Chapter Summaries

Zatanna reported fresh Gargoyle traces near Nov Village, prompting Cameron to split the Mistvale Family’s forces between the village and Wayne Manor to protect both the Gargoyle and the Dark Bible. Bruce prepared for a possible attack from the Sharon Family’s heir, then fell asleep.

• Zatanna returned to Mistvale Manor and showed her family a map marking fresh dark aura in Nov Village, north of Lane Village.
• Cameron reasoned that a disaster in Nov Village could draw Night Watchers away while the Sharon Family’s heir attacked Wayne Manor for the Dark Bible.
• Cameron sent Zatanna, Harley, Sophie, and Leticia to Wayne Manor, while he took Natasha, Sandra, and Esme to Nov Village.
• Bruce put away the Dark Bible, resolved to fight the Sharon Family’s heir if necessary, and went to sleep.

Cruno welcomed Nightwalker Paul Targett to Lane Village and shared his troubling reports about Rhode Town and Bruce Wayne. Daniel Pacino arrived at the church, where Paul revealed that Bruce was the newly discovered Godblood the Church had sent him to investigate.

• Cruno grieved Clint's death and recognized that an unfamiliar presence had entered the church before Paul Targett revealed himself.
• Paul offered to help Cruno investigate the deaths of Night Watchers, Oswid's stolen corpse, and the other incidents in Rhode Town.
• Cruno gave Paul his report on Bruce Wayne and said he suspected Bruce was more than a Godblood.
• Daniel Pacino inspected North Point Cemetery, then went to the church to question Cruno about the battle and its clues.
• Paul told Daniel that Bruce Wayne, whom Daniel did not remember meeting, carried the Goddess of the Night's bloodline.

Daniel learned that Bruce carried the Goddess of the Night’s bloodline, but focused on the Gargoyle investigation and prepared to go to Rhode Town with Smoker Bol. At Wayne Manor, Bruce agreed to exchange residences with the Mistvale Family, who came to protect the manor as the Sharon Family’s heir was expected to arrive within a week or two.

• Cruno reminded Daniel that Bruce was the young man he had contacted during Dragon Lord Mondreton’s descent, and Daniel recalled sensing Bruce’s Night-aligned nature and Spirituality Power.
• Cruno reported that three Night Watchers had died, with no residual Spirituality Power at the cemetery, and that two perpetrators—including an Extraordinary with the Hunter identity—were suspected.
• Daniel asked Smoker Bol to join the operation in Rhode Town, and Bol agreed.
• Bruce woke early for his lessons and learned that the baroness of the Mistvale Family, Zatanna, and their attendants had arrived at Wayne Manor.
• The baroness proposed exchanging residences for a week or two, and Bruce agreed, sending Danvers and the servants to Mistvale Manor while he hosted the visitors.
• Bruce learned from the baroness that the church had begun acting after three Night Watchers died and that the Sharon Family’s people might arrive within a week or two.

Daniel approved Francis’s request to mobilize the Night Watchers, and they tracked their target to a misty woodland near a village. After Archer’s ambush was exposed, he calmly began his escape.

• Daniel approved Francis’s request and ordered the Night Watchers to move that night.
• Francis led the Night Watchers toward the target, with Eccles escorted behind them and Daniel watching from the shadows.
• The Night Watchers followed the glowing pendant into a mist-covered woodland where Paul sensed something strange and Francis ordered a careful search.
• Two rotting corpses burst from the ground, and Francis and Cruno attacked them as Cruno anticipated an archer’s ambush.
• Cruno’s Silver Moon Pendant deflected Archer’s arrows, and the Night Watchers spotted him in a tree and rushed toward him.
• Archer dropped his crossbow and fell backward from the branch, beginning his prepared escape.

Archer escaped through a tunnel while the Night Watchers confronted Bradley Sharon, the Living Dead, who overpowered them with his control over soil. As Bradley taunted the injured pursuers, Archer reached Nov Village and triggered a villager’s mutation, then slipped back into the darkness with thoughts of a girl he had once met.

