Chapter Summaries

Bernie’s blessing turned the battle against Kallen’s group, but Kallen trapped the giant in Black Prison Castle while his allies restrained the assassin. Bernie summoned a Regional Guardian to extract him, and Madam Tang Li attacked the guardian as the chapter ended.

• Bernie used his priestly blessing to empower the giant and the assassin, leaving Ventura pinned and Kallen’s allies under pressure.
• Kallen trapped the giant inside Black Prison Castle with Thousand Enchantments’ help, while Ventura and the skeleton reinforced the prison and Philomina caught the assassin in a dream.
• Bernie ignited a scroll and summoned a hand from a dark cloud to rescue him as the battle turned against his group.
• Madam Tang Li and Old Delong identified the hand as a Regional Guardian intervening in the conflict.
• Madam Tang Li flew upward and slashed at the guardian’s enormous hand with her kitchen knife.

Madam Tang Li intervened to defeat the guardian’s Dharma Body, while Bernie destroyed his allies’ souls before Neo killed him. Kallen’s group withdrew as Vic forced Jisen to publicly order the arrest of the Desert Order God Church members, with Suss and Byrne watching through a Communication Magic Formation.

• Madam Tang Li severed the Giant Palm’s wrist and shattered the guardian’s eye with her blade, forcing him to withdraw after Suss and Byrne challenged his intervention.
• Bernie burned the Puppets to annihilate the trapped giant’s and assassin’s souls, then surrendered, but Neo killed him with the Tower of Light.
• Alfred and Vic discussed the corpses and Neo’s connection to Kallen before Vic led the teams of Light Remnants to prepare Communication Formations.
• Kallen ordered his group to withdraw, and he and Neo agreed that Bernie’s death would prevent future trouble.
• Vic awakened Jisen, stabbed him, and forced him to order the arrest of the Desert Order God Church members through a Communication Magic Formation watched by Suss and Byrne.
• Vic called for backlighting as Kallen, Neo, and the other Order Clerics lit up the scene for a group photo with Jisen.

Vic used Jisen as a scapegoat to undermine his faction’s negotiations with the Desert Order God Church, while Suss ordered a crackdown on the church. At the Order God Church headquarters, High Priest Norton emerged from seclusion and confronted evidence of his worsening condition as another version of himself appeared.

• Byrne warned Dawensi that he had broken his agreement with Kallen, while Suss ordered the Desert Order God Church arrested and authorized killing anyone who resisted.
• Vic evacuated Jisen from the Vien Royal Palace and explained that he could preserve his reputation by claiming to have acted for Order, or lose his future through open conflict.
• Kallen and Neo discussed retrieving the Lax Copper Coin, the team’s growing strength, and plans for Kevin’s surgery.
• Norton spoke with Base beneath the administrative hall, who had been storing the corpses of Norton's former selves, then returned to work.
• A second Norton appeared as he reviewed reports on Woforen’s assassination and the Desert Order God Church Subjugation Plan, and he called the situation a beast.

After returning home, Kallen visited Suss and Byrne to thank them for supporting him and discuss the fallout from his actions against the Desert Order God Church. As Kallen’s standing rose within the church, Jisen returned to Dinge District and learned that his grandfather approved of his choices.

• Puer made Little Kangna bathe and sleep in Kallen’s bed, while Kevin found her Kallen’s clothes and read the newspaper.
• Kallen returned to headquarters, where clerics treated him with new respect, and thanked Suss for taking pressure on his behalf.
• Suss told Kallen that Elanga, Luther, and Miqi remained alive but would be sent to the gallows, and said he would publicize Kallen’s role in avenging Woforen.
• Leon drove Kallen to the Church Administration Building, where Byrne thanked him for standing by Woforen and discussed cleaning up their district and retaliating against Dawensi’s group.
• Jisen returned to Dinge District and apologized to his grandfather, who told him he had made the right choice and that the family would thank him.

Kallen visited Delong, impressed him with his skill in formations, and agreed to discuss the subject with him in the future. At the Guman Family home, Madam Tang Li asked Kallen if she could tell Delong that Kallen was his grandson, and Kallen left the decision to her.

• Kallen met Delong at the Church Administration Building, where Delong discovered Kallen could understand a difficult ancient formation text and reproduce its central design.
• Kallen and Delong discussed how to guide a magic formation's effects into a soul, and Delong invited Kallen to consult him about formations.
• Richard told Delong that Kallen already had a Formation Master instructor and had received a copy of the Key of the Magic Cube.
• At the Guman Family home, Madam Tang Li welcomed Kallen warmly and told Richard that his father was waiting for him in the study.
• Madam Tang Li asked Kallen whether she could tell Delong that Kallen was his grandson, and Kallen agreed to let her decide on Delong's birthday.

