Chapter Summaries

Roy held off Aururs and the assembled magicians while Othinus forged the Lord of the Gods' Spear, and he deliberately prolonged the fighting to feed the forging. Meanwhile, Academy City and other powers plunged Europe into a widening war, leaving the world’s conflict escalating as Othinus’s weapon neared completion.

• Roy and Aururs fought in the Forming Realm, wounded each other, and found that neither could defeat the other while Roy resisted the Nordic Throne’s dimensional attacks.
• Roy challenged Aururs and the magicians to attack as Gabriel appeared behind him, while Othinus continued forging the spear.
• Kerissa ordered Britain’s fleet to bombard Roy, but he walked through the attacks unharmed as Aururs fought Gabriel.
• Kerissa, the Beautiful Woman, Water Behind, Wind in Front, Levianna, and Vasilisa attacked Roy, and he casually overcame their powers while deliberately prolonging the battle.
• Othinus watched the spear take shape and gained greater control over her Demon God Power.
• Academy City declared war on the Vatican and Britain, the island nation joined the war against the Vatican, and Russian forces advanced across Europe as Roy’s schemes intensified the conflict.

Othinus reclaimed her full Demon God Power and erased Fiamma of the Right’s world-spanning attack, restoring the world and ending the war. She then asked Aururs and the others whether the peaceful world she had created was truly the happiness they wanted.

• Fiamma of the Right gathered the world’s malice and unleashed his strongest strike, collapsing seven of Othinus’s nine worlds and exposing the World Tree.
• Roy prepared to absorb Fiamma of the Right’s power, but Kilauea erupted and Othinus emerged with the Lord of the Gods’ Spear.
• Othinus reclaimed her Demon God Power and erased the malice fueling Fiamma of the Right’s strike, leaving him stunned as his power vanished.
• Othinus used the spear to end the world war, revive the dead, restore the damaged world, and reshape its laws and destiny.
• Othinus asked Aururs and the others whether the peaceful world was the happiness they had wanted, while Marian ran to the revived Bersi in tears.

Aleister entered the Hidden World after spending sixty-two years locating the Demon Gods, hoping to gather data for his plan to destroy magic and eliminate them. He confronted Niangniang, who warned that the Demon Gods knew his intentions and that even they could not eliminate one another.

• Aiwass warned Aleister that he could die if he entered the Demon Gods' Hidden World, but he chose to go anyway.
• Aleister explained that Demon Gods had fulfilled every desire and said he was willing to risk himself to collect data for Divine Punishment to Exterminate Demons.
• Aleister opened the Imaginary Space and traveled to the Hidden World, where the Demon Gods noticed his arrival.
• Niangniang appeared before Aleister and told him that, despite his intelligence, he was no more than an ordinary mortal to a Demon God.
• Niangniang said the Demon Gods knew Aleister wanted to eliminate them, but that even they could not eliminate one another.

Aleister entered the Hidden World, encountered several Demon Gods, and was blasted back to reality by Tezcatlipoca. His injuries did not stop him from pursuing his plan to use A.A.A. against Demon Gods who restricted themselves to enter the Material World, while Laura Stuart discovered his location and was confronted by Roy and Othinus.

• Nephthys and Niangniang met Aleister in the Hidden World, where Nephthys mocked his names for the eras and another Demon God urged them to remove him.
• Tezcatlipoca’s sunfire blasted Aleister out of the Hidden World, and Laura Stuart detected his exposed location in Academy City.
• Severely burned, Aleister told Aiwass that he had obtained data for A.A.A. and planned to use Divine Punishment to Exterminate Demons against weakened Demon Gods.
• Aleister explained that he wanted to destroy the Demon Gods to protect Roy, whom they would seek because of his right hand.
• Laura celebrated finding Aleister after a century of searching, then saw Roy and Othinus arrive aboard a Bone Ship at St. George’s Cathedral.

Othinus exposed Laura Stuart as the Great Demon Kolozun and effortlessly overwhelmed her inside St. George's Cathedral. Kolozun ended the chapter beaten and helpless at Roy's feet, while her demand that Othinus could not cross the abyss had been disproved by force.

• Laura invited Roy to join her in confronting Aleister, while privately planning to deceive him and bring about the world's destruction.
• Othinus commanded Kolozun to open Aether's Abyssal Realm, forcing Laura to reveal her demonic identity.
• Roy told Kolozun that he had known the truth for a century and had been playing along with her, enraging her.
• Kolozun challenged Othinus to cross the abyss and boasted that no one could pass the Impassable Ring.
• Othinus crushed the cathedral's protective barrier, pinned Kolozun down, and tore at her hair as the demon struggled.
• Othinus dragged Kolozun to a basin of holy water, repeatedly submerged her, then threw her injured body at Roy's feet.

