Chapter Summaries

Angel traveled to the Demoness Sect’s headquarters in the Paz Valley ruins and declared that the sect would be incorporated into the Witch Church. After she left, the Demonesses discovered that Angel had moved their entire headquarters to Saint Angelica Church in Partis.

• Angel received the Demoness Sect’s headquarters coordinates from Eugina and entered the Mirror World to reach the Paz Valley ruins.
• Angel sent a Mirror Substitution into the hidden Mirror Hall and found twelve Demonesses waiting there, including Talia, Judith, Eugina, and Katarina.
• The Demonesses bowed to Angel and recited her Honorific Name, and Angel announced that Cheek had fallen and the Demoness Sect would join the Witch Church.
• Angel ordered the new church to fight the Apocalypse, cooperate with other churches, stop evil practices, and relocate its headquarters to Saint Angelica Church in Partis.
• Angel returned to the Mirror World, and the Demonesses discovered that she had moved the entire Mirror Hall and headquarters to the Dream City church.

Angel returned to the Tarot Club after advancing, where Audrey bought Cattleya’s leads on three mind dragons and discussed whether the Psychology Alchemists were testing the club. Alger revealed that he had become the Sea God’s Pope with the Lord of Storms’ permission, as the Fool’s influence spread across the Rorsted Archipelago; the gathering ended with members wondering how powerful Angel had become.

• Angel returned to the Tarot Club with Chariot, and the members welcomed her back after her absence.
• Cattleya sold Audrey leads on three mind dragons for 8,000 pounds, and Audrey agreed to share what she learned from her search.
• Audrey suggested that the Psychology Alchemists’ dragon assignment might be a probe, and the Fool told her to focus on earning what she needed to advance to Sequence 3.
• Alger reported that the Fool’s Church and the Church of the Sea God were expanding in Bayam, then revealed that he had left the Church of Storms to become the Sea God’s Pope with the Lord of Storms’ tacit permission.
• The members recognized the Fool’s growing influence in the Rorsted Archipelago and wondered whether Angel had become a King of Angels.

At the Tarot Club, Angel revealed that she had accommodated the Uniqueness, helped kill the Primordial Demoness, and ended the Demoness Sect. After the gathering, the World recruited Cattleya to help hunt the Hidden Sage, while Angel went to the Nation of the Evernight to pursue another plan.

• Angel told the Tarot Club that Cheek had died in the Mirror World and that she had directed the resulting disasters away from populated areas.
• Angel said Mr. Fool and other gods had helped her kill the Primordial Demoness, and explained that the remaining Demonesses had joined the reformed Witch Church.
• Emlyn reported that the Primordial Moon's followers had retreated and the Aurora Order had reduced its activities, while Angel privately warned that the Outer Deities' influence would grow as the apocalypse approached.
• After the gathering, the World asked Cattleya to prepare to return to Moses Ascetic Order headquarters so they could hunt the Hidden Sage.
• Angel returned to the Mirror World, then stepped out onto the highest peak of the Hornacis Mountain Range before the Nation of the Evernight.

Angel and Gray attacked Alistar Tudor inside the castle, which had begun to resemble the ruined palace where he fell. Their fight against Tudor and his soldier puppets escalated as Gray tried to pull the hall into the Mirror World, until the entire space collapsed into a gloomy abyss.

• Angel and Gray found Tudor's castle visibly eroding its Concealment seal and decided to attack without calling for reinforcements.
• Gray hurled Salinger's Blood Banner through the castle doors, and Angel entered to confront Tudor on his throne.
• Angel ignited Tudor's reflections, but he escaped using Mirror Substitution, so she kicked him out of the Mirror World while Gray attacked his throne and began conquering the hall.
• Tudor sent five soldier puppets modeled after his Kings of Angels against Angel and Gray, who evaded their attempts to slow, steal from, and control them.
• Tudor had the Antigonus puppet reach into the Historical Void, but a dazzling light and violent tremors collapsed the hall into a gloomy abyss.

