Chapter Summaries

Raphael broke the cross inside the Dark Hut, exposing God Almighty’s statue and sealing the Chaos Sea’s aura beneath a colorful membrane, though God Almighty’s power remained active. After learning how the second Master of the Shadow Cottage had resisted God Almighty, Raphael returned to the real world and traveled to Gass Island to take possession of it.

• Raphael used the Mother Tree of Desire’s curse and his puppets to destroy the cross, but God Almighty’s statue emerged and attacked him with holy light and Pure White Spears.
• Raphael escaped the attack, sealed the Chaos Sea’s aura within the Dark Hut, and used a phantom and magma to keep scouring the glowing membrane.
• Raphael asked the second Master of the Shadow Cottage how he had resisted God Almighty, then returned to the real world and found Daniel’s letter appointing him lord of Gass Island.
• Klein sensed power returning from Raphael, used True Vision to confirm that Raphael had advanced to Marionette, and decided to have Justice or Judgment observe him.
• The Master of the Shadow Cottage sensed a disturbance in the Dark Hut and learned that a disciple at a branch headquarters had gained abilities from the Five Lakes Sword Sect.
• Raphael exchanged his Warrior Bible for the island documents, declined the governor’s request to help rule the archipelago, retained the Governor’s Residence staff, and inspected Gass Island.

After advancing to Sequence 4, Raphael studied the Demon Source Scripture and experimented with drawing power from the Chaos Sea’s aura in the Colorful Lamp, but found he needed a stronger medium. He sent Queen Mystic and Cattleya to the Forsaken Land of the Gods, sought intelligence for the coming war, and ended the chapter discovering the Hanged Man Card of Blasphemy in the Aurora Order’s storeroom.

• Raphael planned to lead the people of Sorn City from the Giant King's Court to Gass Island and prepared to advance his campaign against Bidisis City-State.
• Raphael studied the sixth level of the Demon Source Scripture, including its cultivation principle and its many curses, then considered using its methods against the Chaos Sea aura in the Colorful Lamp.
• Raphael sent Bernadette and Cattleya to the Forsaken Land of the Gods, where they felt the overwhelming power of the Lord of Evil Desires before arriving safely on a dark plain.
• Raphael drew on the Shadow World's power to attack the Colorful Lamp, but concluded he needed an Angel-level medium to seize the Chaos Sea aura.
• Raphael told Benjamin that he had advanced to Sequence 4 and received permission to use the Aurora Order's Beyonder storeroom while Freddy was absent.
• Raphael visited the Grade 1 Sealed Artifact storeroom and found the Hanged Man Card of Blasphemy inside a wooden box.

Raphael used the Hanged Man Card of Blasphemy to separate God Almighty’s influence from the Dark Hut’s aura, then prepared for the war in the Forsaken Land of the Gods as fighting reached Backlund. He arranged reinforcements for Sorn City and coordinated with Audrey, Queen Mystic Bernadette, and Dwayne, while Backlund’s northern skyline burned.

• Raphael took the Hanged Man Card of Blasphemy into the Dark Hut and used it to separate the Dark Hut’s power from the chaos sea aura, sealing the latter in a crystal.
• Raphael inspected Sorn City’s war preparations with Priest Zed and Speaker Dohaden Hawk, then learned that explosions in the north signaled the Feysac advance toward Backlund.
• At the Haunted House, Audrey told Raphael she would stay in Backlund to protect her family and described nobles aiding the Feysac Army and evil secret organizations; Raphael encouraged her to punish them and agreed to help.
• Raphael continued removing chaos sea aura from the Dark Hut and projected his power to the Master of the Shadow Cottage, arranging for fourteen cultivators to join the fight in three days.
• Raphael summoned Queen Mystic Bernadette to Sorn City and asked Mr. Fool to tell Dwayne that the operation would begin in three days, as explosions continued near Backlund.

Raphael and Audrey exposed Viscount Falco’s worship of the Uncertain Mist, while Raphael gathered Klein, Bernadette, and Dark Hut disciples for a campaign against Bidis City. As the attack neared, a messenger of the True Creator arrived in Sorn City and Raphael sensed trouble.

