Recaps

The True Creator reached Moon City and preached the Fool's salvation to a Hunting Squad, challenging its members to question whether the Creator had abandoned them. The Solar High Priest accepted the Fool as their new hope, while the rest of the squad remained divided.

• The True Creator and Edward discussed what it meant to possess humanity as they walked through the Forsaken Land of the Gods, then parted near a city.
• The True Creator disguised himself as an ordinary clergyman and approached Moon City's Hunting Squad with a lamp.
• The squad captain and his members felt the True Creator's calming influence, and the Solar High Priest revealed they were from Moon City.
• The True Creator told the squad that the Fool had come to bring salvation, then questioned whether they would still worship the Creator if he had caused or ignored their suffering.
• The Solar High Priest accepted the Fool's salvation as the Lord's answer, praised both the Lord and the Fool, and the True Creator began reciting the Fool's Honorific Name.

Klein answered the True Creator’s prayer for the people of the Eastern Continent, sending a blessing that healed the mutated hunting team and left them believing in the Fool. The True Creator learned they came from Moon City and joined them as they continued hunting for food.

• Klein discovered that the True Creator was praying from the Forsaken Land of the Gods and asking him to save its people.
• Klein sent down the Life Walking Stick’s healing power, curing the hunting team’s mutations, injuries, and toxin-related ailments.
• The True Creator and his human side disagreed over whether it was right to guide the Eastern Continent’s people toward faith in the Fool without asking what they wanted.
• The team leader told the True Creator that they were from Moon City, where about five thousand people remained in good physical condition, and mentioned they had found other city ruins.
• The hunting team said they could not return because their children were hungry and they needed food, so the True Creator joined them to hunt monsters.

Edward sought a way to cross the Celestial Worthy's seal, so he summoned the Monarch of Decay to erode it and send a piece of himself into the Eastern Continent. The Monarch possessed a young man through a sparrow and began asking whether he yearned for revenge.

• Edward examined the seal and concluded that he could not force it open, so he called on the Monarch of Decay to investigate the Eastern Continent’s unusual connection to him.
• The Monarch of Decay used the Sea of Flowers and a severed finger to weaken a small section of the seal, then drew a possibility from the distant future into the present.
• Edward pulled the seal’s future weakening into the present and tried to tear open a tiny gap, but the lower part of his arm vanished as his consciousness passed through.
• The Monarch of Decay’s separated mind possessed a sparrow in the Eastern Continent and observed a market where people showed faint traces of Sefirot rather than ordinary potion reactions.
• The sparrow died after the Monarch transferred into a young man who had received a stolen bracelet, and the Monarch asked him whether he yearned for revenge.

The Monarch of Decay learned how to enter the Buddhist Dao and offered Baihua a way into the school in exchange for retrieving something. Audrey continued trying to summon the Temperance Angel, then explained her obligations to Richard, who took her soul through a mirror for an hour of sightseeing in the Southern Continent.

• The Monarch of Decay heard Baihua’s story and promised to help him enter the Buddhist school in exchange for a favor.
• At the Tarot Club, Mr. Fool revealed that George III had orchestrated the disappearances and the Backlund Great Smog to become the Black Emperor.
• Audrey weighed leaving Loen against protecting her family and supporting her charitable foundation.
• Richard answered Audrey’s prayer and asked why she wanted to visit the Southern Continent.
• Audrey told Richard about her responsibilities, and he took her soul through the mirror for an hour of sightseeing.

Audrey toured the Highlands with Richard and witnessed its rebuilding, its treatment of Beyonders, and the kindness he showed local children. Elsewhere, the True Creator left Moon City after helping a hunting squad and traveled with Edward toward the ruins of an ancient city, where he said he was ready to face what awaited him.

• Audrey traveled through the Spirit World with Richard and nearly fell under the influence of Taufik, a wooden doll, before Richard stopped him and made him leave her alone.
• Richard showed Audrey the Highlands’ reconstruction, where Beyonders and spirits helped build homes and feed residents, and explained the region’s efforts to reform and treat them.
• Richard gave candies to local children, and Audrey watched him interact warmly with them as she learned more about life in the Highlands.
• The True Creator purified a hunted monster so Moon City’s squad could eat it safely and invited them to convert to the Fool.
• The True Creator declined the squad’s invitation to visit Moon City, reunited with Edward at the ruins of an ancient city, and said he was ready to continue his journey.

The True Creator returned to the research institute where he had first encountered the Chaos Sea and plunged into the Earth's core, as Edward watched. At the same time, George III and Lord Zaratul transported a royal army to Lenburg, where the God of Knowledge and Wisdom's capital came under attack.

