Chapter Summaries

Heracles repeatedly regenerated and fought the vicious god in the sky, giving the Argo time to flee toward the shadow-veiled continent. Jason ordered the ship onward while Atalanta rallied the other heroes, leaving Heracles alone to hold off the enemy.

• Heracles shoved the Argo away from the golden beam and counterattacked, but the blast destroyed most of his body.
• Jason cried out for Heracles, who regenerated and fired an arrow that disrupted the god's next attack.
• Heracles faced another golden beam, was struck down again, and regenerated with renewed strength after resolving to fight for his companions.
• Jason ordered the Argo to flee while Heracles held the enemy back, and Caenis angrily accused him of abandoning Heracles.
• Atalanta restrained Caenis and explained that Jason's decision pained him, then led the women toward the Divine Authority Seal console.
• The Argo's defensive Magic Formations shut down as its aether powered the propulsion spell, and the vessel raced toward the continent while Heracles continued fighting behind it.

Jason and the Argo Heroes fled toward Atlantis while the damaged True Body Machine God and its Deep Sea Fleet pursued them. Telamon, Peleus, Caenis, Orion, and other sea-born heroes stayed behind to hold the fleet off, leaving Jason to watch their sacrifice from the departing ship.

• Jason steered the Argo through the True Body Machine God's golden and silver arrow barrages, with Medea, Circe, Atalanta, and the other heroes helping defend the ship.
• The True Body Machine God's gathered Golden Light malfunctioned, and its battered body crashed into the sea, revealing the damage Heracles had inflicted.
• The Machine God summoned a Deep Sea Fleet of more than a thousand ships, threatening to overtake the Argo.
• Telamon and Peleus, joined by Caenis, Orion, and other sea-born heroes, stayed behind while Jason ordered the rest to return to their posts.
• Telamon and Peleus raised their shields to form a red-and-azure defensive wall, and the group held back the fleet and the Machine God as the Argo escaped.
• Orion fought the monsters until a blaze of white light and silver-white fragments marked his apparent end, while Jason watched from the Argo with tears in his eyes.

Jason and the Argo Heroes attempted to reach the Interstellar City Mountain Range, but an ambush destroyed their ship’s wings and sent it crashing toward the ground city. The chapter ended with Jason steering for an emergency landing while the heroes worked together to cushion the fall.

• Atalanta guided the Argo toward the glide point while Jason prepared the heroes to land.
• A massive stone spike pierced the Argo, and Atalanta blasted it apart with an arrow.
• Earth spikes tore through the ship’s wings, and Circe was wounded while rescuing Atalanta.
• Jason took control of the Argo and ordered the heroes to prepare for an emergency landing.
• The Prince of Calydon rallied the heroes to protect Jason and use their divine power to slow the ship’s fall.

The Argo Heroes crashed into Atlantis and rushed toward the Sea God Temple, where Demeter ambushed them with deadly life-draining power. Asclepius revived the heroes after Demeter killed them, leaving them to face the machine god again.

• Jason led the Argo Heroes from their wrecked ship toward the Sea God Temple to reach the teleportation ritual.
• Atalanta and Circe appeared to welcome the crew, but warned them to run as Demeter emerged and trapped them in the plaza.
• Jason ordered the Argo Heroes to charge Demeter, whose plants and gray mist drained their life and killed most of them.
• Sisyphus escaped the mist with two others, while Demeter's vines continued to hold Atalanta and Circe captive.
• Asclepius used True Medicine to revive the fallen heroes and restore them to full strength.

The Argo Heroes battled Demeter while Asclepius used the destructive properties of Gorgon blood to cripple her and open the way to the Sea God Temple. Jason’s group activated the teleportation formula and escaped, leaving Meleager behind to face the advancing enemies alone as the teleportation pillar collapsed.

• The Argo Heroes attacked Demeter while Asclepius freed Circe and Atalanta from the roots that had trapped them.
• Asclepius explained that Gorgon blood had let his medicine preserve the heroes’ vitality, then used its amplified toxicity to corrode Demeter by sacrificing himself in an explosion.
• Demeter rampaged through Atlantis as the Sea God’s Guards arrived, and the Sea God Temple gates opened amid the destruction.
• Jason ordered Meleager and ten Divine Blood Warriors to hold back the enemies while the others deciphered the teleportation formula.
• After the formula activated, Jason sent the Argo Heroes through the pillar of light, but the pillar collapsed as he vanished and Meleager remained behind to face the advancing soldiers.

After Meleager's death, Jason led the remaining Argo Heroes toward the Great Altar while enemy forces converged on Altar Street. Atalanta stayed behind to delay the pursuers, and Jason's group ascended the Ladder of Heaven as she and the others prepared to regroup.

