Chapter Summaries

Alice and Klein helped Leomaster defeat the Black Armored Knight, revealing that the knight was another Leomaster. Leomaster explained how to reach the Land Abandoned by God, but Alice threatened everyone in the Sea of Ruins because she refused to spend a month sailing there.

• Klein distracted the Black Armored Knight with Mental Stab, giving Leomaster time to recover his greatsword and attack.
• Klein struck the knight with the Sea God Scepter, shattering its armor and revealing another Leomaster, whom the sword-wielding Leomaster hacked apart.
• Leomaster knelt before Alice, who asked why his prayer had failed to open the entrance to the Land Abandoned by God.
• Leomaster explained that they had to sail to the Sea of Ruins' core, enter a dream at night, and recite his Lord's honorific name.
• Alice asked to travel directly to the core and threatened that nobody entering the waters that month would leave alive because she was bored.
• Leomaster offered to accompany Alice, but she reminded him that he was included among the people she had threatened, leaving him to ask why she had said she came to save him.

Alice used Leomaster’s flesh to locate him, then brought him to the sea’s core so he could pray and open the Road of Light to the Giant King’s Court. After Alice caught Leomaster during their fall onto the road, they stood ready to continue along it.

• Alice asked Cattleya about traveling directly to the sea’s core, then used Leomaster’s lump of flesh to find him on an isolated island.
• Alice told Klein she was leaving and threatened Anderson with seven Misfortune Charms; Klein offered Anderson a way to pay to reduce the number.
• Alice traveled to the isolated island and took Leomaster by boat to the sea’s core, where they waited for nightfall.
• Leomaster prayed to the Lord of Everything Created, causing a Road of Light to appear between the mountain peaks.
• Alice jumped from the cliff and screamed for help, then spread her Wings of Light and caught Leomaster when he fell after her.
• Alice and Leomaster landed safely on the Road of Light, and Leomaster asked why she had screamed despite being able to fly.

Alice accompanied Leomaster to the projection of the Giant King's Court, where he entered the sanctuary through its open gates. Before following him, Alice said goodbye to Klein and the others and promised to return for Intis-style ice cream.

• Alice released Apollo's restraints as she and Leomaster approached the Land Abandoned by God, while Klein, Anderson, and Bernadette watched from the cliff.
• Bernadette told Klein that He had not chosen this outcome from the beginning, and Klein replied that it might be fate.
• Alice and Leomaster reached the Giant King's Court, where she asked whether the doors would expose her to the True Creator's gaze.
• Leomaster pushed open the doors and merged into the doorway, disappearing from Alice's sight.
• Alice remembered her promises and gifts from Klein and Bernadette, told the group to wait for her return, and stepped through the doors.

Alice crossed into the Forsaken Land of the Gods and struggled to travel beneath the Giant King's Court, where the Spirit World and her usual powers were inaccessible. She reached the City of Silver’s exploration team and introduced herself to Chief Colin Iliad as Ouroboros, the Angel of Fate.

• Alice entered the Forsaken Land of the Gods, saw Leomaster climb toward the Giant King's Court, and set out on foot toward the Western Continent’s border.
• Alice found that the Spirit World and Key of Light were unreachable, then accidentally triggered a Fate Cycle by swallowing a monster before continuing her journey.
• Alice passed through a ruined town, glimpsed a furry resident hiding from her light, and avoided disturbing the inhabitants.
• Alice approached the resting City of Silver exploration team, whose members gathered to investigate the approaching light.
• Colin Iliad stepped forward to question Alice, and she claimed to be Ouroboros, the Angel of Fate beneath the Lord's throne.

Alice met the Chief and the City of Silver's Exploration Team, but her unclear explanation left the Chief asking what she needed from them. Leomaster arrived after receiving the True Creator's oracle and recognized Alice as the Angel he knew, then asked if she had been impersonating Lord Ouroboros.

• The True Creator raged as Alice faced the Chief and thirteen members of the City of Silver's Exploration Team.
• The Chief asked Alice why she had come, and she said Fate had guided her there but her connection to it was severed.
• The Chief asked Alice what she needed the City of Silver to do.
• Leomaster followed the True Creator's oracle to the sanctuary, endured its ravings, and learned that someone was impersonating Ouroboros.
• Leomaster passed through Afternoon Town and found Alice with the City of Silver's Exploration Team.
• Leomaster recognized Alice and asked whether she had been impersonating Lord Ouroboros.

Alice met the City of Silver’s Exploration Team and tried to explain that she was an Angel of Fate who had only come to ask for directions. When Ouroboros arrived, she panicked and offered to reveal where Will Auceptin was, but he said he had not come to kill her and told her to come with him.

