Chapter Summaries

Galvan learned that the Order of Saint Dumas’ prophecy described him as the Death Knight destined to revive the order, then turned his attention to reclaiming his company. He exposed an executive’s attempt to seize family assets, purged corrupt managers, and left Li Wei satisfied that Galvan could manage the business and the order.

• The elder told Galvan the prophecy of the Death Knight, and Galvan recognized that it matched his return from the dead and new abilities.
• Galvan considered using Garen’s inherited Courage ability to strengthen the Order of Saint Dumas and suspected Li Wei had planned for this outcome.
• Al Joseph presented Galvan with documents proposing the transfer of land near Arkham Asylum, but Galvan spotted false claims about its value and fired him.
• Galvan reviewed the audit department’s documents, approved legitimate business, and fired employees whose paperwork suggested they were helping embezzle the Galavan family’s assets.
• Li Wei watched Galvan restore control of the company and investigated the Order of Saint Dumas’ base, finding nothing unusual beyond its prophecy.

Li Wei traveled from Gotham to Los Angeles to seek Constantine and investigate supernatural forces linked to Hell. While touring a local mental hospital, he learned that someone had requested electroshock therapy.

• Jerome and the Criminal Alliance discovered and wiped out ARGUS's third team in Gotham, adding dozens of Soul Essence to Li Wei's balance.
• Li Wei left Gotham with Ezri, Dr. Hugo, and Warwick, then boarded a ferry bound for Los Angeles.
• Li Wei chose Los Angeles because he hoped to find Constantine and unlock the Justice Angel Kayle and Fallen Angel Morgana templates.
• After arriving in Los Angeles, Li Wei sensed a concealed force tied to Hell and checked into a hotel.
• Li Wei visited a Los Angeles mental hospital to learn about its treatment methods, and a staff member reported that someone claiming to be a patient had requested electroshock therapy.

Li Wei found John Constantine at Los Angeles Mental Hospital, where Constantine had voluntarily endured electroshock treatment. After donating money to the struggling hospital, Li Wei entered the treatment room to ask Constantine what had happened, while Constantine quietly prepared for a possible threat.

• The hospital director agreed to give Constantine electroshock treatment after hearing he would pay double the fee.
• Li Wei recognized Constantine when staff brought him in and watched the director administer half an hour of electroshock treatment.
• After the treatment, Li Wei donated one hundred thousand dollars to the hospital in exchange for permission to speak with Constantine.
• Li Wei approached Constantine and introduced himself, while Constantine studied him and secretly traced a magical rune because he could not see anything unusual with his Yin Yang Eyes.

Li Wei approached Constantine at the mental hospital, but Constantine attacked him before learning he was not a demon. Their uneasy conversation was interrupted by a possessed woman, and Constantine began an exorcism while Li Wei watched.

• Li Wei tried to explain himself to Constantine, who mistook him for a powerful demon and struck him with a fireball.
• Li Wei blocked the fireball and restrained Constantine with vines until Constantine agreed to stop attacking.
• After Li Wei released him, Constantine and Li Wei sensed a hellish presence and hurried toward its source, taking the hospital warden with them.
• In the art room, Constantine recognized a woman possessed by an evil spirit and began an exorcism as Li Wei observed.

Constantine expelled an evil spirit from a mental patient, but the woman died, and the spirit left Sif’s name as its next target. He and Li Wei set off to find her, while Li Wei asked about Constantine’s ties to Heaven and Hell and learned that Gabriel and Satan might enter the Human Realm.

• Constantine performed an exorcism that drove the evil spirit from the patient, who then died, and the spirit’s message named Sif as its next target.
• Constantine decided to find Sif with Li Wei and cast a forgetting spell on the hospital director so he would forget the supernatural events.
• Li Wei left the director a check for five hundred thousand dollars before he and Constantine departed the hospital.
• In Constantine’s car, Li Wei asked about his relationship with Heaven and Hell, and Constantine said Gabriel and Satan hated him because he had tricked them.
• Li Wei asked whether Gabriel and Satan would enter the Human Realm, and Constantine said they would and warned that both were extremely powerful.

