Chapter Summaries

Hobart confronted Zaratul, Amon, Sua, and Trensoost while Trensoost’s coronation assassination unfolded on Oak Island. Hobart reached William I’s battlefield, where he appeared to turn against him by stabbing him with the Kingslayer Sword.

• Hobart exposed Zaratul’s coronation hall illusion, and Mr. Fool restrained Zaratul while Amon watched without joining the fight.
• Hobart countered Zaratul, Sua, and Trensoost with his abilities and the Brass Book of Rules, then revealed that he had used himself to keep Trensoost occupied while William I was targeted.
• Trensoost left for Oak Island, followed by Hobart, while Zaratul, Sua, Lilith, and Mr. Fool departed the ruined hall.
• On Oak Island, William I’s allies fought the Death Archons, Sherry, Tamara, and the Pale Empress as they attempted to protect him.
• Hobart arrived and disrupted Trensoost’s division of the battlefield, then pierced William I’s chest with the Kingslayer Sword.

Hobart killed William I, declared South Baylam independent as the Atlantis Kingdom, and was crowned king alongside Audrey and Fors. As international tensions peaked, he accommodated the Black Emperor Uniqueness, became a King of Angels, and seized Tamara’s Kingslayer Prince characteristic.

• Hobart used the Kingslayer Sword to kill William I, took the Hand of Order characteristic from Trensoost, and ended the alliance with Loen.
• Benson announced South Baylam’s withdrawal from the League of Nations and independence; the duchy was renamed the Atlantis Kingdom.
• Hobart was crowned king at the Earth Cathedral, while Arianna crowned Audrey and Klein crowned Fors.
• After the coronation, Trensoost and his allies confronted Hobart in the mountains as his supporters and the gods’ factions gathered to prevent interference.
• Hobart accommodated the Black Emperor Uniqueness in his mausoleum and gained the powers of a King of Angels.
• Hobart found Tamara praying at an altar, extracted her Kingslayer Prince characteristic, and left her in mortal danger.

Hobart took Tamara’s Extraordinary Characteristics and confronted Trensoost, but Amon intervened to stop him from killing Trensoost or damaging the Pas Kingdom. After returning Anrelu City and consulting the Earth Mother, Hobart formed plans concerning Amon and the Baylam Empire, while Medici’s forces pursued the retreating Baylam army.

• Hobart drew the Kingslayer Prince Extraordinary Characteristic from Tamara, interrupted the Mist of Uncertainty’s influence, and killed Her before taking Her contaminated Balancer Extraordinary Characteristic.
• Hobart attacked Trensoost in Caesar Port, but Amon appeared and negotiated a pause in the conflict in exchange for returning Anrelu City.
• Hobart caught Anrelu City as it fell, restored it to its place, altered the residents’ memories, and received a shining stalk of wheat from the Earth Mother.
• Hobart concluded that Amon wanted to limit the Creator’s forces, then devised plans targeting Amon and the Baylam Empire.
• Medici learned that Hobart’s campaign had achieved its goal and ordered the Atlantis Kingdom’s forces to pursue the retreating Baylam army toward Selvas.

Medici’s victories left the Baylam Empire and Pas Kingdom locked in a stalemate, while Hobart prepared to draw the Northern Continent into a wider war. At the Tarot Club, the members learned that several Beyonder Pathways were linked to the starry sky, settled plans for Leonard’s advancement, and heard Hobart declare that reconciliation had ended.

• Medici’s forces trapped and routed the Baylam Imperial Army, then withdrew to three cities and left the war in a stalemate.
• Hobart told Medici to prepare a Southern Continent-wide war and planned to provoke the Northern Continent into sending its elite forces south.
• Hobart promised Audrey a path toward becoming an angel and attended the Tarot Club gathering with her.
• The Fool explained that the First One was aggregating and that the Moon, Cultivator, Prisoner, Criminal, Lawyer, and Arbiter Pathways had connections to the starry sky and Outer Deities.
• Emlyn questioned the gendered names of high-sequence Potions, Leonard reported that the Night Church had approved a transaction that could let him become an angel, and the members discussed Utopia and Silver City’s adjustment to life outside.
• Hobart warned that the Northern Continent and Atlantis Kingdom might soon go to war, then told The World that the Iron Curtain had fallen.

Hobart explained why Atlantis Kingdom and Loen were headed for war, then met foreign envoys to secure allies and press his political aims. After his meetings, news spread that Princess Aishe had become Queen of Feneport with Atlantis Kingdom’s support, alarming Northern Continent rulers.

