Chapter Summaries

Angel defeated Archbishop Larion after his loss of control made him vulnerable to her plague, then entered Berdan City to find Klein. The city’s curfew punished her as soon as she appeared on its deserted streets.

• Angel used Salinger's Blood Banner, the Sword of Glory, and summoned soldier puppets to wear down Larion while her plague took effect.
• Larion charged Angel with his Twilight Sword, but struck a mirror substitute and died on his knees; Angel let him fulfill his final wish before claiming his beyonder characteristic.
• Reinette Tinekerr arrived, explained that Sefirah Castle’s aura had drawn her toward Berdan, and agreed to guard Larion’s remains while Angel went to check on Klein.
• Angel entered Berdan City through the Mirror World and discovered an invisible barrier that prevented anyone from leaving.
• Angel emerged onto an empty street and was immediately punished for violating the curfew, her back opening into bloody welts as intense pain struck her.

Angel tried to evade Berdan City's curfew by hiding in the Mirror World, but the Trunsoest Brass Book quickly brought it under the law and punished her. Meanwhile, Klein and Arianna used conflicting legal systems to overload the Book, and Klein realized Angel might be in Berdan City.

• Angel avoided the patrolling residents by entering the Mirror World and reasoned that the curfew's enforcers were controlled by the Sealed Artifact.
• Angel found that she could not reach the City of Calamity or contact Klein, and the Trunsoest Brass Book inflicted harsher punishment for her use of the Mirror World.
• Angel left the Mirror World to find a way around the curfew and locate Klein, just as a figure appeared before her.
• Klein and Arianna watched the Trunsoest Brass Book draft laws in the Berdan City Municipal Library after Klein summoned the Night Emperor's Memorial Hall to provoke conflicts between its laws and those of the Dream City.
• The Trunsoest Brass Book declared the Mirror World subject to the curfew, and Klein suspected Angel had entered it to escape the law.

Klein and Arianna brought Angel to the Trunsoest Brass Book, hoping she could exploit weaknesses in its laws to break them. As Angel identified those weaknesses, the Book sentenced her to death by hanging.

• Klein realized that Angel had entered Berdan and asked Arianna to find her.
• Arianna located Angel, but the Brass Book sentenced her to hanging before she could explain more than that Angel should break its rules.
• Arianna concealed Angel and brought her to Klein, where Angel recognized the Trunsoest Brass Book and searched its laws for weak points.
• As Angel targeted the weak points, the Book bound her and sentenced her to death for intending to destroy its rules.

Angel used her Calamity authority to break the Trunsoest Brass Book’s laws and sent the Sealed Artifact into the Mirror World, while Klein and Arianna recovered from its hanging judgments. After the Evernight Goddess assigned Larion’s Beyonder Characteristic to Arianna and urged Angel and Klein to go to the Hornacis Mountain Range, Reinette arrived with the Glory characteristic.

• Angel caused the Trunsoest Brass Book’s contradictory laws to collapse, escaped its noose, and sent the artifact into the Mirror World.
• Klein caught Angel, whose Rose Necklace healed her injuries, and Angel used it to heal Arianna’s ligature wound.
• Arianna explained that Larion had escaped Berdan with the Brass Book’s permission, and Angel revealed that Larion was dead and Miss Reinette was guarding his Beyonder Characteristic.
• Klein said the Brass Book had been corrupted by the Nation of Disorder, then prayed to the Evernight Goddess for instructions.
• Klein reported that the Goddess wanted Arianna to take Larion’s characteristic to the Holy Cathedral and wanted him and Angel to go to the Hornacis Mountain Range as soon as possible.
• Reinette appeared carrying Larion’s Glory characteristic.

Angel and Klein compared what they had learned about the Trunsoest Brass Book, the Conqueror characteristic, and the Evernight Goddess’s request to visit the Hornacis Mountain Range. They decided to investigate the mountain range, while Angel’s Mirror Person continued testing 0-02 and noticed its rule about Mirror Persons advancing through potions.

