Recaps

Kadoc, Anastasia, and Father Rasputin found that Atalanta had resisted his curse, while Rasputin sensed a familiar power in the remains she left behind. At the rebel fortress, Zhang Jue learned how the nobles were enriching themselves and offered to train the soldiers.

• Kadoc, Anastasia, and Father Rasputin examined Atalanta's battlefield and discovered that she had escaped the curse's beastification.
• Kadoc and Anastasia left Rasputin behind, and he tasted a scrap of flesh before sensing a familiar presence and looking toward the rebel fortress and Ivan the Terrible.
• Atalanta joined Bai Mo and Zhang Jue at the fortress, where they discussed its growth and planned to meet Chaldea's group.
• Koyanskaya explained that Anastasia and the nobles were allowing the conflict to continue while she profited from their wealth and extravagance.
• Zhang Jue condemned the kingdom's corruption and asked Bai Mo and Atalanta to let him drill the rebel soldiers.

Goredolf set plans to travel to Yaga Moscow and investigate the hidden powerhouse before Ivan the Terrible awakened, while Bai Mo discovered how Atalanta had gained Magnetic Field Power. Bai Mo gave Atalanta a pendant to protect her from curses, and she went to sleep in the room beside his.

• Goredolf ordered the group to leave for Yaga Moscow the next day, gather intelligence, and strike the Fantasy Tree before Ivan the Terrible awakened.
• Atalanta reported that some of the resistance's missing children had been found in Moscow, while Bai Mo sensed a familiar presence and warned of another hidden powerhouse there.
• Bai Mo treated a young Yaga's meningitis and later learned that Atalanta had gained Magnetic Field Power after her Noble Phantasm absorbed a magical boar and energy from a Fantasy Tree root.
• Bai Mo gave Atalanta a necklace containing Enlil's divine core to protect her from curses, and she returned to her room beside his, flustered by the gesture.

Anastasia roamed Moscow and used her status to secure an invitation to a banquet, while Bai Mo and Atalanta reached the underground passage beneath the theater where children were being held. The chapter left Ritsuka and the Earl outside as Bai Mo and Atalanta went below.

• Ritsuka worried that she and the Yaga would stand out, but Atalanta said they would enter Moscow through a secret passage in cloaks.
• Anastasia wandered through Moscow, deciding not to approach the Kremlin despite wanting to see her home.
• A Yaga noble invited Anastasia to a banquet, and she tricked him into waiting in the park before taking his vehicle.
• Anastasia arrived at the theater for the banquet, while Bai Mo's group reached the underground passage beneath it.
• Bai Mo asked Ritsuka and the Earl to stay outside as he and Atalanta went down to find the children.

Bai Mo and Atalanta rescued the Resistance's children from an underground torture facility beneath a lavish gathering, and Bai Mo went upstairs to confront the guests responsible. Anastasia and Kadoc arrived at the venue, where Anastasia planned to vent her anger at the banquet.

• Bai Mo and Atalanta found the abducted children being tortured beneath the theater, while Anastasia entered the venue upstairs.
• Bai Mo killed Skotov, freed the prisoners, healed their injuries, and used his power to break through their numbness.
• Atalanta led the rescued children out as Bai Mo went upstairs to stop the guests and destroy the source of the abuse.
• Atalanta promised to support Bai Mo from a distance and help keep the children safe.
• Anastasia arrived in a luxury sedan with Kadoc and said she intended to vent her anger at the banquet.

Anastasia discovered that the banquet guests had eaten the child Yaga who served her, then confronted a second woman claiming to be the real Anastasia. The two Regents faced off as the banquet descended into chaos.

