Recaps

Evan and his allies were trapped inside the sealed Deep Sea array, but Duma seized the chance to attack Evan after the Devouring Lord died. Evan revealed his Life Garden Domain and killed Duma, leaving the allies to wait for the array to open.

• Greenfire explained that the Deep Sea reinforcement Magic Array sealed the area for ten hours, preventing anyone from returning to the Real World.
• After the Devouring Lord died, the black shadow vanished, revealing Dan Tie fighting Duma and Yit while Rudolf remained nearby.
• Duma rushed toward the weakened Evan and sent three specters to attack him from different directions.
• Evan summoned Byron and Greenfire to block the specters, then used his Blood Moon Spirit form to break Duma's Bone Spike weapon.
• Evan drew Duma into the Life Garden Domain, where the domain's rules immobilized him and a giant dog swallowed him, killing him.

Evan and his allies defeated Duma and Yit, then reunited with Rudolf and Dan Tie. The Deep Ones arrived with Evan’s former classmates as hostages and demanded he surrender, but Evan attacked, leaving the groups charging into battle.

• Evan killed Duma in his Blood Moon Spirit form, and Dan Tie defeated Yit after Yit tried to escape the Dreamlands.
• Rudolf used his solar aura to restore Dan Tie’s armor and calm him, then greeted Evan and explained that the Deep Ones had brought them to the area.
• A vast shadow appeared beneath the Deep Sea as over a hundred Deep Ones arrived with three Priests and forty-nine of Evan’s former classmates, including Rain, Morris, and Saddam.
• Priest Graeme called Evan a suitable sacrifice and threatened to kill the students unless Evan surrendered.
• Evan refused Graeme’s demand and charged the Deep Ones, while Byron, Greenfire, Rudolf, and Dan Tie joined the attack.

Evan and his allies defeated Priest Graeme and the Deep Ones, but Graeme’s ritual continued after his death and summoned a vast presence from the sea. Morales secretly opened the Amulets, allowing Evan’s scattered body parts to return and restore him to overwhelming strength.

• Evan, Dan Tie, Rudolf, Byron, and Greenfire fought Graeme’s Deep Ones, and Dan Tie’s lightning helped wipe out most of their forces.
• Graeme tore out his organs to summon a Higher One-class sea monster, but Dan Tie struck him down before the ritual could be stopped.
• The ritual continued after Graeme’s death, drawing Spirituality from the dead Deep Ones and the forty-nine students as enormous shadows approached through the sea.
• Evan noticed Morales acting strangely, while Byron and Greenfire argued over the missing key needed to undo the seal on the Amulets.
• Morales secretly opened the students’ Amulets after Evan drew everyone’s attention, and Evan called on the sun as his scattered body parts descended like meteors.
• Evan’s flesh rejoined his soul, restoring his body and unleashing an aura far beyond that of an ordinary Master.

Evan completed his transformation into a Master, reunited with his flesh, and removed a debilitating side effect. As the group escaped the collapsing Dreamlands ritual, Evan and Byron glimpsed signs that Cthulhu was awakening, leaving everyone in fear of what would come next.

• Evan's reunited soul and flesh completed his transition to a Master, and he removed the advanced weight of burden side effect from black sun's wings.
• The collapsing magic array let Evan sense the boundary with the Real World, and Byron urged everyone to escape the Dreamlands.
• Priest Graeme announced that the stars were aligning and that the Deep Ones' Heavenly Father was about to awaken.
• Evan and Byron saw a rust-red planet and an immense shadow over a blue planet as they crossed between worlds.
• Byron nearly lost control after returning to the underground laboratory, but Greenfire suppressed his bestiality with green flames.
• Evan stroked his orange cat and told Greenfire that the stars were aligning and Cthulhu was showing signs of awakening.

After becoming a Master, Evan leaves the underground laboratory and helps complete the seven-day experiment program, while Byron and Greenfire accept his conditions. The group returns to Bolton City, where Evan celebrates being able to eat normally and finally arriving home.

• Evan realizes he can say Cthulhu’s name now that his status has risen, then warns Byron and Greenfire to keep their experiments within limits.
• Freem tells Evan that Morales helped erase the students’ memories and asks him to transport two Deep Ones’ bodies to Miskatonic University.
• Evan and the students finish the seven-day program, and Byron and Greenfire focus on recovering without causing trouble.
• Evan enjoys meals at a slower pace because his appetite has fallen, then receives his medals with the group.
• Evan returns by train to Bolton City and shouts that he is back.

