Chapter Summaries

Azer took Lilliana in as a maid, and she accepted the role as a way to atone to Mariya Yuri for her part in the past ritual. After the others left the Seven Heroes Shrine for the night, Azer met the Chinese Martial Hero King, Luo Hao.

• Azer put Lilliana in a maid outfit and assigned her responsibility for the Shrine, while Lilliana accepted the punishment and resolved to serve him.
• Lilliana offered to take over Mariya Yuri's chores to atone for having once tried to involve her in the ritual, and Mariya Yuri went to help her.
• Seishuuin Ena teased Azer about his feelings, blushed under his gaze, and ran from the living room.
• Mariya Yuri went home, Seishuuin Ena headed into the mountains to cultivate, and Lilliana left to report to the Bronze Black Cross.
• Azer entered the shrine forest at night and called out to the woman whose gaze he had sensed.
• Luo Hao appeared above him, introduced herself as Luo Cui Lian, courtesy name Hao, and revealed herself as Azer's senior from his homeland.

Azer met Luo Hao, who praised his recent victories before raising the Western Sky Palace and the imprisoned Monkey God Lord. The chapter ended with Azer telling Luo Hao that he had never intended to ignore the matter.

• Luo Hao confronted Azer for failing to pay his respects, and Azer explained why he had questioned her intentions.
• Luo Hao praised Azer for slaying five gods and repelling Marquis Voban, then said she had once hoped to make him her disciple.
• Luo Hao revealed that she had come to discuss the Western Sky Palace, and Azer identified it as the shrine guarded by the Kuhotsuka Family.
• Luo Hao accused Azer of ignoring the imprisonment of a hero god from their homeland, and Azer replied that he had never planned to stand by.

Azer told Luo Hao that he planned to visit Western Sky Palace and break the seal imprisoning its God Lord. Luo Hao left the hunt in his hands, and Azer prepared to depart in the near future.

• Azer explained that he had long intended to visit Western Sky Palace but had been occupied by other troubles.
• Luo Hao recounted her failed attempt to reach the Otherworld Corridor and asked whether Azer could use the Golden Sword against the God Lord.
• Azer said he could break the seal without Dragon Snake Blood and would personally meet the God Lord soon.
• Luo Hao agreed to leave the matter to Azer, called him Brother Azer, and departed.
• Azer repeated Luo Cui Lian's name, considered visiting Jielong if he returned to the Academy Battle World, and left the forest.

Azer infiltrated the Western Sky Palace shrine at Nikkō Tōshō-gū and found the imprisoned Monkey God Lord, who had forgotten its former identity. Azer announced that he intended to awaken the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Sun Wukong.

• Azer slipped past the shrine’s barriers and the Kuhotsuka Family members using Kyoka Suigetsu.
• Azer entered a dark corridor that led from the Living World into the Netherworld and reached a hut where a golden-furred monkey was imprisoned.
• The monkey called itself Monkey God Lord and explained that it had forgotten its former name and had been sealed for a century.
• Azer told the monkey that it had once been Sun Wukong and said he wanted to awaken the Great Sage Equal to Heaven.

Azer removed the Bima Wen Binding from Sun Wukong, who returned to his heretical form as a Stone Monkey and began gathering power to prepare for a future battle with Azer. Sun Wukong’s return caused people around Mount Nikko to transform into monkeys, alarming the Netherworld elders and Saya Miyakano.

• Azer used Divide to weaken the Bima Wen Binding until Sun Wukong petrified, then used Ama no Murakumo to absorb the remaining Curse Power.
• Sun Wukong awakened as the Great Sage Equal to Heaven and promised to face Azer after emerging from stone and reclaiming his strength.
• Azer accepted Sun Wukong’s challenge and left as the cavern transformed into a Water Curtain Cave.
• Sun Wukong’s return caused people at Toshogu Shrine, Mount Nikko, and nearby areas to turn into monkeys.
• The Netherworld elders reacted to the seal’s removal, while Saya Miyakano demanded an explanation from the Kuhotsuka Family and Kasu Tōma asked what had happened.

As Nikko City was sealed off amid the rise of the Monkey God Lord, Azer remained at Seven Heroes Shrine until Saya Miyakano requested a meeting. He agreed to hear her out and went to meet her with Mariya Yuri and Lilliana.

