Chapter Summaries

Klein reunited with Sharon after hosting Rosell and Hobart, while Hobart questioned the Lamp Genie and learned about Celestial Worthy’s plans and the path to becoming a Pillar. After preparing for his coronation ritual, Hobart awaited the ceremony as world leaders and religious representatives gathered in Atlantis.

• Klein, Hobart, and Rosell shared a barbecue, discussed Rosell’s restoration plans, and agreed that he would return as Rosell II with support from Hobart and The Fool.
• Klein prepared for his mission to obtain water from the Eternal Dark River and planned to advance in the Hornacis Mountain Range, then welcomed Sharon back to Utopia.
• Hobart questioned the Lamp Genie, which revealed that it had once sought to become a Pillar and explained how Celestial Worthy planned to use the Black Emperor or Judgement arrangements to awaken an independent consciousness.
• The Lamp Genie described how an Ancient One could become a Pillar by devouring compatible Sefirah and Characteristics, and Hobart agreed to free it after becoming an Ancient One.
• Hobart had The Fool seal the Lamp Genie, made his final preparations, and waited as dignitaries, church representatives, and national leaders gathered for his coronation on July 8.

Hobart completed the Black Emperor ritual and became a god, while the Lamp Genie disrupted the Celestial Worthy’s arrangement during his advancement. Afterward, Hobart spoke with the Mist of Uncertainty about the Outer Deities’ powers and began examining his new abilities.

• Atlantis broadcast Hobart’s coronation as Emperor, and citizens and foreign leaders called for him to be crowned.
• Hobart crowned himself and the Two Queens, then secretly entered the true mausoleum beneath the lake to begin his advancement.
• The Earth Mother, the Goddess of the Night, and other gods confronted the Hidden Sage and Primordial Witch near the Mock Tomb while Hobart advanced inside the mausoleum.
• The Lamp Genie used Source Castle to disrupt the Celestial Worthy’s arrangement, and Hobart followed the people’s hopes and cheers back to his mausoleums and became the Black Emperor.
• Hobart’s new power sent a ripple across the world, revealing his ascension to gods, angels, and Amon; he then stabilized himself and spoke with the Mist of Uncertainty.
• Hobart refused to surrender the Lamp Genie despite the Mist of Uncertainty’s threats, then began examining his new authorities and abilities.

Hobart examined his new Black Emperor powers and discovered that the Clock of Order held knowledge from the First Creator, leading him to infer that the barrier protected Earth from the Ancient Ones and delayed the apocalypse. After returning to Atlantis, he began using his new authority as a god to reshape the balance between the empire and the churches and to intervene in Loen’s succession.

• Hobart explored his transformed Shadow abilities, his divinity, and his deeper connection to the Country of Disorder, where he planned to replace the Mysterious Switchboard Operators with substitutes.
• Hobart touched the Clock of Order and received the First Creator’s knowledge, then inferred that the barrier kept Ancient Ones from gathering on Earth and driving the Extraordinary toward destruction.
• Hobart realized the Clock of Order suppressed Extraordinary distortion and madness, then left the Country of Disorder and restored the terrain around the Mock Tomb with his alteration authority.
• Hobart returned to the Pas Royal Palace, hosted the coronation luncheon, and spent time with the two Empresses before going back to Anjou.
• Hobart assigned Audrey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to negotiate the abolition of the Religious Inquisition and a new division of authority with the churches in Atlantis.
• Hobart also ordered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ask Gowenton II to abdicate and invite Princess Alice to become Queen of the Loen Kingdom.

Hobart accelerated Atlantis’s development and negotiated a new balance of power with the churches, while Klein attempted to accommodate the Fool’s Uniqueness with Hobart’s help. Adam’s emergence and Amon’s attack threatened the ritual, but Klein completed the accommodation as the chapter ended.