• Alice claimed to be an Angel of Fate, and the True Creator’s ravings caused Leomaster to suffer until she blocked them.
• Alice tried to hide behind Chief Colin Iliad after he struck her, while Joshua mistook her for Jack and Derrick recognized her as Miss Fortune.
• Alice learned that Leomaster was following a divine oracle to hunt her and realized he might have already visited the Sanctuary.
• Ouroboros descended before Alice, who offered to reveal Will Auceptin’s location, but he calmly told her to come with him.

Ouroboros led Alice through Afternoon Town toward the Lord’s Sanctuary, insisting that Fate had guided him to take her there. Alice questioned his robotic obedience and wondered whether his devotion to the Lord had left him without thoughts of his own.

• Ouroboros started walking toward Afternoon Town, and Alice cautiously followed him.
• Alice extinguished Apollo’s light, and the two continued through the town without encountering any monsters.
• When Alice asked where they were going, Ouroboros answered that he was taking her to the Sanctuary and mistook her question for a request for a lantern.
• Alice challenged the way he was taking her and said he should invite her instead, so Ouroboros formally asked whether she was willing to go.
• Alice refused and asked why he wanted to take her there, and Ouroboros said it was Fate’s guidance.
• Alice questioned whether Ouroboros had any thoughts of his own, and he answered that he would forever follow the Lord.

Ouroboros led Alice through the Forsaken Land of the Gods toward the Sanctuary, answering her questions and revealing that the area had been corrupted. At a mural, Alice experienced a dream of climbing a black tower and being swallowed by a white serpent, then realized it matched a dream she had seen before from a different perspective; she asked whether Will Auceptin had seen it too and whether she could leave.

• Alice questioned Ouroboros about the strange houses and monsters, and he explained that corrupted power had transformed a place where Giants and ordinary people once lived together.
• Ouroboros insisted that Fate guided him to bring Alice to the Sanctuary, and Alice reluctantly followed him toward the mountain.
• Alice tried to grab Ouroboros's robe, but he stopped her because the clothes had been bestowed on him by the Lord.
• In a mural hall, Alice touched a painting of a black High Tower and entered a dream in which a white Great Serpent swallowed her.
• Alice recognized the dream from her earlier encounter with Will Auceptin, noticed that this time she had watched as an observer, and asked Ouroboros whether Will had dreamed it too.
• Ouroboros said he did not know, and Alice asked if she could leave now that she had seen the dream.

Klein arrived at Toscat Island with substantial wealth and considered whether he still needed to pursue his old goals, while preparing to find the Sequence 4 Potion Formula. He left the Future with Anderson, exchanged a messenger ritual with Frank, and ended up at a bar where Anderson began choking on his drink.

• Alice fled the True Creator's sanctuary after speaking to Ouroboros.
• Klein arrived at Toscat Island, counted his money and assets, and reflected on the possibility of living comfortably without advancing or pursuing his old goals.
• Anderson paid Cattleya with a Judge Beyonder characteristic and disembarked with Klein, then invited him for a drink.
• Frank asked Klein where he could send letters to him and Alice, so Klein gave him his messenger's summoning ritual.
• Klein and Anderson checked into an inn and went to a bar, where Anderson began coughing violently after liquor went down his windpipe.

Anderson nearly choked to death when Alice’s returned doom struck him, prompting Klein to ask her how the curse could be resolved. Alice revealed that she did not know how to leave the Forsaken Land of the Gods and told Klein about a vision involving Will Auceptin and Ouroboros, leaving him to consider whether Will had urged her to advance because he foresaw swallowing her.

• Anderson choked to death in a tavern but survived through a straw substitute doll, and Klein told him Alice had probably returned his doom.
• Anderson asked Klein to contact Alice and help resolve his misfortune, while the tavern guests speculated that Alice was an Earth Angel.
• Alice ignored Klein’s first contact and went to Afternoon Town, where she joined Leomaster and the City of Silver Exploration Team around their campfire.
• Klein contacted Alice through the Castle of Origin and asked how Anderson could be saved; Alice said he could pray at the Goddess’s church but admitted she could not guarantee he would survive or leave the Forsaken Land of the Gods.
• Alice described her plans to find a way to the Western Continent and told Klein about her dreams of Will Auceptin and Ouroboros, suggesting that Will had wanted her to advance because he foresaw swallowing her after she reached the top of the Sequences.

Alice considered the Fate pathway’s advancement ritual and escaped Klein’s questions about what she had done in the Land Abandoned by God. Back with the City of Silver explorers, she listened to Leomaster’s story, met Dolores and Antilna, and offered to hold their wedding before the chief reminded her that she had come to ask for directions.

