Chapter Summaries

Angel and Antigonus drove off Suah and the Rose School’s Indulgence Faction, then Angel negotiated with Reinette to share the spoils in exchange for help against the Primordial Moon’s believers. The chapter ended with Angel summoning Klein to spirit-channel the possessed Shanks for more information about the Rose School.

• Angel gathered the Beyonder characteristics Suah lost in the Chaos Vortex, including a Sequence 2 Ancient Bane characteristic, while Antigonus said their victory had exceeded his expectations.
• Angel and Antigonus returned to Vertec City, where Antigonus helped the authorities restore order and Angel left to meet Sharron and Reinette.
• Angel learned that Reinette had defeated Baranka and offered her Baranka’s characteristics in exchange for assistance against the Primordial Moon’s believers.
• Reinette agreed to the deal, and Angel asked whether Shanks could be spirit-channeled while possessed.
• Angel summoned Klein and asked him to spirit-channel Shanks to uncover more Rose School secrets.

Angel and Klein questioned Shanks through spirit channeling and learned about the Rose School’s forces, artifacts, and plans. After Shanks revealed the locations of parts of Reinette’s body, Klein turned him into a marionette and Angel killed him.

• Klein set up an altar and channeled Shanks’ Spirit Body while Reinette controlled his body.
• Shanks revealed that the Rose School had several angels and two Grade 0 Sealed Artifacts: the Fountain of Blood and the Shadow of the Beauty Goddess.
• Shanks could not recall the Rose School’s current headquarters and said Lord Suah had ordered him to support Primordial Moon believers in the Northern State.
• Angel suspected that Shanks and the attack on Vertekk had been bait to draw out the Orthodox Churches’ strongest forces.
• Shanks identified the locations of several pieces of Reinette’s divided body, and Klein made him a marionette before Angel killed him.

Angel reported the battle against Suah and learned that the Evernight Goddess wanted her to remain on the Southern Continent and approach the Pale Empress. Emlyn prepared to join the campaign against the Primordial Moon’s followers, while Helene’s ship faced the returning Black Death and Derrick learned of a new city near Partis.

• Angel prayed at Saint Samuel Cathedral, reported that she and Antigonus had wounded Suah, and asked about the Chained God and a Beauty Goddess characteristic.
• The Evernight Goddess instructed Angel to stay on the Southern Continent, watch the Numinous Episcopate, and contact the Pale Empress about her Sequence 1 artifact.
• Emlyn asked Father Utravsky to verify his dream, and Utravsky confirmed that the Mother Goddess had sent them to fight the Primordial Moon’s followers.
• Helene’s ship encountered the supposedly sunken Black Death near Partis, and she ordered her crew to prepare for battle.
• At the Council of Seven meeting, Derrick learned from Lovia that the Aurora Order planned to attack evil sects and read news of another city appearing near Partis.

Derrick led a New City of Silver team to investigate Yarnam City, a bustling settlement that had appeared beside their island home. They found a Church of the Fool and recognized Miss Empress there, leaving Derrick reassured that the new city was under the Fool’s protection.

• Derrick, Lovia Tiffany, and their companions sailed to Yarnam Port and learned from harbor manager Theodore that it belonged to Yarnam City.
• Derrick led the team through the fully developed city, whose roads, railway, factories, and homes showed it could not have been built overnight.
• Lovia advised the group to head for City Hall Square, while Sherlock and Irene observed them from the Moriarty Detective Agency.
• Derrick recognized the symbol above the church as the Fool’s and suspected Yarnam’s people had also been rescued by Mr. Fool.
• Derrick recognized Miss Empress leaving the church, felt reassured, and entered the Church of the Fool.

Derrick received a revelation in Mr. Fool's cathedral to build a matching cathedral and spread the faith in the New City of Silver. Angel explored Yarnam City, recognizing the familiar people and places Klein had woven into it, then found Klein lying unconscious in an underground chamber.

• Derrick recognized the cathedral mural as a depiction of the City of Silver's survivors leaving the Forsaken Land of the Gods, with Lovia and other guides among them.
• After praying, Derrick received a divine revelation to build a cathedral modeled on Mr. Fool's and compile a Holy Bible for the New City of Silver.
• Angel confirmed that Derrick and his companions were deliberately investigating Yarnam City and posed no threat, then left the cathedral.
• Angel wandered through Yarnam City, observing familiar streets, landmarks, and people modeled on places and experiences from Klein's life.
• After nightfall, Angel returned to the cathedral and followed her spirituality underground, where a mirror revealed Klein lying unconscious on a bunk.

