Recaps

After advancing to Miracle Invoker, Klein told Angel he would keep the identity of the Fool and explained his new powers, limited resurrections, and fragile balance between humanity and divinity. Their discussion ended with Angel connecting the Primordial’s awakening to the Lord of Mysteries and the Great Old Ones.

• Ilian Sauron’s fleet reached the edge of the God War Ruins safely, while Helene arranged more food for Derrick Berg and the other emigrants.
• Derrick told Helene that the Fool had helped the people of the City of Silver leave the forsaken land, and Helene privately prayed to Angelica Zaki instead.
• Angel confronted Klein about continuing to play the Fool, and Klein explained why he would retain the identity and its usefulness through Sefirah Castle.
• Klein described his Miracle Invoker abilities, including using the Historical Void for resurrection and manipulating wishes, and said he had only one resurrection remaining.
• Klein told Angel that his anchors included the Tarot Club, the City of Silver and Moon City, and Angel, but that a cold consciousness in his Beyonder characteristic threatened to overwhelm his humanity.
• Angel connected the Dark Angel’s claims about the Primordial’s awakening to the Lord of Mysteries, whom she identified as a Great Old One who had controlled Sefirah Castle.

Angel explained the Great Old Ones, the Outer Deities, and the approaching apocalypse to Klein, who realized that Sefirah Castle might be tied to the Celestial Worthy's resurrection. He resolved to prepare for his advancement by seeking a previously accommodated Sequence 1 characteristic and considering a hunt for Zarathus, while Angel returned to Backlund and awaited his summons.

• Angel told Klein that Great Old Ones stood above Sequence 0, that nine Outer Deities waited beyond Earth's barrier, and that the barrier's failure would bring the apocalypse.
• Klein learned that the gods sought to strengthen Earth against the Outer Deities and that the Goddess might be close to Great Old One status after defeating the God of Combat.
• Angel explained that sefirahs were sealed in the Western Continent by the Primordial Yellow Celestial Worthy, whom she believed was the Lord of Mysteries and a Pillar.
• Klein recalled that the Ancient Sun God had called him the Lord of Mysteries and feared that the Celestial Worthy had arranged his advancement to resurrect within him.
• Klein decided to avoid advancing with the characteristic from the curtain and considered hunting Zarathus with Angel's help.
• Angel returned to the Iris Flower Winery, reviewed the aftermath of the war, and waited for Klein to summon her above the Gray Fog.

At the Tarot Club, the members discussed the divine battle that had reversed the siege of Backlund, and the World revealed that the current Earth Mother was not Omebella. The chapter ended with him identifying the impostor as Lilith, the ancient progenitor of the Sanguine.

• Angel discovered that she could see the Tarot Club members clearly through the gray fog, though they still saw her as a blurred outline.
• Cattleya and Xio described the strange phenomena during the siege of Backlund, and Leonard explained that they were signs of a battle between gods.
• The World revealed that the current Earth Mother was not the dead Omebella, whose remains lay in the Forsaken Land of the Gods.
• Cattleya deduced that the Evernight Goddess had helped conceal the Earth Mother's identity, and the World added that the Ancient Sun God might have helped too.
• The World identified the Earth Mother as Lilith, an ancient god and progenitor of the Sanguine.

At a Tarot Club gathering, Klein revealed that Lilith was the Earth Mother and that the God of Combat had likely fallen in the divine battle. He warned the members that the apocalypse would arrive in a little over a decade, then offered high-level resources in exchange for their service and prayers.

• Klein used clues about Lilith, Omebella, and the crimson moon to explain how Lilith became the Earth Mother, and Cattleya connected the change in Evernight's rituals to Lilith reclaiming the Moon authority.
• Angel reported finding Warrior-pathway divine power at the battlefield outside Backlund and concluded that the God of Combat had fallen; Klein explained that the Evernight Church would preserve much of the God of Combat Church's structure.
• Klein told the Tarot Club that the apocalypse would come in a little over a decade and that learning its cause could corrupt anyone below angelhood, while Angel confirmed that the World had become an angel.
• Klein offered high Sequence formulas, rare Beyonder characteristics, the Sea God's identity and power, and a Profane Presbyter characteristic in exchange for completing tasks, praying, and making devout wishes.
• Alger and Audrey considered how they might obtain the Sea God's power or the Profane Presbyter characteristic, and the Tarot Club members enthusiastically exchanged information before the gathering ended.

