Chapter Summaries

Evan protected Eldin from the desecrated Corpse Remnant and its attackers, while Eldin revealed her power to wield Solar energy. As seven Sages gathered against them, Evan activated the Super-Resonance Potion to contact Carter through the Silver Keys.

• Evan shielded Eldin from the Corpse Remnant’s desecration with the Mist Brain Plague, preventing her mind from collapsing.
• A tiny armored man attacked Eldin, and Evan dodged with her before the Sage crushed Evan’s body into a lump of flesh.
• Eldin unleashed her blood and Solar powers, wounding the Sage with her sword’s white blade, then carried Evan away as he regenerated.
• Chuck, Russell, and Alcott arrived and greeted seven Sages who had been hiding in the Corpse Remnant and expected their return.
• Evan broke the Super-Resonance Potion hidden in his rectum and reversed its side effects so he could use the Silver Keys to contact Carter.

Evan used the Silver Key to contact the Starry Expanse, but the ancient monsters killed him before his strange power restored him. Carter arrived and swiftly killed one of the monsters, prompting the remaining six to unleash the Blood Moon Remnant’s crimson flood, which Carter contained behind a barrier of space.

• Evan used the Silver Key to establish contact through the Astral Configuration while Eldin defended him with Saint Martin’s helmet.
• A snake-headed monster destroyed Evan’s body and claimed to erase his Spirituality and Undying Nature, but Evan reassembled himself and revealed the Black Sun’s Wings.
• The ancient monsters recognized the Black Sun’s Characteristic and attacked Evan and Eldin, but Carter arrived and protected them with a gate of light.
• Carter dragged Chuck into a spatial rift and erased the upper body of one ancient monster before tearing apart and consuming the rest of him with strange tongues.
• The six surviving monsters detonated the Blood Moon Remnant, and Carter used the Silver Key to lock space and shield Evan and Eldin from the crimson flood.

Carter explained that six Transcenders had escaped their seal with the god-desecrating Blasphemous Plague, then left Evan and Eldin in a hidden space while he fought them. Russell and Alcott were sent after Evan, who transformed into the Nine Dragons Tyrant and began battling them as the Mist Brain Plague disrupted their attacks.

• Carter told Evan and Eldin that six deranged Transcenders had cultivated the Blasphemous Plague and could start a world-spanning war if they escaped.
• Eldin blamed herself for releasing the six, but Evan reassured her with his cheerful outlook and gave her deer blood to drink.
• Russell and Alcott emerged through spatial rifts, infected by the Blasphemous Plague, and attacked Evan while Eldin protected her eyes.
• Evan injected himself with nine Magic Potions and transformed into the Nine Dragons Tyrant, overwhelming Alcott with a punch.
• Russell restrained Evan with plant-based powers, but Evan's Mist Brain Plague confused the Formless Mind Seeds and disrupted the monsters attacking him.

Evan killed Russell with his corrosive Toxic Blood and absorbed the Blasphemous Plague, while the Garden of Life fought the infection inside him. Alcott attacked Evan’s Spirituality, but Evan remained unharmed and revealed the living, virus-filled space within his body.

• Evan punched through Russell’s divine tree barrier, destroying Russell’s head and upper body and freeing Pierson.
• Evan dissolved Russell’s remaining body with Toxic Blood, destroying his Spirituality, soul, and Beyonder Characteristic.
• Evan intercepted the Blasphemous Plague’s black threads before they reached Pierson, then let the plague enter his body.
• The Rabid Divine Carbuncle and Calamity Factor fought the Blasphemous Plague inside Evan as his vitality repaired the damage.
• Alcott restored his mutated body with the plague’s help, then attacked Evan by flooding his body with desire, Bestiality, and his own Spirituality.
• Alcott failed to damage Evan’s Spirituality, and Evan showed him the virus-filled Garden of Life within his body.

