Chapter Summaries

Noah, Erica, and Lilliana explored a damp ruin filled with Cursed Power, where Erica and Lilliana insisted on taking the lead to protect Noah. They found the black-robed magicians dead among swarms of Black Serpents, and the snakes turned their attention to the newcomers.

• Noah, Erica, and Lilliana entered the ruins and sensed powerful Cursed Power deeper inside.
• Erica and Lilliana argued that the danger might be connected to a Heretic God, while Noah said he would rather avoid fighting multiple gods at once.
• Noah tried to walk ahead, but Erica and Lilliana each grabbed an arm and raced into the passage together, leaving him to follow behind.
• Noah, Erica, and Lilliana found the black-robed magicians dead, with Black Serpents crawling from pits and biting the bodies.
• The Black Serpents noticed Noah, Erica, and Lilliana and turned their green-glowing eyes toward them.

Noah, Erica, and Lilliana destroyed a swarm of cursed Black Serpents, which gathered into the Divine Beast Winged Serpent. As the Winged Serpent attacked Erica and Lilliana, Noah stopped it with his Cursed Power and an order.

• Noah warned Erica and Lilliana that the Black Serpents were not living creatures and were covered in Cursed Power.
• Lilliana used Silver Greatsword's magical tune to weaken and immobilize the Black Serpents, and Erica destroyed them with Lion King's Heart.
• The Black Serpents' Cursed Power gathered with stones to form the Divine Beast Winged Serpent.
• The Winged Serpent struck Erica and Lilliana, forcing them backward, then prepared another attack.
• Noah spread his Cursed Power through the space and froze the Winged Serpent by telling it not to move.

Noah used his Priest incarnation to restrain and destroy the dragon, then retrieved the ancient emblem sustaining it. Lilliana identified the emblem as the Gorgon Stone, an ancient symbol of the Earth Mother that Athena was seeking.

• Noah used the Priest incarnation's words of dominion to immobilize the dragon.
• Noah recognized that the dragon was a lifeless creature sustained by Cursed Power and pierced its reverse scale to extract the source.
• The dragon turned to stone and exploded, leaving Erica and Lilliana stunned by the gap between them and a Godslayer King.
• Noah found an ancient stone emblem inside the dragon and wondered whether it depicted Medusa, the snake Athena was searching for.
• Lilliana identified the emblem as the Gorgon Stone, a divine tool and ancient symbol of the Earth Mother.

Noah kept the Gorgon Stone, which Athena needed to restore her complete power, and faced the Goddess when she appeared in the ruins. Athena explained how the artifact had reached the ruins, then withdrew, promising to return for it.

• Lilliana gave Noah the Gorgon Stone, and Erica explained why they could not safely hand it to Salvatore or Athena.
• Noah sensed Athena hiding nearby, and she appeared from the darkness, focusing on the Gorgon Stone.
• Athena said the lake in the ruins connected to the sea, where her snake had been buried, and explained that Noah's power had stimulated it into becoming the Winged Serpent.
• Noah challenged Athena to take back the Gorgon Stone without restoring her Triune Queen power.
• Athena said wisdom could serve as a weapon, promised to come for Noah again, and vanished into darkness.

After Erica and Lilliana reported the Gorgon Stone to their Sorcery Societies, Noah received a call from Doni, who warned him that Marquis Voban was heading for Italy. The chapter left Noah facing another powerful Godslayer’s interest in the stone.

• Erica and Lilliana arranged for Copper Black Cross and Bronze Black Cross to report the events involving Athena and the Gorgon Stone to their headquarters.
• The branch heads treated Noah with deference, while Erica and Lilliana questioned them about contacting their Societies.
• Noah spent the day at the hotel with the Gorgon Stone and answered a call from Doni, then hung up before recognizing him.
• Doni called again, said he wanted to share news rather than challenge Noah, and asked whether Noah had the Gorgon Stone.
• Doni told Noah that Sasha Dejansdal Voban, also known as Marquis Voban, was heading for Italy.

Noah learned that Marquis Voban was heading to Italy, apparently drawn by the Gorgon Stone, while Athena may have manipulated events to lure Godslayers to him. After three days of searching for World Shards, Noah was urgently told that Voban had taken Erica and Lilliana.

• Doni warned Noah that Marquis Voban was coming to Italy and explained their bad blood over Doni stealing Siegfried, Voban’s summoned prey.
• Doni tried to persuade Noah to hand over the Gorgon Stone, but Noah refused and ended their call.
• Noah suspected Athena had alerted Voban to the stone so she could use Godslayers to recover her power.
• Noah spent three days near the hotel searching for World Shards while avoiding trouble.
• The branch heads of the Copper Black Cross and the Bronze Black Cross urgently informed Noah that Marquis Voban had taken Erica and Lilliana.

Noah confronted the ancient Godslayer Sasha Dejanstahl Woban after Woban brought Erica and Lilliana to meet him. When Woban offered the Balkan Peninsula for Noah’s divine artifact, Noah demanded Woban’s head, provoking his anger.

