Chapter Summaries

Dionysus killed Amon at his request before the Ancient Evil Thing could fully possess him, and vowed to carry on Amon’s life and remember his name. Meanwhile, Heracles fought Perseus and the gathered heroic spirits as the Star of Death Omen approached the Hall of Heroic Spirits, where Perseus realized the artifact meant to resist it no longer had a guard.

• Amon urged Dionysus to kill him while he was still himself, and Dionysus promised to live on in his stead and honor his name.
• Dionysus drove his scepter through Amon’s chest, and silver lightning consumed Amon as the corrupted man died beyond revival.
• Dionysus reflected on Amon’s sacrifice, Zeus’s teachings, and his hope that Heracles could suppress the Ancient Evil Thing while remaining human.
• Heracles continued fighting Perseus and the heroic spirits who had gathered against him, while Perseus suspected Heracles might be connected to Hera.
• The Star of Death Omen rushed toward the Hall of Heroic Spirits, and Perseus realized the distant golden palace’s familiar guard was flying toward them instead of remaining at its post.

Nike reached the Hall of Heroic Spirits as the Star of Death Omen threatened it, and she chose Heracles to wield Voktor's Spear against the Ancient Evil Thing. Heracles damaged the enemy but learned it could regenerate and was meant to be stalled until the Zodiac authorities arrived; then Nike noticed it was changing course.

• Nike rushed toward the Hall of Heroic Spirits, blamed Perseus for the breach, and ordered him to explain himself later.
• Nike selected Heracles to wield Voktor's Spear and knocked the Iron Rod from his hand.
• Ande emerged from Heracles and offered the great hero the God of Drama's power to help him wield Nike's divine might.
• Heracles used Voktor's Spear to strike the Star of Death Omen, but its wounds quickly healed.
• Nike explained that Ancient Evil Things were normally sealed and weakened rather than killed, and urged Heracles to stall the enemy until the Zodiac authorities arrived.
• The Star of Death Omen abruptly changed its trajectory, alarming Nike.

Heracles failed to stop Star of Death Omen from crashing into the Zodiac Great Barrier, even after piercing the Ancient Evil Thing with Voktor's Spear. The impact shattered the red star and weakened the seal, while Ande revealed that Star of Death Omen's accumulated power had entered the barrier.

• Nike realized Star of Death Omen was charging toward the blood sun, and Heracles tried to intercept it with Voktor's Spear.
• Star of Death Omen ignored Heracles's attacks and smashed into the Zodiac Great Barrier as the blood sun surged against its seal.
• The red star split into four pieces, shook the Zodiac Star Territory, and left gaps in the barrier, drawing the attention of powerful beings across the worlds.
• After the impact, the weakened barrier still held the blood sun, while the Hall of Heroic Spirits and many heroic spirits had suffered damage.
• Ande told Heracles and Nike that Star of Death Omen's accumulated power had broken through the seal and entered the barrier.

After the Star of Death Omen’s assault, Nike temporarily stripped Perseus of his right to use his Divine Armor, and Heracles prepared to punish him. At the Zodiac Barrier’s core, Helios questioned the Blood-Flesh Great Mother’s purpose before an unknown visitor arrived with a warning that another Outer God had come to Khaos.

• Nike declined to punish Perseus directly but temporarily deprived him of the right to use Perseus for neglecting his duties.
• Heracles decided to defeat Perseus and make him a true Heroic Spirit, while Ande warned that God of Heavenly Light Aether was approaching.
• Helios examined the power left by the Star of Death Omen and questioned why the Blood-Flesh Great Mother had sent it to attack the barrier.
• An unknown visitor appeared before Helios and asked whether Earth Mother Gaia was the ancient god he meant.
• Helios received the Mother Tree’s intent and learned that another Outer God had come to Khaos.

Amon met Helios on the sun and explained that the Sun God’s weak control over it was why the Zodiac Great Barrier could drain his power. Amon proposed strengthening Helios’s connection to the sun by sharing his knowledge and memories of another world’s sun.

• Helios saw the Seven-Segment Bookworm’s true essence and learned that the visitor was Amon, who had arrived with the Scarlet Mother’s help.
• Amon clarified that the Star of Death Omen had not crashed into the Zodiac Barrier to bring him there, and Helios insisted that he and the Scarlet Mother were collaborators rather than master and servant.
• Helios rejected Amon’s offer to lend him power, explaining that the barrier was extracting the sun’s power and that only the portion tainted by the Mother Tree could be shared.
• Amon told Helios that his control over the sun was too weak, prompting Helios to recall how his own choices had diminished his connection while other powers took over the sun’s duties.
• Amon proposed sharing his memories and understanding of another world’s sun so that the collision of the two worlds’ laws might strengthen Helios’s connection to his sun.