• Raphael accompanied Audrey to confront Viscount Falco, whose music box corrupted him and caused his head to burst after Audrey shut it; she arranged for the authorities to discover the scene.
• Raphael traveled to Sorn City, where Bernadette, Cattleya, Klein, and fourteen Dark Hut disciples joined the planned war against Bidis City.
• Klein warned Bernadette about Amon and discussed the Western Continent, while Raphael’s charms enabled the Dark Hut disciples to communicate in Jotun.
• Bernadette offered a teleportation technique, and the war council approved sending Cattleya, Klein, Duan Ze'en, and Coleman ahead to prepare an array near Bidis City.
• Audrey watched as the war reached Backlund’s suburbs, while Bidis City’s lord summoned the faithful after receiving a revelation from the True Creator.
• As Sorn City prepared to attack, Dohaden reported that a messenger of the True Creator had come to request an audience, alarming Raphael.

Ramsey revealed that the True Creator and the Evernight Goddess had planned to ambush the Supernova Dominator, but its descent into Bidis City had reached a critical stage. Klein’s group battled empowered Saints while Sorn City’s forces teleported to the front, where they faced a vast tide of light.

• Raphael met Ramsey, who explained the gods’ plan to trap the Supernova Dominator and promised support from two Angels and six Saints.
• Klein sensed danger near Bidis City as an unnatural light descended, transforming the City Lord into a guide for the Supernova Dominator.
• Raphael sent Liang Jitang and other reinforcements toward Bidis City, while Klein fought two empowered Saints and summoned Mr. Azik and Lady Arianna.
• Liang Jitang injured the Angel-level Light-Orb Monster by detonating its desire, and Klein’s group restrained it as Cattleya completed the Magic Array.
• Bernadette led Raphael and Sorn City’s forces through the Netherworld to the front, where they encountered more than a thousand light-covered attackers.
• Raphael ordered the newly arrived forces to prepare for battle and used Impart Desire and Detonate Desire to bring down an enemy Saint.

Raphael and the allied Saints fought their way into Bidis City to interrupt the Supernova Dominator’s descent, but the entity fully entered the real world and began moving toward Chernobyl. Raphael prepared to act with the main account as Bradel’s corpse rushed toward the city.

• Raphael and the Saints defeated the advancing, light-empowered crowd outside Bidis City, then entered the city to reach its Sacrificial Hall.
• Raphael killed the Prophet who tried to create a small-scale fusion explosion and helped clear the path to the Light Giant guiding the Supernova Dominator’s descent.
• Ramsey summoned Philanias, and Strand arrived to join Philanias in attacking the Light Giant, but the Supernova Dominator’s light rain killed several Saints and forced the survivors to retreat.
• Ouroboros used Restart to reverse the Light Giant’s growth, but a hand seized the giant and the Supernova Dominator fully descended above Bidis City.
• The Supernova Dominator floated toward Chernobyl as Bradel’s corpse ran toward Bidis City, and Raphael realized the main account was preparing to intervene.

Raphael tried to delay the Supernova Dominator from reaching Chernobyl while the Evernight Goddess, the God of Combat, and the Earth Mother fought above Backlund. Amon and the True Creator teleported the Supernova Dominator away from Chernobyl, and the Evernight Goddess drew it into the Astral World, where Raphael remained trapped inside it.

• Raphael lured the Supernova Dominator with the Chaos Sea's aura and discovered that its power was unstable after arriving on Earth.
• William I, angels, and other observers gathered as the God of Combat and the Earth Mother joined the Evernight Goddess in the divine war above Backlund.
• Raphael sent Bradel's Zombie to attack the Supernova Dominator, but the deity trapped Bradel and pulled Raphael's Lord of Evil Desires into its body.
• Amon stole the Supernova Dominator's blast of light while the True Creator activated Chernobyl's teleportation array, sending the deity away with Amon and the True Creator.
• The Supernova Dominator's arrival in the Astral World gave the Evernight Goddess room to fight back, and she pulled it between herself, the God of Combat, and the Earth Mother.

The gods fought the Supernova Dominator after the Evernight Goddess drew him into the Astral World, while Raphael consulted the Oldest One about escaping and sealing him. The Lord of Evil Desires, taken over by the Oldest One, sealed the Supernova Dominator, but the God of Combat and the Evernight Goddess resumed their unresolved battle.

