Recaps

Shade advanced his studies, received the title of Knight of Leijed, and reunited Miss Annette with Iluna Bayes as they planned to confront the Silver-Eyed One. He then used the Space Labyrinth to reach Coldwater Port, where he began following Mrs. Lemmer’s request.

• Shade met Miss Annette, helped Doctor Schneider investigate the Falsified Philosopher’s Stone, and visited Saint Byrens to consult the Canon of Sublimation.
• Miss Danist gave Shade the Word of Sublimation “Echo of Spacetime Shaking Slumbering Power,” and Shade learned Soul Echo from Miss Louisa.
• Shade visited Mr. Corps for materials and attended the royal banquet, where King Larus III made him a Knight of Leijed.
• Shade interrupted Miss Annette and Iluna Bayes’s escape, revealed his identity as the Masked Man Under the Silver Moon, and helped the two women reconcile.
• Shade won Baron Cobell’s Blood Money coins, enabling Miss Annette to divine how Iluna could become a Chosen One and helping them plan a confrontation with the Silver-Eyed One.
• Shade traveled west through the Space Labyrinth, crossed an underwater passage, and arrived in Coldwater Port.
• Shade learned that Princess Leisha was staying at Sophia Manor, then went out to meet the friend holding Mr. Lemmer’s will.

Shade uncovered the truth behind the Mermaid Statues, settled the Wosente ghosts’ unfinished business, and prepared for a Church raid and his own operation. At the Charity Banquet, he retrieved the Metamorphosis Ring’s opportunity but left wary that the Divine Advent Ritual threatened more than his mission.

• Shade discovered that Jason Delar had distributed cursed Mermaid Statues, killed him, and took the Relics and materials from his house.
• Shade prepared Weather Vane Bluegrass and bought the Bordeaux Candle before agreeing to retrieve the Metamorphosis Ring at Miss Galina’s banquet.
• Shade learned the truth about Mr. Wosente’s murder from the ghosts, helped Mrs. Wosente remember her confession, and saw the two souls depart after one final card game.
• Shade visited Sparrow Hamilton’s grave, then prepared for the coming operation with Miss Annette and Miss Bayes, who awakened golden light linked to her Destiny Ring.
• Shade entered the Charity Banquet at Maupassant Manor, met Steve Event, and arranged for a maid to carry off his coat and draw Event away.
• Shade won two auction items, recognized Hogg Lundell as a High-Ring Arcanist, and urgently asked Doctor Schneider why he was at the manor.
• Shade left without taking the Metamorphosis Ring, warned Tifa that something else might happen during the Divine Advent Ritual, and met Miss Annette and Miss Bayes at the White Swan Hotel.

Shade and his companions uncovered the Corpse Tree beneath Tobesk, where Iluna became a Chosen One and Shade advanced to the Second Ring. When the Lord of the Blood Feast attacked the city, Shade used divinity to become a God Incarnate and defeated the god, leaving Iluna to find him unconscious at home.

• Miss Annette, Miss Bayes, and Shade infiltrated the Noke Printing Factory, defeated the guards, and entered the underground ruins, where Shade found warnings about the Corpse Tree and God's Gift Box.
• Shade confronted the Silver-Eyed One and a Blood Spirit School vampire beneath the Corpse Tree, defeated the vampire, and opened God's Gift Box, absorbing its divinity and advancing to the Second Ring.
• Miss Bayes became the Chosen One of Balance and killed the Silver-Eyed One, while Shade, Miss Bayes, and Miss Annette destroyed the Corpse Tree with Lady Seweier's help.
• Shade and Luvia Annette returned to Tobesk, but a Blood Mist engulfed the city, and Shade used the Time Key to enter the past while Mia was turned into a stuffed cat.
• In the Thousand Tree Forest, Shade met Mana Falianna and told her that the Lord of the Blood Feast threatened Tobesk, and she helped him plan to use his divinity and Myriad Aspects of Impermanence Cards.
• The Blood Feast began in Tobesk, killing thousands and trapping Iluna Bayes and Church arcanists, until Shade appeared beneath the Silver Moon and became the God Incarnate.
• Shade challenged the Lord of the Blood Feast, invoked Balance, and defeated the god with a massive Silver Moon slash, ending the Blood Mist over Tobesk.
• Shade caught Iluna as they fell, then crumbled into silver motes and reappeared unconscious at home, where Iluna later found him and brought undiluted Holy Water.

After surviving the Blood Feast, Shade retrieves the Falsified Philosopher’s Stone and gains the power of Origin · Balance while Tobesk recovers under lockdown. He completes his exams, learns of an Angel Level Relic near the city, and discovers that Jonathan Lemmer left a hidden Safe Room in Coldwater Port City.

• Shade recovered from the battle, learned that Tobesk was under martial law, and sorted the recovered relics with Luvia and Miss Bayes.
• Luvia deciphered the Enemy God's Notebook and identified the Falsified Philosopher’s Stone’s hiding place, while Duchess Galina gave Shade the Metamorphosis Ring and agreed to help with his plan against the police chief.
• Shade and Doctor Schneider broke into Anthony Wograve’s home, found the Stone in a statue, killed Wograve, and set the house on fire as they escaped.
• Shade gained Origin · Balance after reflecting on his actions, then demonstrated its power to Luvia and began preparing to retrieve the Stone’s remaining clues and investigate the Radiance Doorway.
• Shade and his friends took their Academy exams, and Shade earned strong marks while receiving five Practical Credits toward his second-year advancement.
• Shade attended the opera with Miss Louisa, where Harry Walker told him about an Angel Level Relic near Tobesk that concealed what lay inside and produced migrating creatures.
• Shade helped Mrs. Lemmer settle Jonathan Lemmer’s inheritance and found a diary revealing that Lemmer had hidden books and Spellcasting Materials in a Safe Room in Coldwater Port City.