Angel and Gray fought Alista Tudor in the Mirror World as he tried to summon the Source of War and draw power from sealed sefirot. Angel destroyed Tudor’s incomplete form, leaving her and Gray to face the question of what to do with the other half of the Mirrored Original Creator.

• Angel used chaos to destabilize Tudor and the castle, forcing the Blood Emperor and his obsidian soldier puppets into the Mirror World.
• Gray wielded Salinger's Blood Banner to disrupt the soldier puppets, but Tudor summoned the banner and turned the puppets against Gray again.
• Angel manipulated the Mirror World and transformed the soldier puppets into women, disrupting Tudor’s control and their borrowed powers.
• Tudor began sacrificing the puppets to call on the Source of War, while Angel recognized his plan to draw power through a breach in the seals.
• Gray used the Blood Banner to suppress Tudor’s sacrifice, and Angel struck Tudor down with a Chaos Long Blade.
• Angel dispersed the expanding chaos and realized Tudor’s incomplete form was gone, while the other half of the Mirrored Original Creator remained a threat to deal with.

Angel and Gray sought to keep the Mirrored Original Creator’s masculine and feminine aspects from merging by having Gray advance to Conqueror. Gray absorbed Tudor’s characteristic and, with Angel anchoring her, overcame the struggle and remained feminine.

• Angel and Gray discussed the Mirrored Original Creator’s impending arrival in the City of Calamity and the danger of his two aspects merging.
• Gray proposed becoming a Conqueror so she could control the masculine aspect and help Angel keep the two aspects apart.
• Angel agreed to support Gray’s risky advancement, believing their separation could prevent the Original Creator’s resurrection.
• Gray absorbed the Conqueror characteristic without auxiliary materials, and Angel held her hands to stabilize her as she fought Tudor’s consciousness.
• Gray regained control and opened her eyes with her feminine body intact; Angel checked her through her dress, and Gray angrily retaliated.

Gray confirmed that she had advanced to Conqueror while retaining the Demoness pathway, and Angel prepared to accommodate another Apocalypse characteristic. Meanwhile, Cattleya opened the hidden entrance to Ideal Land and entered with the Future’s crew.

• Gray told Angel that the Blood Emperor’s remnant posed little danger, but she needed to return inside the City of Calamity to keep the Original Creator under control.
• Angel decided to accommodate a second Apocalypse characteristic after digesting her potion, and she fused the unstable characteristic into her body.
• Cattleya steered the Future through the North Sea, recited the Moses Ascetic Order’s concealed 365-digit access code, and opened the gate to Ideal Land.
• Cattleya boarded the unmanned boat into Ideal Land as a concerned gaze watched her from above the gray fog.

Cattleya infiltrated the Moses Ascetic Order’s tower and used a charm to shatter it, escaping through the Mirror Labyrinth as Angel took her place. As the operation began, the Blood Moon appeared over the New City of Silver and Dream City, and their defenders prepared to protect the cities and their believers.

• Cattleya entered the Moses Ascetic Order’s headquarters and found its Chairman, Toriobo, absent while the tower’s members and research facilities revealed signs of the Hidden Sage’s influence.
• Toriobo announced that he had foreseen betrayal, and Cattleya activated a charm that made the tower’s stones and structure disintegrate.
• The tower’s hateful eyes sent an information torrent at Cattleya, but the Mirror Labyrinth diverted it and sent her away; Angel appeared in her place.
• The New City of Silver’s Council of Seven received Mr. Fool’s orders to defend the city, Dream City, and Yarnam City as the Blood Moon descended.
• Judith and Eugina saw the Blood Moon over Dream City and agreed to protect the city and the being’s believers.

As a blood moon appeared across the world, Alger and the Storms cardinal prepared to defend Bayam, while Zarathus attacked Yarnam City and was confronted by the Golden Queen. Cattleya returned to the Future and ordered it to flee, but the real Suah began forcing his way into the world above the ship.

