Recaps

Neo challenged Kallen’s trust in his grandfather, while the Whip of Order investigated the Nadun Family and prepared to accuse Bishop Dorf. At their joint meeting, Dorf released a suicide note, and the church leaders decided to arrange his funeral instead of continuing the proceedings.

• Neo asked whether Kallen’s grandfather had used the same methods as the Felsher and Nadun families, but Kallen insisted he trusted his grandfather and would willingly help him.
• Neo and Kallen brought Dalis to the Whip of Order headquarters, where he was detained across from Trisen and watched the two men leave without answering his brother.
• Philomina told Kallen that her grandmother had come into the city and that she feared she was the target of her grandmother’s plan; Kallen told her to stay at headquarters and arranged for Richard to watch over her.
• Alfred and Vic briefed Kallen on the investigation, and Leon formally joined Kallen’s team before accompanying him to the first joint law enforcement meeting.
• At the meeting, Kallen presented evidence against the Nadun Family and Bishop Dorf, but Leon reported that Dorf had released a suicide note to the church.
• Woforen and Harry agreed to send condolences and arrange a grand funeral for Dorf, ending the meeting before the leaders assigned charges.

Kallen oversaw Trisen’s trial and accepted a truce with Medlin’s Law Enforcement Department, while Neo speculated about the Nadun Family curse and its final victim. Meanwhile, Dalis awaited his father’s death, and Mrs. Felshev prepared to use Philomina’s eyes to retrace her grandfather’s footsteps.

• Kallen delivered the prosecution’s closing summary, and Medlin declined to defend Trisen; Gaspole sentenced Trisen to exile and pioneering labor.
• Medlin offered Kallen’s department cooperation with a provisional veto, and Kallen accepted the arrangement while assigning Leon to gain courtroom experience.
• Kallen told Vic to arrange Dalis’s State’s Witness hearing and said he would hurry Bishop Dorf along; Neo then proposed taking Dalis home to investigate how the curse would end.
• Dalis used a spell to make a dandelion appear and wished for his father to hurry up and die so he could inherit the Nadun Family’s glory.
• Mrs. Felshev met Philomina, Richard, and Leon on a rooftop and promised to use Philomina’s eyes to retrace her grandfather’s footsteps, calling the family curse a blessing.

Kallen and Neo accompanied Bishop Byrne to the Nadun Family estate, where Dorf was being pressured to end his life in exchange for his family’s survival. Byrne arranged for Kallen to face Dorf as a test of faith, and Kallen accepted; as he approached with a Spear of Discipline, he paused to ask Dorf if he was ready.

• Neo and Kallen arrived at the Nadun Family estate and joined Bishop Byrne as garrison knights secured the villa.
• Byrne confronted Dorf in the basement, where Dorf claimed he had done nothing wrong and offered evidence against other bishops, but Kallen said he would take it.
• Dorf threatened Kallen with mental pressure, then demanded that Kallen kill him; Byrne explained that surviving the ordeal could strengthen Kallen’s faith.
• Kallen accepted Byrne’s offer, while Byrne and Neo left the basement and Byrne placed a barrier around Dorf and Kallen.
• Kallen summoned a Spear of Discipline and approached Dorf, who promised to haunt him; Kallen stopped and asked whether Dorf was ready.

Kallen killed Bishop Dorf, but Dorf used his dying power to plant his faith root in Kallen and cripple his future cultivation. Kallen expelled the root with Dis’s help and revealed that Dorf had obediently written a suicide note.

• Kallen rejected Dorf’s warning that he would become a disposable mask and said he would fight back to protect his family.
• Kallen stabbed Dorf with the Spear of Discipline, while Dorf transformed into a beast and attacked him through a nightmare-like vision.
• Dorf changed tactics and gave Kallen his faith root, intending to boost him temporarily while limiting his future growth; he also blamed Bishop Byrne for arranging the situation.
• As Dorf’s power weakened Kallen’s consciousness, Kallen revealed that he had hidden his true intentions until Dorf could no longer send information out.
• Kallen forced Dorf’s blessing out of himself, sat down as Dis appeared in Temple Elder’s robes, and told Dorf that he had written the requested suicide note.

