Chapter Summaries

Bai Mo watched Medea fall in love with Jason, then learned that Aeëtes was preparing Colchis for war and a sea blockade. Jason decided the Argonauts would leave only after trying to seize the Golden Fleece, and the heroes prepared to act.

• Bai Mo reconsidered his plan to incapacitate Aeëtes and Medea after seeing that Medea might help the Argonauts.
• Little Eros shot an arrow that made Medea fall in love with Jason when she saw him aboard the Argo.
• Bai Mo left the Argo to meet Medea, who warned him that Aeëtes had won Ares's blessing and Colchis's fleets were preparing a blockade.
• The Argonauts argued over whether to flee or fight, and Jason decided they would leave after making an attempt to take the Golden Fleece.
• Bai Mo, Heracles, Atalanta, Polydeuces, and the other heroes prepared to set out while Telamon objected to relying on Medea.

Jason and his companions reached the Golden Fleece, but the venomous dragon attacked them with fire and poisonous smoke. Bai Mo rescued Atalanta from the dragon’s jaws, though its teeth pierced his left arm.

• Medea used magical perfume to conceal the group as they entered the grove where the Golden Fleece hung.
• The venomous dragon attacked from above with fire, and Bai Mo shielded the group while Heracles failed to pierce the dragon’s scales with an arrow.
• Medea gave Atalanta the Blood of Prometheus ointment, and Atalanta entered the flames to retrieve the Golden Fleece.
• Atalanta became disoriented by the dragon’s poisonous smoke, and Bai Mo went after her when she failed to return.
• Bai Mo called Atalanta away from a hallucination that was leading her toward the dragon, then hurled his blade to drive the creature off.
• The venomous dragon lunged at the poisoned Atalanta, but Bai Mo stepped into its mouth and held it open as its teeth pierced his left arm.

Bai Mo fought the venomous dragon to protect Atalanta and used the Golden Fleece to exploit the creature’s fear of angering Ares. He bought them time to recover, then began planning their next move with Atalanta.

• Bai Mo used his tempered bones and complete realm to injure the venomous dragon with powerful punches and kicks.
• Bai Mo fought through the dragon’s poisonous smoke, but rushed to shield Atalanta when the dragon spat venom at her and took some venom on his back.
• Atalanta offered to distract the dragon, but Bai Mo raised the Golden Fleece over them, forcing the dragon to swallow its poisonous flames rather than risk destroying it.
• Bai Mo explained that the dragon would not destroy Ares’s valuable bargaining chip, then led Atalanta away while bluffing to conceal his need to recover.
• Atalanta offered to carry Bai Mo, but he refused and asked whether she trusted him before outlining a plan to deal with the dragon.

Bai Mo and his allies defeated the venomous dragon in the burning forest and escaped with the Golden Fleece. As they rode toward the Argo, Atalanta thanked Bai Mo, who promised he would not abandon any of his comrades.

• Bai Mo sent Atalanta running with the Golden Fleece while he waited for his body to adapt to the dragon's poison.
• Heracles ambushed the venomous dragon with arrows, giving Bai Mo time to seize it and choke it while Heracles struck its head, heart, and wing.
• Bai Mo fought the wounded dragon through the flames and killed it with a final blow to its skull.
• Atalanta and Heracles helped the exhausted Bai Mo leave the burning forest, and Heracles gave him the arrowhead that had tripped him.
• Medea prepared horses, and the group reapplied invisibility ointment and rode toward the Agor with the Golden Fleece.
• Atalanta thanked Bai Mo for saving her, and he told her he would not abandon anyone from the Argo.

Jason and the heroes escaped Colchis with the Golden Fleece, while the injured Bai Mo recovered aboard the Agor. Jason confided his regrets and worries about Medea to Bai Mo, then resolved to find a way to take the Thread of Fate from her and protect the crew from turning against one another.

• Jason and the heroes fought their way aboard the Argo with the Golden Fleece and escaped Colchis as soldiers cursed and pursued them.
• Asclepius examined Bai Mo's rapid healing and asked him to cooperate with medical research, but Bai Mo refused.
• Jason thanked Bai Mo for his help, then admitted that he regretted abandoning the woman who loved him and feared the consequences of their quest.
• Bai Mo encouraged Jason to accept life's hardships, and the two joked about Jason's future and his feelings toward Medea.
• Bai Mo told Jason that Medea held the Thread of Fate and could use it to control him, prompting Jason to resolve to take it from her and protect the crew.