Klein Moretti and Angel Granger’s shooting match leads to a dinner date, while Dwayne Dantès and Christine consider buying property in Yarnam City. Sherlock Moriarty and Irene discuss the city’s visitors as two armed watchers survey Yarnam from the Church of the Fool’s bell tower.

• Klein Moretti beat Angel Granger at the shooting range, and Angel suggested they celebrate with dinner at a Balam-style restaurant.
• Klein and Angel nearly collided with Dwayne Dantès, Christine, and their valet Enyouni as they entered the restaurant.
• Dwayne Dantès and Christine discussed buying houses in Yarnam City and planned to try its Intis restaurant the next day.
• Sherlock Moriarty pulled Irene out of the path of Dwayne Dantès’s carriage and explained why he believed its occupants were outsiders.
• Sherlock Moriarty told Irene he had met the giants from the New City of Silver at the Church of the Fool, and she chased him in mock anger.
• Two armed figures watched Sherlock Moriarty and Irene from the Church of the Fool’s bell tower before surveying Yarnam City at dusk.

Klein used Marionettes to create Yarnam City as a realistic town, both to prepare for advancing to Sequence 1 and to hide from Amon and Zarathus. Angel visited him and helped anchor his identity, while Klein remained concerned about the danger his plan posed and asked how she was digesting the Catastrophe Potion.

• Klein controlled the residents of Yarnam City through Marionettes, experiencing their varied identities while keeping his primary consciousness anchored in his real identity.
• Angel entered Klein's hiding place and helped quiet the emotions of his Marionette identities by reminding him who he was.
• Angel reported that Yarnam City's residents followed predictable routines, though Derrick and his team had not noticed anything unusual and Lovia had only grown mildly suspicious.
• Klein explained that he had built the town to attract frequent visitors and create realistic interactions for his Sequence 1 advancement ritual, despite the risk of drawing Amon or Zarathus.
• Klein considered how advancing could help him protect Angel, then asked how she was digesting the Catastrophe Potion.

Angel discussed her advancement choices with Klein, who agreed to focus on completing his ritual so he could help her. Angel then returned to Partis, where she found Tracy preaching at Saint Angelica Church after Helene had captured her.

• Angel told Klein she had finished digesting the Catastrophe potion and explained why she was wary of advancing to Conqueror.
• Angel considered seeking the Pale Emperor characteristic and delaying her choice between the Conqueror and Death pathways until she learned more.
• Angel joked that Klein could become a woman if she advanced to Conqueror, then urged him to finish his ritual as soon as possible.
• Angel returned to Partis and found Tracy leading Mass at Saint Angelica Church.
• Angel recalled that Helene had captured Tracy after both Demonesses advanced to Sequence 4, and decided to speak with Tracy before going to Trier.

Angel confronted Tracy at the Angelica Church, learned that Katarina had sent her to attack Helene and passed along a clue about a lingering soul beneath Trier. The next day, Angel traveled with Helene to Trier, where they arrived after a teasing journey through the Mirror World.

• Angel revealed herself to Tracy, pretended to threaten her, and asked why she had attacked Helene.
• Tracy explained that Katarina had directed her to find Helene and had arranged her advancement ritual; she also relayed that Krismona's soul might linger underground near Trier's Night Pillar.
• Angel ordered Tracy to stay in the city under Helene's watch and told Helene to prepare for a trip to Trier.
• After Angel left, Helene and Tracy confronted their past relationship and ended up wrestling beside the altar.
• The next day, Angel carried Helene through the Mirror Tunnels toward Trier and arrived with her in the city.

Angel brought Helene to Red Swan Castle and explained that she had ended the Sauron Family’s bloodline curse by killing Vermonda Sauron, restoring Glaide Sauron’s angelic power. Glaide agreed to support Helene’s return to the family, while Angel prepared to investigate underground Trier and sought to consult Saint Viève about newly active cultists.

• Angel took Helene to Red Swan Castle and told her the Sauron Family’s bloodline curse had been resolved.
• Angel explained that she had killed the mad Vermonda Sauron in the Depths of the Underground Palace, ending the curse and helping Glaide Sauron regain his angelic power.
• Glaide appeared in the reception room and confirmed that he intended to restore his control over the Sauron Family.
• Angel asked Glaide to support Helene with family resources, and he agreed to arrange her return while making further support depend on her performance.
• Glaide warned Angel that several new cults were trying to enter underground Trier, so she decided to consult Saint Viève before investigating the area.