• Kadoc learned that the resistance leader was likely Atalanta and left Anna to handle the captured children while he went to meet his junior.
• The false Anastasia attended the banquet as its host introduced an activity in which she was to give an apple to her favorite waiter.
• Anastasia gave the apple to the child Yaga who had served her, but the guests revealed that they had eaten the child and planned to carve her bones.
• Anastasia struck the host and tried to run backstage, but another woman claiming to be Anastasia froze the passage and injured the host with an icicle.
• The two women exchanged accusations, and the princess threatened to tear off the impostor’s face to reveal her identity.

Anastasia was nearly killed by the princess, but Bai Mo arrived and protected her. He turned the princess’s ice powers against her, leaving the confrontation unresolved as he attacked her with a piercing chill.

• The princess attacked Anastasia with ice, forcing her off the platform.
• Bai Mo emerged from the underground passage carrying a half-dead guard and helped Anastasia to her feet.
• Bai Mo rejected the princess’s attempts to turn him against Anastasia and collapsed her platform with Magnetic Field Power.
• The princess froze the Yaga in the venue indiscriminately, while her ice failed to reach Bai Mo and Anastasia.
• Bai Mo took control of the princess’s ice blades and struck her with bone-piercing cold.

Ritsuka confronted Kadoc and fought to rescue the princess, while Bai Mo attacked underground. A mysterious old man saved Kadoc and the princess, then revealed himself as Bai Wubian, whom Bai Mo recognized as the two hundred and sixty-eighth Sea Tiger Martial God.

• Ritsuka mapped the Kremlin and chose to meet Kadoc, who challenged her and blamed her for surviving Lev's explosion in place of the A-Team.
• Kadoc sent Murderous Hunters and Asterios against Ritsuka, but Atalanta's arrows pierced his curse barriers as Bai Mo attacked the princess underground.
• An unknown speed wielder whisked Kadoc away, and Ritsuka used a Command Spell to escape Asterios's approaching labyrinth.
• Bai Mo's attack threatened the princess until an elderly man appeared and struck the underground facility open with Eighty-eighth heaven-Thunder Shock.
• Anastasia mocked the princess before vanishing into spirit form, and Bai Mo identified the old man as Bai Wubian, the two hundred and sixty-eighth Sea Tiger Martial God.

Bai Mo confronted Bai Wubian, who proved far weaker and more dispirited than expected, then fled with Kadoc and the princess. Bai Mo realized his calming power had brought Bai Wubian’s self-loathing to the surface rather than simply erasing his will to fight.

• Bai Mo told Bai Wubian that the Bai Family had died out generations later, and Bai Wubian challenged him to a fight.
• Bai Wubian attacked with Gale Cutting Blade and Sea Tiger Exploding Fist, but Bai Mo avoided the first and matched the second without using the same technique.
• Bai Mo noticed Bai Wubian lacked his former ambition and asked why he could no longer force out his battle markings.
• Bai Wubian shattered the ground, grabbed Kadoc and the princess, and fled; Bai Mo struck his back but let him escape.
• Bai Cinan and Giant Shark discussed Bai Mo’s calming power, and Bai Mo concluded that Bai Wubian’s self-loathing explained his retreat.

After Chaldea celebrated its victory and gathered supplies, Bai Mo explained why Bai Wubian had lost his will to fight: Chaya killed him just as he was preparing to take revenge for Bai V. The others mocked Bai Wubian’s choices and death, while Bai Mo suspected a powerful being had plotted against him.

• Ritsuka congratulated Bai Mo on the victory and suggested they take down the Fantasy Tree, but Goredolf warned that it was linked to the Terrible Emperor.
• Ritsuka and Koyanskaya gathered supplies while Atalanta comforted the children, and Goredolf promised to cook a celebratory feast.
• Bai Mo told Bai Cinan and the others that Bai Wubian had secretly trained to kill Bai Chou after Bai V gave his life to save him.
• Bai Mo explained that Chaya killed Bai Wubian in their first exchange, just as he was preparing to avenge Bai V.
• Bai Cinan, Bai Wunan, and others laughed at Bai Wubian’s misfortune and speculated that he had suffered from senile dementia, while Bai Mo suggested a powerful being had schemed against him.