• Alice speculated that her opportunity to advance might involve dying and restarting, while Klein warned her that Will Auceptin knew they were acquainted.
• Klein asked what Alice had done in the Land Abandoned by God, but she fled Above the Gray Fog before answering.
• Klein revised his unfinished honorific name, adding “Ruler of Misfortune and Calamity.”
• Alice returned to the City of Silver explorers’ gathering and corrected Leomaster’s account of how she had helped him stand, then asked why everyone was so tall.
• Dolores and Antilna introduced themselves and revealed they planned to marry, so Alice described an outside wedding and offered to hold one for them.
• The chief reminded Alice that she had come to ask for directions, and she admitted she had asked Ouroboros how to escape without being taken back.

Alice asked whether she would have to marry and bear children if she were reborn into the City of Silver, then learned of misfortune surrounding some ruins and persuaded Colin to send an Exploration Team with her. Meanwhile, Klein told Anderson to seek help at a Church of the Night, leaving Anderson worried about surviving the journey and asking for a charm to ward off bad luck.

• Alice asked Colin whether she would be required to marry and have children if she were born as a City of Silver resident, and Colin said everyone had to uphold the rule.
• Alice described a snake that caused misfortune and sluggishness, and Colin connected it to unexplored ruins near the City of Silver.
• Alice realized the creature could foresee fatal threats, and Colin agreed to send Derrick, Heim, and Joshua to guide her to the ruins.
• Klein told Anderson that Alice had advised him to pray at a Church of the Night, and Anderson questioned whether he could reach one safely.
• Klein refused to let Anderson set off before repaying his debt, so Anderson asked him for a charm that could remove bad luck.

Klein lent Anderson the unnamed Fortune Accessory to counter Alice’s misfortune, and Anderson paid to rent it after earning money from pirates. When a hidden Demigod attacked Anderson through the inn’s patrons, Klein helped him escape and concluded the attack was likely a warning.

• Klein offered Anderson a monocle that accumulated luck during misfortune and could prevent fatal danger, though it made its wearer absentminded.
• Anderson agreed to rent the Fortune Accessory for 1,500 pounds, paying Klein 300 pounds up front, and Klein told him to buy two tickets to Aulavy.
• Klein stopped Anderson from wearing the monocle over his right eye, and the two went downstairs for breakfast.
• A waiter, the innkeeper, and several patrons attacked Anderson, but their confused reactions showed that they were being influenced rather than acting deliberately.
• Klein spotted suspicious Spirit Body Threads near a hidden corner and helped Anderson break free from the attacks.
• Klein suspected a Sequence 4 Manipulator had orchestrated the assault as a warning, and Anderson wondered whether he should apologize.

At the Tarot Club, Alice revealed that she had impersonated the Aurora Order Angel Ouroboros while staying near the True Creator’s sanctuary, leaving Klein concerned about the trouble she might cause. The gathering continued with requests for potion ingredients and an assassination commission, while Klein sought clues to advance and Alice asked whether Fors had money.

• Alice fell asleep at the camp beside Afternoon Town, then woke in time to attend the Tarot Club gathering above the Gray Fog with Derrick.
• Audrey requested ingredients for advancing, and Cattleya offered to seek Black Hunting Lizard Spinal Fluid and Mystic Wind Chime Tree Fruit.
• Alice said she wanted help confirming something about a Sequence 1 Great Angel who was her enemy, but no one took the commission.
• Fors asked the Tarot Club to take an assassination mission against a possible Sequence 5 Aurora Order divine envoy in Backlund, and World said he could consider it in at least two months.
• Alice revealed she was near the True Creator’s sanctuary and had impersonated Ouroboros; after Klein questioned Derrick, Alice admitted what she had done.
• World asked for a Sequence 4 Diviner potion formula or clues, Alice suggested asking the Church of Evernight, and she then asked Fors whether she had money.

At a Tarot Club gathering, Fors and the others discussed commissions and potion formulas before Derrick reported Alice’s arrival in the Forsaken Land of the Gods and recounted the group’s discovery in Afternoon Town. Klein identified the unspoken name as Concealment, while Alice hinted that the fourth King of Angels was another traitor who had become a True God.

• Fors proposed investigating the Aurora Order Oracle and reporting him to the Church within two months before hiring World if she found no lead.
• World accepted Derrick’s commission for the Sun pathway’s Notary formula, while Emlyn offered rewards for clues about Primordial Moon followers.
• Derrick told the Tarot Club that Alice had arrived at the camp outside Afternoon Town, and Alice said her fate was there.
• Derrick described the Exploration Team’s discoveries in Afternoon Town, including the Basement Altar, the names Ouroboros, Medici, and Sasrir, and a clergyman who burned to ashes.
• Klein said the forbidden name was Concealment, and Alice offered to reveal two more True Gods’ names before Klein stopped her with the word “Fate.”

