Chapter Summaries

Angel and Klein watched Bernadette and Anne investigate the island where Roselle’s hidden mausoleum might lie. When the island’s creatures revived under the Mother Goddess of Depravity’s power, Angel prepared to descend and confront the threat.

• Klein asked Angel to descend as the Fool’s angel if Bernadette and Anne needed help on the island.
• Bernadette and Anne landed on the island and entered its primeval forest after Nast, while their ghost ships guarded the coast.
• Klein used Sefirah Castle’s power to watch Bernadette’s progress, but a distortion obscured most of the island.
• Bizarre creatures attacked Bernadette and Anne, and Anne divided the battlefield to isolate two of them.
• A strange wind revived the slain creatures and broke Anne’s battlefield, sending the horde charging again.
• Angel recognized the power of rebirth as belonging to the Mother Goddess of Depravity and prepared to descend onto the island.

Angel joined Anne and Bernadette in the battle against the Great Mother’s corruption and the Newborn Tide, which repeatedly revived the island’s creatures. She destroyed the black stone pillar sustaining the tide, ending the catastrophe and revealing the crimson aura drifting toward Roselle Gustav’s Black Emperor mausoleum.

• Klein used a Paper Doll Angel to bring Angel’s Historical Void Projection to Bernadette and Anne, allowing Angel to exchange places with it from the Southern Continent.
• The Newborn Tide revived the island’s creatures and corrupted Bernadette, but Anne resisted its effects while Bernadette used Pale Death to hold back the attackers.
• A hidden force distorted Anne’s prohibition and Bernadette’s death gaze, but Angel arrived, recruited both women, and disrupted the enemy’s control of the battlefield.
• Angel used her blood banner and authority to throw the creatures into chaos, then unleashed meteors, earthquakes, and a tsunami across the island.
• Angel found the Newborn Tide’s connections to a black stone pillar and destroyed the revived creatures through plague and petrification, transmitting the damage to the pillar and toppling it.
• The Newborn Tide and the island’s disasters stopped, while crimson aura drifted toward the Black Emperor mausoleum Roselle Gustav had built inside a mountain.

Angel destroyed the Mother Goddess of Depravity’s power on the island and learned that Nast had entered Roselle Gustav’s mausoleum while carrying the Outer Deity’s corruption. After Bernadette’s prophecy showed a monstrous figure crawling from the tomb, Angel entered it to investigate.

• Angel captured the crimson aura corrupting the Beyonder Creatures and destroyed it with the City of Calamity’s power.
• Angel concluded that Nast had brought the Mother Goddess of Depravity’s corruption into the mausoleum and asked Bernadette to prophesy what would happen.
• Bernadette’s prophecy showed a huge, flesh-covered creature crawling out of the mausoleum, possibly a corrupted resurrection of Roselle.
• Bernadette warned that the prophecy could represent a catastrophe caused either by their actions or by doing nothing.
• Angel told Anne to search outside for traces of the Great Mother’s power, then passed through the mausoleum doors with Mr. Fool’s help and found the interior empty.

Angel fought Roselle's shadow inside the Black Emperor Mausoleum while Klein guided her from above the Gray Fog. After Angel damaged the mausoleum and Roselle's shadow, the Mother Goddess of Depravity's power began emerging from within him, threatening to manifest as a crimson moon.

• Angel entered the mausoleum, broke free of the Black Emperor's suppression with a projection of 0-01, and was attacked by Roselle's distorted shadow.
• Klein used the Staff of the Stars to slow time in the mausoleum and instructed Angel to destroy it.
• Angel escaped Roselle's attack and used the Sword of Glory and Blade Storm to damage the mausoleum walls, weakening Roselle's shadow.
• Roselle's shadow began regenerating by restoring the mausoleum, so Angel redirected her Blade Storm to tear into him from within.
• Angel exposed the Mother Goddess of Depravity's blood-red radiance inside Roselle's shadow, and it began emerging as a crimson moon.

Angel suppressed the Mother Goddess of Depravity’s power within Roselle, but Roselle continued attacking until Bernadette and Anne entered and reached him. Roselle recognized his daughter and ordered her to seal him and leave.

• Angel used a drop of blood carrying the Mirror Person’s sefirah power to suppress the Mother Goddess of Depravity’s radiance inside Roselle’s shadow.
• Roselle attacked Angel again, forcing her to evade while she avoided weakening his shadow enough for the corruption to return.
• Bernadette and Anne entered the mausoleum, and Anne briefly imprisoned Roselle while Bernadette said the word “Homeland.”
• Roselle stopped and recognized Bernadette as his daughter, then spoke with her and Anne.
• Roselle acknowledged his corruption and ordered Bernadette to seal him and leave the mausoleum.

