Chapter Summaries

Heisenberg and Athena encountered Thor, the God of Thunder, who attacked them in search of a worthy fight. Heisenberg withstood Thor’s blows and struck back, causing Atlas and the world he carried to tilt.

• Heisenberg and Athena set out to visit Diana, with Athena apologizing for her people surrounding her and offering to bring her a gift.
• A lightning-wielding stranger attacked Athena and sent her crashing through a house, then revealed himself as Thor, the God of Thunder.
• Thor grabbed Heisenberg and struck his head and neck with his hammer, but neither attack harmed him.
• Thor smashed the ground with his hammer and demanded that Heisenberg fight back.
• Heisenberg punched Thor, and Atlas and the world he carried tipped to the left.

Heisenberg’s fight with Thor sent a devastating shockwave through the Greek world, destroying Poseidon’s temple and threatening to topple Atlas and the world he carried. After Cronus asked Heisenberg to fix the damage, Heisenberg kicked Thor back toward Athens and made Poseidon flee with a single command.

• Poseidon and Ares fought above Poseidon’s temple until Thor flew past them, and the resulting shockwave split the sea and destroyed most of the temple.
• Amphitrite found that the wave had swept away her home, while Poseidon and Ares recognized the damage and chased after the black-and-red figure responsible.
• Heisenberg struck Thor again as Cronus contacted him and explained that Atlas was losing control of the world he supported.
• Heisenberg agreed to correct the tilt, then used Bifrost to meet Thor and kicked him toward Athens, sending the world back into place.
• Poseidon arrived to confront Heisenberg, but when Heisenberg told him to get lost, Poseidon immediately turned around and flew away.

Heisenberg’s punch devastated Athens, but Athena restored the dead and moved the city aside when Ares and Thor came hurtling toward it. Heisenberg found Ares soaring upward with Thor, while Atlas was suddenly launched into the sky in another dimension.

• Heisenberg flew back toward Athens after splitting the sea, while Ares intercepted Thor and was sent flying backward with him.
• Athena resurrected the Athenian dead and clothed them, as Aristotle recorded his thoughts about human fear, pain, and hope.
• Athena moved Athens more than thirty kilometers aside and kicked the approaching Ares into the sky, sending Thor upward with him.
• Heisenberg arrived and learned from Athena that Ares had joined Thor, leaving him unsure how to fight them both.
• Atlas was abruptly launched upward while straining to keep his world from collapsing.

Heisenberg endured Zeus’s lightning strike, recovered from his wounds, and prepared to hurl Gungnir back at Zeus. Hera openly defended Heisenberg, while the assembled gods watched the confrontation escalate.

• Hera sensed that Heisenberg had caused the tremors and rushed to find Zeus and the other gods.
• Zeus gathered the Olympian gods and warriors, then hurled a lightning spear toward Athens.
• Diana took Gungnir to Heisenberg as he faced Zeus’s lightning, and Heisenberg struck the attack with a magma shield.
• Zeus’s lightning blasted Heisenberg into the ground, leaving him wounded and his shield cracked.
• Hera defied Zeus and defended Heisenberg, prompting Zeus to threaten her.
• Heisenberg recovered, caught Gungnir from Diana, and announced that his next spear would pierce Zeus.

Heisenberg wounded Zeus with Gungnir, revealed himself as a foreign King of Gods, and began a fierce battle with him. As the gods watched their clash, Thor arrived on his ram and charged toward the fight.

• Heisenberg threw Gungnir, which pierced Zeus and set his wounds ablaze before returning to Heisenberg’s hand.
• Athena declared her loyalty to Heisenberg, and he told her to take Athens somewhere safe.
• Heisenberg and Zeus exchanged spears, then began fighting across the sky as their injuries healed almost instantly.
• The watching gods considered how either king’s victory or death could change Zeus’s standing and the balance of power on Olympus.
• Thor arrived with his armored ram, drank from a wineskin, and charged toward Heisenberg and Zeus’s battle.

Heisenberg fought Zeus across Olympus, drove off Thor, and challenged the gods’ loyalty as the battle intensified. As Zeus and Heisenberg continued trading blows, Hera and the other goddesses weighed whom they would support, while Artemis pointed out that Athena had already chosen a side.

