Recaps

Wang Hao and his wives were ambushed by Buddha-Heart Guanyin and Fotu, but Wang Hao killed them with a sword infused with the Power of the End. He reunited with Muddling Heavenly Dao Venerable, who had returned gravely injured from the Supreme Dao Domain, and the chapter left him preparing to seek the truth there again after entrusting his disciples to Wang Hao.

• Bai Suzhen recognized Buddha-Heart Guanyin's Buddha Kingdom in the Palm as he trapped her, Xiaoqing, and Wang Hao.
• Buddha-Heart Guanyin and Fotu tried to kill the sisters and draw out Muddling Heavenly Dao Venerable, but Wang Hao emerged from the palm realm and killed them with the Sword Light of the End.
• Wang Hao discovered Muddling Heavenly Dao Venerable nearby, and Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing joyfully reunited with their master.
• Muddling Heavenly Dao Venerable explained that Forbidden Power had cost him his right arm, and Wang Hao removed the lingering trace from his wound.
• Muddling Heavenly Dao Venerable said he planned to return to the Supreme Dao Domain, then refined Buddha-Heart Guanyin and Fotu into puppets for his disciples.
• Muddling Heavenly Dao Venerable entrusted Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing to Wang Hao, who promised to protect his wives.

Wang Hao reached the East Sea Eye with Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing, where he encountered Great Emperor Jingwei, who had spent ages trying to rescue his imprisoned lover by filling the sea eye. Wang Hao entered the sea eye to investigate and promised to bring Jingwei’s beloved out if they were still alive, leaving Jingwei and his wives to guard the entrance.

• Wang Hao reassured Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing that he was truly their husband, then took them to the East Sea Eye to investigate the Power of the End.
• Wang Hao saw Great Emperor Jingwei throw an enormous mountain into the sea eye in another failed attempt to rescue his imprisoned lover.
• Bai Suzhen told Wang Hao that Jingwei had been trying to fill the sea eye for ages because the East Sea Dragon King had imprisoned his beloved there.
• Wang Hao offered to enter the sea eye and bring Jingwei’s beloved out if they were still alive, asking Jingwei to help him and wait outside.
• Jingwei opened a passage for Wang Hao, who entered the sea eye after telling his wives to wait; Jingwei sealed the surrounding area while Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing prepared their puppets to receive him.

Wang Hao absorbed the Power of the End in the East Sea Eye, reached the Early Primordial Unity Realm, and rescued Ao Qingxin, Jingwei’s long-lost beloved. After Wang Hao defeated the Buddhist Order fighters, Ao Qingxin crushed the Dragon Clan forces and reunited with Jingwei, but she revealed that she could no longer take human form.

• Wang Hao devoured the Power of the End at the entrance to the East Sea Eye and advanced to the Early Primordial Unity Realm.
• Wang Hao met Ao Qingxin, learned she had eaten the other exiles in the sea eye, and brought her out to help Jingwei.
• Wang Hao killed the Buddhist Order fighters threatening his wives and preserved one enemy’s body to turn into a puppet.
• Ao Qingxin defeated and ate the Dragon Clan fighters battling Jingwei, then reunited with him.
• Jingwei asked Ao Qingxin to take human form, but she said she could no longer change back.

Wang Hao helped Ao Qingxin separate the origins that had prevented her from taking human form, then enlisted her and Great Emperor Jingwei to visit the remaining sea eyes and investigate the Dao Ancestors’ plans. After concluding that the Dao Ancestors had tried to seize the world’s fortune to reach a higher realm, Wang Hao and his companions were ambushed by Dragon Clan experts and a Buddhist array, and he killed seventy-two Buddhas.

• Wang Hao gave Ao Qingxin a method to separate the unrefined origins in her body, allowing her to take human form again, and asked Great Emperor Jingwei to accompany him to the other three sea eyes.
• Great Emperor Jingwei agreed, and the group traveled to the South Blue sea eye, where Wang Hao absorbed its Power of the End and discovered traces of the Dao Ancestors’ plan.
• Wang Hao visited the West Blue and North Sea sea eyes and concluded that the Dao Ancestors had probably plundered the world’s fortune to break through to a higher realm, but their plan had failed and Hongjun had gained the final benefit.
• Eighty-one Peak Heavenly Dao Realm Shenrons surrounded Great Emperor Jingwei and Ao Qingxin, while 108 Peak Heavenly Dao Realm Buddhas trapped Wang Hao and his companions.
• Wang Hao used Sword Qi of the End to kill seventy-two Buddhas, while the surviving Buddhas fled; he then collected the corpses and resolved to destroy the Buddhist Order’s lair.