Evan’s Garden of Life devoured the Blasphemous Plague and killed Alcott, leaving Evan with a dangerous new power. After the battle, Eldin saw Evan’s transformed, monstrous form.

• The Rabid Divine Carbuncle and its virus army defeated and swallowed the Blasphemous Plague inside Evan.
• The black mist trapped Alcott, and Evan’s viruses devoured Alcott, his Desire Beast, and his Bestiality.
• The Garden of Life gained the Blasphemous Plague, whose status was Immortal, though it warned Evan that the new child might turn on him.
• Evan spat out the harmless residue of Alcott’s body and realized that both Alcott and Russell had been defeated.
• Evan let Eldin open her eyes, and she saw his powerful transformed form and recognized him by his familiar eyes.

Evan defeated the two attackers, accepted Pierson’s loyalty, and learned that Carter had killed three of the six enemies while the others escaped. The Moon Spirit appeared and gave Evan Blood Moon Corpse Remnant Hair to eat, leaving him to choose how to use it.

• Pierson swore loyalty to Evan, who asked him to guide Red King Laboratory onto a better path.
• Carter returned after killing three of the six enemies, and Evan introduced Pierson as his friend and ally.
• Evan changed back into human form, and Carter opened a portal for the group to leave.
• The Blood Moon appeared, separating Evan and Eldin from Carter and Pierson; the Moon Spirit approached Evan and gave him a lock of crimson hair.
• Evan ate the Blood Moon Corpse Remnant Hair and received two options, including one involving Black Sun’s Wings and the Garden of Life.

Evan fused a strand of the Blood Moon Remnant’s hair with the Garden of Life, strengthening it and giving his viruses fire immunity and a burning effect. After he saved Eldin from a fall in the Dreamlands, they were confronted by Coldlanders, but a mysterious force pulled Evan, Eldin, and Goldie back to Miskatonic University.

• Evan had the Garden of Life absorb the Blood Moon Remnant’s hair, making the garden sturdier and his viruses immune to fire and able to burn things.
• The Moon Spirit vanished, and Evan and Eldin returned to the daytime Dreamlands, where Evan caught Eldin and flew them safely to the ground.
• Eldin told Evan that God's Messenger had interfered with Professor Carter’s teleportation, leaving them in the wrong place.
• A band of Coldlanders tried to bewitch and capture Evan and Eldin, but Goldie’s appearance sent them fleeing.
• Evan spotted huge figures closing in through the woods as a light door appeared and an unseen force pulled him, Eldin, and Goldie away.
• Evan came to on the Sports Ground at Miskatonic University with Eldin and Goldie beside him.

After returning from the Dreamlands, Evan became the center of Miskatonic University students’ increasingly exaggerated stories about his exploits, while Eldin joined in describing their dangerous journey. The celebration ended when Professor Morgan brought them to an office, where Eldin said she could not sense where the escaped Blasphemous Plague had gone.

• Evan and Eldin returned safely from the Dreamlands with Carter, and Carter praised Evan before leaving to brief the other teachers.
• Winston and the students turned Evan’s past deeds and his trip with Carter into an embellished legend, including claims about kissing a Female Deep One, holding a bomb in his mouth, and examining Library Dog’s teeth.
• Eldin confirmed the journey had involved terrifying dangers and said Evan had repeatedly saved her, further fueling the students’ admiration.
• Evan gave the students advice about investigating boldly, and Winston and Carl interpreted his words as an inspiring lesson.
• Professor Morgan led Evan and Eldin to a meeting with Carter, Professor Thurston, and an elderly professor, where Thurston asked Eldin to locate the escaped Blasphemous Plague.
• Eldin said she could not trace the Plague because she was too weak, its connection to the Blood Moon God had faded, and the escapees had planned their concealment in advance.

Evan met Professor William Dale and learned that Miskatonic University was pursuing the wounded beings who had attacked him, while those beings found refuge with Bletchley University and vowed to destroy Miskatonic. After Parker called for help, Evan returned to Bolton City and found him badly transformed after an attack by a teleporting man and a snake-headed figure.

