Recaps

Evan bought Self-Importance Potions and spent a week avoiding trouble while strengthening his attributes through regular potions and reversals. As Bolton City’s plague crisis worsened, he reached positive Silver and Electrical Resistance, raised his Self-Awareness to 60%, and discovered that sunlight could slightly ease his hunger.

• Evan and Hill investigated repeated green flags on chimneys, then Hill told him about the Self-Importance Potion and its permanent Self-Awareness increase.
• Evan bought three Self-Importance Potions from Bill, reversed the side effects of several substances, and gained permanent Self-Awareness and Endurance.
• Evan kept to a quiet routine for a week, while Pierson reported finding an enemy connected to the missing Y Virus Parasite and promised Evan a complete parasite.
• Bolton City quarantined Poke Street as the skin-ulcerating plague spread, while the Healing Church distributed Copper Pills and the city grew tense.
• Evan reviewed his improved attributes and found that his Silver and Electrical Resistance had risen above zero and his Self-Awareness had reached 60%.
• Evan discovered that sunlight now supplied a small amount of energy and eased his hunger.

Evan recovered from his three afflictions and returned to his usual work, where he realized that plant pathogens could help him counter Dryads. After consuming infected wood and soil, he refined the Copper Plague into a cluster containing Dutch Elm Disease, Root Rot Phytophthora, and Armillaria.

• Evan discovered that his three afflictions had reached zero, counted his remaining money, and visited Professor Byron, who paid him to take a week off before the final drug trial.
• Evan met Morales at the Medical School and accompanied Mr. Dylan, whose tuberculosis had improved after Evan secretly used the Copper Plague against it.
• Mr. Dylan showed Evan a diseased elm and explained several plant diseases, prompting Evan to consider using plant pathogens against Dryads.
• Evan chewed an infected elm branch and received confirmation that the Copper Plague had devoured Dutch Elm Disease.
• Evan ate soil from the hospital grounds and refined the Plague Cluster by devouring Root Rot Phytophthora and Armillaria.

Evan prepared to ambush Mairon at an abandoned chemical plant, where Mairon planned to capture Bane and steal his potion research. As Evan and Mairon approached from opposite sides, a mysterious woman in a black cloak watched the factory too.

• Evan collected several plant pathogens and planned to use them against the dryads.
• Pierson told Evan that Mairon had stolen his research and arranged for Evan to attack him at the abandoned factory.
• Evan bought potion ingredients, brewed supplies, ate to build up energy, and took a Night Demon Potion before setting out.
• Mairon led Pierson to the factory, intending to capture Bane and seize the Potion Formulas left by Pulis.
• Bane failed another attempt to brew the Black Sun Potion, unaware that danger was closing in.
• Evan watched Mairon and Pierson approach from one hill while a mysterious woman in a black cloak watched from the opposite hill.

Evan infiltrated the factory, where Mairon tortured Bane for Pulis Batrus’s Potion Formulas. Evan resisted Mairon’s spores and killed him with tree-targeting pathogens, then gathered the Mutated Root Spores as Bane watched in shock.

• Mairon entered the factory and ordered Pierson to stand guard while Pierson secretly sensed Evan approaching.
• Evan knocked Pierson unconscious and rushed into the workshop as Mairon trapped Bane with Spikes and demanded Pulis Batrus’s Potion Formulas.
• Evan attacked Mairon, who used ironized wood, Mutated Root Spores, and a Soul-Sleeping Melody against him.
• Mist Brain Plague blocked Mairon’s spores and melody, allowing Evan to strike while Copper Plague Bullet pathogens rotted Mairon’s body from within.
• Evan killed Mairon and collected the remaining Mutated Root Spores, raising Mist Brain Plague’s progress by 6.3%.

After killing Mairon, Evan confronted Eldin, who revealed that she was a powerful member of the Bloodthirsty Species as well as a Knight. Eldin proposed an alliance against the Sapp Group and appealed to Evan for help with her plan to escape her family, leaving them on the verge of a first collaboration.

