Recaps

Angel returned from Para Island and reported the mine’s contamination to the Church of Storms. Afterward, she suddenly found herself floating beside Azik Eggers as the streets below turned vivid and unreal.

• Angel infected Layton and the miners with mild illnesses to keep them from digging in the contaminated mine, then bought a ferry ticket back to Midway Island.
• Pierce Turner appeared in Angel’s dream, thanked her for killing his other self, and asked her to return his contaminated Beyonder Characteristic to the Holy Cathedral.
• Pierce told Angel that the Gazer’s account of Nameless Island was mostly true and revealed that his failed advancement involved the Death pathway and the Berserk Sea.
• Pierce vanished after sensing something familiar in Angel’s “Calamity” Charm, leaving her wondering whether his loss of control was connected to the symbols found in Bansy Harbor.
• Angel delivered a detailed report about Para Island’s Demigod-level contamination to the Church of Storms, signing it “Angelica Zaki,” then headed to the docks.
• The street colors grew vivid as passersby moved through Angel, and she realized she was floating beside Azik Eggers.

Azik brought Angel through the Spirit World to Bayam, explained that the Berserk Sea held the power of the fallen Death, and removed the strange contamination from her hand. A detour to his daughter’s grave stirred painful memories of his past lives, and the chapter ended with Azik returning Angel to Klein.

• Azik answered Klein’s call and carried Angel through the Spirit World, where they encountered an adult Banshee Bird.
• Angel told Azik about Para Island, and he explained that the Berserk Sea held Death’s power and that Death pathway advancements had recently been failing at unusually high rates.
• Azik examined the down on Angel’s hand, recognized it as an inferior imitation of Death-like power, and removed it.
• Azik led Angel to his daughter’s grave and recalled her death and the destruction he had caused in another life after losing his memories.
• Angel comforted Azik, who explained how contaminated Beyonder Characteristics could be handled and said he could strip away most contamination from a similar source.
• Azik brought Angel back to the hotel suite, where Klein welcomed her.

Angelica reunited with Klein and told him about Pierce Turner’s death, while the two discussed their recent dangers and resolved to keep pursuing strength together. A report about Pierce’s death reached the Evernight Church’s Backlund office, where a senior deacon dismissed it as a rumor.

• Angelica returned to Klein after her ordeal on Para Island, and Azik left to search for clues near the Berserk Sea.
• Angelica explained how Pierce Turner had resisted his corruption and died fulfilling his oath, and said she had entrusted his contaminated Beyonder Characteristic to Mr. Fool.
• Klein recounted the Sea God believers’ failed attack in Bayam and Sea King Yarn Courtman’s victory over Kalvetua.
• Angelica worried about the risks of pursuing demigodhood, but Klein reassured her that they would remember each other; Danitz then interrupted them by inviting Klein to the Red Theater.
• Nighthawks in Backlund received a report that Pierce had died near Midway Island, but a senior deacon dismissed it as a rumor.

At the Tarot Club, Angel agreed to help Hanged Man secretly seek Beyonder ingredients and sold him the Magician Pocket Watch. The meeting ended with Hanged Man asking the members to help find Helene Sauron, whom Angel recognized as the younger red-haired woman from the photograph.

• Angel noticed the Night Emblem on the table before Fool, while Hanged Man inferred that Fool might be targeting the Church of Evernight.
• Hanged Man told Angel that her bounty had risen to 12,000 pounds and warned her not to appear in her original identity.
• Angel agreed to let Hanged Man's Ghost Ship take her to a Nameless Island and then carry her to an island southwest of Bodo Port.
• Hanged Man agreed to buy a Blood Clan Baron Legacy for Emlyn, and Angel sold him the Magician Pocket Watch for 1,800 pounds plus their previously agreed payment.
• Hanged Man showed the club a photograph of Helene Sauron and offered a 1,500-pound reward for a crucial lead; Angel recognized her as the younger Helene.

At the Tarot Club, Angel learned that Helene Sauron had disappeared again and heard Hanged Man describe the Sea God's defeat, while Fool's cryptic reply led members to suspect that the Sea God's authority now belonged to him. After the meeting, Angel received her money and used Helene's blood to divine her location, finding her aboard a ship departing Midway Island as a storm approached.

