Recaps

Shade gave Dorothy an Angel Feather that could separate entwined souls, leaving her and Leisha to entrust him with deciding whether to use it. Later, Miss Galina brought Shade a Cat in a Bottle potion, and his test transformed him into a cat that petrified itself before he changed back into a naked man on her lap.

• Shade told Dorothy that the Angel Feather could separate two entwined souls, but she asked him to decide whether it should be used on her and Leisha.
• Dorothy promised that she and Leisha would remain by Shade's side, and Shade resolved to save them and obtain more divinity if necessary.
• Miss Galina visited Shade with a Cat in a Bottle potion and urged him to test it before taking it on his next adventure.
• Shade drank a mouthful, transformed into a silver-white cat, and used white wings to petrify himself before Galina or Mia could touch him.
• Shade dispelled the petrification and returned to human form on Galina's lap, while the maids screamed at his clothes lying on the floor.

After spending the night with Miss Galina, Shade learned she would be occupied with the Green Lake Negotiations and then set out to meet the Apothecary Miss. They headed south in separate carriages to obtain a newborn’s memory for the Time Key.

• Miss Galina stayed with Shade after dinner, and they spent the night together before she asked whether he had succubus blood.
• Miss Galina told Shade she would soon leave for the Green Lake Region and would visit less often while preparing for the negotiations, but insisted he keep visiting her.
• Tifa secretly advised Shade to visit Galina Manor over the weekend and bring flowers or a distinctive gift from the Green Lake Region.
• Shade met the Apothecary Miss at the Green Lake Inn, where she explained that they needed to travel to Mikella Blast Furnace City for a newborn’s memory.
• The Apothecary Miss arranged two carriages through Paradise Island Pharmaceuticals, and she and Shade set off south separately.

Shade accompanied the Apothecary Miss to Green Lake Island to search for an Edwards family grave, collecting an old notebook and buying a coin relic along the way. They landed at the island’s southern dock and headed toward the lighthouse, where the Apothecary Miss planned to find the grave of Sloth Edwards’s wife.

• Shade and the Apothecary Miss crossed the border into Mikella Blast Furnace City and passed a protest against the negotiations.
• The Apothecary Miss retrieved an old notebook from an Edwards family suitcase at a black-market bookstore, and Shade bought two coins of the Poet Level relic Lute's Lament.
• Shade told the Apothecary Miss that he was investigating where someone had obtained an item they should not have taken.
• Shade and the Apothecary Miss boarded a steamship with two of her nine-ring followers, then landed at the Edwards Family’s private dock on Green Lake Island’s southern side.
• The Apothecary Miss explained that Edwards family members were buried in hidden places across the island, and she and Shade followed a path toward the lighthouse to seek Sloth Edwards’s wife’s grave.

Shade and the Apothecary Miss exhumed her ancestor's grave to recover a tooth and encountered the ancestor's soul. The soul offered to answer one question about Klein Edwards, leaving the Apothecary Miss to decide what to ask.

• Shade dug up the grave of the Apothecary Miss's ancestor while she and her inner voices discussed his scent.
• Shade and the Apothecary Miss used magic to remove and open the metal coffin, and she retrieved a tooth from the corpse.
• Touching the corpse made Shade and the Apothecary Miss lose their sense of direction, and Shade used Guiding Death to contact the old woman's soul.
• The old woman's soul said only a descendant with at least high-ring strength could ask about her husband, Sloth Edwards, and welcomed the Apothecary Miss as one of her great-granddaughters.
• The soul offered the Apothecary Miss one question about Klein Edwards, and she looked to Shade for advice.

Shade and the Apothecary Miss learned that the Edwardz Family’s first ancestor, Klein Edwards, had been a Thirteenth Ring Warlock, then continued their search for the Blacksmith’s soul. They reached Green Lake Town Cemetery and waited for the fog to make them lose their direction.