• The Committee for the Compilation of True History evacuated residents near Nikko City and raised barriers after its investigators were driven back or turned into monkeys.
• News of the emerging Heretic God spread worldwide, drawing reactions from Salvatore Tony, Voban, and Luo Hao.
• Luo Hao rebuked Lu Yinghua for flattering her and said she would train him again after her little brother personally slew the Great Sage Equal to Heaven.
• Lilliana recognized the Nikko City lockdown as a sign of a Heretic God's descent, while Azer played a game and teased her about writing novels.
• Mariya Yuri told Azer that Saya Miyakano wanted to meet him and asked him to investigate the suffering in Nikko City.
• Azer went to the front hall with Mariya Yuri and Lilliana, where they met Saya Miyakano.

Saya Miyakano asked Azer to intervene as Sun Wukong’s curse transformed Nikko City and Mount Nikko, but Azer challenged the Netherworld sages who had sealed and exploited the god to handle the crisis themselves. After hearing how the city and mountain had changed, Azer agreed to deal with Sun Wukong.

• Saya Miyakano asked Azer to save Nikko City from Sun Wukong, and Azer questioned why the Netherworld sages who had sealed the god could not deal with him themselves.
• Azer revealed that he knew Sun Wukong had been made into the Nation Protecting Sword, and Saya Miyakano assumed he had learned this from the Martial Hero King of China.
• Saya Miyakano explained that the Netherworld elders could not freely enter the Living World, while Azer mocked their limits and called them Silver Spearheads with Wax Shafts.
• Saya Miyakano reported that Nikko City’s residents had turned into monkeys and gathered on Mount Nikko, where plants and animals had grown wildly and the landscape had become primitive.
• Azer likened the transformed mountain to Mount Huaguo and told Saya Miyakano he would handle Sun Wukong.

Azer explained why he planned to wait for Sun Wukong to reach his peak, while Mariya Yuri and Liliana offered to help protect Nikko City. Erica Brandelli arrived at Seven Heroes Shrine and greeted Azer as her returning knight.

• Liliana urged Azer to confront Sun Wukong, but Mariya Yuri admitted her intuition warned that Azer could not defeat him yet.
• Azer said he would wait for Sun Wukong to reach his peak and asked Mariya Yuri to use Spirit Vision to learn when he would emerge.
• Liliana offered her witchcraft and scouting skills to help, saying humanity needed to unite against Heretic Gods.
• Erica Brandelli arrived, teased Liliana about her maid uniform, and addressed Azer as her king.
• Erica knelt before Azer and declared that she had returned as his knight.

Erica brought Azer the Gorgon Stone, a God Tool tied to an ancient Earth Mother Goddess, after he tasked her with finding it. Its arrival was expected to draw the goddess to Japan, and the chapter ended with golden patterns flickering across Azer’s hand as he held the stone.

• Erica revealed to Lilliana that she had sworn loyalty to Azer as his knight.
• Erica presented Azer with the Gorgon Stone, and Mariya Yuri and Lilliana recognized it as a dangerous relic connected to an ancient goddess.
• Erica explained that she found the stone on the Calabria Coast after monitoring reports of a strange salvage.
• Lilliana and Mariya Yuri warned that the Gorgon Stone would draw the ancient queen to Japan, while Erica defended following Azer’s orders.
• Azer examined the Gorgon Stone as gilded patterns flickered across his hand.

Athena, the ancient Trinity Queen, sensed that the Gorgon Stone had awakened and flew east to reclaim it. At Seven Heroes Shrine, Azer kept the stone and appointed Erica his chief knight, while Lilliana learned Erica had already become the Crimson Devil.

• Athena sensed that her lost Snake, contained in the Gorgon Stone, was changing in a distant land and decided to travel east.
• Athena invoked her names and powers as Athena, Metis, and Medusa, transformed into an owl, and flew across the sea toward the Gorgon Stone.
• At Seven Heroes Shrine, Azer put away the Gorgon Stone and told Erica to stay by his side.
• Lilliana objected to Erica serving Azer, accusing her of scheming for the Crimson Devil title and the chief-knight position.
• Erica revealed that she had already received the Crimson Devil title and become chief knight of the Bronze Black Cross, leaving Lilliana furious.

Azer and his companions traveled to Nikko City, where they found local Curse Practitioners using a vast ritual force to contain the abnormal Divine Power within the city. The group arrived at the outskirts, and Azer asked Mariya Yuri to examine what was happening.

