Recaps

Aaron escaped the Investigation Bureau’s collapse, disrupted the God of Suffering’s bid to become a Longevity One, and advanced to Furnace. In the aftermath, Plymouth’s political and religious order shifted as factions began investigating Aaron and the Sothoth Family.

• Aaron found Lady Fireworks in the prison and watched Ferret pass the Sun King’s Spear’s test before announcing the Church of the Holy Spirit would take over the Investigation Bureau’s duties.
• Aaron freed Yefuna Tifa and, as the allied organizations attacked the Bureau, escaped through the Spirit Realm with her, Lily, and Jesita.
• Lily, Jesita, and Yefuna rescued Metana from Sander, while Ferret’s speech in Plymouth ended with the God of Suffering revealing herself and beginning a historical ritual.
• The God of Suffering attempted to advance to Longevity One, but Aaron used the Power of Secret Source to make the advancement fail and seized the broken Sun King’s Spear.
• Aaron consumed seven Non-Human remnants and used the spear fragment and Dawnbreak’s radiance to advance to Furnace, then escaped the authorities surrounding him.
• Aaron tested his new Furnace abilities, examined the God of Suffering’s remnant and the broken spear, and considered how the massacre had exposed the Spirit of Void.
• The Lord of Corpse Collection ordered the Lotus Eaters to investigate Aaron, the Sothoth Family, and the Spirit of Void, while Bokin Soren sought information for the Mother of Night.
• Nicholas traveled to Plymouth to become a Cardinal Archbishop as Percy Anias decided to help rebuild the Investigation Bureau.

Aaron ended Shadorn’s Nightmare Law, then built a dream meeting place for the Invisible Cult and gathered its followers. After Lilliat saved Lai Liang from a cursed book with Aaron’s help, Aaron tracked the Blood of Decay to its headquarters in Liqius and attacked.

• Aaron aided Lilliat and Vernon as Blood of Decay hunters attacked their train, then teleported them to Shadorn, where a ghost ship and Nightmare Disease signaled a growing danger.
• Aaron entered Shadorn’s dream auction, bought the Great Demon Statue, broke the auction’s contract, and shattered the dreamscape to awaken the city.
• Aaron killed Lady Garde after she attacked him with the Sundering Broken Sword, then studied the Sunfall Chapter and began forging the statue’s power into a dream effect.
• Aaron negotiated with the Black Pharaoh to build signal towers in its pyramids and used the Fool’s Crown to find believers praying to the Spirit of Void.
• Aaron created a virtual dreamscape where the cult’s members gathered, chose codenames, shared intelligence, and learned how to contact him through prayer.
• After Lai Liang went mad from a dangerous book, Lilliat performed a ritual that Aaron empowered, while he killed Penn and defeated the Blood of Decay hunters at their safehouse.
• Aaron used the book and traces from the battle to locate Blood of Decay’s headquarters in Liqius, then teleported there and began killing its members.

Aaron destroyed the Blood of Decay, strengthened his ties with the Green Banyan Council, and recruited William while investigating threats to the Invisible Cult. At the Plymouth auction, he pursued a Sunfall Chapter fragment and defeated Yao, then escaped with Lilliat and Tias.

• Aaron killed Bokin Soren and destroyed the Blood of Decay headquarters, then escaped Flander’s trap through the Spirit Realm.
• Aaron recruited Lilliat into the Sothoth family’s faith, and she brought him before the Green Banyan Council’s Speaker, Tias von Sothos.
• Aaron restored Tias as a Living Dead and tasked him with leading the council and spreading their Lord’s faith among the Sothos descendants.
• Aaron recruited William Charles into the Invisible Cult and discovered that the Witch Sisterhood’s Moonlit Path Secret Lore carried contamination from the Underworld Moon.
• At the Faust Grand Auction House, Aaron bought spiritual materials and won a Sunfall Chapter fragment, provoking a golden-masked Lamplighter to pursue him.
• The Lamplighter and his golems attacked Aaron, while the fragment revealed that beings existed above the Fate-Ruling Gods.
• Aaron used the Underworld Moon Talisman and Sun King’s Spear to defeat Yao, took a remnant of the Sixth Origin Substance, and teleported away with Lilliat and Tias.

Aaron advanced to the Fifth Primordial, thwarted an attack on Lily and Jesita, and forged a pact with Motula. Aboard the St. Margaret, he tested the Law of Accident, helped Kent confront his feelings for Helen, and tried to save him after fate drove him to transform, just as sea monsters threatened the ship.

• Aaron purified William and learned from Bran that it was a Fate Controller tied to the Tower, then returned to Green Forest City to pursue his advancement.
• Aaron began constructing hidden wonders, while Lily and Jesita’s home drew the attention of the Blood Cup Archbishop and the witches as other churches began preaching in Plymouth.
• Aaron reached the Fifth Primordial and became a Perfect One, then used his Law of Accident to disrupt the witches’ ritual and save Lily and Jesita from contamination.
• Aaron met Motula, learned of the conflict between hidden existences and Age Controllers, and bound himself to Motula through a cooperation contract.
• Aboard the St. Margaret, Aaron used the Law of Accident to win a bet with Blitz, who later died saving Egger Filler’s son, leaving Egger to repay Blitz’s debt to Aaron.
• Aaron answered Bruce’s prayer and purified Mother Nature’s contamination long enough for Lin to explain her and Olivia’s fusion and warn that Olivia was coming.
• Aaron drew Kent into a dream that made him face his love for Helen, then found that Kent had transformed after their argument and tried to restore him.
• Aaron restored Kent’s human form, but the St. Margaret entered the path of migrating sea monsters, and a giant creature’s wave swept passengers overboard.