After recovering from her injuries with Medea’s potion, Atalanta visited Bai Mo and invited him to go hunting with her after their current troubles ended. Bai Mo accepted without realizing the invitation’s significance, and Atalanta later discovered he had not rejected her.

• Atalanta told Bai Mo that Medea’s potion had healed her injuries.
• Atalanta asked Bai Mo about his plans, then invited him to hunt with her once their troubles were over.
• Bai Mo agreed, and Atalanta hurried away while the Argo Heroes watched and placed bets on his answer.
• Jason paid his bet and hoped Bai Mo would find someone he cared about to keep him from risking everything.
• Atalanta replayed their conversation, realized Bai Mo had accepted, and celebrated before telling herself the hunt was only to repay him and teach him wilderness skills.

As the Argo’s food ran low, Medea proposed a plan that involved taking her brother hostage and potentially killing him, while Bai Mo confronted her about what she intended to do. After Medea rejected his warning about her love for Jason, Bai Mo realized the gods might be watching him and faced a choice about how to act.

• Jason worried that the Argo would run out of food while Colchis pursued them, and Medea offered to solve the problem with a plan.
• Bai Mo caught a swordfish using precise control of his electric power and reflected on his training and future ambitions.
• Medea asked Bai Mo to guard her as she carried out a plan to approach her brother and take him hostage.
• Bai Mo learned that Medea intended to leave her brother behind if necessary, and he confronted her about the possibility that she would sacrifice him.
• Bai Mo warned Medea that Aphrodite’s love arrow might be controlling her feelings, but Medea said she accepted her love as happiness and told him not to interfere.
• After Medea left, Bai Mo’s olive branch eased his pain, and he resolved to choose his own fate while wondering what the gods had done to him.

Medea used the exchange for supplies to lure Absyrtus into her hands and make him a hostage against Aeëtes’s fleet. When she tried to kill him to stop the pursuit, Bai Mo turned against her, rescued Absyrtus, and returned him to Aeëtes.

• Medea arranged to exchange herself for supplies, and Bai Mo helped her capture Absyrtus when he came to meet them.
• After taking the grain and water, Medea drugged Absyrtus, and Bai Mo carried him aboard the Agor while his guards stood down.
• Absyrtus tried to escape, but Bai Mo stopped him as Aeëtes’s fleet approached the Agor.
• Medea ordered Bai Mo to dislocate Absyrtus’s limbs and threatened to kill him unless Aeëtes stopped pursuing them.
• Bai Mo seized Medea’s wrist before she could strike Absyrtus, then threw her to Heracles and leaped with Absyrtus onto Aeëtes’s ship.
• Bai Mo reset Absyrtus’s limbs, and Aeëtes welcomed his son back.

Bai Mo rescued Absyrtus and destroyed Colchis’s ships to give the Argo a chance to escape, but Ares’s blessing empowered the Colchian soldiers and Aeëtes ordered them to pursue the ship. As Bai Mo struggled to keep the fleet from reaching the Argo, Medea began preparing a ritual to counter the divine blessing.

• Aeëtes embraced Absyrtus and offered Bai Mo a third of his kingdom, while Heracles stopped Medea from using her threads against Bai Mo.
• Bai Mo broke the mast of Aeëtes’ flagship and asked whether Aeëtes would spare the Argo and Jason if Bai Mo returned the Golden Fleece and surrendered Jason and Medea.
• Bai Mo broke the masts of more Colchian ships, and Ares’s blessing suddenly strengthened their soldiers and intensified their fighting spirit.
• Aeëtes ordered his warriors to attack Bai Mo and pursue the Argo, while Bai Mo was held back by soldiers he refused to kill.
• Heracles blasted apart a pursuing ship as archers turned their fire on the Argo, and Medea began preparing ritual implements to counter the blessing.

Bai Mo tried to stop the frenzied Colchian fleet from destroying the Argo while Medea sought Poseidon's help through a sacrifice. Though Ares's blessing withstood Bai Mo's first attacks, his persistence finally broke it, and the Argo escaped on the current.

• Bai Mo ran across the sea and intercepted the Colchian fleet, drawing its attacks away from the Argo.
• Medea completed a ritual and prayed to Poseidon, who answered after hearing her renew Jason's promise to marry and love her.
• Bai Mo unleashed a powerful blade strike, but Ares's blessing protected the fleet and arrows wounded him.
• Bai Mo kept fighting despite his injuries, determined not to abandon his friends aboard the Argo.
• Bai Mo's blade energy shattered Ares's blessing and tore apart a ship, while the current carried the Argo away.