• Hobart used his abilities to hasten Atlantis’s harvest and construction, then secured Alice I’s coronation as Loen’s queen and negotiated greater political and Extraordinary authority for the empire.
• Rosell accurately tallied Atlantis’s public and private resources, and the churches agreed to share control of the Religious Inquisition and limit their share of the empire’s Official Extraordinary.
• Klein reached the Hornacis Mountain Range and began stealing Antigonus’s identity, Fate, and self-awareness before attempting to accommodate the Fool’s Uniqueness.
• Hobart, the Creator, and the Goddess of the Night helped protect Klein as Adam revealed his attempt to become the Lord of the Star Realm and Amon intervened with the first Blasphemy Slate.
• Amon breached Hobart’s divine kingdom and repeatedly tried to reach Klein, while Hobart used the Brass Book of Rules and his abilities to delay him.
• Klein fully accommodated the Fool’s Uniqueness, opened his eyes, and wondered about the long object wrapped around him.

Klein consumed the Fool Potion while Hobart and the gods fought to protect his advancement, but Amon and the Celestial Worthy's imprints repeatedly pushed Klein toward losing control. As Klein struggled to become The Fool, Hobart invoked the Country of Disorder to judge the former Lord of the Mysteries and found a chance to accommodate it.

• Hobart used his Black Emperor abilities to stall Amon while Klein stole Antigonus's Sequence 1 through Sequence 9 characteristics and consumed the Fool Potion.
• Amon drew the waiting gods into the battle, where the Goddess of the Night and Earth Mother confronted the Primordial Witch, the God of Steam and Machinery contained the Hidden Sage, and Fauvety opposed the Cosmic Dark Side and the Desire Mother Tree.
• Amon used stolen time and Klein's suicidal thoughts to disrupt Klein's advancement, while Hobart rang the Clock of Order to restore Klein's clarity and fend off Amon.
• Amon stole Antigonus's rationality, but Hobart altered the theft into facial hair; Klein then returned Antigonus's identity, Fate, and self-awareness, leaving Antigonus alive but unable to advance to The Fool.
• The Celestial Worthy's imprint began eroding Klein and Hobart, so Hobart declared judgment on the former Lord of the Mysteries and strengthened his connection to the Country of Disorder.

Klein became the Fool, but Amon invaded Source Castle and fought him and Hobart for control. After Klein and Amon died together in a black hole and both revived, their struggle resumed, ending with Amon forcing two Uniquenesses and a Time Worm Characteristic into Klein and triggering the Celestial Worthy’s awakening.

• Hobart helped Klein through his advancement as the Goddess of the Night concealed the assembled deities; Klein died beneath her Dusk Greatsword and returned from the fog of history as the Fool.
• After the deities escaped the Goddess of the Night’s concealment, Klein suppressed the Celestial Worthy’s whispers with the Clock of Order and granted Hobart permission to enter Source Castle.
• Amon invaded Source Castle, and Hobart and Klein used a cosmic black hole in an attempt to destroy him; Klein grabbed Amon and plunged with him into its event horizon.
• Hobart interrupted the Lord of the Mysteries’ revival with the Brass Book of Rules, while Klein and Amon returned from death and Amon recovered most of his Characteristics.
• Klein used a Star Key Characteristic to graft away Amon’s Door Uniqueness, but Amon released his suppression of the Celestial Worthy and hurled two Uniquenesses and a Time Worm Characteristic into Klein, making him a Half Ancient One as the Celestial Worthy began to awaken.

Klein defeated Amon with Hobart’s help, then convened the Tarot Club to assign duties before entering slumber to resist the Celestial Worthy. Hobart stabilized himself afterward, while a newly transmigrated servant named Jeff woke from the dead and asked to meet the Emperor.

