Chapter Summaries

Bai Mo touched the Fantasy Tree and endured its immense energy as the Russian Lostbelt warped around him. After forty days and nights, the Storm Wall vanished, leaving a pale plain and the Fantasy Tree’s remains.

• Bai Mo touched the Fantasy Tree, and its energy engulfed him in fire while he warned everyone to retreat.
• Fran watched Bai Mo through a contingency, but a white dove noticed her and caused her view to shut off with a sudden headache.
• Sea Tiger told Oga that Bai Mo’s survival was uncertain, though he believed Bai Mo was following his instincts.
• Bai Mo continued enduring the energy because he believed it was the only way to preserve the Lostbelt and keep former companions from fighting.
• The Lostbelt remained frozen for forty days and nights until the Storm Wall dispersed, leaving a pale plain and the Fantasy Tree’s remains.

After fifty days of regeneration, Bai Mo emerged alive from his charred body beneath the Fantasy Tree, where the Yaga had gathered to pray and thank him for restoring sunlight and their human forms. He rejected their offer of loyalty, and as the crowd hailed him as their lord and god, he disappeared before Anastasia and Atalanta could reach him.

• The Yaga awoke to sunlight, and the snow melted as the Fantasy Tree's outer shell fell away, leaving Bai Mo's charred body beneath it.
• Fifty days later, Yaga gathered at the park to pray before Bai Mo's body, while people of every station and Magnetic Field Power possessors paid their respects.
• Bai Mo tore free of his burned skin and returned to life, recognizing Shiki's wall of light and Arcueid's Thousand Locks around him.
• When a Yaga leader pledged loyalty, Bai Mo refused it and told the people their lives belonged to them.
• Arcueid appeared and accused someone of interfering with her, then vanished; the Orthodox patriarch and believers proclaimed Bai Mo their lord and god.
• The believers' fervor spread, and Anastasia and Atalanta arrived, but Bai Mo had already disappeared.

After surviving three months on the brink of death, Bai Mo returned to Shiki’s space to recover and reunited with Arcueid. Bai Wunan showed him the Lostbelt and said they had taken the first step toward creating a new world.

• Shiki brought Bai Mo back to her space, where Chiyome had arrived and helped ensure he could rest safely.
• Bai Wunan extracted Primordial Spirit power from Bai Wubian to help treat Bai Mo’s injuries, then sent Bai Wubian to reunite with Bai Lubao and Kebao.
• Great Saber reflected on Bai Mo’s treatment of Bai Wubian and viewed an image of a continent.
• Arcueid rushed in to embrace Bai Mo and asked him not to hide dangerous plans from her again, while Shiki intervened to keep her at a distance.
• Bai Wunan showed Bai Mo the snow-melted Lostbelt and said they needed to create a new world and had taken the first step.

Bai Mo returned to Yaga Moscow with Arcueid and Shiki, then met Anastasia at the Kremlin and discussed how to stabilize the upheaved nation without making her a permanent ruler. He left after thanking her, while Anastasia reflected on how much their bond meant to her.

• Bai Mo toured Yaga Moscow with Arcueid clinging to his arm and Shiki exploring the city before visiting the Kremlin.
• Bai Mo met Anastasia, learned that the grand duchess was dead, and discussed how her assumed identity had helped stabilize the nation.
• Bai Mo rejected ruling through ambition and proposed temporary policies, including punishing deranged nobles and using people with powers to develop the wasteland and fight magical beasts.
• Bai Mo teased Anastasia with an embarrassing old image, and she drove him out of the Kremlin in mortified anger.
• Bai Mo thanked Anastasia through their Servant contract, and she admitted that she felt lucky to have him and treasured the prospect of a family more than a crown.

Bai Mo found Giant Shark posing as a religious figure among believers who worshipped him, then encountered Bai Wunan enjoying ordinary life. A burst of light drew Bai Mo to a modern building marked with Chaldea’s emblem.

• Bai Mo found Giant Shark dressed in clerical robes, and Giant Shark exposed his disguise to the believers.
• The believers hailed Bai Mo as their savior, and he stopped their bishop from jumping into a fire pit.
• Giant Shark explained that he had entertained the believers after discovering their reverence for Bai Mo, then shared their meal with them.
• Bai Mo healed a malnourished child, while Giant Shark invited the believers to eat with him.
• Bai Mo met Bai Wunan outside a theater, where Bai Wunan said he had sought time to experience life fully.
• A burst of light appeared, and Bai Mo went to a high-tech building bearing Chaldea’s emblem.

