Recaps

The Tarot Club shifted its gatherings toward exchanging intelligence and cooperation, and Mr. Fool offered access to higher-level powers. As Justice questioned whether personal effort mattered amid forces beyond her control, World warned the members that the Apocalypse would arrive in a little over a decade and could destroy even the gods.

• Alger proposed that The Tarot Club focus more on intelligence and secret cooperation now that most members were demigods with long advancement cycles.
• Klein offered members the chance to exchange for the Sea God's identity, status, and power, prompting Alger to ask what he must pay for them.
• Sno asked to borrow the Black Emperor's status enhancement so he could rescue a certain existence, and Klein accepted a devout wish as payment.
• Justice asked what someone should do when an outcome depended entirely on powerful beings' moods and struggles, and Alger urged her to seek strength and authority so she could eventually take part.
• Klein had World warn The Tarot Club that the Apocalypse would arrive in a little over a decade and might destroy everyone, including the gods.

Sno prepared a coin imbued with the Black Emperor’s power to help rescue Roselle, with Klein answering his prayer through the Gray Fog. The Dawn reached the island where Roselle was believed to be, and Sno and Bernadette concealed themselves before approaching.

• Sno asked Bernadette to lower the Dawn’s mystical defenses, then performed a ritual asking the Fool to grant a coin the Black Emperor’s power.
• Klein heard Sno’s prayer and used the Black Emperor card to empower the coin from Above the Gray Fog.
• Sno explained that the coin’s aura would mislead the corruption on Roselle, while Bernadette inferred that the plan involved paradox and blurring definitions.
• Bernadette guided the Dawn to an island, where Sno sensed familiar power and confirmed it was likely their destination.
• Bernadette transformed into her Mythical Creature form, and Sno hid within her information before taking on her appearance.

Bernadette and Sno explored the contaminated island in an overlay state, using shadow memories to avoid danger and locate the mausoleum. There, Bernadette encountered impossible figures from the island’s past and Sno expelled a Pregnancy Curse from her.

• Bernadette entered an overlay state with Sno and followed Ariadne's Thread Ball to the nameless island, where they saw contamination from Above the Sequence in the river of fate.
• Sno warned Bernadette not to use divination and guided her through a silent forest, then used the shadows to scout the island without attracting high-level existences.
• Sno found five human figures among the magical creatures praying toward the mausoleum, including Edwards, whom Bernadette knew had lived and died elsewhere.
• Bernadette bypassed the praying creatures and reached the mausoleum, where its twisted order caused her to feel a sudden palpitation.
• Sno expelled a strange stream of information from Bernadette and identified it as a Pregnancy Curse.

Bernadette and Sno entered the Black Emperor's mausoleum, where they faced its warped rules and a shadow they recognized as Bernadette's father. Sno helped Bernadette reach him, and she recited the awakening incantation as the shadow struggled against its contamination.

• Bernadette and Sno entered the mausoleum, where the Black Emperor's influence immobilized Bernadette and twisted the life around her.
• Sno suppressed the mausoleum's New Life contamination and helped Bernadette exploit a flash of anger to move toward the giant throne.
• Sno used Useful Uselessness to protect Bernadette from a distorted attack, and Bernadette summoned the Spear of Longinus, but the chaotic space warped her strike.
• Bernadette called the shadow her father and said "Hometown," causing the distortions to disappear as Sno enclosed the space.
• The shadow sat on the throne and alternated between welcoming Bernadette and warning her that he was contaminated.
• Sno urged Bernadette to use the awakening incantation, and she recited the words about having already read Roselle's diary.

Sno and Bernadette rescued Roselle from the corrupted mausoleum, and Roselle returned to a human-like body. Aboard the Dawn, he reunited with Bernadette and learned from Sno how he had been saved, then asked about another fellow countryman.