Bai Wubian fled from Bai Mo and sank into despair, while Kadoc and Anna learned that Ivan the Terrible would awaken within seven days. Back at the rebel base, Zhang Jue urged Bai Mo to speak with the white-clad woman watching from his room.

• Bai Wubian refused Kadoc's healing and told him he no longer cared whether he lived or died, while Kadoc left his coat with him.
• Anna and Kadoc met Rasputin, who said Ivan the Terrible would awaken in seven days at most.
• Zhang Jue encouraged Bai Mo to clear things up with the white-clad woman, but Bai Mo said he planned to ask Ritsuka to speak with her instead.
• Zhang Jue sent Bai Mo away and prepared to explain the situation to the Yaga.

After witnessing the Yaga’s oppression of the poor, Anastasia chose to join Bai Mo’s cause and oppose the grand duchess, while Bai Mo later examined a giant weapon with Koyanskaya. Koyanskaya identified it as a spearhead from the Scandinavian Lostbelt and offered Bai Mo a deal for his help.

• Anastasia asked Bai Mo whether she should hate the soldiers who killed her family, and he told her she had the right to decide for herself.
• Anastasia threw her gems out the window, chose to stay, and introduced herself anew as Caster-Anastasia, pledging to become the grand duchess’s enemy.
• At the banquet, Anastasia and Atalanta drank together, and Anastasia drunkenly complained that Bai Mo had made her throw away her gems and join former enemies.
• Bai Mo went outside the fortress with Koyanskaya to inspect a huge spearhead brought by the Yaga.
• Koyanskaya identified the spearhead as a giant’s weapon from the Scandinavian Lostbelt and offered Bai Mo intelligence on several Lostbelts in exchange for his help.

Bai Mo and Koyanskaya investigated giant tracks in Northern Europe and found evidence that Ragnarok had ended with the giants victorious. After Koyanskaya collected the captured giants, Bai Mo entered their cave and discovered a dead armored figure and ravaged Valkyries.

• Bai Mo carried Koyanskaya to the western mountains, where they found a forest devastated by battle and traces of Rune Magecraft.
• Koyanskaya told Bai Mo that Ragnarok had likely produced a victor, and Shiki explained that the world’s nature made its destined ending unavoidable.
• Bai Mo and Koyanskaya followed the tracks to a cave, where Bai Mo used the Hell Samsara Sword to capture several giants alive.
• Koyanskaya thanked Bai Mo and stayed behind with the captured giants while he went deeper into the cave.
• Bai Mo found a dead armored person and several dead Valkyries whose bodies had been ravaged.

Bai Mo buried the fallen Valkyries and resolved to carry their legacy to Northern Europe, while Koyanskaya departed to pursue her business there. Back at the resistance base, an envoy warned that Ivan the Terrible was about to awaken and proposed negotiations with the resistance and Chaldea.

• Bai Mo gave the fallen warrior and Valkyries a proper burial, kept their five shields, and planned to pass them on to other Valkyries.
• Koyanskaya gave Bai Mo a communication accessory and said she was leaving to check on business in Northern Europe.
• A Yaga noble arrived at the resistance base claiming to seek cooperation, but mental magecraft took control of him and delivered the regent's message.
• Zhang Jue trapped the envoy in a barrier, and the regent's voice warned that Ivan the Terrible was about to awaken and destroy everyone if they did not cooperate.
• The regent's envoy proposed negotiations for noon the next day, requested Bai Mo's attendance, and burned to death after delivering the message.

Ivan the Terrible began moving toward Moscow as the Murderous Hunters sensed the people’s changed feelings, threatening to awaken him in a rage. Kadoc sought Bai Mo’s help to keep Ivan asleep or sever his connection to the Fantasy Tree, but Bai Mo made a demand and warned Kadoc about Bai Wubian.