• Heisenberg let Zeus pierce his chest, then kicked Thor and his ram out of the fight and shattered the ram’s head.
• Heisenberg and Zeus clashed again, and Heisenberg mocked Zeus’s inherited rule before hurling Gungnir into Thor’s heart and sending him flying away.
• Zeus argued that Heisenberg was an incompetent king, but Heisenberg countered that wisdom was a weapon of the weak as they resumed their brutal fight.
• The watching gods privately discussed whether Zeus might lose and whether they wanted to follow Heisenberg for the chance to gain more Authority.
• Hera, Aphrodite, Hestia, and Artemis considered which king they wanted to survive, and Hera vowed to protect both Zeus and Heisenberg depending on who lost.
• Artemis challenged Hera’s view and said Athena had already chosen her side.

Hestia and Aphrodite chose to support Heisenberg against Zeus, while Artemis’s feelings for Hera left her and Apollo bewildered. As Heisenberg and Zeus continued their battle, Ares charged in and was immediately speared by both of them.

• Hestia decided to support Heisenberg, and Aphrodite pledged unconditional support because of the gift he had given her.
• Hera ended the goddesses’ private discussion, and they left Olympus for the mortal world.
• Apollo pulled Artemis aside and questioned why she had become so close to Hera, while Artemis privately reminded herself she was competing with Hera for Heisenberg.
• Ares recovered from his fall, saw the many suns filling the sky, and rushed toward Heisenberg and Zeus, eager to join their fight.
• Heisenberg and Zeus traded blows as Ares approached, and Heisenberg teased Zeus about Ares’s recklessness.
• Heisenberg and Zeus jointly shouted at Ares and stabbed him in both kidneys with Gungnir and a lightning spear, sending him flying away.

Ares crashed through Athens and faced Diana, who removed the divine spears pinning him despite the danger, then fought him after he spared her. Just as their duel began in earnest, Leonidas and Heracles intervened, turning it into a three-against-one standoff.

• Ares crashed through the moving city of Athens, killing residents, and landed near the Spartan courtyard as Diana set out to confront him.
• Leonidas ordered his warriors to kill the rebellious Helots, then rushed after Diana toward Ares.
• Diana pulled Gungnir and Thunder from Ares, enduring Thunder’s power, but Ares grabbed her by the throat and then released her.
• Diana and Ares resumed their fight, with Diana declaring she wanted to defeat him rather than kill him, and Ares preparing to battle her seriously.
• Leonidas attacked Ares from above, and Heracles kicked Ares’s hand aside, letting Leonidas’s spear strike Ares before both men landed beside Diana.

Medusa left the Parthenon to aid Athens’s grieving and injured residents, earning their gratitude and renown. As she treated the wounded, Poseidon disguised himself as a patient, revealed himself, and seized her after she rejected his advances.

• Spartan Warriors slaughtered the Helots after a group of them attempted to escape, while grief and unrest spread through Athens.
• Medusa told Ling she would take Parthenon Fighters to help the Athenians, then led seventy-two fighters from the temple.
• Medusa addressed the praying crowd, listened to their troubles, and sent the healthy residents home while promising aid from Athena’s fighters.
• Medusa treated Athens’s injured and sick as the Parthenon Fighters helped residents, and her reputation spread throughout the city.
• Poseidon approached Medusa disguised as a patient, revealed his identity, and demanded that she go with him.
• After Medusa rejected Poseidon and invoked her service to Athena, he grabbed her wrist and tried to take her away.

Poseidon demanded Medusa and threatened to drown Athens, prompting Athena and her warriors to resist him. As other gods arrived and began choosing sides, Hera and the goddesses moved to stop the conflict and prevent the Olympus pantheon from splitting.

• Poseidon seized Medusa, but Tohru, the Libra Saint, defended her until his master White Dragon took his armor and ordered him to summon the other Zodiac Saints.
• White Dragon confronted Poseidon over his changed treatment of humanity, while the six available Gold Saints gathered to face the sea god.
• Poseidon summoned a colossal wave against Athens, and Athena raised a protective land barrier before charging him; the Gold Saints struck back against the seawater.
• Hermes, Demeter, Apollo, and Hephaestus chose Poseidon's side, then were shocked to find Hestia, Artemis, and Hera among the gods supporting Athena and Heisenberg.
• Hera declared that the goddesses had chosen neither King of Gods and led them and their warriors to stop the fighting and prevent the conflict from spreading.

