Chapter Summaries

Li Wei and Constantine learned more about Lucifer’s history and concluded that Satan’s avatar had not been behind Hell’s planned invasion. After collecting Imogen’s Angel Feathers, they set out to find Father Yalong, but Constantine warned that Imogen’s story about plucking feathers from a living angel sounded suspicious.

• Li Wei’s Ascended Stairway evolved into Ardent Sincerity, and Kayle’s new trial required him to kill a high-ranking angel for the reward of Transcendence.
• Constantine told Li Wei that an ancient book claimed God had cast Lucifer into Hell to guard it, and guessed that Lucifer might see Li Wei as an ally against Heaven.
• Constantine revealed that Hell’s coming invasion of the Human Realm had not been ordered by Satan, while Sif struggled to take in what she had witnessed.
• Constantine examined Imogen’s corpse and found no useful magical properties, so Li Wei and the others collected her scattered Angel Feathers.
• Li Wei hurried to find Father Yalong so he could create another Artificial Angel, but Constantine warned that Imogen’s account of taking feathers from a living angel was suspicious.

Li Wei, Constantine, and Sif tracked Father Yalong to his church to investigate an Angel Feather and discovered that it had given him dark power. When Sif revealed her angel wings, Yalong panicked and sent darkly transformed humans to attack, leaving Li Wei to fight him and his followers.

• Li Wei and Constantine questioned how Father Yalong could have obtained an Angel Feather, then followed the map to his church with Sif.
• The three met Father Yalong, who did not appear to sense Sif’s hidden wings or carry the feather on him.
• Li Wei pretended that Sif had lost her voice and asked Yalong to heal her, prompting him to go into a back room to prepare.
• Sif revealed her angel wings outside the side room, and Yalong’s horrified reaction confirmed that he had the Angel Feather.
• Yalong ordered several darkly transformed humans to attack, and Constantine explained that their consumed life force made the transformation irreversible.
• Li Wei attacked Yalong and the transformed humans, suspecting the feather’s dark power was connected to Imogen’s plan to become a Fallen Angel.

Li Wei defeated Father Yalong’s Darkness Power Modified Humans, took Imogen’s Angel Feather, and learned how Yalong had used it. After Li Wei burned the church to destroy the evidence, he returned to the cabin base, where Zedd was waiting and Chas had gone home to his family.

• Li Wei used Kayle’s power to cut down the Darkness Power Modified Humans, and Father Yalong surrendered Imogen’s Angel Feather.
• Father Yalong explained that an angel had given him the feather and that fulfilling believers’ wishes had transformed some of them into monsters; Li Wei then killed him.
• Constantine speculated that Imogen had used the wishes to gather dark power and become a Fallen Angel, while Li Wei considered using his feather to make Zedd an Artificial Angel.
• Li Wei spread starlight fire through the church, destroying the bodies and evidence, then left with Constantine and Sif before the fire department and LAPD arrived.
• The church burned down, and the LAPD closed the case as an accidental fire; Li Wei returned to the cabin base and found Zedd there, while Chas had gone home.

Li Wei helped Zedd become an Artificial Angel using Imogen’s feathers, but the wings turned black and awakened the Fallen Angel—Morgana Hero Template. Li Wei purchased the template and began absorbing Morgana’s inherited memories.

• Li Wei told Zedd that Imogen’s Angel Feathers might turn her into an Artificial Fallen Angel, and Zedd agreed to take the risk.
• Sif crafted wings from the feathers and attached the final feather recovered from Father Yalong, but the completed wings showed no immediate change.
• Zedd put on the wings, which fused into her back before black mist covered them and lifted her into the air.
• The Hero Mall System announced that the Fallen Angel—Morgana’s Trial had begun and offered her Hero Template for 4800 Soul Essence.
• Li Wei bought the template and received Morgana’s memories, learning that her wings could not truly fly and that she differed from Justice Angel Kayle in her ideals and abilities.

Li Wei revealed his Fallen Angel transformation to Lucifer, who accepted his explanation and invited him to The Light Bar before ending his possession of Zedd. After Lucifer departed, Sif helped the weakened Zedd while Constantine questioned Li Wei about his new ability.

• Li Wei explained that he had used Imogen’s feathers to create an Artificial Angel, and Lucifer realized that the final feather had caused Zedd to become a Fallen Angel.
• Lucifer noticed a Fallen Angel aura on Li Wei, so Li Wei transformed partially into Morgana and displayed black wings and a dark aura.
• Lucifer was surprised that he could neither control nor possess Li Wei, then decided to place a heavy bet on him.
• Lucifer told Li Wei to find him at The Light Bar before his possession of Zedd ended and the black mist disappeared.
• Zedd fell to the ground weakened, Constantine asked Li Wei about transforming into a Fallen Angel, and Sif helped Zedd up.

