Chapter Summaries

Angel destroyed the City Breaker with a mysterious Calamity Charm and escaped aboard the Blue Mountain Rose with Helene. Tracy arrived too late to stop them and learned that Angel had claimed Helene, leaving her furious and puzzled by the Charm’s power.

• Angel used the Calamity Charm to destroy the City Breaker without killing the surviving pirates, then swam back to the Blue Mountain Rose.
• Angel told Helene the destruction had been caused by a simple Charm, though she privately worried about its unknown power and side effects.
• The Blue Mountain Rose sailed away, and its captain learned from the second mate that a wanted woman with a 6,000-pound bounty had attacked the pirates.
• Tracy arrived aboard the Black Death, rescued the stranded City Breaker pirates, and questioned them about the ship and William.
• Tracy learned that Angel had destroyed the City Breaker and claimed Helene, then wondered who Angel was and how she had wielded such power.

Angel arrived at Midway Island with Helene, let her go, and secretly gave her money to return to Bayam. Angel then began gathering reports of strange events on nearby islands as she searched for clues about the Gazer.

• Angel wrote Klein about Tracy, the Beyonder Characteristics she had obtained, and the power and limits of her Calamity Charm, then sent the letter with Wensa.
• After the Blue Mountain Rose docked at Midway Island, Angel told Helene she was free to leave and slipped 30 pounds into her pocket.
• Helene chose to return to Bayam by ship rather than risk heading north, and Angel watched her discover the money before leaving the harbor.
• Angel rented an inn suite and asked a bartender about unusual events on nearby islands.
• The bartender described increasingly frequent storms, shipwrecks near an unmapped island, and deaths on Para Island, prompting Angel to consider investigating the local legends.

Angelica received a new Mystical Item ring from Alger, named it Hypocrisy, and prepared to travel to Para Island to investigate disappearances and seek Potion materials. At the docks, she discovered that the Church of Storms had raised her bounty to 8,000 pounds for suspected murder and theft.

• Angelica tested the ring’s Faceless and Flaming Jump abilities, replaced her old items with it, and named it Hypocrisy.
• Angelica considered the Tarot Club members’ recent trades and advancements, then resolved to return to Bayam in a week if she found no clues about Gazers near Midway Island.
• Angelica chose to investigate the island of Para after hearing reports of disappearances and bought a ticket for the morning ship.
• Angelica read the bounty notices at the docks and saw that her own wanted poster offered 8,000 pounds for suspected murder of a Church of Storms bishop and theft.

Angel traveled by ferry from Midway Island to Para Island, enduring a sudden storm and receiving Klein’s letter about Bayam’s unrest and a bounty for Helene. After finding the island’s inns nearly full, she learned that travelers had been staying there for months, leaving her wondering what had drawn them.

• Angel tore down her updated wanted poster, boarded a ferry, and left Midway Island for Para Island.
• Ms. Wensa delivered Klein’s letter, which described Bayam’s conflict over the Sea God Kalvetua, Klein’s limited cooperation with Alger, and a 1,500-pound search for Helene.
• Angel considered whether Tracy had failed to capture Helene and whether Alger might reveal too much about the Tarot Club.
• A sudden storm battered the ferry before it sailed into clear weather and continued to Para Island.
• Angel arrived in Para Island’s crowded port town, found most inns full, and rented the last available room at a shabby inn.
• The inn attendant told Angel that business had grown for six months and pointed out guests who had already stayed there for months.

Angel investigated Para Island’s recent changes and planned to explore its abandoned mine, while Klein successfully contracted Reinette Tinekerr as Gehrman Sparrow’s messenger. The chapter ended when Angel’s messenger, Black Cat Wensa, delivered a letter and met Reinette’s hostile stare.

• Angel questioned the inn’s staff and learned that the island had seen more long-term visitors but no reported disappearances.
• Angel visited Spice Street, where a bartender told her that a mine had shut down after an accident half a year earlier and gave her directions to it.
• Angel found outdated wanted posters, returned to the inn, and wrote to Klein about the island and her plan to explore the mine.
• Klein contracted Reinette Tinekerr as Gehrman Sparrow’s messenger after rejecting several other candidates.
• Black Cat Wensa arrived with Angel’s letter, and Reinette’s four heads turned their blood-red eyes toward her.

Angel investigated rumors of exposed gold at an abandoned mine on Para Island and discovered that the supposed treasure hunters were digging for copper ore. She ended the chapter facing Layton as he proudly showed her a strange-looking piece of ore.