• Reinette handed the contaminated Glory characteristic to Arianna, who purified it, then left through the Spirit World.
• Angel told Klein she had obtained the Conqueror characteristic but would not switch to the Hunter pathway for now, and Klein arranged to meet her above the gray fog.
• Angel and Klein discussed Klein’s attempt to force the Trunsoest Brass Book to fill its pages and reset, then compared what the Second Blasphemy Slate revealed about the Calamity of Destruction and the Evernight Goddess.
• Klein and Angel concluded that the Goddess might want the River of Eternal Darkness and want to prevent the Celestial Worthy’s awakening, then set out to visit the Hornacis Mountain Range.
• Angel’s Mirror Person watched the Brass Book repeatedly write rules that a chaotic vortex erased, then read that Mirror Persons could advance by consuming potions at half their originals’ success rate.

Angel and Klein entered Antigonus’s palace to confront the Half Fool and seize the Card of Blasphemy depicting the Fool. The Half Fool’s attacks disrupted their preparations, but Klein protected the spirit body threads of Angel’s summoned puppets.

• Angel and Klein reached the hidden palace in the Hornacis Mountain Range, and Klein drew it into view as they approached.
• Angel summoned Salinger’s Blood Banner and the Trunsoest Brass Book, while Klein prepared Historical Projections to test the palace.
• Klein’s projection opened the palace doors, revealing the Half Fool as a mass of transparent worms surrounded by suspended corpses.
• The Card of Blasphemy depicting Sequence 0: Fool flew toward the entrance as the Half Fool’s tentacles attacked Angel and Klein.
• Angel’s Brass Book restricted the Half Fool’s abilities, but his wish erased the law after his tentacles grafted Angel’s Mirror Substitution onto themselves.
• Angel summoned clay soldier puppets inside the palace, and Klein redirected their spirit body threads before they could join the hanging corpses.

Angel and Klein weakened the mad Antigonus with Sealed Artifact “0-02” and their coordinated attacks. They forced the Mystic Seer characteristic out of Antigonus, and it flew toward Klein at the Double Door.

• Klein disrupted Antigonus’s control of the Marionettes with Spirit Body Threads and a lightning strike, while Angel’s plague and hidden traps burned many of Antigonus’s worms and tentacles.
• Antigonus restored his wounds using his past self from the History Void, but Klein accelerated the Brass Book’s recovery and Angel wrote a law that stopped Antigonus from slowing their thoughts.
• Angel and Klein attacked with soldier puppets and Marionettes until Antigonus summoned a Historical Image resembling the Blood Emperor Alistar Tudor; Angel exposed it as a fake by destroying it with Salinger’s Blood Banner.
• Angel wrote a third law weakening the connection between Sequence 1 characteristics and their bodies, leaving Antigonus motionless as the Mystic Seer characteristic began separating from him.
• Klein invoked Sefirah Castle, and the unstable Mystic Seer characteristic separated into specks of light and flew toward him.

Klein and Angel escaped Antigonus’s palace with the Mystic Seer characteristic and the Fool card after Evernight sealed away the Seer Uniqueness. Back in the Gray Fog, they discussed the mask’s connection to Klein and suspected the Goddess had kept the Uniqueness as leverage, while Antigonus awoke in the concealed palace.

• Angel’s clay soldier seized the Fool card as it followed the Mystic Seer characteristic toward Klein’s doorway, and Klein shut the door before Antigonus’s worms could escape.
• Evernight’s concealment ended, and Klein teleported away with Angel and the Mystic Seer characteristic as Amon arrived too late and warned a blood-red mirror that the Lord of Mysteries might emerge.
• Klein and Angel returned to Backlund, then went above the Gray Fog, where Klein explained that a mask bearing the Fool’s symbol had emerged from Antigonus and tried to reach him.
• Angel examined the Fool card and read the Mystic Seer potion formula and ritual, which required creating a town of marionettes with interwoven fates.
• Klein speculated that Antigonus had lost his anchors after the Four Emperors War and sealed the characteristic against merging with the Curtain; Angel suspected Evernight had kept the Fool Uniqueness as leverage.
• At the Hornacis Mountain palace, Antigonus opened his eyes while seated on the Stone Chair.

