Recaps

Fors learned that Amon had stolen the fate of Termiboros, an Inevitability archangel, to return to Earth, and Angel arrived to stop him from escaping. Above the gray fog, Angel revealed that the confrontation was staged to conceal their plans as the Outer Deities pressed against the barrier.

• Fors realized that Amon had taken power from the Circle of Inevitability and learned he had followed her into the cosmos to use her return passage.
• Amon explained that he stole Termiboros's fate after a god intercepted and severely injured the archangel, with Mr. Fool's assistance.
• Angel arrived at Cordu Village, linked Fors to her team, and ordered her to help stop Amon from leaving.
• Angel and another powerful ally pursued Amon, who escaped Cordu Village by exploiting his fate during a meteorite explosion.
• Angel dimmed the stars associated with Fors and explained that the staged pursuit would help hide their preparations as the Outer Deities began sending archangels through the barrier.

Derrick and his companions completed the City of Silver’s exchange of the Gift of the Land for a Sequence 2 Lightseeker characteristic, while Emlyn considered a request from the Temperance Faction and received an unexpected visit from Azik. The chapter left Azik seeking the locations of Zedus’s remains after obtaining coordinates for an Otherworld in the Raklev Region.

• Derrick, Waite Chirmont, and Lovia Tiffany prepared to trade the Gift of the Land with Saint Viève of the Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun.
• Saint Viève took the Gift of the Land and left behind a Lightseeker Beyonder characteristic, while Derrick, Waite, and Lovia felt bewildered by its departure.
• Emlyn read Sharron’s letter requesting cooperation to find Zedus’s remains, investigate Omebella’s traces in Raklev City, and locate the Mother-pathway Card of Blasphemy.
• Emlyn agreed to help with the first two matters but said he would consult the Sanguine Dukes about the card.
• Azik arrived and asked Sharron for the precise coordinates of an Otherworld in the Raklev Region, then returned to request the locations where Zedus’s remains had been found.

Angel reflected on the approaching Apocalypse and her preparations to bring it forward once the gods were ready, while Klein secretly continued accommodating Sefirah Castle. She traveled to the ruins of Old Trier to conduct a mystical communion and reach the City of Calamity, where an unknown figure emerged from her shadow.

• Angel pursued the Outer Deities around the Astral barrier and considered the dangers that made waiting for the foretold Apocalypse too risky.
• Angel reviewed her plans to prepare the gods, limit the Mother Goddess of Depravity, and help Klein accommodate Sefirah Castle while concealing their true condition.
• Angel concluded that she needed to enter the Western Continent and defeat the will of the City of Calamity before the other gods advanced.
• Angel traveled through Trier's Mirror World to the sealed ruins of Fourth Epoch Trier and reached the palace where Blood Emperor Tudor had fallen.
• Angel prepared to conduct a final mystical communion and travel to the City of Calamity, but a figure emerged from her shadow.

Angel entered the Western Continent through mystic communion, intending to reach the City of Calamity and accommodate its power before the seal weakened further. At the Dragon Locking Well, the Dao Integrators gathered to help her confront the Malevolent Dragon.

• Angel summoned Farbauti, and his avatar Naboredisley agreed to join her in the Western Continent because their interests aligned.
• Angel lit the Corpse Oil Candle in Fourth Epoch Trier and performed the mystic ritual while Angel Gray watched over her.
• Angel's spirit reached the tower sealing the Malevolent Dragon, where Farbauti detached from her and joined the Master of the Shadow Cottage, the Tenebrous World's Dao Integrator.
• The Dao Integrators of the Nation of Disorder, River of Eternal Darkness, Key of Light, and Knowledge Moor arrived at the Dragon Locking Well.
• Angel asked the assembled Dao Integrators to help her slay the Malevolent Dragon.

Angel and Gray entered the sealed sea of blood to confront the Malevolent Dragon, while the Dao Integrators used the sefirot and the seal’s spirits to restrain it. After the dragon’s roar and charm disrupted their connection, the Haoli Sect Master restored the spirits’ control, giving Angel and Gray a chance to target the point where the dragon’s three heads fused.