• Erica and Lilliana argued during the limousine ride, while their stories about Erica’s provocative movie and clothing choices embarrassed Mariya Yuri.
• Azer asked Erica to bring the revealing clothes so he could help Mariya Yuri choose some, prompting Lilliana to draw her Silver Giant and throw the limousine into chaos.
• Kasu Tōma struggled to drive through the mayhem, and the battered limousine eventually brought Azer’s group to the outskirts of Nikko City.
• Erica and Lilliana recognized the surrounding shrines, altars, and ritual activity as the work of the country’s Curse Practitioners.
• Azer observed that the practitioners’ force was containing the abnormal Divine Power emanating from Nikko City, then asked Mariya Yuri what she could see.

Mariya Yuri’s Spirit Vision warned Azer that Sun Wukong would emerge by the next day and that Nikko City would soon be overwhelmed, so Azer led the group into the transformed city. At the foot of Mount Nikko, now resembling Mount Huaguo, monkey divine messengers attacked, and Erica and Lilliana held them off while Azer prepared to confront Sun Wukong.

• Mariya Yuri foresaw Sun Wukong’s imminent return and warned that his Curse Power would soon breach Nikko City’s blockade and transform the island nation.
• Azer took Mariya Yuri, Erica, and Lilliana into Nikko City, where the residents had become monkeys and the streets were clogged with wrecked vehicles.
• Azer used gravity to carry the group over the city to Mount Nikko, which had transformed into a primordial forest resembling Mount Huaguo.
• Monkey divine messengers formed from Sun Wukong’s shed hairs emerged and attacked Azer’s group.
• Erica and Lilliana summoned their swords and fought the monkey divine messengers together, while Azer left the smaller foes to them and prepared to meet Sun Wukong.

Azer reached Water Curtain Cave and forced Sun Wukong to reveal his true form before the Monkey King’s planned descent. As Sun Wukong came down to face him, Azer exposed his preparation to turn the people of Japan into an army, and the two prepared to fight.

• Azer arrived at Water Curtain Cave, where two monkey Divine Beasts attacked him with fire and wind.
• Azer commanded the waters of Mount Huaguo to form a Water Dragon that killed the guardians and flooded the summit.
• Sun Wukong burst out of Water Curtain Cave, declared himself Great Sage Equal to Heaven, and descended from the clouds.
• Luo Hao watched Sun Wukong’s return from Mount Lu and challenged Azer to prove his strength against him.
• Azer confronted Sun Wukong, revealed that he had seen through the Great Assimilation Spell, and accused him of delaying his descent to gather power.
• Sun Wukong acknowledged Azer had uncovered his plan and agreed to fight him openly.

Sun Wukong and Azer fought a devastating battle around Mount Huaguo, with each using divine weapons and powers to counter the other. Sun Wukong petrified Azer’s flood into a colossal stone mountain, which collapsed Mount Huaguo and crushed buildings across Nikko City.

• Sun Wukong enlarged the Ruyi Jingu Bang and struck at Azer, who dodged with Shunpo before the two clashed in midair.
• Azer struck Sun Wukong with Poseidon’s Trident, breaking his Indestructible Body and sending him crashing through Mount Huaguo.
• Sun Wukong transformed into a two-thousand-meter-tall giant ape and swung the enlarged Ruyi Jingu Bang at Azer.
• Azer summoned countless Golden Swords that severed the Ruyi Jingu Bang’s Divine Power, shrinking it to the size of an embroidery needle.
• Azer gathered water from Nikko City into towering waves and battered Sun Wukong, but Sun Wukong broke free and used his Curse Power to petrify the flood.
• Sun Wukong turned the petrified flood into a colossal stone mountain that crushed Mount Huaguo and buildings across Nikko City.

Sun Wukong battled Azer over Nikko City, using his transformations and divine arts to withstand Azer’s Golden Swords and weapons. Sun Wukong revealed that an ancient covenant had empowered him to fight Godslayers, and that Azer’s immense Curse Power had made him meet the conditions to invoke it.

• Azer’s attack flattened Mount Huaguo and caused devastation across Nikko City, while the empowered monkeys survived and Erica, Lilliana, and Mariya Yuri escaped.
• Sun Wukong fought Azer at Divine Speed, but a Golden Sword wounded him and Azer cut down what he thought was Sun Wukong before discovering it was a clone.
• Sun Wukong used clones and transformations to evade Azer’s Golden Swords and overwhelm him with attacks, then briefly immobilized him and made him drop the Eternal Spear.
• Azer questioned how Sun Wukong’s power kept increasing, and Sun Wukong explained that an ancient covenant empowered special Sword Gods to defeat Godslayers.
• Sun Wukong said Azer’s extraordinary Curse Power made him effectively count as all the world’s Godslayers, allowing Sun Wukong to invoke the Oath Great Law.