• Klein received a letter delivered by Wensa and learned that Reinette Tinekerr had seen the cat before.
• Angel questioned an inn waiter and learned that a mine accident had halted operations half a year earlier, though rumors of exposed gold had recently drawn visitors.
• Angel followed a group of tourists led by Layton to the abandoned mine and used divination, which indicated slight danger below.
• Angel explored the mine alone, found abandoned food and no visible gold, then tracked the tourists' lamps to a cavern where they were mining together.
• Layton showed Angel a fist-sized piece of dark brown, greenish Copper Mine and claimed they had found large chunks of gold ore.

Angel investigated the abandoned mine on Para Island and found temporary miners convinced that copper ore was gold, suggesting a supernatural influence. She entered Layton’s dream to search for clues, where a mysterious man recognized her as a Nighthawk before darkness forced her out and Layton began convulsing.

• Angel found Layton and the other temporary miners enthusiastically digging copper ore they believed was gold, and suspected an influence connected to the Gazer.
• Angel questioned former miners and learned that a collapse half a year earlier had led to the mine’s closure after the Church of Storms treated the victims.
• Angel searched the Government Affairs Hall archives, found that records of the mine accident had been removed, and used divination to locate Layton.
• Angel entered Layton’s dream and discovered an unfamiliar man who called her a young Nighthawk and said he was waiting for Redemption.
• The dream plunged into absolute darkness, so Angel broke her connection to it and used a Slumber Charm to stop Layton’s convulsions.

Angel discovered that Pierce Turner, a former Church senior deacon, was trapped in a monstrous state beneath the mine after a failed advancement ritual disrupted by a storm. Pierce explained how the disaster had caused the mine's strange events and asked Angel to kill him.

• Angel entered the sealed collapsed area beneath the mine and found a decayed Flesh Chunk that spoke to her.
• Pierce Turner revealed that he was a former senior deacon and that another, fully mad version of himself existed in the dream.
• Pierce explained that he had tried to switch from the Corpse Collector Pathway to the Sleepless Pathway and advance to Sequence 4 using a ritual in Linhai Town's United Dreamland.
• A storm and cave-in shattered Pierce's dream during the ritual, causing his advancement to fail and leaving him split between his body and the dream.
• Pierce told Angel that killing him was the only solution to his loss of control.

Angel learned that failed advancement had left Pierce trapped beneath Para Island while his mad dream-self created a nightmare that threatened the island’s residents. After Pierce’s other self nearly seized control, Angel began using Charms to incapacitate him before destroying his body.

• Pierce explained that his mad dream-self had trapped Linhai Town in a repeating dream and was expanding the nightmare across Para Island.
• Pierce revealed that he had manipulated Layton and his companions into mining copper while they believed they had found gold.
• Pierce told Angel that a Spirit World-traveling Beyonder Creature had escaped the island and described a stranded pirate ship on an island southwest of Bodo Port.
• Pierce warned that his other self was close to taking control, and Angel agreed to destroy his Demigod body before the nightmare spread.
• When Pierce’s other self tried to seize control, Angel escaped to the mine entrance and then threw two Slumber Charms and a Calamity Charm into the pit.

Angel recognized that Pierce Turner had deceived her and used the Calamity Charm to destroy his Demigod body in the mine on Para Island. She sent the corrupted Nightwatcher artifact to Mr. Fool for safekeeping, while Klein wondered how she had managed to kill a Demigod.

• Angel revealed that her Hidden Holy Emblem had let her remain lucid in Pierce's nightmare and exposed his attempt to lure her into his body.
• Pierce's remaining conscience reached for Angel's Calamity Charm, which destroyed his corrupted body from the inside out.
• Angel retrieved the corrupted Night Emblem, but its influence caused a feather to grow on her hand.
• Angel sealed the artifact in a bullet box and offered it to Mr. Fool, who accepted it for safekeeping.
• Klein inspected the artifact above the Gray Fog and wondered whether Angel had become capable of killing a Demigod.

Angel returned from Para Island and reported the mine’s contamination to the Church of Storms. Afterward, she suddenly found herself floating beside Azik Eggers as the streets below turned vivid and unreal.

