Chapter Summaries

Saigō transformed the Wind of Decay into life-giving power, revived Cernunnos, and gained part of the authority of the good gods. Meanwhile, Mordred betrayed King Arthur and joined Morgan, whose Fairy Knights attacked Chaldea and the Knights of the Round Table.

• Saigō infused the Wind of Decay with the Power of the Good God and turned it into a golden wind of vitality.
• Saigō used the golden wind to revive Cernunnos and gained command over part of the good gods' authority.
• Mordred stabbed King Arthur with the sword that had killed her in Pan-Human History, then fled to Morgan's side.
• Mordred told King Arthur that she had betrayed her because her father had never understood or cared for her.
• Morgan ordered the Fairy Knights to attack the Knights of the Round Table and Chaldea as Mordred fought Kay.

The battle at Camelot halted when Zarathustra revived Cernunnos, revealing a god whose return restored a blue sky over Britain. Oberon exposed himself as Oberon Vortigern and summoned the Insect of the Abyss to destroy Britain, while Ritsuka realized he underestimated Zarathustra.

• Morgan unleashed her stored magical energy as Chaldea and the Fairy Knights fought across Camelot, while the released curses consumed the invading fairy army.
• The battle stopped when Cernunnos appeared alive beneath Zarathustra, and the Horned God restored a clear blue sky over Britain.
• Oberon rejoiced at Cernunnos's return, transformed into his true handsome form, and admitted to Ritsuka that everything he had told her was a lie.
• Morgan explained that she had sealed the Insect of the Abyss to prevent its revival, and Oberon identified himself as Oberon Vortigern, distinct from King Arthur's old enemy.
• Oberon declared that he would destroy Britain, called forth the Insect of the Abyss, and changed the sky to apocalyptic yellow gloom.

Saigō used his Corruption to destroy Oberon’s Insect of the Abyss, ending the threat to Britain, while the Great Calamity still loomed. As Morgan and Saigō prepared for the next step, Morgan raised her hand toward the sky above the ruined Camelot.

• Saigō sensed a path to restore the Destruction Spirit through the Insect of the Abyss’s infinity and resolved to defeat Oberon in one strike.
• Artoria defeated Nocktnaerel, who accepted her as Britain’s second queen on behalf of the Northern Fairies.
• Morrigan avenged the Wing Clan by killing Woodworth and the Fang Clan, then dissolved into spirit particles; Woodworth also passed away, content that he had fulfilled his loyalty and duty.
• Saigō’s Corruption overwhelmed Oberon’s Abyss, and the Insect of the Abyss shattered and fell as Oberon’s consciousness faded.
• Morgan mourned Woodworth and recognized that the Great Calamity still threatened Britain, while Saigō prepared to extract the Isle of Britain for Little Garden.
• Morgan raised her hand as the holy lances around ruined Camelot pointed toward the sky, making the people of Chaldea and the Knights of the Round Table feel their hearts tremble.

Morgan launched sixty-seven holy lances around the world, corrupting the Tower of the End and stripping Earth of its atmosphere and laws, turning it into Steel Earth. Chaldea and Ritsuka realized humanity could no longer survive, and Kirschtaria urged Ritsuka to accept that they had reached the limit of what they could do.

• Morgan fired the holy lances beyond Britain, where they exploded and spread corruption through the planet’s laws.
• Chaldea observed Earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field failing, and Shion explained that the corrupted Tower of the End had caused the planet’s soul to die.
• Goldolf learned that Chaldea’s warship could no longer move or sustain itself, while Holmes and Captain Nemo accepted that the end of human history would end their existence as Heroic Spirits.
• Ritsuka heard Chaldea’s report that Earth and the South American Lostbelt had perished, and she wondered whether restoring Pan-Human History would only prolong humanity’s suffering.
• Kirschtaria comforted Ritsuka and told her that she had done enough, since humans could not resist every force of nature or the gods.

