Chapter Summaries

Shade and the Edwards Brothers fought the Flame Giant and stopped the bonfire ritual by having Shade absorb its flames. They found a blood-red tree growing from the cemetery and, after discussing the brothers’ blindness and the ritual, used a Magic Eye to contact Er Harken, who appeared as a projection near Green Lake.

• Shade and the Edwards Brothers battled the Flame Giant and the fiery souls of Green Lake Town’s residents while the brothers used their blinded eyes to unleash Spatial Annihilation.
• Shade entered the bonfire and absorbed its flames with the Primordial Fire, ending the Flame Giant’s assault and allowing the brothers to destroy the remaining fiery figures.
• A blood-red tree sprouted beneath the bonfire, and Shade discovered that cutting it down only caused another tree to grow from the underground roots.
• The brothers told Shade that their blindness let them wield Spatial Annihilation and that their Ancestor’s ritual had weakened their Destiny Rings.
• The brothers placed a bronze Magic Eye in their overlapping blinded sockets and projected Er Harken, the Invisible Man, near Green Lake.

Shade learned that the White Fog had engulfed the Green Lake Region and that the Church and Mirror Society were working together to reinforce the seal. After returning to the inn, he received Sister Devlin’s message and Megan’s earring, and prepared to bring the Edwards sisters back as outside forces moved to intervene.

• Invisible Man told Shade that the White Fog covered the Green Lake Region, the Church needed to reinforce the seal on Green Lake Central Island, and help might take an hour or longer to arrive.
• Invisible Man relayed Death's Chosen One’s instruction to ignite the flame and said the Church was trying to project Warlocks and supplies onto the island.
• Shade touched the blood-red tree and gained the power of Flesh Ascension from the Edwards Apotheosis Art, which expanded his vision and weakened the island’s suppression.
• Shade returned to Green Lake Inn, where more Sorceresses had awakened, and told them outside forces were cooperating and help would soon arrive.
• Sister Devlin passed Shade a note, Megan’s golden earring, and a pink crystal through the bonfire, while restoring his stamina and spirit.
• Shade read that Megan had entrusted the earring to Sister Devlin in case she died, and learned that the Edwards twins had received their invitations at different times.

Shade read Sister Devlin’s note about the missing people, Iluna, and the efforts underway to reach Another Island, then continued exploring toward its interior. He reached Green Lake Town, where he found a larger, more modern town built on dark crimson earth.

• Shade learned that Megan’s ship had sunk and that Helena Green and Maria Edwards had disappeared, while Iluna had vanished with the Follen Brothers.
• Shade read that the Great Witches and others were trying to reach Another Island, and he shared the note’s contents with the young ladies at the inn.
• Shade set out through the rain and fog, avoiding the increasingly alert Fusion monsters and finding Church supplies that included Holy Water No. 3 and a Structure Shield rune stone.
• Shade passed a dangerous Space Chimera by making a wide detour and left the forest for Green Lake Town.
• Shade saw that Green Lake Town was larger and more technologically advanced than the abandoned town on Central Island.

Shade entered Green Lake Town and found its residents bound to roots that drained their blood. He reached the Green Siblings on a cross, where Laplace Klein Howard revealed that Shade could save them by replacing their blood with his own or another powerful bloodline, while warning that the Family Banquet was about to begin.

• Shade found sleeping townspeople in the houses, their bodies fixed to beds by roots that absorbed their blood.
• Shade saw townspeople gathered at the Five Intersection, worshipping the Unifier, and found Mr. Soren Green and Miss Helena Green bound to a cross.
• Shade tried to free the Green Siblings, but roots formed Laplace Klein Howard and fought him; Shade used First Fire Embers to burn through the roots.
• Laplace Klein Howard told Shade that the Family Banquet would begin soon and that Shade had to reach the banquet hall before the first outsiders arrived at the dock.
• Laplace Klein Howard said Shade could save the Green Siblings by replacing their blood with his own or another powerful bloodline, then welcomed him as a member of the Edwards Family.

