Recaps

Angel separated Suah from Tolzna and attacked the Chained God to seize his Uniqueness before the Mother Tree of Desire could control him completely. Meanwhile, the Mother Tree’s cultists tried to mature the hidden Tree of Shadow beneath Trier, but a mysterious woman descended into the cavern.

• Angel trapped Suah in the Mirror World and sent meteors crashing toward Tolzna.
• Angel transformed into her Mythical Creature Form and attacked Tolzna with Salinger's Blood Banner and Flames of Destruction.
• Beneath Trier, Mother Tree of Desire followers completed a bloody sacrifice to force the hidden Tree of Shadow to mature.
• Scorching sunlight tore into the cavern, burning the cultists as a beautiful female figure descended through the light.

Saint Viève burned the Tree of Shadow’s crown in Trier while Klein monitored attacks on cities across the world. As the crisis continued, Klein left Sefirah Castle and went to Dilan to drink his third Mystic Seer potion.

• Saint Viève purified the cultists and set the Tree of Shadow ablaze, but blood-colored light dimmed the sunlight as she began invoking the Eternal Blazing Sun.
• Klein watched Angel hold off Suah and Tolzna while cultists attacked cities including Matani Bond, Bayam, and Backlund.
• Emlyn confronted the ancient Shaman King Kalaman, while Reinette Tinekerr prepared to help him reclaim her hand.
• Alger drove the corrupted mist away from Bayam, and Dominic and Sonia attacked a Rose School stronghold together.
• Klein saw Benson Moretti, Lily Granger, and Melissa Moretti take shelter in Saint Samuel Cathedral as Justice, Xio Derecha, and Fors worked to protect Backlund.
• Klein took the Mystic Seer characteristic and potion ingredients from the Gray Fog, then traveled to Dilan to advance.

Klein secretly reached Dilan, Zarathus’s hidden town, and drank the final Sequence 1 Mystic Seer potion. As the Celestial Worthy’s imprint overwhelmed him, Zarathus used a temporary miracle to return from the Historical Void and prepare to attack.

• Klein entered Dilan and found its silent castle filled with motionless former marionettes.
• Klein searched the castle, found no sign of Zarathus, and turned the trapped guests into marionettes to release their Beyonder characteristics.
• Klein mixed and drank his final Sequence 1 potion, using his anchors and preparation to resist the Creator’s imprint.
• The Primordial Yellow Celestial Worthy’s consciousness suppressed Klein, leaving only half of him in human form.
• Zarathus’s Miracle Invoker characteristic pulled him from the Historical Void, and he wished for spirituality before borrowing power from his past self.
• Zarathus regained his Mystic Seer abilities and prepared to strike Klein while he accommodated the characteristic.

Zarathus exploited Klein’s struggle against the Celestial Worthy to seize control of his Spirit Body Threads and turn him into a marionette. He took the Fool’s Uniqueness and began the ritual to become a god.

• Zarathus took control of a Gehrman Sparrow marionette and used it to confront Klein, whose mind and body were being overwhelmed by the Celestial Worthy.
• Zarathus seized Klein’s Spirit Body Threads and used the mental imprint in his Mystic Seer characteristic to disrupt Klein’s resistance.
• Zarathus briefly let the imprint help restore Klein’s balance, then took control of all his Spirit Body Threads and made him a marionette.
• Zarathus grafted Klein’s state onto himself, adopted the Fool’s appearance, and retrieved the Fool’s Uniqueness from the Historical Void.
• Zarathus pressed the Fool’s Uniqueness onto his face, beginning his attempt to ascend to godhood.

Zarathus used the Fool’s Uniqueness and a balance of entangled consciousnesses to become a true god, triggering Fooling across the world. In the Cursed Land, Angel killed Tolzna, cursed the fleeing Suah, and drank her Sequence 1 potion to advance toward becoming a Demoness.