• Jason saw the pillar of light go out and mourned Meleager with the Argo Heroes.
• Atalanta reported that over ten thousand enemies were approaching Altar Street from three directions, and Jason led the crew toward the Ladder of Heaven.
• Atalanta volunteered to hold back the pursuers and gave Jason a golden-patterned arrow to deliver if he returned.
• Jason persuaded Atalanta to guard the key approaches with a small force and told her to withdraw after fifteen minutes and regroup.
• Jason activated the Ladder of Heaven and ascended with Circe, Medea, Sisyphus, Orpheus, and the surviving companions while Atalanta moved to intercept the enemy.

Atalanta and the Argo Heroes fought to hold Altar Street while the Interstellar City Mountain Range forces pressed in. After helping the others withdraw and destroying a Bronze Giant Talos, Atalanta was left wounded and trapped between a Mechanical Serpent and an attack from behind.

• Atalanta and the Twin Swordsmen held the Altar Street intersection with the Argo Heroes, but a divine barrage broke their formation and left only four of the seven standing.
• Atalanta used her final arrows to clear enemies around the central temple while the Twin Swordsmen led the surviving Argo Heroes northeast.
• Atalanta transformed with the Boar of Divine Punishment pelt, found Talos's weak point, and tore apart its magic-power lifeline, bringing the giant down.
• Atalanta removed the pelt and, weakened by blood loss, tried to regroup with Castor, Pollux, and the others.
• A Mechanical Serpent burst from the ground as a sharp shriek sounded behind Atalanta, leaving her unable to react in time.

Jason and the Argo Heroes fought through the Machine God Corridor and reached the lift hub, where Machine God Aphrodite trapped them with her charm. Orpheus’s song weakened her authority, and Little Medea stabbed Aphrodite’s divine core, though the strike also blasted her away.

• Jason led the Argo Heroes through the Machine God Corridor as Medea and Circe used magic to slow the pursuing Olympus Guards.
• Aphrodite’s seductive song charmed the Argo Heroes and drew them toward the deadly void, but Medea and Circe warned them, and Orpheus’s music helped some break free.
• Aphrodite renewed her control while thousands of Olympus Guards broke through the corridor, and Orpheus continued singing despite his grievous injuries.
• Orpheus’s final note shattered Aphrodite’s wings and brought her crashing down onto the hall floor.
• Little Medea stabbed Aphrodite’s divine core with a purplish-red dagger, and the resulting aether blast sent her flying while Aphrodite’s body sparked.

Medea’s strike crippled Machine God Aphrodite, but Aphrodite unleashed a storm that blasted the Argo Heroes from the Machine God Corridor and left them badly wounded on Altar Street. As enemies closed in, Black Shadow appeared and led the survivors into an underground tunnel, sealing its entrance behind them.

• Medea used All Spells Must Be Broken to strike Machine God Aphrodite’s divine core, while Circe struggled to hold back the Olympus Guards.
• Circe’s barrier collapsed, forcing Medea and Circe into the hall as Jason rallied the remaining Argo Heroes toward the Great Altar.
• Jason found Orpheus dead after he had performed a final song that resisted Aphrodite’s divine Authority, and the heroes sang in tribute as they retreated.
• Machine God Aphrodite called down a massive lightning strike that destroyed the corridor and hurled the Argo Heroes onto Altar Street, leaving them severely injured.
• As monsters surrounded the exhausted heroes, Black Shadow revealed an underground tunnel and led them inside before collapsing the entrance to block their pursuers.

As Greece fell into apocalypse, Pandora used the Black Mud to save Athens and revive the dead as hateful heroes to fight the invading monsters. She watched the battle remain deadlocked, hoping humanity would keep struggling and suffering.

• Meteor strikes and the Alien Key's erosion devastated Greece, leaving Athens as humanity's last fortress.
• Pandora began summoning the Black Mud to engulf the survivors, but a mark on her chest forced her to put it to work.
• Pandora flooded Athens with Black Mud, which trapped and dissolved aberrations and dragged down Colossal Titans.
• Pandora awakened hateful shadows and hollow shells from the Black Mud, halting the titan army's assault.
• The survivors thanked Pandora, while she watched the battle at sea grow deadlocked and urged humanity to keep struggling.

Jason and the surviving Argonauts took shelter in the hidden Godbreaker Alliance Base with Triton, who explained how the Ocean Gods’ sacrifice and the expedition’s past actions shaped their current crisis. As Greece began collapsing, Triton and Jason prepared to gamble on reaching the Great Altar, with Triton revealing a black alloy arm carrying eight mysterious chips.

