Chapter Summaries

Hobart’s forces overwhelmed the Witch Sect’s demigods, but several Ageless Witches summoned angels as they neared defeat. The battle spread across three angel-level fronts, and Hobart discovered that Beverly’s opponent was Peidi Tamara, the Duke of Entropy.

• Hobart and three summoned monsters attacked the Ageless Witch facing Klein, while Sharon and the others pursued a Despair Witch into the Mirror World; the Ageless Witch resurrected through a prepared marionette and escaped.
• Hobart joined Bernadette and Barnett’s forces against Lakelis, the Witch of Black, and helped nearly drive her to Loss of Control before a Calamity Witch emerged from a mirror.
• Hobart summoned the Holy Infant King to confront the Calamity Witch, while Lawrence prayed to the Creator and received the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord’s protection against another descending angel.
• The White Saintess, Katerina, recognized that the Witch Sect’s plans had gone awry as its forces summoned angels across the battlefields.
• Hobart was ambushed by a Calamity Witch but escaped with help from Beverly, who had recovered and was fighting another invisible angel.
• Beverly’s battlefield revealed Raymond and Peidi Tamara, the Duke of Entropy, as the opposing side’s reinforcements.

Hobart coordinated reinforcements as the Witch Sect launched counterattacks across the battlefield, while defenders in Jeffrey City repelled two waves of attackers and killed Corleff and the Despair Witch. With the front lines reinforced, the Creator’s side gained the advantage, and the Holy Infant King shattered the Calamity Witch, though a marionette escaped into the Mirror World.

• Beverly and Raymond fought Sherry and Pedi, while Hobart sent the Overturning Sea Great Saint and the Black Hound Spirit Beast to reinforce the Tudor Family’s embattled formation.
• Christine and Simpson killed or incapacitated most of the first wave’s Travelers, while Doffis, Helen, and April’s forces confronted Corleff’s second wave in Jeffrey City.
• Archibald’s elongated whistle summoned defenders to the battle, where Christine, April, Doffis, and the fire-wielding man killed the Despair Witch and Corleff.
• Archibald sent the Tony Family’s forces and April’s reinforcements to the front lines, where Hobart’s Distortion reversed the balance of power and the Creator declared victory.
• The Creator amplified the Calamity Witch’s frozen condition, allowing the Holy Infant King to shatter It, but Hobart failed to stop a marionette from escaping into the Mirror World.
• Hobart took the Holy Infant King to reinforce the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord’s battlefield.

Hobart and the Creator’s forces defeated the Witch Sect in a sweeping campaign, killing the Calamity Witch and the Witch of Black while Sherry and Pedi escaped. After the victory, Hobart secured the spoils, hosted allies in South Colson, and began examining a new Level 0 Sealed Artifact as questions about his mother and Trensoost’s resurrection remained unresolved.

• Hobart helped the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord and Holy Infant King defeat the Calamity Witch, but her remaining consciousness escaped as a venomous snake, leaving a Porcelain Doll Sealed Artifact behind.
• Sherry tried to steal the Porcelain Doll, but Hobart, Raymond, Pedi, and Beverly forced her to flee; Pedi also escaped, while the other allied combatants withdrew to support the wider battle.
• Hobart used Connection to sever Lakelis’s resurrection arrangements, allowing the Black Hound Spirit Beast to send the Witch of Black’s spirit into the Underworld and leave behind a black ring Sealed Artifact.
• The Creator’s forces pursued the Witch Sect across several countries until evening, while Philip I ordered Feneport to draw closer to Hobart and investigate the Witch Sect.
• Hobart celebrated with his allies, exchanged spoils with Simpson and Christine, learned that Trensoost’s resurrection method was tied to his bloodline Curse, and saw Klein off.
• After the visitors left, Hobart entered the Country of Disorder and examined the Creator’s second Level 0 Sealed Artifact.

