Chapter Summaries

Angel disguised herself as Helene and ambushed Vice Admiral of Ailment Tracy aboard the Black Death, defeating and sedating her. As Angel prepared to question Tracy, the real Helene arrived at the captain’s cabin, leaving Angel facing another possible fight.

• Angel, disguised as Helene, attacked Tracy, who recognized her as the Demoness of Affliction responsible for sinking the City Breaker.
• Angel and Tracy exchanged abilities and weapons until Angel broke Tracy’s defensive bracelet and wounded her in close combat.
• Tracy’s Mirror Substitution failed, and Angel used three Slumber Charms to put both of them to sleep before waking herself with the Hidden Holy Emblem.
• Angel treated Tracy’s shoulder wound and prepared to use Magic Mirror Spirit Channeling to question her without drawing her into a dream.
• A woman knocked and announced that she had brought Helene, revealing that the real Helene was outside the cabin.

Angel disguised herself as Tracy to take Helene away, but Helene turned out to be Klein in disguise, testing her with a staged attack. After their identities were revealed, Angel asked how Klein had become Helene and ended up in handcuffs aboard the Black Death.

• Angel transformed into Tracy, hid the unconscious Tracy, changed clothes, cleaned the cabin, and ordered Helene to enter alone.
• Angel impersonated Tracy and taunted Helene, while Helene challenged her and pretended to be vulnerable.
• Helene escaped her handcuffs, attacked with an illusion and Mental Piercing, and revealed that the apparent Tracy was Angel.
• Angel blocked Helene's strike, and Helene dropped her Zombie form, revealing that he was Klein acting as Helene.
• Klein asked Angel to call him Helene and explained that he had been testing his acting, but Angel poked him and told him to talk.

Klein and Angel infiltrated the Black Death, defeated Tracy, and used Nightmare to uncover information about the Demoness Sect’s documents and human trafficking. After learning Tracy would retaliate against them and their allies, Angel shot her.

• Klein explained that he had disguised himself as Helene and let Tracy’s crew capture him so he could infiltrate the Black Death.
• Angel told Klein how she had defeated Tracy and taken her place in the captain’s cabin.
• Klein entered Tracy’s dream with the Nightmare Beyonder Characteristic and learned that she had handed Qilangos’s Death documents to the Demoness Sect.
• Klein revealed that Tracy had transported three ships of slaves and identified Mad Captain Connors Victor and his contact Finger as clues to the trafficking network.
• Klein and Angel decided Tracy posed too great a threat to leave alive, and Angel shot her in the head.

Angel and Klein were captured by Katarina, the Demoness of Unaging, while attempting to assassinate Tracy, but Azik arrived and freed them. Katarina recognized Azik from the Pale Calamity and questioned him about why Angel and Klein had targeted Tracy.

• Katarina bound Angel and Klein with invisible threads and caused them to develop severe pneumonia.
• Katarina awakened Tracy and offered to spare one captive if the other explained why they had come.
• Angel tried to attack Katarina with a Calamity Charm, but Katarina stopped her before she could use it.
• Azik appeared, broke the bindings, and eased Angel and Klein's illness.
• Katarina identified Azik as the former Death Consul and recalled fighting beside him during the Pale Calamity more than thirteen hundred years earlier.
• Katarina asked Azik why Angel and Klein had come to assassinate Tracy, fixing her gaze on Angel.

Angel confronted Tracy and Katarina over the Death documents and Helene, while Azik agreed to help retrieve the records about attempts to revive Death. When Katarina recognized Angel’s Calamity Charm, Azik whisked Angel and Klein into the Spirit World as Angel activated and threw the Charm toward her.

• Angel demanded Tracy hand over the Death documents and stop hunting Helene, and Katarina refused to assist either side while forbidding Azik from protecting them by force.
• Katarina said the Death documents had gone to the Demoness Sect’s headquarters and described the Balam Empire’s failed attempts to revive Death and its later efforts to create an Artificial Death.
• Azik asked Katarina to obtain the documents and gave her his messenger incantation, while Tracy questioned Helene’s feelings and Klein revealed himself as a Faceless impersonating her.
• Angel revealed her true appearance as Lola Swann, shocking Tracy and Katarina, who recognized her as Tracy’s sister and a former member of the Demoness Sect.
• Katarina asked to inspect Angel’s Calamity Charm, then reacted with shock; Azik pulled Angel and Klein into the Spirit World as Angel activated the Charm and threw it toward Katarina.