• The old woman revealed that Klein Edwards had reached the Thirteenth Ring before her soul departed.
• The Apothecary Miss decided to investigate her ancestor’s identity, while Shade offered to help after their immediate business was done.
• The Apothecary Miss suspected Shade was the Chosen One of Space, but Shade denied it and suggested the Chosen One might belong to the Edwardz Family.
• Shade and the Apothecary Miss buried the remains, left flowers at the grave, and returned to their ship with the tooth they had recovered.
• They sailed around the island to its northern dock, then walked through the woods to Green Lake Town Cemetery.
• Shade and the Apothecary Miss sat by the Blacksmith’s tombstone and waited for the loss of direction to begin.

Shade and the Apothecary Miss discussed relics, history, and the Edwards Family prophecy while waiting in the fog for a spirit to appear. She revealed that the prophecy was known to every Edwards and that she feared her strength would not be enough to face the family’s hidden legacy, while Shade offered to help investigate.

• Shade showed the Apothecary Miss his staff, and she identified it as a dead sapling and a relic at least Sage Level, possibly Angel Level.
• Shade and the Apothecary Miss spent the afternoon discussing potion-making, regional legends, the Fifth Epoch, and other subjects, but the Blacksmith’s soul did not appear.
• Shade asked about the Edwards prophecy, and the Apothecary Miss said every family member heard it in dreams and believed it called them back to their island mansion.
• The Apothecary Miss admitted she wanted to grow strong enough to protect herself and worried that Eleventh Ring was her limit, so Shade promised to help when her family gathered.
• Shade showed her the Sun, Moon, and Stars symbol and explained that her grandfather, Alphons Edwards, had sent a letter bearing it to a folklorist a century earlier.
• The Apothecary Miss agreed to search her father’s relics and ask relatives about the symbol, but warned Shade that the mystery involved power far beyond his Six Ring rank.

Shade and the Apothecary Miss discussed the surviving members of the Edwardz family and prepared to open a grave on the island. After she revealed more of her family history, they began assembling the key, leaving a diary and her blood ready before the gravestone.

• Shade reassured the Apothecary Miss that his allies could help and asked how many Edwardzes were still alive.
• The Apothecary Miss named her living relatives and told Shade that her father had kept the family’s past from her.
• Shade promised to keep her private affairs secret, while the Apothecary Miss teased him about his companions.
• As the island’s fog thickened, the Apothecary Miss linked herself to Shade with a golden thread to improve their perception.
• The Apothecary Miss arranged the key’s materials before the gravestone, cut her wrist to collect blood, and Shade opened the red leather notebook, which contained a diary entry about Edward Edwards’s birth.

Shade and Apothecary Miss retrieved a bone key from an Edwardz grave, then visited a hidden graveyard containing the tomb of Lust Edwardz. Shade discovered that an empty stone box bore traces of the Angel Finger Bones, linking the grave robbers to the Watsont family.

• The Blacksmith’s soul accepted the six offerings and gave Apothecary Miss a bone key from a second Edwardz grave, which Shade dug up and reburied.
• Apothecary Miss withheld the secret of the doors the key might open but promised to invite Shade if she ever opened one.
• Apothecary Miss led Shade through a space-folding ritual to a concealed graveyard and showed him the Bone Repository containing Lust Edwardz’s coffin.
• Apothecary Miss explained that a Low-Ring Arcanist and ordinary accomplices had robbed the graveyard of its Burial Objects.
• Shade examined an empty stone box and identified faint Miracle Element traces from the Angel Finger Bones, connecting the grave robbers to the Watsont family.

Shade and Apothecary Miss connected the stolen Angel Finger Bones to the Edwards Family and discovered a Thirteenth Ring Warlock had arrived on the island. They hid as Er Harken’s group searched the Bone Repository, leaving Shade concealed among the statues and Apothecary Miss disguised as a cat.

