Chapter Summaries

After the Mechanical Bible returned to its altar, Abner discovered the secrets behind the Gear Book and Morning Star City. He realized a Miracle could let the Nightmare city become real and decided to pursue that path to save its people.

• The Mechanical Bible returned to the altar, restoring the Floating City’s power and prompting Olmos and Eleanor to manage the resulting energy surge.
• The Gear Book revealed that its final pages held the All-Seeing Eye’s Creation, the White Angel’s energy, and a pardon that reincarnated Morning Star City’s faithful.
• Abner realized Klaus’s imitation Floating City in Nass could provide physical support for the Nightmare city if the two were joined in the God War Ruins Waters.
• Abner concluded that a Miracle was needed to make the switch possible and considered advancing himself by resurrecting Alvin as his avatar.
• Abner saw that Morning Star City’s people might not survive until Klein arrived, and resolved to study Secret Arts and save them.

Klein learned from Bernadette that Frank Lee may carry the mark of a great existence, while Afternoon Town began invading its real counterpart. In Morning Star City, Abner secured its power supply, proclaimed himself an oracle, and began asking about its Sealed Artifacts.

• Bernadette warned Klein that monsters had avoided attacking Frank until he handed over the God of Death card, suggesting his origins were unusual and tied to a great existence.
• Derrick reported back to Colin, who realized the strange Afternoon Town was invading the real town and ordered the squads to regroup.
• Abner took the real Mechanical Bible and left behind a functioning copy to keep Morning Star City supplied with energy.
• Abner declared that the Pure White Eye would return and warned Morning Star City's citizens to hide from danger before the promised light arrived.
• Abner showed Eleanor footage of the World of Light and asked how many high-grade Sealed Artifacts Morning Star City possessed.

Abner learned about Morning Star City's Sealed Artifacts and borrowed the Wild Hunt medal before leaving the city. Aboard the Future, Klein spoke with Cattleya about Queen Mystic and Frank, and she offered him Ludwell's body as a Marionette.

• Eleanor explained Morning Star City's six Grade 1 Sealed Artifacts, including the Wild Hunt medal, to Abner.
• Abner chose to borrow the Wild Hunt medal because it could manifest a Demon Hunter's Incomplete Mythical Form.
• Abner left Morning Star City after giving Eleanor, Olmos, and Anick films to watch.
• Cattleya told Klein about her close bond with Queen Mystic and shared what she had learned about Frank's origins.
• Cattleya offered Klein Ludwell's body for ten thousand Gold Pounds.

Klein negotiated with Cattleya and accepted Bernadette’s offer of money and help. In Afternoon Town, Abner headed toward a likely Chaos Sea entrance while Derrick’s team encountered Abner at the church.

• Klein declined Cattleya’s offer to buy Hell Admiral immediately but agreed to complete the transaction after Monday’s gathering.
• Bernadette gave Klein a 15,000-pound bearer account and promised to help him once, and Klein accepted after clarifying that Mr. Fool did not intend to harm Cattleya.
• Abner used the Wheel of Fortune to assess possible locations for the Chaos Sea entrance and chose the abandoned church in Afternoon Town.
• Derrick, Colin, Haim, and Joshua found a fallen priest praying in the ruined church about Sasrir, secret altars, and an approaching Catastrophe.
• Laroya appeared with an unfamiliar man, and Derrick recognized the newcomer as Mr. Tower.

Abner investigated The Tower in Afternoon Town’s Nightmare and realized its entrance could only be reached by entering the tower in reality before returning to the Nightmare. He rescued a City of Silver explorer, met Colin and Derrick, and secretly watched them survive the town’s dangers before entering the ruined Tower.

• Abner discovered that the Dark Angel had sealed The Tower within the Nightmare, and deduced that its true entrance was in reality.
• Abner saved a City of Silver explorer from his shadow doubles, recovered two Beyonder Characteristics, and brought the survivor back to reality.
• Abner met Colin Iliad and Derrick, asked them to keep his presence secret, and told them that their Tarot Club friends thought highly of Derrick.
• Abner secretly watched Colin’s group question the church priests, battle Monsters, recognize the danger in the Giant King’s Court, and establish a camp in the Floating City’s ruins.
• After Colin’s group had settled, Abner returned to the collapsed church and entered the nearly destroyed Tower.

Abner returned from the dangerous passage beneath the church tower and told Edwina about Afternoon Town, while warning her that she could not safely explore it. They left the God of Luck’s ruins without taking its treasures, and Abner suspected the God’s accumulated Misfortune was tied to the Misfortune Crystal Ball.