Amon persuaded Helios to accept his offer of knowledge about the Foreign Domain sun, and the two formed a wary alliance. After the starry sky’s upheaval was contained, Zeus searched the Underworld for Styx, then left without finding her.

• Amon offered Helios his memories and understanding of the sun to help him regain control of his solar authority, and Helios questioned whether the Foreign Domain sun had already merged with Khaos.
• Amon assured Helios that the sun had not merged with Khaos, and Helios accepted his offer despite suspecting Amon had ulterior motives.
• The Shadow Moon Goddess arrived in the Zodiac Star Territory and destroyed nearly all the Evil Things released by the shattered Star of Death Omen.
• Mortals reacted to strange celestial signs with fear and relocation while wars continued across Athens, and Zeus turned a blind eye to the starry sky’s disaster.
• Zeus searched the banks of the Styx for Styx, hoping to make her Olympus’s chief god in place of Poseidon, but left when he could not find her.

Zeus entered Tartarus in a weakened avatar alongside the Five-Colored Dragon Mother, using the name Kronides, and discovered that the Abyss had changed and its layers were difficult to escape. After the Dragon Mother crushed a primitive city and captured its flame-covered ruler for questioning, the demon began to unleash an explosive technique.

• Zeus introduced himself to the Five-Colored Dragon Mother as Kronides and joined her expedition into the Abyss.
• The group entered Tartarus’s First Layer, where Zeus noticed its increased power and learned that its space was tightly sealed.
• The Dragon Mother sent the accompanying Elves to scout the Myriad Abyss Plains while Zeus and she waited for their reports.
• After the Elves found a primitive city guarded by a near-demigod, Zeus decided to capture its ruler for information.
• The Dragon Mother destroyed the city, seized its flame-covered demon ruler, and demanded answers as the demon’s flames began to rise.

Zeus and the Dragon Mother confronted a Flame Demon in the Myriad Abyss Plains, where the demon’s self-destruction revealed the danger of provoking native powers. The Dragon Mother claimed the demon’s Abyss lordship and explained how bloodline ascension differed from the divine authority Zeus understood, leaving him unable to grasp her path.

• The Flame Demon used Burning Body Explosion, unleashing a blast empowered by a fragment of planar power that forced Zeus to retreat.
• The Dragon Mother suppressed the spreading flames, and Zeus warned her that her violence could attract native gods and endanger their mission.
• The Dragon Mother absorbed the Flame Demon’s incomplete rune and became a lord of the Abyss, gaining authority over its territory.
• The Dragon Mother used that authority to describe the Myriad Abyss Plains and the possibility that a complete ruler could ascend into a demon god.
• Zeus questioned whether demonic god power came from bloodline ascension, and the Dragon Mother explained that the gods’ reliance on divine authority made them unable to understand a true bloodline path.

The Dragon Mother explained how Abyssal bloodline ascension recycled scattered power and how failed ascensions strengthened Tartarus. She revealed her plan to become an Abyss Lord with Zeus’s help, then chose Nibelungen as the layer they would target.

• The Dragon Mother explained that bloodline ascension reassembled power scattered through a race and described how Tartarus used ascensions to digest chaotic origins.
• The Dragon Mother gave Zeus information about the Abyss and said she needed his help to seize a layer’s lord position.
• The Dragon Mother admitted she had planned from the start to use Abyss-native power to conceal Zeus, and said they would part after she became a true Abyss Lord.
• Zeus agreed to provide the promised force while resolving to pursue his own objectives in the Abyss.
• The Dragon Mother identified Layer 338-0, Nibelungen, as their destination, recognizing it as the remnant of the Land of Mist.

Zeus and the Five-Colored Dragon Mother escaped the Burning Flame Tower after she stole the heart core of a newly ascended demon god, leaving Zeus resentful over the risks and the Elves sacrificed to cover their flight. In 338-0-Nibelungen, the Dragon Mother revealed that claiming the lordship required exploring the origins of its opposing ice and poison domains, beginning at Hvergelmir Spring.

• The Dragon Mother killed a newly ascended Abyss Devil God and took its heart core, provoking the Balor Flame Demon Lord.
• Zeus helped the Dragon Mother escape by sending the accompanying Elves to draw the Flame Demon Lord's attention, and he confronted her over her reckless actions.
• The Dragon Mother explained that the heart core's flame power could complete her Red Dragon power and strengthen her Five-Colored Evil Dragons.
• Zeus and the Dragon Mother arrived in 338-0-Nibelungen, where she explained that the layer had no lord and showed Zeus its opposing ice and poisonous swamp domains.
• The Dragon Mother said they needed to explore both domains' eyes at once and identify their shared source, which she named Hvergelmir Spring.

Zeus and the Five-Colored Dragon Mother separately reached the cold and poison springs of Hvergelmir, where each discovered that the spring was weaker than expected. As Zeus entered the cold spring, it stirred fragments of memory connected to Odin and the destruction of the Foreign Domain, while the Dragon Mother plunged into the poison spring to claim its power.