• Zarathus grafted Antigonus’s and Klein’s mental imprints onto the Celestial Worthy’s consciousness, balanced them, and accommodated the Fool’s Uniqueness.
• Zarathus’s accommodation fooled intelligent creatures across the world, and he realized something was wrong as the effects took hold.
• Angel fought Tolzna and Suah in the Cursed Land while her diseases weakened them and Tolzna’s corruption threatened the Mirror World.
• When the worldwide Fooling confused everyone, Angel seized the opening and killed Tolzna with Chaos Vortices.
• Suah fled into the Spirit World, and Angel transmitted a lethal curse through his connection to Tolzna.
• Angel drank her prepared Sequence 1 potion, intending to accommodate its characteristic and ascend to godhood.

Angel accommodated the final Apocalypse characteristic and became the Primordial Demoness, while Klein outmaneuvered Zarathus and returned as the Fool. The Outer Deities sensed the Fool’s return and began violently attacking the barrier.

• Angel used the lingering apocalyptic aftermath of killing the Chained God Tolzna to accommodate the final Apocalypse characteristic, triggering disasters across the world.
• Angel’s characteristics and Demoness Uniqueness aggregated, and she became the new Primordial Demoness before a burst of confusion interrupted her pursuit of Zarathus.
• Zarathus appeared to become the Fool, but Klein’s parasitism and manipulation of fate caused Zarathus’s apparent ascension to be a deception that restored Klein’s identity and control.
• Klein used the bewilderment of gods and angels as an anchor to accommodate the Mystic Seer characteristics and Uniqueness.
• The Outer Deities sensed the Fool’s return, and their attacks made the barrier tremble as strange celestial signs appeared across the sky.

Klein completed his advancement and became the Fool, then returned to Sefirah Castle to assess his new powers and the dangers ahead. As he considered the second hint from the future, an old wooden door appeared and someone began unlocking it, signaling that Sefirah Castle had been invaded.

• Klein stabilized his new form as the Fool, gathered the characteristics left by Zarathus's marionettes, and returned to Sefirah Castle as Orville and Derrenburg collapsed into the Spirit World.
• Klein sensed that the gray fog had become transparent to him and reflected that he still needed to stabilize his identity as the Fool before the Outer Deities learned the truth.
• Klein considered the approaching apocalypse and sensed that Angel had become the Primordial Demoness, then extinguished her crimson star before she could detect him.
• Klein examined his authority of Fooling and recalled how it had blinded Zarathus and concealed his plan from Grisha Adam and Amon.
• Klein recalled the two hints about the Celestial Worthy and God Almighty, but an old wooden door suddenly appeared in Sefirah Castle as someone turned its brass lock.

Klein confronted Amon inside Sefirah Castle and realized their competing authority left them unable to force each other out, while he questioned Amon’s real purpose. In Trier, the Eternal Blazing Sun descended through Lutique to burn the Tree of Shadow, but a strange sunspot-covered Giant of Light appeared as the chapter ended.

• Amon entered Sefirah Castle and explained that he sought the sefirah, having recognized Klein’s plan to become the Fool.
• Klein tested his authority against Amon’s and found that neither could remove the other or leave while the other opposed it.
• Klein concluded that Amon was bluffing about releasing the Celestial Worthy’s will and wondered what he truly intended to accomplish.
• The Tree of Shadow recovered under crimson moonlight, pierced into Trier, and sent branches bursting through the city streets.
• The Eternal Blazing Sun descended through Lutique and set the Tree of Shadow ablaze with overwhelming golden light.
• A sunspot-covered Giant of Light formed on the sun in the Astral World as the Eternal Blazing Sun’s power struck the Tree of Shadow.

The Eternal Blazing Sun descended into the space beneath Trier to burn the Tree of Shadow, while Amon explained to Klein how the Lord of Mysteries and God Almighty differed in their methods of resurrection. The Sun began destroying the tree despite the danger to Trier, leaving Viève and Lutique shocked by his actions.