Kallen confronted Bishop Dorf about the Nadun Family, but his hunger addiction surged and threatened to make him devour Dorf. As Kallen struggled against it, powerful figures and artifacts from several faiths tried to restrain him, while Dorf realized he was witnessing the God of Order being held back by other divine powers.

• Kallen told Bishop Dorf that he had uncovered the truth about Dalis, and Dorf accused him of targeting the Nadun Family before Kallen bound him with the Chain of Order.
• Dorf offered the Nadun Family's loyalty, but Kallen's hunger addiction intensified, and Dis and the Dark Moon Goddess appeared in his consciousness to restrain him.
• Kallen summoned the Gate of Reincarnation and the Sea God Armor as restraints, while the God of Light also appeared to hold him down.
• At the York City District detention facility, Dalis's transformation repeatedly began and reversed, tormenting him as Kallen's struggle affected who would inherit the curse's fruits.
• Kallen's Order flames and the God of Order's phantom emerged, leaving Dorf to watch a Temple Elder, an unidentified deity, the Gate of Reincarnation, the Sea God Armor, and the God of Light restrain the God of Order.

Kallen suppressed his hunger addiction by summoning the War Scythe into his consciousness and stabbing himself, then had Thousand Enchantments devour Bishop Dorf. After Bishop Byrne arrived and tried to examine him, Kallen advanced to become an Arbiter.

• Kallen realized that resisting his hunger with his own faith systems worsened the backlash and risked erasing the Dark Moon Goddess's imprint and merging Dis's legacy into the Order faith system.
• Kallen summoned the War Scythe into his consciousness and drove it into his own chest, ending the struggle and suppressing his hunger addiction.
• Kallen ordered Thousand Enchantments to devour Bishop Dorf, who asked whether Dalis was a curse; Kallen said Dalis would devour the Nadun Family, and Dorf died as Thousand Enchantments finished eating him.
• Bishop Byrne observed Kallen's injuries, then entered the basement and asked how he felt; Kallen said Dorf had blessed him with his power and faith seedling.
• When Bishop Byrne tried to examine Kallen, Kallen's power repelled his consciousness and ancient black Arbiter Clerical Robes appeared as Kallen advanced to become an Arbiter.

Kallen advanced to Arbiter after Bishop Dorf's death and discovered that Dalis was suffering from a curse with no cure. He told Dalis he was free and urged him to lie to the person who had deceived him.

• Kallen reflected on his judgments and advanced to Arbiter, then passed Bishop Byrne's test of his power.
• Bishop Byrne arranged Dorf's obituary and left, while Kallen reunited with Neo and learned Dalis would soon be released.
• Kallen found Philomina and learned her grandmother had chosen Dalis as a test subject for the family curse; he warned Philomina to stay at Headquarters.
• Kallen entered Dalis's cell after Dorf's obituary cleared the way for his release, and the two concealed their injuries while speaking.
• Kallen secretly returned to Dalis's cell and found him disfigured by the curse, then told him he was free and could lie to the person who had lied to him.

Kallen questioned Dalis about his failed curse and learned that the secret art turned a blessing into a curse, while Dalis agreed to pretend he was well until noon the next day. As Kallen prepared to protect Philomina from Mrs. Felshev, Madam Tang Li and Delong set out to bring Richard the Nightmare Blade, expecting him to pass it on to Kallen.

• Kallen spoke with Dalis, who explained that his family’s blessing became a curse and that the secret art was destined to fail; Dalis agreed to leave detention the next day at noon.
• Kallen returned to his office and told Alfred that Mrs. Felshev would act against Philomina, then rested before the late-night visit from his maternal grandmother and Delong.
• Alfred urged Philomina to pledge loyalty to Kallen and wrote in his notebook about her place in the future he envisioned.
• Madam Tang Li and Delong prepared a late-night feast while discussing their past and the Nightmare Blade, which Madam Tang Li intended to give Richard.
• Madam Tang Li planned for Richard to choose whether to take the Nightmare Blade, expecting him to hand it over to Kallen.

