Chapter Summaries

Iori explained to Leiketi how he used Gaia’s blessing and the Sword of Judgment Karma to sever her memories between time loops, then discussed his goal of defeating five Hero Race members. Leiketi refused to betray her contract with the Silver Race but hoped Iori could overturn its rule, and Iori said humanity was about to find its Nodos.

• Iori revealed that Leiketi had awakened seven times and explained that he had used his power to keep her from retaining memories between loops.
• Iori told Leiketi that he had contracted with Gaia, the reborn consciousness of the Hero Race’s destroyed homeworld, to defeat five Hero Race members in exchange for blessings.
• Iori explained that he severed Leiketi’s connection to each previous loop, turning the cycles into separate timelines and preventing her from remembering them.
• Leiketi refused to cooperate against the Silver Race because she was bound by her contract, while Iori considered whether she could negotiate for what he needed.
• Leiketi expressed hope that Iori could overthrow the Silver Race’s rule, and Iori said humanity was close to finding its Nodos.

Iori’s Golden Ark entered the battle at Planet Oron, rescuing Field and devastating the Bronze race swarm while Dianaira sensed that the conflict could destroy everything. The Silver Race deployed the Nodos Otenmia against Iori, who faced it directly in space.

• Field’s Ogan fought off Bronze race insects until the Golden Ark emerged through a Hyperspace Tunnel and tore through the swarm.
• A silver-haired youth reported the Golden Ark’s appearance at Planet Oron and requested the deployment of multiple Nodos.
• Dianaira warned her attendants that they had to leave Oron with their Nodos or everything would be destroyed.
• Mobido ordered the Argo’s mines, Ogan Unit, and full salvo to hold back the Bronze race while the ship remained in orbit for Dianaira.
• The Uranus burned through the insect swarm and pierced a Bronze race anthill, then a Silver Race teleportation array brought Otenmia onto the battlefield.
• Iori left the Uranus to face Otenmia in space and judged its energy level more troublesome than expected.

Iori fought Otenmia in space, overcoming its energy defenses with cursed and physical attacks before striking it with a devastating blow. Leiketi joined the battle under her Silver Race contract, and Iori prepared to face both Hero Race members with his power enhanced by the stars.

• Otenmia unleashed energy beams at Iori, who countered with Kido and the Heavenly Cloud Sword before using Five Dragon Annihilation to force it to retreat.
• Iori used Divine Sword Mandala, gravitational waves, and a massive blade of light to slow and wound Otenmia, then struck its chest with Forbidden Art: Open.
• Almanderus displaced Iori in time, and Leiketi appeared to explain that her contract required her to fight alongside Otenmia.
• Iori acknowledged the danger of fighting two Hero Race members but invoked Bulls-slayer's Blessing and attacked Otenmia with the World-Saving Divine Blade.
• Leiketi summoned Almanderus and charged Iori with a spear as Otenmia's roar shook Uranus and destroyed the remaining half of Planet Oron.

Iori fought Otenmia and Almanderus while the Silver Race ordered Leiketi to destroy Planet Oron and its Iron race inhabitants. After Otenmia’s attack shattered the planet, Belkuros emerged from its core and rampaged against Otenmia, while Iori kept Almanderus from intervening.

• Iori used Fated Youth, the white horse, and his divine blades to wound Otenmia, but Almanderus’s time jumps repeatedly disrupted his attacks.
• The Silver Race’s silver-haired representative ordered Leiketi to destroy Planet Oron and the Iron race there, invoking Yudira’s summons when Leiketi objected.
• Otenmia unleashed a massive energy attack aimed at Iori, but its shockwave tore Planet Oron apart.
• Belkuros burst from the shattered planet and struck Otenmia with overwhelming force as Iori blocked Leiketi and Almanderus from stopping him.
• Belkuros’s blows damaged Otenmia, whose wounds began rapidly regenerating as he entered a rampage.

Iori blocked Leiketi from intervening as Belkuros and the berserk Otenmia fought, then stepped in to capture Otenmia and battle Belkuros himself. The chapter left Iori striking Belkuros with a combined attack that sliced his body into pieces.

• Leiketi warned Paet that Otenmia and Belkuros might both go berserk, but Paet refused to stop the battle under the Silver Race’s orders.
• Iori blocked Leiketi from reaching the battlefield while Belkuros overwhelmed Otenmia, who absorbed Belkuros’s berserk energy and blasted him at close range.
• Iori intercepted Belkuros, stole some of Otenmia’s energy, and sealed the exhausted Otenmia inside the Mountain and River Scroll.
• Iori fought Belkuros at close range, endured a powerful blow, and launched a combined attack with the Heavenly Cloud Sword and the World-Saving Divine Blade.
• Iori’s final strike sent three shockwaves through Belkuros and sliced his body into scattered pieces.

