Chapter Summaries

Roland revealed that he had become a Complete Formula Solver who could analyze and manipulate the formulas behind the universe and the Demon Gods. After explaining how he used the Demon Gods’ own plans and Zombie’s Infinite Mirror Magic Formula to secure his advantage, he watched them flee and unleash attacks to destroy the world, then offered to make a new one.

• Roland explained that his mastery of time, reality, and formulas had let him develop the Complete Formula Solver, making Demon Gods’ powers solvable data to him.
• Roland told the Demon Gods that their efforts to manipulate the universe had helped him obtain Zombie’s Infinite Mirror Magic Formula and the parameters of their internal structures.
• Nephthys realized Roland had likely defeated Zombie and could interfere with the Demon Gods’ immortality, so she ordered everyone to flee and destroy the world to buy time.
• The Demon Gods scattered beyond the horizon and unleashed attacks powerful enough to obliterate star systems and threaten humanity.
• Roland reached toward the barrage and asked whether they wanted a new world.

Roland used Ideal Exile to remove the Demon Gods from the present world, trapping them in a separate realm where they could wield their power freely. Nephthys escaped in a remnant body, but Roland found her on the moon, and she realized her instincts already made her submit to him.

• Roland absorbed Tezcatlipoca and sent Niangniang, Nuada, and the other Demon Gods into New Heaven and Earth, a separate realm built from the world's timeline.
• Niangniang understood the realm as a liberating refuge before her body vanished, and Roland declared his preparations complete as the disaster ended.
• Nephthys used a remnant of her body to escape, concealed herself, and fled toward the moon to observe Roland from a distance.
• Nephthys collided with Roland on the lunar surface, and he stroked her hair without restraining her.
• Nephthys recognized that she had submitted because her body acknowledged Roland's superior status.

Roland confronted Nephthys, who refused to submit unless he proved that resistance was useless, and discovered her contingency was already unfolding. Laura Stuart revealed herself as Coronzon and mortally wounded Aleister with the Damocles sword, declaring that the old era's powers were now challengers.

• Roland explained how he had anticipated Nephthys's movements and asked whether she still wanted to fight.
• Nephthys said she admired Roland and might serve him, but only if he forced her to accept that resistance was futile.
• Nephthys revealed that she had a contingency beyond Gremlin's plan, and Roland deduced that a disaster had already begun below.
• Roland and Nephthys saw Aleister hanging in the damaged Windowless Building with the Damocles sword piercing his chest.
• Laura Stuart explained that the sword had destroyed Aleister's heart and revealed herself as Coronzon.
• Coronzon declared that her Contract had ended and that Aleister and the Demon Gods were challengers to the new era.

Nephthys explained how Laura had betrayed Roland to fulfill Coronzon’s Contract by killing Aleister, but Aleister survived by revealing that he had sealed countless possibilities within himself. As Laura moved to finish him, Aleister’s body recovered and manifested a strange power called the Asura Immortality Art, while Roland revealed that the apparent reversal had also been anticipated.

• Nephthys told Roland that Laura had switched sides after sensing Aleister’s return and had helped bring about his death to fulfill Coronzon’s Contract.
• Aleister revealed that he had sealed 1,083,092,817 possible futures within himself and that a silver-haired version of him was ready to fight Coronzon again.
• Roland dismissed Nephthys’s confidence as a desperate gamble and revealed that he had anticipated the betrayal through contingency plans with Aleister.
• Laura rushed toward Aleister’s original body to kill him, but his heart reappeared and his strength returned.
• Aleister named the power gathering on his forehead the Magnetic Field Rotation · Asura Immortality Art.

Aleister regenerated from Laura’s attacks through the Asura Immortality Art and resolved to fight his final battle against Coronzon. He left Laura’s ultimate strike crumbling his body, but caught the forbidden sword and seized her hand, taking control of the fight.

• Aleister revealed that he had regenerated his heart using the Asura Immortality Art, while his silver-haired possibility mocked Laura and explained his embrace of magnetic field power.
• Laura unleashed Divine Authority Confusion and a storm of golden hair weapons, repeatedly destroying Aleister’s body, but he regenerated almost instantly.
• Aleister reasoned that Roland’s absence must be part of a larger plan and committed himself to fighting Coronzon for the world, his ideals, his daughter, and his allies.
• Laura summoned the Path of the Flame Sword and pierced Aleister with its higher-dimensional blade, which could sever even the Target Key.
• Aleister reached through his disintegrating body, caught the forbidden sword, seized Laura’s hand, and declared that he was taking charge.