Evan went undercover as Marlow to investigate a members-only restaurant whose disturbing sacrament had traumatized the Special Operations agent. He reached the private dining room and discovered the members really were eating a foul brown substance, leaving him disappointed as the investigation began.

• Marlow relived the restaurant’s initiation ritual in a hospital ward, and Leon explained to Evan that the club’s spiritual contamination had left the undercover agent traumatized.
• Evan agreed to investigate, and Leon arranged for him to take Marlow’s identity while the Church records falsely listed Marlow as recovered and discharged.
• Evan reflected on his recent work with Byron and Greenfire, his failed attempt to change Sage University’s drug-testing agreements, and four sealed gaps in Byron Number Two’s memories.
• Evan traveled to Prospect Hill and entered the members-only restaurant using Marlow’s membership card and cover identity.
• Evan listened to members describe the pressures and guilty secrets that brought them to the club, then followed the group into a sealed private dining room.
• Evan saw the brown sacrament on silver plates, recognized it as excrement, and privately lamented that the restaurant was less interesting than he had hoped.

Evan infiltrated the House of Loving Kindness, posing as a spiritual medium while its members prepared to use him in a ritual. He secretly trapped and consumed the summoned corrupt evil spirit, then exposed his hidden mouth to the members as they began their feast.

• Evan swallowed the members’ Holy Meal and let two attendants escort him to the third floor, where twelve masked figures prepared a ritual.
• Evan faked unconsciousness after inhaling Psychedelic Insect Fluid, while his concealed consciousness watched the members strip and position his body over a hole in the dining table.
• The masked figures summoned a corrupt evil spirit, which entered Evan’s body and searched for his soul before being trapped in the Garden of Life and eaten by its dog-like beast.
• Evan pretended the ritual had succeeded and ate the fine food poured through a funnel into his mouth as the members prepared to consume the Holy Meal.
• Mrs. Salamanca crawled beneath the table for her portion, saw a large mouth protruding from Evan’s butt, and screamed that his butt had grown a mouth.

Evan exposed the House of Loving Kindness’s grotesque ritual, defeated its leader, and helped the Special Operations Team arrest the cultists. The contaminated guests were sent to the Healing Church Hospital, while Leon secured control of the case despite the Merchants’ Association’s objections.

• Mrs. Samanka warned the ritual guests about the mouth beneath the table, but the leader dismissed her and replaced her with Gentleman Number Two.
• The new Number One encountered the monstrous maw beneath the table, transformed into a monster, and overturned the table as the guests panicked.
• The ritual leader attacked Evan, but Evan’s maw nearly swallowed him before a bloated man rescued him and confronted Evan.
• Evan revealed his identity as the Arkham Expert from Bolton City, then used the Garden of Life to incapacitate the bloated leader.
• Evan alerted Leon, who surrounded the villa with police, arrested the cultists, and arranged for the contaminated people to be taken to the Healing Church Hospital.

Evan’s first major case in Bolton City ended with the factions arguing over the investigation and the Healing Church checking whether his grotesque growth signaled a loss of control. After Evan passed it off as animated hemorrhoids, he returned to the police station with Jack, who shared a cautionary story about his former master.

• Leon resented Vic for acquiring Evan, while Charles argued that the Merchants' Association Security Corps had a right to interrogate suspects on its turf.
• Father Oat questioned Evan about reports of a monster growing from his buttocks, and Evan claimed it was animated hemorrhoids before pulling out the mouth-bearing growth to prove it was harmless.
• Father Oat confirmed the growth contained pure spirituality, and Evan put it away while explaining that he planned to present his powers as diseases he had turned into weapons.
• The factions finished cleaning and sealing the scene by six, and Evan returned to the Police Station with Jack while Leon handled the remaining reports and interrogations.
• Jack asked Evan about his girlfriend and explained that his Master, a long-lived mage, had killed himself after his mortal lover died.

Jack warned Evan that Beyonder relationships could turn deadly as people sacrificed loved ones for advancement, then revealed he belonged to the True Self Research School and tried to recruit Evan. Evan rejected the school’s doctrine of indulging every desire and threatened to make Jack experience the pain of ignoring rules.

• Jack described cases in which Beyonders betrayed spouses and partners to gain power, including a wife who tried to consume her husband and a husband who turned his wife into a banshee and flesh puppet.
• Jack urged Evan to enjoy life and pursue his wishes instead of obsessing over advancement, then admitted he was trying to recruit Evan for the True Self Research School.
• Jack gave Evan the name and address of the school's head researcher in Bolton City.
• Evan argued that freedom required restraints and that indulging every desire would lead Beyonders to become beasts.
• Evan hooked an arm around Jack's shoulders and threatened to show him the pain of ignoring rules, leaving Jack terrified.