Alice and Cattleya described the dangers surrounding the projection of the Giant King's Court and debated the supposed Fountain of Youth. Alice explained that the Court’s entrance could be opened by reciting an honorific name, but warned that passing through its final door would attract the True Creator’s gaze.

• Derrick asked Alice whether she knew how to leave the Forsaken Land of the Gods, and she said the key might be at the Giant King's Court and that she could ask Ouroboros.
• Cattleya described the expedition’s route through dangerous waters and the blood-written message that had led the crew to suspect the Fountain of Youth lay among the sea ruins.
• Alice and Audrey argued that the message was more likely a trap than a genuine treasure clue, and the World declared that the Fountain of Youth was a hoax.
• Alice told Cattleya she could seek mythical creature blood in the ruins, then demonstrated asking to die by requesting an Ocean Songster potion formula from Leodoro.
• Alice explained that the Giant King's Court was a projection in a twilight city and that opening its entrance required reciting a specific honorific name, but going through the final door would draw the True Creator's gaze.

Alice discussed her possible Fate pathway deification ritual with Klein, while Klein dreamed of a ruined palace and received Bernadette’s prayer. In Afternoon Town, Alice unexpectedly began digesting her Potion and suspected that bringing Doom was responsible.

• Alice told Klein that her deification might require her to break free of her original Fate and be born again, then asked what abilities a Marionettist had.
• Klein dreamed of a decaying palace where transparent worms gathered on a throne, heard the names Hornacis and Flegrea, and woke with doubts about advancing.
• Bernadette prayed to the Fool and offered him a card, but Klein chose not to respond and planned to mention it to Cattleya.
• Anderson gave Klein the remaining 1,200 pounds and said he could not identify which pirates had caused the trouble.
• Alice felt feedback from digesting her Potion, wondered whether bringing Doom had caused it, and turned to look at the camp of Afternoon Town.

Alice sought a way to travel through the Land Abandoned by God and learned from Ouroboros that his murals served as markers through its chaotic rules and power. Since reaching a place she had never visited required permission from the True Creator, she refused to pray and left the Sanctuary asking Mr. Fool to send her food.

• Alice learned that Leomaster could use the Spirit World but planned to ask Ouroboros about teleportation first.
• Alice visited the Sanctuary and learned that Anderson’s misfortune had come from residual power protecting Ouroboros’s murals.
• Ouroboros demonstrated that he could move through his murals and explained that they marked paths through the chaotic Land Abandoned by God.
• Alice asked to borrow the murals to reach an unfamiliar destination, but Ouroboros led her to an altar and indicated that she needed to pray to the True Creator.
• Alice declined to pray, thanked Ouroboros, and left the Sanctuary before reciting the Fool’s Honorific Name and asking Mr. Fool to send food, tables, chairs, and tableware.

Ouroboros reflected on Rose Redemption and the visions that had led Him to show Alice his dream, while Alice left Afternoon Town after learning Leomaster had vanished. After receiving food from Klein and teasing him with her leftovers, Alice encountered Amon in the darkness, where he offered to take her wherever she wanted in exchange for one thing.

• Ouroboros watched the founding of Rose Redemption replay and reconsidered his revelations about the Snake of Mercury and the girl who climbed the High Tower.
• Alice learned that Leomaster had disappeared after apparently reconnecting to the Spirit World, then received Klein's instruction to prepare a ritual.
• Alice gave the Chief her Tarot Cards and Honorific Name, admitted she could not read Jotun, and left camp to summon Klein for food.
• Alice ate the meal Klein sent her on the ground, then sent him the leftovers and made him regret trusting her excited message.
• Alice ran through the darkness and met Amon, who offered to take her anywhere in exchange for one thing and handed her a comic titled Poems Under the Shadow of Crows: Interwoven Melody of Love and Lies.

Alice fled from Amon after he questioned her about the comic’s hidden identities, then escaped by merging with the chaotic power of the Land Abandoned by God. Guided by a mysterious force, she reached an unknown place and woke surrounded by grotesque people.

• Alice repeatedly tried to run from Amon, who caught her and pressed her to reveal the comic’s former lover and other protagonist.
• Alice taunted Amon with the claim that Fate would kill him if he kept her trapped, then learned he was trying to build a good relationship with her because he liked her.
• Terrified by Amon’s admission, Alice teleported into the chaotic power of the Land Abandoned by God.
• Alice let a mysterious force draw her through the chaos while focusing on resisting contamination.
• Alice woke before a grotesque, distorted person, screamed, and discovered more than a dozen bizarre people watching her.