Chapter Summaries

Bernadette was exposed to the Mother Goddess of Depravity’s gaze during her battle with Nast Solomon and became pregnant through the Outer Deity’s corruption. Angel rescued her, destroyed the fetus in the City of Calamity, and explained the danger of knowing about Outer Deities; Bernadette then proposed erasing her memories with 0-05 after advancing to Sequence 2.

• Bernadette realized Nast Solomon’s recitation had revealed the Mother Goddess of Depravity, whose gaze animated her body and caused a fetus to form inside her.
• Nast Solomon used a prior transaction to prevent Bernadette from using her Grade 0 Sealed Artifacts, but Angel rescued her by pulling her into the Mirror World.
• Angel brought Bernadette to the deepest safe part of the Mirror World, where Bernadette used the Sage Diadem to remove the rapidly growing fetus and Angel destroyed it in the City of Calamity.
• Angel’s Mirror Person returned with the Pale Death and warned Bernadette that remembering the Outer Deities outside the refuge could draw their attention again.
• Angel explained the Apocalypse, the Outer Deities, and the relationship between Above the Sequence and Sefirah, and Bernadette said she would use 0-05 to erase her memories after advancing to Sequence 2.

Angel stopped Bernadette from using the Magic Wishing Lamp to erase her memories and discovered that the Genie was part of the Son of Chaos, sealed by the Celestial Worthy. Elsewhere, Audrey joined Angel in the Mirror World, Helene entered the passage to exile, and Audrey learned the truth about the apocalypse.

• Bernadette summoned the Magic Wishing Lamp's Genie, which revealed that it was a powerful being sealed inside the lamp and offered three undistorted wishes if they helped free it.
• Angel and her Mirror Person identified the Genie as an incarnation of the Son of Chaos, the Uncertain Mist, and warned Bernadette that a wish to erase her memories could expose her to corruption.
• Angel arranged for a Manipulator to erase the forbidden knowledge from Bernadette's and her own memories, and Bernadette agreed to compensate her.
• Audrey followed a charm from Miss Empress into the Mirror World, met Angel and two versions of Miss Empress, and asked who needed psychotherapy.
• The Church of Knowledge Saint sentenced Helene and the other prisoners to lifelong exile, sterilized them with Harps's Sterilization Rain, and sent them through the brass doors toward the place of exile.
• Angel told Audrey about the Outer Deities and the apocalypse, leaving Audrey stunned as she recognized the truth behind the prophecy she had heard months earlier.

After learning the truth about the Apocalypse, Audrey found purpose in continuing her efforts to protect civilians, then underwent hypnosis to forget the Outer Deities and Great Old Ones. Angel and her Mirror Person discussed the threats facing Earth and ended by questioning whether Mr. Fool was the Celestial Worthy.

• Angel reassured Audrey that her charity and political efforts could help preserve believers and support the gods as the war intensified.
• Bernadette advised Audrey to forget the details of the Outer Deities while retaining her resolve, and Audrey asked Bernadette to reduce civilian casualties in both Loen and Intis.
• Angel and her Mirror Person explained that the Uncertain Mist held most of the Son of Chaos's power while the Genie held most of its consciousness, and they considered how Outer Deities might use Roselle's resurrection and Bornova Gustav.
• Angel recalled that the Celestial Worthy created the Magic Wishing Lamp, sealed seven sefirot in the Western Continent, and owned Sefirah Castle, then asked whether Mr. Fool was the Celestial Worthy.

Angel inferred that Mr. Fool might be the Celestial Worthy and worried about what that could mean for Klein, while deciding to pursue the power that might resist the Celestial Worthy’s seal. Klein encountered an Amon avatar in the Forsaken Land of the Gods and fled, as Ilian and the other exiles arrived at Molora under Angelica’s watch.

