Chapter Summaries

Cyril and Klein defeated the rampaging monster in Kalvetua’s underwater ruins and tried to sacrifice the spoils, but the ritual overwhelmed Klein and was interrupted. Cyril escaped Sea King Jahn Kottman, and later witnessed Klein answer the Sea God’s believers; the scene completed Cyril’s Scribe potion digestion.

• Cyril punished the monster for damaging the ruins, then trapped and burned it while he and Klein escaped the hall’s flames.
• Cyril separated the Beyonder Characteristics and began sacrificing them and Kalvetua’s corpse, but Klein struggled to haul the enormous corpse above the Gray Fog and was forced out.
• Cyril fled the ruins in a Golden Carriage as Sea King Jahn Kottman arrived, found the spoils gone, and ordered an investigation into Sun Pathway Beyonders and mystical items.
• Cyril returned to No. 14 Fragrant Tree Avenue and discussed with Klein how to guide the Sea God’s believers without promising to save them.
• At dawn, Cyril watched Klein appear to the grieving believers on Blue Mountain Island and declare, “I have returned,” completing Cyril’s Scribe potion digestion as he recorded the scene.

Cyril advanced to Traveler, discovered his ability to travel through dimensions and use a private Inn, and explored his new powers. The chapter ended with him entering the Garden of Eden in the collective subconscious, where his Traveler potion began to digest further.

• Cyril prepared and drank the Traveler potion, resisted the pull of an unknown “Heaven” with the help of his anchors, and returned safely to his body.
• Cyril tested his new Blink ability and entered the Inn, finding that he could access it through an illusory door and travel to other dimensions and alternate spaces.
• Cyril assessed his Traveler abilities, including Positioning and Invisible Hand, and realized his advancement had left him with extra characteristics and potions to digest again.
• Cyril followed a mental coordinate through a door into the Garden of Eden in the collective subconscious and explored its animal city.
• Cyril felt his Traveler potion begin to digest as he followed the guidance toward the center of the animal city.

Cyril questioned Adam about his slow potion digestion, recurring dreams, and the Tarot Pathway suited to him, while Adam explained the dangers of spiritual imprints and proposed that Cyril could become the Lord of the Mysteries. Adam revealed that Primordial God Almighty could influence him even before His will fully awakened, then showed Cyril the second Blasphemy Slate and the Wheel of Fortune Pathway.

• Cyril asked Adam whether He had soothed him during an advancement and why his potion digestion was slowing; Adam explained that Cyril was dismantling Celestial Worthy's spiritual imprint and that the resistance would grow stronger as he advanced.
• Cyril left a coordinate in the Corpse Cathedral and asked about his repeated dreams; Adam said they were a seal that Cyril would understand after becoming a Secrets Sorcerer.
• Cyril drew the Magician, Wheel of Fortune, and The Lovers from Adam's Tarot deck, and Adam admitted He had changed the order of Cyril's previous draw while guiding him toward the Door Pathway.
• Adam proposed that Cyril become a Great Old One before the Apocalypse and said the Lord of the Mysteries was the best route for him; Cyril rejected the idea and suggested Primordial God Almighty might have inspired it.
• Adam confirmed that Primordial's will could influence Him, described how Great Old Ones' wills affected their hosts, and recalled the disastrous experiments He had guided Alista Tudor and Cheek to conduct.
• Adam said Cyril could erase Great Old Ones' spiritual imprints from Beyonder Characteristics and showed him the second Blasphemy Slate, where Cyril began reading the Wheel of Fortune Pathway's Sequence 9 recipe.

Cyril advanced to Sequence 7 and began planning special travels, then joined Klein in dividing the Sea God's spoils and transporting Kalvetua's corpse. Meanwhile, Alger investigated Kalvetua's changed image and suspected a secret alliance, and Cyril summoned Bernadette to arrange for the corpse to be made into a mystical item.

• Cyril asked Adam where he should travel to digest the Traveler potion, then returned to Klein and asked for the Golden Dream's location.
• Klein sent Danitz to his room and asked Cyril how to divide the Sea God's spoils; Cyril claimed the Sea God Scepter and believers for Klein and the rest for himself.
• Alger investigated the Sea God's fall, learned from the Relf Trading Company owner that Kalvetua had taken on a new image, and suspected Mr. Fool and the existence behind Fate were cooperating.
• Cyril prayed to the Fool and brought Kalvetua's corpse and spiritually radiant objects out onto an uninhabited beach, then sent the objects through an illusory door.
• Cyril contacted Queen Mystic Bernadette and offered half of Kalvetua's corpse as payment for turning it into a mystical item; he explained that Latissia Dorera's theft of the Book of Calamity had caused Kalvetua's collapse.