After the Creator’s forces defeated the Witch Sect, Hobart divided the spoils and pursued lasting alliances with the Sanguine, the Temperance Faction, Dawn of Elements, and the Tony Family. The Loen Royal Family also moved to secure Hobart’s support, leaving the Creator’s rise as a major factor in the coming political struggle.

• Hobart named the porcelain doll Sealed Artifact 0-71 Disaster Porcelain Doll and offered 1-101 to the Goddess of the Night, who accepted it and said Hobart would owe Her a future service.
• Simpson reported the Witch Sect’s defeat to the Earth Mother Church, which resolved to maintain cooperation with the Creator while its angels wondered whether Hobart’s resemblance to Rex was a coincidence.
• Hobart exchanged spoils with Rosalind, Sharon, and Bernadette, proposed deeper cooperation with their organizations, and offered the Temperance Faction protection and rewards for sending fifteen Beyonders to serve under him.
• Osmon traded the Tony Family’s spoils, including an Ageless Witch characteristic, for the chance to form a squad loyal to the Creator and Hobart’s promise to help him complete the War Bishop Ritual.
• William I promoted Hobart to General and granted him a Lower House seat, ordered Georgina to pursue an alliance with him, and directed the Royal Family to keep cooperating secretly with the Witch Sect.

Hobart organized the spoils of war, rewarded his allies, and advanced the Creator’s plans to build power in the Southern Continent. The chapter ended with Adam questioning the Creator’s origins and Klein discovering a familiar food at South Colson’s Harvest Festival.

• Hobart compensated Barnett and reorganized the Tudor Family’s forces, while Barnett chose to form a new Extraordinary team.
• Hobart welcomed Lawrence as an Attendant of God, and the Creator ordered him to gather the Balk Family’s forces and prepare for a nation-building project in the Southern Continent.
• Hobart received spoils and requests from the Gnostic Council, then promised future slots and announced plans for two Research Societies.
• At the Tarot Club, Mr. World confirmed the Creator’s victory over the Witch Sect and described the forces and Angel-level battles involved.
• April gave Hobart a dangerous bone cabinet as a return gift, and Hobart distributed rewards and assignments to his teams, the military, Doffis, and Archibald.
• Adam inspected the Witch Sect’s ruined headquarters and wondered about the Creator’s origin, while Klein later recognized a roujiamo at the Harvest Festival.

At South Colson’s Harvest Festival, Hobart discussed the territory’s policies, helped Lafite digest his Potion, and tested the Sun God’s Chariot before publicly confirming his relationship with Audrey at a ball. The chapter ended with Earl Hall warning Hobart that the Gas Association planned to ask Parliament to restrict electric lighting on environmental grounds.

• Hobart showed Lawrence and the other demigods South Colson’s farms and explained how his policies supported farmers and affordable produce.
• Klein spoke with a former vagrant farmer about Poverty Alleviation, while Xue asked Hobart when the Creator would give her a task.
• Brandon Zaratul offered Earl’s Light a chance to build factories in Intis and warned Hobart that the Zaratul Clan Head had returned as a Sequence 1 angel.
• Lafite completed his Potion digestion after witnessing the Sun God’s Chariot, and Hobart later summoned the chariot and tested its powers.
• Hobart and Audrey publicly announced their relationship at a ball and danced together, drawing congratulations and jealous reactions from the Nobles.
• Earl Hall told Hobart that the Gas Association planned to ask Parliament to restrict the electric light industry, claiming it was not environmentally friendly.

Hobart faced growing opposition to Earl's Light, investigated the Aurora Society, and used Extraordinary Characteristics to uncover Potion Recipes and clues about his missing memories. He planned an Electric Revolution and a Southern Continent nation, then received Feneport’s rewards for victory before preparing to attend the Tarot Club with Fors.

