Chapter Summaries

Lu Mingfei battled Norton on the river with the blade Wrath, but Mai Sakatoku’s Philosopher’s Stone bullet delivered the fatal blow. Naga appeared afterward, revealed she was a dragon who had known Norton for thousands of years, and left Lu Mingfei wondering how many Dragon Kings belonged to his small StarCraft group.

• Lu Mingfei opened the ancient box, drew the blade Wrath, and charged Norton as the dragon attacked him.
• Lu Mingfei stabbed Norton with Wrath, but Norton seized his throat before Lu Mingfei could strike again.
• Mai Sakatoku shot Norton in the temple with a Philosopher’s Stone bullet, killing him as he called Lu Mingfei “Mingming.”
• Naga appeared above Norton’s body, and Lu Mingfei realized she was a dragon who had known Norton for thousands of years.
• Naga joked with Lu Mingfei and explained that her claims about working because she was short on money had been true.

After Norton’s defeat, Naga revealed her connection to He Xiaomeng and confronted Lu Mingfei with the truth that he had killed Lao Tang. As Naga approached Norton’s remains, she sensed a powerful presence, and a supernatural storm erupted around the river.

• Naga told Lu Mingfei that He Xiaomeng had given her a place to live and taught her to use the internet, and she said she wanted to be his friend.
• Naga thanked Lu Mingfei for killing Norton, then told him that the person he had killed was Lao Tang.
• Naga sent Lu Mingfei to the Moriah, where he reassured Caesar that Nono was safe; Mai Sakatoku told Su Enxi that Naga had appeared and might seek to claim Norton’s remains.
• As Naga prepared to take Norton’s remains, she sensed an exceptionally powerful presence of her kind and wondered who was behind the events.
• A supernatural storm of torrential rain, lightning, thunder, and violent winds engulfed the river as hoofbeats sounded.

As Odin descended onto the battlefield, Lu Mingfei recognized him as the King of Sky and Wind while Zero and Caesar questioned his unusual friendships with Dragon Kings. Odin offered Naga a place at his side, but she rejected him, and he prepared to kill her.

• A storm darkened the battlefield as Odin arrived on an eight-legged horse, and Caesar identified him as the Norse Allfather.
• Zero asked Lu Mingfei about Naga, and he admitted they were online friends he had met through gaming; Caesar teased him about his list of powerful friends.
• Odin’s arrival disrupted the Orthodox forces’ electronics, aircraft targeting, and artillery, leaving their conventional weapons useless.
• Naga and Odin faced each other across the river, and Odin urged her to join his campaign to rebuild the world beneath a new divine throne.
• Naga mocked Odin’s ambition to claim Nidhogg’s throne, and Odin declared that he would grant her an equal death.

Naga performed a ritual dance over the river and summoned a fleeting gaze from an otherworldly being, which Odin recognized as an outsider. Convinced that Odin’s blood had pleased the god, she turned against him, while Odin warned that the forbidden power was corrupting her.

• Naga summoned cherry-red fireballs around the Dragon Servant Sansun’s corpse and began a ritual dance above the river.
• Lu Mingfei, Caesar, Zero, Wa Master, and Zhou Minhao watched the dance, while Odin feared it might unleash the King of Earth and Mountains’ apocalyptic power.
• Naga formed a twelve-ring symbol with her Pale Bone Staff and offered blood to the immortal gods, briefly drawing an immense otherworldly will.
• Odin identified the presence as an outsider, and Lu Mingfei uttered the word “Starlight.”
• Naga rejoiced that the god had noticed them and declared Odin’s blood a pleasing offering.
• Odin warned Naga that God’s Blood was a corrupting curse, but she angrily rejected his warning and vowed to punish those who defied heaven and fate.

Naga battled Odin and Sleipnir on the river, wielding a giant stone sword before unleashing an array of Spirit Words and combining elemental powers. Odin recognized that Naga’s hybrid spells were difficult to counter without wasting strength, leaving him facing a towering elemental creation and an opponent nearly his equal.

