Recaps

Bai Mo heard Skadi’s account of Ragnarok and learned that Surtr, empowered by Fenrir, threatened the last humans in Northern Europe. After Skadi arranged lodging for him, Ortlinde brought mead and recalled her Valkyrie missions.

• Skadi told Bai Mo that Magnetic Field Power had not changed Ragnarok’s prophecy, and she described how the gods and heroes fell in battle.
• Skadi explained that Surtr had devoured Fenrir and was sealed as the sun, while their powers caused the world’s deadly fire and frost.
• Skadi revealed that she had created the second-generation Valkyries to protect the last five thousand humans, and said she knew nothing about Fafnir’s sudden appearance.
• Bai Mo asked about the Fantasy Tree, but Skadi said it was likely hidden and that protecting the humans had exhausted her.
• Skadi arranged lodging for Bai Mo, who exchanged information with Sherlock Holmes before Ortlinde brought him Valhalla mead and recalled her missions with Geirskögul.

Bai Mo and Ortlinde learned that Hrungnir had discovered Skadi’s barrier and led several thousand giants toward it. After rejecting a Valkyrie’s proposal to replace Ortlinde, Bai Mo flew with her to face Hrungnir as she renewed her vow to honor his trust.

• Hrungnir ordered his giants to find Skadi and destroy her after learning the barrier’s location.
• Skadi told Bai Mo that thousands of giants were approaching and asked him to deal with Hrungnir.
• A Valkyrie recommended replacing Ortlinde with herself, but Bai Mo insisted that Ortlinde remain his comrade.
• Bai Mo reassured Ortlinde that courage and trust mattered more to him than strength, and they flew toward Hrungnir’s abyss.
• Ortlinde swore upon her spear that she would never betray Bai Mo’s trust.

Bai Mo attacked the giants in the Iron Forest and confronted Hrungnir, who emerged riding Gullfaxi. After Bai Mo taunted Hrungnir about his past encounter with Thor, the giant prepared to fight him.

• Bai Mo and Ortlinde flew to the stone forest, where a large army of giants was gathering.
• Bai Mo covered Ortlinde with concealment Noble Phantasms and strengthened armor, then told her to prioritize her safety.
• Bai Mo struck the giants with his Eight hundred thousand horsepower-Peerless Demon Blade, and Hrungnir blocked the attack from within the valley.
• Hrungnir emerged on Gullfaxi and mocked Bai Mo for arriving without a weapon.
• Bai Mo identified Gullfaxi and taunted Hrungnir about avoiding Thor's challenge, enraging the giant.
• Hrungnir and Gullfaxi gathered their power as Hrungnir threatened to kill Bai Mo.

Bai Mo fought Hrungnir, using his blade and Orca Tyrant Fist to overpower the frost giant before turning Hrungnir’s own weapon against him. The chapter ended with Bai Mo recovering from his injuries and Hrungnir’s right hand crippled by the Hell Samsara Sword.

• Hrungnir charged Bai Mo with Gullfaxi and struck him with his flint club, but Bai Mo sat unharmed on the weapon and taunted him.
• Bai Mo deflected Hrungnir’s attacks with the Blade of Hell, while the battling giant’s weapon shed stones that crushed giants below.
• Bai Mo switched to Orca Tyrant Fist and shattered Hrungnir’s hand, head armor, and chest before Hrungnir froze him with frost power.
• Hrungnir struck Bai Mo’s frozen body, but Bai Mo turned the ice into flames and met the blow with his left hand, breaking his forearm.
• Bai Mo spread the Hell Samsara Sword through the flint club and crippled Hrungnir’s right hand, then healed his own injuries with the Asura Eternal Life Art.

Bai Mo and Hrungnir fought across the frozen stone forest as Hrungnir revealed his connection to Surtr and used the land's power to heal. Gullfaxi gave Hrungnir a sudden advantage, but a pause in his stone heartbeat let Bai Mo strike his chest, leaving the battle's outcome uncertain.