Iori used his new ability to isolate Otenmia from Almanderus’s time reversal, helping the Human Federation win the battle on Planet Oron. He then met Aegis, the Iron race’s chosen Nodos, and learned that the Golden Race had foreseen his arrival and regarded him as an unknown factor.

• Iori entered the Mountain and River Scroll and severed Otenmia from the effects of time reversal, leaving the rest of the timeline intact.
• Hercules destroyed three Bronze race anthills, and the Silver Race retreated, giving the Human Federation victory on Planet Oron.
• Dianaira found Aegis, the boy raised by the Golden Race and chosen to become humanity’s savior, and he agreed to leave with her.
• Iori appeared before Dianaira and Aegis, introduced himself, and assured the group that he meant them no harm.
• Aegis told Iori that the Golden Race had anticipated his arrival and that Iori had once appeared on Planet Oron, proving to them that intelligent life existed beyond their universe.

Iori brought the five surviving Nodos together and explained that the Hero Race might be revived through Gaia, though the plan required Golden Race technology and all five Nodos. He urged them to protect one another and warned that a brutal war with the Silver Race still lay ahead.

• Iori summoned Leiketi, who had stayed behind for Mekhidaka, and invited her and Aegis to discuss the Hero Race's future.
• Iori released Otenmia from its seal, and Leiketi woke Mekhidaka; frightened by memories of the previous timeline, Mekhidaka hid from Aegis before calming down.
• Iori explained that restoring Gaia required the power to create stars and the flesh and blood of five Hero Race members, then asked Aegis what the Golden Race had taught him.
• Aegis said he could not create stars but revealed that the five Nodos were meant to go to an unknown place; Iori said it held the Golden Race's legacy and the key to ending the war.
• Iori told the Nodos not to kill one another, and Leiketi and Dianaira concluded that he might be the Golden Race's agent guiding events.
• Iori warned Dianaira that the Silver Race would not surrender the Golden Race's legacy, so a brutal war would come before peace.

Iori gathered the Hero Race’s offerings to complete more contracts with Gaia, then received a Dimensional Gate and a random lock to Game Life. He realized the Dragon Race’s dimensional powers might amplify his Blessings, while a Slaughter Angel discovered a hidden forest at the end of the chapter.

• Iori obtained flesh, blood, and gemstones from Otenmia and Hercules, completing two more contracts with Gaia.
• Dianaira left with Aegis to unite humanity and other weaker races, while Leiketi and Mekhidaka returned to the Silver Race to prepare for the coming war.
• Alpha told Iori she felt she had forgotten something, and Iori reassured her before letting the human warships depart without following them.
• Iori received the Blessings of Fluctuation and Existence, then acquired a Dimensional Gate with a random lock to Game Life.
• Iori realized the Dragon Race’s multidimensional overlap might combine with his Blessings and let him stack power across dimensions.
• A Slaughter Angel searched a barren land, noticed a faint energy fluctuation, and entered a valley whose hidden barrier revealed a dense forest.

Jibril fought and defeated a fragment of a Phantasmal Beast in an abandoned Forest Spirit Race city, then returned to the Exospecies base with little to show for it. Elsewhere, Iori searched for the Dragon Race through avatars while sensing the God of War watching him, and Azril found her lord eagerly awaiting the coming conflict.

• Jibril entered an abandoned Forest Spirit Race settlement, discovered a rune-covered stele, and awakened the remnant consciousness of a Phantasmal Beast.
• Jibril fought the remnant across the forest city and destroyed it with Heavenly Strike, but found no valuable loot beyond a Stone Tablet Fragment.
• Jibril returned to the Exospecies base and told her companions she had encountered a fragment of a Phantasmal Beast.
• Iori used divine-tool avatars to search for the Dragon Race, but sealed his Wisdom of the Sky because the world's Reigai overwhelmed him with malice and suffering.
• Iori sensed the God of War watching him and welcomed the prospect of a battle that could decide the world's fate.
• Azril met the God of War, who told her that the time had come.

God of War Arteshu welcomed the possibility of an unknown challenger and allowed the Exospecies to search for him. Jibril found Iori in Reigai and, after he called himself human, decided his head might be a valuable trophy.

