Chapter Summaries

After defeating Vali, Azer explained that the Holy Spear held a power beyond its Balance Breaker called Dominion Radiance. Vali accepted his loss, and Azer left him with a challenge to return stronger.

• Azer ended his Balance Breaker and picked up a blue gem from Vali's shattered armor.
• Vali tried to rise and continue fighting, but Albion warned him that Juggernaut Drive had cost him stamina, life force, and years of lifespan.
• Azer revealed that the Holy Spear possessed Dominion Radiance, a power that called on God's Will to produce unpredictable effects.
• Azazel explained how Dominion Radiance worked, and Azer clarified that God's Will could not act against him because the Holy Spear recognized him as its master.
• Vali acknowledged he could not overcome Azer's Balance Breaker and Dominion Radiance in his exhausted state.
• Azer told Vali to challenge him again after becoming stronger, then left as the spectators gathered around Vali.

After the battle, Vali resolved to grow stronger and challenge Azer again, while Sirzechs and Michael assured Azer that the Devils would not pursue him and apologized to Asia. Black Song chose to remain by Azer’s side, leaving her younger sister Ta Cheng Xiao Mao to consider their changed relationship.

• Azazel treated Vali after his defeat, and Vali admitted that Azer’s strength had left him feeling powerless.
• Vali rejected the idea of giving up and vowed to surpass Juggernaut Drive and challenge Azer again.
• Sirzechs told Azer that the Devils would not pursue him over Diodora Astaroth’s actions, while warning him that the Astaroth Family might seek revenge in secret.
• Sirzechs and Michael apologized to Asia for the injustice she had suffered, and Michael promised to make amends.
• Black Song told Ta Cheng Xiao Mao that she planned to stay with Azer, urged her sister to become stronger, and returned to Azer’s side.

Azer arranged for Black Song to prepare a ritual so he could use a Dragon Wing Sacred Gear as material for an Artificial Sacred Gear. After capturing a suitable Sacred Gear User, he returned to the villa, where Black Song had finished setting up the ritual, and began.

• Michael apologized to Asia for her expulsion, easing her worries and leaving her grateful to Azer.
• Azer gave Black Song a ritual for extracting Sacred Gears and explained that he planned to use a Dragon Wing to create an Artificial Sacred Gear.
• Azer told Black Song his plan, and she agreed to set up the ritual in a storage room at the villa.
• The next day, Azer captured a vile Dragon Wing User involved with an underground organization and brought him back to the villa.
• Black Song sent Asia away, and Azer began the ritual.

Azer used Black Song to extract an ordinary Sacred Gear’s Dragon Wings, then fused them with a jewel containing Vali’s White Dragon power to create a Sacred Gear resembling the White Dragon Emperor’s Light Wings. He planned to complete it by sealing Ophis’s power inside it as a substitute for a Heavenly Dragon’s soul.

• Black Song extracted the Dragon Wings from their host, who died, and disposed of his body.
• Azer embedded Vali’s jewel into the Dragon Wings and used his authority to guide their evolution into White Dragon Emperor’s Light Wings.
• Azer explained that the new Sacred Gear lacked a Heavenly Dragon’s soul and was far weaker than the genuine Light Wings.
• Azer revealed Ophis’s power as a black snake and proposed sealing it into the Sacred Gear to serve as its core.

Azer used Ophis's Snake and his authority to create a stronger White Dragon Emperor's Light Wings as his Exclusive Armament. After testing its flight and Balance Breaker forms above the sea, he activated Juggernaut Drive.

• Azer sealed half of Ophis's Snake into the White Dragon Emperor's Light Wings and made the Sacred Gear his Exclusive Armament.
• Azer flew from Kuoh Town out over the sea and tested the wings' speed, control, and improved power-absorbing abilities.
• Azer activated Balance Breaker and transformed into the White Dragon Emperor's Armor.
• Azer compared his enhanced Balance Breaker with Vali's and estimated that he could maintain it for at least three months.
• Azer recited the White Dragon Emperor's chant and activated Juggernaut Drive.

Azer discovered that his White Dragon Emperor's Light Wings released Ophis's power in a unique Tyrant form, granting him immense strength and limitless Halving and Absorption. He realized Cao Cao had secretly possessed the fourteenth God Slaying Gear and teleported to the Hero Faction's base.

