Chapter Summaries

The City of Immortals prepared its defenses while Salomon and Bayonetta fought Thorn Lady Ainwen to recover Jeanne’s soul. The chapter ended with Rodin stopping Madame Butterfly from killing Ainwen so he could capture her in a specially made vessel.

• Victoria Hand ordered the Sisterhood to use flamethrowers mixed with powdered bone ash and directed the Praetorian Guard to prepare for the Sovereign’s arrival.
• Salomon helped Bayonetta and Madame Butterfly fight Ainwen, who held Jeanne’s soul inside her body and used it to restrain their attacks.
• Bayonetta told Salomon she knew the Sage was responsible for the destruction of the Umbra Witches and would kill him again.
• Salomon urged Bayonetta to focus on rescuing Jeanne and joked that the boy could hold out until they dealt with Ainwen.
• Bayonetta cut open Ainwen and retrieved Jeanne’s soul, but Rodin stopped Madame Butterfly and revealed a vessel prepared to contain Ainwen’s soul.

Bayonetta restored Jeanne’s soul and sent her back to her body before joining Salomon’s battle against the Sage. As Bayonetta approached the boy, the mark on his forehead flared and he, the Sage, and Bayonetta vanished.

• Bayonetta restored Jeanne’s magic with her silver Pocket Watch and sent her soul back to the Material Plane.
• Madame Butterfly left to escort Jeanne, while Rodin gave Bayonetta a weapon and pointed her toward Salomon’s battle.
• Salomon fought the Sage while protecting the boy, who used Salomon’s scrolls to attack the lower-plane creatures.
• Bayonetta arrived on a giant eight-legged horse and helped Salomon confront the Sage.
• The boy warned Bayonetta away, but his forehead mark blazed and made him, the Sage, and Bayonetta disappear.

Salomon was transported into the past and joined the Umbra Witches fighting the Sage Clan, while Bayonetta reunited with her mother and fought beside her. The two Witches held off the Angels until a golden meteor pierced Fortitudo, and Bayonetta blushed as she spoke of the boy who had attacked it.

• Salomon was pulled through a rift and confronted by Umbra Witches, who agreed to take him along after he said he wanted to kill Balder.
• Bayonetta recognized the era and joined her birth mother in fighting the Lower Angels around the fountain square.
• Bayonetta and her mother coordinated their attacks and defeated the Angels together.
• Adoration warships and Fortitudo appeared, and Fortitudo dived toward the two Witches.
• A golden meteor pierced Fortitudo, and Bayonetta blushed while telling her mother that the boy had chosen to help.

Salomon reunited with Bayonetta and met her mother, Rosa, as the Witches prepared to defend their stronghold. The pair worried over the missing boy and the mysteries surrounding the Eyes of the World, then turned their attention back to the coming battle.

• Salomon arrived with a group of Witches, and Bayonetta teased him about the women traveling with him.
• Rosa ordered the Witches to withdraw to the tower and activate their War Machines, while one Witch expressed resentment toward her.
• Salomon and Bayonetta discreetly discussed the missing boy, whom they suspected was a fragment of Chaos Deity Asa, and the unanswered questions about Balder and the Prophetess.
• Salomon told Bayonetta how he had reached the past and showed her the protective spell placed on him by the Venerable One.
• Rosa interrupted their reunion and reminded them that they still had work to do.

Search Party Three found an unconscious boy in a church near Fimbulwinter Mountain and called for support. Praetorian Guard Constantine arrived, took custody of the boy, and left Joel convinced the refugee was extraordinary.

• Joel's Search Party Three reported finding an unconscious boy with unusual hair in a church and was ordered to wait for support.
• Selena and Andreas argued about protective protocols while the team guarded the boy.
• Praetorian Guard Constantine arrived, identified himself, and praised the team for keeping its distance.
• Constantine took custody of the boy and departed, leaving Joel and his team shaken by the encounter.

Bayonetta asked Salomon to ensure Rosa received a peaceful burial, and Salomon left to meet his teacher and learn how to destroy immortal souls. The story then shifted to Constantine demanding control of a boy whose unusual behavior had drawn the Monarch’s attention.

• Bayonetta told Salomon to hide Rosa somewhere no one would find her, and Salomon promised to do so.
• Salomon flew to the abandoned arena, fought off attacks along the way, and met the Sorcerer Supreme of his era.
• Salomon asked his teacher where the immortal soul of Chaos Deity Asa had gone and how immortal souls could be killed completely.
• Constantine told Victoria Hand that the sedated boy had been marked by the Monarch and had to remain under their control.
• Constantine said the boy’s DNA was being analyzed and asked when Kamar-Taj’s Arcanists would arrive to examine his soul.

