Chapter Summaries

Alice explained the events surrounding George III’s failed ascension and warned Leonard that Amon was likely hunting him, while Klein arranged a mission to hunt Butis. Alice realized she needed Will Auceptin to pursue her but could not work out how she could become a god, and the gathering ended with the mission’s collaborators chosen and Emlyn expecting release soon.

• Alice explained that the Three Churches had acted against George III and that Storm’s lightning strike had been aimed at him after Amon’s false tip exposed Zaratul’s escape.
• Alice told Leonard that Amon had likely identified him as Pallez’s host and was probably in Backlund to pursue him.
• World commissioned Cattleya to hunt Butis, and Fors, Audrey, Xio, and Leonard agreed to assist under specific conditions and rewards.
• Alice realized Will Auceptin might have abandoned his pursuit and wondered how she could become a god if driven into a corner, then resolved to find a way to make him hunt her.
• The Tarot Club settled the mission’s terms, and Alice and World reassured Emlyn that he would likely be released from Church custody soon.

The World told the Tarot Club he would soon enter the Forsaken Land of the Gods to perform a miracle, and Klein decided to leave that night with Alice and Emlyn. Alice also warned Leonard that Amon knew about Pallez, then handed Leonard a comic that left Pallez asking who had written it.

• The World told Derrick he would visit the Forsaken Land of the Gods, and Alice explained that he planned to open its seal and called it a miracle.
• Alice told Klein that a prophecy required her to lose a battle with no way out before suddenly becoming a god, while Klein worried about Amon and Leonard.
• Klein decided to leave for the Forsaken Land of the Gods that night, and Alice obtained Arianna's authorization to free Emlyn from Chanis Gate.
• Leonard told Pallez about Alice's warning, and Pallez suspected Alice might have revealed his identity to Amon.
• Alice gave Leonard a comic titled “Poems Under the Shadow of Crows,” and Pallez asked who had drawn it; Leonard read the cover name, Rita Skeeter.

Alice and Klein entered the Forsaken Land of the Gods, where Klein began exploring alone while Alice headed toward the City of Silver's camp at Afternoon Town. There she encountered a woman she recognized as Lovia, who addressed her as Miss Fortune.

• Alice slipped away from Leonard after handing him Amon's letter, leaving him to question Pallez about Amon's old-flame remark.
• Alice and Klein entered the dream road to the Forsaken Land of the Gods, and Klein changed his appearance before they crossed through the door.
• Klein chose to explore the Forsaken Land of the Gods alone, while Alice announced that she would visit the City of Silver's believers.
• Alice approached the Afternoon Town camp and found Lady Daly and the children eating better food than before.
• Alice asked the camp's Demigod if she was Lovia, and the woman stood and called Alice Miss Fortune.

Alice dined with the City of Silver residents, spoke with the True Creator, and privately told Lovia that her Lord planned to open the sealed region and bring its people into the outside world. She left Lovia questioning what had become of the supposed traitors, as Alice named three gods who had once served the ancient rulers.

• Lovia invited Alice to dine with the City of Silver residents, and Alice used illusory images to show them creatures and places from the outside world.
• Alice spoke with the True Creator, who gave her the name Grischa and said Lovia was the only person he could contact.
• Alice wondered whether the True Creator still tried to protect his believers even in his mad state, then considered the dangers of siding with Klein and the possibility of history repeating itself.
• Lovia asked Alice why she had come, and Alice said her Lord would open the sealed region, take some of its people away, and reveal its hidden history with the True Creator's tacit approval.
• Lovia asked how the Lord's betrayers were faring, and Alice named the Lord of Storms, the God of Knowledge and Wisdom, and the Eternal Blazing Sun as former followers who had turned against their former masters.

Alice left Lovia and the City of Silver with mycelium, then met Klein in the darkness and shared a meal before they drove around the Forsaken Land of the Gods in a Historical Projection sports car. Their outing ended when they crashed into a horde of Monsters, leaving Alice and Klein surrounded.