Angel and Klein returned to the Azure Wind Hotel with Azik after escaping the Black Death, and Azik left to recover his memories despite fears about his past. Meanwhile, Alger learned that the Black Death had disintegrated near Bayam and feared that the Tarot Club’s Miss Empress might also destroy his ship.

• Azik reassured Angel and Klein that he would not become the cruel Death Consul of the past, then left to recover his memories.
• Azik returned to warn Angel and Klein that the Church of Storms had destroyed Bansy Harbor because it might still contain the Red Angel Medici’s power.
• Angel collapsed from exhaustion, then blocked Klein from reaching the bedroom so she could see him in his gold-and-red gown.
• Danitz felt his spiritual intuition warn him away from the suite and turned back to avoid entering.
• Bishop Jogoli sent Alger and several Storm Believers to help capture survivors after the Black Death disintegrated near Bayam.
• Alger recalled Miss Empress’s suspected attack on the City Breaker and worried that she might sink the Blue Avenger too.

Angel offered Helene an investment to build a crew and sail from Bayam, promising funds, a ship, a disguise item, and access to advancement formulas in exchange for repaying the money with interest. Helene accepted, and she left with Angel and Klein to begin the arrangement.

• Angel and Klein met Helene at Danitz’s safe house and told her that Tracy’s flagship, the Black Death, had sunk.
• Helene decided not to return to Intis yet, choosing instead to stay in Bayam and earn enough to repay her debts.
• Angel offered Helene funding, a ship, a Mystical Item, and future Potion formulas if she assembled a crew within a month and repaid the investment plus 2,000 pounds within a year.
• Angel revealed that advancing the Hunter Pathway from Sequence 5 to Demigod would turn Helene into a man, and Helene accepted the conditions.
• Angel left the bedroom carrying a bottle of fresh blood, accompanied by Klein and Helene, whose appearance had changed.

The Tarot Club welcomed Miss Hermit, who studied its members while they exchanged Roselle’s diary pages. Angel arranged a ship purchase and a joint trip with Alger to a small island southwest of Bodo Port, while Emlyn announced that he had become a Sanguine Baron.

• Miss Justice welcomed the new member, who introduced herself as Hermit, and members including Audrey, Angel, and Sun offered Roselle’s diary pages and ancient god legends to Mr. Fool.
• Hermit observed the Tarot Club members and suspected that Angel might be the wanted Angelica Zaki, but Angel’s calm greeting made her look away.
• Angel asked Alger to help arrange an ordinary sailing ship in Bayam, then agreed to join him on a Wednesday trip to a small island southwest of Bodo Port with a companion who also believed in Mr. Fool.
• Emlyn thanked Alger for helping him obtain the Sanguine inheritance and announced that he had become a Baron, then corrected Fors when she called him a Vampire Baron.

At the Tarot Club, Emlyn asked about acting after becoming a Sanguine Baron while the members arranged several trades. Hermit learned that the City of Silver might lie in the Forsaken Land of the Gods.

• Hermit explained that the Moon Pathway required acting and digestion outside the Sanguine's innate Sequence 7 Vampire, and shared several potion names.
• Audrey asked World about buying a Psychiatrist Beyonder Characteristic, and promised Empress she would repay her debt that week.
• Empress asked Sun about trading for a Poison Needle of the Black-Striped Shadow Scorpion, and World offered to obtain Sun's Notary Potion formula in exchange for advance payment and the name of Sun's next potion.
• Derrick agreed to the arrangement, while Empress said she would pay World when the trade was completed and Hermit offered to trade him the Radiant Spirit Tree fruit.
• Derrick offered Hermit City of Silver history and monster materials in exchange for the fruit, and Hermit realized the city's history suggested it might be in the Forsaken Land of the Gods.

At the Tarot Club, Cattleya learned that the Fool was responding to Sea God Kalvetua’s believers and sent a veiled warning about the collection of Roselle’s diary. Meanwhile, Angel spent heavily on a ship for Helene and prepared to sail with Klein, hoping Helene might become a legend of the sea.

• Cattleya traded materials at the Tarot Club and learned from Justice and the Hanged Man that Kalvetua had died while the Sea God still answered believers.
• Cattleya connected the Sea God’s miracles to the Fool, then returned to her cabin and sent a letter noting that people were deliberately collecting Emperor Roselle’s diary.
• Angel lamented spending 1,000 pounds on Blood Mist Tree sap and 2,000 pounds on a ship for Helene, who was recruiting a crew with Dominic’s help.
• Klein questioned Angel’s investment in Helene as they headed toward the older ship they would sail on.
• Angel suggested Helene might become a legend of the sea as she and Klein approached the ship, where a blue-haired figure watched them from the bow.