• Angel reasoned that Mr. Fool might be the Celestial Worthy and worried because Klein belonged to the Seer pathway, but resolved to tell him everything once he advanced to Sequence 2.
• Angel saw Ilian Sauron approaching the City of Exile, where Salinger’s Blood Banner could raise Death to the standing of half a Great Old One.
• Klein explored an abandoned city-state in the Forsaken Land of the Gods, where an Amon avatar emerged from a statue and said he wanted to talk.
• Klein fled through the Historical Void, and Amon wondered why Klein had reacted so quickly to his attempt to speak.
• Ilian and the other prisoners reached the church in Molora, where an elderly man welcomed them to the City of Exile as Angelica watched Ilian through the stained glass.

Helene and the other exiles arrived in Molora, where they registered as residents and witnessed a familiar volcanic disaster that the city’s inhabitants treated as routine. As Helene began investigating, Angel and the Mirror Person watched from the City of Calamity and suspected that Hella Berg was an avatar of the God of Knowledge; meanwhile, Helene followed Iris to a building with a grand stone archway.

• Hella Berg welcomed the prisoners, removed their restraints, registered them as Molora residents, and explained the city’s laws, experiments, and permitted duels.
• Helene, William, and Tia left the church and saw a volcano erupt inside the city, killing nearby pedestrians while the other residents carried on as though disasters were ordinary.
• Helene and her companions sought an inn, then split up to gather clues about Molora.
• Angel and the Mirror Person observed Molora, identified Hella Berg as a lifelike puppet, and speculated that he was an avatar of the God of Knowledge supporting their investigation of the Red Priest’s Uniqueness.
• Helene used her cloak to follow Iris through Molora until Iris stopped at a building with four stone columns and a huge archway.

Helene investigated Iris’s meeting at the Fallen Noble, then learned that Molora’s brutal social order and disasters were tied to a powerful sealed artifact. Angelica tasked Helene, William, and Tia with finding it, and Helene used charms to break the influence making them eager to join Molora’s violent ecosystem.

• Helene followed Iris to the Fallen Noble but withdrew after a watcher’s gaze exposed her vulnerabilities.
• Helene returned to the lodging and exchanged information with Tia and William about Molora’s disasters, exiled population, and Beyonder-controlled hierarchy.
• Helene contacted Angelica, who revealed that the city had been built to seal Salinger's Blood Banner and assigned the three of them to locate it.
• Angelica warned Helene that rival factions sought the artifact and gave her three charms that could grant a portion of a Demoness’s power.
• Helene found William and Tia arguing over how to gain status, gave them the charms, and helped them recognize that a powerful influence had been pushing them to embrace Molora’s violent order.

Helene organized her team’s investigation of Molora while Angel responded to a naval battle prayer, and Katerina offered Tracy a path to advance to Sequence 4. The chapter left Helene’s team preparing to work under Molora’s dangerous influence and Tracy facing the preparations for her ritual.

• Helene gave William and Tia Ice Mirror charms to counter Molora’s influence and assigned them tasks to map the city, investigate potential rivals, and locate useful targets.
• Helene promised William and Tia Sequence 5 potion formulas or potions as rewards for making progress, but a storm linked to 0-01 forced them to stay indoors.
• Angel answered a believer’s prayer from Loen’s Inlet Sea Fleet, and her intervention destroyed much of both the Feysac Conquest Fleet’s Second Squadron and Loen’s fleet.
• Katerina visited Tracy aboard the Black Death and told her she had finished digesting her potion and could soon advance to Despair.
• Katerina offered Tracy ingredients and a ritual target, explaining that Tracy could replace the suffering of thirty thousand people with a Sequence 4 saint’s despair.

Angel visited the ruined Sona Island and traveled through the hidden altar to meet Klein in the Forsaken Land of the Gods. They shared a lavish meal while discussing the worsening war, and Angel changed the conversation before bringing out a bottle of sonia blood wine.