• The Evernight Goddess, the God of Combat, and the Earth Mother fought the Supernova Dominator, while Amon and the True Creator joined the battle and helped create an opening to attack him.
• Raphael spoke with the Oldest One, learned that the Supernova Dominator had only partly crossed the barrier, and agreed to let the Oldest One seal him in the Dark Hut.
• The Oldest One took over the Lord of Evil Desires, who emerged from the Supernova Dominator, trapped him in a Spirituality Cage, and swallowed him.
• The Lord of Evil Desires vanished after sealing the Supernova Dominator, and the True Creator, Amon, and the watching angels left the battlefield or watched in shock.
• The God of Combat resumed his fight with the Evernight Goddess, and the Earth Mother turned her gaze toward the center of his back.

After the gods defeated the Supernova Dominator’s attempt to enter the world, Raphael and the Saints searched the ruined Bidis City for spoils. Raphael secured two Grade 0 Sealed Artifacts and offered both to the Lord of Evil Desires, while Klein learned their properties and Liang Jitang received a promise of advancement formulas.

• The Earth Mother and Evernight Goddess killed the God of Combat, while Raphael watched the battle and monitored the Supernova Dominator sealed in the Dark Hut.
• Raphael dismissed the barrier outside Bidis City and led Klein, Bernadette, and Liang Jitang into the ruins to collect scattered Characteristics.
• The Light Giant’s dying heart became a dangerous Sealed Artifact, and Klein divined how to survive its changing lights before Raphael sealed it and let Klein touch it.
• The group found the damaged Book of Wisdom, and Raphael offered Liang Jitang advancement formulas in exchange for withdrawing from the contest for it.
• After Klein examined the Book of Wisdom, Raphael offered it to the Lord of Evil Desires.

After Sorn City celebrated its victory over Bidis City, Raphael arranged the city’s allegiance and planned its people’s escape from the Forsaken Land of the Gods. He also agreed to recommend Raphael for the Tarot Club, while Philanias reclaimed her body and Raphael discovered the Oldest One had sealed the Supernova Dominator again.

• The four Saints divided Bidis City’s Sealed Artifacts and Beyonder characteristics, then returned to Sorn City, where the city celebrated its victory.
• Raphael and Ramsey agreed that Sorn City would worship the Lord of Evil Desires, and Raphael answered Bernadette’s questions about reaching the Western Continent and confirmed that Roselle had never visited it.
• Raphael asked Klein to recommend him for the Tarot Club, and Klein agreed to seek Mr. Fool’s approval.
• Raphael gave Liang Jitang potion formulas and told Sorn City’s leaders to prepare for an evacuation through the entrance to the Forsaken Land of the Gods.
• Philanias reached Saint Samuel Cathedral, pledged allegiance to the Evernight Goddess, and reentered her physical body, the sealed artifact 0-17.
• Raphael returned to the Dark Hut and found the Supernova Dominator trying to escape, but the Oldest One sealed it again.

Raphael experimented with combining the Chaos Sea’s aura and the Supernova Dominator’s power, creating a crystal that let him wield powerful abilities. He joined Klein and the City of Silver’s demigods at the Giant King’s Court, where he controlled the entrance guardians and then took control of attacking statues.

• Raphael used the Chaos Sea’s aura, tainted with the Shadow World’s power, to draw a sliver of the Supernova Dominator’s power into a crystal and discovered it could grant him several Sequence 4 abilities.
• Two days later, Raphael followed the Spirit World’s guidance to the Giant King’s Court and met Klein, Colin Iliad, Derrick Berg, Lovia, and the City of Silver’s other demigods.
• Klein explained that opening the Giant King’s Residence had caused unexpected changes in the divine kingdom, and the group planned to explore the court together.
• Raphael controlled the two Silver Knights guarding the entrance and made them destroy each other, then claimed their separated characteristics.
• After the group reached the palace road, its stone statues came to life, and Raphael turned ten of them into marionettes.

Klein, Raphael, and the City of Silver Saints defeated Enuni and Klein’s corrupted shadow outside the Giant King’s palace, then entered to confront the Dark Angel. They found Sasrir seated on a throne in the darkness.

