Chapter Summaries

Cyril met the unlucky treasure hunter Anderson in a dream and later found him on an island, where Anderson asked to join the Future. After the crew resumed sailing, Cyril woke in the nighttime dream once more.

• Cyril learned from Bernadette that the True Creator was in the Forsaken Land of the Gods, and she warned him not to explore the depths of the Black Monastery.
• Cyril and Klein discussed Anderson, while the Future endured a violent storm that soon passed.
• Cyril found Anderson on an island and agreed to let him board the Future in exchange for half of his gains when he left.
• Ulyssan, the King of the North, appeared and drove off a Stone Giant, impressing Anderson and the crew.
• Anderson boarded the Future, and after three hours of sailing the crew fell asleep as night arrived; Cyril woke in the dark hall and snapped his fingers.

Cyril explored the Giant King's Court in a dream, where a battle with the Silver Knight abruptly woke him aboard the Future. Frank’s experimental organisms began reproducing and mutating under the influence of the Mother Earth’s residual power, and Cyril gave him a glass orb to stop the growth consuming his hand.

• Cyril and Anderson discussed Cyril’s dream exploration, and Cyril used a Brilliant Spark to enter the dream again.
• Cyril fought the Silver Knight in the dream with Lightning Storm, destabilizing the dream and waking himself aboard the Future.
• Cyril transformed into Ulyssan, the King of the North, but the Silver Knight turned into liquid metal and encased him in a suffocating film.
• Frank told Cyril that his cultivated organisms had rapidly reproduced and mutated, while milk began pouring from the Future’s deck and cannons.
• Frank’s sprouting plants spread through the milk and rooted into his hand, and he admitted he could no longer control them.
• Cyril tossed Frank an eyeball-shaped glass orb, which he grasped as the vines and leaves withered in pale golden flames.

The Future escaped the corpse-built sea monster after Cyril and Klein fought back, but the approaching Black Tulip brought the crew face to face with Admiral of Hell Ludwell. Anderson proposed hunting Ludwell for his bounty and rumored relic, and Klein and Cyril headed toward the pirate ship as its undead crew tried to evade them.

• Cyril returned Frank's Pure White Vision, and Frank saw his altered appearance before the sea monster began attacking the Future.
• The monster's corpse-hair wrapped the ship and made the crew's hair grow wildly, but Cyril's golden light broke the restraints and Klein used a Storm charm to calm the wave threatening the Future.
• The Black Tulip approached, and Anderson urged Klein and Cyril to hunt its captain, Admiral of Hell Ludwell, for his bounty, treasures, and rumored ring left by the God of Death.
• Klein vanished under a covering of starlight, while Anderson used a Storm charm to fly toward the Black Tulip.
• Cyril watched the Black Tulip from the Spirit World as its skeletal, zombie, and spectral crew tried to steer clear of the Future.

Cyril and Klein fought Ludwell aboard the Black Tulip as Ludwell opened a Bronze Gate and unleashed the Language of the Dead. Cyril struck the gate with a spear of light, disrupting the darkness, but the gate still shook overhead.

• Ludwell ordered the undead aboard the Black Tulip and used translucent creatures to drive the ship away as Klein attacked with Purification Halo and Flaming Jump.
• Cyril appeared on deck while Anderson fell into the hold, and Ludwell unleashed an aura that forced the undead to kneel before him.
• Ludwell summoned a Bronze Gate and recited the Language of the Dead, causing undead creatures to pour out and Klein's spirit body to rise from his physical body.
• Cyril vanished from the Language of the Dead's effects, then hurled a blazing white spear at the Bronze Gate.
• Cyril's spear replaced the darkness behind the gate with brilliant light, purifying the dark curtain around the Black Tulip and making the gate shake violently.

Cyril used Pure White Vision to destroy the Underworld creature possessing Ludwell, while Klein and Cattleya divided the spoils from the Black Tulip. The group left with the ship and its treasures to be settled, and Klein wondered whether the whole vessel could be sacrificed.

