Chapter Summaries

Samael helped the human heroes advance against Olympus while secretly recruiting Ladon and workers from Hera’s sacred garden for his plans. He left with Medusa and Atalanta, carrying Golden Apples and the garden’s stolen treasures, while Atalanta’s lingering doubts about him faded.

• Samael explained to Medusa that he had sealed the Taboo of the Gods, preventing Zeus from awakening its monsters, and learned that Euryale and Stheno were exploring the Minotaur’s Labyrinth on Crete.
• Samael urged the human heroes to claim glory for humanity, then left the advancing group with Atalanta and Medusa to enter Hera’s hidden sacred garden.
• Samael recruited Ladon by promising to take him to confront the Colchis dragon, then joined him in looting the garden’s treasures.
• Samael persuaded the three Daughters of the Night God and many flower Nymphs to come work for him, but the Golden Apple Tree resisted and gave apples only to Medusa and Atalanta.
• Samael left the garden with Medusa and Atalanta, and Atalanta took his arm as her doubts about him disappeared.

Samael freed Prometheus and rushed to Mycenae as Poseidon's attempt to seize Zeus's throne unleashed a catastrophic tsunami. After Samael and Medusa protected the coast, a colossal being emerged from the sea, and Samael recognized it as Star-Chaser Zephyrus.

• Samael reunited with Prometheus on the Caucasus Mountains and opened a rift toward Olympus as Poseidon's sea authority began escalating.
• Poseidon continued attacking Zeus despite Athena's warnings, while Athena left to defend Greece from the approaching tsunami.
• Zeus escaped Hera's chains after Poseidon was distracted, then called for a feast to gather the gods.
• Samael and Medusa reached Mycenae, where Samael split the first giant wave and raised a vast wall of rock to protect the coast.
• A towering blue-white humanoid emerged from the stormy sea and sent another tsunami toward shore, and Samael recognized it as Star-Chaser Zephyrus.

A Star-Seeded Soldier named Seferu unleashed catastrophic tsunamis across Greece, and gods and heroes organized the surviving city-states to resist. On Crete, Euryale and Stheno sheltered survivors in the Minotaur’s labyrinth and tasked Daedalus with finding a way to evacuate them.

• Samael learned that Seferu was a civilization-destroying Star-Seeded Soldier and fired an arrow as another enormous tsunami approached.
• Themis and Athena weakened successive waves threatening Athens, and Athena organized the city’s defenses and sent heroes to help nearby towns.
• Heracles shattered the tsunami threatening Sparta, while Spartan soldiers and citizens fought the sea beasts carried ashore.
• Caenis, Peleus, and Telamon defended Thessaly, and heroes and gods rallied other Greek city-states against the disaster.
• Euryale and Stheno protected Crete’s survivors in the labyrinth, where Asterius helped clear the entrance.
• Daedalus proposed gathering materials to build a way across the sea and asked that his son Icarus help him.

Samael and his allies evacuated coastal populations to Athens and prepared the Peloponnese defenses as Seferu escalated its attack. Ares struck Seferu to buy time, while survivors fleeing Crete by glider were caught in the ensuing shockwaves just as Seferu fired a massive beam toward the peninsula.

• Samael, Medusa, and Prometheus opened spatial gates at coastal city-state altars and sent evacuees through to Athens, while Prometheus organized defenses and watched the sea.
• Samael and Prometheus limited the evacuation to two hours and arranged for reinforcements, supplies, and troops to reach the coastal wall.
• Seferu began gathering power for a stronger attack, but Ares struck it with a blood-red blow from the direction of Colchis and disrupted its charged light rings.
• On Crete, Stheno and Euryale led Daedalus, Icarus, Deucalion, and survivors in gliders toward the Peloponnese, with Asterius keeping the crowd in line.
• A shockwave tore several survivors' gliders as Stheno and Euryale turned to help them, and they saw Seferu focus a colossal seven-colored beam toward the Peloponnese Peninsula.

Samael and his allies rescued survivors from Crete, only to be attacked by the awakened Atlantis fleet and its weapons. After reaching the coastal defenses with reinforcements, they faced a devastating assault that revealed more than a hundred Colossal Titans advancing from the sea.

• Samael, Medusa, Ladon, Euryale, and Stheno rescued more than seventy survivors from Crete, including Pyrrha, Deucalion, and Asterius.
• Samael recognized the Atlantis fleet as Seferu's forces and led Ladon and the survivors through its attacks toward the coastal wall.
• Euryale, Stheno, and Atalanta's arriving Nymphs fought back the fleet while Prometheus opened a passage through the defenses.
• The fleet's concentrated beams shattered sections of the coastal wall and killed thousands of reinforcements, though Samael's shield protected the central area and his companions.
• Samael saw more than a hundred Bronze Giants, the Colossal Titans, walking out of the sea toward land.

