amakasu later reported seeing the Black Prince, while King of the Underworld John’s whereabouts remained unknown; he said Lady Aisha was away in Europe.
• Kaoru discovered that Ena Kiyōin had not returned and considered eliminating Kusanagi Godou to end the crisis.
• Bai Yue teased Athena about the inconveniences of being human, and the two left their hotel for the Shinkansen.

Bai Yue’s Myth Manipulation caused people on a Shinkansen to argue over conflicting versions of Japanese mythology, alarming Athena with the scale of his plan. At Xitiangong, Sect Leader Luohao arrived to lift the seal on the Golden Monkey, and Kō began the ritual as Leviathan appeared outside.

• Athena recalled fragments of Bai Yue’s memories and realized he was changing humanity’s beliefs about mythology on a vast scale.
• Passengers on the Shinkansen argued over whether Susanoo saved Kushinada-hime from Yamata no Orochi or was instead a villain opposed by the serpent.
• Yuri Maritani and the others entered Xitiangong, where they saw the sealed Golden Monkey, a Disobedient Steel meant to subdue an Earth Dragon.
• Sect Leader Luohao appeared, declared she would give the Monkey God Lord to someone she favored, and said she would lift his Bimawen curse.
• Leviathan appeared outside, completing the conditions for the seal to be broken, and Kō began chanting while Luohao empowered the treasured blade.

Lancelot, the Silver Knight, fought Athena at Nikko Mountain until a mysterious Pale Rider intervened and challenged her. As Guinevere watched, the Pale Rider gained the upper hand, leaving Lancelot injured and struggling to keep fighting.

• Athena confronted Guinevere and Lancelot, then battled Lancelot after Guinevere escaped into the mist.
• Lancelot overwhelmed Athena’s summoned serpents and nearly struck her down before the Pale Rider appeared and drove her back.
• The Pale Rider and Lancelot exchanged attacks using mist and lightning, with each able to evade or counter the other’s powers.
• Lancelot used her lightning speed to pressure the Pale Rider, but he wounded her in a mutual strike.
• Lancelot warned Aiko not to approach and realized the Pale Rider’s deathly mist and precise swordsmanship were wearing her down.