Chapter Summaries

Egypt, India, Oceanus, and Rome mobilized their gods, heroes, and armies to repel the Angel Army as the war spread across the Ages of Gods. The chapter left the angels under fierce assault on several fronts.

• Gabriel summoned rain in Egypt, but Nitocris, Cleopatra, and the Egyptian forces answered with pyramids, underworld powers, and Anubis incarnations, beginning their war of revenge.
• Karna, Arjuna, and Rama unleashed their Noble Phantasms in India as Indra, the divine hosts, human armies, and Hanuman joined the battle.
• The Deep Sea Fleet, Titan Giants, returning Argonaut heroes, and other forces defended Oceanus against the Angel Army.
• Nero rallied Rome's emperors, legions, and the Twelve Olympian Gods, while Boudica led the Celts into battle; their forces surrounded and divided the angels.

The forces of Persia and Norse launched coordinated battles against the invading angels, with Asura, Jewish tribes, Assassins, Valkyries, and the peoples of the Nine Realms joining the fight. Norse’s allied armies gained the upper hand, breaking apart wave after wave of angel legions.

• Vritra summoned giant serpents of Aether that swallowed angels as Martha, the Queen of Sheba, and King David led the Jewish tribes into battle.
• Cursed Arm, Hundred Faces, Calamity Jane, and the other Hassans launched assassinations while Scheherazade, Arash, the Meteor Legion, and the Immortals began encircling the angels.
• The Asura emerged from crimson mist and charged into the Angel Army, turning Persia into a battlefield of blood and carnage.
• Odin opened the Rainbow Bridge, and Brunhilde and the other Valkyries hurled their spears into the angels.
• Viking berserkers charged the fallen angels while druids strengthened them, and the Aesir, Vanir, elves, dwarves, giants, and undead fleet attacked alongside them.
• Horo and Hela surveyed the battle from the undead fleet’s flagship as Norse’s allied forces shattered wave after wave of angels into spirit particles.

The angels invaded the World Tree and Great Qin, but the forest’s defenders and Ying Zheng’s forces met them with lethal ambushes and overwhelming weapons. The fighting continued as Earth’s ancient civilizations rallied against the Enemy from Beyond the Heavens.

• The jaguar woman and the forest’s beast-headed creations, warriors, and traps attacked angels who had entered the World Tree, while Quetzalcoatl watched from a pyramid and looked toward a mist-shrouded valley with concern.
• Ying Zheng used Mercury from Epang Palace to sever angels’ legs, cut them apart, and reduce more than a hundred to spirit particles.
• Ying Zheng summoned Great Qin’s army, whose soldiers sang together as they assembled at Hangu Pass.
• Great Qin’s crossbows and longbows fired volleys at the angels, followed by mechanical weapons, the Twelve Golden Figures, and Qi Practitioners joining the battle.

Horo joined Skadi on the battlefield and used Niflheim's Wind to destroy the encircling angels, while the two discussed the calamity beasts’ awakened powers and Loki’s failure to lead. As the Angel Army weakened and the hollow in the sky began shrinking, Horo and Skadi realized the World Tree was sustaining their forces and consuming their enemies.

• Skadi froze the angels surrounding her, but their radiant power began breaking them free.
• Horo landed beside Skadi and unleashed Niflheim's Wind, reducing the angels in its path to dust.
• Horo explained that Twilight of the Gods had activated the calamity beasts’ destiny traits, and she and Skadi fought back-to-back as the angels regrouped.
• Horo told Skadi that Loki had nearly been defeated by Seraphim and was now fighting from behind Hela, who was cutting through the Angel Army.
• Skadi asked when they would counterattack, and Horo pointed out that the angels’ attacks were weakening and their own magic showed no sign of running out.
• Skadi and Horo realized the World Tree was a life-cycle system as well as a defense, while the hollow in the sky gradually shrank.

Samael’s World Tree defenses turned the invading angels’ spiritual particles into nourishment, but the Kabbalah Tree of Life broke through and its forces attacked the nine divine ages. Scathach stepped forward to defend Avalon Island’s Shadow Realm against Metatron and the Heaven of Pure Fire, leaving Samael to strengthen Gaia’s filtering.