Seferu used Atlantis’s technology and the ocean’s resources to regenerate and multiply her forces, pushing the Greek defenders to the brink. After reinforcements arrived and the evacuation was completed, Samael prepared to confront her, and a black figure charged through her attack.

• Medusa and Samael used the shield’s Forced Seal: Myriad Demon Temple to petrify much of Seferu’s fleet, but Seferu rebuilt the wreckage and created more weapons from the sea.
• Atalanta and the defenders fought off landing machines as Samael realized Seferu could mass-produce troops and absorb the life and intelligence of her victims.
• The Colossal Titans shattered Medusa’s Shield, and an army from the Echidna Armory surged through the breaches until Sparta’s reinforcements, Pegasus Knights, and forces from Arima Cave arrived.
• Thetis and other sea forces joined the battle, while Prometheus confirmed that the evacuation was underway and most of the gathered troops had arrived.
• Samael withdrew the damaged shield and prepared for a direct confrontation as an abyssal black figure rushed through Seferu’s seven-colored greatsword attack.

Samael fought Seferu in the Stormy Sea Region while Atlantis’s forces attacked the Greek defenders along the coast. After Prometheus urged Medusa to hold the coastal wall and wait for reinforcements, Samael found an opening at Seferu’s core and launched Destiny: Collapse.

• Samael exchanged powerful attacks with Seferu, and their clash tore apart the Stormy Sea Region, exposing her lower body submerged in the Eye of the Tidal Sea.
• Seferu summoned artillery, combat weapons, and bronze Colossal Titans, forcing Samael to evade a massive barrage as he searched for an opening.
• Medusa and the Greek forces defended the coastal wall while Prometheus fought the attackers and explained why Samael was far stronger than Ares had been.
• Prometheus advised Medusa to hold the coastal wall, gather reinforcements, and prepare to retreat toward Athens if the battle turned against them.
• Samael broke through Seferu’s layered barriers, drew blood to empower his spear, and hurled it at her core with Destiny: Collapse.

Samael’s attack shattered Seferu, but a celestial beam restored her as a second Star-Seeded Soldier descended and threatened Athens. The Greek defenders split up to delay the new giant while Seferu and the others focused on the first one.

• Samael pierced Seferu’s star core, but a beam from the Tear-shaped Celestial Body restored her completely.
• A crimson demonic star brought a second Star-Seeded Soldier, the White Giant, down into the Aegean Sea, and it marched toward Athens.
• Seferu struck Samael with the Tear of the Star, and he escaped the blast by breaking through space.
• Prometheus, Medusa, Chiron, and the other fighters moved to hold back the White Giant while Samael rushed to defend Athens.
• Samael drew the White Giant’s attention with his Golden Bow as Themis and Athena attacked it from opposite directions.

Samael, Athena, and Themis fought a second Star-Seeded Soldier that copied Seferu’s abilities through Celestial Voice Assimilation. The enemy summoned Colossal Titans and launched a devastating bombardment across Greece, forcing the defenders to abandon their assault and protect the city-states.

• Samael identified the White Giant’s star core as its weak point, but a song from the sea covered the monster in Golden-Blue Star Markings and transformed it into a second Star-Seeded Soldier resembling Seferu.
• The second Star-Seeded Soldier used a seven-colored sword to break the deities’ attack, then summoned Colossal Titans, warships, and other weapons from the sea.
• The Colossal Titans advanced on Athens and prepared to bombard the ground while the second Star-Seeded Soldier attacked Samael, Athena, and Themis.
• Samael warned the city-states, prompting their priests, mages, and residents to activate wartime Magic Barriers.
• The Colossal Titans fired hundreds of Magic Beams, breaking three of Athens’s twelve barriers and devastating settlements and terrain along the coast.
• Samael, Athena, and Themis halted their assault on the second Star-Seeded Soldier to confront the Colossal Titans.

Samael, Athena, and Themis struggled to hold back the Star-Seeded Soldier and its army as the monsters devastated Greek city-states. Zeus and the Olympian gods arrived, but the Star-Seeded Soldier revived and a third one fell from the sky, leaving the battle in crisis.

