Fujimaru and company greet Ishtar to their ranks without hitches, and gain information from Gilgamesh about the key for defeating Gorgon, "the Axe of Marduk" stowed away in Eridu within the southern jungle.

Tiamat falls into the underworld, but there, she transforms into one of the Evils of Humanity: Beast II. Hassan-i Sabbah, the first Old Man of the Mountain, intervenes, using his power as Grand Assassin to deprive Beast II of her immortality.