• Azer activated Juggernaut Drive and transformed his white armor and aura into a powerful, black Tyrant form infused with Ophis's power.
• Azer learned that his Tyrant could sustain itself for at least half an hour and let him use Halving and Absorption without limit, though both abilities still consumed his aura.
• Azer deactivated the form, then considered taking the jewel from the Red Dragon Emperor's Gauntlet to create another Sacred Gear.
• Azer realized that Cao Cao's lance was the long-unrecognized fourteenth God Slaying Gear.
• Azer activated a Magic Cube Array and teleported to the Hero Faction's temporary base.

Azer visited Cao Cao at the Hero Faction’s temporary base and learned that Cao Cao’s spear had evolved from the Sacred Gear Moonlight Lance into the Dawn Holy Lance. Cao Cao challenged Azer to test their Holy Spears against each other, and both summoned their weapons as sacred energy clashed.

• Azer traveled through the Different Dimension Space to find Cao Cao training beneath a waterfall.
• Cao Cao explained that he trained his body alongside his technique, while Azer asked about the sacred power of his spear.
• Cao Cao revealed that his original Sacred Gear was Moonlight Lance and that it evolved in response to his resolve to defeat non-humans and gods as a human.
• Cao Cao named the evolved weapon the Dawn Holy Lance and described his hopes of becoming Azer’s rival.
• Cao Cao challenged Azer to compare their Holy Spears, and their weapons’ sacred power collided.

Azer and Cao Cao fought with their evolved Holy Spears in the mountain wilderness, revealing the Dawn Holy Lance’s ability to correct the trajectories of its attacks. Azer’s superior physical strength gradually shifted the battle in his favor as the fight continued.

• Azer and Cao Cao opened their duel by unleashing blasts of sacred power and clashing their Holy Spears.
• Cao Cao used the Dawn Holy Lance’s Hit Correction to make his attacks return toward Azer after being deflected, and Azer recognized the spear’s ability.
• Cao Cao demonstrated that Hit Correction could redirect stones toward Azer, while Azer countered with an extending spear thrust and a blast of sacred power.
• Azer and Cao Cao exchanged close-range spear strikes, and Azer’s strength sent Cao Cao crashing into the waterfall.
• Cao Cao emerged from the water and resumed the fight, but Azer gradually gained the upper hand.

Azer and Cao Cao fought in the forest, where Azer’s enhanced Twilight Holy Lance gave him the apparent advantage. Cao Cao revealed his Balance Breaker and shattered Azer’s Battle Qi with one of its spheres, blasting him into the mountainside.

• Azer and Cao Cao exchanged powerful attacks, and Cao Cao admitted he was being pushed back while carefully concealing his tactics.
• Azer recognized Cao Cao was holding back and challenged him to fight at full strength.
• Cao Cao activated Balance Breaker Transformation, becoming the Zenith Tempest of the Heavenly Wheel King.
• Cao Cao appeared behind Azer and used a black sphere to break through his Battle Qi defense.
• The sphere struck Azer and sent him crashing into the mountainside, where falling boulders obscured him.

Azer battled Cao Cao, who revealed the abilities of his Seven Treasures and used them to pressure him. The fight ended with their weapons colliding in an explosion that blasted away the mountaintop.

• Cao Cao struck Azer with General Treasures, but Azer emerged from the collapsing mountain with only minor injuries.
• Cao Cao used Horse Treasure to transfer around Azer, while Azer relied on instinct to block his attacks.
• Cao Cao explained the Seven Treasures, and Azer identified their abilities and decided which ones posed a threat.
• Cao Cao used Layman Treasure to surround Azer with clones, then Jewel Treasure to absorb and redirect Azer's Aura.
• Azer split Cao Cao's redirected Aura with repeated slashes, but the blast sent him flying and shattered the rubble beneath him.
• Cao Cao attacked with General Treasures as Azer thrust his Holy Spear at the sphere, and their collision blasted away the mountaintop.

Azer transformed the Twilight Holy Lance into a weapon imbued with God Slaying Power and overcame Cao Cao’s strongest attacks. After piercing Cao Cao with the transformed spear, Azer explained that its power could kill gods, leaving Cao Cao wounded and in awe.