• The Star-Seeded Soldier struck Samael, Athena, and Themis, while Colossal Titans bombarded the surrounding lands and destroyed city defenses and temples.
• Samael, Athena, and Themis fought the monsters ashore, and Athena rallied Athens's soldiers to strengthen its defense.
• The Star-Seeded Soldier began reassembling as Zeus arrived with the Olympian gods, whose foreheads bore divine seals showing he had regained control of them.
• Zeus destroyed the reassembling Star-Seeded Soldier and joined forces with Samael against the invading monsters, while the two leaders exchanged hostile words.
• Seferu's attack broke the coastal defenses, and the Star-Seeded Soldier revived again as a third Star-Seeded Soldier crashed into the Stormy Sea Region.

Samael and Medusa struggled to survive as the Star-Seeded Soldiers and their armies overwhelmed Greece’s defenses. With the peninsula nearing collapse, Samael eyed Zeus and wondered whether he could sacrifice a teammate to turn the tide.

• Samael realized all three Star-Seeded Soldiers had converged on Greece, despite their original plans to attack different regions of Earth.
• Seferu’s forces smashed through the coastal defenses and unleashed a barrage of star-pattern light bullets at Medusa and her allies.
• Samael distorted space to redirect Seferu’s attack, giving Medusa and Prometheus time to retreat.
• Seferu struck Samael, but Medusa caught him; the two landed safely and retreated under the protection of the divine monsters.
• Samael saw that Zeus was suppressing a Star-Seeded Soldier near Athens while Greece’s defensive lines continued to fall, and he considered sacrificing Zeus.

Samael and Zeus confronted each other while Zeus unleashed corrupted prisoners and monsters from Tartarus to contain the Star-Seeded Soldiers’ assault. Samael realized Zeus’s preparations pointed to the coming War of the Giants, the Third Olympus Crisis.

• Samael crushed the Ouroboros phantom and suffered its backlash, leaving him vulnerable to Seferu’s attack until Zeus intervened.
• Samael and Zeus traded accusations over their past crimes as the Star-Seeded Soldiers battered the second line of defense.
• Zeus opened the way to Tartarus and unleashed Titans, Typhon monsters, and corrupted Old Greek Gods, halting the Star-Seeded Soldiers’ advance.
• Typhon emerged from Mount Etna bearing Zeus’s divine seals, while Samael recognized that the released prisoners had become Divine Seal Puppets.
• Zeus explained that he had gathered Greece’s strength to resist the star disaster, and Samael realized he was preparing for the War of the Giants.

Samael realized that the Star-Seeded Soldiers behind the War of the Colossal Titans threatened all life on Earth, and he considered how Greece could stop them before they evolved further. As the battle worsened, Zeus called on Poseidon to join the fight.

• Samael connected the Star-Seeded Soldiers and Seferu to the War of the Colossal Titans and regretted that Poseidon’s actions had helped trigger the crisis.
• Samael assessed the Soldiers’ stages of evolution and concluded that Greece had to cripple them before they reached the fifth stage.
• Samael suspected that the Soldiers had requested reinforcements because Greece’s forces and other historical factors exceeded their expectations, then tried to convince himself he was not to blame.
• The battle at sea intensified as Typhon lost many heads, numerous Titans and monsters were killed or wounded, and the sea creatures continued to multiply.
• Athena and the Olympian chief gods struggled against the Star-Seeded Soldier, prompting Zeus to demand that Poseidon join the fight.

Zeus reunited the Olympian forces with Hades and drew Poseidon back into battle, but the gods were forced to retreat after failing to overcome the Star-Seeded Soldiers. The enemy then formed a silent triangle around the Eye of the Tide Sea, leaving Samael to prepare for what came next.

• Zeus opened the gates between the realms, and Hades arrived with the underworld gods, Circe, Medea, and human heroic spirits before joining the battle.
• Zeus provoked Poseidon into regaining his resolve, and Poseidon drove Zeus’s chariot into the fighting as their forces attacked the Star-Seeded Soldiers.
• Seferu of Unit 2 summoned Unit 3 away from the Aegean front, easing pressure on Athens while Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades pushed toward the enemy’s heart.
• As their attack stalled against the Star-Seeded Soldiers’ rapid repairs and growing numbers, Zeus destroyed three Colossal Titans and ordered a retreat after Athena sounded the retreat horn.
• Athena struck the enemy’s flank and covered Zeus’s withdrawal, suffering only a little over a hundred losses.
• The three Star-Seeded Soldiers gathered around the Eye of the Tide Sea beneath the islands’ Magic Barriers, and Samael withdrew to prepare for their next move.

Samael organized the Greek coalition’s defenses and relief efforts, drawing on the emergency leadership skills he had learned in Uruk. While inspecting the defensive line with Medusa, he recognized the bedraggled Jason and vouched for him.