• The True Creator discussed his hopes for humanity and Beyonder society with Edward as they walked through the Old Earth City.
• The True Creator entered the research institute with Edward, remembered his past there, and fell into the darkness beneath it.
• A light like a rising sun appeared in the abyss, and Edward said he hoped the True Creator would win while Amon watched.
• George III asked Lord Zaratul to transport his army, and they arrived in Lenburg's University District.
• A professor fled with a student as lightning and darkness overtook the city, and the tower at the heart of the University District began to collapse.

George III launched an invasion of Lenburg, Segar, and Masik while the gods battled across the Astral World. The Lord of Storms defeated Herabergen after the God of Knowledge and Wisdom lost his anchors, leaving their final confrontation unresolved.

• George III led Loen's forces into Lenburg, where Elio and several Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom bishops lost control as the Evernight Goddess and Lord of Storms attacked.
• George III used distortion to claim Lenburg, Segar, and Masik for Loen, turning their people into his anchors while Loen's guards hunted the church's believers.
• The Lord of Storms fought Herabergen in the Astral World as Evernight withdrew, the God of Combat confronted the Mother of Heaven, and Salinger arrived to halt their clash.
• The Earth Mother failed to protect Herabergen as red moonlight grew brighter and his lost anchors weakened the white tower.
• Herabergen offered his Uniqueness and Sequence One characteristics, but Leodero trapped him in his library and then pursued him after he escaped.
• Leodero recalled his past with Herabergen and hurled his lightning halberd at the fleeing dragon.

The fall of Herabergen reshaped nations and set Leodero and Medici on a final battle, while the Fool’s followers carried out preparations in the Eastern Continent. The chapter left Derrick glowing inside the ice, Moon City’s High Priest ready to act, and the sleeping Creator still struggling toward a sense of self.

• Herabergen’s fall birthed the God of Knowledge, while the Earth Mother moved Feynapotter westward and Leodero forced George III to release control of believers in Lenburg, Segar, and Masik.
• Leodero took up the blood-red banner and sent the flames of war toward Intis, where Medici and the Paragon met the attack at the border.
• Medici empowered the Hunters of Intis and challenged Leodero as their final battle began.
• Derrick prayed to the Fool, entered the deep blue ice, and received the potion Colin Iliad had brought; a brilliant light then rose within the ice.
• High Priest Nim resolved to invoke the Fool’s Honorific Name for Moon City, while the Creator continued to sleep and search for a sense of self.

The True Creator relived God Almighty’s memories, including his conflict with the Celestial Worthy of Heaven and Earth for Blessings and his encounters with the Monarch of Decay. He regained awareness in the Chaos Sea and resolved to hold on to Earth and face the future rather than flee.

• God Almighty raised life on planets as a hobby, teaching bacteria and guiding their societies.
• The Celestial Worthy of Heaven and Earth for Blessings repeatedly ruined God Almighty’s experiments, prompting a battle between them that left God Almighty’s laboratory destroyed.
• The True Creator broke free of God Almighty’s memories and learned from Edward that only thirteen hours had passed.
• The True Creator watched God Almighty discuss his experiments with the Monarch of Decay, who questioned why he wanted to save the life he cultivated.
• The True Creator recalled his own efforts to help people and resolved to protect Earth, accepting that he had to keep moving forward.

Edward monitored the True Creator’s struggle in the Chaos Sea and tried to convince him that he was independent of God Almighty’s dreams. As the True Creator sank into God Almighty’s memories, he learned of approaching threats and warned Edward to alert the relevant gods.

• Edward watched the Lord of Storms kill the God of Knowledge and Wisdom and attack Intis, while he judged that his earlier actions had helped shape the political situation.
• Edward spoke with the True Creator through their mystical connection, encouraged him, and argued that God Almighty had no partners, proving the True Creator was real and independent.
• The True Creator recalled his former identities as the Ancient Sun God, the Lord Almighty, and Sasrir, and struggled to remember his original name as God Almighty’s memories overwhelmed him.
• The True Creator told Edward that the Hidden Sage was approaching Intis and that the God of Steam and Machinery should prepare.
• The True Creator warned that the Primordial Demoness was seeking Sequence One because of the corruption on the Red Priest Uniqueness, and that Medici needed to be on guard.

Frank Lee and Sharf tested plant-grown pork aboard the Future while Cattleya returned after advancing to Sequence 4 Mysticologist. A violent disaster struck the seas, and both Cattleya and Alger were pulled before the Fool as the Sunken Laurel emerged beside the Blue Avenger.

