Chapter Summaries

George used a giant Angelic appearance to absorb the plague in Backlund, heal its victims, and proclaim The Fool, leaving tens of thousands converted and the Despair Witch cornered. He then appeared in his infant form to capture her and seek a Sequence Four Potion in exchange.

• George suspected the Loen Royal Family had cooperated with the Witch Cult to use the plague as cover for its reforms and the Black Emperor ritual.
• George sent Chris home, formed a Thought Body as Passerby A, and appeared over Backlund as an Angel serving The Fool.
• George absorbed the plague, healed the afflicted civilians, and declared, “Believe in The Fool, gain eternal life!”
• The rescued civilians knelt and converted to The Fool, while the Despair Witch, the churches, and the royal family were stunned by the appearance of the unknown deity and Angel.
• The Despair Witch tried to flee Backlund, but George’s infant true body stopped her so he could capture her and exchange her with Crestet for a Sequence Four Potion.

George confronted and defeated the Despair Witch, Panatia, after she attacked him and tried to escape through the Mirror World. He searched her memories and discovered her mission in Backlund, including a plan to prepare a vessel for the Primordial Witch’s descent.

• The Despair Witch recognized George and attacked him with invisible threads, disease, black flames, and ice spears.
• George shattered her attacks, pursued her into the Mirror World, and blocked her escape.
• The Despair Witch revealed a partial mythical creature form and charged George, but he struck her down with a slap.
• George extracted Panatia’s Beyonder characteristics and searched her memories.
• George learned that Panatia had come to Backlund to help the royal family obtain a Sequence One Conqueror characteristic and secretly prepare a vessel for the Primordial Witch’s descent.

George captured Panatia, the Despair Witch responsible for the Backlund fog, and traded the royal family’s secret alliances to the Church of the Dark Night Goddess for clues about later Diviner Potions. After confirming Roselle was still alive and locating Nameless Island, George gathered Bernadette and went to bring Klein along before setting out to rescue him.

• George learned from Panatia’s memories that the royal family had worked with the Witch Cult and Aurora Society to stage the fog, prepare rituals, and support George III’s advancement.
• George captured Panatia and delivered her to Crestet, then shared intelligence about the royal family’s plans in exchange for clues about later Diviner Potions.
• George contacted Bernadette and told her he had found Nameless Island and confirmed that Roselle was still alive.
• Bernadette arrived in Backlund, and George offered to fly her directly to the island instead of traveling by ship.
• George went to Tingen to bring Klein along because Klein had ties to Roselle.

George brought Klein and Bernadette to the island where Roselle’s soul was trapped, despite its True God-level danger and the power of the Fallen Mother God. When the island’s creatures and the Fallen Mother God attacked, George unleashed Fairy Law and erased the threats.

• George introduced Klein to Bernadette and flew them from Backlund to a mysterious island.
• Bernadette recognized the island as her father Roselle’s likely final mausoleum, while George sensed Roselle’s trapped soul and the Fallen Mother God’s power.
• George reassured Klein and Bernadette that he could handle the Fallen Mother God, then brought them to the mausoleum’s entrance.
• The island’s treants and Beyonder creatures attacked as the Fallen Mother God’s power began making the three companions pregnant.
• George purged the power from himself and Klein, while Bernadette used her Sage’s Headband to protect herself.
• George cast Super Magic: Fairy Law, which made the treants, Beyonder creatures, and Fallen Mother God’s power vanish.

George used Fairy Law to purge the Fallen Mother God's corruption from Roselle and reunite him with Bernadette. After father and daughter spoke privately, Bernadette teased Roselle about his diary and the Witch as they left the mausoleum.

• George revealed True God-level power by destroying the enemies outside Roselle's Mausoleum, then led Bernadette and Klein inside.
• Bernadette used Eye of Seeing to reveal Roselle's corrupted soul, and George used Fairy Law to remove the Fallen Mother God's influence.
• Roselle recognized George and Klein as fellow countrymen after they exchanged Mandarin phrases, then embraced Bernadette while George and Klein waited outside.
• Klein asked whether George had shared Roselle's diary with Bernadette, and George admitted he had read her a small portion, including one about the Witch.
• After more than an hour, Bernadette teased Roselle about finding another Witch, and George quietly offered Klein sunflower seeds.

Roselle explained to George, Klein, and Bernadette how the Fallen Mother God had corrupted him and why he had remained trapped on the island. He offered George knowledge of the twenty-two pathways in return for the rescue, and the chapter ended with George revealing that he truly was Sequence Five but had power beyond the normal pathways.