Shade rescued the Green Siblings by feeding the roots around them his pink Perfume Bottle, then returned to the Green Lake Inn with a piece of root and new insight into the diviner’s ritual. Miss Aurora relayed news of a coming Alchemy Item, a clue on a ship stranded on the reefs, and The Church’s plan to send projections onto the island.

• Shade poured his pink Perfume Bottle over the roots at the cross, causing them to retreat and release the Green Siblings, who vanished into the mist as the cross became a blood-red tree.
• Shade touched the tree, received a prompt about the Edwards Apotheosis Art and the power of a devout soul, and returned to the Green Lake Inn carrying a wriggling root tendril.
• Tifa told Shade that Miss Aurora had reached Grandma Cassandra and Miss Benanis at the shore, then helped him establish contact with Miss Aurora using a stone and Megan's earring.
• Miss Aurora told Shade to contact the group again in twenty minutes for a special Alchemy Item, investigate the waters outside the island and a ship stranded on the reefs, and prepare for The Church to send projections onto the island.
• Shade gave the root to Tifa for analysis and described his encounter, while Dorothy proposed that the diviner's town represented civilization in the ritual.

Shade returned to the inn to refill his Perfume Bottle, then set out for the dangerous waters beyond the dock. A Red Moon projection brought the Thirteenth Ring Warlock Daniste to him, and she learned he was searching for a stranded ship.

• Shade returned to the inn and, with Leisha, Dorothy, Tifa, and the other young ladies, refilled his Perfume Bottle with desire-converted perfume.
• Shade told Leisha and Dorothy about the supplies he had found in the white light, then headed toward the dock with a charm from Tifa to signal when he needed to return.
• Shade found Holy Water No. 3 and a real-world map in another white light, but neither helped his search for the stranded ship.
• As Shade prepared to enter the lake, a Red Moon appeared through the clouds, and he used his Red Moon Spirit Rune to stabilize it.
• Daniste projected herself through the Red Moon, and Shade told her the apotheosis ritual had not begun and that he planned to search for the stranded ship.

Shade and Miss Danist searched a wreck on the island, where a dead fisherman's soul revealed a connection to Envy Edwards and the Father of Infinite Tree. After Miss Danist left him with Red Moon power, Shade returned to the inn and received a powerful holy emblem from Grandma Cassandra as his friends ventured into the lake.

• Miss Danist carried Shade across Green Lake and used Red Moon powers to protect him from its monsters.
• Shade summoned the wrecked fisherman's soul, which spoke of a coffin escapee and an enemy from the past before praising the Father of Infinite Tree and vanishing.
• Shade touched a sapling grown from Envy Edwards's blood and gained the island's goodwill after contacting the Edwards Apotheosis Art.
• Miss Danist gave Shade a one-time Red Moon power and helped him return to the inn, where his contact charm destroyed itself.
• Grandma Cassandra gave Shade the Old Gods Holy Emblem and told him that Iluna Bayes had reached the island and the Doctor and Priest had entered the lake.

Shade returned to the town and entered a manor where the Follen Brothers were dueling under the control of the island’s great tree. Laplace Howard challenged Shade to a five-minute sword duel, offering him passage and an Invitation Letter, and Shade sensed the diviner’s real purpose as the duel neared its end.

• Shade reassured Leisha and Dorothy that the crisis would soon be over, then left the inn to continue toward Edwards Mansion.
• Shade crossed the foggy town, passed the kneeling townspeople, and found an unexpected manor blocking the road.
• Shade saw the Follen Brothers fighting in a banquet hall while roots from the great tree controlled the watching townspeople.
• Laplace Howard stopped the brothers and challenged Shade to a five-minute sword duel, promising an Invitation Letter and answers about Leisha Cavendish and Dorothy Louisa.
• Shade and Laplace Howard fought without Thaumaturgy; Shade gained the upper hand and remained uninjured as the duel reached its final exchange.

