Chapter Summaries

Klein agreed to join Maria and Edwina’s plan to rescue Helmosuin and hunt Senor, while Abner recruited Fors to act as bait for Gluttony. At Abner’s ball, Leonard sat up straight when Emma arrived.

• Klein learned that the mission to rescue Helmosuin and hunt Senor would begin next Tuesday, with Demigods expected on both sides, and agreed to take part.
• Abner told Fors he wanted her to bait Gluttony so he could assess the Demigod, offering her Lewis Wien’s Traveler characteristic and to forgive her manuscript debt to Leon.
• Fors agreed to act as bait for Abner next Wednesday at eight in the evening.
• Abner hosted a ball at his mansion, where Emma arrived with her parents, Viscount Horatio and Mrs. Norma.
• Leonard Mitchell, who had come to the ball, sat up straight when he saw Emma.

At a ball, Leonard tried to approach Emma after Pallez suspected something was parasitizing her, but she rejected him. Abner made connections with Patrick Brain and then invited Emma to dance, leaving Leonard indignant.

• Pallez told Leonard that Emma was one of his kind and urged him to get close to her and investigate.
• Leonard invited Emma to dance, but she bluntly refused because he was a stranger.
• Abner spoke with Patrick Brain, confirmed their blood relation, and asked him to recommend family members for work on his territory.
• Patrick recommended Nelem, Biton, and his illegitimate son Conver, and Abner asked them to report to him.
• Abner noticed Leonard being rejected and, suspecting something was wrong with Emma, invited her to dance.
• Emma accepted Abner's invitation, surprising her mother and making Leonard feel indignant.

At the ball, Pallez warned Leonard that Abner’s aura resembled the supposedly fallen Angel Rhine Calendia and revealed that a Secret Art on Emma’s Parasite was meant to target Amon. Abner recognized the scheme, secretly invaded the Parasite’s mind, and later went to Emma’s villa to investigate it further.

• Pallez told Leonard that Abner’s aura had come to resemble Rhine Calendia, who might be reviving, and warned him that reporting Rhine to the Evernight Goddess could bring an unexpected result.
• Pallez identified the Secret Art on Emma’s Parasite as Rhine-Solomon’s Raven Lasso, a trap intended to plot against Amon rather than one of Amon’s traps.
• Abner recognized the Secret Art and suspected Roselle’s subordinates were using Emma as bait to lure Amon’s avatars, with another High Sequence Beyonder nearby.
• Abner used a Virtual Personality to invade the vulnerable Parasite in Emma, hoping to counter the hidden Beyonder and protect Fanny’s friend.
• Mrs. Norma accused Viscount Horatio of murmuring the Pale Admiral’s name in his sleep, and Horatio realized he could not summon hatred for Maria.
• After the ball, Abner arrived at Viscount Horatio’s garden villa to investigate the Parasite and study its Mythical Creature Form.

Emma joked about Abner and her Fire Thief Acting while Flora warned her that he was a Demigod. In Emma’s dream, Abner helped trap a Man in Black avatar whose sacrifice marked both Flora and Heart One with the name Liu Bo.

• Emma discussed her teacher, Abner’s charm, and her plan to steal and return his heart with Flora, who revealed that Abner was a Demigod.
• An old man entered Emma’s dream and used Deceit to make Flora regard him as her master, but a lasso in Flora’s Mind Island bound him instead.
• Abner appeared in Flora’s mind wearing a monocle and recognized the old man as an avatar of Heart One, the same figure he had encountered at the Kaspersky base.
• The old man revealed that he was the key to a trap, then exploded and sent knowledge of the name Liu Bo into Flora’s mind.
• Abner’s Pure White Eye showed that Flora and Heart One had both been marked by the Land of Unknown, and he considered the nature of the illusory sun beyond the Eye.

Abner examined the Land of Unknown’s marks on Flora Jacob and the Man in Black, then used Rewind to uncover the avatar’s past schemes. He learned that the avatar was Mared and discovered that the woman connected to him was Margaret Constantine.

