Recaps

Edward told Medici that Amon had taken Sefirah Castle from Klein, while Richard arranged Audrey’s visit to the hospital. Klein contacted Ms. D to seek guidance for his journey to the Eastern Continent and asked her to connect him with Leomaster.

• Edward confirmed to Medici that Amon had taken Sefirah Castle from Klein, and Medici reflected on Amon’s changed behavior and the old Lord’s wishes.
• Edward speculated that Klein would enter the Forsaken Land of the Gods to bring its people back into the world, while Richard took Baranka away and summoned Audrey to provide snacks for the hospital.
• Richard asked Taufik about digesting the Marionette potion and encouraged him to keep working hard alongside Letty.
• Klein contacted Ms. D through the Roselle Possession Information Transmission Technique and explained that he had been guided to lead the Eastern Continent’s survivors out.
• Klein described the Forsaken Land’s darkness and hardships, then told Ms. D that he needed Leomaster’s notes and advice about the route into the Eastern Continent.

Klein arranged through Ileana to meet Leomaster about entering the Sanctuary, while realizing that bringing the Forsaken Land’s people and history into the present could fulfill his Miracle Invoker ritual. After worrying that Amon might target the City of Silver and Moon City, Klein fell asleep and awoke to meet Leomaster and Hermes.

• Klein told Ileana he planned to travel alone to the Eastern Continent and asked her to arrange a meeting with Leomaster as soon as possible.
• Hermes appeared before Ileana, deduced that Mr. X was the Lord’s Believer, and accompanied her to find Leomaster.
• Klein considered how bringing the Forsaken Land’s people and lost history into the present could satisfy his Miracle Invoker ritual, while weighing the dangers surrounding Sasrir and the route through the Giant King’s Court.
• Klein remembered that Amon had destroyed city-states that converted to other gods and feared for the City of Silver and Moon City, which had converted to the Fool.
• After sleeping, Klein awoke in his sitting room with Leomaster and Hermes, who introduced himself as the creator of many ritual magics and the language of mysticism.

Klein met Hermes, who agreed to accompany him to the Eastern Continent, and learned why Hermes had chosen the Spectator pathway. When Klein asked why the Ancient Sun God had killed himself, Hermes revealed that the Creator had faced an unbeatable threat connected to himself, then warned that Amon might attack Moon City’s converts to the Fool.

• Hermes introduced himself to Klein and offered to join his journey to the Eastern Continent, and Klein accepted.
• Klein asked why Hermes had chosen the Spectator pathway, and Hermes explained that it helped him maintain awareness of himself and resist losing control.
• Klein asked why the Ancient Sun God had killed himself, and Hermes said the Creator had faced something impossible to defeat or kill, something that could be called himself.
• Hermes asked about Moon City, and Klein reported that fewer than thirty thousand survivors remained and that most had converted to the Fool.
• Hermes warned that the Creator’s second son, the Angel of Time, would not accept the converts, so they needed to be rescued quickly.

Derrick received Mr. Fool’s warning that an evil being would approach the City of Silver, then glimpsed a gigantic monster outside its walls. In a dream, Klein warned Hermes that Amon had taken Sefirah Castle, and they prepared to enter the Eastern Continent with help from the War Angel.

• Derrick heard Mr. Fool warn that an evil being would approach the City of Silver and decided to report it to Colin Iliad.
• Derrick saw two enormous green lights beyond the City of Silver and realized they belonged to a gigantic monster that did not attack.
• Klein told Hermes that Amon had seized Sefirah Castle and that the Fool might not be able to help their mission.
• Hermes reasoned that Klein was a favored believer of the Fool and warned that Amon might not honor the Fool’s agreement with the Creator.
• Hermes and Klein agreed to seek help from the War Angel and enter the Eastern Continent under cover, then discussed its geography with Leomaster.
• Klein’s dream ended, and he fell into a deep sleep.

Amon used Sefirah Castle to revisit the past, where he joined a memory of his father and brother before returning to the lonely present. At the hospital, Audrey’s attempt to soothe Pula led Richard to test Taufik’s hatred, and Taufik nearly killed himself rather than harm her; Richard said Taufik had earned the right to advance to Sequence 3.