• Alice asked Lovia for mycelium, then left the Exploration Team to hunt Monsters and grow more mushrooms.
• Alice cooked mushrooms in the darkness, where Klein found her and joined her for a meal using utensils summoned from a Historical Projection.
• Klein summoned a sports car, and he, Alice, and two Marionettes drove around the Forsaken Land of the Gods.
• Alice wondered whether Klein could summon a nuclear bomb, and their car slammed on the brakes before a horde of Monsters.
• Alice and Klein landed among the Monsters, which hid from the light, while Klein accused Alice of attracting them and she admitted she had wanted to see what would happen.

Klein and Alice crossed a cursed wilderness in the Land Abandoned by God, where they found a ruined building complex beneath the ravines that might be where the Ancient Sun God emerged. Alice warned Klein about the danger of awakening directly as a high-sequence being, and they continued onward after avoiding a wandering, dead Cyclops.

• Alice and Klein traveled through the Land Abandoned by God, passing time with card games until the Tarot Club gathered on Monday.
• At the Tarot Club, Leonard, or Pallez, asked the others to find the Female Witch Rita Skeeter, whose identity Alice had invented from a comic-book signature.
• Alice stopped Klein's vehicle before a series of ravines and detected a curse in the grayish-yellow mist, while Klein's silver water protected him as they crossed into it.
• Alice and Klein spotted a dead Cyclops producing the mist and found an ancient building complex beneath a fissure that they suspected was where the Ancient Sun God had crawled out.
• Alice explained that castle owners had captured prisoners and planned for them to awaken in their bodies, warning that rapid evolution into Mythical Creatures could turn them into sacrifices; Klein stopped probing the matter.
• As they moved on, Alice described seeing multiple aspects of Klein, including his fate, and joked that he looked like worms to her.

Klein and Alice explored a sealed underground research institute and learned from its Russian records that researchers had turned into petroleum and heard a presence calling from underground. Alice recognized that something below had devoured the petroleum, but refused to explain what it was until Klein became an Angel.

• Klein and Alice returned to the gully, found no entrance in the gray buildings, and used Leymanno's Travel Notes to open a path through them.
• Klein and Alice reached a half-open iron door, where decayed firearms collapsed into dust and then re-formed; Alice discussed her limits on sustaining Fate Cycles.
• Klein and Alice entered what appeared to be a research institute and used a translator to read notes describing people turning into petroleum and becoming trapped inside.
• Alice identified the black traces as petroleum and concluded that something underground had devoured it, but told Klein not to ask or think about the presence until he became an Angel.

Klein and Alice explored a dark abyss connected to underground corruption, where Alice kicked an emaciated Amon avatar back into the void before he could speak. As they continued traveling through the Forsaken Land of the Gods, their banter and updates about the Tarot Club led Alice to speculate that the Wheel of Fortune pathway’s authority was stronger than its poor combat abilities suggested.

• Klein followed Alice into a dark passage after divining that the danger was acceptable, and they found a light-swallowing abyss at its end.
• Amon climbed onto the ledge, but Alice kicked him back into the darkness twice while Klein retreated from the murmuring bronze door in Sefirah Castle.
• Amon reappeared in a crowd, realized the Fool was in the Forsaken Land of the Gods, and considered how to proceed against him.
• Alice told Klein that the abyss was connected to underground corruption and speculated that it might separate an Amon avatar from his main body and give it an independent personality.
• Alice took over driving their projected car, negotiated with Klein for permission to eat ice cream at one Tarot Club gathering, and later discussed the Fate pathway’s powers with him.
• Cattleya arrived in Backlund, Audrey finished digesting her Dreamwalker potion, and Klein recorded Travel powers in Fors’s Leymanno’s Travel Notes to help her acting progress.

At the Tarot Club, Alice’s conjured ice cream drew questions before she and Klein watched the hunt for Butis from Sefirah Castle. Alice intervened to neutralize Butis’s recorded Restart, and after the Box of the Great Old Ones reached the castle, Klein cleansed the corruption from Butis’s Beyonder Characteristic; they then planned to use Fors to contact the Goddess while she remained trapped in the box.