• Roselle told George and Klein that he had learned Earth was their home and that they could not return, then explained his transmigration misunderstanding to Bernadette.
• Roselle described how the Fallen Mother God corrupted him and how he tried to use the Black Emperor pathway to escape the corruption.
• George explained the Fallen Mother God’s origins and confirmed that Mr. Door had also been corrupted and had lost nearly all rationality.
• Roselle thanked George and offered him the Potion formulas and knowledge for all twenty-two pathways in return for saving him.
• George asked Roselle to share the Diviner Sequence knowledge first because he planned to advance to Sequence Four.
• Roselle and Bernadette questioned George’s claim that he was only Sequence Five, and George revealed his aura while explaining that he had power outside the normal pathways.

George learned the higher sequences of the Diviner pathway and devised a plan with Roselle to delay his resurrection until George III's godhood ritual. After hiding Roselle in Origin Castle, George returned home and confronted the Magic Lamp, which questioned how a Sequence Five could threaten it.

• George reviewed the abilities of the Diviner pathway's higher sequences, including the powers of an Ancient Scholar, Miracle Invoker, Attendant of Mysteries, and The Fool.
• George proposed that Roselle wait until the Luen Royal Family's godhood ritual, then return to life by taking the Black Emperor Uniqueness and Beyonder characteristics prepared for George III.
• Roselle agreed to the plan, and George said he would conceal him inside Origin Castle until the final moment.
• George placed Huang Tao in Origin Castle, sent Klein back to Tingen, obtained the Magic Lamp from Bernadette, and returned to his home in Backlund.
• George entered his own world and took out the Magic Lamp, whose spirit sensed his threat and asked how a Sequence Five could endanger it.

George rejected the Lamp God’s twisted interpretation of his wish, shattered the Magic Lamp, and devoured the imprisoned being’s memories and spiritual energy. He learned the Lamp God’s true identity and returned home with spiritual energy on the level of a True God.

• The Lamp God tried to draw George into the Magic Lamp, but George resisted and revealed immense power.
• George bound and shattered the Magic Lamp, then sealed the freed Lamp God in the empty void of his world.
• George extracted the Lamp God’s memories and spiritual energy, erased his intelligence, and scattered his remaining soul essence across the planet.
• George learned that the Lamp God had been the Primal Creator’s third child, known as the Child of Chaos, and had lost his characteristics after being tricked by the Celestial Worthy.
• George returned home and found that devouring the Child of Chaos’s spiritual energy had raised his own spiritual energy to True God level.

George obtained the Sequence Four Weirdo Potion and clues to later Fool Pathway ingredients, which pointed to the dangerous Hornachis Mountains. After Roselle explained the Antigonus family’s connection to the mountains, George flew there to search for the ingredients.

• Crestet gave George the Weirdo Potion and a sealed document, then explained that the Pope had agreed to George III’s godhood ritual under certain conditions.
• George learned that the Fool Pathway formulas and ingredient clues were in the Hornachis Mountains and concluded that the Seven Gods’ neutrality would help his plans for Roselle’s return.
• George visited Origin Castle and asked Roselle about the mountains while Roselle and Klein played a game.
• Roselle told George that the Antigonus family controlled the Fool Pathway and that Charon had vanished in the mountains after seeking the family’s notes.
• George left Origin Castle and flew toward the Hornachis Mountains to gather the ingredients before dawn.

George entered the sealed town of Mist Town in the Hornachis Mountains, where he found marionettes, a Sequence Three Beyonder characteristic, and Charon’s Historical Gap Image. He began searching Charon’s memories, prompting the weakened figure to reveal his anger at being attacked by a Sequence Five.

• George detected a seal resembling the Goddess of Darkness’s power atop Hornachis Peak and entered Mist Town inside it.
• George used Eye of Scrutiny to discover the town’s opposing Darkness and Fool pathway powers, then severed the Spirit Threads controlling its residents.
• The weakened town’s mist dispersed, strengthening the seal, but George dispelled the darkness that tried to imprison him.
• George entered the church and found powerful Beyonders hanging as marionettes, including a Sequence Three Ancient Scholar and the old man he identified as Charon’s Historical Gap Image.
• George told Charon he wanted to borrow his head and began a Soul Search, angering Charon, who believed George was only a Sequence Five Marionettist.

George defeated Charon’s historical projection and uncovered the history of Little Charon and Antigonus, along with the Goddess of the Night’s seal on Mount Horancis. He entered the hidden palace to claim the Fool’s Uniqueness and Beyonder characteristics, where the out-of-control Antigonus awaited him.

