Chapter Summaries

Bai Yue challenged the veiled candidate Kramijel to a life-or-death game of choosing between harmless and poisoned pellets, while barring antidotes and outside interference. Stephanie realized that letting Kramijel choose who ate first could make Bai Yue lose, but the two had already sworn the Pledge of Allegiance.

• Bai Yue attracted a challenger by raising his gambling odds to fiftyfold, and Kramijel arrived with a case of gold coins.
• Bai Yue proposed a game in which the players would take turns eating six indistinguishable pellets, one of them poisoned, and added rules forbidding antidotes and third-party interference.
• Kramijel accepted the conditions, despite secretly having borrowed another race's power to help her win.
• Bai Yue offered Kramijel the choice of who would eat first, and she accepted.
• Stephanie shouted that if Kramijel could identify the poison and chose to eat first, Bai Yue would be forced to take the final poisoned pellet, but the two had already sworn their pledge.

Bai Yue outmaneuvered Kramy in the poison-ball game, forcing her to eat the last ball and discover it was harmless, so the round ended in a draw. Kramy chose a chess match with self-willed pieces, where her pieces initially moved beyond the usual rules, but Bai Yue began rallying his soldiers with a speech.

• Kramy pretended not to know the advantage of choosing first, ate one ball, and watched Bai Yue eat four at once.
• Bai Yue insisted the game was still underway, and Kramy ate the final ball rather than surrendering, only to find it harmless.
• Kramy accepted a rematch and brought out a chess set whose pieces had wills of their own and obeyed their players according to their kingly qualities.
• Kramy's soldiers moved three squares at her command, while Bai Yue's soldier followed ordinary chess rules, prompting Kramy to boast about his inferior leadership.
• Bai Yue addressed the chess pieces as soldiers in a war they could not afford to lose and began describing what defeat would mean for their families.

Bai Yue defeated Kramy’s magically controlled chess army in a draw by rousing the pieces’ will to resist, then left with Stephanie and revealed a crystal lens that let her see hidden patterns of light. Stephanie wondered whether the lens had been the tool he used to cheat.

• Bai Yue’s speech stirred his chess pieces into a mass charge, and they overwhelmed Kramy’s Soldiers before she used magic to turn them white.
• Kramy’s pieces resisted her magic, sacrificing themselves to stop the advancing army, while the White Queen saved the White King and the Kings fought.
• The Black King was transformed by the White King’s final strike, but the remaining pieces shattered rather than submit, leaving the duel a draw and Kramy convinced she had lost badly.
• Bai Yue packed his gold and left the bar, and Stephanie followed to ask whether he intended to challenge the Heavenly Winged Species.
• Bai Yue handed Stephanie the gold and gave her a crystalline film from his eye; looking through it, she saw fixed patterns of light on the wall and asked if it was his cheating tool.

Bai Yue explained to Stephanie how humans could create their own magic, then entered the grand library and met Gibril, the last Heavenly Winged Species. He tried to make her his subordinate by offering vast stores of unfamiliar knowledge, leaving her tempted but suspicious of his claims.

• Bai Yue showed Stephanie that the sapphire in her heirloom refracted sunlight into several colors without magic and explained that human-made magic could develop through war.
• Bai Yue and Stephanie arrived at the nation's grand library, where an angel appeared and Stephanie fainted after Bai Yue touched her head.
• Gibril stopped herself from attacking Bai Yue because of the Ten Pledges and became curious about his fearlessness and unknown devices.
• Bai Yue told Gibril he wanted to become the master of the Heavenly Winged Species and showed her a phone containing more than a hundred thousand unfamiliar books.
• Bai Yue offered Gibril additional books, raising the promised total to five hundred thousand, and she asked whether he was inflating the count.

Gibril lost six consecutive Word Chain games to the mysterious human and conceded, becoming his master while longing to study his vast collection of otherworldly knowledge. A Divine Species then connected its shrine to the library and declared that he had left no trace of existing in the world before that day.

• Gibril learned that the man’s collection contained five million volumes, mostly knowledge unknown in this world.
• Gibril played Word Chain against the man, but her attempts to use lethal concepts were thwarted and she lost six rounds in a row.
• Gibril conceded and accepted the man as her master, then eagerly fixated on studying him and his knowledge.
• A Divine Species used the Golden Fox to connect its shrine to half of the library and questioned the man.
• The Divine Species stated that the man had no trace of existing in the world before that day.

Bai Yue identified the shrine maiden’s possessor as the first Divine Species, the God of Suspicion, whom Gibril suspected of conspiring against her master Arteshu. The Divine Species demanded to know why Bai Yue called her Fanlou and what her existence meant, while Bai Yue distracted the others by asking their names.