• At the ball, Hobart told Audrey that the gas industry’s complaints about Earl's Light were driven by lost profits, while nobles left early over their relationship; Hobart and Audrey affirmed their commitment to each other.
• At Military Intelligence Section 9, Hobart reviewed Aurora Society files and told Georgina he was investigating links between the society and the Witch Sect; Georgina invited him to a ball and said he would receive his rank the following Wednesday.
• In the Country of Disorder, Hobart counted the war spoils, used Connection to recover Witch pathway Potion Recipes and the Ancient Scholar recipe, and realized his memories of his pre-transmigration life had unexplained gaps.
• Hobart studied the Black Emperor rituals and planned to use an Electric Revolution to create social upheaval, build wealth, and eventually establish a nation in the Southern Continent.
• Princess Aishe brought Hobart Feneport’s rewards for the victory, including relaxed restrictions on South Colson and funding for a railway to Jeffrey City; she also asked about Castile Family members believing in the Creator.
• Hobart visited Fors at Green Manor on Tuesday and stayed until the Tarot Club was about to begin, telling her to lie down so they could attend.

Fors and Hobart attended the Tarot Club together, where Hobart traded with Klein and other members and revealed secrets about his curse, Rosell’s contamination, and the Abyss. He left the gathering having identified a possible way to confront Trensoost and begun explaining how Fauvety’s struggle with the Desire Mother Tree created the Cosmic Dark Side.

• Hobart and Fors arrived at the Tarot Club together, and World sold the Fishman Cufflink to Hobart for 1,500 Pounds and the Green Bloom ring to him for 1,200 Pounds.
• Hobart traded the Ancient Scholar potion recipe to Klein for future help against Trensoost, revealing that Trensoost would resurrect inside him when he reached Sequence 2.
• Hobart suggested that Klein help restrain the dangerous boy who also threatened Trensoost, and he traded the Tyrant card for a pair of Eye of the Fugen Hound.
• Hobart told Cattleya that Rosell’s contamination could not currently be removed and that Creator might later seek Bernadette’s help in finding Rosell.
• Hobart sold the Tarot Club members Abyss intelligence, explaining its connection to the Criminal pathway, Fauvety, the Ancient Gods, and the Desire Mother Tree.
• Hobart revealed that Fauvety split Himself apart after realizing He would lose His struggle against the Desire Mother Tree, and that the divided part became the Cosmic Dark Side.

At the Tarot Club, Hobart explained Fauvety’s struggle with the Desire Mother Tree and discussed the Abyss, while Klein began organizing a secret hunt for an Amon avatar in Backlund. The gathering also covered cooperation with the Sanguine, the Witch Sect’s defeat, and Derrick’s advancement ritual before it ended with Fors asking Hobart for a Fishman Cufflink.

• Hobart explained that Fauvety split off the Cosmic Dark Side to distract the Desire Mother Tree, whose influence had corrupted the Abyss and driven demons to pray to Fauvety.
• Klein told Hobart and Leonard that he had encountered an Amon avatar near Backlund, and the three discussed secretly hunting it with help from the Goddess of the Night and allied angels.
• Emlyn asked for advice about the Sanguine investigating him, and Hobart proposed that Emlyn explain his connection to Emperor while the Creator’s faction staged a measured punishment of the Sanguine who had provoked him.
• Hobart reported that the Creator’s forces had badly defeated the Witch Sect, killed one of its angels, and nearly destroyed the Gnostic Society during a battle involving eight angels.
• Derrick asked for help creating safe darkness for his Priest of Light advancement ritual, and Klein agreed to investigate and test a method with him.
• After the Tarot Club ended, Fors asked Hobart for a Fishman Cufflink.

Hobart arranged support for the World’s hunt for an Amon avatar, sent Xue to find two Aurora Society members, and helped Audrey advance to Sequence 6 as a Hypnotist. After presenting Audrey with two powerful Mystical Items and earning her family’s approval, he answered a prayer from Lawrence of the Balk Family.