• Samael assigned healers, reinforcements, refugee support, patrols, and repairs to address the coalition’s urgent needs.
• He sent Heracles and the Spartan soldiers to cover the Theban force’s withdrawal, and ordered Caenis to escort refugees from fallen Iolcus to a valley behind the third defense line.
• Samael coordinated the remaining defenses with the Thessalians, Athena, and others, then ordered Sisyphus to seek weapons and armor from Hephaestus.
• Medusa recalled their time in Uruk as Samael finished arranging the response, and the two walked the defensive line hand in hand.
• At a camp gate, Samael recognized the rejected young man as Jason and vouched for him.

Samael helped the destitute Jason at the Meritorious Camp and gave him a bronze token so he could leave for Athens rather than fight at the front. As Samael and Medusa reached the damaged third defensive line, a Titan barrage caused the wall near Stheno and Euryale to collapse.

• Jason told Samael that Pelias had driven him from Iolcus and that he had been hunted after the Argonaut Expedition.
• Samael arranged another meal for Jason, then gave him a bronze token to travel to Athens before a battle began.
• Samael explained to Medusa that Jason was not suited to be a hero and admitted that he felt sympathy for him because he had once been ordinary too.
• Samael and Medusa reached the third defensive line, where Stheno and Euryale were relaxing while overseeing repairs.
• A barrage from the Colossal Titans shattered part of the wall, threatening to bury Stheno and Euryale.

Samael inspected the city’s repairs, praised Medea and Circe for helping, and warned Daedalus to work faithfully. After he left with Medusa, Stheno and Euryale watched the approaching enemies and complained that Medea received special treatment.

• Samael stopped falling rubble with Medusa's Shield, then forced Stheno and Euryale to return to work after they teased him and Medusa.
• Samael praised Medea and Circe for reinforcing the city wall and making magical puppets, and Medea asked when she would be considered grown up.
• Samael told Medea she would probably be grown at sixteen, then questioned Daedalus and warned him not to waste his talent because his nephew was missing him.
• Samael assigned Calf to watch Daedalus and left with Medusa to inspect another area.
• Stheno and Euryale watched the enemy forces beyond the Magic Barrier and grumbled that Samael treated Medea differently.

Samael and the Greek forces prepared for the coming battle as he reassured Medusa and Themis, delivered Hephaestus’s weapons to the frontline, and discussed how to defeat the seemingly immortal White Colossal Titans. The chapter ended when a warning arrow revealed that the Titans had circled around the flank, prompting Samael and Athena to lead mobile forces to intercept them.

• Samael disciplined the monsters in the mountain valley while Medusa asked whether they would win, and he gave her a black scale with a task to perform.
• Samael returned to the strategy tent, where Themis reassured him about his place in Greece and assigned him to transport Divine Construct Weapons from Mount Etna.
• Samael used his spatial authority to deliver Hephaestus’s weapons to the frontline camp, where Athena supervised their distribution to the soldiers.
• Samael and Athena discussed the White Colossal Titans’ ability to regenerate and create subordinates, and Athena wondered whether their weakness lay outside their bodies.
• A warning arrow signaled that the Colossal Titans had circled around the flank, so Samael and Athena gathered mobile forces and rushed to intercept them.

Atalanta fought off the invading monsters at the Third Defense Line until Samael and the reinforcements arrived. After Samael secretly fed her a Golden Apple to protect her, he noticed someone watching them from the forest.

• Atalanta ran out of arrows while evading Colossal Titans and demonic hounds, but a brown bear rescued her from the hounds.
• Samael and his allies arrived, destroying the Titans and using vines to trap and kill the monsters surrounding Atalanta.
• Atalanta refused to eat the Golden Apple Samael had given her, saying its importance to her mattered more than its immortality.
• Samael crushed another fruit and fed it to Atalanta, who embraced him as he comforted her.
• Samael called out to the hidden observer who had been watching them from the forest.

Atalanta scolded Artemis and Samael after catching them trading accusations, while Samael learned that Olympus’s gods had willingly accepted Zeus’s divine marks as protection for their spirits in the War of the Giants. When the three Star-Seeded Soldiers began breaking through to the fourth stage, Samael and Artemis rushed back to camp.

• Artemis arrived in the woods and teased Atalanta while arguing with Samael about their past betrayals.
• Atalanta struck Artemis and Samael, warned them to stop, and left to patrol the front lines with the sacred brown bear.
• Samael offered to remove Artemis’s divine mark, but she explained that the gods had accepted the marks to preserve a chance of revival if Greece endured.
• Artemis told Samael that Olympus had gathered its gods and prepared the Loom of Fate during the battle against the giants.
• The three Star-Seeded Soldiers began breaking free of their cocoons and approaching the fourth stage, so Samael and Artemis hurried toward camp.