Wang Hao destroyed the Buddhist Order’s stronghold on Spirit Mountain, found the Drought Demon imprisoned beneath it, and entered another Great Thousand World. He discovered that the new world lacked the Power of the End and began investigating the anomaly with Bai Suzhen and his other wife.

• Mahāvairocana Tathāgata pleaded with Wang Hao, but Wang Hao let the Six-Eared Macaque seal Spirit Mountain with the Four Symbols Sword Array and killed the Buddhas gathered there.
• Wang Hao noticed that all seven Seven Fairies were pregnant, then entered Purgatory beneath Spirit Mountain to search for the Drought Demon.
• Wang Hao found the Drought Demon with an incomplete true spirit and dense deathly Qi, sealed her, and killed the other imprisoned experts.
• Wang Hao learned from Mahāvairocana Tathāgata’s memories that a passage led to another Great Thousand World and traveled through it.
• Wang Hao discovered that the other world had no Power of the End, released Bai Suzhen and his other snake-spirit wife, and began investigating the anomaly.

Wang Hao explored the Martial Dao Great World and sought an audience with Dugu Sword Saint in Peerless City, but learned that entry required Heavenly Dao Realm cultivation. After killing a man who leered at Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing, Wang Hao revealed his Sword Intent, and a mysterious old man appeared and was recognized as the Holy Lord.

• Wang Hao entered a Human Clan city, learned about its martial arts culture, and discovered that Xiongba, Tianxiahui, and the legend of Nüwa mending the heavens were part of this world's history.
• Wang Hao traveled to Peerless City to question Dugu Sword Saint but was told that only Heavenly Dao Realm experts could receive a Peerless Token.
• Wang Hao released his suppressed Sword Intent toward Peerless City, then killed a young man who insulted him and leered at Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing.
• The guard demanded Wang Hao answer to the city's enforcement team, while a Heavenly Dao Realm expert sought an explanation for his disciple's death.
• An old man appeared beside Wang Hao, approved the killing, and was greeted by the Martial Gate guard as the Holy Lord.

Wang Hao entered Peerless City with the Dugu Sword Saint and revealed that the Three Realms faced destruction within five hundred years because of the Power of the End. The Sword Saint and his allies connected the crisis to Nüwa’s plan to mend the heavens and offered a possible way to reach the Sword Realm, where she and the other elders might be trapped.

• The Dugu Sword Saint recognized Wang Hao’s power, invited him into Peerless City, and left the Demon-Slaying Martial Saint to deal with the faction members who had caused trouble under his name.
• The Dugu Sword Saint asked how Wang Hao had crossed the sealed passage, and Wang Hao said he had forced a hole through the seal.
• Wang Hao explained that the Dao Ancestors had vanished, the Supreme Dao Domain had been sealed, and the Power of the End threatened to destroy the Three Realms within five hundred years.
• The Dugu Sword Saint and the other experts explained that Nüwa and the elders had opened the Sword Realm during a plan to mend the heavens and might now be trapped there.
• Wang Hao asked about the Third Realm and how to contact the trapped elders, and the Dugu Sword Saint said fragments of the Five-Colored Divine Stone could help locate the Sword Realm and that someone might know how to open it.

Wang Hao used Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing to locate a Five-Colored Divine Stone and discovered it was at Tianxiahui on Heavenly Mountain. He led Demon-Slaying Martial Saint and Peerless City’s forces there, sealed off the mountain with his puppets, and began the approach to Xiongba’s stronghold.

• Dugu Sword Saint explained that the four divine stones had vanished after the four divine beasts fell, so Wang Hao used Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing to search for them.
• Wang Hao’s formation found a resonance near Heavenly Mountain, and Dugu Sword Saint’s map identified the location as Tianxiahui, Xiongba’s headquarters.
• Wang Hao decided to retrieve the stone at Tianxiahui first, while Dugu Sword Saint left to find Wuming and Demon-Slaying Martial Saint took Wang Hao and his wives toward Heavenly Mountain.
• Demon-Slaying Martial Saint brought ten thousand Heavenly Dao Realm experts to the foot of Heavenly Mountain, where Wang Hao’s puppets sealed off the stronghold.
• Wang Hao told Demon-Slaying Martial Saint that he had wiped out the Buddhist Order in the Mystic Dao Great World because it had annoyed him.