• Raphael and Klein fought Klein’s corrupted shadow while Colin, Derrick, and Lovia battled Enuni.
• Raphael weakened the shadow with spirit-targeting curses, and Raphael used a composite charm to destroy it as Klein restrained it.
• Raphael pinned Enuni with Gravity Wave, allowing Colin, Derrick, and Lovia to kill him.
• The group reached the palace entrance and discovered that even an inanimate stone sent inside to scout became corrupted.
• Derrick led the group into the palace, where they passed through unstable shadows and found Sasrir sitting on an iron-black throne.

Klein and Raphael questioned the Dark Angel Sasrir’s lingering mental imprint and learned that the Ancient Sun God had arranged Rose Redemption to kill him when the Primordial began awakening. As Sasrir’s evil spirit awoke, the Lord of Evil Desires appeared and began sealing him.

• Klein, Raphael, Colin, Lovia, and the others approached Sasrir, whose surroundings revealed brass-colored eyes that recognized Sefirah Castle and the Shadow World.
• Raphael learned that the speaker was a remnant mental imprint of the Ancient Sun God and suspected Pain was the hidden third consciousness.
• The imprint explained that Sasrir’s body had become an evil spirit after being invaded by the chaos sea, and that the Shadow World could help seal him.
• Klein asked why Rose Redemption had assassinated the Ancient Sun God, and the imprint revealed that the Primordial was awakening within him and the betrayal of the White Angel, Storm Angel, and Wisdom Angel helped cause the Great Cataclysm.
• Sasrir opened his eyes, and the Lord of Evil Desires appeared above the group and began sealing the Dark Angel’s evil spirit.

Klein and Raphael helped the City of Silver reach the outside world after Amon seized the Blasphemy Slate and the Dark Angel's evil spirit was sealed. Raphael returned to Backlund, prepared for the City's pilgrimage, and answered his first summons to the Tarot Club.

• The Lord of Evil Desires trapped the Dark Angel's evil spirit with Chaos Sea aura and sealed it inside the Dark Hut.
• Amon took the Blasphemy Slate after it revealed the sequences Attendant of Mysteries and Dark Angel, then fled from the True Creator's pursuing hand.
• Colin and his companions opened the door behind the throne and saw the sunlit sea outside the Forsaken Land of the Gods.
• Klein drank the Miracle Invoker potion, while Raphael returned to Sorn City and told Speaker Dohaden to prepare an advance party.
• Raphael used the sealed Dark Angel to draw Chaos Sea aura and stockpiled supplies for Sorn City's pilgrimage.
• At two fifty on Monday, Raphael was summoned to the Tarot Club and greeted Mr. Fool.

Raphael joined the Tarot Club as Devil and listened as its members discussed a recent divine war and uncovered the Earth Mother's true identity. Mr. Fool's clues led them to conclude that the Earth Mother was Lilith, the Progenitor of the Sanguine.

• Raphael drew the Devil card and joined the Tarot Club under that name.
• Audrey recognized Raphael and explained the gathering's trading and information-sharing segments.
• Leonard reported that the Evernight Goddess had defeated the Earth Mother and the God of Combat in a divine war above Backlund.
• Derrick revealed that the real Omebella had died long ago and that her remains were in the City of Silver.
• Mr. Fool gave clues linking the Earth Mother to the Moon pathway and the Sanguine, leading the members to identify her as Lilith.

At the Tarot gathering, Raphael revealed information about the Evernight Goddess’s angel Philanias and the history behind the Divine War. He began explaining how the Evernight Goddess and the True Creator lured an Outer Deity into the barrier, leaving the details of the conflict unfinished.

• Emlyn realized that the Mother Goddess was the Sanguine Ancestor, while Leonard said the Earth Mother might gain an honorific title and revealed that the Church of Evernight had gained an angel named Philanias.
• Raphael said Philanias had been stationed in the Forsaken Land of the Gods by the Evernight Goddess and had returned after completing her mission.
• Raphael explained that the True Creator had a developed church and faith system in the Forsaken Land of the Gods, where the Evernight Goddess had discovered and watched a city worshipping an Outer Deity.
• Raphael confirmed that the city, Bidis City, had recently been destroyed, disappointing Derrick.
• Audrey recalled sensing other gods during the Divine War, and Raphael began recounting how the Evernight Goddess searched the Forsaken Land of the Gods for the Underworld Emperor’s resurrection arrangements.
• Raphael said the Evernight Goddess and the True Creator eventually used bait to draw the Outer Deity inside the barrier, while Klein suspected the bait had been the Chaos Sea.

