Recaps

Raphael built his position in the mafia while Audrey uncovered his strange nature and arranged cooperation against the Indulgence Faction. After surviving a deadly clash with its members, Raphael returned to the Dark Hut world, where Chen Qingzhi explained its history and cultivation methods.

• Raphael kidnapped Audrey, but she revealed that she was a Dreamwalker under the Fool’s protection and secretly observed him with Susie.
• Raphael’s spirit was summoned into the Dark Hut world, where Chen Qingzhi mistook him for a Demon Lord and sought help with the Blood Sect’s failing patriarch.
• Raphael learned of Markel’s hardship and his own brutality, then took Audrey to the mafia headquarters and used violence to help Duke against Holm and Logan.
• Audrey revealed that she was a Beyonder and proposed cooperation, so Raphael killed Bevin and took his Werewolf characteristic.
• The Jade Pearl gave Raphael access to potion formulas and split his spirit body across two worlds, and he advanced to Werewolf.
• Raphael fought Ackerman while Sharron and Maric faced the Indulgence Faction, then escaped after killing Ackerman as Klein’s marionette reported that the Shaman King and Wraith had fallen.
• Raphael returned to the Dark Hut world, where Chen Qingzhi described its history and explained the risks of the Blood Sect’s cultivation methods.

Raphael advanced as an Unwinged Angel and Werewolf, navigating the Machinery Hivemind’s hunt and the Indulgence Faction while expanding his influence in Backlund. He joined the Aurora Order and prepared to travel to Dark Hut Headquarters, just as Caven Thomas asked for help securing a villa for a brothel.

• Raphael traded potion information and cultivation knowledge with Chen Qingzhi, gained the True Lord’s Jade Body’s Werewolf and Criminal abilities, and studied the Demon Source Scripture and Chaos Art.
• Raphael ambushed and killed an Unwinged Angel, drank the potion, and learned that the White Jade Orb helped him use two pathways without losing control.
• Raphael dealt with Holm and Councilor Wood, killed Holm as a Werewolf, and discovered that making others fear him helped digest his potions.
• During a full-moon hunt, Raphael killed a Werewolf, rescued Jonathan for the Sickly Lady, and lured a Devil toward the Machinery Hivemind’s ambush before fleeing.
• Raphael and Wagner attacked the Stinger Gang, then fought Petrov with Xio’s help and killed both Petrov and the gang boss Kent.
• Raphael persuaded two Stinger Gang members to testify against Kent, then joined the Aurora Order and met Mr. C, who said Raphael might fill a vacant Oracle position.
• Chen Qingzhi summoned Zheng Yunhai, and Dark Hut disciples escorted Raphael toward Headquarters as he saw a city for the first time.
• Caven Thomas asked Raphael to help secure a villa for a brothel, and Raphael sent Carter to investigate Caven and the villa owner.

Raphael pursued his potion acting in Backlund while joining the Aurora Order’s operations, then became the target of an Indulgence Faction attack. The stretch ended with Raphael killing Bennett after Emlyn and Utravsky helped him fight off his pursuers.

• Raphael pressured Councilor Booker into renting his villa to Caven Thomas, then faced Yan Ruobing’s attack before Huiyuan helped him escape.
• Raphael returned to Backlund, attended Caven Thomas and Estella’s engagement banquet, and began acting as a werewolf to digest his potion.
• Raphael met Emlyn White and later joined the Aurora Order’s Backlund members, buying a Hypnotist-pathway Mystical Item with Mr. C’s loan.
• Raphael’s werewolf appearances caused public panic, and the Tarot Club members realized he was cultivating fear to digest his Werewolf potion.
• Raphael carried out Mr. C’s revenge mission by killing Gwen, Joao, and Feodor, then learned his Unwinged Angel potion had digested further.
• Raphael killed Caven Thomas at his wedding while disguised as a werewolf, then escaped and returned to the guests.
• Charliwen, Bennett, and a Wraith pursued Raphael, but Emlyn and Utravsky intervened at the Harvest Church.
• Raphael used hypnosis, Wolf Poison, and a gas pipe to defeat Bennett after the Living Corpse transformed into a monster.

Raphael completed his advancement to Serial Killer while Backlund was bombed, then uncovered a Feynapotter spy operation tied to the Kent Machinery Factory. After killing the operation’s leaders with Xio, he handed the Mafia to Carter and left the Tarot Club considering how to prevent his next advancement.

• Raphael finished digesting his Werewolf potion, met Dwayne Dantès, and completed the Unwinged Angel potion by challenging Audrey’s defense of the social order.
• Raphael exchanged the Heart-Congealing Great Method for Audrey’s Zombie characteristic, then advanced to Living Corpse as the White Jade Orb explained God Almighty’s resurrection attempt and Raphael’s connection to Dwayne Dantès.
• Raphael reached Sequence 6 with the Little Jade Body and studied corpse-refining arts, then recognized that the Red Angel possessed Admiral Ludwell and that war was imminent.
• After Feysac airships bombed Backlund, Raphael rescued Harrison and drank the Serial Killer potion, recovering memories of George III’s apotheosis plot and gaining the ability called Falling.
• Raphael led Carter’s Mafia forces and Xio in a raid on the Three Brothers Society, whose members’ memories connected the gang to the Kent Machinery Factory and Feynapotter’s intelligence service.
• Raphael and Xio defeated Disciplinary Paladin Paul and Cazzari, then learned that they had been ordered to conceal Feynapotter’s theft of the Loen Ironclad’s Steam Engine blueprints and components.
• Raphael gave Carter control of the Mafia and left to pursue a more interesting game, while Xio told the Tarot Club about the spy case and Klein proposed withholding Sequence 5 characteristics from Raphael.