• Hobart used Mr. Fool to tell the World that the Creator would help with the hunt for an Amon avatar, and the World accepted the offer.
• Hobart ordered Xue to find two Aurora Society members in Backlund, and Fors encouraged Xue to leave while assuring her that Longtail Island was safe.
• Hobart prepared a Hypnotist Potion for Audrey, who advanced to Sequence 6 and received a Light Priest Ring and a Guardian bracelet.
• Hobart discussed his plans for creating a middle class with Earl Hall, Audrey, and Hibbert at dinner, winning the family’s approval.
• After returning home, Hobart entered the Country of Disorder in response to Lawrence’s prayer and saw Lawrence with three Balk Family members.

Hobart prepared to expand his operations by planning new transportation methods and discussing the unification of the Southern Continent with Audrey, while Eris seized control of the Black Emperor and declared himself the new King of the Five Seas. The chapter left Eris recalling a clue about a lamp and Hobart preparing to counter the Gas Association’s challenge to Earl’s Light.

• Lawrence selected Leon to receive the Creator’s Sequence 4 Extraordinary Characteristic, then summoned the Balk Family elders after Hobart requested a demigod for a task in Backlund.
• Hobart planned to build teleportation arrays, gathered gemstones from Rex’s hidden treasure, and arranged for Doffis to buy more crystals and diamonds.
• Eris took control of the Black Emperor by exploiting his connection to the Solomon bloodline, defeated Naster’s escape attempt, and claimed the title of King of the Five Seas.
• Eris ordered the Black Emperor to turn toward Longtail Island, then stopped after recalling a clue about a lamp.
• Hobart told Audrey he planned to unify the Southern Continent and showed her Earl’s Light’s power plant.
• Audrey learned that the power plant’s cooling towers released water vapor, while Hobart planned to counter the Gas Association by reporting on the pollution and hazards of gas.

Hobart toured Earl's Light with Audrey, planned the company’s expansion into Intis, and arranged a mission to capture the Sanguine Ounes Boyar. The chapter ends as Chester appears inside Ounes’s carriage while Emlyn is lured toward Harvest Church.

• Hobart amplified a breeze to tear open Backlund’s smog, then showed Audrey Earl’s Light’s factories, electrician school, and distribution system.
• Hobart appointed Audrey financial director and organized a response to the Gas Association’s protest while setting plans to build factories in the Intis Republic.
• Hobart recruited Chester and two Sequence 5 members to help Emlyn capture Ounes Boyar, and Audrey agreed to hypnotize the target during the operation.
• Hobart received the rank of General and was offered a seat in the House of Commons, which he said he would give to someone else.
• Emlyn prayed to Hobart for the operation to begin, and a Balk Family member distorted the coachman’s thoughts as Chester appeared inside Ounes’s carriage.

Hobart’s group successfully retaliated against the Sanguine by hypnotizing Ounes into entering Harvest Church and surrendering his valuables, then established cooperation with the Sanguine and prepared campaigns on Longtail Island. Meanwhile, Audrey met Psychological Alchemy Society council member Herwin Rambis, who invaded her Mind World and asked whether she had told Hobart about the society.

• Audrey, Cheers, and Chester used chaos and hypnosis to send Ounes into Harvest Church, while a Balk Family member collected his valuables and escaped into the Spirit World.
• Hobart returned the paired ring to Emlyn, distributed the other spoils, and helped Lord Bradley obtain a seat in the House of Commons.
• Hobart and Nibais Audra confirmed cooperation against believers of the Original Moon, with the Sanguine promising forces for future wars led by Hobart.
• Hobart organized Longtail Island’s forces for a campaign against the Mountain God Church and tested an Honorific Name that let him hear prayers within ranges centered on Longtail Island and South Colson.
• Herwin Rambis met Audrey at Stephen Humphrey’s home, entered her Mind World, and asked whether she had told Hobart about the Psychological Alchemy Society.

Audrey was hypnotized by Herwin Rambis into spying on Hobart, but she reported the encounter and accepted Hobart’s offer to lead his Witch Research Society. Hobart then showed her the brutal conditions in a Southern Continent colony and explained his plan to spend money there on improvements that would save lives.