• Shade realized the grave robbers had stolen burial objects from the Edwards Family and resolved to find out what they had encountered.
• Apothecary Miss agreed to help Shade search for the grave robbers and insisted on joining him if he found them.
• Shade and Apothecary Miss sensed six strangers approaching and recognized Er Harken, the Thirteenth Ring Warlock known as the Invisible Man.
• Apothecary Miss moved close enough to Shade to confirm that her witch curse had not triggered, then they decided to hide separately.
• Shade disguised himself as a stone angel statue while Apothecary Miss turned into a black-and-white cat and erased her tracks.
• Er Harken and his companions entered the Bone Repository, failed to find what they sought, and began searching the graveyard.

Shade intervened when the Apothecary Miss, transformed into a Cat, was cornered by Er Harken and the Mirror Society. He escaped the cemetery with her after breaking Er Harken’s Mystic Lock, but the pursuers concluded that both fugitives were descendants of the Edwards Family.

• Er Harken and two Eighth Ring Arcanists used a mirror spell to reveal the Apothecary Miss in Cat form and pursue her through the Great Fog.
• The Apothecary Miss fled and unleashed a chaotic barrage of four-colored runes, but Er Harken survived and continued after her.
• As the Apothecary Miss neared a loss of control, Shade caught her and struck Er Harken with a Shadow Ball that petrified his forearm.
• Er Harken began forming a Mystic Lock, but Shade shattered the mirror world and fled with the Apothecary Miss after splitting into three illusions.
• Er Harken struck Shade with a Dimension Slash, but Shade used the impact to escape the cemetery with the Cat.
• The two one-eyed brothers told Er Harken that both fugitives were descendants of the Edwards Family, and Er Harken ordered the search to continue.

Shade rescued Apothecary Miss from a Thirteenth Ring Warlock, survived a spatial wound, and carried her toward the dock while treating her mental injuries. They found the ship still waiting, but Apothecary Miss asked him to wait until her transformation ended before rejoining her Followers.

• Shade woke after the Thirteenth Ring Warlock's attack, and Apothecary Miss used her healing potion to treat his wound.
• Shade expelled the lingering spatial power with Space Stabilization Aura, and his wound quickly healed through his own recovery.
• Shade concealed himself and carried Apothecary Miss toward the dock, using Cindyia's Silver Moon Gift to treat her mental injuries.
• Apothecary Miss asked why Shade had saved her, and he said he had done it simply because he wanted to.
• Shade and Apothecary Miss found the ship still at the dock with its agreed lantern signal, but she asked him to wait until her transformation ended.
• Shade sat with Apothecary Miss on the beach and told her about his earlier encounter with a Water Ghost.

Shade learned that the witch was Megan Edwards and helped calm her unstable spirit with Pure Moonlight Water before she returned to human form. After Megan left, Shade turned his attention to the fog-contaminated island and began using Earth Power to heal it.

• Megan told Shade that the two Eighth Ring Arcanists were her nephews and revealed her name was Megan Edwards.
• Shade gave Megan Pure Moonlight Water, which soothed her Spiritual Power and caused her cat form to glow as the transformation spell wore off.
• Megan returned to human form and offered to show Shade her face, but he declined and asked her to write after dealing with the Orichalcum key.
• Megan departed by steam engine, leaving Shade alone on the fog-shrouded island.
• Shade recognized that the unknown fog had contaminated the island and cast Earth Power - Healing Aura.

Shade temporarily purified Green Lake Island’s dock and returned to Tobesk, where Luvia’s divination revealed that Klein Edwards was the vanished Seer Association diviner Laplace Klein Howard. They planned to investigate him and alert the Church, Council, and Academy, leaving the island’s secrets and the diviner’s connection to the Chosen One of Space unresolved.

