Chapter Summaries

Klein agreed to help the Loen royal family contact Silver City, but Amon disguised as Dresden abducted him and brought him to the Gods' Battlefield. Amon tried to recruit Medici with a Sequence 1 characteristic, but Medici refused, leaving Amon wary of the person Medici feared.

• Klein reflected on Georgina Augustus's interest in Silver City and considered exploiting the royal family's ambitions for profit.
• Klein, Little Sun, and Xu Yue agreed to make Silver City appear divided and receptive to the royal family.
• The Loen royal family sent Dresden, secretly an Angel, to escort Klein to Silver City.
• Dresden revealed himself as Amon after bringing Klein to the Gods' Battlefield by stealing the distance between them.
• Amon summoned Medici from Klein's gloves and offered him a Sequence 1 Red Priest characteristic in exchange for help restraining someone.
• Medici refused Amon's offer, making Amon realize Medici feared the person he wanted restrained.

Amon recruited Medici to help him open a door and brought Klein to New Silver City, where they agreed to cooperate against George III’s apotheosis. Meanwhile, Xu Yue helped Huang Beibei advance to Sequence 2 and prepared to obtain Serpent of Fate blood for Cidalia.

• Amon decided to pursue godhood, offered Medici a characteristic in exchange for help opening a door, and Medici agreed while speaking up for Klein.
• Amon returned Klein’s glove and asked him to help hold back opponents during George III’s ritual, then accompanied him to New Silver City.
• Xu Yue met Amon and Klein in New Silver City and proposed letting Amon complete his mission before delivering George III a fatal blow if needed.
• Xu Yue returned ahead of Dresden and helped Huang Beibei advance to Sequence 2.
• Xu Yue promised Cidalia Serpent of Fate blood and prepared ice cream for a visit on the night before a little angel’s birth.

Xu Yue visited Dr. Allen’s hospital room when Will Auceptin was born, took the infant’s umbilical cord blood, and left after feeding him Ice Cream and concealing the incident from witnesses. Later, Katarina reported that George III’s mausoleum was complete and that he was preparing to move forward with his plans.

• Xu Yue arrived at the hospital while Dr. Allen waited anxiously for his wife to give birth, and Dr. Allen mistakenly suspected that Xu Yue had come because of an affair.
• Will Auceptin was born, reached for Xu Yue, and was held by him while Dr. Allen collapsed in distress.
• Xu Yue fed Will Auceptin Ice Cream, took the umbilical cord blood in exchange, and used dreams to blur the witnesses’ memories.
• Amon, Klein, and Witt Hillman headed secretly to Backlund, while Amon arranged compensation for Klein and Silver City and planned for Klein to gain a noble title.
• Katarina told Xu Yue that George III had completed the mausoleum and was preparing to choose the right time to act.

As Loen prepared for war with the Forsak Empire, Audrey saw how nobles and merchants were exploiting the crisis and wondered how the country could recover. Xu Yue proposed that she become Loen’s Consul and lead reforms, leaving her shocked by the responsibility.

• Loen prepared for George III’s nationwide speech as it mobilized for war against the Forsak Empire.
• Audrey discovered that merchants and nobles were hoarding food and raising prices, leaving the charity fund struggling to help the public.
• Xu Yue visited Audrey with a holy-looking woman and explained that Loen would need a leader to unite the country after the royal family and nobles were weakened.
• Xu Yue suggested reform and asked Audrey to consider leading Loen as Consul, with the Tarot Club supporting her.
• Audrey was stunned when Xu Yue clarified that he meant for her—not himself—to become Consul.

Audrey accepted that she was the best choice to become Loen’s chief consul, while Klein and Wate secured William Augustus I’s support by joining the royal faction. Confined at a royal manor, Klein encountered Triss, who revealed that she wanted revenge, leaving him to reckon with her opposition to his apparent aims.

• Audrey decided she would not back down from becoming chief consul when she was the only suitable choice.
• Dresden, Klein, and Wate met William Augustus I, who promised them rewards and agreed to support their requests.
• Wate won the royal faction’s trust by using Silver City’s internal conflicts as leverage and offering its support.
• William Augustus I arranged for Klein to stay at a luxurious manor, where Klein encountered Triss.
• Triss tested Klein by declaring that she wanted revenge, an objective that opposed his apparent alignment with the royal family.

As George III’s Black Emperor ritual approached, the royal family and the nobles prepared to destroy each other despite the churches’ decision to stay out of their conflict. Duke Negan sought refuge in the Storm Church, but its doors were closed to him.