• The Celestial Master, Holy Monk, Master of the Shadow Cottage, Haoli Sect Master, and distant Celestial Thearch invoked the powers of their sefirot to weaken the seal around the Malevolent Dragon.
• Angel crossed from the Mirror World into the sea of blood, where Gray joined her as a King of Angel wielding the Red Priest Uniqueness.
• Angel recognized the Malevolent Dragon’s fused Red Priest and Demoness bodies and its third head, which she suspected embodied God Almighty’s interference.
• The Malevolent Dragon’s roar and charm broke Angel and Gray’s connection and turned many of the seal’s evil spirits against one another as it tried to escape.
• The Haoli Sect Master used the River of Eternal Darkness to regain control of the evil spirits, who pulled the chains taut and restrained the Malevolent Dragon.
• Angel and Gray reconnected, and Angel aimed a trace of darkness at the point where the Malevolent Dragon’s three heads fused.

Angel and Gray attacked the Malevolent Dragon by exploiting the imprints within it, but the dragon escaped the Mirror World and countered with destructive powers. Angel combined the authorities of the City of Calamity and the River of Eternal Darkness into a final strike, and the sea of blood began to shake as she brought it down.

• Angel triggered the lingering consciousnesses inside the Malevolent Dragon, causing them to flee and leaving it maddened and unable to think clearly.
• The dragon tried to ignite the imbalance between Angel’s Demoness and Red Priest powers, but the Chaos Vortex within her restored their balance and caused its human head’s eyes to burst.
• Gray charged the dragon with a Chaos Vortex while Angel compressed the sea of blood, but the Dao Integrators weakened the seal and the dragon escaped the Mirror World.
• The Malevolent Dragon destroyed Gray’s attack with black flames, but Gray revived as Angel’s Mirror Person, and they launched another assault.
• The dragon summoned a black-hole-like calamity that began pulling Gray in, so Angel joined the Bone Sword’s powers of Chaos and Destruction with the dark waters of the River of Eternal Darkness.
• Angel exchanged places with Gray and struck at the black hole and the Malevolent Dragon, causing the sea of blood and the binding chains to shake violently.

Angel and Gray began a coordinated attempt to accommodate the City of Calamity after Angel destroyed the Malevolent Dragon, whose spirit began to reform. Angel drew the sefirah from the Western Continent while Gray worked to accommodate its leaked power in the Mirror World, revealing their shared, specially arranged role.

• Angel swung the collapsing Bone Sword at the Malevolent Dragon, while Gray rallied the evil ghosts by calling them fellow Daoists and renewed their resolve to hold it in place.
• The evil ghosts tightened their chains, and Angel struck the Malevolent Dragon; the resulting black point swallowed the dragon, the sea of blood, the chains, and the ghosts before exploding and destroying the seal's contents.
• Angel and Gray escaped the explosion, but the Malevolent Dragon began reforming because the City of Calamity remained intact.
• Angel separated the City of Calamity from the vast Western Continent city and drew it toward herself, while she waited for Gray's part of their plan.
• Gray returned to the Mirror World and began drawing in the leaked City of Calamity power as the false city collapsed, preparing to provide the physical foundation Angel lacked.
• Gray saw the blood-red banner mark emerge on her chest as the City of Calamity shrank toward her.

Gray and Angel entered the City of Calamity’s consciousness space and challenged the Malevolent Dragon’s resurrection, using the Oldest One’s symbolism to disrupt its return. The Malevolent Dragon survived a second destruction and, with the Dao Integrators’ minds restored, faced an amused question from Angel.

• Gray and Angel concluded that God Almighty had arranged safeguards against the Mirrored Original Creator’s resurrection, then drew the mirrored City of Calamity’s power into Gray’s chest mark.
• Gray and Angel entered the City of Calamity’s consciousness space as the Malevolent Dragon began taking shape on the staircase to the god’s throne.
• Angel charmed the Dao Integrators while Gray summoned Cheek, Tudor, and the Oldest One’s feminine and masculine aspects to block the Malevolent Dragon’s revival.
• Gray and Angel guided the four figures into a symbolic fusion that triggered the Original Creator’s awakening and a universe-forming explosion.
• The Malevolent Dragon was destroyed and resurrected again, regaining the Dao Integrators’ minds before an amused voice asked whether it found the situation funny.

Angel confronted the Malevolent Dragon in the consciousness space and weakened it by merging with it, while Gray’s departure interrupted the Original Creator’s fusion. Angel ultimately accommodated the City of Calamity, and the seal holding the Malevolent Dragon dissolved.