• Angel found that the Church of Storms had razed Sona Island’s village but left the buried basement and its altar intact.
• Angel reached the Forsaken Land of the Gods and waited until Klein summoned her Historical Projection.
• Klein grabbed Angel by the collar as a prank, but Angel petrified him and laid out a feast to tempt him into dropping his act.
• Angel and Klein ate together as they discussed Loen’s worsening war and Angel’s recent battles on the Northern Front.
• Angel shifted the conversation to Molora’s customs and replaced the Black Bear Cola with sonia blood wine.

Klein brought Angel to a cursed fog-filled region in the Forsaken Land of the Gods and showed her a strange concrete structure resembling a place from her past. Meanwhile, William and Helene investigated disappearances beneath Molora’s cemetery as Archbishop Hella Berg drew Helene into studying sealing knowledge.

• After sharing a meal, Klein led Angel through the wilderness to show her something he had discovered.
• William watched three exiles enter a cemetery mausoleum and vanish, then reported the repeated disappearances to Helene.
• Helene and William discussed how the cemetery’s underground passages might conceal what they were searching for before Archbishop Hella Berg interrupted them.
• Hella Berg told Helene to finish her books and pass an exam, and Helene suspected he understood their mission.
• Klein explained that cursed fog housed undead creatures and a dead cyclops, then showed Angel an image of a concrete complex she recognized as Chernobyl.

Klein and Angel discovered that Chernobyl was tied to the Ancient Sun God and the origins of the supernatural, and they set out to explore it. Their attempt to breach the cursed mist drew a giant Warrior angel into battle, leaving Angel under its descending foot.

• Angel explained that Chernobyl had become the first known site of supernatural phenomena after researchers went mad or disappeared inside it.
• Klein realized that Chernobyl was the building from which the Ancient Sun God had emerged, and his Scholar of Yore potion digested further as he considered exploring it.
• Klein told Angel his plan to enter Chernobyl and seek her help in dealing with the giant and the cursed mist.
• Klein produced a feather bearing Azik's blood from the Historical Void, and its aura pushed back the mist, but the giant charged toward them.
• Klein used the Staff of the Stars to summon lightning as Angel transformed into a towering mythical creature; the giant raised its foot to stomp on her.

Angel and Klein defeated the undead Glory guarding Chernobyl and claimed his dangerous weapon as a new Sealed Artifact, the Sword of Glory. They reached the abandoned research institute at the bottom of a ravine, but its seamless exterior left them wondering how to enter.

• Angel fought Glory with petrification, flames, and meteorites while Klein supported her with lightning and his Staff of the Stars.
• Glory unleashed a Blade Storm that destroyed the projections and meteorites, but Angel evaded it and continued wearing him down.
• Klein shouted “Leodoro,” summoning a lightning barrage that exposed Glory’s heart, and Angel petrified him until he shattered.
• Angel and Klein identified the giant’s transformed bone greatsword as a powerful, cursed Sealed Artifact, named it the Sword of Glory, and stored it in the Mirror World.
• Angel and Klein traveled through the cursed mist to the ravine containing the research institute, where they found its exterior smooth and seamless.

Klein and Angel entered the sealed Chernobyl research institute with Fors’s Historical Projection and learned from researcher Grisha’s notes how a strange black substance transformed the people inside. They suspected it was linked to the Chaos Sea, and an alluring call from deep within the institute drew their attention.

• Klein used Fors’s Historical Projection as a Traveler to pass through the concrete sarcophagus and enter Chernobyl with Angel.
• Klein, Angel, and Fors found black stains left by transformed people and discovered the institute’s rooms and equipment remained unusually well preserved.
• Angel read Grisha’s notes, which described an oil-like substance that turned anyone who touched it into black liquid and the researchers’ gradual deaths after the institute was sealed.
• Klein and Angel connected the substance’s underground call to the corruption associated with the Chaos Sea and wondered whether it had preserved the Ancient Sun God.
• A soundless, irresistible call came from deep within the institute, and Klein, Angel, and Fors turned toward it.

Klein and Angel followed a mysterious call into Chernobyl, where they encountered an Amon avatar emerging from the darkness above the Chaos Sea. Amon explained how he had been guided there and revealed discoveries about the Blasphemy Slates before Angel stopped him from sharing a dangerous secret.

