Recaps

Bai Mo and his companions entered a cave in search of the hidden Fantasy Tree and were ambushed by Landao Tianwu, who used homunculi to record attacks and amplify his own power. Landao Tianwu launched a stronger version of Bai Mo’s technique, but Bai Mo absorbed and transformed its blade energy, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Ophelia failed to detect the Fantasy Tree, so Bai Mo led her and their companions into a marked cave while her familiars watched outside.
• Landao Tianwu sent an army of homunculi into the cave and rejected Qin Hong’s offer to help, insisting he had to overcome the danger himself.
• Bai Mo used Eighteen Levels of Hell to slaughter the homunculi, but Landao Tianwu connected himself to their circuits and unleashed the attack with nine hundred and twenty thousand horsepower.
• Landao Tianwu ordered his homunculi to attack and used their recorded techniques against Bai Mo, then demanded Ophelia and threatened to implant a Dream Creator in Bai Mo.
• Bai Mo dodged Landao Tianwu’s attacks and turned the blade energy into demonic blades that coiled around him.

Bai Mo outwitted Landao Tianwu’s trap and fought to keep him from pursuing Ortlinde and Ophelia toward the mountaintop spring. As the women neared their destination, Ophelia spotted the legendary serpent and warned Ortlinde to dodge its attack.

• Landao Tianwu used the magnetic field power of his followers to bind Bai Mo and reached for Ophelia, but discovered that the women before him were disguised giants.
• Bai Mo revealed that he had hidden Ortlinde and Ophelia with Gullfaxi, then broke through the synthetic humans and sent them flying toward the mountaintop.
• Landao Tianwu tried to intercept them, but Bai Mo grabbed his ankle and fought him with the Nine Heavens Samsara Lock and Orca Tyrant Fist.
• Landao Tianwu warned Bai Mo that the women were in danger, while Ortlinde and Ophelia approached the spring on Gullfaxi.
• Ophelia saw the giant serpent from Sion’s images and urged Ortlinde to dodge as it descended to attack.

Bai Mo and his companions encountered Jormungandr beneath the Well of Wisdom and learned that Odin’s Eye lay inside the serpent, who offered them passage to the spring’s source. As Ophelia balked at entering Jormungandr’s belly and Bai Mo weighed his next move against Landao Tianwu, Landao proposed a deal.

• Bai Mo blocked Jormungandr’s gaze while Landao Tianwu recovered from Bai Mo’s final slash and Ophelia and Ortlinde escaped on Gullfaxi.
• Jormungandr told Bai Mo that Thor was dead and that he had returned to Northern Europe for a purpose beyond revenge.
• Jormungandr revealed that Odin’s Eye remained unharmed at the spring’s source, which he had swallowed, and offered to let Bai Mo’s group take it.
• Jormungandr warned that obtaining the key to saving Northern Europe would require a price, while Ophelia wondered if she could leave instead of entering his belly.
• Bai Mo considered attacking Landao Tianwu as Landao withdrew, but Landao proposed making a deal.

Landao Tianwu offered Bai Mo hundreds of thousands of artificial humans in exchange for Ophelia, then revealed he planned to survive Surtr’s world-ending destruction by taking over her body. Ophelia called him insane, while Bai Mo was left unsettled by how closely his own thoughts had matched the villain’s plan.

• Landao Tianwu concluded that resource scarcity under Qin Shi Huang made victory among the Lostbelts impossible, so he sought another way to pursue Blue’s dream.
• Landao Tianwu proposed trading Ophelia for hundreds of thousands of artificial humans who could help Bai Mo locate what he needed.
• Bai Mo rejected Landao Tianwu’s attempt to frame the deal as a simple exchange, and Landao Tianwu threatened to release the calamity star from its Northern European seal.
• Landao Tianwu declared he would use Ophelia’s body to survive Surtr’s destruction and become the new world’s god.
• Bai Mo realized Landao Tianwu intended to use Magnetic Field Power and the Dream Creator or soul magecraft to take over Ophelia, and Ophelia called him insane.

