Chapter Summaries

Athena took control of the Greek Otherworld’s Machine God body and welcomed Roy, who explored its advanced technology and piloted her warship into space. Athena then appeared in her mechanical humanoid form and invited Roy to experience the emotions of a Machine God.

• Athena arrived in the Greek Otherworld and absorbed the technology and knowledge recorded in Machine God Athena.
• Roy appeared beside Athena and discussed the world’s mechanical gods and the destruction of Atlantis with her.
• Roy asked Athena to show him her Machine God body, and she brought him into her warship.
• Athena gave Roy permission to pilot her ship, and he flew it beyond Earth’s atmosphere into space.
• Athena explained that her warship and flesh-and-blood body were both herself, then teased Roy and moved to embrace him.

Roy and Athena entered the Chronos Crown to meet Zeus, where Athena revealed Roy was her lover and Zeus discovered he was not human. Roy introduced himself to the Greek Machine Gods as the Alien God and claimed the titles of the God of Christianity.

• Roy and Athena arrived at Earth and discussed meeting Zeus, the Fantasy Tree, and Athena’s wish to remain free.
• Roy and Athena entered the Chronos Crown, where Zeus and the other Greek Machine Gods confronted them.
• Athena introduced Roy as the person she loved, shocking the Greek Gods.
• Zeus scanned Roy, recognized him as a powerful nonhuman presence, and prepared to attack him.
• Roy called himself the Alien God and declared that he was the God of Christianity, Alpha and Omega.

Roy confronted the Greek Machine Gods aboard the Chronos Crown, revealed that the Fantasy Tree was tied to their survival and their destined loss of their bodies, then defeated Zeus and threatened the pantheon into hearing him out. He clarified that he did not intend to control the Machine Gods and described himself as an observer of Human Order and the Otherworlds.

• Roy told Zeus that the Fantasy Tree seed would preserve the Greek Gods, but their bodies were destined to be pruned unless they became Divine Spirits.
• Zeus attacked Roy with the Great Thunder, but Roy caught it and turned it back, destroying Zeus's humanoid duplicate.
• Zeus revealed his true battleship and fired a star-destroying cannon, but Roy caught the blast and shattered it.
• Roy summoned the Sword of Flames, halted it before Zeus, and burned the humanoid forms of Hades and Poseidon to ash with two flames.
• The Greek Gods vowed to resist rather than surrender their freedom, while Roy said he had no interest in controlling them or claiming their land.
• Zeus asked Roy what he wanted, and Roy said he was only observing changes in Human Order and the development of the Otherworlds.

Roy forced Zeus and the Machine Gods to cultivate the Fantasy Tree under his protection, then watched an extraterrestrial threat approach the Solar System and turn toward the Moon. Artemis visited Roy in a humanlike terminal and asked how she could become like Athena.

• Roy made Zeus accept a twelve-thousand-year agreement to cultivate the Fantasy Tree and warned that the White Giant would threaten the Otherworld.
• Roy observed a wandering star send three meteors toward the Solar System, with one changing course toward the Moon.
• Artemis appeared before Roy as a humanoid terminal and explained that the Machine Gods had begun developing fear.
• Roy sat with Artemis by a fire and tested her reactions, finding that she lacked human embarrassment.
• Artemis asked Roy how she could acquire the intelligence and emotions that Athena had gained.

Roy explained to Artemis that the Machine Gods sought the infinite possibilities of life, then offered to teach her in exchange for her emotions. When Sefar’s ship Wilpa 02 entered the Solar System, the Machine Gods attacked it, and Artemis fired a full-power shot toward it.

• Artemis asked Roy why the Machine Gods had developed intelligence and emotions, and he explained that they wanted the potential to evolve beyond their fixed programming.
• Roy offered to teach Artemis in exchange for her emotions, and she accepted the trade.
• Artemis detected the Predatory Star’s ship Wilpa 02 approaching the Solar System and identified it as Sefar.
• The Machine Gods issued warnings and ordered an attack, while Roy chose to observe their struggle.
• Artemis charged her cannon and fired a planet-piercing beam toward Wilpa 02 near Jupiter.

