Chapter Summaries

Gilgamesh’s EA Sword split apart Shiva’s World-Ending Fire and destroyed the arena, killing both fighters and ending Ragnarok’s seventh battle in a draw. With six rounds left, the chapter explained how another human victory could secure humanity’s overall win and introduced uncertainty about the gods’ side in the eighth battle.

• Shiva drew the destruction flames into his Third Eye and unleashed them across the arena, but Gilgamesh swung the EA Sword to cleave the world and extinguish the fire.
• The collapsing arena swallowed Shiva, who was split in half, and then consumed Gilgamesh and the EA Sword, leaving the projected image in static.
• Brunhilde and Goll realized that both fighters had vanished, and the seventh Ragnarok battle ended in a draw.
• Rossweisse, Irina, Rufi, and Serafall discussed the remaining rounds and how one more human victory would guarantee humanity’s victory unless the gods won all six remaining battles.
• Rossweisse explained that another draw followed by five gods’ victories would force all thirteen battles to be fought and leave Ragnarok tied.

As the gods prepared for Ragnarok’s Eighth Round, Primal Gods advanced their campaign to reclaim their world and considered an attack on a parallel world. The chapter revealed that a god had created a faith-powered human deity, the Son of God of War, who would fight for humanity.

• Serafall and the others overheard gods dismissing reports of attacks on their pantheon headquarters because they intended to watch Ragnarok, and the gods discussed Shaka as the likely next representative.
• The Primal Gods’ followers reported taking control of several gates and planned to continue reclaiming their world while investigating the parallel world.
• The gods debated the danger posed by humanity’s unusual weapons and learned that the Primal God held the key to Akasha’s mechanism for erasing humanity.
• The Primal Gods discussed sending Melbazoa and his forces to attack the parallel world while keeping Regalzeva and Serafiel from joining them.
• The chapter recounted how a god who had conspired against his pantheon’s Main God discovered how to implant a divine spark in a human and create a god empowered by faith.
• The god created the Son of God of War as a human heroic figure, establishing him as humanity’s fighter in Ragnarok’s Eighth Round.

Mars planned to replace the Roman Pantheon’s emerging God of Faith, while Bai Yue learned he had been used as experimental material. In the Human World, Brunhilde heard that Odin had taken his own life, and the Eighth Round of Ragnarok began as the gods faced the threat of losing the entire contest.

• Mars reflected on his plan to take over the God of Faith’s body and use humanity’s faith to strengthen the Roman Pantheon.
• Mars visited the empty shell he had prepared as a vessel and decided the divine spark needed more time to fuse.
• Bai Yue used a card and learned that Mars had treated him as experimental material.
• Brunhilde learned that Odin had chosen to end his own life and began to suspect why he had done so.
• Irina Shidou, Ve, and Rossweisse returned from sightseeing when the Eighth Round was about to begin.
• Heimdallr announced that the gods had lost all seven previous rounds and would lose Ragnarok if they lost the next match.

As Heimdallr announced the Eighth Round, a sudden fog transported Irina and Goll to Helheim before the spectators gathered on skeletal dragon stands. The god-side fighter was revealed to be the dead Odin, while the human-side representative remained uncertain.

• Goll told Irina that Odin had died after his condition worsened during the previous matches.
• A dense fog separated Irina and Goll from the others and left them in Helheim, where undead giants emerged from the ground.
• The fog cleared enough to reveal skeletal dragons carrying the spectators above a land filled with dangerous undead.
• Rossweisse and Serafall wondered whether Odin would fight, and Heimdallr announced the Final War Law Between Humans and Gods.
• A white eight-legged horse descended along a rainbow as Heimdallr named Odin the god-side representative and hinted that humanity's fighter might be both a Human King and a Main God.

Odin was summoned in his prime to represent the gods in the eighth match, while humanity’s representative was revealed to be Xi, Rome’s First King. The announcement unsettled Mars, who realized Heimdallr and the other gods were looking toward the Roman seat with pity and amusement.

• Sleipnir ran to the Rainbow Bridge’s end and merged with Odin, who appeared restored and ready to fight.
• Heimdallr announced Odin as the gods’ representative, and the gods recognized that he had sacrificed his return to history to participate.
• Heimdallr confirmed that Xi would represent humanity after Brunhilde and the Main Gods approved the unusual choice.
• Mars focused on using humanity’s faith to become the one and only god, unaware at first of the announcement’s implications.
• Heimdallr pointed toward the Roman mythology seat as he began revealing Xi, and Mars noticed the gods watching him with pity and schadenfreude.

Heimdallr revealed that humanity’s Eighth Round representative was Quirinus, Rome’s former human king and current Supreme God, who had slaughtered gods in the Roman Pantheon. After Quirinus exposed God of War Mars’s scheme, Mars lost control and attacked the Main God seats.

