Chapter Summaries

After advancing to Scholar of Yore, Klein tested his new ability to summon people and objects from history, accidentally bringing Angel’s true body to his safe house. At the Tarot Club, Audrey reported that Loen’s eldest prince, Gowenton, had died in battle.

• Angel’s Mirror Person explained that a high-level Seer could summon Historical Images and that Angel could use the Mirror World to answer Klein’s summons herself.
• Angel responded to Klein’s second attempt and switched places with her mirror substitute, appearing in his East Borough safe house.
• Klein and Angel realized she was there in person, then discussed using his new ability for travel and the progress of Anne and Gelderulf’s plans for Dream City.
• Klein discovered he could summon objects from history and replaced their sweet iced tea with Sonia Blood Wine.
• At the Tarot Club gathering, Audrey told Mr. World that Gowenton had died fighting in the Ammantha Mountain Range.

At the Tarot Club, Angel and Klein learned that the eldest prince had died on the front and suspected George III was exploiting the death and a planned national speech for his own aims. They discussed whether the speech would begin an apotheosis ritual or lure out opponents, leaving them uncertain about George III’s next move.

• Audrey reported that the royal family would announce the eldest prince’s death and hold a nationwide broadcast speech on Saturday, while Klein warned the Backlund members to watch the war and consider retreating.
• Angel suspected the prince had been killed in an internal conspiracy and reasoned that George III might use the speech as a nationwide sacrificial ritual or as bait for his enemies.
• Cattleya and Alger shared reports that Nast’s flagship had fought the Loen ironclad Enmat before both ships vanished, while Angel and Klein withheld their knowledge of the Ghost Empire.
• After the Tarot Club ended, Klein summoned Angel for a private conversation, and they agreed that the speech could strengthen George III’s anchors without committing him to apotheosis.
• Klein and Angel considered whether George III would risk beginning his promotion ritual amid the disappearances of royal allies, the stalled war, and the uncertain timing of Adam’s plans.

Klein devised a plan to force George III to begin the Black Emperor ritual and summoned the Quill of Alzuhod to arrange events in his favor. Angel traveled to Dream City to ask Anne to preserve the city’s full strength, arriving to find that Hope City had changed greatly.

• Klein told Angel his plan to make George III turn the public ceremony into a real attempt at apotheosis and asked her to stop Anne from extracting the Catastrophe Demoness characteristic.
• Angel agreed to visit Anne and traveled through the Mirror World toward Dream City.
• Klein received Will Auceptin’s blessing and summoned the Quill of Alzuhod from the Historical Void.
• Klein began writing a scenario in which George III used the mourning ceremony to step onto the altar and consume the potion.
• Angel arrived at the Floating Island and saw that Hope City had changed enormously in the month since her last visit.

Angel visited Dream City and learned that Anne and Goredolf had reduced the floating city, prepared a refuge for its residents, and made Angel their intended patron saint. She warned them of George III’s coming move, then the chapter shifted to Saturday morning in Backlund, where Melissa, Benson, and Lily set out for the king’s speech.

• Angel arrived in Dream City and discovered that the floating island had lost most of its volume and had been fortified for war.
• Anne explained that she had chosen a sheltered harbor in the Berserk Sea as a future home for the city’s residents, while Goredolf revealed that new laws and a statue would help make Angel their anchor.
• Angel learned that the Catastrophe characteristic could not be extracted before Saturday and warned Anne about George III’s planned nationwide mourning ceremony after Gowenton’s death.
• Angel told Anne her plan with Klein and asked her to pass it on to Bernadette, then left after learning that Amon’s Avatar had been living as Goredolf for years.
• On Saturday morning, Melissa and Benson left home with Lily Granger and headed to City Hall Square to hear the king’s speech.

As George III’s national speech drew the people of Loen into a moment of silence, Angel recognized it as the signal that he intended to advance to Black Emperor and hurried toward one of his mausoleums. Klein began a coordinated assault on another mausoleum, while Queen Anne’s Revenge appeared before a third.

• Melissa, Benson, and Lily joined the silent crowd at City Hall Square, where George III’s speech was broadcast through loudspeakers instead of being delivered in person.
• Angel watched George III’s speech from the Mirror World and realized that his portraits and the crowd’s shared emotions could support his attempt to complete the Black Emperor ritual.
• When George III called for a moment of silence in the name of the emperor, Angel sensed Klein’s signal and rushed toward a mausoleum in the mountains of East Taker County.
• Klein arrived at York Mountain with Chunas, scattered animal marionettes as escape routes, and prepared a decoy to approach the mausoleum while he remained hidden.
• Queen Anne’s Revenge approached Escosen Island and revealed a secret mausoleum in a cliff, prompting its guards to summon a royal-family angel.