• Herwin Rambis asked Audrey to monitor Hobart and Earl's Light, then hypnotized her to forget their conversation and report through the Psychological Alchemy Society.
• Audrey reconstructed her memories, told Hobart what Herwin had asked her to do, and discussed her doubts about the Society.
• Hobart invited Audrey to become president of the Witch Research Society, and she agreed to help establish it.
• Hobart explained his theory that love and humanity helped Beyonders resist the influence of their Potions and Extraordinary Characteristics.
• Hobart took Audrey to a Southern Continent colony, where she saw enslaved farmers suffering under Fosac overseers.
• Hobart revealed plans to spend 150,000 pounds on the colony, including bribes, farming tools, workshops, housing, food, and land for its people.

Hobart recruited Xue into the Creator’s faction, then killed Herwin Rambis and seized several spoils, including the dangerous Sealed Artifact Rotten Meteor. The next morning, Christine and Brandon led Hobart to inherit his father’s extraordinary legacy, beginning with clues about the Duke of Entropy’s Extraordinary Characteristic.

• Hobart reviewed Xue’s investigation and appointed her to gather intelligence, assigning her to find Herwin Rambis’s residence and investigate more Aurora Society members.
• Hobart visited Herwin’s home, fought him, and killed him with help from the Disaster Porcelain Doll, then rescued people buried by the explosion and took Herwin’s Extraordinary Characteristics and Sealed Artifacts.
• Boli Delrao arrived after Hobart left and learned through the Mind World why Herwin had been killed, then departed without challenging the Creator’s faction.
• Hobart examined Herwin’s spoils in the Country of Disorder and discovered that Rotten Meteor could corrode it, so he sealed the artifact with an Order Crystal and considered its possible links to the Decay Monarch and the Goddess of the Night.
• Christine and Brandon took Hobart into a primeval forest and opened a hidden stairway, where Christine told him that he must first inherit clues about the Duke of Entropy’s Extraordinary Characteristic.

Hobart learned about several Duke of Entropy Characteristics and inherited Rex’s records and the Trensoost Family’s treasures. He then questioned Trensoost, who revealed that nine Characteristics existed and began explaining their history and whereabouts.

• Christine told Hobart that the Balk Family’s Sealed Artifact and a sealed angel’s remains on Longtail Island were two leads to Duke of Entropy Characteristics, and Brandon revealed he had found a possible direct descendant of the Nether Emperor in Tingen.
• Christine and Brandon opened the Stone Door and gave Hobart Rex’s inheritance, including a Trensoost Family emblem, valuable materials, and Rex’s final notes urging him to seek his mother’s help and resolve the family Curse.
• Hobart read Rex’s message, found the notes in Box No. 6, and resolved to end the family Curse before traveling to Backlund and summoning Trensoost in the Country of Disorder.
• Trensoost told Hobart that nine independent Duke of Entropy Characteristics existed and traced several to Solomon, the True Creator, the Trensoost Family, and the Stormy Sea.
• Trensoost explained that Megli’s Characteristic remained sealed with her corpse after the Nether Emperor had her killed to prevent a divine trap involving unknown contamination.
• Trensoost said he and Tudor had each expelled one Duke of Entropy Characteristic after becoming gods, and Hobart asked how that was possible.

Hobart learned from Trensoost where many Black Emperor and Balancer Characteristics were held, then studied Rex’s notes and developed theories about the family curse, April, and the relationship between the Country of Disorder and the Mist of Uncertainty. Audrey interrupted his research with news that everyone at Herwin Rambis’s villa had died in a gas explosion.

• Trensoost explained that gods generally kept three Sequence 2 Characteristics, could expel only those beyond that number, and limited their churches to three angels to reduce the risk of betrayal.
• Trensoost traced the known Black Emperor and Balancer Characteristics, including those held by the True Creator, the Tamara Family, the Balk Family, and the Augustus and Castile families.
• Hobart decided to seek Megli’s Beyonder Characteristic first, rejected a plan to let Trensoost revive inside Lawrence, and studied Rex’s notes on the family curse and April’s possible connection to the Earth Mother Church.
• Rex’s notes led Hobart to consider using Klein’s grafting abilities to evade the curse and to speculate that Order-related pathways were incomplete and that his pathway might be adjacent to the Mist of Uncertainty’s.
• Audrey told Hobart that everyone in Herwin Rambis’s villa had died in a gas explosion.

