Recaps

Joey joined Vade Wisker at Earl Aaron’s estate, where Sealed Artifact 0-013 forced everyone into a play and began assimilating them into their assigned roles. After using the Round Table Hall to protect his consciousness, Joey searched for Vade and found him embracing a mysterious woman in the garden.

• Vade Wisker brought Joey to Earl Aaron’s estate and warned him to keep repeating his own name because 0-013 had gone out of control.
• Joey learned that 0-013 directed a play, that the maids were already dead, and that the real Earl Aaron was imprisoned in the basement.
• When the castle’s clock struck, Joey was assigned the role of a stablehand while Vade began acting as a servant.
• Joey split off part of his consciousness to the Round Table Hall, allowing him to resist 0-013’s mental assimilation and move freely around the estate.
• Joey searched for Vade and found him embracing a woman in a garden, prompting Joey to complain that the director should recast him.

Joey and Vade entered Earl Aaron’s castle as Sealed Artifact 0-013’s influence intensified, and the artifact altered reality until Joey’s pursuers became his allies. After learning that Wayne led the operation to find the Book of Ebola, Joey’s thoughts of joining the Necromancer Sect destabilized the Round Table Hall, forcing him to transfer his consciousness there.

• Joey found Vade resisting mental assimilation, and Vade warned that 0-013 was growing stronger as someone tried to undo its seal.
• Vade revealed that Earl Aaron had sought help from the public security office because political turmoil surrounding the second prince, Charles, made imperial factions wary of taking sides.
• At the basement entrance, Vade ordered Joey to wait while he went inside, and Joey’s coin tosses repeatedly foretold danger.
• Necromancer Sect disciples attacked Joey, but 0-013 rewrote the situation so they treated him as an ally and told him that Priest Wayne led their search for the Book of Ebola.
• After learning Wayne had reached Sequence 6, Joey considered joining the Defiler pathway, destabilizing the Round Table Hall and prompting him to transfer his consciousness into it.

Joey encountered Wayne and Vade Wisker inside the castle, where 0-013’s Decrees blocked their abilities and prevented Joey from escaping. Vade stayed behind to keep the Necromancer Sect from reaching Earl Aaron, while Joey was forced back into the manor as the sect’s rituals spread across Senegal.

• Joey found Wayne fighting off blue electrical attacks, and his thrown dagger only grazed Wayne before Vade Wisker’s attack was canceled by a Decree.
• Vade learned that the Necromancer Sect knew 0-013’s true name, the Book of Ebola, and planned to find Earl Aaron to reach it.
• Joey told Vade that the Evil God’s influence and 0-013’s assimilation had barely affected him, and Vade urged him to escape while he stayed to protect Aaron.
• Joey tried to leave on a white horse, but 0-013’s Decree kept him trapped at the castle exit, so he returned to the manor.
• Necromancer Sect disciples carried out sacrificial rituals across Senegal as a black-robed High Priest entered an underground cavern.

Nur Maimaiti Plato confronted the awakened Dagon, the true Sea God, after R'lyeh appeared and devastated the surrounding sea. She revealed her power over sunlight and pursued Dagon after asking for his life.

• A black-robed priest performed a blood ritual, and the fiery pattern consumed him as flames died away.
• A woman aboard a royal warship watched as R'lyeh emerged, tentacles attacked the ship, and the crew descended into madness.
• Simmons Herman sealed Mermaid Island behind a barrier after its inhabitants began attacking one another, then repeatedly prayed to the unresponsive Sea God.
• R'lyeh merged with a mass of stitched flesh, devoured approaching Deep Ones, and cried out that Hydra had betrayed him.
• The woman calmed the sea, cleared the clouds with sunlight, and identified herself to Dagon as Nur Maimaiti Plato.
• Dagon fled when Nur Maimaiti Plato said she had come to take his life, and she followed him.

