Recaps

Luther and his crew returned to the sea, where Roy King warned that the Dice would bring extreme misfortune. A mutated Uruk appeared, named the Abomination, and his death revealed a horrific being that turned its attention toward Luther.

• Luther brought the ships and their passengers out of his shadow and back onto the sea.
• Darkwill accidentally knocked Roy King overboard, and Luther rescued him with a tornado.
• Luther retrieved the Dice from the water, and it rolled to one; Roy King warned that it was awake and would bring extreme misfortune.
• The contaminated Uruk rushed at Luther, but Luther cut him down with a greatsword.
• Uruk exploded into blood that formed a symbol, and Luther saw a terrifying giant tree and an indescribable being reaching for him.

Luther fought off an attack by Abomination Suah and Mother Tree of Desire, then recovered aboard his ship. He learned the Naturism Sect worshipped Mother Tree of Desire and continued the voyage to Oravi Island, planning to reward his subordinates.

• Luther resisted the Illusion’s corruption by unleashing the Phantom Tide, which hurt Abomination Suah and drove the entity away.
• Luther awoke as a mass of flesh and blood on the deck, reassembled his body, and learned Uruk had burned to ashes while he was unconscious.
• Luther picked up the living Beyonder Item Dice, which had stopped acting maliciously, and agreed to keep it until the fleet returned to Oravi Island.
• Roy King explained the Dice’s luck-based effects and described the Naturism Sect’s worship of Mother Tree of Desire and Abomination Suah’s connection to It.
• Luther ordered the fleet to sail for Oravi Island, praised the sailors, and summoned Anderson, Walter, and other Beyonders to his cabin to reward them.

Luther rewarded his crew after the battle on Bayam and questioned Qonas Kilgor’s soul about the Royal Family’s plans. Qonas revealed that he was helping with a ruin once belonging to the Blood Emperor, Alista Tudor, but did not know the King’s overall plan.

• Luther ordered Walter to inventory the seized wealth and distribute it fairly, then offered extra rewards to his crew.
• Anderson saved his reward for later, Walter chose the Briber formula, and Rube and Darkwill each received four hundred pounds.
• Luther reviewed his gains, including Qonas Kilgor’s soul and two dangerous Beyonder Items, then summoned the Phantom Tide.
• Luther brought Qonas’s soul to the sea and hypnotized him to evade the Royal Family’s protections on secrets.
• Qonas said he had helped gather people and materials for Ruin No. 1 beneath the Strivain section of the Tussock River, and that Prince Grove and Duchess Georgina could enter it.
• Qonas revealed that the ruin had once belonged to the Blood Emperor, Alista Tudor, prompting a reaction from Medici inside Luther.

Luther questioned Qonas about the Royal Family’s plans and learned that the Blood Emperor’s ruin might be connected to an attempt to become a True God. Medici then revealed that the sea was linked to the Dark Angel Sasrir, leaving Luther with new questions about his connection to the King of Angels.

• Luther interrogated Qonas about the materials sent to the ruin, the people trafficked, and the Royal Family’s allies, learning that Qonas had advanced to Sequence 4 and that the Psychology Alchemists were involved.
• Luther threatened Medici with Sophia Einhorn, prompting Medici to explain that Alista Tudor had repeatedly attempted to become a True God and eventually succeeded.
• Luther suspected George III planned to use Alista’s ruin to ascend to godhood, but chose to remain cautious and wait to discuss the matter with Klein.
• Medici told Luther that the sea’s secret involved Sasrir, a King of Angels known as the Dark Angel, while Derrick discovered Sasrir’s name carved on an altar and prayed to Mr. Fool after being separated from his teammates.
• Medici explained that Kings of Angels surpassed ordinary Sequence 1 and could possess two Sequence 1 characteristics or accommodate their Pathway’s Uniqueness, then told Luther that he had just touched one.

Luther learned that the die was the Monster pathway’s Uniqueness and considered what it would take to replace the True Creator, then discovered he could materialize objects on the strange sea. After returning to the Doe, he stayed apart from the crew’s victory celebration, grieving for Cecilia and holding on to his resolve.

• Medici told Luther that both Snakes of Mercury wanted the die and explained why the Life School of Thought had treated it as an ordinary item.
• Luther realized that replacing the True Creator would require extracting the Uniqueness from Him, and decided he needed to advance further before pursuing that goal.
• Luther materialized and dismissed an ancient parchment on the strange sea, confirming that his control over the waters had grown.
• Luther returned to the Doe, where the crew celebrated their casualty-free raid on Bayam and the spoils they had received.
• Rube urged Luther to drink with the crew, but Luther refused, saying he wanted to feel his grief over Cecilia so he would not forget his purpose.