• Shade used Earth Power - Healing Aura to restore the dock area temporarily and obtained a small Holy Grail marked “Mist.”
• Shade returned home by Space Movement, told Luvia about the events on Central Island, and described Apothecary Miss, the Invisible Man, and the two Edwards Descendants.
• Shade asked Luvia to divine Klein Edwards’s identity, and using two Special Coins, she discovered his true name was Laplace Klein Howard.
• Luvia explained that Laplace Klein Howard had been a Twelfth Ring Diviner who betrayed the Seer Association about 260 years earlier and had been expected to become its president.
• Shade asked Luvia to research Laplace through the Association and planned to inform Iluna, Galina, Audrey Edwards, the Council, and Miss Danist about the unrecorded Thirteenth Ring Diviner.

Shade learned that the God of Journey’s followers had records linking an oracle to a supreme Witch Emperor and the Winter Maiden’s believers, possibly connecting his current adventure to Ice Witch Chloe. Before returning to the past, he arranged for the Church to investigate the Edwards Family and set off through the Time Key with Mia.

• Iluna told Shade that the Traveler’s Association had preserved records of an oracle involving a supreme Witch Emperor in an ice city, possibly referring to Ice Witch Chloe during Shade’s 928 adventure.
• Luvia suggested the God of Journey might be connected to the Ancient God of Space and Shade’s enhanced Space Perception.
• Shade told Iluna and Luvia about the Edwards Family’s ancestor and his clash with the Thirteenth Ring Warlock, Invisible Man.
• Shade decided to ask Sister Devlin and the Guardians to report strange events at Green Lake to the Church so it would investigate the Edwards Family and the Chosen One of Space.
• Shade took Mia as a toy, inserted the Time Key into the study door, and entered the White Fog to return to the past.

Shade returned to the Lost Forest camp and reunited with Areira Andreana, Clara, Zaffir Yellen, and Dika Enriques before the travelers resumed the God of Journey’s Seven-Day Story. To help the Moonlight Traveler cross the river, Shade drank a transformation potion and became a cat.

• Shade ran through the Lost Forest’s deadly fog and reached the camp, where Areira Andreana, Clara, Zaffir Yellen, and Dika Enriques had been waiting.
• Shade recognized Areira’s Tarot Card, Myriad Aspects of Impermanence, but chose not to interfere with its fate.
• Shade gave Areira his notes on using Unicorn power and turned Little Mia back from a toy into a cat.
• The God of Journey resumed the story, and Dika recapped how the Boatman had refused to let the Moonlight Traveler board.
• Shade drank a brown potion and transformed into a cat so he could become like the other travelers.

Shade and the other Travelers encountered a wish-granting Djinn during their ship voyage and learned what had become of the people they sought. As night fell, they faced the decision of who would keep watch and lose strength for the next day.

• Shade remained transformed into a cat until the ship reached shore, while Mia eagerly rubbed against him.
• Dika Enriques drew a card describing a Djinn in a Bottle, and the Djinn offered the Travelers three wishes in exchange for his freedom.
• Shade recognized the Djinn's demonic power, but Mia's roar made it back away; reassured that it would not set a trap, the Travelers asked about those they sought.
• The Djinn told Dika that his childhood lover had become a count's wife, and told the old knight that his family had died but might be reunited with him at a price.
• The Djinn said the woman sought by the Witch and her Maid was alive, and that the Demigod Witch Shade sought was in the Snow Mountain; it then returned to its bottle.
• As night fell aboard the ship, the Travelers considered who would keep watch until dawn and sacrifice stamina and Spiritual Power for the next day's journey.

During the travelers’ boat journey, the Underworld Moon drew their dead loved ones into view and tested whether they could resist following them. The old knight chose to leave the journey with the souls of his wife and daughter, and the others were left to continue without him.

• Shade and the witch arranged the night watch, and the god’s story brought the travelers face to face with the Underworld Moon and the road of the dead.
• The travelers encountered familiar souls in the fog and had to resist longing that could keep them from leaving.
• Shade met the deceased Detective Sparrow Hamilton, who described Miss Mia San Gaode as warm as the Sun, gentle as the earth, tranquil as the Silver Moon, and sacred as a church statue.
• The Bard, the witch, and Clara said farewell to the dead, while the old knight reunited with the souls of his wife and daughter.
• The old knight chose to follow them across the black water and disappeared; the fog then dispersed, and the god reappeared at the camp.

