Recaps

At the Tarot Club, Hobart discussed a request for Mr. Fool to alter his cursed bloodline, warned the members about dangerous wild deities, and prepared them for possible missions in the South Baylam Duchy. The gathering ended with The World revealing that Zaratul was hiding in Backlund and Hobart warning that his presence could draw Amon’s avatars there.

• Hobart asked whether Mr. Fool could graft his bloodline onto another life form, and The World agreed to relay the request; Klein also offered Hobart the Eye of the Fugen Hound in exchange for the Tyrant card.
• Fors sought information about unfamiliar customs, and Alger and Cattleya described unusual islands; Hobart warned everyone not to investigate, worship, or closely record the wild deities there.
• Hobart told the members to prepare for missions against the Rose School and in the South Baylam Duchy, explaining that his faction intended to govern the land directly and eradicate the local warlords.
• Cattleya and Emlyn asked Hobart about Loen’s attack on Saint Millon, and he explained that the Creator had saved the airship fleet by transferring it above the Sonia Sea.
• Emlyn asked how to handle Bishop Utravsky during wartime, and Leonard suggested protective detention.
• Leonard asked about hidden dangers in Backlund, and The World revealed that Zaratul was hiding there; Hobart warned that Zaratul could attract Amon’s High Sequence avatars.

The Tarot Club discussed the Goddess of the Night’s possible plans for Backlund and Hobart’s theories about the origins of pathways and Extraordinary Characteristics. Derrick then reported that his team found human skeletons in the Giant King’s parents’ tombs and witnessed a vision of Redemption Rose’s founding.

• Mr. World said the Goddess of the Night seemed to want Backlund thrown into chaos, while Hobart advised the Tarot Club to wait for her plan to produce results.
• Alger and Hobart discussed the Church of Storms’ reluctance to support the war, then Hobart theorized that the Monster pathway’s neighboring pathways might be scattered or located beyond the real world.
• Hobart and the others speculated that Extraordinary Characteristics formed through the fusion of extraordinary elements and that they had transformed humans into giants, elves, and Sanguine.
• Derrick reported that his team explored the Giant King’s Court, where an evil spirit guarded the tombs of the Giant King’s parents.
• Derrick said the tombs held two human skeletons, and Hobart connected the discovery to his theory that the ancient gods’ races had derived from humans.
• Derrick continued his report, explaining that murals in the palace made the team relive the process through which Redemption Rose was established.

At the Tarot Club, Derrick described Redemption Rose and learned about strange edible mushrooms that Klein offered to Silver City in exchange for the Classical Alchemist Potion Recipe. Hobart then accepted Arianna’s request to help the Goddess of the Night Church confront an angel of the Eternal Blazing Sun, while the chapter ended with Hobart showing Dorian and Fors Longtail Island’s expanding farms and infrastructure.

• Derrick recounted Redemption Rose’s members and the group’s encounter with Lightslayer Mirgunken, while Alger and Cattleya pressed him to repeat the deities’ names.
• Klein offered Silver City mushrooms that could provide flour, milk, and meat-like food in exchange for the Classical Alchemist Potion Recipe, and Audrey explained unfamiliar foods to Derrick.
• Hobart invited World to dinner on Longtail Island, then met Arianna at Saint Samuel Cathedral after Leonard delivered her request.
• Arianna asked Creator to send an angel and demigods to help oppose the Eternal Blazing Sun’s angel, offering the Judgement and Error Blasphemy cards as payment; Hobart accepted and agreed to join the battle.
• Hobart toured Longtail Island’s factories and waterworks with Fors and Dorian, explaining how improved crops and irrigation could greatly increase grain yields.

Dorian visited Hobart and learned that members of the Abraham Family could join Fors's Traveler Research Society, while he planned to consult his family about the Creator's faction. Later, Hobart told Klein the Black Emperor ascension Ritual and divided the nine mausoleums among their allies, leaving them prepared to stop George III's coronation.