• The Eternal Blazing Sun entered the barrier and declared that he would burn the Tree of Shadow and eliminate the Mother Tree of Desire’s arrangements.
• Klein questioned Amon about the Sun’s descent, and Amon explained the Lord of Mysteries’ influence over many potential vessels through Sefirah Castle.
• Amon contrasted God Almighty’s concentrated approach to resurrection with the Lord of Mysteries’ strategy of cultivating multiple vessels, then said the Eternal Blazing Sun was likely in a poor state.
• Beneath Trier, the Eternal Blazing Sun appeared as Lutique’s divine possession ended and immediately set the Tree of Shadow ablaze.
• Viève and Lutique watched in shock as the Sun burned the tree despite the danger to Trier.

The Eternal Blazing Sun destroyed the Tree of Shadow, triggering an apparent sacrifice of Trier to the Mother Tree of Desire. The city was revealed to be an empty mirror copy, and the chapter ended with the Eternal Blazing Sun confronting Grisha Adam, his former Lord.

• The Abyss connected to the Tree of Shadow, stirring desires across Trier as its roots spread and threatened to sacrifice the city to the Mother Tree of Desire.
• The Eternal Blazing Sun burned the Tree of Shadow to ashes, and blood-colored light engulfed Trier before carrying the apparent sacrifice into the Abyss.
• The light faded to reveal that Trier had been replaced by a mirrored city, while Angel emerged from the Mirror World and the Mother Tree of Desire's plan failed.
• The Eternal Blazing Sun regained clarity as the Abyss receded, then watched his shadow separate and grow into the True Creator, Grisha Adam.
• The Eternal Blazing Sun asked Grisha Adam when he had discovered what was happening.

Grisha Adam confronted Osekes and revealed that Primordial God Almighty had been reviving within the Eternal Blazing Sun, while exposing Osekes’s cooperation with the Outer Deities. In Sefirah Castle, Klein and Amon discussed God Almighty’s plans and used the threat of his return to counter the Celestial Worthy, leaving their struggle unresolved.

• Grisha Adam told Osekes that he had discovered the Primordial’s influence within the Eternal Blazing Sun and explained how God Almighty’s revival had pressured several other beings.
• Grisha accused Osekes of agreeing to help the Outer Deities by destroying the Tree of Shadow and sacrificing Trier, and Osekes admitted the accusation was correct.
• Grisha argued that Amon and Klein would intensify their struggle for Sefirah Castle without his help, forcing Osekes to consider the consequences.
• Klein questioned Amon about the Eternal Blazing Sun, and Amon explained how God Almighty’s revival could turn Osekes into a vessel for the Pillar.
• Amon described God Almighty’s past connection to the Brood Hive and revealed Outer Deity plots to strengthen similarities between God Almighty and the Eternal Blazing Sun.
• Amon said he was addressing God Almighty through the gray fog, and Klein realized they were both invoking God Almighty’s revival to counter the Celestial Worthy.

Angel and Grisha Adam carried out their plan to kill the Eternal Blazing Sun, while Klein realized Amon had come to Sefirah Castle with a hidden purpose. The Sun’s return and the struggle over Sefirah Castle’s authority left the conflict poised to escalate.

• The True Creator killed the Eternal Blazing Sun, and Angel gathered two of the Sun’s remaining characteristics as the old sun vanished from the sky.
• Amanises and Roselle reinforced the barrier as the other gods filled the gaps left by the falling sun, while the Mother Goddess of Depravity pressed the crimson moon against it.
• A new sun rose over the Physical World, and Angel gave the Sun’s characteristics to Viève and Lutique as relics for the Church.
• Grisha told Angel they had used the Eternal Blazing Sun’s death to deceive a powerful existence, while Angel considered how Klein and Amon might have been involved in the plan.
• Klein realized Amon might be trying to deceive both God Almighty and the Celestial Worthy, but Amon stole the thought before Klein and Amon began fighting for control of Sefirah Castle.

