Chapter Summaries

At the Tarot Club, Hobart shared theories about the Goddess of the Night’s origins and the fate of Antigonus and Zaratul, while Klein arranged new trades and inquiries. The gathering ended with Alger urging Derrick to seek allies and Audrey reflecting on how much the revelations had shaken her faith.

• Hobart told the Tarot Club that Amanises had once been the Goddess of Misfortune, an attendant of the Destruction Demonic Wolf, and proposed that she had betrayed Lilith to become a god and later targeted the Wolf Clan.
• Hobart explained that the Mother of Heaven had become a Sealed Artifact and that Antigonus’s whereabouts remained unknown; Klein then privately asked him about Zaratul and learned his theory that the Goddess of the Night had sealed Little Zaratul’s personality in Mist Town.
• Hobart said he would advance Klein 20,000 pounds, lend him the Tyrant card, and trade the Blasphemy Slate for a Sequence 3 Extraordinary Material later; Klein also commissioned Fors to find Calderon City’s location through the Abraham Family.
• Alger advised Derrick to build friendships and enlist help investigating the previous Chief’s tomb, and Derrick admitted he had no friends.
• Klein asked Audrey to treat him if he developed serious mental illness, and Audrey agreed to an appointment; afterward, Audrey reflected on the revelations about the Goddess of the Night and Hobart’s warnings about knowing too much.

Leonard discovered that Klein was alive after finding his grave empty, and Hobart helped him keep the secret. Hobart then brought Daly to see the living Dunn in South Colson and asked whether she wanted to stay with him.

• Leonard told Hobart that Sherlock had been Klein and persuaded him to travel to Tingen City, where they found Klein's coffin empty and agreed to keep the discovery secret.
• Leonard said he would look for news of Klein in the Southern Continent, and Hobart asked him to arrange a meeting with Ms. Daly.
• Hobart learned that his researchers had developed a working telephone and improved plastic, then arranged to meet Daly at Saint Samuel Cathedral.
• Hobart disguised Daly and brought her to South Colson, where she watched Dunn teaching at the Special Operations Department and saw that he had begun a happy new life.
• After Hobart brought her back to the manor, Daly thanked him, and he asked whether she wanted to live with Dunn in South Colson.

Hobart helped Daly reunite with Dunn and prepared for Jonathan’s uprising against the Gnostic Society and the Demoness Church. During the Blood Moon, he shielded Jonathan’s gathered family members from the Whisper, then awaited them in South Colson as the first group arrived.

• Daly questioned Hobart about Dunn’s revival, learned how it had been done, and decided to move to South Colson after completing her final mission.
• Dunn told Hobart he regretted acting like a coward about his feelings, and Hobart explained that Daly planned to return and then settle nearby.
• Klein and Leonard separately sent Hobart clues about Ince Zangwill, and Hobart insisted they involve him in the revenge while making Klein pay postage for his reply.
• Hobart publicly offered Earl’s Light bulb and electric-wire manufacturing processes for one pound while preparing Shipyard Island to shelter Jonathan’s uprising participants.
• As the Blood Moon formed, Hobart appeared to Jonathan’s gathered family members as the Creator and prevented the Whisper from reaching them.
• After the Blood Moon ended, Hobart waited with Fors in the Lord’s Manor courtyard as Jonathan led in the uprising’s first group.

Hobart helped Jonathan lead 187 Gnostic Society and Witch pathway Extraordinary individuals in a revolt against the Demoness Church, then organized them on Shipyard Island as the Gnostic Council. After the Primordial Witch’s gaze caused a member to mutate, the Demoness Church launched an ambush, but Hobart summoned three powerful allies and turned the battle against the attackers.

• Jonathan brought the defecting Gnostic Society members and their families to the Lord’s Manor, while Hobart arranged their reception and prepared them to relocate.
• Hobart promised fair advancement opportunities, expanded Helen’s team, and helped the defectors settle on Shipyard Island, where Jonathan and four others established the Gnostic Council.
• After a scout exposed their location, Hobart kept suspected spies under observation so the Demoness Church would send a larger force, and the group agreed to prepare for an attack.
• The Primordial Witch’s gaze caused a Witch pathway Extraordinary individual to mutate and die, while an arm from the Underworld seized Her lingering aura and petrified the resulting snakes.
• The Demoness Church sent six demigods to attack, but Hobart summoned the Black Hound Spirit Beast, Bull Demon King, and Overturning Sea Great Saint to join the defenders.
• Hobart and his allies defeated the Despair Witch and a Secrets Sorcerer, while the remaining four enemy demigods fled.

