Chapter Summaries

Morgan trapped Scathach, Gawain, and Agravain in the Imaginary Number Space while preparing to summon another Britain. On the French coast, Leon slaughtered Lucius’s vanguard, claimed its damaged warship, and waited for Lucius to arrive.

• Morgan revealed that the woman on the throne had been a clone and admitted that her real self had sealed the palace with a barrier.
• Morgan banished the palace into the Imaginary Number Space, leaving Scathach, Gawain, and Agravain trapped there as she returned to her workshop.
• Scathach identified their prison as the Imaginary Number Space, while Morgan planned to open Avalon and summon the soul and will of another Britain.
• Leon killed the Fairy commander and the Giants after they refused to surrender, then slaughtered the remaining soldiers and Mages in the camp.
• Leon inspected the damaged warship, ordered Neltharion to guard it, and learned that Lucius was coming to confront him.

Leon learned that Lucius might have a weapon borrowed from Atlas Academy and that Morgan had trapped Scathach, Gawain, and Agravain while working to resurrect Vortigern. Morgan successfully summoned Vortigern’s soul into a cultivated body, bound him with magic, and took him underground to serve her.

• Leon left Neltharion guarding the captured warship and headed inland to confront Lucius, learning from Merlin that Lucius might possess a weapon comparable to one of Atlas Academy’s Seven Weapons.
• Merlin told Leon that Morgan had sent Scathach, Gawain, Agravain, and the palace beyond the world, and that she was preparing to resurrect Vortigern.
• Leon ordered Merlin to contact Kay and Lancelot and send them to hold Morgan and Vortigern off, then spotted Lucius’s Roman army.
• Morgan summoned Vortigern’s soul from Avalon and placed it in an artificial body she had cultivated from preserved tissue.
• Vortigern attacked Morgan, but she tortured him with binding spells until he submitted, then ordered him to follow her underground.

Leon charged into Lucius’s army and slaughtered its soldiers, giants, fairies, and monsters despite their combined magical attacks. He defeated Lucius in a head-on clash, then learned from Merlin that the mages had prepared a black spear shaft capable of killing him.

• Lucius formed his twenty-thousand-strong army into defensive ranks as Leon approached alone.
• Leon broke through the Roman soldiers and giants, cutting down anyone who stood in his way.
• Fairies and mages unleashed a massive magical barrage that killed many of their own troops, but Leon survived unharmed.
• Leon leapt among the fairies and cut many of them down before Lucius attacked him with the Sword of Kingship.
• Leon endured Lucius’s crimson lightning beam and struck him down, shattering his hands and cutting through his body.
• After the battle, Leon answered Merlin’s message and learned that the mages had prepared a black spear shaft capable of killing him.

Leon killed Lucius and forced much of the Roman army to surrender, then learned from Merlin that the continent’s mages had built an Artificial God armed with the world-destroying weapon Heavenly Longevity. Leon set out to destroy it, but Merlin contacted him as he approached and said Britain had stood up.

• Leon killed Lucius, and his death split the Roman army as humans chose to surrender while fairies and giants urged resistance.
• Leon killed a defiant giant and threatened the Romans, prompting officers to surrender and order their troops to attack the nonhumans and holdouts.
• Merlin revealed that he had been injured while investigating the Artificial God, and Leon learned that the god contained parts of Greek gods and carried Heavenly Longevity in its right hand.
• Merlin told Leon that the Artificial God had left Rome and would reach the battlefield in about half an hour, so Leon left prisoners in the officers’ custody and ran to intercept it.
• Leon spotted the approaching Artificial God beneath storm clouds, but Merlin contacted him and reported that Britain had stood up, leaving Leon bewildered.

Leon confronted a Machine God while Merlin warned him that Morgan had raised Vortigern and was trying to turn Britain into the Fairies’ domain. Leon prepared to destroy the god and return to Britain, while Morgan’s plan and her alliance with Vortigern were revealed.

• Leon charged the Holy Sword of the Stars with Rune Script magic and prepared to attack the False God, but Merlin urgently contacted him about Britain.
• Merlin reported that Britain had stood up as a stone giant carrying the royal capital, and suspected Morgan was using Vortigern and the Spirit Tomb to reopen a passage to the Inner Sea of the Planet.
• The Machine God attacked Leon with lightning, but Leon blocked its strikes and advanced toward it while Merlin explained that its mechanical detection system had likely noticed the Holy Sword’s energy.
• Leon reached the Machine God, which identified itself as a remnant of Zeus and threatened to burn him to ashes; Leon told Merlin to protect Britain while he fought it.
• Morgan’s plan was revealed: she intended to use Vortigern and the Spirit Tomb to raise the Fairy Domain and restore the Age of Gods in Britain.
• Vortigern destroyed Merlin’s waiting Incubus clones, then told Morgan he had recognized their true enemy and that they shared it.

