Recaps

Joey survived the Carson Mine sacrifice, became a Fortune Teller, and built a hidden gathering with Helena and Clyde while pursuing strength and a way to protect Alisa. After joining the Survey Corps, he chose a cursed blade and discovered that something inside the Gate of the Abyss had noticed him.

• Joey rescued Alisa from the crashed aircraft, defeated a rampaging creature, and received the Fortune Teller potion formula in exchange for finding her companion.
• Joey advanced in the Carson Mine, escaped Keen’s sacrifice with Katrin’s help, and encountered a mysterious being tied to Huaxia and the ruined Southern Heavenly Gate.
• Joey learned that his sacrifices reached himself, then formed a connection with Helena, who became his first believer and returned to the Third Epoch.
• Wayne attacked Joey’s home while seeking Keen, but Joey resisted memory extraction and later told Vade that he had become a Fortune Teller.
• Joey found Alisa at Udil’s farm and agreed to cooperate over the Hope seeds, while learning that Udil planned to use her in a rebellion.
• Joey established the Heavenly Court gathering with Helena and Clyde, learned about threats including the Color Out of Space and R’lyeh, and used Azure Dragon to trade information for ingredients.
• Joey reported a Necromancer Sect disciple’s advancement ritual to Wade, joined the Survey Corps’ inner ranks, and selected the cursed Weeping Blade.
• The Gate of the Abyss opened on its own as Joey was leaving, and he thought he heard a baby giggle.

Joey became a Sequence 8 Fortune Shifter as the Necromancer Sect and the Imperial forces drove Senegal into war. He learned Wayne had engineered his advancement and intended to sacrifice the city to open a passage to another world, while Joey fled into the sealed Earl Aaron Manor.

• Vade brought Joey to Earl Aaron’s estate, where Joey learned that 0-013 was directing a play and the real Earl Aaron was imprisoned in the basement.
• Joey brought 0-013 into the Round Table Hall, where it accepted the name Azrael and revealed that a Mermaid Princess had been born in Siberia.
• Vade and Wayne fought over Leila, but her death drove Vade into a rampage that destroyed Earl Aaron’s castle and left Joey buried in the rubble.
• Joey questioned 0-013 and learned its freedom depended on completing Leila’s task, while Wayne absorbed the Gate of the Abyss into the book and rallied the Necromancer Sect against Daniel.
• Joey survived Naomi Jeff’s grotesque transformation and met Nur Maimaiti Plato, who gave him Antenna worms and a Sequence 7 Fortune Teller potion formula.
• Golas gave Joey the Sequence 8 potion, making him a Fortune Shifter, then asked him to help find Vade Wisker.
• Joey watched Vade and Golas fight at Earl Aaron’s estate, discovered 0-09 was absorbing their power, and learned Wayne’s disciples had taken the Imperial Family’s dark matter.
• Wayne revealed that the Necromancer Sect had engineered Joey’s advancement and planned to sacrifice Senegal’s citizens to open a passage to another world, while Joey fled into the barrier sealing Earl Aaron Manor.

Joey uncovered the plan behind the Gate of the Abyss, witnessed Alisa’s return and the destruction of the Forsaken Land, then resumed life in a new identity while confronting supernatural forces tied to Freya and the Red Moon. The arc left Nome alive and advanced after Shanlin’s death, while Joey continued searching for Barbara and Freya.

• Joey learned from 0-013 that Leila had planned the coup and the Gate of the Abyss to open an escape route from the Forsaken Land, and discovered that Tony Crevi had prepared a way out for him.
• Wade killed Golas, but Michelit seized power in the Empire and had Alisa executed before Joey could save her.
• Maimaiti and Yvon fought over the Gate of the Abyss as Wayne sacrificed himself, and the Defiler descended while Joey’s power helped halt the battle.
• Alisa returned as the Goddess of Life, revealed that she and the Sage Tree had shaped events to open a passage to the stars, and sent Senegal’s survivors through the Gate of the Abyss.
• Wade carried Joey to Wayne’s contingency doorway and sent him through, staying behind as his holy light faded.
• Joey woke with Joey Clive’s memories and reunited with Barbara and Wilson, but Harvey Jeffrey attacked him and later abducted Barbara before Freya and Nome helped rescue her.
• Joey and Nome investigated Freya’s disappearance and traced the supernatural events to a publisher’s house, where Nome recalled his romance with Shanlin and the wedding horror that revealed Shanlin as Abu.
• Nome helped defeat the infant born from Shanlin after advancing to Sequence 6 Punishment Priest, and emerged from the withered cocoon as Cain asked whether he had succeeded.

Joey uncovered the Black Church’s ritual and Nome’s death, then pursued clues about Barbara and joined a group seeking the Dreamscape’s secrets. Trapped in a mansion with the group, Joey exposed Rugger Giles and led everyone into the Quadrupeds’ attack to return to reality.

• Nome explained that the Mechanical Church had sought to expand its territory before corruption took hold of Cain, and a Senior Deacon ended the confrontation and took Cain away.
• Joey and Nome investigated Duke Kolmi, who revealed that strange picture books caused disappearances, then Joey found the books’ warnings and saw a monstrous shape forming across Lia Harbor.
• Joey entered the Black Church and discovered its hidden prison, library, and ritual records, then escaped its burning grounds with Nome and Duke.
• Joey, Nome, and Duke confronted Harvey Jeffrey and discovered that Duke’s ritual served the Sea God, before Joey destroyed the Stone Pillar and Duke’s power overwhelmed him.
• Nome died after asking Joey to kill Cain Ivanovich and pass on his wishes, while Maimaiti took Dagon and Freya arrived to learn what had happened.
• Joey returned to the real world, continued searching for Barbara, and joined Annie Bullock’s group on a voyage to investigate the Dreamscape.
• Annie bound the group with Red Spider Silk before they entered a mansion in the Dreamscape, where a painting foretold deaths and Anderson and Margaret died.
• Joey and Professor Remo decoded a door’s escape code, but Rugger Giles revealed himself as Anderson and transformed into Black Slime, so Joey led the group outside as the Quadrupeds attacked and killed them one by one.