Chapter Summaries

Alice and Klein met with the Red Angel evil spirit, who explained why he wanted Klein to keep investigating the Loen Royal Family and revealed what he knew about Alice’s connection to the Key of Light. The meeting left Alice wondering whether she could still be separated from the Key of Light.

• Alice found Klein and confronted the Red Angel evil spirit, who said he had no intention of killing Klein and wanted to see him grow stronger against Amon.
• The Red Angel evil spirit learned that Alice had reclaimed the Key of Light’s Uniqueness and discussed how Ouroboros had lost the God of Fortune’s characteristic to Will Auceptin.
• Alice realized the Red Angel evil spirit was trying to unsettle her by comparing their situations and warning that she might be corrupted by the City of Calamity.
• The Red Angel evil spirit asked Klein to notify him before acting if Klein found traces of the higher-ranking Witch Katrina while investigating the Loen Royal Family.
• The Red Angel evil spirit’s reaction to Alice suggested she was not entirely equivalent to the consciousness of the Key of Light, giving her a faint hope that their connection could be undone.

Klein followed Alice’s advice as the war’s threats escalated, while Alice restored a corrupted Demigod named Luca Brewster. Luca’s prophecy warned that the war’s greatest destruction lay beyond the conflict itself, and Alice connected underground corruption to a hidden Sefirah before leaving with Klein.

• Klein arranged relief supplies for the war effort, while Alice used the Staff of Life to heal patients in community hospitals and Cattleya decided to buy the Druid potion formula.
• Klein wrote to Bernadette and Reinette Tinekerr to seek help against George III, avoiding Pallez because Alice warned that Amon might appear if they gathered.
• Alice answered Klein’s request for help and used her ability to restore Luca Brewster, whose Mythical Creature Form and corruption had left him trapped in a shadowy state.
• Luca explained that Belakos and Archbishop Martina had attacked him, then shared a prophecy that the war was only beginning and that greater destruction came from beyond it.
• Alice warned Klein and Luca not to investigate the prophecy, then suspected the underground corruption came from the remaining unsealed Sefirah and abruptly recited a definition of petroleum.
• Klein and Alice left Luca’s residence after Alice playfully attacked Klein, and Luca offered to help them through Edwina.

Klein and Alice uncovered evidence that Roselle returned from the Moon changed, then discussed Klein’s plans to obtain Sequence 3 ingredients and support the Goddess. At the Tarot Club, Alice revealed that a prophecy showed a True God falling, though she could not identify which one.

• Klein escaped Luca Brewster with Creeping Hunger and Travel while Alice stayed behind and then disappeared.
• Leonard joined his new teammates at St. Samuel’s Church and admitted that he wanted to go back and take a look.
• Klein and Alice found Roselle’s diary entries indicating that the Second Blasphemy Slate was incomplete and that the person who returned from the Moon might not have been entirely Roselle.
• Klein planned to seek a bestowal from the Goddess and asked Alice to help him obtain the Hound of Fulgrim.
• At the Tarot Club, Fors commissioned the World to demonstrate Travel to help her digest her potion, and the members discussed Zaratul’s presence in Backlund and the connection between the Seer, Marauder, and Apprentice pathways.
• Alice told the Tarot Club that a prophecy showed a True God falling, but she could not see who it was.

Alice revealed a prophecy that a True God had fallen and discussed how the war could lead to a succession of divine positions. The Tarot Club considered the unstable alliance among the Seven Deities and prepared to explore the Giant King's Court, while Klein asked Alice whether Adam's Deification Ritual was truly so complicated.

• Alice told the Tarot Club that a True God had fallen, assured Leonard that the Evernight Goddess was safe, and speculated that the death might be tied to the war and Adam.
• Alice explained that Storm might oppose the coming tide of the times because it could help Adam complete the Dream Weaver's Deification Ritual and allow Storm's former master to take a crucial step toward returning.
• Klein explained that the Seven Deities' alliance was fragile because several of their pathways were adjacent, and Alice revealed additional adjacent pathways and said the emperor was close to becoming the Black Emperor.
• Derrick reported that the group was less than a day from Afternoon Town and planned to explore the Giant King's Court after resting; Klein advised them to pray to Mr. Fool for good fortune.
• After the Tarot Club ended, Alice told Klein she had no clear idea which god would die, and Klein asked whether Adam's Deification Ritual was really so complicated.