• Hobart told the Tarot Club that William I had been killed after Trensoost tried to seize his Extraordinary Characteristics, and he offered Cattleya a path toward angelhood through clues to adjacent-pathway characteristics and a Potion Recipe.
• Hobart gave Audrey a month of leave and advised her to stay at the family estate in East Chester County rather than return to Backlund.
• Hobart met Princess Aishe and offered an angel’s help in her bid for the Feneport throne if she introduced Atlantis Kingdom’s political system and established a cabinet.
• Hobart rejected Princess Alice’s attempt to discuss William I’s death and told her that war was now the only way to settle the countries’ differences; he also refused Intis’s request for early release of its prisoners of war unless it paid its reparations in full.
• With Atlantis Kingdom’s support, Fernando II abdicated and Princess Aishe became Queen of Feneport, unsettling the Northern Continent’s political elites.

As the Northern and Southern Continent neared war, Hobart accompanied Bernadette to the Primordial Island, where she discovered that its dead creatures and her father’s former Knights had returned in altered forms. Bernadette and Hobart entered Rosell’s mausoleum to investigate his prophesied resurrection, and a shadow appeared beside the throne, calling her his little Princess.

• Northern Continent nations increased their aid to the Pas Kingdom after Hobart announced that it had only four months left, while the churches remained neutral in the conflict.
• Bernadette reached the Primordial Island with Hobart’s support and found its creatures worshipping an empty shrine; she then witnessed dead creatures revive near a stone pillar.
• Bernadette encountered Edwards, who revealed that he had returned to the island to guard Rosell’s mausoleum and warned her that the other Knights had become monsters.
• Bernadette prophesied that Rosell’s resurrection would be disastrous, and the Fallen Mother Goddess’s influence caused a rapidly growing fetus to appear inside her before Hobart removed it.
• The island’s trees and creatures surged toward the mausoleum, so Bernadette and Hobart entered it and approached Rosell’s throne.
• Hobart weakened the influence of the starry sky inside the mausoleum, and a black shadow appeared beside the throne and invited Bernadette closer.

Hobart met the polluted Rosell and arranged for Bernadette to seal him, then helped her advance to Sequence 2. Later, Hobart visited Klein in Utopia, strengthened the city’s connection to the Spirit World, and left Sharon there to strengthen her humanity.

• Bernadette found Rosell on Primordial Island, where Hobart temporarily suppressed his pollution and explained a plan to save him with Klein’s help.
• Rosell revealed that the Lamp Genie could help block the Lord of the Mysteries during Hobart’s advancement and shared warnings about the Black Emperor pathway’s vulnerability to Outer Deities.
• Bernadette sealed Rosell with Pale Death, then drank the Sage Potion and became a Sequence 2 angel as Hobart diverted the Hidden Sage’s interference.
• Hobart met Klein in Utopia, discussed Rosell and their homesickness, and strengthened the city’s connection to the Spirit World, bringing Klein’s Ritual close to completion.
• After Hobart left, Sharon arrived at the restaurant, and Klein understood that she was the friend Hobart had sent to Utopia.

Daisy spent a warm evening with Freya, Dennis, and Hobart, while Audrey returned to East Chester County and encountered the ancient Mind Dragon Erihogg in a dream. Hobart killed Erihogg and secured its Angel-level Characteristic, and the chapter ended with Audrey and Hobart near Hedlak Village as its dragon statues collapsed.

• Daisy came home to find Hobart visiting and joined Freya and Dennis for dinner, where Hobart encouraged her to communicate more and keep up with her studies.
• The Atlantis Kingdom and Loen exchanged increasingly harsh warnings and accusations over their involvement in the Southern Continent.
• Audrey recognized the danger of Hedlak Village and subtly persuaded Alfred and Hibbert to turn back rather than stay at a nearby estate.
• Audrey woke inside a strange dream, met the Mind Dragon Erihogg, and used Hobart's Order Crystal to summon his guidance.
• Hobart appeared in the dream, killed Erihogg, and collected its Extraordinary Characteristic, giving Susie the Characteristic she needed to advance to demigodhood.
• Hobart joined Audrey at the Hall estate, and the next day servants reported that Hedlak Village's dragon statues had collapsed, leaving its villagers grieving.

Hobart and Audrey shared a vacation before Hobart attended the first Harvest Festival and visited Tyrone and Melissa in the countryside. After investigating the Mark Couple’s deaths, Hobart defeated a dangerous woman and mass of hair in the Mirror World, but the chapter ended when the dead couple appeared at the farmhouse doorway.