After completing his mission in New Haven, Evan discovered that his Master-level body and Secondary Brain had gained new abilities. When he intervened in a robbery without consciously choosing to, he realized his Spirituality had been contaminated by intrusive thoughts about heroism and duty, leaving him questioning whether Demon Hunters faced this danger after becoming Masters.

• Evan warned Jack against unchecked freedom and desires, and Jack thanked him for changing his perspective.
• Evan returned to the Special Operations Team, completed the mission paperwork, collected 260 U.S. Dollars, and set off through New Haven to visit Armitage.
• Evan reflected on how becoming a Master had strengthened the Garden of Life, his Secondary Brain, and his bond with Gold.
• Evan saw a thief steal a woman's handbag, but before he chose to intervene, intrusive thoughts drove his body to stop the youth and return the bag.
• Evan realized his Spirituality had become contaminated and wondered whether Demon Hunters absorbed dangerous concepts after advancing to Master.

Evan’s encounter with a thief and the boy’s siblings exposed how public wishes and hostility could overwhelm his spirituality. Armitage explained that Evan’s early exposure to these wishes came from his small domain, and that Demon Hunters faced a perilous path toward becoming Lords.

• Evan realized that the crowd’s conflicting wishes had taken control of his body and driven him to attack the thief.
• Three starving children tried to protect their injured brother, while passersby voiced disgust and hostility toward them.
• When police officers arrived, Evan showed his credentials, stopped them from taking the siblings, and let the children leave.
• Evan visited Armitage and described how the public’s thoughts had muddled his spirituality.
• Armitage explained that becoming a Lord required absorbing people’s wishes, and that the fear and curses directed at Demon Hunters could corrupt them.

Evan learned that the Aspiration Force of others could pollute his spirituality, and Armitage explained why social ties anchored a Beyonder’s identity. Evan proposed going out to sea to distribute wealth and explore the ocean, prompting Armitage to recall a plan called the Life Ark.

• Armitage told Evan that his reception of Aspiration Force would intensify as he grew stronger and that his current limit was about 5,000 devoted people.
• Armitage used pens to show how society anchored a Beyonder’s perception and warned that isolation could lead to paranoia and madness.
• Evan decided not to flee society but to seek positive devotion by distributing wealth, while staying far from the mainland and exploring the Sea.
• Armitage connected Evan’s idea to the threat of Cthulhu’s awakening and the need for a powerful ship to survive the coming flood.
• Armitage described the Life Ark plan: a Witch would transform her body into an ark to shelter believers on the sea and establish a realm of her own.

Evan learned about the Life Ark concept and obtained the magic book King of the Open Seas, strengthening his plan to build a flying fleet through maritime trade and experimentation. He committed to preparing for coming upheaval by gathering resources, allies, and influence.

• Evan recalled how conversations with Richard, Rain, and David had inspired him to imagine turning his Garden of Life into a mobile fortress.
• Doctor Armitage explained that the Life Ark idea was proposed 250 years earlier and gave Evan the magic book King of the Open Seas.
• Evan told Armitage that his company would provide overseas trade security while he established business connections and prepared for global change.
• Evan planned to experiment at sea with using his Beyonder characteristic to build a ship capable of flying.
• Evan resolved to gather people, factions, and resources so a future flying fleet could protect him and those around him.

Evan discussed his future plans with Doctor Armitage, then became overwhelmed by the voices and thoughts of workers protesting in the streets. After workers dragged him into an alley, a one-eyed young man rescued him and introduced himself as Fack Boy.

• Doctor Armitage warned Evan about the dangers of sea voyages and agreed to pass Evan’s list and photographs to Carter while the academy gave him time to adjust.
• Evan treated Doctor Armitage to dinner, then took a streetcar and overheard workers complaining about rising prices and planning a protest.
• A workers’ demonstration stopped the streetcar, and the crowd’s anger and thoughts began overwhelming Evan’s senses.
• Workers accused Evan of mocking them, dragged him into an alley, and tried to rob him beside the bodies of three immigrant children and the thief Evan had injured.
• A muscular, eyepatched young man drove off the would-be robbers and told Evan to call him Fack Boy.

Evan accompanied Fack Boy as he carried four dead children away from the protest-stricken neighborhood, but an Expert Level Demon Hunter and a Witch attacked them. Evan stopped the Witch with his hidden power and sent Gold after the fleeing Demon Hunter, leaving Fack Boy stunned by Evan’s strength.