At the Tarot Club, the World warned that the apocalypse would arrive in a little over a decade, while Raphael planned his advancement and searched Backlund for a way to digest his Desire Apostle potion. The chapter left Raphael using his abilities to draw hungry residents from East Borough toward West Borough.

• Devil Raphael told the Tarot Club that the gods had sealed the Supernova Dominator and described how the Earth Mother betrayed the God of Combat during the war.
• Sun Derrick described the City of Silver’s advance party, Alger discussed the reshaped maritime order, and Audrey planned to confront Loen nobles tied to heretical cults.
• The World warned the Tarot Club that the apocalypse would come in a little over a decade and that even the gods could be destroyed.
• After the meeting, Raphael considered his advancement plans and searched Backlund for a group whose desires could help digest his potion.
• Raphael found that East Borough’s residents shared a powerful desire for food, then used Marionette and Control Desire to make them hungry and draw them toward West Borough.

Raphael used a mass hunger frenzy in Backlund to digest his Desire Apostle potion, then staged a puppet show with corpses that drew in vagrants and the Official Beyonders. The authorities discovered the performers had been dead for hours, while Raphael escaped and continued digesting his potions.

• Leonard Mitchell ordered the Nighthawks and church clergy to respond to hungry crowds breaking into West Borough homes, and the churches calmed the people by preaching.
• Leonard blamed the incident on the Aurora Order and instructed the authorities not to charge the civilians and vagrants who had seized food.
• Raphael realized that guiding people to release their desires had rapidly digested his potion, and he decided to wait before repeating the operation.
• Raphael performed a puppet show for vagrants, whose story depicted a wealthy merchant betrayed by his subordinates, while Postman Amon watched from the Spirit World.
• Mandated Punishers attacked Raphael's hidden puppet show, but the puppets vanished and the vagrant actors collapsed; a Senior Deacon realized the performers were corpses animated with spirituality.

At the Tarot Club, Raphael admitted that he had staged a puppet show to digest his Marionette potion and explained how he was continuing to digest both his potions under tighter surveillance. Queen Mystic, Bernadette, then asked him to help explore an ancient tomb that might hold part of the Death God's remains, and the three set out for its ruins.

• Leonard described a mass food raid and a puppet show case, and Raphael revealed that he had caused the latter to digest his Marionette potion.
• Raphael continued digesting his potions by staging puppet shows and organizing smaller groups of hungry vagrants to raid wealthy homes.
• Zed told Raphael that Bernadette wished to meet the Oracle, so Raphael visited Sorn City and learned she had found an ancient tomb that might contain part of the Death God's remains.
• Bernadette asked Raphael to explore the tomb and potentially have the Lord of Evil Desires seal what they found, and Raphael agreed to join her and Cattleya.
• Raphael prepared the Rainbow Heart and the Book of Wisdom, then accompanied Bernadette and Cattleya to the ruins, where he noticed phoenix motifs.

Raphael, Bernadette, and Cattleya explored the deeper levels of the Underworld Emperor’s mausoleum, where Raphael pieced together a possible resurrection plan involving Azik. They opened the mausoleum’s innermost door and found a figure praying before a statue of the Underworld Emperor.

• Raphael followed Bernadette and Cattleya through the mausoleum to the sixth level, where Bernadette used starlight to conceal them from the divine-kingdom-like structure.
• Raphael studied murals depicting the Phoenix Ancestor and the Underworld Emperor, concluding that they had been altered to support the Underworld Emperor’s claim to legitimacy.
• Raphael read an inscription suggesting that the Death God could rise again when a new Underworld Emperor returned, and inferred that Azik’s ascension to the Balam Empire’s throne might trigger Salinger’s resurrection.
• Bernadette warned Raphael and Cattleya to avoid the bell-wearing corpses in the coffin hall, then led them to the stone door where their exploration had previously stopped.
• Bernadette’s Invisible Servants could not open the frightening door, so Raphael used a projection of the Eye of Illusions to push it open.
• Raphael, Bernadette, and Cattleya saw a stone statue of the Underworld Emperor and a figure in an old-fashioned bishop’s robe praying before it.