Olga Marie feared losing her position as Chaldea’s director, so she enlisted Da Vinci and Arcueid to rebuild Chaldea. The new facility was completed atop Mount Narodnaya, though Bai Mo remained unaware that its creation had started with Da Vinci’s intimate portrait of him.

• Olga Marie worried that Bai Mo’s return and his purchase of Chaldea would leave her without a position, so she asked Da Vinci to help her rebuild the facility.
• Da Vinci and Olga Marie approached Arcueid, who agreed to help after discussing Da Vinci’s portrait of Bai Mo and asking her to improve it.
• Olga Marie accepted that rebuilding Chaldea would depend on the portrait, while hoping Bai Mo would never discover the arrangement.
• Arcueid used Marble Phantasm to create a one-to-one replica of Chaldea atop Mount Narodnaya.
• Bai Mo arrived after sensing a surge of energy, and Olga Marie hurried him away before he could learn how Chaldea had been rebuilt.

Olga Marie and Goredolf argued over who had the rightful claim to direct Chaldea until Rin revealed that Marisbury had funded its construction with stolen treasure from Aeaea. Her evidence implicated Chaldea’s ownership and left both would-be directors stunned, while NFF pledged to help Bai Mo recover his losses.

• Olga Marie and Goredolf fiercely disputed Chaldea’s ownership, each insisting that the other had no valid claim to the directorship.
• Bai Mo visited Chaldea after detecting an energy surge, and Ritsuka explained that the summoning system was being tested amid turbulent ley lines.
• Rin confronted the gathered Chaldea staff and announced that Chaldea’s title had major legal defects because its initial funding came from theft.
• Rin presented documents showing that Marisbury had taken a mineral vein from Aeaea Island, which Circe had gifted to Bai Mo.
• Rin declared that NFF would help Bai Mo recover his losses, leaving Olga Marie, Goredolf, and the staff stunned.

Bai Mo settled the dispute over Chaldea’s leadership and shares, leaving Olga Marie as director and offering Goredolf a stake. Shiki then warned that Chaldea’s space was nearing its capacity and asked the team to help recover fragments used to build it.

• Bai Mo decided to recover his shares while letting Olga Marie remain director and keep Chaldea’s Magecraft instruments and patents, and he offered Goredolf shares in exchange for his investment.
• Bai Mo ended the dispute over Chaldea’s leadership, promised to cover unpaid salaries and bonuses, and stabilized the organization after nearly fifty days of conflict.
• Arcueid asked Bai Mo to establish an art studio, and he agreed to let her pursue painting as a personal hobby.
• Shiki appeared and clashed with Arcueid, prompting Bai Mo to suppress their hostility.
• Shiki told Olga Marie that Chaldea’s space was nearing its capacity and said the team needed to recover construction fragments held by others, since Chaldea could not retrieve them alone.

Bai Mo arranged for the Neco-Arcs to recover scattered system fragments through livestream donations and portals, then went to find Atalanta in the forest. He reassured her that choosing to protect the children in Yaga Moscow had not made her unworthy of their comradeship, and she let go of her guilt.

• Bai Mo agreed to use the Neco-Arcs' livestream scheme and a Reality Marble portal to search for scattered system fragments and creatures carrying them.
• Ritsuka agreed to help make Chaldea lively again and asked Bai Mo whether he had seen Atalanta, who had withdrawn after the Lostbelt.
• Bai Mo found Atalanta hunting in a snowy forest and cooked meat with her at her cabin.
• Atalanta admitted she felt unqualified to stand with Bai Mo and the others because she had turned against Chaldea to protect the children in Yaga Moscow.
• Bai Mo told Atalanta that she had followed her heart and could make the same choice again, saying his fight was meant to keep his comrades from facing such dilemmas.
• Atalanta's guilt eased, and she leaned against Bai Mo as they shared the meal.

Bai Wubian and Bai Lubao continued their brutal feud in War God Ke Bao’s space while Bai Mo returned to Chaldea with Atalanta. Atalanta recalled how Artemis had rescued her and promised she might see her loved one again, and she smiled beside Bai Mo and Ritsuka.

• Bai Wubian battered Bai Lubao, but Bai Lubao tricked him and used Hand of God to surprise him.
• Bai Mo offered Atalanta a fur coat and torch before leaving the snowy wilderness to deal with the situation in Russia.
• Atalanta settled into a room at Chaldea, where Ritsuka asked why she had seemed distant toward her.
• Bai Mo explained how changed Greek history and Aphrodite’s failed marriage ritual had led Artemis to turn Atalanta into a lioness and rescue her.
• Atalanta remembered Artemis promising she might meet her loved one again, then smiled as she watched Bai Mo and Ritsuka together.