Luther reunited with Sophia Einhorn aboard the pirate ship and asked how she had ended up in the Governor's Mansion. In Backlund, Leonard uncovered evidence that Sherlock Moriarty resembled his dead colleague and began to suspect there was more than one person involved.

• Rube gave Luther a complicated look, then drank in silence with him at the bow.
• Sophia thanked Luther for rescuing her, and Luther revealed his familiar face, reminding her of their meeting in Backlund.
• Sophia lamented her changed circumstances, and Luther asked her to explain how she had disappeared and appeared at the Governor's Mansion.
• Leonard erased Sherlock Moriarty's beard and glasses from his sketch and recognized the face of his deceased colleague.
• Leonard studied the Blood Bishop's wanted notice and wondered whether there was more than one.

Luther agreed to let Sophia stay aboard after she fled an arranged marriage, while Medici urged him to keep her and asked for her blood. As the ship neared Oravi Island, Luther returned the Dice to Roy King and prepared to stay out of the harbor while Roy met Councilor Ricciardo.

• Sophia told Luther she had fled Feysac to escape an arranged marriage and asked to stay aboard his ship.
• Medici urged Luther to keep Sophia and hinted that he wanted a vial of her blood, so Luther agreed to let her stay.
• As the ship approached Oravi Island, Roy King said Councilor Ricciardo would meet him at the harbor and ordered Darkwill to remain aboard.
• Mr. Harry asked to leave with Roy, while Luna's repeated games had left the owl wary.
• Luther returned the Dice to Roy King and said he would not enter the harbor; Roy promised to tell Councilor Ricciardo about Abomination and the Mother Tree of Desire.

In Afternoon Town, the City of Silver team encountered a worshipper confessing to the corruption of the town. Meanwhile, Luther mapped the Black Throne’s moving route and received an invitation to a Pirate Assembly, leaving him with a new event to consider as he planned his search.

• Colin led Derrick, Haim, Joshua, and Lovia into a ruined church, where they found a kneeling figure praying before lit candles.
• The figure confessed that he had tempted Sasrir and that the town’s people had betrayed the Lord through secret altars and forbidden rituals.
• Luther identified his immediate goals as pursuing the Vice Admiral of Ailment, digesting his Potion, and searching for the Black Throne.
• Luther tracked the Black key’s changing direction and mapped a broad sector across the Rorsted Archipelago, Berserk Sea, and Fog Sea as the Throne’s route.
• A black invitation arrived, inviting Luther on behalf of Nast Solomon to an upcoming Pirate Assembly.

Luther and his crew considered Nast’s invitation to the Pirate Assembly and decided to attend only if it was nearby. Leonard read news of the Blood Bishop’s attack on Bayam and confronted the aged voice in his mind before Emlyn White arrived at his door.

• Walter welcomed the prospect of attending Nast’s Pirate Assembly to seek Sequence 7 materials, while Anderson and Sophia warned that Nast’s wording might signal disrespect toward Luther.
• Anderson explained that Nast’s title of White Maple Earl came from Roselle granting the title to Nast’s father, Savigny Solomon.
• Luther decided his fleet would attend the assembly only if its location was nearby and then asked his crew about recent news.
• Anderson gave Luther a newspaper reporting the Blood Bishop’s attack on Bayam, the injury of Admiral Amyrius, and the Feysac Empire’s reward for information.
• Leonard accused the aged voice in his mind of knowing the Blood Bishop’s identity, but it warned him that someone was coming.
• Leonard opened the door and met Emlyn White, who asked whether he was Mr. Leonard Mitchell.

Klein learned that Leonard Mitchell wanted 7,000 pounds for the ability-stealing mystical item he needed to cleanse the True Creator’s corruption from a Beyonder characteristic, and he reluctantly decided to buy it. At the Tarot Club meeting, Luther arranged for the members to keep fencing his stolen goods and directed Emlyn to distribute money to The World and Hanged Man.

• Emlyn told Mr. Fool that Leonard Mitchell possessed an ability-stealing mystical item and wanted 7,000 pounds for it.
• Klein considered how to remove the True Creator’s corruption from Rosago’s Beyonder characteristic and decided to use his savings to buy Leonard’s item.
• Audrey, Fors, and Derrick reported that they had no new Roselle’s Diary to share at the Tarot Club meeting.
• Cattleya and Emlyn reported selling some of Luther’s stolen artworks and jewelry, and Luther gave them another batch of goods to fence.
• Luther reviewed the sales totaling 12,600 pounds, gave Emlyn a 200-pound commission, and told him to transfer 1,500 pounds to The World and 1,000 pounds to Hanged Man.