Wang Hao took the Ice Soul Divine Stone from Tianxiahui and led his companions to the Far North, where Kuangren was forging a divine weapon with the White Dew Divine Stone. After Kuangren drove Xiongba back, Wang Hao awakened the hidden power Xiongba had inherited from a Dao Ancestor.

• Wang Hao arrived at Tianxiahui with more than two thousand Peak Heavenly Dao Realm puppets, and Xiongba yielded the Ice Soul Divine Stone rather than risk a fight.
• Wang Hao used the Ice Soul Divine Stone to locate the other three divine stones, then led his companions through Tianxiahui's largest Martial Gate toward the Far North.
• Xiongba joined Wang Hao's group, and Demon-Slaying Martial Saint identified the glacier's extreme cold as a sign that someone was using the White Dew Divine Stone to forge a weapon.
• Xiongba shattered the glacier and attacked the swordsmith, Kuangren of the Mad Devil Clan, but Kuangren's unfinished White Dew weapon overwhelmed him.
• Wang Hao told Xiongba that he had inherited a hidden Dao Ancestor power, sealed the Ice Soul Divine Stone into his heart, and used his Great Dao Realm Sword Intent to awaken it.

Wang Hao reshaped the White Dew Divine Stone into a Snow-Drinking Mad Saber for the Mad Devil Maniac, then traveled with his companions to Sword Worship Manor to find another divine stone. There, he effortlessly removed the supreme Saber Intent from a black cold divine stone, leaving those present convinced of his extraordinary cultivation.

• Xiongba used his awakened Demonic Dao power to defeat the Mad Devil Maniac and presented the White Dew Divine Weapon to Wang Hao.
• Wang Hao discovered the weapon combined the White Dew Divine Stone with a broken divine sword, then forged the stone into a Snow-Drinking Mad Saber and gave it to the Mad Devil Maniac.
• The Mad Devil Maniac recovered his limbs, accepted the saber, and challenged Xiongba to fight again another day.
• Wang Hao and his companions arrived at Sword Worship Manor, where its master explained that supreme Saber Intent had forced the manor to forge the black cold divine stone into a saber.
• Wang Hao extracted the Saber Intent from the black cold divine stone and tossed it to the Mad Devil Maniac, startling the manor's master and his companions.

Wang Hao forged the Peerless Good Sword and claimed the vicious sword sealed in Sword Worship Manor’s Sword Tomb, then rewarded the manor lord with a sword technique. He traveled to the far west in search of the final core divine stone and encountered Wuming, whose strength alarmed the group.

• Wang Hao shaped the restored Black Cold Divine Stone into the Peerless Good Sword and headed to Sword Worship Manor’s Sword Tomb.
• The manor lord told Wang Hao that a vicious sword made from the stone’s core had been sealed in a coffin and was devouring the Sword Tomb’s swords and supreme Sword Intent.
• Wang Hao opened the coffin, subdued the vicious sword, and shaped it into a magnificent dark-gold blade; the Peerless Good Sword and the vicious sword both acknowledged him as their master.
• Wang Hao gave the manor lord the Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin Divine Ability, then used the manor’s martial gate to travel west toward the last core divine stone.
• Wang Hao and his companions met the Dugu Sword Saint and a seemingly ordinary middle-aged man, whom Xiongba and the Mad Devil Maniac recognized as Wuming.

Wang Hao gathered the final core divine stone and forced open a way into Sword Heart Hell to find the Great Evil King. The group discovered the weapon embedded at the realm’s core, where Wang Hao questioned why it was a sword rather than the saber he expected.

• Wang Hao sent the Twin Peerless Swords to test Dugu Sword Saint and Heavenly Sword Wuming, and they accepted the blades as their masters.
• A second-generation Shenron, formed from the original’s Dragon Essence, emerged from the forbidden land, and Wuming, Xiongba, Dugu Jian, and Mad Devil Maniac defeated it after three months of fighting.
• Wang Hao divided the core divine stone into four pieces and fused them into Wuming and the other fighters, then asked how to enter the Sword Realm.
• Wuming explained that the entrance was sealed and that Sword Heart Hell could be entered with the Great Evil King, but he did not know where the weapon was.
• Wang Hao used the Sword Qi of the End to pierce Sword Heart Hell’s barrier, and the group entered through the opening.
• Wuming and the others found the Great Evil King embedded in the earth, and Wang Hao noted that it was a giant sword rather than the saber he expected.