• Angel infected Layton and the miners with mild illnesses to keep them from digging in the contaminated mine, then bought a ferry ticket back to Midway Island.
• Pierce Turner appeared in Angel’s dream, thanked her for killing his other self, and asked her to return his contaminated Beyonder Characteristic to the Holy Cathedral.
• Pierce told Angel that the Gazer’s account of Nameless Island was mostly true and revealed that his failed advancement involved the Death pathway and the Berserk Sea.
• Pierce vanished after sensing something familiar in Angel’s “Calamity” Charm, leaving her wondering whether his loss of control was connected to the symbols found in Bansy Harbor.
• Angel delivered a detailed report about Para Island’s Demigod-level contamination to the Church of Storms, signing it “Angelica Zaki,” then headed to the docks.
• The street colors grew vivid as passersby moved through Angel, and she realized she was floating beside Azik Eggers.

Azik brought Angel through the Spirit World to Bayam, explained that the Berserk Sea held the power of the fallen Death, and removed the strange contamination from her hand. A detour to his daughter’s grave stirred painful memories of his past lives, and the chapter ended with Azik returning Angel to Klein.

• Azik answered Klein’s call and carried Angel through the Spirit World, where they encountered an adult Banshee Bird.
• Angel told Azik about Para Island, and he explained that the Berserk Sea held Death’s power and that Death pathway advancements had recently been failing at unusually high rates.
• Azik examined the down on Angel’s hand, recognized it as an inferior imitation of Death-like power, and removed it.
• Azik led Angel to his daughter’s grave and recalled her death and the destruction he had caused in another life after losing his memories.
• Angel comforted Azik, who explained how contaminated Beyonder Characteristics could be handled and said he could strip away most contamination from a similar source.
• Azik brought Angel back to the hotel suite, where Klein welcomed her.

Angelica reunited with Klein and told him about Pierce Turner’s death, while the two discussed their recent dangers and resolved to keep pursuing strength together. A report about Pierce’s death reached the Evernight Church’s Backlund office, where a senior deacon dismissed it as a rumor.

• Angelica returned to Klein after her ordeal on Para Island, and Azik left to search for clues near the Berserk Sea.
• Angelica explained how Pierce Turner had resisted his corruption and died fulfilling his oath, and said she had entrusted his contaminated Beyonder Characteristic to Mr. Fool.
• Klein recounted the Sea God believers’ failed attack in Bayam and Sea King Yarn Courtman’s victory over Kalvetua.
• Angelica worried about the risks of pursuing demigodhood, but Klein reassured her that they would remember each other; Danitz then interrupted them by inviting Klein to the Red Theater.
• Nighthawks in Backlund received a report that Pierce had died near Midway Island, but a senior deacon dismissed it as a rumor.

At the Tarot Club, Angel agreed to help Hanged Man secretly seek Beyonder ingredients and sold him the Magician Pocket Watch. The meeting ended with Hanged Man asking the members to help find Helene Sauron, whom Angel recognized as the younger red-haired woman from the photograph.

• Angel noticed the Night Emblem on the table before Fool, while Hanged Man inferred that Fool might be targeting the Church of Evernight.
• Hanged Man told Angel that her bounty had risen to 12,000 pounds and warned her not to appear in her original identity.
• Angel agreed to let Hanged Man's Ghost Ship take her to a Nameless Island and then carry her to an island southwest of Bodo Port.
• Hanged Man agreed to buy a Blood Clan Baron Legacy for Emlyn, and Angel sold him the Magician Pocket Watch for 1,800 pounds plus their previously agreed payment.
• Hanged Man showed the club a photograph of Helene Sauron and offered a 1,500-pound reward for a crucial lead; Angel recognized her as the younger Helene.

At the Tarot Club, Angel learned that Helene Sauron had disappeared again and heard Hanged Man describe the Sea God's defeat, while Fool's cryptic reply led members to suspect that the Sea God's authority now belonged to him. After the meeting, Angel received her money and used Helene's blood to divine her location, finding her aboard a ship departing Midway Island as a storm approached.

• Hanged Man explained that the Intis Embassy was offering a 1,500-pound reward for information about Helene Sauron, a member of the Sauron family who was not a criminal.
• Mr. World said that Kalvetua, Bayam's Sea God, had caused storms and tsunamis before the Church of Storms's Sea King defeated it, but Hanged Man noted that believers still received responses from their god.
• Fool said that Kalvetua had become a Demigod by relying on the relic of Calamity Gohinham, prompting Hanged Man to connect the word Calamity to the Lord of Storms and resolve to become involved in future events.
• After the Tarot Club ended, Angel sacrificed her Magician Pocket Watch and received 1,800 pounds from Hanged Man.
• Angel used Helene's preserved blood to divine her location and saw Helene aboard a ship leaving Midway Island as a storm approached.