• Evan took the Beyonder Characteristic from Mairon's corpse and prepared to kill the witness Bane, but Eldin arrived and put Bane to sleep.
• Eldin caught Evan's punch, revealed her identity, and explained that she held both the Knight and Bloodthirsty Species Professions.
• Eldin gave Evan a drop of Bane's blood, revealing an incomplete Black Sun Potion recipe and memories of experiments, and warned him that blood could carry information and serve as a weapon.
• Eldin said the Hurst family opposed the Sapp Group and asked Evan to help her pursue Empress Cain as an escape route; Evan demanded money as proof of her sincerity.
• Evan removed the poison from Bane, collected some Magic Potion waste to take away, and dragged Mairon's body out.

Evan killed Mairon, consumed his complete Y Virus Parasite, and advanced Mist Brain Plague to its Second Stage, gaining a mental influence ability at the cost of Physique and Self-Awareness. After making plans to take the Dryad Beyonder Characteristic to Doctor Armitage, he brought potion residue to school and asked Professor Mons for leave.

• Evan gave Pierson Mairon's corpse and Magic Artifacts, then helped him extract and sedate the complete Y Virus Parasite with his blood.
• Evan ate the parasite, raising Mist Brain Plague by 14% to 70.3%, and hid Mairon's Beyonder Characteristic in his Delicate Wallet.
• At home, Evan activated Mist Brain Plague's Second Stage and discovered he could infuse words with mist to cloud another person's thoughts.
• Evan planned to visit Doctor Armitage in New Haven and sketched out devices for carrying and injecting Magic Potions.
• Evan ate failed Black Sun Potion residue, then woke to find the Night Demon Potion's reversed Side Effect had permanently improved his Blood Quality and Regeneration.
• Evan packed potion residue and his remaining potion, went to school, and asked Professor Mons for leave.

Evan obtained leave to travel to New Haven and brought the Dryad's Beyonder Characteristic to Doctor Armitage, reporting his recent conflict with Red King Laboratory. Armitage explained the Dreamlands, legendary creatures, and how slowly mastering Beyonder Characteristics could limit their side effects, leaving Evan to realize he had advanced far more recklessly than other Beyonders.

• Evan showed the Director of Education his Advanced Detective credentials and Investigation License, securing urgent leave to investigate a case in New Haven.
• Evan took the Train to New Haven and visited Doctor Armitage, giving him the Dryad's Beyonder Characteristic and recounting the dangers he had faced in Bolton City.
• Armitage agreed that Ghouls and Red King Laboratory were likely working together on a Sacrifice, and explained that many legendary creatures had been driven into the Dreamlands while some remained by changing their faith.
• Armitage warned Evan that something major was approaching in Bolton City and advised him to stay safe or seek shelter in New Haven.
• Armitage explained that Beyonders could master Characteristics gradually to reduce their drawbacks, and that Masters could eliminate one Side Effect after fusing three Characteristics.
• Evan realized that his rapid consumption and activation of Beyonder Characteristics made him unusually reckless compared with the other Beyonders he knew.

Armitage taught Evan how potions could be used in rituals and how alchemy could produce useful ointments, while explaining why Evan’s idea of coating a sword with poison had practical difficulties. After Evan left, Miller told Armitage that the Bone Revival Faction was behind the trouble in Bolton City and that the Healing Church had sent the Holy Sword Execution Squad to eliminate them.

• Armitage explained Beyonder Characteristics, Profession limits, and why Evan had to keep pressing forward despite his unusual situation.
• Armitage taught Evan that high-grade pathway potions could improve sacrifices and that alchemy could produce ointments, Monster camouflage, and bait.
• Evan proposed using toxic ointment on a sword, and Armitage warned that Monster toxins faded quickly and ointment would be flung off during a swing.
• Armitage gave Evan detailed instructions on making ointments, then took him to dinner and promised to transfer money after dealing with a Beyonder Characteristic.
• Miller told Armitage that the Bone Revival Faction was causing trouble in Bolton City and that the Healing Church had deployed the Holy Sword Execution Squad to wipe it out.