• Dorian toured Longtail Island with Hobart, asked about the Creator's faction, and agreed that Abraham Family members could join Fors's Traveler Research Society.
• After returning to his family, Dorian planned to discuss their attitude toward the Creator's faction, while Hobart prepared demigods for an operation and monitored the Native King and warlords.
• Fors and Hobart welcomed Klein to Longtail Island, where Hobart explained his opposition to George III and revealed the Black Emperor ascension Ritual.
• Hobart showed Klein a map marking the nine mausoleums and explained how destroying them at the right time could prevent George III's ascension.
• Hobart assigned two mausoleums to the Fosac Empire, two to the Feneport Kingdom, two to himself and his allies, two to Klein, and the final one to Bernadette.

Hobart and Klein discussed how to enter the mausoleums and agreed that Klein would contact the Mysterious Queen, while Hobart promised to pay the Fool the Error card before his advancement. Bernadette agreed to help search for Rosell after they reached Sequence 2, and Hobart joined the Night Church’s operation in the Amanda Mountain Range, where Saint Samuel revealed that an angel of the Creator would cover the western side of the coming battle.

• Hobart told Klein that Door Pathway blood and an Alteration charm could open the mausoleums, and they agreed that Klein would contact the Mysterious Queen.
• Hobart offered the Fool the Error card as payment for help with his Curse, and Klein asked him to sacrifice it two days before his advancement.
• Klein and Hobart shared a heartfelt farewell as fellow townsmen, then Hobart told Fors that Klein was lonely and difficult to help.
• Bernadette asked Hobart about the Creator’s intentions toward Rosell, agreed to join the search after they both advanced to Sequence 2, and warned Hobart to watch the lamp against Eris.
• Hobart told Princess Aishel to meet him discreetly on Saturday, then traveled with Lawrence and four Balk Family demigods to York City for the Night Church’s operation.
• Saint Samuel welcomed Hobart to Serenity Church and announced that an angel of the Creator would provide cover on the western side of the next day’s battle.

Hobart and his companions prepared to support the Night Church’s battle at Amanda Mountain Pass, but Beverly’s standoff with Leonid turned into a fight, triggering a clash between the demigods. Hobart wounded and slowed a Silver Knight before the main battlefield’s twilight and Raymond’s flames moved toward them.

• Hobart learned that the Night Church planned to retake the northern slope of the Amanda Mountain Range and assigned him to intercept enemy forces from the west.
• Hobart gave his companions high-level charms and led them to their assigned position, where they waited for the battle to begin.
• Beverly confronted Leonid, who blamed her for killing his family more than a thousand years earlier, and their dispute escalated into a fight between angels.
• The demigods on both sides began fighting, and Hobart used cold, frost, Words of the Undead, and a Deceit charm to injure and restrain a Silver Knight.
• Hobart noticed the main battlefield’s twilight moving toward his position and saw flames fill the sky near Order Wood, realizing Raymond had joined the battle.

Hobart’s forces helped the Night Church win a major battle in the Amanda Mountain Range, and he secured two Blasphemy Slates while negotiating the Tony Family’s incorporation and future political arrangements. He then prepared for the coming struggle over George III’s apotheosis and began secret talks with Princess Aishel, who agreed to trade Ovaye Province for information about George III’s mausoleums and asked about Hobart’s true stance toward Loen and Feneport.

• Beverly and Raymond wounded Leonid, while Hobart’s squad fought alongside the Night Church’s forces and helped drive the God of War Church’s army from the battlefield.
• Arianna gave Hobart two Blasphemy Slates after he secured her agreement that criminal clergy in the South Baylam Duchy could be judged by its government in secret Extraordinary Courts.
• Hobart studied the Judgement and Error cards, returned to the Southern Continent, arranged for the Tony Family to be incorporated into his faction, and promised its demigods opportunities to advance.
• Hobart met Todd and Audrey to discuss new gas products and prepare millions of pounds in cash, then asked Wen Shidun to turn a large stock of Extraordinary Characteristics into Mystical Items.
• Hobart and Princess Aishel negotiated secretly: he offered information about two of George III’s mausoleums in exchange for Ovaye Province, and she agreed while requesting factories in Feneport and clarity about his loyalties.