• Hrungnir healed his wounds by drawing power from the earth, and he spoke of Surtr's destructive power and his wish to fight Thor.
• Bai Mo abandoned his healing-suppressing tactic and attacked Hrungnir with the Heavenly Martial Killing Way as their battle devastated the stone forest.
• Hrungnir gradually gained the upper hand as frost and blood covered the ravine and Bai Mo's movements slowed.
• Hrungnir unleashed a powerful attack, but Gullfaxi carried him behind Bai Mo, and Hrungnir revealed the horse's hidden speed and his claim to it.
• Ortlinde rushed to shield Bai Mo, but Hrungnir's stone heartbeat paused, giving Bai Mo the opening to punch him in the chest.

Bai Mo defeated Hrungnir in a brutal duel after removing the fragments of Mjölnir from his heart and healing him. Hrungnir refused to reveal what happened at Ragnarok and sent his soul toward Skadi, while Ortlinde and Bai Mo faced a giant witch and the attacking giants.

• Bai Mo removed the Mjölnir fragments from Hrungnir's heart, healed him, and challenged him to fight at full strength.
• Hrungnir fused his flint weapon with his hands and fought Bai Mo and the Great Blade Martial God as the surrounding giants beat their chests.
• Bai Mo and the Great Blade Martial God destroyed Hrungnir's heart and brain, winning the duel.
• Hrungnir refused to tell Bai Mo what happened at Ragnarok and sent his soul toward Skadi to settle his remaining regret.
• Ortlinde struck Hrungnir's fleeing soul with False Gungnir, then shielded Bai Mo from a giant witch's secret art and was injured.
• Bai Mo healed Ortlinde and dispersed the attack as the Great Blade Martial God appeared before the giant witch.

Bai Mo and Ortlinde defeated Hrungnir and destroyed the giants’ gathering place, while Skadi stopped Hrungnir’s contingency attack. As Hrungnir’s soul vanished, he warned Bai Mo to leave, and Bai Mo gave Gullfaxi to Ortlinde to help her in the battles ahead.

• Bai Mo and Ortlinde left the giants’ destroyed gathering place, while Skadi celebrated their victory and the thwarted attack inside her barrier.
• Hrungnir’s dying soul warned Bai Mo that death in this place only began a torment and urged him to leave.
• Hrungnir’s soul dissipated, leaving behind False Gungnir, and Ortlinde thanked Bai Mo for winning the battle.
• Bai Mo offered Hrungnir’s divine steed, Gullfaxi, to Ortlinde, who hesitantly accepted after Bai Mo explained how the horse could help her keep up with him.

Bai Mo returned to Skadi’s barrier with Ortlinde and met Ophelia Phamrsolone and her Servant, Sigurd. After he explained his plan to save Lostbelts from pruning, Skadi backed him, and Ophelia agreed to stop opposing Chaldea.

• Bai Mo and Ortlinde returned to Skadi’s barrier, where Ortlinde took Gullfaxi to the stables.
• Skadi welcomed Bai Mo and Ortlinde, and Ophelia introduced herself as the Lostbelt’s Crypter alongside Sigurd.
• Bai Mo told Ophelia, Sigurd, and Skadi about Marisbury’s plan and his offer to preserve Lostbelts in a space of his own.
• Skadi learned that Russia had already been saved and reclaimed, then declared that opposing Bai Mo and Chaldea meant opposing her.
• Ophelia accepted the possibility of working with Bai Mo and Chaldea, though she worried Director Olga Marie would reprimand her.

Ortlinde bonded with Gullfaxi while Bai Mo learned that a masked outsider had warned of a threat beyond Surtr and left Northern Europe to seek help. After Bai Mo gave Gullfaxi to Ortlinde, Skadi and Sigurd interpreted the gift as a marriage proposal, and Ophelia found their reasoning surprisingly convincing.