Angel met with Viève to discuss Outer Deity cults in Trier and then entered the Underground Catacombs to search for Krismona's ghost. She reached the Krismona Night Pillar and found a woman standing behind her.

• Angel met Viève at a café and told her she planned to search underground for Krismona's ghost.
• Viève said Outer Deity cults had grown more organized and gave Angel information on active groups, including the Sinner organization and the Sanson family.
• Angel asked Viève about the Underground Trier seals, advised her to drink her coffee, and left.
• Angel entered the Underground Catacombs, passed through its first two levels, and made her way to the Krismona Night Pillar.
• Angel touched the pillar, turned around, and saw a woman in a plain white robe with long black hair standing behind her.

Angel questioned Krismona, the residual soul of the Demoness of Catastrophe, about her origins and death. Krismona revealed that Cheek killed her to prevent her resurrection and that her divided evil half lingered near the River of Eternal Darkness.

• Angel confirmed that Krismona was the Primordial Demoness's divine child and learned that Alistar Tudor was her father and Yuris inherited a Hunter characteristic from him.
• Krismona explained that her mother once loved her and Yuris possessively, but the Four Emperors War plunged the family into chaos as Alistar tried and failed to draw on a sefirah's power.
• Krismona said Evernight's and Death's angels killed her during the invasion of Trier, but Cheek destroyed her hidden mirror, took her characteristic, and split her soul to prevent her resurrection.
• Krismona told Angel that her evil soul half was drawn to an underground river and named it the River of Eternal Darkness.

Angel learned from Krismona that Tudor and Cheek’s use of several sefirot changed the Mirror World and may have created a terror that targets female Demonesses. Krismona vanished after warning Angel not to advance to Demoness of Unaging, and Angel realized the danger also threatened Helene, who had become a female Demoness of Despair.

• Angel questioned Krismona about Tudor and Cheek’s plans, and Krismona explained that they used leaked sefirot powers to alter the Mirror World and split her soul.
• Krismona linked Tudor and Cheek’s changing behavior and the Demoness Sect’s persecution of women to their repeated visits to the Special Mirror World.
• Krismona revealed that a shadow watched Demoness mirror selves and lingered when female Demonesses advanced, apparently seeking to replace them.
• Krismona warned Angel not to advance to Demoness of Unaging, then vanished into frost.
• Angel reasoned that the terror involved the Chaos Sea, the River of Eternal Darkness, and the City of Calamity, and wondered why Cheek’s mirror self targeted female Demonesses.
• Angel realized Krismona’s warning concerned Helene, a female Reaper who had advanced to Demoness of Despair and had a female mirror self.

Angel investigated the Samaritan Women's Spring in the fourth level of the Underground Catacombs, where the River of Eternal Darkness's power resisted her until she invoked the City of Calamity. The spring's waters withdrew and surged back, revealing Alistar Tudor among the figures trapped within it.

• Angel realized Krismona's warning concerned Helene advancing to Demoness of Unaging and feared that doing so could draw the terror in the Mirror World.
• Angel entered the fourth level and used her connection to the City of Calamity to withstand the deathly influence there.
• Angel followed the Wings of Death through the burial passages to the Samaritan Women's Spring, passing an old guardian asleep in an upright coffin.
• Angel found a fallen part of Krismona wandering beside the spring, and it turned toward her with malice.
• The spring withdrew into a black hole, then surged back with trapped figures, including Alistar Tudor, the Blood Emperor.

Angel confronted Alista Tudor’s phantom in the Samaritan Women's Spring, using the Sword of Glory and her City of Calamity power to resist him. A mysterious old man helped drag Tudor back into the spring and absorbed the lingering aura through Angel’s Hidden Holy Emblem before vanishing with a reply in Chinese.

• Angel recognized the figure in the Samaritan Women's Spring as a phantom of the Blood Emperor Tudor and resisted its influence with the City of Calamity mark.
• Angel summoned the Sword of Glory to control the undead monsters, then attacked Tudor with the Bone Sword as the spring dragged him toward its depths.
• Tudor struck Angel with dark-red light, but her body shattered into mirror fragments and reappeared nearby with the aura trapped in one fragment.
• A pale old man in an iron crown shoved Tudor into the spring’s central hole and drew the lingering aura into Angel’s Hidden Holy Emblem.
• Angel asked the old man who he was, and he vanished into the hole after replying in Chinese.