Wang Hao subdued the Great Evil King Sword, made it devour Sword Heart Hell, and entered the Sword Realm with Wuming and the others. There, he learned that Nüwa’s Heaven-Mending Plan had failed to stop the Power of the End, and he found clues in the Nine Voids Boundless Realm that would lead him toward the Supreme Dao Domain after one more trip to the Third Realm.

• Wang Hao damaged the Great Evil King Sword with his Sword Qi of the End, then learned it had been guarding the gateway to the Sword Realm.
• Wang Hao made the Great Evil King Sword devour Sword Heart Hell, gave it a cultivation inheritance, and tossed it to Wuming.
• Wang Hao and the others entered the Sword Realm, where six surviving experts mistook the Five-Colored Divine Stone for proof that Nüwa’s plan had succeeded.
• Wang Hao searched the six experts’ memories and learned that Nüwa’s Heaven-Mending Plan had only delayed the Power of the End’s destruction of the Nine Voids Boundless Realm.
• Wang Hao learned that Nüwa had prepared Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing as vessels for her resurrection, but judged the Martial Dao Great World beyond saving.
• Wang Hao found clues in the Nine Voids Boundless Realm and decided to visit the Third Realm before heading to the Supreme Dao Domain.

Wang Hao entered the Third Realm and traced the Drought Demon's true spirit to Athena, whom he identified as his reincarnated wife. He interrupted Athena's meeting with Kratos and claimed that merging with the Drought Demon would restore her memories, leaving Athena and Kratos stunned.

• Wang Hao left Wuming, the Mad Devil Maniac, and Dugu Sword Saint to guard the Nine Voids Boundless Realm while Xiongba returned to unite the Martial Dao Great World.
• Wang Hao entered the Third Realm and followed the awakened Drought Demon's pull toward her true spirit.
• Wang Hao reached Athens and suspected that Athena was the Drought Demon's reincarnation after sensing her Peak Heavenly Dao Realm cultivation.
• Athena prepared to guide Kratos into Olympus to obtain the Sacred Flame, but Wang Hao appeared, disarmed her, and kissed her.
• Wang Hao told Athena that she was his wife and presented the Drought Demon, claiming that merging with her former body would restore her memories.

Wang Hao met Athena in Athens and learned that she needed to win a divine war to uncover Pandora’s Box and the Scepter of Creation. With Athena’s fighters outmatched and his stay limited to a hundred years, he offered Kratos a new cultivation system to help him gain strength for revenge.

• Athena sealed the struggling Drought Demon in a sacred coffin and asked Wang Hao why he had come to Athens.
• Wang Hao said he wanted to see Athena and investigate the Divine Dao Great World, while Athena revealed that she believed he was seeking Pandora’s Box.
• Athena explained that Pandora’s Box could be drawn out by obtaining the Scepter of Creation through a divine war, and Wang Hao said he would stay for at most a hundred years.
• Athena described the divine war’s restrictive rules and the powerful fighters serving Zeus, leaving Wang Hao to conclude that Athena needed a stronger way to improve her forces.
• Wang Hao offered Kratos a new cultivation system to help him destroy Olympus, and Kratos agreed to try it.

Wang Hao refined the Cosmo cultivation system and began preparing Athena’s Saints for the war of the gods. Athena entrusted him with her resources and scepter, while Kratos continued risking his life to master the Cosmo Explosion; the chapter ended with Athena telling Wang Hao to find another woman, and him eagerly accepting her words.

• Athena questioned the dangerous Cosmo system as Kratos repeatedly blew apart while trying to master the Cosmo Explosion.
• Wang Hao explained that matching Cloths would make the system safer, and Athena gave him her accumulated wealth to forge them.
• Wang Hao merged the Dao Fruit Crystal into Athena’s Scepter of Wisdom and Victory and instructed her to create one hundred and eight constellations for the Saints.
• Wang Hao and Athena practiced dual cultivation, which strengthened her divinity but left her exhausted.
• Athena told Wang Hao to find another woman, and Wang Hao eagerly agreed.

Wang Hao presented Athena with 108 Cloths forged from Peak Heavenly Dao Realm puppets, but the pair lacked the materials to make more. Athena revealed that the Forbidden Battlefield, where most of the Divine Dao Great World’s Major God Realm experts had died, might provide the bodies and divine materials they needed.