Bai Mo destroyed Colchis’s fleet but spared its soldiers, then swam away badly wounded and reached an island. There he met Circe, who offered to take him to her home, and he wondered whether she was Medea’s aunt.

• Bai Mo’s attacks shattered Colchis’s ships until Ares withdrew the fleet’s fighting spirit, ending the battle.
• Bai Mo stopped attacking, and the frightened survivors abandoned their pursuit; Aeëtes learned that no one had died and ordered his people to regroup.
• Wounded and losing blood, Bai Mo swam toward an island, passed one he suspected might be dangerous, and headed for another where he detected a small boat.
• Circe walked her puppy along the shore, where the animal cowered as Bai Mo came ashore and collapsed on the beach.
• Circe offered the injured Bai Mo shelter, and he noticed her pointed ears and wondered whether she was Medea’s aunt.

Bai Mo stayed at Circe’s cottage while trying to recover and investigate her magic, but letters from Aeëtes revealed his role in the events at Colchis and warned Circe not to antagonize him. When Circe returned with a meal, Bai Mo stopped a blade just short of her forehead, accused her of planning to drug him, and was left uncertain when she burst into tears.

• Circe brought Bai Mo barley porridge, and he used Electric Current Push to try to analyze it rather than drink it.
• Aeëtes’s first letter told Circe that Medea had betrayed Colchis, Bai Ermo had defeated the pursuing army, and Aeëtes was preparing to break with the gods.
• A second letter identified Bai Ermo as a hero who had saved Absyrtus and warned Circe not to make trouble for him; Circe realized Bai Mo was the man in her house.
• Circe decided she needed Bai Mo’s help to bring Medea back and prepared a lavish meal with poisonous ingredients.
• Bai Mo raised his blade at Circe when she entered his room, then stopped it just short of her forehead and accused her of intending to drug him.
• Circe sat down and began crying, leaving Bai Mo unsure how to respond.

Bai Mo apologized to Circe after realizing he had wrongly accused her of drugging him, then learned more about the gods’ curse on Medea and promised to take her back to Colchis. He revealed that his anger at the gods came from his own painful past and his resolve to prevent Medea’s tragic fate.

• Bai Mo stopped Circe’s tears, apologized for threatening her, and accepted the reheated porridge after confirming it was ordinary food.
• Circe told Bai Mo that Aeëtes had informed her about him, and she explained that Medea’s love for the leader of the invading Argonauts came from a god’s curse.
• Circe revealed that Hera had exposed the curse to the Argo’s crew through a prophecy, and she cursed the gods from behind her magical protections.
• Bai Mo promised Circe that he would take Medea back to Colchis, then explained that he could not stand by while the gods decided her fate.
• Bai Mo told Circe about his abusive family and his envy of the affection Medea had received, strengthening his resolve to change her ending.

Bai Mo recovered on Aeaea while Circe treated his wounds and delayed his departure to rescue Medea. In Thessaly, Jason and Atalanta worried about Bai Mo, while Medea feared what might happen if Colchis captured him.

• Circe insisted on applying salve to Bai Mo's wounds, secretly removing the War God's blessing so his Magnetic Field Power could heal him.
• The Argo Heroes returned safely to Thessaly with Poseidon's blessing, and Jason asked Medea whether she had heard news of Bai Mo.
• Medea urged Jason to seek Athena's knowledge of Bai Mo, but Jason left the feast instead of spending the night with her.
• Medea worried that Aeëtes might capture Bai Mo and demand him in exchange for the Golden Fleece or for her.
• Atalanta decided to remain in Thessaly until news arrived and prayed for Bai Mo's safety.
• Bai Mo caught Circe groping him as his wounds healed, and Circe left him to face the drugged feast alone.

Bai Mo tried to leave Circe’s island, but she drugged his porridge and left him unconscious despite his resistance. In Thessaly, Medea discovered wrinkles on her face, while Athena and Aphrodite argued over whether love would distract Bai Mo from his future role.

• Bai Mo confronted Circe about drugging the food, then drank the porridge after refusing her offer to cook another meal.
• The sleeping potion overwhelmed Bai Mo after he forced Circe out, and he fell into a deep sleep while Circe revealed that events had gone as planned.
• In Thessaly, Medea saw wrinkles at the corner of her eye, shattered her mirror, and sought comfort beside the sleeping Jason.
• Athena watched Aeaea Island restlessly as Aphrodite teased her about worrying over Bai Mo and his possible feelings for Circe.
• Athena insisted that love was an obstacle to Bai Mo’s destiny, while Aphrodite mocked her certainty that he would become a celebrated epic hero without emotional attachments.