• Archer escaped through a prepared tunnel as nets briefly trapped the Night Watchers, and Bradley Sharon appeared before them as a Living Dead.
• Francis ordered the Night Watchers to attack Bradley, but Bradley blasted Francis and Cruno aside and evaded the others with his control over mud and earth.
• Bradley taunted the Night Watchers and Daniel, while Smokehead Paul found the tunnel buried and wondered where Archer had gone.
• In Nov Village, Archer left a monster’s face at Kamanda’s door, causing the elderly man to mutate, then reflected on the girl who had once given him bread.
• Archer concealed himself and returned to help Mr. Sharon, with his slaughter in the hunt still ahead.

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• Daniel closed his black umbrella and crossed layers of space to appear before Bradley.
• Daniel drove the umbrella's tip toward Bradley's face at sword-like speed.
• Bradley sensed a surge of Spirituality Power stabbing toward him as his vision blurred.

Bruce dined with the Mistvale Family as they prepared for a possible attack by the Sharon Family, while the Night Watchers confronted Bradley outside Nov Village. Bradley survived an Assassin’s strike and considered heading to Wayne Manor, but the Gargoyle began attacking the village, forcing the Night Watchers’ attention north.

• Bruce learned that the Dark Bible had been unsealed and agreed to guard it as the Mistvale Family prepared for the Sharon Family’s arrival.
• Sophie warned the Mistvale Family that someone from the Sharon Family might come that night, and Mrs. Mistvale told Bruce to protect the Dark Bible.
• Daniel battled Bradley with Spirituality Power while Paul used the distraction to strike Bradley’s neck, gravely wounding him.
• Bradley decided to retreat and considered leaving his soul fragment with the Night Watchers while going to Wayne Manor.
• Black smoke and flames appeared north of Nov Village as the Gargoyle began wreaking havoc, drawing the Night Watchers’ attention.

Bradley escaped after taunting Daniel, while the Night Watchers rushed toward Nov Village to contain Gargoyle’s contamination. Archer tried to delay the Mistvale Family, failed to stop them, and prepared to ambush the approaching Night Watchers.

• Bradley faded away in ghostly form, and the Night Watchers chose to pursue Gargoyle’s contamination in Nov Village instead of chasing him.
• Daniel struggled with his failure to catch Bradley, and Paul reminded him that the Night Watchers had to protect people and limit the damage.
• Archer waited in the woods with traps prepared, intending to hinder the Night Watchers and give Mr. Sharon more time.
• Archer tried to distract Cameron and his daughters, then fired three arrows at them, but Cameron caught all of them and ordered him to leave them alone.
• Archer let the Mistvale Family continue toward Nov Village, then climbed a tree to watch the Night Watchers approach and prepare to attack.

Bradley attacked Wayne Manor to claim the Dark Bible, while Bruce and Zatanna waited in the basement where it had once been sealed. Bradley defeated the Mistvale Family’s ambush, but Cameron returned as he advanced farther into the manor.

• Bruce led the guard dogs to the backyard, then took Zatanna to the basement and told her it was the Dark Bible’s sealing site.
• Bradley arrived at Wayne Manor after his battle with Daniel and a mysterious Assassin, drawn by the manor’s dark aura.
• Bradley broke through Harley’s Fate-Playing Gu and the Baroness’s Bewitching Heart Gu, then defeated the Mistvale servants and family members who tried to stop him.
• Bradley mocked the Mistvale Family and continued into the manor, but Cameron returned and challenged him for calling someone a dog.

Cameron retrieved the Gargoyle from Nov Village and confronted Bradley, who had arranged for the Ghost to steal the Dark Bible from Wayne Manor. The Ghost betrayed Bradley by detonating itself, but Bradley survived and escaped as Archer arrived.

• Cameron found the Gargoyle in the hands of an infected old man in Nov Village, killed him, and took the relic.
• Bradley insulted the Mistvale Family, and Cameron attacked him while refusing his offer to divide the Dark Bible's contents.
• The Ghost entered Wayne Manor's basement carrying the Dark Bible, and Bruce and Zatanna pursued it outside as Bradley's daughters joined the fight.
• Bradley shielded the Ghost and reached for the Dark Bible, but the Ghost attacked him and detonated itself, leaving him injured but alive.
• Bradley warned Bruce about the Dark Bible and the Dark Lord, then tried to escape before Cameron could catch him.
• Archer arrived and fired arrows that stopped Bruce and the others from moving.

Archer rescued Bradley from Wayne Manor and fled through the woods as the Night Watchers tracked them. Back at the manor, Bruce discovered that only he could read the Dark Bible and noticed changes to his Character Status Panel; Archer then sensed the Night Watchers closing in.

