Recaps

Aaron advanced to the Third Primordial, dealt with Clark Das’s loss of control, and handed the Sothos Museum to Sylvia before leaving Green Forest City. In Plymouth, he helped Bruce reach Connelly Earse and entered a secret gathering, where he bought mystical materials as he began searching for a path to further advancement.

• Percy was released and learned that the investigators sent to the Sothos Mausoleum had died, while Jacob ordered him to act as a bridge to the Invisible Cult and halt hostile actions.
• Aaron advanced to Forge-Maker, then forged Roberts of the Insect Hive’s remnant into a Magical Insect Box and used it to help expose the murders committed by Old Eugene.
• Aaron discovered that Clark Das had lost control and killed Jelena, accepted Clark’s request to exile him, and watched him die after he left a token and instructions for Bruce Field.
• Aaron gave Bruce Clark’s note and school token, arranged to reclaim the Sothos Museum, and appointed Sylvia its director before Percy and Jacob identified Aaron as a dangerous figure tied to the mausoleum.
• Aaron traveled with Bruce to Plymouth, rescued him from the Spirit Realm dangers around Yanan Town, and revealed that he had become a Craftsman.
• Aaron and Bruce met Connelly Earse, who explained Clark’s plan for Bruce and showed them a portrait of Mother Nature that resembled Lin and Olivia.
• Aaron reached a secret gathering in Plymouth through the Hunter Bar and identified its venue as Halsey’s Moving Castle.
• Aaron browsed the gathering’s market and paid Jesita nine hundred and ninety Gold Pounds for ores, creature tissues, and spiritual remnants.

Aaron sold enchanted items, destroyed Vulture through the Crying Blade’s curse, and explored the Fallen City of Diat with the Professor’s team. Back at Hunter Bar, he investigated William’s dangerous secrets and left him to choose whether to stay as bait in the Black Queen District.

• Aaron sold Scarlet One's Offering to a black-clad man, then accepted Tasha’s commission to craft a dagger and discovered she had tried to trap him with cursed material.
• Aaron forged the Crying Blade and used its reflected wound curse against Tasha, whose injuries spread through Vulture until its members died.
• Aaron entered Vulture’s headquarters, took its valuables, and later attended Gantis’s gathering, where he agreed to join the Professor’s expedition to Diat.
• Aaron traveled through the Spirit Realm, learned its dangers from Martin, and returned to establish Hunter Bar as a business and hire Isabet and William.
• Aaron joined the Professor, Rose, Langley, and Alexander in Diat, where the team faced contamination and a Dark Beast before Aaron destroyed it and led them back to safety.
• Aaron traded healing doses with Alexander for The Secret of the Age Controllers and read about the twelve Age Controllers.
• Carl reported that William might be a Beyonder who had killed Harris, but Aaron refused to act on the accusations and questioned William himself.
• William denied knowing the hidden truth behind his family’s decline or planning sorcery against Aaron, so Aaron freed him and offered him the choice to leave or stay as bait in the Black Queen District.

Aaron protected William from the Blood of Decay and investigated the Desire Spirit Sect, while William lost Isabet to the sect’s sacrifice. As Aaron prepared to advance, Kebo Phil drew the city’s attention to a theft at the Royal Art Exhibition, where he stole the Sun King’s iron crown and escaped into the streets.

• Aaron learned through coffee divination that William descended from the Sothoth Family, then accepted a commission from Halsey to craft Exchange Drawers using Stephink Essence.
• William discovered that the Blood Robe Club intended to serve him as food, and Aaron saved him from Quentin and killed Lofman Soren of the Blood of Decay.
• Aaron investigated the Mary Street Church after Isabet’s death and uncovered the Desire Spirit Sect’s sacrifice to the God of Suffering.
• Kebo Phil accused Aaron of arson at Baron Jacques’s manor, attacked the Hunter Bar, and revealed his planned theft of the Heart of the Ocean at the Royal Art Exhibition.
• Aaron disguised William as his manservant and brought him to the exhibition, where a planted talisman filled the hall with white mist.
• Haixinge stopped a puppet from stealing the Heart of the Ocean, but Kebo Phil stole the Sun King’s iron crown and escaped across the rooftops.
• Aaron gave William Roberts’s Magic Insect Box for protection and tried to enter the Spirit Realm in pursuit of Kebo Phil.

Aaron hunted the Tower remnant he needed to advance while infiltrating Baron Jacques’s circle and uncovering a plot to recreate the Sun King’s rebellion. He arranged to be arrested and brought to the Investigation Bureau, where the Sun King’s Spear gave him the final insight he needed to open the Fourth Primordial.

• Aaron discovered that Bruce had reached the Eye of Ancient Meng School and learned from him that the Desire Spirit Sect had attacked it and stolen its Angel-grade relic.
• Aaron entered Baron Jacques’s social circle as Robin Stas’s tutor, then used his Solomon disguise to infiltrate a gathering and redeem Metana Jacques from the Blood Robe Club’s influence.
• Metana revealed that the Blood Robe Club had bound her family and sought records about Sun King Arthur’s transformation and betrayal of Dawnbreak.
• Aaron deduced that the Blood Robe Club and Desire Spirit Sect planned to recreate the Sun King’s rebellion through Historical Retrospection, using the Sun King’s Spear and a ritual near Yanan Town.
• Aaron arranged for Metana to report him as an occult fraudster, and Lifton’s investigators arrested him and classified the case as an ordinary Class V incident.
• Secret Police escorted Aaron, disguised as Solomon, into the underground Investigation Bureau, where he studied the Sun King’s Spear and gained the final insight needed to open the Fourth Primordial.