• The last mountain collapsed, and Ivan the Terrible’s mammoth familiar began carrying him across the land toward Moscow.
• Kadoc told Bai Mo that the Murderous Hunters were Ivan’s familiars and that the Fantasy Tree could keep him alive and amplify his power.
• Kadoc proposed that Bai Mo cushion the emotions reaching Ivan through the Murderous Hunters, or help sever Ivan’s connection to the Fantasy Tree; Bai Mo agreed to try but made a demand.
• Bai Mo warned Kadoc to watch out for Bai Wubian and destroyed his familiar, leaving Kadoc shaken by Bai Mo’s ability to reach his mind from afar.
• Kadoc discussed Viy with the princess, then left to see Bai Wubian and blamed Hinako Akuta for the mark on Ivan’s crown that seemed to be hastening his awakening.

Bai Wubian received a magecraft item from Kadoc and learned from Rasputin that time could be turned back, reigniting his power. He then killed Kadoc, and the Command Spells on Kadoc’s hand began to glow as the princess watched.

• Bai Wubian awoke from a dream of a young Yaga crying out for his father, while Kadoc cleaned his room and spoke with him.
• Kadoc gave Bai Wubian a magecraft item to help him leave, thanked him for saving them, and asked him to look into the other Lostbelts.
• Rasputin appeared and used the Dream Creator to show Bai Wubian that time could be turned back, then taunted him that his son had died for nothing.
• Bai Wubian’s Magnetic Field Power erupted, and he entered the palace with overwhelming strength.
• Bai Wubian pierced Kadoc through the chest and said he was not a good person; the princess watched as Kadoc’s Command Spells blazed crimson.

Bai Mo confronted Ivan the Terrible while Ritsuka’s teams moved to sever the Fantasy Root’s connection to the Terrible Emperor and infiltrate the palace. As Ivan and Bai Mo left Moscow to fight, the Yaga chose to follow and witness their decisive duel.

• Ritsuka split Chaldea into groups to infiltrate the palace, sever the Fantasy Root’s connection, and support Bai Mo’s confrontation with Ivan the Terrible.
• Bai Wubian used Magnetic Field Heavenly Lock to keep Kadoc alive and threatened the grand duchess, who warned him that Viy’s mystic eyes would target him once her Command Spells were spent.
• Bai Mo sensed the palace events and prepared to face Ivan, while Ivan demanded to know who had damaged his crown.
• Bai Mo declared himself Ivan’s enemy and asked him to fight somewhere away from Moscow; Ivan agreed and led his mammoth away.
• The Yaga took their finest liquor and decided to follow the two fighters to watch their duel.

Bai Mo fought Ivan the Terrible after refusing to promise he could save the Lostbelt, and Ivan accepted that the tsar had to fall for the country to have a future. As the battle left both Ivan and his mammoth badly damaged, Bai Mo disrupted Ivan’s attack and struck him with an enhanced Life-Severing Way.

• Bai Mo told Ivan the Terrible he would try to stop the Lostbelt’s destruction but could not promise success, and said the country no longer needed a tsar.
• Ivan the Terrible summoned lightning and charged Bai Mo, while Bai Wubian watched from hiding and waited for a chance to intervene.
• Bai Mo and Ivan clashed with their giant manifestations, and their attacks scorched the land and destroyed nearby Yaga.
• Ivan trapped Bai Mo and battered the Hell Blade God, but Bai Mo detonated the power of his Sea Tiger Exploding Fist to burst Ivan’s shoulder.
• Bai Mo concentrated the Hell Blade God’s energy into its blades, hacked the mammoth, and struck Ivan with the Enhanced Life-Severing Way.

Bai Mo fought Ivan the Terrible while the Fantasy Tree’s roots continuously restored the tsar and threatened to dissolve anyone who touched them. Zhang Jue and Sherlock Holmes uncovered a plan to exploit a hidden Asura Way wound, and Bai Mo launched a decisive strike as Ivan committed himself to a final blow.