The attackers launched simultaneous assaults on the Black Emperor mausoleums to disrupt George III’s ritual, using decoys to draw away the royal family’s angels. The Ghost Empire exposed the Southville mausoleum, forcing William Augustus to defend it while Trissy entered the ruins near Backlund.

• Derlink Augustus suspected a trap but traveled to the Escosen mausoleum, where he used the Wall of Sighs to destroy what he believed was Queen Anne’s Revenge, then realized it had been a powerful mirror image.
• Bernadette Gustav entered the Stoen City mausoleum through an Illusory Door and faced Prince Grove, who attacked her with a spear of light.
• Trissy opened the entrance to the Backlund mausoleum and slipped inside, but William Augustus recognized her and prepared to stop her.
• Prayers alerted William Augustus that the Southville mausoleum was under attack, so he left Trissy and transferred there.
• The Ghost Empire struck the Southville mausoleum and sheared away its mountaintop; William Augustus diverted a second blast and recognized Adele Trensuost, who declared that her name was now Anne Gustav.

Anne and Trissy attacked separate mausoleums while Angel’s attempt was stopped by an angel-level Mental Plague. After learning that the Red Angel evil spirit Sauron Einhorn Medici was guarding Ruins No.1, Angel changed course to make it the main target.

• Anne used the Ghost Empire’s beams to keep William I on the defensive, and he banished an attack with Exile before restraining the floating city with runes.
• Trissy used Angelica Zaki’s Calamity charm to destroy the ruins above the mausoleum at Ruins No.1, exposing the Black Emperor ritual structure.
• Sauron Einhorn Medici confronted Trissy and trapped her in a fiery mirror before she escaped with severe burns.
• Angel sent a mirror substitute to attack a mausoleum in East Taker County, but an angel-level Mental Plague drove it mad and destroyed it.
• Angel learned of Trissy’s confrontation with Sauron Einhorn Medici and flew toward the mausoleum near Backlund to make it the main target.

Angel reached Trissy’s mausoleum as Trissy prepared to use a charm against the Red Angel evil spirit, while Klein escaped Zarathus’s trap with Will Auceptin’s help and continued attacking mausoleums. Medici used Yesterday Once More to regain Sequence 1 strength and connect George III’s nine mausoleums, but Angel also held a Yesterday Once More charm as George III neared his apotheosis.

• Klein escaped Zarathus’s trap through Will Auceptin’s Reboot, then teleported to another mausoleum and resumed destroying it.
• Trissy used Yesterday Once More to retrieve the Sapphire Ring from her past, but Angel arrived and stopped her from pressing it to her forehead.
• Medici used Yesterday Once More to regain the power of a Sequence 1 Conqueror and become the Angel of War.
• George III amplified Medici’s connection to his mausoleum, linking all nine mausoleums so they withstood attacks from the other battlefields.
• George III sensed that his plan had worked and anticipated becoming the Black Emperor within a minute, while Angel faced Medici with a Yesterday Once More charm in her hand.

Angel sent Yesterday Once More to her Mirror Person, who used it to merge with a figure from history and take Angel’s place. Medici’s War of Red assault was petrified by the transformed figure, whom he recognized as an Apocalypse Demoness.

• Angel sent Yesterday Once More through the Mirror World to her Mirror Person as Medici completed the defense linking George III’s nine mausoleums.
• The Mirror Person used the charm to recover her own memories and merge with a figure from history.
• Medici summoned an army of armored earthen puppets and spread War Fog toward Angel and the two Demonesses.
• The puppets froze and crumbled as the figure in the fog turned them and the War Fog into grayish-white stone.
• Medici recognized the figure’s power and asked if she was an Apocalypse Demoness.

Klein’s plan succeeded in destroying George III’s mausoleum and ending his attempt to become the Black Emperor, but when Klein returned to the Grey Fog Space, he found Adam waiting in the Tarot Club. The chapter left Klein facing Adam’s greeting and the unexplained changes to the crimson stars.

• Trissy learned from the Golden Queen that Edessak was alive, then used a Betrayal charm to fatally disrupt Medici’s battle with the Mirror Person.
• Bernadette used her powers to weaken Grove, while Klein and his allies helped destroy the mausoleum in East Taker County.
• The destruction of the other mausoleums broke the power of Gathering of Crowds, and Klein’s attacks helped bring down the East Taker County mausoleum.
• Angel returned to Ruins No. 1 as Trissy’s charm and the damaged mausoleums undermined George III’s ritual; Angel identified herself as the avenger of those killed in the Great Smog.
• George III’s failed advancement caused his mausoleum and the surrounding ruins to collapse, annihilating him and the Black Emperor ritual.
• Klein escaped to Backlund and entered the Grey Fog Space, where he found Adam seated at the Tarot Club table and greeting him.