• Jason learned that Triton had rescued him and the other survivors in the hidden Godbreaker Alliance Base, where the wounded Argonauts were recovering.
• Triton explained that the Ocean Gods had resisted corruption, destroyed eight True Body Machine Gods, and sacrificed themselves to give the expedition a chance to advance.
• Triton revealed that Jason’s earlier damage to three Machine Gods had led to four others being stationed at key locations, including the Great Altar.
• When Greece began breaking apart, Triton said the Sky Garden and Machine God Corridor had partly collapsed and revealed an aircraft that could pass identification.
• Jason offered Poseidon’s authorization scale, and he and Triton agreed to risk everything to reach the Great Altar.
• Triton showed Jason his black alloy arm and revealed eight chip-like crystals hidden inside it.

Samael and the exhausted gods struggled to hold back Seferu as her revival grew faster and she began guiding a tear-shaped comet toward the world. Samael told Ishtar to lead the survivors to another World Bubble if Greece fell, then flew out to confront Seferu.

• Samael defeated Seferu for the sixth time, but Tiamat and Ereshkigal had to save him from the monsters swarming the sea.
• Ishtar brought Samael aboard the Sky Ark Ma'anna, where he learned that most gods and nearly all of Athens's defenders had fallen.
• Seferu revived in less than ten minutes, while the remaining gods were too exhausted to destroy her again.
• Seferu linked the sky to the stars and began guiding a tear-shaped comet toward the battlefield.
• Ishtar tried to stop the injured Samael from fighting, but he told her to lead the survivors to another World Bubble if Greece fell, then flew out to confront Seferu.

Samael and the gods raced toward the Stormy Sea Region as the seventh wave of monsters attacked Athens. Pandora sacrificed her magic box to reinforce the city’s defenses, while the Judgment Star began opening a gate to the world.

• Ishtar tried to bargain with Samael aboard the Celestial Boat, but he set off for the Stormy Sea Region, followed by Ereshkigal, Tina, Gilgamesh, the Three Goddesses of Mount of the God of War, and Olympus’s gods.
• The seventh wave of Colossal Titans and aberrations surged ashore and attacked Athens as Pandora watched from a statue.
• Harpy rebuked Pandora and made her help defend Athens, while Pandora summoned Black Mud and shadow followers to rebuild the city’s defenses.
• When the defenses broke and Pandora’s serpent mark threatened to consume her, she shattered her magic box and enveloped the remaining quarter of Athens in Black Mud.
• Pandora reasoned that preserving humanity could slow Seferu’s erosion of Greece, but feared Samael had run out of time to decide the battle in the Stormy Sea Region.
• Three pillars of multicolored light opened the world’s gate to the Abyssal Layers of the stars, welcoming the Judgment Star.

The gods struggled to stop Seferu from guiding Willpa’s main body to its terminal jump point, but her rapid healing and overwhelming power defeated their attacks. As Seferu resumed her countdown and prepared to strike, Jason and the others faced Mechanical God Zeus inside the Great Altar with no apparent chance of victory.

• Athena, Themis, Medusa, Zeus, Artemis, and the Mesopotamian gods attacked Seferu, but she repelled them and continued counting down.
• Ishtar threw Gugalanna at Seferu; the Bull of Heaven wounded her before she overpowered it and sent it crashing back into the sea.
• Tiamat used Anti-Genesis to erode Seferu while Destiny’s threads restrained her, allowing the Primordial Serpent to cleave her apart and interrupt the countdown.
• Seferu instantly healed and raised her sword as Samael watched Willpa’s main body approach and feared the gods had run out of time.
• Inside the Great Altar, Mechanical God Zeus seized the wounded Triton and prepared a destructive Magic Beam while Jason stood frozen, clutching a colored scale.

As Seferu brought the Greek world to the brink of destruction, the gods, heroes, and ordinary people rallied to fight back. Samael struck Seferu when the star portal collapsed, and the gods destroyed her, though Atlantis and the floating city began to collapse afterward.

• As Athens fell, Spartan women, elders, and children formed a phalanx and advanced against the invading monsters.
• Ereshkigal, Zeus, Artemis, Athena, Tiamat, and the other gods and heroes charged Seferu, and Samael joined them with his Cross Spear.
• Seferu completed the portal’s prelude, but the light pillar collapsed, the Tear Star was flung away, and Samael pierced Seferu’s chest core.
• The gods unleashed their authorities on the weakened Seferu, shattered her remaining cores, and brought down her body.
• Atlantis rose from the sea as the Interstellar City Mountain Range fractured, and a blond young man fell toward the ocean with a collapsing building.