Hobart finalized a deal with Princess Aishe, expanded Earl's Light’s gas and communications ventures, and prepared for the turmoil surrounding George III’s possible ascension. As a civil war broke out in the South Baylam Duchy, Hobart was ordered to help guard a decoy position in Backlund while the real location remained concealed.

• Hobart agreed to cooperate with Princess Aishe, discussed transferring Ovaye Province, and gave her directions to two tombs before they parted on friendly terms.
• Hobart and Princess Aishe discussed the possible outcomes of George III’s advancement, and Hobart concluded that George III must not be allowed to become a god.
• Gas stoves and canisters went on sale, military orders followed, and the Loen government published industry standards prepared with Earl's Light’s help.
• Agents formerly cultivated by the Eastern Baylam Company formed a rebel army against the South Baylam Duchy, and Hobart hurried to Anjou while still short of fully digesting his Potion.
• Scout Abbott discovered Highland Kingdom men in the rebel camp and reported them through Hobart’s communication system; Shier, Archibald, and reinforcements rescued him from pursuing Beyonders.
• Georgina ordered Hobart to assist the 195th Division in guarding a decoy position near Backlund, keeping him away from George III’s concealed mausoleum.

Hobart and his allies launched a coordinated attack on the mausoleums supporting George III’s apotheosis, while Hobart confronted the king over Xue’s and Freya’s losses. As Xue sentenced George III to death, another mausoleum was destroyed, shaking the king’s ritual.

• Hobart arranged for Archibald to impersonate him while Hobart, Xue, and Freya prepared to attack George III’s mausoleum.
• Klein summoned Arianna and Azik’s projection, then joined the coordinated assault on the royal mausoleums as Bernadette, Triss, Alexei Einhorn, Philip I, and other attackers struck elsewhere.
• Pales used an Order Crystal to restore his strength and entered an unassaulted mausoleum, where he recognized Hermes and began speaking with him instead of fighting.
• Hobart defeated Selt with Sealed Artifacts and undead powers, then entered George III’s mausoleum with Xue and Freya.
• Hobart accused George III of murdering Xue’s father and causing the Great Smog that destroyed Freya’s family, and George III admitted that he had killed many people.
• Xue sentenced George III to death, and Hobart revealed that another mausoleum had been destroyed as the king’s ritual shook.

Philip I avenged George III’s failed advancement, while Hobart and his allies seized the Black Emperor uniqueness and Kingslayer Prince characteristics amid a battle with Eris. Adam took Grosell’s Travels, George III’s death ignited the world war, and Hobart prepared to advance as a Duke of Entropy; meanwhile, William I began investigating the attackers and Georgina set out to test Hobart.

• Philip I imprisoned Georgina with the power of Order, restored the mausoleum’s surroundings, and left as it collapsed.
• Hobart altered the mausoleum’s structure and brought it down, causing George III to vanish and release the Black Emperor uniqueness and three Kingslayer Prince characteristics.
• George III exploded during his speech in Anniversary Square, while Adam took control of Grosell’s Travels and let Klein escape as the world war began.
• Hobart and Eris fought over the Kingslayer Prince characteristics; Eris escaped with one, while Adam removed the uniqueness and another characteristic and confirmed Hobart’s advancement preparations.
• William I and Decklin investigated the ruined mausoleums, and Georgina agreed to test Hobart after William ordered her to pray to him first.
• Hobart returned Xue and Freya and went to the 195th Division’s garrison, where Archibald waited beneath a military canopy.

Hobart replaced Archibald at the military camp, evaded Georgina’s investigation, and gathered allies after George III’s death. In the Land Abandoned by God, Amon’s true body nearly stole Source Castle from Klein, but Hobart intervened as the Creator and fought Amon while Klein began to escape.

• Hobart exchanged places with Archibald, passed Georgina’s identity check, and left after telling her the King had planned to become a god.
• Hobart told Freya and Xue that they could avenge their families, then arranged for Xue to advance toward becoming a demigod and warned his allies he would be away.
• Leonard’s Red Gloves team arrested Bishop Utravsky and brought Emlyn in for questioning at Harvest Church.
• Amon led the exhausted Klein through the Land Abandoned by God, then revealed that he had deceived Klein to make him digest the Ancient Scholar potion and use Source Castle.
• Klein tried to summon help by calling Hobart from the Historical Void, and Hobart used the signal to locate him and appear as the Creator.
• Hobart stopped Amon from stealing Source Castle and used Box of the Ancient Days and Creation Bracelet to counter him as Klein began stepping into the Historical Void.