• Hanged Man explained that the Intis Embassy was offering a 1,500-pound reward for information about Helene Sauron, a member of the Sauron family who was not a criminal.
• Mr. World said that Kalvetua, Bayam's Sea God, had caused storms and tsunamis before the Church of Storms's Sea King defeated it, but Hanged Man noted that believers still received responses from their god.
• Fool said that Kalvetua had become a Demigod by relying on the relic of Calamity Gohinham, prompting Hanged Man to connect the word Calamity to the Lord of Storms and resolve to become involved in future events.
• After the Tarot Club ended, Angel sacrificed her Magician Pocket Watch and received 1,800 pounds from Hanged Man.
• Angel used Helene's preserved blood to divine her location and saw Helene aboard a ship leaving Midway Island as a storm approached.

Angel and Klein learned that the Admiral of Blood had already left Bayam, while Danitz delivered Edwina’s invitation for them to visit the Golden Dream. Angel, Klein, and Danitz traveled to meet Edwina, and the chapter ended with the Golden Dream appearing before them.

• Angel sensed that Helene was alive and wondered how she had returned to Midway Island.
• Klein revealed that he had disguised himself as Danitz, and he told Angel that the Admiral of Blood had passed Bayam and headed south.
• Klein and Angel discussed their potion ingredients before the real Danitz arrived and caught them testing a provocation trick.
• Danitz told Angel and Klein that Edwina had invited them to the Golden Dream to discuss their next plan.
• Angel, Klein, and Danitz traveled by boat until Edwina’s golden warship, the Golden Dream, came into view.

Angel and Klein boarded the Golden Dream and discussed the pirates gathering near Bayam, the Admiral of Blood, and the Vice Admiral of Ailment with Edwina. Edwina pressed them about their identities and possible cooperation, then asked Angel to protect Danitz as a liaison between them.

• Danitz welcomed Angel and Klein aboard the Golden Dream and explained that its Purification Cannon could fire ten powerful shots after a ritual.
• Edwina explained that several powerful pirates had gathered near Bayam and answered Angel and Klein's questions about the Admiral of Blood, the Vice Admiral of Ailment, mermaids, and the Gazer.
• Edwina confronted Angel and Klein about their fabricated identities and Klein's offering to Kalvetua, then asked whether she could cooperate with them and their backing force.
• Angel reminded Edwina that they were already cooperating against the Admiral of Blood and revealed that Klein possessed Creeping Hunger, leading Edwina to accept their current arrangement.
• Edwina invited Angel and Klein to lunch and asked Angel to protect Danitz while he served as their liaison, prompting a muffled thud behind them.

Angel and Klein toured Edwina’s collection room aboard the Golden Dream, where they learned about the Key of Death and the mysterious book The Travels of Grosell. Over lunch, Edwina explained that her crew shared her unusual interests, leaving Angel to wonder whether the Iceberg Admiral had backing from the Church of Knowledge and Wisdom.

• Edwina showed Angel and Klein the collection room and explained that the Admiral of Blood had offered 5,000 pounds for the Key of Death, but she had refused, suspecting a trap.
• Edwina offered to sell the Key of Death for 5,000 pounds if its buyers shared their research findings, while Klein asked where he could find documents about Death.
• Edwina introduced the collection’s artifacts and described The Travels of Grosell, whose final pages were fused shut; she offered the book for 8,000 pounds, and Angel declined to buy it for now.
• Angel and Klein ate lunch with Edwina, who said her crew’s way of life was a shared choice and that she preferred collecting, studying ancient documents, and exploring to fighting.
• Angel suspected Edwina’s interests and origins might connect her to the Church of Knowledge and Wisdom, and wondered if she was hinting at future cooperation.

After returning to Bayam, Angel reflected on her unusual power and theorized that it attracted Demoness and Hunter Beyonders. She used her Magic Mirror to locate Ilian Sauron and discovered that Ilian had been captured again.

• Angel and Klein returned to Bayam with Danitz, who became Edwina's liaison and helped arrange aid for the resistance forces.
• Angel considered the resistance's growing violence and recalled that the Fool's new Ten Commandments forbade killing innocents and Living Sacrifices.
• While making Charms, Angel wondered whether her Demoness Characteristic could attract other Demoness and Hunter Beyonders, connecting this idea to her resurrections and mysterious powers.
• Angel decided she might ask Mr. Fool about her peculiarity, but thought she could first seek Roselle's notes from Ilian Sauron's family.
• Angel used Ilian's blood to overcome interference in a Magic Mirror divination and saw Ilian bound in a boat, captured by Sailors.

Angel tracked Helene to the Black Death and hurried to rescue her, while Tracy waited aboard the ship for Helene’s return. The chapter ended as the apparent Helene attacked Tracy with a transformed bone bracelet.