Kallen joined his family for a meal, where Old Delong revealed the Guman Family’s Nightmare Blade as a possible inheritance for Richard. Richard found the weapon too difficult to wield, leaving him to offer it to Philomina.

• Madam Tang Li and Old Delong brought food to Headquarters, where Old Delong recalled how Richard had been courting the reserved Philomina and Madam Tang Li worried about the Felsher Family’s curse.
• Neo told Kallen about an upcoming Black Market auction of weapons and suggested exploring Kongpacini’s Burial Ground for stronger weapons after Kallen resolved Philomina’s matter.
• Madam Tang Li welcomed Kallen into a private room and called him Grandma before Old Delong brought in the sealed weapon box.
• Old Delong opened the box and revealed the Nightmare Blade, whose aura made Kallen cough and whose strain caused Richard pain and dry-heaving.
• Richard admitted he could not use the Nightmare Blade and offered it to Philomina, stunning Madam Tang Li.

Richard gave the Nightmare Blade to Philomina, whose loneliness awakened the blade’s personality and Madam Tang Li’s old spiritual imprint. Kallen tried the weapon and aggravated a serious soul injury, but refused to go home for treatment; Philomina kept the blade and agreed to pray to him if she remained herself.

• Richard handed the Nightmare Blade to Philomina, and she immediately proved unusually compatible with it.
• The blade stirred memories of Madam Tang Li’s lonely youth and her life with Guman, while Tang Li grew angry that Philomina had received the weapon meant for Kallen.
• Madam Tang Li insisted that Kallen try the blade, and its soul-draining power worsened the injury he had sustained from the [War Scythe], making him cough blood.
• Madam Tang Li and Old Delong urged Kallen to return home for treatment, but he refused and promised to visit in a couple of days.
• After Madam Tang Li left with Richard, Philomina told Kallen that Alfred had advised her to pray to him and said she would if she remained herself.
• Kallen told Philomina to keep the Nightmare Blade, and she accepted it with a rare, radiant smile.

Kallen took Philomina to her hidden home despite the Felsher Family’s attempt to have Bishop Dolfenant collect her, then waited as she reunited with her grandmother and the family preserved in puppets. Mrs. Felshev opened the window and saw Kallen approaching through the rain, crying and laughing as she recognized him.

• Dalis left the headquarters in the rain after thanking Kallen for helping him accept his exile.
• Kallen told Alfred that Philomina remained a member of the Order God Church, then prepared to take her home and asked Richard to keep watch.
• Bishop Dolfenant tried to collect Philomina, but Kallen refused and forced the bishop’s attendant to withdraw by warning that the Whip of Order could investigate his family.
• Kallen drove Philomina to her hidden home and sent her inside with the Nightmare Blade while he stayed outside to smoke.
• Philomina found Mrs. Felshev hosting a family dinner with puppets made to resemble their deceased relatives, and her grandmother welcomed her home.
• Mrs. Felshev opened the window while recounting a past rainy-day visit and saw Kallen approaching, crying, “Look, he’s here.”

Kallen visited the Felshev home and was drawn into Mrs. Felshev’s dream, where she attacked him while confronting Philomina. Mrs. Felshev overpowered Philomina and began taking her through a dream, but Kallen recovered from the apparent eye-stabbing and sat up, still in pain.

• Kallen entered the Felshev home and waited among the puppets while the house’s illusions tried to draw him in.
• Mrs. Felshev showed Kallen a memory of young Philomina playing with her doglike father, then stabbed Kallen’s eyes with knitting needles in the dream.
• Mrs. Felshev asked Philomina to help her become young again, but Philomina refused and tried to attack her with the Nightmare Blade.
• Mrs. Felshev turned Philomina’s blade into a recorder, used its music to control her, and struck her down when she tried to wake from the dream.
• Philomina’s father rushed to protect her, but Mrs. Felshev pinned him to the floor and forced Philomina to accompany her into a separate dream.
• Kallen’s Chains of Order restored him after the dream’s attack, and he pulled the knitting needles from his healed eyes while wincing in pain.

