Recaps

Gray recorded a bizarre Magic Potion leak incident in which Arkham absorbed a Beastifying Active Potion through his butt. The chapter ended with Gray still shaken at home while Arkham hurried off, pleased with his discovery.

• Gray wrote his first diary entry and recalled that he and Peg joined Arkham to investigate a Magic Potion leak at an old factory.
• Gray killed two Apprentice Beyonders while Arkham fought two Potion Aberrations, and an Expert Level Beyonder brewed an Active Potion that began Beastification.
• Gray warned Arkham to flee as the spreading poison threatened them, but Arkham charged into the green gas and sucked the Beastifying potion into his butt.
• Gray found both Potion Aberrations gone and saw Arkham playing with a small hollow Bone Sphere before Arkham hurried away.
• Gray cleaned up the remaining Beyonder traces and remained shaken by the incident late that night.

Evan tested the expanded Star-Driller's Maw, discovered that it might be connected to Giant Devouring Worms and carry hidden dangers, and decided to investigate its origins. He later offered Rain and Lucky work at his Security Company in Bolton City, and they eagerly asked whether they qualified.

• Evan saw a vision of Giant Devouring Worms devouring a ruined planet before waking in his hotel room with the Star-Driller's Maw Characteristic.
• He found that the Characteristic had expanded his internal storage to eight cubic meters and created a stomach space for digesting swallowed things.
• Evan noticed Toxic Blood forming strange black patches inside the stomach space and suspected the blood had altered the Characteristic.
• After testing the digestive space on beef, Evan realized the meat vanished without nourishing him and wondered if his digestive tract had fused with a Giant Devouring Worm's.
• Evan met Rain and Lucky the next day, learned they had struggled to find work, and offered them jobs escorting goods and fighting Water Ghosts for his Security Company.
• Rain and Lucky welcomed Evan's offer and asked whether they qualified for the work in Bolton City.

Evan offered Rain and Lucky jobs with the Demon Hunter Faction, then learned that Rain’s debt contract with the Excellence Institute had forced Lucky to undergo painful medicine trials. He attacked the Institute’s Financier, and Rain charged in to help as the fight began.

• Evan invited Rain and Lucky to join the Demon Hunter Faction and asked them to come to Bolton City to discuss the partnership.
• Evan, Rain, and Lucky found Excellence Institute researchers forcing a mutated Mage to endure medicine trials because he owed them money.
• Rain told Evan that he had signed a Contract with the Financier to pay for Lucky’s treatment after she suffered Spiritual Contamination.
• Evan shielded the siblings, confronted the Financier, and declared that he would pay the debt but fight the Excellence Institute.
• Evan attacked the Financier, who countered by turning Coins into Metal Beetles that exploded against him.
• Rain told Lucky to care for their mother and rushed forward to help Evan.

Rain and Evan defeated the researchers and James, then discovered the ruined young Mage Eddie among the victims of their experiments. Evan realized the Black Sun’s Wings and Copper Plague could potentially absorb Eddie’s mutation, but chose not to do so and carried him off to attempt a recovery spell.

• Rain used his water-refraction ability to kill the two mutated researchers while Evan defeated James in under thirty seconds.
• Evan killed James, and he and Rain searched the site for valuables despite Rain’s concerns about violating the Capitalists’ rules.
• Evan comforted the mutated Mage Eddie, and the Panel revealed that the Black Sun’s Wings and Copper Plague wanted to absorb his mutation and virus.
• Rain identified Eddie and explained his background, while Lucky warned that his mutation was irreversible and his mind was at risk of falling into Beastification.
• Evan said he had a spell that might help Eddie, knocked him unconscious, and carried him toward a safe place to try it.

Evan absorbed the mutations and Beyonder Characteristics afflicting Eddie, restoring his body but leaving him nearly ordinary. Eddie awoke, recognized Evan as the radiant figure who had saved him, and asked whether Evan was the Great Father's messenger.

• Rain led Evan and the others to a hidden riverside cave, where Evan prepared to treat Eddie.
• Evan used Black Sun's Wings and Copper Plague to absorb Eddie's mutations, restoring his body while damaging his Spirituality and stripping away most of his Beyonder power.
• Evan's Panel revealed that Copper Plague had refined G and Z virus strains and that Black Sun's Wings had gained Characteristics, including a Blood Quality boost for Evan.
• Eddie awoke from a vision of Evan as a radiant, godlike being and discovered that his deformities were gone, though most of his power was lost.
• Eddie knelt in gratitude and asked whether Evan was the Great Father's messenger; Evan questioned what made him think so.