Bai Mo defeated Landao Tianwu’s body and rescued the Valkyries, but Landao’s head escaped. Bai Mo entered Jormungandr with Ophelia and Ortlinde to retrieve the Eye of Odin, while a concealed observer headed after Landao.

• Bai Mo mocked Landao Tianwu’s plans and attacked him, prompting Landao to unleash the bodies of nearly a thousand artificial humans as a net-like weapon.
• Bai Mo used Dark Reincarnation to understand Landao’s Silk-Reeling Energy, then sent Oga’s killer whale form through Landao’s defenses.
• Oga called Landao Tianwu “Dad” before Bai Mo’s attack made Landao explode, though his head flew away beyond the horizon.
• Bai Mo stopped Ortlinde from pursuing Landao, freed the Dream Creators from the Valkyries, and explained that Ophelia could keep Landao from releasing Surtr.
• Jormungandr allowed Bai Mo, Ophelia, and Ortlinde to enter his mouth to complete the trial and retrieve the Eye of Odin.
• A man who had watched the battle through a precise telescopic instrument vanished into the forest and moved toward Landao Tianwu.

Landao Tianwu recovered from Bai Mo’s attack, then faced his son Dongni, who had returned to kill him for murdering his parents and turning his children into tools. Dongni attacked with Celestial Magecraft, but Landao Tianwu declared that he would defeat the son who had learned his techniques from him.

• Landao Tianwu regenerated after Bai Mo’s attack and considered asking Qin Hong for help against the unexpected variable.
• Dongni confronted Landao Tianwu and revealed his identity, accusing him of betraying the organization and murdering his parents.
• Dongni activated the barrier’s ultimate weapon and attacked Landao Tianwu with Celestial Magecraft while Skadi let him use it.
• Dongni pressed his injured father with magecraft and close-range attacks, seeking revenge for himself and his brother Tiandao.
• Landao Tianwu smiled despite his wounds and told Dongni that only Dongni would die because Landao Tianwu had taught him everything he knew.

Bai Mo, Ophelia, and Ortlinde reached Mimir at the Well of Wisdom after nine days inside Jormungandr. Mimir explained that retrieving Odin’s eye required an equal sacrifice, leaving them to face the Well’s price.

• Bai Mo, Ophelia, and Ortlinde walked through Jormungandr’s stomach for nine days, unable to contact Skadi or Sigurd.
• The group found a dried-up spring and a skull, which introduced itself as Mimir and complained about centuries of torment.
• Bai Mo asked Ophelia to retrieve Odin’s eye, but he stopped her when her Mystic Eyes of Postponement began to strain her.
• Mimir explained that taking something from the Well of Wisdom required giving something of equal value.
• Mimir said Odin had paid with his eye and suggested that the nine-day journey might count as part of the trial, but Bai Mo objected to making Ophelia and Ortlinde endure the same sacrifice.

Bai Mo and Ortlinde faced the Well of Wisdom’s spear trial to obtain the runes, with Ortlinde sharing the ordeal and reviving Bai Mo afterward. They completed the trial, but the runes affected Ortlinde and passed through Bai Mo and Jormungandr to the outside world.

• Mimir explained that the tree’s spears could grant access to the runes through a painful trial, and Ortlinde insisted on sharing Bai Mo’s burden.
• Ortlinde wrote 1 on the tree and endured nine days in a mental world while only a moment passed outside.
• Bai Mo emerged bloodied after writing 777599, and Ortlinde used Gullfaxi’s magnetic field power to regenerate him.
• Bai Mo explained that he had tried to endure the trial by dividing its pain into seconds, and Mimir clarified that he had still undergone the full mental ordeal.
• The tree released the Rune Runes after Bai Mo and Ortlinde completed the trial; Ortlinde absorbed a rune’s mysteries, while Bai Mo’s rune passed through him and Jormungandr toward the outside world.

Bai Mo and his companions retrieved Odin’s eye from the Well of Wisdom, but the exchange demanded a portion of someone’s soul. Ortlinde sacrificed her right eye so Ophelia could take it, leaving the group to face the consequences of the bargain.