Shade fought Laplace Howard and learned that the Diviner had sought his blood to improve the chances of the Edwards Family ritual, then invited him to the family banquet. Laplace explained that Leisha Cavendish and Dorothy Louisa’s linked souls might be the world’s chosen path to saving civilization from Doomsday, leaving Shade to join the banquet with that revelation in mind.

• Shade dueled Laplace Howard, wounded him, and was cut across the cheek before the five-minute fight ended.
• Laplace obtained Shade’s blood, explained that it could strengthen the ritual, and invited him to the Edwards Family Banquet as Megan and Audrey Edwards’ companion.
• Shade asked what was happening with Leisha Cavendish and Dorothy Louisa, and Laplace described the world’s approaching Doomsday and the decline across the epochs.
• Laplace revealed that Leisha and Dorothy’s naturally linked souls could be the beginning of a future in which all intelligent life shared one soul.
• Shade accepted Laplace’s explanation as a possibility and learned that the Thirteen Chosen Ones Ritual might still save only some people from Doomsday.

Shade learned from Laplace Klein Howard that Leisha Cavendish and Dorothy Louisa had failed to become the world’s Saviours because the Sixth Epoch had too little time left, and that Howard intended to preserve civilization beyond the Material World. Howard promised to discuss a way to prevent the women’s souls from merging after his banquet, while Shade prepared to return to the Green Lake Inn as the final moment approached.

• Shade realized that the world lacked time for Leisha Cavendish and Dorothy Louisa’s possible salvation, and Laplace Klein Howard suggested that the Sixth Epoch’s time was abnormal.
• Howard explained that he planned to create a space beyond the Material World to preserve civilization, and invited Shade to attend his banquet before they discussed a possible solution to Leisha and Dorothy’s problem.
• Shade learned that Iluna Bayes was safely clearing root nodes in the island’s southern region, but he decided he could not reach her before the Battle of Green Lake.
• Shade asked the tree whether Howard had spoken truthfully, and it reminded him that he had not seen all souls merge in the Past World Epoch.
• The manor vanished into the Great Fog as the townspeople crawled and whispered, and Shade found a bottle of Holy Water No. 1 before using his talisman to return to the Green Lake Inn.

Shade returned to Green Lake Inn during a fierce Chimera attack and helped the young ladies defeat a monstrous giant. With the inn safe and the Edwards Family Banquet about to begin, he said goodbye and departed into the forest, warning Dorothy and Leisha to stay away from town and avoid becoming United as One.

• Shade arrived at Green Lake Inn and found Angelina helping the injured while Chimera monsters attacked the inn.
• Shade threw Tifa his sword and used Thunder Spear and God of Love's Thorn to help bring down the eight-armed giant with the other Sorceresses.
• The surviving monsters retreated, and the inn's ritual resumed, allowing most of the young ladies to return inside and rest.
• Shade told everyone he was leaving for the Edwards Family Banquet and gave Dorothy his remaining Angel Feather.
• Shade warned Leisha and Dorothy to stay with Tifa, avoid town and Edwards Old House, and not become United as One.
• Shade embraced Dorothy and Leisha, then entered the forest and vanished into the fog.

Shade reached Edwards Old House, where Maria of the Nature Church offered him aid and promised Church rewards in exchange for limiting his investigation of Laplace Klein Howard’s forbidden research. He entered the mansion’s banquet hall and faced Laplace, who revealed that he had sent Pride and Glatoni to attack Shade’s inn and that his partner wanted to test Shade before the feast began.

• Maria told Shade the Church hoped he would prevent the Seer Association traitor from becoming a Chosen One, and Shade described his plans for the candidates.
• Maria promised Shade a Philosopher’s Stone and a Heart of the Living Dead after the Battle of Green Lake, then gave him a measure of power that left a leaf-shaped mark on his arm.
• Shade entered Edwards Old House and found its halls filled with dancing townspeople, but Megan was absent from the banquet hall.
• Laplace told Shade that he had sent Pride and Glatoni to attack the inn and that the others were waiting elsewhere.
• Laplace said his partner wanted him to test Shade before the banquet, and Shade suspected that the partner was Miss Pawo of the Truth Society.