• Hobart’s Clock of Order helped Klein regain control long enough to use Error on Amon’s avatar, forcing Amon to collapse and withdraw.
• Klein told Hobart that he would sleep to suppress the Celestial Worthy and that the World would act in his stead as a King of Angels.
• Amon awoke beneath the Shadow Curtain, heard Adam explain why he had lost, and decided to sneak into the starry sky.
• Klein convened a temporary Tarot Club gathering, commissioned the members to support his awakening, and named the World as future host before entering the light door with Arodes.
• Hobart told Fors and Audrey that Error had fallen, then went to his mausoleum to calm and suppress the Celestial Worthy’s influence.
• Jeff woke after drowning in the Atlantis palace servants’ quarters, realized he had transmigrated into a world ruled by another transmigrator, and asked to meet the Emperor.

Rosell returned to Intis and won the capital’s support as emperor while Hobart accommodated the Country of Disorder and became a Half Ancient One. After helping Audrey, Fors, Archibald, and Doffis advance, Hobart prepared for his next step and Atlantis entered the era of the Seven Angels.

• Rosell returned to Trier, defused an armed protest with a bold speech, and was acclaimed emperor by the people of Intis.
• Hobart accommodated the Country of Disorder, fused with it, and returned to his mausoleum with the Sefirah inside him.
• Hobart helped Audrey and Fors advance to Sequence 3, then assigned the transmigrator Jeff to become a village chief in Atlantis.
• Audrey and Fors began preparing their Angel Rituals, while Hobart helped Archibald advance to Miracle Worker and Doffis to Death Archon.
• Archibald’s advancement brought the ancient City of Yadro back into the Sonia Sea, and Atlantis gained its seventh Angel.

Alger left the Sea God Sect in Derrick Berg’s care and sailed away to fulfill Mr. Fool’s mission. In Antarctica and the Astral World, Hobart tracked down and killed The Primordial Witch Cheek, destroying the Mirror World and ending the Witch Sect’s last stronghold.

• Alger received the Book of Cataclysms and the Azure Avenger from the Church of Storms, then appointed Derrick Berg to manage the Sea God Sect before setting sail.
• Hobart used a Calamity Witch characteristic to track The Primordial Witch from Antarctica into the Astral World, where he discovered her connection to an ancient mirror.
• Hobart fought Cheek and realized that Witch pathway resurrection depended on a Mirror World and separate mirror selves, then pursued Mirror Chick into that world.
• Hobart collapsed the Mirror World, shattering reflective surfaces across the world and destroying the Witch Sect’s stronghold on Salen Island.
• Hobart reached the Witch Beyonder realm, destroyed Male Chick and the ancient mirror behind him, and killed The Primordial Witch Cheek.

Hobart defeated the Primordial Witch and reshaped the Mirror World, then told the Tarot Club about the divine battle and the looming hunt for evil gods. The meeting ended with Hobart offering Derrick the means to become an Angel and discussing plans with Mr. World to confront the Child of Chaos.

• Hobart used the ancient mirror and the Staff of the Song of the Gods to reconstruct the Mirror World, while mirrors across the world briefly stopped working before returning to normal.
• Sharon entered the renewed Mirror World and found a vast sky-like realm with regions of varying danger; Hobart later destroyed Reality Chick’s stone statue and took its Uniqueness and Extraordinary Characteristics.
• At the Tarot Club, Hobart revealed that the Creator had defeated the Primordial Witch and modified the Mirror World, and he discussed threats including the Hidden Sage and the Cosmic Dark Side.
• Hobart privately told Mr. World about newly released transmigrators and his plan to use the Fool to make the Child of Chaos surrender its core Extraordinary Characteristics.
• Mr. World explained that every god in the real world had participated in the battle over whether the Fool or Amon would become an Ancient One.
• Hobart offered Derrick a path to become an Angel, and Derrick accepted the future transaction for the Justice Mentor Potion Recipe and Extraordinary Characteristics.

Hobart tracked down the Hidden Sage in the Mist Sea and fought it using the Knowledge Wilderness’s projection, his Mythical Creature form, and his substitute. He compressed the Hidden Sage into a tiny sphere and separated its Uniqueness and Extraordinary Characteristics, killing it as Bernadette and others witnessed the battle’s far-reaching effects.

