Chapter Summaries

Olga Marie agreed to help manage Bai Mo’s refuge, while Shiki warned him that an ultimate powerhouse could detect anyone entering the bleached world. The chapter revealed that a mysterious man had rebuilt and then destroyed Chaldeas, and it ended as Bai Mo prepared to meet War God Ke Bao.

• Olga Marie accepted Bai Mo’s offer to help with management and planning at the refuge.
• Shiki told Bai Mo she would remain inside the floating island’s protected space and intervene if his life was in danger.
• Bai Wunan explained that an ultimate powerhouse had noticed Bai Mo’s confrontation with the eyeball, but Bai Mo’s outsider body and soul could not be detected without a mark.
• A mysterious man rebuilt Chaldeas in the dimensional hole, rejected its plea for help, and destroyed it after declaring that he would pursue a better future for humanity.
• Bai Mo concluded that he and his companions could stay hidden from the ultimate powerhouse, then opened a portal to meet War God Ke Bao.

Bai Mo tested his Ultimate True Form against War God Ke Bao and learned that Oga War God’s path could not fully suit him. Ke Bao refused to give him the Heavenly Eye but sent him away with the Ultimate Limitless Art and God-Slaying Without Regret to study.

• Bai Mo and Oga War God attacked Ke Bao and the Dark Leopard God with Ultimate True Form, but Ke Bao’s God-Slaying Without Regret shattered their assault and knocked Bai Mo back.
• Bai Mo discussed the difference between his own path and Oga’s, while Ke Bao explained that both of them had been forced to act before they could fully develop their power.
• Ke Bao offered Bai Mo the Heavenly Eye, but Bai Mo refused it, and Ke Bao agreed that Bai Mo should follow his own path rather than rely on another source of power.
• Ke Bao passed the Ultimate Limitless Art and God-Slaying Without Regret into Bai Mo’s mind, telling him to study the martial art for the sake of Ryougi Lataib.

Bai Mo left Kebao after learning the limits of his new strength, then traveled through Shiki’s café into a Lostbelt cut off by a Storm Wall. He learned that Chaldea’s distress signal came from the Russian Lostbelt and spotted an NFF convoy near the border.

• Kebao warned Bai Mo that he still could not face opponents above 970,000 horsepower, and Bai Mo accepted the reminder.
• Bai Wunan appeared, claimed victory in a bet over Kebao’s offer of the Heavenly Eye, and argued with Kebao about the Wuji Heavenly King and the threats ahead.
• Bai Mo visited the café on Shiki’s floating island, received Cat Communicator 2.0 badges from Neco-Arc, and entered the Lostbelt.
• Bai Mo concealed his presence, examined the Storm Wall, and noticed that it had been infused with Magnetic Field Power.
• Da Vinci told Bai Mo that Chaldea had sent a distress signal from the Russian Lostbelt, and Bai Mo agreed to head there.
• Bai Mo spotted a convoy marked NFF near the border as he prepared to cross the Storm Wall.

Bai Mo arrived at the checkpoint and rescued Koyanskaya from soldiers who were abusing their authority to seize her cargo. After revealing that one soldier carried a device linked to Blue Dream, he considered the situation more complicated than expected and sought Koyanskaya’s intelligence while checking on Rin.

• Soldiers at the storm barrier checkpoint blocked Koyanskaya’s convoy and threatened her, demanding she move her cargo into their storeroom.
• Bai Mo appeared, greeted Koyanskaya, and reduced the captain’s saber to sand, prompting the captain to kneel and beg for forgiveness.
• A soldier unleashed his magnetic field power and tried to flee, but Bai Mo stopped him and inflicted phantom pain through his nerves.
• Bai Mo extracted a mechanical Magecraft tool from the soldier and noticed its design resembled Blue Dream’s battle markings.
• Koyanskaya greeted Bai Mo warmly and said she had managed the assets he entrusted to her, while Bai Mo reflected that Rin was with her and that Chaldea still awaited rescue in Russia.

Bai Mo crossed into the Russian Lostbelt with Koyanskaya, who explained the conflict between Great Qin and Russia and introduced Ivan the Terrible, a monstrous tsar guarding the border. When Bai Mo detected a damaged vehicle under attack in the Thundercloud Mountain Range, he left Koyanskaya and Rin to find its occupants.

• Bai Mo opened the Storm Wall, and he, Koyanskaya, and Rin entered the Russian Lostbelt while the soldiers at the checkpoint turned on one another.
• Koyanskaya explained that Qin had halted its invasion because Ivan the Terrible defended Russia from the Thundercloud Mountain Range with overwhelming lightning power.
• Bai Mo saw Ivan atop a colossal beast and questioned how the tsar could sustain his power while ruling from the border.
• Bai Mo detected an armored vehicle being pursued through the snow by masked attackers as its hull and fuel neared failure.
• Bai Mo told Koyanskaya and Rin he had found the people he was looking for and parted from them.