Angel and Klein boarded Alger’s Ghost Ship, the Blue Avenger, under the cover of a paid commission to travel to Nameless Island and hunt Beyonder Creatures. The ship escaped the harbor through a storm, and the two settled into guest cabins for the voyage.

• Angel paid Alger three hundred pounds and posed as a client hiring the Blue Avenger to sail to Nameless Island.
• Angel and Klein discussed why the harbor remained open, and Alger explained that the Church of Storms monitored it while colonial interests relied on its smuggling routes.
• Alger announced that the ship was ready to depart, and the Blue Avenger sailed out of the harbor at remarkable speed despite the storm.
• Angel admired the Ghost Ship’s power and compared it unfavorably with her Red Haired Woman.
• Angel chose a guest cabin near the stern, Klein took the neighboring room, and Alger left after wondering whether he had said something wrong.

Angel sent Lola Swann a letter asking about the Demoness Sect, Sherman, and Lola’s loyalties, while the Blue Avenger’s watchfulness made Klein worry about concealing his identity. Lola received the letter in Backlund and revealed that she could make herself look almost exactly like Katerina Pelle.

• Angel wrote a letter to Lola Swann and summoned Ms. Wensa to deliver it, though she knew neither Lola’s true name nor her address.
• Wensa used Spirit World divination to find Lola, and Alger investigated the disturbance aboard the Blue Avenger before Angel explained that she had summoned a messenger.
• After dinner, Klein told Angel that he had sensed the ship watching him, and he worried that its scrutiny could expose his secret identity during the voyage.
• Lola copied the Instigator Potion formula for Sherman but planned to leave him to obtain the ingredients himself.
• Wensa delivered Angel’s letter to Lola, who read it after checking it for traps and tracking methods.
• Lola removed a silver-white mask and revealed a face almost identical to Katerina Pelle’s.

Angel, Klein, and Alger reached the Primitive Island to hunt Azure Shadow Falcons, while Angel forced the Blue Avenger to stop spying on them. Alger killed one falcon with a prepared trap, but two larger falcons appeared and attacked him.

• Angel threatened the Blue Avenger with a Calamity Charm and ordered it to stop watching her and Klein.
• Angel, Klein, and Alger landed on the island at night and entered the jungle to find the Azure Shadow Falcons' nest.
• Alger used a fragrant bait pig and a Storm Charm to lure down and kill an Azure Shadow Falcon.
• Two larger Azure Shadow Falcons appeared and dove toward Alger.

Angel, Klein, and Alger killed three Azure Shadow Falcons and gathered their potion ingredients. Alger revealed that ancient ruins on the island might contain a Card of Blasphemy, and the group decided to investigate.

• Angel slowed the diving Azure Shadow Falcons, giving Alger the chance to kill one with his saber.
• Angel caught and killed the last falcon while Klein and Alger helped defeat the family of three.
• Alger collected the Wind-blessed Potion ingredients and offered the remaining feathers to Angel and Klein.
• Alger explained that he and Qilangos had discovered ancient ruins on the island, where Qilangos had found a church and an underground area too dangerous to explore further.
• Angel connected the ruins' rumored treasure to a Card of Blasphemy, and Klein used a coin to confirm Alger was telling the truth.
• Klein proposed that they enter the ruins.

Angel, Klein, and Alger explored Primitive Island’s Black Forest and encountered a Hypnotic Wind Chime Tree that nearly lured them into its grasp. They used Alger’s illness to resist its hypnosis and attacked the tree, leaving its fate apparently sealed in flame.

• Alger negotiated a one-third share of the spoils in exchange for leading Angel and Klein to the ruins, while Angel secured first pick.
• Angel and Klein recognized the danger posed by the corpse-filled clearing and persuaded Alger to detour around it.
• Wind chimes hypnotized Angel, Alger, and Klein, but Angel pulled them back to their senses before they could reach the source.
• Alger identified the creature as a Hypnotic Wind Chime Tree, and Klein proposed making Alger sick so his coughing could interrupt the hypnosis.
• The trio confirmed that Alger’s coughing could wake them and approached the tree, which hypnotized them until Alger’s coughing broke the spell.
• When the tree attacked the bait pig, Angel severed its branches with Wind Blades, Klein’s Slumber Charm put it to sleep, and Angel struck it with Black Flame, setting the tree alight.