• Arteshu told Azril that an unknown being might be capable of defeating him, but said the challenger would have to prove his strength first.
• Azril sent the Exospecies to search for unusual beings, and Jibril agreed to hunt for one while seeking rare heads.
• The Exospecies mobilized, alarming other races as they anticipated that the Headhunter Tribe was preparing for war.
• Iori sat unharmed amid Reigai and sensed Jibril suddenly appear nearby.
• Jibril questioned Iori about his race, rejected his answer of “Human,” and considered him a valuable head to collect.

Iori fought Jibril, who grew excited by his strength and unleashed her ultimate attack. After destroying his artificial incarnation, Jibril discovered that Iori himself had survived, leaving her stunned by the difference between his spell and his true power.

• Jibril attacked Iori, but he dodged her scythe and slammed her into the ground with a powerful blast.
• Jibril recovered and continued fighting, while Iori evaded her attacks and wounded her despite her defensive formulas.
• Jibril invoked False Codex: Void Sanctuary, but Iori avoided the attack without being harmed.
• Jibril unleashed Heavenly Strike, exhausting her spirits and destroying Iori's artificial incarnation.
• Iori emerged from the crater unharmed, and Jibril realized that the opponent she had fought was only a spell-created incarnation.

Iori defeated Jibril, then faced Azriel and the assembled Exospecies, who prepared to fight him. After his true body left, Iori’s avatar confirmed that the Exospecies were not worthy of his full attention and accepted their challenge.

• Iori struck Jibril with his demonic sword, and a spell teleported her away as Azriel arrived with several companies of Exospecies.
• Azriel ordered Lulushiel to take the badly injured Jibril back to their base, then prepared the Exospecies to fight Iori.
• Iori told Azriel that numbers could not overcome the gulf in strength and identified himself as Iori Aizen.
• The Exospecies discovered Iori’s true body watching from afar, and Azriel resolved to fight him in a God-slaying battle.
• Iori’s true body departed, leaving an avatar with Ama-no-Murakumo, and the avatar told Azriel that the Exospecies were unworthy of fighting him.

Iori fought Azril and the Exospecies, using spatial manipulation and overwhelming strength to overcome their attacks and wound her. Azril survived and rallied her forces for another assault in Arteshu’s name.

• Iori withstood the Exospecies’ opening bombardment and blocked Azril’s light blade with Ama-no-Murakumo.
• Azril and the Exospecies launched a coordinated barrage, but Iori used spatial manipulation to seize Azril and blast the attackers away.
• Iori evaded Azril’s next strike, grabbed her, and slammed her into the ground before breaking her defenses and throwing her into a mountain.
• Azril survived Iori’s attack, stopped the other Exospecies from rushing in, and declared that they would fight to protect Arteshu’s honor.
• Azril flew into the sky as the other Exospecies formed up beside her for another attack.

Azril and the Exospecies were defeated by Iori, whose clone identified himself as human before a golden light rescued the survivors. Azril awoke in Arteshu’s throne hall, where the God of War questioned her about Iori and rejected the idea that he was a human god.

• Iori used Susanoo to scatter and overwhelm Azril’s Exospecies, then told her he considered himself human.
• Azril concluded that Iori was humanity’s god and that their battle fulfilled Arteshu’s vision of the weakest challenging the strongest.
• Golden light appeared, and Azril later awoke with her companions in the Hall of the Throne.
• Azril apologized to Arteshu for losing, and he asked her to describe her fight with Iori.
• Azril said Iori’s combat skill and battlefield insight made victory impossible, while Arteshu argued that humans had no Divine Race and Iori did not resemble a human god.

Iori took Ginnajeri to the strait where the Dragon King Hatilrem and God of War Arteshu had fought, then used his power to recreate their battle and study their abilities. The recreated Arteshu became aware of Iori and challenged him, but Iori refused to fight as a substitute for the Final Dragon.

• Ginnajeri led Iori to the vast strait formed by the battle between Arteshu and the Dragon King Hatilrem.
• Iori sensed that the battle had shaken the planet's Spirit Corridor and used his power to rewind time and project the past.
• Iori recreated Hatilrem and Arteshu's battle while Ginnajeri clung to him in terror, insisting the experience was worth dying for.
• Iori repeatedly watched the battle and studied how the Dragon King's dimensional overlap worked.
• Arteshu suddenly attacked Iori from within the projection and asked whether he was the Final Dragon.
• Iori realized Arteshu's consciousness had reached the projection and refused to serve as Hatilrem's substitute.