Shade fought off Laplace Howard's supernatural banquet and a powerful stitched undead before following a spatial portal to Lust Edwardz's grave. There, he faced a far more threatening presence emerging from the Bone Repository and summoned Miss Maria's power to unleash the Witch Secret Art Nature Avatar.

• Shade used the Gluttony Spirit Rune to dispel Laplace Howard's blood-soaked banquet illusion, then struck the diviner with Thunder Spear.
• Shade revealed a bronze coffin beneath the banquet table and destroyed the stitched undead with the Night Watchman, Moonlight, and the Deathbringer Angel's badge.
• Shade found the banquet hall exits led through a spatial portal and followed the aura of Angel Bones to Lust Edwardz's grave.
• Shade sensed a powerful entity inside the Bone Repository and called on Miss Maria's Thirteenth Ring power as it began to emerge.
• Shade used Witch Echo: Yellow Moon Witch Oranord's knowledge to cast Nature Avatar and punch toward the Bone Repository.

At Green Lake Inn, Angelina discovered that Pride Edwards had infiltrated the building and narrowly survived his attack. After Doctor Schneider and Priest Augustus arrived and drove off the Black Dragon, they set out to find Shade at Edwards Old House.

• Tifa and Miss Hailey Aurora coordinated the inn's defenses while Leisha comforted Angelina beside the campfire.
• A roar and the arrival of two badly wounded young ladies alerted the inn that a fierce battle was underway outside.
• Angelina interpreted Little Mia's cries as a warning, used a burning piece of firewood to reveal Pride Edwards on the stairs, and escaped when Leisha pulled her away.
• Pride Edwards fell into the Sun-powered campfire, was burned, and fled through a window.
• Doctor Schneider and Priest Augustus arrived in a black coffin, struck down the Black Dragon, and learned that it had escaped using Space Movement.
• Doctor Schneider and Priest Augustus left the inn to find Shade, with the Priest insisting on leading the way to Edwards Old House.

Shade escaped the Bone Collector’s battle and navigated the distorted spaces inside Edwards Old House, rescuing Durut Giles and destroying a mechanical woman. He reached the lakeshore, where a horde of Water Ghosts with metallic heads approached, and prepared to unleash Red Moon Fall.

• Doctor Schneider and Priest Augustus found Shade fighting the Bone Collector and intervened, with the priest turning its summoned servants against it and the doctor attacking its skull necklace.
• Shade left the doctor and priest to fight the Bone Collector, opened a hidden passage through the Bone Repository, and found Durut Giles locked inside a coffin.
• Shade rescued Durut Giles, returned to Edwards Old House, and followed the red thread to the second-floor dining room, where he destroyed a towering woman made of flesh and machinery.
• Shade passed through another Space Connection and arrived at the island’s lakeshore, where a mass of Water Ghosts with metallic heads emerged from the lake.
• Shade rose into the air and gathered moonlight in his hand to cast Miss Danist’s thaumaturgy, Red Moon Fall.

Angelina was pulled into the relic Long Slumber in the Cold Dream, where Little Mia’s fiery breath helped her resist a shadow before Galina and the others woke her. Galina set out to help Shade, and Luvia’s divination led her to the shore, where Shade fought lake monsters as he sought a door guarded by a huge creature.

• Angelina fell asleep at Green Lake Inn and found herself trapped in a freezing dream, where a robed shadow approached her.
• Little Mia breathed a small flame that freed Angelina from the cold and drove the shadow back, before Galina woke her from the relic’s dream.
• Galina comforted Angelina, then learned from Tifa that Shade and his companions had gone searching for him.
• Luvia used Shade’s handkerchief to divine his direction and headed out into the rain, while Galina followed her lead.
• Galina reached the shore and saw Shade destroy a falling Snowball and blast lake monsters apart, as he sensed a door beneath the lake guarded by a huge creature.