• Angel survived the catastrophe and warned the Malevolent Dragon that its death would leave it vulnerable to her and other challengers.
• Angel tore off the Malevolent Dragon’s head of chaos and hurled it toward Cheek, Tudor, and the Mirror Creator’s aspects to hasten their fusion into the Original Creator.
• Gray returned to the Physical World with the Mirror Creator’s masculine aspect, disrupting the fusion and causing Cheek, Tudor, and the feminine aspect to leave the consciousness space.
• Angel merged with the Malevolent Dragon, resisted the imprints of its countless minds, and channeled its consciousness toward the Original Creator’s feminine aspect before weakening and replacing what remained.
• Gray appeared beneath the Dragon Locking Tower and told the Dao Integrators that she believed in Angel, then realized Angel had accommodated the City of Calamity as the seal dissolved.

Angel overcame the awakened consciousness of the City of Calamity and took control of the Sefirah, becoming a half Great Old One because she still lacked the Red Priest pathway’s remaining cornerstone. After confirming the catastrophe had passed, she returned to Sefirah Castle and drew Gray into the gray fog, where Klein appeared.

• Angel resisted the City of Calamity’s accumulated memories and the Malevolent Dragon’s remaining instincts until she reached the bloodstained throne and defeated the Sefirah’s awakened consciousness.
• Angels across the Demoness and Red Priest pathways sensed a new existence at their pathways’ pinnacle, while Glaide Sauron, Medici, Diste, Judith, Tisha Vika, and Eugina reacted to the change.
• Angel told the Celestial Master, the Holy Monk, the Haoli Sect Master, and the Master of the Shadow Cottage that the Malevolent Dragon had fallen and that she controlled the City of Calamity, but she was only half a Great Old One.
• Angel and Gray vanished from the Western Continent, and Angel later used Sefirah Castle to draw Gray into the gray fog.
• Angel looked toward the Fool’s seat, and Klein appeared at the head of the long bronze table.

Klein explained how the Celestial Worthy’s compromise let him steadily approach control of Sefirah Castle while keeping its consciousness dormant until the apocalypse ended. Angel then used her Mirror Ruler authority to exchange the City of Calamity with its reflection and pull the true sefirah out from behind the Western Continent’s seal.

• Klein met with Angel and Gray, learned that Angel had defeated the Malevolent Dragon, and heard that she had accommodated the City of Calamity but still needed Red Priest authorities to become a Great Old One.
• Angel and Klein discussed the tiers of Great Old Ones and why ordinary ones could not break the Celestial Worthy’s seal over the Western Continent.
• Klein explained that Amon’s compromise and the Celestial Worthy’s concessions had allowed him to approach accommodating Sefirah Castle without entering deep slumber, and that the Celestial Worthy had agreed not to interfere before the apocalypse ended.
• Klein said the Celestial Worthy’s conditions were that neither the Original Creator nor Primordial God Almighty come into being, and revealed that the Celestial Worthy had disclosed the existence of the Fourth Pillar.
• Angel teased Klein about the destructive urges she had gained from accommodating the City of Calamity, while Gray coughed at their exchange.
• Angel used the Mirror Ruler’s authority to swap the true City of Calamity with its reflection across the seal, drawing the sefirah out of the Western Continent.

After accommodating the City of Calamity, Angel assessed Earth’s preparations for the approaching apocalypse and the vast power gap between Great Old Ones and True Gods. She received Tia’s report that the search had uncovered the portion of the corpse Angel had requested.

• Angel returned to her divine kingdom, where the True Creator helped seal the barrier while the Outer Deities tested it.
• Angel considered the approaching apocalypse, Klein’s plan to delay accommodating Sefirah Castle, and the preparations of Earth’s other gods and allies.
• Angel judged that Earth’s gods would be overwhelmed by the Outer Deities without the power of sefirahs and considered Lilith’s danger and Earth’s possible chances.
• Angel sensed prayers from her believers and focused on Tia in an inn in Azshara.
• Tia called on Angel and revealed that she had found the portion of the corpse Angel had asked them to search for.