Hobart helped Klein escape Amon, then prepared to advance to Sequence 2 amid the growing war and arranged an early engagement to Audrey. The chapter ended with Hobart dismissing nobles’ attempts to use the South Baylam civil war against him, predicting it would soon end.

• Lady Arianna and Azik helped Klein resist Amon’s avatars, while the Creator used the Creation Bracelet’s amplified negative effects to force Amon to abandon it.
• Hobart removed and destroyed a parasitic Time Worm hidden inside the Creation Bracelet, then resolved not to take the artifact into the real world unless necessary.
• After learning that Intis had declared war on Loen, Hobart agreed with Christine to hold his engagement ceremony with Audrey on November 28 and planned to attempt his Sequence 2 advancement shortly afterward.
• Hobart informed April of his advancement plan and arranged protection from Christine, April, Beverly, and Raymond before sacrificing the Blasphemy Slate of the Error pathway to Mr. Fool.
• At Christine’s ball, Hobart and Audrey danced together, and Christine announced their engagement date; Hobart reassured Audrey that their love helped stabilize him.
• Nobles questioned Hobart about the South Baylam Duchy’s civil war, and he told them he expected it to end very soon.

Hobart advanced to Duke of Entropy while enemies attacked the ritual, then used Eris’s body to resurrect Trensoost and lift the Balk Family’s Curse. Eris reached Angel level, Trensoost summoned a Hand of Order Sealed Artifact, and Hobart faced the next stage of the Night Emperor’s return.

• Hobart told Audrey he would give her a Seaside Villa in Lanagua Port as an engagement gift, then warned Fors that he would undertake a dangerous operation.
• Hobart summoned Eris’s body in a church, but Amon appeared as an avatar and stole Eris’s narrow-necked Glass Bottle before Beverly, Tamara, and others became involved in the battle.
• With Rose School Angels Baranka and Kleist and the Witch Sect’s Sherry attacking, Hobart entered the Secrecy World and drank the Duke of Entropy Potion.
• Hobart completed his advancement, and Trensoost was drawn into Eris’s body, resurrecting and ending the Curse afflicting the Balk Family.
• Eris swallowed the Duke of Entropy Extraordinary Characteristics and reached Angel level, disrupting Hobart’s attempt to kill Trensoost as a gavel-shaped Hand of Order Sealed Artifact appeared before the Night Emperor.

After escaping the battle with Trensoost, Hobart reunited with Fors and Audrey, then entered the Country of Disorder and discovered new powers and a mysterious Bronze Bell. Reviewing his recovered memories revealed that he had been an archaeologist named Hobart before transmigrating, and the chapter ended as something struck the coffin in his excavation.

• Hobart helped April and Christine retreat as Trensoost fused with the gavel and left the battlefield, while the other angels also withdrew.
• Hobart returned to the Lord's Manor, reassured April and Christine that the family Curse had ended, and then told Fors and Audrey that he had advanced successfully.
• Hobart entered the Country of Disorder, became its sole owner, reshaped its palace complex, and discovered that the Bronze Bell could impose Order and stabilize spirituality.
• Hobart sensed that the Country of Disorder greatly strengthened his abilities, removed his memory seal, and reviewed the memories from before his transmigration.
• Hobart remembered that he had been an archaeologist named Hobart, and that during his first excavation he and his students had found a strange stele inside an ancient tomb.
• Hobart identified the two symbols at the top of the stele as meaning “Heavenly Venerable,” just before a sound came from the upright coffin.

Hobart learned from Zhou Mingrui that he had been sent to Mysteries Space to reshape its social Order, then recovered his memories and considered the Celestial Worthy's hidden Arrangements. After Trensoost prepared to strengthen himself and Ol'Nia revealed her resurrection, Hobart tracked down the Black Emperor Uniqueness but fled when its dog-shaped Emperor attacked him.