• Bernadette's words briefly restored Roselle's humanity, allowing the Ship of Theseus to take effect as Sno used the coins and his powers to free Roselle and gather the others.
• Bernadette fled the island aboard the Dawn while Sno stabilized Tolzna and confirmed that Roselle had been saved.
• Roselle recognized Bernadette, and after Sno greeted him in Chinese, Roselle cursed at him before reuniting emotionally with his daughter.
• Roselle later asked Sno what he had become and how he had escaped the mausoleum.
• Sno explained that he had exchanged Roselle for a fake spirit body with Black Emperor status, and gave Roselle a doll to use as a body.
• Roselle entered the doll and asked whether another fellow countryman was with Sno and Bernadette.

Roselle and Sno traveled by steam train to Loen so Roselle could avoid triggering his resurrection while seeking Black Emperor characteristics. They planned Tolzna’s reincarnation, but a scream interrupted them during the journey.

• Roselle explained that he had left Intis to avoid beginning his resurrection before Bernadette advanced to Knowledge Emperor, and he and Sno traveled to Loen to find Black Emperor characteristics.
• When Tolzna’s cursed aura flared, Roselle and Sno suppressed it, and Tolzna asked Roselle to help bring about his reincarnation.
• Sno argued that Roselle, as a God, should serve as Tolzna’s mother; Roselle reluctantly agreed, and Tolzna said the gestation could be performed as a ritual.
• Sno promised to arrange a reincarnation ritual in Loen and offered to make a puppet body for Tolzna, then suppressed Tolzna’s worsening mental state.
• After the train stopped, Roselle and Sno argued about steam technology and the Machinery Church before a piercing scream cut them off.

Roselle and Sno were drawn to a town governed by the power of order, where its laws punished outsiders and prohibited fighting. After Sno exploited a loophole to protect them, Roselle tracked the town’s order to a notice board at the city hall, though finding the force behind it would take longer.

• Roselle and Sno realized that the aggregation of Extraordinary Characteristics had brought them to the town where K encountered 0-02, and they left the train to investigate.
• The townspeople shot at the escaped passengers, while the town’s laws punished Roselle for trying to distort the rules.
• Sno exploited ambiguity in the definition of an outsider to make the town’s laws stop targeting him, then altered Roselle’s registry to protect him too.
• Roselle led Sno to the city hall notice board, explaining that the town’s statutes held the core of its order power.

Roselle and Sno watched Klein’s attempt to obtain the Trunsoest Brass Book, but when Ariana threw it out of the library, it passed Klein and landed in Sno’s hands as Perrdax’s Rulebook. Sno claimed the book and offered help to the Church of Evernight, while Klein was stunned to discover Roselle beside him.

• Roselle and Sno discussed how the Brass Book’s rules did not bind them and whether Roselle should seek advancement beyond the Black Emperor.
• Ariana broke the Brass Book’s rules, erased its clauses, and threw it out of the library as Klein reached to catch it.
• The illusory book flew past Klein and Roselle, then landed in Sno’s hands, revealing the cover name “Perrdax’s Rulebook.”
• Klein recognized Sno as Perrdax and was shocked to see Emperor Roselle beside him.
• Sno told Ariana the book was connected to him and offered to mobilize personnel to help stabilize Feysac; Ariana departed without answering.
• Sno introduced Roselle to Klein as his father-in-law, leaving Klein awkwardly facing the famous Emperor.

Klein, Zhou Mingrui, Feng Xue, and the resurrected Roselle gathered for games and snacks while catching up and discussing the Apocalypse. Roselle revealed that he planned to delay his resurrection for Bernadette, then asked whether Zhou Mingrui had gathered his Potion Formula.

• Klein summoned Feng Xue, but Roselle appeared before they could talk and joined them in Chinese.
• Zhou Mingrui brought out a screen and console, and he, Feng Xue, and Roselle played a fighting game while sharing snacks.
• Roselle asked whether Zhou Mingrui knew the truth about the Apocalypse, and Zhou Mingrui said he did.
• Feng Xue teased Roselle about cross-dressing photos, and Zhou Mingrui used Roselle's distraction to win a round.
• Roselle explained that he was probably an evil spirit and would postpone resurrecting until Bernadette advanced.
• Roselle asked Zhou Mingrui whether he had gathered his Potion Formula.