The Eternal King rallied the planet and humanity for a final attack on Saigō, while the other Heroic Spirits burned their Spirit Origins to join her. Saigō accepted the Eternal King’s power and revealed the Weak Great Demon’s true form, whose presence extinguished stars and exposed the cosmos to the people of Britain.

• Caenis declared that she would attack Saigō, whom she identified as the source of the Corruption curse.
• The wounded King Arthur rose and revealed that she had been summoned as the Eternal King to unleash the Star Holy Sword’s full power.
• The planet and humanity gathered their remaining strength into the Eternal King’s holy sword as Morgan withdrew with her knights.
• The Eternal King and more than a dozen Heroic Spirits launched their final Noble Phantasms at Saigō.
• Saigō accepted the Eternal King’s Spirit Origin, life, and holy sword, then revealed the true form of the Weak Great Demon.
• Saigō’s power extinguished distant stars, and Ritsuka and the others witnessed the cosmic galaxy beyond Earth.

Saigō destroyed the planet’s star soul and transferred the Eternal King’s life, history, and legend into Artoria Caster, while King Arthur departed at peace. As the Heroic Spirits vanished and Britain’s end approached, Saigō descended before Ritsuka and the others.

• Saigō seized the Earth’s star soul with the curses of the Sea of Corruption, ending the Eternal King’s power and life.
• Saigō placed the Eternal King’s star soul and legacy into the scabbard Artoria Caster had retrieved, and King Arthur vanished with her wish fulfilled.
• Morgan comforted Mordred, who mourned her father before embracing her mother.
• Romulus and the other Heroic Spirits departed, while Little Da Vinci bid Ritsuka farewell and received her promise to summon her again.
• Ritsuka and the others realized the end had spread beyond Britain to Steel Earth, and Saigō descended before them.

Saigō invited Chaldea’s people to the ruins of Camelot and promised to arrange a future for them, while preparing for a final sacrifice with Morgan. When Goldolf arrived, he offered his life to spare the staff, but Saigō reassured everyone that he did not intend to kill them.

• Saigō told Ritsuka that he bore Chaldea no hostility and asked her to bring its people to Britain.
• Ritsuka contacted Chaldea, and Goldolf ordered the vessel to fly to Camelot using its remaining energy.
• Saigō told Morgan that he would make arrangements for Chaldea before they witnessed the apocalypse and carried out the final sacrifice.
• Artoria Caster brought Morgan the completed Star Holy Sword, and Saigō designated her the Fairy Kingdom’s second king.
• Goldolf led Chaldea’s staff off the vessel and offered his life in exchange for their safety.
• Saigō told Goldolf that he intended to kill neither him nor Chaldea’s people.

Saigō offered the Chaldea survivors new lives in parallel worlds, while Ritsuka and Mash chose to stay behind because their presence could increase the chance of another human crisis. After Trot recovered her memories and reunited with Mash in Camelot, she teased Mash about marrying Ritsuka.

• Saigō offered to send the Chaldea group to parallel worlds, but explained that Ritsuka and Mash appeared only in worlds prone to the Incineration of Humanity and Lostbelts.
• Ritsuka and Mash refused to enter another world, while Peroroncino and Kirschtaria chose to return to the past and begin again; Kirschtaria asked Peroroncino to go with him.
• Shion asked Saigō to let her study Steel Earth before sending her away, and Saigō agreed.
• Habenyang and the Blacksmith Grandpa arrived in Camelot, and Mash was delighted to learn that Habenyang had recovered her memories as Trot without disappearing.
• Trot teased Mash about remaining unmarried and suggested she might be refusing marriage because she liked Ritsuka, leaving Mash flustered.

Morgan welcomed Nocktnaerel’s Northern Fairies into Camelot and reunited with the survivors as they began rebuilding a new kingdom. As Saigō invited Morgan to watch the planet’s final radiance, Earth erupted with returning Fantasy Species, and its survivors struggled to adapt to the dead world.