• Klein and Angel followed the silent call through Chernobyl to a cavernous pit, where an Amon avatar emerged from the darkness.
• Amon said his avatar had been chosen by a vote to wait for them near the Chaos Sea, and he explained that other Amons had guided Klein toward Chernobyl.
• Amon identified the dead cyclops as Bradel, youngest son of Giant King Olmir, and said the Ancient Sun God had climbed out of the underground sefirah.
• Amon revealed that he had found traces of the first Blasphemy Slate in the Chaos Sea and said the second slate shared most of its contents.
• When Amon began to describe a secret beyond the Sequences, Angel attacked him with the Sword of Glory, and he agreed to change the subject.

Amon explained that Klein needed to reach the Giant King's Court in the Forsaken Land of the Gods to advance, while Angel refused to destroy his Chaos Sea-corrupted avatar. In Molora, Tia discovered that Demoness Lisa had returned and was meeting with the Iron and Blood Cross Order’s Earl Gusin, prompting Helene to prepare a report to Miss Angelica.

• Amon told Klein and Angel that his other avatars had guided them to Chernobyl so Klein could learn about his father’s world, progress toward becoming a Miracle Invoker, and hear about the Giant King’s Court and Sastiel.
• Tia returned to the inn and told Helene that she had spotted her former superior Lisa, who seemed to have advanced to Sequence 5, and that Lisa had been speaking with Earl Gusin.
• Helene recognized Gusin as the Hunter and Iron and Blood Cross Order member who had built a faction in Molora, and she reached for her Ice Mirror charm to report the encounter to Miss Angelica.
• Amon said Klein’s advancement would draw the attention of powerful beings and that his main body would meet them at the Giant King’s Court; Angel refused to kill the corrupted avatar.
• Amon said goodbye to Angel in Russian, removed his monocle, and leaped into the pit.

After Amon’s apparent suicide, Klein and Angel escaped Chernobyl and considered what he had revealed. Klein fully digested his Scholar of Yore potion, while the Golden Queen ordered Helene to accelerate her operation and accept a boon that would make her a Sequence 5 Beyonder.

• Amon jumped into the pit connected to the Chaos Sea, then returned and revealed that he had hoped to use information about the Second Epoch to influence Klein before disappearing into the pit again.
• Klein told Angel that most of Amon’s claims about the Dark Angel Sastiel and the Giant King’s Court were probably true, though he questioned Amon’s motives.
• Angel and Klein left Chernobyl, then parted ways at their campsite as Angel headed for Sona Island and Klein continued east.
• Klein entered the Grey Fog Space, reshaped it into Zhou Mingrui’s room, and realized he had fully digested his Scholar of Yore potion.
• The Golden Queen told Helene to bring forward her operation, continue learning from Bishop Hella Berg, and accept a boon of Calamity to become a Sequence 5 Beyonder.

Helene received a boon from Angelica Zaki that made her a Demoness of Affliction alongside her Hunter-pathway powers. Angel then brought a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact to Dream City for Anne Gustav and Gerdruff Amon to help suppress and study, where Amon wondered whether a Planeswalker characteristic could make him a true angel.

• Helene emerged from her bedroom transformed by the boon and demonstrated the Demoness's Cursed Flame to William and Tia.
• Angelica Zaki cleared storm clouds near Partis, and a young sailor quietly thanked her in prayer.
• Angel arrived at City Hall and told Anne Gustav she needed the city's Hand of Order to suppress the Sword of Glory without sealing it completely.
• Anne brought Angel to the Underground Memorial Hall, where Gerdruff Amon studied the artifacts and asked whether the Planeswalker characteristic could make him a true angel.

Angel questioned Gerdruff Amon about purifying Great Old One corruption and learned that mystic similarity combined with deception could separate it even from living people. After securing the Sword of Glory in Dream City, she visited the City of Calamity to purify the corruption in the Planeswalker and Barren Matriarch characteristics.