After Evan cured Eddie, a surge of faith made Black Sun's Wings manifest, and Eddie mistook Evan for an Avatar of the Great Father. Evan learned that faith could help him reach a new Status, recruited Eddie to gather information in Worcester, and began planning new identities.

• Eddie explained that he had researched the Father's Hand Church as a possible way to cure Bestiality, but had avoided joining because of its reputation and his fiancée.
• Evan told Eddie that he had cured him through the Great Father's true miracle, and Eddie bowed to him in gratitude.
• Eddie's faith triggered Black Sun's Wings to spread through the cave, and he concluded that Evan was a divine Avatar.
• The Panel revealed that Black Sun's Wings craved faith and that faith from 9,999 people could grant Evan a new Status.
• Evan decided to seek believers through new identities, then ordered Eddie to keep his identity secret and monitor workers and protest leaders in Worcester.
• Eddie agreed to serve Evan and asked permission to guide other trustworthy Beyonders to him; outside, Rain and Lucky guarded bags of valuables taken from the camp.

Evan rescued Eddie from Beastification, then accompanied Rain, Lucky, and Eddie to the Alchemy School to collect their bounty and publicly threatened the Excellence Institute. Eddie returned home and reunited with his fiancée, Jane, overwhelmed with gratitude that he had survived.

• Evan emerged from the cave with Eddie restored, though Eddie could never become a Beyonder again.
• Rain, Lucky, and Eddie filed their completed task at the Alchemy School and received their bounty.
• Evan claimed he had killed James, took the three bounty payments, and warned the Excellence Institute against hiring assassins to target him again.
• Evan returned to Bolton City, while Rain and Lucky prepared to move there and Eddie went home.
• Eddie reunited with Jane, ate the cookies she had baked, and cried with relief and happiness.

Two investigators examined the destruction Evan had caused and planned to investigate him and the Witch, while Evan met Lee Dylan, who invited him to photograph a rare flower near Arkham Town. Evan agreed to consider the trip, then got Armitage’s approval to visit his Ancestor early and learned Randolph Carter wanted to meet him.

• A middle-aged investigator told White Umbrella that their organization would investigate Evan and the Witch, while Team Leader Kang and Byron studied Evan’s abilities.
• Evan returned to Bolton City and found Lee Dylan waiting at his company, recovered from his illness and seeking security for a photography trip to Arkham Town.
• Dylan invited Evan to join the trip with his students, including Miss Eldin, who was bringing only one Personal Maid.
• Evan told Richard he would consider the job and called Armitage to ask whether he could visit his Ancestor during the trip.
• Armitage approved the early visit and told Evan that Investigator Randolph Carter had wanted to meet him.

Evan prepared for an assignment with David while learning that Parker had secretly become the neighborhood’s Black Silk Hero. Aiden visited Evan in both male and female forms as Lessa Elden, then warned him that a noon ripple in Witch power had revealed a great power within him connected to the Witch.

• Evan and Richard prepared supplies, and Evan chose David to accompany him on an assignment outside the city.
• Evan heard that Black Silk Hero had beaten the thug Mike and protected children in the Dock District, and recognized the hero as Parker.
• Aiden visited Evan, transformed into a woman, and introduced herself as Lessa Elden while explaining that she could switch between sexes.
• Elden warned Evan that she had sensed a Witch-power ripple around noon and divined a great power within him connected to the Witch.

Evan learned that the Black Sun was tied to the Witch system and that Witches could offer their potion Side Effects to it, but he kept his own connection secret. He traveled with Dylan's group to Arkham Town, where a hostile local nearly caused Stanley to fall beneath the departing train.

• Elden warned Evan that Misfortune Factors surrounded him and explained the Black Sun's connection to Witches and their offering Ritual.
• Evan declined to learn the Ritual, kept Black Sun's Wings secret, and planned to discuss the matter with his Senior Sister.
• Evan prepared supplies with David, then met Dylan and the rest of the expedition at Bolton City South Station before they departed for Arkham Town.
• Evan and the group arrived at the decaying Arkham Town station, where a gaunt local spat toward Stanley and shouted at the outsiders.
• Stanley stumbled toward the moving train, but David pulled him back to safety.

Evan led Dylan, Eldin, and the others into Arkham, where they encountered grotesque locals, routine violence, and a would-be carriage robber. Randolph Carter arrived on behalf of Miskatonic University, and the police took the robbers away as Dylan reeled from the town’s dangers.