• Frank Lee and Sharf tasted the plant-grown pork and decided to test it further before contacting Mr. X of the Aurora Order.
• Cattleya returned to the Future after completing her ritual and becoming a Sequence 4 Mysticologist, keeping her advancement secret.
• Cattleya heard a distant call amid the Hidden Sage’s murmurs and recited the Fool’s honorific name as a tsunami began to form.
• Alger struggled to keep the Blue Avenger afloat in a massive storm, despite his recent advancement to Sequence 5 and his Wind-blessed potion.
• The Sunken Laurel appeared beside the Blue Avenger, and its darkness dragged Alger’s crew into the sea as Alger prayed to the Fool.

Alger and Cattleya reached the space above the gray fog after a sudden tsunami and discussed the Sunken Laurel’s attack. Klein used the Sea God’s power to protect the Rorsted Archipelago from the Laurel and its undead, then revealed himself to Azik before the chapter ended.

• Alger told Cattleya that the Sunken Laurel had swallowed the Blue Avenger and its crew, leaving his body lost at sea.
• Klein received desperate prayers from the Rorsted Archipelago and saw that darkness filled the region as the Laurel approached.
• Klein rescued fishermen from undead and bloody vines by summoning a sea monster to carry them away.
• Azik commanded the Laurel near the archipelago until Klein’s overwhelming warning made him turn the ship away.
• Death ordered Azik to avoid conflict, and the darkness lifted as the Laurel departed and the archipelago’s people praised the Sea God.
• Azik asked whether Klein had spoken to him, and Klein confirmed that it was him.

Klein learned that the war had reached Loen as the True Creator entered God Almighty’s memories with the Monarch of Decay’s help. The True Creator reclaimed himself and gained control of the Chaos Sea, but his vision of a peaceful world exposed the danger of becoming God Almighty.

• Klein told Alger that The Laurel had left the Rorsted Archipelago, and Alger decided not to return to the Church of Storms.
• Audrey, Fors, and Xio prayed to Mr. Fool for news after darkness and reports of war spread through Loen.
• The Monarch of Decay entered the True Creator’s consciousness and restored the True Creator’s scattered memories, but God Almighty destroyed the Monarch’s shell.
• The True Creator emerged from the Chaos Sea and imagined a future in which he became God Almighty, defeated the Lord of Storms, and resolved the Apocalypse.
• A strange voice and a warning from his spiritual intuition made the True Creator question his perfect world and the unquestioning devotion of his believers.

Edward decided to alter the True Creator’s dream by writing the Celestial Worthy into it, while Antigonus remained asleep amid the War of the Gods. As the battle continued, the God of Steam and Machinery deployed a device to collect dissipating spirituality, but Medici saw that their side remained badly outmatched.

• Edward concluded that the True Creator’s dream came from his own despair, then agreed to interfere by writing a new story into it.
• Edward introduced the Celestial Worthy into the dream and planned to force the True Creator to sacrifice most of humanity to defeat him.
• Antigonus sensed danger in his peaceful dream, but the Mother of Heaven soothed him back to sleep while protecting him in the ongoing battle.
• The Mother of Heaven and Amanises failed to merge, and Amanises withdrew from the battlefield while calming people across the Loen Kingdom.
• The God of Steam and Machinery deployed a panel to collect dissipating spirituality, while Medici assessed the battlefield and worried that their forces could not withstand their enemies.

Leodero used omniscience to seize control of Badheil’s sword strike, turning it against Death and revealing that the gods opposing him were reluctant to fight to the death. Medici then attacked Loen with allies and powers that broke George III’s barrier, leaving William I exposed as the Red Angel’s army closed in.

• Leodero recalled the Sun God’s tale of a god who could not escape his prophesied twilight, then rejected Badheil as a worthy bringer of his own downfall.
• Leodero analyzed Badheil’s sword light, took control of it, and redirected it toward Death, who dissolved the attack and retaliated against Badheil.
• Medici reasoned that the Hidden Sage might alter the balance, prayed to the Almighty for information, and launched an attack on Loen’s border.
• George III raised a barrier against Medici, but Medici used the Snake of Fate’s Reboot and a figure whose command erased the barrier.
• Uno sent good luck to Medici, who reached William I as he retreated to the mausoleum and drove his sword toward William I’s throat.

Medici killed William I and joined George III’s battle against the Red Angel, while Zaratul and Einhorn intervened and the Primordial Demoness arrived. The battle escalated as Cheek joined the fight, and Medici escaped through a Historical Projection to Intis, where Bornova began praying to the Fool.