Laura Stuart, acting as the Great Demon Kolozun, unleashed increasingly powerful magic against Othinus, including the Sword of Flame drawn from Beyond Heaven, but Othinus defeated her with ease. Laura ended the chapter pleading for mercy at Roy’s feet as Roy touched her face.

• Laura invoked Kolozun’s Enochian magic to unleash power that could collapse and recreate the universe, but Othinus was unharmed.
• Laura summoned angels from Aether using her golden hair, and Othinus burned them to ash with her spear.
• Laura called down the Sword of Flame, whose power came from beyond the Tree of Life, but Othinus caught and broke it with her hand.
• Othinus kicked, dragged, and beat Laura until she was bloodied and unable to resist.
• Laura clung to Roy’s ankle and begged him to spare her, and Roy gently wiped dust from her face.

Roy used the Human Complementation spell to force Kolozun’s human body toward convergence while leaving her demon’s will barely dominant, then began awakening the body’s own personality. He exposed the flaw in Kolozun’s medium and made her recall how she obtained it, leaving her trapped between resisting the spell and risking the loss of her physical body.

• Roy explained that Kolozun embodied diffusion and used a spell called Human Complementation to force convergence into her body.
• With Othinus pinning Kolozun down, Roy maintained her diffusion at 51 percent and convergence at 49 percent so she could neither surrender nor safely abandon her medium.
• Roy began a second spell to awaken Laura Stuart’s physical-body personality and told Kolozun that her medium had a defect.
• Roy prompted Kolozun to remember how, a century earlier, Aleister had summoned her and she had failed to seize his body after Noi intervened.
• Kolozun recalled escaping to Britain, obtaining a physical medium, and posing as Roy’s younger sister Laura to lure Aleister into fulfilling her contract with Mathers.

Roy exploited the conflict between Great Demon Kolozun’s soul and Laura Stuart’s awakened bodily instincts to make her open the way into ZAX, then began the ritual to cross the abyss. Beyond the world, Niangniang and Nephthys wondered why Othinus had not reshaped the world and considered bringing her into Gremlin.

• Laura’s body alternated between rejecting Roy and calling him her big brother, while Kolozun’s mind and soul remained in conflict with it.
• At Othinus’s urging, Roy stopped taunting Kolozun and prepared to cross the abyss before the Demon Gods could interfere.
• Laura’s body agreed to guide Roy into ZAX and open the gates of the abyss, despite Kolozun’s refusal.
• Roy placed Laura inside a restraining triangle, arranged a protective Magic Circle, and used dove’s blood to begin binding Kolozun.
• Roy chanted the Enochian incantation for ZAX while Laura’s body served as the gate, anchoring the route into the Spirit Plane.
• Niangniang and Nephthys discussed Othinus’s inactivity and considered inviting her into Gremlin, while Nephthys noted that only the Buddhist Demon God Bishop looked down on her.

Roy ascended to the Demon God realm in body and soul after traversing Aether’s Thirty Heavens, while Othinus shattered the Hidden World and exposed the Demon Gods. Roy realized that phases had distorted humanity, leaving him to understand that restoring humanity would require eliminating all phases.

• Niangniang and Nephthys noticed Roy in the Material World, and Othinus’s spear shattered the Hidden World, exposing the Demon Gods across the Fourfold World.
• Othinus withdrew her spear and protected Roy inside a cocoon while the Demon Gods emerged and the world strained under their presence.
• Roy crossed the Uncrossable Rings, entered the abyss ZAX, and reached Aether’s highest layer, LIL, completing his journey through the Thirty Heavens.
• Roy absorbed the knowledge represented by the Kabbalah Tree of Life and attained Demon God-level power, though he could not yet manipulate phases.
• Roy’s body and soul ascended, and he realized that the Demon Gods lacked the spiritual element of humanity because phases had distorted it.
• Roy concluded that restoring humanity would require the Demon Gods to eliminate all phases.

Roy understood that the Demon Gods were trapped by their inability to restore the world's original state and saw his ark as their hope of escape. As a new Demon God, he faced their arrival, and one of them annihilated the world to descend.

• Roy realized that the Demon Gods had distorted the world beyond repair and that Divine Punishment to Exterminate Demons and Aleister's A.A.A. exploited their weakness.
• Roy teased the wounded Great Demon Kolozun, then told Othinus he hoped she would be the one saved by his ark.
• Othinus warned Roy that the other Demon Gods would fight rather than compromise, and Roy sensed one forcing its way into the world.
• A Demon God appeared as a vast mass of maggots, transformed them into a grinding disc, and shattered the universe and its phases.
• The world became an empty void, allowing the Demon Gods to descend and exist.