Klein discovered that Adam had trapped him in an imagined scene after George III’s death and questioned him about the war and the consequences of his choices. Adam took The Travels of Grosell and left Klein on a remote island in the Berserk Sea with Qonas Kilgor, who wore a Crystal Monocle.

• Klein realized the apparent gray fog was an imagined scene created by Adam and watched it collapse into a hotel suite.
• Adam asked whether Klein could accept the worldwide war that would follow George III’s death, and Klein said he and Angel would try to reduce the harm.
• Klein accused Adam of wanting George III’s death to escalate the war and help him become a true Visionary, and Adam acknowledged that Klein had recognized and exploited his arrangements.
• Adam warned Klein about other means of resurrection, then took The Travels of Grosell from him.
• Qonas Kilgor entered wearing a Crystal Monocle, Adam left him with Klein, and Klein found himself on an island in the Berserk Sea.

After Adam left, Amon deeply parasitized Klein and offered to take Sefirah Castle in exchange for safety and a chance to advance. Klein refused, and Amon began taking him to the Forsaken Land of the Gods, but their teleportation was interrupted by the arrival of a familiar figure and a barrage of meteors.

• Amon entered in Chunas's appearance, took control of Klein through deep parasitism, and revealed that he had helped divert Zarathus.
• Amon offered to take Sefirah Castle and promised Klein protection, a Sequence 2 opportunity, and freedom from his current threats, but Klein refused.
• Amon threatened to take Klein to his main body in the Forsaken Land of the Gods and said Klein could find a Miracle Invoker characteristic there.
• Amon transformed into his true appearance and led the controlled Klein out of the village, gathering more Avatars before attempting to teleport them.
• Their teleportation was disrupted, and a familiar figure appeared overhead, followed by a barrage of meteors.

Angel arrived as a Sequence 2 Demoness of Catastrophe and battled Amon while he kept Klein captive through Deep Parasitism. After Angel trapped them in the Mirror World and forced Amon to retreat, Amon released Klein and asked whether they could talk.

• Angel unleashed a meteor shower across the Nameless Island, and Amon used Distortion to redirect the falling meteors while preventing Klein from escaping or dying.
• Angel sealed the surrounding Spirit World with Azik Eggers's feather and attacked Amon with Angelica's Edge, damaging his avatar despite his Mirror Substitutions.
• Amon used Klein's Spirit Body Threads to hinder Angel, stole the Wings of Death, and reopened the Spirit World, but Klein carried him into a trap leading to the Mirror World and City of Calamity.
• Amon distorted their fall to escape back to the island, where Angel's mythical creature form petrified Klein as she confronted them.
• Amon lowered the Wings of Death, removed his parasitism from Klein, and asked Angel if they could talk.

Angel reached Sequence 2 and saved Klein from Amon’s Avatar, which was petrified and returned its Beyonder characteristic to Amon’s true body. Back in a Backlund safe house, Klein and Angel began comparing what had happened, and Angel prepared to explain how she advanced without using the Magic Wishing Lamp.

• Angel petrified Amon’s Avatar, which sent its monocle and a Beyonder characteristic flying east as a thick transparent worm emerged from Chunas’s stone body.
• Angel checked Klein for signs of parasitism, and Klein embraced her while she recovered from the violent mentality of her Mythical Creature Form.
• Klein collected the Fallen Earl characteristic, then teleported with Angel to a Backlund safe house and checked that it was not Adam’s trap.
• Klein and Angel discussed how she had sensed his distress and reached the island with help from Anne and Bernadette, despite interference with divination and prayer.
• Klein asked whether Angel had used Bernadette’s Magic Wishing Lamp to advance, but Angel denied it and began explaining the complicated process.

Angel watched George III's projected death trigger chaos across Backlund, then learned Klein was in danger and sought help from the Mirror Person. The two considered using the City of Calamity to gain the time Angel needed to become a Catastrophe Demoness and rescue him.

• George III's projection exploded during his speech, and the crowd at Anniversary Square panicked as nobles and soldiers tried to restore order.
• Angel confirmed George III had died, escaped the ruins with Trissy, and learned from her that Edessak might still be alive.
• Angel prayed at Saint Samuel Cathedral, sensed Klein's request for help, and received no answer from either the Evernight Goddess or Mr. Fool.
• Angel contacted the Mirror Person, who warned that Klein might be facing Zarathus or Amon and that they needed to advance quickly to save him.
• Angel realized she could not retrieve the Catastrophe Demoness characteristic for a week, but the Mirror Person suggested using the City of Calamity to gain more time.

Angel used the City of Calamity’s power to travel from Bansy to the present, where the Floating Island had returned to the physical world. She learned that extracting its Catastrophe Demoness characteristic would take five days and revealed that Gehrman Sparrow had likely been abducted by an Amon avatar.