• Professor William Dale introduced himself as a geology professor and Lord-Class Knight, while Thurston and Carter planned to search for the attackers.
• The three wounded beings disguised themselves and were welcomed by Lapham and Bletchley University, whose leaders promised to make Miskatonic University their enemy's target.
• Evan spent two days studying supernatural subjects at Miskatonic University before Parker called from Bolton City asking for help.
• Carter opened a portal that sent Evan to the outskirts of Bolton City, and Evan hurried to Parker's concealed refuge at 771 Hain Street.
• Parker revealed that a teleporting man and a snake-headed attacker had struck him, leaving him grotesquely transformed, and said they had mentioned a Bestiality Magic Potion.

Evan rescued Parker from the Snake Person and a Mage Apprentice, cured his illness, and gave him an amulet to suppress the Money Curse. Aike revealed that Professor Byron of Sage University had hired them, but an unseen force killed Aike before he could explain further.

• Evan examined Parker, removed the virus in his body, and used a Cost Transfer Ritual to take on his Snake Venom.
• The Snake Person and a Mage Apprentice broke into the house, but Evan subdued them with his power.
• Evan discovered that Parker’s Money Curse was tied to a contract he had signed and could not remove it, so he made him an amulet to suppress it and warn him of danger.
• Evan revived the two attackers and demanded to know who had hired them; Aike identified Professor Byron of Sage University.
• Before Aike could reveal more, an invisible force burst open his belly and killed him.

Byron warned Evan about Parker’s activities and the coming plan, while Parker returned to the support of his fellow workers. Evan then received a prayer through Black Sun’s Wings and saw Pierson and Elden’s ritual reach him in the Dreamlands.

• Byron emerged from Aike’s body, praised Evan’s growth, warned him about Parker, the Excellence Institute, and the coming plan, and promised him the Fusion Potion formula afterward.
• Evan chose not to take the dead Mage’s Beyonder Characteristic and warned Parker to avoid experiments involving special drugs; Parker returned to Miley Street, where workers welcomed and respected him.
• Evan’s Attribute Panel showed that he was receiving a prayer, and Black Sun’s Wings appeared and connected his mind to a ritual offering.
• Pierson and Elden combined their knowledge and performed a Black Sun ritual, offering an Advanced Potion and a Swollen Seed through a Symmetrical Double-Ring Magic Array.
• Evan saw Pierson and Elden in the darkness, where Pierson recognized the winged figure as his great master.

Evan answered Elden and Pierson’s ritual, removed Elden’s inherited curse, and strengthened their faith with an outrageous display. After returning to his apartment, he decided to consume more curses and stage even bolder miracles to attract followers.

• Elden and Pierson recognized Evan as the God of the Negative World and offered him their devotion and gifts.
• Elden asked Evan to remove the curse fused to her soul, and Evan used the Blasphemous Plague and Blood Moon Hair to cut it away before swallowing it.
• Evan told Pierson that someone would help him proclaim divine miracles at the Red King Laboratory, then sent both followers back to the Dreamlands with orders to keep his identity secret.
• Elden confirmed that the curse had vanished without harming her and offered Pierson help through the Dusk Rose Sanatorium and the Witches’ return to the Real World.
• Back in his apartment, Evan fed the Filth Curse to the Garden of Life and decided to stage more outrageous displays to grow his following.

Evan suffered a lethal backlash while appraising a mysterious seed, then investigated a suspicious field-training project backed by Professor Byron and the Byron Group. When the project was announced for Innsmouth, Evan decided to take part and saw a chance to improve conditions for poor students.