Kallen entered Philomina’s dream and joined her fight against Mrs. Felshev, whose power overwhelmed the others despite their attempts to weaken her. Mrs. Felshev revealed that she had already digested the Felsher Family’s curse and began transferring what she called a blessing to Philomina.

• Kallen entered Mrs. Felshev’s illusion and found Philomina, her grandmother, and her injured father asleep in the villa.
• Philomina fought Mrs. Felshev in her dream with help from her father and the Dark Moon Bone’s power, but Mrs. Felshev subdued them.
• Kallen arrived, freed Philomina, and attacked Mrs. Felshev with the [War Scythe] and the Dark Moon Bone’s power, suffering severe injuries himself.
• Mrs. Felshev explained that she had already digested the curse long before Dalis, then embraced Philomina through her bone spikes and began giving her a blessing.

Kallen revealed that he was Dis’s grandson after Miss Felsher chose to replace Philomina, and he called on Dis’s power to threaten both women with a new curse. The chapter ended with Kallen preparing to curse Miss Felsher and Mrs. Felshev again.

• Mrs. Felshev drained Philomina’s life and poured the family’s blessing into her as Miss Felsher emerged from her sealed dream self.
• Miss Felsher refused to stop the ritual and admitted she intended to replace Philomina herself, while promising Kallen a share of the blessing.
• Kallen rejected the blessing, suspecting it would put him under Miss Felsher’s control, and revealed that his full name was Kallen Immoreles.
• Miss Felsher learned Kallen was Dis’s grandson and insisted that Dis’s curse had freed her so she could reunite with him.
• Kallen summoned Dis’s phantom and declared that he could curse Miss Felsher and Mrs. Felshev again now that the blessing had been released.

Kallen restored the Felsher Family’s curse, stopping Miss Felsher from taking Philomina’s body, but Mrs. Felshev attacked him after they returned to reality. Philomina killed her grandmother, learned Kallen’s connection to the curse, and carried him from the house, ending by pledging her loyalty to him.

• Kallen used the Immerlis Family Faith System to repair Mrs. Felshev’s curse, which halted Miss Felsher’s fusion with Philomina and returned control of the dream to Philomina.
• The dream collapsed and swept everyone back to the villa, where Mrs. Felshev commanded puppets and attacked Kallen while he was too injured to use spell arts.
• Thousand Enchantments protected Kallen until Philomina arrived, destroyed the puppets, and killed Mrs. Felshev with the Nightmare Blade.
• Philomina treated Kallen’s wounds and explained that she had heard his words while sealed in the wax, but she did not blame him for Dis’s curse because she no longer considered herself part of the Felsher Family.
• Philomina carried Kallen out of the house, accepted the talent she had gained, and told him she intended to pledge her loyalty to him.

After helping Philomina return to headquarters, Kallen went home to recover from his severe soul and physical injuries, then insisted on traveling to Allen Manor despite his condition. The chapter ends with Old Anderson welcoming Kallen back as he arrived in a coffin.

• Philomina drove Kallen to headquarters, where Neo arranged for her identity and the Felsher Family's assets to be handled while Kallen went home to rest.
• Kallen slept through a dream featuring the [War Scythe], then woke and learned that Blanche had treated his external injuries but that his soul remained badly damaged.
• Kallen approved Alfred taking Philomina to the Opera House at Allen Manor and decided to leave for the manor immediately, bringing Puer and Kevin with him.
• Kallen had Muli and Ventura carry him in a comfortable coffin, frightening Mrs. Lake until she saw that Kallen was alive.
• At Allen Manor, Mrs. Jenny prepared Eunice to welcome Kallen, and Old Anderson greeted him as he arrived in the hearse.

Kallen spent time with Eunice at Allen Manor while Puer directed the family to support Kallen and his circle. Alfred brought Philomina to the Opera House to turn her loyalty into faith, where she recognized Kallen as the God of Order’s inheritor but struggled to believe Kevin was an Evil God.