Cyril sacrificed Kalvetua's corpse to Bernadette, while Jahn Kottman investigated the ritual's lingering aura. Later, Klein and Cyril questioned spirit-descended Danitz before Danitz revealed that Kalvetua was dead.

• Cyril modified a sacrifice ritual and sent Kalvetua's corpse to Bernadette, who had her crew salvage materials from it and warned them about its lingering illusions.
• Jahn Kottman arrived at the reef, used a water mirror to investigate the ritual, and strengthened the image with his golden book, but could not identify the veiled figure.
• Danitz performed a spirit descent ritual, and Edwina answered through him that the Golden Dream would approach Oravi Island in two days and Danitz knew how to contact its crew.
• Cyril offered Edwina scales from Kalvetua, and Klein asked about changes in Senor's fleet and where Mermaids could be found.
• Danitz announced that Kalvetua, the Sea God, was dead, and Cyril vanished before giving further details.

Cyril explored the ancient Elf ruins on Simim Island and used Klein’s power to reconstruct the Sea King’s visit and glimpse murals of the Elf King confronting the Ancient Sun God. After returning to Bayam, Cyril arranged to take Danitz to the Golden Dream while Klein was ambushed by a Rose School of Thought Demigod and escaped through a flame-based teleportation.

• Cyril found the ruins stripped by the Church of Storms and used the Crystal Ball to detect lingering traces of the Sea King’s spirituality.
• Cyril and Klein reconstructed the Sea King Jahn Kottman’s visit, then saw a brief glimpse of murals depicting the Elf King facing the Ancient Sun God.
• Cyril returned home and agreed to take Danitz to the Golden Dream, while Danitz offered to help him locate a Beyonder gathering.
• Klein sensed a Demigod pursuing him and hurried toward the Sea Wave Cathedral, but an elderly Rose School of Thought figure immobilized him.
• Klein’s Creeping Hunger unleashed blazing light that damaged the attacker’s transparent figure, but the surrounding objects and his clothes then attacked him.
• Klein escaped the binding clothes by igniting a match and vanishing in crimson flames.

Alger, Klein, and Cyril fought the Rose School of Thought Demigod and Sea King Jahn Kottman before escaping into the Mirror World, where they were attacked by the Demoness Sect’s White Saint, Katarina Pelle, and Black Demoness Clarice. Cyril called on Adam for help, but Katarina warned that the Primordial had already turned its gaze on them.

• Alger intervened to help Klein, but wraith phantoms trapped him until Cyril used golden rain to destroy them.
• Klein was wounded by Shanks, then escaped a second attack with help from Cyril’s Exile ability.
• Cyril weakened Shanks’s freezing gale and shielded the group from Jahn Kottman’s rampaging lightning, but Spirit World travel and Flash were initially blocked.
• Cyril used Alger’s reflective dagger to lead Klein and Alger into the Mirror World, where they felt a terrifying presence watching them.
• Klein burned Cyril’s paper bearing the Dark Sacred Emblem and summoned Mr. Azik’s messenger, but an ice spear killed the messenger.
• Katarina Pelle and Clarice appeared, and Cyril called out to Adam as Katarina said the Primordial had already noticed them.

Klein, Alger, and Cyril fought Katarina and Clarice inside the Mirror World as Hermes intervened and Sea King Jahn Kottman imposed rules on the surrounding reality. The Mirror World collapsed into the street, where Hermes isolated the supernatural conflict from ordinary people.

• Katarina unleashed a plague on Klein, Alger, and Cyril, but their powers of dawn, purification, and rules suppressed it.
• Katarina charmed Klein and Alger, while Clarice trapped Cyril; Cyril escaped and pointed out that Clarice's thoughts were flawed, allowing Hermes to kill her through the Dream Labyrinth.
• Hermes appeared and confronted Katarina as Tisavica and Gwendolyn revealed themselves outside the Mirror World.
• Jahn Kottman used his golden book to destabilize the Mirror World and impose rules that weakened mysticism and restricted harm to people and buildings.
• The Mirror World shattered into reality, and Jahn Kottman faced the Demonesses and Hermes as they emerged onto the street.
• Hermes invoked rules separating reality from the supernatural and transferred ordinary people and creatures outside the isolated area.