After Zedd recovered from Lucifer’s descent, Li Wei decided to seek Lucifer at The Light Bar for information about other angels and the promised gift. He and Constantine brought Zedd and Sif to Daddy Midnight’s nightclub to learn the bar’s location, where Daddy Midnight personally welcomed them.

• Li Wei used Starfall Grace to restore Zedd, and Zedd explained the abilities of Artificial Fallen Angels before Sif helped her practice.
• Li Wei told Constantine he planned to find Lucifer at The Light Bar for clues about other angels and to claim the gift Lucifer had promised.
• Constantine agreed to accompany Li Wei and suggested asking Daddy Midnight where The Light Bar was; Zedd and Sif joined them.
• Li Wei had Constantine conceal Zedd’s wings, and the four drove to Daddy Midnight’s nightclub in Constantine’s car.
• A security guard recognized Li Wei and Constantine from Daddy Midnight’s photographs and guided their car into the parking area.
• Daddy Midnight hurried out and respectfully opened the car door for Li Wei, astonishing the nightclub’s wealthy guests.

Li Wei and his companions questioned Daddy Midnight about The Light Bar and learned that Lucifer might own it. After warning Daddy Midnight to stop competing with the bar, Li Wei agreed to mediate, and the group arrived at Lux, where the crowded, lavish entrance confirmed its growing success.

• Daddy Midnight identified The Light Bar as Lux and explained that its mysterious owner, Morning Star, had repeatedly thwarted his attempts to sabotage the business.
• Li Wei warned Daddy Midnight to stop competing with Lux and revealed that Lucifer might own it or be closely connected to it.
• Daddy Midnight panicked about offending Lucifer and asked Li Wei to save him, so Li Wei offered to mediate at the bar.
• Daddy Midnight joined Li Wei, Constantine, Sif, and Zedd as they drove to Lux.
• The group arrived at Lux and saw a packed street, luxury cars, and two scantily clad women welcoming guests.

Li Wei met Lucifer at The Light Bar, where Lucifer strengthened Zedd with Hell Origin and asked Li Wei to help oppose Heaven by hunting angels. Lucifer revealed that he had cut off his wings and lost nearly all his former strength to resist fate, and Li Wei was left weighing an alliance that aligned with his existing missions.

• Li Wei and his companions found Lucifer, disguised as the bar owner Morning Star, and went upstairs to meet him.
• Lucifer reassured Daddy Midnight, whose real name was Jiji, that he would not punish him for their past conflict.
• Lucifer gave Zedd Hell Origin, causing her wings to emerge and her strength to rise.
• Lucifer explained that Michael had persecuted the Fallen Angels and that he had cut off his own wings to fight against fate.
• Lucifer asked Li Wei to ally with him against Heaven and continue hunting angels, offering to fulfill any request in return.
• Li Wei recognized that Lucifer's proposal matched his existing trial missions and considered the alliance.

Li Wei accepted Lucifer’s alliance and received records identifying angels and their locations, while Zedd gained Fallen Angel combat instincts. The group divided its efforts: Li Wei, Constantine, and Chas would hunt angels, while Sif and Zedd cleared evil creatures in Los Angeles.

• Li Wei agreed to ally with Lucifer, who ordered Mez to give him records about angels and their locations.
• The group studied Lucifer’s files and learned about the angels’ persecution of Fallen Angels and the scale of Lucifer’s grudge.
• Zedd offered to help Sif clear evil creatures in Los Angeles, explaining that Lucifer’s Hell Origin aura had given her Fallen Angel combat instincts.
• Li Wei agreed to the plan, and Constantine assigned Chas a supporting role while he, Li Wei, and Chas hunted angels.
• The group met at Constantine’s cabin at nine in the morning and split up, with Sif and Zedd taking a taxi toward their first location.

Li Wei, Constantine, and Chas tracked down the angel Derek at a church outside Los Angeles. Li Wei killed Derek with a flaming sword aura and began drawing in his escaping origin, leaving the angels’ hunt and the search for their feathers underway.

• Li Wei and Constantine marked the angels’ known locations on a map as Chas drove them to Derek’s church.
• Li Wei found Derek hiding in the attic, kicked in the church doors, and confronted him with Constantine and Chas.
• Derek recognized Li Wei and Constantine as the angel hunters the angels had warned about, then cast Heaven’s Fist while trying to evade Li Wei’s attack.
• Li Wei’s flaming sword aura struck Derek, burned him, and cut him in half, killing him completely.
• Derek’s origin tried to return to Heaven, but a powerful suction from Li Wei began pulling it toward him.

