Recaps

Bai Mo prepared to leave Uruk for Eridu after Crimson Moon stopped Ishtar from demanding a humiliating contract ritual. After Bai Mo departed, the powerless Kingu secretly entered Uruk and resolved to gather intelligence for Mother.

• Bai Mo told Ishtar to guard Uruk while he pursued the enemy and arranged to return if she contacted him.
• Ishtar revealed she wanted the Kingship, but Bai Mo produced gems and explained that sufficient power could create any substance.
• Ishtar offered to guard Uruk in exchange for a contract, then tried to make Bai Mo kiss her foot; Crimson Moon stopped her with a chain and wrecked the room.
• Bai Mo told Gilgamesh he would arrange Uruk's defenses and travel to Eridu, then left at sunrise.
• Kingu sneaked into Uruk, rejected a citizen's offered bread before falling, and then ate it while resolving to gather intelligence for Mother.

Bai Mo and Arcueid reached the fog-shrouded outskirts of Eridu, where they reunited with Sajyou Manaka and Lady Avalon. After learning that the jungle goddess lacked Magnetic Field Power, Bai Mo agreed to let Manaka guide them through the fog the next day.

• Bai Mo and Arcueid flew from Uruk toward Eridu and found Sajyou Manaka and Lady Avalon waiting by a fire outside the jungle.
• Manaka tried to embrace Bai Mo, while Lady Avalon revealed that she had told Oda Nobunaga to challenge the jungle goddess.
• Lady Avalon explained that the jungle goddess had not obtained Magnetic Field Power, which meant Enlil had not acquired her authority.
• Manaka described the thick fog that had cut off the rainforest cities and offered to guide Bai Mo and Arcueid through it.
• Bai Mo decided to preserve the fog because it might be protecting Eridu's people and asked Manaka to lead them the next day.
• Bai Mo and Arcueid took watch while he sent Manaka and Lady Avalon to sleep in the tent together.

Bai Mo reassured Arcueid about her new life in Uruk, then firmly rejected her offer to accept him loving someone else and told her not to let anyone hurt her. A distant magical explosion interrupted them, and Bai Mo rushed toward the fight with Arcueid and the others following.

• Arcueid told Bai Mo that she was happy in Uruk, and he admitted he had worried about whether she was adjusting to the new environment.
• Arcueid said she would not mind if Bai Mo liked Manaka, prompting Manaka to insist that she would never accept a third person between a prince and princess.
• Bai Mo scolded Arcueid for treating her own happiness as more important than protecting herself and told her that no one, including him, should be allowed to hurt her.
• A powerful magical explosion sounded from the forest, and Bai Mo put out the campfire and hurried toward the fighting.
• Crimson Moon promised to help Arcueid grow stronger, and Arcueid followed Bai Mo while Crimson Moon privately claimed that what belonged to Arcueid belonged to her too.

Bai Mo arrived in the forest and interrupted Jaguar Man’s battle with Kawakami and Anna, prompting Jaguar Man to recognize Tezcatlipoca’s mark and switch sides. The group set out for Eridu, with Kawakami and Anna joining them, while Anna reacted fearfully to Arcueid.

• Kawakami and Anna fought Jaguar Man while Oda Nobunaga slipped away toward Eridu.
• Bai Mo arrived, stopped Kawakami’s sword and sent Jaguar Man’s club rebounding into her face.
• Jaguar Man recognized Tezcatlipoca’s authority, revealed she was a Pseudo-Servant, and offered to guide the group to Eridu.
• Bai Mo, Manaka, Mery, and Arcueid headed toward Eridu with Kawakami and Anna joining them.
• Anna silently followed Bai Mo and recoiled when Arcueid was identified as a True Ancestor.

Bai Mo and his companions reached Eridu, where Quetzalcoatl challenged him to prove humanity had a future. The chapter ended as Bai Mo prepared to fight her, while Oda Nobunaga remained bound at the city gate.