With Chaldea's vehicle out of fuel and surrounded by murderous huntsmen, Goredolf and Roman faced an apparent last stand until Bai Mo arrived and rescued them. The group reunited with backup, while Olga Marie protested in the system space about Goredolf taking over as Chaldea's director.

• Goredolf drove Chaldea's vehicle through a blizzard while a black-flame-triggered avalanche briefly slowed the pursuing huntsmen.
• Roman decided Fujimaru and Mash should escape with the Earl, but the Earl took the two girls away while the others stayed behind.
• Goredolf ordered everyone to take cover when the vehicle ran out of fuel, and the survivors waited for the huntsmen to attack.
• Bai Mo entered the vehicle, reported that the pursuers were gone, and healed the wounded with Cellular Regeneration.
• Goredolf introduced himself as Chaldea's new director and thanked Bai Mo, while Olga Marie complained to Da Vinci and Roman about being replaced.

Bai Mo confronted Ivan the Terrible after the tsar attacked Chaldea, while Sherlock Holmes helped the Shadow Border escape. The chapter left Bai Mo fighting Ivan alone as Koyanskaya watched to see how much her investment had grown.

• Ivan the Terrible attacked Chaldea with a pillar of lightning, and Bai Mo cut it apart with the Blade of Hell.
• Sherlock Holmes identified Ivan and his Murderous Hunters, while Goredolf feared the group was doomed.
• Bai Mo split Ivan's second lightning attack and cut a chunk from the crown atop his head, drawing the tsar's attention away from the Shadow Border.
• Sherlock Holmes and the others escaped as Ivan's Murderous Hunters focused on Bai Mo.
• Bai Mo fought Ivan's lightning attacks with God-Severing Thunderbolt and Heavenly Martial Killing Way-God-Severing Way.

Bai Mo fought Ivan the Terrible, who remained trapped in a hazy, instinct-driven state, and destroyed his heart and damaged his brain. The Fantasy Tree’s roots then supplied power to regenerate Ivan, and Bai Mo withdrew from direct combat while continuing to attack him with concealed vacuum blades.

• People in Russia mistook the lightning around Bai Mo and Ivan the Terrible for signs of an invasion or Ivan awakening, while Ivan remained asleep in the palace.
• Bai Mo struck Ivan with the God-Severing Thunderbolt and the Blade of Hell, but Ivan regenerated and counterattacked recklessly.
• Bai Mo used Zen-shaking Samsara and the Nine Heavens Samsara Lock to damage Ivan’s brain and detonate his power at his heart.
• Ivan regenerated with power apparently supplied by the Fantasy Tree, whose roots Bai Mo sensed beneath the continent.
• Bai Mo stopped pursuing the battle as Chaldea’s party moved away, then used the Enlil Divine Core to send waves of concealed vacuum blades at Ivan.
• Ivan muttered that enemies were everywhere as the vacuum blades repeatedly tore into his rocklike skin.

Bai Mo survived Ivan the Terrible’s lightning attack and led Chaldea away to find shelter, while concealing Olga Marie’s presence. In Qin, Landao Tianwu and Qin Hong suspected the Storm Wall’s mysterious crossing was the work of a Star-Shattering Realm figure and began planning to lure him with a spy, believing he might be Oga.

• Bai Mo secretly touched Ivan the Terrible, escaped the lightning blast, and later reappeared among Chaldea’s party.
• Olga Marie stopped Bai Mo from revealing her situation, and Shiki warned that the cat badge could teleport only beautiful girls.
• Bai Mo concealed Chaldea’s movements and led the group toward Koyanskaya, intending to find them a place to stay.
• Qin Hong and Landao Tianwu examined the Storm Wall and concluded that its unseen crosser might have reached the Star-Shattering Realm.
• Landao Tianwu suspected the crosser was his son Oga and planned to send a refugee implanted with a Dream Creator to Russia as a spy.

Bai Mo escorted Chaldea to a Russian farm, where Koyanskaya arrived and offered to take them to a resistance checkpoint. There, he learned that the Yaga had been engineered to obey the strong, and the guards mistook him for another powerful old breed.

• Koyanskaya greeted Bai Mo as a business partner and warned that killing hunters would soon patrol the farm, so Chaldea followed her convoy.
• Bai Mo learned that Koyanskaya was transporting weapons and Dream Creator equipment to support the resistance based at the Yaga Smolensk Checkpoint.
• Koyanskaya explained that the Yaga had survived the great snowfall through Ivan the Terrible's magecraft technology.
• Bai Mo considered how control of the Fantasy Tree and breakthrough resources kept power in the hands of the ruling class.
• The Yaga guards stopped the Shadow Border, and Koyanskaya explained that Ivan had genetically instilled absolute obedience to the strong in them.
• Bai Mo stepped out of the vehicle, and two Yaga called him another old breed.