• Angel used the Magic Mirror to locate Helene and identified Mesor King and Tracy as her captors.
• Angel summoned Ms. Wensa to send a message to Mr. Azik, then set out for the private port.
• Angel questioned two pirates and learned that Mesor had taken Helene to the Black Death near a small island five Sea Miles away.
• Angel transformed into the Wind-blessed and raced underwater toward the Black Death.
• Tracy prepared to reunite with Helene in her cabin, but the apparent Helene turned a bone bracelet into a short sword and thrust it toward Tracy’s throat.

Angel disguised herself as Helene and ambushed Vice Admiral of Ailment Tracy aboard the Black Death, defeating and sedating her. As Angel prepared to question Tracy, the real Helene arrived at the captain’s cabin, leaving Angel facing another possible fight.

• Angel, disguised as Helene, attacked Tracy, who recognized her as the Demoness of Affliction responsible for sinking the City Breaker.
• Angel and Tracy exchanged abilities and weapons until Angel broke Tracy’s defensive bracelet and wounded her in close combat.
• Tracy’s Mirror Substitution failed, and Angel used three Slumber Charms to put both of them to sleep before waking herself with the Hidden Holy Emblem.
• Angel treated Tracy’s shoulder wound and prepared to use Magic Mirror Spirit Channeling to question her without drawing her into a dream.
• A woman knocked and announced that she had brought Helene, revealing that the real Helene was outside the cabin.

Angel disguised herself as Tracy to take Helene away, but Helene turned out to be Klein in disguise, testing her with a staged attack. After their identities were revealed, Angel asked how Klein had become Helene and ended up in handcuffs aboard the Black Death.

• Angel transformed into Tracy, hid the unconscious Tracy, changed clothes, cleaned the cabin, and ordered Helene to enter alone.
• Angel impersonated Tracy and taunted Helene, while Helene challenged her and pretended to be vulnerable.
• Helene escaped her handcuffs, attacked with an illusion and Mental Piercing, and revealed that the apparent Tracy was Angel.
• Angel blocked Helene's strike, and Helene dropped her Zombie form, revealing that he was Klein acting as Helene.
• Klein asked Angel to call him Helene and explained that he had been testing his acting, but Angel poked him and told him to talk.

Klein and Angel infiltrated the Black Death, defeated Tracy, and used Nightmare to uncover information about the Demoness Sect’s documents and human trafficking. After learning Tracy would retaliate against them and their allies, Angel shot her.

• Klein explained that he had disguised himself as Helene and let Tracy’s crew capture him so he could infiltrate the Black Death.
• Angel told Klein how she had defeated Tracy and taken her place in the captain’s cabin.
• Klein entered Tracy’s dream with the Nightmare Beyonder Characteristic and learned that she had handed Qilangos’s Death documents to the Demoness Sect.
• Klein revealed that Tracy had transported three ships of slaves and identified Mad Captain Connors Victor and his contact Finger as clues to the trafficking network.
• Klein and Angel decided Tracy posed too great a threat to leave alive, and Angel shot her in the head.

Angel and Klein were captured by Katarina, the Demoness of Unaging, while attempting to assassinate Tracy, but Azik arrived and freed them. Katarina recognized Azik from the Pale Calamity and questioned him about why Angel and Klein had targeted Tracy.

• Katarina bound Angel and Klein with invisible threads and caused them to develop severe pneumonia.
• Katarina awakened Tracy and offered to spare one captive if the other explained why they had come.
• Angel tried to attack Katarina with a Calamity Charm, but Katarina stopped her before she could use it.
• Azik appeared, broke the bindings, and eased Angel and Klein's illness.
• Katarina identified Azik as the former Death Consul and recalled fighting beside him during the Pale Calamity more than thirteen hundred years earlier.
• Katarina asked Azik why Angel and Klein had come to assassinate Tracy, fixing her gaze on Angel.

Angel confronted Tracy and Katarina over the Death documents and Helene, while Azik agreed to help retrieve the records about attempts to revive Death. When Katarina recognized Angel’s Calamity Charm, Azik whisked Angel and Klein into the Spirit World as Angel activated and threw the Charm toward her.

• Angel demanded Tracy hand over the Death documents and stop hunting Helene, and Katarina refused to assist either side while forbidding Azik from protecting them by force.
• Katarina said the Death documents had gone to the Demoness Sect’s headquarters and described the Balam Empire’s failed attempts to revive Death and its later efforts to create an Artificial Death.
• Azik asked Katarina to obtain the documents and gave her his messenger incantation, while Tracy questioned Helene’s feelings and Klein revealed himself as a Faceless impersonating her.
• Angel revealed her true appearance as Lola Swann, shocking Tracy and Katarina, who recognized her as Tracy’s sister and a former member of the Demoness Sect.
• Katarina asked to inspect Angel’s Calamity Charm, then reacted with shock; Azik pulled Angel and Klein into the Spirit World as Angel activated the Charm and threw it toward Katarina.