Salomon and the Venerable One used the Time Stone to examine Rosa’s death and the altered timeline, then watched the Witches’ Combat Mechs turn the tide of a battle. The chapter ended with a boy waking in Constantine’s care and demanding to be taken to Fimbulwinter so he could stop his other self.

• Salomon told the Venerable One that the instability from Chaos God Asa’s fragmented soul had worsened, and she began teaching him to observe timelines with the Time Stone.
• Salomon and the Venerable One reviewed possible versions of Rosa’s death, but the Time Stone could not reveal who killed her.
• Salomon connected the timeline anomaly to Chaos God Asa and the Eyes of the World, while the Venerable One urged him to wait for the truth to emerge.
• Umbra Witches’ Combat Mechs crushed angels and helped the Witches slaughter the Sage Clan, shifting the battle in their favor.
• A boy woke and demanded that Constantine take him to Fimbulwinter to stop his other self, but Constantine told him the place had already been sealed off.

Constantine prepared to escort the boy through the Angels’ blockade to the summit of Fimbulwinter Mountain, hoping to restore Salomon, and called on the Great Sage for reinforcements. Elsewhere, villagers celebrating the execution of a woman they accused of witchcraft encountered a golden-armored figure, who began slaughtering them.

• Constantine told the boy that the Angels had blockaded the route and agreed to take him to Fimbulwinter Mountain when the operation began.
• The boy said he did not know what era Salomon was in and believed the problem had to be resolved at the mountain’s summit.
• Constantine assembled Sisterhood fighters and soldiers under Victoria Hand and Sophia, then requested help from the Great Sage.
• The Great Sage authorized NERV Legion experimental units to depart from Mars, with an estimated arrival time of 21,600 seconds.
• Villagers celebrated killing a woman they called a Witch, displayed her head and limbs, and treated a golden-armored figure as a divine messenger.
• The golden-armored figure began slaughtering the villagers.

Salomon carried out Kamar-Taj’s order to kill the corrupted villagers, then discussed his doubts about humanity and his future with the Venerable One. Meanwhile, Bayonetta and Rosa reached the destroyed Umbra Witches’ tower, where Rosa fought Fortitudo and Bayonetta spotted an unexpected attacker.

• Salomon slaughtered the villagers corrupted by the Outer Dimensions and cleared the square of every living creature.
• The Venerable One told Salomon he could choose another path, but Salomon rejected abandoning his human identity and continued his lesson.
• Bayonetta and Rosa reached the tower and found it destroyed by meteors, with the Umbra Witches there dead.
• Rosa attacked Fortitudo with overwhelming fury, tore off one of its dragon heads, and dragged it into the abyss.
• Bayonetta shot down an attack aimed at Rosa and confronted the little thing who had appeared.

Bayonetta fought the Prophetess, who wanted to reclaim the Eyes of the World, while Salomon battled Angels alongside the Sorcerer Supreme. The Venerable One told Salomon that they were nearing the end of the Umbra Witches and asked whether he had worked out how to return to his own era.

• Bayonetta recognized the Prophetess as the boy grown older and learned that she intended to kill the Witch and Sage to reclaim the Eyes of the World.
• Bayonetta drew the Prophetess away from Rosa, severed one of her Ghost arms, and knocked her off a cliff before the Prophetess hurled Bayonetta and a huge boulder skyward.
• Bayonetta fought the Prophetess atop the burning boulder as it plunged back toward the ground.
• Salomon fought Angels in the Mirror Dimension, using a brutal fighting style that frightened the surviving Angels.
• The Sorcerer Supreme criticized Salomon for blocking a greatsword with his vambrace, and he defended his pragmatic approach to combat.
• The Venerable One said they were nearing the end of the Umbra Witches, explained that Kamar-Taj was preparing for threats from Extra-dimensional Beings, and asked Salomon how he would return to his own era.

Salomon and the Venerable One traced the Prophetess’s escape after Madame Butterfly saved Bayonetta from a meteor strike. Bayonetta awoke at an Umbra Witch altar, witnessed Rosa’s death, and urged Balder to help her return to the future and stop their enemy.