Angel received half of Zedus’s corpse from the Church of Knowledge and sent it to her divine kingdom as she continued gathering his remains. She confirmed the apocalypse was approaching, then presided over the Tarot Club, where Fors returned from the cosmos and announced that she had become an angel.

• Angel appeared before Tia, who explained that Hella Berg had handed over half of Zedus’s corpse in accordance with a divine revelation.
• Angel confirmed that three other pieces of Zedus’s remains were hidden across the Spirit World, the Southern Continent, and the ocean, then sent the corpse half to her divine kingdom.
• Angel told Tia that the apocalypse would come sooner and considered how to protect ordinary people from the coming war.
• At the Tarot Club gathering, Angel appeared in the Fool’s seat, and the members realized that Mr. Fool had not awakened.
• Angel welcomed Fors back from her journey through the cosmos, and Fors announced that she had become an angel.

Fors returned to the Tarot Club as an angel and described her Planeswalker abilities, while the members exchanged reports on Zedus's remains, Loen's withdrawal from the Southern Continent, and a cult serving Inevitability. Angel explained the Circle Inhabitant's power and warned that its cosmic origins were dangerous to investigate; as the gathering ended, Leonard asked to give letters to Mr. Fool, and Angel agreed.

• The Tarot Club members learned that Fors had become an angel, and she explained her Planeswalker abilities and offered to help with difficult matters.
• Alger reported that part of Zedus's corpse was moving through the Fog Sea toward the Western Continent, while Emlyn reported that another portion and Omebella's power had entered the Underworld.
• Audrey reported that Loen planned to reduce its overseas garrisons and relinquish Southern Continent colonies, and Angel linked the change to Roselle Gustav's return as the Black Emperor.
• Leonard described fighting an unusual saint who served Inevitability, and Angel identified the enemy's power as that of a Circle Inhabitant, which could loop up to nine times.
• As the gathering ended, Leonard asked Angel whether he could give letters to Mr. Fool, and she told him he could do so anytime.

Fors and Azik prepared to enter a special Underworld to search for Zedus’s remains, while Alger’s crew found another part of the corpse at sea. The chapter also showed Medici and Glaide discussing the Conqueror characteristic and the Goddess’s progress toward becoming the Calamity of Destruction.

• Glaide Sauron and Medici discussed the missing Conqueror characteristic, Einhorn’s prospects, and the Goddess’s struggle to control the City of Calamity.
• Fors met Azik Eggers in the Lakre region, where they prepared to search for Zedus’s remains and wait for another helper before entering a special Underworld.
• Azik explained the Underworld’s dangers and gave Fors a Golden Mask to protect her from its deathly aura.
• A blond, red-eyed woman in a somber gown arrived to join Fors and Azik.
• Alger used a Brass Compass and part of Zedus’s corpse to search the sea, then ordered his ships to stop and search underwater.
• Alger’s crew found a head in the sea.

Fors, Reinette Tinekerr, and Azik entered the Underworld and began traveling toward the River Styx, while Azik explained its history and dangers. Elsewhere, Antigonus visited the ruins of the Nation of the Evernight and reunited with Bethel.

• Azik led Fors and Reinette through the gateway beside Dalsh Lake, explaining that an Undying’s skull had opened the passage to the Underworld.
• Azik described the Underworld’s layered worlds and guided the group into a wilderness of skeletons, where they spotted the River Styx.
• Azik explained that the original Death, Phoenix Ancestor Gregrace, created the Underworld using the Door Uniqueness, and that Salinger killed her and took control of it.
• Fors tested a short-range teleport, avoided the Underworld’s grasping arms, and returned to Azik and Reinette before the three vanished together.
• Antigonus walked through the ruins of the Nation of the Evernight and greeted Bethel, who appeared in the shadows of his former palace.

Antigonus and Bethel encountered Amon, who had stolen Termiboros’s fate and identity, while hunting the Archangel of the Circle of Inevitability. Meanwhile, Fors, Azik, and Reinette crossed the River Styx in search of Zedus’s final body part, heading toward the palace where Gregrace’s divine body lay.

