Chapter Summaries

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.

Hobart defeated Tamara’s attempt to seize the Solomon Family’s Extraordinary Characteristics, then forced the surviving family members to pledge loyalty and gather their kin. He questioned Ol'Nia about Trensoost before ordering her judged, while Audrey helped conclude negotiations between the South Baylam Duchy and the Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun.

• Hobart and Tamara fought briefly in the Stone Chamber, but neither could defeat the other, and Tamara left.
• Hobart declared that Ryan Solomon was dead and ordered the surviving Solomon Family members to report to his residence within half a month.
• Lawrence led the Balk Family’s sacrificial Ritual, where Hobart noticed Stephanie was actually Ol'Nia and later questioned her about Trensoost’s resurrection.
• Hobart ordered Ol'Nia judged for killing a Balk Family member and told Angus to take her away for punishment.
• Audrey recognized that the Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun sought Extraordinary Characteristics during negotiations, and Helen secured its public expression of regret and renewed cooperation with Earl's Light.
• Hobart agreed to return the Bard pathway Characteristics in exchange for twice as many Lawyer or Judgement pathway Characteristics or Sealed Artifacts, and he explained to Audrey that both sides would keep cooperating in the Northern Continent while fighting in the Southern Continent.

Hobart used the collapse of Loen’s southern defenses to recruit skilled workers and buy factories and land in Constun at wartime prices, while his grain business supplied the cash for his acquisitions. After returning to the South Baylam Duchy, he prepared a mausoleum and received a Loen delegation led by Princess Alice, whose visit to Longtail Island revealed the duchy’s development and the transformation of its people.

• Hobart explained to Audrey that diplomacy was a contest over interests, then Earl Hall learned that the defensive line on the southern shore of the Sonia Sea had fallen.
• Hobart’s agents recruited Constun’s skilled workers for factories in the South Baylam Duchy and bought local industrial assets cheaply as Fosac’s army advanced.
• Todd reported that Earl’s Light had acquired extensive industrial properties, funded in part by Duke Grain Store’s profitable grain sales.
• Hobart returned to the South Baylam Duchy, continued its reforms, began building a mausoleum with rebel prisoners, and received word that Loen’s special envoy was coming.
• Audrey welcomed Princess Alice, Georgina, and their delegation, then arranged for Fors to show them Longtail Island’s irrigation works and fields.
• Alice recognized Adrien as the town chief and saw how the island’s development had transformed its people.

Fors and Audrey showed Loen’s delegation Longtail Island’s agricultural prosperity, Anjou City’s reconstruction, and the duchy’s policies toward the poor and indigenous people, prompting Alice and Georgina to fear Hobart’s growing influence. Hobart traded naval aid against the Fosac Fleet for the relocation of five major Loen universities, then stripped Servia of her powers, appointed Ivry captain of the Trensoost Empire Ship, and chose the ship as the site of his third mausoleum.

• Fors introduced the delegation to Longtail Island’s improved tropical fruits and cultivation base, hoping to open the Loen noble market.
• Audrey showed the delegation Anjou City’s reconstruction and an indigenous settlement, explaining the duchy’s relief efforts, lack of agricultural taxes, and policy of respecting indigenous people.
• Alice and Georgina discussed their unease about Hobart’s influence before meeting him; Hobart agreed to consider naval assistance in exchange for faculty and students from five Loen universities, and the Loen Kingdom accepted his terms.
• Hobart told Servia that Trensoost had revived elsewhere, stripped her of her captaincy and Chaos Hunter Extraordinary Characteristics, and had her replaced by Ivry.
• Hobart ordered Ivry to show him the unused spaces aboard the Trensoost Empire Ship and decided to build his third mausoleum there.

At the Tarot Club, Klein revealed that the First Creator’s barrier was protecting Earth from the Outer Gods but would eventually shatter, and Hobart shared further intelligence about the First. The gathering ended with Hobart arranging an Elven Ruins expedition with Alger and offering Derrick the Darkless Potion Recipe and a corresponding Sealed Artifact.

• Klein answered Cattleya’s questions, explaining that the First Creator’s barrier blocked the Outer Gods and that the apocalypse would come when the barrier shattered.
• Hobart traded intelligence about the First, describing Him as the origin of the world and its Extraordinary Characteristics, and suggesting that He split apart.
• Hobart privately told World that he had obtained a Star Worm and agreed to summon one of Klein’s Historical Projections; Klein invited Hobart to spend New Year on Longtail Island, but Hobart declined.
• Hobart and Alger agreed to explore the Elven Ruins around the second or third day after New Year.
• Derrick asked for the Darkless Potion Recipe and main ingredient, and Hobart offered the recipe and a Sealed Artifact corresponding to the Darkless level.

Hobart traded the Darkless Potion Recipe with Derrick and negotiated with Emlyn over a Witch King Characteristic and the weakened, resurrected Ol'Nia. The Tarot Club then discussed the South Baylam Duchy’s rising influence, the war and its enemies, and Hobart ended by declaring that the duchy planned to destroy the Highland Kingdom.

• Hobart gave Derrick the Darkless Potion Recipe in exchange for three whole demigod-level extraordinary creatures, and revealed that Darkless’s Sealed Artifact was a relic of the Ancient Sun God.
• Hobart offered Emlyn a Witch King Characteristic for an Arbiter- or Lawyer-pathway item of the same level, then proposed trading the punished and weakened Ol'Nia to the Sanguine.
• Hobart confirmed that Loen’s five renowned universities were relocating to the South Baylam Duchy through a transaction with the Royal Family, and described the duchy’s expanding schools, healthcare, and opportunities for people from the lower classes.
• Hobart explained that Loen’s leaders underestimated the South Baylam Duchy’s industrial strength, while Audrey shared intelligence about the Royal Family and Parliament dismissing the South Baylam Threat Theory.
• Alger reported that Trensoost had secretly assisted the Intis fleet, and Hobart recounted the South Baylam civil war before saying the duchy planned to destroy the Highland Kingdom.