Chapter Summaries

Celenike used her Command Spells to force Astolfo to attack Sieg and the other Artificial Lifeforms, then killed one of them with a cursed Mystic Code. Sieg’s fury erupted, and he struck Celenike with a burst of magic that blasted a hole through her chest.

• Celenike told Astolfo he was only a copy and called him her toy, prompting him to warn Sieg to run.
• Celenike used a Command Spell to force Astolfo to kill Sieg, but Astolfo resisted its control.
• The Homunculi confronted Celenike to protect Sieg, and she killed one of them with a cursed iron nail.
• Celenike used another Command Spell to order Astolfo to kill every Artificial Lifeform.
• Sieg threw Astolfo’s sword at Celenike, rushed her, and blasted a hole through her chest with his magic.

After killing Celenike, Sieg formed a new Master-Servant contract with Astolfo. The Black and Red Factions converged at the Hanging Gardens to confront Avicebron’s primordial golem, and Jeanne d'Arc summoned Red Saber to join the battle.

• Sieg and the homunculi held off Astolfo while Celenike’s lingering Command Spells forced him to attack, and Sieg established a new contract with him.
• Avicebron used Roche as the Furnace Core to create Crown: Light of Wisdom, a golem that began transforming the world into Paradise-Eden.
• Sovell and the Black Faction arrived as Achilles, Karna, Kriemhild, Atalanta, and Amakusa Shirou Tokisada launched a renewed attack for the Red Faction.
• Chiron identified the golem’s two Spirit Cores and warned that the Black Faction needed another Servant to face the Red Faction’s forces.
• Jeanne d'Arc invoked her authority as Ruler and commanded Red Saber to assist in battle.

Sovell rallied the Servants to confront Black Caster and the Red Faction, while Jeanne d'Arc and Amakusa Shirou spent Command Spells countering each other's orders. As Mordred struggled against Avicebron's forces, Chiron received permission to use Antares Snipe and waited for his shot.

• Sovell summoned Mordred and asked Gawain to set aside his grudges, then led the assembled Servants into battle.
• Jeanne d'Arc commanded Amakusa Shirou's Servants to kill themselves, but Amakusa used his Command Spells to override her order, leaving him with far fewer commands.
• Avicebron directed ten Automatons and a Mud Giant against Mordred and Frankenstein, and Mordred destroyed five Automatons with Clarent before Avicebron replaced them.
• Chiron asked Fiore for permission to use Antares Snipe against Avicebron, and she approved his once-per-night Noble Phantasm.
• Chiron waited for an opening as Jeanne d'Arc and Amakusa Shirou's Command Spells clashed.

Avicebron was fatally struck by Chiron but fed his body to the primordial giant, empowering it to continue building Paradise. As the battle spread across the field, Sieg and Astolfo joined forces to resist Kriemhild, who eventually yielded the contest of strength.

• Chiron’s starlight Noble Phantasm pierced Avicebron, who urged the primordial giant onward before it absorbed his body and grew stronger.
• Mordred destroyed the ten uncontrolled Automatons and prepared to fight the empowered giant.
• Jeanne d'Arc and Chiron agreed that the Adam-like Golem had to be destroyed before its Garden of Eden made it indestructible.
• Kriemhild fought off Astolfo and Jack the Ripper, then prepared to use her Noble Phantasm against Astolfo.
• Sieg intervened to help Astolfo hold back Kriemhild’s sword, and Astolfo activated [Monstrous Strength] to keep resisting.
• Kriemhild gave up first in the prolonged contest of strength.

Kriemhild challenged Sieg to fight her under his own name, while Achilles and Sovell escalated their battle into a clash of Noble Phantasms. The chapter ended as Sovell released all three seals on Rhongomyniad to oppose Achilles’s world-manifesting shield and charging chariot.

• Kriemhild asked Sieg why he carried Siegfried’s presence, and Sieg said he did not want to forget the man who saved him.
• Kriemhild told Sieg to raise his sword against her and urged him to change his name to avoid dying young.
• Sovell grew uneasy watching the Primordial Giant and declared that his next strike would decide the battle against Achilles.
• Achilles summoned his chariot and released Troias Tragōidia, charging at Sovell with the Shield of Achilles raised.
• Achilles released Akhilleus Kosmos, unfolding a miniature world of Ancient Greece and hurling it toward Sovell.
• Sovell released all three restraints on Rhongomyniad, revealing its power as an Anti-World Noble Phantasm.