Klein enlisted Alice’s help to confront Sauron Einhorn Medici, interrogate Katrina, and complete his advancement to Sequence 3. After Klein advanced on an island, Alice sensed that the event had drawn attention, and he revealed that his new Potion was already digested.

• Alice warned Klein not to interfere with Adam’s plans, then accompanied him into the Spirit World, where two Hounds of Fulgrim brought him Potion Ingredients.
• Klein arranged to locate Katrina, summoned Sauron Einhorn Medici, and provoked Him by impersonating Amon; Alice shielded Klein and helped interrogate Katrina.
• Fors’s story reached its first climax, and Klein finished digesting his Potion before traveling to an uninhabited island to advance.
• Klein completed his advancement while Alice glimpsed the Wheel of Fortune beyond the Door of Light and warned him that others might have sensed the ritual.
• Klein fled without taking Alice, who followed with the pot and materials; he placated her with three Ice Creams and said his Sequence 3 Potion seemed fully digested.

Alice entered the Spirit World to seek the River of Fate and questioned the Seven Lights about the Key of Light’s past. After wandering aimlessly, she was swept into a silver river that seemed to be the River of Fate.

• Alice told Klein she would search the Spirit World for the River of Fate, took back the skin she had left with him, and departed.
• Alice met the Seven Lights, who explained that the River of Fate lay outside the Three Realms but had an entrance somewhere in the Spirit World.
• Red Light, Al Moria, told Alice that the Key of Light had offered up His authority, become the Lord of Mysteries’ avatar, and later had His consciousness scattered.
• Red Light told Alice she was not the Key of Light but was becoming more like Him, and suggested that Fate had guided both of their choices.
• Alice wandered through the Spirit World and tried communicating with its creatures until a silver river appeared and swept her away.
• Alice found the river strangely warm and comforting, then jolted awake in alarm and groped around her surroundings.

Alice discovered that her fate had been inserted into the world after an unknown existence erased the original owner of her body, and she used that insight to clarify her path and fully digest her potion. After retrieving the Soothsayer characteristic and drinking the potion, she returned to her body as a true Soothsayer.

• Alice realized that her fate had been absent from the River of Fate until she stepped into it, and concluded that an unknown existence had inserted her fate into the world.
• Alice retrieved the Soothsayer Beyonder Characteristic from St. Samuel's Church, where Arianna told her that Leonard had requested a mission to Tingen City.
• Alice asked Klein to help obtain Will Auceptin's blood, then used it on the Cassandra characteristic; she stopped Klein from losing control when he saw a deadly false prophecy.
• Alice used Will's blood on the characteristic again and drank the resulting Soothsayer potion, entering the River of Fate and being pulled toward her own tributary.
• Alice followed her tributary back to the Real World and returned to her body as a true Soothsayer.

After Klein advanced to Scholar of Yore, Amon forced Will Auceptin to leave the Forsaken Land of the Gods and hunt Alice. Will traveled to Backlund, where Alice learned that Amon had stolen several stages from Will’s life and made him appear as a young man.

• Amon sensed the change at the Castle of Origin, gave Will the choice to hunt Alice or be hunted, and forced him to agree to leave the Forsaken Land of the Gods.
• Will reached Backlund, met Roy King, learned that the School of Life had been devastated, and told him not to make an enemy of the person who took the Dice of Probability.
• Leonard caught a young thief in Tingen, recognized the veiled woman’s monocle, and hurried back to Backlund with the Red Gloves.
• Roy King prayed to Alice from the Church of the Night, but she told him to let her sleep and responded again the next day.
• Alice learned that Will looked to be in his twenties and realized that Amon had stolen several stages from the middle of his life.

Alice questioned Roy King about Will Auceptin, then discussed the Land Abandoned by God, Amon, and her dwindling time with Klein. Klein tried to use Historical Projection to explore his abilities and Castle of Origin, but Alice’s other selves asked him to summon more of them.