• Cyril unleashed Pure White Vision, purifying the waters and burning away the Underworld creature inside Ludwell.
• Cattleya arrived and asked where Anderson was, while Klein explained that the creature had spoken through Ludwell.
• Cyril claimed the Gatekeeper characteristic and gave the God of Death ring to Klein, who accepted it as his spoils.
• Anderson received Ludwell's mask and claimed it as proof that he had killed the Admiral of Hell.
• Cattleya proposed splitting the Black Tulip's remaining items into three shares, with one share for Klein and Randolph and another for the Future's crew and Anderson.
• Klein asked whether they could sacrifice the entire ship, prompting Cattleya to recall the Tarot Club's gathering place Above the Gray Fog.

Cyril left the Black Tulip behind, entered his dream, and spoke with Anderson about ways to dispel bad luck. He then went to the basement to kill the maddened Saint of Darkness, intending to bring him to the True Creator.

• Cyril and Anderson decided to leave the Black Tulip behind, and the Future's crew salvaged the ship before sailing away.
• Cyril found Anderson drinking beer in the hold and asked how much he had consumed.
• Cyril used a Brilliant Spark to open a doorway from reality into his dream, where a force from the Giant King's Court surged toward him and he vanished.
• Anderson asked Cyril how to get rid of his bad luck, and Cyril suggested the Fool or learning about his own Lord.
• Cyril entered the dark basement and confronted the corrupted, maddened Saint of Darkness.
• Cyril summoned a Solar Flare that melted the Saint of Darkness and destroyed him.

Cyril encouraged Leomaster in the dream by invoking the Lord’s radiance, and Leomaster later returned to his original self. Leomaster said he had received a revelation that the Lord was the True Creator’s incarnation and would soon return in complete form.

• Cyril found the rational Leomaster in the dream and told him the Lord had prophesied that he would defeat the Saint of Darkness.
• The glass orb in Cyril’s hand shone, and he later wondered whether Adam had influenced Leomaster.
• Anderson fell overboard when the Future rocked, and Frank rescued him with a vine.
• Cyril, Anderson, and Frank ate grilled fish while ethereal singing from mermaids drifted across the waves.
• Klein learned that Cyril had visited the dream basement and planned to return to check on Leomaster.
• Leomaster told Cyril that he had recovered his true self and received a revelation identifying the Lord as the True Creator’s incarnation.

Cyril and Leomaster entered the real Giant King's Court in the Forsaken Land of the Gods, where Leomaster began a dangerous pilgrimage. Cyril traveled to a ruined city, destroyed a Dawn Knight skeleton, and discovered living people inside a collapsed church.

• Cyril asked Leomaster about his plans, then invited him to the Forsaken Land of the Gods, and Leomaster agreed to come.
• Cyril used the Brilliant Spark to open the gates of the real Giant King's Court and entered with Leomaster, whom he identified as Milgon Gen, the Lightslayer who followed Sasrir.
• Bernadette told Klein that Cyril had gone to the Forsaken Land of the Gods, and Klein realized she knew the route there.
• Leomaster walked barefoot away from the Giant King's Court on a pilgrimage, insisting that the Lord's radiance would protect him from the darkness.
• Cyril Spirit World Roamed to a ruined city and destroyed a Dawn Knight skeleton with a pillar of pure light.
• Cyril reached a mostly collapsed church and sensed that living people were inside.

Aboard the Future, Klein learned that Randolph had left, while Cyril discovered hidden monsters in the darkness and met Colin the Demon Hunter and Derrick at the Giant King's Court. After arranging to exchange information, Cyril heard a description of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom that reminded Colin of a sinister mural depicting only six evil gods.