• Hobart and Audrey dreamed of the City of Miracles, and Hobart suspected that a symbol planted in Audrey during her earlier exploration had affected them both.
• Hobart attended Longtail Island’s first Harvest Festival, then ordered Xue to investigate the Baylam Empire after interpreting the dream as a warning of danger.
• Hobart visited Tyrone and Melissa in their rural postings, where they learned that Mark’s wife had killed him and then herself.
• Hobart found a cursed mass of hair in a mirror, entered the Mirror World, and burned it and a pale woman with the Dusk Scepter.
• Hobart let Tyrone and Melissa stay while he searched for further danger, but Tyrone woke to see the dead Mark Couple entering the farmhouse.

Hobart defeated Sherry and drove the Witch Sect into ruin before Atlantis began its war against the Baylam Empire and Hagerty Kingdom. As the campaign forced the Northern Continent allies into a decisive confrontation, Hobart caught one of Amon’s avatars in Roclier City.

• Hobart protected Tyrone and Melissa in the Mirror World, located Sherry, and killed her after rejecting the Witch Sect’s offer of cooperation.
• The Primordial Witch attacked Hobart, but the Earth Mother appeared to help him drive her away, and Hobart later seized Sherry’s Extraordinary Characteristics as she fled through the Mirror World.
• Hobart returned Tyrone and Melissa to the real world, restored the villagers, and arranged protection for his brother and sister-in-law.
• Atlantis declared war on the Baylam Empire and Hagerty Kingdom, destroyed Loen’s trapped 50,000-man force, and sent Medici’s army toward the Pas Kingdom’s eastern defenses.
• In Roclier City, Hobart used the power of chaos to trap and unmask an Amon avatar, then confronted him at the city gate.

Hobart tracked Amon to his stronghold and fought him alongside The Fool, forcing Amon to retreat before Hobart moved against Trensoost. When Klein was attacked in Utopia, Hobart intervened against Zaratul, but Gehrman Sparrow then struck Klein from behind and revealed that Adam had given him humanity.

• Hobart used an Amon avatar, Time Worms, and The Fool's help to locate Amon's main body in the Land Abandoned by God.
• Hobart and Amon battled with the Country of Disorder, the Blasphemy Slate, and the Chaos Sea; Amon escaped, and Hobart took Amon's room for investigation.
• Hobart found evidence that Amon had researched contaminated characteristics and Ancient Ones, then went to Palu Canyon to attack Trensoost, who did not appear.
• In Utopia, Rosell Gustav and three other Historical Projections appeared as Klein faced a vortex of transparent worms, prompting Klein to signal Hobart.
• Hobart arrived as the Creator, restrained Zaratul through the summoned Historical Projections, and struck Him with the Kingslayer Sword.
• Gehrman Sparrow appeared behind Klein and pierced his heart with an ancient wooden cross stake, saying Adam had given him humanity.

Hobart killed Zaratul while Amon began his plan to become a god and summon Mr. Door through Veil. Inside Adam’s Church of Bones, Adam revealed his connection to the Ancient Sun God and showed Klein the Blasphemy Slate before Hobart entered.

• Adam trapped Klein inside the Church of Bones and explained that he had acted to control the unstable factors while Amon began his apotheosis ritual.
• Amon manipulated Veil into summoning Mr. Door, and Veil died from the resulting contamination as Amon used the Blasphemy Slate to shield himself.
• Hobart repeatedly thwarted Zaratul’s escapes, disrupted his resurrection, and took his Extraordinary Characteristics before Zaratul vanished into a displaced Historical Void.
• Klein studied the second Blasphemy Slate and learned the ingredients for the God Almighty and Lord of the Mysteries.
• Adam told Klein that he would rather help him become the Spirit World Dominator, identified him as Mysteries, and confirmed he had awakened when the Ancient Sun God perished and the True Creator was born.
• Hobart entered the Church of Bones after knocking and finding no one opened the door.

Hobart and Klein escaped Adam’s grasp while Amon completed his apotheosis as Mr. Door, becoming Sequence 0. Afterward, Hobart joined Medici to prepare for their final battle, while Fors and the Abraham Family received a vast collection of Extraordinary Characteristics.