Angel questioned Klein about the Earth Mother’s identity as Lilith, his advancing potion, and the Celestial Worthy’s influence. After they discussed the war and their roles in it, Angel returned to Iris Flower Manor and went into the Mirror World to meet her Mirror Person.

• Klein told Angel that Arrodes had revealed Lilith’s identity, Evernight’s plans for the God of War Church, and information about his Miracle Invoker advancement.
• Klein explained that the Celestial Worthy’s mental imprint had awakened within him and that he planned to seek more information from the Magic Wishing Lamp and digest his potion by fulfilling wishes.
• Angel argued that the gods, not Klein, had caused the war, and explained that the conflict would have erupted even if George III had become the Black Emperor.
• Klein said he would visit war-damaged cities not as an apology but as a remembrance, then teased Angel that her departure from the battlefield might have caused greater losses.
• Angel realized that the God of Combat’s death had helped her fulfill part of the ritual for advancing to a Demoness of Apocalypse.
• After their extended meeting ended in an embrace, Angel returned to Iris Flower Manor and entered the Mirror World to speak with her Mirror Person.

Angel met her Mirror Person in the City of Calamity and learned how disasters shaped its reflected landscapes and buildings. She then discovered that the Mirror Person had long known Klein was the Fool, leaving Angel angry that she had been kept in the dark.

• Angel found her Mirror Person near a ruined square in the City of Calamity, which the Mirror Person said had been destroyed by Feysac's army.
• The Mirror Person explained that disasters caused by nature and human actions, especially those involving the Demoness and Hunter pathways, continually added reflections to the city.
• Angel realized the shattered Pale Moon and other landscapes might also be disaster reflections, while people appeared only within the actual City of Calamity sealed on the Western Continent.
• Angel asked whether the Mirror Person had known Klein was the Fool, and the Mirror Person cited clues from his arrival, Seer Pathway, advancement, and behavior at the Tarot Club.
• Angel recalled dismissing those clues, then clenched her fists and demanded to know why the Mirror Person had told Klein but not her.

Angel discussed the Evernight Goddess’s plans and her own next tasks with the Mirror Person, then left the City of Calamity. Elsewhere, Ikanser discovered Arrodes had vanished, while Klein traveled by train with the runaway mirror and tried to keep it from exposing his secrets.

• The Mirror Person explained why she had delayed revealing that Klein was the Fool and warned Angel that the Goddess might send them to find a tributary of the River of Eternal Darkness.
• Angel considered her blocked advancement, the danger of the coming apocalypse, and her plans to hunt cultists, repay Reinette, explore Trier, and search for the Conqueror characteristic before leaving the City of Calamity.
• After Angel departed, the Mirror Person looked across the devastated landscape and wondered whether it was the apocalypse.
• Ikanser went to question Arrodes before a joint operation against cultists, but a Machinery Hivemind member discovered that Arrodes had disappeared.
• On a train to Constant City, Klein used Arrodes to answer a passenger’s question, then hid the mirror when it began to reveal his own romantic regrets.

Alger watched the City of Silver immigrants arrive in Bayam and received Mr. Fool’s secret order to protect their fleet. In Trier, Angel searched for the Demoness Sect and Sevillea, but her investigation of Jacob Sauron triggered a warning that a powerful Beyonder was approaching.

• Alger saw Derrick Berg among the City of Silver immigrants and ordered a discreet ship to follow their fleet after it departed.
• Alger recalled Mr. Fool’s mission to monitor and protect the immigrant fleets from the City of Silver and Moon City until they reached Dream City.
• Angel returned to Trier and began searching for the Demoness Sect, but discovered that Sevillea and the other women at the Red House Cafe had been gone for a month.
• Angel marked mirrors around the Sauron villa, then found Jacob Sauron had returned and used a Slumber Charm to incapacitate him.
• Angel drew Jacob’s blood for divination, detected a trap in it, and sensed a powerful Beyonder approaching through the Spirit World.

Angel met the Sauron Evil Spirit, who shared what he had learned about Formonda Sauron and the damaged seal beneath Red Swan Castle, and recounted how the three Conquerors had been trapped. The chapter ended with Mr. K summoning the Red Angel on behalf of his Lord.