• Abner used the Pure White Eye to transform into Star Worms and cross the passage beyond the Bronze Doors, then returned to Edwina and sealed the entrance with the Key.
• Abner warned Edwina that the other side was extremely dangerous and described Afternoon Town, prompting her to resolve to advance to Demigod as quickly as possible.
• Abner and Edwina gathered some gold, silver, and jewels from the ruins, but left the God of Luck’s remains, the Knowledge Mentor characteristic, and the Card of Blasphemy behind.
• Abner suspected the Misfortune Crystal Ball had been meant to unlock a checkpoint in the ruins and wondered whether it had been sent out to release Misfortune upon the God of Luck.

Abner traveled to Nass Port to meet Jane and offered to buy the Klaus version of the Floating City. On the Future, Klein told Bernadette that Roselle’s corruption likely came from the Primordial Moon and mentioned the Miracle City of Liveseyd, leaving her to vanish before he could arrange permission to show her the city.

• Abner used Spirit Body Stroll to reach Nass Port and escaped the stench of Wolf Fish Canned Food.
• At Lodar’s bounty board, Abner noted the increased bounties on Tracy and Miss Gwen and reflected on their prospects.
• Abner met Jane in her alchemical carriage and told her he wanted to buy the Floating City.
• On the Future, Bernadette told Klein that the Fountain of Youth was a trap and part of a ritual.
• Klein said Roselle’s late-life crisis and corruption likely involved the Primordial Moon, then asked Bernadette about the Miracle City of Liveseyd.
• Bernadette asked where the city was, but vanished in a burst of colorful bubbles after Klein said he needed permission to reveal it.

Abner toured the Floating City, negotiated a condition for acquiring it, and organized his many goals and obligations before his advancement to Sequence 3. As the Tarot Club meeting began, Klein manifested the World as a more lifelike puppet and summoned the members above the Gray Fog.

• Abner toured the Floating City with Jane, and Master Klaus agreed to give it to whoever could make it fly indefinitely while allowing him to continue his research aboard it.
• Abner returned to Bayam and planned how to obtain the Incomplete Mythical Creature Forms needed for his advancement to Sequence 3.
• Abner reviewed his plans for refining the Resurrection Secret Art, developing his viscountcy, and completing his commissions.
• Klein manifested the World with lifelike expressions and senses, then began summoning the Tarot Club members above the Gray Fog.

Klein warned Cattleya for peering at him, then the Tarot Club welcomed Sharron as a Demigod and Fors offered Roselle’s Diary in exchange for a Demigod ability to record in Lyman’s Travel Notes. Klein accepted the exchange and began reading an entry about Bernadette’s eighteenth birthday banquet.

• Klein exposed Cattleya’s identity as Bernadette, Roselle’s eldest daughter, and punished her by grafting the True Creator’s ravings onto her.
• Cattleya recovered and thanked the Fool for his tolerance, while the Tarot Club members inferred that World had helped secure her lenient punishment.
• Audrey and the others congratulated Sharron on becoming a Demigod, and World explained that she could accept commissions in Backlund.
• Fors offered two pages of Roselle’s Diary and asked the Fool to help her obtain a Demigod-level ability for Lyman’s Travel Notes.
• Klein agreed to provide a Theft ability in exchange for the diary’s contribution, then read Roselle’s account of Bernadette’s ruined eighteenth birthday banquet.

Klein read Roselle’s diary entries about the dangerous advancement rituals for three Sequences containing “Ancient,” and recognized a possible connection between his Honorific Name and Sefirah Castle. Abner suspected that his former life as Danitz Tynicole had spent centuries as Sealed Artifact 1-025 to fulfill an Ancient Bane ritual, and Klein then opened the Tarot Club’s free trade.

• Klein recalled Roselle’s disastrous attempt to take the Calamity Seal to a ball and worked out Bernadette’s age from her birthday and Roselle’s diary.
• Klein read Roselle’s account of Ancient Alchemist, whose ritual required refining a Life Stone with three hundred years of the Alchemist’s lifespan.
• Klein learned that the Scholar of Yore ritual required three centuries apart from reality and connected its wording to his Honorific Name and Sefirah Castle.
• Klein read that Ancient Bane required becoming a cursed item used by others for at least three hundred years, while Abner suspected he had fulfilled that ritual as Sealed Artifact 1-025.
• Klein finished reading Roselle’s remark about the Knowledge Church and invited the Tarot Club members to trade freely.

Fors proposed renting out Lyman’s Travel Notes, and Derrick rented it for three days in exchange for materials. The Tarot Club members arranged several ingredient and formula trades, while Klein agreed to buy an item from Cattleya and offered to help her find Mythical Creature Blood.

