Chapter Summaries

Angel and Azik met Sia Eggers in Pylos Port to discuss the Pale Emperor characteristic and the Evernight Goddess’s claim to Death’s authority. Sia agreed to hand over the Pale Crown if her conditions were met, including an investigation into Tizamo Town, where Angel suspected a mystery hidden in dreams.

• Sia Eggers identified herself as Balam’s first imperial princess, and Azik warned that her bone crown was affecting her emotions.
• Angel told Sia that Death had fallen and the Evernight Goddess had taken his authority, prompting Sia to acknowledge the Goddess’s Divine Revelation.
• Sia agreed to surrender the Pale Crown if the Church of Evernight protected the Numinous Episcopate and Eggers Family and Angel investigated Tizamo Town.
• Sia described Tizamo’s century-long pattern of seasonal massacres, dream-related revelations among primitive tribes, and unusual symptoms among the town’s residents.
• Sia said investigators found no supernatural cause in reality, and Angel realized the mystery might be concealed within dreams.

Angel learned that Tizamo Town’s annual Dream Festival was a lethal dream tied to the River Styx, and agreed to explore it in exchange for the Pale Crown. The dream would open in three days, leaving Angel to prepare for a danger that grew deadlier for powerful Death pathway Beyonders.

• Sia Eggers explained that the Numinous Episcopate discovered the dream when its members entered it on December 15 and forgot everything upon waking, while Sia observed them from afar.
• Sia described the dream’s duplicate Tizamo Town, where residents acted on extreme desires, injuries caused lasting phantom pain, and deaths led to delayed deaths in reality.
• Angel connected the town’s yearly hysteria and killings to the dream, but Sia said later expeditions could not enter it again outside December 15.
• Sia revealed that the dream contained the River Styx’s power and that an Undying who led the previous expedition was corrupted and remained in his mausoleum.
• Angel agreed to explore the dream, which its inhabitants called the Dream Festival, as a condition for receiving the Pale Crown.

Angel agreed to investigate the Dream Festival in Tizamo, while Azik and Sia planned to search for traces of Death in Raklev. After Angel prayed, the Evernight Goddess empowered her Hidden Holy Emblem and approved her mission under conditions for the Eggers Family; Angel then prepared to attend the festival with the Goddess watching over her.

• Angel agreed to attend Tizamo's Dream Festival and promised to share any clues about Death with Sia, while keeping other discoveries for herself.
• Azik said he would search near Tizamo for traces of his father, and Sia directed him to Raklev, where Death worshippers and evil-god followers had gathered.
• Angel prayed to the Evernight Goddess, who enhanced her Hidden Holy Emblem and permitted her to attend the Dream Festival while wearing it.
• Angel learned that the Goddess accepted Sia's requests only if the Balam Empire's monarchy was not restored and the Eggers bloodline could rise no higher than Sequence 2.
• Angel relayed the Goddess's response to Klein and decided not to wait for his advancement, since the Dream Festival would take place in three days.
• Angel awoke in a coffin at sunset in a small town surrounded by rubber trees and bay laurels.

Angel arrived in Tizamo Town to investigate the Dream Festival and searched the church, inn, and surrounding area for anything unusual. After finding no clues, she entered a dream, where the town’s night sounds vanished and the Secrecy Holy Light on her wrist turned cold.

• Angel traveled from Pylos Port to Tizamo Town in a coffin carriage and used a language charm from Sia Eggers to speak Dutanese.
• Angel explored Tizamo Town, noting its colonial population, plantation economy, and the unusual lack of hostility between locals and colonists.
• Angel inspected Saint Sienne Church, spoke with its priest, and confirmed that he was not a Beyonder and knew nothing about the Dream Festival.
• Angel checked the Brieu Inn and nearby plantations, then entered the Mirror World to survey the town without finding anything abnormal.
• Angel returned to the inn, used the Secrecy Holy Light, and fell asleep through meditation.
• Angel woke in a silent dream after the Holy Light on her wrist turned cold and the sounds outside stopped.

Angel explored a deserted dream version of Tizamo Town and its surrounding jungle, then crossed the dream’s misty boundary and woke in reality. The following morning, she met Pena of the Numinous Episcopate and asked her to report what the team had learned about the Dream Festival.

• Angel entered the Mirror World and confirmed that the dream contained an empty copy of Tizamo Town while she retained her Beyonder abilities.
• Angel searched the church and other buildings, then explored the road and jungle until she reached the dream’s misty boundary.
• Angel stepped into the mist and woke in her room, where she found the wall she had cut intact and heard the town’s ordinary sounds.
• Angel met Pena, the Numinous Episcopate team leader and a Spirit Medium, at the Unicorn bar the next morning.
• Angel asked Pena to tell her everything the team had learned, including what they knew about the dream.

