Recaps

Azer traveled to Sardinia and defeated Verethragna and Mekal, claiming their powers and Authorities. After Sardinia recovered from the battle, Azer prepared to return to Japan, but Salvatore Doni challenged him to a duel.

• Azer learned that two wounded gods had appeared in Sardinia and traveled there to claim their kills before the original protagonist could become a Godslayer.
• Azer encountered Erica Brandelli, who witnessed his strength as he fought Mekal in the underground temple and escaped its collapse with her.
• Azer waited for Mekal and Verethragna to recover, while Erica arranged to protect Sardinia’s civilians from the coming battle.
• Azer fought Verethragna at sea, overcame his incarnations with Hyōrinmaru, and killed him with his Magic Sword.
• Mekal tried to take advantage of the weakened gods, but Azer revealed the poison left by God Killing Spear and dissolved Mekal’s body and spiritual form.
• Azer absorbed the two gods’ power and claimed Verethragna’s Golden Sword Authority and Mekal’s Yagrush and Aymur.
• Azer melted the snow covering Sardinia, then prepared to return to Japan after Erica and the island’s defenders confirmed the gods were defeated.
• Salvatore Doni arrived in Sardinia and challenged Azer to a duel, which Azer accepted before suggesting they move somewhere else.

Azer arrived in Japan, drew Mariya Yuri and Seishuuin Ena into his service, and claimed Ama no Murakumo as an Authority. As Voban moved to Japan to pursue Yuri and challenge Azer, Azer went to confront him.

• Azer and Tony fought to a draw, and Erica Brandelli swore allegiance to Azer after he set her the task of obtaining the Gorgon Stone.
• Azer returned to Japan and offered Mariya Yuri protection from Voban in exchange for her loyalty, then accompanied her to school and discovered Kusanagi Godou had returned without his powers.
• Seishuuin Ena challenged Azer with Ama no Murakumo, and Azer defeated her before claiming the sword as his Authority and forgiving her.
• Ena pledged loyalty to Azer, and he gave her the Spirit Blade Sode no Shirayuki, and meanwhile, Voban ordered Liliana Kranjčar to accompany him to Japan.
• Luo Hao sent Lu Yinghua to Japan to ask Azer to breach the Western Sky Palace, while Guinevere set out east in search of the Last King.
• Saya Miyakano told Azer that Voban had arrived in Ota Ward and turned investigators to salt, so Azer set out with Ena to meet him.
• Liliana confronted Mariya Yuri at school and tried to knock her unconscious, but Ena drove her off and declared she would guard Yuri.

Azer defeated Voban, accepted Lilliana into his service, and agreed to free Sun Wukong from his seal. Sun Wukong returned and devastated Nikko City before revealing that an ancient covenant was empowering him against Azer.

• Seishuuin Ena fought Lilliana while Azer battled Marquis Voban, eventually sealing Voban’s best-known Authorities with the Golden Sword and forcing him to retreat.
• Azer accepted the title of God Tool King of the East, took Lilliana into his service, and met Luo Hao, who asked him to deal with the imprisoned God Lord at Western Sky Palace.
• Azer freed Sun Wukong from the Bima Wen Binding, awakening the Great Sage Equal to Heaven and turning residents around Nikko into monkeys.
• Saya Miyakano asked Azer to save Nikko City, and Azer waited for Sun Wukong to reach his peak while Erica Brandelli returned as his knight with the Gorgon Stone.
• Athena sensed that her lost Snake was changing inside the Gorgon Stone and traveled east, while Erica and Lilliana joined Azer on his journey to Nikko City.
• Azer and his companions reached Mount Nikko, where Erica and Lilliana fought Sun Wukong’s monkey messengers as Azer confronted the Great Sage at Water Curtain Cave.
• Azer and Sun Wukong exchanged powerful attacks, and Sun Wukong turned a petrified flood into a stone mountain that devastated Mount Huaguo and Nikko City.
• Sun Wukong used clones and transformations to overwhelm Azer, then explained that an ancient covenant empowered Sword Gods against Godslayers and that Azer’s Curse Power let him invoke the Oath Great Law.

Azer defeated Sun Wukong, claimed the World Saving God Sword, and gathered allies and divine weapons before entering the world of Strike the Blood. Assigned to observe the supposed Fourth Primogenitor, Akatsuki Nagisa, he uncovered Aurora Florestina’s connection to her and entered Nagisa’s inner world, where Aurora’s memories revealed their shared past.

• Azer defeated Sun Wukong, seized the World Saving God Sword, killed Lancelot’s manifestation, and took Athena as his Exclusive Armament.
• Azer returned to Seven Heroes Shrine, accepted Lilliana as his knight, and hunted Kaguya-hime, Ea, Typhon, and Horus before spending a year with Luo Hao.
• The Library of Fantasies awarded Azer Leviathan and sent him to the world of Strike the Blood, where he was placed at Koukami no Mori and ordered to observe the supposed Fourth Primogenitor.
• Azer moved to Itogami Island, enrolled at Saikai Academy, and met Akatsuki Nagisa, Akatsuki Kojo, Yaze Motoki, and Aiba Asagi.
• Azer helped Yaze Natsune rescue Xiao Nai Mao, then invited Nagisa to dinner and learned she knew nothing about the Fourth Primogenitor or the Alight Night Banquet.
• When demons threatened Nagisa, her magic awakened Aurora Florestina and the Ice Demon Bird Familiar, but Azer defeated the Familiar and put Nagisa into a dormant state.
• Athena discovered Aurora’s soul inside Nagisa and linked Azer to her inner world, where Aurora’s memories revealed that Nagisa had awakened her, refused to surrender Origin, and later saved her soul after Aurora sacrificed herself to destroy Origin.