Morgan sacrificed Vortigern to activate the Dragon Heart and awaken the buried Magecraft Circuits, using them to make Britain rise as a gigantic half-human form. Merlin witnessed the transformation and, with Leon occupied fighting an artificial god, prepared to use his ultimate Grand Magecraft and summon Artoria.

• Morgan led Vortigern into the Spirit Tomb, punished him for calling Leon her enemy, and explained that she planned to use him at the Dragon Heart.
• Morgan crushed Vortigern beneath the altar’s stone block and used his body and soul to activate the Dragon Heart and channel its power through the buried Circuits.
• Morgan combined the island’s will with Vortigern’s will and the dragon’s concept, completing the ritual that gave her control over the Spirit Tomb’s upper layers.
• Britain rose from the ground as a gigantic headless, legless human form, causing a brief tremor that left the royal city undamaged.
• Merlin saw the transformed Britain and learned that Leon was occupied fighting an artificial god, while Lancelot and Kay were approaching the royal city.
• Merlin vowed to take action and called for Artoria to appear as he prepared to use his ultimate Grand Magecraft.

Artoria learned that Morgan’s rebellion threatened Britain and set out to stop her in the Spirit Tomb. With Clarent in hand and Kay and Lancelot at her side, she reached the entrance, where Vortigern blocked their way.

• Artoria stayed in her mansion with Mordred while martial law spread through the royal city, unsure what Morgan was planning.
• Merlin explained that Zeus had revived on the continent, Vortigern had returned in Britain, and Morgan was trying to restore the Age of the Gods; he asked Artoria to help stop her.
• Artoria entrusted Mordred to Ector, took Clarent from Merlin’s treasure vault, and went to the palace gate.
• Artoria met Kay and Lancelot, and the three forced their way into the palace after Morgan’s barrier shattered.
• Morgan sensed their arrival in the Spirit Tomb and sent someone to stop them; Vortigern appeared at its entrance and challenged Artoria, Kay, and Lancelot.

Vortigern blocked Artoria, Lancelot, and Kay from entering the Spirit Tomb, revealing overwhelming strength as they fought to stop Morgan. With Merlin’s aid, they created an opening for Artoria to strike him with Clarent, and her attack overwhelmed his Dragon Breath in a devastating blast.

• Vortigern stopped Artoria, Lancelot, and Kay at the Spirit Tomb entrance and resolved to fight them at full strength.
• Artoria, Lancelot, and Kay attacked together but struggled against Vortigern, who mocked their weakness and remained composed.
• Merlin told the three to follow their plan, then filled the palace grounds with flowers that restored their stamina and mana while weakening Vortigern.
• Lancelot and Kay recklessly pressed Vortigern and drew his attention away, allowing Artoria to charge Clarent.
• Artoria fired Clarent at Vortigern, whose Dragon Breath could not match its power, and the blast engulfed the palace grounds.

Artoria drew and activated a summoning array to bring Britain’s royal palace back into the present, while Kay and Lancelot fought Vortigern’s newly immortal body. As the palace began to appear, a crimson spear struck Vortigern in the heart, and he recognized it as a weapon of causality.

• Artoria’s beam left Vortigern battered, but Lancelot and Kay beheaded him and cut his body apart.
• Vortigern’s severed head and limbs attacked Lancelot, and Kay helped protect him until Merlin’s blessing healed his severe wound.
• Merlin told Artoria to draw a summoning array while Kay and Lancelot held Vortigern in place and suppressed his immortality.
• Vortigern regenerated completely and fought recklessly, leaving Kay and Lancelot badly wounded as Artoria drew the array.
• Kay and Lancelot stopped Vortigern from reaching Artoria, and she activated the array to return Britain’s royal palace.
• A crimson beam shot from the array and pierced Vortigern’s heart, and he recognized the weapon as one of causality.

The Jeweled One predicted that Leon would defeat the Machine God, an artificial god built from Zeus’s loving aspect. Their battle over the continent reached a stalemate, and the Machine God declared that it had the right to judge Leon because it loved humanity.

• Humans and nonhumans secretly watched the battle and debated whether the Machine God or Leon would win.
• The Jeweled One told the trumpet’s owner that Leon would prevail, explaining that the Machine God embodied Zeus’s love for humanity.
• Leon charged the Machine God, endured its thunder attacks with Avalon’s protection, and fought it with the Holy Spear and Holy Sword.
• The Machine God’s strength, barriers, and versatile attacks kept Leon from landing a decisive blow, while neither fighter could overcome the other.
• The Machine God withdrew from the stalled battle and asked Leon why he rejected his ordained death.
• Leon challenged the Machine God’s claim that he was an outsider, and it answered that it loved humanity.