• Archer’s explosive arrows drove Cameron and the others back, allowing him to escape with the injured Bradley.
• Cameron rushed into the manor to check on Leticia and Harley, while Bruce recovered the undamaged Dark Bible from the crater.
• Bruce noticed that Grand Trend and his Character Status Panel had changed, then joined the others inside the manor.
• Cameron opened the Dark Bible but could not read it; Bruce could, and Cameron explained that only close blood relatives could see its inherited text.
• Archer carried Bradley through the woods, worried that the Night Watchers would follow Bradley’s soul fragment and that the Mistvale Family might pursue them.
• Archer sensed a human presence among the trees and realized the Night Watchers had caught up with them.

After the Night Watchers pursued Bradley and Archer from Lane Village, Archer used a powerful Boundary Arrow to block them with a wall of flames. Daniel and Cruno could not break through, and Bradley and Archer escaped.

• Francis refused to give Cruno the soul guide until Daniel ordered Cruno to investigate Lane Village with him and three Night Watchers.
• Archer sensed the Night Watchers approaching and fled east with the wounded Bradley on his back.
• Daniel and Cruno caught up to Archer, but Archer chose to use his dangerous arrow ability rather than abandon Bradley.
• Archer fired three arrows into the ground, creating a flaming barrier that Daniel recognized as Boundary Arrow.
• Daniel called off the pursuit, while Cruno fell to his knees and Smokehead Paul watched Bradley and Archer escape.

Bruce hid the Dark Bible from the Night Watchers while Paul privately assessed him for the Nightfall Association. After escaping, Bradley killed Archer to prevent him from exposing his whereabouts and disappeared into the soil, vowing revenge on those who had thwarted him.

• Bruce welcomed Cruno, Daniel, and the other Night Watchers to Wayne Manor and claimed the Mistvale Family had helped repel an intruder.
• Cruno suspected Bradley had targeted Wayne Manor and noted that Bruce was concealing something from the Church.
• Paul introduced himself to Bruce and asked to speak with him privately about his assessment.
• Bradley woke beside Archer and realized that Archer had failed to disguise his genuine Beyonder Characteristic during their escape.
• Bradley stabbed Archer through the back and pushed him into the river, then buried the blood and fled beneath the soil.

Bruce confirmed that the Wayne Family carried the Goddess of the Night’s bloodline and accepted an invitation to become a Nightwalker. After the church left, Cameron warned him that the family’s bloodline would attract evil and that Danvers lacked the spirituality to become an Extraordinary.

• Paul Targett showed Bruce a record linking the Wayne Family to the Goddess of the Night, then confirmed Bruce’s divine bloodline with a crystal ball.
• Paul invited Bruce to join the Nightfall Association as a Nightwalker, and Bruce accepted the church’s offer.
• Daniel questioned Cameron about his connection to Bradley, but Cameron refused to reveal his secret or predict the Living Dead’s next move.
• After the church members left, Bruce assured Cameron that he had not disclosed what happened at the manor and told him he had joined the Nightfall Association.
• Cameron said Danvers lacked the spirituality to become an Extraordinary and warned that the Wayne Family’s bloodline would draw evil toward its descendants.

Bruce read a message from the Wheel of Fate outlining the destinies tied to his past choices, then considered his next steps in Metropolis. In Lane Village, Cruno prepared to resign and pursue Bradley, while Paul warned him about the danger and noted that Bruce was expected to become a Nightwalker.

• Bruce read the Wheel of Fate’s email, which linked his choices to destinies involving Primordial Darkness, the Old Gods, magic, the Dark Lord, wealth, and nocturnal creatures.
• Bruce reviewed his plans to visit Walkervis, resolve Fawcett’s matter, join the Nightfall Association, attend Isco Higher Academy, and visit the National History Museum.
• Cruno wrote a resignation letter, saying he intended to find Bradley and recover the Night Watchers’ leader’s body.
• Paul warned Cruno that he was no match for Bradley and that recovering his lost soul in Sleeping Hell, the Eternal Frost Glacier, would be perilous.
• Paul told Cruno that Bruce’s file had been transferred to Metropolis and that the Church’s Archbishops considered Bruce important.