• Ortlinde brought Gullfaxi into a fenced area, and the horse acknowledged her courage as his master.
• A hooded Valkyrie with white hair and spiral-patterned eyes approached Ortlinde and admired Gullfaxi.
• Skadi told Bai Mo that a masked outsider had left Sigurd's weapon and defenses in the sky, warned of a baleful star lurking beyond Surtr, and departed with people willing to leave.
• Bai Mo gave Gullfaxi to Ortlinde as her warhorse, then left to call her back from the stables.
• Skadi and Sigurd concluded that Bai Mo's gift was a marriage proposal, and Skadi explained Northern European courtship customs to Ophelia.

Ortlinde chatted with a spirited Valkyrie who teased her about her feelings for Bai Mo, then hurried back to him when he arrived. Bai Mo recognized the Valkyrie incarnation of Fran nearby and realized Skadi was unaware of the unwelcome presence in her domain.

• Ortlinde and the white-haired Valkyrie bonded as they walked toward Skadi's temple, and the Valkyrie teased Ortlinde about her feelings for a warrior.
• The Valkyrie suggested Ortlinde try being intimate with Bai Mo on Gullfaxi, leaving Ortlinde flustered and imagining the possibility.
• Bai Mo interrupted Ortlinde, and the white-haired Valkyrie vanished before Ortlinde could introduce her.
• Bai Mo sensed that the Valkyrie incarnation of Fran remained within Skadi's barrier and realized Skadi did not know she was there.

Skadi told Bai Mo and the others that Fran, a helper from the Wandering Sea, had been investigating the Scandinavian Lostbelt but was now trapped among Fafnirs. Bai Mo went to confront Fran, who revealed she had come to witness the Lostbelt’s events and might join him if he asked.

• Skadi showed Bai Mo and Ophelia a message from Fran, who had been exploring the Lostbelt and was now trapped by Fafnirs.
• Fran asked them to wait seven days before going to her location so her research would not be disturbed.
• After the feast, Bai Mo hurried to meet Fran while Skadi teased Ortlinde about watching him leave.
• Bai Mo found Fran in a secluded house, destroyed the tea cups she had made, and demanded to know why she was there.
• Fran said she had been helping maintain Skadi’s barrier and had come to watch the aftermath of Ragnarok, though she was willing to join Bai Mo on the stage.

Bai Mo arranged to train Ortlinde in Magnetic Field Power and coordinate with Gullfaxi before their planned battle against Fafnirs. The next morning, Sigurd joined them at the doorway to the outside world, and the group prepared to face the dragons.

• Fran sent Bai Mo a communication Magecraft formula and warned him to keep a firm hold on her collar.
• Ortlinde asked to move her cabin beside Bai Mo’s, and he agreed so he could train her and coordinate her with Gullfaxi.
• Bai Mo trained Ortlinde intensely in Magnetic Field Power, then ordered her to rest before the next day’s battle.
• Ortlinde discovered that Bai Mo had created a hot spring behind her cabin.
• Bai Mo and Ortlinde met Sigurd at the doorway, where he said he would accompany them to fight the dragons.

A purple-haired girl watched over a dragon guarding a cavern while Bai Mo, Ortlinde, and Sigurd fought the Fafnirs outside. After they wiped out the surrounding dragons, a blue-violet dragon burst from the mountainside and lunged at Ortlinde.

• A purple-haired girl studied images of a war, fed jerky to the dragon beneath her, and hoped Skadi would arrive soon.
• Bai Mo sensed a powerful dragon guarding the way deeper into the cavern, and Sigurd agreed that the gathered Fafnirs behaved unnaturally.
• Sigurd killed a Fafnir sentry, but a roar from the cavern roused the rest and sent them attacking across the mountain forest.
• Bai Mo and Ortlinde used Magnetic Field Heavenly Blades and False Gungnir to kill the Fafnirs before they could reach them.
• A blue-violet dragon burst through the mountainside and lunged at Ortlinde.