Hobart prepared for the Demoness Church’s expected retaliation and agreed to help Klein and Leonard fight Ince Zangwill. During the battle in Resurrection Square, Daly used Hobart’s rapier to summon an Underworld being, which turned away from Zangwill and focused on her instead.

• After the attack on Shipyard Island, Hobart kept the demigod Extraordinary Characteristics and told Jonathan that the Primordial Witch could not project enough power to threaten them.
• Hobart predicted the Demoness Church would retaliate against South Colson and left Shipyard Island for Backlund to prepare for Klein’s battle with Ince Zangwill.
• Above the Gray Fog, Klein told Hobart that he and Leonard would weaken Zangwill and asked Hobart to join the fight; Hobart agreed and traveled to the Southern Continent.
• Leonard and Daly reached Resurrection Square, where Klein’s marionette Ludwell drew Medici into the Underworld, separating him from the battle.
• Zangwill used Alesuhod’s Quill to transform and attack, while Klein’s lightning disrupted his attempts to escape and repeatedly awakened Daly and Leonard from his dream.
• Daly used Hobart’s rapier to summon an Underworld being, and Zangwill’s quill recorded that it abandoned him and turned its attention to Daly and the rapier.

Hobart, Klein, and Leonard defeated Ince Zangwill at Resurrection Square, and Hobart negotiated with Adam over the Black Emperor’s Uniqueness and a Sequence 1 Characteristic. Hobart then helped Daly escape the Underworld’s grasp and brought her to South Colson, where he urged her to begin a new life with Dunn.

• Hobart arrived at Resurrection Square and used 1-107 to prevent Ince Zangwill from sustaining his half-Mythical Creature state.
• Ince Zangwill tried to use 0-08 to summon reinforcements, but Hobart’s attacks and a misfortune from Klein left him vulnerable.
• Leonard, Klein, and Hobart attacked Zangwill in turn, and Klein delivered the final shot for the Captain.
• Adam accepted 0-08 and the Order Crystal, promising that the Black Emperor’s Uniqueness and a Sequence 1 Characteristic could reach the Creator’s hands.
• Daly was dragged into the Underworld, but Hobart followed a prearranged plan to conceal her whereabouts and strengthen her spirit body.
• Hobart brought Daly to South Colson and told her that Daly and Dunn had been resurrected and that she could begin a new life.

Klein mourned the apparent loss of Daly until Hobart brought him to Jeffrey City, where he saw Dunn Smith and Daly Simone alive and began to recover his hope. The next day, Hobart rallied the Balk, Tony, and Tudor Families for a large-scale Beyonder war in South Colson, set to begin in three days.

• Klein drank the Potion after Hobart told him Daly had gotten her revenge, then discovered above the Gray Fog that three Earth souls had escaped their cocoons.
• Hobart returned to the Country of Disorder, considered Adam’s suspicions about the Creator, and resolved to prepare for the butterfly effects of the Creator’s arrival.
• Hobart took the grief-stricken Klein to Jeffrey City’s tourism festival, where Klein saw Dunn Smith and Daly Simone alive on a train and joined the festivities with renewed hope.
• Hobart’s forces captured Gnostic Society and Demoness Church spies at the festival, and he prepared for retaliation by summoning the Messenger and recruiting the Balk, Tony, and Tudor Families for war.
• Hobart arranged for the three families to send their elite forces to South Colson in three days, then planned to meet Audrey for barbecue.

Hobart and Audrey were confronted by Orseya Tamara, who sought revenge for the Tamara Family, but escaped after The Fool and Beverly intervened. They returned to Hobart’s manor, where Selena revealed that her sister-in-law had given birth to an egg.

• Hobart explained to Audrey how Earl's Light would profit by controlling equipment, batteries, and electricity after releasing some manufacturing techniques.
• Orseya Tamara confronted Hobart over the deaths of her student and Tamara Family members, while Hobart admitted to killing them for their Extraordinary Characteristics and in self-defense.
• Audrey tried to leave for help, but Orseya trapped her; The Fool’s lightning gave Hobart a chance to escape with Audrey using chaotic movement.
• Orseya summoned Pedi Tamara, but Beverly recognized him, and Hobart used travel to flee with Audrey before Pedi could stop them.
• After The Fool’s intervention drove Orseya away and Pedi departed, Hobart and Audrey returned to his manor in Backlund.
• Selena told Hobart that her sister-in-law had given birth to an egg.

Selena brought Hobart to investigate her nephew, who had hatched from an egg and grown unnaturally fast, but the boy trapped Hobart and Audrey on a distant planet. After the planet’s ancient teleportation array failed to offer a safe route home, the Mist of Uncertainty’s shadow nearly drove them to madness, and the chapter left them injured and stranded as Hobart confessed his love to Audrey.