Sefar invaded Mooncell and began destroying Earth’s prehistoric civilizations, starting with Sumer. Roy watched her slaughter the Sumerian gods and reflected on the history that would follow, until a survivor urged him to flee.

• Wilpa 02 broke through Artemis’s attack, entered lunar orbit, and drilled into the Moon to reach Mooncell.
• Sefar attached herself to Mooncell, seized most of its permissions, and began creating an Earth duplicate while probing its core.
• Sefar descended in 12,000 BC and sent gigantic, mutated animals to destroy Sumerian cities and their people.
• Sefar defeated An and the other Sumerian gods, absorbing the civilization and its remains as spiritrons.
• Roy watched Sefar’s victory and recounted how the first Holy Sword Wielder would eventually defeat her, before a man behind him warned him to run.

Roy encountered a brave blond, red-eyed man as Sefar destroyed Sumer, then stopped the giant and drove her back with a breath. He left the man instructions to travel to the Mountain of Fallen Gods, where the story left him heading toward An’s former divine realm.

• The blond, red-eyed man tried to lead Roy away from Sefar, then offered to distract her so Roy could escape.
• Sefar attacked them, but Roy stopped her hand with one finger and blew her into a crater.
• Sefar’s scan of Roy overwhelmed her core, and she severed her connection to the Predatory Star before leaving to continue destroying civilization.
• Roy told the blond, red-eyed man that his descendants mattered to Human Civilization and directed him to the Mountain of Fallen Gods.
• The blond, red-eyed man prayed after Roy vanished, then traveled toward the former divine realm of An.

Roy watched the Greek Machine Gods confront Sefar, while Zeus forcibly combined eleven of them into the Almighty God Zeus to fight her. Zeus initially battled Sefar on equal terms, but Athena warned Roy that he lacked the wisdom and victory needed to defeat her.

• A young man found the Sumerian gods’ creation tablet and carved a mural showing Sefar kneeling before a figure marked with a cross.
• Zeus’s proposal to combine the Greek Machine Gods met opposition, but Sefar arrived in Greece before they could resolve their dispute.
• The Greek Machine Gods fought Sefar with their weapons and powers, but their attacks failed to inflict fatal injuries.
• Zeus used the Chronos Crown to force eleven Machine Gods to combine into the Almighty God Zeus, while Athena resisted his order.
• The Almighty God Zeus fought Sefar as Roy and Athena watched, and Athena told Roy that Zeus could not win without wisdom and victory.

Athena destroyed Sefar on Earth, causing the timeline to be pruned while the Mooncell sealed Sefar’s main body, which fell into a dream as Attila. Thirteen thousand years later, Xiongnu elders unearthed Sefar’s remains and found a girl with no memories, whom they named Attila.

• Athena refused Zeus’s command to join the Machine Gods, then went to battle and destroyed Sefar with Athena’s Astonishment.
• Human Order pruned the timeline, while the Fantasy Tree preserved the region of Greece and returned the rest to Pan-Human History.
• Sefar’s paralysis let the Mooncell Crystal seal her main body in a dark domain, where she eventually fell asleep and dreamed of being Attila.
• Xiongnu elders deciphered ancient records, traveled to Greece, and excavated a girl from Sefar’s remains alongside the Sword of Mars.
• The Xiongnu named the newly reborn girl Attila, though she disliked the name and wanted one that sounded cuter.

Attila treated Roy as her god, her purpose, and the one whose orders guided her destruction of civilizations. After agreeing to take Kriemhild’s request as a pretext to seize Burgundy, Attila tried to offer herself to Roy, and he asked whether she liked him.

• Attila asked Roy whether he was the God she served, and he told her he could barely be called a god.
• Attila rested against Roy and told him that she would destroy Rome for him because she considered it a bad civilization.
• Attila told Roy that Kriemhild had asked her to avenge Siegfried in exchange for her body and the Kingdom of Burgundy.
• Roy told Attila to agree to Kriemhild’s request, marry her, and use it as justification to take control of Burgundy.
• Attila undressed and explained that she thought Roy should desire her because he was a man and she was a woman.
• Roy asked Attila whether she liked him.

Attila’s life ended after she expressed her love for Roy, and the Hunnic Empire soon collapsed. In a long dream, the true Sefar awoke with new self-awareness and feared returning to her former mindless existence as the White Giant.