• Noah arrived on the rooftop where Woban sat with Erica and Lilliana, whom Woban had summoned to accompany him.
• Erica explained that she and Lilliana had followed Woban willingly, while Lilliana apologized for failing to resist.
• Woban praised the two women’s defiance and told Noah he wanted the divine artifact in his possession.
• Woban offered Noah the Balkan Peninsula in exchange for the artifact, but Noah mocked the offer.
• Noah asked Woban to give him his head, and Woban erupted in anger, releasing a terrifying aura.

Noah faced Woban in a clash of authorities, nullifying his attacks and leaving the oldest Godslayer visibly humiliated. The confrontation continued with neither King moving from his position, but Noah had the upper hand.

• Woban used the Eyes of Sodom on Noah, but Noah’s constitution eliminated the authority’s effects without harming him.
• Woban summoned Storm of Rage, but Noah used his own authority to disperse the clouds and stop the storm.
• Woban summoned his Pack of Voracious Wolves, and Noah’s command immobilized the giant wolves.
• Noah taunted Woban after countering three of his authorities, while Erica and Lilliana watched in astonishment.

Noah confronted Woban on the rooftop, rebuked him for abducting someone close to force a fight, and challenged him to stop underestimating a younger Godslayer. Woban transformed into a giant werewolf and attacked as Noah activated his Dragon Man incarnation, leaving their clash amid smoke and wind.

• Noah’s dominion words frightened Woban’s summoned wolves and forced them to retreat.
• Woban acknowledged Noah’s strength and declared that he intended to fight him instead of hunting Athena.
• Noah accused Woban of using an abduction to flaunt his superiority and challenged the old Godslayer to face his strength.
• Woban erupted with Cursed Power, transformed into a werewolf over five meters tall, and swung a giant claw at Noah.
• Noah invoked the Dragon Man incarnation, combining Verethragna’s Camel with Melqart’s dragon-slaying power, as Woban’s claw struck the rooftop.

Noah and Woban fought at full strength, with their first exchanges ending in a physical draw. Woban summoned powerful undead servants to overwhelm Noah, leaving him to face a large group of opponents.

• Erica and Lilliana escaped the rooftop blast and watched Noah and Woban land unharmed after their clash.
• Noah and Woban exchanged another powerful blow, and neither gained an advantage.
• Woban said his excitement had summoned a storm and challenged Noah to continue fighting.
• Woban summoned undead people he had killed, claiming each was as strong as Erica or Lilliana.
• Noah realized that controlling the summoned servants with his Words of Power might be difficult if their numbers exceeded a hundred.

Noah defeated Woban’s summoned Undead Servants with martial skill after finding he could not control the numerous powerful corpses. Woban then unleashed a storm of lightning, and Noah invoked the Thunderbolt incarnation to meet it.

• Noah explained that the Priest’s Words of Domination could not control Woban’s hundred or more powerful Undead Servants.
• Woban ordered the Undead Servants to attack Noah, but Noah knocked aside their weapons and defeated them with swift punches and kicks.
• Noah mocked Woban’s summons, and Woban summoned a vortex of storm clouds that unleashed lightning across the ground.
• Noah invoked the Thunderbolt incarnation, combining Verethragna’s Goat incarnation with Melqart’s Authority over lightning.

Noah countered Woban’s lightning and summoned Beo, whose devastating charge struck the Godslayer. When the winds cleared, Beo stood over a bloodied Woban.

• Noah caught Woban’s lightning in his palm and hurled it back at him.
• Noah invoked the Golden Wolf incarnation and opened a rift to summon Beo.
• Beo charged into the storm surrounding Woban, releasing a shockwave that tore through the surrounding area.
• After the storm dispersed, Beo stood at the impact site while Woban lay bloodied at his feet.

Noah and Beo defeated Woban, but the old Godslayer detonated his Cursed Power and resurrected in a weakened state. Woban challenged Noah to continue fighting, and a new voice endorsed his determination as a warrior.

• Beo pinned the wounded Woban while Noah asked whether he admitted defeat.
• Woban called their fight the first round and self-destructed, unleashing a vast sea of flames.
• Noah and Beo escaped the explosion and waited as Woban re-formed from sand and dust.
• Noah judged that Woban had lost much of his strength after resurrecting, but Woban warned that injury made beasts more dangerous.
• An unidentified speaker agreed that grievous wounds were no reason for a warrior to stop fighting.

Luo Cuilian arrived after Athena provoked her at Mount Lu, and demanded Noah surrender the divine tool that could draw Athena out. Doni then joined Noah, Luo Cuilian, and Woban, leaving four Godslayers gathered and on the verge of fighting.

• Luo Cuilian appeared and introduced herself to Noah and Woban as the Martial King of China and leader of the Chinese Sacred Sect.
• Luo Cuilian explained that Athena had provoked her at Mount Lu, so she had come to kill the goddess.
• Luo Cuilian ordered Noah to hand over the divine tool capable of drawing Athena to them.
• Doni arrived from Rome and asked to join the gathering, eager for a chaotic battle among the four Godslayers.
• Woban welcomed the prospect of fighting his assembled enemies, while Luo Cuilian declared Doni's challenge a crime worthy of death.