• Odin charged Naga on Sleipnir, but she raised a giant stone sword and met his spear in a fierce dance of attacks.
• Naga’s stone sword shattered against Gungnir, so she retreated and attacked Odin with Spirit Words that commanded water, fire, wind, and other elements.
• Mai Sakatoku watched the battle as Su Enxi relayed the Boss’s report that Naga could use nearly all known Spirit Words and combine them into unpredictable hybrids.
• Naga fused water, fire, earth, Feng, and spirit into a colossal elemental creation armed with a black-stone warhammer.
• Odin considered canceling Naga’s hybrid Spirit Words but judged that forcibly erasing them would waste too much strength against an opponent close to his level.

Odin overwhelmed Naga with the full power of his Primordial Manifestation, Wrath of Indra, after she brought down Sleipnir and he adapted to her Spirit Words. As Odin prepared a colossal lightning sphere capable of erasing the battlefield, Lu Mingfei desperately called for Lu Mingze, but received no answer.

• Odin summoned Indra's thunder to strike Naga and her elemental giant, while Naga evaded the storm and attacked him with ice blades that he erased using Cancel.
• Odin struggled to target Naga as she shifted between elemental attacks and defenses, then hurled a thunder spear to create an opening for Sleipnir's charge.
• Naga unleashed a prepared composite Spirit Word against Sleipnir, bringing the divine steed down and forcing Odin to fight on foot.
• Odin adapted to Naga's Spirit Words and gained the advantage, then offered her one last chance to join him in bringing about Ragnarok; Naga remained silent and resolute.
• Odin revealed Primordial Manifestation: Wrath of Indra, destroyed Naga's elemental giant, trapped her with crushing winds, and formed a colossal sphere of lightning above the battlefield.
• Lu Mingfei and the observers watched in terror as the lightning sphere threatened to vaporize everything nearby, while Lu Mingfei called to Lu Mingze for help and got no response.

Odin broke through Naga’s Fantasy Land with the Pale Thunder Blade, leaving her gravely wounded and unable to resist. After Lu Mingfei healed the burned crew and led them away from the doomed ship, Odin threw Gungnir through Naga’s chest.

• Odin shaped his lightning into the Pale Thunder Blade, and Naga created Fantasy Land to shield herself from the strike.
• Lu Mingze warned Lu Mingfei that the battlefield was unsafe and taught him the Spirit Word Do Not Die; Lu Mingfei healed the burned crew and urged them to flee.
• The lightning overwhelmed the Moriah, detonating its Storm Torpedo and destroying the tugboat as Lu Mingfei and the crew escaped.
• Odin’s attack shattered Fantasy Land and left Naga charred and severely injured; he explained that Dragon Kings could disrupt the elements sustaining her defense.
• Odin raised Gungnir and threw it, piercing Naga’s chest.

Naga survived Odin’s attack, revealed her enormous dragon form, and used the power of God’s Blood to break the Dragon Kind’s limits on transformation. She then unleashed Spirit Word: Judgment on a weakened Odin, leaving him covered in fatal wounds.

• Naga pulled Gungnir from her chest, healed her wounds, and transformed into her sixty- to seventy-meter dragon form.
• Odin realized Naga could freely switch between human and dragon forms, overturning the usual limits of Dragon Kind.
• Wa Master, Zhou Minhao, Lu Mingfei, Caesar, Mai Sakatoku, and Su Enxi reacted to Naga’s transformation while Mai recorded it and Su Enxi ordered her to stay concealed and protect Lu Mingfei if needed.
• Naga declared that the Immortal Gods had given her this power and that the remnants of the old era would be destroyed.
• Naga invoked Spirit Word: Judgment, causing countless deep wounds to open across the already weakened Odin’s body.

Naga defeated Odin but lost Norton’s skeleton when he stole it during a human missile strike. Enraged and betrayed, she began forming a domain that threatened everyone near the river.

• Naga prepared to kill the apparently dying Odin, but detected a human missile and covered herself in crystal armor.
• The missile wounded Naga, and she destroyed the attacking fighter jet with Spirit Word: Indra before masking herself from radar.
• Naga discovered that Odin had vanished with Norton’s skeleton and realized he had feigned weakness to steal it.
• Zhou Minhao told Wa Master that an impostor had replaced the designated pilot, likely as part of Odin’s plan to turn human weapons against Naga.
• Wa Master moved to confront Naga as Naga’s domain spread and she began a destructive dance through the river and sky.

Amon infiltrated the Yamal, killed Odin’s planted guard and Vincent with Olrun and Hervor, then made his way toward Rigerif’s room. He entered Maria of the Stars’ bedroom, leaving his next move unresolved.