• Athena questioned Wang Hao about the Cloths, and he displayed twelve Gold Cloths, twenty-four Silver Cloths, and seventy-two Bronze Cloths he had forged from the puppets and her divine materials.
• Wang Hao regretted not bringing lower-level experts’ corpses from the Mystic Dao Great World, since he wanted to make Black Iron Cloths for large Saint legions.
• Athena called Wang Hao husband and said she knew where they could find many Major God Realm experts’ bodies.
• Athena explained that Ragnarök began when pantheons fought over Pandora’s Box, killing more than ninety percent of Major God Realm experts before the battlefield became forbidden and the box vanished.
• Athena suggested that Wang Hao enter the Forbidden Battlefield to collect the fallen experts’ divine artifacts and materials, since he could withstand the forbidden power.

Wang Hao entered the Forbidden Battlefield to collect divine materials and reinforce the seal blocking the passage to the Supreme Dao Domain, but his touch awakened Ancestor God Pandora’s corrupted avatar. As high-quality Power of the End poured through the failing seal, Wang Hao fought Pandora and began absorbing the energy to strengthen himself.

• Wang Hao collected the remains and divine artifact fragments of the experts who had died on the Forbidden Battlefield, using them to refine Black Iron Cloths.
• At the deepest point of the battlefield, Wang Hao found Pandora’s weakening seal and tried to reinforce it, but his touch triggered an attack from beyond it.
• Ancestor God Pandora’s avatar emerged, drained the seal, and allowed high-quality Power of the End to flood through the passage; Wang Hao recognized her and her Realm-Breaking Spear and World Shield.
• Pandora’s avatar attacked Wang Hao, and he struggled against her Great Dao Realm strength while absorbing the Power of the End to raise his cultivation.
• Wang Hao split his greatsword of the End and targeted Pandora’s private parts, making her instinctively defend herself and sharply reducing her combat strength.

Wang Hao reached the Peak Heavenly Dao Realm, killed Ancestor God Pandora’s incarnation, and sealed the Forbidden Battlefield passage by sitting on it while his True Spirit returned to help Athena. He planned to find the Scepter of Creation and Pandora’s Box as replacements, and revealed that he had brought two of Pandora’s divine artifacts back.

• Wang Hao raised his cultivation to the Peak Heavenly Dao Realm and outlasted Ancestor God Pandora’s incarnation, which gave him the words “Creation, the End, and Reincarnation” before it died.
• Wang Hao sealed the passage spewing the Power of the End by sitting on its mouth, then sent a new body formed from his True Spirit consciousness back to the Divine Dao Great World.
• Wang Hao reunited with Athena and said he needed the Scepter of Creation or Pandora’s Box to replace him at the passage and help Athena finish the divine war.
• Athena asked about the Black Iron Cloths, but Wang Hao spent a month with her, Bai Suzhen, and Xiaoqing instead.
• Kratos continued cultivating the Cosmo system while the other Olympian chief gods dismissed it as too dangerous and incompatible with their divinities and Divine Kingdoms.
• Wang Hao showed Athena the Realm-Breaking Spear and World Shield he had brought from the Forbidden Battlefield, and she asked whether he would give them to her.

Wang Hao gave Athena the Realm-Breaking Spear and World Shield, then helped her and Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing establish Sanctuary across Athens to prepare its people for the coming war of the gods. The new domain accelerated time by only a hundredfold, and Wang Hao awaited the Olympian gods’ response while planning to address a flaw in the Gold Cloths.

• Wang Hao gave Athena the Realm-Breaking Spear and World Shield, and advised her to seal them in her Divine Kingdom for gradual refinement.
• Athena, Bai Suzhen, and Xiaoqing created Sanctuary over Athens, where the one hundred and eight constellations accelerated time by a hundredfold.
• Wang Hao comforted Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing after the Age Without Dao limited their time acceleration, then anticipated the Olympian gods’ investigation.
• Wang Hao planned to use the outside world’s probing period to develop Saints in Sanctuary and address a flaw involving the twelve Gold Cloths and their zodiac constellations.

The Olympian gods decided to send Ares to attack Athens, where Athena had isolated herself amid a mysterious power and a suspected great inheritance. In Athens Sanctuary, Wang Hao and Athena watched their thirteen children spar, while Athena challenged Wang Hao to explain why Milo had also mastered his Sword Dao inheritance.