• Fack Boy carried the four children’s bodies from the alley and warned Evan to stay out of the neighborhood’s trouble.
• Fack Boy explained that he was taking the bodies away, but an Expert Level Demon Hunter and a Witch confronted them and demanded he hand them over.
• The Demon Hunter blasted Fack Boy backward, and the Witch used a spell to slow him down before attacking Evan with a dagger.
• Evan caught the dagger between two fingers and made the Witch collapse with a glance.
• The Demon Hunter fled, and Evan sent Gold after him while Fack Boy realized Evan had been protecting him all along.

Gold pursued and swallowed the fleeing Demon Hunter, while Evan captured the Witch and reunited with Gold and Fack. Evan explained that mastering the Star Devourer's Oath had strengthened Gold and linked the cat’s mouth to his intestinal space, where the Demon Hunter was now trapped.

• The Demon Hunter laid Trap Signs as he fled, but Gold caught up, severed his hand and arm, and swallowed him despite his poison-gas bomb.
• Evan freed Fack from the Witch’s slowing effect, then stored the unconscious Witch behind his waist using his mysterious power.
• Fack offered to take Evan to his nearby home and assumed Gold had failed to catch the fleeing Demon Hunter.
• Evan reunited with Gold and recalled learning that Dan Tie could survive only in the Dreamlands because he belonged to the Second Era.
• After mastering the Star Devourer's Oath, Evan shared its effects with Gold, whose mouth could now send swallowed targets into Evan’s intestinal space.

Evan questioned Lisa and Camp about the Merchants' Association's exploitation of Beyonders and its control of the corpse trade in New Haven. Camp revealed the company and people behind the operation, while Evan prepared to pursue the truth.

• Evan questioned Lisa at Fack's apartment and learned that the Merchants' Association recruited indebted people, steered their Beyonder choices, and bound them to the organization.
• Fack urged Lisa to leave, but she said even Expert Level Demon Hunter Camp could not escape the Merchants' Association's control.
• Evan produced the badly injured Camp, who claimed Fack had interfered with the Merchants' Association by trying to bury children's bodies.
• Camp explained that children's corpses and souls were valued as experimental materials and that an organization had monopolized the city's corpse trade.
• Evan used his Cane, transformed into a toilet plunger, to threaten Camp until he named Biological Mercy Pharmaceutical Company, Master Level Factory Owner Pablo, and Security Team head Boss Smith.

Evan learned how Fack gained power after publicly striking Pablo’s brother, concluding that workers’ recognition had redirected golden power from the Pablo family to Fack. When Pablo confronted Evan over protecting James, Evan transformed his cane into a Chain Sword and threatened him.

• Evan learned that Fack’s friend Jack had been killed after warning Pablo’s steelworks about a dangerous furnace, and that Fack had been murdered after slapping Little Pablo in public.
• Fack said he had returned to life with greater physical abilities, and Evan concluded that the workers’ recognition had transferred golden power from the Pablo family to Fack.
• Pablo and Brother Smith arrived, and Kemp recognized Evan as the famed Master Level Demon Hunter Arkham.
• Evan told Pablo that he was protecting James because James had saved his life and become his friend.
• Pablo challenged Evan for interfering in New Haven, so Evan transformed his cane into a Chain Sword and threatened to send Pablo to Sapp’s Hell Suffering Company.

Evan rescued James from Pablo's men and brought him to Doctor Armitage for protection and further education. After Evan left New Haven, Armitage offered James a place as an Investigator at Miskatonic University.

• Pablo threatened Evan before leaving, and Smith ordered Kemp and Lisa back to the security corps.
• Evan refused to let Kemp and Lisa return, then used his powers to make them vanish after learning they had no family in New Haven.
• James thanked Evan and vowed to fight back, but Evan told him he needed to stay alive and arranged for him to continue his education.
• Evan entrusted James to Doctor Armitage, who promised to protect him from the local capitalists.
• Evan missed his train and flew back to Bolton City using the Shadow Cloak and Black Sun's Wings.
• Armitage asked James if he wanted to become an Investigator at Miskatonic University, and James eagerly agreed, thinking it meant becoming a detective.

Evan returned to Gooding Street and met with Garp, who invited him and the Wild Hunt Security Company to help protect a Hurst-led humanitarian mission traveling to South America. The chapter left Evan eager to accept the well-paid opportunity as preparations for the voyage were still underway.