Aleister used his and Laura’s shared Abyss-summoning magic to trap them in a reverse ritual, then launched the Windowless Building into space to reach a new realm. The journey brought them to the Golden Throne, where they encountered Roland.

• Laura’s Flame Sword pierced Aleister while her hair restrained him, and she dismissed his resistance as futile.
• Aleister summoned three rubies and used their shared magic to begin a reverse summoning that pulled both him and Laura toward the Abyss.
• Laura warned that her flesh-and-blood body would resist the ritual, but Aleister revealed he had prepared a hidden spaceship inside the Windowless Building.
• The building launched into space, and Aleister used black-hole power and the ritual to divert their journey into another realm.
• Aleister said he was returning his soul to the Golden Throne, where Laura saw Roland beside the throne’s master.

Roland revealed that he had maneuvered Coronzon into serving as his guide for another ascent through the Abyss, and Laura tried to destroy herself and Aleister rather than submit to him. Roland summoned Sajyou Manaka, who helped subdue Laura and declared herself Roland’s mother, leaving Laura furious and disbelieving.

• Roland explained that he had monitored and manipulated Laura so he could use Coronzon as a ticket to conquer the Abyss again.
• Laura realized Roland had never regarded her as an equal and vowed to destroy herself along with Aleister rather than become his slave.
• Roland reminded Laura that his All the World's Evil was not merely nourishment and summoned Sajyou Manaka from within her hair.
• Sajyou Manaka’s Dragon shadow began eroding Laura, and she identified herself as a girl in love who instinctively helped Roland.
• Sajyou Manaka called herself Roland’s mother, prompting Laura to accuse him of being a womanizer, while Roland insisted theirs was pure love.

Roland explained that he had arranged for Aleister to die so he could use Aleister’s remaining possibilities and Laura’s value together to fulfill his plans. He revealed that he intended to awaken from the dream sustaining the world and confront the Angel of Heaven of Heavens, then asked Aleister to link the fire in his place.

• Roland confirmed that Aleister had died and explained that he had treated Aleister’s life as an asset whose possibilities could be used after death.
• Laura realized that Roland had used her grudge against Aleister to draw her into a contract and provide a buffer for Aleister’s continuation.
• Roland told Laura that he needed her as the Key to Awaken him from the dream that sustained the world.
• Roland revealed that he planned to confront the Angel of Heaven of Heavens and needed allies among higher-dimensional beings and another source of kindling.
• Roland asked Aleister to link the fire in his place, and Aleister agreed to take the field as a Lord of Cinder.

Roland used Aleister’s possibilities to link the fire and escape the Golden Throne without waking the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven, then announced his resurrection. In Academy City, the girl who had inherited Aleister’s name learned the world had at least a day left and watched over Lilith Crowley as they awaited Roland.

• Sajyou Manaka and Laura prepared Aleister to become a Lord of Cinder, and Aleister charged toward the Golden Throne as fuel for the Flame of Possibility.
• Aleister reached close enough to touch Roland’s fingertips, then burned away as Roland rose from the Throne and crossed the flames unharmed.
• Roland’s return began merging the Infinite Temple of Time with the fractured world, while the Serpent’s Phantom beneath the Throne remained unresponsive.
• Aleister, Kihara Noukan, and Heaven Canceller discussed the world’s remaining time and the plan to have Roland deliver Lilith Crowley.
• The girl who had inherited Aleister’s name looked at Lilith Crowley’s nameplate beside the cradle.

Roland held the resurrected Lilith in a steel garden while she struggled to accept that Aleister, her father, had become a woman. Lilith realized the garden was the embryonic form of Roland’s plan to imitate a vast cosmic structure and prepare for the threat endangering the world.

• Aleister warned Roland not to make Lilith admire him, while Lilith angrily rebuked Aleister for becoming a woman and struck him with her bottle.
• Lilith explained how Aiwass had preserved her existence and how Roland had given her a physical body, allowing Aleister to regain his daughter.
• Roland told Lilith that Aleister’s freedom to build her paradise served their larger plan and that the time bought by his work would help them prepare for the world-ending threat.
• Lilith tried to use her Spirituality against Aleister, but the steel garden instinctively blocked her miracle.
• Lilith recognized that the garden’s arrangement resembled a galaxy or universe and concluded that it was the embryonic form of Roland’s “Little Garden.”