Bernadette, Angel, and Klein suppressed the corruption in Roselle and sealed him in a stable balance of death, calamity, and chaos. After Bernadette and Anne left, Roselle spoke with Angel until Klein appeared as Zhou Mingrui and answered Roselle’s coded phrase.

• Bernadette used Pale Death and the Feathered Serpent symbol to seal Roselle, while Angel severed the Mother Goddess of Depravity’s influence and Klein added the Fool’s power.
• The combined powers suppressed Roselle’s corruption, restored his human features, and prevented the prophesied catastrophe for the time being.
• Angel sensed a brief vision of the River of Eternal Darkness before the mausoleum fell silent.
• Roselle nodded to Anne, who took Bernadette away through the Spirit World; Bernadette called out to her father from the Dawn’s deck.
• Roselle told Angel, “You shouldn’t have come,” and Angel asked why.
• Klein arrived in the form of Zhou Mingrui and supplied the response to Roselle’s coded phrase: “But I’m already here.”

Klein and Angel spoke with Roselle about his corruption, the apocalypse, and the influence of the sefirahs. After examining Angel’s Cards of Blasphemy, Roselle realized that his Mirror Person might have created the extra Red Priest card.

• Angel told Roselle that Anne had wanted her to destroy the Ghost Ship before learning Bernadette was alive, and Roselle admitted he had wronged Anne.
• Klein and Angel discussed how Roselle’s attempt to become a True God and his contact with Mr. "Door" had been shaped by corruption from the Mother Goddess of Depravity.
• Roselle explained how sefirah corruption had affected figures such as Trunsoest and the Blood Emperor, and warned Angel about the Red Priest pathway.
• Angel showed Roselle two Red Priest Cards of Blasphemy and a Demoness card; Roselle confirmed he had made only one complete set and recognized the cards’ anti-divination properties.
• Roselle concluded that his Mirror Person might have created the second Red Priest card.

Angel and Klein questioned Roselle about his mirror person, the Mirror World, and the Four Emperors War. Roselle revealed that his mirror person had helped prepare a hidden mausoleum and that Cheek had killed her daughter, Krismona, before asking about Klein’s sex before becoming a Witch.

• Roselle told Angel that his deep mirror image was a woman who could not replace him, and that she had helped create the Demoness Card of Blasphemy.
• Roselle revealed that one of his required mausoleums was hidden in the Mirror World, where his mirror person could replace him if his other resurrection failed.
• Roselle speculated that the Chaos Demoness might be a mirror person of Cheek who ruled the Mirror World and wielded the City of Calamity.
• Roselle told Angel and Klein that Cheek had killed her daughter Krismona, possibly because female Demonesses could help the Great Terror descend.
• Roselle teased Angel and Klein by asking whether Klein had been male or female before advancing to Witch.

Angel and Klein learned more about Roselle’s corruption and the dangers facing their efforts to become Great Old Ones before leaving the mausoleum. Bernadette became an angel and learned the truth about her father, while Roselle remained behind to hear Nast’s proposal from the Great Mother.

• Angel explained how she revived in a body that had died after failing to advance to Witch, making her Demoness nature unusual, and Roselle discussed other suspected transmigrators with her and Klein.
• Roselle warned Klein that the Celestial Worthy’s plan might force others to help his revival, advised him to consult the Genie, and urged Angel to follow the path Death had attempted in the Fourth Epoch.
• Roselle asked Angel and Klein to help protect Bernadette and warned them about the Mother card among his Cards of Blasphemy before they left the mausoleum.
• Angel told Bernadette that Roselle had resisted the Mother Goddess of Depravity’s corruption, and Bernadette revealed she had advanced to become a Sage and true angel.
• Nast emerged from concealment in the mausoleum and offered Roselle a transaction from the Great Mother, guaranteed by the Uncertain Mist; Roselle asked to hear the terms.

Angel prepared to enlist Reinette Tinekerr and Sharron in the Orthodox Churches’ campaign against the Rose School, while considering the revelations Emperor Roselle had shared. The chapter ended with a Mandated Punisher team discovering a hall full of hanging cultists.

• Angel recalled Emperor Roselle’s revelations about his Mirror Person, the Great Terror in the Mirror World, and corruption in the Mother card.
• Reinette Tinekerr and Sharron arrived, and Angel welcomed the Temperance Faction’s help against the Rose School.
• Sharron revealed that she had become a Puppet and thanked Angel for providing the Beyonder Characteristic.
• Angel proposed a more aggressive campaign and asked Reinette for intelligence about Abomination Suah.
• A Cataclysmic Interrer entered a rainforest castle and found over a hundred figures hanging from the hall’s ceiling, swaying in the wind.

Angel discussed Antigonus's attacks on Rose School bases and planned a trap with the Temperance Faction to draw out an Indulgence angel. Meanwhile, Emlyn was appointed a senior deacon and learned important Church matters before joining the Tarot Club above the gray fog.