• Angel prepared a Mirror Labyrinth to trap a visitor, but the Sauron Evil Spirit arrived instead of Medici and explained how he had regained a physical body and gained influence over Sauron family branches.
• The Sauron Evil Spirit told Angel that Formonda Sauron had gone mad inside Fourth Epoch Trier and that a bloodline-reinforced seal beneath Red Swan Castle could provide an entrance there.
• Angel learned that disturbances at other weak points might damage the seal and that Trier's corruption could draw high-sequence Demoness and Hunter angels into Fourth Epoch Trier.
• The Sauron Evil Spirit said Amon, Adam, and the True Creator had manipulated the battle that led to the three Conquerors being trapped, then Angel asked what he knew about Cheek.
• Near White Cliff Town, Mr. K summoned the Red Angel and announced that his Lord wished to meet with him.

Angel learned from Glaide Sauron how the Blasphemy Slate revealed the Great Old One formed from the Demoness and Hunter pathways, then arranged with Bornova to enter Fourth Epoch Trier and investigate its seal. Bornova said Bernadette was following Nast toward Roselle’s final mausoleum, while he believed Roselle was the person their father most wanted to see.

• Medici learned that the True Creator had resumed answering the Aurora Order’s prayers and decided to visit Him before seeing Cheek.
• Glaide Sauron told Angel that the Calamity of Destruction, Origins of Disaster required the Demoness and Red Priest Uniquenesses, their Sequence 1 characteristics, and the City of Calamity.
• Angel and Glaide discussed Cheek’s change after becoming a god, then agreed to investigate a weak point in the seal at Red Swan Castle.
• Angel asked Bornova for help entering Fourth Epoch Trier, and he arranged for her to use the opportunity created by a Machinery Hivemind team’s mission the next day.
• Bornova told Angel that Bernadette was following Nast into the Fog Sea as he searched for Roselle’s final mausoleum, and said Roselle was the person their father most wanted to see.

Angel visited Laura and confirmed that most of the Roselle diary pages Laura had collected were fake, then joined Glaide Sauron near the seal beneath Red Swan Castle as the Machinery Hivemind entered Fourth Epoch Trier. The chapter left Angel and Glaide facing an opened Bronze Coffin as purple flames erupted from within.

• Angel visited Laura, corrected her about fake Roselle diary pages, and asked about Pierre, whom Laura did not remember.
• Angel watched the Underground Catacombs entrance and silently mourned Pierre before leaving.
• A Machinery Hivemind team of four Sequence 4 Saints entered Fourth Epoch Trier through the Well of Blood.
• Angel met Glaide Sauron at Red Swan Castle, where he explained that he had cleared the castle and taken control of much of the family.
• Glaide led Angel through the underground labyrinth to the seal, where they saw the Bronze Coffin surrounded by sacrificed Sauron hearts.
• The Bronze Coffin’s lid was thrown open, and illusory purple flames surged from inside.

Angel and Glaide Sauron entered the seal beneath Red Swan Castle to confront the Calamity Giant Formonda Sauron and end the curse affecting the Sauron Family. They reached Fourth Epoch Trier, where Glaide charged Formonda, then returned to ask why Angel had not attacked.

• Edgar Gibson led Saints of the Machinery Hivemind through the fog-shrouded streets of Fourth Epoch Trier, warning them to avoid the collapsed palace and using a Sealed Artifact to burn away lurking shadows.
• Glaide Sauron explained that his descendants had used Beyonder hearts to reinforce Formonda Sauron's seal and restrain his madness, then led Angel into the Bronze Coffin as the seal's aura intensified.
• Angel left her Mirror Person outside, notified Klein, and followed Glaide through the illusory flames into Fourth Epoch Trier.
• Angel and Glaide arrived near the Calamity Giant, Formonda Sauron, and Glaide transformed into a Flame Giant to charge him.
• Glaide returned before Angel attacked, asked why she was waiting, and Angel summoned an iron-black flagpole.

Angel and Glaide Sauron fought the out-of-control Conqueror Formonda Sauron in Fourth Epoch Trier, while Edgar Gibson’s team encountered the giant’s influence and retreated. Angel defeated Formonda and left Glaide watching the Conqueror characteristic he had lost.

