Chapter Summaries

Bai Mo protected Ortlinde and effortlessly fought Fafnir, a familiar dragon that displayed a powerful energy roar before he cut it in half and took its heart. Fafnir began reforming through the Evil Dragon Phenomenon, and Bai Mo drew a glowing spear from the Gate of Babylon as Ortlinde worried about lacking her weapon.

• Fafnir appeared above Bai Mo and unleashed flames, but an invisible barrier kept the fire from reaching him and Ortlinde.
• Bai Mo turned Fafnir’s flames into a spear, then pierced the dragon’s mouth with an azure needle after its roar slowed the attack.
• Fafnir fired a powerful golden energy breath, but Bai Mo killed it with the Magnetic Field Heavenly Blade and removed its heart.
• Fafnir’s body began to reform, and Shiki explained that its evil could cause it to become a dragon again through the Evil Dragon Phenomenon.
• Ortlinde wished she still had her weapon, and Bai Mo drew a glowing spear from the Gate of Babylon.

Bai Mo and Ortlinde defeated Fafnir with False Gungnir and Bai Mo’s attack, then Ortlinde explained the spear’s powers. As they fled, they saw hundreds of Fafnirs pursuing them.

• Bai Mo tried to use False Gungnir against Fafnir, but the spear showed no special effect in his hands.
• Fafnir attacked Ortlinde, and she released False Gungnir’s true name and threw it at the dragon.
• Bai Mo struck Fafnir with Sea Tiger Exploding Fist, and False Gungnir pierced its skull, preventing it from reforming.
• Ortlinde explained that False Gungnir could always strike its target and was designed to fight giants, while Bai Mo declined to keep it for himself.
• After learning that Ortlinde could lock onto several dragon targets, Bai Mo carried her away at speed.
• Ortlinde and Chaldea saw hundreds of Fafnirs pursuing them, and Ortlinde exclaimed that there were so many.

Bai Mo and Ortlinde escaped a horde of Fafnirs and reviewed Koyanskaya’s warning that the Scandinavian Lostbelt was dangerously close to disaster. Despite the danger, Bai Mo chose to seek out the goddess protecting its surviving humans, while an unseen enemy watched their trail.

• Bai Mo used the Asura Lost Track Path to evade the pursuing Fafnirs, then discussed the impossible horde with Ortlinde.
• Bai Mo recovered Koyanskaya’s concealed device and watched her report that a goddess protected about five thousand humans behind a barrier.
• Koyanskaya warned that the Fantasy Tree was highly developed and urged Bai Mo to abandon the Lostbelt before the sun in the sky fell.
• Bai Mo decided to meet the goddess, and Ortlinde suggested she might be Frigg or Freyja.
• Bai Mo and Ortlinde concealed their tracks and departed, while a black thundercloud arrived and an unseen presence questioned the goddess’s hopes.

Bai Mo and Ortlinde fought off giants guarding a hidden area, then destroyed the incomplete manifestation of Hrungnir. They entered through a doorway into a lush, living place after their victory.

• Bai Mo found a concealed riverbed and faced hundreds of giants empowered by glowing patterns, while a Northern European goddess offered to bring him and Ortlinde inside.
• Bai Mo unleashed the Heaven and Earth Sea Tiger Swords and cut down the giants before they could build their altar.
• A rock giant summoned Hrungnir, whose enormous hand rose from the earth as the giants' corpses fed its manifestation.
• Bai Mo smashed Hrungnir's hand, and Ortlinde hurled False Gungnir into its exposed core while Bai Mo protected her and shattered its stone claws.
• Hrungnir's hand crumbled into sand and soil, and a doorway opened onto a lush green expanse.

Bai Mo and Ortlinde reached a hidden Northern European paradise, where they met Valkyrie Number One and were welcomed by the goddess Skadi. The chapter ended with the people watching from Chaldea recognizing Skadi as Scáthach.

• Bai Mo and Ortlinde crossed the peaceful landscape and discussed how unlike the old Asgard and Valhalla it seemed.
• Valkyrie Number One introduced herself as a second-generation Valkyrie and offered to guide them to the goddess.
• Bai Mo rejected Number One’s suggestion that he call her Arcueid, while Ortlinde wondered if the Valkyries had become obsolete tools.
• Bai Mo and Ortlinde arrived at an ice palace, where Skadi welcomed them to her realm.
• Da Vinci saw Skadi through Chaldea’s connection and asked whether the goddess was Scáthach.

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!”