Bai Mo subdued a rampaging dragon and learned it was Brynhildr, prompting Sigurd to try to reach his wife through runes. After the dragon bit off Sigurd’s arm and Bai Mo healed him, a purple-haired bloodsucker appeared at the cave entrance and asked if they were Skadi’s helpers.

• Bai Mo struck the dragon down after it attacked Ortlinde, and Ortlinde recognized Brynhildr’s spear and identity.
• Bai Mo explained that the dragon was still alive and urged Ortlinde and Sigurd to find a way to help it before others arrived.
• Sigurd arranged Rune Runes and called to Brynhildr, but the dragon bit off his arm as it began to attack again.
• Bai Mo stopped the dragon’s breath and healed Sigurd, who thanked him while Ortlinde watched them.
• A purple-haired girl resembling a schoolgirl came out of the cave and asked whether they were Skadi’s helpers.

Bai Mo, Sion, Sigurd, and Ortlinde sought a way to separate Brynhildr from the dragon fused with her Spirit Origin. They entered Brynhildr’s inner world to draw the dragon away, but Bai Mo realized the creature was nowhere to be seen.

• Sion explained that Brynhildr’s Spirit Origin had fused with the dragon and that separating them required attracting the dragon away from her.
• Sigurd prepared to kill Brynhildr, but Bai Mo asked Sion for another way and agreed to her dangerous plan.
• Bai Mo, Sigurd, and Ortlinde touched Brynhildr and entered a pitch-black inner world.
• Ortlinde saw that Bai Mo’s soul was incomplete, while Sigurd and Ortlinde ran toward Brynhildr, frozen inside a block of ice.
• Bai Mo searched for the dragon, sensed something was wrong, and shouted, “Come back!”

Bai Mo, Ortlinde, and Sigurd were dragged across Gjallarbrú toward Helheim by an enormous snake that claimed Hela was dead and refused to reveal its master. Just as the snake attacked Bai Mo, he used Tezcatlipoca’s Authority of the Underworld to seize control of Helheim and overpower it.

• The enormous snake bound Bai Mo, Ortlinde, and Sigurd in the frozen realm and dragged them across Gjallarbrú toward Helheim.
• The snake offered to release one of them, but Ortlinde and Sigurd chose to sacrifice themselves so Bai Mo could escape.
• The snake reneged on its offer, admitted Hela was dead, and said a contract prevented it from identifying its master.
• After the trio were dragged into Helheim, Bai Mo asked whether Loki was alive, then stood his ground as the snake lunged at him.
• Bai Mo blasted the snake away and used Tezcatlipoca’s Authority of the Underworld to control Helheim’s winds and overpower it.

Bai Mo stayed in Helheim to interrogate the giant serpent while Sigurd and Ortlinde carried Brynhildr’s frozen soul toward Gjallarbrú. After the serpent burned its body and fragments of memory, a powerful pursuer attacked, and Ortlinde pulled Bai Mo off the collapsing bridge to escape Helheim.

• Bai Mo recognized Brynhildr’s encounter with Sion as a trap meant to draw the group’s souls into Helheim, then sent Sigurd and Ortlinde to leave with Brynhildr.
• Bai Mo taunted the giant serpent and used Helheim’s authority to tear apart its soul, absorbing fragments of its memories.
• The giant serpent ignited its remains with emerald-green flames, making Bai Mo’s authority difficult to use as he tried to escape.
• Bai Mo realized Hela’s authority had likely been taken and fled along Gjallarbrú while the flames and a towering claw pursued him.
• Ortlinde returned to the bridge’s end, caught Bai Mo, and leaped backward with him, escaping Helheim as the unknown creature roared behind them.