• Selena told Hobart that Vina had laid a silver-white egg, which hatched into a rapidly growing child who influenced the family into seeing nothing strange.
• Hobart and Audrey went to the Wood residence, where Hobart found the boy playing with a rag doll and heard him claim he had waited more than a thousand years for Hobart.
• The boy’s trap transported Hobart and Audrey to another planet, where they discovered an abandoned tower and learned from its murals that Mr. Door had once brought civilization there.
• Hobart activated the tower’s teleportation array, but the other end led to monstrous creatures, so he shut the connection and used the array’s sealed mode for shelter.
• The Mist of Uncertainty’s shadow nearly caused Hobart and Audrey to lose control, but Hobart activated the array and later healed them enough to wake.
• Audrey asked whether she was the woman Hobart loved, and Hobart admitted that he had loved her for a long time despite his marriage.

Hobart and Audrey escaped the Mist of Uncertainty’s planet with help from the Goddess of the Night, then returned to Earth and fought the boy fragment for control of the Country of Disorder. Hobart forced the boy out and sealed Trensoost again, but the threat remained beyond the Bronze Gate.

• Hobart and Audrey confessed their love and promised to marry if they made it back to Earth.
• Hobart used the Secrecy Fruit to reach the Goddess of the Night, who carried him and Audrey through the Mist of Uncertainty’s blockade and back to Earth.
• Hobart entered the Country of Disorder and used the Black Emperor card to prepare for the boy’s attempt to seize control.
• Hobart fought the boy with Sealed Artifacts while competing for control of the Country of Disorder.
• Trensoost kicked the boy out of the Bronze Gate, allowing Hobart to close it and seal Trensoost in the pool again.

After Hobart and Audrey survived the Mist of Uncertainty’s contamination, Hobart discovered Selena and her family had been murdered by the little boy and began mobilizing forces to hunt him. He also asked to marry Audrey, faced Fors’s anger over their relationship, and attended the Tarot Club, where Leonard joined as Mr. Star.

• Hobart removed the contamination from himself and Audrey, then found Selena and her family dead; Selena’s fused Extraordinary Characteristics had formed a Sealed Artifact that made people fall.
• Hobart learned from the Goddess of the Night that the little boy was concealed by rules, issued a 100,000-pound wanted notice, and told his allies to report the boy rather than confront him.
• Hobart asked Christine to propose marriage to Audrey, and Earl Hall agreed to announce their courtship; Fors told Hobart she would not visit Backlund and did not want Audrey on Longtail Island.
• Christine gave Hobart the Six-Whiskered Strange Beast Brain Fluid he needed for advancement, and Hobart gathered the remaining materials and planned to obtain Li Fish scale crystals.
• At the Tarot Club, Leonard joined as Star and mistook World for Klein; Hobart traded with Cattleya for Li Fish scale crystals, while Leonard asked for a Mystical Item without knowing what kind.

Leonard bought a Hunter-pathway Sealed Artifact from Hobart at the Tarot Club, where Hobart also sought alliances with the Mysterious Queen and the Sanguine. Klein revealed that Adam had moved closer to godhood after obtaining 0-08, while World disclosed his demigod status; Derrick then began reporting the result of Silver City’s exploration of the former Chief’s tomb.

• Leonard asked for an offensive, concealable Mystical Item, and Hobart offered him a Hunter-pathway pendant that Leonard bought for 10,000 Pounds through a sacrifice to Mr. Fool.
• Hobart asked Cattleya to arrange a meeting with the Mysterious Queen to discuss an alliance, then asked Emlyn to contact the Sanguine about an alliance as well.
• Alger reported that Ince Zangwill had been killed in West Balam and that 0-08’s whereabouts were unknown, prompting Mr. Fool to announce that Adam was closer to godhood.
• World revealed that he and a companion had killed Ince Zangwill, confirmed that Adam had obtained 0-08, and implied that he had become a demigod.
• Derrick reported that Silver City’s Council of Six had explored the former Chief’s tomb, where people who touched its hair-like growths dreamed of an inverted building and a feather-covered corpse.
• Derrick said the Chief had summoned him two days earlier, described a strange scene inside the tomb, and told him the result of the exploration.

At a Tarot Club gathering, Hobart explained the mystery of the black tubes found in Silver City's former Chief's tomb and used a transaction to recount Nether Emperor Salinger's history and the War of the Four Emperors. He ended by describing the Baylam Empire's invasion of the Northern Continent, which brought the Seven Gods together to stop the Pale Disaster.