• The primordial Runes passed through Bai Mo without entering him, while some entered Ophelia and Ortlinde received her share.
• Mimir explained that the Runes had reached Bai Mo but had flown away for reasons he could not identify.
• Ophelia used her Mystic Eyes of Postponement to reveal Odin’s eye, but a barrier blocked her from reaching it.
• Mimir revealed that retrieving the eye required sacrificing the part of a soul associated with an eye.
• Ortlinde volunteered to pay the price, and her right eye fell into the well as the barrier vanished.
• Ophelia delayed the eye’s illusory effect and retrieved Odin’s eye.

Landao Tianwu survived a mysterious fight and warned Qin Hong to continue the Blue Dream mission if he died. Bai Mo and his companions escaped Jormungandr’s body, where Mimir identified the wound as a strike from Freyr’s Sword of Victory and discovered Rune Runes spreading across Northern Europe.

• Landao Tianwu woke from an overwhelming urge to sleep, told Qin Hong that he could not remember his battle, and ordered him to destroy the Lostbelt if Lan’s dream remained unfulfilled after a month.
• Bai Mo, Ophelia, and the unconscious Ortlinde emerged from Jormungandr and found the serpent’s body severed, with Surtr missing and the sky darkened.
• Bai Mo suspected Landao Tianwu had broken Surtr’s seal and hurried back toward Skadi’s barrier with Ophelia and Ortlinde.
• Mimir stayed behind to await Jormungandr and said the wound had been made by Freyr’s Sword of Victory.
• Mimir noticed Rune Runes appearing across the earth, rocks, and ironwood throughout Northern Europe.

Ortlinde awoke after a vision of Odin and returned to her home, then found her sisters with Bai Mo and the others preparing weapons for the coming battle against Surtr. Watching the Valkyries gather around Brynhildr and Sigurd, she felt that she had returned to Valhalla, the place that felt like home.

• Ortlinde dreamed of Odin, who told her it was not yet time, then woke with Odin’s eye preserved beside her bed and covered her empty right eye socket with an eyepatch.
• Ortlinde groomed Gullfaxi and saw Brynhildr and the other Valkyries flying toward the valley where Bai Mo, Skadi, Ophelia, and Sigurd were working.
• Bai Mo and Sigurd helped Skadi forge replacement spears and test them as the group prepared for Surtr’s possible awakening and the coming battle.
• Skadi complained about the heat while Bai Mo adjusted the weapons and Sigurd hammered runes into the spears.
• Brynhildr greeted Sigurd, then impaled him with her spear as the surrounding Valkyries looked on in anger and Ophelia was splattered with blood.
• Ortlinde watched the disorderly gathering and felt that she had returned to the warmth of Valhalla and home.

Bai Mo worked with Sigurd and Ortlinde on refining False Gungnir’s Runes, while Sigurd urged him to consider his future with Ortlinde after the crisis. When Ortlinde successfully inscribed a powerful Rune, Bai Mo grew alarmed and examined her soul, finding no sign that it had been replaced.

• Bai Mo and Sigurd discussed Sigurd’s responsibility to Brynhildr, and Sigurd suggested Bai Mo think about what he would do after the crisis.
• Bai Mo asked Ortlinde to help measure her sisters for weapons and discussed finding a way to restore her missing eye.
• Ortlinde inscribed an intricate Rune on False Gungnir, transforming the spear and creating enough power to construct a barrier.
• Bai Mo reacted with alarm and used detection tools, including the Thread of Fate, to investigate Ortlinde’s soul.
• Bai Mo found no evidence of a soul replacement and noted that Odin’s soul should still be inside Surtr.

Bai Mo examined Ortlinde for signs that Odin was manipulating her and warned the god not to use her as a pawn. After helping make custom False Gungnirs for the Valkyries, Ortlinde joined her sisters for a banquet and recounted how she had met Bai Mo.