Klein and Amon maintained a staged struggle over Sefirah Castle to deceive the Celestial Worthy and God Almighty while their resurrection plans remained uncertain. Amon relinquished his control to Klein, who attacked him; Amon later awoke without his Crystal Monocle and greeted a shadowed figure.

• Klein realized the upheaval in Sefirah Castle made outsiders believe the Celestial Worthy might soon revive, though he and Amon were only pretending to fight.
• Klein and Amon discussed the Celestial Worthy's slow revival and the concessions both Pillars were making to ensure their own side produced a Great Old One first.
• Amon said becoming the Lord of Mysteries had been a means rather than an end, then declared that Klein could keep the fate and responsibility for himself.
• Amon stopped contesting Sefirah Castle, returning its authority to Klein, who hurled the Roselle Card of Blasphemy at him in a supernova of light.
• Amon awoke in a hidden curtain of shadows without his familiar Crystal Monocle, put on a worn brass-framed monocle, and spoke with a figure in the shadows.

After defeating Amon, Klein confirmed that he remained at the Fool’s level while he stabilized, and he and Angel discussed their ascension and the threats facing Earth. At the next Tarot Club meeting, Angel took Mr. Fool’s place as host.

• Klein examined the Beyonder characteristics left by Amon and decided that accommodating another pathway’s Uniqueness would risk letting the Celestial Worthy take control.
• Klein checked on his allies and learned that Angel had become the Primordial Demoness after defeating Suah and that Tolzna had died fighting.
• Angel told Klein about the True Creator’s confrontation with the Eternal Blazing Sun, and Klein explained how he and Amon had deceived the Celestial Worthy and God Almighty during their battle above the gray fog.
• Klein and Angel discussed the dangers of advancing to Great Old Ones and the burden of defending the barrier, then set aside their responsibilities to stabilize themselves together.
• At the next Tarot Club meeting, Audrey noticed that Angel was sitting in the Fool’s seat and heard her announce that Mr. Fool was absent and she would preside.

Angel presided over the Tarot Club and explained that the Fool had defeated Amon and entered slumber, while the True Creator had defeated the Eternal Blazing Sun. She revealed that she had accommodated the final Apocalypse characteristic and become the new Primordial Demoness.

• Angel presided over the Tarot Club gathering in the Fool's absence, prompting members to wonder what had happened to him and to her.
• Alger asked why the Fool was absent, and Angel said he had fought Amon three days earlier, won, and entered a period of slumber.
• Angel revealed that the True Creator had merged with Adam, defeated the Eternal Blazing Sun, and restored the Sun to the sky.
• Derrick was reassured that the Sun had returned, while Cattleya asked whether Angel had caused the disasters that struck uninhabited areas.
• Angel confirmed that the disasters had accompanied her accommodation of the final Apocalypse characteristic and declared herself the new Primordial Demoness.

Angel announced herself as the new Primordial Demoness and tasked the Tarot Club with raising their sequences, spreading the Fool’s faith, and fighting evil gods. After the gathering, she altered a prophecy to bring the apocalypse forward to July 1354 and chose the title Benevolent Witch.

• Angel declared herself the Primordial Demoness, startling the Tarot Club members with her rapid rise to godhood.
• Angel told the members that the Fool was absent and urged them to become his angels by advancing and helping spread his faith.
• Angel warned the Tarot Club that fighting evil gods would be a major focus and would create opportunities for advancement.
• Angel saw that the World at the gathering was only a marionette and that the real Klein had fallen asleep after his battle with Amon.
• Angel used the Book of Revelation to change its prophecy from July 1368 to July 1354, then left Sefirah Castle calling herself the Benevolent Witch.

After stabilizing as a Sequence 0, Angel visited Saint Samuel Cathedral in a mirror projection and watched Benson Moretti and Lily Granger marry. Archbishop Anthony later sensed that a true god had attended the wedding, while Angel had already departed.

