Recaps

Angel and Klein defeated Amon’s avatars in Backlund, freed their victims, and divided the recovered Worms of Time. Angel then secured military ties, gathered allies and intelligence on the Fountain of Youth, and persuaded the Tarot Club to create a layer of subordinate agents.

• Leonard identified a Witch of the Demoness Sect as the serial killer, while Hvin Rambis tried to manipulate Angel and Angel concealed that she had seen through him.
• Angel and Klein used Will Auceptin’s warning to prepare a trap for Amon, and Amon’s avatars attacked Angel at the house on Douton Street.
• Angel turned Amon’s stolen abilities and disease against his avatars, while Leonard and Pallez helped destroy them and Klein restored the stolen marionettes.
• Angel and Audrey freed the people parasitized by Amon, and Angel and Klein divided the recovered Worms of Time for their allies and the Evernight Goddess.
• Angel met Duchess Georgina Augustus, negotiated a binding contract for military cooperation, and later gave Shermane potion formulas and practical support for her East Borough organization.
• Angel traveled to Bayam, reunited with Dominic and Sonia, and rescued William and Tia from the Mandated Punishers, and Tia revealed the Demoness Sect’s organization and the Fountain of Youth’s location.
• At the Tarot Club, Angel offered demigod-killing charms and proposed that members recruit Minor Arcana as separate subordinate agents, and the Fool supported her plan and Alger withdrew his objection.

Angel pursued the Fountain of Youth, defeated its Trick Sorcerer guardians, and advanced to Sequence 3 as an Unaging Demoness. She returned to Backlund with new powers, while Shermane’s place in the Tarot Club was settled and Angel offered several Beyonder characteristics for sale.

• Leonard and the Tarot Club members approved recruiting Minor Arcana, while Angel arranged for Helene and Shermane to build influence and command a fleet.
• Angel tracked the Red Haired Woman toward the Fountain of Youth, and the crew caught a Siren whom Angel named YuYu.
• Angel entered the Fountain’s Special Mirror World alone and found its pool guarded by a Black Knight and a group of demigod marionettes.
• Angel returned to the island, defeated the Trick Sorcerer Sophia, and discovered that the Fountain’s water could not be taken away.
• Angel recovered the Rose Necklace, which had fused with the Black Knight’s characteristic, and returned to Backlund with the Red Haired Woman.
• Angel drank the Unaging potion, completed her advancement to Sequence 3, and confronted a Mirror Person who gave her Hunter-pathway powers.
• Angel demonstrated her new abilities to Klein and found that she could sense and answer certain prayers through the Mirror World.
• Angel told Leonard that Shermane was the Empress of Pentacles and asked him to stop investigating her, then confirmed her Sequence 3 advancement to the Tarot Club and offered several characteristics for sale.

Angel advanced to Unaging, pursued leads about the Great Smog and Roselle’s mausoleums, and helped Audrey expose Hvin Rambis’s schemes. The arc ended with Hvin dead and his confession linking King George III and the royal family to the Great Smog and a hidden ruin near Backlund.

• Angel revealed her Unaging status to the Tarot Club, offered Beyonder characteristics for sale, and accepted commissions to locate Tracy.
• Angel learned that Viscount Stratford bore traces of a high-Sequence Demoness, then planned with Trissy and Katarina to kidnap him.
• At Dunn’s birthday dinner, Dunn proposed to Daly, while Angel and Klein briefly feared Amon had returned when Dunn put on a monocle.
• Angel met Bernadette and Anne, agreed to investigate Roselle’s hidden mausoleums, and learned that a Black Emperor’s mausoleum might serve her Catastrophe advancement ritual.
• Angel discovered that her Mirror Person had answered Shermane’s prayer from the City of Calamity and tested her incomplete Mythical Creature Form.
• Hvin Rambis ordered Angel to investigate Georgina Augustus’s views on war, but Angel and Klein secretly planned an operation against him.
• At Duke Negan Jr.’s ball, Audrey defeated MI9 lieutenant colonel Raven Dion, and Angel knocked him unconscious before Hvin appeared in their carriage.
• Angel trapped Hvin in the Mirror World and killed him after his virtual personas were corrupted, then Arianna questioned his spirit and learned of George III’s role in the Great Smog and a hidden ruin outside Backlund.

Angel and Klein uncovered George III’s plan to become the Black Emperor and gathered allies while investigating the nine mausoleums. Their search exposed Angel as another transmigrator from Earth, though the circumstances of her arrival remained unclear.

• Angel learned from Hvin Rambis that George III was preparing a sacrificial ritual in Alistar Tudor’s ruins, then offered Hvin’s contaminated characteristic to the Evernight Goddess and received the Scholar of Yore formula.
• Angel confronted Katarina and learned that the Demoness Sect had helped George III abduct people and conceal the Great Smog in exchange for a Conqueror characteristic, while Helene used her fight with Tracy to complete her Reaper ritual.
• Angel captured Stratford and learned that the royal family had ordered Trissy’s arrest, then Trissy killed him and agreed to cooperate against George III’s plans.
• Angel and Klein concluded that George III intended to become the Black Emperor and began seeking allies, while the churches’ first investigation of the ruins found only an ordinary excavation.
• At the Tarot Club, the members discussed the approaching conflict, and Angel received the No Darkness Cross and learned that disrupting one of the nine mausoleums could derail George III’s ascension.
• Angel took the No Darkness Cross into the City of Calamity, where she studied its effects and Mirror Magic, while Audrey and the others explored The Travels of Grosell and uncovered its history and hidden temple.
• The Hall of Truth exposed Angel, Klein, Audrey, and Leonard’s thoughts and identities, and they escaped the temple’s bronze doors by fleeing to the gray fog.
• Klein confirmed that Angel spoke English, and Angel told him she had died in 2088 on a world nearing destruction before awakening in their world, which she identified as the original Earth.