Shade and his companions navigated a mirage-filled desert, where Areira Andreana used the Myriad Aspects of Impermanence Cards to identify the safe path. They camped at twilight, and the Bard drew a lute card to begin the next part of the story.

• Shade questioned why the story had clothed him, and the Traveler explained that the tale would remain wholesome with ladies present.
• Maid Clara drew an oasis card, and the travelers found water and supplies in the desert.
• Areira Andreana drew a mirror card and led the group into a mirage that trapped them in illusions and Disordered Space.
• Areira used the Unicorn's power to rule out the left mirror, then used Shade's Tarot Card to identify the middle mirror as the correct exit.
• The travelers escaped the desert's illusion-ridden heartland and made camp as twilight fell.
• The Bard drew a lute card and asked the god what story would unfold that night.

Shade and his companions continued the Seven-Day Trip after Shade learned the God of Journey’s Traveler’s Camp spell. Their choice to follow Mia’s guidance deeper into the desert led them into a sandstorm and a blinding force that transformed them before the scene ended.

• The God of Journey sang a song that gave Shade the Traveler’s Camp spell and strengthened his protection during the journey.
• On the fourth day, Shade chose to follow Mia’s meowing deeper into the desert rather than head directly for the Snow Mountain or enter the Underground Nether Realm.
• A sandstorm struck, and Shade used the Heaton Seal and Great Sin Chains to shield the group and pull the Unicorn and hound to safety.
• The Witch combined the Unicorn’s protective light with Shade’s shield as an overwhelming light and heat engulfed the travelers.
• Shade and the Bard awoke in the woods, with the Bard injured around his left eye, the Witch strengthened, and Clara grown taller with longer hair.

Shade’s companions gained new abilities after the desert sandstorm, and the god advanced their journey toward the Snow Mountain while warning that its final days would bring a major choice. Back in the present, Shade discussed the trip with Luvia and Iluna, then asked Iluna to teach him Earth Energy Cannon.

• Clara awakened as a witch, Mia’s fur grew glossier, and Shade’s Heaton Seal became stronger and could be cast while moving.
• The god described the travelers’ peaceful camp at the edge of the Snow Mountain and warned that the final day might bring something unexpected.
• The Bard asked Shade to bring ink, paper, and pens, and Shade left the story as White Fog carried him away.
• After Shade returned, he asked Mia to breathe fire, but Luvia and Iluna dismissed it as an ability she would likely master because her tail could catch fire.
• Shade recounted his adventure to Luvia and Iluna, and Iluna promised to bring supplies to keep the travelers warm on their next Snow Mountain journey.
• Shade asked Iluna to teach him the Earth Energy Cannon technique he had used in Randall River Valley.

Shade sought Iluna’s advice on learning wide-area attacks, then discussed the dangers in the Green Lake Region with Miss Galina and arranged to alert the Church and the Council. After visiting the restored Forgotten Church, he asked the Guardians for help, who told him that an approaching lunar eclipse would be crucial to his training.

• Shade asked Iluna how to develop Giantified wide-area attacks, and she explained the need for control, sufficient spirit, and an insight into greater power.
• Shade and Iluna met Miss Galina and Tifa, and Shade recounted his encounter with the Invisible Man and the Thirteenth Ring Warlocks on Central Island.
• Miss Galina agreed to warn the Council about the Green Lake danger, while Shade planned to have Iluna inform The Church and urged them not to intervene prematurely.
• Shade visited the Forgotten Church and learned that the Golden Dawn Opera Troupe had gone to the Green Lake Region to perform.
• Shade asked the Guardians to help him learn Giantified attacks, and they told him to sense the Moon during the coming lunar eclipse, which would be extremely important to him.