Bai Mo accepted Circe’s Garment of the Hawk and set off from Aeaea Island, despite refusing her confession because he expected to leave this era. He flew toward a safe island to rest, hoping he could repay Circe someday.

• Circe failed to enter Bai Mo’s room, fell asleep outside his door, and woke in his bed to find he had made her porridge.
• Bai Mo asked Circe to undo the curses on the sailors in her pigpen, and she agreed after revealing she knew he had swum from the Colchis fleet and bore the sea god’s blessing.
• Circe confessed that she liked Bai Mo, but he refused to accept her love because he could not promise her a future and expected to leave the era.
• Circe asked Bai Mo to return after his affairs were settled, then gave him the Garment of the Hawk, a Mystic Code that enabled swift, self-directed flight.
• Bai Mo flew away from Aeaea Island, chose a safe island for the night, and began recovering beside a campfire.

Pelias and Aeëtes’s schemes pushed Medea to demand that Jason marry her, while Athena warned Jason that Bai Ermo faced a difficult future and struggled to understand Bai Ermo’s identity and purpose. The chapter ended with Athena’s theories collapsing as three game pieces shattered and the final piece cracked.

• Pelias received Aeëtes’s demand for Medea’s return and welcomed the chance it gave him to undermine the Golden Fleece offering.
• Medea silenced and magically enslaved Pelias’s attendant, then destroyed the decree he had brought.
• Jason asked Athena about Bai Ermo, and she said he was safe but faced trials worse than Heracles’s; Jason later enjoyed hearing a bard praise the Argo heroes.
• Medea worried about her aging appearance and persuaded Jason to marry her the next day, using a forged letter from Pelias as leverage.
• Athena examined four pieces representing Bai Ermo’s power, background, birth, and goal, but three shattered and the last developed a crack.

Bai Mo returned to Thessaly, witnessed the poverty and abuse of its people, and killed Pelias after learning of his soldiers’ cruelty. He left Jason to claim the throne and walked alone toward Athena’s temple, troubled by how little killing had changed the suffering around him.

• Medea agreed to help Jason take the throne from Pelias, while Bai Mo returned to Thessaly by boat with an old fisherman.
• Bai Mo learned that Pelias’s fees for Jason and Medea’s offering had burdened the poor, then gave a gold coin to a woman whose child was sick.
• Bai Mo caught two soldiers stealing the woman’s coin, injured them, and followed one to her home, where he found the child dead.
• Bai Mo confronted Pelias at the palace and killed him after sending him to ask the dead soldier why Bai Mo had come.
• Bai Mo left the palace in the rain, rejected Jason’s attempt to approach him, and urged Jason to treat his future subjects well.

Bai Mo waited for Athena while she questioned Prometheus about fate, and Jason asked Medea to return the Thread of Fate to Bai Mo. After Atalanta left in a jealous mood, Poseidon appeared at Jason and Medea's wedding and fixed his attention on Medea.

• Bai Mo found Athena absent from her temple and returned to his room to consider how to escape her plans.
• Athena visited Prometheus on Mount Caucasus and asked what fate held for the gods, but Prometheus refused to tell her.
• Jason asked Medea to return the Thread of Fate to Bai Ermo after their wedding, and Medea agreed.
• Atalanta visited Bai Mo at Athena's temple, became upset when he talked about Circe, and left.
• Poseidon arrived at Jason and Medea's wedding in a tornado, and he and Bai Mo both turned their attention to Medea.

Poseidon took Medea’s youthful years after Athena prevented him from claiming the Thread of Fate, and Jason rejected Medea when her beauty was gone. Bai Mo stopped Medea from killing Jason and confronted Poseidon over his laughter.

• Hera intervened when Poseidon demanded Medea’s Thread of Fate, and Athena declared Medea had no right to sacrifice it.
• Poseidon took Medea’s youth, leaving her aged, and Jason refused to marry her because he said she was no longer useful to him.
• Medea listed everything she had sacrificed for Jason, then begged Bai Mo to kill him in exchange for the Thread of Fate and all her powers.
• Bai Mo rushed to Medea and appeared to stab her, while Poseidon mocked her and Jason called for attendants to seize her.
• Bai Mo supported Medea, challenged Poseidon’s laughter, and revealed the leaden arrow that could undo the curse of love.