Chapter Summaries

Samael battled Ares at sea while the divine clash devastated the Colchis fleet and left its king torn between retreat and loyalty. After Samael shattered Ares’s left shoulder, he gathered his powers for a potentially decisive attack.

• Samael used his Cross Spear to breach Ares’s blood-colored storm and fought him in the sky.
• The divine battle’s shock waves drove the Colchis Dragon Beasts into the sea, where monsters devoured them, while three warships collided and sank.
• The King of Colchis regretted provoking the Argo Heroes and feared both Ares’s punishment and the attention of Athena’s allies.
• Samael struck Ares with overwhelming strength, shattered his left shoulder blade, and split the dark clouds above them.
• Samael readied the Cross Spear with the powers of fate, venom, and time as Ares struggled with humiliation and fury.

Samael defeated Ares and forced the Colchis fleet to withdraw, then guided the Argo through the Eye of the Tide Sea to escape pursuit. The heroes discovered that the vortex was a spatial passage into a mysterious region.

• Samael struck Ares and pinned his divine core, while Athena mocked Ares and warned him that Zeus might see him as a threat.
• Athena withdrew her spirit fragment, and Ares recovered his sword and ordered the Colchis fleet to return to shore.
• Samael reached the Argo and urged Jason to steer into the Eye of the Tide Sea as the pursuers closed in.
• Jason led the Argo into the vortex, where the ship plunged through a strange passage before its descent stabilized.
• Samael exchanged relieved nods with Artemis and Orion, recognizing that the Eye of the Tide Sea was a spatial warp.

The Argo survived the Eye of the Tide Sea’s undercurrents and navigated its dangerous turbulence using a sea chart. As the crew neared the exit vortex, Samael noticed uncharted bronze cubes activating around them, and scarlet beams swept across the ship.

• Samael activated the Argo’s hidden defenses, allowing it to withstand a powerful undercurrent while diving.
• Orion spotted dangerous teardrop-shaped turbulence, and Jason used the teddy bear’s sea chart to guide the Argo through it.
• Jason assigned the crew their duties as they evaded the turbulence and crossed the hallucinatory Rainbow Coral Zone.
• The crew reached the vortex exit, but Samael noticed the bronze cubes were missing from the sea chart.
• The bronze cubes lit up and emitted intersecting scarlet beams as the Argo entered their plane.

The Argo survived the bronze cube defenses at the Gate of the Vortex and emerged in an unknown region, where ten islands and a new continent lay ahead. As the crew began preparing to explore, Atlantis's Area Annihilation Weapons surrounded the ship.

• Jason, Heracles, Atalanta, and the Moon Goddess fought off the bronze cubes as their attacks battered the Argo's Magic Barrier.
• Medea repaired the barrier, and Samael praised her before assigning Circe to help defend the ship.
• Jason and the crew coordinated their attacks and maneuvers, guiding the Argo through the bronze cube matrix and into the Gate of the Vortex.
• The Argo passed through the warped space and emerged on calm waters near ten islands surrounding a new continent.
• Silvery-white bladed metal spheres surrounded the Argo, and Samael recognized them as Atlantis's Area Annihilation Weapons.

The Argo Heroes destroyed a wave of mysterious wide-area annihilation weapons, and Samael suspected Atlantis was behind the technology. A fleet of more than a hundred advanced metal warships surfaced to surround the Argo, while an armored figure carrying a trident emerged from its flagship.

• Jason ordered the Argo to evade the scarlet beams and raise its Magic Barrier as the weapons attacked.
• Hercules, Caenis, the Twin Swordsmen, Atalanta, Peleus, Telamon, and the other heroes destroyed the attacking weapons.
• Samael inspected a wreck and connected the strange technology to the Clashing Rocks, the cube matrix, and the lost continent of Atlantis.
• More than a hundred black metal warships surfaced and surrounded the Argo.
• An armored figure carrying a rippling-water-patterned trident emerged from the fleet's flagship with guards at his side.

Samael accepted Triton’s invitation to visit the Atlantis flagship, while Jason reluctantly agreed to follow the Deep Sea Fleet toward the hidden continent. The chapter ended as Triton approached Samael in the ship’s reception room.

• Triton introduced himself as the son of the Sea God and offered to welcome the Argo Heroes to Atlantis.
• Samael accepted Triton’s invitation to board the flagship, sparing Jason from going aboard in his place.
• Triton ordered his fleet to return, revealing the many divine and mechanical forces under his command.
• Jason led the Argo Heroes after the fleet toward the continent beyond the ten pillars of light.
• Samael toured the flagship’s underwater reception room as Triton approached with a wineglass.