• Angel reprimanded Antigonus for killing Rose School followers in ways that caused other churches to mistake the attacks for Gehrman Sparrow's work, and Antigonus agreed to use her Historical Projection and give her the credit.
• Antigonus reported that he had destroyed five bases but still could not locate the Rose School's angels, so Angel described her plan to lure out an Indulgence angel with Reinette Tinekerr's help.
• Antigonus explained that he retained two Sequence 2 characteristics and could temporarily draw a Sequence 1 version of himself from the Historical Void, while revealing that his Miracle Invoker characteristic had carried the Celestial Worthy's will from birth.
• Archbishop Loreto appointed Emlyn a senior deacon responsible for Sanguine affairs and said the Church had important matters requiring his attention.
• Emlyn joined the Tarot Club above the gray fog, still reeling from what Loreto had told him.

Emlyn asked the Tarot Club whether the Church of the Earth Mother’s safeguards against false revelations meant its Moon and Mother pathways were vulnerable to cosmic corruption, and Angel explained that six pathways originated beyond the world. Two days later, Angel received Bernadette’s Magic Wishing Lamp and summoned its Genie above the gray fog, where it recognized Klein and froze.

• Emlyn told the Tarot Club that the Church of the Earth Mother had appointed him its Sanguine representative and warned him that divine revelations could be demonic temptations.
• Angel explained that only sixteen Beyonder pathways came from the Original Creator, while Moon, Mother, Lawyer, Arbiter, Prisoner, and Criminal came from the cosmos; she added that the Chained God had been corrupted.
• Angel told the gathering that Orthodox Churches were hunting Rose School cultists on the Southern Continent and reassured Emlyn that the Church of the Earth might soon involve steadfast God-Blessed fighters.
• Angel asked Cattleya about Queen Mystic Bernadette’s return and requested to borrow her Magic Wishing Lamp, while suggesting Cattleya ask Bernadette about Sequence 3 Clairvoyant potion materials.
• Two days later, Klein brought Bernadette’s lamp above the gray fog, and Angel rubbed it until the Genie appeared, mocked her for being trapped in the Historical Void, then froze upon seeing Klein.

Klein and Angel questioned the Genie, who mistook Klein for the Celestial Worthy before realizing the truth. The Genie offered a deal and then gave them three pieces of advice before returning to the Magic Wishing Lamp.

• The Genie mistook Klein, who wore the curtain and had accommodated the Fool card, for the Celestial Worthy, and offered to help him accommodate the Mystic Seer characteristics in exchange for freedom.
• Klein stopped impersonating the Celestial Worthy and told the Genie he could take his place, while the Genie offered three wishes and the remaining Miracle Invoker characteristic for his release.
• Angel threatened to take the Genie into the City of Calamity, and he responded with three pieces of advice.
• The Genie warned them to act quickly because the apocalypse could arrive before the barrier shattered, and said the Uncertain Mist was trying to regain his freedom.
• The Genie told Angel that the Red Priest pathway's connection to war and sacrifice might let her break through the Celestial Worthy's seal and access the Sefirah's full power early.
• The Genie returned to the Magic Wishing Lamp, leaving Angel and Klein alone.

Klein and Angel weighed the Genie's warnings about the Outer Deities and considered what the Red Priest pathway might reveal about the sefirot. They ended by independently identifying Medici as the person to consult.

• Klein returned the Magic Wishing Lamp to Bernadette and discussed the Genie’s three suggestions with Angel.
• Klein and Angel reasoned that the Outer Deities might compete with one another, while the Uncertain Mist could use its authority to enforce cooperation between them.
• Klein and Angel examined the Genie’s interpretation of the Red Priest pathway and wondered whether it could help Angel obtain a sefirah before the Western Continent’s barrier was lifted.
• Klein and Angel independently concluded that Medici might know more about the Red Priest pathway.

Klein and Angel discussed seeking answers about the Red Priest and the sefirot while preparing to act quickly against their enemies. As Angel’s plan to draw out the Rose School’s Indulgence Faction began, a cursed-beer attack devastated Vertec City and the aura of the Abomination Suah emerged above it.

• Angel explained that Medici might know the Hunter Pathway’s secrets, and Klein wondered whether Tudor had drawn on a sefirah during the Four Emperors War.
• Angel planned to contact the Pale Empress, while Klein decided to build a Marionette Town near Partis and the New City of Silver.
• Angel learned that Shanks was crossing the Harvest Plain and Star Plateau, then prepared to use Sharron’s attack to lure Rose School reinforcements into a trap.
• Angel watched Sharron approach Shanks, but noticed that Vertec City had fallen into chaos as residents who drank contaminated beer attacked one another and set fires.
• Angel froze the city and turned the frenzied residents into marionettes, while Antigonus appeared at the Church of Night and the Abomination Suah’s aura poured from a vortex in the sky.