• Hobart gave Fauvety a mirror containing a hidden space and secured his agreement to take the Demons to another planet, while Fauvety gave Hobart his blood to help locate the Cosmic Dark Side.
• Hobart inspected the construction of Atlantis’s first Hydroelectric Power Station, then entered the Stormy Sea and restored its boundary with the Underworld.
• Hobart used the Hidden Sage’s captured information and the Knowledge Wilderness’s projection to find the Hidden Sage hiding in the Mist Sea, then attacked it as it summoned the image of Suniasolem.
• The Hidden Sage’s battle with Hobart disrupted information across the world, prompting Bernadette to warn of a tsunami and Cattleya to repair Nina after she turned into iron.
• Hobart and his substitute wounded the Hidden Sage with the Kingslayer Sword, but it escaped into surrounding information streams behind a wall empowered by the Knowledge Wilderness.
• Hobart compressed half the Mist Sea into a tiny sphere, reduced the Hidden Sage to its smallest physical and abstract units, and separated its Uniqueness and Extraordinary Characteristics, killing it.

Hobart defeated the Hidden Sage, brought the Moses Ascetic Order under Atlantis, and began advancing to become an Ancient One. After the Fallen Mother Goddess exploited a weakened seal to attack South Colson, Hobart became a Disorderer and stopped her descent, then reinforced the barrier against the Outer Gods.

• Rosell welcomed Bono Wa back to White Maple Palace, and Hobart announced that the Hidden Sage had fallen.
• Hobart restored the Mist Sea, destroyed the Hidden Sage’s resurrection arrangements, and forced the Moses Ascetic Order to pledge loyalty to Atlantis.
• Hobart told Rosell to prepare for his return to godhood while he planned to become a Disorderer by accommodating the Judgement Uniqueness and a Hand of Order Characteristic.
• As Hobart advanced, the Attendant of God’s avatar broke the seal beneath Full Moon Lake, allowing the Fallen Mother Goddess to begin descending and unleash monsters across South Colson.
• Hobart became a Disorderer, altered time, and used the Country of Disorder and the Clock of Order to force the Fallen Mother Goddess back into the starry sky.
• Hobart strengthened the barrier left by the First Creator, closing its cracks and blocking the Outer Gods from exploiting loopholes to project power into the real world.

After becoming an Ancient One, Hobart restored the South Colson Region, learned more of the First Creator’s plans, and used the Clock of Order to remove contamination and reshape dangerous realms. His actions strengthened Klein’s advantage over the Celestial Worthy and ended the Stormy Sea’s unnatural storms, while Hobart’s family gathered to welcome Derrick.

• Hobart changed the mutations caused by the Fallen Mother Goddess and restored the South Colson Region to its former state.
• Hobart learned the First Creator’s thoughts about life, Beyonder power, and the universe, then separated a more stable Creator self from his humanity and two Kingslayer Prince characteristics.
• At a family dinner, Donna formally introduced Derrick Berg to Christine and her family, while Hobart and the Creator shared the joy of the gathering.
• The Creator used the Clock of Order to cleanse the Fallen Mother Goddess’s contamination from a Sea King characteristic and from Rosell, then rang its bells at Source Castle to help Klein gain three minutes of wakefulness each day.
• The Creator separated the Underworld from the real world in the Stormy Sea, ending its storms and dark clouds, and the Six Gods revealed his figure to the sailors as their rescuer.

The Creator hunted down and destroyed the Cosmic Dark Side, forcing the Desire Mother Tree to surrender Beauty Goddess's Extraordinary Characteristics before fleeing the Fallen Mother Goddess. He then cleared Outer Deity contamination from the Mist Sea and helped Lilith advance to The Moon, leaving Earth with a new divine power and more balanced spirituality.