At the gathering, Luther shared the Bayam raid’s proceeds with Alger and asked the others to find a Sequence 3 Secrets Suppliant potion formula. Emlyn sought a way to advance as a Sanguine and was tempted by a costly Beyonder Characteristic, leaving him wishing he could earn money like Luther.

• Luther gave Alger a generous cash share from the Bayam raid, and Alger accepted it.
• Luther asked for the Sequence 3 Secrets Suppliant potion formula; Cattleya offered to search for it in exchange for a drop of Mythical Creature blood.
• Luther asked whether blood from an existence that had fallen from angelhood to Sequence 4 would qualify, but Cattleya said she needed blood shed in a Mythical Creature state.
• Emlyn asked how the Sanguine could strengthen themselves, and Alger explained that they advanced by consuming potions.
• Alger offered to negotiate for a Sanguine Baron Beyonder Characteristic worth about 4,000 to 5,000 pounds, and Emlyn balked at the price before looking toward Luther.

Leonard’s request to return to Tingen was denied when Soest assigned the Red Gloves to investigate bloody sacrifices in the East Borough. At the Tarot Club, Alger pressed the World about leaving Bayam, while Fors offered to rent out her ability-recording notebook and asked Luther to fill its demigod-level pages.

• Leonard asked Soest for time off to investigate new clues, but Soest refused because the Red Gloves were needed for bloody-sacrifice cases in the East Borough.
• Emlyn asked Alger to find out the price of help advancing to Sequence 6, and Alger accepted his decision to consider it later.
• Alger privately asked the World when he would leave Bayam, and Klein said he might stay several more days to pursue Red-haired Helene and Vice Admiral of Ailment Tracy.
• Fors introduced Lenormand’s Book of Magic, which could record and later use Beyonder abilities, and proposed renting it out for 50 pounds a day.
• Fors asked Luther whether he would record demigod-level abilities on the notebook’s three special pages.

At the Tarot Club, Luther agreed to help Fors record his abilities, then revealed details of the Blood Bishop’s attack on Bayam and warned Audrey about Hvin Rambis and the Psychology Alchemists. The gathering turned to the Rose School of Thought’s sudden activity, leaving Luther wary that it might be connected to his recent encounter with the Mother Tree of Desire.

• Luther agreed to let Fors rent his abilities for five hundred pounds per recorded page, with priority when rental times conflicted.
• Alger discussed the Blood Bishop’s attack on Bayam, and Luther said he had killed another Demigod loyal to the Royal Family and that the Royal Family cooperated with the Psychology Alchemists.
• Luther warned Audrey that Hvin Rambis was a council member of the Psychology Alchemists who communicated with the Royal Family, and Audrey thanked him and offered her help.
• Audrey reported bloody rituals and clashes involving the Rose School of Thought in the Southern Continent, while Cattleya described the Admiral of Blood’s attacks on ships in the Sonia Sea.
• Luther asked about the Rose School of Thought and Suah, and Alger and Cattleya explained that Suah led the sect, was the Mother Tree’s child, and was likely a Sequence 1 Angel with unstable Spirituality.

At the Tarot Club, Luther learned more about the Mother Tree of Desire and heard Derrick describe the names and revelations found in Afternoon Town. Derrick also reported that Lovia had grown unusually attentive to him; the chapter ended with Lovia emerging from Derrick’s shadow as he slept.

• Cattleya explained that the Mother Tree of Desire was rejected by both Orthodox Churches and other evil god factions.
• Derrick told the Tarot Club that an altar in Afternoon Town bore the names Ouroboros, Medici, and Sasrir, prompting Luther to react to the Dark Angel’s name.
• Derrick recounted how a witness who spoke of the Kings of Angels was swallowed by strange flames before naming the fourth King of Angel.
• Derrick said Lovia had recently approached him to talk, and Luther considered whether her past instability had been caused by the Lamb Souls she had Grazed.
• Alger questioned Derrick about attending the Tarot Club while sharing a camp with Lovia.
• Lovia emerged from the shadow of Derrick’s lamp and watched him sleeping in his tent.

Lovia tried to investigate the sleeping Derrick, but Colin stopped her and drove her away. At the Tarot Club, Luther agreed to hunt down the new Aurora Order Oracle in Backlund, while Cattleya sent a message seeking a Sequence 3 Secrets Suppliant Potion formula.