• Bai Mo's group spotted Eridu and found Oda Nobunaga hanging from the city gate after Quetzalcoatl defeated her.
• Jaguar Man laughed at Nobunaga, but Quetzalcoatl descended from the pyramid and struck Jaguar Man with her stone sword.
• Quetzalcoatl recognized Bai Mo through Tezcatlipoca's mark and explained that she guarded Eridu despite her original mission to destroy humanity.
• Bai Mo argued that he and Quetzalcoatl had no reason to fight, but she insisted that humanity in the current era had no future.
• Quetzalcoatl challenged Bai Mo to defeat her and show her a future in which humanity could continue.

Bai Mo fought Quetzal without using Magnetic Field Power and learned to rely on life’s basic instincts against her savage attacks. Quetzal declared the contest over and let the group enter Eridu.

• Bai Mo withdrew his power and challenged Quetzal, trusting her to honor a fair fight.
• Arcueid restrained herself from taking advantage of Bai Mo’s vulnerability while Manaka glared back at her.
• Bai Mo used martial arts to counter Quetzal’s attacks, impressing Kawakami with his technique.
• Quetzal shifted to savage, unpredictable attacks, and Bai Mo closed his eyes and allowed her healing blows to teach him to respond through instinct.
• Bai Mo thanked Quetzal for the lesson, and she admitted defeat and invited everyone into Eridu.
• Oda Nobunaga celebrated winning a vacation, then called for help getting down from the city wall.

After the battle, Bai Mo reached Eridu with Arcueid and Manaka, where Quetzal explained why she had rejected Enlil’s offer. Enlil then attacked the city with a colossal storm and the World-Destroying Demon God, leaving Bai Mo to face the monster while Arcueid protected Eridu.

• Arcueid clung to Bai Mo after the battle, while Manaka brought him a towel and Bai Mo thanked her for her concern.
• Bai Mo decided he would ask Gilgamesh to send Manaka back to Chaldea before the coming battles.
• Quetzal explained that Eridu had been protected from demonic beasts by mysterious rain and mist, and that she had rejected Enlil’s suspicious offer of power.
• Bai Mo sensed a huge storm approaching, and the group saw Enlil’s colossal Demon God advancing through the forest toward Eridu.
• The Demon God fired a destructive power cannon, but Bai Mo blocked it before it could harm the city.
• Bai Mo ordered Arcueid to protect Eridu and confronted the Demon God with the Mad Giant Shark.

Bai Mo fought the World-Destroying Demon God that threatened Eridu, uncovering its unusual control and regeneration while dismantling its massive body with powerful techniques. After surviving its attempt to swallow and crush him, he charged toward its brain as the Demon God seemed unable to defend itself.

• The World-Destroying Demon God attacked Eridu, and Bai Mo intercepted its blasts before cutting off its wings with Splitting the Sky.
• Bai Mo learned that Ereshkigal could not move the creature into the Underworld, while the Demon God regenerated and spoke in a voice that did not sound like Bai Lubao.
• The Demon God trapped Bai Mo in a cage of Electric Claws and punched at him, but Mad Giant Shark pierced its fist and Hell Samsara Sword spread through its arms.
• Bai Mo tore through the Demon God's chest with God-Severing Thunderbolt, but it swallowed him and tried to crush him between its fists.
• Bai Mo held the Demon God's fists apart, destroyed its re-formed arms with Zen-shaking Samsara, and charged at its brain with Peerless Demon Blade.

Bai Mo confronted Gorgon inside the World-Destroying Demon God after surviving her petrification and curse attacks. He left Gorgon gravely wounded, while the Demon God remained in danger of exploding if she was killed.