• Zeus chose the cold current while the Dragon Mother flew toward the Poison Spring, and the two departed in opposite directions.
• Zeus found the glacier spring, drank its water, and concluded that Hvergelmir had lost most of its power and life force.
• As Zeus descended into the cold spring, its aura gathered fragments of memory about the God King of the Foreign Domain and Odin, and he sent his spirit into them.
• The Dragon Mother drank from the Poison Spring and felt its power expand the potential of her Green Dragon bloodline and Bloodline Divine Seat.
• The Dragon Mother entered the Poison Spring to investigate its attraction and claim its power.

Dragon Mother reached the bottom of the Poison Spring and found a bloodstained scale that drew her toward a dangerous opportunity. Meanwhile, Zeus awoke inside a memory as Thor, whose thunderous power astonished him.

• Dragon Mother descended through the Poison Spring in her true form, absorbed its poison, and waited for Zeus to arrive so they could reunite the Divine Spring.
• Dragon Mother found a bloodstained black scale and reasoned that Nibelungen was a hidden, unopened Abyss interface connected to the scale's unknown owner.
• Dragon Mother suspected the scale was a trap but decided to take the risk, prioritizing the chance to grow stronger over the mission and its consequences.
• Zeus emerged from a stretch of darkness inside an unfamiliar body and recognized that he was experiencing a memory from Thor's perspective.
• Zeus sensed that Thor's thunder power surpassed his own and approached the limits of Great Divine Power without external support.

Thor questioned Odin’s preparations in Niflheim and was sent to find Frigg at Mimir’s Well in Jotunheim. Meanwhile, the Great Serpent sensed a strange disturbance and created an Eight-Armed Snake Demon to investigate it.

• Thor walked through Niflheim, worried that Odin’s plan to delay Ragnarok through the Sacrificing World relied on vague hopes and would come at a cost.
• Thor saw giants, gods, Dwarves, and Nibelungen building a vast altar beside Yggdrasil’s damaged roots, and told Sif he distrusted Odin’s changed behavior.
• Sif told Thor that Odin had excused him from building the altar and asked him to find Frigg in Jotunheim, near Mimir’s Well.
• The Great Serpent searched the Abyss after sensing a disturbance connected to a fragment of extraterrestrial memory but could not locate its source.
• The Great Serpent created an Eight-Armed Snake Demon from Abyss power and sent its consciousness to the border between the Abyss and Hell.

The Great Serpent entered the Myriad Abyss Plains in an Eight-Armed Snake Demon incarnation, where it discovered a Dark Elf carrying two divine auras and suspected Zeus was behind her mission. Asmodeus prepared to meet a secret envoy while Zeus continued exploring an ancient memory fragment, arriving at Jotunheim’s Well of Wisdom.

• The Great Serpent wandered the Myriad Abyss Plains after an ominous feeling faded, then noticed a pursued Dark Elf near a demigod-level Flame Demon.
• The Great Serpent recognized one of the Dark Elf’s auras as resembling Zeus’s and headed toward her, hoping to rescue her and learn what Zeus was doing in the Abyss.
• Asmodeus sensed the Great Serpent’s primary will had left its body and read a letter from Mephisto proposing a major transaction.
• Asmodeus told Crios to receive the letter’s envoy at the Asura Field while keeping the meeting secret.
• Zeus saw Yggdrasil in the memory fragment and reached Jotunheim’s Well of Wisdom, where the Foreign Domain God King had once made a sacrifice.

Thor reached Mimir’s Well to find Frigg, but she jumped into the spring and he followed her down. There Zeus, watching through Thor’s memories, encountered a being that identified itself as Odin’s Eye.

• Thor crossed the Forest of Mist to seek Frigg at Mimir’s Well, reflecting on Odin’s wisdom and his warnings about the price of seeking knowledge.
• Thor found Frigg by the spring, but she leaped into the water before he could finish greeting her.
• Thor jumped into the pool after Frigg, while Zeus observed the memory and considered the power of Mjolnir.
• Thor followed Frigg’s figure to the bottom of the well, where her faceless appearance confronted him.
• Zeus sensed a presence call itself Odin’s Eye and greeted it by that name.

Zeus emerged from a memory with Mjolnir and learned that Odin’s Eye wanted its trapped body recovered from a place resembling the Well of Reincarnation. He and the Dragon Mother restored the Hvergelmir Spring, earning her a new Lord Mark and Abyss Devil God power, and she agreed to disguise Zeus as a native Abyssal demon god.