• Charon tried to control George, but George’s power shattered his Spirit Thread and sealed his historical projection.
• George extracted a fragment of Little Charon’s soul and learned how Antigonus and Little Charon had come to be trapped on Mount Horancis.
• George realized Antigonus’s and Little Charon’s Beyonder characteristics could bring him close to advancing to Sequence Zero Fool.
• George broke the concealed seal, entered the hidden palace, and burned away Antigonus’s Spirit Thread attack with Tri-color Flames.
• George saw Antigonus’s mythical form, the marionettes hanging from the palace ceiling, and Roselle’s Fool Blasphemy Card, then prepared to seize Antigonus’s Uniqueness and characteristic.

George fought the sealed Antigonus to test the strength of the Fool Pathway, ultimately reducing him to near death with a True God-level attack. As George approached to search Antigonus’s memories, Antigonus transformed, and George recognized the presence of Fu Sheng Xuan Huang Tian Zun.

• George wondered why the Goddess of the Night had allowed him to enter the concealed hall, then decided to use Antigonus as a benchmark for his strength.
• George attacked Antigonus with Giant’s Fist, but Antigonus reversed the punch with Fooling time and summoned a mass of powerful tentacles.
• George froze time throughout the hall and struck Antigonus, who escaped the blow by replacing himself with a Spirit Worm.
• Antigonus used Fooling and Reassembly to graft the concept of a planet and send it crashing toward George, who split it apart.
• George unleashed Fairy Law, leaving Antigonus barely alive, then approached to recover the Fool’s Uniqueness and search his memories.
• Antigonus transformed into a young man whose majesty and eeriness made George identify him as Fu Sheng Xuan Huang Tian Zun.

Celestial Worthy took control of Antigonus's injured body and tried to reclaim Origin Castle from George. George's seals stopped it, but Celestial Worthy then planned to make George lose control while the hidden Sequence Zero of the Darkness Sequence remained a threat.

• George's attack wounded Antigonus and weakened the Goddess of the Night's seal, allowing Celestial Worthy to suppress Antigonus and take temporary control of his body.
• George welcomed the chance to gain Celestial Worthy's memories, which included knowledge of the Fool, Door, and Error Pathways and how to become a pillar.
• Celestial Worthy manifested Origin Castle and tried to draw it back so he could regain the power of an Old One.
• George used his seals to stop Origin Castle in midair, preventing Celestial Worthy from reclaiming it.
• Celestial Worthy recognized that the world had changed and planned to make George lose control so he could use him against the hidden Sequence Zero of the Darkness Sequence.

George sealed the Fool Pathway characteristics within him, defeated Celestial Worthy’s attack, and learned how to accommodate the Door and Error Pathways. After extracting the Fool’s Uniqueness and Antigonus’s Attendant of Mysteries characteristics, he agreed to leave Antigonus’s lower-sequence characteristics at the Goddess of the Night’s request.

• George sealed the out-of-control Fool Pathway characteristics and attacked Celestial Worthy with Fairy Glitter Plus.
• Celestial Worthy grafted a star toward George, who destroyed it with Excalibur and trapped him in the Five Elements Kabala Sealing Formation.
• George searched Celestial Worthy’s mind and intercepted information about accommodating the Door and Error Pathways to advance to an Old One and a Pillar.
• George extracted the Fool’s Uniqueness and the Attendant of Mysteries characteristics from the dying Antigonus, but the Goddess of the Night asked him to spare Antigonus’s lower-sequence characteristics.
• George agreed to the Goddess of the Night’s request and considered whether she was friend or foe.

The Goddess of the Night explained that she had lured George to Mount Huonachis to test whether he was the revived Celestial Worthy, then proposed cooperation after learning he was not. George agreed to help her against the God of War in exchange for her help reviving Roselle, and she began outlining her plan.

• The Goddess of the Night apologized for testing George and explained that she had suspected he was the revived Celestial Worthy.
• George accepted her apology and asked why she had allowed the royal family to gain another Black Emperor; she revealed that she had nearly finished absorbing Shinigami's characteristics and Uniqueness but needed others to think she could not act.
• George deduced that the Goddess of the Night planned to provoke Bader, the God of War, into starting a divine war, and she confirmed it.
• George offered to help her deal with the God of War if she helped him revive Roselle, then explained his plan involving the royal family's advancement to the Black Emperor.
• The Goddess of the Night agreed to help revive Roselle and began revealing her own plan to George.