Angel and Klein returned to the Azure Wind Hotel with Azik after escaping the Black Death, and Azik left to recover his memories despite fears about his past. Meanwhile, Alger learned that the Black Death had disintegrated near Bayam and feared that the Tarot Club’s Miss Empress might also destroy his ship.

• Azik reassured Angel and Klein that he would not become the cruel Death Consul of the past, then left to recover his memories.
• Azik returned to warn Angel and Klein that the Church of Storms had destroyed Bansy Harbor because it might still contain the Red Angel Medici’s power.
• Angel collapsed from exhaustion, then blocked Klein from reaching the bedroom so she could see him in his gold-and-red gown.
• Danitz felt his spiritual intuition warn him away from the suite and turned back to avoid entering.
• Bishop Jogoli sent Alger and several Storm Believers to help capture survivors after the Black Death disintegrated near Bayam.
• Alger recalled Miss Empress’s suspected attack on the City Breaker and worried that she might sink the Blue Avenger too.

Angel offered Helene an investment to build a crew and sail from Bayam, promising funds, a ship, a disguise item, and access to advancement formulas in exchange for repaying the money with interest. Helene accepted, and she left with Angel and Klein to begin the arrangement.

• Angel and Klein met Helene at Danitz’s safe house and told her that Tracy’s flagship, the Black Death, had sunk.
• Helene decided not to return to Intis yet, choosing instead to stay in Bayam and earn enough to repay her debts.
• Angel offered Helene funding, a ship, a Mystical Item, and future Potion formulas if she assembled a crew within a month and repaid the investment plus 2,000 pounds within a year.
• Angel revealed that advancing the Hunter Pathway from Sequence 5 to Demigod would turn Helene into a man, and Helene accepted the conditions.
• Angel left the bedroom carrying a bottle of fresh blood, accompanied by Klein and Helene, whose appearance had changed.

The Tarot Club welcomed Miss Hermit, who studied its members while they exchanged Roselle’s diary pages. Angel arranged a ship purchase and a joint trip with Alger to a small island southwest of Bodo Port, while Emlyn announced that he had become a Sanguine Baron.

• Miss Justice welcomed the new member, who introduced herself as Hermit, and members including Audrey, Angel, and Sun offered Roselle’s diary pages and ancient god legends to Mr. Fool.
• Hermit observed the Tarot Club members and suspected that Angel might be the wanted Angelica Zaki, but Angel’s calm greeting made her look away.
• Angel asked Alger to help arrange an ordinary sailing ship in Bayam, then agreed to join him on a Wednesday trip to a small island southwest of Bodo Port with a companion who also believed in Mr. Fool.
• Emlyn thanked Alger for helping him obtain the Sanguine inheritance and announced that he had become a Baron, then corrected Fors when she called him a Vampire Baron.

At the Tarot Club, Emlyn asked about acting after becoming a Sanguine Baron while the members arranged several trades. Hermit learned that the City of Silver might lie in the Forsaken Land of the Gods.

• Hermit explained that the Moon Pathway required acting and digestion outside the Sanguine's innate Sequence 7 Vampire, and shared several potion names.
• Audrey asked World about buying a Psychiatrist Beyonder Characteristic, and promised Empress she would repay her debt that week.
• Empress asked Sun about trading for a Poison Needle of the Black-Striped Shadow Scorpion, and World offered to obtain Sun's Notary Potion formula in exchange for advance payment and the name of Sun's next potion.
• Derrick agreed to the arrangement, while Empress said she would pay World when the trade was completed and Hermit offered to trade him the Radiant Spirit Tree fruit.
• Derrick offered Hermit City of Silver history and monster materials in exchange for the fruit, and Hermit realized the city's history suggested it might be in the Forsaken Land of the Gods.

At the Tarot Club, Cattleya learned that the Fool was responding to Sea God Kalvetua’s believers and sent a veiled warning about the collection of Roselle’s diary. Meanwhile, Angel spent heavily on a ship for Helene and prepared to sail with Klein, hoping Helene might become a legend of the sea.

• Cattleya traded materials at the Tarot Club and learned from Justice and the Hanged Man that Kalvetua had died while the Sea God still answered believers.
• Cattleya connected the Sea God’s miracles to the Fool, then returned to her cabin and sent a letter noting that people were deliberately collecting Emperor Roselle’s diary.
• Angel lamented spending 1,000 pounds on Blood Mist Tree sap and 2,000 pounds on a ship for Helene, who was recruiting a crew with Dominic’s help.
• Klein questioned Angel’s investment in Helene as they headed toward the older ship they would sail on.
• Angel suggested Helene might become a legend of the sea as she and Klein approached the ship, where a blue-haired figure watched them from the bow.

