Chapter Summaries

A dazzling figure called Albion descended upon Las Noches and overwhelmed the Espada with his speed and power. After crippling Nnoitra and revealing that his Sacred Gear could halve the strength of anyone he touched, Albion challenged the Arrancar to defeat him before they grew too weak.

• White light filled Hueco Mundo as Albion appeared above Las Noches, drawing Aizen Sōsuke, Gin Ichimaru, Tōsen Kaname, and the Espada to look on in awe.
• Nnoitra Gilga threatened Albion, who moved too quickly for the others to follow and tore off one of Nnoitra’s arms.
• Nnoitra charged Albion in anger, but Albion repeatedly used Divide to reduce Nnoitra’s speed, momentum, and Reiatsu until he was weaker than an ordinary Hollow.
• Albion introduced himself and explained that the White Dragon Emperor’s Light Wings halved the power of anyone he touched and turned it into nourishment.
• Albion warned the Arrancar that he would keep growing stronger while they weakened unless they defeated him quickly.

Azer overwhelmed the Espada with the White Dragon Emperor’s power, killing three and injuring Tōsen Kaname while taking Gin Ichimaru’s Zanpakuto. Stark, Barragan, and Halibel released their Resurrección and faced Azer as their Reiatsu filled Las Noches.

• Zommari, Szayelaporro, and Aaroniero released their Zanpakuto, but Azer’s ability repeatedly halved their power until he killed them with his fists.
• Stark, Barragan, and Halibel attacked Azer with Cero, but his power weakened their blasts, prompting Barragan to urge them to stop holding back.
• Aizen Sōsuke permitted Stark, Barragan, and Halibel to release their Resurrección, and they transformed to fight Azer.
• Gin Ichimaru struck Azer with God Killing Spear while Tōsen Kaname activated his Bankai, but Azer broke through Tōsen’s barrier and blasted him through the walls of Las Noches.
• Azer seized God Killing Spear from Gin Ichimaru, severed its connection to him, and punched him into Aizen Sōsuke’s throne.
• Stark, Barragan, and Halibel stood transformed amid their immense Reiatsu as they prepared to face Azer.

Azer fought the three Resurrección-released Espada Stark, Barragan Luisenbarn, and Tier Halibel, countering their attacks with his power to weaken and absorb them. He defeated Stark and Halibel before using Half Dimension to erase Barragan.

• Coyote Stark, Barragan Luisenbarn, and Tier Halibel released their Resurrección and surrounded Azer in midair.
• The three Espada attacked Azer with Ceros, deathly breath, and a torrent of water, but he repeatedly weakened their assaults with Divide.
• Stark, Barragan, and Halibel tried close-range and physical attacks, but Azer erased Stark's wolf pack with Half Dimension and struck him into the desert.
• Azer shattered Halibel's sword with a punch and kicked her into the desert.
• Barragan attacked Azer with his axe, but Azer appeared behind him and compressed him into nothingness with Half Dimension.

Azer confronted Aizen Sōsuke in the shattered Las Noches and revealed that he could counter Kyoka Suigetsu with Dominion Radiance. He left Aizen impaled and weakened, explaining that he had delayed using this power because he feared the Soul King’s reaction.

• Aizen Sōsuke appeared before Azer and admitted that he had suspected Azer’s strength and powers were unusual.
• Azer struck the apparent Aizen, exposing Ulquiorra Cifer, who used Kyoka Suigetsu to disguise himself and others while attacking in his Resurrección form.
• After Ulquiorra’s illusions made him appear as Hinamori Momo, Azer rejected the deception, invoked Dominion Radiance, and dispelled Kyoka Suigetsu’s illusion.
• Azer sealed Kyoka Suigetsu, pierced Aizen Sōsuke with the Twilight Holy Lance, and halved his strength with Divide.
• Azer told Aizen Sōsuke that he had withheld his power because he was wary of how the Soul King would respond.

Azer reflected on the Soul King and the danger of disrupting the balance of the Three Realms, then decided to use his power more freely in Hueco Mundo to stop Aizen Sōsuke. He revealed that Aizen’s apparent use of the Hōgyoku was an illusion, leaving Aizen bleeding and defeated.