• The World-Destroying Demon God revealed its Mystic Eyes of Petrification, but Bai Mo remained unaffected, and Arcueid stopped Anna from rushing to help him.
• Bai Mo revealed that Gorgon was inside the World-Destroying Demon God and found her with Mad Giant Shark at her neck.
• Bai Mo wounded Gorgon but kept her alive to prevent her from detonating the World-Destroying Demon God and harming Eridu.
• Gorgon unleashed Blood Fort Andromeda: Pandemonium, but Bai Mo absorbed the curse and struck her abdomen, shattering her scales and tearing her flesh.

Bai Mo subdued Gorgon without killing her, but Mery found that her damaged Spirit Origin would keep her alive for at most half a month. As Bai Mo and Arcueid prepared to deal with the toxic remains of the World-Destroying Demon God, Enlil arrived and offered to cleanse them through the cycle of water.

• Bai Mo used Gorgon's own petrification power to stop her from self-destructing, and she collapsed after her vitality was drained.
• Bai Mo asked Mery to assess Gorgon, and Mery concluded that Gorgon could survive for no more than half a month.
• Bai Mo relayed Gorgon's prognosis to Gilgamesh through Ereshkigal so Uruk could prepare.
• Bai Mo and Arcueid went to the fallen World-Destroying Demon God, whose remaining toxins threatened to contaminate the world.
• Enlil appeared in the rain and offered to cleanse the Demon God's remains.

Bai Mo learned that Enlil was targeting Enki and that Enlil had been influenced by a soul from beyond the world. After Enki left Eridu to protect its people, Bai Mo returned with Arcueid and found Manaka waiting for him.

• Bai Mo confronted Enki about Enlil’s plans, and Enki explained that the White Giant’s victory had made the Age of Gods’ end inevitable before an otherworldly soul changed Enlil’s mind.
• Enki warned Bai Mo that Enlil had been blinded by that soul and promised to help when Mother awakened, then left Eridu so its people would not be caught in the conflict.
• Bai Mo told Arcueid that he would train her during the remaining half month and took her to their prepared room in Eridu.
• Manaka welcomed Bai Mo and Arcueid with dinner, and Bai Mo learned that Manaka possessed a connection to the Root.
• Bai Mo recognized that Manaka’s fixation on him stemmed from her lonely past, while a ghostlike voice urged him to use his feelings for Shiki to subtract his feelings for other women.

After refusing Manaka’s invitation, Bai Mo prepared a cultivation method for Arcueid and reassured Anna that she did not need to sacrifice herself to prolong Gorgon’s life. Mery showed Anna a vision of Bai Mo fighting alongside Greek heroes, and Anna realized his connection to the hero Bai Ermo.

• Bai Mo sent Arcueid and Manaka away, then wrote down a modified version of Ryougi Lataib for Arcueid to cultivate.
• Anna told Bai Mo that she was Medusa and could merge her Spirit Origin with Gorgon’s to extend Gorgon’s survival.
• Bai Mo refused Anna’s offer, told her to enjoy the remaining fifteen days, and urged her to keep the plan from Gilgamesh.
• Mery took Anna to a vision of the battle in Mifune City, where Anna saw Bai Mo fighting beside Heracles and recognized his resemblance to Bai Ermo.
• Mery explained that Bai Mo had fought to save people from the gods’ schemes, and Anna smiled before fleeing in embarrassment.

Manaka and Arcueid each tried to get Bai Mo alone, but their plans collided when they both found his room empty. They eventually watched from opposite sides of the pyramid as Bai Mo spoke with Mery.

• Manaka prepared a late-night snack for Bai Mo and found her room sealed by Arcueid’s Magnetic Field Power.
• Arcueid hid in Bai Mo’s bed, planning to pretend she had fallen asleep while waiting for him.
• Manaka used a hidden magic circle to enter the kitchen and approached Bai Mo’s bed with a candle.
• Arcueid grabbed Manaka by the neck, but both women left after realizing Bai Mo was not there.
• Manaka and Arcueid watched Bai Mo and Mery talking beside Gorgon after Anna had left.

