Chapter Summaries

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.