Li Wei and Constantine tracked Sif to a parking garage, where an evil spirit was pursuing her, and Constantine warned her before investigating the darkness with Li Wei. As they approached the evil spirit, an explosion and flames erupted from underground.

• Constantine questioned Li Wei about his abilities, background, and reason for coming to Los Angeles, and Li Wei gave mostly truthful answers while concealing the Hero Mall System.
• Constantine used his sense of evil to find Sif fleeing a dark parking garage, where the lights were going out one by one.
• Sif mistook Constantine for the source of the strange events, but he introduced himself as an exorcist, gave her his business card, and warned her about the evil spirit.
• Li Wei and Constantine entered the parking garage, and Constantine confirmed that the evil spirit was the one from the art room at Los Angeles Mental Hospital.
• Li Wei asked whether evil spirits always attracted cockroaches, then an explosion sent flames bursting up from underground as he and Constantine approached.

Li Wei and Constantine investigated a fiery crater that Constantine believed warned of an impending Hell invasion, while Li Wei unlocked Kayle’s Hero Template. When the angel Manny insulted Li Wei, Li Wei began transforming to show him a true angel.

• Constantine found signs in the crater that Hell was eroding the Human Realm, and a mysterious shadow dropped into the pit.
• Li Wei saw that Kayle’s Hero Template had activated and spent 4,800 Soul Essence to unlock it.
• The newcomer revealed himself as Manny, an angel who warned Constantine of coming danger and said the woman they had stopped was his old friend’s daughter.
• Manny berated Li Wei for looking at him disrespectfully, and Constantine let the confrontation continue.
• Li Wei insulted Manny and loaded Kayle’s Hero Template, surrounding himself with blazing white-hot flames.

Li Wei transformed into Kayle, revealing powerful angelic form and discovering he could fly. He attacked Black Angel Manny with Kayle’s abilities, and Manny charged at him after barely dodging the first strike.

• Li Wei’s white flames faded to reveal golden armor, white wings, and a powerful sacred aura, shocking Constantine and Black Angel Manny.
• Li Wei adapted to Kayle’s female body, then used her inherited memories to learn to fly.
• Li Wei pointed the Blade of Retribution at Manny and rejected his attempt to dismiss their conflict as a misunderstanding.
• Li Wei fired a Blazing Impact at Manny, who dodged it as the delayed explosion tore a flaming crater into the road.
• Manny charged at Li Wei, while Li Wei welcomed the chance to test more of Kayle’s skills.

Li Wei defeated Manny but spared him, hoping the escaped angel would bring others who might unlock another Hero Template. He and Constantine then left the scene and arrived at Constantine’s forest safehouse, where Chas cautiously greeted them.

• Li Wei overwhelmed Manny with Kayle’s skills, then redirected his final sword attack so Manny survived and could flee.
• Li Wei told Constantine he spared Manny to avoid turning the Heaven Dimension against the Human Realm, while privately hoping another angel might unlock Fallen Angel Morgana’s Hero Template.
• Li Wei and Constantine left before the Los Angeles police arrived and drove to Constantine’s safehouse in the woods.
• Li Wei spotted Constantine’s partner Chas aiming a crossbow at them, and Constantine reassured Chas before introducing him.

Li Wei agreed to help Constantine resist Hell’s invasion and used Kayle’s healing ability to improve Constantine’s condition despite his lung cancer. Chas returned to find Constantine covered in blood and Li Wei standing nearby with a longsword, mistaking Li Wei for an angel.

• Constantine introduced Chas to Li Wei, told Chas that Li Wei had defeated Manny, and sent Chas to protect Sif by carving an Eye of Horus on her door.
• Constantine explained the conflict between Heaven, Hell, and the Human Realm, asked Li Wei to help stop Hell’s invasion, and described how Chas gained forty-seven extra lives through a Protection Spell.
• Li Wei offered to extend Constantine’s life and used Starfall Grace, whose powerful healing caused Constantine to bleed heavily from the nose while making him feel vigorous.
• Chas returned and saw blood-soaked Constantine beside Li Wei, whom he mistook for an angel holding a longsword.