• Madame Butterfly smashed the meteor apart and shielded Bayonetta from the blast before taking her away.
• The Venerable One used the Time Stone to reveal that the Prophetess had hidden himself one second ahead in time, and Salomon identified his direction of escape.
• Bayonetta awoke at an abandoned Umbra Witch altar and recognized it as the place connected to her recurring dreams.
• Bayonetta and Balder reached the altar room, where they saw the Prophetess flee after Rosa had been mortally wounded.
• Bayonetta told Balder that the Prophetess was their true enemy and urged him to follow her so they could return to the future and end the events unfolding.

Bayonetta and Balder returned to the past, where Rosa died and Cereza entrusted Salomon with her body. Salomon buried Rosa at Kamar-Taj, then entered magical stasis to await five hundred years.

• Bayonetta used the Eyes of the World to take Balder back to the past, where Rosa briefly awoke and told him to care for Cereza before dying.
• Salomon removed his helmet, and Cereza recognized him as her big brother and trusted him to take Rosa away.
• Salomon carried Rosa through a portal to the Himalayas while Cereza and Jeanne prepared to face the enemy.
• Salomon placed Rosa in a hidden sarcophagus at Kamar-Taj and carved a marble likeness of her.
• The Sorcerer Supreme put Salomon into magical stasis in a sealed dungeon cell, where he would sleep for five hundred years.

Bayonetta and Balder escaped the collapsing stronghold and joined Jeanne’s Assault Transports as angels and demons attacked. Meanwhile, Constantine led a force toward Fimbulwinter Mountain after bunker-buster missiles blasted open its summit, beginning the campaign’s final phase.

• Bayonetta and Balder transformed into beasts and leaped onto Jeanne’s Assault Transports as their stronghold collapsed.
• Bayonetta and Balder learned that angels and demons had joined forces, and Jeanne’s transports attacked the invaders.
• Constantine inspected the Sisterhood and STRIKE Team force assembled by Tita and Victoria Hand, then ordered them to board the Assault Transports.
• Agent Hand ordered bunker-buster missiles fired at Fimbulwinter Mountain, blasting its summit and sending rocks toward Noahduen Town.
• Constantine led the three Assault Transports into the smoke while the remaining defenders prepared to climb the mountain.

Constantine led a suicide squad and the boy across the Bridge of Heaven toward Fimbulwinter Mountain’s summit while artillery battered the defenses and creatures counterattacked. Tatyana’s squad fought through heavy losses to reach the altar, where the boy witnessed their sacrifice and questioned why they kept advancing.

• Fifteen Gustav Cannons bombarded Fimbulwinter Mountain as creatures attacked the City of Immortals and Kamar-Taj’s forces.
• Victoria Hand ordered a withdrawal and asked Tatyana’s assault squad to help with the mission to bring the boy to the summit.
• Tatyana’s Assault Transport landed on the Bridge of Heaven, and Constantine charged ahead on his anti-gravity motorcycle to clear a path.
• Constantine, the Sisterhood, and the Mortal Soldiers fought through Lower Angels and demons beneath the Magic Shield protecting the summit.
• The boy watched soldiers and Sisterhood fighters keep fighting despite mortal wounds, then asked why they were willing to risk their lives.
• Tatyana told the boy they were fighting so more people could live.

The team fought through the Bridge of Heaven and reached the mountaintop, where the Prophetess revealed her plan to reclaim the Sovereign’s power from her other half. As the trapped soldiers faced her overwhelming forces, STRIKE Team member Andrew fired at the Prophetess, and the Praetorian Guard’s golden radiance gave him courage.

• The boy joined the battle while Constantine and the Sisterhood fought to clear the way toward the mountaintop.
• Bayonetta and Balder arrived with the Assault Transports, easing the pressure on the team as they escorted the boy to Constantine.
• Balder rushed through the stone doors toward the altar, followed by Bayonetta, Constantine, and the death squad.
• The Prophetess confronted The Sage and Bayonetta, explaining that she sought to take the Sovereign’s power from her other half.
• Andrew fired a high-energy plasma blast at the Prophetess, who named him as her first target.
• The Praetorian Guard praised Andrew and urged him to leave the fight to him as golden radiance restored the soldier’s courage.

Salomon and the suicide squad attacked the Prophetess on Fimbulwinter Mountain, but she reclaimed the power of Chaos God Asa and seized the boy. As she savored her restored strength under bombardment, Salomon prepared to play his first trump card in the time loop.