• Amon learned that an A-rank Hybrid guarding the stairs was likely Odin’s pawn and chose him as his first target.
• Amon used Spirit Word: Ghost to approach the guard and his companion, then killed both with Time Zero and disposed of their bodies in the sea.
• Amon took a dead guard’s coat, entered the upper deck, and located Vincent, Olrun, and Hervor with Spirit Word: Bloodline Web.
• Amon surprised Vincent and the two A-rank clones in their room, killed them, and hid their bodies beneath the bed.
• Amon decided Rigerif was too unpredictable to leave unchecked and opened the doors to Maria of the Stars’ bedroom.

Amon subdued Rigerif after she ambushed him, then learned she suspected her great-grandmother Maria of the Stars was alive in the ship’s lowest Watertight Compartment. He prepared to take Rigerif there, unaware she secretly planned to resist him.

• Amon used Spirit Word: Time Zero to evade Rigerif’s halberd attack and seize her from behind.
• Rigerif surrendered and explained that she had inherited the title Maria of the Stars after her great-grandmother supposedly died.
• Amon revealed he sensed another being of noble bloodline aboard and suggested the real Maria was still on the ship.
• Rigerif guessed Maria was hidden in the Watertight Compartment, and Amon agreed to take her there.
• Rigerif produced heavy shackles for Amon, then changed into hunting clothes while secretly hiding a miniature pistol in her boot.

Amon and Rigerif infiltrated the ship’s lower decks and reached the largest watertight compartment. They entered without raising an alarm, and Amon stopped at the compartment’s door with a smile.

• Rigerif tried to distract Amon from the pistol hidden in her boot, but he gave her a cloak and told her to stay close and quiet.
• Amon used Spirit Word: Ghost to slip past the guards with Rigerif, who realized the cloak was ordinary and that his Spirit Word concealed them.
• Rigerif slowed briefly as they passed the ballroom, then followed Amon toward the lower decks.
• Amon used Spirit Word: Hypnosis to make the armed guard leave the passage, then unlocked the security door with a brass Key he had found on Vincent.
• Amon and Rigerif reached the largest watertight compartment at the stern of the lowest deck, where Amon adjusted his Monocle and smiled.

Rigerif and Amon found Maria trapped in an iron box in the Watertight Compartment and freed her with Vincent’s keys. After Rigerif gave Maria her blood, Maria recovered enough to emerge from her bone cage, and Amon warned her that the Secret Party was truly hunting her.

• Rigerif feared her grandmother had drowned and angrily opened the Watertight Compartment with Amon.
• Rigerif found Maria chained inside an iron box, where Maria revealed that Vincent had deceived and imprisoned her.
• Rigerif used Vincent’s four keys to loosen the iron box, and Maria’s bony claws tore it open.
• Rigerif gave Maria her blood, restoring her strength and allowing her to emerge from her protective rib cage.
• Maria asked Rigerif whether she had brought cigarettes, met Amon, and heard him confirm that the Secret Party was pursuing her.

Maria learned that Amon belonged to the Secret Party and discovered that Vincent, Olrun, and Hervor were dead. Amon said he intended to kill Maria for her bones and blood, and Maria asked him to take Rigerif away from the Far North; Amon identified the looming threat as the Holy Palace Medical Association.

• Maria asked Amon who he was, and he told her he was one of the Secret Party.
• Maria admitted to Rigerif that she had exaggerated the Secret Party’s danger to keep her dependent, at Vincent’s demand.
• Amon showed Rigerif a photograph of Vincent, Olrun, and Hervor dead, and Maria reacted with laughter, sobs, and then exhaustion.
• Amon told Maria he planned to kill her for her bones and blood, acting for himself rather than the Secret Party.
• Maria asked Amon to take Rigerif away from the Far North, and Amon asked whether she meant the Holy Palace Medical Association.

Maria warned Rigerif about the Holy Palace Medical Association and Amon, then appeared to accept her death before secretly attacking Amon to protect her great-granddaughter. Amon killed Maria, rescued and restrained Rigerif, and left her alive but shackled.