Li Wei survived Derek’s Heaven’s Fist with Moment of Judgment, and Lucifer and Mez arrived to destroy the attack. Lucifer explained that an angel in Heaven had controlled the Holy Power through Derek’s spell, making the fist a conduit for power with no upper limit.

• After Derek died, his completed Heaven’s Fist struck Li Wei, who used Moment of Judgment to withstand it.
• Heaven’s Fist continued pursuing Li Wei, but Lucifer and Mez arrived and stopped it.
• Lucifer accused Gabriel of violating the rule against Heaven and Hell interfering in the Human Realm, and Mez shattered the fist and its portal.
• Li Wei asked Lucifer why Derek’s attack had been so powerful, and Lucifer explained that Heaven’s Fist opened a portal that let an angel in Heaven supply its Holy Power.
• Lucifer explained that the attack’s strength depended on the angel controlling that power, potentially reaching the full strength of Michael.

Lucifer explained that Gabriel had secretly empowered Derek’s Heaven’s Fist, then promised to confront Michael over Heaven’s violation of its agreement with Hell. Li Wei resumed hunting angels with Constantine and Chas, and the trio efficiently killed and harvested feathers from more targets.

• Lucifer told Li Wei that Gabriel had intervened in Derek’s attack and learned that Li Wei’s rule-based ability had let him withstand it.
• Li Wei asked whether they should continue hunting angels, and Lucifer promised to use the evidence against Heaven and keep its angels occupied.
• Lucifer and Mez left, and Li Wei, Constantine, and Chas collected Derek’s Angel Feathers before setting out for another target.
• Li Wei killed an angel inside an abandoned factory with Veigar’s Energy Blast, and Constantine erased their traces afterward.
• The trio followed the files to more angels and repeated their efficient routine of killing them, collecting their feathers, and covering their tracks.

Li Wei’s team and Zedd and Sif discovered that angels and evil creatures across Los Angeles had relocated at nearly the same time, disrupting their hunts. Li Wei suspected a local force was behind it and decided to ask Anton and Daddy Midnight to investigate.

• Li Wei killed an angel through a reinforced concrete wall, and his team continued hunting angels while Zedd and Sif cleared out evil creatures.
• Zedd noticed the evil creatures were leaving their usual locations, so she and Sif headed back to the cabin in the woods to report it.
• Li Wei’s team found three angel hideouts abandoned and returned to the cabin after concluding Gabriel may have warned the surviving angels.
• Zedd told Li Wei that the evil creatures had relocated during the same period the angels disappeared, suggesting a shared cause beyond Heaven or Hell.
• Constantine proposed that a person or force in the Human Realm had intervened, and Li Wei decided to enlist Anton and Daddy Midnight to search for the culprit.

Li Wei recruited Anton and Daddy Midnight to help expose the mastermind behind the relocation of Los Angeles’s angels and evil creatures. While Sif and Zedd slowly cleared out the evil creatures and Li Wei watched for the culprit, Anton and Daddy Midnight’s investigation uncovered an unexpected lead.

• Li Wei used Starfall Grace to help Sif update the mission map with the locations of evil creatures across Los Angeles and stored the excess blood for later use.
• Anton and Daddy Midnight arrived at the cabin, where Li Wei explained the conflict involving Gabriel, Lucifer, and the relocated supernatural factions.
• Li Wei assigned Sif and Zedd to eliminate the evil creatures while he searched for the mastermind, and tasked Anton and Daddy Midnight with investigating local factions and posing as his enemies.
• Anton and Daddy Midnight left to enlist allies as bait and spread word that they and Li Wei were irreconcilable enemies.
• Sif and Zedd slowly hunted the marked creatures and questioned several captives, but they found no clues, and Li Wei saw no sign of the mastermind.
• Anton and Daddy Midnight found an unexpected lead while investigating abnormalities among Los Angeles’s factions.

Daddy Midnight used a staged encounter to learn the identity of the mysterious man seeking an alliance against Li Wei and Constantine. The man revealed that he was an ascetic sent by the Vatican to kill Li Wei, leaving Daddy Midnight privately doubtful that the Church had sent enough force.