• Azer reasoned that his foreign powers could disrupt the Soul King’s balance, but Hueco Mundo might be the safest place to test his limits.
• Azer decided to stop Aizen Sōsuke before he could carry out another scheme and told him he had met his match.
• Aizen Sōsuke, pierced by Azer’s lance, insisted he had not lost and pushed the Hōgyoku into his own chest.
• Azer released Kyoka Suigetsu and shattered the illusion, revealing that he held both the Hōgyoku and his Zanpakuto while Aizen had never been pierced by the lance.
• Aizen Sōsuke fell toward the ground, bleeding and unable to respond.

A month after Aizen Sōsuke's defection, Azer returned to Seireitei celebrated for conquering Hueco Mundo and capturing Aizen, Gin Ichimaru, and Tōsen Kaname. After hearing about Urahara Kisuke helping Kurosaki Ichigo with his emerging Hollow power, Azer returned to his quarters and activated the gemstone within his body.

• Shinigami across Seireitei praised Azer for defeating the Espada and bringing Aizen Sōsuke, Gin Ichimaru, and Tōsen Kaname back alive.
• Hinamori Momo told Azer that Rangiku Matsumoto, Komamura Sajin, and Hisagi Shūhei were grateful he had spared their friends and captain, and Azer agreed to accept their gifts but declined their visit.
• Azer asked Hinamori Momo about her encounter with Urahara Kisuke, and she explained that Urahara had taken Kurosaki Ichigo away after Ichigo nearly lost control.
• Azer realized Kurosaki Ichigo's Hollow power had begun stirring and that Urahara was likely teaching him to master it.
• Azer returned to the Third Division's barracks, sat alone in the captain's lounge, and closed his eyes as the gemstone inside him glowed and began transforming him.

After defeating Aizen Sōsuke, Azer completed the fusion of the two Hōgyoku and discovered its true powers as a fragment of the Soul King that could draw out potential and guide evolution. The Hōgyoku transformed him with Hollow abilities and greater Reiatsu, and Azer prepared to leave the world and return to the Library of Fantasies.

• Azer bound the Hōgyoku to himself as an Exclusive Armament, accelerating the fusion until it was complete.
• Azer learned that the Hōgyoku's core came from a fragment of the Soul King and that it could realize a host's desires by drawing out their potential and guiding their evolution.
• The completed Hōgyoku transformed Azer, raising his Reiatsu and granting him Hollow powers such as Cero, Sonido, and Bala.
• Azer concluded that the Hōgyoku would keep growing alongside him and let him grow stronger even while lying down.
• Azer changed out of his Shinigami clothes and prepared to return to the Library of Fantasies.

Azer returned to the Library of Fantasies after spending decades in the world of Shinigami and received the Ring of Usurpation as a reward. He opened the Godslayer Campione book and vanished to begin another life experience.

• Azer returned to the library and reflected on the decades he had spent in the Shinigami world and the powers he had gained.
• The library rewarded Azer with the Ring of Usurpation, a divine artifact that could take the Authorities of gods slain by its wielder.
• Azer learned that the ring enabled him to create Godslayers and bound it to himself.
• The ring resonated with a book, and the library warned Azer that possessing it could narrow the life experiences available in that world.
• Azer put away the Ring of Usurpation, drew the Godslayer Campione life page, and disappeared into the next experience.

Azer began a new life as a temporary worker at Seven Heroes Shrine in Kanto and encountered Mariya Yuri, Musashino’s Shrine Maiden. After Azer introduced himself, Mariya Yuri’s spiritual sight reacted to him, leaving their meeting poised to draw him into the supernatural world.

• Azer woke at Seven Heroes Shrine and learned that he was a temporary helper with a humble background.
• Azer recognized the shrine maiden Mariya Yuri and realized he had arrived in a world connected to the supernatural.
• Mariya Yuri felt an unexplained omen and left the inner hall to investigate.
• Mariya Yuri sensed that Azer was the person she had been looking for and called out to him as he prepared to leave.
• Azer introduced himself as Mariya Yuri’s spiritual sight turned vacant again when his fighting spirit rose.

Mariya Yuri foresaw a Disobedient God descending on Japan and warned the Committee for the Compilation of True History. Unaware of her warning, Azer tested his powers, flew out over the sea, and prepared to summon a god there.

• Mariya Yuri’s clairvoyance showed her meteors, ghosts, and a golden-armored being advancing toward a city, so she fled and warned shrine personnel that a Disobedient God was about to appear in Japan.
• Azer realized Mariya Yuri had seen a vision, then explored how his second Authority converted his Spirit Power into Curse Power and tested which abilities still worked.
• Azer confirmed that his armaments and body-based abilities remained usable after conversion, while abilities requiring incompatible power systems did not.
• Azer flew from Kanto to an empty stretch of ocean, choosing it as a battlefield to protect civilians from the disasters caused by a god’s manifestation.
• Azer summoned the Twilight Holy Lance and considered the difficult rituals humans used to draw Disobedient Gods from mythology into the world.

