Chapter Summaries

Ankewelt tried to kill Audrey before the Sun God’s envisioned dragon could expose him, but Raphael defeated him and secured the materials needed for Audrey’s advancement. Raphael prepared Audrey’s angel potion, leaving her on an uninhabited island with the pale liquid in hand.

• Ankewelt sensed his power draining because the Sun God had envisioned a clone of him, and he flew out to destroy the clues that could expose him.
• Ankewelt attacked Audrey from the collective consciousness sea, but Raphael protected her and fought back after Ankewelt revealed his ambush.
• Raphael resisted the Primordial’s residual psyche, killed Ankewelt, and collected his blood and Beyonder characteristics.
• Raphael made the Discerner characteristic safe for Audrey, then obtained supplementary ingredients and had the Ancient Sun God weave two true identities for her.
• Raphael prepared Audrey’s angel potion and handed her the pale liquid on an uninhabited island.

Audrey advanced to Sequence 5 with the Ancient Sun God’s guidance, then joined Raphael in entering Mr. Fool’s dream under the Evernight Goddess’s watch. They emerged in a modern world resembling Klein’s former home, where they struggled to find him and discovered that the dream had assigned Audrey a wealthy identity.

• Audrey drank her potion, endured the mind world’s assault, and successfully advanced with Raphael’s help and the Ancient Sun God’s guidance.
• A week later, Raphael and Audrey prayed to the Evernight Goddess at Saint Samuel Cathedral, then used a special gold coin and Audrey’s Dream Infiltration to enter Mr. Fool’s dream.
• Raphael and Audrey passed through a mystic door, boarded a train, and found themselves in a subway carriage from the modern world where Klein had once lived.
• They left the subway station and found themselves penniless amid busy traffic and skyscrapers, prompting Raphael to realize he had forgotten to create money.
• A limousine and an elegant female assistant arrived for Audrey, revealing that the dream had given her an identity as a wealthy woman, while the assistant regarded Raphael suspiciously.

Raphael and Audrey entered Zhou Mingrui’s dream, where Raphael reunited with Zhou Mingrui and learned that he had drunk an Assassin potion. As Raphael tried to warn him about Beyonder potions and mental corruption, the barbecue restaurant dimmed when the Celestial Worthy noticed the intruders.

• Raphael got Audrey a spare phone, and they waited outside Zhou Mingrui’s office building until he finished work.
• Raphael met Zhou Mingrui and introduced Audrey, then the three went to a barbecue restaurant.
• Raphael asked Zhou Mingrui about mysterious incidents, and Zhou Mingrui revealed that he had drunk an Assassin potion.
• Raphael warned Zhou Mingrui not to drink more potions and claimed that an Official Beyonder organization had sent him to explain the dangers of the Beyonder world.
• Raphael began explaining Beyonder Characteristics and mental corruption, but the restaurant lights dimmed as the Celestial Worthy noticed him and Audrey.

Raphael and Audrey entered Klein’s dream to deliver Raphael’s plan for awakening Mr. Fool, but the Celestial Worthy trapped them when Raphael exposed his identity. Raphael had already hidden the crucial message in a stone bollard, allowing Klein to receive it and rescue them; back at Saint Samuel Cathedral, Raphael said they had done all they could and needed to wait.

• Raphael and Audrey’s first attempt to teach Zhou Mingrui about resisting mental erosion ended when enormous eyes appeared and Audrey pulled them out of the dream.
• Raphael devised a plan to seal a message into the World’s spirit body and returned to the dream a week later with Audrey and Leonard watching over them.
• Raphael used a childhood memory about playing with a stone bollard to hide his message in it, then confronted Zhou Mingrui and identified him as the Celestial Worthy.
• The Celestial Worthy trapped Raphael and Audrey in a restaurant private room, but Klein appeared and said he had received Raphael’s information.
• Raphael and Audrey returned to Saint Samuel Cathedral, where Raphael told Leonard they had done everything necessary and would now wait.

Derrick discovered a message in the Fool’s Bible that suggested Mr. Fool was beginning to awaken, and the Tarot Club debated whether it was genuine. The members agreed to act on the message, while Audrey suspected Raphael lived in the moving castle and offered to contact him.

• Derrick heard the cathedral bell ring, then found it motionless and the Fool’s Bible altered with a message saying Mr. Fool would return in a year.
• Derrick brought the suspected message to the Tarot Club, where Alger argued it was likely genuine and Xio reported that Amon’s main body had entered the Astral World two months earlier.
• Audrey warned the members not to ask Mr. Fool to judge whether the message was authentic, and Cattleya suggested they could safely follow its instructions regardless.
• The members discussed Raphael’s absence and the strange incidents linked to the Black Mage’s Moving Castle.
• Audrey said Raphael most likely lived in the moving castle and offered to find it and contact him.