Hobart destroyed the Mountain God Church on Longtail Island and used the resulting unrest to advance his Potion digestion, but the Mountain God never appeared. He later traced Megli’s power to a sealed cave and discovered that the being inside the cocoon was an evil spirit.

• Audrey confronted Hobart over Herwin Rambis’s death and the servants who died, and Hobart explained his choices while reaffirming their relationship.
• Hobart attended Georgina’s gathering, danced with Princess Alice, and clarified that he intended to leave Backlund with Audrey.
• Hobart led the campaign that wiped out the Mountain God Church, using blizzards and military tactics to force its members from hiding, though the Mountain God did not intervene.
• Hobart’s harsh measures sparked mass unrest on Longtail Island and helped digest nearly one-third of his Potion before land reform restored order.
• Fors and Hobart connected the Mountain God’s earlier appearance to the Teleport Stone Statue and learned that Megli’s power came from an entrance to the Underworld.
• Hobart entered the sealed cave through the Underworld entrance and saw the black-shadowed evil spirit inside Megli’s cocoon.

Hobart and the Black Hound Spirit Beast defeated Megli’s evil spirit and secured the “Duke of Entropy” Extraordinary Characteristics. In the Country of Disorder, Hobart discovered that Megli’s lingering spiritual remnants also remained in the characteristics and the badge, leaving him to wonder whether they could form another Angel.

• Hobart examined the sealed cocoon and identified the pale-blue liquid as the “Duke of Entropy” Extraordinary Characteristics, while finding no corpse of Megli.
• Hobart released the Black Hound Spirit Beast and removed the seal, but Megli’s evil spirit used Exploitation to disrupt his attempt to move the characteristics away.
• Hobart and the Black Hound Spirit Beast fought the evil spirit as it wielded abilities through its Connection to the characteristics, and Hobart eventually covered the characteristics with an Order Crystal to cut off that power.
• Hobart used another Order Crystal to suppress the badge sustaining the evil spirit, allowing the Black Hound Spirit Beast to destroy it; he then left the underwater cave with the spoils.
• In the Country of Disorder, Hobart found that the pale-blue contamination surrounding the characteristics had strengthened the Rotten Meteor, and he considered whether the God of Combat or the Goddess of the Night had been involved in the Nether Emperor’s contamination.
• Hobart heard Megli’s laugh from both the “Duke of Entropy” characteristics and the badge, and realized that her preserved spiritual remnants might amount to another Angel.

Hobart used the Solomon Family badge to take over the Mountain God's connection with its believers, redirecting their faith to himself as the Lord of Longtail Island and stabilizing his rule. The chapter ends as Klein and Leonard confronted Amon's avatar in a Secrecy World, with Hobart and Pales intervening in the battle.

• Hobart named the Sealed Artifact 1-113, the Solomon Family badge, and used the Country of Disorder's pool to find and sever its threads to the Mountain God's believers.
• Hobart announced a new Honorific Name and answered the natives' prayers, directing former Mountain God believers to worship him as the Blessed of the Creator and Lord of Longtail Island.
• Hobart handled the flood of prayers, told Conrad to observe the natives, and told Angus that the Creator had destroyed the Mountain God and bestowed its connection to him.
• Hobart and Fors discussed the streetwalker business, agreeing to protect the women in Tuthuga Port and provide training and other support.
• Hobart noticed that natives had begun repeating his Ruen phrases and saluting him, then entered the Country of Disorder after sensing Klein's prayer.
• Amon's avatar revealed that it had stolen Klein's marionette Enuni and tried to seize Klein, but Klein, Leonard, Hobart, and Pales countered its attacks as the fight unfolded in a Secrecy World.