Iori Aizen and Arteshu fought a battle of wills and transcendent power until the End Dragon broke into the time bubble and joined them. The three-way fight continued, with Iori discovering that the End Dragon could disperse his blade’s force across other timelines.

• Iori sent Jinna into the Mountain and River Scroll, then clashed with Arteshu in a battle that shattered mountains and space.
• Iori endured Arteshu’s spear strike and countered with a sword slash, but neither fighter could overcome the other.
• The End Dragon appeared from beyond the time bubble, revealed that it remained in the timeline despite its physical death, and joined the battle.
• Iori and Arteshu struck the End Dragon and knocked it into the strait, but it rose and unleashed a storm with its wings.
• Iori attacked the End Dragon with the World-Saving Divine Blade while Arteshu struck at him, and the Dragon King’s tail sent both fighters flying.
• Iori explained that the End Dragon’s scales dispersed the force of his sword strike among its counterparts on other timelines.

The End Dragon destroyed itself after Arteshu and Iori Aizen defeated it, and Iori learned to use the Dragon Race’s Multi-dimensional Overlap to overwhelm Arteshu’s projection. After Arteshu promised to fight him with his true body, Iori left the time-space bubble and turned toward finding humans; the story then shifted to Riku, a year after he met a Mechanic Race girl.

• The End Dragon attacked Arteshu and Iori Aizen, then unleashed a self-destructive explosion that left only scales and blood behind.
• Iori analyzed the End Dragon’s knowledge and awakened his own version of Multi-dimensional Overlap.
• Iori used his new power to shatter Arteshu’s spear and defeat his projection, and Arteshu promised to face him with his true body next time.
• Iori accepted Arteshu’s challenge, then decided to find humans and gather more Art Style Value.
• The story shifted to Riku, who watched the road from his underground settlement one year after meeting a Mechanic Race girl.

Iori met Riku and Shuvi in the wilderness and, after overwhelming their resistance, explained the world’s situation and his own power. Riku chose to ask Iori to help humanity escape rather than seek revenge, and Iori entered the settlement as a wandering refugee.

• Riku and Shuvi encountered Iori, whose appearance and strength made them suspect he was not human.
• Iori summoned Jinna as proof of his claim, but Riku and Shuvi remained unconvinced, so he subdued them and forced them to hear his explanation.
• Iori learned that humanity was nearly powerless amid the war between the races and considered helping survivors seek revenge if they wished.
• Riku rejected revenge and asked Iori to lead humanity away from the war-torn world so people could live safely and without hunger.
• Riku brought Iori to the village as a wandering refugee, while Jinna disguised herself as a human and followed him.

Iori revealed the stars and other worlds to Riku, then offered to give him magic and immortal life through the Golden Cup. The story then followed Riku, Shuvi, and Jinna into an abandoned Goblin city, where Riku displayed his newfound strength and Jinna reflected on the Forest Spirit Race’s brutal treatment of humans.

• Iori showed Riku and Shuvi a projection of the Solar System and Milky Way, prompting Riku to weep with relief that the sky and stars were real.
• Iori told Riku he would help humanity build a country in its homeland and asked what humans were good at; Riku said they survived by hiding.
• Iori offered Riku a chance to use magic and brought out the Golden Cup, explaining that drinking from it would grant immortal life.
• Riku, Shuvi, and Jinna explored an abandoned Goblin underground city, and Riku opened a massive iron door by himself.
• Jinna was astonished by Riku’s rapid physical improvement and feared what a conflict between Iori’s humanity and the Forest Spirit Race might bring.

Riku returned to the human settlement and revealed that His Majesty Aizen had given him a Third Magic body, declaring him humanity’s god and promising to lead them toward ending the Great War. Iori explained that the war began with the gods’ struggle for the Sole God’s throne and the Star Grail, leaving the villagers to grapple with the revelation that gods could determine the war’s outcome.

• Riku explored a Goblin Race ruin with Iori and Shuvi, activated a tool that projected a map, and showed his new ability to use spirit-powered devices.
• Iori uncovered a hidden mechanical passage beneath the forge and warned Riku to investigate its dangers before entering.
• Riku returned to the settlement and publicly displayed his Third Magic constitution, crediting His Majesty Aizen and kneeling before him as humanity’s god.
• Riku told the villagers they would not join the Great War but would end it, citing the threat posed by the races’ superweapons.
• Iori explained that the Great War stemmed from the gods’ contest for the Sole God’s throne and the Star Grail, and said the war would end when the gods’ conflict was decided.