• Angel summoned mirror images of Salinger's Blood Banner and the Sword of Glory, then attacked the Calamity Giant Formonda Sauron alongside Glaide Sauron.
• Angel used the banner to weaken Formonda’s War Fog and powers, while Glaide commanded soldier puppets against the giant’s legion.
• Edgar Gibson’s team was struck by Formonda’s roar, repelled attacking evil spirits with an Unshadowed Sealed Artifact, and retreated from the battlefield.
• Angel cursed Formonda through his liquid flames, causing black Flames of Destruction to spread and exposing his weakness.
• Glaide helped destabilize Formonda, and Angel used the banner to pin him before destroying his final weakness and defeating him.
• Glaide abandoned his chance to attack Angel and watched the Conqueror characteristic emerge from Formonda’s shattered skull.

After defeating Vermonda, Angel secured the Conqueror characteristic, fulfilled part of her promise to Glaide Sauron, and confirmed that the Sauron Family’s curse had ended. When she discovered that she could not contact Klein and divined that he was in Berdan City, she hurried there and encountered Larion approaching.

• Angel claimed Vermonda’s Conqueror characteristic and arranged for her Mirror Person to take it to the City of Calamity.
• Angel and Glaide left Fourth Epoch Trier, and Angel destroyed the Reaper Legion to produce a War Bishop characteristic, which she gave to Glaide.
• Angel returned to the deserted Red Swan Castle and confirmed that the curse on the Sauron Family had been purified.
• Angel contacted a Worm of Spirit above the gray fog and learned that it could not reach Klein, then divined that Klein had not arrived at Constant City.
• Angel searched for Klein, received an image of Berdan City from the gray fog, and went there, where she recognized the approaching Larion.

Angel confronted Archbishop Larion in the Spirit World, where he attacked her and claimed a dangerous anomaly had trapped people in Berdan. When Angel realized he had lied about the source of the anomaly and was fleeing the Church of Evernight, she fought back and drove him into reality, where she brought down Salinger's Blood Banner.

• Angel prepared a Mirror Labyrinth in the Spirit World and waited for Larion, who attacked her with a twilight greatsword.
• Angel noticed Larion was close to losing control and urged him to seek the Goddess's protection, but he said he had escaped an anomaly in Berdan that trapped its inhabitants.
• Larion claimed a powerful Sealed Artifact had caused the anomaly, but Angel spotted his mocking smile and concluded he had caused it himself and mistaken her for a pursuer.
• Angel struck at Larion with the Silver Rapier and brought out Salinger's Blood Banner, while Larion used his powers to evade her attacks.
• Angel unleashed a disaster that forced them out of the Spirit World, then brought Salinger's Blood Banner down toward Larion in a forest near Berdan.

Angel defeated Archbishop Larion after his loss of control made him vulnerable to her plague, then entered Berdan City to find Klein. The city’s curfew punished her as soon as she appeared on its deserted streets.

• Angel used Salinger's Blood Banner, the Sword of Glory, and summoned soldier puppets to wear down Larion while her plague took effect.
• Larion charged Angel with his Twilight Sword, but struck a mirror substitute and died on his knees; Angel let him fulfill his final wish before claiming his beyonder characteristic.
• Reinette Tinekerr arrived, explained that Sefirah Castle’s aura had drawn her toward Berdan, and agreed to guard Larion’s remains while Angel went to check on Klein.
• Angel entered Berdan City through the Mirror World and discovered an invisible barrier that prevented anyone from leaving.
• Angel emerged onto an empty street and was immediately punished for violating the curfew, her back opening into bloody welts as intense pain struck her.

Angel tried to evade Berdan City's curfew by hiding in the Mirror World, but the Trunsoest Brass Book quickly brought it under the law and punished her. Meanwhile, Klein and Arianna used conflicting legal systems to overload the Book, and Klein realized Angel might be in Berdan City.