• Zhou Mingrui explained that Hobart was marked by the Celestial Worthy, gave him the Fate Beacon of the Creator of Human Order, and sent him to Mysteries Space with his memories suppressed until he became an angel.
• Hobart recovered his memories, realized his reforms had helped digest the Duke of Entropy Potion, and concluded he needed to advance quickly while investigating the Celestial Worthy's Arrangements.
• The Balk Family's Curse lifted, and Ol'Nia secretly revealed that she had resurrected as the Blood Moon Queen and believed Trensoost had also returned.
• Trensoost reclaimed the Glass Bottle in the City of Yadro, killed Abbott for losing it, and ordered his followers to leave so he could gather power before Hobart did.
• Hobart found the Black Emperor pathway's Uniqueness in Antas, where a dog issued Distorted imperial commands, and fled after using the Country of Disorder to block its gaze.
• Back at his residence, Hobart considered asking Klein for advice before the Tarot Club began.

The Tarot Club learned that George III had failed to become the Black Emperor through a joint operation by Mr. Fool and the Creator, while Mr. World revealed he was in the Land Abandoned by God. Hobart then disclosed that Trensoost had been resurrected as a Sequence 1, and the gathering ended with the members discussing the prophesied apocalypse.

• Klein congratulated Hobart on advancing to angel, and Cattleya asked about George III’s assassination; Mr. Fool explained that George III had failed his Black Emperor Ritual after his secret mausoleum was destroyed.
• Derrick requested Mr. Fool’s blessing for Colin’s advancement, and Klein promised it; Cattleya relayed the Mysterious Queen’s concern for World, who said he was in the Land Abandoned by God.
• Mr. Fool explained that he had used World’s body in a game with Amon, and Hobart described how he and World had worked with the Creator and foreign forces to destroy George III’s mausoleums.
• Klein and Hobart privately discussed a way to return Klein to the Northern and Southern Continent and obtaining a Star Worm, while Leonard told Emlyn he might be released from protective custody that week.
• Hobart announced that Trensoost had been resurrected and reached Sequence 1, with help from Blood Moon Queen Ol’Nia; he agreed to investigate whether she had also returned.
• Cattleya revealed the Moses Ascetic Order’s apocalypse prophecy, and World said it meant more than a transition between epochs; Hobart encouraged the members to prepare rather than despair before the gathering ended.

Hobart exploited the Black Emperor Uniqueness’s rules and the townspeople’s support for the Dog Emperor to maneuver himself into a position to seize it. He captured the Uniqueness with the Country of Disorder, while Eris took the Kingslayer Prince characteristic and discovered that Hobart had marked it.

• Hobart pursued the Black Emperor Uniqueness into Anst, where it trapped him in darkness and affected him with visions of imperial power; Eris struck him while Trensoost resisted the Uniqueness nearby.
• Hobart and Eris agreed to cooperate, then Hobart entered Anst in his main body and used the city’s decrees to test how its rules could be exploited.
• Hobart incited the displaced townspeople to question the Emperor, persuaded the Uniqueness to establish a parliament, and argued his way into becoming Speaker.
• Hobart used distorted wording and legal arguments to challenge the Dog Emperor’s authority until the Uniqueness allowed him to take the throne.
• Hobart seized the crown and sealed the Uniqueness with the Country of Disorder, while Eris took the Kingslayer Prince characteristic and realized Hobart had marked it.

Hobart sealed the Black Emperor pathway’s Uniqueness, returned to Backlund, and prepared to lead the South Baylam Duchy’s army into a decisive battle. After the army reached the Matog Hills, Hobart sent Lawrence and Elliot to reinforce Roclier City, where the Fosac Empire and Intis Republic had launched an attack.

• Tamara disrupted Hobart’s attempt to seal the Uniqueness, but Hobart summoned Megli’s spirit through 1-113 to hold her back while Eris and Tamara fled.
• Hobart sealed the Uniqueness, returned to Backlund, and used its power to restore a use of the Spawn of Evil God's Umbilical Cord.
• Hobart traveled to Anrelu City, chose the army’s plan to meet the Highland Kingdom’s forces in the Matog Hills, and revealed to Lawrence that he was Rex’s son and that Trensoost had caused the Balk Family’s curse.
• Hobart transported the South Baylam army to the Matog Hills and rallied the troops by declaring the battle a holy war under the Creator’s protection.
• After Lawrence reported that Roclier City was under attack, Hobart sent him, Elliot, and more than a hundred Beyonders there, then identified the attackers as forces from the Fosac Empire and the Intis Republic.