• Alger and a newly appointed cardinal of the Church of Storms assessed Bayam's defenses as the blood moon spread across the sky.
• The Queen Anne's Revenge emerged beside Bayam's harbor, easing Alger's fears about the city's protection.
• Zarathus took control of Yarnam City's residents as marionettes and summoned a Historical Projection of Suah, which drove nearby marionettes into a frenzy.
• A woman resembling the Golden Queen emerged from the Church of the Fool and attacked Zarathus, who evaded her and summoned another version of himself.
• Cattleya returned to the Future and ordered the crew to sail away, but the real Suah began breaking through a rift above the ship.

Bernadette and Bornova rescued the Future from Suah and fought back against the Archangel, while Angel entered Ideal Land’s hidden depths and confronted the Moses Ascetic Order’s leaders. Angel turned their knowledge-based attack against them and ended the chapter charging Letitia.

• Cattleya revealed part of her mythical creature form to restrain Suah, but the Abomination broke free and fully descended.
• Bernadette arrived, sealed the Future inside soap bubbles, and sent it away from the battlefield.
• Bornova used the Trunsoest Brass Book to sever Suah’s many arms, while Bernadette’s power caused half of them to decay and vanish.
• Angel entered Ideal Land after destroying the tower and discovered Warlocks conducting horrifying research in its hidden passage.
• Angel found Chairman Toriobo and Deputy Chairwoman Letitia waiting on a desolate plain, each armed with a powerful artifact.
• Angel used her Conqueror authority to turn their manifested knowledge against them, then attacked Letitia with black-flame swords.

Angel killed Letitia and pursued Toriobo toward the Hidden Sage’s refuge, while Klein and the God of Steam moved to locate the Hidden Sage. The Outer Deities attacked the barrier, but Roselle appeared as the Black Emperor and strengthened it, allowing the God of Steam to intervene.

• Angel used Solomon's Mask and her dragon form to counter Letitia, then killed her with the Flames of Destruction after Toriobo unleashed a miniature sun.
• Angel followed Toriobo as he fled toward a collapsed region of the wilderness where the Hidden Sage had opened a passage.
• Klein observed the battles and prepared to help locate the Hidden Sage as Toriobo approached the refuge.
• The God of Steam tried to descend into Ideal Land, but the Mother Goddess of Depravity, Supernova Dominator, and Inextinguishable Ravings forced him to defend the Astral barrier.
• Roselle appeared as the Black Emperor, repaired the barrier's cracks, and enabled the God of Steam to send power into the Dark Side of Ideal Land.

Angel and Klein trapped the Hidden Sage in an information realm, where Angel fought through its attacks and exposed its corruption by the Mother Goddess of Depravity. With Roselle’s Distortion connecting the Hidden Sage to all its backups, Angel destroyed them all, ending the Hidden Sage’s existence.

• Klein grafted the Door pathway’s positioning authority onto the God of Steam’s information, revealing Toriobo’s escape route, and Angel killed Toriobo before entering the vortex.
• Klein sealed Angel and the Hidden Sage inside an unknown information realm, where the Hidden Sage attacked Angel with knowledge and spiritual numbers while she repeatedly revived through the Mirror World.
• Angel discovered the Hidden Sage had concealed corruption from the Mother Goddess of Depravity and purged it by destroying and reviving herself.
• Klein’s Fooling helped the Hidden Sage’s seal collapse, but Roselle used Distortion to connect the Hidden Sage to all its backups, and Angel destroyed the linked information streams.
• The Hidden Sage’s backups vanished, and its final scream spread over the North Sea.

Zarathus tried to destroy Yarnam City while battling Angel Gray, but Gray, Bethel Abraham, and Roselle outmaneuvered him and pursued him into the Historical Void. Klein stopped Zarathus’s characteristic from escaping through resurrection and took it for himself.