• Serafall identified the clues as pointing to Romulus, and the audience realized the Human representative was the god Quirinus.
• Quirinus appeared on the Roman Main God seat in bloody armor, with a rift revealing godly corpses impaled on a strange tree at the Roman Pantheon’s base camp.
• Heimdallr confirmed that the rules allowed a god to fight for humanity, and the gods learned Quirinus was a human god born from human faith.
• Quirinus said he had been cleaning house and that Mars could explain the corpses, prompting the Main Gods to demand answers from Mars.
• Mars broke down, accused Quirinus of taking what was his, and attacked the Main God seats with his divine artifact.

Romulus Quirinus and Odin began Ragnarok’s Eighth Round, but Odin’s Gungnir shattered Helheim’s binding ritual and unleashed hordes of undead upon them both. As the two Main Gods fought their way through the calamity, they rose into the air to face each other directly.

• Romulus Quirinus forced Mars to kneel with his throne, then descended into Helheim as Heimdallr announced him and began the Eighth Round.
• Odin hurled Gungnir into the ground, destroying the ritual that bound the dead beneath Helheim.
• The Son of Ymir and countless undead giants and monsters broke free and attacked both Odin and Romulus Quirinus.
• Odin used precise spells and needles to counter and destroy undead while Romulus Quirinus fired rapid Spear of Light attacks from his golden armor.
• Odin and Romulus Quirinus rose above the undead horde and faced each other directly.

Odin used Gungnir and the undead to trap Quirinus, who broke free by growing a colossal, undead-consuming tree and counterattacked. As Odin prepared a time-space summoning spell, three genuine Odins appeared on the battlefield, leaving the gods stunned.

• Odin turned the undead against Quirinus and used Gungnir to create a void-suction trap beneath him.
• Quirinus escaped the undead by growing a giant tree that spread through the Land of the Dead and transformed corpses into trees.
• Quirinus used the tree as cover to strike Odin and bombard him with powerful Spears of Light.
• Odin's defensive barrier shattered, but Quirinus caught two genuine Gungnir spears that appeared beside him.
• Odin's summoning spell brought two past versions of himself into the battle, leaving three Odins standing together.

Odin revealed that Vili and Ve were his other selves, and the three attacked Quirinus together. Quirinus then summoned his past, present, and future selves and merged them, leaving Shaka unable to perceive his movements across time.

• Heimdallr identified Odin’s two doubles as Vili and Ve, and Mimir confirmed that Odin had never had brothers.
• The God of Wisdom explained that Odin, Vili, and Ve were one complete being, and Brunhilde recognized the arrangement as a Trinity.
• Odin, Vili, and Ve coordinated their attacks against Quirinus, trapping him with Gungnir strikes and Magic Arrays.
• Quirinus’s divine throne appeared behind him and transformed into particles that attached to him, producing three figures from Rome’s past, present, and future.
• The three Quirinus figures merged, and Shaka realized that Gungnir might have struck him despite his apparent regeneration.
• Shaka’s Future Sight could no longer distinguish Quirinus’s actions because they seemed to occur in the past, present, and future simultaneously.

Quirinus used his ability to repel and compress space to evade Odin’s attacks, counterattacking while pursuing Odin (Vili). Odin then fused his three bodies into a three-headed evil-god form and threw a transformed Gungnir that vanished and returned to his hand.

• Quirinus made Gungnir and most of Odin’s attacks unable to reach him by repelling space, then struck Odin with a devastating torrent of light.
• Odin’s other bodies exploited the moment Quirinus attacked, but their blows caused him no damage; Gungnir’s strike was deflected by his armor.
• Quirinus pursued Odin (Vili) by manipulating the distance around himself, severed his arm, and evaded further attacks.
• The gods realized Quirinus’s divine throne supplied his seemingly inexhaustible power, though he had not drawn on the Cosmic Origin.
• Odin used the spatial destruction from his three Gungnirs to hinder Quirinus’s movement, then fused his three bodies into a three-headed form.
• Odin’s fused Gungnir changed into a needle-like weapon, which he threw; it vanished from sight and returned to his hand.

Odin used Gungnir’s fate-altering power against Quirinus, paying with his eyes and internal organs while discovering that Quirinus spanned the past, present, and future. As Odin prepared a strike aimed thousands of years into the past, Quirinus began an enormous attack that tore open Helheim’s night sky.