• Klein reflected on his potion progress and debt before turning his attention to the coming speech and ritual.
• Prince Grove and Dresden discussed the royal family’s overwhelming Beyonder strength and resolved to strike against the nobles when they tried to disrupt the ritual.
• George III began his nationwide radio speech as Loen set aside its internal divisions amid war with Feysac.
• Duke Negan urged the Alliance to wipe out the royal family, while Grove Augustus led the royal family in preparing to attack the nobles.
• Duke Negan went to the Storm Church for protection, but a priest told him it was closed and sent him away.

Duke Negan was turned away from the Storm Church as the Royal Family and the nobles launched coordinated attacks across Backlund. The main forces converged on George III’s tomb, where Medici confronted William Augustus I and challenged the Royal Family’s plan to make George III the Black Emperor.

• Duke Negan found the Storm Church’s doors shut, then Georgina Augustus emerged from the fog and threatened him.
• The Royal Family slaughtered nobles while military demigods attacked the Royal Family’s reserve members, spreading bloodshed throughout Backlund.
• Angels and their allies fought over the pyramidal tombs as the Witch Church and Twilight Hermit Society restrained the attackers.
• William Augustus I left George III’s tomb to join the battle, and Huang Beibei prepared to use the Magic Lamp against him.
• Medici appeared with overwhelming power, rebuked William Augustus I for abandoning him, and questioned whether George III had to become the Black Emperor.

Amon interrupted George III’s apotheosis, but William Augustus I called on the God of Steam and Machinery, who trapped Amon with the weight of civilization. The Hidden Sage then possessed the Dark Angel Vile Spirit and shattered the God of Steam’s restraint, leaving the struggle over George III’s ritual unresolved.

• Amon emerged from Dresden, turned him into a Beyonder characteristic, and prepared to interfere with George III’s mausoleum while Xu Yue collected the characteristic.
• William Augustus I sensed that something had gone wrong in the mausoleum and invoked a secret agreement with the God of Steam and Machinery.
• The God of Steam and Machinery intervened at George III’s mausoleum and bound Amon with projections of humanity’s civilization, giving George III a stable chance to complete his apotheosis.
• Xu Yue watched as Amon struggled against the restraint, while the God of Steam and Machinery urged him not to rush.
• The Hidden Sage possessed the Dark Angel Vile Spirit, which tore apart the God of Steam and Machinery’s scrolls of civilization.

Amon disrupted George III’s ascension and became the True God of the Error pathway, while Xu Yue’s use of The Hidden Sage helped overcome the God of Steam’s intervention. The chapter left the angels debating who had ascended as Amon prepared to leave Backlund and George III’s ritual failed.

• Xu Yue used the Dark Angel Vile Spirit and The Hidden Sage to strike the God of Steam, allowing Amon to contest George III in the mausoleum.
• Amon stole the fruit of victory before dawn and became the True God of the Error pathway.
• Leonard learned from the old man that Amon had succeeded and that The Tarot Club’s operation had stopped George III from becoming a god.
• The God of Steam withdrew and told Amon to leave Backlund, while Amon wondered about Xu Yue’s control over The Hidden Sage.
• Amon offered his helpers one small request, and Xu Yue asked him to clean up the battlefield.
• William Augustus I celebrated what he thought was the Black Emperor’s ascension, but Medici mocked him and insisted Amon could not have bypassed a True God.

Amon became a True God, extracted William Augustus I’s characteristic, and left with Medici after the battle. The slaughter shattered Loen’s royal and noble leadership, and Count Hall emerged as a figure around whom the country’s institutions could rally.

• William Augustus I recognized Amon’s new power and asked him to stabilize the situation in exchange for the Augustus Family’s help.
• Amon refused, saying his other helper had asked him to clear the battlefield, and extracted William Augustus I’s characteristic.
• The Twilight Hermit Society and Witch Church reinforcements withdrew, while Medici and Amon departed and the remaining forces overwhelmed the Augustus side.
• Silver City, the Pirate Kings, and the vampires joined the attack, killing most of Loen’s royal family and great nobles.
• Loen fell into widespread disorder as the Forsak Empire continued its attacks, and Evernight and Storm rejected the Steam Church archbishop’s proposal for the churches to govern directly.
• Count Hall’s family emerged from shelter, and his prestige gave Loen’s institutions a figure to rally around.

At the Tarot Club, the members learned that Audrey Hall would become the first Chief Executive of the Kingdom of Loen, with the club and Silver City pledging support for her rule. After the gathering, Xu Yue told Klein he needed to complete tasks for the Goddess of the Night before receiving the materials he wanted, and Klein prayed to her again.