• Salomon rode Pegasus through the Extra-dimensional Beings, reached the altar, and attacked the Prophetess while Constantine, Bayonetta, Balder, and the Sisterhood advanced with the boy.
• Salomon trapped the Prophetess with serpents, then Pegasus and Madame Butterfly battered her and pinned her to the altar.
• The boy threw the card containing half of Chaos God Asa's power, but the Prophetess seized it, pulled him to her, and began reclaiming the power of both Eyes of the World.
• Salomon stopped Bayonetta and Balder from intervening, explaining that the Prophetess's restoration was necessary while keeping his time-loop trump card secret.
• The Punisher's artillery fired ten rapid rounds at the summit, and the Prophetess ignored the bombardment as Salomon prepared his first move.

Salomon’s reinforcements arrived at Fimbulwinter Mountain, where two powerful War Machines helped him strike the Prophetess and cover the retreat. A memoir by Victoria Hand later described the machines’ secrecy and the destruction of Fimbulwinter Mountain and Noahduen Town.

• Salomon held off the Prophetess with protective spells while awaiting reinforcements from the Mars Foundry.
• Two drop pods landed on Fimbulwinter Mountain, and the Sisterhood attacked the surviving Extra-dimensional Beings as Constantine organized the evacuation.
• Salomon struck the Prophetess with the Sacred Sword while two War Machines fired Arcane Pulse Cannons at him.
• The War Machines turned their fire on the giant Extra-dimensional Beings, and the Sage saw Rosa leap from an Assault Transport.
• Victoria Hand’s memoir recounted the War Machines’ secret deployment and noted that Fimbulwinter Mountain and Noahduen Town had vanished, leaving a cratered plain.

Salomon and The Venerable One planned to break Bayonetta’s time loop by retrieving the Right Eye of Light from another timeline and preserving Rosa’s soul. As the battle against the Prophetess began, Victoria Hand’s report described witnessing the Monarch’s power firsthand.

• Salomon and The Venerable One decided to interrupt the time loop, bring Balder and the Right Eye of Light into the timeline, and guide young Cereza through her grief.
• Salomon learned that Rosa had lived in Kamar-Taj for five hundred years, had cared for him as a child, and had served as the dungeon warden.
• Rosa charged the injured Prophetess under War Machine’s cover, while Salomon and Constantine followed and fought off nearby angels and demons.
• Salomon’s memoir included Victoria Hand’s account of seeing the Monarch’s power firsthand during the Battle of Fimbulwinter Mountain.

The City of Immortals evacuated its forces as Salomon and the Sorcerer Supreme finished containing the threat at Fimbulwinter Mountain. After the battle, Salomon faced Rosa and Balder as Rosa reunited with her family and acknowledged his relationship with Cereza and Jeanne.

• Baron Mordo ordered the Kamar-Taj Arcanists to evacuate the Sky Battleships and help the City of Immortals' forces withdraw, while Victoria Hand watched the ships teleport to safety.
• A golden pillar rose from Fimbulwinter Mountain, followed by a soul-piercing wail, and Tony Stark later found only nuclear craters and radiation where the mountain and Noahduen Town had been.
• Salomon met Rosa and Balder after they sealed the Eyes of the World inside a pocket watch, while Bayonetta and Jeanne watched from the sides.
• Rosa told Salomon and the others that she and Balder planned to travel and that they could keep the Oxfordshire manor, then teased Balder for never writing to her in prison.
• Rosa warned Salomon not to make Cereza or Jeanne sad, and Balder reacted darkly.

At the Fimbulwinter convent, Tatyana mourned the thirteen fallen sisters and relived how Vera died saving the heavy firepower squad. Vera’s apparent death unleashed a miraculous light that destroyed the enemy, and Catherine’s voice reassured the sisters that Vera was beside their Lord.

• The Sisterhood held a memorial for the thirteen sisters killed at Fimbulwinter Mountain, with Catherine and Vera laid in coffins.
• Tatyana recalled charging toward the Golden Greatsword monster while the heavy firepower squad was surrounded by enemies.
• Vera broke through the encirclement and cleared a path for the squads, but golden spears pierced her before she could escape.
• As Tatyana and the others fought their way to Vera, the dying girl spoke of Catherine and then pushed Tatyana away to reach her Chainsaw Sword.
• A dazzling light burst from Vera, destroying the Extra-dimensional Beings and Cherubim across the battlefield.
• A white-winged figure appeared above Vera, and Catherine’s voice told the sisters that Vera was with their Lord and would be rewarded for her faith.