Shade discussed the coming moon eclipse and the Black Moon Rune with Sister Devlin, then visited Cassandra Auction House and talked with Grandma Cassandra about Audrey Edwards and the Space Chosen One. He remained cautious about involving Grace and Helen in the Green Lake affair, while Cassandra said she would join any Great Witches sent there.

• Sister Devlin told Shade that the moon eclipse could awaken the power of his Moon's Shadow Spirit Rune and advised him to wait for the eclipse night.
• Shade practiced swordsmanship with Sister Devlin, then agreed to visit Grace and Helen at Cassandra Auction House after she insisted he go to lunch there.
• Shade asked Grandma Cassandra and Rita Swift about Audrey Edwards, and Cassandra confirmed that Audrey Edwards and Megan Edwards were both real names.
• Cassandra and Rita warned Shade that keeping Grace and Helen uninformed could make them investigate Green Lake on their own, and Shade said he would tell them more after confirming the Chosen One Ritual's details.
• Cassandra announced that she would accompany any Great Witches sent to the Green Lake Region, prompting Rita to worry about her health.

Shade drank a potion made by Grace and Helen and gained the Transformation Spell—Cat, then met Miss Danist and told her about Invisible Man and the Edwards Family’s connection to the Seer Association. He refused to stop investigating Green Lake, while Miss Danist urged him to leave the dangerous case to her.

• Grace and Helen gave Shade a blood-red potion intended to strengthen his transformation abilities and help him gain the Red Butterfly Spirit Rune.
• The potion turned Shade into a silver-white cat, granting him the Transformation Spell—Cat; he changed back and fled after the sisters tried to pet him.
• Shade returned home, reviewed his Green Lake clues, and later met Miss Danist at Saint Byron's Grand Library.
• Shade showed Miss Danist a photograph of Invisible Man and said the enemy had injured him with Dimension Slash on Central Island.
• Shade told Miss Danist that Klein Edwards had belonged to the Seer Association and asked her to identify which Seer Association Diviner matched him.
• Miss Danist warned Shade to stop investigating, but Shade insisted on continuing and promised to be careful.

Shade received a powerful Alchemy Item from Miss Danist and went to the Green Lake Region to investigate Grave Robbers connected to the Edwards Family and the Angel Finger Bones. Captain Rades directed him to Rotten Eye Barry, whom Shade learned was at his lakeside villa meeting wealthy guests.

• Miss Danist gave Shade an Alchemy Item that could unleash Red Moon Fall and briefly project her to his side if he used it at night.
• Shade received the red-covered item and traveled to the Green Lake Region to search for clues about the Grave Robbers.
• Shade met Captain Rades, who described rising border tensions and recommended that he seek out Rotten Eye Barry in Pukhov Village.
• At the Pukhov Village tavern, Shade knocked down a drunken man who demanded money for information.
• Shade learned that Rotten Eye Barry was at his lakeside villa discussing business with wealthy guests from Mikella Blast Furnace City.

Shade investigated the local Unifier legend, then met Rotten Eye Barry to ask about grave robbers who had raided Green Lake Central Island. Barry agreed to investigate the Black Rats gang by Friday afternoon, while Shade noticed a Water Ghost scent on him and left the mystery for later.

• Shade questioned a village drunk about the Unifier’s black badge and learned the legend was an old local rumor around Green Lake.
• Shade found Professor Brownell at Rotten Eye Barry’s lakeside compound and went inside to speak with Barry.
• Shade asked Barry about grave robbers who had visited Green Lake Central Island three years earlier, and Barry identified them as the Black Rats gang hired by an Outlander.
• Barry said the Black Rats survivors had later fallen ill or gone mad and died, then agreed to investigate them for Shade by Friday afternoon.
• Shade noticed a Water Ghost scent on Barry but chose not to investigate him yet, then returned to the village tavern to meet Professor Brownell.