• Angel avoided the patrolling residents by entering the Mirror World and reasoned that the curfew's enforcers were controlled by the Sealed Artifact.
• Angel found that she could not reach the City of Calamity or contact Klein, and the Trunsoest Brass Book inflicted harsher punishment for her use of the Mirror World.
• Angel left the Mirror World to find a way around the curfew and locate Klein, just as a figure appeared before her.
• Klein and Arianna watched the Trunsoest Brass Book draft laws in the Berdan City Municipal Library after Klein summoned the Night Emperor's Memorial Hall to provoke conflicts between its laws and those of the Dream City.
• The Trunsoest Brass Book declared the Mirror World subject to the curfew, and Klein suspected Angel had entered it to escape the law.

Klein and Arianna brought Angel to the Trunsoest Brass Book, hoping she could exploit weaknesses in its laws to break them. As Angel identified those weaknesses, the Book sentenced her to death by hanging.

• Klein realized that Angel had entered Berdan and asked Arianna to find her.
• Arianna located Angel, but the Brass Book sentenced her to hanging before she could explain more than that Angel should break its rules.
• Arianna concealed Angel and brought her to Klein, where Angel recognized the Trunsoest Brass Book and searched its laws for weak points.
• As Angel targeted the weak points, the Book bound her and sentenced her to death for intending to destroy its rules.

Angel used her Calamity authority to break the Trunsoest Brass Book’s laws and sent the Sealed Artifact into the Mirror World, while Klein and Arianna recovered from its hanging judgments. After the Evernight Goddess assigned Larion’s Beyonder Characteristic to Arianna and urged Angel and Klein to go to the Hornacis Mountain Range, Reinette arrived with the Glory characteristic.

• Angel caused the Trunsoest Brass Book’s contradictory laws to collapse, escaped its noose, and sent the artifact into the Mirror World.
• Klein caught Angel, whose Rose Necklace healed her injuries, and Angel used it to heal Arianna’s ligature wound.
• Arianna explained that Larion had escaped Berdan with the Brass Book’s permission, and Angel revealed that Larion was dead and Miss Reinette was guarding his Beyonder Characteristic.
• Klein said the Brass Book had been corrupted by the Nation of Disorder, then prayed to the Evernight Goddess for instructions.
• Klein reported that the Goddess wanted Arianna to take Larion’s characteristic to the Holy Cathedral and wanted him and Angel to go to the Hornacis Mountain Range as soon as possible.
• Reinette appeared carrying Larion’s Glory characteristic.

Angel and Klein compared what they had learned about the Trunsoest Brass Book, the Conqueror characteristic, and the Evernight Goddess’s request to visit the Hornacis Mountain Range. They decided to investigate the mountain range, while Angel’s Mirror Person continued testing 0-02 and noticed its rule about Mirror Persons advancing through potions.

• Reinette handed the contaminated Glory characteristic to Arianna, who purified it, then left through the Spirit World.
• Angel told Klein she had obtained the Conqueror characteristic but would not switch to the Hunter pathway for now, and Klein arranged to meet her above the gray fog.
• Angel and Klein discussed Klein’s attempt to force the Trunsoest Brass Book to fill its pages and reset, then compared what the Second Blasphemy Slate revealed about the Calamity of Destruction and the Evernight Goddess.
• Klein and Angel concluded that the Goddess might want the River of Eternal Darkness and want to prevent the Celestial Worthy’s awakening, then set out to visit the Hornacis Mountain Range.
• Angel’s Mirror Person watched the Brass Book repeatedly write rules that a chaotic vortex erased, then read that Mirror Persons could advance by consuming potions at half their originals’ success rate.

Angel and Klein entered Antigonus’s palace to confront the Half Fool and seize the Card of Blasphemy depicting the Fool. The Half Fool’s attacks disrupted their preparations, but Klein protected the spirit body threads of Angel’s summoned puppets.

• Angel and Klein reached the hidden palace in the Hornacis Mountain Range, and Klein drew it into view as they approached.
• Angel summoned Salinger’s Blood Banner and the Trunsoest Brass Book, while Klein prepared Historical Projections to test the palace.
• Klein’s projection opened the palace doors, revealing the Half Fool as a mass of transparent worms surrounded by suspended corpses.
• The Card of Blasphemy depicting Sequence 0: Fool flew toward the entrance as the Half Fool’s tentacles attacked Angel and Klein.
• Angel’s Brass Book restricted the Half Fool’s abilities, but his wish erased the law after his tentacles grafted Angel’s Mirror Substitution onto themselves.
• Angel summoned clay soldier puppets inside the palace, and Klein redirected their spirit body threads before they could join the hanging corpses.