• Bai Mo thoroughly examined Ortlinde, then warned Odin that he would face a terrible future if he schemed against her.
• Ortlinde helped Bai Mo and the others produce False Gungnirs, while Sigurd and Ophelia wondered about Bai Mo’s hostility toward deities.
• Bai Mo gave the Valkyries individually adjusted False Gungnirs, and Ortlinde questioned why her sisters accepted their weapons so readily.
• Hildr and the other Valkyries invited Ortlinde to a banquet and pressed her about Gullfaxi, her damaged synchronization, and her recent experiences.
• Bai Mo declined the invitation and left, so Ortlinde joined the banquet and began telling her sisters how she had met him.

Bai Mo met Sion to prepare for the coming battle with Surtr, learning Partitioning Thought and discovering that Gungnir was inside Surtr while strange Runes had appeared across Northern Europe. After the group settled on a battle plan, Sigurd forged Gram as Bai Mo returned home; Surtr then roared Ophelia’s name within Skadi’s barrier.

• Sion gave Bai Mo the Atlas Institute magecraft Partitioning Thought, which helped him create blurred figures but did not fully support Hell God of War.
• Sion showed Bai Mo that Gungnir was inside Surtr, where it remained unrefined as the two appeared to fight with their Primordial Spirits.
• Sion and Ophelia reported that they could not learn more about the Sword of Victory wielder or investigate farther into Helheim, so Bai Mo directed them to prepare the battlefield.
• Sion revealed that Rune Runes had appeared in ruins across Northern Europe, and the group settled on a battle plan.
• Sigurd hammered Gram in the valley, telling Skadi he was forging a sword not meant for him to wield in battle.
• Bai Mo carried the drunken Ortlinde to bed, and Surtr’s roar echoed through Skadi’s barrier as he called for Ophelia.

Surtr emerged to destroy the world and called for Ophelia, forcing Skadi’s group to leave their barrier and fight. Bai Mo brought Ophelia to face Surtr, who finally turned his attention to him.

• Surtr called out to Ophelia and announced that he would take her to witness the planet’s extinction.
• Skadi ordered Ophelia to leave the barrier while she blessed the others and prepared to cover their retreat.
• The Valkyries and others flew out to establish barriers across Northern Europe and defend them from giants and Fafnirs.
• Bai Mo asked Ortlinde about Odin’s eye, then told her to trust her judgment as she remained on standby.
• Bai Mo brought Ophelia to a hill and shattered Surtr’s attack aimed at her.
• Surtr noticed Bai Mo, and three crimson streaks appeared above Bai Mo’s head.

Bai Mo fought Surtr while Ortlinde and her allies watched, and Dongni arrived with a plan to help defeat the fire giant. Surtr revealed that Odin and Fenrir’s souls remained within him, then prepared to destroy the world with Laevateinn.

• Bai Mo freed Ophelia from Surtr’s magnetic pull and challenged him to fight on a distant dried seabed.
• Surtr unleashed Fenrir’s freezing power alongside his flames, and Bai Mo and the Oga War God attacked the giant together.
• Dongni appeared beside Ophelia and Sigurd, confirmed he was an ally, and asked for help with a plan to deal with Surtr.
• Bai Mo struck Surtr with a doubled Orca Tyrant Fist and realized Fenrir’s soul had not been fully absorbed.
• Surtr revealed that Odin’s soul also remained within him and declared that the world’s destruction was his ordained fate.
• Surtr raised Laevateinn and invoked Outshine the Sun, Sword of Flame to return the planet to ash.

Bai Mo, Skadi, Ophelia, and the Valkyries delayed Surtr’s attempt to destroy the world and struck his divine core. Surtr then used his connection to Ophelia to seize her, leaving Bai Mo to protect her and Ortlinde from his attack.

• Skadi, Bai Mo, and the Valkyries combined their powers to interrupt Surtr as he prepared to plunge Laevateinn into the earth.
• Bai Mo struck Surtr’s forehead with Orca Tyrant Fist, damaging his head, while Ophelia used her Mystic Eye to delay him.
• Surtr questioned Ophelia about her attack, then used his power to pull her toward him and transport himself to her hill.
• Ortlinde tried to carry Ophelia away, but Ophelia’s Mystic Eye delayed her, and Surtr drew Ophelia onto his shoulder.
• Surtr swung Laevateinn at Ortlinde, and Bai Mo arrived in time to block the strike and restore Ortlinde, Gullfaxi, and himself.