Bai Mo found Ritsuka and Mash in a snowy cave and rescued them from a giant magical beast as they summoned Zhang Jue. His Command Spell activated, and Anastasia appeared from the briefcase in response to his summons.

• Bai Mo learned that Ritsuka and Mash had been turned away by the Yaga resistance, then left Koyanskaya behind and followed their trail.
• Ritsuka and Mash used a summoning circle in a magical ore cave, where a giant centipede attacked them before the ritual was complete.
• Bai Mo killed the centipede and rescued Ritsuka, who mistook him for a familiar Servant before Zhang Jue introduced himself as her summon.
• The Earl suggested the Counter Force had influenced Zhang Jue’s summoning, and a Command Spell appeared on Bai Mo’s left hand.
• Anastasia sensed growing unease in Moscow as a Servant emerged from Bai Mo’s briefcase and identified herself as Anastasia, then noticed Viy was missing.

Bai Mo returned to the rebel camp with Ritsuka and Anastasia, while Zhang Jue began winning over the Yaga with talisman water. As the group settled in and prepared for a meeting, Zhang Jue's remarks hinted at tension between Anastasia and the rebels.

• Koyanskaya watched Bai Mo's three Command Spells as Goredolf welcomed him and Ritsuka back to camp.
• Zhang Jue started distributing talisman water and quickly befriended the Yaga.
• Bai Mo learned that the rebel leader had gone to investigate unusual changes in the Thundercloud Mountain Range, where the Yaga feared the Thunder Emperor.
• Anastasia asked Bai Mo what he intended to do with her and whether they had met before, and he prepared to explain their connection when Ritsuka arrived.
• Ritsuka brought food and called Bai Mo "Brother Bai"; Bai Mo softened the hard bread with magnetic field power.
• Zhang Jue entered, lamented the rebels' food shortage, and glanced toward Anastasia as he spoke of people trying to take away their last scraps.

Bai Mo stopped Zhang Jue from using Anastasia as a sacrifice and revealed the overwhelming power of this Lostbelt to Ritsuka and Zhang Jue. After they left to reconsider their plans, Bai Mo told Anastasia she was free to leave.

• Zhang Jue identified Anastasia as a possible double of the Lostbelt's regent and proposed sacrificing her to raise the army's morale.
• Anastasia accused Ritsuka and Zhang Jue of treating her as expendable, but Bai Mo refused to let them use her as a sacrifice.
• Bai Mo demonstrated his power with a wooden fork and told Ritsuka that Ivan the Terrible and other Lostbelt figures possessed immense strength.
• Ritsuka and Zhang Jue left to reconsider their strategy after hearing Bai Mo's explanation of Magnetic Field Power.
• Anastasia asked Bai Mo how long he intended to keep her, and he told her she was free to leave.

Bai Mo helped improve shelter for the Yaga, released Anastasia to revisit her old home, and agreed with Zhang Jue on organizing the rebel troops. He then sensed a battle far away and found a Servant fighting the Thunder Emperor’s Murderous Hunters as a ravenous boar’s head urged her to seek warm flesh.

• Zhang Jue gave a shivering Yaga talisman water and led him to a stone shelter Bai Mo had built.
• Bai Mo told Zhang Jue that he had let Anastasia leave and gave her money to revisit familiar streets.
• Zhang Jue agreed to focus on organizing the rebel troops and preparing talisman water and supplies for Bai Mo.
• Bai Mo sensed a battle three hundred and twenty li from the fortress and vanished toward it.
• A Servant fought off the Thunder Emperor’s Murderous Hunters while a boar’s head on her shoulder whispered that she should hunt for warm flesh.

Bai Mo rescued Atalanta from a curse that had driven her into a bestial frenzy, then reunited with her and learned she led a rebel army. The two headed toward Yaga Moscow, while Bai Mo suspected the Calydonian Boar on Atalanta’s shoulder had weakened her resistance to curses.

• Bai Mo’s Magnetic Field Heavenly Blades wiped out the Murderous Hunters surrounding Atalanta.
• Atalanta, overcome by a curse and hunger, attacked Bai Mo until he used Enki’s authority to cleanse her and restore her clarity.
• Atalanta recognized Bai Mo, learned he had survived, and hugged him before punching his shoulder in relief.
• Bai Mo collected the curse from a Murderous Hunter and told Atalanta he needed to resolve events connected to the Fantasy Tree near Yaga Moscow.
• Atalanta offered Bai Mo a place with her rebel army, then he examined her power and identified the Calydonian Boar as a likely cause of her vulnerability to curses.

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.