Angel learned that Tizamo Town held a hidden dream tied to the approaching Dream Festival and prepared to investigate its mysteries. At the Tarot Club, Fors agreed to write about Yarnam City, realizing that the World might be nearing a promotion to Sequence 1.

• Pena told Angel that a hidden team from the Numinous Episcopate had investigated Tizamo Town and found a replicated, empty dream where residents sometimes wandered in their sleep.
• Pena reported that Lucas had seen another version of himself during a Dream Invasion, while Angel suspected that Tizamo's residents' suppressed emotions and dream behavior were connected to the town's mysteries.
• Angel decided to consult her allies about dreams and wait for the Dream Festival, which was two days away.
• At the Tarot Club, Fors asked Angel and the World about Yarnam City, and Angel said its dangers had been resolved but were beyond Fors's capabilities.
• The World asked Fors to publish her experiences of Yarnam City and offered her the chance to record stronger abilities in return.
• Fors agreed to include Yarnam City in her Gehrman Sparrow series and realized the World might be preparing to become a Sequence 1 Archangel.

At the Tarot Club, Angel investigated how a vast dream world could persist and learned from Audrey about Eden, a collective dream linked to Adam. After the meeting, Angel entered Tizamo’s dream and heard the Dream Festival begin.

• Angel asked the Tarot Club members how a dream world spanning Tizamo could remain stable, and Audrey described Eden, a collective dream created by Adam.
• Audrey sought clues about a Mind Dragon in East Chester County, but no one could offer help immediately.
• Cattleya asked Mr. Fool to protect the Tarot Club’s existence when she returned to Moses Ascetic Order headquarters, and Mr. Fool granted her request while warning her about the corrupted Hidden Sage.
• On December 15, Angel went to sleep in Tizamo and entered the dream, where gunshots, cries, and roars announced the start of the annual Dream Festival.

Angel entered Tizamo Town’s Dream Festival and found its waking residents overcome by uncontrolled negative emotions, with violence spreading through the streets. She sought out Pena for answers, rescued her from Zaka, and was attacked by Pena as the chapter ended.

• Angel explored the chaos in Tizamo Town, where awake residents fought, threatened others, and set a plantation on fire while most of the town remained asleep.
• Angel knocked out three men who tried to assault her, then visited Saint Sienne Church and found its priest behaving strangely in the dream.
• Angel concluded that the Dream Festival’s violence would likely end at dawn, though the spreading disturbance could awaken more residents and cause deaths.
• Angel used Mirror Divination to find Pena, who was being assaulted by Zaka, and struck him unconscious with a rod of ice.
• Pena recognized Angel, demanded to know why she had not arrived sooner, and lunged at her.

Angel subdued the dream-controlled residents of Tizamo Town and rescued Amandina from a violent manor scene before entering the primeval forest. The Hidden Holy Emblem grew colder as she approached her objective, while she kept a catastrophic way to end the dream in reserve.

• Angel put Pena to sleep, left Zaka on the floor, and abandoned her plan to explore with the Numinous Episcopate team because the dream had taken control of them.
• Angel entered a burning manor, extinguished the flames, and put the attackers and those exchanging gunfire inside the house to sleep.
• Angel comforted Amandina, learned she was Sir Pettit's daughter, and gave her an Ice Mirror and instructions to hide.
• Angel entered the misty primeval forest, where the Hidden Holy Emblem reacted more strongly as she neared her objective.
• Angel considered destroying the dream with a catastrophe if necessary, knowing that doing so would kill its residents.

Angel found a hidden tomb in the Dream Festival and uncovered an Abomination sealed inside, realizing it held the final Sequence 1 characteristic of the Chained pathway. After the Abomination spoke to her, it introduced itself as Naboredisley, also known as Farbauti.

• Angel found a huge black rock in a clearing that existed only in the dream and saw visions of robed worshippers, a stone door, and the Underworld Daoist.
• Angel identified the robed tribespeople as mid-sequence Beyonders guarding a tributary of the River of Eternal Darkness and forced them to kneel with her War Bishop authority.
• Angel used the Hidden Holy Emblem to open the rock, revealing a branchlike arm and an Abomination whose presence bound her body and thoughts.
• Angel recognized the Abomination as a Sequence 1 being and prepared to attack it with the Sword of Glory and Salinger's Blood Banner.
• The Abomination opened its ice-blue eyes, asked Angel to wait, and introduced itself as Naboredisley, or Farbauti.

Angel spoke with the Abomination Farbauti in the Dream Festival and learned how he separated and sealed his Abomination avatar to resist the Mother Tree of Desire’s corruption. Farbauti hinted that he and Angel shared a trait and revealed that he was also speaking to someone else, prompting Angel to realize who he meant.