Evan advanced Black Sun's Wings by consuming residue and brewing an Incomplete Black Sun Potion, while Richard prepared to protect Hill as she deciphered the Ciphertext. Hill became an expert, but Martin and Chariot attacked them in the library, leaving Richard transformed and facing a Giant Ghoul.

• Doctor Armitage and Miller discussed the Ghouls and suspected Sapp had helped them in pursuit of immortality.
• Evan bought Lumen Cores and Blood Potion ingredients at the Tavern, then learned from Richard that Hill was close to becoming an expert.
• Richard invited Evan to celebrate Christmas with him and their friends, and Evan accepted.
• Evan brewed an Incomplete Black Sun Potion, raised Black Sun's Wings to 21%, and used Blood Potions to rebuild his Physique.
• Hill finished deciphering the Ciphertext and became an expert while Richard guarded her during the twelve-hour Spirituality Shock Period.
• Martin and Chariot arrived with brass-skinned puppets, demanded Hill's knowledge and their blood, and attacked after Richard drank a Dragon Blood Potion; Chariot transformed into a Giant Ghoul.

Richard fought Martin’s group in the library, but Chariot froze him and they carried him away after Hill escaped. Meanwhile, Evan unlocked Black Sun’s Wings, discovered his wings were enormous feathered hands, and tested his new ability to fly.

• Richard used his seals to fight Chariot and Martin’s Copper Corpses, but Chariot’s freezing breath exposed his weakness to cold.
• Hill forced Chariot to kneel, and Richard hurled Hill through a window so she could teleport away.
• Chariot froze Richard unconscious, and Martin’s group carried him off before the guards arrived.
• Evan reversed another Black Sun Potion’s side effects, then activated the first stage of Black Sun’s Wings despite its increased energy consumption.
• Evan developed black-feathered hand-wings, flew from Gooding Street to the Western Hills, and reached a top speed of about fifty kilometers per hour.

Evan tested his new flight, rescued Hill from two Ghoul experts, and learned about the Bone Revival Faction before bringing her home. As Hill recovered without telling him Richard had been captured, Evan reversed the Daylight Potion’s side effect and gained the Monster Hunter and Night Demon statuses, which Black Sun’s Wings then wanted to claim.

• Evan discovered he could fly in his winged form without flapping, reached a height of about three hundred meters, and learned that flying rapidly consumed his energy.
• Evan rescued Hill from Martin and Chariot, but Gust and Nock intervened and drove the two Bone Revival Faction Ghouls away.
• Gust explained the Bone Revival Faction’s campaign to increase Ghouls’ place in human society, while privately suspecting Evan had received a god’s blessing.
• Evan took Hill to his apartment, where she asked him to stay beside her and hid that Richard had been captured so she could recover before acting.
• Evan reviewed his improved attributes and saw that the Daylight Potion’s side effect had reversed, granting him the Monster Hunter status against monsters and the Night Demon status at night.
• Black Sun’s Wings expressed a desire to obtain the Night Demon status, and Evan agreed to let it take the status.

Evan learned that Hill had become an expert and discovered that Richard had been kidnapped by Ghouls from the Bone Revival Faction. He and Erlong went to question Leto about the Ghouls, and Leto denied involvement before Evan asked why a Boundary Ghoul had come to his funeral company.

• Evan gained a Physique and Spirit boost from devouring the Night Demon state, then ate breakfast with Hill after she woke from her breakthrough.
• Hill told Evan that two Ghoul experts had attacked them, frozen Richard, and taken him for his blood.
• Evan gave Hill the Amulet of Four Blessings and brought her to David and Erlong so they could prepare to rescue Richard.
• Evan and Erlong traveled to Leto Funeral Company to investigate the Bone Revival Faction and Richard's whereabouts.
• Leto denied any involvement in Richard's kidnapping, and Evan asked why a Boundary Ghoul had come to Leto's place before.

Evan used his new Invited Expert authority to secure Leto’s cooperation and followed a ritual clue to identify Puke Canning Factory as the likely hideout of the Ghouls who abducted Richard. He arranged support from Vic while Hill returned to David’s workshop, and the chapter ended with an operation planned within ninety minutes.