• Evan answered a local man's spit with his own, then spoke to him while he contorted on the road until the man apologized and fled.
• The group entered Arkham and heard that a nearby post office had just been robbed; a station worker said such robberies were common.
• A carriage driver tried to rob the group at gunpoint, but Evan freed Dylan, disarmed the man, and threatened him with Russian roulette.
• Randolph Carter introduced himself as Miskatonic University's representative and asked the sheriff to protect the group.
• The police beat and arrested the robbers, while Dylan realized that Arkham had already shown him more violence and strangeness than months elsewhere.

Evan arrived at Miskatonic University with Carter and discovered that its ordinary appearance concealed a bizarre campus of dangerous student activities. The chapter ended with Evan swallowing a flying Bomb to protect the grounds, then learning that outrageous rumors about him had spread throughout the university.

• Carter arranged for Dylan and his students to stay near Miskatonic University, while Eldin watched Evan and planned to judge him during their tour.
• Carter revealed that an illusory Dream concealed the university’s true face, including students brewing strange concoctions, dissecting a monster, kicking a lit Bomb, and fleeing flaming skeletons.
• When a Bomb flew toward Evan and Carter, Evan swallowed it whole and spat out the debris unharmed.
• The student leader and freshman recognized Evan from rumors about him kissing a Deep One and asked him to sign a protective Amulet.

Evan accompanied Carter to the Miskatonic University library, where Carter revealed that he was an emissary of Yog-Sothoth and would help Evan face his Ancestor. Evan met Library Dog, Armitage’s powerful Familiar, and ended the chapter licking one of the dog’s teeth as Professor Dylan and the others arrived.

• Carter introduced Evan to Sir Francis Wayland Thurston, then explained that Professor Morgan wanted to meet him and that they would collect a Magic Artifact before visiting Evan’s Ancestor.
• Carter revealed that he possessed a Silver Key, identified Evan’s key and its abilities, and said he was an emissary of Yog-Sothoth, a Higher One whose Status surpassed the God behind Evan’s Ancestor.
• At the library entrance, Library Dog intimidated Evan with Godslayer’s Fang until Carter told the dog that Evan was Armitage’s Disciple.
• Carter explained that Library Dog had killed a newly incarnated Divine Child and left Evan to get acquainted with the dog while he went inside for a book.
• Evan petted Library Dog, then secretly licked one of its teeth; Professor Dylan, Eldin, and the others arrived and saw Evan and the dog licking each other.

Evan gained a powerful new virus after licking Library Dog’s teeth, then Carter used his Silver Key to fetch gift boxes before escorting him to visit a Higher One. The chapter ended with Evan staring in disbelief at the Higher One’s dilapidated home.

• Evan’s licking of Library Dog’s teeth shocked Winston, Dylan, Eldin, and the others, while Carter found the dog affectionately rubbing against Evan.
• Evan’s Attribute Panel revealed that Copper Plague had evolved Rabies Virus into Rabid Divine Carbuncle, a virus that infected humanoid Beyonder beings and caused loss of bodily control and bestial pustules.
• Carter used his Silver Key to travel through the Dreamlands to New Township and return with gift boxes, then warned Evan that cultists sought the nine keys.
• Evan prepared a gift box with Magic Potions, and Carter praised his strength, caution, and spatial Beyonder Characteristics.
• Carter led Evan through Arkham to a decaying wooden house, which he identified as the home of a Higher One.

Evan and Carter confronted Kaisha Mason over her threats, and Carter pressured her into agreeing to stop harming Evan if he dealt with a blasphemous faction at the Excellence Institute. After the bargain, Carter explained that a Contract with a God could sever Evan’s Bloodline bond with Mason, leaving Evan with a dangerous task to complete.

• Evan and Carter entered Kaisha Mason’s warped attic, where Mason accepted Evan’s potions and declared that she would not eat him yet.
• Carter confronted Mason about her Bloodline claim on Evan and threatened to use a divine Contract to break their bond.
• Mason agreed not to threaten or harm Evan if he eliminated the Excellence Institute faction that had profaned the Dark God’s power, sparing its Fanatic Lord.
• Evan agreed to target the faction’s forty-six members, and Carter and Mason signed an agreement on behalf of Miskatonic University.
• After Evan and Carter left, Mason told Brown Jenkins she wanted to see what Evan could do and prepared to punish the blasphemers.
• Back at Miskatonic University, Carter explained that signing a Contract in a special book could reshape Evan’s spirituality and sever his bond with Mason.