• Abner found that Flora Jacob’s mark reflected her fanatical devotion to Liu Bo, while the Man in Black’s faint mark could help him locate the man and glimpse his memories.
• Abner considered how the Goddess, Lilith, Vera, Yaluolan, Hosenam, and the Traitor Dragon might be connected to or protected from the Land of Unknown’s contamination.
• Abner drew the Man in Black avatar’s fused Beyonder Characteristic and vocal cords into a Sealed Artifact, then used Rewind to trace the avatar’s fate.
• Abner learned that the avatar was Mared, a Backlund University philosophy dean and vice president of the Fate Hermit Society, who had schemed to lure Amon through Emma and Flora.
• Abner recognized a woman in Mared’s past as the Red Saintess Margaret and learned that Mared had called her Margaret Constantine.

Abner learned Flora Jacob’s history and instructed her to keep her faith in the Unknown secret while staying close to Emma. When Howl Constantine escaped the island after its barrier vanished, he passed through a gate and returned to Happy Town, where Abner was waiting to speak with him.

• Abner explored Flora Jacob’s memories and learned how she found her family’s treasure vault, became a Demigod, and was injured while evading the Church of Evernight.
• Abner considered Jodson’s plan to steal Edwina’s heart and decided to watch him on the Golden Dream.
• Flora asked whether she should recruit Emma into the Unknown’s faith, and Abner told her to conceal her belief and remain by Emma’s side.
• Howl Constantine fled into the sea as soon as the island’s barrier vanished, hoping to avoid Gwen and her crew.
• Howl swam through a gate of light and found himself back in Happy Town, where Abner appeared and asked him to sit down for a discussion.

Abner questioned Vice Admiral Deep Sea about his surname and the history of the Constantine Family, learning how it was connected to the Witch Family and the rise of the Primordial Demoness. The chapter left Abner wondering why Margaret had called herself a Constantine despite the family’s apparent destruction.

• Abner confirmed that Howl Constantine was not descended from him and Hosenam, then offered to protect Howl if he answered his questions honestly.
• Howl explained that he had taken the Constantine surname because the Saugust Sea Monster had treated him like family, though she later became entangled with the Delien Family and devils.
• Howl revealed that the Constantine Family and Succubus Family had once been the two branches of the Witch Family during Solomon’s First Empire.
• Howl said the Primordial Demoness’s rise led to the slaughter of the Constantine Demonesses and the disappearance of the Succubus Family’s head, after which the surviving branch became the Demoness Sect.
• Abner concluded that Cheek had likely seized the Succubus Family ancestor’s Beyonder Characteristic and wondered why Margaret had called herself a Constantine.

Abner questioned Vice Admiral Deep Sea Howl Constantine about Miss D, then returned to Happy Town and found Miss Gwen struggling to persuade its residents to leave. He used the False Belief Voice to strip the islanders of their pleasurable memories and connect them to Liu Bo, intending to protect them and eventually restore those memories.

• Abner favored the theory that Margaret had survived the Constantine Family’s destruction and joined Roselle’s Men in Black before entering the Demoness Sect.
• Howl told Abner that Miss D was a new Aurora Order Oracle who had shown little devotion to the True Creator and had once been stationed on Corsica Island.
• Abner dismissed Howl, recalled his Owen avatar, and flew to Happy Town, where he learned that most residents refused to leave despite Miss Gwen’s efforts.
• Abner met Miss Gwen and offered to solve the dispute after Tran returned without persuading the islanders to depart.
• Abner used the False Belief Voice to steal the residents’ happy memories and make them casual believers connected to Liu Bo, planning to restore their memories once they had grown resilient.

Abner evacuated Happy Town’s residents, dealt with matters involving Gwen, Karen, and Lydia, and returned to Backlund to begin studying the Wild Hunt artifact. His experiment unexpectedly summoned Panatiya, Despair Nightingale.