• Gibril sensed an unfamiliar Divine Species controlling the shrine maiden and accused her of being the hidden force behind Arteshu’s death.
• Hatsuse Izuna entered the shrine, collapsed under Gibril’s killing intent, and realized the shrine maiden was being controlled by a Divine Species.
• Bai Yue recognized the being as the first Divine Species, the God of Suspicion, and Gibril grew shaken but more suspicious of her.
• Stephanie emerged from pretending to be dead and reacted with disbelief to the revelation that the first Divine Species had survived.
• The Divine Species asked Bai Yue why he called her Fanlou and what her existence meant, but he instead asked for the others’ names and teased Hatsuse Izuna about wetting herself.

A human provoked the First Generation Divine Species into revealing that she had created the mechanical cubes, prompting Stephanie and Hatsuse Izuna to recognize the Ex-Machina and Gibril to call for a god-killing mobilization. Azriel received Gibril’s message in Abanteheim and sensed her terrible killing intent, but the chapter left the target of their attack unknown.

• The human named the First Generation Divine Species Fanlou and told her that her meaning could be answered by herself or by her Created Species.
• Fanlou recalled creating five mechanical cubes, and Gibril recognized that they were connected to the Ex-Machina.
• Stephanie and Hatsuse Izuna were overwhelmed by killing intent as Gibril announced that it was time to kill a god.
• Azriel, bored in Abanteheim’s library, considered visiting Gibril and bringing her books to trade.
• Azriel heard Gibril’s message and sensed killing intent stronger than any she had felt during the great war.

Azriel ordered Abanteheim transferred above the Eastern Union’s capital after learning that the creator of the Machina was with them. The Golden Fox girl and Fanlou realized the Heavenly Winged Species intended to kill Fanlou, while the capital’s residents and Hatsuse Izuna faced the arriving god-killing force.

• Azriel learned that the creator of the Machina was with them and ordered Abanteheim moved to the Orc race capital.
• At the border, the Golden Fox girl saw Abanteheim appear, then felt the Heavenly Winged Species’ killing intent before the flying city vanished through spatial transfer.
• The Golden Fox girl recalled how she had bound Fanlou to herself and used their pact to build the Eastern Union and pursue a world without sacrifices.
• The Golden Fox girl learned that Fanlou had created the Machina and feared the Heavenly Winged Species would kill her, reigniting the war from six thousand years ago.
• The Heavenly Winged Species transferred Abanteheim above the Eastern Union’s capital, sealed it off, and overwhelmed its residents with killing intent.
• Hatsuse Izuna realized that the Heavenly Winged Species were god-killers whose power rivaled that of a Divine Species.

The Heavenly Winged Species summoned their one-use God-killing spear to attack the Divine Species inhabiting Hatsuse Izuna, while the shrine maiden tried to free the child’s divine core. Gibril approached the man who had become her master, but he took the spear unharmed and absorbed it into a card bearing the Chilling Mastermind’s image.

• Azriel and the Heavenly Winged Species confronted the Divine Species controlling Hatsuse Izuna, blaming the Machina for killing their master.
• The Heavenly Winged Species opened Heavenly Domain and summoned the Spear That Burns All Creation, intending to use it to kill the Divine Species.
• Hatsuse Izuna regained control and began driving the Divine Species out, seeking to release the child’s divine core before the battle.
• Gibril approached her new master and prepared to cut off his limbs, but he calmly took the spear from her hand.
• The spear vanished into a card in the man’s hand, and Gibril recognized its image as the Chilling Mastermind.

Bai Yue’s card summoned a host of dead Heavenly Winged Species, including Raphael, who called him their master. Azriel and Gibril rejected them as fakes and attacked, but the Golden Fox shrine maiden’s attempt to intervene ended when every Heavenly Winged Species suddenly froze.

• Stephanie Dora feared that Bai Yue had plotted the ancient war and might be a threat to humanity.
• Azriel and Gibril saw God of War Artorius and the dead Heavenly Winged Species depicted on Bai Yue’s card, while the Golden Fox shrine maiden realized the card had absorbed them.
• The card released more than a hundred Heavenly Winged Species, including the restored Fourth Individual, Raphael, who greeted Azriel and Gibril as her sisters.
• Azriel and Gibril concluded that the summoned Heavenly Winged Species were fakes, and Azriel ordered her side to attack them.
• The Golden Fox shrine maiden tried to let the Divine Species girl take control so she could stop the battle, but she could not move; then all the Heavenly Winged Species abruptly froze.