• Artoria reunited with Hector, who revealed that he was Black Knight Hector, a former follower of Savior Ash.
• Nocktnaerel apologized to Morgan and requested that the Northern Fairy Clan move to Camelot; Morgan approved and assigned her to serve Artoria.
• Fairies from several clans gathered in Camelot, where Chaldea’s crew observed the outside world and the survivors rebuilt the city.
• Morgan watched the fairies and her companions in the royal garden before Saigō invited her to witness Earth’s final fireworks.
• Earth’s surface split as the Sea of Stars released Fantasy Species, and A-Rays evolved into radiation-adapted Aliens while surviving humans also mutated.

Shion recorded Steel Earth’s collapse as alien planetary UOs arrived to exterminate its remaining life, and Saigō destroyed the Solar System before taking her onward. In the Void Sanctuary, the Halloween Queen visited Saigō, who welcomed her with a seat beneath his own.

• Shion concluded that humans could not survive Steel Earth through technology or magecraft and considered migration to another planet as the only hope.
• Planetary UOs attacked Steel Earth, killing humanity and most of the Aliens, and Saigō explained that Earth had summoned them to end the life upon it.
• Saigō told Shion that her observations were complete, and she prepared to leave with him after thanking him for giving Chaldea a new life.
• Saigō swept an illusory sea across the Solar System, destroying its planets and their spirits while leaving the Sun untouched.
• The Halloween Queen entered Saigō’s Void Sanctuary, asked about the powers of good and evil within it, and received a seat below his own.

Saigō began a ritual in Camelot to have Ritsuka’s achievement as humanity’s Savior recognized by Little Garden and to prepare Morgan for her own role. Ritsuka and Morgan received sparks from the Sacred Fire and black flame, respectively, and their souls were drawn into visions of the Mothers of Good and Evil Gods creating their followers.

• Saigō brought Ritsuka to Morgan’s palace in Camelot and plunged the throne room into darkness, revealing a blazing flame that captivated Ritsuka.
• Saigō explained that Ritsuka’s salvation of humanity had earned her the achievement of a Savior, and he intended to have Little Garden recognize it.
• Ritsuka agreed to Saigō’s demands, even if they required her sacrifice, because she wanted to save Chaldea and the people she knew.
• Saigō told Ritsuka to devote herself to the Sacred Fire of the Mother of Good Gods and placed a spark on her forehead, sending her consciousness into a vision of the Mother creating life.
• Morgan knelt before the Sacred Fire as it turned black, and a spark from it sent her consciousness into a vision of the Mother of Evil Gods creating the Six Great Devils.

Saigō completed his preparations to deceive Little Garden’s observation core by shaping Ritsuka into the Savior of Zoroastrianism and Morgan into the Fallen Great Demon of Treason, then opened a connection between the worlds. In Little Garden, the Halloween Queen explained to Scathach how she became a Spirit of the Planet and came to possess the Solar Sovereignties.

• Saigō explained that Ritsuka’s self-deception and experience saving Human History would convince Little Garden’s core that she was the Savior of Zoroastrianism.
• Saigō said Morgan’s firm belief in the evil god and the Treason divinity would make Little Garden identify her as his incarnation and future Fallen Great Demon of Treason.
• Saigō raised his hand, opened part of the Void Barrier, and allowed Little Garden to observe his world.
• The Halloween Queen told Scathach that Zarathustra had gathered King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table, and Cernunnos as candidates for rebuilding the Celtic Pantheon.
• The Halloween Queen explained that Lugh had summoned her into Little Garden before the Celtic Pantheon fell, making her a Spirit of the Planet who gained the Solar Sovereignties.
• The Halloween Queen recounted that White Night Yaksha’s transformation into a Spirit of the Planet divided the Solar Sovereignties and made the two Spirits of the Planet enemies.

The Halloween Queen worked with Saigō to use the Little Garden Core and alter the Celtic Pantheon’s history so she could pursue a Second Rank. Shiva tried to stop her, but Zeus intervened; meanwhile, Britain’s people prayed to the Queen, and Saigō repelled an attack from Shiva with unexpected help from a holy light.