• Medici killed William I, cremated his body, and left the mausoleum as George III’s laws swallowed the remains.
• George III attacked Medici, who revealed the Sauron and Einhorn identities and fought back as Zaratul’s Marionette Army entered the battle.
• Sauron attacked George III with sunlight and a reflection of the king, but the Primordial Demoness arrived and disrupted Zaratul’s script.
• Einhorn spread the Abyss beneath the battlefield, corrupting the Land of Shadows and George III’s Kingdom of God.
• In Intis, Bornova used a Historical Projection to summon Medici, who entered the Metal Divine Descent Vessel and said Cheek had joined the battle.
• Medici left, and Bornova began reciting the Fool’s honorific name after Medici said he could pray for help.

The Red of War and its allies fought George III, the Primordial Demoness, and Zaratul as the War of the Gods raged, while Klein learned that the Lord of Storms had killed the God of Knowledge and Wisdom. The chapter left Klein facing a desperate plea to aid the True Creator’s side, despite believing he could do little to help.

• The Primordial Demoness spread a disease of love through the Red of War, but Einhorn redirected it through Zaratul and restored the soldiers’ cohesion.
• Sauron and George III’s Reflection fought George III as his Kingdom of God descended into lawless chaos, leaving Sauron struggling against the King of Angels’ superior strength.
• Sauron and Einhorn prepared to keep fighting rather than accept a quiet death, while George III believed victory was within reach.
• Klein concluded that the Lord of Storms had killed the God of Knowledge and Wisdom and learned that the War of the Gods had devastated Lenburg and other countries.
• A young Church of Steam and Machinery member asked the Fool to help Medici and stop Zaratul, leaving Klein stunned by the requests and searching for a way to assist.

Klein tried to help the True Creator’s allies in their war against the Primordial Demoness by using Sefirah Castle to empower his Spirit Worms and locating the battlefield through Bornova Gustav’s device. He left Medici with a strange mist and sent a hypnotized thug carrying an Aurora Order charm toward the royal palace, where George III and Zaratul were fighting.

• Klein decided to use Sefirah Castle’s aura to strengthen his Spirit Worms, then tested how many he could destroy without overwhelming his spirit body.
• Bornova Gustav sacrificed a device that let Klein locate the God of Steam and Machinery, and Klein recognized him as the angel he had once known as an adorable child.
• Klein saw the God of Steam and Machinery and Medici battling the Primordial Demoness Cheek in the Astral World.
• Klein combined Sefirah Castle’s aura with his Spirit Worms and a Worm of Time to create a patch of mist, which he cast onto Medici.
• Klein hypnotized a thug and sent him near the royal palace with a Best Employee Reward Charm and Paper Angel blessings, then had him begin a divination ritual.

Leodero interrupted a ritual that threatened the Northern Continent, but the contaminated Projector began channeling the Chaos Sea into George III’s battlefield. In the Eastern Continent, Edward shaped the True Creator’s dream to make him confront the cruelty and emptiness of the world he had created, leaving the True Creator shaken by a young couple’s devotion to dying for God.

• Leodero’s lightning destroyed the district around the Loen Royal Palace and interrupted the thug’s divination, preventing a foretold catastrophe from spreading across the world.
• Leodero discovered a strange eye in the shadows, while the contaminated Projector showed Zaratul, George III, and Sauron an image of the Chaos Sea approaching.
• Edward continued altering the True Creator’s dream, while the True Creator struggled to understand his unease over human trafficking and his own past.
• The True Creator wandered through a sunlit city and learned from a young couple that people had no work beyond prayer and that they considered dying for God their greatest honor.
• The couple’s fervent praise of their dead relatives’ sacrifice made the True Creator’s head and heart burn with pain.

The True Creator recognized that humanity’s obsessive worship had turned his gifts into a cause for self-erasure, then remembered his own human past and recoiled at what he had done. Edward noticed the Chaos Sea’s resistance weaken, but an unexplained power shift redirected the True Creator’s attention toward something connected to Sefirah Castle.

• The True Creator watched a mother and a young woman teach a little girl that praising flowers without praising the Lord was ungrateful, and realized his followers worshipped him out of fear and atonement.
• The True Creator recalled that he had once been human, then remembered destroying most of Earth’s population and allowing human trafficking, leaving him horrified.
• Edward noticed that the Chaos Sea’s resistance against him had weakened and added a period to his sentence before the change could reverse.
• Edward saw writing appear in his notebook saying that someone had drawn away the Chaos Sea’s power using something related to Sefirah Castle.