Klein woke after the transmigrator gathering and found comfort in the meal Sno had left him, realizing he might not be alone. Meanwhile, Sno and Roselle discussed Bernadette’s new knowledge network and other developments as their train continued its journey.

• Klein checked that he was unharmed, then ate the Chinese breakfast Sno had left for him and felt reassured by the connection it represented.
• Sno responded to Sno's prayer before joining Roselle on the train, where Roselle questioned whether Klein should receive more hints about resisting Ammon.
• Sno stored Perrdax's Rulebook in his Sleeve Universe and read a report about Bernadette's Dreamscape Knowledge Net beginning construction in Intis.
• Roselle explained that Bernadette could complete her Knowledge Emperor ritual by becoming publicly recognized as the nation's most learned person.
• Sno and Roselle discussed occult knowledge hidden in JoJo, and Roselle objected when Sno said Bernadette wanted him to teach her Rochard Language.

Roselle reunited with his son Bornova after they competed for a dance partner, then joined Sno in preparing an extraordinary conception ritual at the viscount estate. At the Tarot Club, Student Moon asked about the unusual status of Planters and Moon Pathway Beyonders in the Earth Church, and Klein prepared to answer.

• Roselle and Bornova recognized each other at the Golden Tulip and agreed not to tell their sister how they had met.
• At Sno's estate, Roselle discovered that Lily was a Witch Cat and learned Sno had made a ring that let her transform.
• Sno revealed a life-sized doll for a conception ritual, and Roselle took Bornova to help prepare it.
• Sno sealed himself in his bedroom and entered the Tarot Club when the Crimson Radiance arrived.
• Student Moon asked whether Planters and Moon Pathway Beyonders had special qualities, then described the Earth Church's division between Divine Favor and Blessed.
• Klein sighed and drew the Tarot Club members' attention as he prepared to respond.

The Fool explained that some Beyonder Characteristics came from the Starry Sky, while Sno clarified the origins of the Ancient Sun God and the spread of pathways. Sno then asked the Fool to conceal the Chained God’s reincarnation in Backlund, revealing that Emperor Roselle’s divinity would be used in the conception.

• The Fool asked where the twenty-two Extraordinary pathways originated, and Sno explained how the Primordial Creator and the Ancient Sun God had differentiated authorities and pathways.
• The Fool said that not all Characteristics had remained on earth, then identified the Prisoner, Criminal, Lawyer, and Arbiter pathways as coming from the Starry Sky.
• Emlyn asked about the gendered names of high-sequence potions, and Sno said the Planter and Moon pathways had feminine tendencies but were not entirely so.
• Sno asked the Fool to conceal the Chained God’s reincarnation and guard against interference from the summit of the Prisoner and Criminal pathways.
• Sno revealed that the reincarnation would take place in Backlund using Emperor Roselle’s divinity, startling the Tarot Club members.

Sno explained how Roselle’s resurrection and the Chained God’s recovery might affect the divine war and the Apocalypse, while warning that the conflict in the Forsaken Land of the Gods could trigger disaster. The Tarot Club discussed the God of Knowledge and Wisdom’s plans and Justice’s investigation into Barlowe Hopkins, before a final detail suggested Roselle and Bornova had spent the night together after meeting at the club.

• Cattleya connected the Dreamscape Knowledge Net to Roselle’s resurrection, and Sno explained that it had mainly been created to welcome a Sage’s advancement.
• Sno said Roselle and the Chained God would help oppose the Apocalypse, but warned that the divine war in the Forsaken Land of the Gods could provoke the Eternal Blazing Sun and hasten it.
• Sno described the God of Knowledge and Wisdom’s three strategies for dealing with the Eternal Blazing Sun, leading the Tarot Club to consider whether the Apocalypse was a foreign invasion from the Starry Sky.
• Klein warned the Tarot Club to accept Miss Justice’s suggestion before leaving, then said Mr. World would soon leave the eastern coast of the Sea of Fog.
• Klein asked about Barlowe Hopkins, and Justice revealed that a secret organization had renewed its request for her to investigate the dragon-worshipping location; the Foolish Moon suggested it was a test, and Mr. Hangman advised her to stall.
• The chapter ended by noting that Roselle and Bornova had returned to the viscount’s residence in the morning, implying they had spent the night there after meeting at the club.