Antigonus awoke in the ruined palace with his memories restored and learned that Amanises had his sister in her hands. Above the Gray Fog, Klein and Angel discussed the rules governing Mirror People, leaving Angel wondering whether her own Mirror Person could advance to Sequence 1.

• Antigonus recalled his origins, his rise to Half Fool, and how he had lost control after his anchors were damaged.
• Antigonus awoke as a Miracle Invoker in his ruined palace and realized the Mystic Seer characteristic and Fool Uniqueness had left his body.
• A hooded woman revealed herself as Amanises and told Antigonus that she had his sister in her hands.
• Klein told Angel he planned to prepare rules and biographies for his Marionette Town while he digested his Miracle Invoker potion.
• Angel explained three rules about Mirror People: they were independent, had half their originals' advancement success rate, and synchronized advancement unless the original blocked it.
• Angel wondered whether her Mirror Person could consume a Conqueror potion and become a Sequence 1 of the Red Priest Pathway.

Angel visited Partis to check on the City of Silver immigrants and found Amon studying the Hand of Order in the Underground Memorial Hall. She assigned the Sword of Glory the number 0-63 and began discussing changes to her honorific name with Amon.

• Angel traveled to Partis, found Anne and Amon absent from City Hall, and discovered that Anne was away while Amon was in the Underground Memorial Hall.
• Amon gave Angel his report on the Sword of Glory, detailing its powers, dangers, and sealing methods after conducting experiments at her expense.
• Angel numbered the Sword of Glory 0-63, reflecting on the Witch Church's powerful artifacts and its shortage of high-level combatants.
• Angel asked Amon why the other Amons called Adam paranoid, and Amon said Adam was focused on dealing with the True Creator.
• Angel told Amon that she wanted to adjust her honorific name, and he asked whether she had decided to leave the Evernight Goddess and act independently.

Angel consulted Amon about revising her honorific name after the Evernight Goddess relinquished the Crimson Moon authority, and learned that five seemingly distant pathways might be connected. She finalized a new honorific name and heard that several cults had recently infiltrated Partis, the Dream City.

• Angel explained the divine battle and the Evernight Goddess’s revised honorific name to Gerdruff Amon, who confirmed that he lacked the original Amon’s knowledge of it.
• Amon told Angel that Beyonders might switch among the Demoness, Red Priest, Darkness, Death, and Twilight pathways, prompting her to reconsider a series of strange coincidences in her life.
• With Amon’s advice, Angel drafted a new honorific name: “Emissary of Calamity and Eternal Night, Queen of the Five Seas and Islands, Arbiter of Disease and Strife, Source of Mirror Power.”
• Amon reported that cultists had infiltrated Partis over the past two weeks, identifying the Rose School’s Indulgence Faction, the Gourmet School, the All Things End Society, and Sinner.

Angel questioned a Sinner cultist imprisoned by Amon and learned that he had received boons from the Circle of Inevitability through an unfamiliar pathway. After the Outer Deity noticed him, the cultist exploded, while Amon caught a speck of silvery-black light.

• Amon led Angel to the underground cells where he had imprisoned members of several Outer Deity cults.
• Angel questioned a Sinner, who explained that an Intis merchant named Voisin Sanson had recruited him and taught him a ritual to contact Inevitability.
• The Sinner revealed that boons had made him a Dancer and then a Sequence 8 Mendicant Monk, granting him unusual endurance and luck-related ritual abilities.
• Angel asked which great existence the Sinner worshipped, and he named the Circle of Inevitability.
• The Circle of Inevitability's gaze reached the cell despite the Hand of Order's defenses, and the Sinner exploded as Amon caught a speck of silvery-black light.