Sovell destroyed Achilles’s Greece World and left him gravely wounded, but Achilles used Battle Continuation to keep fighting. He drew Sovell into an Octagon outside the flow of time, where their final duel began and Sovell revealed his Jewel-Class Mystic Eyes of Submergence.

• Sovell’s Light Spear shattered Achilles’s Greece World, and Achilles collapsed after the attack.
• Achilles activated Battle Continuation, stood back up, and insisted that he still wanted to fight.
• Achilles threw his spear, and Sovell kicked it away, but it created an Octagon that trapped them both.
• Sovell and Achilles prepared to duel as Achilles activated Goddess’s Blessing and Valor.
• Sovell reminded Achilles that he had already lost, then revealed his Jewel-Class Mystic Eyes of Submergence.

Sovell defeated Achilles and joined Mordred in fighting the expanding Primordial Giant, while the Black Faction's Masters searched for a way to destroy it. Gordes remembered the Artificial Lifeform, suggesting it might hold the key to their countermeasures.

• Sovell used his Mystic Eyes of Submergence to control Achilles, then pierced his heart and won their duel.
• Mordred's Noble Phantasm blasts failed to kill the Primordial Giant because it healed after each strike.
• Caules told Darnic that Berserker's Noble Phantasm could destroy one of the giant's Spirit Cores if someone exposed it.
• Sovell explained that they needed to destroy the Garden of Eden beneath the giant, lift both its feet from the ground, and attack both Spirit Cores simultaneously.
• Gordes recalled the Artificial Lifeform and realized it might be relevant to the crisis.

Gordes devised a coordinated plan to defeat the Primordial Giant, using Sieg and the Black and Red Servants to expose and destroy its Spirit Cores and Garden of Eden. The plan succeeded, but Sieg and Frankenstein fell in the battle as Mordred delivered the final blow.

• Gordes proposed using Sieg’s destructive magecraft to expose the Primordial Giant’s Spirit Core, with Sieg and Frankenstein carried above it by Astolfo’s Hippogriff.
• Sovell coordinated the teams, and Sieg leaped onto the Giant’s head and shattered the stone covering its Spirit Core.
• The Giant caught Sieg and hurled him to the ground, leaving him gravely injured.
• Frankenstein wedged herself and her war hammer into the exposed Spirit Core, then unleashed Blasted Tree after Caules used his Command Spells to release her power.
• Astolfo used his Noble Phantasm to turn the Giant’s legs into spirit form, while Sovell destroyed the Garden of Eden beneath it.
• Mordred destroyed the Giant’s second Spirit Core with Clarent, defeating the Primordial Giant.

After dawn ended the battle, Gawain regrouped with the Black Faction and assessed their condition. The chapter revealed that Sieg had revived in the form of Siegfried, leaving the Masters and Servants stunned.

• Gawain and Karna received orders to retreat as dawn broke, and Gawain returned to the Black Faction.
• Chiron healed Gawain, who learned that Sovell had defeated Achilles and checked the condition of his allies.
• More than ten minutes earlier, Chiron had judged Sieg beyond hope of survival after examining his catastrophic injuries.
• Mana gathered around Sieg, his body repaired itself, and Sovell ordered everyone to retreat as blue magic erupted from him.
• Sieg disappeared, and Siegfried stood in his place.

Sieg returned from the brink of death in Siegfried’s form, and Jeanne d’Arc and the others confirmed that his consciousness remained his own. He recounted how a mysterious presence and new black Command Spells had led him to take up a dragon-slaying sword.

• Jeanne d’Arc sensed Siegfried’s presence in the transformed Sieg, while Sovell restrained Astolfo and used his Mystic Eyes to guard against a possible attack.
• The transformed Sieg tested his left hand, then asked Jeanne d’Arc why everyone stood so far away; she recognized him as Sieg.
• After confirming Sieg’s identity, the group questioned how he had become a Servant and survived, so Sieg described what he experienced while near death.
• Sieg awoke to intense pain in his left hand and found three black Command Spells there, while the three spells on his right hand had vanished.
• A terrifying dragon-like presence appeared behind Sieg, and he resolved to fight with a legendary dragon-slaying sword before a whisper told him he was already holding it.