• Alice asked Roy King to recount his dealings with Will Auceptin and gave him a Tarot Card so he could report what he learned.
• Alice told Klein that Will Auceptin seemed to be preparing to admit defeat, while Amon had restored Will’s strength by stealing his childhood and adolescence.
• Klein showed Alice the Miracle Invoker Potion Formula, and they discussed opening the palace where Sasrir slept to free the people of the Land Abandoned by God.
• Alice warned that she was nearing a dead end and asked Klein to become an Angel as soon as possible; Klein agreed.
• Klein tried to investigate the effects of Castle of Origin and Historical Projection, but Alice’s other selves asked him to pull out two more of them.

Klein discovered that he could return his spirit body to the Castle of Origin through prayer, then used the Tarot Club to seek information and materials while Alice warned its members about Will Auceptin. After the meeting, Alice observed the City of Silver’s approach to the Giant King’s Court and found no sign of the True Creator influencing Lovia, while Klein asked her for a good-luck charm.

• Klein told Alice that praying to The Fool could let his spirit body return briefly to the Castle of Origin, and they discussed missing Beyonder Characteristics and the Goddess.
• At the Tarot Club, World asked Fors to inquire about Worms of Star and Cattleya to gather information about the Wishing Lamp, while Alice asked the members to look for Fate Pathway ingredients and characteristics.
• Alice warned the Tarot Club that Will Auceptin had regained Sequence 1 strength and was in Backlund, and her teasing about Klein’s advancement led him to call her claims mostly false.
• Derrick announced that the City of Silver was resting near the Giant King’s Court before beginning its exploration, and the Tarot Club ended after World encouraged members to pray to The Fool.
• With Klein’s permission, Alice observed the Giant King’s Court and Lovia through the prayer vision, saw no influence of the True Creator on Lovia, and then explained that a Calamity Priest’s charm could bring misfortune to its user.

Alice visited Frank Lee to discuss food for Klein’s journey into the Forsaken Land of the Gods, then discussed the City of Silver’s exploration and the True Creator with Klein. After receiving Trissy’s plan to contact Mr. Door, Alice explained how she could help make a Yesterday’s Recurrence charm and revealed that she wanted Will dead for threatening people close to her.

• Alice visited Frank Lee on the Future, urged him to complete his Druid advancement ritual, and considered how Klein could get meals in the Forsaken Land of the Gods.
• Klein told Alice that the City of Silver’s first exploration had revealed the meeting place of Rose Redemption, and they discussed Hela Bergen’s name and the True God’s ability to sense it.
• Klein told Alice that Lovia had prayed to the True Creator, and Alice worried that the True Creator’s unconscious power might endanger the City of Silver.
• Klein gave Alice Trissy’s letter, which said Mr. Door could help them infiltrate George III’s mausoleum and sabotage his ritual if they obtained blood or other remains from an Abraham descendant.
• Alice and Klein discussed whether a cremated Miracle Invoker could revive, then Alice said she could obtain River of Fate water to help make Reinette Tinekerr’s requested charm.
• Alice explained that she had no reason to kill Ouroboros, but wanted Will dead because she had considered him a friend and he had threatened people around her.

Alice gave Reinette Tinekerr a charm to restore her former strength and recruited her to serve the Fool in exchange for watching for materials. A day later, Reinette brought Klein and Alice Frank’s newly developed, dangerous edible Mushrooms, and reported that Frank was no longer afraid of being buried in dirt.

• Alice asked Reinette Tinekerr about her former identity, and Klein explained that she had been the Highland Kingdom’s princess and a leader of the Rose School’s Temperance Faction.
• Alice asked Reinette to have her former allies watch for people collecting specific materials, then invited her to become an Angel under the Fool; Reinette agreed.
• Klein obtained Lawrence’s remains and hair with help from Magician Fors.
• Reinette brought Klein and Alice a bundle of Frank’s mutated Mushrooms, and Klein read Frank’s letter describing the varieties and warning that they had to be cooked.
• Reinette told them that Frank was excited, active, happy, and satisfied because he could absorb nutrients and oxygen from soil.

Klein and Alice discussed diverting Zaratul’s attention and the world’s eventual return to the Original Creator, then learned more about the Wishing Lamp at the Tarot Club. Alice announced that mushrooms could provide food in the Land Abandoned by God, and Derrick prepared to receive them.