• Daddy Midnight told his subordinate to entertain the mysterious man's inquiries while sticking to a mostly true account of Li Wei's attack.
• The subordinate pretended to distrust the mysterious man, then led him through searches and guards to Daddy Midnight's office.
• Daddy Midnight sensed the man's powerful Holy Power and questioned whether he was really an ally or one of Li Wei's men.
• The mysterious man identified himself as an ascetic from the Vatican, sent by the Pope to eliminate Li Wei before Hell invaded the Human Realm.
• Daddy Midnight recognized the man as a Church ascetic and privately wondered why the Church had sent only one after Li Wei had killed five angels.

Daddy Midnight tricked the ascetic into revealing that angels were hiding beneath downtown Los Angeles, then summoned Li Wei. Li Wei killed the ascetic and promised to help Daddy Midnight if he ever needed it.

• Daddy Midnight learned that the ascetic had come from the Vatican's Holy See and that the angels were hiding in an underground air-raid shelter beneath downtown Los Angeles.
• Daddy Midnight called for Li Wei, who arrived and confronted the ascetic.
• The ascetic recognized the trap but refused to surrender and attacked Li Wei with an incantation.
• Li Wei killed the ascetic with Veigar's Energy Blast before he could finish chanting.
• Li Wei praised Daddy Midnight and promised to help him if he needed anything.

Li Wei gathered Constantine and Chas to hunt the five remaining angels hiding beneath downtown Los Angeles, while planning to return to Gotham afterward and postpone confronting the Vatican. After arranging for Central Park to be evacuated, the group found the shelter entrance inside a park restroom, where Li Wei broke through the wall.

• Li Wei located the five remaining angels in an underground air-raid shelter and brought Constantine and Chas along to deal with them.
• On the drive to downtown Los Angeles, Li Wei told Constantine and Chas that he had defeated the Vatican ascetic and agreed to return to Gotham after the angel hunt.
• Li Wei decided to put off visiting the Vatican, and Constantine and Chas suggested accompanying him to Gotham.
• Li Wei called Daddy Midnight to arrange the evacuation of Central Park, and Daddy Midnight prompted an anonymous bomb threat that brought the LAPD to clear the park.
• Li Wei, Constantine, and Chas entered the park restroom, and Li Wei kicked apart the wall concealing the shelter entrance.

Li Wei led Constantine and Chas into the underground shelter and ambushed the five angels hiding there. He killed four with a magic sniper rifle, then hooked the last as it tried to escape, pulling them toward each other.

• Constantine cast a spell that made LAPD officers overlook the hole in the restroom wall while Li Wei, Constantine, and Chas entered the shelter.
• Li Wei used his vision to guide the group through the shelter to the wall concealing the five angels.
• Li Wei fired four starfire-coated bullets through the wall and killed four angels instantly.
• The fifth angel tried to escape through the ceiling, but Li Wei caught it with Thresh's hook and began pulling it toward him.
• Chas remarked that Li Wei and the angel were running toward each other from opposite directions, prompting Constantine's exasperated reaction.

Li Wei killed the five angels in Los Angeles and gathered their feathers with Constantine and Chas, bringing their materials for Artificial Angels to ten. When the damaged air-raid shelter began collapsing, Constantine and Chas escaped first, and Li Wei collected the remaining feathers before teleporting to them on the surface.

• Li Wei killed the last angel with a powerful lash, then burned the angels’ remains and joined Constantine and Chas in collecting their feathers.
• The five angels yielded five hundred Soul Essence, but the Hero Mall System did not mark the Ascended Stairway mission complete.
• Cracks spread through the rock above the shelter, and Li Wei sent Constantine and Chas ahead while he finished collecting the feathers.
• Constantine used a speed spell to lead Chas out, while Li Wei gathered the remaining feathers as the shelter began to collapse.
• Li Wei teleported to Constantine and Chas in the crowd outside the park, where Constantine concealed him from ordinary people.

After Central Park collapsed and erased the traces of the angels, Li Wei planned to finish clearing Los Angeles and return to Gotham. Zedd foresaw Archangel Gabriel gathering with vampires at the last marked location, prompting her and Sif to seek Li Wei’s help as he arrived at the cabin-in-the-woods base.

• Central Park collapsed after Li Wei and the others escaped, and the evacuated crowd suffered no casualties.
• Li Wei agreed to return to Gotham and select criminals for Hero Templates, while leaving the hunt for angels and the final trial mission for later.
• Zedd foresaw vampires and Archangel Gabriel at the last marked location, so she and Sif abandoned their mission and headed to the cabin-in-the-woods base for help.
• Constantine and Chas persuaded Li Wei to let them accompany him to Gotham, and he warned them about the city’s dangers and Arkham Asylum.
• Li Wei, Constantine, and Chas arrived at the entrance to the cabin-in-the-woods base.