Bai Mo recovered after a dangerous soul-related encounter, and Sha Antian sensed that his damaged Primordial Spirit might hold a unique power. After escaping with Ortlinde, Sigurd, Sion, and Brynhildr, Bai Mo returned to the dried-up lake and learned that a visitor named Landao Tianwu had arrived.

• Bai Wunan and Sha Antian discussed Bai Mo’s damaged Primordial Spirit, and Sha Antian said his calculations suggested it contained an unprecedented uniqueness.
• Bai Mo woke in a stone chamber beside Ortlinde, thanked her for helping him, and met Sigurd, Sion, and Brynhildr.
• Sion urged the group to leave, and they returned to the dried-up lake after setting up measures to detect pursuit.
• Bai Mo sensed that a human Magnetic Field Power user had visited the lake and asked Skadi whether she had let anyone in.
• Skadi said Landao Tianwu had left a communication device and claimed to have rescued Valkyries and brought back divine iron shields.

Bai Mo explained that Landao Tianwu had come to Northern Europe to pursue his Blue Dream: destroying humanity and the world, then becoming a god on a reborn Earth. The group considered how dangerous he was and decided to speak with him to learn what he knew and what he intended.

• Bai Mo told Skadi and Ophelia that Landao Tianwu had sent the miniature Giant God device to test their strength, not to offer help.
• Bai Mo explained that Ortlinde had likely been captured and had her memories read by Landao Tianwu before she reached Russia.
• Bai Mo revealed that Landao Tianwu wanted Surtr to destroy the world as part of his plan to become a god.
• Ophelia suggested pretending to cooperate with Landao Tianwu to lure him into a trap, but Bai Mo warned that he would prepare for danger.
• Bai Mo said they could still talk to Landao Tianwu to find out how much he knew about their situation and what he wanted.

Landao Tianwu contacted Skadi’s group and used the captive Valkyries to force them to investigate coordinates tied to the world’s crisis. After Bai Mo exposed his connection to Ortlinde and Mizuki Hitomi, Landao dropped his friendly act and insisted that strength would decide whether they could reclaim the Valkyries.

• Landao Tianwu appeared through the Giant God apparatus and offered supplies and the stranded Valkyries, while Skadi discovered that his forces had surrounded the barrier.
• Bai Mo asked Landao whether he recognized Ortlinde, and Landao pretended that she reminded him of his daughter, Little Hitomi.
• Bai Mo challenged Landao’s account of Mizuki Hitomi, causing Landao to abandon his act and suspect someone had betrayed him.
• Skadi asked Landao to release the Valkyries, but he refused and demanded that the group investigate coordinates connected to the crisis.
• Landao declared that power would determine whether they could take the Valkyries back, then ended the transmission.

Sion showed the group a recording of Ragnarok at the location Landao Tianwu had indicated, where Odin left a message about a hidden contingency at Mimir’s Well of Wisdom. The group realized the location matched, leaving them with Odin’s warning that it was their last hope against the coming catastrophe.

• Sion explained that the site was the battlefield of Ragnarok and used Magecraft instruments to show the group her observations.
• The recording showed Fenrir, Jormungandr, and Surtr approaching the battlefield, while Bai Mo noticed Ophelia’s reaction to Surtr.
• Odin addressed Skadi, Sigurd, Brynhildr, Ortlinde, Sion, and Ophelia, then revealed that Loki, Thor, and he would die in the battle.
• Odin said he would enter Surtr with Fenrir and leave a contingency at Mimir’s Well of Wisdom in Jotunheim, urging the group to reach it before their souls faded.
• After the recording ended, Skadi confirmed that Mimir’s Well of Wisdom was at the location Landao Tianwu had indicated.

Landao Tianwu spoke with Qin Hong about his plans and the Valkyries, while Skadi searched Northern Europe for his arrangements. Ophelia privately told Bai Mo that her Magecraft bond to Surtr could make her Surtr’s anchor, leaving her afraid Skadi would kill her if she learned the truth.