Azer used the Twilight Holy Lance’s Dominion Radiance to summon a god and drew Odin, the Norse God King, into the world. Odin challenged Azer’s purpose and, after their battle began, summoned an army of fallen heroes to fight him.

• Azer activated Dominion Radiance with the Twilight Holy Lance, causing immense sacred power to spread across the world and attract a god.
• Odin descended above the sea on Sleipnir, recognized Azer’s challenge to the gods, and questioned his arrogance.
• Azer identified Odin and challenged him to test his spear against the Holy Lance, but Odin refused to use Gungnir and sent his wolves Geri and Freki to attack.
• Azer flew past the wolves toward Odin, who retreated on Sleipnir and concealed himself within a storm.
• Azer blasted apart Odin’s storm with the Holy Lance, prompting Odin to acknowledge his power and summon an army of fallen heroes from Valgrind.

Azer fought Odin’s Heroic Spirit Warriors and divine wolves, then survived a direct hit from Gungnir by regenerating his heart. He weakened Odin’s spear with Divide, leaving the battle poised to continue.

• Odin summoned his Heroic Spirit Warriors, and Azer charged into their ranks, blasting and piercing through them.
• Geri and Freki knocked Azer back, but he used Divide to halve their power and pierced both wolves with his extending Holy Spear.
• Odin recognized Azer’s strength and threw Gungnir, which pierced Azer’s chest and shredded his heart.
• Azer regenerated his heart and healed the wound, then used Divide to halve the power of Gungnir in Odin’s hand.

Azer pursued Odin as the god tried to bring a storm, tsunami, and ghost army to a coastal city, then transformed the Twilight Holy Lance and struck him with its god-slaying power. As Odin’s life force faded, an ancient disk appeared and swallowed both him and Azer.

• Azer used Divide to drain the Eternal Spear, then blasted Odin from his horse with the Twilight Holy Lance.
• Odin fled toward land, expanding his storm and raising a ghost army as Azer realized the danger to the coastal city.
• Azer activated the Holy Lance’s Balance Breaker Transformation, awakening its crimson god-slaying power.
• Odin’s restored Eternal Spear collided with Azer’s crimson spear above the city, but Azer drained its power and shattered it.
• Azer pierced Odin’s body and extinguished his life force with God Slaying Power.
• An ancient disk appeared above Azer and swallowed both him and Odin.

Pandora discovered that Azer had used a second Ring of Usurpation to become a Godslayer without her ritual, while Odin warned that Azer would become a threat to the gods. After Odin revealed that Azer had obtained his spear, Azer used the Hōgyoku to reshape himself with the Divine Power he had taken.

• Pandora was preparing to reincarnate a new Godslayer when she saw another Ring of Usurpation appear above Azer.
• Odin confronted Pandora about the mysterious Ring and Azer’s power, then warned that the Hero Who Annihilates Devil Kings would subjugate the God-Slaying Beasts.
• Pandora asked what Authority Azer had gained, and Odin revealed that Azer had obtained his spear before departing.
• Pandora laughed at Azer’s ingenuity as he was born as the strongest Godslayer of the age.
• Azer received Odin’s body, power, and Authorities through the Ring of Usurpation and used the Hōgyoku to reshape himself.

Azer used the Hōgyoku and the Ring of Usurpation to reshape his first Godslayer rebirth, strengthening his body and resistance to supernatural influence while choosing Gungnir as his Authority. After gaining immense power, he turned from testing it on another god to consider the devastation divine battles could cause to ordinary people.

• Azer planned to use the Hōgyoku and the Ring of Usurpation to customize his Godslayer rebirth, retaining useful traits and redirecting others into physical enhancements and resistance to mental and sensory powers.
• Azer chose Odin's Gungnir as his Authority and bound the divine spear to himself.
• Azer completed his rebirth, gaining a tougher, stronger body and Curse Power far beyond that of an ordinary Godslayer.
• Azer judged that his new strength could let him defeat powerful opponents such as Vali, Azazel, and Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni without weapons.
• Azer saw the tsunami damage below, recognized that battles between gods and Godslayers inevitably endangered humans, and vanished from midair.