Joey brought the Book of Ebola, which called itself Azrael, into the Round Table Hall and used it during the gathering. When Clyde asked about recent events at sea, Azrael revealed that a Mermaid Princess had been born in Siberia.

• Joey encountered 0-013 in Earl Aaron's estate and learned that its powers included deduction and prophecy.
• Joey brought 0-013 into the Round Table Hall, where it called him its master and accepted the name Azrael.
• Helena and Clyde joined the gathering after performing rituals to summon the Hermit.
• Clyde gave Joey a transcription of ancient writing, which Joey recognized as script from his own civilization.
• Clyde asked about recent events at sea, and Joey directed him to ask Azrael.
• Azrael wrote that a Mermaid Princess had been born in Siberia.

At the gathering, Joey used the Grade 0 Sealed Artifact to learn the ocean was safe and shared warnings about machinery, technology, and the Supreme Mother Goddess. After the gathering, Clyde prepared to sail, while Joey learned the Artifact could not leave because of its contract; meanwhile, Vade searched for Earl Aaron, who was secretly with Wayne.

• The Grade 0 Sealed Artifact asked Clyde strange questions, then answered that the ocean was safe when he asked whether they could sail.
• Joey read ancient records describing gods, an attempted Apotheosis Calamity, and a monkey that had gone mad, then warned the group about machinery, technology, and the Supreme Mother Goddess.
• Joey ended the gathering and told everyone that future sacrifices would not be needed for transmission.
• Helena returned home to research ancient scripts, while Clyde returned to his ship and announced that they would set sail the next day.
• Joey asked the Grade 0 Sealed Artifact to stay with him, but it said the Aaron Family's contract prevented it from leaving.
• Vade fled pursuers while searching for Earl Aaron, unaware that Aaron was drinking coffee with Wayne.

Wayne met Leila Aaron while Vade and Joey fought their way through the castle, and Vade discovered that Wayne could use transcendent weapons despite 0-013’s decree. Joey helped Vade break the decree’s restriction on firearms, but Wayne survived the gunshots and cut away poisoned flesh as the fight continued.

• Wayne met Leila Aaron, who welcomed him as the Aaron Family’s returning heir, before gunshots interrupted their conversation.
• Vade lured Wayne into a fight, where Wayne wounded him with poisoned flying daggers that the decree could not restrict.
• Joey eliminated the remaining initiates and secretly followed Vade to confront Wayne.
• Joey urged Vade to use his gun and asked Azrael to lift the firearm restriction, allowing Vade to shoot Wayne in the forehead.
• Wayne healed from the gunshot and survived Vade’s further shots, while Vade asked Joey to stall him for one minute.
• Joey struck Wayne with his poisoned weapon, but Wayne cut the affected flesh from his body.

Joey witnessed Wade reveal his demigod power and reunite with Leila, who was exposed as a leader of the Necromancer Sect. After Leila was stabbed, Wade rampaged and began draining the castle and Joey, who escaped into the Round Table Hall for help.

• Wade revealed a terrifying black-hole-like power, while Wayne resisted it with his Living Dead traits and demanded to know where Leila was.
• Leila appeared and used 0-013's Decree to stop time, then Wayne knelt and called her Bishop, revealing her position in the Necromancer Sect.
• Leila and Wade spoke of their love and the life they had once dreamed of sharing, but the Church of the Sun's bell pulled them back to the present.
• An attacker stabbed Leila from behind, sending Wade into a rampage that split Earl Ailu's castle and buried Joey and Wayne in rubble.
• As Wade's power drained energy and blood from his surroundings and Joey, Joey recited the words to enter the Round Table Hall and sought outside help.

After surviving Wade’s rampage at Earl Aaron’s estate, Joey was questioned by the Elder Council’s agents and learned that Wade was still alive. Joey later returned to the ruined estate, found a fragment of 0-013, and brought it home to question it.