• Leonard revealed that Audrey Hall had been chosen as Loen's first Chief Executive, and Audrey confirmed she was Miss Justice.
• The Tarot Club members congratulated Audrey and promised their support, while Emlyn learned her identity and described the vampires' new permission to establish hospitals.
• Little Sun announced that Silver City's Council of Six had agreed to assist Loen in the war.
• Klein realized the Tarot Club had helped determine Loen's future and decided to deal with the Psychic Alchemy Association, which Xu Yue offered to handle.
• Xu Yue told Klein to help the Goddess of the Night before seeking potion materials, and Klein prayed to the Goddess and met Ariana again.

Audrey took control of Loen, reinforced the front lines, and launched relief measures as Klein departed to help the Goddess of the Night absorb the Death Uniqueness. The Psychic Alchemy Association tried to influence Audrey, but Xu Yue confronted Hewen Lambis and overwhelmed him with his authority.

• Audrey sent her father, her brothers, Silver City, and former military demigods to the front, stabilizing the army as she mobilized supplies and created work for unemployed commoners.
• Klein left Backlund to carry out the Goddess's mission involving the Death Uniqueness.
• After observing that Backlund's official demigods had gone to the front, the Psychic Alchemy Association sent Hewen Lambis to approach Audrey and exploit the suggestion he believed he had planted in her.
• Audrey received Hewen Lambis in the former royal palace and let her advisers leave, while Xu Yue remained nearby.
• Hewen Lambis tried to make Audrey obey and ordered Xu Yue to leave, but Xu Yue's rebuke overwhelmed him with a force that made him feel compelled to obey.

Xu Yue killed Hewen Lambis, gave Audrey his Beyonder characteristic, and then traveled with Bernadette to the mysterious island tied to her father, Emperor Roosevelt. There they found creatures and five humans worshipping an unknown presence, suggesting the island’s contamination had not truly been solved and may have obstructed her father’s resurrection.

• Hewen Lambis pledged loyalty to Xu Yue, who ordered him to give up his Beyonder characteristic; Hewen hypnotized himself until his soul collapsed and he died.
• Xu Yue gave Hewen’s characteristic to Audrey for when she became a demigod, and Susie licked his face before he left.
• The Psychic Alchemy Association fell silent after Hewen’s death, and Xu Yue collected the Magic Lamp from Bernadette in exchange for helping her find another transmigrator.
• Xu Yue took Bernadette through the spirit world to a mysterious island covered in enormous trees.
• Bernadette saw numerous creatures and five humans prostrating themselves, and Xu Yue suggested the island’s contamination had never truly been resolved.

Bernadette confirmed that the five undead figures on Primal Island included several of her father’s former knights, including Edwards, who revealed that Emperor Roselle’s mausoleum lay nearby. Xu Yue freed their souls from their bodies, leaving Bernadette hopeful that he might also be able to save her father from the cosmic pollution.

• Bernadette recognized Green, William, Poli, and Edwards among the five figures, and Xu Yue brought Edwards to her.
• Edwards told Bernadette that he had returned to Primal Island and had guarded Emperor Roselle’s mausoleum while waiting for him to revive.
• Edwards led Xu Yue and Bernadette to the enormous mausoleum carved into the mountain, where Bernadette recognized Roselle’s laws, customs, and inventions depicted on it.
• After Bernadette reminded Edwards of his life in Lunburg, Xu Yue used his power to release Edwards and the other four figures’ souls.
• Xu Yue said the souls had likely gone to the Black Emperor’s divine kingdom and explained that cosmic pollution had affected Roselle; Bernadette began to hope Xu Yue could save her father.

Xu Yue and Bernadette entered the Black Emperor mausoleum and found Roselle resisting the Moon’s corruption. Xu Yue suppressed the corruption temporarily, leaving Roselle able to speak with Bernadette but unable to control it himself.

• Xu Yue explained that Roselle’s Black Emperor power helped him retain his will and suggested he had locked himself in the mausoleum to resist the starry sky’s corruption.
• Xu Yue and Bernadette entered the mausoleum as the starry sky’s gaze reached the island.
• Xu Yue called for Roselle, and Roselle appeared on the throne, warning Bernadette to leave before recognizing her and reminiscing about her childhood.
• Xu Yue interrupted Roselle’s rambling and temporarily suppressed the Moon’s corruption with the Fallen Count’s ability.
• Roselle tried to imitate Xu Yue’s method to remove the corruption, but it resumed control over him, so Xu Yue suppressed it again.