Sno, Roselle, Bornova, and Tolzna performed a ritual to transfer the Pregnancy Curse into a prepared doll and draw its power into Tolzna. The ritual restored Tolzna to a human child’s form, and he asked Roselle for clothes.

• On the new moon, Sno, Roselle, Bornova, and Tolzna began the ritual at Black Swan Castle while their cats left the room.
• Bornova infused Roselle’s doll with life, and Roselle added blood bearing the authority of order as Sno called on Mr. Fool to shield the castle.
• Roselle guided the Pregnancy Curse from a coin into the doll, where it gathered in the abdomen as a force from the moon approached the barrier.
• Sno and Bornova adjusted the space as Tolzna formed a life-chain with the doll and drew the curse’s power out of it.
• Sno sealed the cross after the transfer, and a bandaged child emerged from the doll and shed its contamination.
• Tolzna returned to a human child’s appearance, thanked the others, and asked Roselle for clothes.

Half a year after the war, Sno finished digesting Lord of Order and learned that Bernadette was nearly ready to advance. As Sno prepared to go to the Forsaken Land of the Gods in Adam’s place, Adam revealed that Heavenly Punishment had become his younger sister.

• The Northern Continent’s nations developed in different ways, while Medici gained his third Conqueror characteristic and could ascend again at any time.
• Sno read a strange newspaper story about the town of Utopia after completing his revision of Loen’s laws and digesting Lord of Order.
• Roselle visited Sno, discussed Bernadette’s coming advancement, and received a coin to help keep his resurrection hidden.
• Adam arrived and said the fusion had gone smoothly but he could not deceive others much longer without The Uniqueness.
• Sno used the Ship of Theseus on Adam, then prepared to travel to the Forsaken Land of the Gods and take Adam’s place.
• Adam gave Sno an upright Heavenly Punishment cross and explained that he had separated out a feminine personality as his younger sister.

Sno replaced Adam in the Eastern Continent’s mental struggle and spoke with True Creator inside his memories to learn about Ancient Chaos and his own origins. True Creator confirmed Sno had become an Above the Sequence by accidentally devouring the characteristics Ancient Chaos needed, then began explaining how he dealt with it.

• Sno told Lily how to seek help while he was away, then used her memories to reach Adam’s imagined body in the Eastern Continent.
• Sno used Heavenly Punishment as a template to become Adam and took over True Creator’s resistance against the Eternal Blazing Sun and the God of Storms.
• Sno spread his monkeys across the Sea of Collective Subconscious to clear the two gods’ mental influence while making their struggle appear unchanged.
• Sno entered True Creator’s memories and asked about his origins, and True Creator said Sno had awakened before him while Ancient Chaos already existed as a mad Above the Sequence.
• True Creator confirmed that Sno had become Ancient Chaos by devouring the characteristics it needed, then began describing how he exterminated it with the Eight Kings of Angels.

The True Creator explained how he had gradually stripped Ancient Chaos of its Beyonder Characteristics and experimented with implanted personalities, discovering a human consciousness inside it. He told Sno that Sno had not lost his memories because he had never possessed rationality before awakening as Sno.

• The True Creator explained that Unshadowed’s ability had slowly extracted Ancient Chaos’s Beyonder Characteristics, strengthening humanity while potentially making Ancient Chaos rational.
• The True Creator said Ancient Chaos had fulfilled the requirements of both Knowledge and Order, causing Wisdom and Order to conflict within it.
• The True Creator described implanting two virtual personalities into Ancient Chaos and stabilizing them to study its powers and separate its stubborn Pathways.
• The True Creator revealed that Ancient Chaos contained a corrupted human consciousness, whose state resembled Evernight’s soul inhabiting a supernatural creature’s body.
• Sno asked what had happened to him and where his memories had gone, and the True Creator said Sno had never possessed rationality before awakening.

