Chapter Summaries

Saigō ordered Nazarick to begin a war to unify the world, while reassuring Momonga that he could neutralize the world's dangerous powers. After Saigō and Albedo were together in the bathhouse, Albedo encountered Shalltear outside the suite, who mocked her apparent injuries.

• Saigō reviewed Demiurge's report and announced that Nazarick would wage war to save and rule the world, with Momonga as its ruler and Saigō as its god.
• Demiurge eagerly left to plan Nazarick's invasion, while Momonga privately thanked Saigō for returning and discussed how he had worked to preserve his humanity.
• Momonga warned that unknown forces might threaten Nazarick and explained his research into the Eight Desires Kings; Saigō promised to neutralize the world's World Items.
• Momonga agreed to take Sebastian and pursue the unification plan by a different approach, and Saigō affirmed his intent to bring goodwill through war.
• Saigō left the Great Tomb after bathing with Albedo, who staggered from his suite and met Shalltear, who taunted her about her condition.

Albedo taunted Shalltear over receiving Lord Zarathustra’s reward, then ordered her to prepare her forces for the coming invasion. Saigō secured Calca’s support for spreading his rule across the world, while Demiurge coerced Evileye into obeying by threatening Blue Rose.

• Albedo mocked Shalltear for neglecting her duties and boasted that Lord Zarathustra had rewarded her.
• Shalltear discovered the source of Albedo’s bloody scent and demanded to know why Albedo had been rewarded, but she obeyed the Great Tomb’s ban on private fights.
• Albedo ordered Shalltear to return to her domain, assemble her army, and await the Supreme Sovereign Lord’s invasion orders; Shalltear pledged her loyalty.
• Saigō asked Calca what she thought of the Zoroastrian Theocracy and proposed bringing its way of life to every nation and race.
• Calca welcomed Saigō’s plan to unite humanity and Demi-humans, and he charged her with helping bring the world rebirth in the name of Zoroastrianism and the evil gods.
• Demiurge confronted Evileye and invoked the Supreme Sovereign Lord’s orders; fearing for Blue Rose, Evileye knelt and agreed to do anything if he spared Laddis and the others.

Demiurge recruited Evileye to help bring down the Kingdom from within, while Saigō assigned Nazarick’s Guardians to conquer the Bahas Empire and Slane Theocracy and prepare to support Momonga. As armies began moving across the world, the chapter ended with a Kingdom marquis threatening the Roble Saint Princess after her forces invaded the border region.

• Demiurge gave Evileye a Demon Chess Piece that could summon the demon army in the Kingdom’s capital and ordered her to prepare to undermine the Kingdom.
• Saigō ordered Aura and Mare to conquer the Bahas Empire.
• Saigō sent Albedo, Shalltear, and Cocytus to conquer the Slane Theocracy, eradicate its worship of the world’s gods, and spread Zoroastrianism.
• Saigō explained that the Guardians might need to support Momonga and Sebastian if they clashed with the Dragon Lords in the Council Nation.
• The Guardians departed to carry out their orders as Saigō anticipated Nazarick’s final game against the world.
• At the Kingdom’s border, a marquis threatened the Roble Saint Princess after she led an army to invade the Kingdom.

Calca and Demiurge spread the Supreme Sovereign’s rebellion against the nobles through the Re-Estize Kingdom, while the Slane Theocracy learned of the unrest and suspected demon involvement. The chapter ended in Loren City, where Demiurge encountered a furious noble berating the Kingdom’s defeated army.

• Calca condemned the Marquis of the Border’s exploitation of the people and declared her allegiance to the Supreme Sovereign, while Demiurge pledged to help spread the Sacred Fire.
• Calca addressed the people of the Re-Estize Kingdom after the Marquis of the Border was executed, urging them to unite beneath Zoroaster’s banner.
• Certain Death learned from the First Seat of the Black Scripture that rebellion had seized a province of the Kingdom and that the Zoroastrian Sacred Kingdom might be involved.
• The First Seat told Certain Death that strange Demi-human activity near the Theocracy resembled events preceding the demon invasion of the Sacred Kingdom, and Certain Death vowed to defend her country.
• Demiurge walked through Loren City and heard a noble rage at his commanders after fifty thousand troops had been defeated by rebels.