• Fors offered to rent Lyman’s Travel Notes for 300 pounds plus 50 pounds per extra day, requiring two additional pages of abilities when it was returned.
• Derrick rented the notebook for three days and agreed to gather materials from Fors’s list as payment.
• Fors asked for an Asman Brain, and Derrick offered to hunt one near the City of Silver in exchange for the Notary Potion formula; Cattleya proposed trading that formula for the Judge formula and a drop of Mythical Creature Blood.
• Audrey requested ingredients for her Hypnotist Potion, and Cattleya offered to seek the ingredients, including Black-Hunting Giant Lizard spinal fluid.
• Klein’s World agreed to buy Cattleya’s item for 10,000 pounds using a 15,000-fel bank deposit slip and offered to seek the Mythical Creature Blood she needed.

Abner traded valuables with Cattleya for Astral World Stardust before Derrick recounted the City of Silver’s expedition to Afternoon Town and asked about the Forsaken Land of the Gods. Abner privately revealed a dangerous secret to Derrick, and Audrey told him the Psychology Alchemists would explore Kabbas the next morning.

• Cattleya agreed to give Abner ten grams of Astral World Stardust in exchange for valuables worth two thousand pounds.
• Derrick described Afternoon Town to the Tarot Club, including its ruined Floating City, the altar, the Nightmare, and The Tower’s rescue of his companions.
• Abner told Derrick that only a few powerful beings could use his passage to the Forsaken Land of the Gods, and Klein answered Derrick’s question about escape by mentioning Bernadette.
• After Derrick asked about the names connected to Sasrir, Abner privately explained the secret to him and gave him an incantation to use if he became trapped.
• Audrey told Abner that the Psychology Alchemists would explore Kabbas the next morning, and Abner promised to take her to the real Miracle City if the Queen of Calamity was there.

Abner explained why he could not give Klein the Seer Sequence 4 Potion formula and answered his questions about Mythical Creatures and Miss Hermit's advancement ritual. Klein's account of the Floating City’s fiery awakening helped Abner piece together the fall of Morning Star City, and Abner ended by identifying Frank Lee as Lamia’s adopted son.

• Abner told Klein that the Evernight Goddess’s test would lead him to the Bizarro Sorcerer Potion formula, and that Dunn would soon leave Backlund on a new task.
• Abner explained that a complete Mythical Creature was reached at Sequence 2 and that Miss Hermit needed to analyze Mythical Creature blood for her Demigod ritual.
• Klein told Abner that the Floating City in the God War Ruins dream had erupted in sunlight and showed him Ouroboros’s mural of the city’s fall.
• Abner inferred that Ouroboros had sabotaged the Mechanical Emperor and that Adam had likely exploited a misunderstanding to cause Morning Star City’s destruction.
• Klein asked who Frank Lee’s parents were, and Abner said Frank was probably Lamia’s adopted son.

Abner told Klein that Frank was Lamia’s adopted son and decided to investigate why the Earth Mother Goddess had chosen him. Klein handled the Tarot Club’s requests and received a mission from Sharron, while the chapter ended with a mysterious woman bringing Daly a mission from the Goddess.

• Klein questioned Abner about Frank’s origins, and Abner explained that Lamia had adopted him before Abner went to the Spectral Empire.
• Abner asked Klein to send Yaluolan the summoning method for his Magic Wolf Messenger and offered a prophecy that following Anderson would lead Klein to a powerful Beyonder weapon.
• Klein divined that writing to Yaluolan was safe, accepted Fors and Derrick’s sacrifices, and Recorded Lightning Storm in Lyman’s Travel Notes for Derrick to use.
• Klein processed Cattleya’s sacrifice of Hell Admiral and its storage scroll, then followed Abner’s prophecy after divining that it was safe.
• Cattleya recognized the bank certificate as a parting gift she had once refused and wrote to Queen Mystic about Mr. Fool’s decision.
• Daly entered Dunn’s dream and met a woman who said the Goddess had given her a mission for Daly.

Daly and Dunn accepted the Goddess’s mission to impersonate a bishop and his wife in Saint-Milon, with the Fool’s help promised for Church inspections. Meanwhile, Klein hunted Kircheis and arranged the handover of the Dwayne Dantès identity, while Abner received an invitation to meet Madam Yaluolan in a dream.

• Arianna told Daly and Dunn to replace a bishop and his wife in Saint-Milon and lie low until they received further orders.
• Daly agreed to join Dunn on the mission after learning the Fool would help them, and Arianna told them to travel to Bayam for a Blessed to replace Dwayne Dantès.
• Klein killed Kircheis after encountering him on Toscarter Island, then used his soul to free the Light Priest from Creeping Hunger.
• Klein contacted Daly and set May 2 as the date for the handover.
• Abner received Madam Yaluolan’s invitation to meet in the deepest layer of the dream in Kabbas Town.

Abner used the Wheel of Fortune Unique to explore possible outcomes of going to Kabas Town, where the Psychology Alchemists might unravel Yaluolan’s concealment and expose her true body to the Hidden Sage. He investigated who was arranging events and why, leaving several possibilities unresolved as he planned to ask Vera directly.