Shade fought through the lake and returned to Edwards Old House, where Miss Pawo gave him a key and warned him about Laplace Howard’s ties to the Blood Spirit School. He reached the Lightless Woodland and faced a faceless Thirteenth Ring copy of Howard, the last obstacle before the banquet.

• Miss Galina returned and used her Decree to repel the Water Ghosts and hold the lake monster back while Shade dove to the lakebed and entered the mansion.
• Shade sensed Megan and Audrey in the basement, but encountered Miss Pawo in the entry hall, where she handed him a key and took the record she had been playing.
• Miss Pawo told Shade that Laplace Howard had worked with the Blood Spirit School, which helped the diviner use the Puppeteer's Script to draw the Witches away from the hotel.
• Shade entered the basement door and emerged in a clearing in the Lightless Woodland on Southern Island, where he found a distorted spatial rift and a faceless Thirteenth Ring copy of Laplace Howard.

At Green Lake Inn, Luvia read Angelina’s future and discussed the final safeguard with Dorothy and Leisha before Iluna arrived, ready to support Shade. Luvia divined how Iluna could help defeat Envy Edwards and sent her back into the rain with a cryptic instruction about the God of Love’s Thorn.

• Miss Sylvia emerged from the basement passage and led reinforcements toward the lake to support Miss Galina.
• Luvia had Angelina draw the crown Tarot card, which she interpreted as a sign of future strength and authority.
• Dorothy and Leisha told Luvia they understood their role as the final safeguard and trusted Shade to guide events toward the best ending.
• Iluna arrived at the inn after fighting her way across the island and said she could influence the Edwards Apotheosis Art ritual and sense Shade’s location.
• Luvia’s final Homeland Coin divination revealed that Iluna should make Envy Edwards destroy himself rather than fight him head-on, and that the God of Love’s Thorn should be thrust into his chest for the best effect.
• Iluna gathered supplies and enhancement Thaumaturgy before leaving to help Shade.

Dorothy, Leisha, and Luvia discussed their devotion to Shade as he fought the Thirteenth-Ring Faceless Man with Iluna’s help. After Shade destroyed the enemy with the Chaos Witch’s Sigh, he and Iluna found the hidden passage beneath Edwards Old House and entered it, drawn onward by the power of the Edwards Apotheosis Art.

• Dorothy and Leisha told Luvia that they wanted their souls to become one with Shade’s rather than with each other.
• Iluna reached Shade’s battle with the Faceless Man and used Balance to weaken the enemy’s Destiny Ring and create an opening.
• Shade activated the Golden Holy Emblem and destroyed the Faceless Man with the Chaos Witch’s Sigh.
• Shade and Iluna returned to Edwards Old House and found an underground passage beneath the family dining room’s long table.
• Shade and Iluna entered the root-wrapped corridor together, following the longing awakened by the Edwards Apotheosis Art.

Shade and Iluna unlocked the blood-red door beneath the Edwards Old House and entered a strange space leading to the final Edwards Family Banquet. There they faced Laplace Klein Edwardz, who said the ritual was nearly complete and warned them they would soon fall if they did not take their seats.

• Shade failed to force the blood-red door open with the Door Key, so he and Iluna turned the final two keys together.
• The thirteen keys lit up, and the metal door melted into a root-covered archway that opened a passage into another space beneath the Edwards Old House.
• Shade retrieved a parchment about the Philosopher’s Stone, then he and Iluna opened the banquet hall doors.
• Shade and Iluna found Laplace Klein Edwardz and his descendants gathered around a table; most were unconscious, while Sloth Edwardz, Gluttony Edwards, and Jarvis Edwardz were awake.
• Laplace welcomed Shade and Iluna to the banquet and warned that they might fall over soon if they did not sit down.