• Angel challenged Gerdruff Amon about switching pathways and the corruption in the Planeswalker characteristic, and he explained how angels could evade or redirect Great Old One corruption.
• Angel stored the Sword of Glory under the Hand of Order’s control and asked Amon to document its abilities, negative effects, and sealing methods in exchange for purifying Planeswalker.
• Angel and Anne saw that the Sword of Glory had strengthened Dream City’s defenses, then Angel took the two Sequence 2 characteristics to the mirrored City of Calamity.
• The Mirror Person told Angel that Helene had become a Sequence 5 Reaper and Affliction Demoness through a City of Calamity boon, explaining how adjacent-pathway boons could be granted safely.
• Angel announced that she would use the City of Calamity’s power to purify the Mother Goddess of Depravity’s corruption from Planeswalker and the Barren Matriarch, and the Mirror Person urged her to try it herself.

Angel used the City of Calamity’s authority of Chaos to purify two Sequence 2 Beyonder characteristics and discussed how to use them, while she and the Mirror Person considered the dangers surrounding the Forsaken Land of the Gods. In the City of Exile, Helene met with the Fallen Noble bar’s owner, Earl Gusin, after he had waited nearly two months for her.

• Angel controlled the Chaos Vortex herself to shatter and purify the Planeswalker and Barren Matriarch characteristics, while the Mirror Person sealed the Mother Goddess of Depravity’s corruption in a mirror.
• Angel and the Mirror Person considered trading the characteristics to the Abraham Family and the Church of the Earth Mother, then decided to store both in Dream City for now.
• Angel recounted her journey through the Forsaken Land of the Gods, and the Mirror Person warned that Klein would need the Giant King’s Court and that Angel should master Salinger’s Blood Banner before confronting the Dark Angel.
• Angel and the Mirror Person discussed Sastiel’s possible corruption from the Chaos Sea and the importance of Ilian Sauron finding a Sealed Artifact first.
• Helene entered the Fallen Noble bar, met its owner, and addressed him as Earl Gusin.

Helene questioned Gusin about the Underground Mausoleum and agreed to cooperate with him in finding a safe way inside. After detecting a mirror-bound spy, she pursued and defeated Lisa, revealing that she could use a Demoness’s Staff Substitution.

• Gusin told Helene that the Underground Mausoleum killed ordinary intruders, while criminals assigned as experiment personnel returned altered and unresponsive.
• Helene and Gusin agreed to help each other find a safe way into the mausoleum, though she refused his offer to become his subordinate.
• Helene sensed a hidden watcher following her toward the Knowledge Church and used the Ice Mirror charm to enter the Mirror World and pursue it.
• Helene caught up with Lisa, the Demoness of Affliction, on a deserted street and fought her with flames and mirror abilities.
• Lisa struck what she thought was Helene with a Mirror Curse, but Helene’s Staff Substitution left a burning stick in her place.
• Helene appeared beside Lisa and stabbed her through the heart with a black-flame-wreathed dagger.

Helene fought off Lisa, an Affliction Demoness, and returned to the Knowledge Church, where Hella Berg warned that she had little time left and gave her examination papers. After warning William and Tia that Lisa might target them, Helene contacted Miss Angelica and ordered dinner as she prepared for what lay ahead.

• Helene used her combined abilities to injure Lisa and force her to flee, then convinced Molora's enforcers that Lisa had attacked her first.
• Helene's attempt to divine Lisa's location failed, and she reflected on her new powers, her lack of Mystical Items, and the Demoness Sect's possible plans with the Iron and Blood Cross Order.
• Hella Berg told Helene that she had finished her books, gave her examination papers, and warned that she did not have much time left.
• Helene returned to her lodgings, realized William and Tia were affected by Molora, and warned them to avoid Lisa and escape with Ice Mirror Charms if necessary.
• Helene contacted Miss Angelica through a mirror and then asked William and Tia to order her an all-meat dinner.