Artemis and Aphrodite joined Hera’s forces against Hermes, but Hermes’s new power let him overcome their attacks and destroy Aphrodite. He then turned on Hera, threatening to kill her and expose her relationship with Heisenberg to Zeus.

• Artemis unleashed a seemingly endless rain of arrows at Hermes’s allied army, but Apollo’s music erased the arrows and rallied his soldiers.
• Aphrodite’s dance turned warriors from both sides against their former allies, while Artemis kicked the captivated Apollo away from the battle.
• Hermes returned Apollo to the fight and attacked Aphrodite, slicing away her body until Hera tried to protect her with lightning.
• Hermes destroyed Aphrodite’s body and cut off Hera’s arm as she reached into the River Styx to retrieve Aphrodite’s soul.
• Hermes humiliated Hera and vowed to destroy her, while threatening to tell Zeus about her and Heisenberg.

Hera and Aphrodite exposed Hermes as the source of Olympus's turmoil and staged his downfall to keep the divine faction from splitting apart. With Hermes restrained and Poseidon sent away, Hera assured Apollo that Olympus remained intact, though Hestia and Aphrodite still appeared to oppose Zeus's rule.

• Hera restored Aphrodite from the River Styx, and Hestia clothed the reborn goddess in a gown of hearthfire.
• Aphrodite revealed that she and Hera had used Hermes to uncover his hatred and ambition, then compelled him to approach and held him beneath her foot.
• Hera struck Hermes and summoned Poseidon, ordering him back to the sea until the war between Zeus and Heisenberg ended; Poseidon left while eyeing Medusa in Athens.
• Apollo asked what Hera meant by calling events an act, and Artemis interrupted him before asking Hera the same question.
• Hera explained that she had staged a trap to expose Hermes and prevent Olympus from descending into civil war, then told Apollo that Hermes had nearly shattered their realm.

Athena joined Hera and the gods after Olympus’s chaos, while wondering how Medusa had gained such devoted followers in Athens. Hera stripped Hermes of his divine authority and sealed his soul, leaving the gods to decide who would inherit the power of speed.

• Athena heard the people of Athens praise Medusa and noticed that they worshipped her more fervently than before.
• Athena met Hera, who told her Hermes had tried to kill the other gods and was now pinned beneath her foot.
• Hera and the other gods separated Hermes’s body and soul, stripped away his speed authority, and released it to choose a new god.
• Hermes warned that another god would eventually disappear, but Hera rejected his attempt to sow distrust and proposed sealing him beneath Atlas’s foot.
• Aphrodite suggested sealing Hermes’s soul inside his own body, and Hera agreed to hand him over for that punishment.

Aphrodite and Hera urged the gods to stop the war between Heisenberg and Zeus as their battle devastated the world. After the primordial Five Gods of Greece arrived to convey Chaos’s will, Zeus agreed to a temporary truce, while Heisenberg mocked him.

• Aphrodite stored Hermes’s soul and called on Hera and the other gods to end the chaos and stop Heisenberg and Zeus’s war.
• Athena and Hera agreed that the battle had to be stopped, while Atlas struggled to keep the shifting world balanced on his shoulders.
• Zeus panicked after sensing Aphrodite’s fall, but Heisenberg exploited the distraction and continued their brutal fight across the planet and other dimensions.
• Gaia, Erebus, Nyx, Tartarus, and Eros arrived with more than eight hundred gods and warriors, revealing themselves as the Greek world’s creator gods and children of Chaos.
• Zeus stopped fighting when the Five Gods appeared, but Heisenberg knocked off the top of his skull before Zeus agreed to a temporary truce.

Heisenberg ended his confrontation with Zeus at the request of Chaos and the Greek creator gods, then subdued Ares and Thor to restore peace in Olympus. Thor admitted he had come to show off his roast-lamb skills and summoned his goats.

• Gaia stopped Zeus and Heisenberg from resuming their fight, citing the will of Chaos and Cronus, and Zeus returned to the Olympian gods.
• Heisenberg politely agreed to end the conflict and flew to Ares, pressing the God of War into the ground and knocking him unconscious.
• Heisenberg greeted Diana, Heracles, and Leonidas, then used Cronus's permission to seize Thor as he flew through the air.
• Heisenberg repeatedly choked Thor until Thor admitted defeat and agreed he could not win.
• Heisenberg questioned Thor about trespassing in Olympus, and Thor summoned his goats and said he had come to demonstrate his roast-lamb skills.