Angel and Klein learned that the Admiral of Blood had already left Bayam, while Danitz delivered Edwina’s invitation for them to visit the Golden Dream. Angel, Klein, and Danitz traveled to meet Edwina, and the chapter ended with the Golden Dream appearing before them.

• Angel sensed that Helene was alive and wondered how she had returned to Midway Island.
• Klein revealed that he had disguised himself as Danitz, and he told Angel that the Admiral of Blood had passed Bayam and headed south.
• Klein and Angel discussed their potion ingredients before the real Danitz arrived and caught them testing a provocation trick.
• Danitz told Angel and Klein that Edwina had invited them to the Golden Dream to discuss their next plan.
• Angel, Klein, and Danitz traveled by boat until Edwina’s golden warship, the Golden Dream, came into view.

Angel and Klein boarded the Golden Dream and discussed the pirates gathering near Bayam, the Admiral of Blood, and the Vice Admiral of Ailment with Edwina. Edwina pressed them about their identities and possible cooperation, then asked Angel to protect Danitz as a liaison between them.

• Danitz welcomed Angel and Klein aboard the Golden Dream and explained that its Purification Cannon could fire ten powerful shots after a ritual.
• Edwina explained that several powerful pirates had gathered near Bayam and answered Angel and Klein's questions about the Admiral of Blood, the Vice Admiral of Ailment, mermaids, and the Gazer.
• Edwina confronted Angel and Klein about their fabricated identities and Klein's offering to Kalvetua, then asked whether she could cooperate with them and their backing force.
• Angel reminded Edwina that they were already cooperating against the Admiral of Blood and revealed that Klein possessed Creeping Hunger, leading Edwina to accept their current arrangement.
• Edwina invited Angel and Klein to lunch and asked Angel to protect Danitz while he served as their liaison, prompting a muffled thud behind them.

Angel and Klein toured Edwina’s collection room aboard the Golden Dream, where they learned about the Key of Death and the mysterious book The Travels of Grosell. Over lunch, Edwina explained that her crew shared her unusual interests, leaving Angel to wonder whether the Iceberg Admiral had backing from the Church of Knowledge and Wisdom.

• Edwina showed Angel and Klein the collection room and explained that the Admiral of Blood had offered 5,000 pounds for the Key of Death, but she had refused, suspecting a trap.
• Edwina offered to sell the Key of Death for 5,000 pounds if its buyers shared their research findings, while Klein asked where he could find documents about Death.
• Edwina introduced the collection’s artifacts and described The Travels of Grosell, whose final pages were fused shut; she offered the book for 8,000 pounds, and Angel declined to buy it for now.
• Angel and Klein ate lunch with Edwina, who said her crew’s way of life was a shared choice and that she preferred collecting, studying ancient documents, and exploring to fighting.
• Angel suspected Edwina’s interests and origins might connect her to the Church of Knowledge and Wisdom, and wondered if she was hinting at future cooperation.

After returning to Bayam, Angel reflected on her unusual power and theorized that it attracted Demoness and Hunter Beyonders. She used her Magic Mirror to locate Ilian Sauron and discovered that Ilian had been captured again.

• Angel and Klein returned to Bayam with Danitz, who became Edwina's liaison and helped arrange aid for the resistance forces.
• Angel considered the resistance's growing violence and recalled that the Fool's new Ten Commandments forbade killing innocents and Living Sacrifices.
• While making Charms, Angel wondered whether her Demoness Characteristic could attract other Demoness and Hunter Beyonders, connecting this idea to her resurrections and mysterious powers.
• Angel decided she might ask Mr. Fool about her peculiarity, but thought she could first seek Roselle's notes from Ilian Sauron's family.
• Angel used Ilian's blood to overcome interference in a Magic Mirror divination and saw Ilian bound in a boat, captured by Sailors.

Angel tracked Helene to the Black Death and hurried to rescue her, while Tracy waited aboard the ship for Helene’s return. The chapter ended as the apparent Helene attacked Tracy with a transformed bone bracelet.

• Angel used the Magic Mirror to locate Helene and identified Mesor King and Tracy as her captors.
• Angel summoned Ms. Wensa to send a message to Mr. Azik, then set out for the private port.
• Angel questioned two pirates and learned that Mesor had taken Helene to the Black Death near a small island five Sea Miles away.
• Angel transformed into the Wind-blessed and raced underwater toward the Black Death.
• Tracy prepared to reunite with Helene in her cabin, but the apparent Helene turned a bone bracelet into a short sword and thrust it toward Tracy’s throat.