• Joey woke among Knights Templar soldiers, who identified him as the sole survivor at Earl Aaron’s estate and questioned him about Wade.
• Joey was held by Military Intelligence for several days, then questioned by a white-bearded Demigod who asked whether Wade had chosen him and confirmed that Wade was alive.
• Joey escaped the interrogation with his memory of the old man erased, then recovered it in the Round Table Hall and realized he had met a Demigod.
• Joey returned to the cordoned estate at night and found a yellowed page of 0-013 beneath the ruined fountain.
• The page told Joey it could answer his questions without obeying the law of conservation, and he returned home to plan what to ask.

Joey learned that war was the Necromancer Sect’s aim and that 0-013 could be freed after Leila’s task was completed. Meanwhile, Vade joined Wayne’s group, learned more about Leila’s plan and the truth about Night Demons, and watched 0-013 absorb the Gate of the Abyss.

• Joey questioned 0-013 about the forces behind the conflict and learned that its freedom depended on completing Leila’s task.
• At the Necromancer Sect’s camp beyond the Great Fog, Wayne revealed that the Empire secretly supported the Sect and accused Vade of causing Leila’s death.
• Wayne told Vade that his mission was to bring the Gate of the Abyss, Sealed Artifact 0-09, into the main city, and explained that contaminated people were sent to be incinerated.
• Val learned that his wife had escaped the Church after becoming contaminated and disappeared into the darkness while searching a Night Demon’s corpse.
• Vade and Wayne’s group reached the Gate of the Abyss, and Wayne used 0-013 to absorb it into the book.

Joey returned to the Outer City to look for Alisa after hearing reports that people were going mad, but he found her room abandoned and ransacked. Meanwhile, a cheerful procession following the Divine Maiden advanced toward Senegal, and its leader was revealed to be Alisa.

• Wayne gathered the Necromancer Sect and rallied its members to storm the Imperial City and overthrow Daniel.
• Joey learned at the Adventurers' Bar that rumors challenged Charles's legitimacy and that madness was spreading through the Outer City.
• Joey traveled to Udil Beckett Farm and found Alisa's room empty, then returned to the Inner City overwhelmed by her disappearance.
• A well-fed procession of commoners following the Divine Maiden advanced toward Senegal in the opposite direction from the Necromancer Sect.
• After an explosion sent black smoke spreading around their cart, a potbellied man rushed inside and called out to Alisa.

Joey awoke poisoned and bound in a basement, where his landlady Naomi Jeff tried to peel off his face and claimed she was preparing to resurrect her husband, Jeff. As Naomi continued a blood ritual, Joey tried to learn who had taught her, but she only told him to guess.

• Joey woke in a candlelit basement, paralyzed by poison, and discovered Naomi Jeff standing over him with a knife.
• Naomi argued with herself, then confessed her love for Joey and said she wanted to peel off his face.
• Naomi mistook Joey for Jeff, became enraged when he refused her food, and told him the story of her romance with her dead husband.
• Naomi placed Jeff's ring on Joey's finger and said he would soon return to her side.
• Joey provoked Naomi by accusing her of betraying Jeff to worship an evil god, and she insisted she was trying to resurrect him.
• Joey asked who had taught Naomi the ritual, but she smiled and told him to guess.

Joey witnessed Naomi perform a ritual to resurrect Erich Jeff through the Gate of All Doors, but Erich’s spirit possessed Naomi instead. Erich revealed that Naomi had imprisoned and mutilated him, leaving Joey caught between the two conflicting accounts of their relationship.

• Naomi opened the door-like painting with a ritual and called for Erich Jeff to return.
• A spirit emerged from the Gate of All Doors and appeared to enter Naomi, whose face changed to a man’s.
• Joey realized that the person speaking through Naomi was Erich, who begged to be released and tried to kill himself.
• Erich told Joey that Naomi had locked him in a cage and cut off his feet, contradicting Naomi’s story of their romance.
• Joey stopped Erich from stabbing himself and insisted that he had no relationship with Naomi.