• Eunice fed Kallen Crystal Grapes and spoke with him about his transformation and the past, while Kallen reassured her that he had no wish to return to a life that would not have brought them together.
• Puer told Old Anderson that Allen Manor should serve Kallen by preserving his coffins and offering his associates the highest hospitality, and Old Anderson agreed.
• Kallen asked Muli to train Ventura in combat and said he wanted to bring trustworthy people into their group rather than focus on expanding it.
• Alfred brought Philomina to the Opera House, explained that Kallen planned to grant eternal life to those sealed there, and urged her to turn her loyalty into faith.
• Puer staged Kevin’s appearance to impress Philomina, but Philomina said she believed Kallen was the God of Order’s inheritor and found it hard to believe Kevin was an Evil God.

Kallen gathered his companions for a secret dinner and study session, then tested Ventura and Muli in combat as he recovered and trained. Kevin began mentoring Philomina, who apologized to him and accepted him as her teacher, while Alfred wondered whether Kevin’s choice had anything to do with her grudge against Immoreles.

• Kallen hosted a private dinner with Alfred, Ventura, Muli, Philomina, Puer, and Kevin, and Alfred led a study session on Kallen’s notes.
• Kallen tested Ventura with Spell Arts, and Muli agreed to train Ventura to think more clearly during Giantification.
• Kallen sparred with Muli, who reached him but recognized that Kallen had barely strained himself despite still being injured.
• Kevin met with Philomina, accepted her apology, and offered to teach her after Alfred reminded him that Kallen might react badly if she called Kevin her teacher.
• Philomina called Kevin her teacher, and Alfred asked whether Kevin wanted to mentor her because she held a grudge against Immoreles.

Kallen prepared to remove another seal from Kevin, while Alfred urged the dog to teach Philomina and reflected on Raniedal’s past. During the ritual, Kallen witnessed Raniedal’s memory of battling a Red-Scaled Dragon and learned that he had hunted a Sea God Church cleric over her vote against promoting the Mills Goddess.

• Alfred warned Kevin that he would need to teach Philomina and said the young master planned to remove Kevin’s seal that day.
• Kallen examined paintings sent by Mr. Bede and Piaget, then chose not to show Mr. Bede’s ominous-looking painting to Eunice.
• Kallen and Alfred discussed Raniedal’s claim that he had assassinated a third of the Sea God Church’s senior ranks, then Kallen began the unsealing ritual with Kevin.
• Inside Kevin’s memory, Kallen saw Raniedal escape from an enormous creature and defeat a weakened Red-Scaled Dragon.
• A woman in blue Clerical Robes pleaded with Raniedal to spare the dragon, and Raniedal explained that he was hunting her because she had voted against moving the Mills Goddess up in the Sea God Church’s rankings.

Kallen explored more of Raniedal’s memories, then recovered from the strain and learned about recent developments from Alfred. He went to see Kevin and Puer modifying the Memory Compass, where he found Puer beating Kevin.

• Kallen watched Raniedal kill a Sea God Church woman, devour her Sea God Heart, and process a Great Dragon with a Bloodthirsty Otherworldly Demon.
• Kallen viewed another memory of Raniedal watching followers of the Mills Goddess perform a prayer ritual, then removed another layer of Raniedal’s seal.
• Kallen woke after sleeping for a day and a night, and Alfred told him that Mr. Dalis had come looking for him and that the Felsher Family’s house had burned down, likely due to Madam Tang Li.
• Alfred reported that the Director had bought Kallen a Memory Compass for thirty-five thousand Order Vouchers and shared news about church conflicts and unrest at a Thunder Order God Church sacred land.
• Kallen learned that Kevin and Puer were modifying the Memory Compass, then went to the workshop with Alfred and found Puer beating Kevin.

Kallen let Puer and Kevin decide how to upgrade the Memory Compass, and they made it a temporary vessel for Thousand Enchantments. The weapon succeeded, and Kallen tested its new defensive and flight forms as the Chains of Order strengthened its wings.