• Bethel and Antigonus met at the ruins of Antigonus’s former castle and revealed that both were pursuing Termiboros.
• Amon appeared wearing Termiboros’s face and explained that the Circle of Inevitability had sent a Sequence 1 Characteristic into the barrier for a purpose beyond disrupting events.
• Amon gave Antigonus Zedus’s severed arm and proposed continuing their old game of angels chasing one another, with the loser owing the winner a request.
• Fors, Azik, and Reinette reached the River Styx and crossed it by boat with the aid of a ferryman who obeyed Azik.
• Azik led the group onward toward a church and passage to the Underworld’s deepest palace, where he believed Zedus’s final body part might be found near Gregrace’s divine body.

Fors, Azik, and Reinette reached Death’s ruined palace in the Underworld and found the Phoenix Ancestor’s corpse linked to the Mother Goddess of Depravity’s power of new life. After Fors retrieved Zedus’s half-corpse, Gregrace opened her eyes, and Reinette declared that she was only a phantom with status but no power.

• Azik explained why Salinger had kept Gregrace’s corpse in the Underworld and guided Fors and Reinette through its deepest levels.
• Fors, Azik, and Reinette found Gregrace’s corpse atop Death’s ruined palace, along with a black egg and signs that the Phoenix might be affected by the Mother Goddess of Depravity.
• Fors noticed the crawling half-corpse of Zedus and stole the distance to bring it to them before storing it away.
• Gregrace opened her eyes, and her awakening shook the Pale Kingdom and suppressed Fors, Azik, and Reinette.
• Fors used the Sun pathway’s purification power to free herself and help Azik, while preparing to retreat with him and Reinette.
• Reinette transformed into her giant cloth-doll mythical creature form and said Gregrace was only a phantom with status but no power.

Angel watched Fors, Azik, and Reinette battle the resurrected Phoenix Ancestor Gregrace in the Underworld, then empowered a charm that let them destroy her. Gregrace’s crimson aura fled toward her egg but was trapped inside a mirror, leaving the fate of her resurrection uncertain.

• Angel observed the battle through a mirror and sent power into a Calamity charm used by Reinette.
• Fors realized Gregrace was not a true God and attacked her with Purification, lightning, meteors, and a Reenactment of a black hole.
• Gregrace’s Pale Kingdom suppressed Fors’s abilities until Azik donned the Pale Crown and restored their strength.
• Reinette cursed Gregrace and restrained her while Azik tried to separate her spirit from her body and Fors summoned Angel’s historical projection.
• Reinette pressed the empowered Calamity charm to Gregrace’s forehead, causing the Phoenix Ancestor to disintegrate and collapse onto the palace.
• Gregrace’s crimson aura flew toward her egg, but a small mirror intercepted it and trapped it within its surface.

Fors, Reinette Tinekerr, and Azik defeated Gregrace and sealed the Mother Goddess of Depravity’s power in the Underworld, then reunited Zedus’s scattered remains with Bethel Abraham, Alger, and Emlyn. Zedus returned to life under the influence of the Mother Card of Blasphemy, but his transformation stopped halfway as he stared at Emlyn.

• Reinette Tinekerr used a mirror to contain the Mother Goddess of Depravity’s escaping power, while Azik sealed the Pale Crown after it helped defeat Gregrace.
• Fors teleported herself, Azik, and Reinette out of the Underworld, leaving Gregrace’s Phoenix egg and the sealed power behind.
• Zedus’s remains turned toward Bethel Abraham and Alger, who brought the final pieces of his corpse; the parts fused together and the corpse stood up.
• Bethel identified a boon’s power within Zedus, and Emlyn arrived with the Mother Card of Blasphemy after the Sanguine Ancestor had directed him to bring it.
• Under the Mother card’s influence, Zedus shed his decayed flesh and began transforming, but the change halted halfway as his scarlet eyes fixed on Emlyn.

Emlyn and the angels discovered that Zedus had revived and reacted violently to the Mother card, whose power appeared linked to the Mother Goddess of Depravity. After Angel seized the card and extracted a hidden Beyonder characteristic, Audrey received a message that Adam—or the True Creator—wanted to see Angel and the Fool.

• Zedus revived when Emlyn displayed the Mother card, and a distant voice drove Emlyn and Alger toward losing control before Roselle and Angel intervened, taking Zedus and the card away.
• The angels concluded that Zedus had been killed after receiving a boon from the Moon pathway and that the Mother card had triggered his incomplete transformation toward a female form.
• Angel activated the Mother card inside the City of Calamity and found hidden Sequence names for Valley God and Tree God, then used her chaos authority to destroy the card's manifestation and obtain a withered-root Beyonder characteristic.
• Audrey returned from a Review Council meeting, recalled that she needed to report the ancient Mind Dragon Edefana's whereabouts, and went above the gray fog.
• Audrey told Angel that Adam, or the True Creator, wanted to see Angel and the Fool.