Roy faced the Demon Gods and used the Book of Life to open the Seven Seals, beginning the Apocalypse. He then unleashed Infinite Light, revealing his growing connection to infinity and leaving every Demon God exposed to his power.

• Roy saw six Demon Gods, including Nuada, the Monk, Nephthys, and Niangniang, gathered with him and Othinus in the collapsing world.
• Roy opened the first four Seals, summoning the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to crush Nuada’s sea of worms.
• The Monk rebuilt the Six Paths of Reincarnation and reversed Roy’s Apocalypse, while Nephthys and Niangniang joined the confrontation.
• Nephthys lent her power to Niangniang, who summoned countless Taoist treasures and hurled them at Roy.
• Roy swung the Divine Scripture through the three guardian swords, unleashing Infinite Light that melted Niangniang’s treasures and blasted the Demon Gods away.
• The Infinite Light revealed the remaining hidden Demon Gods, including the Demon God of Voodoo and a Demon God who embodied perfect beauty.

Roy’s Eternal Return restored the universe after the Demon Gods’ clash, but their mere presence kept destroying it and Roy saw that his power endangered the people he remembered. Niangniang decided to side with Roy so she could fight the other Demon Gods without worrying about the world’s destruction.

• Roy restored the universe with Eternal Return, and Othinus immediately attacked the other Demon Gods with her spear.
• Othinus and Smoke Mirror’s weapons collided and shattered the universe, which Roy’s power restored again.
• Roy realized that his thoughts could alter causality and that becoming a complete Demon God would prevent him from safely walking the earth.
• The Reverend questioned Roy’s lack of concern for the world’s destruction, and Roy replied that death and restoration meant little to a Demon God.
• Niangniang became excited by Roy’s ability to restore the world and announced that she would help him fight the other Demon Gods.
• The Reverend reflected that the Demon Gods needed a judge, while Niangniang urged him to fight instead of lamenting.

Roy and Othinus were drawn into the Demon Gods’ chaotic battle, where they unleashed powers that belonged only to them. Roy continued to sense something strange about several Demon Gods as the volume ended with the fight still raging.

• Niangniang and Nephthys joined Roy and Othinus, but Nuada warned Roy that Niangniang might be trying to gain his trust and seize the power in his right hand.
• Persephone unleashed an icy divine punishment, and Niangniang used Nephthys’s divided power to overpower her before the Demon Gods began fighting one another.
• The Demon Gods’ battle spread until Roy and Othinus were dragged into it, and Roy told Othinus that Chimera and the forgotten god seemed strange.
• Othinus unfolded her wings of crossbow bolts and attacked the Demon Gods with Lord of the Gods’ Spear.
• Roy summoned Infinite Light, Infinite Flame, and Infinite Thunder through the three swords before his throne, while Nuada fought without his demonic beetle.

Roy and Othinus escaped the Demon Gods by crossing the Sea of Worlds, leaving the A Certain Magical Index World restored and its Demon Gods disappointed. They arrived in Roy’s homeland, where he found that more than a day had passed and Othinus marveled at the world’s unusual structure.

• Roy and Othinus joined hands and vanished through the Sea of Worlds before the Demon Gods could stop them, while Roy used Eternal Return to restore their world.
• The Demon Gods returned to the Hidden World, and Niangniang suggested they try seducing Roy when he came back; the others unknowingly began forming an ideal similar to Imagine Breaker.
• Laura left the ruined St. George's Cathedral after learning that Aleister was Academy City’s Director General, while Aleister noticed that Lilith’s fate had changed.
• Mina Mathers watched Academy City recover with Lilith, and an ordinary high school student discovered a power in his right hand called Ideal Banishment.
• Roy and Othinus arrived in Roy’s homeland, where Roy established an Eternal Return archive point and found that the world had comfortably accommodated Othinus.
• Othinus examined the unfamiliar world and told Roy that it seemed both to be and not to be the Material World.

Roy and Othinus examined the artificial traces in their new world as Aiwass explained the Little Garden and appeared in a body modeled on Rose. Athena then joined them, and Roy introduced her to Othinus, leaving the three powerful beings sizing one another up.

• Roy and Othinus sensed that the world could bear Demon Gods but showed signs of artificial creation, and Roy wondered if it was a Little Garden.
• Aiwass appeared in a body modeled on Rose, traded insults with Othinus, and explained how the Golden Dawn had used a Little Garden to generate magic.
• Aiwass said the Ark had recognized her clone as part of Roy, and she and Roy reasoned that the Ark could be deceived and that completing the Golden Supreme Heaven might let him encompass a whole world.
• Athena appeared and asked Roy to introduce Othinus, then identified Othinus as a Demon God and studied her with keen curiosity.