Demiurge introduced Lana Tiyer Chardoln La Vansa, the Golden Princess, to Saigō, and she proposed a plan to seize the Kingdom through betrayal and slaughter. Saigō accepted her proposal and granted her wish to become a demon; Lana then left her palace visibly overwhelmed by their encounter.

• Demiurge summoned Lana before Saigō, whose overwhelming aura left her terrified and awestruck.
• Lana proposed murdering her father and arranging her brothers' deaths before turning against the nobles to advance Saigō's rule.
• Saigō approved Lana's plan and promised her a reward if she carried it out to his satisfaction.
• Lana asked to become a demon and to serve Saigō, and he granted both requests.
• Lana emerged from her palace flushed and unsteady as onlookers guessed that she had been intimate with someone.

Golden Princess Lana sent Clem back to guard the palace while he misunderstood her encounter with Saigō as an affair. Saigō assigned Demiurge to absorb the Kingdom into the Zoroastrian Sacred Kingdom and turned his attention to the Dragon Kingdom, where Queen Deleloong struggled to fund her nation’s defenses.

• Lana greeted Clem, sent him to continue guarding the palace, and left with unsteady steps.
• Clem saw blood on Lana’s ankle and resolved to hide what he believed was her secret affair.
• Saigō told Demiurge to remove obstacles and integrate the Kingdom into the Zoroastrian Sacred Kingdom, while he planned to deal with the Dragon Kingdom himself.
• The chapter described Deleloong’s power to cast Origin Magic by sacrificing her people and the financial pressures facing her kingdom.
• Deleloong rewarded the mercenary captain Andre, then privately told her trusted Prime Minister that the Kingdom had withdrawn its aid for the year.

Deleloong weighed brutal ways to save the Dragon Kingdom from a financial and military crisis before Saigō appeared and demanded her submission in exchange for power. Later, Deleloong inspected the kingdom’s border fortress city, where the story left her attending a reception with its trusted Old General.

• Deleloong and her chancellor discussed withholding mercenary pay by sacrificing a remote city, hiring honorable Adamantite teams, seeking aid from the Slane Theocracy, or secretly aiding the orcs.
• Deleloong leaned toward using the orcs to kill the mercenaries, but worried that losing the mercenaries would leave the Dragon Kingdom less able to resist invasion.
• Saigō appeared on Deleloong’s throne, named himself Zarathustra and the Supreme Sovereign, and offered her power if she submitted and reshaped her kingdom to his will.
• Deleloong knelt before Saigō, recognizing that she had no real choice but to accept his dominion.
• Deleloong visited the Dragon Kingdom’s heavily fortified border city, greeted its cheering residents, and received a simple welcome from the city’s ruler, the trusted Old General.

Deleloong brought the Pleiades Maidens to the border fortress to destroy the Orc Army and save the Dragon Kingdom. As the Maids prepared to fight under the Supreme Sovereign’s orders, Deleloong embraced his vision for her country and raised a dragon roar that roused the city.

• Deleloong showed the Old General the Orc Army and promised support powerful enough to defeat it and seize Demi-human lands.
• After the Old General left, Deleloong revealed the seven Pleiades Maidens and asked them to destroy the Orc Army.
• Yuri Alpha accepted the mission on behalf of the Maids and directed Aureole to enhance them for battle.
• Yuri Alpha urged her sisters to slaughter boldly for the Supreme Sovereign’s favor and reward.
• Deleloong reflected on the Supreme Sovereign’s ideals and her hope of liberating the Dragon Kingdom, then roared as lights blazed across the fortress city.