• Abner used the False Belief Voice and Painful Life to make Happy Town’s residents accept Tran’s offer of evacuation, and Gwen’s ships carried them away under an agreement with a Southern Continent warlord.
• Gwen told Abner that Miss D had been transferred to Trier, and Abner decided his Owen double would handle the operation to capture her.
• Karen asked about Owen and Howl; Abner explained Howl’s defection and promised to obtain a Potions Professor potion so Lydia could advance to Sequence 6.
• Abner returned to Backlund, interviewed Patrick Brain’s three young relatives, and arranged for their blood to be drawn.
• Abner tested the Wild Hunt artifact in his workshop, but the experiment unexpectedly summoned Panatiya, Despair Nightingale.

Abner discovered that Panatiya’s soul had remained near Calderón City rather than entering the Underworld, and asked the Evernight Goddess to release it temporarily. The request succeeded, while the God of Combat ordered a hunt for intruders near Calderón City and Abner prepared to deal with the now-living imitation medal.

• Abner realized Panatiya’s soul had never entered the Underworld, which explained why her shell could not become an intelligent Mythical Creature Form without her spirit.
• Suspecting the Evernight Goddess had planned the coincidences surrounding his experiment, Abner performed a ritual and asked her to free Panatiya’s soul from the Entanglement of Eternal Darkness.
• The goddess’s power stirred a figure in a coffin in Calderón City and produced a duplicate of a woman wandering beside an illusory river.
• An Archbishop in the Twilight Giant Palace ordered Sleepless and Corpse Collector Beyonders to find Calderón City and capture anyone approaching it, then assigned the Forger Couple to a special operations team.
• Dunn and Daly arrived in Bayam and learned they would impersonate the Forger Couple under the codename “Twilight.”
• Abner’s imitation medal became more lifelike after the ritual, and he sealed it while concluding that Panatiya could assume her Incomplete Mythical Form once released.

Klein met Dunn and Daly in Bayam to exchange information about Dunn’s Dwayne Dantès identity and household arrangements. He left with Sharron agreeing to impersonate the pregnant Mrs. Dantès for the servants.

• Klein used a Church of Evernight token to enter the Black Rose Bar’s hidden passage and meet Dunn and Daly.
• Klein revealed himself as Gehrman Sparrow, and Dunn and Daly reacted with surprise at his reputation.
• Dunn briefed Klein on his activities as Dwayne Dantès and explained that he had smuggled firearms to the natives and Resistance Army, though his name had only served as a pretext.
• Dunn said he would move residences and hire new servants after returning from Bayam, while Daly suspected that Gehrman felt familiar.
• Klein asked Sharron to impersonate the pregnant Mrs. Dantès at home, and she agreed.

Klein agreed to try trading with Abner for the Prisoner characteristic Sharron needed, while Cattleya received a visit after sending Roselle’s diary pages to the Tarot Club. The Fool read Roselle’s account of his sorrow over Bornova’s devout, emotionless nature and his rejection of Liu Bo’s offer.

• Sharron explained that the Temperance Faction called the Prisoner characteristic a Cursed Object and asked Klein to obtain it for her Teacher.
• Klein chose his True Creator-contaminated Tinder gloves as a possible trade for the characteristic and agreed to try the exchange with Abner.
• Cattleya received Roselle’s diary pages and saw a familiar figure appear beside them, asking whether the visitor was willing to see her.
• Abner persuaded the Despair Nightingale to cooperate with his experiments before joining the Tarot Club.
• Cattleya presented three pages of Roselle’s diary, and Klein read Roselle’s account of Bornova’s birthday and his concern that his son lacked human emotion.
• Roselle wrote that Bernadette shared his concern, while he rejected Liu Bo’s suggestion that he pray to and believe in him.

Klein read the Emperor’s diary entries about his growing suspicion of Liu Bo, the gifts and schemes they discussed, and the Night Emperor’s ties to Devils and Demonesses. The final entry described how the Nois family’s rebellion and the loss of Sanguine support weakened the Night Emperor, allowing the Primordial Demoness and the God of Death to hunt a Succubus patriarch.