• Alice brought a Historical Projection ice cream to the Tarot Club, where Audrey recognized it and Leonard asked where it came from.
• Audrey advanced to demigod and Fors advanced to Traveler, allowing the Tarot Club’s plan to hunt Butis to proceed.
• When Butis’s recorded Restart disrupted the battle, Alice used Restart to undo the interference and reopen the area around the fight.
• Cattleya and the others sent the Box of the Great Old Ones to Sefirah Castle, where its power restrained the box; Klein and Alice avoided investigating its dangerous third layer.
• Klein shattered Butis’s Beyonder Characteristic inside Sefirah Castle and cleansed its corruption before it reassembled.
• Klein proposed using Fors to summon his Historical Projection outside the Forsaken Land of the Gods so he could pray to the Goddess, while Alice remembered that Fors was still inside the box.

Klein arranged for Fors to be freed from the Box of the Old Days, then used a Historical Projection to seek information and Sealed Artifacts from several churches. He obtained the Goddess’s guidance about Kotar, but his attempts to ask the Lord of Storms and the Eternal Blazing Sun for artifacts ended with his marionettes being killed.

• Alice warned Klein that the original owner of the place could kill her, and Klein sent the Box of the Old Days containing Fors back to Cattleya.
• Archbishop Anthony asked Leonard whether he could contact Miss Fortune, and Leonard claimed he could get an answer through an informant who worshiped The Fool.
• Klein and Alice discussed approaching the Abraham Family and trying to obtain Sealed Artifact 0-32 from the Lord of Storms.
• Klein prayed to the Goddess of the Night at St. Samuel's Church and received information about Kotar, the Gloomy Demon Wolf.
• Klein sent a Historical Projection of his Winner marionette to pray for 0-32 at Holy Wind Cathedral, but the Lord of Storms struck it down with lightning.
• Klein tried to obtain 0-13 at the Eternal Blazing Sun's church, but the Winner marionette was burned to death, and he later told Alice what happened.

Klein and Alice continued their journey through the Land Abandoned by God, changing course after Leonard reported that Amon had succeeded. Alice sent Klein to inspect a seal and bring a miracle to Moon City, then prepared to use the Staff of Stars to travel there.

• Klein told Alice that the Goddess's old information about Kotar might be unreliable, and they decided to keep traveling rather than turn back to search for him.
• Leonard's prayer revealed that Amon had become Sequence 2, prompting Alice to urge Klein to inspect a seal and deliver a promised miracle to Moon City.
• Alice realized she might use power connected to the Key of Light to draw on its Beyonder Characteristic, and asked Klein to loosen the seal enough for power or attraction to pass through.
• At the end of January, Dorian gave Gehrman Sparrow's Historical Projection the Staff of Stars, which could teleport its holder to a precisely imagined real destination.
• Alice explained that she and Klein could share the Anchors of people they helped, then raised the Staff of Stars and prepared to make their entrance.

Klein arrived at the mist with Alice and performed a miracle for Moon City’s patrol, purifying their pollution and curing their disfigurements. He then used the Staff of Stars to make the mist part, prompting Alice to seek the High Priest’s help in stirring it further, while Klein and Alice prepared to stay and gather supplies.

• Alice brought Klein to the gray-white mist, then vanished as Moon City’s patrol approached.
• Klein told Adal, Xin, and Rus he had come by his Lord’s oracle, purified their pollution, and healed their disfigurements with the Staff of Life.
• Klein promised to treat and feed Moon City residents, teach them to grow food, and eventually lead them out of the cursed land.
• Klein used the Staff of Stars to make the solidified mist roll apart repeatedly, shocking Adal, Xin, and Rus.
• Alice told Klein to have the patrol bring their High Priest, then asked him to gather monsters and mushrooms while they waited.
• Klein summoned a bed for Alice from a Historical Projection and dismissed it while she was lying down, making her fall and glare at him.