After Chaldea’s summoning system brought Ivan the Terrible back, Bai Mo learned that the former emperor had lost his power and discussed how to secure the new settlement. He was left with a banquet, a movie, and a hunt all scheduled for the next day, while Ivan’s suggestion that he marry Anastasia went unheard.

• A tremor shook Chaldea, and the summoning chamber produced Ivan the Terrible, leaving Ritsuka frustrated that she could not summon a logistics Servant.
• Ivan thanked Bai Mo for restoring the world, explained that his kingdom and powers had vanished, and agreed to help with governing the settlement.
• Ivan suggested Bai Mo marry Anastasia to win everyone’s trust, but Bai Mo failed to hear him before a ceiling panel knocked Ivan unconscious.
• Anastasia invited Bai Mo to a banquet, Arcueid reminded him about their movie, and Atalanta reminded him about their hunt.
• Bai Mo decided to attend the movie and banquet before hunting magical beasts and giants with Atalanta that night.

After recovering from three months of lightning tempering, Bai Mo joined Arcueid for a movie date that became a private conversation about why he had fought to survive. Arcueid told him she would be his path home if he ever wanted to give up, then revealed she had chosen a nine-hour cut of Cleopatra to keep him with her.

• Bai Mo adjusted his body after recovering from the Terrible Emperor's lightning, while the vanished Russian Lostbelt left others elsewhere in a panic.
• Bai Mo tried to leave the cinema Arcueid had arranged, but her Thousand Locks pulled him onto the bed, and he agreed to watch Cleopatra with her.
• Arcueid asked Bai Mo what had made him believe he could survive, and he said he had lived for his responsibilities to his master, his companions, the world, and her.
• Arcueid told Bai Mo she would be his reason to turn toward a peaceful life and his path home if he ever grew tired of bearing responsibility.
• Bai Mo realized Arcueid had chosen the nine-hour uncut version of Cleopatra, and she said she had arranged for a familiar identical to him to attend the banquet.

Arcueid tried to overpower Bai Mo, but Shiki intervened and used a bounded field to speak privately with him before sending him to the Kremlin. Arcueid witnessed Shiki’s secret, and her anger loosened the final barrier to the Complete Realm.

• Arcueid pinned Bai Mo down, but Cleopatra’s unexpected interruption on the movie screen gave him a chance to escape her advances.
• Shiki explained that the bounded field could erase the memories of people inside it, then told Bai Mo that she would end her life if he died and shared a private moment with him.
• Shiki sent Bai Mo to the Kremlin, where Anastasia welcomed him and attributed his uneasy feeling to the coming banquet.
• Shiki watched the events from her room, while Arcueid saw what had happened between Shiki and Bai Mo in the theater.
• Arcueid declared that she could not coexist with Shiki, and the Asura Way loosened the final barrier to the Complete Realm.

Bai Mo summoned the power users to the Kremlin and used an Electric Claw to humble them, leaving many injured. The powerhouses offered their families’ wealth and pledged to purge their criminal members, while one dissenter was killed before he could leave.

• An elderly family patriarch brought his grandson to the Kremlin and told his powerful godson to accept whatever Bai Mo demanded.
• Bai Mo’s Electric Claw swept the assembled powerhouses into the study, injuring many despite using only half his complete realm.
• The powerhouses interpreted the uneven injuries as a judgment on their conduct, and one man tore off his own arm while pledging to punish those behind cruel banquets.
• Several powerhouses offered most of their families’ annual contributions and agreed to purge their families.
• A dissenting powerhouse tried to leave, but the strongest man present killed him with a single punch.

Bai Mo imposed national control over the Fantasy Tree while offering the powerful figures a chance to cultivate in exchange for serving the nation. After they accepted the new system, he entrusted Anastasia with maintaining order and prepared to attend the ball.

• Bai Mo healed the gathered figures after one of them threatened those who opposed him.
• Bai Mo declared that the Fantasy Tree would be nationalized and offered access to its power in exchange for work supporting the nation.
• The powerful figures accepted assigned duties, and Gochayev asked Bai Mo for authority to oversee them.
• Bai Mo warned the powerful figures not to abuse their strength, and they signed a Magecraft scroll recognizing the new system.
• Bai Mo gave Anastasia responsibility for the work ahead so his prestige would support her, then went with her to the ball.