Azer transformed with the White Dragon Emperor's Light Wings and overwhelmed Sun Wukong, draining the power he had gained from the Ancient Covenant Great Magic. Sun Wukong fled, but Azer struck him down with the Eternal Spear and began the Dark Christmas Ritual, only to discover an outside force interfering and seizing Sun Wukong's divinity.

• Azer entered Balance Breaker Transformation, and Sun Wukong used Words of Power to strengthen his dragon-slaying abilities.
• Azer used Half Dimension to shrink Sun Wukong's Ruyi Jingu Bang, then absorbed Sun Wukong's flames and drained his power with Divide.
• Sun Wukong fled after Azer's Half Dimension reduced him to minced flesh, but Azer summoned the Eternal Spear and hurled it after him.
• Azer pierced Sun Wukong with the Eternal Spear, pulled it from his body, and activated the Ring of Usurpation's Dark Christmas Ritual.
• An external force interfered with the ritual and began seizing Sun Wukong's divinity.

On Mount Nantai, Guinevere and the voice she calls Uncle concluded that the ancient sealing of Dragon-Snakes might have been intended to keep the Last King asleep in Japan. After Azer confronted Guinevere over her Arrow Disc and revealed his knowledge of the Last King, he claimed he knew where the king was.

• Guinevere lamented that Sun Wukong was not the king she sought, while Uncle said his Steel could still be kept as a reserve.
• Guinevere realized the Dragon-Snake Sealing Great Spell might have been designed to prevent Dragon-Snake divinity from awakening the strongest Steel on the land.
• Azer appeared on Mount Nantai and confronted Guinevere about using the Arrow Disc to take his spoils of war.
• Guinevere introduced herself as the Queen of Witches and current God Ancestor, and Azer identified her connection to the Last King.
• Azer described the Last King’s role and powers, then told Guinevere that he knew where the king was.

Azer told Guinevere that the Last King had been hidden on an island in orbit above the Bōsō Peninsula, then revealed that the hero was already gone. He had claimed the World Saving God Sword for himself, awakening its power and preventing the Last King from emerging.

• Azer explained that the Last King had been concealed on a floating island above the Bōsō Peninsula by ancient sages who feared his awakening.
• Guinevere asked how she could find her lord, and Azer told her the hero was already gone before revealing the World Saving God Sword.
• Azer recounted flying into orbit and finding the rusted sword embedded in the hidden island.
• Azer seized the sword, and his gilded markings overcame its resistance and covered its body.
• The sword shed its rust and shone with white-gold radiance in Azer's hands, leaving the Devil King with the weapon meant for the Last King.

Azer erased the Last King's existence from the World Saving God Sword and gained Disobedient Sun Wukong's Authority when Guinevere dropped the Arrow Disc. Guinevere summoned Lancelot to try to reclaim the sword and bring the Last King back, and Lancelot charged into battle against Azer.

• Azer bound the World Saving God Sword to himself and erased the Last King's existence within it, preventing his revival.
• Guinevere refused to accept the Last King's fate and dropped the Arrow Disc, allowing the Ring of Usurpation to devour Disobedient Sun Wukong's divinity and grant Azer a new Authority.
• Guinevere called on her uncle to reclaim the divine sword and summon the Last King again.
• Lancelot appeared as a God's Shadow, acknowledged that Azer was a formidable opponent, and agreed to fight for Guinevere.
• Lancelot rode his white horse into the sky as Master Bolt appeared over Mount Nantai.

Azer used the World Saving Divine Sword to overpower Lancelot’s lightning charge and relentless evasion, then killed him and struck down Guinevere as she fled. The battle at Mount Nantai ended with both of the Last King’s allies defeated.

• Lancelot charged Azer with lightning, but Azer met the attack with a blast from the World Saving Divine Sword.
• Azer unleashed a torrent of World Saving Lightning, forcing Lancelot to dodge while Guinevere urged him to endure until Azer’s power ran out.
• Lancelot summoned mist to conceal himself, but Azer’s lightning pierced the fog and struck him, leaving him gravely wounded in a crater.
• Azer approached Lancelot and killed him with another World Saving Lightning bolt.
• Guinevere fled from Azer, but he struck her with a platinum flash.