Richard helped Dark address a large debt wrongly assigned to his Tribunal, and Kallen arranged for Vic to investigate who was responsible. Eisen told Kallen that Delong privately mourned his deceased eldest daughter; after Madam Tang Li hinted that Kallen might be their grandson, Delong realized the possibility and asked if it was true.

• Richard found Dark waiting in the living room, and Dark explained that a large debt from a paper-only transaction had been charged to his Tribunal.
• Richard promised to look into the matter, and Kallen said Vic should identify who was responsible so the debt could be assigned correctly.
• Eisen told Kallen that Delong spent his birthday grieving for his eldest daughter, whose death he blamed on himself.
• Eisen revealed that Madam Tang Li planned to tell Delong about Kallen that day.
• Delong recalled his deceased daughter while looking at a family painting, and Madam Tang Li asked whether he would laugh foolishly if their grandson were like Kallen.
• Delong realized what Madam Tang Li was implying and asked if it was true, while she told him not to laugh loudly that night.

Delong learned from Madam Tang Li that Kallen was his grandson, the son of their deceased daughter and Dis Immoreles. After Madam Tang Li explained their daughter’s fate and warned Delong to keep Kallen’s identity secret, Kallen joined Delong in the studio, where Delong welcomed him as family.

• Delong broke down with emotion when Madam Tang Li confirmed that Kallen was his grandson.
• Madam Tang Li told Delong she had recognized Kallen at their first meeting and warned him to protect Kallen and keep his identity secret.
• Madam Tang Li explained that their daughter had married Dis, given birth to Kallen, and later died with her husband after they were polluted during a secret mission.
• Madam Tang Li revealed that Kallen’s full surname was Immoreles, and Delong accepted that Kallen would never act against Order.
• In the living room, Kallen thanked Mr. Eisen for bringing him ice water, then went downstairs to meet Delong.
• Kallen presented Delong with a rotating magic cube, and Delong embraced the moment by declaring that Kallen was his grandfather.

Kallen reunited with Delong and spent his grandfather’s birthday with the family, while Madam Tang Li arranged a family dinner and urged Kallen to take his personal life seriously. Delong ended the day keeping watch outside Kallen’s room, hoping to hear him call him “Grandpa” again.

• Delong accepted Kallen as his grandson and sent him upstairs for lunch, then privately celebrated the hope Kallen brought to the Guman Family.
• Kallen agreed to Madam Tang Li’s plan for a family birthday dinner, and she encouraged him to marry and have children while he still had time.
• Philomina arrived, received permission from Kallen to take leave for special training, and was told by Madam Tang Li to stay alert and train.
• Kallen rested at the house while Richard returned to work with Eisen, and Delong set up a Resting Formation outside Kallen’s bedroom.
• Delong sat outside Kallen’s room with a newspaper, quietly waiting for Kallen to wake and call him Grandpa.

Kallen celebrated Delong’s birthday with his maternal family, then accompanied Inquisitor Dark and Richard to investigate an otherworldly demon. While waiting in the car, Kallen was approached by the demon, who tried to hide from her pursuers and charm him.

• Kallen woke at Delong’s home and spoke with his grandfather about his life before coming to Vien and the grandfather who had raised him.
• Kallen and his relatives celebrated Delong’s birthday over Yangchun Noodles and cake, with Philomina eventually remembering to wish him well.
• Dark received word that his jurisdiction had located an otherworldly demon, and Kallen let Richard drive them to the homeless people’s gathering place.
• Dark and Richard went into an alley to pursue the demon while Kallen stayed in the car and drank ice water.
• The otherworldly demon climbed into the car, cast a concealment barrier, and tried to hypnotize Kallen before reaching into the formation-cooled refrigerator.

Kallen captured a female Otherworldly Demon and learned she had been collecting qi and blood for the Abyss Church. The interrogation revealed that the Abyss Church had opened a York City mansion where clerics collected qi and blood from clients, and the demon had been hired to fulfill one cleric’s quota.

• Kallen disarmed the woman, ordered her to kneel, and let Inquisitor Dark’s team arrest her after she confessed to killing homeless people by draining their qi and blood.
• The woman claimed she was working for the Abyss Church, and Richard prompted Dark to bring the case to Kallen so his uncle could earn credit.
• Kallen agreed to help Dark’s Tribunal handle the case, and Richard explained how his uncle had been suppressed at work despite his abilities.
• At Dark’s home, Lucy and Lucia welcomed Kallen while the team waited for Dark to interrogate the woman.
• Dark brought Kallen the interrogation transcript, which showed that the Abyss Church’s York City mansion assigned qi-and-blood collection quotas to its clerics and that the captured demon had taken one as a subcontractor.

Kallen investigated a bizarre case involving an Otherworldly Demon who targeted homeless artists and ordered his team to investigate the Abyss Church and obtain membership access to a suspicious establishment. Richard revealed that he already had two membership cards, registered under his own name and Eisen’s, giving Kallen a way to investigate without alerting the targets.