Suah descended into the Mirror World above Vertekk, where Angel and Antigonus trapped him as the Chained God strengthened the separation from reality. Elsewhere, Sharron stalled Shanks until he summoned Baranka, but Reinette Tinekerr arrived to confront the King of Curses.

• Suah emerged from a vortex over Vertekk and began transforming and maddening the city’s inhabitants.
• Angel and Antigonus drew Suah into the Mirror World, where Antigonus wished the realm unbreakable and the Chained God severed its connection to the Spirit World.
• Sharron used her Sealed Artifacts to evade and fight Shanks in the forest, preventing him from escaping.
• Shanks summoned Baranka by reciting his honorific name, and the King of Curses arrived through the Spirit World.
• Baranka recognized Sharron as a Temperance Faction remnant, but Reinette Tinekerr appeared before he could curse her.

Angel and Antigonus fought Suah inside the sealed Mirror World, badly wounding his true body before his curse struck Angel. Meanwhile, Reinette’s Ancient Bane form expired during her battle with Baranka, just as invisible blades engulfed him.

• Angel used Salinger's Blood Banner and Antigonus’s Historical Projection of the Osekes figurine to burn Suah and disrupt his attacks.
• Angel turned Antigonus’s Marionettes into Saint-strength soldier puppets, which attacked Suah’s hands and roots while her plague weakened them.
• Angel struck Suah’s true body with flames, sunlight, and petrification, but Suah transferred a curse to her that burned and shattered her mirror substitute.
• Sharron prayed to Angel that Baranka had descended, then watched Reinette’s battle with him while tracking the hiding Shanks.
• Reinette’s Yesterday Once More expired, and invisible blades suddenly engulfed Baranka.

Angel advanced to Demoness of Apocalypse and battled Suah in the sealed Mirror World while Baranka faced Reinette and Angel’s Mirror Person in reality. The chapter ended with Angel gaining her new Sequence powers as the Chained God threatened to descend.

• Baranka used the curse linking him to Reinette to inflict matching wounds on her, but she escaped the damage with Mirror Substitution.
• Angel arrived in reality and used the Yesterday Once More charm to advance to Demoness of Apocalypse, unleashing meteors and magma against Baranka.
• Baranka called on the Chained God for aid, but received no response and shrank under Angel’s attack.
• In the sealed Mirror World, Angel and Antigonus fought Suah while the Chained God’s image grew clearer and Tolzna briefly resisted being drawn into the battle.
• Angel prepared to attack Suah with 0-01, but destructive imprints from her Beyonder characteristics overwhelmed her before she gained her new Sequence powers.

Angel unexpectedly advanced to Sequence 1 and wielded Salinger's Blood Banner to battle Suah and the descending Tolzna in the Mirror World. Meanwhile, Angel's Mirror Person and Reinette defeated the King of Curses, claimed his Beyonder characteristic, and captured Shanks.

• Angel realized she had advanced to Sequence 1 despite lacking an Apocalypse Demoness characteristic, then seized control of Salinger's Blood Banner and its Conqueror power.
• Angel used the banner to command fire soldier puppets and petrify Suah, but a howl from the Mirror World dispelled the petrification and Antigonus imposed silence on the battlefield.
• Angel summoned more fire puppets and Flames of Destruction, then flew toward Suah to attack him before Tolzna could fully descend.
• Angel's Mirror Person, Reinette, and Sharron defeated Baranka; the Mirror Person used the shriveled palm to destroy the King of Curses and obtained his Ancient Bane characteristic.
• Reinette gave the Sequence 2 characteristic to the Mirror Person, then captured the wounded Shanks as he tried to escape.
• The Mirror Person warned that Angel's Apocalypse state would soon end and vanished into the Mirror World.

Angel used the Chaos Vortex to destroy most of Abomination Suah in the Mirror World, then turned its curse against the corrupted Chained God. The Mother Tree of Desire intervened and helped Tolzna escape, leaving Angel and Antigonus with Suah’s remains and Beyonder characteristics.

• Angel’s black Flames of Destruction burned Abomination Suah and were transferred by Antigonus onto the newly arrived Chained God Tolzna.
• Angel formed a Chaos Vortex with her destructive flames, and Suah tried to escape into the Spirit World as the Mirror World began to collapse.
• Klein sealed the Spirit World connection, trapping Suah in the Mirror World, and Angel’s vortex tore apart most of his body.
• Angel used Suah’s curse against Tolzna, linking their fates and drawing the Chained God toward the Chaos Vortex.
• The God of Spiritual Objects briefly regained clarity, but the Mother Tree of Desire’s power intervened and enabled Tolzna to escape with some of Suah’s remains.
• Angel watched Beyonder characteristics condense from the remains left behind as the Chaos Vortex dissipated.