Hermes and Ian Courtman attacked the hostile Beyonders in Bayam while Klein, Cyril, and Alger regrouped and faced the Orange Witch and Clarice. Azik rescued Klein, and as Cyril came close to succumbing to plague, a twelve-winged angel shielded him while allies called upon The Fool.

• Hermes agreed to help Ian Courtman and used the power of rules to restrain and punish the Witches and Jakes before Ian unleashed a storm of lightning.
• Klein purified Cyril and Alger, learned that their mysterious ally was Hermes, and stayed in Bayam with them as Alger offered his help.
• The Orange Witch and Clarice confronted the group, and Klein was caught by the Orange Witch’s allure and petrification before Azik pulled him from the Mirror World.
• Klein left to seek safety and support the fight above the gray mist while Cyril battled Clarice and began to succumb to her plague.
• A twelve-winged angel appeared through gray mist and shielded Cyril as two of his Blink clones played a Harmonica and invoked The Fool.

Cyril fought Clarice and the Orange Witch in Bayam, using his powers to escape the Mirror World and overwhelm them while Edefana stole the Orange Witch’s Mystical Item. The Primordial Demoness’s Mirror Projection intervened and took the two Demonesses away, but Edefana preserved the restored Planeswalker characteristic before retreating to recover.

• Clarice used reflections and curses to attack Cyril and tried to pull him and the street into the Mirror World, but he resisted and repeatedly escaped.
• Cyril disrupted the Mirror World and revealed his terrifying essence, leaving Clarice and the Orange Witch confused and vulnerable while Azik warned himself not to look.
• Edefana appeared, took the Orange Witch’s diamond-studded card, and shattered it to reclaim the Brilliant Spark.
• The Primordial Demoness’s Mirror Projection sent serpentine figures through reflective surfaces, seized Clarice and the Orange Witch, and surrounded Cyril, Azik, and Edefana.
• Azik pulled Cyril and himself into the Spirit World, where he identified the attacker as the Primordial Demoness and described Her overwhelming aura.
• Cyril’s petrification healed as Edefana returned the Brilliant Spark and explained that Cheek had taken the two Demonesses but failed to reclaim the restored Planeswalker characteristic.

Cyril arranged to take the exhausted Edefana to the hidden sanctuary of Liveseyd, while Bayam’s demigod battle escalated into a catastrophe before Jahn Kottman and Hermes stopped the destruction. Azik later told Klein that Cyril had escaped with a badly injured angel, who planned to recover at Liveseyd.

• Edefana said Liveseyd would suit her needs, and Cyril revealed that he knew where the hidden place was and could take her there.
• A Grade 1 Sealed Artifact went out of control as the rules Hermes had created began to collapse, and meteors fell over Bayam amid a tornado, lightning, and torrential rain.
• Jahn Kottman and Hermes contained the disaster, while Hermes trapped and killed Shanks, a demigod of the Rose School of Thought.
• Jogory arrived and discussed Bayam’s losses with Jahn Kottman, who decided to ask headquarters to send another demigod or advance qualified clergy and Mandated Punishers.
• Azik met Klein outside Bayam and explained that Cyril and an injured angel had escaped the Demonesses and intended to go to Liveseyd so the angel could recover.

After the battle in Bayam, Klein spoke with Azik about the Underworld and messenger contracts, while Cyril learned that Hermes had been investigating Baros Hopkins and warned him about Cohinem's characteristic. Cyril then prepared to leave Bayam with Danitz and met Klein at a restaurant in Port Olavi.

• Azik told Klein to leave Bayam, explained how to contract a messenger using the Underworld as a witness, and said he would investigate the Death God Documents after recovering more memories.
• Klein realized he should have asked Azik to send him back to Bayam, while Hermes explained to Cyril that he had heard Adam and had been investigating the disappearance of Baros Hopkins's avatar.
• Cyril told Hermes that the Demoness Sect's attempt to recover the Conqueror characteristic was connected to Bansy Island, and Hermes warned him not to use Cohinem's characteristic directly.
• Cyril told Danitz to pack so they could visit his captain that night, and Danitz speculated that the rumbling over Bayam had been caused by powerful outsiders.
• At a restaurant in Port Olavi, Klein warned Danitz that he could tell Danitz was cursing him, and Danitz explained the local dish Teatiwa.