Angel learned that Amon had stolen boon power from the Circle of Inevitability and was studying the Outer Deities’ infiltration, while the immigrants from the City of Silver rapidly built a new settlement. The chapter ended with Archbishop Anthony summoning Angel to his office as “Your Highness.”

• Amon told Angel he had stolen a boon from the Circle of Inevitability and gathered information about three Outer Deities, then planned experiments on captured followers using a Parasite glove.
• Angel visited the immigrants’ settlement and saw them rapidly constructing the New City of Silver around a recreation of the Twin Towers.
• Derrick Berg asked when more residents would arrive, and Angel explained that a fleet and a miracle from Mr. Fool would bring them.
• Angel prayed at Saint Samuel Cathedral about Outer Deity followers infiltrating the city and offered to join a crackdown.
• Archbishop Anthony addressed Angel as “Your Highness” and summoned her to his office.

Angel attended the Evernight Church’s Meeting Before God, where the Church ordered a broad campaign against newly emerged evil sects and assigned her to lead an operation against the Rose School on the Southern Continent. Elsewhere, Alger received matching orders from Mr. Fool to cooperate with the Churches’ campaigns, and the chapter ended with Dunn inviting Angel and Klein to his wedding with Daly.

• Anthony brought Angel into the Meeting Before God, where Pope Saint Dabomachie introduced her as the Goddess’s blessed and the Calamity Angel.
• Dabomachie announced the Goddess’s revelation ordering dioceses to eradicate specified evil sects, and Angel briefed the meeting on the Sinner organization.
• Dabomachie assigned Angel to lead an upcoming operation against the Rose School on the Southern Continent.
• Alger received orders from Pope Gade II to destroy Rose School strongholds, then was instructed by Mr. Fool to cooperate with the Churches’ anti-cult operations.
• After Angel awoke from the dream meeting, Dunn invited her and Klein to his wedding with Daly that Saturday.

Angel accepted Dunn and Daly’s wedding invitation and learned that the Demoness Sect had ordered its leaders to halt operations and hide or return to headquarters. She considered opposing the Primordial Demoness, and Wensa brought her a black bone statue connected to another being willing to perish with Cheek.

• Dunn told Angel that he and Daly planned to marry in Tingen soon because they feared another tragedy if they waited, and Angel agreed to attend with Klein.
• Angel summoned Wensa and asked why Clarice had abandoned Trier and whether the Demoness Sect was preparing a major operation.
• Wensa said the Primordial Demoness had ordered the sect’s leaders to stop all operations and hide or return to headquarters, which was concealed in a special Mirror World.
• Angel asked whether the being behind Wensa and Katarina would help her oppose the Primordial Demoness, and Wensa said she would be willing to perish together with Cheek.
• Wensa produced a black bone statue of the Primordial Demoness, unlike the white statues Angel had seen among Demoness Sect members.

Angel received a black statue of the Primordial Demoness and questioned Wensa about advancing to Conqueror. Meanwhile, Dunn and Daly married in Tingen, and Klein and Angel left the ceremony together before discussing what their own wedding might be like.

• Angel asked Wensa about the black statue and learned she should recite the Primordial Demoness's honorific name only when she was truly ready.
• Wensa told Angel that advancing to Conqueror was exactly what the Primordial Demoness wanted to hear, then escaped into the Spirit World.
• Seeka watched Dunn and Daly's wedding in Tingen alongside the former Nighthawks and guests from Backlund.
• Dunn and Daly exchanged vows, while Klein and Angel watched in disguise before leaving the church.
• Leonard noticed the pair departing, and Shermane asked him what he imagined their wedding would be like.
• Angel asked Klein the same question, and his list of possible identities left her overwhelmed by indecision.