The Heavenly Winged Species learned that the boy on their throne was their master, Lord Arteshu, who revealed their secrets and exposed Azriel’s theft of Gibril’s clothing. The chapter then revealed that Stephanie Dora was a princess who had lost her claim to the throne unless she won the election tournament and became Humanity’s Strongest Gambler.

• Abang-kun restored the Ten Pledges and transferred the Heavenly Winged Species to their flying city’s Throne Hall, where he sat on a fainted girl.
• Abang-kun recognized the boy as Lord Arteshu, and the Heavenly Winged Species confirmed his identity through his soul aura and knowledge of their secrets.
• Lord Arteshu teased the Heavenly Winged Species by revealing their private secrets, then exposed Azriel for keeping a piece of Gibril’s clothing.
• Gibril left and blew up her room, prompting Azriel to teleport after her in alarm.
• Stephanie’s identity as a member of the royal Dora family was revealed, along with the condition that she must win the election tournament to become Humanity’s Strongest Gambler and inherit the throne.

After waking from the strange events surrounding the returned God of War, Stephanie recognized the young man’s handwriting and wondered if her fragmented dream linked her to her ancestor, the Founding Queen. A week later, troubled by outside interference in the royal election, she was told a Heavenly Winged Species and the young man had come to see her.

• Stephanie woke at home with a bump on her head and gold coins, then feared that the returned God of War would restart the Great War.
• Stephanie recognized the young man’s handwriting in the tournament registration list and questioned whether her dream of her ancestor had been more than an ordinary dream.
• Nearly a week later, Stephanie resumed the royal election tournament and worried that Kramy and other participants had help from foreign races.
• The Head Maid told Stephanie that a Heavenly Winged Species and a young man had arrived, and Stephanie rushed from her bath to greet them.

Stephanie’s embarrassing fall brought her face-to-face with Gibril, whose curiosity about humans nearly turned the meeting into a frightening examination. Bai Yue then invited Stephanie to lead the Fate Execution Mechanism’s branch in this world and explained the Hero Realm, leaving Gibril fascinated and Stephanie shocked by the cruelty humans had devised.

• Stephanie slipped into the reception room and landed in several compromising positions in front of Bai Yue and Gibril.
• Gibril examined Stephanie like a specimen and spoke of dissecting humans until Bai Yue told her to stop scaring the girl.
• Bai Yue invited Stephanie to head the Fate Execution Mechanism’s branch in this world.
• Bai Yue explained that the Hero Realm allowed intelligent beings to compete under rules where they could wager power, souls, and even identity.
• Gibril became eager to learn about the Fate Execution Mechanism and human history, while Stephanie recoiled at the punishments humans had invented.

Gibril showed Stephanie the cruelty of human history and invited her to learn an intimate lesson, while the Golden Fox Miko learned about Bai Yue’s offer to bring humanity into the Fate Execution Mechanism. Fanlou then brought the Miko to the bathhouse, where she realized the First Individual had knowingly allowed her to overhear everything.

• Gibril gave Stephanie a book describing a brutal human conflict, and Stephanie was horrified by what she read.
• Gibril asked Stephanie to teach her something intimate involving a woman resting in the bath, and Stephanie blushed and protested.
• At the shrine, the Golden Fox Miko learned from Fanlou that Bai Yue had offered Stephanie a place in the Fate Execution Mechanism and access to the Hero Realm.
• The Golden Fox feared that humanity’s technological growth and chance to become gods could threaten the Orc race’s future.
• Fanlou transported the Golden Fox to the bathhouse, where she realized the First Individual knew she had been eavesdropping and had allowed her to hear the offer.

Bai Yue investigated a fragile letter that had drifted in from the void, then continued preparing to connect Disboard to his world. On Abanteheim, Raphael pushed Azriel to use a special card to sense the route, but Azriel was left distracted by a mysterious photograph.

• Bai Yue paused his work when Grayfia brought him to examine a void-eroded letter that could barely be held in existence.
• Bai Yue found that most of the letter had vanished, leaving only an invitation to talented, troubled young women to abandon everything and come to a courtyard.
• Bai Yue preserved the space around the letter and returned to his plan to connect Disboard to his world.
• On Abanteheim, the Heavenly Winged Species teased Azriel about failing to sense the route and pretended to replace her as their Leader.
• Raphael returned the special card to Azriel and urged her to use it to receive the route from Bai Yue's world.
• Raphael handed Azriel a photograph, leaving her staring at it in surprise.

Disboard was thrown into chaos when people across its races dreamed of past lives, and Gibril recognized the phenomenon as reincarnation rather than inherited memories. As the Heavenly Winged Species compared Earth’s mythology with Disboard’s races, the chapter ended with Azriel asking what relationship humans had to mythology.