• Evan showed Leto and his wife his Special Operations Team armband, and Leto gave him Martin’s letter as a lead to the Ghouls.
• Erlong performed a Spirit Communication ritual, but interference limited the clue to the word “Cans.”
• Evan connected the clue to Puke Canning Factory, where Morales’s father had traced illnesses to canned food.
• Evan sent Erlong to David’s workshop and went to the Police Station to arrange support from Vic.
• Vic agreed to back the operation and warned Evan that the Healing Church’s Holy Sword Execution Squad was pursuing the Ghouls and their evidence.
• Evan named Puke Canning Factory as the target and told Vic the operation would begin within an hour and a half.

Evan, Hill, David, and Erlong prepared for a raid and fought their way into the Ghoul lair beneath the Puke Canning Factory. They reached a vast chamber at the boundary between the Material World and the Dreamlands, where Erlong discovered the Ghouls had carved out a Neutral Zone.

• Vic mobilized the Judges' Faction and summoned Gray and Senior Inspector Blakes after Evan shared his plan.
• Evan joined Hill, David, and Erlong at David's workshop, where they reviewed Ghoul dangers and equipped themselves with armor, weapons, and Magic Potions.
• The group reached the Puke Canning Factory, confirmed that many Ghouls lurked beneath it, and drove the workers out with Erlong's chilling wind.
• Evan led the others through the basement, broke traps with his Copperized arm, and killed several Ghouls as they descended into the lair.
• The group entered an enormous chamber where Erlong identified the boundary between the Material World and the Dreamlands and discovered the Ghouls' Neutral Zone.

Evan, Hill, and David fought through Martin’s Dreamlands Ritual Ground to rescue Richard, but a Giant Ghoul named Chariot overwhelmed Evan and shrugged off his plague attack. Evan recovered and defiantly prepared to face the monster, insisting that nothing was his natural enemy.

• Evan and his companions found Richard hanging over a basin on Martin’s High Platform, surrounded by Ghouls and Copper Corpses.
• Hill sent Erlong back to keep the passage open while Evan, David, and Hill fought off the monsters around them.
• Martin struck Evan with an unseen attack, but Evan healed and used an Insight Potion to reveal the Giant Ghoul Chariot.
• Evan’s Copperized arm shattered when he blocked Chariot’s claw, and his Plague Cluster had no effect on the monster.
• Martin claimed the Giant Ghoul was Evan’s natural enemy and said his abilities had been thoroughly investigated.
• Evan laughed off Martin’s taunts and declared that he had no natural enemy.

Evan used four Magic Potions to power through his fight with the Giant Ghoul and kill it, while Martin attacked Hill and the others with the Ritual Ground’s bone spikes. After Martin’s Sonic Attack knocked Evan back, Evan grew twisted wings, seized Martin by the throat, and left his fate unresolved.

• Evan consumed and absorbed four Magic Potions, gaining immense strength and rapid healing as his body transformed into a beastlike form.
• Evan fought the Giant Ghoul in a brutal exchange, healing from its attacks while steadily breaking its shell.
• Martin activated his Expert Level Characteristic, causing corpses and the Ritual Ground to erupt with bone and metal spikes that wounded David and attacked Hill and Evan.
• Hill tried to bind and kill Martin, but an unseen Ghoul’s eerie melody disrupted her until the Amulet of Four Blessings helped her recover and escape.
• Evan tore off the Giant Ghoul’s head, then charged Martin, who pinned him with spikes and struck him with a Sonic Attack.
• Evan recovered with twisted wings, grabbed Martin by the throat, and left Martin crying for help.

Evan killed Martin, rescued the captive Demon Hunters, and captured a Ghoul Wizard before escaping the unstable pocket space. As the group fled the building, a Master's attack struck Evan, and Martin's bone chain caught him in the shadows.