• Klein read that the Emperor had made Bernadette a mystical item to protect her from the Hidden Sage and the True Creator’s ravings.
• Klein learned that Liu Bo had inspired the Emperor to seal the Black Throne into the Golden Snake Sword and let future holders transform into Shipgirls.
• The Emperor recorded Liu Bo’s cryptic claims about the owners or hiding places of several legendary sea treasures, including Death’s Key and Solomon’s Legacy.
• Klein read that the Night Emperor’s ties to Devils and Demonesses angered his Sanguine supporters, who abandoned him after the Nois family rebelled and Olynnia fell.
• The Emperor wrote that the Primordial Demoness and the God of Death hunted the Succubus family’s Sequence 1 patriarch after the Night Emperor’s mental state deteriorated.

At the Tarot Club, Cattleya asked how Roselle had been corrupted, and the Fool suggested his moon landing before warning Bernadette against going there. Alger then offered the World the location of a valuable primitive island in exchange for help hunting an Obninsk Sea Monster.

• Klein reflected on the Primordial Demoness’s rise and the possible connection between her domain and the Mirror World.
• Cattleya asked the Fool how Roselle had been corrupted, and he suggested it was related to the Emperor’s moon landing.
• The Fool warned Cattleya to tell Bernadette not to attempt a moon landing because the danger was beyond her ability to withstand.
• Alger requested a private conversation with the World and offered the coordinates of a primitive island in exchange for one condition and a chance to accompany the first expedition.
• Alger asked the World to help him capture an Obninsk Sea Monster near Sonia Island, which was controlled by the Feysac military.

Alger asked the World to steal an Obninsk Sea Monster during the Church of Storms' planned raid on a Feysac naval port, and Klein agreed to consider it. At the Tarot Club meeting, members traded potion formulas and ingredients, while Abner arranged to buy a rare ingredient from Emlyn.

• Alger explained that the Church of Storms planned to attack the Feysac Naval Port on Sonia Island in a week or two, and asked the World to steal the Obninsk Sea Monster during the battle.
• Klein said he would assess the danger before deciding, and Alger agreed to provide the Primordial Island's coordinates once Klein made his choice.
• Cattleya confirmed the Black-Hunting Giant Lizard spinal fluid for Audrey, while Fors and Cattleya exchanged the Judge and Notary formulas.
• Fors gave Derrick the Notary formula in advance, and Derrick promised to obtain the Asman Brain after the Chief's hunting party returned.
• The World offered Cattleya a possible lead on Angel's blood, and Abner asked Derrick to find a Sequence 6 vampire characteristic and offered to pay for ingredients needed for the Notary potion.
• Abner offered Emlyn 2,200 Gold Pounds for a Rhizome Crystal of the Elder Tree, and Emlyn agreed to find one.

At the Tarot Club, Abner sought information about surviving elves and learned of a hidden settlement off West Balam, agreeing to craft an item for Sharron in exchange. The meeting ended with plans for Abner and Audrey to meet with Queen Mystic, while Klein gave Abner several diary pages for a small gathering.

• Abner offered a free Mid-Sequence Beyonder item in exchange for information about surviving elves, and Cattleya said she would search for clues.
• Sharron revealed an elven settlement beneath the sea west of Berens Harbor that could be entered through a bridge appearing on July 7, and Abner agreed to make her an item that could transform her for a long time.
• Alger identified Sharron's ship image as Trident, a Ghost Ship used by the Church of Storms, and Abner suspected the elven settlement was connected to his past life.
• Derrick described how the City of Silver group survived in Afternoon Town by hunting monsters and eating Wolf Fish Canned Food, prompting the Tarot Club members' reactions.
• World told the club that Mad Captain Conners Victor had clues about the Great Smog and a faction of the Royal Family, while Xio refrained from asking about her father after Abner shook his head.
• Abner arranged a meeting with Audrey and asked whether Queen Mystic could join; after the club ended, Klein gave Abner diary pages and began a small gathering.