Klein and Alice met with High Priest Nim and revealed the truth about the Creator’s betrayal and fate, leaving Moon City’s residents shaken. Alice then presented edible mushrooms as a gift and accidentally taught the residents to praise The Fool with a middle finger.

• Nim arrived with Moon City residents while Klein and Alice roasted mushrooms, and he asked which deity Merlin Hermes served.
• Klein introduced The Fool as the savior of the Land Abandoned by God and identified Alice as His Angel of Fate and divine child.
• Klein and Alice explained that the Kings of Angels had devoured the Creator’s corpse and that the Creator remained alive but was no longer the being Nim’s people had worshipped.
• Klein used the Staff of Life to stop a Moon City Beyonder from losing control after Nim and the others were devastated by the revelation.
• Alice presented mushrooms cultivated for Moon City, and Klein explained that some were safe to eat while others could be used to make toxins.
• Alice claimed that The Fool’s prayer gesture was an extended middle finger, and Nim and the Moon City residents copied it as they praised The Fool.

Klein and Alice investigated Moon City’s barrier and discovered that its ritual could draw a response from within the mist. Klein heard voices praying to his Lord, while Alice sensed a connection to the sealed Key of Light and recognized the final line of the prayer as the incantation tied to Klein’s origin.

• High Priest Nim explained that Moon City had spent thousands of years trying to open the barrier and that an ancient ritual had occasionally produced indistinct voices.
• Klein summoned a historical projection of Nim’s ritual materials, and Nim performed the prayer to the Eternal Unchanging Mist.
• Alice sensed that the ritual had succeeded and reached toward a light within the mist that she connected to the sealed Key of Light.
• Klein told Nim and the Moon City Residents that the voices were praying to his Lord.
• Alice recognized the prayer’s final words as “Celestial Worthy of Heaven and Earth for Blessings,” the incantation connected to Klein’s origin.

Alice tried to open the gray-white barrier with the incantation, but it seized her soul until she called on the True Creator for help. After she collapsed, Klein cared for her and continued his work in Moon City; Alice woke from a strange dream and asked him for a cup, but he tested her with a calculus question.

• Klein and Alice recited the incantation at the barrier, and Alice saw silver light behind an unfinished door before the mist began pulling at her soul.
• Alice called on the True Creator, who rescued her and instructed her to retrieve the First Blasphemy Slate from the Giant King's Court, have the Lord of Mysteries push the door, and evacuate the land's people when the time came.
• A silver-haired woman painted a silver girl holding a black object, while Will sensed an opportunity calling to him and asked Amon to take him back to his house.
• Klein caught the unconscious Alice, told High Priest Nim that the barrier should not be opened for more than ten years, and promised to treat Moon City's residents and lead believers away.
• Alice dreamed of being chased by a hungry little girl, rolled off the bed, woke up, and asked Klein for a cup; Klein instead asked her to solve an integral.

Alice told Klein that her Deification Ritual required retrieving something from the Giant King's Court, and True Creator had asked them to evacuate the Forsaken Land of the Gods’ remaining cities before the opportunity arrived. After Alice mapped the cities and began helping Moon City’s residents, Klein welcomed them with food and a sermon.

• Alice said she had found a way to complete her Deification Ritual but needed to make Will Auceptin hunt her, and she warned Klein that he might have to open the Giant King's Court gate to retrieve something.
• Alice drew True Creator’s detailed map of the Forsaken Land of the Gods and explained that they should visit and evacuate any cities that still remained before an approaching opportunity.
• Alice proposed using the Staff of Life and assembling supposed Kings of Angels to help her meet people, while she and Klein joked about their relationship and Klein fed her a mushroom to stop her teasing.
• After a summoning ritual gave Alice freedom to travel through the Forsaken Land of the Gods, she watched Klein handle Moon City's second arrival and welcome its residents.
• Klein preached to the residents of Moon City, then distributed skewers and taught them to cook mushrooms; the first person to taste one cried with emotion.