• Ivan the Terrible drew power from the Fantasy Tree’s roots to restore his body and unleash their strength across Russia, while Bai Mo sensed the roots’ overwhelming power.
• Bai Mo and Ivan exchanged attacks, with both recovering from their injuries as the Yaga watched in fear and Chaldea’s party searched for a way to reach the main root.
• Zhang Jue asked Sherlock Holmes to identify what lay within the root, and Holmes explained that Qin had prepared Taoist methods to counter the undying tsar.
• Zhang Jue reached for the root and turned to ash, leaving his book behind; during the ensuing fight, a hidden Asura Way symbol appeared inside Ivan.
• Ivan ordered his beast to expend its vitality and attacked Bai Mo with lightning, while Bai Mo drove his Sea Tiger Exploding Fist into Ivan’s head.

Bai Mo and Zhang Jue severed Ivan the Terrible’s consciousness transfer, leaving him badly wounded and forced to draw on the Fantasy Tree at a terrible cost. As Ivan unleashed a final 940,000-horsepower attack, Bai Wubian and Kadoc joined forces to strike Bai Mo from opposite directions.

• Zhang Jue trapped Ivan the Terrible’s consciousness behind a barrier and explained that Russia had rotted beyond repair; Ivan’s monstrous body then lost its head to Bai Mo’s punch.
• Bai Mo summoned two Hell Blade Gods, whose repeated strikes wounded Ivan and made Cellular Regeneration struggle to keep up.
• Ivan drew power from the Fantasy Tree, sacrificing his mammoth and revealing that pale roots had replaced the marrow in his bones.
• Ivan recalled his lost family, his son’s death, and his decision to use his son’s preserved body to connect himself to the Fantasy Tree.
• Ivan transformed into a being made of Fantasy Tree roots and attacked Bai Mo with Magnetic Field Rotation-940,000 horsepower.
• Bai Wubian launched his 900,000-horsepower World-Destroying Boundless Sword at Bai Mo as Kadoc used a Command Spell to activate Viy’s Mystic Eyes against him.

Bai Mo fought Bai Wubian while facing Viy’s Mystic Eyes, using the Oga War God to withstand Ivan the Terrible’s attack and Dark Reincarnation to counter the World-Destroying Boundless Sword. After stopping Anastasia from sacrificing herself, he adapted to his opponents’ powers and challenged them both to attack together.

• Bai Mo ignored Viy’s attempt to expose his weaknesses and summoned the Oga War God to meet Ivan the Terrible’s fists.
• Bai Wubian attacked under cover of the Mystic Eyes, but Anastasia tried to intercept their power using Ritsuka’s Mystic Code.
• Bai Mo used a Command Spell to forbid Anastasia from joining the battle and returned her to Ritsuka’s side.
• Bai Mo caught Bai Wubian’s sword qi and used Dark Reincarnation to turn the World-Destroying Boundless Sword’s attacks against one another.
• Bai Mo shattered the ice around himself and invited Bai Wubian and Ivan the Terrible to attack him together.

Bai Mo fought Bai Wubian and the Terrible Emperor as the two rivals formed an alliance and unleashed antimatter lightning. Bai Mo revealed the Darkness Asura Way and prepared to answer their combined attack.

• Bai Wubian urged the Terrible Emperor to join forces, while the Terrible Emperor confronted him about his role in the uprising against his rule.
• Bai Mo and the Oga War God fought the two men, and Bai Mo criticized their mistrust as he began disintegrating Bai Wubian with Avici Uninterrupted.
• The Terrible Emperor struck Bai Wubian to trigger Cellular Regeneration and help him survive the disintegration, then the two combined their powers to create antimatter lightning.
• Bai Wubian offered to use his final Command Spell to make Viy attack, declaring his sincerity in the alliance.
• Bai Mo declined the Oga War God's offer to combine their attacks and revealed the Darkness Asura Way, which Bai Wubian recognized as the source of Dark Reincarnation.
• Bai Wunan and his companion observed Bai Mo's technique in the Martial God Space and discussed how he had combined two Asura Ways with control methods from his Ryougi Lataib.