Edward discussed the True Creator’s dream and the danger God Almighty posed to his personality, while encouraging him to exploit God Almighty’s diverted attention to gain control of the Chaos Sea. The True Creator revealed developments in the War of the Gods and identified Klein’s hiding place, while Edward disclosed the Genie’s identity and deal.

• Edward explained that God Almighty would erase the True Creator’s personality and encouraged him to keep struggling for dominance.
• The True Creator decided to use God Almighty’s temporary distraction to leave mental imprints on the Chaos Sea, and Edward agreed to help.
• The True Creator asked about the Magic Wishing Lamp, and Edward revealed that the Genie was a remnant of a Great Old One sealed by the Celestial Worthy.
• The True Creator reported that Medici and the God of Steam and Machinery were fighting the Primordial Demoness before the Hidden Sage joined them, while Leodero dealt with Chaos Sea corruption in Loen.
• The True Creator told Edward that Klein was hiding above Sefirah Castle and that Amon had noticed its aura but feared approaching Leodero.

While the War of the Gods endangered Backlund, Klein learned that the Churches of Storms and Evernight were preparing to eliminate the Earth Mother’s believers at Harvest Church. He warned Emlyn and secretly blessed him, but remained unable to choose a side as the Red Gloves approached.

• Alger reached Bayam safely, joined the Resistance Army’s prayer ritual, and donated a dormitory to the Charity School.
• Leonard prayed to the Fool from Saint Samuel Cathedral and warned that the Red Gloves were heading to Harvest Church to kill Utravsky, Emlyn White, and other Earth Mother believers.
• Klein passed Leonard’s warning to Emlyn, who considered fleeing but decided to stay and help the people sheltering in Harvest Church.
• Utravsky refused to abandon the church, declaring that he would follow the Mother Goddess’s stance.
• Klein blessed Emlyn with a Paper Angel to protect him from dreams and prepared to intervene with the Sea God Scepter if their lives were threatened.

Maria Stevenson and Mr. Z confronted Crestet Cesimir and the Red Gloves as the Church of Evernight moved to seize the Pilgrimage Church’s facilities. Meanwhile, the True Creator asked Edward to help Him regain control of the Chaos Sea and prepare to draw God Almighty’s attention.

• Leonard followed his squad toward Harvest Church, where lights and voices showed that people were still inside.
• Maria and Mr. Z discussed falling revenue, rising food prices, and the difficulty of leaving Loen before Maria realized their conversation had been distorted.
• Crestet Cesimir confronted Maria and Mr. Z, declared the Aurora Order and Pilgrimage Church targets of a cleanup, and said the Church of Evernight would take over the foundation’s facilities.
• Maria attacked Cesimir and the Red Gloves with Mr. Z’s help, invoking the East Borough’s laws as their fight began.
• The True Creator asked Edward to help Him stabilize His control over the Chaos Sea and His sense of identity while He accepted God Almighty’s memories.
• The True Creator entered the universe in God Almighty’s memories, intending to draw God Almighty’s attention and help Klein.

The True Creator abandoned his attempt to defeat God Almighty and worked with Edward to rewrite his memories as a story of God Almighty’s death and rebirth. He merged into the true sun, leaving Edward with a message for Klein and a request to come stop him.

• The True Creator manifested Edward Vaughan from God Almighty’s memories and explained that he planned to become part of God Almighty rather than fight him.
• The True Creator and Edward invented a history in which God Almighty favored humanity, conspired with the gods to die, and split into Adam and the True Creator.
• Edward helped patch the story while the world beneath them replayed the rise of humanity and the Great Cataclysm.
• The True Creator watched a vision of his lost homeland, then walked toward the true sun to merge with God Almighty.
• The True Creator asked Edward to find Klein, tell him to come, and stop him; Edward watched him disappear into the starry sky.

The Monarch of Decay left the collapsing dream after the True Creator vanished into the Chaos Sea, while Edward reflected on his choice and waited for his memories to settle. Edward told Amon that the True Creator planned to accommodate the Chaos Sea and began composing an epic poem in his memory.

• The Monarch of Decay watched the universe fade, said farewell, and left the dream.
• Edward returned to himself in Chernobyl and judged that the True Creator had ingeniously woven his life into God Almighty’s memories.
• Amon emerged and admitted that his avatars had been sharing information with him while he watched Chernobyl.
• Edward told Amon that the True Creator would return and planned to accommodate the Chaos Sea, while warning that God Almighty might not accept him.
• Edward took out his notebook and decided to finish an epic poem for the True Creator.