• Zarathus returned to Yarnam City, where his marionettes and Angel Gray’s Soldier Puppet Legion had devastated the town.
• Angel Gray survived Zarathus’s historical reenactment by returning from the Mirror World, while Roselle and Bethel helped expose and locate Zarathus’s true body.
• Gray’s Blood Banner struck Zarathus, and its flames pursued him through the Historical Void until the Fugen Hounds slowed his escape.
• Zarathus’s Beyonder characteristics began to flee toward his prepared body, but Klein froze them with a bell and took the Mystic Seer characteristic.

Angel defeated the Hidden Sage, collected his characteristics and artifacts, and rescued the Moses Ascetic Order members as Ideal Land collapsed. After the battle’s consequences reached the Future, Gehrman Sparrow arrived to join Angel, Roselle, Bernadette, and Bornova.

• Angel gathered the Hidden Sage’s Beyonder characteristics and artifacts, while discovering that Dragon Scholar Letitia had escaped through a means of resurrection.
• Angel collected the treasures in Ideal Land and transported its warlocks to the Future, where she restrained them with a nonfatal illness for their safety.
• Bernadette and Bornova told Angel that Abomination Suah had escaped into the Spirit World, but they had retained information that could help locate him.
• Angel told Cattleya that the Hidden Sage and Chairman Toriobo were dead, Ideal Land had been destroyed, and Letitia had escaped.
• The daylight blood moon faded after the Hidden Sage’s fall, and Black Emperor Roselle appeared aboard the Future as a projection.
• Angel moved Roselle and his children into a cabin, where Gehrman Sparrow arrived and announced that he had come at the right time.

Angel and Klein met Roselle after defeating the Hidden Sage and recovered the Moses Ascetic Order’s vast collection of Sealed Artifacts and Beyonder Characteristics. They agreed to give the Hermit pathway Uniqueness to the God of Steam and Machinery, the Knowledge Emperor characteristic to Roselle, and left Angel with the remaining spoils.

• Roselle teased Klein and Angel, while Bernadette and Bornova wondered how the newcomers knew him.
• Angel emptied her stored spoils onto the floor, and Roselle stabilized the pile by distorting the relationships among its items.
• Bornova identified the Hermit pathway Uniqueness, powerful Beyonder Characteristics, and numerous Sealed Artifacts, including Destined Madness, the Solomon Mask, and the Book of Revelation.
• Bernadette explained that the Hidden Sage’s interference had driven many Hermit pathway Warlocks to preserve their characteristics as Sealed Artifacts, and she arranged for Element Dawn and Cattleya to seek out survivors.
• Angel and the others agreed to give the Hermit pathway Uniqueness to the God of Steam and Machinery and the Knowledge Emperor characteristic to Roselle.
• Roselle declined a share of the remaining spoils, leaving Angel delighted at the prospect of keeping them.

Angel asked Roselle why the Hidden Sage had begged for mercy, and Roselle explained how the Original Creator’s spirit and the Sefirah shape divinity and madness in Beyonders. He began distinguishing true divinity from other kinds, but Angel’s question remained unanswered.

• Angel forgave Roselle for keeping the Trunsoest Brass Book and wondered why he and Bornova had not mentioned the Fool while distributing the spoils.
• Angel asked Roselle why the Hidden Sage had begged for mercy when gravely wounded.
• Roselle explained that Bernadette’s urges reflected the influence of her Beyonder Characteristics, then clarified that divinity’s manifestations stemmed from the Sefirah.
• Roselle described how the Original Creator’s divided spirit and the former rulers of the Sefirah influenced Beyonders and shaped their madness.
• Roselle named the tendencies associated with several Sefirah, and Angel realized that the City of Calamity’s influence accounted for some of her own impulses.
• Angel asked Roselle to explain the other kinds of divinity.