• Evan killed Martin, rescued Richard, and used the Mist Brain Plague to protect Hill from the black fog.
• Evan infected the hidden Ghoul Wizard with a nonsensical question, captured it, and used the Silver Key to learn secrets about the Descent of the God-Child.
• Evan and the others escaped the unstable pocket space with the rescued Demon Hunters and the unconscious Ghoul Wizard.
• A Master's attack struck as the group fled, but Evan healed his chest wound and pushed the others clear.
• A chain made of human bones caught Evan by the ankle in the building's shadow, and he recognized Martin's skull on it.

Evan was trapped in Martin’s Revenge Curse and faced a Master Level Ghoul in the collapsing Ritual Ground. After surviving repeated attacks, he wounded the Ghoul with his toxic blood, forcing it to retreat.

• The Revenge Curse dragged Evan back into the Ritual Ground while Vic and Gray entered to rescue him.
• The Master Level Ghoul repeatedly smashed Evan apart, but Evan’s Endurance and rapid healing kept him alive.
• Evan taunted the Ghoul to buy time and provoke it into revealing its true form.
• Evan hurled his toxic blood into the Ghoul’s face, causing half of it to rot and forcing it back behind the boundary.

Evan escaped the Master Level Ghoul with Vic’s help, while a clash between the Special Operations Team and the United Merchants’ Association ended when Judge Vincent took control. After the group left the factory with commendations and a new Magic Artifact, Vic revealed that the Ghoul had once been a financier involved in a case from ten years ago.

• Evan used the ghoul’s blood to break the Revenge Curse, and Vic and Gray arrived as Klaus fled from a disturbance behind the veil.
• Vic got Evan out of the factory before the Holy Sword Execution Squad arrived, and Evan reunited with Hill, David, and Erlong outside.
• Blakes and Walsh Ronald fought over jurisdiction until Judge Vincent silenced both sides and ordered a joint investigation of the factory.
• The group left with the injured Demon Hunters for Clocktower Hospital, and Evan secretly removed their toxins and Bone Marrow Parasites.
• Evan reflected on the Shadow Cloak and his gains from the mission before Vic told him Klaus had been a 65-year-old financier ten years earlier.

Vic revealed that Klaus had sacrificed his Family to become a Ghoul, and Evan declined to commit to helping capture him. The group brought the wounded to Clocktower Hospital, where Blood Healing revived them, then left Richard and the others in recovery while Evan, Hill, and David went to dinner.

• Vic told Evan that Klaus had sacrificed all 120 members of his Family to become a Ghoul and warned that the Plague outbreak and other Ghoul sources remained unresolved.
• Evan said he needed time to consider working with Vic and agreed to keep the encounter with Klaus secret from his fellow disciples.
• The convoy took Richard and the two Demon Hunters to Clocktower Hospital, where Sister Mary treated them with Gentle Blood.
• Richard and the other patients awoke after their transfusions, and Vic's team questioned them and Evan's companions about the incident.
• Erlong stayed behind to watch the patients while Evan, Hill, and David went to dinner, where Evan ate far more than David expected.

Evan identified and tested the Shadow Spirit-Eating Cloak, then let the Mist Brain Plague consume the Ghost King's Blessing, triggering a dangerous mutation that put him to sleep. In the Dreamlands, Klaus concealed Evan’s abilities from Sapp while reporting that the Christmas Potion was nearly complete.

• Evan fed the Shadow Spirit-Eating Cloak a piece of Copper Patina and discovered it could make him invisible when it covered at least sixty percent of his body.
• Evan identified the Bone Walnut as the Ghost King's Blessing, swallowed it, and agreed to let the Mist Brain Plague devour it.
• The Mist Brain Plague consumed the Ghost King's Blessing, began an unpredictable mutation, and fell asleep for an estimated twelve hours, leaving Evan without its Characteristics.
• Evan felt an extreme surge in Self-Awareness and forced himself to sleep before examining the Ghoul Wizard's memories.
• Klaus told Sapp that the Christmas Potion was nearly complete and that it would allow the Son of God to be born.
• Klaus misled Sapp about Evan, claiming his strength came from Magic Potions while concealing Evan's wings and extraordinary Physique.