Machine God justified its actions as an expression of love for humanity. It fixed its gaze on Leon as it recalled how people had once welcomed and worshipped it.

• Machine God shouted that its actions came from its love for humanity.
• Machine God fixed its red gaze on Leon below.
• Machine God recalled that it had descended from the stars and been welcomed by the planet.
• Machine God said humanity had worshipped it as a god, allowing it to rediscover the meaning of its existence.

The Machine God recovered from the Black Spear's toll because Zeus had left traces of his existence on the planet. He detected an enormous energy source and sounded an alarm.

• The Machine God recovered from the Black Spear's use, which had consumed magical energy and the user's fate-force.
• He attributed his rapid recovery to the traces Zeus had left on the planet.
• The Machine God's thought circuits sounded an alarm after detecting an enormous energy source.

Scathach broke the barrier that had trapped them in the main hall and led Gawain and another companion out into the palace complex in Imaginary Number Space. The palaces had mostly crumbled, but Morgan’s layered barriers had preserved those at the center.

• Scathach, Gawain, and the other companion were inside a ruined palace complex in Imaginary Number Space.
• Morgan’s overlapping barriers had protected the central palaces from the devastation.
• Scathach broke the barrier trapping them in the main hall and led Gawain and the other companion out.

Scathach identified Vortigern as the Vile King resurrected and controlled by Morgan, while a magic array shook the White King's palace. The group prepared to confront him.

• Scathach and two others leaped out as a magic array appeared beneath the sea of flowers.
• The array triggered a rumble that shook the royal city.
• Scathach identified the enemy as Vortigern and warned Gawain and another ally that Morgan controlled him.
• Scathach described Vortigern as Morgan's strongest blade.

Vortigern contacted Morgan while fighting Gawain and Agravain, and Morgan linked to his vision. She recognized her sons and realized Scathach had returned.

• Vortigern relied on his immortal body to withstand Gawain and Agravain's joint assault.
• Vortigern contacted Morgan and offered to help kill her two sons.
• Morgan linked to Vortigern's vision and saw the pristine white palace.
• Morgan recognized Gawain and Agravain and noted that Scathach had returned.

Scathach watched as Vortigern transformed into a giant dragon and unleashed his final trump card. The black dragon surveyed the palace square, while Gawain and Lancelot kept their distance.

• Scathach stood atop the open gate and observed the battle below.
• Vortigern took the form of a giant dragon.
• The black dragon raised its head and looked around the palace square.
• Vortigern saw Gawain and Lancelot hiding far away and regarded them with contempt.

Dark clouds and lightning appeared over the airborne royal city, drawing the attention of Vortigern and Artoria. Artoria wondered where the clouds had come from, since the city stood far above the cloud layer.

• Dark clouds gathered over the royal city and obscured the daylight.
• Lightning flashed and thunder roared across the sky.
• Vortigern raised his dragon head to look at the clouds.
• Artoria looked up and wondered how clouds could form above the airborne city.

Vortigern unleashed the full power of the Dragon Eye against Leon as he charged with his lance, but the attack failed to slow him. The chapter ended with Vortigern watching helplessly as Leon’s weapon reached him.

• Leon charged at Vortigern with his lance.
• Vortigern opened the Dragon Eye in his chest and poured out his mana.
• Vortigern’s black torrent struck at Leon but did not slow him.
• Vortigern increased his mana output, but Leon kept advancing.

Leon observed Merlin’s magic and the dead dragon as Scathach drew its body into the Land of Shadows. He compared Vortigern’s strength with the Machine God’s, then turned his attention to the ministers below.

• Leon landed and lowered his spear.
• Leon recognized the swirling flowers as Merlin’s magic.
• Leon saw that the dragon was dead before Scathach drew it into the Land of Shadows.
• Leon identified the dragon as Vortigern’s true form and judged it far weaker than the Machine God.
• Leon looked toward the ministers below.

Agravain knelt before Leon and asked to be punished despite his severe injuries. His wounds reopened as he moved, leaving Leon to face his plea.

• Scathach reattached Agravain’s severed arm and bound the deep wounds across his body.
• After regaining the ability to move, Agravain ignored Artoria’s attempts to stop him and knelt before Leon.
• Agravain asked Leon, whom he called his father and king, to punish him.
• Agravain’s freshly bandaged wounds split open, and blood soaked through his robes.