Joey discovered how Naomi’s obsession with Erich led to Sarah’s imprisonment and the deaths of both women through a ritual, while the strange door and the Book of Ebola hinted at Joey’s unexplained connection to Sealed Artifacts. He asked the Book to investigate the pasts of Naomi, Sarah, and Erich.

• Joey showed Naomi her altered face in a mirror, and she realized the Necromancer Sect had deceived her.
• Joey found Sarah sealed inside a jar, and she explained that Naomi had suspected her of an affair with Erich and imprisoned her while seeking to resurrect him.
• When Joey tried to subdue Naomi, Erich’s personality surfaced, and Sarah began choking before dissolving into bloodlike fluid that flowed into the door.
• Naomi alternated between her own voice and Erich’s as her body melted, then was dragged through the door and vanished.
• Joey summoned the Book of Ebola, which spoke with the door; the door opened onto a street, and Joey asked the Book to deduce Naomi, Sarah, and Erich’s pasts.

Joey returned from the basement to find Senegal engulfed in unrest and a strange, colorful mist, then discovered that Naomi Jeff had survived as a grotesque mass of flesh and tentacles. Naomi admitted she had been deceived into performing ritual magic to regain her youth, and Joey retreated as she crawled toward him.

• Joey found useful potions in a chest, returned 0-013's page to the Great Hall, and emerged onto a street near his home.
• The Sun Clock boomed as rebels attacked and the mist over the main city changed color; Joey suspected 0-013 and the Color Out of Space were directing the chaos.
• Joey heard Naomi Jeff next door and found blood seeping from beneath her door as she pleaded for help and spoke about Erich and her past.
• Naomi opened the door, revealing herself embedded in a tentacled mass of bloody flesh, and said Erich had told her about ritual magic that would give her a noble's skin and beautiful hair.
• Naomi realized the figure she had believed was Erich was not him and begged Joey for another chance to perform the summoning, while Joey backed away from her crawling body.

Joey was trapped by Naomi until Nur Maimaiti Plato appeared and saved him, then revealed overwhelming powers and probed his thoughts. She tried to draw him and herself into the Ashen Space but stopped when she sensed a dangerous presence, leaving Joey captive in her company.

• Naomi ensnared Joey with tentacles after seeing through his attempt to deceive her, while his calls for help went unanswered.
• A woman's voice recited Joey's honorific name and freed him enough to speak, then transported him to a sunny seaside setting.
• The woman introduced herself as Nur Maimaiti Plato, showed she could control the Color Out of Space, and intercepted Joey's thoughts.
• Nur Maimaiti's chanting began pulling Joey's physical body toward the Ashen Space, but she stopped when the sea churned and a powerful presence threatened to emerge.
• Nur Maimaiti served Joey coffee and said she could not yet be targeted by someone, while continuing to read his thoughts and tease him.

Joey met Maimaiti, the God of Mischief, who gave him Antenna worms and a Sequence 7 Fortune Teller potion formula in exchange for learning about his former world. After discovering that Maimaiti had manipulated his experiences with Naomi, Joey used 0-013 in the Round Table Hall to learn that the Color Out of Space had driven Naomi toward despair, leaving him questioning the nature of Divinity.

• Maimaiti revealed that she was an Ancient from before the Calamity Era and asked Joey about the world he had known.
• Maimaiti stole Joey’s thoughts, then gave him Antenna worms and a Sequence 7 Fortune Teller potion formula after he told her about bubble tea.
• Maimaiti returned Joey to West District 9, where he found Naomi’s room empty and concluded she had died in the basement.
• Joey entered the Round Table Hall and learned that Maimaiti had fabricated the 0-013 he encountered in the basement, while the Naomis in the basement and Red House had both been real.
• 0-013 explained that the Color Out of Space had used false memories of a tragic love story to drive Naomi toward despair and death.
• Joey wondered whether the Color Out of Space’s influence revealed the nature of Divinity.

Joey struggled with grief and the spreading chaos as he searched the sealed Sheriff's Office, questioned a replica of 0-09, and tried to keep himself safe. A Guardian Knight brought him before Ramses, who asked whether Joey remembered him.