George returned to Backlund with the Fool Pathway’s Sequence Three and Sequence One characteristics and Uniqueness, then planned to advance by publicly killing a demigod. He sent his marionette Jason to attack royal demigod Selt at a crowded ball, and the chapter ended as church demigods arrived to witness the fight.

• George considered the Goddess of the Night’s alliance with Lilith and resolved to advance to Sequence Four before the coming divine war.
• George chose Selt, a royal demigod implicated in human trafficking, as the target for his advancement ritual.
• George took his marionette Jason to Selt’s villa during a ball and armed him with a replica of Gilgamesh’s Sword of Rupture, Ea.
• Jason attacked Selt, who identified him as the Sequence Five Apostle of Desire and fought back as other Beyonders joined in.
• Demigods from the Church of the Dark Night Goddess, the Church of the Lord of Storms, and the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery arrived, and Jason drew Ea.

George advanced to Sequence Four Weirdo and learned that frightening people could help him digest the Potion. He returned Little Charon’s soul to his original body, restoring Little Charon’s sanity, and left him uncertain about what had happened to the Fool’s Uniqueness and the Attendant of Mysteries characteristic.

• The Three Great Churches’ Beyonders reached the villa and found Set’s body split in two, while his characteristic and attacker were gone.
• George drank the Weirdo Potion and advanced smoothly, relying on his powerful spirit and existing anchors to avoid losing control.
• George learned that he could digest the Potion by frightening people or spreading strange legends, and decided to scare Little Charon.
• George altered Little Charon’s soul memories and released it, then followed it through a historical gap to Little Charon’s original body.
• Little Charon regained his sanity and vowed revenge on Amannesis, then wondered whether George or Antigonus had obtained the Fool’s Uniqueness and the Attendant of Mysteries characteristic.

George pursued Little Charon through the gaps of history, captured him, and took his Beyonder characteristics after digesting his Potion. He advanced to Sequence Three Ancient Scholar and tested his ability to summon Historical Gap Images.

• Little Charon returned to the normal world and fled when George confronted him, but George followed him through the gaps of history and frightened him until his Weirdo Potion was fully digested.
• George sealed Little Charon's escape and revealed that he was a Sequence Four Weirdo, then pulled Little Charon into his own world and stripped away his Beyonder characteristics.
• George swallowed a Sequence Three Ancient Scholar Beyonder characteristic and accelerated time in his world by three hundred years to fulfill the advancement ritual.
• George advanced to Sequence Three Ancient Scholar and tested his ability by summoning Zeref Dragneel, Acnologia, and Eru Ilúvatar.

George summoned Fairy Yunxiao’s Historical Gap Image and prepared to advance to Sequence Two by bringing Silver City out of the Land of the Forsaken. At the fourteenth Tarot Club gathering, he introduced Klein, Roselle, and Bernadette as new members and ended the group’s collection of Roselle’s diary pages.

• George repeatedly attempted to summon Fairy Yunxiao and finally called forth her Historical Gap Image after ten thousand failures.
• George decided to travel to the Land of the Forsaken and bring Silver City’s people to the Northern Continent to complete the Miracle Invoker advancement ritual.
• George hosted the fourteenth Tarot Club gathering, introduced Klein as The World, Roselle as the Black Emperor, and Bernadette as The Hermit, and reclaimed his position as The Fool.
• Alger presented the final five pages of Roselle’s diary, and George read an embarrassing entry about Roselle’s affairs with Witches.
• George told the Tarot Club members to stop collecting Roselle’s diary, leaving them without that easy source of items to exchange for his rewards.

Audrey asked the Tarot Club about the Psychic Alchemist Association, and the discussion revealed its ties to Baros Hopkins, Hermes, and Adam’s Twilight Hermit Society. George offered a mission to use the Association to find Adam, and Audrey agreed in exchange for the Fool Pathway’s Potion formulas and knowledge.

• Audrey asked the Tarot Club for information about the Psychic Alchemist Association after its suspected members approached her.
• Klein described the Association’s origins, while Bernadette identified its president, Boli Delrau, as Baros Hopkins, one of the Four Kings of the Sea.
• Roselle connected the Association’s treasure map to Hiris and the Twilight Hermit Society, then warned the members not to speak Adam’s name outside the Fool’s concealment.
• George urged Audrey to join the Association and search for Adam, promising that Roselle would trade all Fool Pathway Potion formulas and knowledge for the information.
• Roselle agreed to provide the formulas and knowledge if the Fool’s requirements were met, and Audrey accepted the mission.