• Azer and Cao Cao survived the destruction caused by their clash, and Cao Cao admitted that Azer had blocked General Treasures with overwhelming strength.
• Azer challenged Cao Cao’s belief that his seven-ability Balance Breaker could defeat a god and activated his own Balance Breaker Transformation.
• The Twilight Holy Lance turned scarlet, manifesting a divine will that judged Cao Cao and nearly extinguished his fighting spirit.
• Azer pierced and destroyed Cao Cao’s General Treasures, then shot through Cao Cao’s Jewel Treasure defense and wounded his shoulder.
• Azer explained that the transformed spear wielded God Slaying Power, and Cao Cao realized Azer possessed the power to slay gods.

Azer overwhelmed Cao Cao by awakening the Twilight Holy Lance’s Dominion Radiance, which sealed the Dawn Holy Lance and its treasures. He left Cao Cao behind and departed as an independent force, severing his ties with the Hero Faction.

• Azer told Cao Cao that the Twilight Holy Lance had the potential to slay gods and that Cao Cao’s Dawn Holy Lance was inferior.
• Cao Cao summoned his remaining treasures, but Azer activated Dominion Radiance and sealed the Dawn Holy Lance, the halo, and the six treasures.
• Azer explained that Dominion Radiance had temporarily deprived Cao Cao’s spear of its power, leaving Cao Cao shaken and unable to continue fighting with it.
• Azer ended his Balance Breaker and walked away, ignoring Cao Cao’s question about why he was not one of them.
• People rushed toward Cao Cao as Azer left, having parted ways with the Hero Faction and become independent of all factions.

Azer ended his association with the Hero Faction and planned to leave Kuoh Town after obtaining a low-tier Sacred Gear for his project. Azazel revealed that the host of Red Dragon Emperor's Gauntlet was in Kuoh Town, and Azer arrived at the Fallen Angels' base to meet him.

• Azer planned to officially part ways with the Hero Faction and travel beyond Kuoh Town after developing White Dragon Emperor's Light Wings.
• Black Song modified Azer's Magic Cube Array, giving it new contacts, teleport destinations, and a route back to her hidden shelters.
• Azer contacted Azazel to ask for help locating a low-tier Sacred Gear, but Azazel offered to show him the local host of Red Dragon Emperor's Gauntlet instead.
• Azazel told Azer that he had discovered and recruited the boy, whose head was full of breasts, in Kuoh Town.
• Azer went to the Fallen Angels' temporary base with Black Song and Asia and found Azazel beside a boy at the top-floor experimental site.

Azer met Hyoudou Issei, the newly discovered Red Dragon Emperor, while Azazel recruited him into the God Child Observer. After learning how far weaker he was than Vali, Issei worried about his fate but quickly returned to fantasizing about a beautiful Fallen Angel.

• Azazel greeted Azer, Black Song, and Asia alongside Hyoudou Issei, who leered at the women and introduced himself as the Red Dragon Emperor.
• Azazel revealed that he had recruited Issei by promising to arrange a night with a beautiful Fallen Angel, and Azer suspected she was Raynare.
• Azer questioned Azazel about recruiting both the Red and White Dragon Emperors, and Azazel explained that Vali had dismissed Issei as too weak to interest him.
• Azazel described Vali's extraordinary power and Issei's lack of experience, leaving Issei to fear he was destined to die.
• Issei's despair turned into lecherous anticipation of meeting the Fallen Angel, leaving the others speechless.

Azer met Hyoudou Issei and learned that Azazel intended to guide him as a new host of the Red Dragon Emperor. After destroying part of Issei’s gauntlet to take its green jewel and receiving a list of Dragon Hand holders, Azer prepared to bring forth his third God Slaying Gear.

• Azazel praised Hyoudou Issei and Vali for not immediately fighting as the Red and White Dragon hosts, then urged Issei to grow stronger by promising beautiful Fallen Angel women.
• Azazel told Issei that Azer was a God Slaying Gear user whose power surpassed Vali’s, leaving Issei stunned before Azazel’s promises rekindled his motivation.
• Azer remembered Rias’s engagement and decided to contact Sirzechs, then asked Issei to manifest his Red Dragon Emperor’s Gauntlet.
• Azer struck the gauntlet with Battle Qi, broke its green jewel free, and told Issei it would repair itself.
• Azer put away the jewel and took Azazel’s list of Dragon Hand holders, declaring that everything was ready for his third God Slaying Gear to be born.