Angel learned that the True Creator’s preparations were complete and that Lilith had agreed to sacrifice herself in a plan against the Mother Goddess of Depravity. With Klein, she decided to stop hiding as the true Fool awakened within Sefirah Castle.

• Audrey told Angel that the True Creator had asked her to relay the messages “Everything is ready” and “Lilith has agreed,” and gave Angel a lead on the Mind Dragon Edefana.
• Angel offered to let Audrey discern her subconscious to help complete the ritual for advancing to Sequence 2, and Audrey accepted the prospect with surprise.
• After Audrey left, Klein teased Angel about becoming the Tarot Club’s first choice for help, then asked what the True Creator’s messages meant.
• Angel explained that the plan used Zedus and Omebella’s remains and symbolism to let Lilith influence the Mother Goddess of Depravity, though Lilith would have to die for it to work.
• Angel and Klein agreed to begin, and Klein became indistinct to Angel’s perception as the true Fool awakened within Sefirah Castle.

Klein explained how he had mastered Sefirah Castle and how Angel planned to become the Calamity of Destruction while containing the danger of the Mirrored Original Creator. Audrey entered Angel’s dream and uncovered clues about Chariot’s identity before arriving at the Moretti home in Tingen City.

• Klein told Angel that he had fully mastered Sefirah Castle and could become the Lord of Mysteries quickly if necessary.
• Angel explained that she planned to accommodate an extra Apocalypse characteristic to keep the Mirrored Original Creator from awakening, while Klein warned against using that danger as a weapon.
• Audrey entered Angel’s dream through a corridor of mirrors and avoided a trap by sending a virtual persona through a suspicious doorway.
• Audrey recognized that the figure of Empress in the black mirror resembled Chariot and inferred that Chariot was Empress’s other identity.
• Audrey stepped through the black mirror and found herself on Daffodil Street in Tingen City, outside Number 2, the Moretti home.

Audrey explored the depths of the Goddess of Calamity’s subconscious and discovered both a warm family dinner and a hidden, dangerous manifestation of Miss Empress. After seeing signs that Storm and Wisdom might be merging with the True Creator, Audrey fully digested her Dream Weaver potion and stood ready to advance to Sequence 2.

• Audrey recognized the Moretti and Granger families gathered for dinner in the dream, including Angel preparing a lamb stew that won everyone’s praise.
• Audrey watched Benson, Lily, and their young daughter leave, then entered the house and found a crying girl resembling a younger Angel locked in the basement.
• A flash of radiance revealed three terrifying figures hidden in the basement, and Audrey escaped before she could clearly remember them.
• Audrey saw lightning, shadows, and a book-built tower in the sky and realized that Storm and Wisdom might be joining the True Creator.
• Audrey completed the digestion of her Dream Weaver potion and had already fulfilled the ritual to advance to Sequence 2 Discerner.

Grisha Adam asked Herabergen and Leodoro to fuse with him so he could become the Pillar-level God Almighty, and both agreed despite Leodoro’s pride. As the fusion began under Amanises’s concealment, Amon warned that the Mother Goddess of Depravity could trigger the Apocalypse before its predicted time by invoking the Chaos Primogenitor.

• Amanises secretly gathered Grisha Adam, Leodoro, and Herabergen to discuss the need to create another Pillar before the Apocalypse.
• Herabergen agreed to fuse with Grisha Adam, relying on his avatar Hella Berg as a fallback, while Leodoro initially refused to submit to his former lord.
• Amanises persuaded Leodoro that sacrificing everything for the greater good was not surrender, and he agreed to face the fusion.
• Grisha Adam began the fusion in the Forsaken Land of the Gods as Amanises concealed the process, and the stars and crimson moon vanished from the sky.
• On the Plains of Evernight, Amon told Bethel Abraham and Angel Gray that the Mother Goddess of Depravity could invoke the Chaos Primogenitor and shatter the barrier, bringing the Apocalypse unexpectedly early.