• Amon explored Sefirah Castle’s history and entered a memory of the Ancient Sun God’s meeting with the Kings of Angels, where Adam welcomed him back and his father invited him to sit.
• Audrey finished her hospital shift and waited to say goodbye to Pula, whom Richard had come to take away for reform through labor.
• Pula recognized Audrey as his sister and calmed under her Soothing before Richard took him into the Spirit World.
• Richard revealed Audrey’s true identity to Taufik, provoking his hatred of the Northern Continent, but Taufik fought his urge to attack her and injured himself instead.
• Richard praised Taufik for regaining control and told him he had earned the right to advance to Sequence 3; Taufik asked whether becoming human was truly so painful.

Richard helped Taufik regain control after he nearly lost himself while resisting an urge to kill Audrey, then sent him to rest and explained why he had acted. Later, Hermes told Klein that the passage to the Eastern Continent was safe and showed him its entrance through the War of the Gods Ruins.

• Richard restored the sealed room, treated Taufik, and told him he would have disposed of him if he had completely lost control.
• Richard turned Taufik into a weather doll and sent him to sleep in a prepared hospital room; Audrey reflected on the danger of madness and thanked Richard.
• Richard shielded Audrey from Medici, who had flirted with her from the street, and took her home through the Spirit World.
• Hermes told Klein that he had inspected the passage to the Eastern Continent and demonstrated how they would travel through it.
• Klein saw that the passage began at the entrance to the War of the Gods Ruins, where the sea fell into a vast fissure.

Hermes guided Klein through the War of the Gods Ruins in a dream, where Klein uncovered clues about the Ancient Sun God’s death and reached the Black Monastery with Hermes and Medici. There, Ouroboros opened the Pilgrimage Road, and the three began ascending a dreamlike staircase; a closing scene showed Edward refusing to trust Klein.

• Hermes explained that the War of the Gods had devastated the Eastern Continent and shared fragments of Fourth Epoch history with Klein.
• Klein inferred that the gods and Kings of Angels had gathered to kill the Ancient Sun God, but Hermes said he was still missing a key piece of the mystery.
• Hermes led Klein through the True Creator’s ravings to a dream entrance to the Black Monastery, then pushed him awake into the real ruins beside Medici.
• Medici revealed that he had brought Klein there with the Great Serpent’s help, and Ouroboros opened the monastery doors for them.
• Ouroboros formed a spiraling staircase from his body, and Klein followed Medici and Hermes upward through the dream corridor.
• Edward rejected a proposal to cooperate with Klein, saying he would share some memories but would not trust a genuine Outer Deity.

Klein, Medici, and Hermes journey through Ouroboros’s dream and reach the Giant King’s Court in the Eastern Continent. They arrive at its twilight shore, where Medici warns them to leave quietly and avoid damaging the ancient ruins.

• Klein followed Medici and Hermes through the dream to a door that opened onto a golden ocean, which he recognized as the Ancient Sun God’s blood.
• Ouroboros shielded the group from the deadly dream and carried them across the War of the Gods Ruins toward the projection of the Giant King’s Court.
• Hermes prayed to the Creator, causing a path of twilight to appear between the mountain peaks, and Ouroboros brought them down onto it.
• Medici described the flourishing Third Epoch coastline as the group walked toward the Giant King’s residence, where Dark Angel Sasrir slept.
• Klein used Creeping Hunger to create an Illusory Door, and the group passed through it to a silent black-sand beach beneath the Giant King’s Court.
• Medici urged Klein and Hermes to keep quiet when they left and warned them not to damage the ruins.

Klein, Medici, and Hermes crossed into the Eastern Continent and set out for Moon City, discussing the region’s dwindling population and its people’s lives. Klein honored the remains of an ancient city before they continued through the wasteland.