• The Creator entered the Church of Bones and questioned Adam about the Country of Disorder, the Outer Gods, and the possibility of becoming a Pillar while Klein studied the Blasphemy Slate.
• As Mr. Door’s return opened doors and disrupted Sealed Artifact seals across the world, the Creator used a connection between Klein and Gehrman Sparrow to free Klein from Adam and take him to Antarctica.
• Klein drank the Mysteries Attendant Potion and successfully advanced to Sequence 1 while the Creator prepared to interfere with Amon’s ritual.
• The gods attacked Mr. Door’s apotheosis, but Amon emerged, used the first Blasphemy Slate to block the Gate of Flesh, and became a god.
• Hobart told Medici that Amon had become a god and that their agreement was over, and they agreed to end the war as soon as possible.
• Fors found Dorian and other Abraham Family members gathered after the seal crisis, as numerous Abraham-pathway Extraordinary Characteristics appeared before them.

Alger left the Church of Storms for the God of the Sea Sect as Medici led Atlantis Kingdom to destroy Pas Kingdom’s airship force and break through its western front. In Utopia, Hobart revealed his plan to help Rosell become the Knowledge Emperor and asked Klein to assist with the Grafting.

• Alger prayed to Mr. Fool for permission to leave the Church of Storms, received approval to join the God of the Sea Sect, and flew away after removing his storm robe.
• Heli watched Medici’s Atlantis Army use concealed Anti-aircraft Guns to devastate the Pas Army’s airships, while its Beyonders fought off the enemy’s assault.
• Medici ordered a general offensive, and the Atlantis Army captured the Pas Army’s positions and pursued its retreating forces until reinforcements ended the rout.
• Xue reported that the Baylam Empire planned to release powerful Underworld monsters as leverage for negotiations, while Hobart chose to maintain a standoff for the time being.
• Hobart met Klein in Utopia, gave him a Mysteries Attendant Extraordinary Characteristic, and proposed using Grafting and Rosell’s Knowledge Emperor characteristic to change Rosell’s identity.
• Hobart indicated that he knew Klein was Mr. Fool, and the two toasted each other as the Creator and Mr. Fool before laughing together.

Hobart and Klein planned to free Rosell from his sealed mausoleum by Fooling history and reality, while preparing for their own advancements and Amon’s interference. They restored Rosell to his Knowledge Emperor state and destroyed the moon-tainted mausoleum, leaving Rosell reunited with his loyal Knights on the island.

• Klein agreed to help Hobart save Rosell, though he worried his limited Fooling ability and the dangers of advancing could hinder their plans.
• Hobart sent Bernadette to Rosell’s island, where she used Pale Death to awaken her father and remove his seal.
• Hobart supplied a Knowledge Emperor Extraordinary Characteristic, and Klein connected its Historical Projection to Rosell while Hobart amplified Klein’s power.
• Klein Fooled history and reality so the Historical Projection became the real Rosell, who returned to his Knowledge Emperor state while the remaining Crimson Moon continued to pollute the mausoleum.
• Hobart and Klein destroyed the Crimson Moon’s manifestation and contained its attacks, then escaped the collapsing mausoleum with Rosell and Bernadette.
• Rosell reunited with Edwards, Benjamin, Green, William, and Polly, told them to guard the island, and declared that a new epoch was about to begin.

Rosell reunited with Bernadette while Hobart attended the Tarot Club Gathering, where the members discussed recent upheavals and Amon’s rise to godhood. The gathering ended with the revelation that Rosell had revived, though the members misunderstood why the Fool and the Creator had not stopped Amon.

• Rosell escaped the Hidden Sage with Bernadette, reunited with her at the Emerald Palace, and learned about the modern world before declaring that they would return to White Maple Palace after Intis lost the war.
• A Baylam Empire angel killed a man who had met with a mysterious figure at the Death Altar, then learned that the planned operation was set for Monday afternoon.
• Hobart told Fors that Amon had sent the Abraham Family Mr. Door’s shattered relics, and the Tarot Club began its gathering.
• Alger revealed that he had left the Church of Storms, and Hobart offered to help him switch to the Hanged Man Pathway in exchange for future compensation.
• Hobart explained that Amon had replaced Mr. Door during his godhood ritual, while Mr. Door had willingly sacrificed his chance to become a god to prevent the Outer Deity’s contamination from invading the world.
• Cattleya confirmed Rosell’s revival, and the Tarot Club members concluded that the Fool and the Creator had been rescuing Rosell when Amon became a god before Klein ended the gathering.

After the Baylam Empire released three Blessed of Outer Gods, the Goddess of the Night contained their spread and killed the Pale Empress. Hobart entered the Secrecy World to fight the monsters, while Amon captured one Blessed and Hobart confronted another.