Chas mistook Li Wei’s angel form for an attacker seeking revenge on Constantine and attacked him, but Li Wei effortlessly disarmed and subdued him. Constantine explained the misunderstanding, and Li Wei dismissed his transformation and let Chas go.

• Chas fired a demon-breaking crossbow bolt at Li Wei, but golden-red flames vaporized it without harming him.
• Chas charged Li Wei with a longsword, and Li Wei took the sword and kicked Chas to the ground.
• Li Wei’s flames melted Chas’s longsword, and Li Wei demanded to know why Chas had attacked him.
• Chas refused to explain, still believing Li Wei was an angel seeking revenge on Constantine.
• Constantine stepped between them and explained that Li Wei could transform into an angel, clearing up Chas’s misunderstanding.
• Li Wei put away the Blade of Retribution and dismissed his Justice Angel Kayle transformation.

Li Wei learned that Sif’s blood could temporarily grant him Yin Yang Eyes after her talent awakened, and promised Constantine he would protect her. While Li Wei watched Sif from his hotel, a shadow rushed toward her apartment in the middle of the night.

• Chas carved the protective Eye of Horus onto Sif’s door, and Constantine sent him away after confirming it was done.
• Constantine told Li Wei that a relic left by Sif’s father could awaken her talent, allowing her blood to grant temporary Yin Yang Eyes.
• Li Wei promised to protect Sif that night, and Constantine trusted him with her safety.
• Li Wei teleported back to his hotel and used his Destiny ability to keep watch over Sif.
• A shadow raced down Sif’s hallway, knocking over trash cans and drawing the attention of residents.

An evil spirit killed Sif’s neighbors after the Eye of Horus on Sif’s door stopped it from entering her apartment. After Sif saw the aftermath, Constantine, Li Wei, and Chas intercepted her on her way to work and convinced her that evil spirits were real.

• The Eye of Horus on Sif’s door repelled the evil spirit, which then entered her neighbor’s home and killed the family while Li Wei watched without intervening.
• Sif woke to the police discovering the bodies and began to suspect Constantine had told the truth about being an exorcist.
• The evil spirit possessed a woman’s corpse in a transport vehicle and strangled the driver who opened its body bag.
• Li Wei teleported to Constantine’s stone cabin and told him Sif had seen the scene, so Constantine, Li Wei, and Chas drove to meet her.
• Constantine showed Sif the Eye of Horus symbol, and she recognized it from her door and believed his warning.

Li Wei destroyed the evil spirit that attacked Sif in a truck, while Constantine revealed that Sif’s father had been alive until a year ago and had been his partner. After the fight, Li Wei learned that killing evil creatures advanced Kayle’s abilities, and Sif began to accept the supernatural events around her.

• Constantine told Sif that her father had lived until a year ago and had been his partner.
• Li Wei recognized the approaching truck from Atlanta Medical Laboratory and realized the evil spirit was driving a possessed woman’s corpse.
• Li Wei used Kayle’s abilities to strike the truck with the Blade of Retribution, completely annihilating the evil spirit.
• The Hero Mall System evolved Ascended Stairway to the Zealous stage and set a requirement of killing ten evil creatures to reach Ascended State.
• Constantine and Chas were impressed by Li Wei’s power, while Sif accepted the supernatural encounter with unusual calm.

Sif learned from her mother that her father had died two years earlier while fighting demons and had secretly protected his family because he wanted Sif to live safely. After seeing her dead grandmother’s spirit, Sif decided she could no longer pretend she would lead an ordinary life.

• Sif left Constantine and Li Wei to question her mother about her father.
• Constantine erased the witnesses’ memories, and Li Wei and Constantine staged the truck wreckage as an ordinary accident before returning to wait for Sif.
• Sif’s mother revealed that her father had died during an exorcism two years earlier and had hidden the truth at his request.
• Sif saw her long-dead grandmother standing behind her mother with white eyes, then watched the apparition vanish.
• Sif reassured her mother that she would not seek trouble, but privately decided that seeing her grandmother’s soul meant her ordinary life was over.