Xu Yue removed the Fallen Mother Goddess’s corruption from Roselle and repaired the fissure, freeing him after about 152 years of sleep. Roselle reunited with Bernadette and declared that he would reclaim the throne of Intis, but became alarmed when he saw Xu Yue holding scandalous translated diary pages.

• Roselle asked Bernadette to leave so he could discuss his condition with Xu Yue, and she called Xu Yue Instructor Franklin.
• Roselle questioned Xu Yue about Origin Castle and whether he could remove the corruption; Xu Yue said Klein was its owner and warned Roselle to keep that secret.
• Xu Yue erased the Fallen Mother Goddess’s corruption from the island, repaired the fissure, and told Roselle that about 152 years had passed.
• Bernadette sensed the force purging the island, then saw Roselle emerge from the mausoleum restored and reunited with her.
• Roselle announced that he would become ruler of Intis again, then saw Xu Yue holding scandalous translated pages from his diary and stiffened.

Xu Yue advised Roselle to embrace his role as a pirate emperor, then revealed that the Goddess of the Night had read his diaries and watched over him. Evernight arrived to enlist Roselle’s help against the God of War and conceal his return until the time was right.

• Roselle asked Xu Yue what to do after waking from more than a century of sleep, and Xu Yue suggested that he become a pirate emperor.
• Xu Yue showed Roselle material about his past, including embarrassing scenes from the mausoleum, and told him the Goddess of the Night had read his diaries.
• Evernight appeared aboard the Dawn through a Concealment Angel vessel, surprising Roselle despite his status as a True God.
• Evernight revealed that she had obtained the Bleach pathway’s uniqueness and part of the River of Eternal Darkness, while Klein had advanced to Sequence 3.
• Evernight told Roselle she had concealed the disturbance caused by his return and sought his support in dealing with the God of War.

Klein returned to Backlund after escaping Charon and began preparing for the next stage of his advancement, while Xu Yue introduced him to Roselle under a new identity. Roselle revealed that he knew the Miracle Invoker formula and ritual, leaving Klein to consider what benefits he could offer in exchange.

• Evernight returned to her divine kingdom with the Death Uniqueness and part of the River of Eternal Darkness, while Klein realized Charon remained a threat and that the Goddess would be unavailable for a time.
• Klein digested the Ancient Scholar potion quickly, escaped Charon, and returned to Backlund in the identity of Dwayne.
• Klein visited Xu Yue's residence and met the mustached Barros Hopkins, whom Xu Yue presented as a powerful Pirate King planning to become emperor.
• Roselle greeted Klein as Gehrman Sparrow, and Xu Yue asked whether Klein wanted to obtain the Sequence 2 potion on credit.
• Roselle offered to provide the Witch Potion formula and then revealed that he also knew the Miracle Invoker formula and ritual in exchange for suitable benefits.

Klein arranged for Roselle to seek admission to the Divine Council, using the opportunity to obtain the Sequence 2 Miracle Invoker formula and ritual. When Roselle prayed to Mr. Fool, Klein sensed a distortion and suspected that Roselle was a Sequence 1 Black Emperor pathway angel probing him, but he pulled him into Origin Castle without resistance.

• Klein realized he had nothing suitable to trade with Baross for the Miracle Invoker formula, so Xu Yue suggested asking for an opportunity instead.
• Roselle asked to join the Divine Council, and Klein said he would petition Mr. Fool while making clear that admission was not guaranteed.
• Klein performed an elaborate ritual and told Roselle that Mr. Fool had agreed to receive him at 12:12 that night.
• Roselle gave Klein the Sequence 2 formula and ritual, and Klein looked forward to the Tarot Club growing into a true Divine Council.
• When Roselle prayed, Klein sensed a strange distortion, suspected Roselle was a Sequence 1 Black Emperor pathway angel, and pulled him into Origin Castle with surprising ease.

Klein accepted Roselle, an angel who chose the Emperor card, into the Tarot Club. At the next gathering, the members reacted to the new angel as the club discussed the Forsak Empire’s escalating offensive.

• Klein let Roselle join the Tarot Club after deciding his intentions might serve their interests.
• Roselle chose the Emperor card as his codename.
• At the next Tarot Club gathering, Mr. Fool introduced the Emperor as an angel, surprising the members.
• Roselle offered psychological counseling and governance advice until Xu Yue stopped him from saying more.
• The Tarot Club discussed the Forsak Empire’s reinforced offensive and Silver City’s role in the fighting.
• The Forsak Empire stabilized its position and began coordinating its forces through Weather Warlocks.