Angel and Klein discussed holding weddings for the identities they had shared, while Klein described his progress toward creating Marionette Town and struggled against the Celestial Worthy’s mental imprint. After restoring Angel’s former home on Daffodil Street, they went inside together; meanwhile, Anne and Bernadette tracked a moving red mark into an uncharted region of the Fog Sea.

• Angel agreed with Klein’s proposal to hold weddings for all their shared identities, and Klein began listing roles they could play in Marionette Town.
• Klein told Angel he was rebuilding homes in Constant City to gather wishes and that his Miracle Invoker potion was nearly digested, then struggled briefly against the Celestial Worthy’s imprint.
• Angel steadied Klein, and they reflected on how they had become each other’s strongest anchors.
• Klein used a miracle to restore the interior of Angel’s former home at 6 Daffodil Street, and Angel led him inside.
• In the Fog Sea, Anne and Bernadette watched a compass as a blood-red mark moved ahead of their ships toward an uncharted forbidden region.

Bernadette and Anne followed The Black Emperor into the Fog Sea while Angel reviewed outdated intelligence on the Rose School and Numinous Episcopate in Vertec City. As Angel weighed her enemies and possible allies, an unannounced envoy arrived with a face she recognized from the Nation of the Evernight.

• Bernadette and Anne tracked The Black Emperor through the storm toward a small island.
• Angel traveled through the Mirror World to Vertec City and examined the local Nighthawks’ records on the Rose School and Numinous Episcopate.
• Angel judged the Rose School her main target but struggled to see how she could locate its hidden members, while she considered the Numinous Episcopate a potential ally.
• Angel learned that the Royalist Faction was led by the angel Sia Palenque Eggers, whom she suspected might be Death’s descendant and a possible Sequence 1.
• A hooded special envoy arrived at the Church of the Evernight Goddess, and Angel recognized his face from the Nation of the Evernight.

Angel met Antigonus, who said the Evernight Goddess had sent him to help her fight the Rose School, and learned that the Mother Tree of Desire had corrupted the Chained God Tolzna. Angel then recruited Reinette Tinekerr to join the campaign, and Reinette agreed.

• Angel confronted Antigonus in a church, and he explained that Arianna had sent him to assist with her mission on the Southern Continent.
• Antigonus admitted he recognized Angel as one of the people who stole his Beyonder characteristic, but said he had pledged his allegiance to the Evernight Goddess and came with goodwill.
• Antigonus explained the history of the Rose School and revealed that the Mother Tree of Desire had corrupted Tolzna, leaving him unable to act freely.
• Angel asked Antigonus to search the Ancient Forest for Rose School bases and Saints while she contacted allies.
• Angel summoned Reinette Tinekerr and offered to help her take revenge on the Indulgence Faction and recover her body.
• Reinette nodded, accepting Angel's proposal.

Klein worked above the Gray Fog while managing prayers from Fors, Angel, and Bernadette. He uncovered the danger behind Mr. Door’s pleas for rescue and summoned Angel to discuss Bernadette’s discovery near a mysterious island, where Roselle’s final mausoleum might be hidden.

• Klein split off avatars to study professional books for his planned marionette town and watched Fors advance to Secrets Sorcerer.
• Klein stabilized Fors’s advancement, then learned that Mr. Door had spoken with her and offered ways to free him.
• Klein used the Master Key and Scarlet Lunar Corona to determine that the lucid Bethel Abraham cried out against rescue, while the mad Mr. Door begged for it.
• Klein concluded that Mr. Door’s pleas were attempts by an Outer Deity to enter the Physical World and told Fors to warn the Abraham Family against rescuing him.
• Klein heard Angel’s report that Antigonus had been released and that the Church of Evernight planned to strike the Rose School, then warned her to remain cautious.
• Bernadette asked Klein for protection near a mysterious island while tracking Nast, and Klein summoned Angel to discuss whether Roselle’s final mausoleum lay there.