Carter explained the dangers of the occult world to Evan and brought him to meet Professor Morgan, who assigned Evan and Eldin to stop a trafficking ritual in the Dreamlands. The chapter ended with Morgan revealing Evan’s credentials to Eldin, including that he was Doctor Armitage’s final Disciple, which surprised her.

• Carter warned Evan that ignorance was dangerous for Beyonders and explained that his Ancestor would spare him as long as he proved his worth.
• Evan and Carter returned to campus, where students greeted Evan as a celebrated Senior and shared their unusual romantic ambitions.
• Carter took Evan to Professor Morgan’s alchemy workshop, where Morgan gave him a Magic Potion and assigned him to investigate the Thirteen White Moons with Eldin.
• Morgan explained that the trafficking group planned to sacrifice captives in the Dreamlands and steal the Moon Lord’s power for Moon Beasts and Utah’s Capitalists.
• Morgan introduced Eldin as a Bloodthirsty Species and university Investigator, then revealed that Evan was Doctor Armitage’s final Disciple, astonishing Eldin.

Carter briefed Evan and Eldin on their mission to investigate Thirteen White Moons’ slave transit point and the Underground Palace near Dylas Port. After preparing, they entered the Dreamlands, where Carter left them near the Sky River and hurried away after sensing danger.

• Carter explained that Thirteen White Moons traded enslaved people to Coldlanders and was excavating an Underground Palace possibly linked to the Moon Old King.
• Carter described the dangers posed by Moon Beasts, Coldlanders, and other creatures, while Evan and Eldin prepared for the investigation.
• Evan ate an enormous meal, received a free batch of Intermediate Potions, and later saw Eldin’s appearance and aura change after sunset.
• Carter used the Silver Key to lead Evan and Eldin into the Dreamlands near the Sky River, about thirty kilometers from Dylas Port.
• Carter marked Evan and Eldin so he could rescue them if necessary, then vanished after sensing that his arrival had drawn attention.

Evan and Eldin prepared to attack a slave convoy, and Evan used a Fusion Potion to temporarily combine two of his Beyonder Characteristics. They advanced toward the camp after Eldin disabled its hidden alarms, with the Underground Palace as their main objective.

• Evan teased Eldin, then learned that the convoy had one hundred slaves and fifteen escorts, including five Beyonders.
• Evan drank a Fusion Potion, reversed its side effect, and fused the Copper Plague with the Cain Bloodthirsty Species using Black Sun's Wings.
• Evan and Eldin agreed that Evan would handle the Snake Person and Dryad while Eldin dealt with the Monk, and they made the hidden Underground Palace their objective.
• Eldin sensed and immobilized a lookout bird, then turned two rats guarding a warning Magic Array into puppets so it would not activate.

Evan and Eldin entered a hidden camp’s sensory-depriving mist, where Evan survived a Snake Person’s silver blade and Solar Holy Water and defeated him with a barrage of mental attacks. The mist faded, leaving Evan gripping the Snake Person by the neck as the camp’s other defenders remained nearby.

• Evan followed Eldin as she detected and disarmed four hidden traps by manipulating the blood of small animals.
• At the camp, a Monk, a Snake Person, and a Dryad discussed their slave-trading operation and decided to finish their work before the Hurst family found the Underground Palace.
• The Dryad sensed Evan and Eldin approaching, and the camp’s leaders prepared to attack them in the mist.
• Evan used his intuition to find a direction through the mist, but the Snake Person stabbed him through the heart and poured Solar Holy Water over him without harming him.
• The Snake Person transformed into venomous snakes and attacked Evan, who blocked them with an umbrella and overwhelmed the Snake Person’s mental defenses with repeated attacks.
• Evan regained his senses outside the mist with the Snake Person nearly crushed in his grip.

Evan and Eldin captured the guardians of a secret Underground Palace and learned that opening its gate required four Beyonder powers. As they reached the palace, Eldin explained its ties to the fifth Moon King, Grace, while Evan focused on the treasure and flattered her.

• Evan infected the Dryad and Snake Person with his viruses, killed one fleeing Apprentice, and captured the other before Eldin stopped him from killing the survivor.
• Eldin revealed that she had secured the area and used her Ruby chain to turn the captives into puppets, then explained that four Beyonder powers were needed to open the Underground Palace.
• Evan joked with Eldin about treasure and money as they descended into a chamber with a sealed gate and patterns associated with the Old Kings of the Moon.
• Eldin explained the history of the seven Moon Kings and the Old King War, identifying the palace as a former residence of Grace, the fifth Moon King.
• Evan showed little interest in Eldin's history lesson and thought about making money, so he flattered her by saying his thoughts were occupied by her beauty.