Bai Mo used both Asura Ways to control the antimatter lightning and killed the Terrible Emperor after Viy's Mystic Eyes disrupted the balance. Bai Wubian survived and confronted an exhausted Bai Mo, who still had not defeated him.

• Bai Mo merged the Leiao and Darkness Asura Ways to hold back the antimatter lightning created by Bai Wubian and the Terrible Emperor.
• Viy's Mystic Eyes of Clairvoyance struck the Terrible Emperor, breaking the balance and letting Bai Mo slam the antimatter force into him.
• Bai Wubian escaped by kicking off the Terrible Emperor, who accepted his death and urged Bai Mo to win for the land of ice and snow.
• Bai Mo redirected the antimatter lightning skyward, destroyed the Terrible Emperor, and landed exhausted.
• Bai Wubian descended and admitted he had underestimated Bai Mo and the people at the Kremlin.

Anastasia confronted the Lostbelt princess who shared her face and awakened the power of Viy, while Bai Mo and Bai Wubian fought over the fate of the beast nation. The chapter ended as both men unleashed their strongest attacks in a final clash.

• Ritsuka and Anastasia entered the Kremlin, but a darkness separated Anastasia from the others and brought her before the Lostbelt princess.
• The princess attacked Anastasia and explained that she would fight to protect Kadoc, while Anastasia realized the princess had no memories of her family or royal duties.
• Anastasia used her Mystic Eyes of Clairvoyance to affect Bai Wubian’s battle with Bai Mo.
• Bai Wubian threatened to slaughter the people if Bai Mo tried to leave, and the two continued trading blows across the snow.
• Bai Wubian unleashed World-Destroying Boundless Sword, and both fighters summoned their battle markings before striking with Sea Tiger Exploding Fist.

Bai Mo defeated and killed Bai Wubian, then disappeared after the Yaga witnessed his victory. In Moscow, Ritsuka affirmed her resolve to reclaim Pan-Human History, while Atalanta removed the Boar of Calydon Pelt and returned to the Archer class; the Yaga awaited Bai Mo's judgment as he arrived.

• Bai Mo used Ryougi Lataib to turn Bai Wubian's injected explosive power against him and shattered him with a final blow.
• Bai Wubian died realizing that his suffering did not make him unique and that he had become a pawn of fate.
• Bai Mo left the Yaga who witnessed the battle, and they recognized him as the victor who could decide their fate.
• A priest confronted Ritsuka with the choice of destroying the Lostbelt, and Ritsuka declared she would reclaim Pan-Human History and bear the sin herself.
• Atalanta removed the Boar of Calydon Pelt and returned to the Archer class, unable to choose between Pan-Human History and the children of the Lostbelt.
• The Yaga prepared to confront Ritsuka, but Anastasia froze their weapons before Bai Mo arrived and their fighting spirit vanished.

Bai Mo confronted Fran’s Rasputin disguise, then decided to transfer the Russian Lostbelt into Shiki’s system space to preserve it. As the transfer began, the immense energy engulfed him in flames.

• Bai Mo recognized that Fran had used Rasputin’s appearance and spoke with her while Anastasia watched.
• Fran revealed that she had grown a genuine Rasputin body from his cells and explained her role-playing scheme.
• Bai Mo led the people of Yaga Moscow toward the Fantasy Tree as Fran watched and recalled her agreement with Chaldeas to make him fall.
• Bai Mo placed his hand on the Fantasy Tree and began transferring the Lostbelt into Shiki’s system space, despite Shiki, Olga Marie, Arcueid, and Bai Wunan warning him of the lethal risks.
• The Lostbelt’s radiance surged into Bai Mo and flames covered his body as the transfer began.