• Landao Tianwu told Qin Hong that future people had disrupted negotiations, but he expected his son Yameng to succeed and believed he could handle his own opposition through one unimportant woman.
• Skadi sent a current of cold beyond her barrier to search Northern Europe for Landao Tianwu and the Valkyrie sisters.
• Bai Mo left Ortlinde to speak privately with Ophelia, while the others went to rest, work, investigate, or train.
• Ophelia concealed her Magecraft workshop, and Bai Mo sealed it against eavesdropping without reading her thoughts.
• Ophelia revealed that her Magecraft bond to Surtr might make her Surtr’s anchor, and feared Skadi would kill her if she found out.

Ophelia told Bai Mo how she had survived arriving in the Lostbelt and revealed that Surtr had promised to show her the Sword of Flame and the planet’s end. Bai Mo accepted her account and advised her to have Sigurd examined, before Skadi summoned them for a dangerous task that required Ophelia’s help.

• Ophelia explained that she stayed in the Lostbelt to repay Bai Mo and recounted how her Mystic Eyes had brought her gaze into contact with Surtr.
• Ophelia told Bai Mo that Surtr had promised to show her the Sword of Flame and the end of the planet.
• Bai Mo questioned the strange promise, then warned Ophelia that her bond with Surtr could affect the summoning of Sigurd.
• Ophelia explained that Sigurd had been summoned through her family bloodline with Skadi’s help, and Bai Mo advised her to have Brynhildr examine him.
• Skadi told Bai Mo and Ophelia that they had found a place containing arrangements and that Ophelia might need to go there despite the danger.

Ortlinde rescued Gerda after she nearly fell from a mountain while making an offering, then healed her injured father and urged the villagers to stop praying to gods who were gone. Bai Mo and Ophelia arrived as a mysterious breeze relieved the villagers’ suffering, and Bai Mo explained that their overcrowded, malnourished settlement had no future unless the trouble outside was resolved.

• Ortlinde caught Gerda with Gullfaxi after the girl fell while trying to descend the mountain.
• Ortlinde healed Gerda’s father’s broken leg with her Primal Runes and a strand of Gullfaxi’s mane.
• Ortlinde told Gerda that the gods were no longer there and that the villagers should stop making offerings.
• Villagers rushed out to seek the same miracle, but a gentle wind entered their homes and eased their illnesses and pain.
• Bai Mo and Ophelia arrived, and Bai Mo explained that malnutrition and overcrowding were the main problems in the small settlement.
• Bai Mo said he had to resolve the trouble outside the barrier because the settlement had no future otherwise.

Bai Mo and the others prepared to retrieve the divine power Odin left in the dried Well of Wisdom, which required Ophelia’s Mystic Eyes of Postponement. Despite the danger and the possibility that Landao Tianwu had laid a trap, Ophelia insisted on joining the operation, and Bai Mo equipped her with protections before they set out.

• Skadi’s wind and snow revealed that Odin’s divine power remained in the dried Well of Wisdom, protected by primordial Runes that Ophelia’s Mystic Eyes could bypass.
• Bai Mo suggested removing Ophelia’s Mystic Eyes to keep her off the battlefield, but Ophelia and Skadi rejected the idea because reconnecting them could make them malfunction.
• Bai Mo equipped Ophelia with Noble Phantasms, while Ortlinde promised to protect her and Gullfaxi reluctantly agreed to carry her.
• Bai Mo warned Ophelia that Landao Tianwu might have prepared a trap and that her foresight might not overcome the strength gap, but Ophelia insisted she had to go.
• Bai Mo said he would buy Ophelia time to summon Sigurd if they faced overwhelming danger, while Sigurd and Brynhildr would try to rescue the Valkyries if Landao Tianwu appeared.
• Ortlinde reassured Ophelia that Bai Mo cared about their safety, and Ophelia trusted them as they prepared to leave.