Recaps

Angel investigated Nast Solomon’s corruption in Belon and the Sauron Family’s ties to the Demoness Sect while Klein organized a hunt for Butis. The hunt ended with Shermane wounded, Leonard alive, and Klein and Angel fighting Zarathus, leaving Klein to consider advancing to Miracle Invoker before entering the Forsaken Land of the Gods.

• Leonard learned from Shermane that Mr. K was recruiting attendees and buying weapons, but canceled a Red Gloves raid after sensing a demigod at the gathering.
• The Tarot Club prepared to hunt the Aurora Order’s Mystic Saint, Butis, while Audrey finished digesting her Dreamwalker potion and advanced to Sequence 4 as a Manipulator.
• Angel and Bernadette investigated Nast Solomon’s corruption in Belon, destroyed an altar of corrupted infants, and learned that Nast had spread the Great Mother’s faith among villagers before disappearing.
• Angel questioned Clarice about the Demoness Sect and the Sauron Family, defeated her, and learned from her Mirror Person that Sauron’s evil spirit had been empowered to deal with the family’s troubles.
• Cattleya and Audrey defeated Butis while Leonard’s Red Gloves raided an Aurora Order gathering, but Kisma trapped Leonard and Shermane and gravely wounded Shermane before Klein’s marionette rescued them.
• Klein tried to release Kisma, but Zarathus trapped him and took Creeping Hunger, and Klein escaped through the History Void as Angel fought Zarathus in the Mirror World.
• Angel and Klein recovered the Beyonder characteristics left by Zarathus and discussed Klein’s possible path into the Forsaken Land of the Gods, while Klein chose not to reveal that he was the Fool.

Klein entered the Forsaken Land of the Gods while Angel survived a Demoness ambush and investigated the School of Truth and Salinger’s Blood Banner. The arc left Angel learning from Azik how Death Salinger sought to use the Red Priest Uniqueness to become half a Great Old One.

• Klein and Angel traded the Box of the Great Old Ones for the Staff of the Stars, then Angel carried Klein’s corpse through a passage to the Forsaken Land of the Gods, where he revived.
• Klein explored the land and secretly entered the City of Silver, where he found three Amon avatars and asked Colin Iliad for help confronting them.
• Angel survived a Blue Witch’s apocalyptic attack on Sona Island, saved the harbor’s inhabitants, and investigated the School of Truth with Alicia Tamara.
• Amon ambushed Pallez, took his Sequence 1 characteristic, and escaped, while Pallez revealed Amon’s apotheosis ritual to Klein and Leonard.
• Angel learned that Salinger’s Blood Banner was the Red Priest Uniqueness, then enlisted Audrey to enter Azik’s dream and find him.
• Audrey and Angel navigated Azik’s divided dreams, where Angel fought Feysac invaders without her Beyonder abilities before reuniting with Azik.
• Angel asked Azik about Salinger, and he explained that Death had tried to accommodate the Red Priest Uniqueness with the True Creator’s promise to cleanse its corruption using the River Styx and the City of Calamity.

Angel and her allies investigated Molora, the City of Exile, while Angel and Klein explored Chernobyl and learned more about the Ancient Sun God, Amon, and the Chaos Sea. The arc left Angel returning to Sona Island, Klein advancing toward the Giant King’s Court, and Helene preparing for a dangerous operation in Molora.

• Angel learned that Helene, William, and Tia had been exiled to Molora, where she tasked them with finding Salinger’s Blood Banner and resisting the city’s influence.
• Bernadette was targeted by Nast Solomon and the Mother Goddess of Depravity, but Angel rescued her and helped remove the corruption while warning her about the Outer Deities.
• Angel fought Feysac forces and later answered a prayer from Loen’s fleet, while Katerina offered Tracy a path to advance by taking on the despair of thirty thousand people.
• Angel joined Klein in the Forsaken Land of the Gods, where they fought and killed the giant Glory before entering the sealed research complex at Chernobyl.
• Klein and Angel found records of a corrupting substance at Chernobyl and followed a silent call into its depths, where Amon explained the site’s ties to the Ancient Sun God, the Chaos Sea, and the Blasphemy Slates.
• Amon warned Klein that his advancement would attract powerful beings and said his main body would meet them at the Giant King’s Court, then disappeared into the pit connected to the Chaos Sea.
• Angel and Klein parted after leaving Chernobyl, and Klein fully digested his Scholar of Yore potion in the Grey Fog Space.
• The Golden Queen ordered Helene to advance her operation in Molora, continue learning from Hella Berg, and accept a Calamity boon to become a Sequence 5 Beyonder.

Angel helped Helene confront the corruption surrounding Salinger’s Blood Banner, while Helene survived Molora’s uprising and became a Despair Demoness. Back in Backlund, Angel and Audrey tried to address the grain crisis as Klein prepared a hunt for a Demonic Wolf.

• Angel purified the Planeswalker and Barren Matriarch characteristics, while Helene received a boon from the City of Calamity and began investigating the Underground Mausoleum.
• Helene fought Lisa and joined Gusin’s plans to enter the mausoleum, then used a map and Ice Mirror Charms to descend while a riot erupted outside the Knowledge Church.
• Helene found Gusin and Lisa in a Special Mirror World, where Lisa’s Sapphire Ring released the Primordial Demoness and Salinger’s Blood Banner broke free of its seal.
• Helene used the powers of twilight and death to stop Lisa and Gusin, then took Lisa’s Affliction characteristic and Gusin’s Reaper characteristic from the mausoleum.
• Helene used 0-01 to spread a plague through Church Square and advanced to Despair Demoness before leaving Molora with William and Tia.
• Angel investigated the altered Demoness rituals on Roselle’s Card of Blasphemy and concluded that its creator likely knew she was a transmigrator.
• Angel told Klein she suspected the Evernight Goddess was a transmigrator, then agreed to help him hunt the Demonic Wolf for a Miracle Invoker characteristic.
• Audrey failed to persuade her family to release grain reserves, so she organized workers and marchers to pressure the wealthy as nobles began donating grain.