• Raphael gave Azriel a rare photo of a human toddler, and Azriel carefully used it to sense Master.
• Azriel and the other Heavenly Winged Species isolated a space from the Ten Pledges and opened a cable-door, then left Azriel to handle the cleanup while they went to find Master.
• Hatsuse Izuna told Fanlou and the Golden Fox shrine maiden that Orcs and humans were dreaming of lives in the distant past, prompting suspicion that other races were affected too.
• Dreamers across Disboard began recalling past lives, including people who had once belonged to other races and relatives or lovers who had reincarnated as different species.
• Gibril concluded that the dreamers were recovering memories of their own past lives and learned from Master that even Divine Species had reincarnated as humans.
• Azriel pointed out that Earth’s mythological beings resembled Disboard’s races, then asked Gibril what connected humans and mythology.

Tet learned that Bai Yue had helped bring him into existence and joined the Fate Execution Mechanism, while the Hero Realm underwent a vast expansion. Hatsuse Izuna and the others arrived at its headquarters, where they encountered a human woman accused of nearly destroying three thousand worlds.

• Bai Yue explained that Tet had been born mostly from human thoughts, partly from Machina thoughts, with Gibril's catalyst contributing to his birth.
• Tet recognized Bai Yue's role in his creation, joined the Fate Execution Mechanism, and planned to delay summoning the two people who had helped create him.
• The Hero Realm's universe was remodeled and expanded, adding many new game boards as its inhabitants watched.
• Hatsuse Izuna, the Golden Fox miko, and Fanlou entered the Fate Execution Mechanism headquarters, where Fanlou confirmed that the environment would not threaten her existence.
• A twin-tailed doll accused a brown-skinned human woman of nearly destroying three thousand worlds, but the woman fled through a door before the doll could stop her.
• The miko found information identifying the woman as the head of a special department within the Fate Execution Mechanism.

Hatsuse Izuna learned that Bai Yue was a celebrated hero and the leader of the Gods Alliance, then visited Kyoto with Kokono and helped make pastries for him. While hiding in a gift box to surprise Bai Yue, Izuna and Kokono accidentally witnessed an intimate encounter between him and Yasaka.

• Hatsuse Izuna discovered that Bai Yue had led the Gods of his world against invaders and fought in another world's final battle between Gods and Humans.
• Kokono brought Izuna to her home, where Izuna was struck by the beauty of Kokono's mother, Yasaka.
• Izuna and Kokono made pastries together and planned to surprise Bai Yue by hiding Kokono in a gift box in his office.
• Izuna and Kokono hid inside the box when Bai Yue and Yasaka entered the office, then watched through a small hole as Bai Yue pressed Yasaka against the door and teased her.

Kokono and Hatsuse Izuna spied on Bai Yue releasing the contents of the Abyss Hole, while he continued investigating a mysterious letter and detected a new parallel world. In that world, a ghost-hunting girl returned from a grisly hunt and found strange footprints leading from a lightning-struck crater toward her home.

• Kokono and Hatsuse Izuna watched Bai Yue release the contents of the Abyss Hole and the adjacent rift from inside a gift box.
• Bai Yue praised Kokono’s biscuits, teased Izuna about being crude, and resumed studying the letter’s Earth-language writing.
• Bai Yue used three tracking methods to trace the letter’s faint fluctuations and discovered an apparently unrelated parallel world with an Earth.
• A black-haired, violet-eyed hunter killed a headless monster in a bloodstained house and watched its body and head disappear.
• A violent thunderstorm broke as the hunter ran home, then abruptly eased after lightning struck nearby.
• The hunter found a crater near her home with unsteady footprints leading from inside it toward her house.

Bai Yue entered a world the system had not discovered and killed an Oni after meeting Kanae Kocho at her home. As he recovered from the effort, he learned about the Oni and reflected on his unusual journey into this world, while Kanae prepared to help him wash.

• Kanae Kocho found Bai Yue in her house wearing her butterfly-patterned haori, and he introduced himself just as an attacker extinguished the candle.
• Bai Yue took Kanae's sword and killed the Oni with one slash, but the exertion left him sore and injured.
• Kanae treated Bai Yue with herbs and explained that Oni were man-eating monsters that were difficult to kill, then chose not to invite him to join the Demon Slayer Corps.
• Bai Yue startled Kanae by miming an attack on her, warning her that her gentleness left her too careless, before collapsing from exhaustion.
• Bai Yue considered how he had entered a world undetected by the system and learned that its Oni ate people and could infect others through their blood.