• Angel walked through Backlund, reflecting on the city’s recovery and the new vehicles, then entered Saint Samuel Cathedral.
• Angel watched Benson Moretti prepare to marry Lily Granger and wondered whether Klein felt any connection to his brother.
• Benson noticed several guests from Tingen and briefly wondered whether one shadowed man resembled a captain from Klein and Angel’s funeral.
• Benson saw Lily arrive, and the wedding began.
• After officiating, Anthony Stevenson sensed the lingering aura of a true god and realized the Goddess had arranged special treatment for the wedding.

Angel reflected on her family, the Church of the Fool, and the Tarot Club’s progress before visiting the Harvest Church in Backlund. There, she met Lilith, the Earth Mother, in a vision.

• Angel spoke to Arrodes about attending Benson and Lily’s wedding and planned to reunite with her family after the Apocalypse, while helping them become Beyonders in the meantime.
• Angel reviewed the Church of the Fool’s growing influence, its new angelic allies, and the Tarot Club members’ advancements over the past two months.
• Angel left the gray fog and went to the Harvest Church on Rose Street, where Archbishop Martina led her to a prayer room.
• Angel entered a vision of grass, grain, and trees, where Lilith appeared before her, cradling an invisible infant.

Angel questioned Lilith about her past as the Sanguine progenitor and learned how she became Omebella, the Earth Mother. Lilith revealed that the Mother Goddess of Depravity’s corruption was spreading through her and the Church, leaving Angel to propose that Lilith abandon the Mother identity and return to the Moon pathway.

• Angel asked Lilith whether she was the Sanguine progenitor, and Lilith confirmed she had survived from the First Epoch and explained how instinctive reproduction had created the Sanguine and helped restore her sanity.
• Lilith explained that Grisha and Amanises had arranged her apparent death and her replacement of Omebella so she could escape the conflict between her Uniquenesses, while investigating the Giant King’s children.
• Lilith told Angel that Omebella and Zedus were children of God Almighty and the Brood Hive, and that Zedus had cursed his sister to die at the hands of someone close to her.
• Angel asked about the Mother Goddess of Depravity’s influence, and Lilith showed her a manifestation of corruption while explaining that the Outer Deity had already affected members of the Church.
• Lilith said she had found no way to remove the corruption, so Angel suggested that she abandon her identity as Mother and return to Moon.

Angel spoke with Lilith about the dangers of the Mother and Moon pathways and the weakening barrier, then met Farbauti’s avatar, Naboredisley. Naboredisley revealed that he had come to discuss how to deal with the Tenebrous World.

• Angel warned Lilith that the Mother Goddess of Depravity could corrupt her and urged her to abandon the Mother pathway, while Lilith said the Moon pathway was dangerous too.
• Angel told Lilith that her divine kingdom would enter the Astral World within a month and explained that the Fool had fallen asleep after his battle with Error.
• Lilith explained the Brood Hive’s Mother symbolism and said Farbauti’s true body was not in this world, but that he would meet Angel if he wished.
• Angel left Lilith’s temporary divine kingdom and encountered an elderly man who identified himself as Naboredisley, one of Farbauti’s avatars.
• Naboredisley told Angel he wanted to discuss how she and the others could deal with the Tenebrous World.

Angel questioned Naboredisley, the Demon Monarch Farbauti, about his past and his struggle against the Mother Tree of Desire. They agreed to cooperate in a future attempt to use the Tenebrous World against her, and Farbauti ended by revealing that he had separated mostly good emotions from himself.

• Angel learned that Farbauti had transmigrated into a Devil, survived the First Epoch, and was banished by the Ancient Sun God to the island that he transformed into the Abyss.
• Farbauti explained that Devil Families preserved their ties to him, but the Mother Tree of Desire corrupted two great families and turned them toward planting the Tree of Shadow.
• Angel deduced that God Almighty's lingering will had helped Farbauti resist the Mother Tree of Desire's influence.
• Farbauti asked Angel to carry his mental imprint when she entered the Western Continent, allowing him to contact the Tenebrous World.
• Angel offered Farbauti the Chained Uniqueness and a Sequence 1 characteristic as an alternative, and they agreed to cooperate when a suitable opportunity arose.
• Farbauti recalled their earlier discussion of his Abomination avatar and said he had separated far more good emotions than bad ones.

