Chapter Summaries

Shade and Long-Haired Luvia shared a dream in which she changed his God of Love's Thorn thaumaturgy before he awoke beside the sleeping Luvia. He learned how the enhanced power worked, then visited Princess Leisha, who was preparing to advance to the sixth ring.

• Long-Haired Luvia asked Shade to drive God of Love's Thorn into her chest, returning power to him and changing the thaumaturgy in the dream.
• Shade awoke beside Luvia and discovered that the altered thaumaturgy could transform weapons and layer soul-crystal infection onto several of his attacks.
• Shade considered Luvia's warnings about Laplace Klein Howard and the Doomsday before letting the cat out of the wardrobe.
• Shade sent Luvia to the Seer Association and visited Princess Leisha, who said the Academy and her father's negotiations had kept her busy.
• Leisha had gathered the Spirit Runes for her fifth-ring Words of Sublimation and was preparing for her advancement ritual.

Shade invited old Mister Green to meet the Edwardz family, but the Corpse Ghoul refused and instead revealed the hidden fates of his relatives across several generations. He ended by questioning whether Shade could defeat the Ancestor, whose long plans had shaped the entire family.

• Leisha accepted Shade's invitation to the Opera House and discussed the preparations for advancing to the sixth ring.
• Shade visited old Mister Green and invited him to a family gathering, but old Mister Green declined to avoid losing the Ancestor as an information source.
• Old Mister Green revealed that two fifth-generation relatives had faked their deaths and been placed in secret cults, while the three fourth-generation men had become liches and his mother's soul had escaped the Ancestor.
• Old Mister Green explained that several earlier Edwardz ancestors had become a tentacled creature, a Demon Man, an immortal captive, and a half-demon, half-Dragon monster.
• Shade summarized the Edwardz family's extraordinary members, and old Mister Green warned that the Ancestor's plans might make him impossible to defeat.

Shade learned how Pride Edwards sacrificed himself to free his children and how a flame in an ancient kerosene lamp had once stabilized Green Lake Central Island. He left with clues about the lamp, other Edwards relatives, and the Ancestor’s absence, while realizing his Mystic Lock could contain the island’s chaos.

• Shade asked Mr. Green about the Edwards Family’s relics, Rhodes Cards, Founding Series cards, and any special flame the Ancestor possessed.
• Mr. Green explained that Pride Edwards uncovered the Ancestor’s secret research and destroyed a device stabilizing the island, letting White Fog engulf Green Lake Town so his four children could escape.
• Mr. Green said the device was a portable metal kerosene lamp containing a flame that stabilized space and marked the boundary between the islands.
• Shade connected Sister Devlin’s search for a First Fire flame to Green Lake and realized his Mystic Lock, Tree’s Kiss, could seal away the island’s spatial danger.
• Mr. Green told Shade that Jarvis Edwardz and Nadia Furen held further family information, then left by plunging into the earth when Shade asked about telling the Green Siblings of his condition.

Shade visited Glass City to report on the circus undercover agent, then washed Little Mia and joined Audrey and Megan to investigate a strange riverside door. The Witches’ Council rewarded him with Speaker Isabella’s hair, and the group began searching for the door in its unobservable state.

• Shade lunched with Sylvia, discussed the disputed Black Sun Forest border and the pressures facing Margaret’s father, then reported what he had learned.
• Shade tricked Little Mia into a bath, then brought the freshly washed cat to Green Lake Inn for the evening gathering.
• Audrey showed Shade a potion made from the Seven-Colored Mushrooms that could reveal spatial fissures and gave him Speaker Isabella’s golden hair as his Council reward.
• Shade told Audrey and Megan the Green family’s history, and Audrey invited him to investigate a strange door reported along the Duin River.
• Audrey, Megan, and Shade walked beside the river with diluted Seven-Colored Mushroom Potion as Megan explained that the door remained present but unobservable when it could not be seen.

Shade and Audrey explored the riverside on a date, where Shade learned that two children who collected cigarette butts had disappeared. After watching a political procession pass, Shade continued walking with Audrey, troubled by the realization that the conflict between Delarion and Kasonlik was about interests rather than right and wrong.

• Shade and Audrey strolled through the riverside district, holding hands and passing reporters preparing a photograph of the gloomy street and a marching crowd.
• Shade recognized Little John collecting cigarette butts with his dog and called him over, while Audrey waited nearby.
• Little John told Shade that two children who collected cigarette butts nearby had disappeared during the week and pointed out their usual territories.
• Shade gave Little John ten pence, and the boy hurried away when a crowd approached with police following.
• Shade and Audrey watched the procession shout slogans for Delarion, then continued their walk as Audrey reflected that Delarion and Kasonlik were driven by interests.