Sieg awakened the power of Siegfried’s heart and drew the Holy Sword Balmung, gaining the hero’s abilities for 180 seconds. Before the collapsing space disappeared, Siegfried asked Sieg to deliver a message of love and apology to Kriemhild; Sieg then awoke, realizing the encounter had been real.

• Sieg struggled to draw the sword while a dragon threatened him and visions of his death and companions appeared before him.
• Guided by his desire to live and his own chosen path, Sieg used a Command Spell to call upon his heart and draw the sword.
• The sword revealed itself as Balmung, and Siegfried’s heart granted Sieg the hero’s abilities for 180 seconds as the dragon vanished.
• Sieg met Siegfried face-to-face and thanked him for his sacrifice, asking about the hero’s own wish.
• As the space collapsed, Siegfried asked Sieg to tell Kriemhild that he apologized and would always love her.
• Sieg woke in a taller body wearing a gauntlet and realized that his encounter with Siegfried had not been a dream.

Sovell explained that fragments of Frankenstein’s perpetual motion engine had given Sieg the ability to transform into Saber Alter and sustain devastating Noble Phantasm fire, though he had only two transformations remaining. After Sieg thanked Gordes for helping defeat the giant, Sovell rallied the group to pursue Amakusa Shirou before the Greater Grail’s plan could succeed.

• Sovell examined Frankenstein’s blueprints and concluded that the fragment of her heart inside Sieg let him unleash Saber Alter’s power for three minutes at a time.
• Chiron asked how many transformations Sieg had left, and Sieg said his two remaining Dragon Proclamation Command Spells could give him six minutes in total.
• Sieg thanked Gordes for devising the plan against the giant, and Sovell promised to obtain an alchemy book for him from Merlin.
• Sovell announced that Achilles and the Primordial Giants had been defeated, while Frankenstein had died in battle.
• Sovell confirmed that Jeanne d’Arc could continue fighting and urged the group to defeat Amakusa Shirou before he achieved his plan for humanity.

Sovell learned that Amakusa Shirou’s plan to materialize every human soul could drain the planet’s magical energy, then led an assault on the Hanging Gardens of Babylon to stop him. Amakusa entered the Greater Grail to fulfill his wish, and Jeanne d’Arc followed him inside just after he crossed the threshold.

• Sovell explained that Amakusa’s plan required vast amounts of magical energy and could endanger both the planet and humanity.
• Sovell ordered Mordred and Gawain to join the assault, assigned Rider to ferry the other Servants, and told Darnic not to interfere; then he flew toward the Hanging Gardens with Mordred.
• Sovell and Mordred broke through the Hanging Gardens’ defenses, while Amakusa used three Command Spells to direct his remaining Servants.
• Sovell stayed behind to fight Karna inside Assassin’s Space Compression Barrier as Mordred continued toward the Greater Grail.
• Gawain destroyed the interception spells, and the Black Faction and Jeanne d’Arc reached the Hanging Gardens on Rider’s Hippogriff.
• Amakusa opened the Greater Grail and entered it, and Jeanne d’Arc had Gawain throw her through the opening after him.

Sovell and Karna entered a vast bounded field to fight as the strongest Servants of their factions. Before the battle began, Karna asked Sovell to rescue the imprisoned Red Faction Masters, and Sovell agreed; the two then prepared to give everything in their duel.

• Sovell recognized the bounded field’s expanded interior as impressive Magecraft, while Karna praised Sovell’s strength and looked forward to their duel.
• Karna regretted that Saber Alter had left early, and Sovell noted that she had chosen to save a child.
• Karna asked Sovell to rescue the Red Faction Masters imprisoned by Amakusa Shirou and Assassin, explaining that he still felt responsible for their lives.
• Sovell questioned whether the former Masters deserved his help but agreed to contact his allies, who said they would do what they could.
• Sovell and Karna announced their names and took their stances as their auras of wind and flame surged before the fight.

Mordred, Gawain, and their allies split the fighting in Semiramis’s court as Semiramis revealed that she had lured them into a trap. Mordred and Gawain resisted her poison, and Mordred injected herself with an emergency serum as their battle began.