Bai Mo gave Arcueid the unfinished cultivation art "Ryougi Lataib," and Crimson Moon forced her to study it instead of sleeping. Reading its opening revealed a method for breaking through the magnetic field realm without relying on the world's environment, astonishing Crimson Moon.

• Mery ended her conversation, and Bai Mo vanished while Arcueid watched from nearby.
• Bai Mo found Arcueid, let her drink his blood, and later wrote out the cultivation steps for "Ryougi Lataib."
• Bai Mo sent Arcueid back to her room with the book, and she fell asleep without reading it.
• Crimson Moon struck Arcueid awake and scolded her for neglecting cultivation.
• Arcueid began reading "Ryougi Lataib," and Crimson Moon recognized its method for escaping the world's environmental limits as extraordinary.

Arcueid and Crimson Moon discovered that Ryougi Lataib demanded an almost complete realm and involved perilous life-and-death trials, so they decided not to attempt it without Bai Mo’s guidance. The next morning, Bai Mo trained Arcueid in Whale-Style Martial Arts until Mery arrived with an urgent summons from King Gilgamesh.

• Arcueid and Crimson Moon read Ryougi Lataib and found its requirements and methods dangerously extreme.
• Arcueid and Crimson Moon agreed to practice Orca Tyrant Fist instead and leave Ryougi Lataib alone unless Bai Mo taught it to them.
• Bai Mo awoke beside Arcueid, brushed off her teasing, and began guiding her training in the open space.
• Arcueid told Bai Mo she intended to practice Ryougi Lataib eventually and asked him to watch over her.
• Mery arrived and reported that King Gilgamesh had summoned them back to Uruk because of serious trouble.

Bai Mo and Arcueid returned to Uruk, where Bai Mo saved Kingu from a strange monster and let the powerless fugitive escape. Kingu collapsed by the roadside and fell asleep, then woke to find a veiled woman asking if he needed help.

• Mery told Manaka that Bai Mo had gone to Uruk and asked her for a favor involving Gorgon, hinting that she might see Bai Mo again.
• Bai Mo and Arcueid found Uruk protected by a vast barrier and noticed that the demonic beasts had become fewer.
• A bizarre monster emerged inside the barrier and attacked Kingu, but Bai Mo severed its arm and destroyed it.
• Kingu fled from Bai Mo and collapsed in an alley, wondering what he had become before falling asleep.
• Kingu dreamed of a peaceful forest and a woman by a lake, then woke to a veiled woman asking whether he needed help.

Bai Mo entered Imaginary Number Space to investigate the source of the distortions threatening Uruk, carrying Crimson Moon’s demonic sword and a means to return. Gilgamesh warned that Tiamat was also in Imaginary Number Space and that her awakening would bring the decisive battle.

• Bai Mo and Arcueid went to Gilgamesh’s hall, where Gilgamesh explained that imaginary-number distortions were appearing across Uruk and Siduri had been sent to rest.
• Gilgamesh gave Bai Mo a needle that could take one person into Imaginary Number Space and let them return by snapping it, while Crimson Moon warned that the space was boundless and the mission could be a trap.
• Gilgamesh revealed that Tiamat was in Imaginary Number Space and would eventually awaken, and he told Bai Mo to scout rather than fight.
• Crimson Moon gave Bai Mo the demonic sword Real of the World, and Bai Mo entered Imaginary Number Space.
• Crimson Moon considered using Gorgon to trigger Tiamat’s awakening, but Gilgamesh warned that Uruk was not ready for the battle.
• Crimson Moon assured Gilgamesh she would not act against Bai Mo’s interests, then returned control to Arcueid, who complained that she had not gotten to say goodbye.

Bai Mo searched the Sea of Imaginary Numbers for signs of the enemy and discovered a slab containing Dark Leiao’s offer to trade techniques. He then found Sajyou Manaka, rescued her from dissolving, and learned she could help him find Tiamat.