Shade and Megan found the Door of Wishes Granted by the river and rescued John’s missing brother from it, while Shade killed Bully Hansen for murdering and eating the boy. They returned to Green Lake Inn for the family banquet, with Shade worried that Doctor Schneider might encounter the Mirror Society brothers.

• Shade and Megan found an old door by the river and identified it as the Door of Wishes Granted, an artifact that trapped people inside their deepest desires.
• Shade threw coins through the door, revealing Bully Hansen trapped in a room filled with riches, and Hansen rushed out when the scene changed.
• Shade learned that Hansen had strangled the frail boy whose corpse he had eaten, then killed Hansen with his chain and sent the boy’s soul toward the Underworld.
• Megan marveled that Shade could open a passage to True Death, and Shade said he would explain how he gained the power later.
• Shade and Megan returned to their cruise ship, and Shade worried that Doctor Schneider might encounter the Mirror Society brothers before the family banquet.
• Shade and Megan arrived at Green Lake Inn at six o’clock, half an hour before the gathering was scheduled to begin.

Shade and the Edwardz descendants gathered at Green Lake, exchanged information about their family and the thirteen keys, and learned that their ancestor’s Chosen One ritual required him to “Create Space.” They pledged to work together against his plans, while the Mirror Society agreed not to act alone at Green Lake or explore the island independently.

• Shade and Megan hosted a family dinner with the Follen and Edwardz brothers, and the relatives toasted their reunion and Aunt Maria.
• Shade shared Mr. Nicholas Green’s information, revealing that Old Mr. Green had become a Corpse Ghoul and that the Edwardz parents had become Cultists; the family also confirmed the whereabouts of eight keys.
• The Follen brothers reported that the Church had found ancient ruins on the island, while the Edwards brothers revealed that the entire Edwardz family might be the Space Chosen Ones and that their ritual required them to “Create Space.”
• Wood Edwardz said the Invisible Man believed their ancestor was occupied with the ritual and would invite the descendants back once he succeeded.
• The sixth-generation descendants pledged to oppose their ancestor together, the Follen brothers agreed to inform the Church, and the Mirror Society agreed not to plot at Green Lake or explore the island alone.

At a banquet hosted by Megan, Shade and the Edwardz descendants discussed their family’s past and plans to resist their Ancestor. A spatial distortion sent a train crashing into Green Lake City, and Shade went out to investigate, where Doctor Bill Schneider encountered the Edwardz Brothers.

• Durut Giles arrived at the banquet with Lust Edwardz’s soul, and the Edwardz and Follen Brothers greeted her as an honored elder.
• The guests recounted how their grandfathers had left Green Lake and agreed to honor their parents’ wishes by letting them rest in peace.
• At 7:56:23, the Ring Arcanists sensed a large spatial distortion, and Megan used wine to show a train appearing and crashing into a street in central Green Lake City.
• The Follen Brothers and the Edwardz Brothers left the gathering, expecting The Church to investigate and the area to be placed under lockdown.
• Shade went downstairs to inspect the crash and saw Doctor Bill Schneider come face-to-face with the one-eyed Edwardz Brothers.

Doctor Schneider found the location needed for the Dream Entry Ritual, and Shade assembled his allies to prepare for a Saturday-night search for Maze Demon-Yaru at Green Lake. As the group began the ritual preparations on a concealed cruise ship, Audrey warned Shade that something was wrong with Doctor Schneider.

• Doctor Schneider told Shade he had found the ritual location and proposed holding the Dream Entry Ritual at Green Lake the next night.
• Shade introduced Doctor Schneider to Megan and Mr. Green, and the group agreed to prepare for the ritual while Shade canceled his date with Leisha.
• Shade saw Priest Augustus off on a journey to Green Lake, then informed Luvia that the operation would take place there.
• Shade left Tobesk with Doctor Schneider, the Green Siblings, Megan, and Audrey, and they concealed their cruise ship on Estuary Lake.
• Doctor Schneider took Mr. Green into the cabin to prepare his mental state while the others arranged the ritual, and Audrey told Shade that something was wrong with the doctor.

Shade and Doctor Schneider began the dream operation to reach the door on Green Lake’s Central Island, entering Soren Green’s dream with him. They left the inn aboard a boat bound for the island, with Shade responsible for combat and Soren instructed to stay with them.

• Audrey questioned Shade about Doctor Schneider’s unusual knowledge of demons, and Shade told her to trust the doctor and keep his identity secret.
• Sylvia, Margaret, Tifa, and other witches joined Shade and Audrey’s team aboard the cruise ship, where they prepared the ritual and defenses for the operation.
• Soren drank a Sleeping Magic Potion and entered a specially prepared coffin with Shade and the doctor; the witches lowered all three coffins into Green Lake and activated the rituals.
• Shade and Doctor Schneider entered Soren’s dream at the Green Lake Inn, confirmed their powers and relics worked there, and used the doctor’s mental suggestion to awaken Soren.
• The doctor reminded Soren to stay with them and Shade to handle combat; then he shifted the dream scene, placing the three of them in a boat sailing through the rain toward the island’s fog.