• Klein told Frank that Randolph had left the waters, disappointing Frank, who had hoped to share a new idea with him.
• Cyril used an Unshadowed Domain to burn away monsters that appeared in a ruined city, then encountered Derrick and Colin inside a temple.
• Cyril explained that he had reached the real Giant King's Court through a dream and proposed a partnership secured by a notarized contract.
• Colin told Cyril that vampires, including demigod-level ones, had appeared north of Afternoon Town, and Cyril requested a map and information about the darkness and its monsters.
• Cyril described how the God of Knowledge and Wisdom had been depicted in the Fourth Epoch, prompting Colin to recall a sinister mural showing only six evil gods.

Cyril shared food and wine with Derrick and Colin, then announced that he planned to visit the Declining Forest and hunt a demigod-level Vampire. The group discussed the dangers of the land, and Cyril revealed he could obtain supplies through the Tarot Club.

• Derrick gave Cyril roasted black bread, which Cyril found hard and dry.
• Cyril shared red wine with Colin, who described its unusual flavor and said it tasted good.
• Cyril explained that the roasted fish would taste terrible without spices, and Derrick began cooking one over the fire.
• Derrick told Cyril that a clergyman had said Sasrir was tempted and the kings had betrayed the Lord, bringing corruption and death to the land.
• Cyril said he would visit the Declining Forest and hunt a demigod-level Vampire, while Colin warned him about the land’s strange dangers.
• Derrick asked whether Cyril had enough supplies, and Cyril said he could get them sent through the Tarot Club.

Cyril entered the Declining Forest, where he encountered Amon and exchanged information before traveling to ancient ruins beyond Afternoon Town. Meanwhile, Anderson suffered another bout of deadly bad luck and asked Klein for help, while Cyril’s attempt to investigate the ruins triggered a strange burst of life that quickly withered.

• Cyril destroyed two reanimated giant corpses at the entrance to the Declining Forest and found that they left no characteristics.
• Amon confronted Cyril, revealed that he had stolen Aurmir’s parents’ graves, and asked him about Adam’s secrets.
• Cyril told Amon that Adam’s greatest secret was His identity, and Amon used a time-rewinding power to reveal that Aurmir’s parents were human skeletons.
• Anderson nearly choked to death while drinking water, then asked Klein about Beyonders who could change his luck and learned he could pray to the Fool.
• Cyril arrived at ruined lands beyond Afternoon Town and sent a painted version of himself to invoke Omebella and Lilith.
• After the painted Cyril spoke Lilith’s name, crimson moonlight appeared, the strange moss and its spawned creatures flourished, then rapidly withered along with the painted double.

Cyril investigated the ruined city’s strange transformations, then unexpectedly opened a way into Sefirah Castle and met Klein, who asked about bad luck and the Bizarro Sorcerer potion. After returning to the Forsaken Land of the Gods, Cyril tested the Die of Probability and used the Brilliant Spark to turn the ruins into a bizarre, insect-filled oasis.

• Cyril found that the ruins changed between desolation and life when he invoked Mother Earth, then returned to the Inn after a failed divination was interrupted by a shrill wail.
• Cyril used spirituality to pass through a starlit door into Sefirah Castle, surprising Klein, who had been trying to contact him.
• Cyril told Klein ways to counter bad luck, listed sources for the Bizarro Sorcerer potion formula, and described its advancement ritual; Klein agreed to pay 3,000 pounds for Cyril to consult the Second Blasphemy Slate.
• Cyril returned to the Inn and concluded the Die of Probability could not directly influence fate there, though it could affect him through his surroundings.
• Cyril went back to the Forsaken Land of the Gods and used the Brilliant Spark to summon a blazing sun, under which the ruins became an oasis of strange insects bearing pieces of plants.

Cyril explored ruins twisted by the Mother Earth's residual divine power and encountered Kotar, the Demonic Wolf, while Klein assisted from above the gray fog. After escaping, Cyril kept watch over the ruins until Klein summoned him to a gathering.