• The Creator transformed the Stormy Sea's climate and concealed his malice before using Fauvety's blood to track the Cosmic Dark Side into a distant star system.
• The Creator and his avatar battled the Desire Mother Tree and the Cosmic Dark Side; Fauvety reclaimed control of the Cosmic Dark Side, and the Creator destroyed it with ten clusters of light.
• The Creator took Beauty Goddess's Extraordinary Characteristics from the Desire Mother Tree and returned to Earth, while the Desire Mother Tree escaped the Fallen Mother Goddess.
• The Creator cut into the Celestial Worthy's Fog Wall, dispersed the Mist Sea's fog, and used the Clock of Order to purify the Outer Deities' contamination there.
• Hobart gave Beauty Goddess's Extraordinary Characteristics to Lilith, who advanced to The Moon while the Creator shielded her from the Fallen Mother Goddess's influence.
• Lilith's advancement brought a white moon into the sky and balanced the real world's spirituality, though the Fallen Mother Goddess's contamination in Lilith remained.

Hobart and Fors explored three extraterrestrial planets, finding one consumed by a giant beast and another frozen by enormous trees. The Creator then helped the Goddess of the Night enter the Eternal Dark River, where she took the black seat and appeared to fall into Eternal Sleep.

• Hobart and Fors explored a beastmen planet, discovered its sole surviving creature was a colossal predator, and Hobart killed it.
• Hobart and Fors found a second planet frozen beneath enormous trees; Hobart burned the trees to release their stored heat before they moved on.
• On a third planet, Fors used the Fool's authority to leave behind legends, and the pair returned to Earth to prepare for another exploration.
• The Creator destroyed the resurrection arrangement in Calderon City and remade its entrance before bringing the Goddess of the Night to the Eternal Dark River.
• The Creator's substitute kept Salinger and the other spirits from interfering while the Goddess of the Night sensed the river and approached its black seat.
• The Goddess of the Night sat on the seat, calming the river, then tilted her head as if she had fallen into Eternal Sleep while her starlight remained.

The Creator helped the Goddess of the Night gain control of the Eternal Dark River, restored the God War Ruins, and helped Lilith establish a connection to the Mother Nest. In 1355, the Creator and his allies confronted the Mist of Uncertainty and the Outer Gods in the cosmos, where the battle left the Mist trapped near a supermassive black hole.

• The Goddess of the Night awakened and gained control of the Eternal Dark River after the Creator sent her the Power of Order through prayer.
• The Creator restored the God War Ruins and began returning the Land Abandoned by God to the real world, while Adam blocked his advance at the boundary.
• Hobart mobilized Atlantis to claim the newly restored African continent, and Lilith later gained initial control of the Mother Nest with the Creator's help.
• In 1355, the Creator used a string linking him to the Mist of Uncertainty to find and attack it, while the Fool, Lilith, and the Goddess of the Night joined the battle against the Mist and its allies.
• The Creator distorted the Country of Disorder into a supermassive black hole, pulling in nearby galaxies and trapping the Mist of Uncertainty near its event horizon.

The Creator trapped and devoured the Mist of Uncertainty’s portion of the Country of Disorder, then returned to Earth and reconstructed the Sefirah to restore his control and gain the ability called Chaos. As the chapter ended, the Creator restored Extraordinary Order in the Land Abandoned by God, allowing Adam and the True Creator to complete their fusion.

• The Creator, the Fool, Lilith, and Fauvety worked together to pull the Mist of Uncertainty into the black hole while the Ancient Sun God delayed the approaching Outer Gods with light.
• The Creator drew the starry-sky portion of the Country of Disorder into the Earth portion, leaving the Mist of Uncertainty as a powerful evil spirit, then retreated with his allies.
• Back in Earth, the Creator struggled to control the enlarged Country of Disorder, while Hobart’s abilities mutated and caused him to rescue villagers from a sudden flood.
• The Creator used the Clock of Order to reconstruct the Country of Disorder, regaining control and obtaining the ability he named Chaos.
• Hobart used his restored abilities to return the flood and damaged villages to normal.
• The Creator rang a bronze bell in the Land Abandoned by God, restoring Extraordinary Order long enough for Adam and the True Creator to complete their fusion.

