Recaps

Lumian and his allies uncovered the forces shaping Dream City while Franca confronted memories of her lost life and Emperor Roselle in the Mirror departed. As Zhou Shasha’s arrival drew near, Lumian assembled the group for an operation against the Celestial Worthy.

• Lumian rescued Franca from Mushu Hospital’s underground area, where she had found herself cocooned in the gray-white fog, and the group began investigating the dream’s hidden influence.
• Franca and Lumian connected Peng Deng, Grisha, and other dream figures to the Celestial Worthy and the five pathways associated with omniscience and omnipotence, while Franca decided to remain in the dream.
• Lumian found Li Keji transformed into a rebirthing mushroom, encountered Madame Pualis with the infant Ombella, and escaped the collapsing Otherworld by invoking Mr. Door’s name.
• Madam Magician theorized that the Great Mother had used the Divine Child’s birth and death to return Ombella, potentially making Lumian a medium for her arrival in reality.
• Jenna and Ludwig recovered a dried mushroom from Mushu Hospital, and Ludwig developed healing spores after eating it.
• Bernadette followed Emperor Roselle in the Mirror out of Dream City, where he warned her of possible merging and an early apocalypse and left Lumian a Blasphemy Card depicting him as the Primordial Witch.
• Lumian warned Franca, Jenna, Anthony, and Ludwig that Dream City blended Mr. Fool’s and the Celestial Worthy’s subconscious and that speaking certain facts could awaken the Celestial Worthy.
• After learning Zhou Shasha would arrive nearly two hours early, Lumian assigned the group their tasks and left with Jenna to begin the operation.

Lumian and his allies brought Gehrman Sparrow into Dream City, helping Mr. Fool awaken while the city collapsed. After advancing as Witches of Unaging, Lumian and Franca uncovered more of Aurora’s past and became patron saints, leaving them with new anchors of faith as their journey to Banishment City approached.

• Anthony repeated Lumian’s message to the Major Arcana, while Lumian and Jenna watched Zhou Mingrui at the station and Rosanne joined them.
• Rosanne took Zhou Mingrui’s pocket watch, but the station became part of the Mirror World and Jenna shattered Zhou Shasha’s mirror form before darkness swallowed Rosanne and the city.
• Lumian explained Zhou Mingrui’s struggle with the Celestial Worthy, while Franca entered a film and brought Gehrman Sparrow out of it with the Major Arcana’s help.
• Gehrman Sparrow’s image stabilized as Dream City disintegrated, and Zhou Mingrui chose to resist the Celestial Worthy before sinking into darkness.
• Lumian became Mr. Chariot, then led Franca and Jenna into the Blood Emperor’s treasury, where he subdued a monstrous corpse and gathered ingredients and Beyonder characteristics.
• Lumian and Franca reconciled with their Persons in the Mirror and advanced to Witches of Unaging, while Aurora’s note led them to summon White Paper and reconsider Cordou Village’s past.
• Lumian and Franca investigated Aurora’s connection to White Paper and the Hidden Sage, then wrote their Honorific Names and prepared to visit Banishment City.
• Franca learned that Hella already knew they were in their original world, and the two agreed to preserve hope among the Curly-Haired Baboon Research Society.
• Lumian and Franca received prayers as anchors of faith at the Fool’s church, and they each helped believers before Lumian considered redirecting the Disease Church’s faith.

Lumian and Franca dismantled the Disease Church in Trier, uncovered the truth about Giddas, and helped Mr. Fool hunt the Hidden Sage. The Hidden Sage died, the surviving Warlocks received support, and Lumian gained the Weather Warlock formula and a prophecy pointing to crimson descending in July 1360.

• Lumian killed Mocosidos, took control of the Disease Church’s Trier followers, and presented himself and Franca as the God of Plague and the God of Illness.
• Lumian learned that Giddas’s soul fragments had fused with him and that Giddas might eventually replace him, then returned to Cordou Village to witness its fading inhabitants briefly reappear.
• Lumian and Franca joined Mr. Fool’s operation against the Hidden Sage, while Jenna advanced to Witch of Despair and helped deal with fallen Warlocks.
• Madam Magician killed Toriope as the operation’s allies reached the Moses Ascetic Order, and Mr. Fool began fighting the Hidden Sage in the Mysterious Unknown Land.
• Lumian used the Information Shredder on the Hidden Sage and burned himself to ashes, allowing Mr. Fool to destroy the Hidden Sage and its backups.
• Mr. Fool distributed the operation’s spoils, giving Lumian the Weather Warlock formula and the Book of Post-Apocalypse, which prophesied crimson descending at the end of July 1360.
• Franca gave Professor, Periodic Table, and Prototype resources to advance after the Moses Ascetic Order’s destruction, then exchanged spoils for the Grade 1 Sealed Artifact Mystery’s Face.

Lumian became a Weather Warlock, confronted the divinity and destiny shaping his path, and learned that Alista Tudor’s preparations were advancing. As the search for the missing Louis Gustav led into Fourth Epoch Trier, a Shadow Tree spread through Trier beneath an enormous crimson moon.

• Lumian arranged for Bella to apprentice Julian, while Jenna and Franca worked to consolidate the Disease Church and prepare Anthony’s advancement.
• Lumian entered the ruined Bansy Harbor through a Mysticism Ritual, encountered Alista Tudor in the Mirror World, and drew the Purple-Flame Giant Bird into the ruins to obtain its Weather Warlock characteristic.
• Lumian advanced to Weather Warlock by collapsing a typhoon and surviving the potion’s transformation, then described his new powers and unsettling divinity to Franca and Jenna.
• Mr. Fool and Madam Magician explained divinity, sefirot, the Outer Deities, and the approaching apocalypse, while Lumian considered how to advance quickly and protect his humanity.
• Lumian acted as a Weather Warlock by improving storms, and Franca investigated Louis Gustav’s disappearance after finding his Tudor Gold Coin and family brooch.
• Lumian divined that Louis had crossed into Fourth Epoch Trier, then encountered a messenger of the Circle of Fate and received a warning to avoid the Special Mirror World.
• Amon helped Lumian evade the messenger’s attack, and Lumian agreed to postpone investigating Louis while Angoulême and Jack Walton searched Fourth Epoch Trier.
• Lumian’s team fought through Fourth Epoch Trier as Angoulême’s group encountered multiplying Montsouris Ghosts, and a Shadow Tree spread across Trier while Lumian saw an enormous crimson moon outside the cathedral.