• Joey passed Naomi's empty home and crossed a riot-torn street where the Color Out of Space stirred people's darker impulses.
• Joey entered the sealed Sheriff's Office, gathered ammunition, and found the storage room for Supernatural Artifacts empty.
• Joey spoke with the replica of 0-09, learned it was connected to someone seeking to use the Artifact's true body, and left without getting a clear answer about its ability.
• Joey prepared lunch at home and reflected on Naomi as the colorful fog grew more vivid outside.
• A Guardian Knight from the Elder Council escorted Joey to the forbidden area, where Ramses asked whether Joey remembered him.

Golas, the Sun Church’s Demigod Bishop, tested Joey’s Sequence 9 digestion and helped him advance to Sequence 8, then asked him to help locate Vade Wisker. Golas revealed that Vade had been his teacher, leaving Joey suspicious of the unusual bond between them.

• Golas told Joey that his Fortune Teller advancement matched an eight-hundred-year-old revelation from Mother Earth and offered him the ingredients for Sequence 8.
• Golas used a crystal ball to confirm that Joey had fully digested his Sequence 9 Potion, and the sphere turned red.
• Joey drank Golas’s Potion and survived its violent effects, becoming a Sequence 8 Fortune Shifter.
• Golas asked Joey to help find Vade Wisker, and Joey followed him into a room filled with Potion equipment.
• Golas told Joey that Vade had been his teacher and that he had sensed Vade’s presence again after his disappearance two hundred years earlier.

Joey advanced to Sequence 8, Fortune Shifter, and used his expanded spiritual perception to locate Wade at Leila Aaron's manor, where he sensed 0-09. As he made his way through Senegal's worsening riots, the Second Prince, Daniel Charles, began assembling forces in the Eastern District.

• Golas used his device to connect Joey to the crystal-ball eyes, letting him survey the Imperial City through Spirit Vision at great cost to himself and the living eyes.
• Joey found Wade at Earl Aaron's ruined manor and saw an illusory door behind him; Wade sensed the observation, and Joey suffered an eye injury before reporting what he had seen to Golas.
• Joey took the Tyrant Wild Thunder from Golas's room and healed with a potion before leaving the Imperial City.
• At Leila Aaron's manor, Wade dismissed the feeling that someone had watched him, while Wayne questioned why he had chosen to open Him there.
• Joey headed toward Earl Aaron's manor through riots and supernatural violence, using his new Fortune Shifter abilities to hide his presence and reflecting on the role of 0-013 and the Color Out of Space.
• In the Eastern District, the Second Prince, Daniel Charles, began assembling forces.

Joey watched Wade Wisker and Golas battle in their Mythical Creature Forms, then encountered Katrin Winter, who had returned with the royal forces to capture Golas. Joey realized the fight was drawing energy into the shadow of a door, but when he and Katrin reached the Knights Templar’s position, they found the knights slaughtered.

• Joey arrived at the Earl Aaron estate and watched Wade Wisker confront his former student Golas, who transformed into a Dark Moon Wolf and attacked him.
• Joey dodged a sudden attack from Katrin Winter, recognized her, and learned that she had come with a formation of the Knights Templar and eight Saint Knights.
• Joey questioned Katrin about the royal forces and the unrest, while Wade and Golas continued fighting and reached a stalemate in their Mythical Creature Forms.
• Joey used Spirit Vision and noticed that energy from the battle was gathering around the shadow of a door beneath Wade and Golas, leading him to suspect that 0-09 was absorbing it.
• Katrin told Joey that the royal family had brought out its trump cards to capture Golas, but Joey and Katrin found the Knights Templar lying dead in a pool of blood.

Joey discovered the Necromancer Sect had taken the Imperial Family’s dark matter and poisoned Katrin before returning to spy on the Disciples. As Joey pursued Wayne and suspected a traitor among the Knights Templar, Golas confronted his former teacher Vade Wisker and invoked a power that promised to bring light.