• Zeus awoke from the memory holding Mjolnir and suspected Odin’s Eye was connected to the destruction of the Nine Realms.
• Zeus concluded that Odin’s Eye’s body might be trapped in the Well of Reincarnation and decided to seal the memory after returning to his true body.
• Zeus reached the bottom of the spring and found the Dragon Mother arriving from the opposite direction.
• Zeus and the Dragon Mother reunited the cold spring and Poison Spring, restoring the Hvergelmir Spring and bringing life back to Nibelungen.
• The Abyss rewarded the Dragon Mother with a Lord Mark and power to become an Abyss Devil God, while Zeus directed the credit toward her.
• The Dragon Mother agreed to conceal the laws of the present world on Zeus so others would mistake him for a native Abyssal demon god.

Zeus left Nibelungen through the route the Dragon Mother gave him, while she sealed the interface and returned to the Abyss as a legitimate lord. Meanwhile, Styx proposed joining her oath authority with Hell’s contracts, and the Great Serpent agreed to arrange a meeting with Nodrassil-Crown of the Nine Hells.

• Zeus accepted the Dragon Mother’s route to 862-11-Thunder Pool and departed Nibelungen through her portal.
• The Dragon Mother sealed Nibelungen’s connection to the outside world, then flew back toward the Myriad Abyss Plains as an Abyss Lord.
• Styx noticed the Dragon Mother passing through an Abyss Layer, then resumed questioning the Eight-Armed Snake Demon about the Hell Contract.
• Styx proposed combining her oath authority with Hell’s contracts, arguing that the union would strengthen both her power and the Hell interface.
• The Great Serpent agreed that the proposal was worth considering and promised to take Styx to meet Nodrassil-Crown of the Nine Hells.

Styx revealed that Hades had diverted power flowing into the Netherworld, while Great Serpent pursued Zeus through the Abyss toward Thunder Pool. Zeus also headed for Thunder Pool, hoping to use its passage to escape the Flame Demon Lord and return to the Underworld.

• Styx told Great Serpent that Hades had transferred power from the Netherworld's origin elsewhere, but refused to explain how she discovered it.
• Great Serpent agreed to consider Styx's proposed cooperation, left her waiting at the entrance to the Myriad Abyss Plains, and followed Zeus's trail deeper into Tartarus.
• Great Serpent traced Zeus's route toward Thunder Pool and recognized that its ruler was the Demon Prince, whom he had previously discussed with Asmodeus.
• Zeus abandoned his return route after finding the Dark Elf's roasted corpse and realizing the Flame Demon Lord was still pursuing him.
• Zeus decided to reach Thunder Pool and use its passage to the Abyss's upper layers so he could return to the Underworld and merge with his true body.

Zeus reached the Abyss Layer 862-11-Thunder Pool and tried to leave through its Abyss Gate, but the Demon Prince sealed the layer before he could pass. Meanwhile, a snake demon persuaded the Demon Prince to search for Zeus, promising that finding him could help the ruler gain the Abyss Will’s favor and become the true Abyss King.

• Zeus entered Thunder Pool, learned about its origins and the Demon Prince who ruled it, and went to its city gate to pay the toll and travel to the Myriad Abyss Plains.
• The Demon Prince’s new order forbade anyone from leaving Thunder Pool, and the Horned Devil Overseer used it to deny Zeus passage despite his having already paid.
• The Demon Prince’s power collapsed the Abyss Gate and stabilized the layer’s spacetime, leaving Zeus unable to break through and forcing him to leave the plaza without fighting.
• The Horned Devil Overseer speculated that the Demon Prince’s lockdown was connected to the ruler’s ambitions and the Thunder Pool’s dwindling power.
• A snake demon’s avatar advised the Demon Prince that finding Zeus could help him gain the Abyss Will’s support and reach the goal of ruling thirty-six complete Abyss Interfaces.
• The Demon Prince agreed to search for Zeus, hoping to become the true Demon Prince and Abyss King, while privately considering the snake demon a potential statue-worthy benefactor.

Zeus discovered that the Abyss Lord had sealed Thunder Pool and announced a search for a consort for Mo Ya, the Mother of Demons. Believing the description and his fateful attraction to Mo Ya pointed to him, Zeus began to accept the possibility that he was destined to stand beside her, though he still held back from acting.

• Zeus planned to escape Thunder Pool during the demons’ next riot and take revenge on the Horned Devil Overseer.
• A Black Stone Tablet arrived, and the Horned Devil Overseer announced that the Demon Prince was seeking someone worthy to stand beside Mo Ya, the Mother of Demons.
• The Horned Devil Overseer described the candidate as handsome, nobly born, and possessed of a crafty and evil soul, while promising a reward to anyone who found him.
• Zeus recognized the description as matching himself and felt his long-standing attraction connect to Mo Ya’s True Name.
• Zeus concluded that Fate had made him Mo Ya’s destined companion, but chose to examine his doubts before revealing himself.
• Zeus imagined unifying the present world and Khaos, with Hera and Mo Ya holding separate God Queen positions.