Roland explained to Othinus that the embryonic Little Garden could eventually model and reshape the universe, giving them a way to place limits on the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven. He left her with his goal of turning the universe into a tool and weapon: an embryonic Imitation Creation Star Map.

• Othinus welcomed Roland back to Blue Dream Company's headquarters and asked about the structure he was creating in the sky.
• Roland explained that his Little Garden was meant to reproduce the universe itself, a task requiring power and understanding beyond Aleister's magical system.
• Roland told Othinus that the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven had an upper limit and could be trapped by a dream on the scale of the A Certain Magical Index World, but its awakened form could break free.
• Roland altered the phases without reducing or destroying them, replacing their composition with that of the Cross Church phases, and explained that the Complete Formula Solver let him control the world's structure.
• Roland declared that he intended to master the universe, inscribe his own path within it, and shape it into another cosmology: an embryonic Imitation Creation Star Map.

Roland explained that his defeat by the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven came from the difference between their cosmologies, and he prepared to complete his Imitation Creation Star Map with Zombie’s knowledge of the infinite phases. When the Serpent awakened before the map was finished, Roland revealed that the New Heaven and Earth had another purpose beyond sheltering the defeated Demon Gods.

• Roland explained to Othinus that the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven had overwhelmed him because its cosmology encompassed the logic of its worlds, while his own universe had only served as a helper.
• Roland summoned Zombie and asked her for the knowledge she had compiled while creating Infinite Mirror Division.
• Zombie removed her head and gave it to Roland, who promised she would remain safe as long as she followed his rules.
• Roland’s alarm warned him that the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven had awakened after only a day and a half, and Othinus offered to stall it.
• Roland told Othinus that he had placed insurance in the New Heaven and Earth and had not created it merely because he could not kill the Demon Gods.

Roland learned that the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven had overwhelmed the New Heaven and Earth, trapping Gremlin’s Demon Gods as it destroyed the domain. As the Demon Gods fled and Roland watched, the serpent appeared with the title “The Angel of Pāpīyas of the Sixth Heaven.”

• Roland left Othinus to watch the Present World and went to the damaged Infinite Temple of Time, where Aiwass told him the situation was terrible.
• Aiwass showed Roland how the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven was imposing boundaries on the New Heaven and Earth and destroying its foundations.
• Tezcatlipoca, Niangniang, Nephthys, Nuada, and Chimera fled the expanding darkness, while Tezcatlipoca detonated his prosthetic leg to destroy an attack the serpent swallowed.
• Nephthys guessed that Roland would not let his prison burn with its prisoners, and she sensed that he was watching them.
• Roland realized the serpent had gained greater authority over total annihilation and could shrink the Demon Gods’ safe territory.
• The Serpent of the Sixth Heaven appeared before Roland, struck down Aiwass’s projection, and revealed its title as the Angel of Pāpīyas of the Sixth Heaven.

Roland discovered that Pāpīyas was the enemy he would eventually have to defeat, then developed the rudiments of a power capable of reshaping the universe and entered the blue dream. After his experiment destroyed the universe, he returned and turned his attention to Coronzon.

• Roland realized that his future goal was to defeat Pāpīyas and resolved to become stronger.
• Roland used his growing power to break through the darkness and enter the blue dream, declaring, “For an Azure and Pure World!”
• Aiwass and Aleister watched Roland’s progress while Coronzon emerged early because the Tree of Life’s attainment of eternity threatened to overwhelm her.
• Roland’s activation of his new power overturned and destroyed the universe, while Aiwass, Aleister, and Coronzon tried to warn him.
• Roland returned, and Coronzon realized he intended to make her part of himself before the decisive battle.

Roland strengthened his power through his union with Laura, then spoke with Aiwass before heading to confront Pāpīyas at the boundary between the universe and the new heaven and earth. He arrived ready for a battle where neither of them could survive without fighting.

• Roland and Laura shared an intimate encounter that further developed the Imitation Creation Star Map and the principle of humanity's evil.
• Roland assessed the Star Map's growth and reflected on fate, his path, and the threat posed by Pāpīyas.
• Aiwass appeared to Roland, offered him a blessing, and kissed him before vanishing.
• Roland used the Imitation Creation Star Map to travel to the boundary between the universe and the new heaven and earth.
• Roland encountered the emerging silhouette of the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven, and the two prepared to fight to the death.