Shade, Doctor Schneider, and Soren Green explored the island in Soren’s dream and uncovered a hidden chamber beneath Edwards Mansion’s well, where murals recorded horrific immortality experiments. They reached the basement door believed to conceal their target, but Doctor Schneider’s watch had become useless as they prepared to proceed.

• Doctor Schneider confirmed that the dream connected to reality as the group reached the island, and Shade led them through the ominous town toward Edwards Mansion.
• Soren Green identified himself at the mansion’s gate, allowing it to open, while Doctor Schneider’s watch showed that the dream had been mixed with something else.
• Shade noticed the well and, after Soren asked to draw water, opened the way into a secret chamber beneath it.
• Shade found murals depicting experiments on a humanoid figure and recognized one object as an Infant Fruit derived from the Agelessness Tree.
• The group returned aboveground and entered Edwards Old House, then reached the basement’s black iron door as Doctor Schneider’s watch began trembling wildly.

Shade fought Demon Man Pride Edwards in the crimson-mist dream and learned that the Primordial Fire had scorched his arm. He then confronted Gluttony Edwards, whose memories revealed her murder of her brother’s wife and her transformation through Demon and Dragon power.

• Shade opened the basement door and faced Maze Demon - Yaru as crimson mist spread across the dream island.
• Shade defeated Pride Edwards with the Night Watchman and the Chaotic Time Blade, then recognized the First Fire’s mark on his burned arm.
• Shade left Edwards Old House and saw visions of the Edwards siblings growing up, Gluttony’s relationship with a woman, and the birth of little Maria.
• Shade watched Gluttony stab her brother’s wife and push her into the well before she approached him carrying a Black Dragon.
• Shade and Gluttony sensed the Dragon power in each other as they faced one another in the mist.

Shade fought Gluttony Edwards in a prepared Dream and learned that she claimed Alphonse as her son and Megan’s grandmother as her granddaughter. After Shade dragged Gluttony into reality, she emerged from Green Lake and was met in the air by Miss Sylvia and Megan.

• Gluttony Edwards revealed that Alphonse had been created from her blood and her brother’s, and claimed Megan was her granddaughter.
• Shade battled Gluttony across the Dream, shattered her black greatsword with Primordial Fire, and wounded her soul with the Moonbeam Greatsword.
• Gluttony fled the Dream, but returned behind Shade with a dagger as the Doctor signaled him.
• Shade seized Gluttony and pulled her from the Dream into reality, causing one of the coffins beneath Green Lake to explode.
• Gluttony flew out of Green Lake and collided with Miss Sylvia and Megan, whose attacks engulfed her in midair.

Shade and the Witches battled Gluttony Edwards, who escaped the Great Sin Chains by transforming into a powerful black Dragon. Laplace Klein Howard appeared and invited Shade to meet him, then vanished; Shade joined the fight aboard the flying cruise ship and unleashed a Dragon Roar alongside its cannon attack.

• Shade and the Witches trapped Gluttony Edwards with the Great Sin Chains and other restraints, but a mysterious hand freed her Destiny Ring.
• Gluttony Edwards transformed into a black Dragon and fought Megan, Audrey, and the other Witches above Green Lake.
• Laplace Klein Howard contacted Shade through a spatial opening, questioned his beliefs about the Murmuring Chapters, and invited him to the Edwards family's banquet.
• Laplace promised not to obstruct Shade on his next visit to the island if Shade defeated Gluttony, then closed the spatial opening.
• Shade joined Tifa and Margaret aboard the airborne cruise ship as Jill Holly aimed its charged cannon at the Dragon.
• Shade unleashed a Dragon Roar as the cruise ship fired its cannon, striking Gluttony Edwards with both attacks.

Vanessa Benanis and Siris joined the battle at Green Lake, and Vanessa’s performance empowered a stone giant to badly wound the Demon Black Dragon. Doctor Bill Schneider then trapped the Dragon inside a cube, while Shade went to meet him and Megan’s party began rescuing Mr. Soren Green.

• The fused Edwards and Demon Black Dragon recovered their strength and prepared to attack Megan and the black-haired Great Witch, but a stone giant emerged from Green Lake.
• Vanessa Benanis and Siris performed the dragon slayer’s hymn, and Vanessa used the Mystic Lock · Ode to Glory Golden Stage to strike the Dragon with the giant’s sword.
• The badly wounded Dragon remained ready to fight, but a black cube rose from the lake and Doctor Bill Schneider appeared with the remains of Maze Demon-Yaru.
• Doctor Bill Schneider enclosed the Dragon in black fragments and shrank the prison to a cube in his palm.
• Shade left the cruise ship to meet Doctor Bill Schneider, while Megan and Audrey arranged for the others to pull Mr. Soren Green from the lake.