Angel returned to the Dream City and convened the Witch Church’s senior members to review its resources and plan its future. She announced that the church would be renamed the End Church, outlined its mission ahead of the apocalypse, and introduced her revised honorific name.

• Angel visited the Witch Church headquarters in the Mirror World and asked Judith to convene a meeting.
• Angel asked Judith whom to give the spare Catastrophe characteristic to, and Judith recommended Katarina or Wensa.
• Katarina reported that the church had completed nine churches, with five more under construction, but remained short on lower-ranking members and secular influence.
• Angel told the Demonesses that she would soon travel to the Astral World and that the major churches would allow them to preach openly in exchange for their cooperation against the apocalypse.
• Angel announced that the Witch Church would be renamed the End Church and explained its teachings about preparing for catastrophe and helping others.
• Angel gave the Demonesses her revised honorific name: the Terminator of misfortune and strife, the Empress Wielding Chaos, the source of the Mirror World, the eternal companion of the Lord of Mysteries, and the Goddess of Calamity, Angel Granger.

Fors returned to Trier after becoming an angel and wrote to her teacher Dorian about her journey, the Abraham Family, and the world’s changes. She reunited with Xio, learned how the Tarot Club’s members had progressed, and recited the Goddess of Calamity’s honorific name.

• Fors wrote Dorian a letter announcing that she had become an angel and promising to share her collected knowledge while withholding dangerous details.
• Fors sent the letter through her Spirit World messenger, then traveled across landmarks in several countries to reconnect with the world after more than a year away.
• Fors appeared before Xio, who was surprised that Fors had returned as an angel and revealed that she had advanced to Sequence 3, Chaos Hunter.
• Xio told Fors about the Tarot Club members’ advancement and their roles in the changing churches and political situation.
• Fors recited the Goddess of Calamity’s honorific name to Xio, ending with the Goddess as the eternal companion of the Lord of Mysteries.

At a Tarot Club meeting, Audrey and Fors recovered memories of the cosmic threat and learned the barrier would disappear in six months, though Audrey forgot again upon leaving the gray fog. Elsewhere, Leonard investigated a cult’s Saint empowered by a boon, while Fors arrived in southern Intis.

• Empress explained that Audrey had hypnotized both herself and Fors to conceal dangerous knowledge, and Audrey restored their memories.
• Fors confirmed she had become an angel, and Empress warned that the barrier would disappear in six months rather than fourteen years.
• After leaving the gathering, Audrey forgot its details but felt urgency about advancing the Southern Continent’s liberation and spreading faith in the Fool and the Goddess of Calamity.
• Leonard and the Nighthawks defeated a cult led by a Saint whose power came from a boon, and Pallez advised Leonard not to investigate the worshipped existence too deeply.
• Pallez sensed a familiar trace somewhere in the southwest, the Central Plateau, or Intis.
• Fors arrived in the Dale Riz region of southern Intis and looked toward a quiet village.

Fors investigated the vanished Cordu Village and found the ruins of a village destroyed by a ritual that summoned an Outer Deity’s power. There she met Amon, who revealed that the ritual had succeeded and that he had become an angel of the Circle of Inevitability.

• Fors approached Cordu Village invisibly and discovered that its apparent emptiness concealed a barrier that swallowed her Mirror Substitution.
• Fors crossed the barrier and found a ruined village beneath a blood-red sky, with a ritual mountain at its center and no living villagers.
• Fors sensed an Outer Deity’s power and found Amon standing beside a charred altar among the remains.
• Amon explained that cultists and a corrupted priest had sacrificed Cordu Village to summon an Outer Deity’s angel, using the breach that opened when Fors returned to the planet.
• Amon denied disrupting the ritual and told Fors that it had succeeded, making him an angel of the Circle of Inevitability.