Klein and Alice shared a Mushroom feast with Moon City's residents, and Nim's account of an ancient Demon Wolf led Klein to realize that a complete Mystery Attendant Beyonder Characteristic may have appeared near the Gray-White Mist. Klein then healed the residents with the Radiant Cross and preached The Fool's commandments before leaving them with Alice, who comforted him about the discovery.

• Nim checked that the Moon City residents could safely eat the Mushrooms, and Alice and Klein joined them while Klein told stories about the Land Abandoned by God.
• Nim explained that Moon City's Beyonder Pathways were diverse and described how a Lucky One's fortune made patrols dangerous for others.
• Nim recounted a vanished hill and an enormous Demon Wolf with gray-white fur on its head; Alice recognized it as Kotar, and Klein connected the incident's date to a missing Mystery Attendant Beyonder Characteristic.
• Nim agreed to consult Moon City's records about events from 208 years earlier and told Klein where the deep pit was.
• Klein raised the Radiant Cross, healed the residents, and preached two commandments against living sacrifices and taking God's name in vain.
• After the residents departed, Alice offered Klein comfort about the date, and he joked that she would call him a pervert if he accepted her embrace.

Klein and Alice discussed the Mystery Attendant characteristics and prepared to investigate the pit where Kotar had been, while Alice planned to deliver messages to an Angel and Leomaster. On the Future, Frank decided to leave the Druid path and pursue advancement to Classical Alchemist after learning that his creations lacked souls.

• Klein told Alice he planned to investigate the pit Kotar created, suspecting a Mystery Attendant Beyonder Characteristic had fallen there.
• Alice said she would help Klein investigate and explained she could resurrect him, though Primordial Moon contamination might defeat her.
• Alice realized the True Creator had maneuvered her into carrying messages to His followers, then decided to contact the Angel stationed nearby and Leomaster.
• Cattleya found Frank brooding on the Future and asked what troubled him; Frank said his creations lacked souls.
• Frank told Cattleya that Alice's letter had prompted him to pursue the soul-related question after becoming a Demigod, and declared he would become a Classical Alchemist instead of a Druid.
• Frank planned to write to Gehrman for help and said he wanted to study Alice's flesh and blood, so Cattleya warned that Gehrman and Alice could not conveniently receive letters.

Alice discovered that Kotar had obtained a Curtain connected to the Mystery Attendant advancement ritual and realized the Key of Light might use her as a resurrection vessel. After celebrating her birthday with Klein, she asked the True Creator about the first Blasphemy Slate and the Apocalypse prophecy before setting out to find Styver.

• Alice watched a vision of Kotar taking a concealed Curtain that wrapped around him, while Klein identified it as a Mystery Attendant Beyonder Characteristic.
• Alice concluded that her connection to the Key of Light made her a likely resurrection vessel and celebrated her birthday with Klein, who gave her a cake from the Historical Void.
• Klein confirmed that retrieving the first Blasphemy Slate was related to Alice's situation, and Alice asked the True Creator whether he had meant the Key of Light in his prophecy about Amon as the light of the Apocalypse.
• The True Creator confirmed Alice's suspicion but cut off her questions about his fragments, and Alice apologized before seeking Styver, the Angel of Sacred Word.

Alice impersonated Ouroboros to meet Styver, escaped a tense confrontation with Ouroboros and Amon, and discovered that North City was shrouded in an ominous mist. She warned Klein about Amon’s return and North City, leaving Klein to weigh how to investigate without alerting Kotar.

• Alice claimed to be Ouroboros and told Styver that she had come to lead the believers out of the land.
• Will Auceptin emerged from Styver’s scroll, and Alice fled as Ouroboros and Amon pulled her in opposite directions.
• Alice recognized Ouroboros’s apparent opportunity from Fate, then provoked Amon and Ouroboros by calling them brothers before escaping.
• Amon and Ouroboros stayed behind after Alice ran, and Amon said he would not pursue her because the Hanged Man was protecting her.
• Alice fled through the Spirit World, discovered North City, recognized the Curtain near it, and sent Klein warnings about both the city and Amon’s return.
• Klein considered investigating North City but worried that examining its residents could alert Kotar, the Wish Demon Wolf.