Shade and the Doctor returned the Edwards siblings to Sloth Edwardz in exchange for a clue about the second Space Chosen One. In Green Lake City, Iluna met If and began the second game by choosing to leave for Huntington.

• Vanessa, Megan, Audrey, and Sylvia clasped hands and agreed to keep Shade's affairs secret.
• The Doctor gave Shade the cube containing Glatoni Edwards and Pride Edwards, explaining that he had sealed the Demon empowering them.
• Sloth Edwardz collected the cube and revealed that the second Space Chosen candidate was connected to Lust Edwardz and the man she had chosen.
• Iluna arrived in Green Lake City, separated from her companions, and asked If to begin the second game.
• If presented Iluna with five choices, but she chose to conceal her face and buy a train ticket to Huntington, Kassenric United Kingdom.

Iluna used the If game to search Huntington’s lakes for clues about the Goddess in the Lake and encountered Angelina Cavendish. After reaching the First Cherub, she asked the Intellect Angel for guidance on saving the person who could have changed the tragedies of her future.

• Iluna spent weeks searching the lakes around Huntington, finally hearing a rumor about a barefoot red-haired girl walking on a lake.
• Iluna called out Leisha Cavendish’s name, but the girl was Angelina Cavendish, who agreed to help after Iluna explained her mission.
• Angelina guided Iluna to the First Cherub, where Iluna overheard fragments of Angelina’s conversation with the Angel before Angelina left.
• Iluna introduced herself to the Intellect Angel and asked for guidance on saving the crucial person missing from the game’s past, or on dealing with the Unknown Level Relic, If.

Iluna learned that saving Shade required seeking further help, then played through a disastrous account of the Green Lake Incident and gained an insight into the Silver Moon. Meanwhile, Shade returned to the boat after Sloth Edwardz escaped, and his companions agreed that learning about the Chosen One of Space mattered more than capturing the Edwards Family members.

• Iluna refused the Angel’s offers of power and knowledge and insisted on learning how to save Shade; the Angel told her to seek the aid of Time and Space, the Guardians of the Apocalypse, or the Fire Guardians.
• If recounted how Iluna barely defeated Angelina Cavendish before returning to Green Lake, where Laplace Klein Edwardz defeated her and the Green Lake Incident ended in failure.
• Iluna noticed a silver-haired woman in the Silver Moon and gained an insight that could lead to the Miracle—Silver Moon.
• Doctor Schneider left with the Wish Demon and told Shade to meet him later so they could refine the Demon remains and decide what to do with the imprisoned souls.
• Shade returned to the boat and told Miss Benanis, Miss Sylvia, and Megan about Sloth Edwardz; they agreed that gathering information about a Chosen One was more important than capturing the temporarily weakened Edwards Family members.

Shade and the Doctor celebrated defeating the labyrinth demon Yalu, while Shade learned the truth about Megan’s family and dealt with the souls imprisoned by the demon. The chapter ended with Shade watching the freed souls approach the Underworld Moon in True Death.

• Shade told Megan and Audrey that Luvia would visit Monday and revealed that their ancestor had created Megan’s father through Human Transmutation using Pride Edwards’s and Gluttony’s blood.
• The Doctor celebrated the demon-hunting operation with Shade, described his new Blasphemy-Labyrinth ability, and gave Shade demon remains and relics, including a cube imprisoning souls.
• Shade returned home, opened a rift to True Death, and cast the soul-filled cube into its waters.
• Shade watched the freed souls walk toward the half-submerged Underworld Moon as they whispered their thanks.

Shade and Luvia discussed the preparations for the coming battle on Central Island, while the Witches and the Church gathered forces and investigated the growing spatial anomalies around Green Lake. The chapter left Shade’s allies preparing a base and a major divination as the conflict with Laplace Howard drew closer.

• Shade visited Luvia for breakfast, and they discussed the demon’s defeat, their allies, and the clues they needed before planning the final battle.
• Shade took Little Mia to the Green Lake Inn, where the Doctor left to gather materials and collect war aura.
• Miss Galina, Audrey, Miss Benanis, and Miss Sylvia chose to make the inn the Witches’ base for the Green Lake Region incident and discussed the arrival of more Witches.
• Iluna arrived and told Shade and the Witches that the Church was monitoring spatial anomalies, guarding both shores of Green Lake, and preparing a large-scale divination with the Seer Association.
• Iluna added that the Five Gods Church was investigating the keys, Green Lake Town’s descendants, and the illegal Ring Arcanist organization, while also seeking a way to reach Another Island.