Roselle explained how humanity and divinity affected Beyonders, then reconciled with Bornova and reunited with his family. After Bernadette gave Angel the Hermit Card of Blasphemy, Angel and Klein buried a Mystery Pryer characteristic in Old Neil’s grave.

• Roselle explained that divinity could erode a Beyonder’s humanity and distinguished humanity’s basic instincts from its higher, socially shaped layer.
• Roselle admitted that divinity and the Mother Goddess of Depravity’s corruption had affected his behavior and distanced him from his children.
• Bornova welcomed Roselle back, and Roselle gently patted his son’s head before his projection disappeared.
• Bernadette gave Angel a Card of Blasphemy containing the Hermit pathway’s formulas and promotion rituals through Sequence 0.
• Angel and Klein placed a sealed Mystery Pryer characteristic inside a mirror and buried it in Old Neil’s grave.

Angel established the Witch Church’s presence in Backlund by entrusting Trissy with a grade 0 Sealed Artifact and arranging for Shermane’s businesses to come under the church’s protection. She teased Leonard about becoming a Demoness, then asked Klein about the second Mystic Seer characteristic.

• At Saint Triss Church, Angel gave Trissy the grade 0 Sealed Artifact Eye of God and revealed that the Witch Church possessed ten grade 0 artifacts while Georgina Augustus witnessed the handover.
• Angel offered Trissy one last chance to leave Edessak and pursue advancement, but Trissy chose to remain with him.
• Shermane visited the church to transfer most of her business shares to it, and Angel agreed to the arrangement before speaking with Leonard about the Hidden Sage’s fall and the danger posed by surviving Moses Ascetic Order warlocks.
• Angel offered to prepare Shermane’s sequence 4 potion and jokingly suggested that Leonard switch to the Demoness pathway; Leonard refused and hurried out with Shermane.
• Above the Gray Fog, Klein discussed the risks of having children before demigodhood with Angel, who then asked him about the second Mystic Seer characteristic.

Klein consulted Angel on how to safely advance after accommodating Zarathus's Mystic Seer characteristic, and she advised him to take the final Sequence 1 potion before the Fool Uniqueness. Angel was nearly done digesting her second Apocalypse characteristic and considered targets for bringing another apocalypse.

• Klein explained that Zarathus's Mystic Seer characteristic contained the imprints of two generations of Zarathus, which could help him resist the Celestial Worthy's consciousness.
• Klein told Angel he had accommodated a second Sequence 1 characteristic and become a King of Angel.
• Angel advised Klein to take the final Sequence 1 potion before accommodating the Fool Uniqueness, since its ritual would be difficult to complete twice.
• Klein decided to ask Antigonus for advice about the apotheosis ritual and agreed to take the final potion before attempting to become a god.
• Angel said she was nearly done digesting her second Apocalypse characteristic and considered targeting Abomination Suah, the Chained God Tolzna, or the Primordial Moon's believers in the Southern Continent.

Angel and Klein discussed how to draw Amon and the True Creator away from Klein’s ritual, while considering hidden Outer Deity forces and Zarathus’s possible resurrection. Klein examined Angel’s Grade 0 Sealed Artifact, Destined Madness, and discovered that its secret might help him in the struggle for Sefirah Castle.

• Angel and Klein assessed their allies and concluded that Klein needed to distract Amon and the True Creator during his ritual to accommodate the Uniqueness.
• Klein revealed that unfamiliar Outer Deity powers had entered Earth through barrier cracks, and Angel suggested finding Letitia, the contaminated angel who escaped the Ideal Land.
• Klein explained that Zarathus may have arranged to resurrect through a Secret Order member, and he had traced the concealed words “Orville” and “Dilan.”
• Angel gave Klein Destined Madness, a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact whose knowledge attacks and Mystical Reenactments made it dangerous to keep in the Witch Church.
• Klein divined the artifact’s true source and told Angel that its secret might give him an advantage in the struggle for Sefirah Castle.