• Angel recognized the Abomination as the Devil Monarch Farbauti and cautiously introduced herself as a passing Demoness.
• Angel inferred that Farbauti had accommodated a Sequence 1 characteristic of the Chained pathway and that the sealed Abomination was his avatar, not a vessel for resurrection.
• Farbauti explained that he had separated Naboredisley with help from Salinger and the Underworld Daoist to resist the Mother Tree of Desire’s corruption.
• Angel wondered why Farbauti had revealed himself, and he said that they shared certain traits and that he was speaking to someone else as well.
• Angel looked toward the crimson moon and tentatively began to say the word Klein had once stammered.

Angel met Farbauti’s avatar in the Black Ancient Tomb, learned more about the ritual and the Great Old Ones influencing him, and received a transformed Hidden Holy Emblem. After the tomb keepers died, Angel began establishing rules for Tizamo Town’s Dream Festival, where Amandina heard the new laws announced.

• Angel warned Farbauti that the Dream Festival’s deaths had drawn the Numinous Episcopate’s attention, and Farbauti explained how the ritual kept his avatar asleep.
• Farbauti revealed that an omniscient and omnipotent being had influenced him, then corrected Angel that the City of Calamity—not the Knowledge Moor—had been influenced by that being.
• The Underworld Daoist transformed Angel’s Hidden Holy Emblem, suppressing the Blood Emperor’s aura, and Farbauti tossed her a mysterious heart before the tomb sealed.
• Angel found the tomb keepers dead after their extreme emotions were released and decided to use the remaining Dream Festival to help Tizamo Town.
• Amandina heard the new consul announce Angel Granger’s laws for the Dream Festival, and the violence outside her window stopped.

After the Dream Festival ended, Angel checked on its effects in Tizamo and learned that the deaths in the dream carried over into reality. The chapter ended with Amandina waking beside a strange Ice Mirror as a meteor struck near the town.

• Angel woke with the Hidden Holy Emblem and Reinette's withered heart, then told Pena, Zaka, and Lucas that their mission was over and ordered them to contact the Empress and leave.
• Angel found that the Black Ancient Tomb was absent from reality, though a faint aura remained at its site, and she turned back the tainted soil to protect passersby.
• A meteor struck near the primitive tribe, killing the tomb guardians from the dream, and Angel realized the Dream Festival's power had made their deaths occur in reality.
• Amandina woke after the explosion clutching an Ice Mirror, and Madam Simona and Sir Pettit came to take her to the manor's bunker.
• Amandina sensed she had forgotten something and saw mist swirling across the Ice Mirror's darkening surface.

Angel and Klein considered whether Farbauti and Lilith were fellow transmigrators, then discussed their plans for Angel’s next steps and Klein’s delayed promotion. The chapter ended with an unidentified old man arriving in Yarnam City and entering the Fool’s cathedral.

• Angel told Klein that Farbauti had answered her in English, suggesting he was a transmigrator, and they considered whether the ancient gods had once helped one another as an alliance.
• Angel and Klein wondered whether Lilith was also a transmigrator, but decided they lacked evidence and that asking the Goddess was unlikely to help.
• Angel reviewed her possible advancement options and the benefits of her contact with the Underworld Daoist after the Dream Festival.
• Klein said Yarnam City had formed a corresponding region in the Spirit World and that he was delaying his Sequence 1 promotion to lure Zarathus into attacking.
• An old man in black robes arrived by train in Yarnam City, looked at the Fool’s cathedral, and entered it.

Angel secured Sia Palenque Eggers’s agreement to place the Numinous Episcopate under the Evernight Goddess and took the Pale Crown, then responded to Klein’s call as Zarathus arrived to negotiate. Zarathus offered to surrender his Mystic Seer characteristic when Klein needed it and warned that Amon and his brother had likely allied with the Great Old Ones.

• Zarathus entered the Fool’s church and announced that he had come to negotiate.
• Angel explained the Dream Festival’s sealed Abomination characteristic to Sia, and Sia asked her to place a new Golden Mask in the dream next year.
• Sia accepted the Evernight Goddess’s terms for protecting the Eggers Family and handed Angel the Pale Crown.
• Angel briefly fell under the Pale Crown’s influence, then removed it and sent Sia away before hiding the crown in the Mirror World.
• Klein prepared for Zarathus’s arrival and asked what terms he wanted to discuss.
• Zarathus proposed reconciliation, offering his Mystic Seer characteristic when Klein needed it and warning that Amon and his brother had likely sided with the Great Old Ones.

Klein and Angel heard Zarathus explain that Adam and Amon were negotiating with the Outer Deities under the Uncertain Mist’s witness. Zarathus offered to surrender his Mystic Seer characteristic to Klein, then left the Church of the Fool with a warning that every Amon avatar was effectively Amon himself.