• Bai Mo followed an unusual fluctuation and found a jade-like slab that displayed Dark Leiao offering to exchange secret arts for original cultivation techniques.
• Bai Mo marked the slab for later and continued searching the Sea of Imaginary Numbers.
• Bai Mo found Sajyou Manaka, who had sensed him despite his concealment and began dissolving when he tried to leave.
• Bai Mo used Magnetic Field Rotation-Cellular Regeneration to save Manaka and warned that he would erase her memories if she stopped valuing her life.
• Manaka told Bai Mo she had entered the Sea of Imaginary Numbers through Gorgon and offered to help him find Tiamat using her authority of [Womb of All Beasts].

Bai Mo and Manaka fought their way through the Sea of Imaginary Numbers and discovered a Lahmu city, which Bai Mo attacked with the rampaging imaginary-number whale. As he battled the Lahmu, the Thirteenth Taibao revealed himself with a surprise attack, but Bai Mo had already dodged behind him.

• Bai Mo protected Manaka from an enormous whale-like creature covered in Lahmu and cut through its black torrent with the Blade of Hell.
• Bai Mo used Mad Giant Shark and the God-Severing Way to destroy the whale and tear through the Lahmu surrounding them.
• Bai Mo followed Manaka's directions to a city-sized Lahmu settlement and drove the rampaging whale into its center, destroying a quarter of the city.
• The Lahmu absorbed the remains of their fallen and attacked Bai Mo in coordinated waves, while he fought them with Avici Hell Blade - Eighteen Levels of Hell.
• The Thirteenth Taibao disguised himself as a Lahmu and attacked Bai Mo with the Die-Heart-Destroying Electric Claw, but Bai Mo dodged and appeared behind him.

The Thirteenth Grand Protector fought Bai Mo in the City of Lahmu, then tried to recruit him against Enlil after Manaka escaped. When Bai Mo rejected him, the Thirteenth Grand Protector sprang a trap that swallowed them both in the Sea of Imaginary Numbers.

• The Thirteenth Grand Protector ambushed Bai Mo with a powerful sword attack, but both fighters appeared unharmed on separate towers.
• Bai Mo sent Manaka away, then fought off the Thirteenth Grand Protector's Sea Tiger Exploding Fist with the Orca Tyrant Fist.
• The Thirteenth Grand Protector sealed them inside an energy barrier and proposed that they join forces against Enlil.
• Bai Mo rejected the proposal and accused the Thirteenth Grand Protector of bluffing because he could not defeat him.
• The Thirteenth Grand Protector attacked Bai Mo, and the ground opened beneath them; Bai Mo stabbed him with the Blade of Hell as both disappeared into a torrent of imaginary-number power.

Bai Mo fought the Thirteenth Grand Protector, Bai Lubao, inside the Sea of Imaginary Numbers, where its strange energy weakened Bai Mo and amplified his opponent. After Bai Lubao trapped him with a killing strike, Bai Mo revealed Real of the World and began cutting through the imaginary number energy.

• Bai Mo and Bai Lubao were swallowed by the black torrent, and Bai Mo realized the Thirteenth Grand Protector had regenerated his body with imaginary number power.
• Bai Mo tried Electric Claw against Bai Lubao, who explained that the Sea of Imaginary Numbers weakened Bai Mo's attacks and empowered his own.
• Bai Lubao pursued Bai Mo through the city, while Manaka watched from hiding before vanishing to search for Tiamat.
• Bai Mo interrupted Bai Lubao's Rapid Bullet Fist with Sky Explosive Fist, but Bai Lubao wounded Lahmu with his blood and prepared a Sea Tiger Exploding Fist.
• Bai Lubao used imaginary number power to slow Bai Mo before their Sea Tiger Exploding Fists collided, but Bai Mo revealed Real of the World and cut through the energy around his fist.