Heisenberg abandoned his plans to interrogate Thor and joined him, Diana, Leonidas, and Heracles for a feast. On Olympus, Gaia ordered Zeus to commemorate his battle with Heisenberg as a friendship, while Nyx and Gaia condemned Zeus for failing to defeat him.

• Thor insisted that he had come to Olympus for its cooking, then grilled ribs from his mounts over a lava pit.
• Heisenberg shared Dwarven spirits with Thor and invited Diana, Leonidas, and Heracles to join the feast, where they ate and drank together.
• Zeus raged at the feast and blamed Chaos for favoring Heisenberg, but Nyx mocked Zeus for showing weakness before outsiders.
• Gaia declared that the mountain would be called Peak of the God King to commemorate the friendship between Zeus and Heisenberg, following Chaos's order.
• Zeus rejected the idea of friendship, but Gaia warned him to respect Chaos and berated him as a coward compared with Uranus and Cronus.

After Zeus withdrew from King of Gods Mountain, Heisenberg and his companions learned that Odin planned to invade Olympus to test its strength and investigate the Bifrost. Diana declared her loyalty to Heisenberg and looked forward to war, then kissed him as Heracles took the drunken Thor and Ares away.

• Gaia left Zeus after cursing him, and Zeus departed King of Gods Mountain without retaliating.
• Thor revived his goats after Heisenberg and the others ate them, then explained that Odin had sent him to scout Olympus and was already planning an invasion.
• Leonidas left to prepare Sparta for the coming conflict, while Heracles invited Diana to join his mercenary corps.
• Diana told Heracles that Heisenberg meant she was never alone and urged him to watch for their divine kingdom's forces in the coming war.
• Diana kissed Heisenberg, and Heracles carried off the drunk Thor and Ares while asking Heisenberg to treat his sister gently.

After the gods’ chaos subsided, Hera worked to finish a cloak for Heisenberg and sought Olympus’s sacred flames to enchant it. She obtained flames from Helios and Hestia, then prepared to approach Prometheus despite his hatred of the gods.

• Hera finished weaving a cloak for Heisenberg and went to Helios’s palace for his core flame.
• Helios feared Heisenberg would replace him as Sun God, but Hera promised his position was safe and received his Fire of Heaven.
• Helios told Hera about Hestia’s Fire of Earth and Prometheus’s Fire of Humanity and Living Beings, and Hera decided to gather all three flames.
• Hera visited Hestia, explained the cloak was a gift for Heisenberg, and received a wisp of Hestia’s flame.
• Hestia warned Hera that Prometheus would not willingly give up his flame, and Hera said she would try to obtain it and might secretly kill Zeus’s divine eagle.

Hera freed Prometheus from most of his chains and gave him the chance to kill and eat the divine eagle that had tormented him for ages. After Prometheus learned Hera had come to borrow a small portion of the flame in his heart, he agreed to hear her request.

• Prometheus recalled how he had defied Zeus to protect humanity, stole fire from Helios's sun chariot, and was condemned to have his liver eaten daily.
• Hera arrived, covered Prometheus with a scarf, loosened most of his chains, and killed the divine eagle with her peacock.
• Prometheus vented his long-held rage on the eagle, tore out its liver, and ate it before asking Hera why she had come.
• Hera said she had come to borrow a small portion of the flame Prometheus had carried into the human world and promised to repay him for it.

Hera tried to persuade Prometheus to give her his flame, revealing that she loved Heisenberg and wanted the flame as a gift for him. Heisenberg arrived at the Caucasus Mountains and found Hera drunk beside Prometheus, whom he angrily demanded to identify himself.

• Prometheus rejected Hera's request and declared that no one from Olympus deserved his flame.
• Hera sat with Prometheus, sent her peacock to fetch Heisenberg, and offered to tell Prometheus about her love for Heisenberg.
• Prometheus realized Hera truly loved Heisenberg, then warned her that giving him the flame could draw Zeus's attention and endanger her.
• Hera confessed that she wanted Olympus's most precious flames as gifts for Heisenberg, and she and Prometheus drank together.
• Heisenberg arrived with the peacock, created a place for them to sit, and pulled the drunken Hera into his arms.
• Heisenberg mistook Prometheus's sigh for evidence that he had been drinking with Hera in secret and demanded to know his name.