Hobart coordinated reinforcements to defend Roclier City and repel a Rose School attack on the South Baylam Duchy’s main force, while the enemy also struck Anrelu City. The Rose School assault on Anrelu was defeated, but the battle for Roclier continued as Fors and Cattleya arrived to reinforce the beleaguered defenders.

• Hobart sent the Tony Family to prepare for a Rose School attack, recruited the Gnostic Council and Temperance Faction, and deployed forces to support Roclier City.
• Hobart’s forces, led by Helen, Angus, and Malva, broke the Rose School’s attack, but Angel Baranka covered the enemy’s retreat; Hobart then sent Angus’s unit to Anrelu City after realizing it had been the attack’s true target.
• At Anrelu City, Xue ordered a retreat before Audrey, Christine, Doffis, and Barnett organized a defense; Hobart’s Angels drove off the Rose School’s demigods, and Angus’s forces executed the captured attackers.
• In Roclier City, Sharon and Doyle’s reinforcements helped Lawrence’s defenders withstand another assault, but two fresh enemy demigods broke through the courtyard defenses.
• Fors arrived at Roclier City with Cattleya and two other reinforcements, allowing the defenders to hold their line against the renewed attack.

Fors summoned Klein and Hobart’s Historical Projections to drive Akhmatova’s forces from Roclier City, while Hobart fought the Rose School and Demoness Church at Matog Hills. As the decisive battle intensified, Hobart brought the Trensoost Empire Ship onto the battlefield.

• At Roclier City, Akhmatova arrived and broke the defenders’ morale, but Fors summoned Gehrman Sparrow and Klein brought forth Hobart and Azzik’s Historical Projections, forcing Akhmatova to retreat.
• Fors rallied the defenders to hold Roclier City through the night, and the Creator promised that victory would arrive with the morning sun.
• At Matog Hills, Hobart countered Baranka and Kleist, then sent the Holy Infant King and the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord to fight them while his forces battled the Rose School.
• The Demoness Church joined the battle and Sherry attacked Hobart, but he used a repulsive-force shield and sent the Duke of Entropy to pursue her.
• As the Demoness Church threatened the Gnostic Council’s formation, Hobart entered the Country of Disorder and brought the Trensoost Empire Ship from the Mist Sea onto the battlefield.

Servia’s Empire Ship and the Creator’s intervention turned the battle against the Rose School, but Godspawn Sua and Kleist escaped with help from the bone-white brambles. Hobart captured Kleist’s Level 0 Sealed Artifact, then led the Tony Family’s Extraordinary toward Roclier City.

• Servia fired the Empire Ship’s Song of the Undead, leaving Prisoner pathway Extraordinary entranced while South Baylam Duchy attacked, then unleashed a barrage of white flames that devastated the Rose School.
• Sua manifested its true body and sent the Empire Ship crashing, so Hobart recalled the ship to the Mist Sea before the Creator appeared and fought Sua.
• The Creator drove Sua into its Godspawn state and wounded it, but Sua used a bone-white bramble to evacuate some Rose School members and escape; Hobart dragged the fleeing Kleist back from the Underworld.
• Hobart and three Angel-level allies weakened Kleist and nearly defeated it, but bone-white brambles shielded Kleist and carried it away.
• Hobart sealed Kleist’s Level 0 Sealed Artifact, ordered the Tony Family’s forces to withdraw, and led them toward Roclier City.

South Baylam Duchy defeated the invading Fosac and Intis forces at Roclier City, and Hobart used the victory to reorganize the duchy’s Beyonder forces and negotiate the Temperance Faction’s incorporation. After the war’s aftermath was settled, Hobart returned to Loen to prepare for his engagement ceremony and examined the captured spoils.