Abner and Klein negotiated an exchange for the Silent Disciple characteristic, with Klein offering the Tinder glove and a Blood Crystal and agreeing to ask Maria to consent to Abner’s study. Abner also confirmed he would join the hunt for Admiral of Blood and reassured Klein that the Mother Tree of Desire was occupied and Suah would be stopped.

• Abner considered the diary’s claim that Death’s Key already had an owner, then invited Klein to speak freely.
• Klein offered the Tinder glove for Abner’s Silent Disciple characteristic, and Abner questioned whether the Sequence 6 item could match a Sequence 3 characteristic.
• Klein added a Blood Crystal from Slaughterer Kircheis and showed Abner a divination of the God of Luck conducting a soul-reincarnation experiment.
• Abner agreed to give Klein the characteristic if Klein persuaded Maria to let him study her, and Klein agreed to ask her without promising she would consent.
• Abner confirmed he had accepted Edwina’s invitation to join the hunt for Admiral of Blood and said the Mother Tree of Desire was occupied and someone would stop Suah.

On Melissa’s birthday, Elizabeth arrived as a welcome surprise, while Abner watched and recognized that her choice to tell Melissa could lead her onto the extraordinary path. Abner then brought Audrey to the Ritual Room and prepared to take her into the imagined world containing Liveseyd, with Klein secretly blessing her from above the Gray Fog.

• Benson returned home on Melissa’s birthday and told her he had arranged a gift, but Sarah interrupted to announce Elizabeth’s arrival.
• Melissa was delighted to see Elizabeth and went to greet her, leaving Benson confused because his cake had not arrived.
• Abner watched from the villa next door and noted that Elizabeth’s decision to tell Melissa opened a path to the extraordinary.
• At the Foundation manor, Abner appeared before Audrey and took her through the Spirit World to an underground Ritual Room containing a book and three Cards of Blasphemy.
• Abner explained that Liveseyd lay within the book’s imagined world and left to fetch Queen Mystic, while Audrey prayed to Mr. Fool for protection.
• Klein granted Audrey the Paper Angel’s blessing and strengthened his connection with her, using the Moon card to shape the Angel she perceived.

Abner brought Bernadette and Audrey into Groselle's Travels, where they reached the Miracle City and discovered that its Hall of Truth made their thoughts audible. Bernadette learned that Roselle had cheated at chess with her, while Abner revealed he knew the story through his Calamity Seal.

• Cattleya recognized Abner as the Professor when he appeared aboard the Future, and Bernadette agreed to leave with him.
• Abner used a Teleportation Altar to bring Bernadette to Tosk, where she and Audrey met before entering Groselle's Travels.
• Abner opened a passage into the book's world, and the three rode the Frost Dragon while Abner drew Groselle's party into a dream.
• Abner guided them through the Sea of Collective Subconscious into the Miracle City and the Hall of Truth.
• The Hall of Truth broadcast Audrey's and Bernadette's thoughts, and Bernadette learned that Roselle had cheated when they played chess.

Abner guided Bernadette and Audrey through the Hall of Truth, where Bernadette’s attempt to examine the Adra Great Lighthouse exposed her to dangerous contamination. After Abner brought them to safety and Bernadette apologized, she offered Audrey a Dreamwalker Beyonder Characteristic and gave Abner a sealed Demigod Characteristic, prompting him to ask where it came from.

• Audrey and Bernadette’s unguarded thoughts echoed through the Hall of Truth, and both gradually learned to control them.
• Abner led Bernadette and Audrey to the inverted Adra Great Lighthouse behind the throne.
• Bernadette used Eyes of Mystery Prying on the lighthouse, suffered contamination, and was rescued by Abner, who used Dream Traversal to return them to Groselle’s team.
• Bernadette cleansed the contamination with the Sage Diadem, apologized, and offered Audrey a Dreamwalker Beyonder Characteristic.
• Bernadette gave Abner a card containing a strange Demigod-level Beyonder Characteristic, and he asked where she had obtained it.