• Quirinus’s Spears of Light repeatedly missed Odin after Odin used Gungnir to shatter the fate of being hit, at the cost of losing his eyes.
• Odin used Gungnir again to try to prevent Quirinus from summoning the Divine Throne, but failed and sacrificed his internal organs.
• Odin realized Quirinus spanned multiple points in time, allowing him to repair injuries and draw on power from the past and future for up to ten minutes.
• Odin prepared to send Gungnir thousands of years into the past, using a spell to reduce the price of the attack.
• Quirinus flew into the sky and tore open Helheim’s darkness with enormous luminous arms, revealing a star-filled sky.

Quirinus unleashed a devastating meteor attack that destroyed Helheim and overwhelmed Odin, leaving humanity seemingly victorious in Ragnarok. As the collapsing realm exposed Niflheim below, the spectators learned Odin was still alive, and the camera began searching for him.

• Quirinus's starlight barrage devastated Helheim, repeatedly blasting the undead apart and destroying Odin's stored defensive spells.
• Quirinus gathered the remaining starlight into a golden full moon and dropped it onto Odin, who raised the Spear of Destiny too late to stop the impact.
• The attack shattered Helheim, and the arena's projection revealed a ruined landscape where the realm had once stood.
• Helheim's fragments fell into Niflheim, while Quirinus remained unharmed by the collapsing realm's destructive lightning.
• The spectators believed Quirinus and humanity had won until Akasha revealed that Odin was still alive, prompting the camera to search for him.

After humanity won the eighth match, Odin’s final strike rewound events and altered history, erasing Romulus Quirinus from existence. Serafall and the others remembered the previous timeline and realized they had to warn Brunhilde, but she did not know who Romulus was.

• Odin was defeated, but Serafall and Rossweisse noticed Quirinus turning transparent as time began to rewind.
• The world returned to the moment before the eighth match, and Serafall, Rossweisse, Irina Shidou, Lufy Pendragon, and Shefara retained their memories.
• Serafall called Brunhilde and urged her not to send Romulus Quirinus into the match, but Brunhilde did not recognize his name.
• Serafall learned that in this history Rome’s founder was Remus, not Romulus, and concluded Odin had changed history rather than merely reversed time.
• Brunhilde appeared and demanded an explanation as the group was taken to Helheim for the eighth match.

Brunhilde learned that Serafall and her companions had experienced an Eighth Round battle in another timeline, where Romulus Quirinus fought Remus and appeared to win before Odin’s actions displaced them. Odin then vanished completely, forcing Ragnarok’s eighth round to be suspended; Bai Yue’s memories returned as his attempt to play Romulus failed and the match ended in a draw.

• Brunhilde speculated that Serafall and her companions had jumped into a nearly identical Parallel World rather than traveled into the past.
• Irina said Romulus Quirinus had won the battle they witnessed, while Rufi recalled that Odin had done something at the end and caused them to return to the past.
• Serafall explained that Romulus had been human before becoming Quirinus, the supreme god of Roman mythology, leaving Brunhilde to wonder whether Remus held a similar identity.
• Heimdallr’s terminal showed that Odin had completely vanished, and Brunhilde confirmed two death records, including one timestamped when Serafall and her companions arrived.
• Heimdallr announced that the Eighth Round Battle had been temporarily suspended, leaving the crowd demanding an explanation.
• Bai Yue recovered his memories and realized that his attempt to play Romulus had failed when fate turned his expected victory over Remus into defeat and death, making Remus Rome’s founder.

After the Eighth Round Battle was declared a draw, the gods discovered that Odin’s Spear of Destiny had erased faith-based paths to godhood and the memories of Romulus Quirinus. Meanwhile, Titans broke through Purgatory and launched a wider invasion of the mythological underworlds, leaving the gods scrambling as their realms came under attack.

• Mimir confirmed the Spear of Destiny existed and explained that Odin had used it to erase Romulus Quirinus at the Root, while Shaka could no longer sense humanity’s faith.
• The group learned that Mars’s allies had died beyond revival and Remus Quirinus had become a human corpse after losing the Power of Faith.
• Shaka ruled that the Eighth Round of Ragnarok counted as a draw, and Brunhilde mourned that no one would remember Romulus Quirinus’s fight for humanity.
• Betrayers among the guards broke the Chains of Heaven and collapsed the gate to Purgatory, allowing the Titan legion to invade Hades’s realm and massacre its defenders.
• The Titans began attacking underworlds, Hells, and demon realms across mythologies while gods in the Central Heavenly Realm Space lost contact with their realms.
• Adamas announced that the Purgatory gate in the Greek underworld had been completely opened as the Gods’ Conference hall filled with alarm.

As the Primal Gods’ invasion isolated the Underworld and spread across the pantheons, Shaka declared that Ragnarok would continue with a Ninth Round despite the gods’ discovery that the Eighth Round had already taken place. Brunhilde learned that Shaka would face all of humanity’s remaining representatives alone, while she worked to coordinate the Valkyries and assess the invasion.