• Klein told Medici about the City of Silver’s outpost at Afternoon Town, but Medici explained that they were still on the Aurora Order’s route and could not reach it yet.
• Hermes ended their passage through dreams, and the three emerged into the Eastern Continent; Medici said they would need to open a route through the Giant King’s Court to let ordinary people leave.
• Klein used divination and a map to locate Moon City, choosing it as their first stop before traveling northeast toward the City of Silver.
• Hermes sensed that only a few tens of thousands of people remained on the Eastern Continent, and Klein described how hardship and the Ancient Sun God’s silence had affected its people.
• Klein worried that the people of the Eastern Continent might lose their unity after reaching the outside world, and Medici urged him to accept their desires and future choices.
• Klein found the ruins of an ancient city and placed Seville Chrysanthemums there as a tribute before the three continued onward.

Richard managed Dwayne Dantès's household and cut its expenses while Klein, Medici, and Hermes crossed the Eastern Continent toward Moon City. They encountered an unnaturally chilling invisible river, as an unidentified visitor reached the Black Monastery and said they needed to pick up the pace.

• Richard decided not to dismiss the servants and instead cut household expenses, including tea, clothing, wine, and roof repairs.
• Klein shared a meal summoned from historical projections with Medici and Hermes, then continued traveling toward Moon City with them.
• Medici led Klein and Hermes away from their route after warning that the way ahead was difficult.
• Klein heard water in a riverbed that appeared empty and felt a chill reminiscent of the Death pathway.
• An unidentified visitor entered the Black Monastery, opened a door into darkness, and complained that their Sequence 5 body was awkward to use.

Edward spoke with the God of Possibilities about the Abraham Family, the Moon, and the River of Eternal Darkness before the latter left for the Forsaken Land of the Gods. In the City of Silver, Derrick suspected Mr. Fool or Mr. World had been replaced, but a monocled stranger altered his perception, while Klein and two Angels approached Moon City’s first outpost.

• Edward’s other half assembled a corpse and told him that Fors Wall was connected to a prophecy about the Abraham Family and Klein.
• The God of Possibilities advised Edward to dispose of the Moon and not contact the River of Eternal Darkness yet, then set off for the Forsaken Land of the Gods.
• Derrick recalled recent events and worried that an enemy might be impersonating Mr. Fool or Mr. World, so he decided to tell the Chief.
• Derrick’s friends stopped him on the way, and a Dawn Knight produced a crystal monocle that caused Derrick’s awareness to blur before he went with them to church.
• Klein told the two Angels that Moon City’s first outpost was just ahead.

Klein, Hermes, and Medici reached Moon City's exploration outpost, where Frank Lee's mushrooms helped make monster meat safe to eat. As Hermes entered a hunter's dream to investigate, Uno's fate-sight revealed that Amon had ensnared people in both the City of Silver and another settlement.

• Klein and Hermes watched Moon City guards use Frank's mushrooms to draw toxins from monster meat and purify their meal.
• Hermes asked Klein how Frank had come to support the Fool, and Klein praised Frank's convictions while worrying about his inventions.
• Hermes entered the dream of a hunter at the outpost as Medici watched over him and warned that the Great Serpent was aware of their presence.
• Derrick prayed, visited the training ground, and unknowingly turned toward the Round Tower after crossing paths with Uno.
• Uno saw that Amon had connected the fates of many City of Silver residents to a great being and had also taken people in another settlement.

Ouroboros chose not to rescue the City of Silver, while the Lord of Withering struggled to stay on task as he traveled through the Forsaken Land of the Gods. At the Moon City outpost, Klein and Hermes discovered that Amon’s treatment ritual was likely parasitizing its recipients—and that the Nim High Priest had been among the first treated.

• Ouroboros decided to guide the City of Silver toward helping itself but otherwise left its fate to unfold.
• The Lord of Withering sensed a living Attendant of Mysteries connected to Sefirah Castle, then got distracted by the ruins of an ancient city-state that worshipped Death, Gregrace.
• Hermes questioned a dreaming Moon City guard, who said that treatment happened weekly and that his family had not received it because he lacked merit.
• Klein suspected Amon had parasitized the people who received treatment, and learned that the guard still believed in the Ancient Sun God.
• The guard revealed that the Nim High Priest had been the first person treated, leaving Klein to realize that Amon had likely killed him by turning him into an avatar.

