Recaps

Edward helped Klein reconnect with Melissa and Benson, then joined him aboard the White Agate as both prepared to travel by sea. The arc left Klein investigating the famous pirate hunter who shared his new name while Derrick faced a transformed Dack in the City of Silver.

• Edward told the Tarot Club about Amon’s avatar in the City of Silver and learned that Mr. Fool could bring Lilith and Bernadette above the gray fog.
• Klein brought Edward, Bernadette, and Lilith into the Giant King’s Court, where Edward saw Sasrir and the First Blasphemy Slate before returning with the Sequence 0 and Sequence 1 formulas in his mind.
• Edward helped Lilith advance to Sequence 7, explained the Forsaken Land of the Gods to Edwina, and learned that sharing its basic information slightly digested his potion.
• Klein returned to Tingen and reunited with Melissa, then Edward and Audrey helped Melissa and Benson become a Savant and a Warrior.
• Edward asked Audrey to be his girlfriend, and she accepted, and he then took Audrey and Lilith to Bayam and joined Klein aboard the White Agate.
• Bernadette questioned Edward about Amon and Roselle’s diary, while Edward admitted that he and the diary’s author came from the same place.
• The White Agate’s crew recognized Klein’s name as that of a famous pirate hunter, and Klein decided to learn more about the identity he had adopted.
• Derrick hid the Suitcase and fought Dack after Dack transformed into a monster, then collapsed after throwing the All-Black Eye through an illusory door.

Edward gathered pirates and pursued the Numinous Episcopate’s plan to sacrifice the Sea God Church’s followers and create an Artificial God of Death. He helped stop the ritual, killed Kalvetua, and escaped with Danitz and the newly formed Sea God Scepter.

• Edward used his Gehrman Sparrow identity to gather pirates and teach them Beyonder knowledge, but his attempts to accelerate potion digestion drew Arianna’s warning and the Goddess’s attention.
• Edward returned to Backlund after learning the Psychology Alchemists had approached Audrey, then discovered a crashed military airship on a deserted island before Alfred seized the Knowledge and its pirate crew.
• Edward traded Alfred the pirates and their ship for the location of the Numinous Episcopate’s ritual, then used Red Hair to warn Kalvetua that the Sea God Church’s congregation planned to join the Episcopate.
• Kalvetua devoured Red Hair and the pirates after emerging through an illusory gate, while Edward sent Jahn Kottman a challenge that drew him toward Tiana Island.
• Jahn attacked Ralfa as the ritual opened a rift to the Elven Ruins, where the sacrifice fed Kalvetua and feathered forces turned the Sea God Guardians against one another.
• Edward and Lilith entered the ruins, where Edward fought the Episcopate’s feathered monsters as Jahn’s lightning pinned Kalvetua against a wall.
• Danitz resisted the Archbishop’s order to kill Edward, killed the Archbishop and believers, and used the Broken Bone Bracelet to drive back the Feathered Serpents before fleeing through the closing rift.
• Edward stopped Danitz from consuming Kalvetua, waited for the god to die, and escaped the ruins with Danitz, Phoenix, and the Sea God Scepter.

Edward used the Sea God Scepter to aid Rhos Island’s believers and teach the Resistance Army while Lilith made a home among poor children in Bayam. The search for a woman tied to a plot against Governor Amyrius led Edward toward a new threat connected to the Mother Tree of Desire.

• Edward sacrificed the Sea God Scepter to Mr. Fool, then explained that he had killed the wounded sea serpent worshipped as the Sea God.
• Klein drove back the Bansy Harbor fog and rescued Olivia and the other kidnapped women from Tracy’s pirates, though Sophia died and Aila remained missing.
• At the Tarot Club, Edward discussed the scepter and Tracy, while Audrey reported that a dangerous Sealed Artifact had driven members of the Psychology Alchemists to suicide.
• Edward found the Book of Calamity in an Elven ruin, and Cohinem warned that it could suppress the scepter but would eventually corrupt him.
• Lilith revived Renee in exchange for Winter’s money and lifespan, then joined Isabella and the other children in Bayam and helped them earn money catching rats.
• Edward taught the Sea God’s believers and the Resistance Army, while Karat revealed that the Naturism Sect wanted a woman placed in Governor Amyrius’s mansion.
• Edward followed the Naturism Sect’s request to a house where its occupants had been torn apart and used the missing woman’s hair to divine that she had sailed to Bayam, where he saw the Mother Tree of Desire.

Edward’s search for the missing Wheel of Fortune Uniqueness drew him and Lilith into a battle with the Rose School and the Mother Tree of Desire, forcing Edward to advance to Sequence 4. The Golden Timer sent Edward into the past without Lilith, and he discovered Roselle in the year 1160.

• Edward and Klein pursued Roy King and the missing die through Bayam, while Lilith restored the children’s home and left Isabella and the others behind.
• Edward brought Roy King and Darkwill to Ricciardo, who warned him of a dangerous connection to the Rose School and sent Roy King to search for the die.
• Christine revealed that the Mother Tree of Desire had targeted Edward, while Suah and Rose School members attacked Edward and Lilith and Phoenix was killed.
• Lilith gave Edward the Wheel of Fortune Uniqueness, and Edward summoned Christine’s power to fight the Rose School as a future-traveling girl confronted Cheek.
• Edward used the Rose School attackers and Suah’s assaults to force his Sequence 4 advancement, while Will restored him and Klein’s blessing helped him endure Leodero’s lightning.
• A Golden Timer reversed time across the world and restored Edward and Lilith, but Lilith vanished into the distant past as Edward was sent to an unknown era.
• Edward discovered that he had arrived in the year 1160, then secretly watched Roselle entertain Bernadette and heard him plan a voyage with Edwards.