Bai Mo was forced by Crimson Moon to practice court dancing before Anastasia’s banquet, where he eventually danced with Anastasia. Crimson Moon invited him to rest at her Millennium Castle after his journey ended, while she later tended the surviving azure flower Bai Mo had brought her.

• Anastasia tried to dress Bai Mo for the banquet, but Crimson Moon appeared and took him to the dressing room for an etiquette lesson.
• Crimson Moon taught Bai Mo to dance and asked whether he had considered what he would do after his journey ended; she offered him a place at her Millennium Castle.
• Viy went to check on Bai Mo, but Crimson Moon’s power kept the dressing room separated from the rest of the building.
• Bai Mo left the dressing room and told Anastasia he had been taking a remedial lesson in court dancing.
• Bai Mo danced with Anastasia at the banquet, easing the guests’ doubts about her and making her feel that she mattered to him.
• Crimson Moon returned to her café and looked after the azure flower Bai Mo had saved by creating lunar soil for it.

After defeating the giants, Bai Mo explored his heightened perception while Atalanta rested beside him. Their night was interrupted when a distressed winged girl tried to seduce Bai Mo under the influence of a Dream Creator, which he removed and destroyed.

• Bai Mo and Atalanta found the giants strangely disorganized and searching for something, then left after Bai Mo sealed a Me in the land.
• Atalanta rested in a cave while Bai Mo meditated and discovered that absorbing the Fantasy Tree had greatly expanded his perception.
• Bai Mo sensed a man in the ocean observing fish, who praised his perception and warned that those who underestimated him would die badly.
• A black-haired girl climbed onto Bai Mo and begged him to embrace her, while Atalanta held an arrow to the girl's temple.
• Bai Mo recognized that the girl was being controlled, removed and destroyed the damaged Dream Creator in her brain, and revealed the small bent wings on her head.

Arcueid read the Bodhidharma Sutra in the café while Atalanta arrived after a disastrous date, and Bai Mo sheltered the injured Valkyrie Ortlinde and learned of the catastrophe in Northern Europe. As Bai Mo prepared to cultivate with power recovered from Bai Wubian, he left open the possibility that Ortlinde might regain her will to fight.

• Arcueid read the Bodhidharma Sutra and argued with Crimson Moon about her decision to coexist with her.
• Atalanta came to the café seeking alcohol and complained that a Valkyrie had interrupted her date.
• Bai Mo brought the injured Ortlinde to shelter, and she introduced herself as a refugee after waking in the Kremlin.
• Ortlinde recalled a sun raining fire, earthquakes, vanishing gods, and ice and snow, while Bai Mo inferred that Ragnarok was underway in Northern Europe.
• Bai Mo explained that Ortlinde had lost her will to fight and her weapons, but Bai Wunan suggested she might take up her shield again.
• Bai Mo received the power extracted from Bai Wubian, reached eight hundred and ten thousand horsepower, and went to cultivate.

Bai Mo visited Ortlinde before setting out for Northern Europe and showed her the tomb of the Valkyries who had died there. After he offered her a choice between a peaceful life and returning to her homeland with him, Ortlinde chose to follow.

• Chaldea's livestreaming venture flourished while Ritsuka dealt with several minor Singularities through the café.
• Bai Mo met Ortlinde in the Kremlin garden, where she admitted that thoughts of Northern Europe filled her with fear.
• Bai Mo took Ortlinde to a tomb where he had buried dead Valkyries and told her he planned to help the people still trapped in the war.
• Bai Mo left Ortlinde to decide whether to stay in peace or return to her homeland with him.
• Ortlinde followed Bai Mo, saying she was willing to become his shield.

Bai Mo and Ortlinde entered the Scandinavian Lostbelt after confirming that its Storm Wall could be breached without triggering Marisbury’s contingency. They encountered a frozen, fire-struck land, learned that Surtr was its sun, and faced an approaching dragon.

• Bai Mo and Ortlinde tested whether entering and leaving the Lostbelt drew a response, and Dr. Roman concluded that people belonging to a Lostbelt could be brought out undetected.
• Bai Mo quietly broke through the Storm Wall with Ortlinde and entered Northern Europe, where darkness, falling fire, and ground-covering frost replaced the landscape they expected.
• A cruise-ship-sized meteor rushed toward them, but Bai Mo split it in two after Ortlinde stepped forward to shield him.
• Bai Mo caught the meteor’s flames and identified the strange power, while Shiki recognized the fire giant Surtr as the sun in the sky.
• A dragon appeared on the monitor and lunged toward Bai Mo as Da Vinci and Dr. Roman reacted from Chaldea.