Danvers showed Bruce a black rose that had appeared on her body, and his attempt to examine it sent him into a vision of a ritual in Wayne Manor’s basement. The vision ended as a mysterious voice announced a Witch, leaving the ritual’s purpose and connection to Danvers unresolved.

• Danvers returned to Wayne Manor, saw the damage from the previous night, and asked Bruce what had happened.
• Bruce told Danvers he was an Extraordinary and had joined the Goddess of the Night Church, easing her fear.
• Danvers locked the study door and revealed that a black rose had appeared on her skin three weeks earlier.
• Bruce touched the rose with his Spirituality Power and collapsed as violent images overwhelmed him.
• Bruce witnessed a vision of four black-robed men performing a bloodline-stealing ritual on a woman who looked like Danvers, while two children watched.
• A mysterious woman's voice filled the basement, and one of the men identified her as a Witch.

Bruce witnessed an illusion of the Primordial Witch confronting the Wayne Family after they accidentally stole the Witch Family’s bloodline through a blood exchange. She spared Ashaya and the children, then noticed Bruce watching the scene.

• Bruce recognized that the murmuring presence was a powerful Witch arriving in the basement.
• The Primordial Witch accused the black-robed Wayne Family members of stealing her family’s bloodline and rejected their offer to join the Witch Family.
• The Primordial Witch shattered the Wayne Family’s magical traps and ordered the four adults to atone with their lives.
• The Primordial Witch agreed to spare the children, erase their memories, and have Ashaya raise them until the Witch Family came to collect them.
• The four black-robed figures killed themselves, and the Primordial Witch sealed the children’s memories before turning to greet Bruce.

After touching the Black Rose, Bruce recovered from an illusion of the Wayne Family’s bloody past and confirmed that the two children he had seen were his father Jack and uncle Flaikent. He concluded that Danvers had awakened the Witch bloodline and began considering the secrets behind it and the Dark Lord’s possible return.

• Bruce woke in his bedroom and recalled witnessing the Primordial Witch confront the Wayne Family after they stole the Witch Family’s bloodline.
• Bruce asked Danvers for childhood photographs of her father, and she showed him an album containing pictures of Jack and Flaikent as boys.
• Danvers confirmed that the two boys in the photograph were her father and Bruce’s father, verifying Bruce’s guess about the figures in the illusion.
• Bruce concluded that the Black Rose was the Witch Family’s mark and that Danvers had awakened its bloodline, though she lacked the spirituality to become a Witch.
• Danvers said the Mistvale Family had stopped asking about Bruce’s collapse, and Bruce told her not to reveal what had happened.
• Bruce considered whether the Dark Lord would return and questioned how the stolen bloodline had passed to Danvers before opening the Character Status Panel.

Bruce prepared to travel from Rhode Town to Walkervis, where he planned to attend a Charity Ball and address Fawcett’s problem. After settling his travel arrangements, he waited at the Carriage Agency for the carriage and coachman.

• Bruce saw that the Character Status Panel’s Grand Trend information about Danvers had disappeared, and he reassured her that the Church would protect her.
• The recovering Mistvale family left Wayne Manor, and Cameron gave Bruce advice about attending the Charity Ball and expanding the Security Company’s business.
• The Goddess of the Night Church delivered Bruce his appointment letter and identity badge, which would let local Night Watchers recognize and assist him.
• Bruce packed his belongings, including Fawcett, a Dark Bible, a Cane Sword, and a dagger, and told Danvers he planned to travel to Walkervis alone.
• Danvers urged Bruce to hire guards and take extra money, but he declined her company and reassured her he could protect himself as an Extraordinary.
• Bruce completed the Carriage Agency’s rental paperwork and payment, then waited for his carriage and coachman to be arranged.

Bruce traveled by carriage from Rhode Town toward Walkervis, where he planned to attend a charity gala, and his journey paused when he caught up with a large caravan. The caravan’s elderly passenger ordered her people to clear a path for the travelers behind them.

• Bruce hired Lawrence Rich to drive him from Rhode Town to Walkervis and decided not to pay extra to travel through the night.
• Bruce rested in the carriage until it stopped behind a caravan blocking the road.
• A caravan guard questioned Bruce and Lawrence, then rode away after deciding they posed no threat.
• Bruce criticized the guard’s rude manner, while Lawrence praised his intimidating presence.
• The elderly woman in the caravan learned they were blocking the road and told Jolie to have the caravan clear a path.