• Cyril fled attacking trees and an ice dragon, then prayed to the Fool for help.
• Klein examined the ruins through the gray fog and used a Lightning Storm, but the strange trees regenerated too quickly to destroy.
• Kotar ambushed Cyril, whose spirit body threads he began manipulating, but Klein's warning and intervention helped Cyril recover.
• Cyril summoned Adam's Corpse Cathedral and used Amon's message to distract Kotar, while an imagined Amon parasitized the Amon wandering nearby and drove Kotar off.
• Cyril escaped through a Phantasmal Double Door, set up camp outside the ruins, and continued observing them.
• Klein told Cyril to prepare for a gathering in fifteen minutes.

At the Tarot Club, Cyril explained how he reached the Forsaken Land of the Gods and described its lingering divine dangers while agreeing to help Emlyn find Primordial Moon believers. He tested ways to destroy a living ruin shaped by the Mother Earth's power, then Owen Garcia sought out Emlyn in Backlund.

• Fors asked for an Ancient Wraith's cursed object or leads on Asman's Brain, and Cyril offered help and said the Asman Abraham Family had intact Asmans for sale.
• Cattleya offered World either a chance to view the Wheel of Fortune Card of Blasphemy or a method to regain strength during weakness, and World agreed to ask for her.
• Emlyn asked the Tarot Club to find Primordial Moon believers, and Cyril offered to help if Emlyn prayed to the Mother Earth about the mutated ruins.
• Derrick recounted the City of Silver's expedition to Afternoon Town, and Cyril explained the dangers of the Forsaken Land of the Gods and how to enter it.
• Cyril used imagined doubles and the names Leodero and Herabergen to attack the Mother Earth's living ruins, but concluded that the ruins adapted and could not be quickly destroyed.
• Owen Garcia visited Emlyn at Harvest Cathedral and introduced himself.

Emlyn received information about Primordial Moon believers from Owen, then prayed to Mother Earth and received her Holy Emblem of Life. Using the emblem, Cyril drew on Lilith’s power to destroy animated ruins and uncover a red crystal before traveling to Dawn Town.

• Owen gave Emlyn drawings and information about Windsor Belin, Gallis Kevin, and Argos, and said Dandy and Lola were not in Backlund.
• Emlyn destroyed the drawings, prayed to Mother Earth, and received a vision telling him to take the Holy Emblem of Life and recite her name.
• Klein received the emblem above the Gray Fog and sent it through the Gate of Sacrifice and Bestowal to Cyril.
• Cyril used the emblem to make the animated ruins collapse and transform into a thriving forest, then recovered a dark red crystal from a pool.
• Cyril traveled to Dawn Town, where the ruined streets and buildings became new and giant figures appeared around him.

Cyril used the Holy Emblem of Life to overcome a deadly city of lingering afterimages, while Klein and Anderson encountered Medici at a bar in Oravi and fled after he erupted into flames. Medici escaped the new Navy High Commander Robert Davis, and Klein and Anderson ended up on Toscarter Island, where Klein demanded five pounds for his damaged hat.

• Cyril illuminated the city with Pure White Vision, saw the hostile afterimages, and fled their expanding Storm of Light.
• Cyril summoned Lilith through the Holy Emblem of Life, causing a forest to consume the city’s dawnlike light before he left with a lantern.
• Klein and Anderson learned that Councilor Ricciardo had left Oravi, then met Medici at a dockside bar.
• Medici offered to resolve Anderson’s bad luck and give him a potion formula or Beyonder characteristic, but his conflicting inner voices made him lose control and set the bar ablaze.
• Klein and Anderson escaped using Creeping Hunger, while Robert Davis extinguished the bar’s flames and identified Medici as an angel before pursuing him.
• Klein and Anderson arrived on Toscarter Island, where Klein threw Anderson his damaged hat and demanded five pounds.

Klein learned that Anderson had encountered Medici, the Red Angel’s evil spirit, while Cyril hunted vampires and sent Klein the Die of Probability and other items. After Medici’s corruption appeared on Anderson, Klein brought him above the gray fog, where Anderson asked for help and began recounting his past.