The Council of Sages confirmed that Azer had become the seventh Godslayer after defeating Odin and circulated a warning about the new King. At Seven Heroes Shrine, Saya Miyakano told Mariya Yuri that the Godslayer seemed connected to the shrine, and Yuri’s Clairvoyance suddenly activated.

• The Council of Sages identified Azer as the seventh Godslayer and began compiling a file on him.
• The sages concluded that the New King had slain Odin and discussed warning other Mysterious Side factions to avoid angering him.
• Saya Miyakano visited Mariya Yuri at Seven Heroes Shrine and asked about her Clairvoyance vision of a god’s descent.
• Saya told Yuri that a new Godslayer had been born in their country and seemed connected to the shrine.
• Yuri’s eyes went vacant and her vision suddenly flew away.

Azer sensed Mariya Yuri watching him through Spirit Vision and repelled her gaze before heading to Seven Heroes Shrine. Saya Miyakano, Kasu Tōma, and Mariya Yuri waited anxiously as he arrived, joking about his unfinished part-time cleaning job.

• Azer ate ramen in Tokyo while the shop's customers watched news of the tsunami, then sensed Mariya Yuri's distant gaze and repelled it.
• Mariya Yuri collapsed after seeing Azer and warned Saya Miyakano and Kasu Tōma that the New King was coming to the shrine.
• Saya Miyakano urged everyone to treat the Godslayer with awe, while Mariya Yuri resolved to apologize for her disrespect.
• Saya Miyakano and Kasu Tōma dismissed the shrine officials and waited with Mariya Yuri at Seven Heroes Shrine.
• Azer climbed the shrine steps and joked that he was late for his cleaning job and might have his pay docked.

Azer met the representatives of Japan’s Mysterious Side at Seven Heroes Shrine after becoming a Godslayer, and his overwhelming Curse Power terrified Saya Miyakano, Kasu Tōma, and Mariya Yuri. After thanking them for stopping the tsunami caused by Odin, he stopped Mariya from using her spiritual sight and left her pleading for mercy as he approached her.

• Saya Miyakano, Kasu Tōma, and Mariya Yuri sensed Azer’s terrifying Curse Power and knelt to greet him as the New King.
• Saya Miyakano identified herself as a director of the Committee for the Compilation of True History and a member of the Sayamiya clan, while Azer treated the three as Japan’s Mysterious Side representatives.
• Azer thanked them for intervening during the tsunami and revealed that Odin had been its chief culprit, shocking the three with news that he had slain the chief god.
• Azer flicked Mariya Yuri on the forehead when she tried to enter her spiritual sight, and she begged him to punish only her for her offense.
• Mariya Yuri tried to persuade Azer to show mercy, and he accused her of morally blackmailing him before walking toward her.

Azer tested Mariya Yuri’s clairvoyance, confirmed that he had gained Odin’s Authority of the Eternal Spear Gungnir, and told the Committee for the Compilation of True History that he wanted information about gods to fight. Saya Miyakano agreed to provide materials, and Azer left the shrine after saying he would stay nearby for a while.

• Azer questioned Mariya Yuri about the Authority he gained from Odin, and she used her clairvoyance to identify the Eternal Spear Gungnir.
• Azer forgave Mariya Yuri for spying on him and told Saya Miyakano he did not intend to claim the country as his territory.
• Azer asked the Committee for the Compilation of True History to provide information about gods, and Saya agreed to prepare materials in exchange for his favor.
• Azer said he would remain nearby, then left the shrine after remarking that Mariya Yuri had once been his coworker and was now kneeling before him.
• Kasu Tōma asked whether they should watch Azer, and Saya told him to deliver the compiled information instead.

Azer traveled to Nemo Point and summoned Poseidon, the Greek sea god, with the Twilight Holy Lance. Poseidon recognized him as a dangerous Godslayer and immediately attacked, leaving Azer ready to fight him to the death.

• Azer flew to Nemo Point, choosing the remote ocean location to summon a god without endangering people.
• Azer reflected on how becoming a Godslayer had greatly strengthened his Exclusive Armaments and improved his combat endurance.
• Azer activated Dominion Radiance with the Twilight Holy Lance, causing the sea to churn as a god answered the summoning.
• Poseidon appeared and identified Azer as the Godslayer whom an old figure from Northern Europe had warned the gods about.
• Poseidon attacked Azer with towering tsunamis, and Azer replaced the Holy Lance with a throwing spear as the fight began.