• Zarathus told Klein that Adam and Amon sought Outer Deity assistance because the True Creator was pursuing them and Amon needed a ritual to become a god.
• Zarathus explained that the Uncertain Mist witnessed the negotiations and said he refused the deal because he distrusted Amon.
• Zarathus offered Klein his Mystic Seer characteristic in exchange for returning it after Klein became the Lord of Mysteries.
• Klein suggested Zarathus act as a spy, and Zarathus left after warning that Amon’s avatars had no independent will.
• Klein and Angel realized the warning implicated Amon’s avatar in Dream City, who had served as its consul and was assisting Anne.

Angel and Klein weighed Zarathus’s warning about Amon and Adam, while Angel strengthened her alliance with Reinette and relayed the information to the Evernight Goddess. The Goddess told her to leave the matter alone and keep the Pale Crown; Angel then prepared to challenge Cheek by luring her with a female witch advancing to Unaging.

• Klein and Angel suspected Zarathus was trying to sow discord through his claims about Amon and Adam, and they agreed to delay considering his defection until Klein advanced to Sequence 1.
• Angel asked Anne to discreetly watch Gerdruff Amon and urged Klein to guard Yanan while preparing his Mystic Seer promotion ritual.
• Reinette Tinekerr arrived at Angel’s hotel, recognized her recovered heart, and swallowed it after Angel returned it to her.
• Angel informed the Evernight Goddess about Zarathus’s claims and the Pale Crown; the Goddess told her to leave Adam and Amon alone and keep the Pale Crown.
• Angel resolved to challenge Cheek with help from Klein, allied angels, and gods, planning to lure the Primordial Demoness out with a female witch advancing to Unaging.

Angel reviewed her plan to challenge Primordial Demoness Cheek and consulted Will Auceptin about Amon, Adam, and the dangers surrounding the City of Calamity. Will ruled out the brothers safely siding with the Outer Deities, but Angel's question about God Almighty's possible resurrection in the sefirah remained unanswered.

• Angel concluded that her best route to defeat Cheek was to use her Mirror Person and a Yesterday Once More charm to wield the power of the City of Calamity, with Ilian Sauron as bait to draw Cheek out.
• Angel visited Will Auceptin in his garden and asked whether Mr. Door would complete his apotheosis ritual if he returned.
• Will said that Amon and Adam were unlikely to have sided with the Outer Deities because those beings would first eliminate the possibilities of resurrection for the Celestial Worthy and God Almighty.
• Angel asked Will whether God Almighty had left a means of resurrection in the City of Calamity that could influence Beyonders of the Demoness and Red Priest pathways.

Angel learned that Adam may have used Alistar Tudor and her to investigate the City of Calamity and that God Almighty’s power may have awakened within Tudor and Cheek. She discussed the Key of Light with Will Auceptin, then entered the depths of Molora through a gate opened by Archbishop Hella Berg, where a terrifying presence stirred among the corpses.

• Will Auceptin suggested Adam had secretly supported Tudor, later helped bring about his downfall, and may have arranged Angel’s rapid advancement to test the City of Calamity.
• Angel reasoned that God Almighty’s consciousness and power might have awakened within Tudor and Cheek, and considered the danger Cheek’s access to Chaos Sea powers posed.
• Angel told Will about her visits to the sealed Western Continent and asked what he thought of the Key of Light; Will said he was still waiting for a lucky opportunity to accommodate its Uniqueness.
• Angel traveled to Azshara and met Archbishop Hella Berg, who led her to a starlit gate and revealed that the City of Exile and its surrounding mountains were inside his stomach.
• Angel stepped through the gate into a cavern of corpses and blood, where invisible flames erupted and a terrifying aura descended.

Angel subdued Salinger's Blood Banner, the Red Priest’s Uniqueness, by combining the powers of the City of Calamity and the River of Eternal Darkness. She left the artifact sealed in Molora and returned to Hella Berg, ending the chapter by asking how he would face sacrificing most of his life.

• Salinger's Blood Banner awakened and tried to force Angel and the steel soldier puppets into submission, but Angel resisted its power and immobilized the approaching army with her plague.
• Angel seized the flagpole and used the Hidden Holy Emblem and the Underworld Daoist’s power to counter the River of Eternal Darkness’s corruption, unleashing a destructive vortex that forced 0-01 to surrender.
• Angel regained control of 0-01, resealed it in Corpse Mountain, and decided to leave it in the Church of Knowledge’s keeping until she could safely accommodate it.
• Angel returned through the Astral Gate and discussed the clash of Sefirah powers with Hella Berg, who gave her a charm for entering Molora’s Underground Mausoleum.
• Angel asked Hella Berg how he would respond if he had to give up everything, or most of his current life.