Deleloong used her purified dragon bloodline and power from Saigō to transform into a Black Dragon and lead the Pleiades Maidens against a three-hundred-thousand-strong Orc Army. As the orcs scattered, she prepared to unleash her strongest Origin Magic, while the Battle Maids and cavalry withdrew from its path.

• Deleloong revealed her Giant Dragon form above the Border Fortress City and flew toward the Orc Army with the Pleiades Maidens following her.
• The Old General sent three thousand elite troops to support and escort Deleloong.
• Deleloong scorched the Orc Camp with eighth-tier Dragon Breath as the Pleiades Maidens slaughtered orcs across the battlefield.
• The orcs fled in scattered groups, and Deleloong decided to use the Origin Magic Greatest Explosion to stop them from escaping.
• Sensing Deleloong's soul-deep power gathering, the six Battle Maids and the elite cavalry withdrew to avoid being caught in her attack.

Deleloong annihilated the 300,000-strong Orc Army with her ultimate Origin Magic, winning the Dragon Kingdom a historic victory and the Pleiades’ contest for favor. Saigō later teased the seven Battle Maids about their failure, leaving them ready to accept whatever punishment he chose.

• Deleloong endured the pain of using her strongest Origin Magic and unleashed a blast that destroyed the Orc Army’s souls while sparing her allies.
• The Dragon Kingdom’s cavalry celebrated the victory as Deleloong rejoiced in her newfound strength and planned to thank Saigō.
• Yuri Alpha reprimanded Lupusregina for wanting to see Deleloong despair, while Nabe, Entoma, and Shizu Delta credited Saigō for the dragon’s power.
• Saigō addressed the seven Battle Maids in Deleloong’s palace and pointed out that none of them had won the contest, since Deleloong had defeated the most enemies.
• Yuri Alpha offered the sisters’ submission to punishment, while Shizu Delta and Entoma eagerly anticipated it.

As Saigō’s humanity returned after he dispersed his Divinities, he indulged the Pleiades Battle Maids and ordered Deleloong to establish Zoroastrianism across the Dragon Kingdom. The Sacred Kingdom’s revolutionary reforms spread through human lands, while the Platinum Dragon King and Rigurd Belz Garan discussed the newly arrived players and their motives.

• Saigō’s divinity faded as his humanity and Third Star Particle awakened, and he rewarded all seven Battle Maids when they could not determine a winner.
• Deleloong returned from the border city, reported that the crisis was resolved, and pledged to ally with Calca to reform the Dragon Kingdom and spread Zoroastrianism.
• Saigō ordered Deleloong to reveal her true form, and she transformed into a Black Dragon and prostrated herself before him.
• Deleloong’s defeat of the Orc Army and alliance with the Sacred Kingdom alarmed human nations as rebel forces spread reforms, redistributed nobles’ wealth and land, and gained support among the poor.
• Chaindroux Bexian and Rigurd Belz Garan discussed the continent’s upheaval, agreeing that players had likely arrived while questioning whether their new ideas were meant to seize power.

The Platinum Dragon King agreed to oppose the newly arrived players after learning World Items had stopped working, while Momonga planned an attack on the Council Nation’s dragon rulers. Saigō confronted Evileye and forced her to choose between saving her former people and sparing Blue Rose, leaving her torn between both duties.

• The Platinum Dragon King told Rigurd that World Items had ceased to function and promised to act against the players when the time was right.
• Momonga told Sebastian that Zarathustra had ordered him to kill the Council Nation’s five permanent dragon councilors, and asked Sebastian to gather intelligence.
• Evileye bound Laddis and the other members of Blue Rose, claiming she acted under the Supreme Sovereign’s will.
• Saigō appeared in the inn and offered to restore Evileye’s fallen kingdom and former subjects if she killed her teammates.
• Saigō offered Evileye the alternative of choosing Blue Rose, which would leave her people undead forever, and laughed as she struggled with the choice.