• The nine divine ages’ armies gained the advantage as the World Tree and Gaia absorbed the angels’ spiritual particles.
• The angels invoked Jehovah and summoned the Kabbalah Tree of Life, which pierced the World Tree and shook Earth and the nine divine ages.
• The supreme angels confronted the rulers of the divine ages while Metatron led the Heaven of Pure Fire toward the World Tree’s veins.
• Scathach opened the Shadow Realm’s gate and prepared to defend Avalon Island from Metatron’s forces.
• Scathach urged Samael to keep accelerating the World Tree’s defenses, then advanced toward her battlefield.

With the angels weakened and the Ten Great Divine Eras gaining ground, Marduk awakened earlier than expected. Samael demanded that Aurora finish a crucial task within half a day, but a new sun formed in the Sea of Nothingness before he could be sure the deadline would be enough.

• The heavenly void closed, severing the angels’ connection to the Lord and weakening them as the kings of the Ten Great Divine Eras led their forces to break the angel ranks and shatter the Gates of Heaven.
• Samael watched the battle from Avalon until Marduk awakened and the Tower of End collapsed.
• Samael summoned Aurora and demanded to know whether the fae had finished their task.
• Aurora said the work needed more time, but Samael gave her only half a day and threatened her with Willpa if it remained unfinished by sunset.
• Aurora reported that Gaia was still asleep but that the Great Source’s power could be directed into the task through Samael’s authority.
• A ring-shaped crown of light gathered from the Sea of Nothingness and formed a new sun.

The White Colossal Titan devastated the World Tree and the Divine Eras, leaving Samael convinced that defeat was near. Samael left Aurora to guard the fairies, confronted Marduk, and began drawing the Titan's attacks away from the World Tree.

• The White Colossal Titan unleashed Ain-SophAur, shattering World Tree branches and destroying parts of the connected Divine Eras.
• Aurora feared the fairies would be sacrificed, while the Ancient Snake threatened to kill them if they failed to finish their task before sunset.
• Samael told Aurora to guard the fairies and flew out to hold Willpa back.
• Marduk and his angels advanced toward the World Tree, but Samael appeared and destroyed the angels with his divine authority.
• Samael taunted Marduk about his lost claw and Fate Tablets until Marduk attacked him with a barrage of Magic Beams.
• Samael dodged the beams as he fought and retreated.

Samael fled from Marduk through the collapsing Divine Era Fragments as the Starry Sky Demon God relentlessly bombarded each world. With nowhere left to run, Samael lured Marduk into a misty valley, where a sleeping crystalline monster awakened and turned the surroundings to crystal.

• Samael dodged Marduk's attacks, but a barrage of light spears wounded him and drove him into a Divine Era Fragment.
• Marduk pursued Samael through successive fragments, destroying their landscapes and killing the inhabitants as Samael escaped from one ruined world to the next.
• As the remaining fragments dwindled, Samael sacrificed an arm to flee into a forested fragment and baited Marduk toward a mist-shrouded valley.
• Marduk fired into the valley, awakening a towering spider-like crystalline monster that crystallized the trees and sky.
• Samael escaped while Marduk froze in shock and cursed at the monster.

Samael returned to Avalon Island badly wounded after luring Marduk into a confrontation with ORT in Crystal Valley. As the battle’s outcome remained uncertain, Samael began preparing the next step of his plan.

• Quetzalcoatl caught Samael as he fell toward Avalon Island and used her healing power to stabilize him.
• Samael told Quetzalcoatl that Marduk had crossed paths with ORT in Crystal Valley, where the secluded Mercury Great Spider could fight inside a sealed space.
• Samael explained that he and Quetzalcoatl had planned to lure Marduk to ORT by exploiting the fragments of the Ten Great Divine Eras and provoking Marduk into lowering his guard.
• Quetzalcoatl hoped the trap had settled matters, but Samael warned that Marduk’s power made defeat unlikely.
• Samael looked toward the dark-blue embryo beneath the lake and called for the next step of the plan; an old man emerged and said everything was ready.

Marduk defeated Ort in a brutal battle in Crystal Valley by unleashing the Path of the Flaming Sword, leaving Samael’s hopes shattered. The chapter ended with Ort falling motionless into the Sea of Nothingness while Marduk stood victorious and Samael realized the fairies had not finished preparing what he requested.