• Abner used the Pure White Eye and the Wheel of Fortune Unique to set out four possible outcomes of his meeting with Yaluolan in Kabas Town.
• Abner concluded that Kabas Town’s Nightmare came from Yaluolan recreating the Goddess’s concealment through Mystical Reenactment: Disappearing Nation of Evernight, and wondered whether her public appearances had been avatars.
• Abner wrote down five questions about the Psychology Alchemists’ investigation, the Hidden Sage, the mastermind, Hosenam, and the Gods’ reactions.
• Abner identified Ankewelt and Hermes as likely masterminds, but crossed out Vera as a suspect and decided to ask her about the situation in person.
• Abner considered that the Hidden Sage might want Yaluolan’s true body for the last Knowledge Emperor Beyonder Characteristic or its connection to Knowledge Moor, and speculated that the plot might involve Sealed Artifact 0-08 and Adam.

Abner uncovered a plot that could expose Yaluolan to the Hidden Sage and went to Vera for help. Vera denied knowing about it before that night and agreed to take responsibility, while Abner later met Xio Derecha in Stoen City.

• Abner used Insight to identify Ankewelt, the Dragon of Imagination, or Hermes as the likely force behind the Psychology Alchemists’ attack on Yaluolan’s arrangements.
• Abner visited Vera at her villa and asked whether she had been involved in the plot against Yaluolan.
• Vera swore that she had known nothing about the plan until that night, and Abner used Notarization to confirm she was telling the truth.
• Vera said Ankewelt was likely responsible, assured Abner that Yaluolan had prepared ways to escape, and offered to take responsibility for the breach.
• On Tuesday morning, Abner met Xio Derecha at a café in Stoen City.

Abner warned Xio about the stolen Seal and learned that a Soren Family war helmet had also been taken, deepening his suspicions about the Dragon of Imagination Ankewelt’s plans. He tested an Acting method by guiding Simon Larry away from a destructive choice, then concluded that his overly detailed options had weakened the effect.

• Xio told Abner that the Church of Storms suspected Tony Dawn of the Iron and Blood Cross Order had attacked the railway station, and she reported that a Soren Family helmet had also been stolen.
• Abner warned Xio to contact him if coincidences and accidents began occurring around her, then wondered whether Ankewelt had arranged for Ince Zangwill to steal the Seal and the helmet.
• Abner studied the Black Emperor Pathway’s Incomplete Mythical Form and sought a target for Acting before nightfall.
• Simon Larry learned that his wife and son belonged to the factory manager, who offered him 100 Gold Pounds to divorce his wife and leave town.
• Abner presented Simon with four possible outcomes, and Simon chose to take the money and pursue further studies instead of seeking revenge or harming himself.
• Abner deleted a melodramatic line from Simon’s final option and realized his detailed choices had caused the deviation from Fate to produce weak feedback.

Abner used fate choices to divert people from disastrous paths and suspected a Psychology Alchemist planned to interfere with the Kabbas mission. As Escalante fled the Mandated Punishers and Leticia Tamara confronted the Dragon King, a clash in space abruptly calmed the dangerous suitcase.

• Abner reflected that fate in the Lord of Mysteries world was chaotic, then watched a young man enter the church after choosing to help a woman instead of robbing her.
• Abner suspected Escalante was a Psychology Alchemist meant to enter Kabbas through a dream and disrupt Yaluolan's spell, and hoped Vera could hold back the former Dragon King.
• Escalante sensed a trap at her hotel door, fed flesh to her dangerous suitcase, and vanished as three Mandated Punishers stormed her room.
• Escalante escaped the hotel while invisible and headed to a market to find more flesh for the suitcase.
• Leticia Tamara confronted the Dragon King in the Sea of Collective Subconscious and said the God of Knowledge and Wisdom would prevent the distant power transmission.
• A brass eye collided with a pitch-black curtain in space, and the suitcase's threatening aura subsided.

During an archaeological expedition in Kabas Town, Elizabeth sensed something unusual about Jishengke Wallace and received a warning from Dast Goodrian about the town’s dangerous nights. The chapter ended with a young blond man trapped in a classroom-like room facing Alvin Abraham’s Quiz Maze.

• Professor Mosal questioned whether Kabas Town was worth investigating, and Jishengke Wallace suggested its secrets might emerge at night.
• Elizabeth felt that Wallace had become unusually approachable and told Dast Goodrian she was uneasy about spending the night away from home.
• Dast warned Elizabeth to seek him out if she was in danger, then said her amulet could only repel weak spirits.
• Elizabeth revealed that Klein had made the amulet, and Dast recognized Klein Moretti and urged her to hide with the townspeople until dawn.
• Wallace glanced toward Elizabeth and Dast when they mentioned Klein, while a young blond man found himself in Alvin Abraham’s Quiz Maze.