• Attila recalled fragments of her past and wondered what life she might have lived without being a warrior.
• As her body ran out of energy, Attila embraced Roy, confessed her love, and dissolved into prana.
• Attila spoke Roy’s name for the first time and called him a good civilization before she died.
• With Attila leaving no heir, three former subordinates fought over the Hunnic Empire, which later fell to the Anti-Hun Alliance at the Battle of Nidao.
• The true Sefar awoke from her long dream inside the sealed Wilpa 02 Starship and wished to remain in darkness rather than lose her self-awareness.

Roy entered Wilpa 02 and reunited with Sefar, whom he comforted and sent back to sleep with a promise of future freedom. Meanwhile, Athena and Roy watched Zeus cultivate the Fantasy Tree, while Athena foresaw that his rule over Olympus would eventually provoke a civil war.

• Roy appeared before Sefar inside Wilpa 02, and she recognized him as the man from her dream.
• Roy told Sefar that she had gained a self and was a living being, then promised she would soon escape the stone chamber and find happiness.
• Sefar resisted sleep long enough to embrace Roy before he left, and Athena later sensed that Roy had stretched time.
• Roy told Athena that Zeus would cultivate the Fantasy Tree to create a vessel for the Beast's descent.
• Athena explained that Zeus had seized the other Machine Gods' functions and predicted that their resentment would eventually lead to rebellion and civil war.

Roy altered humanity's Heroic Spirit summoning ritual and summoned Europa and Atalanta into the Greek Lostbelt. He made Europa his apostle and ordered her to watch and eventually betray the Lostbelt's king, while Atalanta pledged herself to Artemis and was told to regard Roy as Zeus.

• Roy and Athena discussed the Olympian Machine Gods, and Artemis asked Athena to protect her from Zeus changing her functions.
• Humanity's protective mechanism summoned Heroic Spirits, and Roy modified the ritual so they would serve the Lostbelt instead.
• Europa and Atalanta appeared from the summoning circle, and Europa greeted Roy and the goddesses.
• Roy made Europa his apostle and ordered her to earn the Lostbelt king's trust before betraying and eliminating him.
• Atalanta recognized Artemis, pledged to serve her, and raised her bow when Roy touched her tail.
• Europa and Artemis warned Atalanta to humble herself before Roy and regard him as Zeus.

Roy and Athena prepared to leave the Greek Lostbelt to observe Zeus, while Roy kept Atalanta close and warned Aphrodite that Zeus might alter the machine Gods to gain power. The chapter ended with Aphrodite wavering as Roy suggested a way for the machine Gods to become Divine Spirits without losing their machine bodies.

• Roy told Athena that he would stop intervening in the formed Lostbelt and return to Pan-Human History, and Athena admitted she was reluctant to part from him.
• Roy gave Atalanta the Golden Apple, and its magic made her pounce after it despite her embarrassment before Artemis.
• Roy kept Atalanta in his arms while Europa played music, as Aphrodite watched and questioned why he enjoyed teasing her.
• Roy explained that Zeus was cultivating the Fantasy Tree for him and might absorb the machine Gods' functions to become strong enough to defeat him.
• Roy advised Aphrodite that the machine Gods could use the Lostbelt's rules to become Divine Spirits while retaining their machine bodies, leaving her visibly uncertain.

Olga Marie awoke from a dream in which she declared herself Earth’s ruler, then went to work as Chaldea’s deputy director and directed Roman to check on Mashu. Roman prepared books for Mashu and, remembering his past as King Solomon, reflected on how God’s Wisdom had left him.

• Roy played with Atalanta using a Golden Apple on a bamboo pole, then ate the apple and told her to spend time with the children on Olympus.
• Olga Marie dreamed she had descended from the Void God to conquer Earth as its supreme ruler, then woke in her Chaldea bedroom.
• Olga Marie prepared for work and reflected on the pressure of her roles as Animusphere head, Clock Tower Lord, and Chaldea deputy director.
• Olga Marie scolded Roman Archaman for eating cake and slacking off, but Roman reminded her that the director and Supreme Pontiff had hired him.
• Olga Marie sent Roman to check on Mashu, and he gathered The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and a Bible for her.
• Roman recalled his former life as King Solomon and thought about how God’s Wisdom had left him.