Angel and Klein weakened the mad Antigonus with Sealed Artifact “0-02” and their coordinated attacks. They forced the Mystic Seer characteristic out of Antigonus, and it flew toward Klein at the Double Door.

• Klein disrupted Antigonus’s control of the Marionettes with Spirit Body Threads and a lightning strike, while Angel’s plague and hidden traps burned many of Antigonus’s worms and tentacles.
• Antigonus restored his wounds using his past self from the History Void, but Klein accelerated the Brass Book’s recovery and Angel wrote a law that stopped Antigonus from slowing their thoughts.
• Angel and Klein attacked with soldier puppets and Marionettes until Antigonus summoned a Historical Image resembling the Blood Emperor Alistar Tudor; Angel exposed it as a fake by destroying it with Salinger’s Blood Banner.
• Angel wrote a third law weakening the connection between Sequence 1 characteristics and their bodies, leaving Antigonus motionless as the Mystic Seer characteristic began separating from him.
• Klein invoked Sefirah Castle, and the unstable Mystic Seer characteristic separated into specks of light and flew toward him.

Klein and Angel escaped Antigonus’s palace with the Mystic Seer characteristic and the Fool card after Evernight sealed away the Seer Uniqueness. Back in the Gray Fog, they discussed the mask’s connection to Klein and suspected the Goddess had kept the Uniqueness as leverage, while Antigonus awoke in the concealed palace.

• Angel’s clay soldier seized the Fool card as it followed the Mystic Seer characteristic toward Klein’s doorway, and Klein shut the door before Antigonus’s worms could escape.
• Evernight’s concealment ended, and Klein teleported away with Angel and the Mystic Seer characteristic as Amon arrived too late and warned a blood-red mirror that the Lord of Mysteries might emerge.
• Klein and Angel returned to Backlund, then went above the Gray Fog, where Klein explained that a mask bearing the Fool’s symbol had emerged from Antigonus and tried to reach him.
• Angel examined the Fool card and read the Mystic Seer potion formula and ritual, which required creating a town of marionettes with interwoven fates.
• Klein speculated that Antigonus had lost his anchors after the Four Emperors War and sealed the characteristic against merging with the Curtain; Angel suspected Evernight had kept the Fool Uniqueness as leverage.
• At the Hornacis Mountain palace, Antigonus opened his eyes while seated on the Stone Chair.

Antigonus awoke in the ruined palace with his memories restored and learned that Amanises had his sister in her hands. Above the Gray Fog, Klein and Angel discussed the rules governing Mirror People, leaving Angel wondering whether her own Mirror Person could advance to Sequence 1.

• Antigonus recalled his origins, his rise to Half Fool, and how he had lost control after his anchors were damaged.
• Antigonus awoke as a Miracle Invoker in his ruined palace and realized the Mystic Seer characteristic and Fool Uniqueness had left his body.
• A hooded woman revealed herself as Amanises and told Antigonus that she had his sister in her hands.
• Klein told Angel he planned to prepare rules and biographies for his Marionette Town while he digested his Miracle Invoker potion.
• Angel explained three rules about Mirror People: they were independent, had half their originals' advancement success rate, and synchronized advancement unless the original blocked it.
• Angel wondered whether her Mirror Person could consume a Conqueror potion and become a Sequence 1 of the Red Priest Pathway.

Angel visited Partis to check on the City of Silver immigrants and found Amon studying the Hand of Order in the Underground Memorial Hall. She assigned the Sword of Glory the number 0-63 and began discussing changes to her honorific name with Amon.

• Angel traveled to Partis, found Anne and Amon absent from City Hall, and discovered that Anne was away while Amon was in the Underground Memorial Hall.
• Amon gave Angel his report on the Sword of Glory, detailing its powers, dangers, and sealing methods after conducting experiments at her expense.
• Angel numbered the Sword of Glory 0-63, reflecting on the Witch Church's powerful artifacts and its shortage of high-level combatants.
• Angel asked Amon why the other Amons called Adam paranoid, and Amon said Adam was focused on dealing with the True Creator.
• Angel told Amon that she wanted to adjust her honorific name, and he asked whether she had decided to leave the Evernight Goddess and act independently.