Klein decided to enter Moon City alone and negotiate with its people, hoping Amon would overlook him long enough for him to save any survivors who had not been parasitized. In Tingen, Leonard discovered that an apparent messenger had been Amon’s Avatar, and Pallez admitted he could no longer understand Amon’s power.

• Hermes and Medici warned Klein that Amon might have parasitized Moon City’s people and that the city could be destroyed.
• Klein resolved to negotiate with Moon City as an ordinary Sequence 3 Beyonder, believing his lack of value to Amon gave him a chance to help the survivors.
• Medici agreed to help Klein because he believed in him, despite Hermes’s misgivings.
• Leonard complained to Pallez about remaining in the Church of the Storm, and Pallez explained his suspicions about the Fool and Amon.
• Amon’s Avatar attacked Leonard’s office, leaving a charred messenger and a dead Worm of Time behind.
• Leonard opened the door to find it connected to the Spirit World, and Pallez said he could no longer see through Amon.

Leonard and Pallez investigated Klein’s fate and learned he had gone to the Forsaken Land of the Gods, where he might be protected from Amon. There, Klein approached Moon City as Gehrman Sparrow and declared himself an envoy bringing salvation.

• Leonard asked Pallez to check on Klein, and Pallez used their mystical connection to trace Klein’s last clues to Backlund and the Forsaken Land of the Gods.
• Pallez inferred that Medici had taken Klein east and told Leonard that Klein might still be alive and protected, urging him to pray to the God of Thunder.
• Klein agreed with Medici and the other angel to approach Moon City by daylight, and Medici lent him a cross belonging to the Lord.
• Klein traveled toward Moon City’s outpost, disguised as Gehrman Sparrow and carrying the cross and a walking stick.
• Klein introduced himself to the Moon City guards as an envoy of the Fool and the Creator, saying he had brought their promise and salvation.

Audrey resumed work at the charity funds amid worsening shortages, while Klein entered Moon City’s expedition camp and used divine power to prove himself as the Fool’s Oracle. After healing the explorers, he learned they planned to reach the City of Silver and promised to help them leave the Forsaken Land of the Gods.

• Audrey visited the charity funds and learned from Melissa that even disabled soldiers could no longer receive their full food allotments.
• Klein presented himself to Moon City’s explorers as the Fool’s Oracle and used a radiant cross and Hermes’s influence to establish the Fool’s connection to the Creator.
• Klein healed the explorers with the Life Walking Stick, convincing them that he had come to fulfill the Fool’s promise of salvation.
• The expedition leader told Klein that Moon City’s people were trying to reach the City of Silver and join its survivors.
• Klein promised to help the Moon City and City of Silver residents find a way out, and agreed to pass along a young man’s gratitude and gifts to the previous Oracle.

Audrey asked Earl Hall to let her buy the family’s stored food for the Poor Relief Fund, while Klein and Medici discussed the risks of Klein’s approaching transformation into a Mythical Creature. Klein reached the gray fog sealing the Western Continent and fully digested his Scholar of Yore potion, as the Lord of Withering noticed a Demon Wolf carrying an object with the aura of Sefirah Castle approaching the seal.

• Audrey asked Earl Hall to spare some of the Hall Family’s food for the Poor Relief Fund, and he explained that the family’s survival and status came before helping strangers.
• Klein left the Moon City Exploration Squad with Hermes, then met Medici, who warned him about advancing and explained how anchors and humanity affected nonhuman Mythical Creatures.
• Klein told Medici and Hermes that he had seen the gray fog from Sefirah Castle, and Medici explained that the seal separated multiple Sefirot from the world.
• Klein followed the pull east and found the immense gray fog barrier; as he reached it, his Scholar of Yore potion was completely digested.
• The Lord of Withering noticed a fluctuation in the seal and spotted a Demon Wolf carrying something with the aura of Sefirah Castle.