Roy set his next goal: complete his symbolism ritual and study human good and evil to restore the parts Demon Gods lacked. Othinus agreed to accompany him to another world but said she needed several days to prepare because her Complete Form could destroy a world.

• Athena explained that she had gathered countless versions of herself into a One and Only and found a path toward becoming a Demon God.
• Roy congratulated Athena and said he planned to study human nature, using Human Evil to complete his Magic Name, Crossing Human Evil.
• Othinus urged Roy to explore what lay beyond Demon Godhood, and Roy explained that Demon Gods needed to understand humanity and its transformations.
• Othinus offered to travel with Roy to his chosen world, then warned that her Complete Form might exceed that world's capacity.
• Roy questioned how Othinus could prevent the new world from collapsing, and she said she would divide herself as much as possible.

Othinus planned to weaken herself through endless division so she could exist safely in the Moon World, while Athena joined Roy and Othinus in observing the new world. That night, Aiwass pursued human desires with Roy, Athena joined them, and Othinus watched from another room, resisting the urge to destroy the world.

• Othinus explained that she would create a perpetual-motion formula to divide herself endlessly, accepting that she would lose the ability to manipulate phases.
• Athena said her self-restraint had reached a bottleneck and chose to accompany Roy and Othinus as they studied the Moon World.
• Aiwass approached Roy at night and explained that gaining a body and human emotions had awakened her curiosity and desire to change.
• Roy accepted Aiwass's pursuit and embraced her, and Athena later joined them when Roy invited her to stay.
• Othinus watched Roy through the room's barriers, grew frustrated, and considered destroying the world but stopped herself.

Roy, Othinus, and Athena entered the Moon World, where Othinus analyzed its unusual laws and Roy began preparing the conditions for Humanity’s Order to produce Human Evil. Roy used his right hand to seize the universe’s celestial bodies as magic circuits, briefly disrupting Earth and alarming an unknown starship before an unseen presence escaped.

• Othinus and Athena established themselves as the Moon World’s Odin and Athena, then Roy led them into the world through the Ark.
• On the Moon, Othinus analyzed the world’s structure, judged humanity’s future bleak, and detected life forms and alien artifacts inside the satellite.
• Athena explained that this world’s myths had occurred as history and that its Athena had once been a warship.
• Othinus asked Roy what he planned to do, and Roy said he would prepare the conditions to cultivate Human Evil, the beast of Humanity’s Order.
• Roy recited a Word Spirit and used his right hand to connect the Solar System and seize celestial bodies across the universe as magic circuits.
• The disturbance briefly disrupted magicians and believers on Earth, while an unknown presence froze a distant starship before fleeing into another sea of stars.

Roy captured the Alien God, learned how she planned to descend through the Fantasy Trees, and chose to combine her plans with the Humanity Annihilation Ritual for his own purposes. Afterward, Othinus and Athena departed to fulfill the destinies tied to their gathered selves while Roy prepared to direct the coming events.

• Roy seized the Alien God and learned that she had planned to erase Earth's civilization and descend through a mature Fantasy Tree.
• Roy discovered that the Humanity Annihilation Ritual had prevented the Alien God from bleaching Earth, and he decided to make the ritual and the Lostbelts coexist.
• Roy absorbed the Alien God and planned to fuse her with the embryo and cultivate her into a Complete Form 'Beast.'
• Othinus explained that gathering selves across worlds could require fulfilling their destinies, and she chose to complete this world's Odin's destiny.
• Athena departed to complete the destiny of the Athena whose self she had gathered, while Othinus left Roy to direct the coming drama.

Othinus arrived in Skadi’s Nordic Lostbelt, where Skadi and the Valkyries welcomed her as the returned Odin. Othinus destroyed Surtur, freeing the land from his flames, and the Lostbelt’s people celebrated the Great God’s return as the world began to flourish.

• Othinus appeared in the frozen castle, and Skadi recognized her as Odin and knelt before her.
• Ortlinde, Hildr, and Thrud arrived, recognized Othinus as their Father God, and welcomed her home.
• Skadi explained that Surtur’s lingering power had kept the Nordic Lostbelt barren and threatened its people.
• Othinus threw the Lord of the Gods’ Spear into Surtur’s seal and annihilated the fire giant king.
• Surtur’s giants died and the land revived, while Skadi, the Valkyries, and the humans celebrated Othinus’s return.