Azer tested his newly created Red Dragon Emperor's Gauntlet, discovering its superior boosting abilities and powerful Balance Breaker. After activating its Juggernaut Drive and confirming it could raise his strength without limit, he ended the test and headed toward Kuoh Academy.

• Azer used the Red Dragon Emperor's Gauntlet to double his strength every three seconds and tested how its abilities compared with the White Dragon Emperor's Light Wings.
• Azer activated the gauntlet's Balance Breaker, transforming it into the Red Dragon Emperor's Armor and assessing its appearance and extended duration.
• Azer activated Juggernaut Drive and found that the gauntlet's boosting and power-transfer abilities could increase without restriction as long as he could sustain their cost.
• Azer canceled Juggernaut Drive and Balance Breaker, boasted that he possessed both Heavenly Dragons' God Slaying Gears, and flew toward Kuoh Academy.

Azer traveled to the Underworld to visit Rias and the Gremory Familiar, who had gone there to train. After he unexpectedly found them at a hot spring, he offered to help with their training, leaving them wary of his motives.

• Azer found the Occult Research Club empty and used its Gremory teleportation array to reach the Underworld.
• Gremory Family guards noticed Azer arrive, but he escaped them using White Dragon Emperor's Light Wings.
• Azer sensed a familiar presence near a mountain behind the Gremory estate and flew there.
• Azer found Rias, Himejima Zhu Nai, and Ta Cheng Xiao Mao at a hot spring, startling them as they came out to confront him.
• Azer told the three that he had come to visit and offered to help them train, but they suspected he had another motive.

Azer arrived at the Gremory Family’s villa and argued with Rias about his unauthorized entry and his ties to the Disaster Faction. He claimed he had come to help with training, then demonstrated his plan by crushing Rias and the others under immense gravity.

• Azer explained that he had used the Magic Cube Array to reach the Underworld and entered Rias’s clubroom because it had no barriers.
• Rias worried that Azer had harmed her familiars, but he said they had been too weak to detect him.
• Rias challenged Azer’s claim that he had come to help and accused him of toying with her as a member of the Disaster Faction.
• Azer said he had come to have fun with the girls, then invited Rias and the others outside to see whether he intended to help their training.
• Azer summoned his Activation Device and formed a scythe from Omni-Response Element.
• Azer released immense gravity that slammed Rias, Himejima Zhu Nai, Ta Cheng Xiao Mao, and Mu Chang You Dou to the ground.

Azer subjected Rias and the Gremory Familiar to intense training under the Tyrant Collapse Blood Scythe’s gravity, forcing them to practice magic control, Sacred Gear use, and physical strength. After they trained until they collapsed at night, Azer ended the session and carried them back to the villa.

• Azer activated the Tyrant Collapse Blood Scythe’s gravity and told Rias, Himejima Zhu Nai, Mu Chang You Dou, and Ta Cheng Xiao Mao to train under it.
• Rias and Himejima Zhu Nai struggled to control their magic, while Mu Chang You Dou practiced creating and swinging demon swords and Ta Cheng Xiao Mao focused on physical training.
• Azer watched from the villa and noted Ta Cheng Xiao Mao’s Cat Sprite abilities, Himejima Zhu Nai’s potential to combine lightning and light, and the others’ signs of trouble.
• Rias and the others trained through the day, repeatedly collapsing and recovering without the gravity being lifted.
• At night, the exhausted group fainted, and Azer removed the gravity, floated them into the air, and carried them back to the villa.

After weeks of Azer’s gravity training helped Rias and her peerage improve, he announced the next stage would force them to confront their pasts. He began with Mu Chang You Dou, revealing his history in the Church’s Holy Sword Project and proposing that he pursue Balance Breaker with Azer’s help.

• Azer kept Rias, Himejima Zhu Nai, Mu Chang You Dou, and Ta Cheng Xiao Mao training and resting under intense gravity until they adapted and strengthened their abilities.
• When Rias feared Azer would increase the gravity, he said he would instead move on to a stage that made them face their pasts.
• Rias shielded Himejima Zhu Nai and the others after realizing Azer intended to expose their painful histories.
• Azer confronted Mu Chang You Dou about being a test subject in the Church’s Holy Sword Project, where his companions died and he escaped before Rias reincarnated him as a Devil.
• Azer explained that Mu Chang You Dou’s Demon Sword Creation Sacred Gear could reach Balance Breaker and said he could help him attain it.