Chapter Summaries

Bai Mo, Ortlinde, and Sigurd were dragged across Gjallarbrú toward Helheim by an enormous snake that claimed Hela was dead and refused to reveal its master. Just as the snake attacked Bai Mo, he used Tezcatlipoca’s Authority of the Underworld to seize control of Helheim and overpower it.

• The enormous snake bound Bai Mo, Ortlinde, and Sigurd in the frozen realm and dragged them across Gjallarbrú toward Helheim.
• The snake offered to release one of them, but Ortlinde and Sigurd chose to sacrifice themselves so Bai Mo could escape.
• The snake reneged on its offer, admitted Hela was dead, and said a contract prevented it from identifying its master.
• After the trio were dragged into Helheim, Bai Mo asked whether Loki was alive, then stood his ground as the snake lunged at him.
• Bai Mo blasted the snake away and used Tezcatlipoca’s Authority of the Underworld to control Helheim’s winds and overpower it.

Bai Mo stayed in Helheim to interrogate the giant serpent while Sigurd and Ortlinde carried Brynhildr’s frozen soul toward Gjallarbrú. After the serpent burned its body and fragments of memory, a powerful pursuer attacked, and Ortlinde pulled Bai Mo off the collapsing bridge to escape Helheim.

• Bai Mo recognized Brynhildr’s encounter with Sion as a trap meant to draw the group’s souls into Helheim, then sent Sigurd and Ortlinde to leave with Brynhildr.
• Bai Mo taunted the giant serpent and used Helheim’s authority to tear apart its soul, absorbing fragments of its memories.
• The giant serpent ignited its remains with emerald-green flames, making Bai Mo’s authority difficult to use as he tried to escape.
• Bai Mo realized Hela’s authority had likely been taken and fled along Gjallarbrú while the flames and a towering claw pursued him.
• Ortlinde returned to the bridge’s end, caught Bai Mo, and leaped backward with him, escaping Helheim as the unknown creature roared behind them.

Bai Mo recovered after a dangerous soul-related encounter, and Sha Antian sensed that his damaged Primordial Spirit might hold a unique power. After escaping with Ortlinde, Sigurd, Sion, and Brynhildr, Bai Mo returned to the dried-up lake and learned that a visitor named Landao Tianwu had arrived.

• Bai Wunan and Sha Antian discussed Bai Mo’s damaged Primordial Spirit, and Sha Antian said his calculations suggested it contained an unprecedented uniqueness.
• Bai Mo woke in a stone chamber beside Ortlinde, thanked her for helping him, and met Sigurd, Sion, and Brynhildr.
• Sion urged the group to leave, and they returned to the dried-up lake after setting up measures to detect pursuit.
• Bai Mo sensed that a human Magnetic Field Power user had visited the lake and asked Skadi whether she had let anyone in.
• Skadi said Landao Tianwu had left a communication device and claimed to have rescued Valkyries and brought back divine iron shields.

Bai Mo explained that Landao Tianwu had come to Northern Europe to pursue his Blue Dream: destroying humanity and the world, then becoming a god on a reborn Earth. The group considered how dangerous he was and decided to speak with him to learn what he knew and what he intended.

• Bai Mo told Skadi and Ophelia that Landao Tianwu had sent the miniature Giant God device to test their strength, not to offer help.
• Bai Mo explained that Ortlinde had likely been captured and had her memories read by Landao Tianwu before she reached Russia.
• Bai Mo revealed that Landao Tianwu wanted Surtr to destroy the world as part of his plan to become a god.
• Ophelia suggested pretending to cooperate with Landao Tianwu to lure him into a trap, but Bai Mo warned that he would prepare for danger.
• Bai Mo said they could still talk to Landao Tianwu to find out how much he knew about their situation and what he wanted.

Landao Tianwu contacted Skadi’s group and used the captive Valkyries to force them to investigate coordinates tied to the world’s crisis. After Bai Mo exposed his connection to Ortlinde and Mizuki Hitomi, Landao dropped his friendly act and insisted that strength would decide whether they could reclaim the Valkyries.

• Landao Tianwu appeared through the Giant God apparatus and offered supplies and the stranded Valkyries, while Skadi discovered that his forces had surrounded the barrier.
• Bai Mo asked Landao whether he recognized Ortlinde, and Landao pretended that she reminded him of his daughter, Little Hitomi.
• Bai Mo challenged Landao’s account of Mizuki Hitomi, causing Landao to abandon his act and suspect someone had betrayed him.
• Skadi asked Landao to release the Valkyries, but he refused and demanded that the group investigate coordinates connected to the crisis.
• Landao declared that power would determine whether they could take the Valkyries back, then ended the transmission.

Sion showed the group a recording of Ragnarok at the location Landao Tianwu had indicated, where Odin left a message about a hidden contingency at Mimir’s Well of Wisdom. The group realized the location matched, leaving them with Odin’s warning that it was their last hope against the coming catastrophe.