Audrey tracked Raphael to his moving castle, delivered Mr. Fool’s message, and learned why Raphael had been creating Beyonder incidents. Raphael then prepared to advance by entering a Southern Continent pharaoh’s tomb and beginning the ritual that would seal him as a mummy.

• Audrey questioned Waughn about strange events in his village, learned of the moving castle, and used a psychological suggestion to make the villagers forget the incident.
• Audrey found Raphael’s moving castle, met the living stuffed doll Brook, and toured the castle before joining Raphael for tea.
• Audrey conveyed Mr. Fool’s thanks to the Lord of Evil Desires and said he could proceed with his plan; Raphael asked whether Mr. Fool had begun to awaken.
• Raphael explained that he needed more anchors to sustain his humanity and argued that his Beyonder incidents gave ordinary people a higher form of feedback than the Rose School’s violence.
• After Audrey left, Raphael told his other personalities to prepare for an advancement attempt and prayed for Mr. Fool to make 100 days in a royal tomb count as 100 years.
• Raphael hid his moving castle in the Spirit World, entered a prepared pharaoh’s tomb, and lay in an emptied coffin so his marionettes could turn him into a mummy.

Raphael underwent the Chained advancement ritual inside a sealed sarcophagus, enduring a century of curses and using the time to refine his Union with the Dao. As he reached the ritual’s climax, he balanced restraint and release, but the Mother Tree of Desire found him and attacked.

• Raphael had his organs removed, was wrapped as a mummy, and was killed by the Lord of Evil Desires, his clone, before the Chained potion was placed inside him.
• The Lord of Evil Desires sealed Raphael in the Royal Tomb while the Fool altered the passage of time and the Evernight Goddess concealed the tomb.
• Raphael endured the potion’s curses for a hundred years and used the prolonged ritual to separate residual-psyche divinity from the Oldest One Personality and investigate rule-related divinity.
• The Lord of Evil Desires sensed the Mother Tree of Desire searching for the Royal Tomb as the six gods held the Astral World barrier against her attacks.
• Raphael’s sarcophagus burst open as his advancement reached its critical point, and he survived the trial of balancing restraint and release.
• The Mother Tree of Desire found Raphael, whose body began sprouting thorn-covered branches and tongues as she attacked him.

Raphael completed his advancement to Chained and survived the Mother Tree of Desire’s attempt to seize control of him, while the Fool and Ancient Sun God intervened against the Great Old Ones threatening him. After becoming the first Chained, Raphael changed several Pathway curses into graces and began exploring his new authorities.

• The Mother Tree of Desire entangled Raphael during his advancement, but he completed it and briefly unleashed the Chained authority, causing widespread supernatural incidents and mutations.
• The Mother Tree of Desire overwhelmed Raphael with emotions and desires, then used his connection to the Shadow World to seize the Dark Hut as Cosmic Darkness emerged from the Abyss to kill him.
• The Demon Personality took control according to Raphael’s contingency plan, used the Mother Tree of Desire’s influence to complete the fifth stage of Union with the Dao, and repelled her vines.
• The Ancient Sun God struck Cosmic Darkness with Holy Light, while the Fool made the Mother Tree of Desire expose her true body beyond Earth’s barrier; the Six Gods concealed her, and she retreated when other Great Old Ones turned toward her.
• Raphael thanked the Ancient Sun God and the Fool, completed his advancement, changed the curses of Werewolves, Zombies, Wraiths, and Marionettes into graces, and summoned his Moving Castle to examine his new authorities.

Raphael examined his newly strengthened authorities after becoming a god, then merged with the Shadow World and reached the level of half a Great Old One. He used God Almighty’s arrangements to awaken Him within the Cosmic Darkness, allowing the Ancient Sun God to suppress that awakening and begin accommodating the Chaos Sea.

• Raphael studied his authorities of restraint, aberrations, curses, and items, then rested before entering the Dark Hut to merge with the Sefirah.
• In the Abyss, the Mother Tree of Desire, God Almighty, and Farbauti argued over how to escape Raphael, unaware that he could merge with the Shadow World far faster than they expected.
• Raphael emerged in the Abyss as half a Great Old One, and the Cosmic Darkness fled deeper into it while he pursued them.
• Raphael used the cross containing God Almighty’s arrangements to strengthen His awakening within the Cosmic Darkness, but God Almighty resisted and declared that He did not want to awaken there.
• The Ancient Sun God intercepted God Almighty’s declaration and issued the higher-level command, preventing His awakening for the time being.
• The Ancient Sun God used the opportunity to begin accommodating the Chaos Sea.