Samael reunited with the mortally wounded Jason after the Argonauts defeated Mechanical God Zeus and stopped the Star of Tears. Jason recounted how Triton’s sacrifice helped secure victory, then died after learning from Samael that he had always been a hero.

• Samael arrived at the collapsing Great Altar and told Jason that Seferu was destroyed, the Star of Tears’ descent had failed, and their companions were alive.
• Jason asked Samael for wine and recounted how Triton detonated the eight mechanical god cores in his body, destroying Mechanical God Zeus and giving Jason a chance to shut down the Star Ark’s core.
• Jason revealed that his spirit core was shattered and stopped Samael from trying to save him, saying that their reunion and conversation were enough.
• Jason confessed that he had once been an ordinary, comfort-seeking man but proudly declared that he had created an unprecedented miracle.
• Samael told Jason that he had always been a hero, and Jason died smiling as he looked forward to telling a new hero story.

Samael revealed that the Divine Mark would let the dead Argo Heroes return, then joined Zeus in stopping Marduk from taking Seferu’s core. After Samael scattered its fragments, he recognized the scheme behind Seferu’s arrival as a golden figure appeared over Greece and declared its intent to rise above the gods.

• Samael left Atlantis as the Interstellar City Mountain Range collapsed, and he reflected that the Argo Heroes’ Divine Marks would preserve them for rebirth.
• Samael and Zeus locked gazes after the external enemy was gone, but a giant hand of light emerged from a rift and retrieved Seferu’s wreckage.
• Tiamat attacked the hand, and Samael recognized its owner as King of Kings Marduk, or God Jehovah.
• Samael and Zeus struck the hand and shattered Seferu’s Star Core, while Samael used spatial destruction to scatter its fragments beyond Marduk’s reach.
• Marduk angrily accused Samael of taking his whip and blade, and Samael realized Marduk had lured Seferu there so she could be reborn as Attila, the Scourge of God.
• A golden figure appeared above Greece and announced that the gods would become steps in its ascent.

Marduk’s projection began consuming the Greek World, while the weakened gods discovered his true body was hidden in the Sea of Imaginary Numbers. With no strength left to fight him, Greece’s gods sacrificed themselves and their authorities to empower Samael and Tiamat for one last chance at victory.

• Marduk poured the Holy Grail’s contents through the World Wall, and its spreading corruption devastated the Greek World and drained the Olympian gods’ power.
• Tiamat located Marduk’s true body in the Sea of Imaginary Numbers, but she judged that the weakened gods could not defeat him.
• Athena, Medusa, and Themis sacrificed their divine bodies and authorities to empower Samael, urging him to win for Greece.
• The surviving Orpheus Gods, including Ladon, the Colchian Dragon, and Hydra, offered their power to their deity.
• Ishtar, Ereshkigal, and Gilgamesh sacrificed themselves and their authorities to strengthen Tiamat, staking everything on the coming fight.

Zeus and Samael joined forces to enter the Sea of Imaginary Numbers, where they discovered that Marduk had emptied and transformed the Mesopotamian divine kingdom. Marduk welcomed them into his claimed heaven and unleashed a forest of monstrous tentacles, beginning their final confrontation.

• The surviving Olympian gods sacrificed their divine bodies and Authorities to Zeus, while Samael and Zeus agreed to leave each other's factions room to survive.
• Zeus restored Typhon, and he and Samael entered the Sea of Imaginary Numbers to confront Almighty God.
• Samael and Zeus discovered the ruins of the Mesopotamian divine kingdom, which Marduk had drained of power.
• Marduk proclaimed himself the one true god and activated formations that filled the islands with monstrous tentacles.

Marduk unleashed the Seventy-Two Demon Pillars against Samael, Zeus, Tiamat, and Typhon in the abandoned divine kingdom, then struck them with his Time of Judgment. The four gods were wounded but counterattacked as the battle continued.

• The Seventy-Two Demon Pillars revived, attacked the four gods with Magic Beams and overlapping authorities, and began draining their strength.
• Samael realized that Marduk had strengthened himself through faith and unified divinity, while the exhausted gods risked being worn down by the endless assault.
• Marduk declared his plan to remake the planet and unleashed the Time of Judgment against the four gods.
• Samael and the others answered with their strongest authorities, but the collision tore open the Sea of Imaginary Numbers and left all four gods bleeding.
• Samael called to Zeus, who struck several Demon Pillars with his Thunderbolt Scepter while Typhon devoured floating islands and the pillars growing on them.