Hobart and Audrey trapped a Witch Sect angel who was close to losing control, allowing Audrey to complete her advancement Ritual. Meanwhile, “The Creator” accommodated the Observer pathway, overcame the Mist of Uncertainty’s spiritual imprint with Hobart and The Fool’s help, and discovered that the Celestial Worthy had used the Mist of Uncertainty in experiments involving Sefirah and Extraordinary Characteristics.

• Hobart restored the scattered palace and discussed the Child of Chaos’s changing authority with “The Creator.”
• Koen’s team investigated a summer cold wave, and Beverly found a Witch Sect angel hiding beneath an icy pool and called Hobart and Audrey.
• Hobart trapped the Calamity Witch while Audrey observed her and wove a dream that brought forth the Primordial Witch, then drove her image into collapse with “The Creator’s” Mythical Creature form.
• Hobart killed the out-of-control Calamity Witch and obtained her Sealed Artifact, while Audrey confirmed that her dream-weaving fulfilled her angel-advancement Ritual.
• “The Creator” accommodated the Observer Uniqueness and a Sequence 1 Characteristic, but the Mist of Uncertainty’s imprint possessed a substitute and left Him caught between reality and illusion.
• Hobart strengthened his Connection to “The Creator” with the nation’s faith, helping Him return to reality; with The Fool’s help, “The Creator” fooled and partially fused the imprint, then learned of the Celestial Worthy’s experiments using the Mist of Uncertainty.

Creator Hobart uncovered the truth about the Child of Chaos and the Mist of Uncertainty, sealed the Mist’s defenseless evil spirit, and watched Fors and Audrey become angels. He then joined The Fool and the Goddess of the Night in killing the Superstar Dominator, leaving its Sefirah available for the Creator to claim.

• Creator Hobart learned that the Celestial Worthy had created the Mist of Uncertainty from the Child of Chaos’s Sefirah and characteristics, and realized he needed to seal the Mist’s evil spirit before it could threaten him.
• The Creator sent the Mist of Uncertainty’s evil spirit to a planet where Hobart and Fors sealed it inside a mountain with Order Crystal.
• Fors completed her advancement to a Planeswalker, and Audrey became an angel under Hobart’s supervision.
• The Creator confronted the Superstar Dominator, while The Fool and the Goddess of the Night helped trap and weaken the Ancient One.
• The Creator and the Goddess of the Night destroyed the Superstar Dominator’s true body, killing it.

The Creator risked accommodating the Superstar Dominator’s Sefirah and characteristics, becoming stronger but suffering severe distortion before regaining control. As Earth’s gods fought the Outer Gods, Hobart helped the Creator free and devour the Child of Chaos, completing the characteristics needed to become a Pillar.

• The Creator entangled the Blazing White Star with the Country of Disorder and used the Superstar Dominator’s Uniqueness and Sequence 1 characteristic to begin fusing with it, while his avatar bolstered his rationality.
• Hobart met with transmigrator Jeff, received Medici’s report that Rosell was stable and ready, and later joined his family as Tyrone introduced Melissa’s family.
• The Creator gradually mastered the Superstar Dominator’s Sefirah and told the Fool, the Goddess of the Night, and Lilith that they could no longer wait; Hobart then gathered the Empire’s angels and went to assist him.
• Lilith and the Goddess of the Night fought the Fallen Mother Goddess for control of the Moon, while the Decay Monarch joined the battle and Hobart’s angels watched from the imperial palace.
• Hobart and the Creator freed the Child of Chaos from the Lamp Genie, and the Creator resisted the Child of Chaos’s attempt to reclaim the Country of Disorder.
• Hobart exposed the Child of Chaos’s betrayal of the First One, then the Fool fooled him and the Creator amplified the effect, drew him into his body, and completed the characteristics needed to become a Pillar.