• Joey learned the Imperial Family’s secret weapon was its collected dark matter, and Katrin used a talisman to locate it in a collapsed building.
• Joey secretly poisoned Katrin with Quenching and left her behind, blaming her for the loss of his family; Katrin chose to suppress the poison and survive.
• Joey returned to the ruins, recognized Wayne among the Disciples, and realized they were building on the Knights Templar’s formation, suggesting a traitor had helped them ambush the knights.
• Wayne left the formation site when the battle sounds grew more urgent, and Joey followed him after draining one worker’s luck instead of sabotaging the formation further.
• Golas’s former teacher, Vade Wisker, withstood his attacks and declared the outcome decided, but Golas revealed he had come prepared and invoked, “Let There Be Light.”

Wade and Joey confronted Golas, Wayne, and the force behind their attempt to open Sealed Artifact 0-09, while civil war erupted across Senegal as Charles and Alisa’s armies attacked the Imperial City. Alisa’s forces breached the gates, and Beckett concealed his ambitions as he promised to bring her to Joey.

• Wade shattered Golas’s binding light, and Joey arrived to warn that Golas’s people were dead and the Dark Matter had fallen into the Disciple’s hands.
• Wayne revealed his betrayal and opened a box containing 0-09; after he recited the Defiler’s Honorific Name, Golas realized the being that had empowered him was the Defiler.
• Wade urged Joey to flee the Imperial Family’s struggles, but Joey stayed as the scene shifted to the armies gathering outside the Imperial Capital.
• Beckett rallied commoners behind Alisa, and soldiers poured through the opening gates as Charles launched an assault at the East Gate.
• Alisa asked Beckett why they had to fight and said she wanted to grow flowers; Beckett promised that a world without nobles would make Joey happy.
• After telling Alisa that Joey was in the Inner City, Beckett ordered guards to protect her and reflected that he had once been ordered to kill her.

Joey witnessed Wayne and Golas’s schemes unravel as Wayne unleashed dark matter and revealed a plan to open the Gate of the Abyss using Senegal’s citizens. Wade appeared to have anticipated the plot, but the chapter ended with 0-013 forbidding anyone from leaving as war broke out across the imperial city.

• Wade explained that the Revelation Prophecy had been fabricated by the Necromancer Sect, while Golas and Wayne suddenly attacked him and Wayne trapped Joey in a mental blockade.
• Wayne rejected Golas as a mere tool, unleashed the dark matter, and revealed that the Church had arranged Golas’s advancements; Golas was devoured by the bugs.
• Wayne summoned the Gate of the Abyss and admitted he intended to sacrifice Senegal’s citizens to open a passage to another world.
• Joey broke free after Golas died and realized Wade had been playing along with the schemes, while the dark matter bugs gathered harmlessly around Wade.
• Wayne claimed the Gate’s magic had spread across the land, then 0-013 decreed that nobody could leave as Joey heard that the armistice had been broken and war had begun.

Joey discovered that Wayne had manipulated his life and arranged his path to becoming a Fortune Teller, while Wade remained entangled in the conspiracy surrounding the Gate of the Abyss. Joey fled but found Earl Aaron Manor sealed, as Wayne revealed he was pursuing the plan because Leila had wanted to see the world beyond.

• Joey suspected Wade of allowing the planned massacre to proceed and tried to keep himself unnoticed.
• Joey attempted to kill Wayne, but Wayne trapped him with a swarm of insects and revealed that the sect had engineered Joey’s advancement into a Fortune Teller.
• Wayne revealed that Tony Crevi had been a shadow identity, and Joey realized Wayne had manipulated his circumstances while Alisa had acted independently.
• Joey rejected the manipulation and fled, but he found a black barrier sealing Earl Aaron Manor and hid inside.
• Wade questioned Wayne’s motives, and Wayne explained that he continued the plan because Leila had wanted to see the world beyond.