Evileye sacrificed herself to Saigō to spare her Blue Rose companions, joining the Great Tomb as the kingdom faced collapse after the Second Prince’s army was destroyed. The king raged at his sons while the Second Prince recognized that popular support for the Zoroastrian Sacred Kingdom had made the kingdom’s defeat inevitable.

• Saigō pressured Evileye to choose between betraying Blue Rose and sacrificing herself, then accepted her offer to give her flesh, soul, and spirit to him.
• Evileye gave herself to Saigō, leaving Blue Rose and becoming a member of the Great Tomb so her companions could be spared.
• Saigō reflected on his plans for the Dragon Clan, the nations, Natsuki, and the coming struggle for Little Garden.
• The king shouted at his ministers and sons over the loss of one hundred thousand soldiers, while the Minister of Finance urged him to punish the Second Prince.
• The Second Prince accepted his father’s anger and recalled how villagers aided the rebels and welcomed the Zoroastrian Sacred Kingdom’s forces.
• The Second Prince concluded that the kingdom was doomed because ordinary people supported the rebels’ fairer rule, and he watched his First Prince brother maneuver for the throne.

Golden Princess Lana murdered her father and revealed her allegiance to Saigō, then used a death spell to kill Gazef Stronoff. With the palace in chaos, she turned on her brothers and began casting another spell against the Second Prince.

• Lana entered the royal hall and urged the king to surrender his throne, then killed him with a sword of Sacred Fire.
• Demiurge asked Saigō whether he was satisfied with the patricide, while Evileye knelt before Saigō.
• The Eldest Prince tried to seize power and ordered Gazef Stronoff to arrest Lana and detain everyone in the palace.
• Lana declared her devotion to Saigō and killed Gazef with a human-skin scroll containing the ninth-tier spell True Death.
• Lana addressed her brothers, especially the Second Prince, and tore open another magic scroll.

Lana summoned demons to slaughter the royal family and nobles as Saigō’s forces captured the capital and established the Zoroastrian Sacred Kingdom. Evileye’s former comrades accepted the new regime while helping civilians, and Lana emerged from the purge beloved by the people despite her cruelty.

• Lana summoned demons, killed the Crown Prince and Second Prince, and sent the demons to attack the capital and noble district.
• Evileye left Saigō to carry out her mission as demons and converted rebels attacked the capital from within and without.
• Saigō watched the city burn and explained that good and evil were human judgments, declaring that only he could judge them.
• Evileye met Blue Rose, where Laddis said she wanted to help civilians, and Gagaran and the Twin Ninjas agreed to support her.
• Blue Rose went to aid civilians while Evileye continued her mission, and the capital’s slaughter lasted two days as its Royal Guards fought to the last.
• Lana’s purge destroyed the noble district, yet the people adored her as a pure and kind angel.

Saigō established a Zoroastrian kingdom governed by undead and used Lana’s fanatical faith to twist the meanings of good and evil. He ordered Demiurge and Evileye to join the other Guardians in destroying the Slane Theocracy and the True Dragon Kings, while promising to resolve Evileye’s lingering regrets.

• Saigō watched the undead govern the kingdom and declared that he himself embodied Zoroaster’s law beyond good and evil.
• Lana worshiped Saigō through altered hymns and pledged to purge the kingdom’s rebels before leading its army against the Baharuth Empire.
• Saigō dismissed Lana from the kingdom’s affairs and ordered Demiurge to rendezvous with Albedo and the other Guardians.
• Saigō explained that the Slane Theocracy would ally with the True Dragon Kings, so the Guardians should destroy both forces together.
• Saigō sent Evileye to fight alongside the Guardians and promised to give her a place in the Great Tomb, end her pain, and destroy the Coffin Dragon King.

Saigō sent Demiurge to join Albedo and Shalltear in conquering the Slane Theocracy, while Momonga and Sebastian pursued the Council Nation’s remaining councilors. After destroying the desert with Super-tier Magic to flush out the Wyrm Dragon, Momonga faced the consequences of his attack.