Electric Eye used Odin’s Runes and a lantern to draw Landao Tianwu’s soul out of Surtr, creating an opening during the fight. Surtr was left dazed as the fused souls began to separate.

• Surtr tried to persuade Ophelia to join him, while Bai Mo and Electric Eye recognized that his control over her was distorting her will.
• Bai Mo and Electric Eye agreed to act together, and Bai Mo drew Surtr’s attention while Electric Eye prepared a soul-related spell.
• Ortlinde carried Electric Eye toward Surtr as Bai Mo fought through the monster’s attacks.
• Bai Mo used the Illusory Demon Art to keep Ophelia from activating her Mystic Eyes, and Electric Eye struck Surtr with the lantern infused with Odin’s Runes.
• The lantern opened a gateway that pulled several figures, including Landao Tianwu, from Surtr’s body, leaving Surtr briefly dazed.

Electric Eye watched Landao Tianwu's soul emerge in Helheim as Bai Mo and Surtr fought their final battle. Bai Mo and Surtr struck each other with their strongest attacks, leaving Surtr's divine core shattered and Bai Mo pierced through the heart.

• Odin's Rune helped Electric Eye draw Landao Tianwu's soul from Surtr, and Landao Tianwu remained fixated on his dream despite Electric Eye's taunts.
• Surtr and Landao Tianwu's clashing souls opened Surtr's defenses, giving Bai Mo and the Oga War God a chance to attack.
• Bai Mo merged with the Oga War God while Great Saber charged toward Surtr and the Great Blade Martial God guarded Ophelia.
• Surtr unleashed Laevateinn as Bai Mo used Limitless Tremor Zen to strike Surtr's divine core, and their clash tore away the black mist over Northern Europe.
• The Great Blade Martial God cleared away the residual force, revealing Surtr's cracked divine core and Bai Mo pierced through the heart.

Nidhogg emerged from beneath the earth as Helheim collapsed, revealing itself as the mastermind behind the Scandinavian Lostbelt. Chaldea learned that Bai Mo had suspected the truth, while Nidhogg’s arrival left the gathered forces trembling before the coming Ragnarok.

• Electric Eye and Landao Tianwu saw the celestial signs change as Surtr’s star dimmed and another star shone brightly above it.
• Helheim collapsed, and Nidhogg surged from underground in an emerald pillar of light as the Fafnirs gathered around it.
• Chaldea’s instruments failed as Olga Marie and Goredolf demanded that Sherlock Holmes explain what had happened.
• Sherlock Holmes explained that the Fafnirs’ crimes pointed to the destruction of the world and said Bai Mo had already guessed the mastermind’s identity.
• Nidhogg landed on Jotunheim’s highest peak, and Sherlock Holmes identified it as the evil dragon that gnawed at the World Tree and helped bring about Ragnarok.

Nidhogg revealed itself as the Scandinavian Lostbelt’s most dangerous power wielder, wielding 990,000 horsepower and an innate ability to devour souls. It struck Surtr and scattered the battlefield, leaving Bai Mo facing Nidhogg’s mastery of the Primordial Spirit.

• Nidhogg attacked Landao Tianwu, but Electric Eye held him with chains as Surtr was bitten and badly wounded.
• Bai Mo used the power left from separating the Oga War God to save Dongni, then reclaimed part of the Underworld’s authority from Electric Eye.
• Bai Mo warned Electric Eye not to risk his life for revenge, and Tiandao reacted with relief from within the Martial God Space.
• Nidhogg swallowed part of Surtr, unleashed a wave that blasted everyone away, and caused the Valkyries to fall from the sky.
• Gullfaxi carried the wounded Ortlinde to Bai Mo, while the others faced Nidhogg’s 990,000-horsepower power.
• Bai Mo recognized that Nidhogg’s soul-devouring ability let it master the Primordial Spirit without ordinary cultivation.