Bai Mo defeated the Thirteenth Grand Protector, discovered that Enlil was building a Lahmu civilization with the Me, and provoked Enlil into attacking him. He continued targeting the towers that held the Me as Enlil trapped him in a maze of lethal winds.

• Bai Mo and the Thirteenth Grand Protector traded devastating blows, and Bai Mo killed him before neutralizing the explosive force inside his own body with Ryougi Lataib.
• Bai Mo slaughtered the Lahmu surrounding him and discovered a Craftsman Me in one of the city's towers, realizing that Enlil was cultivating a new Lahmu civilization.
• Enlil confronted Bai Mo with a vast storm, but Bai Mo escaped the fissure Enlil opened beneath him and flew toward another tower.
• Enlil attacked Bai Mo with a wind blade that combined magnetic field power with his own strength, and Bai Mo assessed him as near the Atomic Fission Realm.
• Bai Mo destroyed a second tower and took its Poetry Me as Enlil summoned Space-Time Wind and trapped him among walls that redirected the pursuing blades.

Bai Mo seized the Me of War despite Enlil’s attempt to stop him, then discovered Sajyou Manaka fused into Tiamat’s flesh. When he tried to send Manaka out of Imaginary Number Space with Gilgamesh’s pointer, he learned they were trapped in Tiamat’s prison.

• Bai Mo shattered Enlil’s wind attacks, broke through several towers, and taunted Enlil for not appearing in person.
• Enlil unleashed the seven-hundred-thousand-horsepower Evil Wind as the Me of War fell into an abyss, but Bai Mo dived down and claimed it.
• Bai Mo found Tiamat sleeping and discovered Sajyou Manaka submerged in crimson flesh on her back.
• Manaka joyfully greeted Bai Mo and made unsettling declarations of love, while Bai Mo told her to be quiet and asked whether she could return.
• Bai Mo gave Manaka Gilgamesh’s pointer and snapped it in her hand, but it failed to transport her; Manaka explained that Tiamat’s prison had no way out.

Enlil recalled the gods’ decision to create laborers by sacrificing two gods, then spoke with the Thirteenth Grand Protector after sealing Bai Wunan in Mother’s prison. The Thirteenth Grand Protector pretended renewed loyalty while secretly revealing that he had deceived Enlil and was preparing revenge with the other souls in the stele.

• In a memory of ancient Sumer, Enlil ordered Enki to create a being to replace the younger gods’ labor, and Enki explained that a god’s blood was needed.
• When the gods avoided choosing a sacrifice, Enlil declared that two gods should be killed.
• Enlil told the Thirteenth Grand Protector that Bai Wunan was sealed in Mother’s prison and ordered him to recover his soul using the remaining power of the gods in the stele.
• The Thirteenth Grand Protector swore loyalty to Enlil, who said one Demon God was enough to deal with Uruk.
• After Enlil’s watchful presence disappeared, the Thirteenth Grand Protector dropped his act and told the souls in the stele that his deception had succeeded and vengeance was near.

Bai Mo and Manaka became trapped inside Tiamat’s prison, and Manaka convinced him to enter her [Womb of All Beasts] to reach Tiamat’s dreams. As their consciousnesses descended, Tiamat stirred and a second “Sajyou Manaka” opened her eyes before Bai Mo.

• Bai Mo confirmed that Tiamat was still asleep and considered summoning Ereshkigal to escape.
• Manaka explained that Mery had sent her to check on Tiamat and that she had fallen into the prison during Bai Mo’s fight.
• Manaka offered to connect Bai Mo to Tiamat’s dreams through her [Womb of All Beasts], and Bai Mo entered despite his reluctance.
• Bai Mo’s spent life force began recovering inside Tiamat, but he stopped Manaka from drawing more of her life force to him.
• Bai Mo and Manaka sank into Tiamat’s consciousness, and Tiamat’s breathing stopped as “Sajyou Manaka” opened her eyes before him.