• Godspawn Sua attacked Selvas as Trensoost and Sia opened the Nether Emperor’s seal, releasing a Blessed of the High-Dimensional Overseer.
• Trensoost exiled the ritual chamber and fled, while the released Blessed transformed Selvas’s residents and the Goddess of the Night killed Sia.
• The Goddess of the Night sealed the Underworld, contained the Outer Gods’ influence, and warned Hobart that Trensoost served the Mist of Uncertainty and one Blessed might serve the Fallen Mother Goddess.
• Hobart entered the Secrecy World and found that removing a blue eye could restore a transformed person, then tracked the giant eye that controlled them.
• Amon captured the giant eye and left; Hobart then confronted a pale-green lake monster, freezing the lake before its heat produced an illusion.

Hobart defeated the Fallen Mother Goddess’s living Green Slurry, saved the contaminated people of the Baylam Empire, and hurried to Atlantis’s camp. There, Medici launched the decisive battle against the Pas Allied Forces and drank his Sequence 1 Potion as Atlantis gained the upper hand.

• Hobart broke the Green Slurry’s illusion, contained it with the fundamental forces, and sealed the living Extraordinary Characteristics after the Goddess of the Night warned him it could revive.
• Hobart removed the Blue-Eyed Monsters’ left eyes and healed the victims’ wounds without regrowing their contaminated eyes, then left for Atlantis’s military camp.
• Hobart found Medici and handed him command as Atlantis’s army prepared for the decisive battle; Medici distributed six Level 0 Sealed Artifacts and received a Conqueror Extraordinary Characteristic.
• Medici led more than a thousand Beyonders in a direct assault on the Pas Allied Forces, breaking through their trenches and charging into their camp despite being pierced by powerful attacks.
• Atlantis’s forces gained the advantage, and Medici drank his prepared Sequence 1 Potion before ordering the pursuit of the fleeing enemy and the conquest of the Southern Continent.

Hobart defeated Trensoost and Sua, crushed the Northern Continent’s intervention, and secured Atlantis’s control over the Southern Continent. After the neighboring nations submitted and agreed to his terms, Hobart announced that he would be crowned Emperor in Caesar Port.

• Hobart summoned his allies to confront Trensoost, who arrived with Cheek, the Hidden Sage, and other forces, but Hobart used the Earth Mother’s influence and his own powers to destroy Trensoost and disperse his mist.
• Hobart and his allies defeated Sua and the Death Archons, then killed Alexei after negotiations with the Northern Continent’s Angels collapsed; Hobart allowed one Sequence 2 from each country to return and forbade the three nations from having Sequence 1 without his permission.
• Hobart displayed his Mythical Creature form against the retreating coalition army, and Medici’s forces captured or killed the defeated soldiers before surrounding the remaining troops and securing the Southern Continent.
• Hobart inspected the spoils, naming the new Level 0 Sealed Artifacts 0-70 Starry Fantasy, 0-75 Cursed Hand, and 0-76 Venomous Thorn, then arranged to use Northern Continent prisoners of war to help govern Atlantis’s expanded territory.
• Loen, the Fosac Empire, and the Intis Republic submitted to Atlantis, and Hobart required them to allow prisoners’ families to immigrate to the Southern Continent instead of demanding war reparations.
• Hobart announced in Caesar Port that he would hold a coronation ceremony in half a month and become Emperor.

After the war, Hobart prepared for his coronation and helped Medici choose to pledge loyalty to the Creator. On July 2, Klein visited Hobart, reunited with his siblings, and discussed strengthening his humanity before Rosell arrived and proposed an alliance.

• Atlantis prepared Hobart’s coronation as Emperor while countries and churches debated its timing, location, and officiating church.
• Hobart told Medici that Adam contained the awakened divinity of the Ancient Sun God, and Medici chose to join the Creator’s faction and seek opportunities in Intis.
• Klein met Hobart at Caesar Port and disguised himself as Hobart’s former servant so he could visit Tyrone and Melissa in the newly occupied territories.
• On the journey, Hobart and Tyrone discussed Melissa’s future, Benson’s engagement to Qiu Na, and Donna’s apparent affection for Derrick.
• Hobart and Klein traveled to Utopia, where Klein explained that he was visiting familiar places and friends to strengthen his humanity before advancing.
• Rosell joined Hobart and Klein, thanked Klein for rescuing him, and proposed forming an alliance to manipulate the world and take revenge on the Lord of the Mysteries.