Triton guided Samael and the Argo through Atlantis’s defenses, introducing the advanced weapons factory Echidna and the city’s islands. He revealed Poseidonia, the floating City of the Sea God, also known as the Interstellar City Mountain Range—Olympus, leaving Samael intrigued and faintly mocking.

• Triton showed Samael the islands along their route and explained that Hecate Island housed the Echidna armory, which produced Divine Construct Weapons modeled on monstrous beings.
• Triton ordered the Atlantis guards to grant the Argo passage through the magical barrier after it was blocked for lacking a registered serial number.
• The Argo passed through the barrier and followed Triton’s fleet toward Atlantis.
• Triton presented Atlantis, with its ten guardian islands, ordered city rings, temples, and monumental bronze statues.
• Triton identified the floating Poseidonia as the City of the Sea God and revealed its other name, the Interstellar City Mountain Range—Olympus.
• Samael regarded Atlantis’s transformation of Olympus with interest and a hint of mockery.

Samael led the Argo Heroes through Atlantis on Triton’s tour, but he suspected the prince’s hospitality concealed a trap. When Triton tried to poison them and have them seized, the heroes swiftly overwhelmed his forces, leaving them facing a counterattack from Olympus soldiers.

• Triton guided Samael, Jason, and the Argo Heroes through the landmarks of Atlantis while Jason grew increasingly uneasy.
• Samael noticed an abandoned workshop below Altar Street and quietly signaled the heroes before they entered Triton’s hall for a banquet.
• Triton offered the guests wine, but Samael identified jellyfish toxin in it and exposed the prince’s plan.
• Samael ordered the heroes to move, and they seized the hall, destroyed the snake-women constructs, and captured Triton.
• Triton warned that Olympus guards and divine forces surrounded them, while soldiers blasted through the hall wall and charged inside.

Samael and the Argo Heroes fought off Olympus soldiers in the Machine God Corridor and took Triton hostage. After learning that Rhode was the sacrifice they were accused of helping escape, they decided to rescue her and followed Triton onward.

• The Argo Heroes blasted a gap in the Olympus soldiers’ formation, but the soldiers healed until Atalanta discovered that shots to their heads could stop them.
• Heracles destroyed the soldiers’ linked shield barrier with an armor-piercing arrow, while Samael threatened Triton and forced the remaining soldiers to retreat.
• Medea healed Triton, and Samael questioned him about the conflict with the Olympus soldiers.
• Triton revealed that Rhode was the sacrifice for the Sea God Festival and accused the Argo Heroes of helping her escape and disrupting Poseidon’s plan.
• Samael accepted that the Argo Heroes would take the blame, then escorted Triton onward so they could rescue Rhode.

The Argo Heroes reached the Great Altar and freed Rhode from her light prison after discovering she had been inside the Leviathan Whale. As they prepared to escape, the True Body Machine God Aphrodite appeared and unleashed her Authority on the male heroes.

• The Argo Heroes forced their way through Olympus with Triton as their hostage and reached the Great Altar, where they found the Leviathan Whale imprisoned instead of Rhode.
• Samael’s hidden safeguard activated, and the whale shed its shell to reveal the sleeping Rhode inside.
• Orpheus explained the situation to Rhode, while the heroes failed to break the light prison without risking her safety.
• Samael admitted that his safeguard had disrupted Atlantis’s Sea God Festival, and Triton opened the prison by manipulating the star chart.
• Aphrodite appeared above the altar and used her Authority to affect the male heroes, while Samael caught Heracles’s punch and recognized the pink mist.

Samael destroyed the True Body Machine God, but an Olympus and Sea God Temple force stormed the Great Altar and trapped the Argo Heroes in a fierce battle. As Samael tried to clear a path for their retreat, the Moon God revealed herself as the true hunter and destroyed another machine god in the starry sky.

• Samael pierced the True Body Machine God after Medusa's Shield absorbed its attack, and the damaged machine god fell toward the interstellar mountain city.
• Olympus soldiers led by a middle-aged demigod charged through the bronze gate, rescued Triton from Samael, and attacked the Great Altar.
• Samael used Medusa's Shield to hold back the attackers while dark patterns and Orpheus's lyre helped the Argo Heroes recover from their mental confusion.
• After the Moon God's orbital cannon shattered Medusa's Shield, the Argo Heroes fought a vastly larger force, and Samael ordered them to prepare to withdraw.
• Samael fought off four orbital beams with his Cross Spear, but the Moon God revealed herself and destroyed the machine god that had drawn his fire.