• Evan's appraisal ritual was interrupted by the seed's power, which killed the summoned soul and sliced Evan into pieces; Golden helped him reassemble himself.
• Evan sealed the seed in a warded bottle and resolved to investigate it without relying on the Doctor.
• Lane told Evan about Professor Byron's state-approved marine field-training project, and Professor Mons nominated Evan while Morales applied through the Medical School.
• Doctor Furim reassured Evan about the project, but Gray warned him that the Byron Group's influence had left the Special Operations Team unable to intervene if anything went wrong.
• Evan read the university announcement and learned that fifty students would spend seven days collecting and studying marine materials in Innsmouth.
• Evan suspected the project concealed a dangerous plan, but decided to join it and considered how it might also help the poor students recruited for drug trials.

Evan passed Byron’s test by appearing completely controlled, earned two bottles of Fusion Potion, and learned the operation near Innsmouth would begin in three days. Later, Saddam told Evan that a laboratory goat had violated him, leaving Evan stunned as Saddam began to explain what happened.

• Evan returned to class with Morales and learned that students were being screened for an operation near Innsmouth.
• Evan feigned helplessness while Byron tested him with the Black Sun emblem and took control of his body; Byron believed Evan was under the emblem’s influence and gave him two Fusion Potions.
• Evan told Byron that a Witch had rescued him in the Dreamlands, and Byron said the operation would begin in three days at a site north of Innsmouth.
• Evan rode to the Medical School with Morales, pleased that Byron had been fooled, then finished his afternoon experiments.
• Saddam privately asked Evan for help and said that a laboratory goat had violated him while he slept.

Evan investigated Saddam’s report of a dangerous, magical goat and captured it with the Star-Driller's Maw before it could hurt anyone. The trapped creature, Jem, realized he was at the mercy of a bizarre Beyonder and feared that Beyonders in this era were all freaks.

• Saddam recalled that his research group had drunk supposed Antique-Grade Rum during a party, after which strange sounds and the goat’s behavior began.
• Evan accompanied Saddam to the medical students’ dorm and learned that the goat could speak, control water, and threaten Saddam at night.
• The goat turned into a torrent of water and attacked Evan, who sucked it into the Star-Driller's Maw without harming Saddam or the animals.
• Evan reassured Saddam, checked the property for other Beyonder activity, and left for Gooding Street with the creature trapped in his Storage Space.
• Jem, the former Wizard Apprentice trapped inside Evan, exhausted his Spirituality and reverted to goat form before pleading for mercy.
• Evan demanded that Jem give him another ten minutes of massage, leaving Jem appalled by the Beyonders of this era.

Evan questioned Jem about his past and learned that the soul wizard had encountered R’lyeh centuries ago, where strange collective beliefs warped his soul and body. Jem produced a Sea God Coin tied to an abandoned divine child, and Evan learned it could help summon the child from the Deep Sea, though doing so would be perilous.

• Evan threatened Jem with the black liquid within the flesh walls, and Jem revealed that he was an English soul wizard who had encountered a strange city and a vast monster at sea around 1614.
• Jem explained that rumors about sailors and sheep had fused with his soul, giving him disturbing desires and the ability to turn into flowing water; Evan agreed to keep him safe while seeking a way to restore his human form.
• Jem told Evan that he had seen scaled merfolk and enormous monsters near the city, then spat out a gold coin engraved with a trident.
• Evan used a ritual to appraise the coin, resisted the soul’s attack, and learned it was a Sea God Coin from an earlier era that could help summon an abandoned divine child from the Deep Sea.
• Evan considered the coin’s potential as a last-resort summoning medium and recognized that the danger lay in surviving the god’s arrival and persuading it to leave.

Evan reversed the Blood Moon Potion’s side effects and fused the Blood Moon Altar with the Blood Moon Hair, gaining the special Status Blood Moon Spirit. The Moon Spirit then ordered him to capture the Blasphemers in Britain and shoulder whatever lies within the Ruins, before sending him back home.