Roman visited Mashu Kyrielight and promised to show her Chaldea’s Antarctic scenery, while Lev worried that the King’s plan to destroy Humanity’s Order was going wrong. Roy returned to Pan-Human History, and Waver continued his demanding routine as Lord El-Melloi II, reflecting on his school’s recovery and Rinice’s apparent reluctance to reclaim the title.

• Roman met Lev on his way to Mashu, and Lev privately dismissed him as useless while sensing that his connection with the King was weakening.
• Lev recalled the Humanity Annihilation Ritual and feared that the King was retreating from the timeline and that something had disrupted the plan.
• Roman visited Mashu, whose impending genetic collapse and planned Servant fusion experiment left him feeling guilty about her fate.
• Roman promised Mashu he would take her to an observation platform, then read her the story of the Great Flood.
• Roy left the Lostbelt and returned to Pan-Human History as the God of Christianity arrived on earth.
• Waver traveled home by Underground after work, considered the El-Melloi School’s improving finances, and wondered why Rinice showed no interest in reclaiming the Lordship.

Waver saw Roy return to London, while Roy encountered Kirschtaria Wodime on a bridge and heard how a poor boy’s sacrifice changed Kirschtaria’s life. Kirschtaria admitted he longed for God to ease the world’s suffering.

• Waver spotted Roy passing through London and chose not to approach him.
• Roy ignored Waver and came upon Kirschtaria standing alone on a bridge.
• Roy told Kirschtaria that hiding behind a false mask could hurt those who cared for him.
• Kirschtaria recounted how a beggar boy saved him after his father’s assassins poisoned and wounded him, then died while finding him food.
• Kirschtaria rejected his former pride and said he hoped the boy could reach Heaven, though he did not believe in God.

Roy reunited with Kirschtaria, approved the proposed list of Chaldea Masters, and asked him to question Marisbury about the Alien God. Roy then went to Imperial Concubine’s London apartment, where she was reading when he arrived.

• Kirschtaria confided his painful memories to Roy and felt relieved after Roy reassured him.
• Kirschtaria gave Roy Marisbury’s report on Chaldea’s progress and the proposed list of potential Masters.
• Roy approved the list, said he would personally take some candidates to Chaldea, and told Kirschtaria to ask Marisbury whether he knew about the Alien God.
• Roy disappeared after Kirschtaria’s magecraft phase collapsed, leaving Kirschtaria uneasy.
• Roy entered Imperial Concubine’s apartment and found her reading in bed.

Imperial Concubine reunited with Roy and agreed to go to Chaldea, hoping to use its system to meet Liu Ji again. In London, Aoko Aozaki visited Alice Kuonji’s mansion and was greeted by Alice’s apprentice, Matou Sakura.

• Roy apologized to Imperial Concubine for leaving her waiting, and she told him she would never blame him.
• Roy encouraged Imperial Concubine to honor her agreement with Marisbury and join Chaldea as one of its seven chosen Masters.
• Imperial Concubine recalled summoning Liu Ji in the Second Holy Grail War and decided she wanted to meet her again at Chaldea.
• Aoko Aozaki arrived in London after learning that Lev Lainur Flauros was alive and working at Chaldea, then went to visit Alice Kuonji.
• Matou Sakura opened Alice’s mansion door, and Aoko greeted her before criticizing Alice’s gloomy personality.

Aoko Aozaki visited Alice Kuonji in London after receiving a farewell letter from a friend, and Méliade Riddle Acherotte arrived soon after. Meanwhile, Roy met Touko Aozaki and the newly awakened Root Shiki, who had come to see him for a reason he could already guess.

• Aoko Aozaki visited Alice Kuonji's mansion and caught up with Alice and Sakura.
• Aoko admitted that she had come to London because a friend sent her a farewell letter, then teased Alice about remaining unmarried.
• Alice reflected on her past and her responsibility to care for Sakura before Méliade Riddle Acherotte arrived.
• Roy met Touko Aozaki and Root Shiki on a tree-lined path in London.
• Root Shiki explained that she had reasons for meeting Roy, and Roy said he could roughly guess her purpose.