• Sion explained that the site was the battlefield of Ragnarok and used Magecraft instruments to show the group her observations.
• The recording showed Fenrir, Jormungandr, and Surtr approaching the battlefield, while Bai Mo noticed Ophelia’s reaction to Surtr.
• Odin addressed Skadi, Sigurd, Brynhildr, Ortlinde, Sion, and Ophelia, then revealed that Loki, Thor, and he would die in the battle.
• Odin said he would enter Surtr with Fenrir and leave a contingency at Mimir’s Well of Wisdom in Jotunheim, urging the group to reach it before their souls faded.
• After the recording ended, Skadi confirmed that Mimir’s Well of Wisdom was at the location Landao Tianwu had indicated.

Landao Tianwu spoke with Qin Hong about his plans and the Valkyries, while Skadi searched Northern Europe for his arrangements. Ophelia privately told Bai Mo that her Magecraft bond to Surtr could make her Surtr’s anchor, leaving her afraid Skadi would kill her if she learned the truth.

• Landao Tianwu told Qin Hong that future people had disrupted negotiations, but he expected his son Yameng to succeed and believed he could handle his own opposition through one unimportant woman.
• Skadi sent a current of cold beyond her barrier to search Northern Europe for Landao Tianwu and the Valkyrie sisters.
• Bai Mo left Ortlinde to speak privately with Ophelia, while the others went to rest, work, investigate, or train.
• Ophelia concealed her Magecraft workshop, and Bai Mo sealed it against eavesdropping without reading her thoughts.
• Ophelia revealed that her Magecraft bond to Surtr might make her Surtr’s anchor, and feared Skadi would kill her if she found out.

Ophelia told Bai Mo how she had survived arriving in the Lostbelt and revealed that Surtr had promised to show her the Sword of Flame and the planet’s end. Bai Mo accepted her account and advised her to have Sigurd examined, before Skadi summoned them for a dangerous task that required Ophelia’s help.

• Ophelia explained that she stayed in the Lostbelt to repay Bai Mo and recounted how her Mystic Eyes had brought her gaze into contact with Surtr.
• Ophelia told Bai Mo that Surtr had promised to show her the Sword of Flame and the end of the planet.
• Bai Mo questioned the strange promise, then warned Ophelia that her bond with Surtr could affect the summoning of Sigurd.
• Ophelia explained that Sigurd had been summoned through her family bloodline with Skadi’s help, and Bai Mo advised her to have Brynhildr examine him.
• Skadi told Bai Mo and Ophelia that they had found a place containing arrangements and that Ophelia might need to go there despite the danger.

Ortlinde rescued Gerda after she nearly fell from a mountain while making an offering, then healed her injured father and urged the villagers to stop praying to gods who were gone. Bai Mo and Ophelia arrived as a mysterious breeze relieved the villagers’ suffering, and Bai Mo explained that their overcrowded, malnourished settlement had no future unless the trouble outside was resolved.

• Ortlinde caught Gerda with Gullfaxi after the girl fell while trying to descend the mountain.
• Ortlinde healed Gerda’s father’s broken leg with her Primal Runes and a strand of Gullfaxi’s mane.
• Ortlinde told Gerda that the gods were no longer there and that the villagers should stop making offerings.
• Villagers rushed out to seek the same miracle, but a gentle wind entered their homes and eased their illnesses and pain.
• Bai Mo and Ophelia arrived, and Bai Mo explained that malnutrition and overcrowding were the main problems in the small settlement.
• Bai Mo said he had to resolve the trouble outside the barrier because the settlement had no future otherwise.

Bai Mo and the others prepared to retrieve the divine power Odin left in the dried Well of Wisdom, which required Ophelia’s Mystic Eyes of Postponement. Despite the danger and the possibility that Landao Tianwu had laid a trap, Ophelia insisted on joining the operation, and Bai Mo equipped her with protections before they set out.

• Skadi’s wind and snow revealed that Odin’s divine power remained in the dried Well of Wisdom, protected by primordial Runes that Ophelia’s Mystic Eyes could bypass.
• Bai Mo suggested removing Ophelia’s Mystic Eyes to keep her off the battlefield, but Ophelia and Skadi rejected the idea because reconnecting them could make them malfunction.
• Bai Mo equipped Ophelia with Noble Phantasms, while Ortlinde promised to protect her and Gullfaxi reluctantly agreed to carry her.
• Bai Mo warned Ophelia that Landao Tianwu might have prepared a trap and that her foresight might not overcome the strength gap, but Ophelia insisted she had to go.
• Bai Mo said he would buy Ophelia time to summon Sigurd if they faced overwhelming danger, while Sigurd and Brynhildr would try to rescue the Valkyries if Landao Tianwu appeared.
• Ortlinde reassured Ophelia that Bai Mo cared about their safety, and Ophelia trusted them as they prepared to leave.

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.