• Ort and Marduk fought fiercely in Crystal Valley, with Ort’s crystal tremors countered by Marduk’s rapid strikes.
• Ort used camouflage to ambush Marduk and slash his waist and abdomen, but he smashed her into a crater and she regenerated.
• Marduk, watching time run short, invoked the Path of the Flaming Sword and formed a burning sword from the power of the Kabbalah Tree of Life.
• The sword shattered the crystal-like Space Node, and Ort fell smoking into the Sea of Nothingness without moving.
• Samael saw Marduk’s victory and lost his last hope, realizing the fairies had not finished preparing what he had asked for.

Marduk prepared to destroy the World Tree, but the gods’ desperate resistance and the Hunnic survivors’ song awakened the will trapped inside the White Colossal Titan. Samael and an unseen attacker broke the Holy Covenant, leaving the Titan’s inner consciousness poised to break free.

• Marduk recovered enough to prepare his world-ending attack, while Samael had Heimdall release Surtr and Níðhöggr to delay him.
• Marduk killed the two calamity beasts, then unleashed Magic Beams against the gods as they charged under the kings of the Ten Great Divine Eras.
• As Marduk raised his final attack, the last Hunnic survivors approached in an ark and sang to their king, causing the Titan’s left eye to glow and its body to resist Marduk.
• Samael bound the White Colossal Titan with the Flame of Destiny while an unseen attacker leaped from the ark and struck the opening Moses and Ramesses II had made.
• The attacker split the Holy Covenant, and a sacred chant erupted from the Titan as an overwhelming consciousness began breaking free.

The gods and their allies struck back against Marduk, and Samael used the Star-Forged Holy Sword to destroy the White Colossal Titan. Marduk survived, however, and shattered Seferu’s stellar core before gathering power to remake the planet.

• Seferu defied Marduk and shielded the ark while he unleashed a devastating barrage across the Sea of Nothingness.
• Tiamat restrained Marduk, allowing Seferu and the remaining gods to attack as Samael received Excalibur from Aurora.
• Samael gathered the stars’ light and destroyed the White Colossal Titan with the Star Holy Sword.
• Marduk regenerated behind the fallen Seferu, crushed her stellar core, and announced that he would remake the planet.
• The gods and survivors watched in despair as Marduk gathered power above the ruins.

As Marduk’s light swords threatened Avalon Island, Samael and the survivors faced annihilation until Gaia joined with him and helped him use the Book of Fate. The people of the Ten Great Divine Eras revived their worlds through their creation songs, and the chapter ended as the Book of Fate neared its final page.

• Marduk sent a storm of light swords toward Avalon Island, while humanity’s armies, warriors, fairies, and gods sacrificed themselves to hold them back.
• Gaia appeared behind Samael and merged with him, revealing that the Star Holy Sword was forged from the will of all things.
• Samael summoned the Book of Fate as Mesopotamia’s survivors sang Enuma Elish, restoring their Age of Gods and bringing back the fallen as Dragon Beasts of light and shadow.
• Egyptian, Indian, Greek, Roman, Persian, Norse, Maya, and Chinese survivors sang their sacred texts, restoring their lands and Ages of Gods.
• The Celtic/Ireland Age of Gods was established, and the Book of Fate turned toward its final page.

Samael and the surviving gods defeated Marduk, destroyed the Broom Star, and restored the world at the cost of Samael’s divine power. After a long sleep, he awoke on Avalon and joined Vivian, calling her Melly, to travel to Britain as the age of mystery neared its end.

• Attila and Tamamo no Mae delayed Marduk while the Buddha’s vows bound him, and the gathered Spears of the End pinned him in place.
• Samael invoked the New Testament covenant and used the Holy Sword of the Stars to destroy Marduk and shatter the Broom Star.
• Samael’s sacrifice restored the planet, but he surrendered his divine rank and sent the gods and Heroic Spirits to the Ideal Homeland with Gaia.
• Samael gave Gaia the newborn Alaya, then fell into a long sleep on Avalon as the world rebuilt itself.
• After waking, Samael met Vivian, named her Melly, and set out with her for Britain as the Nameless Swordsman Arthur.
• Samael crossed into Britain and welcomed the chance to meet its king.

Epilogue Summary

Key Plot Points

• The epilogue jumps forward in time, showing that the world has largely recovered from the Great Reckoning.
• The United Earth Government has been established, with Earth's resources and population growing significantly.
• The first human colony on Mars has been successfully established.

