The Saint Fights tournament begins to much anticipation. The young Bronze Saints engage each other in fierce battles, putting their abilities to the test. Kōga manages to attain his first victory after a tense battle, thanks to Sōma's advice; all while his fellow Saints remain intrigued about the seemingly enormous power of Orion Eden.

The Bronze Saints arrive to a desert area, in which they meet a young girl from the people of Jamir, called Raki, who at first attacks them. After realizing they are Saints, by tradition connected to the people of Jamir, Raki takes them through a shortcut to avoid the desert areas, only to be greeted by the challenge of Kerberos Dorie, who seeks to capture Aria. Managing to defeat Dorie after a difficult battle, the Bronze Saints resume their journey, bidding farewell to their young benefactor, who later is joined by her mentor, Appendix Kiki, the former apprentice of the legendary Aries Mu, now a young man, who realizes the Bronze Saints are the new embodiment of hope in this era.

Haruto, accompanied by Ryuhou, journeys to his home village in an attempt to come to terms with his past and regain his resolve. While there, Ryuhou learns that Haruto became a saint in order to follow the footsteps of his good friend and older brother figure Yoshitomi, the previous Wolf Saint. Yoshitomi had apparently been murdered by a masked silver saint in front of Haruto and the boy had been desperate for answers ever since. Haruto's fater, despite his disapproval of Haruto becoming a saint, helps him gain back his fighting spirit by staging an assassination attempt on his son's life.

After briefly mourning the death of Aria, the Bronze Saints prepare to enter the Twelve Zodiac Temples. They are greeted by Aries Kiki, who explains the situation and how they are to proceed. Taking him for an enemy, Kouga attacks Kiki, to what he responds by restoring the Pegasus Cloth and also revealing to them the crucial secret of the Seventh Sense. Realizing Kiki is not an enemy, Kouga proceeds to the Temple of the Golden Bull, where he is challenged by its guardian, Taurus Harbinger, and a deadly battle ensues. Meanwhile, Kiki restores the remaining Cloths, and stays behind the teenagers, to battle alone against a large group of Martians.

Yuna arrives at the House of Cancer, and she is greeted by the deathly atmosphere of the gates of Praesepe. The guardian of the House, Cancer Schiller, engages her in battle, reminiscing about his past and motives for his allegiance to Mars. Aiming for Yuna's utter defeat, Schiller tries to break her morale by toying with her psyche, having Yuna fight her deceased friends Arné and Komachi. Meanwhile, Kouga continues his battle with Harbinger. After another clash between the two Saints' greatest techniques, Kouga heads towards the exit. Admiring his determination, ...

Libra Genbu interferes in the battle between Tokisada and the Bronze Saints, teleporting everyone to his temple. To the shock of the Bronze Saints, Genbu takes over the fight and declares his loyalty belongs to Athena, to Saori Kido. While Tokisada is a powerful warrior, Genbu wins the fight. In a desperate gamble, Tokisada attempts a powerful technique to take the Bronze Saints with him but only manages to suck in Ryuho and Haruto. Koga, Souma, and Yuna proceed to the next temple with Genbu's blessing.

The Bronze Saints finally arrive to the House of Pisces, guarded by the ruthless Amor. After separating Kouga and Yuna from the others, Amor summons Mars' strongest warriors, the Four Heavenly Kings to fight the others. While stating that the Heavenly Kings are stronger than the Gold Saints, Amor immobilize Yuna, forcing her to watch her friends being attacked without resisting. Kouga, the only one capable of attacking, is restrained by Amor's Arrested Judgement, a special attack that can only be broken by Darkness Cosmo as part of Medea's plan to have him unleash the...

One year after the defeat of Abzu, peace has returned to the world. However, a new threat rises with the advent of Pallas, an old enemy of Athena. Despite knowing that, Seiya can't find the resolve to kill the young Pallas as she is still an innocent child although she is destined to eventually come after Saori's life. Meanwhile, Kouga, training while still recuperating after his battle against Abzu, meets Subaru, a Steel Saint who is eager to challenge him in order to become a God. However, Kouga refuses to fight him and claims that with the world in peace and his ...

Ryuhou, Souma, and Yuna arrive to a village whose survivors of the Pallasite Halimede's attack are under Shun's protection. Among them is Ray, a child whose brother was also frozen by Halimede and blames Shun for it. Halimede instructs Ray to steal the Andromeda Cloth Stone from Shun with the promise of having his brother return to normal, but when the enemy intends to kill both, Shun brings the power of his cloth to the next level.

Eden wanders through the city drawn by a strange cosmo when he meets the Secondary Pallasite Europa and is saved by Seiya. Inspired by the Gold Saint to look for a reason to fight, Eden pursues Europa who was sent in a mission to kill Koga, but has a hard time fighting the enemy until Subaru unleashes an impressive power that was dormant within him.

At last Koga arrives at the front of Pallas' castle, which is sealed by the "Gate of Time", a massive door reinforced with Titan's powers. Koga attempts to break through the gate by himself but his own life is put in danger instead, until Athena and her Saints arrive to lend a hand.

The young Bronze Saints face off against Gallia on their own, allowing the Gold Saints and Athena to move forward towards Pallas. Although Gallia's Photontector and Bushin Photon Sword seem impervious to harm, Subaru once more calls on the mysterious powerful cosmo to break through Gallia's offensive and actually damage the sword, convincing the others to call upon their own cosmo, transforming their New Cloths into the more powerful Omega Cloths, and together the six Bronze Saints defeat Gallia.

Sagittarius Seiya faces off against Saturn, the God of Time, and Shun and Hyoga protect Athena and Pallas from Europa and Mira.