Cyril boarded the Golden Dream with Klein and Danitz, then arranged to borrow Edwina’s copy of Groselle's Travels so his cursed messenger could recover inside its Book World. After signing a contract with Edwina, Cyril summoned Edefana, who revealed that the book had drawn Herabergen’s attention and was linked to Ankewelt imagining two Cities of Miracles.

• Cyril used Spirit World Roaming to bring himself, Klein, and Danitz aboard the Golden Dream, where Danitz became violently ill.
• Edwina welcomed the visitors, accepted Kalvetua’s scales as payment, and charged Danitz’s salary for Klein’s fare.
• Cyril asked to borrow Groselle's Travels and explained that its Book World could help his cursed messenger recover.
• Edwina agreed to lend Cyril the book in exchange for a contract and a promise to take her into the Book World if he entered it.
• Cyril summoned Edefana, who said Groselle's Travels had stirred her spirituality and attracted Herabergen’s attention, then asked whether Ankewelt had imagined two Cities of Miracles.

Cyril and Edefana entered the Book World and descended into its Collective Unconscious Sea to find what Ankewelt had left in Liveseyd. At the Hall of Truth, Edefana met the echo of Herabergen, whose vision revealed the ancient war between Great Dragons and the sun and helped dispel Edefana’s curse.

• Cyril opened a door into the Book World, and Edefana followed him inside after noticing Klein in the neighboring room.
• Edefana sensed Liveseyd’s presence and led Cyril through the Collective Unconscious Sea, freezing its waters to form a path into the depths of the mind.
• Edefana explained that Ankewelt’s legacy in Liveseyd included a possible path to regain Sequence 0, then led Cyril to the Hall of Truth.
• Edefana transformed into a Great Dragon and took his place on a stone pillar as ancient dragon figures appeared around the plaza.
• Herabergen’s echo manifested and showed the war between the Great Dragons and the sun, followed by a vision of Edefana’s shadow separating and being destroyed.
• The vision exposed weaknesses in Edefana’s curse, which shattered; Herabergen’s echo vanished, and Edefana returned to Cyril with the blackness gone from his robe.

Cyril explored the Book World with Edefana, who suggested using Ankewelt’s sealed negative personality in Cyril’s advancement ritual. After leaving Liveseyd, Cyril returned to the Golden Dream, where the pirates encountered King of the Five Seas Nast’s ship and he told Edwina and Klein about the Book World.

• Cyril learned that the pillars at Liveseyd commemorated the Ancient Dragons who had followed Ankewelt, and Edefana explained Ankewelt’s failed resurrection plan involving the Quill of Alzuhod.
• Edefana suggested that Cyril use Ankewelt’s negative personality for his Secrets Sorcerer advancement ritual, but Cyril decided to consider other options.
• Edefana created a younger version of himself to guide Cyril through the Book World, then spoke privately with Herabergen about Ariehogg and Ankewelt.
• On the Golden Dream, the pirates saw King of the Five Seas Nast’s Black Emperor sail through the air and head toward the Rorsted Archipelago.
• Cyril told Edwina that his messenger no longer needed Groselle’s Travels and offered to take her into the Book World later.
• Klein asked Cyril about the Book World, and Cyril explained that it was an imagined world created by Ankewelt and invited Klein to explore it with Edwina.

Klein ate breakfast aboard the Golden Dream, learned that Cyril had prepared mystical items, and went to speak with Edwina about summoning a messenger. Meanwhile, Cyril answered Tobias’s prayer and reached a new follower through Trissy, leaving Sherman with a Witch potion formula.

• Klein enjoyed breakfast with Cyril and met Joderson and Daniels after Danitz introduced them, though Klein was not wearing Creeping Hunger.
• Danitz noticed Klein’s shoulder had healed and learned that a potion had restored it; Klein then left to find Edwina.
• Cyril received Bock Griffin’s letter and three mystical items, then sacrificed two of them to Klein and tested the Brilliant Spark in the Inn.
• Cyril heard Tobias praying, sent him a modified descent ritual, and considered using it with Sun’s cooperation to bypass the Forsaken Land of the Gods’ blockade.
• Trissy guided Sherman in praying to the Silver Key, and Cyril answered them; Sherman received a Witch potion formula and asked Trissy whether it would turn him into a woman.

