Vol. 5The Calamity’s Bargain

Angel and Klein pursued dangerous mysteries and pirate threats while Angel sought a path to advancement and made a binding bargain with Queen Anne’s Revenge. The volume ended with them on separate assignments, each experiencing a strange dream of the other.

  • Angel escaped the Trier catacombs, returned to Bansy Harbor, and helped Klein kill Steel Maviti before Azik warned them away from the mysteries beneath Bansy and Trier.
  • Angel and the Mandated Punishers killed Bishop Miller and rescued his captives, then Angel uncovered Roselle’s diary pages and escaped Church pursuers with Pierre’s help.
  • Angel and Klein investigated Para Island’s spreading nightmare and learned that Pierce Turner’s failed Sequence 4 ritual had trapped Linhai Town in dreams.
  • Angel destroyed Pierce’s corrupted body with a Calamity Charm and entrusted the Night Emblem to Mr. Fool.
  • Angel and Klein infiltrated the Black Death, defeated Tracy, and learned that she had given Qilangos’s Death documents to the Demoness Sect.
  • Angel made a deal with Helene to fund a ship and crew, then joined Klein and Alger in fighting a Hypnotic Wind Chime Tree.
  • Angel and Klein fought Gazers on Nameless Island, where Anne contracted Angel to command Queen Anne’s Revenge temporarily and help find Bernadette.
  • Angel and Klein returned to Bayam and later pursued separate assignments, while dreams left each with an image of the other.
Chapters 401–500 Read from ch. 401

Arc 17The Bansy-Trier Loop

Angel was swept from Bansy Harbor into Trier’s Underground Catacombs and returned through a blood ritual, while she and Klein uncovered the danger tied to both places. Back in Bayam, they helped Danitz kill Steel Maviti, then learned from Azik that the mysteries beneath Bansy and Trier should remain untouched until they became Demigods.

  • Angel and the Mandated Punishers raided Bishop Miller’s sacrificial ritual, killed him, and rescued Donna and the other captives, but the altar transported Angel to Trier.
  • Angel escaped the catacombs with Pierre’s help, met Sevillea and Laura, and found Roselle’s diary pages while Church pursuers tracked her.
  • Angel returned to Bansy Harbor through the ritual, rejoined Klein, and realized that her three days in Trier had taken place alongside her life aboard the White Agate.
  • Angel met Alger in Bayam and arranged for his help finding Beyonder gatherings and pirate bounties, while Alger recognized her as Empress Angel Granger.
  • After Steel Maviti wounded Danitz, Angel healed him and agreed with Klein to use him as bait, drawing Maviti’s crew into an ambush.
  • Klein and Angel killed Maviti and Skaal, escaped the approaching Mandated Punishers, and left Danitz behind to spread a cover story.
  • Azik explained that Bansy and Trier concealed a power of extreme change and ancient ruins, warned Angel and Klein not to investigate before becoming Demigods, and taught them to make Calamity Charms.
Chapters 401–425 Summaries Read

Arc 18The Nightmare Beneath Para Island

Angel traveled from Bayam to Midway Island in search of advancement clues, then investigated Para Island’s mine and uncovered a failed Demigod ritual that had spread a nightmare across the island. She destroyed Pierce’s corrupted body and entrusted the dangerous Night Emblem to Mr. Fool, while Klein wondered how much stronger she had become.

  • Angel formed a messenger contract with Wensa, and she and Klein assessed their spoils from Steel Maviti’s group before planning to target guilty pirates.
  • Angel and Klein celebrated New Year in Bayam, while the Tarot Club arranged several trades and learned that Angel was seeking materials for advancement.
  • Arrodes answered questions about living mermaids and Gazers, and Angel left Bayam for Midway Island after Danitz reported a response from the Blood Admiral.
  • Angel hid Helene from Tracy’s pirates aboard the Blue Mountain Rose, destroyed the City Breaker with her Calamity Charm, and later let Helene leave at Midway Island.
  • Angel investigated reports of disappearances on Para Island and found that visitors to an abandoned mine mistook copper ore for gold.
  • Angel discovered that Pierce Turner had failed a ritual to advance to Sequence 4, leaving his body and dream-self divided and trapping Linhai Town in a spreading nightmare.
  • Angel used the Calamity Charm to destroy Pierce’s corrupted body, retrieved the Night Emblem, and gave the dangerous artifact to Mr. Fool for safekeeping.
Chapters 426–450 Summaries Read

Arc 19The Death Documents

Angel and Klein pursued Tracy for the Death documents, then Angel arranged a new venture for Helene and joined Alger on a voyage toward Nameless Island. They found dangerous ruins and began fighting a hypnotic tree as they sought its secrets.

  • Angel returned from Para Island with Pierce Turner’s contaminated Beyonder Characteristic entrusted to Mr. Fool, and Azik carried her through the Spirit World to Klein.
  • Angel and Klein joined Edwina aboard the Golden Dream, learned more about the Admiral of Blood and the Key of Death, and tracked Helene to Tracy’s ship.
  • Angel and Klein infiltrated the Black Death, defeated Tracy, and learned that she had given Qilangos’s Death documents to the Demoness Sect.
  • Katarina captured Angel and Klein, but Azik arrived, and Angel revealed herself as Lola Swann and threw her Calamity Charm toward Katarina as Azik took them away.
  • Angel offered Helene a ship, funding, and future Potion formulas in exchange for building a crew and repaying the investment, and Helene accepted.
  • Angel and Klein sailed with Alger on the Blue Avenger, then helped Alger hunt Azure Shadow Falcons on an island and agreed to explore its ruins.
  • Angel, Klein, and Alger detoured around a corpse-filled clearing and fought a Hypnotic Wind Chime Tree, with Angel setting it ablaze after Klein put it to sleep.
Chapters 451–475 Summaries Read

Arc 20Queen Anne’s Bargain

Angel and Klein hunted Gazers on Nameless Island, where they encountered Anne and made a binding agreement involving Queen Anne’s Revenge. After returning to Bayam, they confronted the truth of their identities and followed separate jobs, while Angel’s attempts to check on Klein ended in matching strange dreams.

  • Angel, Klein, and Alger fought a giant spider on Primitive Island, then sold and traded the spoils while learning from Lola’s letter that Katerina Pelle was her mother.
  • Alger recognized Klein as the World and proposed an alliance, while Angel joined the Tarot gathering and offered ingredients from the island.
  • Angel and Klein followed Arrodes’s directions to Nameless Island, fought a Gazer and its nest, and were separated when Anne imprisoned Angel and exiled Klein.
  • Anne revealed that she was the consciousness of Queen Anne’s Revenge and contracted Angel to serve as temporary commander, advance in Sequence, help find Bernadette, and eventually use the Calamity Charm against the ship.
  • Azik returned Angel and Klein to Bayam, where Klein revealed that he was the World and Angel reassured him after he admitted fearing for her safety.
  • Angel visited Helene and inspected the Red Haired Woman as Klein took a job escorting Darkwill, whose Dice of Probability brought them to Oravi Island.
  • Angel found Klein on Oravi Island, learned about Will Auceptin’s possible plans, and later discovered that Klein had accepted a commission to impersonate Admiral Emilius Livett.
  • Angel collected engraved harmonicas and divined Klein’s condition, seeing a dream of him with her, while Klein awoke from a similar dream to a room filled with chaotic sounds.
Chapters 476–500 Summaries Read
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