Sherlock Holmes explained that Nidhogg had devoured the dead of Ragnarok and taken over Helheim. As Nidhogg attacked Bai Mo and his allies, Surtr joined the battle, and Bai Mo used the mark of Avici Uninterrupted to strip away Nidhogg’s protection and make it feel pain for the first time in thousands of years.

• Sherlock Holmes deduced that Nidhogg had killed Hela, occupied Helheim, and consumed the souls of the dead gods.
• Nidhogg’s despair-inducing mist incapacitated Gullfaxi, Ortlinde, Electric Eye, and the others, but it had no effect on Bai Mo.
• Bai Mo fought Nidhogg and learned that the weapons beneath its wings were formed from the souls of gods it had devoured.
• Surtr attacked Bai Mo and Nidhogg with Laevateinn, but Nidhogg drew the Sword of Victory from its tail and struck both opponents.
• Bai Mo used the mark of Avici Uninterrupted on Nidhogg, causing its protective power to vanish and making it feel pain.

Bai Mo and Nidhogg analyzed each other’s powers while fighting, then joined forces to disarm Surtr and take Laevateinn. After the uneasy alliance wounded all three, Bai Mo accused Nidhogg of pretending to care about the planet and challenged it to fight him.

• Nidhogg survived Bai Mo’s Avici Uninterrupted and discovered that its Sword of Victory returned to its tail to repair itself.
• Bai Mo healed his sword wounds and judged Nidhogg’s disintegrating power dangerous but limited, while Nidhogg considered the risks of fighting him.
• Nidhogg proposed that they eliminate Surtr before their fight destroyed the planet, and Bai Mo agreed to target Laevateinn.
• Bai Mo and Nidhogg attacked Surtr together, forcing him to drop Laevateinn, while the Great Blade Martial God rescued Ophelia and brought her near Electric Eye.
• Surtr was driven back, but Nidhogg and Bai Mo were wounded; Bai Mo healed himself and accused Nidhogg of playing games before challenging it to fight.

Bai Mo and Nidhogg fought while Surtr’s obsession with Ophelia kept him attacking wildly. With Electric Eye’s help, Ophelia confronted Surtr and used her Mystic Eyes of Postponement to sever their connection, choosing to reject the powerless self she had been.

• Nidhogg tore Bai Mo apart and destroyed the Iron Forest with his breath, but Bai Mo reconstructed his brain and heart and struck back with Avici Uninterrupted.
• Ophelia appeared beside Electric Eye, and Surtr abandoned Bai Mo to run toward her, demanding that she return to his side.
• Electric Eye revealed that he had installed his brain computer in Ophelia, blocking Surtr from controlling her thoughts with Magnetic Field Power.
• Ophelia told Surtr she had had enough and resolved to lose her Mystic Eyes rather than return to a life in which she could not refuse others.
• Ophelia’s Mystic Eyes of Postponement struck Surtr with pain and blurred his senses as Nidhogg tried to intervene, but Bai Mo and two War God figures blocked him.

Fran freed Skadi from Nidhogg’s mental curse and enlisted her help to turn the fight against the black dragon. Skadi temporarily restored Ophelia, Electric Eye, and Sigurd, and Ophelia faced Surtr as Fran prepared to watch what happened next.

• Nidhogg’s black mist trapped Skadi in her barrier, and she realized that the dragon had repeatedly killed heroes who came to resolve the Lostbelt’s crisis.
• Fran entered Skadi’s palace in a swan Mystic Code and used a piece of her own flesh to trick Skadi’s mind into believing she had recovered.
• Fran explained that the effect was temporary and offered to help because Nidhogg’s victory would make the world unbearably dull.
• Skadi supplied magical energy, and Fran’s spell temporarily freed Ophelia, Electric Eye, and Sigurd from the black mist, though Ortlinde remained motionless.
• Ophelia activated Sirius Light and challenged Surtr, while Fran watched from behind her.