Sif returned to Constantine and learned that her father's disc awakened her ability to see spirits and foresee where evil creatures would appear. After Li Wei asked for her blood so he could see and hunt evil creatures, Sif agreed in exchange for his help avenging her father.

• Sif left her mother and went to Constantine's secret base, where Constantine gave her the pouch containing her father's belongings and the disc.
• Holding the disc, Sif saw a train from the Spirit World, and Constantine explained that it activated her family's ability to see spirits.
• Sif used the disc over a map of Los Angeles, and her blood marked places where evil spirits and demons would appear.
• Constantine explained that Sif had inherited both her father's spirit-sight and his ability to predict danger.
• Li Wei asked Sif for blood so he could see and kill evil creatures, and she agreed in return for his help avenging her father.

Li Wei used Starfall Grace to draw a huge amount of blood from Sif, letting Constantine mark more supernatural threats on the prophecy map. After Li Wei temporarily gained Yin Yang Eyes, he and Constantine set out to hunt the marked creatures, but their first lead proved to have no demonic traces.

• Li Wei used Starfall Grace on Sif, whose palm bled for over an hour while Constantine used the blood to add hundreds of locations to the prophecy map.
• Li Wei recorded the marked locations, rubbed Sif's blood over his eyes, and gained temporary Yin Yang Eyes that let him see the Spirit World.
• Constantine persuaded Li Wei to bring him along, then told Chas to stay behind with Sif and teach her basic exorcist knowledge.
• Li Wei and Constantine drove to a town near Los Angeles after hearing that a mine worker had been burned alive when oil and flames came from his showerhead.
• Li Wei and Constantine examined the scene with their Yin Yang Eyes but found no trace of demonic aura.

Li Wei and Constantine confronted Madam Lannister after sensing an undead presence around her and suspected she had killed her miner husband. Madam Lannister revealed her connection to the Mine Goblins and agreed to summon them, planning to use them to kill both men.

• Li Wei sensed enslaved undead souls around the miner's wife and stopped Constantine from leaving the scene.
• Li Wei and Constantine followed the woman into her house, where they noticed coal dust on her arm and heard her tell the story of a Gypsy girl deceived by a mining foreman.
• Constantine identified Madam Lannister as the Gypsy girl and asked whether she could summon Mine Goblins, but admitted he had no evidence linking her to the murder.
• Li Wei asked Madam Lannister to summon the Mine Goblins, explaining that he only wanted to see them.
• Madam Lannister agreed and planned to claim the Mine Goblins had gone out of control so they could kill Li Wei and Constantine.

Lannis summoned nearly a hundred Mine Goblins to silence Li Wei and Constantine, but Li Wei destroyed them and completed Kayle’s evolution into the Ascended State. The chapter ended with Li Wei learning that his next evolution required him to kill 100 different types of evil creatures.

• Lannis secretly summoned a horde of Mine Goblins while distracting Constantine with talk of her restored witchcraft and the darkness spreading through the Human Realm.
• Lannis admitted that the Mine Goblins had gone out of control and were about to attack Li Wei and Constantine, revealing her attempt to silence them.
• Li Wei transformed into Justice Angel Kayle and used Blazing Impact to destroy nearly half the Mine Goblins.
• Li Wei killed enough evil creatures to evolve the Ascended Stairway into the Ascended State, gaining a second pair of wings and improved aerial maneuverability.
• Li Wei discovered that the next Righteous State required him to kill 100 different types of evil creatures, with his current progress at 2/100.

Li Wei spared Madam Lannister after destroying her Mine Goblins, but Constantine summoned the spirits of her victims, who dragged her into the Spirit World. As Li Wei and Constantine headed toward the next evil-creature marker, they nearly hit a girl who recognized them and hurried to their car.

• Li Wei offered to let Madam Lannister live if she left town, but she refused and vowed to destroy everyone there.
• Constantine summoned eight spirits harmed by Madam Lannister, and they dragged her into the Spirit World.
• Li Wei and Constantine left the mining town and followed Madam Lannister's husband's funeral procession toward the next marked location.
• Li Wei spotted evil aura above a record company but could not yet identify the creature within it.
• Constantine braked to avoid a girl who ran into the road, and she excitedly approached their car after recognizing them.