The Argo Heroes escaped the besieged Great Altar aboard the Colchis Dragon while Heracles and the Moon Goddess covered their retreat. Triton killed the demigod who had ordered the bombardment, and the Atlanteans failed to find the fleeing outsiders.

• Heracles opened a breach in the Great Altar, and Atalanta protected Jason from an airborne attack as the Argo Heroes faced a perilous escape.
• The Colchis Dragon destroyed the pursuing Area Annihilation Weapons, and Samael directed the Argo Heroes to board while he and Diana supported the retreat.
• Heracles waited for the Moon Goddess to leave, then escaped through the collapsing front wall and was caught by Peleus and Telamon's Sea God Chariot.
• Triton confronted the middle-aged demigod who had ordered the Machine Gods to bombard the Great Altar and challenged him to a Sacred Duel.
• Triton killed the demigod, ordered the Sea God Guards to recover the Machine God wreckage, and sent soldiers to search for the escaped outsiders.
• The Olympus soldiers searched the Interstellar City Mountain Range but found no trace of the Argo Heroes.

After escaping the Great Altar, Samael explained how Triton had secretly helped the Argo Heroes navigate Atlantis and rescue little Rhode. The group planned their escape through the harbor, while Atalanta’s little mermaid revealed that Triton was her brother, leaving Samael wary of Poseidon’s motives.

• Samael gathered the recovering Argo Heroes and outlined a route from the abandoned grand workshop to the harbor, where they could board the Argo after nightfall.
• When Jason questioned how Samael knew the hidden routes, Samael revealed that Triton had acted as their informant and explained how Triton had used his invitation to get them into Atlantis.
• Samael explained that Triton had disclosed Atlantis’s layout and escape routes during their conversations, and that he had likely delayed the pursuers after the group escaped the Great Altar.
• Little Medea asked whether Triton had planned to be captured, and Samael said they had simply understood each other’s actions during the poisoned banquet.
• Atalanta asked why Triton was helping them, and Samael pointed out that the little mermaid in her arms was Triton’s younger sister; she complained that her brother never let her go out or play.
• Samael wondered what Poseidon considered worth sacrificing his daughter for and grew wary of the larger scheme.

Triton tried to conceal the missing sacrifice while Samael and his allies prepared to escape Olympus, only to realize they had uncovered Poseidon’s plans instead of Zeus’s hidden weapon. The group planned to warn Mount of the God of War after their breakout.

• Triton refused to alert Atlantis or Thetis Island about the outsiders and gave an Olympus royal guard partial access to Chaos Terminal: Chaos to search for them before Poseidon returned.
• Samael renamed their hideout the Godbreaker Alliance Base and discussed the upcoming light barrier restart window and their plan to escape aboard the Argo with Atalanta.
• Atalanta worried that Triton did not care about his sister, but Samael argued that the mermaid princess’s escape through the defenses suggested Triton had helped her.
• The Moon Goddess brought Orion to Samael and revealed that they had uncovered Poseidon’s Atlantis instead of finding Zeus’s hidden trump card.
• Samael and Artemis concluded that Poseidon intended to replace the Olympian Divine Pantheon with Atlantis and planned to warn Mount of the God of War.

Samael led the Argo Heroes out of Atlantis, but their escape was intercepted by Briareus, the Ocean Gods, Poseidon’s fleet, and the Bronze Giants. As Poseidon began a divine descent in the Sea God Temple, Samael rushed toward it to break the deadlock while Artemis stayed behind to confront Briareus.

• Samael guided the concealed Argo Heroes through Atlantis to the harbor, where they overcame the patrols and escaped aboard the Argo.
• Samael warned Jason away from dangerous routes and directed the ship toward Hestia Island, but Briareus detected them as they crossed the boundary of the ten kingdom islands.
• Samael invoked Athena’s power and summoned his equipment to face Briareus, while Athena offered to help and revealed that Poseidon had left.
• Samael saw Poseidon’s divine descent begin at the Sea God Temple and rushed toward it, leaving Artemis to deal with Briareus.
• The Echidna Armory, Deep Sea Fleet, and ten Bronze Giants mobilized and surrounded the Argo, trapping the heroes as Samael charged for the temple.