• Klein told Anderson that the being they had met was the Red Angel’s evil spirit, a former King of Angels and colleague of Ouroboros.
• Cyril hunted vampires in the Forsaken Land of the Gods, gathered their Beyonder characteristics, and sent them and the Die of Probability above the gray fog for Klein.
• Anderson suffered a nightmare of Medici, woke with a bloody mark on his forehead, and realized he had been corrupted.
• Klein heard Anderson’s prayer and summoned him above the gray fog, then offered to help in exchange for information or something of equal value.
• Anderson told Mr. Fool about growing up in Lenburg, being expelled from the Church of Knowledge’s school, and his travels as an adventurer and treasure hunter.
• Anderson explained that he still had ties to the Church of Knowledge but feared asking them for help because of their demands and doubted they could solve his bad luck without a demigod’s knowledge.

Anderson joined the Tarot gathering as Mr. Chariot and used Mr. Fool’s ritual to remove his misfortune, while Klein and Cyril investigated the reckless influence of the Red Angel Evil Spirit. Cyril then warned Klein about the Rose School of Thought and went to the Forsaken Land of the Gods’ barrier, where something behind it began battering the doors he created.

• Mr. Fool gave Anderson a ritual to remove his misfortune and allowed him to join the gatherings as Mr. Chariot.
• Anderson performed the ritual, which expelled a rust-red and iron-black clot from his body and lifted his misfortune.
• Klein divined that the Red Angel Evil Spirit had influenced Anderson through the authority of courage, then contacted Cyril for his thoughts.
• Cyril assessed that the Red Angel Evil Spirit was likely at Sequence 2 and warned Klein to be careful of the Rose School of Thought.
• Cyril traveled to the Forsaken Land of the Gods’ barrier and used a Brilliant Spark to form enormous doors in the gray fog.
• Something behind the doors pounded them until an infant-like cry slowed their collapse, while the Die of Probability fell and silver light began to emerge.

Cyril received the Key of Light’s mark after the Die of Probability helped him draw power through the gate, then visited the True Creator in his Sanctuary and agreed to find Medici in exchange for help with his Secrets Sorcerer ritual. Back in the Forsaken Land of the Gods, he advanced his Traveler potion digestion and took a piece of Bradel’s corpse to use in a divination.

• Cyril acquired a mercury-colored swastika fused with his right hand and spirit as the Die of Probability cracked, then followed a summons through an Illusory Door.
• A High Priest saw the barrier’s disturbance and ordered the group to prepare for an early sacrificial ceremony.
• Cyril met the True Creator beneath an inverted Cross, accepted a contract to find Medici, and agreed to ask him to fight for the Southern Continent.
• Cyril asked Ouroboros for a blessing before leaving the Sanctuary, and the True Creator’s ravings continued through their new connection.
• Cyril returned to the Forsaken Land of the Gods, encountered Bradel’s rotting corpse, and used the Die of Probability and his abilities to take a piece of its flesh.
• Cyril froze the flesh and prepared a Crystal Ball to divine Bradel’s past.

Cyril’s divination revealed the Giant King’s Court and the giant Badheil, whose residual power nearly destroyed him. After striking a wary bargain with Amon, Cyril left for the City of Silver and appeared outside its wall.

• Cyril used Bradel’s memories to witness Aurmir’s confrontation with the Ancient Sun God, then saw a gentle female giant and the armored giant Badheil in the Giant King’s Court.
• Badheil’s residual twilight power caused everything around Cyril to decay, but Cyril escaped when an illusory book made him vanish from its effects.
• Amon appeared, mocked Cyril’s recklessness, and offered a monocle in exchange for something from Sefirah Castle, help retrieving Door, or information about Cyril’s actions at the barrier.
• Cyril asked whether he could refuse the monocle, heard the True Creator tell him to agree, and accepted Amon’s offer without revealing what he had done.
• After Amon left, Cyril tossed the monocle into his shadow, resolved to finish digesting his potion and leave the Forsaken Land of the Gods, then opened a door and departed.
• Cyril appeared at the base of the City of Silver’s wall, where a patrol spotted him and he waved up at them.