Angel and Klein boarded Alger’s Ghost Ship, the Blue Avenger, under the cover of a paid commission to travel to Nameless Island and hunt Beyonder Creatures. The ship escaped the harbor through a storm, and the two settled into guest cabins for the voyage.

• Angel paid Alger three hundred pounds and posed as a client hiring the Blue Avenger to sail to Nameless Island.
• Angel and Klein discussed why the harbor remained open, and Alger explained that the Church of Storms monitored it while colonial interests relied on its smuggling routes.
• Alger announced that the ship was ready to depart, and the Blue Avenger sailed out of the harbor at remarkable speed despite the storm.
• Angel admired the Ghost Ship’s power and compared it unfavorably with her Red Haired Woman.
• Angel chose a guest cabin near the stern, Klein took the neighboring room, and Alger left after wondering whether he had said something wrong.

Angel sent Lola Swann a letter asking about the Demoness Sect, Sherman, and Lola’s loyalties, while the Blue Avenger’s watchfulness made Klein worry about concealing his identity. Lola received the letter in Backlund and revealed that she could make herself look almost exactly like Katerina Pelle.

• Angel wrote a letter to Lola Swann and summoned Ms. Wensa to deliver it, though she knew neither Lola’s true name nor her address.
• Wensa used Spirit World divination to find Lola, and Alger investigated the disturbance aboard the Blue Avenger before Angel explained that she had summoned a messenger.
• After dinner, Klein told Angel that he had sensed the ship watching him, and he worried that its scrutiny could expose his secret identity during the voyage.
• Lola copied the Instigator Potion formula for Sherman but planned to leave him to obtain the ingredients himself.
• Wensa delivered Angel’s letter to Lola, who read it after checking it for traps and tracking methods.
• Lola removed a silver-white mask and revealed a face almost identical to Katerina Pelle’s.

Angel, Klein, and Alger reached the Primitive Island to hunt Azure Shadow Falcons, while Angel forced the Blue Avenger to stop spying on them. Alger killed one falcon with a prepared trap, but two larger falcons appeared and attacked him.

• Angel threatened the Blue Avenger with a Calamity Charm and ordered it to stop watching her and Klein.
• Angel, Klein, and Alger landed on the island at night and entered the jungle to find the Azure Shadow Falcons' nest.
• Alger used a fragrant bait pig and a Storm Charm to lure down and kill an Azure Shadow Falcon.
• Two larger Azure Shadow Falcons appeared and dove toward Alger.

Angel, Klein, and Alger killed three Azure Shadow Falcons and gathered their potion ingredients. Alger revealed that ancient ruins on the island might contain a Card of Blasphemy, and the group decided to investigate.

• Angel slowed the diving Azure Shadow Falcons, giving Alger the chance to kill one with his saber.
• Angel caught and killed the last falcon while Klein and Alger helped defeat the family of three.
• Alger collected the Wind-blessed Potion ingredients and offered the remaining feathers to Angel and Klein.
• Alger explained that he and Qilangos had discovered ancient ruins on the island, where Qilangos had found a church and an underground area too dangerous to explore further.
• Angel connected the ruins' rumored treasure to a Card of Blasphemy, and Klein used a coin to confirm Alger was telling the truth.
• Klein proposed that they enter the ruins.

Angel, Klein, and Alger explored Primitive Island’s Black Forest and encountered a Hypnotic Wind Chime Tree that nearly lured them into its grasp. They used Alger’s illness to resist its hypnosis and attacked the tree, leaving its fate apparently sealed in flame.

• Alger negotiated a one-third share of the spoils in exchange for leading Angel and Klein to the ruins, while Angel secured first pick.
• Angel and Klein recognized the danger posed by the corpse-filled clearing and persuaded Alger to detour around it.
• Wind chimes hypnotized Angel, Alger, and Klein, but Angel pulled them back to their senses before they could reach the source.
• Alger identified the creature as a Hypnotic Wind Chime Tree, and Klein proposed making Alger sick so his coughing could interrupt the hypnosis.
• The trio confirmed that Alger’s coughing could wake them and approached the tree, which hypnotized them until Alger’s coughing broke the spell.
• When the tree attacked the bait pig, Angel severed its branches with Wind Blades, Klein’s Slumber Charm put it to sleep, and Angel struck it with Black Flame, setting the tree alight.