The True Creator explained how he used Ancient Chaos and the Three Sages System to separate and cleanse a portion of Sno’s soul, allowing it to reincarnate as Sno. He warned that Sno was still incomplete and that reuniting with Ancient Chaos could restore his madness, while the structure of the remaining Ancient Chaos was more complicated than he had expected.

• The True Creator told Sno that Ancient Chaos’s missing Knowledge and Order characteristics let him manipulate it through virtual personalities and eventually develop the Three Sages System.
• The True Creator explained that Ancient Chaos used the Sphere-Splitting Paradox, Steal the Heavens and Change the Sun, and repeated soul deployments through the Snake of Mercury to cleanse a portion of Sno’s personality.
• Sno realized that the process relied on the infinite monkey theorem, and the True Creator confirmed that it was the theoretical basis for restoring Sno’s sanity.
• The True Creator said Sno’s potion advancements had replaced and purified characteristics from Ancient Chaos, but warned that contact with the remaining mad portion could undo the work.
• The True Creator concluded that Ancient Chaos likely contained Order- and Knowledge-leaning parts and that Sno would need to become a god at best to approach completeness, leaving Sno swearing in frustration.

Sno learned that expelling the chaotic characteristics from Ancient Chaos would require the Sun’s authority, while True Creator advised him to wait as Adam spoke with The Fool. In Backlund, Bernadette confronted Roselle and Bornova over their antics, then left Bornova pinned beneath the weight of his own knowledge.

• True Creator explained that removing Ancient Chaos’s chaotic characteristics depended on the Sun’s exclusionary authority and the Three Sages System, and Sno prepared to help reclaim that authority.
• True Creator told Sno that Adam was telling The Fool a story and asked whether Medici had helped Ammon free Mr. Door; Sno returned to Adam’s shell and studied his two Uniquenesses.
• Bernadette told Roselle that her advancement had succeeded and scolded him for reincarnating a little sister through the Chained God’s arrangement.
• Roselle escaped to prepare for resurrection, while Bernadette crushed Bornova beneath the knowledge in his mind and left him trapped as Pig-headed Humans built a wall around the house.

Klein negotiated with the Genie for two wishes and protection, while Verdu’s ritual brought a vast presence through the Gate of Flesh. In the Corpse Cathedral, Klein died before he could remove the cross stake, and he suspected Adam had planted a Psychological Suggestion in him.

• Bernadette summoned the Genie, and Klein negotiated two wishes in exchange for promising not to hand him over to Ancient Chaos and agreeing to protect him.
• Verdu prepared an altar in Bayram and sacrificed three demigod-level Monsters to summon the Door of All Doors, but the ritual killed him as a huge figure of light passed through the Gate of Flesh.
• Klein used his first wish to transfer Bernadette Gustav’s two wishes to himself and his second to create a corresponding region of Utopia in the spirit world.
• In the Corpse Cathedral, blood gushed from Klein as he died, and he suspected Adam had planted a Psychological Suggestion in him.

Charon’s fight with Klein was disrupted by Roselle’s apparent revival, while Bethel Abraham’s attempt to become a God drew attacks from several deities. The True Creator began Sno’s ritual to become a Sequence Zero Paradox, and Sno drank the potion using a monocle and other preparations.

• Roselle’s historical projection broke free of Charon’s control and spoke his name, distracting Charon as Klein used the Gray Fog to try to pull him away.
• The Black Emperor Beyonder Characteristics and Uniqueness escaped their seals and entered the spirit world as people in Intis called out Roselle’s name.
• Several gods attacked Bethel Abraham as he attempted to become a God, and the Crimson Moon’s influence caused their powers to take on human forms.
• The True Creator announced that it was time and began acting against the Mother Goddess of Depravity’s attack.
• Sno started his Sequence Zero Paradox ritual, opened an eye beneath his feet, put on a monocle, and drank the potion.