• Kallen accepted the Otherworldly Demon’s account as true, and Dark discovered that she had targeted bankrupt artists who had become homeless.
• Kallen sent Richard to analyze recent Abyss Church investigations and sent Dark to retrieve the Church’s official records, while Vic was summoned to join the investigation.
• Kallen spoke with Lucy about her marriage to Dark, then questioned the Otherworldly Demon and arranged for her to continue her work without alerting the people behind the operation.
• Kallen received a call from Byrne and assured him he would keep him informed about the case.
• Kallen asked Richard to obtain two membership cards for the establishment, and Richard revealed he already had cards registered as a writer under his own name and as a pianist under Eisen’s.

Kallen and the Tribunal investigated the Abyss Church’s secret effort to collect artists’ blood for a newly born artifact spirit, then prepared to infiltrate the mansion where it was taking place. Kallen and Richard arrived disguised as members of a private club, while Kallen suspected the Lax Copper Coin might be connected to the artifact.

• Vic identified the operation’s likely limits, urgency, motive, and recipient, and Kallen concluded that a newborn artifact spirit was involved.
• Kallen claimed the Order God Church’s priority rights to artifacts found in Vien, assigned Vic to prepare the operation, and planned to investigate the mansion with Richard.
• Kallen arranged for the captured female otherworldly demon to be released so the Tribunal could trace the transaction route, and Lucy offered to help with the investigation.
• Richard gave Kallen two membership cards and a color-changing cocoon for covert signals, while Vic reported that Order had publicly demanded the Desert Church eradicate the Desert Remnants.
• Kallen and Richard traveled with Memphis to the mansion, disguised themselves, and entered using Richard’s club membership identity as a realist writer.

Kallen and Richard entered the Manor, where Kallen discovered that a blood-draining service was connected to a hidden Abyss Church operation beneath the building. Following the thread to its source, he found a wounded angel in a sarcophagus, with the Lax Copper Coin resting on its chest.

• Kallen and Richard entered the Manor and passed several famous writers and performers who had come for its services.
• Richard arranged top-floor rooms, and Kallen chose a green meadow setting and a soothing massage.
• Kallen detected a formation draining blood and vital energy, redirected its effects onto the cleric serving him, and substituted Richard’s blood for his own.
• Kallen used the Chain of Order to trace the wooden box’s connection into a heavily guarded underground chamber beneath the Manor.
• Kallen found the Lax Copper Coin on the chest of a badly wounded, black-winged being in a sarcophagus and recognized it as an angel.

Kallen investigated a living six-winged angel in the Abyss, but the angel ambushed him and invaded his soul space. The angel revealed his mission to prepare for the Abyss God’s return before the God of Light, then recognized the overwhelming presence confronting him as the returned God of Order.

• Kallen used the Lax Copper Coin and the Chains of Order to investigate the living angel, who trapped his consciousness and tried to kill him.
• Dis’s phantom stopped the angel’s spear, but the angel followed Kallen’s consciousness back to his body and began invading his soul space.
• The angel told Kallen that he had awakened after the gods’ departure and was tasked with preparing the way for the Abyss God to return before the God of Light.
• Kallen emerged beside a towering figure, and the angel recoiled in terror, identifying it as the God of Order returned.
• Kallen clenched his hands and said that he was hungry too.

Kallen resisted the God of Order’s attempt to consume the Six-Winged Angel’s soul, forcing a compromise by threatening to abandon Order and convert to other faiths. He sent Thousand Enchantments into the Angel’s body to impersonate it for three days, while secretly retaining control through the Lax Copper Coin.

• The Six-Winged Angel willingly dissolved into the God of Order’s Dharma Body, and Kallen’s attempt to stop the devouring left him under the Dharma Body’s crushing influence.
• Kallen resisted the pull of the vortex and threatened to convert to the Light, the Dark Moon, or Dis’s family faith, forcing the God of Order’s Dharma Body to stop consuming the angel’s soul.
• Kallen and the God of Order’s Dharma Body restrained the War Scythe and prevented it from being Orderized; Kallen then ordered Thousand Enchantments to swallow the angel’s remaining soul.
• The Angel’s body lost its faint vitality, but Kallen sent Thousand Enchantments into it to impersonate the Angel and restore its apparent condition.
• The Abyss Clerics believed the Angel had recovered and prepared to transport it, while Kallen relaxed and noted that the Lax Copper Coin still obeyed his commands.

Kallen and Richard investigated the Mansion, where Kallen encountered Piaget and Mr. Bede and learned that Piaget had painted a prophecy of the Mansion in flames. Kallen recognized the corpses in the painting as Order troops, leaving him to confront the possibility that the Church’s coming raid would end in disaster.