Poseidon returned to Atlantis amid the crisis and battled Samael, son of Tiamat, who attacked the Sea God Temple. Samael’s Ocean’s Blessing made him a natural counter to Poseidon, and he resumed his assault after breaking through the Sea King’s defenses.

• Poseidon sensed that the sacrifice was lost, the Sea God Festival was delayed, two True Body Machine Gods were scrapped, and Greek Heroes had discovered Atlantis.
• Poseidon flew out to confront a golden figure approaching the Sea God Temple as his guards and priests rushed to fight.
• Samael used Beast's Authority—Monstrous Strength to deflect Poseidon's trident and send the Sea King flying.
• Poseidon trapped Samael in a storm of pressurized water snakes, but Samael struck from behind and tore through the defenses protecting Poseidon.
• Poseidon and Samael clashed again, and Poseidon recognized the powerful Ocean's Blessing on Samael before Samael resumed his attack.

Samael and Poseidon fought fiercely in Atlantis until both were badly wounded, then agreed to a truce and discussed cooperating against Zeus. They emerged from the damaged Sea God Temple together, declaring the conflict over as the surviving Argonauts celebrated.

• Samael overwhelmed Poseidon in their battle, using his powers and the Atlantis incantation to strike him into the Sea God Temple.
• Poseidon drew on Atlantis’s accumulated faith to heal his wounds, while Samael arrived at the temple gates, also seriously injured.
• Samael proposed a truce, arguing that their fight could attract Zeus and revealing that he represented Athena’s Mount of the God of War.
• Poseidon questioned Samael’s claims about his alliance and the Argonauts, then accepted the Olive Branch after Samael offered to protect his secrets.
• Samael and Poseidon raised the Olive Branch together to declare the conflict over, and the wounded Argo Heroes celebrated their survival.

After the Argo’s crew and Atlantis reached a settlement, Poseidon demanded that Samael help overthrow Zeus within three days. Samael revealed the expedition’s secret purpose and warned Poseidon that Briareus might protect Zeus, leaving Poseidon to investigate his son-in-law.

• Samael observed the Argo’s repairs and the easing tensions between its crew and the Atlanteans.
• Samael, Poseidon, and representatives from the Argo agreed that the heroes would repair Poseidon’s temple, swear secrecy, and receive Atlantis’s friendship and hospitality; Samael separately agreed to stop excavating the Interstellar City Mountains’ secrets in exchange for Rhode.
• Poseidon told Samael he would contact Athena and Hera and move against Zeus in three days.
• Samael told Poseidon about the expedition’s connection to Paradise Island and the Three Goddesses’ plans, but Poseidon had never heard of the island.
• Samael warned Poseidon that Briareus had sworn to guard Zeus’s kingship, prompting Poseidon to hurry toward Thetis Island to test his son-in-law.

Samael tried to restore Orion’s fading memories while the Argo Heroes searched for Paradise Island. Little Medea recognized the place from a dream of the underworld and revealed its true name: Elysion, the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss.

• Samael used the Authority of Destiny to draw memories into Orion, briefly restoring his clarity, but Orion warned Artemis that his time was running out.
• Artemis angrily cursed Paradise Island, and Samael told the Argo Heroes that it enslaved heroes’ souls and was draining Orion’s life.
• Little Medea claimed she knew where Paradise Island was, and Samael protected her from Artemis’s desperation as she spoke.
• Little Medea explained that she had visited a paradise in the underworld with Goddess Hecate and named it Elysion, the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss.

Samael deduced that Paradise Island was the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss in the underworld and persuaded Poseidon to open the way to Tartarus Dungeon. After agreeing that Athena would join Poseidon on Mount Olympus within seven days, Samael returned to Atlantis with the news, where Jason asked if he could withdraw from the expedition.

• Medea identified the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss, leading Samael to realize Paradise Island could be in the underworld.
• Samael told Artemis he had a way into the underworld, left Atalanta to care for her, and flew to Thetis Island to meet Poseidon.
• Samael asked Poseidon to open Tartarus Dungeon, and they agreed on a seven-day expedition in exchange for Athena ascending Mount Olympus with Poseidon afterward.
• Poseidon gave Samael an amber containing the sleeping Briareus to take to the underworld.
• Samael returned to Atlantis to share the news with the Argo’s companions, and Jason asked if he could withdraw.