Chapter Summaries

Evan entered the Ruins inside the Giant Egg and discovered a deadly hall of invisible rifts that devoured anyone drawn toward them. Using the Blood Moon Spirit’s vision, he rescued Greenfire and made him his Blood Slave, while the Holy Sword Execution Squad captain escaped and offered information about the Copper Plague in exchange for help.

• Evan entered the Giant Egg after the Holy Sword Execution Squad and Greenfire, then found a vast hall filled with corpses and a Taiji Sphere connected to the walls by black and white threads.
• Invisible gravitational forces and Black Sun’s Shadow attacked the group, dragging people toward deadly rifts and devouring their brains.
• Evan used the Blood Moon Spirit’s special Status to see the rifts and understand the voice of a lingering consciousness that called the newcomers food.
• Evan flew through the rifts, rescued the unconscious Greenfire, and turned him into a Blood Slave by injecting him with blood and Blasphemous Plague.
• The captain used Blood Chains to gather his squad and retreat, then offered to explain the Copper Plague’s origins and dangers if Evan helped him.

Evan learned that the Copper Saintess was trying to resurrect herself with the Radiance Prism, then was attacked by the Black Sun’s Shadow. After the Saintess weakened the Shadow’s power, Evan drove a Black Sun Forger’s Rib into himself to repel its parasite, and the two prepared to seize their targets amid a clash of light and darkness.

• Evan questioned the Copper Saintess, who explained her resurrection plan and the Radiance Prism’s power.
• Byron described the Copper Saintess’s authority over Copperization and the Healing Church’s forces.
• The Black Sun’s Shadow revealed itself and pulled Evan toward the Taiji Sphere, while the Copper Saintess rallied the Holy Sword Execution Squad to weaken it with an incantation.
• A Devouring Shadow parasitized Evan and drained his attributes, but Evan used a Black Sun Forger’s Rib to drive it away.
• The Copper Saintess took cover from the battle between light and darkness and told Evan to pursue the Black Sun’s Shadow while she claimed the Radiance Prism.

Evan was trapped by a starving Devouring Lord while the Copper Saintess escaped with the Radiance Prism. With Gust's golden sunlight revealing the creature's core, Evan prepared to fight it using his miniature domain.

• The Radiance Prism flew to the Copper Saintess as she sang, and she sealed it inside her coffin before escaping with the surviving Holy Sword Execution Squad.
• The Devouring Lord's darkness seized Evan, but he struck it with the Black Sun Forger's Rib and summoned the Rabid Divine Carbuncle and Blasphemous Plague to hold it back.
• Greenfire explained that the creature was weakened and that sacred sunlight could reveal its true body, so Gust appeared and created a golden sun with his Spirituality.
• The Devouring Lord demanded that Evan sacrifice Gust, but Gust's light scorched the darkness and revealed a glinting core that Evan recognized by Intuition.
• Evan opened his Garden of Life and formed a one-meter miniature domain around himself with the two plagues, declaring that he was half a Lord himself.

Evan used the Necronomicon Fragment to expose and bind the Devouring Lord, then battered it with his detached, flame-wreathed head. He devoured the weakened Lord, leaving its fate inside Evan.

• Evan used the Necronomicon Fragment to blast away the darkness and reveal the Devouring Lord's hidden mouth.
• Evan bound the mouth with Blood Chains while his burning head attacked the Devouring Shadow and infected it with flames and Virus.
• Evan struck the mouth until its repulsive force failed, then dragged it toward him.
• Evan opened his mouth and chewed through the Devouring Lord's core fangs, swallowing it.

Evan devoured the Devouring Lord, began reversing its core, and discovered that its effect had given him a second mouth with powerful pulling and pushing abilities. After testing it throughout the ruined Holy Temple, he learned that his Spirituality was nearly depleted and that he needed to find his physical body and return to the Real World.

• Evan finished eating the Devouring Lord's core and confirmed the reversal, which would take 9,000 hours and occupy five slots.
• Evan helped Gust to his feet, thanked him for providing the sun, and placed him in the Rectal Space to rest.
• Evan discovered a featureless black head with a cross-shaped mouth, which could pull nearby objects toward him and repel them when closed.
• Evan tested the mouth's range, strength, and ability to move around his body, but found no useful antiques in the ruined Holy Temple.
• Byron warned Evan that his Spirituality was nearly gone from the fight and his time in the Dreamlands, so Evan needed to find his physical body and return to the Real World.

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.