Roland confronted the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven, restraining his killing intent until he could face it at full strength. After breaking through its attack and provoking it into a charge, he unleashed Divine Strike; the battle’s outcome remained unknown.

• Roland recognized that the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven’s absolute hostility had driven his desire to kill it into revolt, and he held that urge back until the right moment.
• The Serpent of the Sixth Heaven found Roland and attacked with Total Annihilation of All Forms, but Roland’s cosmology resisted the principle within the simulated universe.
• Roland admitted he was the challenger, then revealed his fierce desire to destroy the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven and warned it to prepare for Hell.
• The Serpent of the Sixth Heaven raised its body and charged through a tide of violet-black mist.
• Roland used Divine Strike to send a celestial river of light crashing toward the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven’s two enormous eyes.

The Demon Gods discussed why Roland was keeping the battlefield away from the Present World and Nephthys reasoned that he was preserving its strategic value. Roland then unleashed Divine Strike: Ultimate Infinity, subjecting the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven to an attack with the force of a Level 10,000 Earthquake.

• Niangniang and the other Demon Gods watched Roland and the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven fight, unable to leave the New Heaven and Earth or safely join the battle.
• Nephthys urged Niangniang not to give up and argued that Roland was deliberately keeping the Present World protected as part of his plan.
• Nephthys explained that forcing the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven to expend effort against the Present World’s defenses could give that world strategic value.
• The Demon Gods saw the New Heaven and Earth fill with twisting currents of light as the destruction escalated to a Level 10,000 Earthquake.
• The Serpent of the Sixth Heaven restored its blinded eyes, but Roland’s countless arrows of light struck its body and made it cry out in pain.
• Roland revealed Divine Strike: Ultimate Infinity, the ultimate technique he had formed by combining Artosh’s Divine Strike with his own experience.

Roland battered the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven with his ultimate-infinite Divine Strikes, deliberately pushing it to unleash its hidden trump card. The Serpent nullified his attacks by pouring all its infinity into its principle and invoked the Great Desire Realm Tengu Path.

• Roland used his ultimate-infinite Divine Strikes to wound the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven and overwhelm its defenses.
• Roland blocked the Serpent’s surprise attacks and mocked its ineffective countermeasures as he pressed his assault.
• The Serpent’s body deteriorated, but it refused to retreat and instead charged into Roland’s Divine Strikes.
• The Serpent concentrated all its infinity into Total Annihilation of All Forms, causing Roland’s attacks to vanish without effect.
• The Serpent invoked the Gift of the Sixth Heaven and proclaimed the Great Desire Realm Tengu Path.

Roland escaped the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven’s devastating flame attack with White Hole Power, while Othinus and the Demon Gods watched from safety. As the Serpent launched another assault, Roland pierced its mouth with an unseen weapon, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• The Serpent of the Sixth Heaven unleashed the principle of Total Annihilation of All Forms, and Roland used White Hole Power to escape its flaming lotus.
• Othinus stayed at the Present World’s intersection to guard it, while Niangniang proposed that the Demon Gods join Roland against the Serpent.
• Roland refused their help, saying he no longer needed it and wanted to defeat the Serpent himself.
• The Serpent attacked Roland with its fangs and lotus platform, but Roland pierced its mouth with an invisible sword.

Roland wounded the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven with his Heart Light and Slash Emperor, drawing power from the A Certain Magical Index universe. As the serpent charged again, Roland began invoking the Sword that Rules the Heavens, Inscribed Annals, and declared the moment of culmination.

• Roland repeatedly slashed the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven with his invisible Heart's Armament, while Nephthys recognized it as the Infinite Universe made tangible.
• Roland used Slash Emperor to draw energy from the A Certain Magical Index universe and blast a huge depression into the serpent's chest.
• The Serpent of the Sixth Heaven realized Roland's embryonic Imitation Creation Star Map let him challenge its scale, then decided to risk mutual destruction.
• Roland taunted the serpent about its repeated defeats, provoking it to charge as its size and power increased.
• Roland fed Slash Emperor's energy into the Imitation Creation Star Map, began reciting the Sword that Rules the Heavens, Inscribed Annals, and proclaimed the moment of culmination.