Klaus planned to capture Evan and use his blood to become a Higher One, while Evan unlocked the full Mist Brain Plague at the cost of severe physical and mental weakness. At breakfast, Evan learned that dozens of Gooding Street residents were taking Copper Pills and that Aubly’s memory was already deteriorating.

• Sapp left the Dreamlands after Klaus assured him that the plan remained on schedule, and Klaus vowed to capture Evan and absorb the Bone Saint Child.
• Evan woke with Copper Patina covering part of his head and neck, checked his potion reversals, and found Mist Brain Plague had reached 100.4%.
• Evan activated Mist Brain Plague’s final effect, gaining the ability to manipulate the mist and infect attackers while losing six Physique points and all of his remaining Self-Awareness.
• Evan went to Bee Diner for breakfast and heard workers discuss an attack on Bolton City's Public Library.
• Evan asked Aubly about Copper Pills and learned that forty or fifty Gooding Street residents took them, while Aubly’s pain had eased but his memory had begun to worsen.

Evan advised Hain Street’s workers to stop taking Copper Pills once their pain became bearable, then planned his advancement and accepted Professor Byron’s offer to test potions in exchange for a shortcut to becoming a Master. The chapter ended with Byron giving Evan a Fusion Potion and having him drink complete versions of two potions.

• Evan told Aubly and the others to take Copper Pills only when their pain returned, explaining that the pills dulled pain permanently and harmed memory.
• Evan decided to seek Doctor Armitage’s help and use Vic’s Office to endure the Spirituality Shock Period when he advanced.
• Professor Byron offered Evan a well-paid, confidential seven-day potion-testing project at Pleiko Sanatorium and promised to teach him a shortcut to becoming a Master.
• Byron explained that Demon Hunters fused their Beyonder Characteristics in the Dreamlands and offered Evan a Fusion Potion to help him begin.
• Evan accepted the potion and agreed to cooperate with Byron, who then gave him complete versions of the Anti-Moon Potion and the Eclipse Potion to drink.

Evan discovered that the Eclipse Potion and Anti-Moon Potion could raise his moon and solar affinity under different conditions, then met Lane and visited the recovering Richard and the Demon Hunters he had rescued. Meanwhile, the Special Operations Team’s interrogation of the Ghoul Wizard failed, and Vic decided to focus on Arkham.

• Evan took the Eclipse Potion and Anti-Moon Potion, reversing their side effects and discovering their conditional affinity boosts; he realized the Anti-Moon Potion might help Bloodthirsty Species resist sunlight.
• Byron paid Evan and arranged to meet him again in thirty hours, while Evan admired Byron’s research and spoke with Lane about Ghoul control and the Church’s planned operation with the Special Operations Team.
• Allen Salk revealed that a Higher One’s shadow hidden in the Ghoul Wizard’s memories had destroyed them and injured his spirituality, so Vic suspected Klaus and turned his attention to Arkham.
• Evan visited Richard at Clocktower Hospital, where Richard introduced him to the siblings Rain and Lucky, the Demon Hunters Evan had rescued.
• Rain and Lucky told Evan that work had dried up for their aquatic-specialist branch, so they had joined the Alchemy School as potion test subjects before Ghouls captured them.

Evan traveled to Doctor Armitage’s museum to advance from Apprentice to Expert under his protection. As Evan began the breakthrough, he suppressed the forces attacking his Beyonder Characteristics and appeared on the verge of becoming an Expert.

• Evan bought potion ingredients, brewed potions, and raised his Spirit Vision to nine while waiting to examine the Ghoul Wizard’s memories until he became an Expert.
• Evan and his allies received rewards and temporary investigative authority after Richard’s group defeated the Ghouls, then launched a campaign against Ghoul activity.
• Evan told his friends he planned to advance in New Haven under Doctor Armitage’s protection because Klaus had targeted him.
• Evan reached Armitage’s museum, received payment for the Dryad Beyonder Characteristic, and asked the doctor to protect him during his advancement.
• In Armitage’s Meditation Room, Evan began the breakthrough and used his mental strength and Toxic Blood to subdue his three Beyonder Characteristics as outside forces tried to seize them.