Edward learned that his other half had found a missing Attendant of Mysteries in the Forsaken Land of the Gods, while Devil Family members debated selling contaminated food to a noblewoman. Klein failed to open the Western Continent’s gray-fog seal and then met Moon City’s High Priest, who explained the city’s long history of guarding it.

• Edward’s other half reported finding an Attendant of Mysteries whose advancement ritual seemed ready to be completed, and Edward questioned him about Klein before the contact ended.
• Devils from the Nois Family discussed Miss Hall’s bulk food purchase and their stockpile of rations contaminated with a virus, then decided to report the matter and possibly sell her food scraps instead.
• Hermes told Klein that beings on the level of the Lord of the Mysteries, including God Almighty or entities in the Starry Sky, could open the Western Continent’s seal.
• Klein used Leymano’s Travels to try Door Opening and other powers on the gray-fog barrier, but none of his attempts opened it.
• Nim, Moon City’s High Priest, introduced himself to Klein and Medici and said Moon City had guarded the seal for 3,722 years after migrating there on the Sun God’s orders.

Klein met High Priest Nim near the Gray Fog Seal and promised to lead Moon City out under the Fool’s protection. He revealed that the Creator had fallen and returned as someone else, leaving Nim to decide how to tell Moon City the truth.

• Klein learned that Nim and his squad had been parasitized without knowing it, and that Moon City had guarded the fog for thousands of years because the Creator had instructed them to watch for anyone emerging.
• Klein told Nim he was the Fool’s Oracle and had come to lead Moon City out, while Nim warned that some residents still clung to their ancestral faith and might refuse to leave.
• Klein explained that the Creator had fallen after the kings betrayed him, and that the being who returned was no longer the Creator Moon City knew.
• Klein used the Life Walking Stick to stop a Moon City Beyonder from losing control after the revelation, while Nim and the others struggled with grief and disbelief.
• Nim agreed to tell Moon City the truth, recognizing that the Creator’s final wish had been to entrust them to the Fool.

Klein performed Moon City's ritual to contact the gray fog and heard the name “Celestial Worthy of Heaven and Earth for Blessings,” while a Moon City Beyonder wore a monocle that made him suspect Amon was nearby. In the City of Silver, Derrick discovered a warning about the Angel of Time; meanwhile, Richard began executing corrupt elites and redistributing their wealth in the Southern Continent.

• High Priest Nim told Klein that Moon City had tried for centuries to contact the gray fog through rituals, and Klein asked to attempt one himself.
• Colin noticed Derrick repeating the same library visit and reading the same textbook; Derrick turned to a passage naming the Angel of Time and left a scratch beneath it as a warning.
• After repeated ritual attempts, Klein heard voices in the gray fog chanting “Celestial Worthy of Heaven and Earth for Blessings.”
• Klein saw a Moon City Beyonder put on a monocle, and Nim explained that the accessory had recently become popular as an aid for eye diseases.
• Letty Orr asked Richard to keep watching over Kajia and sought help buying discounted compressed rations; Richard agreed to arrange a factory school for girls.
• Richard hanged three corrupt Southern Continent elites and ordered their assets redistributed, then told Letty to bring him more documents so he could continue.

Richard told Audrey about his painful past under Feysac, Intis, and Loen’s invasions, then urged her to consider how she might face a future upheaval. Meanwhile, Klein entered Moon City alone and arranged to stay there as an ascetic while offering daily purification and healing.

• Richard sentenced more Highland families and recounted how Northern Continent forces destroyed his people’s religious artifacts and killed his master’s master.
• Audrey told Richard she understood the blood debts and sorrow but could do little; Richard assured her he would not harm her and urged her to consider what she would do if she became his enemy.
• A stitched-together pursuer in the Forsaken Land of the Gods resumed searching for the giant wolf he could not catch.
• Klein overcame his fear of Amon and entered Moon City with Nim High Priest, while remaining alert to possible deception.
• Klein told Nim he would practice asceticism and offer daily purification and healing, then headed toward an unoccupied house in the east.