• Maria told Rigerif that the Holy Palace Medical Association was an elusive network interested in the Gate of the Kingdom of God and warned her that Amon was dangerous.
• Maria knocked Rigerif unconscious and asked Amon to kill her so Rigerif would not have to witness it.
• Amon shot Maria three times, but Maria survived through Dragon Blood and launched a surprise attack with her bone claws.
• Amon used Time Zero and his dagger to shatter Maria's bone claws and cut her body into pieces, killing her.
• Amon pulled Rigerif from the seawater, searched her and confiscated her weapons, then revived her after she coughed up water.
• Amon shackled Rigerif with restraints strong enough to keep a Hybrid from escaping.

Amon used Maria’s remains to absorb the First Generation Dragon’s genetic information and encased himself in a crimson cocoon. Rigerif woke shackled in the compartment, tried to escape, and discovered that Amon remained conscious and had taken her weapons.

• Amon absorbed genetic information from Maria’s remains as crimson threads formed a cocoon around him.
• Rigerif woke in the Watertight Compartment, chained to a support pillar beside Amon’s cocoon.
• Rigerif searched for her hidden weapons, found them missing, and tried to bend the railing to escape.
• Amon spoke from inside the cocoon and warned Rigerif to stop struggling.
• Amon showed Rigerif the pistol he had taken from her boot, and she sat down obediently.

Amon remained inside the crimson cocoon as Vincent and the twins were found dead, prompting Sasha’s group to investigate the ship’s restricted lower levels. Sasha reached the Watertight Compartment but was silently turned away by Amon’s influence, leaving Rigerif wondering what Amon had done.

• The security captains broke into Vincent’s locked room and found Vincent, Hervor, and Olrun dead beneath the bed.
• After hearing gunshots and learning Amon was missing, Sasha gathered his group and led them toward the ship’s bottom level.
• Sasha used a concealed passage to bypass the guards and reached the ajar pressure door leading to the Watertight Compartment.
• As Sasha approached the compartment, an invisible influence altered his cognition and made him turn around and leave.
• Rigerif wondered why the intruder had left, and Amon teased her before she asked what he had done.

Amon's hypnosis made Sasha believe he had found nothing, while the Far North concealed Vincent's murder and searched for Rigerif. Amon emerged from the cocoon transformed into a dragonlike being, freed Rigerif, and took her to the dining hall.

• Sasha fell under Amon's hypnosis, searched an empty illusion, and told Olev he had found nothing.
• The Far North agreed to cover up Vincent's murder and explain Rigerif's disappearance as another game of hide-and-seek.
• An agent of Odin lost contact with his superior and headed toward the lower decks to check on Maria.
• Amon tore free of the cocoon with horns, scales, claws, and vast feathered wings, then startled Rigerif with his transformed appearance.
• Rigerif complained that she was hungry, and Amon cut through her chains and took her to the dining hall.

Amon told Rigerif she was free to choose her own path, but she continued with him and confronted the Far North leaders after Vincent's death. She admitted to killing Vincent, secured food, and said she had let go of any desire to avenge Maria.

• Amon explained that Maria had used Rigerif as bait to try to kill him, then told Rigerif she was free to leave and live as she wished.
• Amon noticed a man hiding near the passage, while a shadowy figure wearing a Monocle followed the man as he fled.
• At the dining hall, two Far North men escorted Rigerif away from the food and back to the top deck, with Amon following.
• Rigerif told Pierce that she had killed Vincent because he had murdered Maria, and she demanded food while warning the leaders not to take Vincent's place.
• Rigerif told Amon that she no longer wanted revenge for Maria and considered Maria's remains his reward for killing Vincent.

Amon returned from the Far North and reviewed how his bloodline improvement had strengthened his Spirit Words and granted him new abilities. He had gained no elemental authority, but he had awakened an exclusive Bug-like Spirit Word comparable to Primordial Authority.

• Odin's planted agent tried to contact his backup number, but Amon took over his body before he could make the call.
• Amon returned to his cabin, resumed human form, and reviewed the gains from his journey to the Far North.
• Amon found that his Spirit Words had grown stronger and that he could create and carry a Nibelungen.
• Amon's Spirit Word: Parasitism could now implant part of his soul to replace a target's soul and create an avatar, with one avatar designated as a cocoon.
• Amon concluded that he had gained no elemental authority, but had awakened an exclusive Bug-like Spirit Word comparable to Primordial Authority.