• Semiramis sent Atalanta to fight Chiron, while Kriemhild pursued Sieg and Astolfo; Mordred and Gawain stayed behind to face Semiramis.
• Mordred and Gawain joined forces, and Semiramis revealed she had deliberately guided them through a weakened wall while the Greater Grail was moved to safety.
• Semiramis sealed the hall and released poisonous mist, but Gawain used Solar Flare to protect himself and Mordred and burn away the poison.
• Mordred predicted Semiramis’s plan to pin them down, then injected herself with Kairi Shishigou’s emergency serum and taunted the queen.

Mordred and Gawain fought Semiramis and Shakespeare, but Shakespeare ensnared Mordred in a play built from her past. The second act began by revisiting her acclaim as a young knight, leaving Mordred kneeling before someone who praised her record.

• Mordred’s serum-driven heartbeat strained her body, so she urged Gawain to end the fight quickly.
• Shakespeare criticized Mordred’s rebellion and praised Gawain’s chivalry while secretly weaving his Noble Phantasm’s true name into his speech.
• Mordred realized her symptoms had vanished and recognized that Shakespeare had trapped her in his illusion.
• Shakespeare began the first act, placing Mordred in a childhood scene where he played the children’s parent and described his failed plan to have them curse her.
• Shakespeare began the second act, and Mordred found herself kneeling in a white hall as someone praised her thirty jousting victories and called her Seren y Boreth.

Mordred met Artoria in Shakespeare’s recreated palace and asked whether she would have inherited the throne if she had not rebelled. Artoria said no, explaining that Mordred had many talents but lacked the qualities to become king.

• Mordred recognized Artoria among the figures Shakespeare had summoned and became enraged at the replicas of the Knights of the Round Table.
• Mordred tried to summon her sword, but the stage’s power blocked her, and the eleven Shakespeares left her alone with Artoria.
• Mordred struggled with her emotions before asking Artoria whether she would have passed the throne to her if she had not rebelled.
• Artoria answered that she would not have made Mordred king, despite her talent and hard work, because she lacked the qualities required for the throne.

Artoria explained to Mordred that she had never been intended to inherit the throne because her power came from Britain’s fading Age of Gods, while Gawain’s did not. She then explained how Merlin intercepted her and Sovell’s souls and how Sovell anchored them to their bodies in Avalon, enabling their unusual resurrection.

• Artoria told Mordred that being the King’s son disqualified her from becoming King, because her power came from the Age of Gods and was destined to fade.
• Artoria explained that she and Sovell had planned for Gawain to inherit the throne and for Mordred to become Prince, but Mordred’s rebellion came before they could retire.
• Mordred sulked over the revelation, and Artoria changed the subject to explain why she and Sovell differed from ordinary Heroic Spirits.
• Artoria described how Merlin intercepted her and Sovell’s souls on their way to the Astral Plane and brought them to Avalon.
• Artoria explained that Sovell created Soul Anchoring, fusing their souls with their bodies and allowing them to persist outside the Astral Plane.

Artoria freed Mordred from Shakespeare’s stage and promised they would meet again, while Gawain fought Semiramis in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The battle shifted when Lancer used his Third Noble Phantasm to destroy himself and take the enemy Lancer down with him.

• Artoria forced Shakespeare to his knees, then ordered Mordred to return and claim victory.
• Mordred asked Artoria if they would meet again, and Artoria promised they would before patting her head.
• Mordred called Artoria “Father” and promised to take care of herself.
• Semiramis accused Gawain of humiliating her, and Gawain admitted he had been holding back to avoid bringing down the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
• The Hanging Gardens shook, and Gawain learned that Lancer had used his Third Noble Phantasm to self-destruct and kill the enemy Lancer.

Sovell pressured Karna into close combat until Karna unleashed Brahmastra Kundala at point-blank range, badly injuring them both. Karna recovered first and rose into the air to prepare another attack, as the chapter explained the history of his one-use Divine Spear.

• Sovell kept Karna on the defensive with relentless close-range attacks, preventing him from safely using a Noble Phantasm.
• Karna hurled Brahmastra Kundala into the ground between them, and its blast severely wounded both fighters.
• Karna's automatic healing let him recover the initiative, and he flew into the sky as Sovell struggled to catch his breath.
• The chapter recounted how Karna gave Indra his armor and earrings, and Indra lent him a Divine Spear that could guarantee the death of one enemy.