• Kallen completed a massage service while Richard endured a more disturbing illusion, and they discussed the cleric technicians’ contempt for their guests.
• Richard shared his discomfort with the Mansion’s atmosphere, and Kallen said the Order God Church kept outside forces from interfering in humanity’s conflicts.
• Kallen spotted Piaget and Mr. Bede painting Madam Baolifa and used Richard’s interruption to meet them privately.
• Mr. Bede revealed that Piaget had painted a vision of the Mansion and surrounding streets engulfed in flames and corpses.
• Kallen examined the painting and recognized the corpses as Order troops wearing black armor and black clerical robes.

Kallen studied Piaget’s painting of a future battle and coordinated with Byrne and Suss to plan an operation against a revived Six-Winged Angel in York City. He requested permission to visit Loya in Dinge District, while the Abyss Church prepared to retrieve the angel and Miliwen Yoan arrived at the teleportation hall, where she learned Kallen was traveling.

• Kallen bought Piaget’s painting from Mr. Bede, then left with Richard and returned to the Tribunal.
• Kallen summoned Byrne and Suss, explained the angel’s revival, and accepted responsibility for drafting an operation plan before midnight.
• Alfred examined Piaget’s painting with Kallen, and they agreed its prophecy might be dangerously accurate; Kallen asked Byrne for permission to visit Loya in Dinge District.
• Abyss Church leaders discussed Heaven Plaza’s slow return and ordered the Six-Winged Angel in Vien transported back once its vitality improved, assigning Miliwen Yoan to oversee the arrangements.
• Miliwen Yoan learned that Kallen had delayed her teleportation and asked about him, then dismissed the comparison when told he was an orphan like her.

Kallen traveled to the Sealed Space headquarters in Dinge District to consult Loya about using the Lax Copper Coin in an upcoming mission. Loya agreed to help him take control of the coin, and after their meeting Kallen left for his urgent mission feeling relieved.

• Kallen used an unscheduled teleportation to reach Dinge District and entered the Sealed Space headquarters.
• A corgi guarding the entrance checked Kallen's documents, and Ruilier escorted him to meet Loya.
• Loya told Kallen she could control the Lax Copper Coin and manipulate the angel sustained by its power, then agreed to hide the coin when he gave the signal.
• Kallen explained the mission details to Loya, and she purified his accumulated stress before returning to the Sealed Space.
• Ruilier invited Kallen to lunch, but he declined because of the urgent mission and left after accepting her business card.
• The corgi warned Kallen to follow the rules in Dinge District, and Kallen thanked it for being cute.

Neo repaid Leon the vouchers and took him to the Empire Tu Shu Library, where Neo confronted his split personalities and spoke with Phileas. After spotting Miliwen leaving the Church Administration Building, Neo pursued her and rammed her taxi, claiming his brakes had failed.

• Neo repaid Leon with physical Order Vouchers and took him to the Empire Tu Shu Library instead of joining Kallen's mission planning.
• Leon entered Neo's reading room and saw the Last Pope, the Ancestor of the Bloodthirsty Otherworldly Demon, and Phileas; Neo ordered the first two not to control his thoughts and said goodbye to Phileas.
• Neo brought Leon to the Church Administration Building to buy supplies, then spotted Miliwen leaving and ordered Leon to take the vouchers and groceries home.
• Miliwen suspected Order already knew her plans, noticed Neo following in a concealed high-grade vehicle, and told her driver to pull over.
• Neo sped into Miliwen's taxi, crushing the driver and wrecking the vehicle, then asked Miliwen whether she would believe his brakes had failed.

Neo confronted Miliwen after her vehicle crashed into his car, then learned she was secretly trying to sabotage a mission to transport a Six-Winged Angel and wanted cooperation with Order. Meanwhile, Alfred, Vic, and Richard studied the operation’s plans at Dark's Tribunal, where Richard proposed avoiding Clerical Robes to prevent the deaths shown in the Fountain Pen’s paintings.

• Neo inspected the wrecked vehicle, claimed its top-grade space-attribute crystals as compensation, and fought Miliwen when she used spell arts against him.
• Sains, valet to Sarayina, stepped aside after Neo threatened to have the Whip of Order arrest his master at the Ankara Hotel.
• Neo saw through Miliwen’s attempted escape, and she revealed that she planned to sabotage the mission to transport a Six-Winged Angel and sought cooperation with Order.
• Miliwen agreed to ride with Neo in exchange for a chance to meet Kallen, and she warned him that the operation involved the return of a god.
• At Dark's Tribunal, Richard helped Alfred and Vic organize the operation plans while Dark and Lucy supported the investigation.
• Vic and Alfred examined the Fountain Pen’s paired paintings and considered the possibility that they would die during the operation, prompting Richard to suggest they avoid wearing Clerical Robes.