• The gods’ council learned that Ares’s legion had defected to Apollo and that the Underworld’s forces were cut off as the Primal Gods’ allies advanced.
• Shaka silenced the council and announced the Ninth Round, revealing that the forgotten Eighth Round had already been fought.
• Brunhilde used the Akasha System to map invaded regions and send Valkyries orders to prepare the gates connecting the pantheons to the Human World.
• Goll and Irina Shidou saw images of the ongoing divine war, while Serafall admitted she did not know whether their own world had been invaded.
• Brunhilde learned that Shaka intended to settle the contest in the Ninth Round by challenging all of humanity’s remaining representatives alone.

Brunhilde investigated Shaka’s confidence and encountered Bai Yue, a living human who vanished after urging her to accept Shaka’s proposal. She realized he might be tied to the human representatives and prepared to coordinate resistance across the Divine Realm Spaces, but Shaka then learned that the Eastern Immortal Realm had disappeared.

• Brunhilde hesitated to accept Shaka’s offer to fight humanity’s remaining representatives alone, while the Valkyrie sisters questioned his confidence.
• Bai Yue appeared in Akasha’s Chamber, said his recorded experiences were real, and urged Brunhilde to agree to Shaka’s request before vanishing.
• Brunhilde searched the Akasha System and recognized a possible connection between Bai Yue and the eight human representatives.
• Brunhilde planned to have the Valkyries and gods hold the passages between the Divine Realm Spaces until most of the enemy forces had entered.
• Shaka agreed to help Brunhilde, but an urgent phone call informed him that the Eastern Immortal Realm had disappeared.

Shaka revealed that the Eastern Immortal Realm had abandoned the world three thousand years earlier, but new Immortal Realm gods said a human king had rebuilt it to protect humanity. As Ragnarok’s final battle stalled and brutal God Wars raged elsewhere, the gods waited for humanity to choose an opponent for Shaka in the ninth round.

• Shaka told Brunhilde that the old Eastern Immortal Realm had vanished three thousand years ago, and Brunhilde suspected the conference’s Immortal Realm representatives were Primal God infiltrators.
• Guan Yu, Qin Qiong, and Yuchi Jingde said a new Immortal Realm had been established by His Majesty, who would appear in the ninth round.
• The gathered gods learned that Gaia had used her descendants to weaken other Primal Gods while seeking absolute authority.
• Irina and Ve watched footage of a devastating God War that left a Mythological World in ruins and horrified them with its brutality.
• Rossweisse questioned why the gods were delaying the Final Battle, while Serafall suspected they were waiting and wondered who Brunhilde would send against Shaka.

As Ragnarok’s ninth round began, Gaia’s armies invaded the Central Heavenly Realm while angels descended on the Human World. King Solomon’s Magic Kingdom, Avalon, appeared and struck the angels with a devastating surprise attack, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Heimdallr sounded Ragnarok’s Horn as Gaia’s armies, including Beasts of Apocalypse and fused Primal Gods, poured through the Heavenly Gates toward the Central Heavenly Realm.
• Heimdallr rallied the gathered gods and humans to continue the final battle despite the invasion, and they answered with cries to crush the enemy.
• Angels descended through a gate into the Human World after a traitor made the dispatched legion disappear and destroyed the passage from the Central Heavenly Realm.
• Seventy-two pillars of black light appeared in the Human World and raised King Solomon’s Magic Kingdom, Avalon, into the sky.
• Avalon’s magic barrage killed a tenth of the angels before they scattered and formed defenses, and Goll excitedly recognized the kingdom as King Solomon’s.

As the Magic Kingdom and demons fought the angels, a comet carrying monsters threatened Earth, and Avalon awakened King Arthur’s body to defend itself with the holy sword’s absolute-defense sheath. After King Arthur destroyed the threat and returned to his coffin, the Primal Gods’ army attacked the Central Heavenly Realm.

• Serafall watched the Magic Kingdom’s forces battle the angels, while Brunhilde learned that many angels were disposable units made from human souls and that the demons were attacking Heaven’s headquarters.
• A comet filled with monsters changed course toward Earth, and Avalon surfaced from the sea with King Arthur’s crystal coffin.
• King Arthur’s body rose from the coffin and used the fragments of his holy sword’s sheath to reflect the Great Red Dragon’s attacks and shield Avalon.
• King Arthur unleashed Excalibur’s light, destroying the comet and its monsters, then returned to his coffin as a programmed defender of Avalon.
• The Primal Gods’ army attacked the Central Heavenly Realm after its operation against the Human World appeared to fail.