• Puer and Kevin argued over whether to make a safe upgrade to the Memory Compass or risk a radical redesign, and Puer proposed using Thousand Enchantments as a temporary artifact spirit.
• Kallen agreed to the plan after Kevin explained the risks, then left Thousand Enchantments with Puer and Kevin while he visited Old Saman and Earl Recar in their coffin-bound consciousnesses.
• Kallen chatted with Old Saman and Earl Recar, who asked him to put people in the other coffins so they would have company.
• Kallen returned to the forge, where Puer said the upgrade had succeeded and Thousand Enchantments had learned its assigned runic route.
• Thousand Enchantments entered the transformed stack of Steel Plates and formed armor and three pairs of wings around Kallen, who reinforced them with the Chains of Order and flew.

Kallen tested the wings forged by Puer and later asked Eunice to return to the Funeral Society with him, but she chose to stay at the manor while pursuing her own ambitions. Kallen accepted her decision and agreed to speak with her family about their plans.

• Alfred painted Kallen flying with his new wings, while Muli and Ventura discussed the wings’ speed, control, and Kallen’s improved physique.
• Kallen tested Thousand Enchantments by diving into the ground, then told Puer he was satisfied with it as a secondary weapon and still needed a main weapon from the Kongpacini Burial Ground.
• While cooking with Eunice, Kallen invited her to live with him at the Funeral Society, but Eunice said she wanted to remain at the manor and develop her own projects until he was ready to return.
• Eunice explained that she understood Kallen’s desire to travel and promised to wait for him, and Kallen agreed to respect her wishes and speak with her family.
• Puer and Kevin eavesdropped on the couple’s conversation, and Puer threatened to destroy their stockings.

Kallen and Neo led their group into the Pester Desert Forbidden Zone to find Kongpacini's Burial Ground, relying on Marlie and his granddaughter Nailing as guides. When the guides revealed themselves as bandits and attacked, Kallen bit the threatening Curse Fruit while Neo reattached his severed head.

• Kallen left Puer and Kevin at Allen Manor and joined Neo's expedition toward Kongpacini's Burial Ground.
• Neo arranged covert teleportation to Maixinla and hired Marlie, who was secretly a faction leader, to guide the group through the Pester Desert Forbidden Zone.
• Marlie and Nailing took the group into the desert aboard a Sand Boat, where Kallen sensed pollution in the air as they traveled through strange weather.
• As the Sand Boat neared its destination, Nailing slashed Neo's neck with a concealed dagger, and Marlie threatened the group with a Curse Fruit while his men surrounded them.
• Kallen bit and chewed the Curse Fruit, and Neo lifted his severed head back onto his neck and twisted it into place.

Kallen and Neo’s expedition defeated Marlie’s sand bandits and reached an underground fissure connected to their search for Kongpacini. Kallen awakened a centuries-old cleric, whose first words accused Order of conspiracy.

• Kallen swallowed Marlie’s cursed fruit, then killed Marlie with Thousand Enchantments when he tried to attack; Neo killed Nailing with Bloodfall.
• Ventura, Muli, Alfred, and Philomina routed the sand bandits surrounding the sand boat while Kallen and Neo watched.
• After dinner, Neo used a scroll to reveal an underground entrance, scouted it as black mist, and led the group inside.
• The group found a mercury-silver corpse in Desert Order God Church robes, and Neo asked Kallen to awaken it.
• Kallen used a Chain of Order to awaken the corpse, which shrieked that it was all Order’s conspiracy.

Neo and Kallen investigated the ancient burial ground, where an awakened corpse revealed that the Order God Church had supposedly conspired against the Desert Order God Church. They discovered the remains of long-dead church clerics and encountered ten apparently preserved Order clerics circling a still patch of sand, one of whom suddenly blinked.

• An awakened corpse told Neo and Kallen that the Order God Church had conspired in the fall of the God of the Desert and planned to absorb the Desert Order God Church’s faith, then burned away its remaining spiritual power.
• Kallen reasoned that the church’s investigators from three hundred years earlier had likely died at the burial ground, and he and Neo decided to continue exploring.
• The group found a living pool of quicksand surrounding a vast crystalline skeleton, with ten motionless Order clerics being carried in a circle around a calm patch.
• Kallen and Neo descended into the sand, and Neo uncovered several dozen skeletons, including members of the Desert Order God Church who had held high ranks.
• Kallen and Neo noticed the emblem of the Whip of Order on one cleric’s staff, then saw the woman carrying it blink.