• Angel raced through the Mirror Tunnel to Bansy and used her blood to draw the calamity rune at the ruined altar.
• Angel was teleported to the present, where Anne told Amon that separating the Catastrophe characteristic from the Floating Island would take about five days.
• Amon discussed the costs of settling Dream City on an island and building a harbor and army.
• Angel emerged from the Mirror World and urgently asked Anne how soon the Catastrophe characteristic could be extracted.
• Angel told Anne and Amon that Gehrman Sparrow had likely been abducted by one of Amon’s avatars.

Angel questioned Amon's avatar Goredolf about the avatar who had taken Klein, then joined Anne in the Underground Memorial Hall to discuss their victory over George III and the Catastrophe characteristic. She stayed in the city to wait five days for the characteristic, while her Mirror Person warned that meeting another Angel Granger could cause a dangerous convergence; Angel then wondered whether there were two Mirror People as well.

• Angel told Goredolf that Amon's avatars had recently been dealt with in Backlund, and Goredolf explained how Amon might handle Klein and urged her to hurry if she wanted to save him.
• Anne transported Angel to the Underground Memorial Hall and said she would use the Duke of Entropy's ability to make the Catastrophe characteristic emerge in five days.
• Angel and Anne discussed the surprisingly weak resistance during their attack on George III's mausoleums and considered whether the royal family had truly supported his advancement.
• Anne thanked Angel for helping stop George III from becoming the Black Emperor, and Angel said she and Klein would have opposed him regardless.
• Angel chose to remain in the city, but her Mirror Person warned that meeting the other Angel Granger could trigger dangerous aggregation between them.
• Angel asked whether the existence of two Angel Grangers meant there were also two Mirror People, and her Mirror Person fell silent.

Angel learned that her time travel created a temporary mirror image rather than changing the future, then spent five days gathering materials in Dream City as she waited for the Catastrophe characteristic to separate. On the day the city voted whether to enter the outside world, Angel prepared and drank the Catastrophe Demoness potion, beginning her advancement.

• Angel questioned the Mirror Person about duplicated characteristics and learned that time travel created a mirror image that would merge with the original after five days, while other Beyonders risked corruption if they traveled with her.
• Angel spent five days gathering potion materials in the Southern Continent and avoided contacting her other self or visiting the North Continent.
• Angel missed the Tarot Club gathering because she was only a spectator in this timeline.
• Angel returned to Dream City on the day its residents voted whether to descend onto an island, and Anne Gustav brought her to the Memorial Hall where the Catastrophe characteristic had separated from the Hand of Order.
• Angel prepared the Catastrophe potion, and the Mirror Person told her that the consequences of her role in George III's death and the coming war would help fulfill her advancement.
• Angel drank the potion and was engulfed by intense heat, cold, and agony.

Angel endured visions of disasters during her advancement to Sequence 2 and nearly lost herself to the belief that she was a walking catastrophe, but her Mirror Person and the people whose lives she had changed helped her regain control. She became a Catastrophe Demoness, then told Klein how she had returned through time to save him from Amon, and he asked about her new abilities.

• Angel saw alternate versions of the Tingen disaster and the Great Smog in which she was absent, and concluded that her presence had worsened both crises.
• Convinced she was a walking catastrophe, Angel began to lose control as the storms and meteors around her overwhelmed the Hand of Order.
• Angel's Mirror Person reminded her that the visions were meant to make her surrender and urged her to remember those she had saved.
• Angel drew strength from the gratitude and recognition of people whose lives she had changed, including Klein, and regained control of the catastrophes.
• Angel told Klein she had used flight from Trier to Bansy to return to November 12 and rescue him from Amon, and Klein asked how her abilities had changed after advancing to Sequence 2.

Angel explained how becoming a Sequence 2 Catastrophe Demoness had strengthened her disaster, Mirror World, and mythical-creature abilities, while Klein realized Amon's Avatar had surrendered to avoid the City of Calamity's corruption. After Klein and Angel planned their next move, Angel entered the City of Calamity and found her Mirror Person beside a red-haired man.

• Angel described her authority over natural and man-made disasters, her expanded Mirror World control, and the strengthened powers she gained as a Catastrophe Demoness.
• Klein asked whether the City of Calamity had caused Amon's Avatar to surrender, and Angel said he might have feared being contaminated by its power.
• Angel revealed her complete mythical creature form and explained that she had located Klein by responding to his Historical Void Image.
• Klein and Angel discussed further attacks from Amon and Zarathus, then decided to seek help at Saint Samuel Cathedral, but neither the Goddess nor Mr. Fool answered their prayers.
• Angel entered the Mirror World and used it to travel directly into the City of Calamity, where she found her Mirror Person standing beside a red-haired man.