Evan and Eldin opened the True Gate in the Underground Palace, only to discover that four factions had lured them there. The factions surrounded them and attacked, but Evan pulled Eldin clear of a Master’s unseen strike, leaving the standoff escalating.

• Eldin used the Blood-Red Moon and the blood of four Beyonders to reveal the True Gate, then began a ritual invoking the Ancient Sixth King.
• A hidden voice revealed that Eldin had been baited, and four factions emerged from the shadows: the Thirteen White Moons, the Excellence Institute, the Red King Laboratory, and the Spirit Communion Society.
• The factions demanded Evan’s organs and threatened Eldin and Evan, while claiming Miskatonic University and Professor Carter could not protect them; the Red King Laboratory also suspected Evan had a Necronomicon Fragment.
• Edward of the Thirteen White Moons attacked Eldin with an invisible force, but Evan grabbed her and pulled her out of its path.
• Edward revealed that Eldin’s grandfather was badly wounded, while the Red King Laboratory leader wondered when Evan had taken a Magic Potion and Pierson realized Evan was the medicine-taking genius he had described.

Evan was separated from Eldin inside the dark, ruined region beyond the Underground Palace and fought off attacks from living vines and hidden monsters. He caught the scent of Eldin’s perfume and rushed toward the sounds of combat, fearing she was in danger.

• Eldin opened the Underground Palace door, and Evan and the pursuing Masters and Experts entered behind her.
• Evan found himself alone in a ruined palace complex filled with tangible darkness and strange white vines.
• A hidden attacker and the vines assaulted Evan, but he cut free and flew above the plant-choked streets.
• Fast-moving monsters attacked Evan in the air, so he descended beyond their territory.
• Evan heard fighting and smelled Eldin’s perfume, then called out in alarm and headed toward her.

Evan arrived at the ruined palace where Eldin was fighting two Bloodthirsty Species and attacked them with a silver sword. He killed Mary by cutting her into pieces, and the Headless Brides dragged her remains underground; the male fighter’s Mental Maggots also fell under Evan’s control or influence, leaving him stunned.

• Eldin fought a male and female Bloodthirsty Species while avoiding the Headless Brides and the black tendrils beneath the ruins.
• Evan arrived, and Eldin asked him to kill the two enemies and deal with the Curse for a thousand U.S. Dollars.
• Evan used a silver longsword to cut off Mary’s head and then dismembered her, suppressing her ability to heal.
• The Headless Brides’ fleshy mouths devoured Mary’s pieces and dragged them underground as Tom cried out for her.
• Tom sent Mental Maggots after Evan, but they lost control and fell from him before the Headless Brides pulled them underground.

Evan infected a fleeing Bloodthirsty Species with a deadly virus while Eldin performed a ritual to free the ghosts bound beneath the palace. They escaped the awakened monster, but Evan did not understand Eldin’s cryptic explanation of what it was.

• Evan injected a fleeing male Bloodthirsty Species with Mist Brain Plague carrying the Rabid Divine Carbuncle Calamity Pathogen, and the infection killed him after his attempts to resist failed.
• Eldin completed a blood rune and hurled its energized stone slab into the opening where the tentacles emerged, shaking the palace foundations and freeing the ghosts.
• Eldin destroyed the headless ghosts with blood-red needles, and their grateful spirits entered her moon-shaped compact.
• Eldin grabbed Evan and fled as a vast mass of corrupt flesh burst from beneath the palace and pursued them.
• After escaping the monster’s territory, Evan asked Eldin to explain plainly, revealing that he had not understood her cryptic words.

Eldin explained how the Holy Grail Church became the Healing Church and revealed the identities and abilities of the four Masters hunting them. As Evan and Eldin planned how to escape the chapel, Lee Chuck and a group arrived.

• Eldin told Evan that the Holy Sword Execution Squad descended from the faction responsible for the massacre at the fortress.
• Eldin explained that four seals and their corresponding Array Eyes were needed to reverse the Magic Array and escape.
• Eldin described the abilities of Edward, Charlie Alcott, Lee Chuck, and Winters Russell, while Evan considered how to fight them.
• Evan confidently told Eldin he could kill the Masters if he separated them, then joked that their valuables would make him rich.
• Lee Chuck and a group emerged from the darkness and entered the chapel.