Angel, Klein, and Alger reached the ruins after collecting fruit from the Hypnotic Wind Chime Tree, but a giant spider ambushed them before they could explore. They killed it and hurried back toward the Blue Avenger, while countless more spiders watched from the trees.

• Angel collected fruit from the Hypnotic Wind Chime Tree, and the three continued toward the ruins.
• Alger explained that the forest had changed since Qilangos visited five years earlier, and Klein warned that the ruins might hide the real danger.
• A giant spider ambushed the group from the treetops and attacked Klein, who escaped with a paper figurine.
• The spider targeted Angel, but she stunned it with Good Luck and shot through its abdomen, killing it.
• Alger collected the spider's Beyonder Characteristic, and the three retreated through the web-filled forest as more giant spiders watched them go.

Angel and Klein returned to the Blue Avenger with their spoils after Alger suffered the Magician Pocket Watch’s fear of firelight, then received Lola’s reply explaining her ties to Katerina Pelle and Sherman’s progress. The group left Primitive Island, and Angel ended the chapter pondering the Pelley family’s secrets and her concealed identity from Klein.

• Alger climbed back aboard the Blue Avenger, ordered every light extinguished, and hurried to the captain’s cabin while Angel and Klein teased each other.
• The Ghost Ship lowered its sails and sailed away from Primitive Island without the sailors’ help.
• Klein and Angel examined the spoils, sealed the Beyonder ingredients, and discussed their value and possible uses.
• Ms. Wensa delivered Lola’s letter, in which Lola admitted that Katerina Pelle was her mother, explained her history with the Demoness Sect, and said Sherman had digested the Assassin Potion.
• Angel shared the letter with Klein and privately worried about her fabricated identity and her relationship with him.

Alger revealed that he had deduced Klein was the World and proposed a private alliance to share resources and support one another. Their discussion was interrupted by the appearance of Twilight Admiral Bratov Ivan’s fleet, which the Blue Avenger evaded; Alger then noticed the fleet had come from Bodo Port, their destination.

• Alger recounted how he selected sailors for voyages and admitted he had visited the Red Theater to mingle with his crew.
• Alger told Klein he had recognized him as the World from his use of Creeping Hunger and proposed a loose alliance to share resources and protection.
• Alger and Klein agreed that Miss Empress could join their cooperation, while Klein remained unsure how to tell Angel his identity.
• A distant fleet alarmed the Blue Avenger’s crew, and Alger identified it as Twilight Admiral Bratov Ivan’s fleet.
• The Blue Avenger turned away from the fleet, whose faster ships briefly pursued before giving up.
• Alger observed that the fleet had come from Bodo Port, the Blue Avenger’s destination.

The Tarot Club gathered aboard the Blue Avenger while Angel and Klein concealed their identities from each other, and Derrick shared a way to remove mental corruption from a Beyonder Characteristic. The meeting ended with Cattleya learning that Empress was likely behind the destruction of Tracy’s flagship, just as Angel abruptly offered unusual ingredients for sale.

• Alger distracted Gehrman at Angel’s request so she could attend the gathering without revealing that she knew his identity.
• Emlyn presented two pages of Roselle’s diary, while Cattleya used her ability to observe the members and noticed the Gray Fog surrounding Angel.
• Derrick announced his advancement to Solar High Priest and shared a method for removing mental corruption from a Beyonder Characteristic.
• Cattleya explained that an Unshadowed could purify the corruption, and World asked about the destruction of Tracy’s flagship.
• Alger described the Black Death’s destruction and Tracy’s losses, prompting Cattleya and the other members to suspect Angel was responsible.
• Angel calmly offered Crystallized Feathers, Hypnotic Wind Chime Tree Fruits, and enormous spider compound eyes for sale.

At the Tarot Gathering, Angel sought advice on hunting creatures that could enter the spirit world, and Cattleya explained how they could be tracked or killed. Afterward, Angel and Klein met in her room, where both silently decided to confess their secrets once the journey ended.

• Angel offered potion ingredients for trade, and Audrey asked whether any matched the Hypnotist potion.
• Cattleya identified several ingredients and explained that Spirit World Marauders and Gazers could be caught by tracking them through the spirit world or striking a fatal blow before they escaped.
• Cattleya gave the information without payment, claiming it repaid the Sun for sharing knowledge, while she inferred that Angel was targeting a Gazer and might be preparing for Sequence 4.
• Angel waited in her room for Klein, who arrived after spending an hour playing poker with sailors and admitted that he had lost five pounds.
• Angel and Klein both noticed the dictionary entry for “confess” and decided to reveal their secrets after the journey ended.