• Akhmatova’s assault devastated Roclier City, but Klein restrained her as the Creator arrived with the morning sun and Malva’s reinforcements, turning the battle into a South Baylam victory.
• Alexei Einhorn intervened to rescue Akhmatova and the surviving Fosac forces, ending the pursuit, while the Creator and the Fool withdrew after acknowledging each other’s support.
• Hobart restored the wounded, paid Sharon the promised Silent Apostle Characteristic, and agreed that the Temperance Faction could join his forces as believers in the Fool, with Sharon as captain of a team of at least eighty Extraordinary.
• Hobart oversaw the capture and resettlement of the rebels, distributed rewards, and reorganized Beyonder units through new designations, recruitment rules, and a Promotion Committee that strengthened his control.
• Hobart returned to Loen, reviewed the battle’s Extraordinary Characteristics and Sealed Artifacts, and considered plans for a Werewolf Legion and future negotiations with the Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun.

Hobart disrupted Eris’s sacrifice to the Mist of Uncertainty, seized the Kingslayer Prince Characteristic, and destroyed Eris’s body in a nuclear explosion. After refusing Eris’s offer to cooperate, Hobart brought his head to Selena’s grave, where his humanity overcame his divinity, then ensured Eris’s spirit was devoured in the Underworld.

• Hobart used 0-73 Death Domain and the Clock of Order to interrupt Eris’s ritual and claim the Kingslayer Prince Characteristic.
• Hobart compressed Eris until nuclear fusion began, then found him reduced to a disintegrating head after the explosion.
• Eris offered to help Hobart capture Trensoost and Tamara in exchange for Characteristics and Amon’s stolen Glass Bottle, but Hobart refused and condensed Eris’s Duke of Entropy Characteristic.
• Hobart took Eris’s head to Selena’s grave, and his humanity overcame his divinity as he reflected on the warmth between people.
• Hobart crushed Eris’s head, opened a gate to the Underworld, and watched evil spirits tear apart Eris’s spirit body.

Hobart visited Fors and April, discussed their plans and Longtail Island's reforms, then advanced his preparations for the South Baylam Duchy and its future. He arranged to support Archibald's advancement and gave Audrey a seaside villa and a diplomatic role, before returning to Backlund for their engagement ceremony.

• Hobart visited Fors and April, discussed servant protections and agreed to help April with her dangerous Sequence 2 advancement.
• Fors told Hobart about Longtail Island's industries and a planned visit by Loen Air Force officers, while he considered his Potion digestion, Sequence 1 Ritual, and secret tombs.
• Hobart agreed to help Archibald advance to Ancient Scholar by asking the Creator to Alter information about him in the Spirit World.
• Hobart surprised Audrey with a seaside villa and asked her to form a team to handle the duchy's foreign affairs after their engagement.
• Hobart and Audrey discussed the civil war and negotiations with the Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun, then returned to Backlund for their engagement ceremony.

Hobart helped Klein confront his homesickness by showing him the lives and society taking shape in Longtail Island and Anjou, and Klein resolved to help build a homeland there. After Klein returned to the Land Abandoned by God to investigate Chernobyl, Hobart arrived at the Solomon Family gathering just as Tamara threatened its members.

• Hobart and Audrey held a simple engagement ceremony, where Hobart gave Audrey the South Baylam Duchy Foreign Ministry seal and revealed his intent to keep Backlund's nobles from influencing the duchy's affairs.
• Hobart arranged to help Doffis digest his Undying Potion, promised him a Ferryman Extraordinary Characteristic, and assigned him future work in diplomatic strategy.
• Hobart summoned Klein's Historical Projection and learned that Klein was troubled by the possibility that their world was Earth and that he might never return home; Hobart showed him Longtail Island and Anjou, and Klein agreed to help build a homeland there.
• Hobart told Klein that Amon was searching for clues about the Ancient Sun God at Chernobyl, and Klein decided to investigate the site before returning to the Land Abandoned by God with renewed resolve.
• At the Solomon Family's annual gathering, Tamara announced that he had killed Naster and demanded that the family join the Tamara Family or surrender their Extraordinary Characteristics.
• Hobart appeared at the shattered Stone Door as Tamara prepared to force the Solomon Family to choose.