Chapter Summaries

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.