Colin Iliad sought the Angel of Fate’s blessing and learned that he had to wait for a man carrying a lantern to reach the City of Silver. In Moon City, Nim announced Gehrman Sparrow’s arrival and began telling its residents the truth about their faith, while Klein met a strange survivor who called himself Lia.

• Colin Iliad asked Uno for help, and Ouroboros appeared through Colin to mock him before granting him a blessing and removing a Worm of Time from his body.
• Ouroboros showed Colin a vision and told him to wait until a man carrying a lantern arrived; Colin concealed the Worm of Time and considered advancing.
• Nim told Moon City that a second Oracle of the Fool, Gehrman Sparrow, had healed residents and offered daily purification, then began explaining the truth about their faith and the Almighty.
• Klein left Moon City to hunt monsters and encountered a wounded, unnatural figure in the wilderness.
• The figure claimed to be a Moon City Exploration Squad survivor and introduced himself as Lia, while privately observing that the Lord of Mysteries was playing the roles of both himself and his attendant.

Edward spoke with his other half about Klein, the Eurasian seal, Amon, and possible candidates to help the Demon of Knowledge, who remained committed to Bethel Abraham. Meanwhile, Klein answered a Moon City resident’s questions about leaving the Eastern Continent, then watched a small group approach with an alarming number of monocles.

• Edward’s other half said the seal dividing Eurasia had shown signs of opening when Klein was nearby, and speculated that Amon might have drawn Klein to Moon City.
• Edward and the Demon of Knowledge discussed Amon’s lack of action, the dangers facing Moon City and the City of Silver, and a brass dragon picture book that had led a boy to become a Beyonder.
• The Demon of Knowledge said Bethel Abraham remained his first choice to support, though he would also consider Pallez, Klein, and Kotar, and asked Edward for his archaeological records.
• Klein told a Moon City resident that leaving the Eastern Continent was necessary to avoid eventual extinction, though he could not guarantee the outside world was better or promise the Fool would allow them to return.
• A Moon City team followed a note toward the grayish-white fog, and Klein later saw a group of arrivals approaching his camp, with half of the dozen or so people wearing monocles.

Klein learned that a Demon Wolf resembling Kotar had appeared near Moon City on the day he first entered Sefirah Castle, and he set out to investigate the deep pit left behind. Meanwhile, the Outer Deity uncovered the Amons’ plan to frighten Klein and joined their circle.

• Klein questioned Moon City’s High Priest Nim about the monocles, then told the residents about the world beyond their cursed land.
• While sharing roasted mushrooms, Klein suspected that most of the ten Moon City residents were Amon Avatars.
• Nim revealed that Kotar had appeared near a vanished hill one year, five months, and ten days earlier, then fled in a hurry.
• Klein recognized the date as June 28, 1349, when he had entered Sefirah Castle, and asked Nim to show him the deep pit.
• The Amon Avatars discussed frightening Klein, but the Outer Deity noticed their conversation, took a monocle, and asked what they were talking about.

Klein preached to the people of Moon City and prepared to investigate the place where the God of Wishes had appeared, while Emlyn searched for a way to obtain an Earl characteristic. After the Moon City residents left, Klein confronted the strange Amon Avatar he suspected of manipulating him.

• The Outer Deity sealed off the area around the bonfire, while the Amons stopped trying to contact their main body and the Moon City residents forgot their brief confusion.
• Klein used the Radiant Cross to preach the first two commandments to the people of Moon City, and the light began easing their darkness and discomfort.
• Cosmi told Emlyn that the Sanguine had no spare Earl characteristics and that Emlyn ranked fifth in line, so Emlyn considered seeking one from Saint Tenebrous or the Rose School.
• Emlyn left the Audra family's villa for his East Borough residence and wondered whether the missing Maric and Sharron could help him find an Earl characteristic.
• Klein sent Nim and the other Moon City residents back, then noticed that only nine people had departed and found a strange Spirit Body Thread nearby.
• Klein summoned the hidden figure and accused the unusual Amon Avatar of deceiving him and deliberately exposing the other Avatars.