• Klein proposed killing Zaratul to obtain His Beyonder Characteristic, but Alice said he was not strong enough and suggested reporting both Zaratul and Amon to the Church of Storms instead.
• Alice told Klein that her divinity pointed toward an apocalypse in which the world returned to the Original Creator and was born anew.
• Cattleya reported that the Wishing Lamp was a dangerous Grade 0 Sealed Artifact from the First Epoch, and Alice asked to speak with its Lamp Genie.
• Alice revealed at the Tarot Club that a Druid had cultivated mushrooms that could grow in the Land Abandoned by God, and Klein explained their food uses and dangers.
• Derrick asked whether the mushrooms could attack monsters, but Cattleya warned that this could endanger humans; Alice offered to send mushrooms to Derrick through a ritual.

At the Tarot Club, Alice revealed that Mr. World had tipped off the Church of Storms about Amon and Zaratul, then met the sealed Son of Chaos inside Bernadette’s Wishing Lamp. Later, Alice watched Trissy summon Mr. Door and discovered that the ritual drew the attention of the Fallen Mother God before Mr. Door sensed her presence.

• Alice persuaded Derrick to exchange a Sequence 4 Classical Alchemist Potion with Mr. Fool for the requested compensation.
• Alice warned Alger to stay away from Backlund and explained that Mr. World had reported Amon and Zaratul to the Church of Storms.
• Bernadette brought Alice the Wishing Lamp, where Alice spoke with the sealed Son of Chaos and offered to let him meet God by dying.
• Alice told the Lamp Genie that the Lord of Mysteries had defeated God and asked whether he wanted to see the current Lord of Mysteries; he agreed, and Alice returned the lamp to Bernadette.
• During the full moon, Alice watched Trissy perform the ritual to summon Mr. Door, and the ritual exposed Trissy to the Fallen Mother God’s power.
• Mr. Door called Trissy Chick, discussed those who had viewed the Second Piece of the Blasphemy Slate, and then called out to the hidden Alice.

Alice spoke with Mr. Door while Trissy questioned him about entering Tudor’s secret mausoleums and lifting the Abraham Family’s curse. Later, Klein considered how to gather blood from all twenty-two Beyonder Pathways, and Alice asked him to bring food from the Historical Void to future Tarot Club meetings, but he refused.

• Alice secretly calmed Trissy and spoke with Mr. Door, who asked whether Cheek had sent her and learned she was acquainted with Amon.
• Trissy asked Mr. Door how to enter Tudor’s secret mausoleums, and he explained how to draw a symbol with blood from Beyonders of different Pathways.
• Mr. Door told Trissy that three demigods from the Seer, Apprentice, and Marauder Pathways could be sacrificed to free the Abraham Family from its curse.
• Alice appeared, asked whether Mr. Door or Amon had been the better fighter, and jokingly said she would tell Amon that Mr. Door claimed superiority.
• Trissy ended the ritual and left to report the answers to Gehrman, while Klein planned how to obtain blood from all twenty-two Pathways.
• After tasting the Boss’s pepper ice cream, Alice asked Klein to pull ice cream and other modern food from the Historical Void for Tarot Club meetings, but Klein refused.

Alice and Klein gathered the materials for Klein’s ritual and discussed helping people in the Forsaken Land of the Gods, while Alice arranged food advice for City of Silver and Frank Lee. The chapter ended with Amon’s avatars identifying a newly appointed Red Gloves captain and debating whether to report Backlund’s unusual martial law to their main body.

• Alice asked Klein to bring food and, if possible, the Scepter of Life and a Cross to a city near the Western Continent’s seal, and Klein agreed while considering whether to rescue people he encountered.
• Will bought five ice creams covered in seasonings, ate the chili-flavored one, and complained that it tasted awful.
• Derrick received Devil blood from the Chief’s messenger after City of Silver adopted Alice’s mushroom recipes and made mushrooms its main food.
• Alice sent Frank Lee a letter praising his mushrooms and asking about Sharpe, while Klein added the Devil blood to his ritual materials and reviewed Trissy’s ritual for contacting Mr. Door.
• Amon’s avatars discussed the Church of Storms’ search for people wearing Monocles over their right eyes and confirmed that a newly appointed Red Gloves captain was in Backlund.