Erica and Lilliana sought a way to stop Noah, Luo Hao, Woban, and Doni from fighting and devastating Italy. Lilliana’s Spirit Vision revealed that Noah’s Golden Sword could seal the other Kings’ Authorities, but only if he knew the sources of their powers.

• Erica and Lilliana watched the four Kings gather and feared their battle would destroy the city and plunge Italy into turmoil.
• Princess Alice appeared on the rooftop and explained that the Council of Sages lacked enough information to devise countermeasures against Noah, Woban, and Luo Hao.
• Erica and Lilliana revealed false information about Noah’s Authorities to Alice, who considered the restrictions on his powers.
• Lilliana received a vision that Noah could use the Golden Sword to seal Woban’s, Luo Hao’s, and Doni’s Authorities and defeat them, provided he knew the sources of their powers.
• Alice and Lilliana supplied information about the other Kings’ Authorities, and Erica asked how they could pass it on to Noah.

Noah proposed a temporary team and fair one-on-one duels to stop the melee over the Gorgon Stone, and Luo Hao accepted his challenge. Their battle began when Beo’s shockwave clashed with the storm summoned by Luo Hao’s Words of Power, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Noah concluded that the Gorgon Stone would ultimately reach Athena unless he kept it and decided to prevent the others from turning the confrontation into a melee.
• Noah proposed that he and Doni form a temporary team and face Woban and Luo Hao in separate duels.
• Doni welcomed the chance to fight one-on-one, while Luo Hao refused to join forces with Woban but accepted Noah’s challenge after he appealed to her martial spirit.
• Luo Hao vanished to attack Noah, but Beo unleashed a pulverizing shockwave that forced her to reappear at its edge.
• Luo Hao recited Words of Power to raise a storm that resisted Beo’s shockwave, then detonated the storm in a powerful blast.

Noah and Luo Hao’s clash devastated the city as their shockwaves met, while Doni fought the wounded Woban nearby. Luo Hao unveiled her Indestructible Divine Strength and Flying Phoenix Twelve Divine Palms, and Noah struggled to withstand her overwhelming power.

• Noah and Luo Hao’s shockwaves collided, blasting apart buildings and carving a vast crater through the city.
• Woban charged Doni, and Doni met the wounded Godslayer in a fierce sword-and-claw fight.
• Luo Hao praised Noah’s resistance to her Dragon’s Roar Tiger’s Howl Great Art and announced that she would use Indestructible Divine Strength.
• Luo Hao appeared before Noah with incredible speed and struck at him with her Flying Phoenix Twelve Divine Palms.
• Noah activated his Dragon Man incarnation and punched against Luo Hao’s palm, but her strength forced him backward.
• Luo Hao followed with a powerful palm strike aimed at Noah’s chest.

Noah and Luo Hao fought an evenly matched close-combat battle, with Noah relying on Dragon Man’s instincts and Reinforcement Sorcery to keep pace with her superior strength and martial arts. Luo Hao acknowledged him as a worthy rival, then summoned two Indestructible Warriors and challenged him to settle their contest with one decisive strike.

• Noah kept the Dragon Man transformation and reinforced his arm with Reinforcement Sorcery so he could withstand Luo Hao’s palm strikes.
• Noah and Luo Hao traded punches and palms until their clash shattered the crater and sent them skidding more than a hundred meters apart.
• Luo Hao praised Noah as a martial arts rival, while Noah explained that Dragon Man’s power—not his own techniques—let him contend with her.
• Luo Hao argued that powers stolen from gods had become their own and revealed that Indestructible Divine Strength could summon Indestructible Warriors.
• Luo Hao summoned two Indestructible Warriors and challenged Noah to decide the winner in one strike; Noah accepted.

Noah’s Beo gained the upper hand against Luo Hao’s two Indestructible Warriors, but the battle was interrupted when Alice, Erica, and Lilliana arrived. Erica kissed Noah, leaving him baffled as the fight remained unresolved.

• Noah summoned Beo and sent the giant golden wolf charging at Luo Hao’s two Indestructible Warriors.
• Beo’s attack shook the battlefield and forced Woban and Doni to pause their nearby fight.
• Beo broke through the Indestructible Warriors’ defense, and Luo Hao showed surprise as her manifestations neared their limit.
• Alice, Erica, and Lilliana arrived, and Noah urged them to leave the dangerous battlefield.
• Erica stepped forward and kissed Noah, insisting they had no other choice.

Erica kissed Noah to transfer knowledge of Salvatore's Authority and awaken his Warrior incarnation so he could fight the three Kings threatening Italy. Alice and Lilliana then offered to transfer their knowledge of Woban and Luo Hao, and Noah kissed them as well.

• Erica caught Noah off guard with a kiss while he fought the shockwaves around Beo.
• Erica's Cursed Power carried memories into Noah, causing the Warrior incarnation's symbol to flash.
• Erica explained that Alice and Lilliana had uncovered the Authorities of Marquis Voban and Cult Master Luo Hao, and kissing was the only way to get the knowledge through Noah's resistance to spells.
• Alice and Lilliana asked Noah to end the battle and protect Italy, then closed their eyes and waited.
• Noah kissed Alice and Lilliana to receive their knowledge.