• Derrick described the former Chief's mutated body, the severed black tubes, and Elder Loviya's shadow, prompting Hobart to connect the clues to the Eggs Family's Artificial Death plan.
• Hobart speculated that the tubes led toward the Underworld or an unknown route, warned that Silver City could not safely explore them, and offered Tarot Club members a transaction about Nether Emperor Salinger.
• Hobart recounted the fall of the Black Emperor, Blood Emperor, and Night Emperor, then explained Salinger's rise from a subordinate god to the God of Death and his ties to the Ancient Sun God and Redemption Rose.
• Hobart said Salinger had forced the Hunter pathway's Uniqueness into himself in an attempt to become an Ancient One, driving himself toward madness while increasing his strength.
• Hobart described the Primordial Witch's alliance with Salinger, the Seven Gods' political divisions, and the Baylam Empire's attack on the Northern Continent during the Pale Era.
• Hobart concluded that the Seven Gods had joined forces to stop the invasion, after the Baylam Empire had already unleashed the Pale Disaster across the Northern Continent.

At the Tarot Club, Hobart explained the history of Salinger’s defeat, the factions seeking his return, and his theory that Uniquenesses could awaken as living manifestations of the universe’s authority. He revealed that the Artificial Death God had disappeared and that the Goddess of the Night had likely taken the God of Death pathway’s Uniqueness, leaving Klein excited by the news.

• Hobart described how Salinger’s defeat led to the Stormy Sea and the rise of the Highland Kingdom, then explained the Baylam Empire’s Royal Family Faction and the Artificial Death God Faction.
• Hobart said the Artificial Death God Faction’s rituals had drawn responses from the God of Death pathway’s Uniqueness, and he proposed that Uniquenesses could awaken as forms of life.
• Hobart connected the Hidden Sage’s pursuit of Mystery Pryers to knowledge radiating from the universe, and Cattleya considered becoming a demigod or asking Mr. Fool for help.
• Hobart revealed that the Creator had reported the Artificial Death God’s aura had vanished and that the Goddess of the Night had likely obtained the God of Death pathway’s Uniqueness.
• Klein reacted with excitement when Hobart disclosed the Goddess of the Night’s acquisition, while Hobart privately noted that she wanted the world to know.

At the Tarot Club, Hobart explained the Goddess’s destruction of the Artificial Death, traded intelligence about the Zoroaster Family, and announced a hunt for a dangerous boy. After arranging allies for an impending war and receiving the Li Fish, Hobart advanced to Sequence 3, the Madness Magician, and then summoned Trensoost to discuss the Trensoost Family.

• Hobart told the Tarot Club that the Goddess had destroyed the Artificial Death and explained how it had caused Derrick’s former Chief’s advancement to fail.
• Hobart privately told Leonard about the Zoroaster Family’s support for Solomon and Pales Zoroaster’s long-running flight from Amon, while Emlyn asked the Club how to handle an important Sanguine visitor.
• Hobart issued a wanted notice for a boy he described as an evil god’s incarnation, then invited Sharon’s Temperance Faction and Klein to join an upcoming Extraordinary war.
• Derrick reported Hobart’s explanation to Colin, who rewarded him and agreed to provide six Sequence 7-level Extraordinary Materials.
• Hobart received the Li Fish, brewed the Madness Magician Potion, and advanced to Sequence 3 after resisting its disorienting effects with memories of Earl’s Light.
• Hobart examined his strengthened abilities, entered the Country of Disorder, and summoned Trensoost to discuss the Trensoost Family.

Trensoost explained how he arranged to resurrect through his descendants and revealed that Rex had died trying to free Hobart from the family bloodline. Hobart foiled Trensoost’s attempt to seize his memories, discovered new powers in the Country of Disorder, and arranged a mission to the God War Ruins before receiving a cryptic instruction from Klein.

• Trensoost told Hobart how the Mist of Uncertainty corrupted him, how he arranged to resurrect through the Trensoost bloodline, and why the family descendants could use only the Black Emperor pathway.
• Trensoost revealed that Rex had tried to trick him into resurrecting in Rex’s body, then used a ritual to change Hobart’s fate and sever him from the family, but the ritual killed Rex and scattered his Spiritual Body.
• Trensoost attempted to take Hobart’s memories, but the Goddess of the Night’s protection kept them secret; Hobart sent Trensoost away and resolved to seek Klein’s help in preventing the resurrection.
• Hobart explored his expanded control of the Country of Disorder and learned to create limited authority by exploiting the overflow of Uniqueness.
• Hobart arranged for Alger to take Lafite to the God War Ruins to find the horse running across the sea, and promised Lafite a boon for completing his potion digestion.
• Klein’s messenger delivered a letter telling Hobart to find a suitable reason to visit Doctor Allen Kris’s home.