• Lovia reached toward Derrick in his tent, but Colin arrived and ordered her to leave.
• Lovia vanished into the shadows after warning Colin that the City of Silver might not have much time left.
• Alger urged Derrick to stay vigilant, and Luther asked him to investigate Lovia’s background.
• Fors told Temperance about Mr. X, whose true name was Lewis Wien, and asked him to kill the Aurora Order Oracle.
• Luther agreed to hunt Mr. X without payment and offered the others a share of any spoils for Aurora Order intelligence.
• After the gathering, Cattleya wrote that someone was seeking a Sequence 3 Secrets Suppliant Potion formula.

Cattleya secretly hinted to Bernadette about the Tarot Club and Roselle’s Diary while requesting a Sequence 3 formula. Above the Gray Fog, Klein and Luther learned that George III’s secret mausoleum project was part of his ritual to become the Black Emperor, and they resolved to report him to the Churches.

• Cattleya wrote Bernadette a letter that linked a request for a Sequence 3 formula with a request for Emperor Roselle’s notes, then summoned the queen’s messenger.
• Klein told Luther that he would capture Red-haired Helene when she left Bayam, and Luther shared Qonas’s information about the Blood Emperor’s ruins, the Demoness Sect, and human trafficking.
• Klein showed Luther the Black Emperor Sequence 0 ritual from Roselle’s Card of Blasphemy, and Luther recognized that George III’s policies and mausoleum construction matched its requirements.
• Luther concluded that abducted people were being forced to build George III’s mausoleums and vowed not to let him become a True God.
• Klein proposed reporting George III to the Churches, and he and Luther agreed that the ritual was unfinished but time was running short.

Klein captured Helene Sauron and questioned her about Tracy, then collected a sample of her blood. He let Helene go with a new identity and travel papers, and sent Luther the blood along with a letter.

• Helene disguised herself as a man and left the Intis Consulate for the port, planning to travel to Pritz Harbor and return to Intis.
• Klein, disguised as the coachman, diverted Helene into an alley and demanded information about the Vice Admiral of Ailment, Tracy.
• Helene described Tracy’s abilities, possessions, habits, and their past relationship, while Klein studied Helene’s appearance and mannerisms for his own disguise.
• Klein drew Helene’s blood; when she thought she had escaped, she realized the escape had been a dream.
• Klein gave Helene new identity documents and a ticket to Tiana Harbor, then sent her blood and a letter to Luther with Reinette Tinekerr.

Klein prepared to impersonate Helene Sauron and received a tracking talisman from Luther, who set sail to destroy Tracy's fleet. On the voyage, Luther used Helene's blood to make Medici answer questions about the Dark Angel and Rose Redemption, but Medici reacted with anger and suspicion.

• Klein received Luther's letter and a living-feeling talisman that could track its location when activated with a Hermes incantation.
• Luther ordered Anderson to sail south and destroy Vice Admiral of Ailment Tracy and her fleet, adjusting course with the talisman.
• Luther showed Medici a tube of blood from Red-haired Helene, a direct descendant of the Sauron Family, and offered it in exchange for answers.
• Medici examined the blood and, after the other two ancestors urged him on, agreed to answer Luther's questions.
• Luther asked who had tempted the Dark Angel into betraying others and what the Dark Angel's relationship was with Rose Redemption; Medici demanded to know where Luther had learned this.

Luther learned that Sasrir had been one of the founders of Rose Redemption, while Medici avoided answering whether he still believed in the Creator. Disguised as Red-haired Helene, Klein attacked Tracy aboard the Black Death, and the Blood Pirates arrived as the battle spread across the fleet.

• Medici told Luther that Sasrir had helped found Rose Redemption and asked him to save a vial of blood, but he did not answer Luther's question about the Creator.
• Mithor King brought the captive Red-haired Helene aboard the Black Death, where Klein maintained his disguise and was taken to Tracy.
• Klein attacked Tracy with Mental Piercing, stole her Beyonder Item, and fought her in the captain's cabin.
• Tracy called for help, but the pirates' cries grew louder on deck as cannon fire sounded in the distance.
• Tracy saw the Blood Pirates' fleet approach the Black Death.

Klein infiltrated Tracy’s ship to draw the Blood Pirates into attacking the Black Death, then escaped to the Doe as Luther’s fleet pursued the scattered ships. Luther left to chase the Black Death while Klein began treatment for the Vice Admiral of Ailment’s infection.

• Klein fought Tracy while disguised as Helene, then fled the Black Death with a captured pirate as Alexander Gascoigne’s Blood Pirates attacked.
• Tracy ordered her fleet to scatter and rendezvous at Harbor No. 2 after the Blood Pirates’ superior cannons overwhelmed the Black Death.
• Tracy retrieved a rusted pocket mirror from her vanity drawer as her crew began retreating.
• Klein reached the Doe and confirmed to Luther that the Vice Admiral of Ailment was aboard the Black Death.
• Luther ordered Darkwill to treat Klein, then led the pursuit of the Black Death and hurled its cannonballs back at the ship.