• Evan learned that he had been selected for the school’s field study and prepared to leave for Innsmouth Station the next morning.
• Evan’s Blood Moon Potion side effects finished reversing, permanently increasing his Flexibility, Blood Quality, Moon Affinity, and fire resistance.
• Evan gained the Blood Moon Altar, accepted its fusion with the Blood Moon Hair, and transformed into a Blood Moon Spirit with a miniature Blood Moon for a head.
• Evan read that the new Status let him use Burning Authority, ignite blood, perceive enemy attacks, and wield his own head as a weapon.
• The Moon Spirit called Evan a child of the Black Sun and ordered him to capture the Blasphemers in Britain and shoulder what lay within the Ruins.
• The Moon Spirit returned Evan home before he could ask questions, leaving him to complain that he had been scolded and cut off.

Evan used the Blood Moon Spirit Status and discovered that Old Tom was Labor, a Root-Reacher bound by the constraints of his Profession. After Old Tom left, Evan activated Garden of Life through the Blood Moon and found it had spread into a disturbing domain around him.

• Evan activated Blood Moon Spirit Status and saw Old Tom’s true form, gaining five points of Spirit Vision and collapsing in shock.
• Old Tom revealed that he was Labor, a Root-Reacher, and explained how higher-level Beyonders faced stronger constraints from their Professions.
• Evan reasoned that Old Tom’s role as Labor compelled him to work, and Old Tom confirmed that Immortals gained near-eternal lifespans as their Profession constraints grew stronger.
• Old Tom warned Evan to use the Blood Moon Spirit Status carefully, then vanished in liquid gold.
• Evan activated Garden of Life through the Blood Moon, causing grotesque, mutated growths to spread around him.
• Evan realized the garden extended about a meter from his body and asked whether it was a domain.

Evan tested the Lord-like domain and abilities granted by the Blood Moon Spirit, while Byron learned that Evan’s Toxic Blood contained numerous dangerous forces and a trace of Pale Moon divinity. Byron and Greenfire concluded that the blood had given Evan a Bloodthirsty Species’ regeneration, leaving Byron shaken by the prospect of facing him.

• Evan tested the Garden of Life’s expanded one-meter domain, his Blood Moon Spirit’s resilience, and his head’s long-range attacks before returning to normal and going to sleep.
• Byron absorbed blood and human eyeballs to repair the damage left by the Higher One’s power, then met with Greenfire in his apartment.
• Greenfire reported that Miskatonic University was distracted by the Ancient Sinners and that their allies were causing trouble for the university and Armitage.
• Greenfire explained that Klaus’s records showed Evan’s blood contained toxins, curses, and other dangerous Characteristics that made his Toxic Blood lethal to Master Level Beyonders.
• Greenfire revealed that Evan’s blood also held a trace of Pale Moon divinity, which had fused with the Moon Spirit’s strand and given Evan Bloodthirsty Species regeneration.
• Byron’s two faces were stunned by Greenfire’s findings and cursed Evan as he questioned whether Evan was even human.

Byron and Greenfire prepared to enter a Second Era ruin, hoping Black Sun’s Wings would open it and lead them to the Radiance Prism. On the train to Innsmouth, Evan dreamed of a ruined battlefield and a bloodied giant who declared that his holy blood remained pure, then woke without knowing what the dream meant.

• Byron learned that Klaus’s Toxic Blood depended on his Demon-Hunting Form and said he had prepared a potion to prevent him from transforming.
• Byron told Greenfire that the Sun Family’s fall had followed a long war with Black Sun followers and a wave of civil strife.
• Greenfire said he had arranged help from fishmen and prepared ocean Runes and a Sacrifice Ritual to protect their expedition to the ruin.
• Evan dreamed that a golden-armored giant chased him through ruins, and he escaped by taking Black Sun’s Wings from a familiar statue.
• The giant struck Evan down and declared that, despite thousands of years, his holy blood remained pure.
• Evan woke on a train with Morales, Saddam, and Tom, and learned they would reach Innsmouth in twenty minutes.