Klein and Alice learned that George III planned to use a nationwide speech as part of his ritual, and they prepared to disrupt his plans. Klein used 0-08 to influence the likely outcome, then arranged help from allies while Alice went looking for the vendor who had sold pepper ice cream.

• Klein told Alice that George III would address the nation on Saturday, gathering people in public squares to hear his speech, and they identified it as the Sacrifice Ritual.
• Klein used Groselle's Travels to obtain 0-08 and wrote that George III would use the speech to draw out his enemies and attempt to advance if nothing went wrong.
• Klein and Alice discussed whether George III had secretly reached a higher Sequence and whether Adam had helped conceal his true level.
• Klein wrote to Trissy and Bernadette, arranged a meeting with Leonard to seek Pallez Zoroast's help, informed Reinette, prayed to the Evernight Goddess, and studied his Scholar of Yore abilities.
• Alice finished her ice cream and decided to find the vendor who had sold pepper ice cream.

Alice discovered that the George III appearing in public was a Sequence 5 impostor, then altered the fake’s fate so it could die if the real George III’s apotheosis went badly. She warned Arianna and Klein, leaving Klein to prepare for the King’s Saturday speech and the possibility of a catastrophic loss of control.

• Alice encountered Will Auceptin at an ice cream stall, but he fled before she could speak with him.
• Alice entered the River of Fate and discovered that George III had not appeared in the Imperial Palace for a long time, identifying an illusory tributary belonging to his impersonator.
• Alice made one point in the fake George III’s fate real, then warned Arianna that the Church had been deceived.
• Alice told Klein that the real George III was likely at least Sequence 1 and that the public King was a Sequence 5 impostor; she explained that the fake could die if the real King faced a high chance of death.
• Alice told Klein to go to the mausoleum on Saturday and offered to strengthen him, while planning to attend the King’s speech herself.
• Klein and Alice realized that George III might lose control while advancing, potentially becoming a True God-level threat, and Klein asked whether beings above the Demigod level grew stronger after losing control.

After warning the Churches that George III’s Black Emperor ascension could unleash a true-god-level monster, Alice and Klein attended George III’s speech in the square. When Alice sensed explosive power gathering in the dark clouds above him, she tried to warn Audrey, but lightning struck before Audrey could escape, and Alice reached for the silver river.

• Klein reported Alice’s warning to the Evernight Goddess, who summoned Alice and cautioned her that a failed ascension attempt could turn George III into an out-of-control monster.
• Alice met with Lady Arianna, Bornova Gustav, and an angel of the Church of Storms, then urged Klein to attend George III’s speech with her.
• Klein refused to let Alice enter the secret mausoleum to investigate, and they waited together in the square for the speech.
• George III addressed the crowd about the war, while Alice noticed dark clouds gathering overhead and sensed an explosive force within them.
• Alice warned Miss Justice Audrey to move her family away from George III, but a series of lightning bolts struck the square before Audrey could act.
• As the crowd panicked and lightning continued to fall, Alice closed her eyes and sent her Spirituality toward the silver river.

Alice learned that the Lord of Storms’ pursuit of Amon had instead led him to Zaratul, then pretended that Amon had sent the Church of Storms’ tip-off letter. Amon replied with a teasing letter, while Klein considered traveling to the Forsaken Land of the Gods; at the Tarot Club, Alice began explaining how George III’s apparent death had happened.

• Alice helped prevent the crowd from trampling people after George III was struck by lightning, then learned from Arianna that the Lord of Storms had found Zaratul instead of Amon in the underground ruins.
• At Holy Wind Cathedral, Alice claimed the tip-off letter had come from Amon and vanished before the Church of Storms could question her further.
• Amon sent Alice a letter asking about Backlund’s crows, the Church of Storms, and his missing pet snake, and joked that one of his avatars wanted to become her pet dog.
• Alice warned Klein that Amon’s attention had shifted to Backlund, then wrote Amon a sarcastic reply describing his behavior as that of a devoted pet.
• Klein weighed a trip to the Forsaken Land of the Gods and considered how to manage his Dwayne Dantès identity while away.
• At the Tarot Club, Alice told Audrey that the George III who died in the lightning strike was an imagined fake, and began explaining her fate-altering plan.