• Zeus convened the Olympian gods to discuss Athens and ordered Ares to lead an army there without triggering the final war of the gods.
• Zeus assigned Hades, Poseidon, and Apollo to guard Hell, Heaven, and the Divine Palace while the attack on Athens was underway.
• Deathmask accused Asura of winning their fight by borrowing Wang Hao's Sword Dao power, and the other siblings also resented Asura's advantage.
• Wang Hao explained that his and Athena's thirteen children were incarnations of the twelve Gold Cloths, created to defend Athens Sanctuary.
• Bai Suzhen praised Asura's Sword Dao talent, and Wang Hao credited his sacred sword and Capricorn Gold Cloth for making him suited to the inheritance.
• Athena joined Wang Hao and asked how he explained Milo's mastery of the Sword Dao.

Wang Hao’s family learned that Ares and the Spartan army were preparing to attack Athens Sanctuary, and Athena called a strategy meeting with Kratos. The chapter ended as Kratos explained Sparta’s forces and prepared to face his old enemy.

• Seiya and the four other divine-sword children returned from scouting and reported signs of Sparta, with Shuangxue warning that Ares would likely lead the first assault.
• Saga and the Twelve Gold Saints arrived, eager for the coming divine war, and Athena summoned Kratos for advice.
• Kratos arrived after sensing the Spartan army and joined Athena’s meeting at the Sanctuary’s prepared border city.
• Kratos identified Leonidas as Sparta’s king and described the Three Hundred Warriors as a formidable legion, while explaining his determination to defeat Ares.

Athena and her allies planned to recruit Sparta and seize Ares’s power and resources before the coming war. They assigned Shuangxue and Roushui to prepare the Spartan relocation while dividing Ares’s spoils among themselves.

• Athena asked Kratos whether Sparta could join her side after the war, and he explained that persuading King Leonidas could make it possible.
• Athena assigned Shuangxue and Roushui to lead a mission to secretly relocate the Spartans, while Seiya mistakenly thought she had chosen him.
• Wang Hao urged Athena to expand her plan beyond Sparta and take everything Ares possessed, including his divine office, Divine Kingdom, and divinity.
• Athena claimed Ares’s divine office of war, Kratos reserved his Divine Body, Deathmask claimed his divine artifacts, and Aiolia of Leo chose the divine office of combat.
• Ares prepared for battle in his Divine Kingdom without knowing that Athena’s side had already divided up his possessions and forces.

Leonidas worried that Ares’s order to march would leave Sparta vulnerable, while Ares attacked Athens in pursuit of the Realm-Breaking Spear and triggered the first signs of a divine war. As the battle began, Kratos confronted Ares, while Wang Hao trusted him and Saga to defend the holy city.

• Leonidas asked the queen whether she had found news of Kratos, and she said she suspected he was in Athens.
• Ares led his forces to Athens, where the city’s spatial arrays redirected his armies before he countered Athena’s Divine Kingdom with his own.
• Ares revealed that he sought the Realm-Breaking Spear, which he had sensed in Athens, and declared his intent to seize it.
• Zeus and the other gods reacted with alarm when the clashing Divine Kingdoms turned the conflict into a true divine war, and Wang Hao sensed Tribulation Qi emerging.
• Wang Hao prepared his wives and left the defense of Athens to Kratos, Saga, and the others.
• Kratos faced Ares with his fury controlled, ready to fight without letting his emotions disrupt his judgment.

Saga took command of Athens Sanctuary’s war against Ares, assigning Mu to control the battlefield and Aphrodite to prevent casualties. As both sides prepared for the conflict, Kratos and Ares weighed the strength of the holy city and the forces facing them.

• Kratos entrusted Saga with command, and Saga assigned Mu to manage logistics and battlefield formations while Aphrodite handled medical care.
• Kanon claimed Hades’s Dark Blade and Poseidon’s Sea God Trident, then reluctantly called Saga his big brother to secure them.
• Saga and the other Saints discussed taking divine artifacts and materials from Olympus to strengthen their Cloths and weapons.
• Kratos judged Ares’s gradual assault useful for tempering the young Saints and declared that the gods’ hesitation and disdain would become their epitaph.
• Ares sensed that Athens Sanctuary’s holy city was an Ancestor Divine Artifact on the level of Olympus Divine Mountain and worried that the war would be difficult.