• Saigō dismissed Demiurge and Evileye, then resolved to complete the final piece of himself while the Halloween Queen prepared for war.
• Demiurge joined Albedo, Shalltear, and Cocytus at the Slane Theocracy’s border, explaining that Saigō had ordered him to help conquer the nation by the cruelest means.
• Albedo asserted command over the operation, and Demiurge teased her about Saigō’s favor, provoking Shalltear’s hostility.
• Sebastian shattered the platinum-colored armor, and Momonga concluded that the Platinum Dragon King had used it to test them and might avoid a direct confrontation.
• Momonga and Sebastian teleported to the desert where the Wyrm Dragon was believed to be hiding, and Momonga decided to use Super-tier Magic to destroy the area.
• Momonga cast The End of the Earth, turning the desert into a lake of magma.

Momonga used Super-tier Magic to kill the Council Nation’s dragons, prompting the Platinum Dragon King to seek allies against the players. Meanwhile, the Great Tomb’s forces invaded the Slane Theocracy, and Saigō ordered the nation’s complete destruction before Demiurge asked why it had to be treated differently from other humans.

• Momonga killed the Wyrm Dragon with Super-tier Magic and continued hunting the Council Nation’s dragon rulers, leaving only the Platinum Dragon King and the Blue Sky Dragon Lord, Diamond Dragon King, and Obsidian Dragon outside the slaughter.
• The Platinum Dragon King witnessed the dragons’ deaths, concluded that Momonga was a dangerous player, and flew off to find the other True Dragon Kings.
• Three Gargantuas smashed through a Slane Theocracy fortress while hundreds of thousands of monsters poured into the city and slaughtered its defenders and residents.
• Albedo, Demiurge, Shalltear, and Cocytus welcomed Saigō, who ordered them to destroy the Slane Theocracy and kill every living thing there.
• Demiurge asked Saigō why the Slane Theocracy had to be exterminated when Saigō had shown mercy to people from other nations.

Saigō ordered Demiurge to destroy the Slane Theocracy, then visited Nangong Nayue in the Bloodlust world and explained that his humanity had surpassed his demonic nature. He reassured her that he would not disappear as he returned to a higher perspective, but said he needed her help with one final step.

• Saigō told Demiurge to eradicate everything connected to the Slane Theocracy and warned him to watch for dragons.
• After the Guardians left to join the war, Saigō planned to lure the dragons into a final trial for Momonga and went to the Bloodlust world.
• Nangong Nayue welcomed Saigō after his long absence and noticed that he seemed more human and less demonic.
• Saigō explained his changing nature and asked whether becoming more human counted as evolution or devolution.
• Saigō told Nangong Nayue that he was an aspect of the Mother of Evil Gods, but would not disappear, and asked for her help with his final step.

Saigō explained that Nangong Nayue could transcend being a Witch and eventually become a Great Demon, then discussed her ambitions and the limits of the Bloodthirsty World. He revealed that reclaiming the Mother of Evil Gods’ Divinity had erased Holy Annihilation and lowered the world’s overall power, leaving Nangong Nayue to decide what she wanted to do next.

• Saigō offered Nangong Nayue the chance to become a Great Demon, and she said she cared more about helping him than gaining power.
• Saigō took Nangong Nayue to her classroom, where they were intimate until the students’ dismissal bell rang.
• Nangong Nayue pointed out Akatsuki Kojou and explained his family’s links to ancient Celestial Tribe ruins and a major corporation.
• Saigō said Akatsuki Kojou had lost his destined role as the chosen one and was now an ordinary student.
• Saigō told Nangong Nayue that she valued achieving her dream through her own efforts, then urged her to find her way forward.
• Saigō explained that the Mother of Evil Gods’ reclaimed Divinity had made Holy Annihilation disappear and reduced the world’s power level.