Luther attacked the Black Death and overwhelmed its crew, but stopped himself from corrupting Tracy without restraint. As M searched Tracy’s memories, she discovered that Tracy’s mother was a Sequence 3 Demoness, and a broken mirror began bleeding behind them.

• Luther flew to the Black Death, deflected its gunfire, and killed the pirates who rushed to defend the ship.
• Luther tore apart the Black Death’s upper structure and found Tracy amid the wreckage.
• Luther’s shadows corrupted the surviving crew, but Tracy resisted, and a blonde maid shielded her from him.
• Luther recognized that he had nearly lost control of his Acting and summoned M to search Tracy’s memories.
• M warned Luther that Tracy’s mother was a Sequence 3 Demoness as blood spread from a cracked mirror and formed a strange symbol.

A white-robed Sequence 3 Demoness arrived to save Tracy and petrified Luther, but Luther broke free as the Demoness took him away. Elsewhere, the Blood Pirates fought the Vice Admiral of Ailment’s ships while a strange man flew toward the enemy, and a black-armored figure confronted the Demoness on the ice.

• A white-robed Sequence 3 Demoness emerged in the Black Death’s captain’s cabin and petrified Luther and part of the ship.
• The Demoness scolded Tracy for failing to contact Mother sooner, then tried to take Luther with her.
• Luther’s stone shell cracked, and dark shadows surged out as Tracy warned that he was moving.
• On the Doe, Philia helped the crew battle two pirate ships while Rube steered through incoming fire.
• A strange man used a metal sequin and a gust of wind to fly toward the opposing pirate ship as the sea froze near the island.
• The white-robed Demoness faced a black-armored miniature giant on the ice after Luther resisted her petrification.

Luther fought Katarina Pellé, the Sequence 3 Demoness known as the White Saint, and endured her mirror magic, black flames, and curse. He countered by invoking pain through a rib, leaving Katarina screaming in agony as their battle continued.

• M explained that Katarina Pellé was Tracy’s mother, a Sequence 3 Demoness skilled in charm, mirror magic, and curses.
• Katarina attacked Luther through ice mirrors, but Luther unleashed his Fallen Shadow and summoned storms to shatter the ice and disrupt her illusions.
• Katarina dodged Luther’s lightning and cut him with a dagger, then used his blood to curse him with black flames.
• Luther tore out flesh as a substitute for the curse and grabbed Katarina’s hair, but her curse burned him despite his attempt to divert it.
• Luther bit Katarina’s hair and stabbed himself with a Pain rib, causing Katarina to scream as his curse inflicted overwhelming pain on her.

Luther used his Sequence 4 Sun abilities to cure the plague Katarina inflicted and destroy her physical body, but she escaped through a mirror. When Katarina tried to return through the shard in Tracy’s cabin, a red-haired man trapped her in illusory worlds, and she emerged into reality with a wicked smile.

• Katarina’s ice-mirror decoys hid her from Luther while her plague made him cough blood and struggle to breathe.
• Luther invoked the Sun Pathway’s Unshadowed Domain, purifying the plague and forcing Katarina to appear.
• Luther hurled a spear of sunlight at Katarina, and its blast burned away her body over the sea.
• Katarina appeared inside a mirror shard in the Black Death’s ruins, but a rusty red layer blocked her passage into reality.
• A red-haired man trapped Katarina inside illusory worlds, and blood poured from the mirror as she screamed.
• Tracy rushed to the mirror, where the red-haired man appeared before Katarina rose into the cabin with a wicked smile.

Luther and Medici captured Katarina, but she used a hidden curse to kill herself before Luther could question her. Klein and Azik Eggers arrived on the damaged Black Death, where Azik recognized Medici and struggled to remember him.

• Luther revealed that Medici had captured Katarina by ambushing her through a mirror, then asked how to kill her.
• A powerful figure appeared in the distance, distracting Luther and Medici as Katarina broke free long enough to unleash a Black Snake hidden inside Tracy.
• Katarina burned to ash despite Luther's attempt to stop her, and Medici admitted she had concealed her curse-killing weapon in her child.
• Klein, disguised as Gehrman Sparrow, arrived with Azik Eggers and asked whether Katarina had escaped.
• Azik stared at Medici and struggled to recall his identity, while Medici recognized Azik and laughed scornfully.