Character Developments

• Ada: Now a renowned scientist, she continues her research on alien technology and is married with children.
• Leo: He has become a respected politician, serving as the first president of the United Earth Government.
• Zoey: She is a celebrated journalist, covering the rebuilding of Earth and the colonization of Mars.

Significant Themes

• Recovery and Rebuilding: The epilogue emphasizes humanity's resilience and ability to rebuild after a catastrophic event.
• Progress and Innovation: The advancements in technology and society highlight humanity's drive to evolve and improve.

Character Interactions

• Ada, Leo, and Zoey remain close friends, often collaborating on projects and supporting each other's endeavors.
• They are joined by a new generation of characters, including Ada's children and other young innovators, symbolizing the continuity of human progress.

Samael escaped from Skadi’s castle to avoid being killed or forced into intimacy, but he fell into a Frost Giant trap and was recaptured by Skadi. She accused him of violating their marriage contract and demanded that he love her or die.

• Samael slipped out of Skadi’s castle while she was away and decided to seek refuge with Hela in Helheim.
• Samael fell into a Frost Giant trap that suppressed his divine power, and two Frost Giants carried him off to make soup.
• Skadi arrived and froze the Frost Giants before Samael could escape again.
• Skadi picked up Samael, accused him of fleeing and breaking their marriage contract, and threatened him with an ice spike.
• Skadi told Samael to love her or die.

Samael persuaded Skadi to take him back to her castle in Solemheim, where their relationship grew closer as he made her daily life more comfortable and entertaining. Years later, Skadi set out to deal with a venomous dragon while Samael watched over the home they had made together.

• Samael told Skadi he had fled because he believed she disliked him and wanted her to find someone better.
• Skadi brought Samael back to her castle, and he coaxed her into allowing him to stay close and sleep in her room.
• Years later, Samael made Skadi an ice pop and continued caring for her, while she grew accustomed to his food and help around the castle.
• Samael reminded Skadi about the venomous dragon in the northern caves and helped her gather her gear before she left to hunt it.
• Samael reflected on Skadi's habits and the many ordinary moments of companionship they had shared.

The King of Knights led his army in an assault on the fortress atop Mount Basdan while Tristan urged him to send the knights into battle sooner. The king eventually ordered the charge, as two hidden spectators watched from nearby.

• A distant archer killed a barbarian sentry, and the King of Knights ordered his army to attack the fortress on Mount Basdan.
• The Anglo barbarians defended the walls with arrows, catapults, and magic, inflicting heavy casualties on the advancing Celtic soldiers.
• Tristan asked to lead the knights in a charge, but the King of Knights rebuked him and ordered him to stay in the rear.
• The King of Knights ordered the Round Table knights to charge the fortress.
• Two green-headed figures watched the Battle of Mount Basdan from a thicket while eating blueberries.

The Purification Knights broke through the barbarians’ fortress and routed its defenders, but dragonkind arrived to turn the battle against them. Gawain destroyed the attacking dragons with Sword of Revolving Victory before Demon Dragon Vortigern appeared atop a colossal dragon.

• The Purification Knights charged the fortress, withstanding the barbarians’ attacks and smashing through the stone walls.
• The knights flooded into the city and slaughtered the barbarians, forcing the survivors to retreat.
• Dragonkind descended, setting the streets ablaze and attacking the Purification Knights.
• Gawain summoned Sword of Revolving Victory and burned the low-ranking dragonkind from the sky.
• Demon Dragon Vortigern appeared atop a hundred-meter dragon, filling the Knights of the Round Table with dread.

Vortigern overwhelmed Gawain and the Purification Knights with his power to devour light, leaving Gawain near death in the ruins. The King of Britain arrived in time to save him, though Caliburn’s radiance had faded.

• Gawain attacked Vortigern with Flame Storm Mist, but Vortigern used Light Devour to extinguish the sunlight and the holy sword’s power.
• Vortigern unleashed Vile King's Hammer, Reverse Sunlight, killing hundreds of Purification Knights and soldiers and devastating the fortress.
• Gawain survived the blast but was badly wounded, and Gallatin lost its radiance.
• Vortigern prepared to finish Gawain, but a golden streak knocked his demonic sword aside.
• The King of Britain struck Vortigern with a silver-white pillar of light and arrived to protect Gawain.
• Gawain realized the King had saved him and that Caliburn had lost its radiance because of his recklessness.