• The Halloween Queen declared that she would seize the chance created by King Arthur and the Round Table’s belief in her, then joined Saigō in using the Little Garden Core to integrate the Moon World into Little Garden.
• Shiva recognized the Queen’s plan and launched an attack, but Zeus intercepted it, and the two gods withdrew their powers beyond Little Garden.
• In Britain, Melusine, Bávan Shí, Barghest, Artoria, Percival, Mash, and others prayed to the Halloween Queen, sending their faith through a breach in the Void Barrier.
• The Fairy Knights saw the Queen’s immense divine form, while Saigō sensed the void shaking and invoked the Mother of Evil Gods’ Divinity to meet an incoming attack.
• Saigō’s Sacred Fire blocked Shiva’s Breath of Destruction, and a cross-shaped holy light unexpectedly joined Saigō to shatter the attack before he returned the Sacred Fire to the Void Sanctuary.

Saigō sent Chaldea’s people to parallel worlds, where Kirschtaria and Shion awoke with memories from another world and confronted unfamiliar pasts. Meanwhile, Britain arrived in the Little Garden, where Ritsuka’s group was escorted to meet the Halloween Queen.

• Saigō reassured Morgan, then used his Third Rank authority to send Chaldea’s people to parallel worlds.
• Kirschtaria awoke in a younger body on London Bridge, realized he could prevent the angel who once saved him from dying, and set out to evade his father’s assassins.
• Shion awoke in the Atlas Institute with memories and information about Steel Earth, then learned that Director Tsubia was a Dead Apostle Ancestor in this parallel world.
• Britain and its fairies arrived at the Halloween Queen’s Third Rank Outer Gate in the Little Garden.
• Faisthless introduced herself as the third seat of the Queen’s Knight Order and guided Ritsuka’s group toward the Queen, assuring Ritsuka that Cernunnos was safe elsewhere.

The Halloween Queen arranged for Artoria and the Fairy Knights to rebuild Avalon in Little Garden’s Lower Layer, with Fes. Reis protecting their claim and Morgan rejoining them through the Isle of Britain. Meanwhile, Saigō prepared to enter the DxD world to obtain the final divinity while keeping his humanity intact.

• The Halloween Queen told Morgan and Ritsuka that they did not need to kneel because they served Zoroastrian gods, then welcomed the Fairy Knights as her followers.
• The Halloween Queen ordered Fes. Reis to guide Artoria and the Knights of the Round Table in rebuilding the Avalon Community at a Fourth Rank Outer Gate and authorized her to suppress opposition.
• The Halloween Queen revealed that she had placed the Isle of Britain at a Fourth Rank Outer Gate and told Morgan to join the new Avalon Community.
• Saigō decided that the DxD world would be his next target for obtaining the final divinity.
• Saigō considered separating his Great Demon power and using a human body to wield evil without losing his humanity.

Saigō chose inheritors for several Spirits and summoned Goetia, offering to restore the Demon God King’s creator in exchange for his loyalty. Goetia accepted, but Saigō warned him that pledging everything would require more than words.

• Saigō decided that Yukari Yakumo would inherit the Takamagahara Pantheon Worldview, Makima the Spirit of Malice, and Nangong Nayue the Spirit of Chaos, while Momonga remained the candidate for the Spirit of aging.
• Saigō rejected the Geo Archon as the inheritor of the Spirit of Weakness and summoned Goetia to the Void Sanctuary.
• Saigō revealed that he had watched Goetia throughout Britain’s changing history and had spared him after destroying the Lostbelt’s Human History and Earth History.
• Saigō offered to bring back Goetia’s vanished creator if Goetia pledged his faith and everything he possessed.
• Goetia accepted Saigō’s offer, asking to understand the true meaning of his life, and Saigō cautioned that giving everything was not merely something to say.