Angel investigated the Samaritan Women's Spring, where the Underworld Daoist had entered the River of Eternal Darkness to suppress the Blood Emperor's residual soul, and discovered a possible link between Tudor and Alger's ghost ship, the Blue Avenger. She left the catacombs carrying contaminated samples and found Medici waiting outside, ready to taunt her.

• Klein concluded that the Blood Son of Heaven was Alista Tudor and that the Underworld Daoist had sacrificed himself to suppress Tudor in the River of Eternal Darkness.
• Angel considered whether the Underworld Daoist was a Western Continent angel or a recipient of a boon, then sensed Tudor's sealed aura through the Hidden Holy Emblem.
• Tudor's aura showed Angel an image of the Blue Avenger, Alger Wilson's ghost ship, prompting her to wonder whether it concealed secrets or treasure.
• Angel collected contaminated water and sludge from the spring in the Mirror World and cautiously left the underground cavern.
• Angel emerged in Purgatory Square, where Medici had been waiting and mocked her for taking so long.

Angel questioned Medici about the Fourth Epoch catastrophe and learned that Alista Tudor had used the Red Priest’s sacrificial power to draw on the City of Calamity, triggering sefirah leakage in Trier. Medici said summoning the sefirah would likely require a dual-pathway true god of Red Priest and Demoness, leaving Angel with a possible path to reach it.

• Angel met Medici, confirmed he had acquired a physical body, and asked why he still bore traces of sharing one with Sauron and Einhorn.
• Medici said he would wait for Angel and Cheek to weaken each other, then described sensing dangerous powers leaking from Trier while he was sealed beneath Backlund.
• Angel learned that Tudor had partially drawn the City of Calamity into Trier through Red Priest sacrifices, causing other sefirahs to leak and bringing a backlash.
• Medici explained that even a true god would struggle to draw the City of Calamity through the seal, unless someone united the Red Priest and Demoness pathways as a dual-pathway true god.

Angel reached a tentative consensus with Medici about opposing the Primordial Demoness, then reported her discoveries to the Goddess. The Goddess showed her Lamud Family Castle, leaving Angel to wonder whether the Samaritan Women's Spring water could help Azik awaken.

• Angel questioned Medici about serving the True Creator, and Medici said he would prefer her to become the Calamity of Destruction rather than the emotionally unstable Primordial Demoness.
• Medici warned Angel that Adam might investigate the mysterious thing Tudor had created in the Mirror World and revealed that Adam had orchestrated the Four Emperors War to thwart Tudor and Cheek.
• Angel warned Helene to conceal her identity and watch Tracy, then returned to Backlund and reported her discoveries to the Goddess.
• The Goddess showed Angel an image of Lamud Family Castle, where Azik was sleeping, and Angel wondered whether the spring water she had found could help him wake sooner.

Angel told Klein she had found a way to wake Mr. Azik early using spring water from the River of Eternal Darkness, which could repair souls and affect dreams. They traveled to Azik’s coffin in Lamud Town and used a Dreamwalker charm to enter his dream.

• Angel teased Klein above the Gray Fog, then announced that she had found a way to wake Mr. Azik ahead of time.
• Klein analyzed the spring water Angel had obtained and concluded that it could repair damaged spirit bodies and create dreams.
• Klein sealed the mud and spring water in his cigarette case and agreed to visit Mr. Azik with Angel.
• Angel and Klein went to the abandoned castle in Lamud Town, where Klein used a Historical Projection to accompany her.
• Angel used a Dreamwalker charm to take herself and Klein into Mr. Azik’s dream.

Angel and Klein visited Azik’s dream to help mend his damaged soul with spring water imbued with the River of Eternal Darkness. After the dream stabilized and Azik’s memories grew clearer, Angel asked him about Sia Palenque Eggers, the Pale Empress.

• Angel and Klein found Azik at a Khoy University rowing race and learned that he had kept returning to the same dream, slowing his soul’s recovery.
• Azik explained that he had sent the dream versions of Angel and Klein away because a spreading darkness repeatedly consumed Tingen City.
• Angel entered the dream’s deeper layers and poured Samaritan Women's Spring water into the cracked inverted pyramid, causing the Feathered Serpent to sleep and the damage to begin mending.
• Angel returned to Khoy University, where Azik said his memories were clearer and the dream was more stable, though the repairs were only halfway complete.
• Angel asked Azik whether he knew Sia Palenque Eggers, the Pale Empress and a descendant of Salinger.