Hobart secured the Sanguine’s tentative consideration for a war against the Witch Sect and learned that Bernadette wanted to meet him. When Fors and Xue were attacked by a Distorted whirlwind on Longtail Island, Hobart intervened and rushed to Fors, giving them a chance to reconnect.

• Hobart visited Doctor Allen and met the newly born Fate Serpent indirectly, then received Klein’s letter saying a high-level force made Hobart’s fate impossible to alter.
• Emlyn invited Hobart to meet Count Rosalind, and Hobart offered the Sanguine rewards for joining a Beyonder war against the Witch Sect; Rosalind said she needed time to consider.
• Sharon told Hobart that her side would join the war and send three demigods to the South Colson region.
• On Longtail Island, a Distorted ice-water whirlwind chased Fors and Xue, and Hobart halted it after hearing Fors pray to the Creator.
• Hobart hurried to Fors in a deliberately disheveled state, checked that she was unharmed, and sent her and Xue back to the Governor’s Office; Xue remarked on his concern, and Fors admitted she knew he cared.

Hobart gathered allies in South Colson for an impending war against the Witch Sect while continuing to plan Longtail Island’s development and drawing Xue closer to the Creator’s faction. As the assembled forces prepared for a war council, April arrived and offered to join the battle.

• Hobart returned from Longtail Island and persuaded Fors to discuss work regularly with him, while asking her to tell Xue that the Creator had noticed her and might offer her missions.
• Hobart visited Audrey and asked her to become Earl’s Light’s financial director, then recruited Christine to support the coming operation in South Colson.
• Hobart met the Clan Heads of the Balk, Tudor, and Tony Families, invited Bernadette and Dawn of Elements to join the war, and arranged for the Sanguine and Mr. World to attend a war council.
• On Friday, Fors and Hobart received the Temperance Faction of the Rose School, Dawn of Elements, and the Sanguine as allies arrived in South Colson.
• April arrived at the Lord’s Manor, said the Black Jade Ring had helped her through a difficult period, and announced that she had brought Extraordinary Power to fight the Witch Sect.

Klein, as Gehrman Sparrow, attended Hobart’s war council, where the assembled forces planned an assault on the Witch Sect’s headquarters and prepared to defend Jeffrey City. As the Witch Sect launched its first attacks, Hobart sensed a trap at the headquarters and sent the corpse of the Ancient Death God into the Country of Disorder.

• Klein arrived at the Lord’s Manor and joined more than twenty-five demigods and other representatives at Hobart’s operational meeting.
• Archibald outlined plans to counter the Witch Sect’s harassment and virus attacks, while Jonathan revealed the location of its Northern Continent headquarters.
• Hobart announced that angels would lead the assault and instructed the gathered forces to prepare; organizations prayed to the Creator and received batches of charms.
• On Sunday, the forces split into three groups and approached the Witch Sect headquarters as the Witch Sect prepared to contaminate Jeffrey City’s wells and soil.
• Corleff sent the first raiders to attack the wells, where Bishop Simpson’s team and Christine met them, and Christine executed a Traveler.
• Hobart sensed that the Witch Sect’s headquarters was suspiciously undefended, summoned the corpse of the Ancient Death God, infused it with the Power of Order, and sent it into the Country of Disorder.

Hobart unleashed the Ancient Death God's corpse against the Witch Sect's headquarters, destroying its traps and defeating the Primordial Witch's prepared power, but the corpse nearly turned on the allied forces before Hobart exhausted and resealed it. Klein's group pursued the fleeing Witch Sect members, and Klein ended the chapter under threat from an unseen Ageless Witch.

• The Creator's image warned the allied formations to lie down as the Ancient Death God's corpse appeared over the Witch Sect estate and killed nearby living beings.
• The corpse broke into the estate, survived the Witch Sect's ice-and-mirror trap, and helped Hobart destroy the Primordial Witch's statue and its projected power.
• A hair from the statue unleashed an apocalyptic illusion that affected Hobart and the corpse, after which the corpse charged toward Klein and the allied formations.
• Hobart repeatedly distorted the allies' locations to save them, redirected the corpse toward other targets, and sacrificed it into the Country of Disorder once its power ran out.
• Klein and his allies attacked fleeing Witch Sect members, and Klein spotted a woman rescuing an injured Witch through a corpse's eye before an unseen Ageless Witch began petrifying him.