Saigō entered the DXD world as the Great Demon of Destruction and shattered the Dimensional Rift’s defenses, interrupting Great Red and the Infinite Dragon God’s battle. The two Dragon Gods confronted him, wary of the outsider whose power threatened their homeland.

• Saigō sent Goetia into the Sacred Fire to test whether he could develop genuine faith in Zoroastrianism and earn the right to become one of his demons.
• Saigō merged the Spirit of Destruction into himself and unleashed its power against the Dimensional Rift blocking his descent into the DXD world.
• Great Red and the Infinite Dragon God fought in the Dimensional Rift until Great Red’s dream power nearly forced the Infinite Dragon God out.
• Saigō’s destructive power tore through the Dimensional Rift, destroying Great Red’s dream bubbles and allowing the Infinite Dragon God to escape her restraint.
• Great Red and the Infinite Dragon God joined forces against Saigō, who regarded them as unusually weak Fourth Rank beings for their world.

Saigō, calling himself Zarathustra, confronted the Crimson Dragon God Emperor and Ophis in the Dimensional Rift, and their clash shook the connected worlds. In the Netherworld, Azazel and the Fallen Angel leaders discussed Luci★Fer’s plan to seize Lilith and use her to create more demons, leaving Azazel wary of the danger it posed.

• Saigō approached the Crimson Dragon God Emperor and Ophis, who joined forces to defend their territory.
• The Crimson Dragon God Emperor and Ophis named themselves, and Saigō introduced himself as Zarathustra before attacking them with destructive power.
• The three powers collided, tearing the Dimensional Rift and sending violent aftershocks through the connected realms.
• Azazel and the Fallen Angel leaders felt the shock in their headquarters and discussed the Dragon Gods’ unusually intense battle.
• Azazel recalled Luci★Fer’s proposal for Fallen Angels and Demon Kings to raid the Heavenly Realm and capture Lilith.
• Azazel suspected Luci★Fer intended to use Lilith to reproduce demons and feared the resulting growth in demonic power.

Azazel approved Luci★Fer's proposal to invade the Heavenly Realm with the demons, while planning to divert Great Red and Ophis from the Netherworld after sensing a third power in their clash. In the Dimensional Rift, Saigō tore Ophis in two with destructive power, and Great Red turned to stabilizing the rift rather than attacking him.

• Azazel and the Fallen Angel governors approved Luci★Fer's proposal, with Azazel insisting that some governors remain in the Netherworld.
• The Netherworld shook as Great Red, Ophis, and an unknown third power clashed, and Azazel judged that the third force felt demonic rather than holy.
• Azazel proposed releasing Samael so its venomous aura would drive the two Dragon Gods away from the Netherworld, and the governors supported his plan.
• Saigō ignored Great Red's attack and concentrated his assaults on Ophis, enduring the dragon breath as his body repaired itself.
• Saigō plunged his destructive hands into Ophis and tore the Infinite Dragon God into two, leaving her writhing in pain.
• Great Red chose to soothe the wounded Dimensional Rift and preserve its balance instead of attacking Saigō.

Saigō followed a mysterious Holy Light out of the Dimensional Rift, bringing with him the half of Ophis he had captured. On the summit of the Nine Heavens, he released his destructive power from Ophis and explained that she could reunite with her other half once they left the Heavenly Realm.

• Ophis’s injury prevented her infinite power from reconnecting, and she coiled around Saigō as Great Red prepared to attack them both.
• A Holy Light struck Great Red and opened a path out of the Dimensional Rift; Saigō followed it while carrying Ophis’s half-body.
• Great Red remained behind and sent the other half of Ophis flying out of the Dimensional Rift, then resumed wandering alone.
• Saigō arrived with Ophis at the summit of the Nine Heavens, where Ophis complained that she had been driven from her home.
• Ophis realized she could not sense her other half, and Saigō explained that the Heavenly Realm blocked detection and that the two halves could reunite after leaving it.
• Saigō withdrew the Power of Destruction from Ophis, allowing her to gradually resolve its remaining effects.