• Evan returned to Gooding Street, where Kaus mistook his muddy shoes for the result of wealthy youths’ pranks and warned him against seeking their approval.
• Evan met Garp outside his building and learned that Miss Hurst had expected him to return during summer break.
• Garp explained that Senator Hurst’s charity would send four cargo ships carrying medical supplies to South America, with Sage University students volunteering on the mission.
• Garp invited Evan to accompany Miss Hurst as a dependable fellow student and said the Hurst family needed security for the long sea voyage.
• Garp told Evan that the Merchants' Association had also invited the Wild Hunt Security Company to provide security and that the pay would be worthwhile.

Evan accepted Garp’s offer to investigate a dangerous pirate band at sea, then reached 5000% Blood Toxicity and evolved his Power of the Nine Dragons into Nine Tribulations Abyss-Bearer. The new Talent let him activate Nine Dragons Tyrant Form without restrictions, convert up to nine harmful conditions into Black Abyss Fruits, and connect to the Myriad Tribulations Soul Abyss to uncover his origins.

• Garp asked Evan to scout a pirate band targeting the charity operation, offering him $1,500 to identify its leaders.
• Evan accepted and received the cover identity of Jack Heisenberg, along with a warning that William, known as Black Seagull, would contact him the next day.
• After Garp left, Evan’s Panel reported permanent attribute increases from reversing the side effects of several substances.
• Evan’s Blood Toxicity exceeded 5000%, so he secured his room and confirmed the Talent upgrade despite the violent bodily changes and hallucinations.
• Evan’s Power of the Nine Dragons evolved into Nine Tribulations Abyss-Bearer, granting new abilities and access to the Myriad Tribulations Soul Abyss.

Evan uncovered the Myriad Tribulations Soul Abyss’s origins and learned that its previous bearer knew he came from another world and expected him to break a deadlock involving the gods. After his blood toxicity was absorbed and his abilities improved, he sensed a path into the Abyss and wondered whether it was where he had transmigrated from.

• Evan read that Black Abyss Fruits condensed darkness and negative conditions, and that the power of the nine dragons could convert conditions such as curses, poison, and madness.
• Evan discovered that the Myriad Tribulations Soul Abyss was formed by someone who chose to bear the world’s malice and that contaminated dreams had transformed early humans into monsters.
• Evan learned that a Star-Treader’s arrival had made the world’s future uncertain and that the Panel’s former bearer had addressed him as a traveler from beyond this dimension, urging him to challenge the gods.
• Evan reviewed his updated attributes, saw his blood toxicity fall to zero, and gained the Nine Dragons Tyrant ability, which consumed energy at twenty times the normal rate.
• Evan sensed a new instinct leading him toward the Myriad Tribulations Soul Abyss and wondered if it was where he had transmigrated from.

Evan explored the world's deepest region and found a black sun that devoured its filth, where Griffin IV claimed the Black Sun was his destination and revealed that the Prime Mover had killed the Sun King. Evan remained wary of Griffin IV, and the chapter ended with him stunned by the revelation that the Sun King formed the black sun's golden rim.

• Evan used his instinct to pass through the Material World and Dreamlands, glimpsing East Asia as a storm-wracked shadow and reaching the depths of a vast darkness.
• Evan saw a black sun ringed with golden light devour the world's filth and suspected that bearing its burdens might be his ultimate destination.
• Evan evaded an attack from Griffin IV, an Ancient Sinner from the Third Era who recognized Evan as a candidate blessed by the Black Sun.
• Griffin IV identified Evan's Nine Dragons Tyrant form as a Sinner's Armor and said the Black Sun's Characteristic tempted the clergymen of his era.
• Griffin IV claimed that the Prime Mover killed the Sun King and made him the golden rim around the Black Sun, leaving Evan astonished.

Evan survived Griffin IV’s attempt to possess him through the memory of a bell by using his upgraded Nine Tribulations Abyss-Bearer talent to reverse and condense the memory contamination. Griffin recovered from the backlash and resolved to control Evan before two other ancient beings discovered him.

• Griffin IV warned Evan to flee as towering waves of darkness rose, then threw him a copper bell to hold them back while he escaped.
• After Evan awoke, the bell’s chimes triggered memory contamination, and Griffin used them to invade Evan’s mind and take over his body.
• Evan activated the Nine Tribulations Abyss-Bearer talent, which crushed Griffin’s invading memories and absorbed incomplete memory authority.
• Evan learned that his upgraded talent could reverse any harmful condition and that his reversal process was three times faster than before.
• Griffin recovered in a church in Britain by satisfying his desires, then decided to bring Evan under his control before two other old beings found out about him.