Sno used Adam’s treatment plan and Ammon’s authority to advance to Sequence Zero, overcoming the corruption caused by combining conflicting Beyonder Characteristics. After Sno’s transformation, Osecurus abandoned Leodoro, and the True Creator attacked the golden figure falling from the astral world.

• Sno arranged to borrow Ammon’s authority by having Adam implant the belief that Sno was Ammon’s avatar during Ammon’s treatment.
• Sno used The Error to merge three Sequence One characteristics with Perrdax’s Rulebook, triggering strange failures in mathematical machines and calculations across the world.
• Sno’s body and consciousness repeatedly divided and reassembled as he advanced, while Ammon’s authority helped him correct inconsistencies and purify corruption.
• Sno emerged in the form Klein often summoned, and Osecurus abandoned Leodoro after realizing Adam had been impersonated.
• Sno’s impression struck Osecurus’s subconscious, causing a golden figure to fall from the astral world toward the human realm.
• The True Creator transformed into a lead-black cyclops and spread shadows across the world, extinguishing its light.

The Eternal Blazing Sun was overwhelmed as the True Creator’s forces fought Him, while the Church of Knowledge and Wisdom launched a purge that weakened His followers. Sno defeated Leodoro in the spirit world and forced the Tyrant to surrender his Uniqueness and a Beyonder Characteristic.

• The True Creator’s shadows enveloped the Eternal Blazing Sun as He fell into the assimilated Forsaken Land of the Gods.
• The god of the Church of Knowledge and Wisdom ordered believers across Luenburg to exterminate the followers of the Sun, and Anderson led the purge.
• The purge cut down the Eternal Blazing Sun’s core forces, weakening Osecurus until He returned to human form and restored the sun.
• Sno demanded Leodoro’s Uniqueness and a Beyonder Characteristic, and Leodoro chose to fight rather than defect to the Starry Sky.
• Sno used paradoxical authority and illusions to overcome Leodoro’s attacks, then struck at his body and memories.
• Sno subdued Leodoro and declared that the Wind Angel had lowered his head.

Sno helped the True Creator preserve the Lord of Storms’ divine status, then prepared to confront Ancient Chaos beneath Chernobyl. As Sno connected White Mist to Black Mist and expanded his power, the Three Sages System began extracting Characteristics, and visions of a Starry Sky surfaced in his mind.

• The True Creator imagined the Storm Pathway’s Uniqueness and Sequence One Characteristic, and Sno used Steal the Heavens and Change the Sun to take them from the Lord of Storms.
• The Lord of Storms returned to his Divine Kingdom to maintain his position until the imagined Characteristics vanished.
• Sno asked the True Creator to upgrade 0-01, then followed him to Chernobyl, where Ancient Chaos was sealed beneath the ruins.
• The True Creator warned Sno to remember his ordinary humanity as Sno descended into the pit to face Ancient Chaos.
• Sno linked White Mist and Black Mist and used the Three Sages System to draw out Characteristics, but the expanding power brought whispers and visions of a Starry Sky.

Sno recovered Uncertain Mist’s memories and learned that it had once been part of Son of Chaos, then collided with High-Dimensional Overlooker and exchanged portions of their powers. The memories explained how Chaos and Truth combined to form Paradox, while leaving Sno to consider the connection between the two Knowledge pathways and Son of Chaos.

• Sno’s consciousness recovered as his memories merged with Uncertain Mist, revealing that his body was the mist-like entity and that A Foot of Rod had sustained his soul.
• Sno learned that Uncertain Mist had formed a complete Above the Sequence and instinctively flown toward Earth to reunite with Eternity.
• Uncertain Mist collided with High-Dimensional Overlooker in the Starry Sky, and the two Outer Deities began devouring and accommodating each other.
• High-Dimensional Overlooker ended the prolonged struggle by separating from Uncertain Mist, with each retaining portions of the other’s Origin Quality and Characteristics.
• Sno learned that the remaining Chaos and Truth authorities had fused into Paradox and connected Truth to Karl Dragon and Schrödinger’s Cat.