Klein sought a suitable Spirit World messenger and summoned Reinette Tinekerr, while Cyril and Red Light Aiur Moria oversaw the selection. Cyril also encountered a Knowledge Rabbit whose scholarly appearance came from a statue in an ancient ruin.

• Trissy gave Sherman the Sequence 9 Assassin potion recipe and explained that he needed to advance through earlier Sequences before becoming a Witch.
• Klein summoned a fast, invisible Spirit World creature, but rejected it as his messenger after Cyril described its speed and appearance.
• Cyril advised Klein to summon without restrictive conditions while Red Light Aiur Moria kept dangerous creatures away, and Aiur Moria introduced the Pure Light Brotherhood.
• Reinette Tinekerr answered Klein's ritual by knocking down the other Spirit World creatures with Wraith Scream and emerged as his prospective messenger.
• Cyril learned that Reinette had been an Angel of the Rose School of Thought's Temperance Faction and had revived incompletely in the Spirit World.
• Cyril spoke with the Knowledge Rabbit, who said it adopted its scholarly appearance after seeing a statue in an ancient ruin and believed this was wisdom's favor.

Cyril introduced a Knowledge Rabbit to Edwina, who contracted it as her messenger, while Danitz warned that Cyril and Klein brought misfortune to the Golden Dream. As the full moon passed, Cyril directed Tobias to investigate Botis, and Klein pulled the suffering Cattleya into the space above the Gray Fog.

• Cyril brought the Knowledge Rabbit to Edwina, and it agreed to become her messenger in exchange for access to her books and knowledge.
• Danitz urged Edwina to let Cyril and Klein leave the Golden Dream, citing their dangerous run of bad luck, but she said she would consider it.
• During the full moon, Cyril sensed the Abraham Family praying to him and instructed Tobias to gather information about Saint of Secrets Botis.
• After sending Fors away, Klein saw a woman suffering from the Hidden Sage's influence and pulled her into the space above the Gray Fog.
• The woman, Cattleya, recovered from her pain and asked Klein whether she had arrived in the Underworld.

Cyril and Klein discussed Admiral of Iceberg’s plan to support the Rorsted resistance before the Tarot Club welcomed Cattleya as Madam Hermit. After Cattleya’s eyes of Mystery Prying triggered a painful backlash when she looked at Cyril, Mr. Fool helped her and gave her glasses to seal the ability.

• Bernadette warned Cyril that Cattleya’s Fate had changed and that she might cross paths with him.
• Klein told Cyril that Admiral of Iceberg planned to provide material aid to the Rorsted resistance, and Cyril agreed the support was needed.
• Cyril recognized Cattleya as Admiral of Stars and worried about her connection to Queen Mystic.
• At the Tarot Club, Cattleya suffered a backlash after her eyes of Mystery Prying focused on Cyril, and Mr. Fool stopped her pain.
• Cyril explained that his innate traits could be triggered by Mystery Pryers, and Mr. Fool gave Cattleya glasses to seal her eyes.

At the Tarot Club, Hermit Cattleya watched Fool Klein read Roselle’s Diary and joined the members’ trading session. Cyril identified King of the Black Throne as one of the killers of a Moses Ascetic Order saint, leaving Cattleya to verify the information before paying him.

• Audrey, Fors, and Derrick offered Roselle’s Diary pages and ancient god legends, and Fool Klein manifested and read them, shocking Cattleya.
• Emlyn and Alger agreed that Alger would obtain a Sanguine Baron’s inheritance for 4,500 pounds, while Audrey bought a Psychiatrist characteristic from World for 1,800 pounds.
• Fors asked Alger to find Lava Octopus blood crystals, and he agreed to seek a price for her within two days.
• Cattleya requested information about the death of a Moses Ascetic Order saint in Bayam, and Cyril named Baros Hopkins, King of the Black Throne, as a direct killer.
• Cattleya said she would verify Cyril’s information within a week before paying him, and Klein wondered why Cyril kept making King of the Black Throne new enemies.