Recaps

Kronos used the Red Priest Card and the power of light to weaken and threaten the Red Angel evil spirit, but the three souls distracted him and possessed his body. Kronos began resisting the possession by visualizing the character "Zhe" through his Nine Secrets Meditation, turning the battle of consciousness in his favor.

• Kronos picked up the Red Priest Card after pinning the Red Angel evil spirit with the Spear of Longinus, then purified the card with the power of light.
• Kronos imbued the Spear of Longinus with the power of light and threatened the Red Angel evil spirit into answering his questions.
• Sauron, Einhorn, and Medici argued and fought among themselves to distract Kronos, then the Red Angel evil spirit seized the opening to possess him.
• The Red Angel evil spirit took control of Kronos's body, while Kronos failed to drive him out with the power of light.
• Kronos visualized the character "Zhe" through his Nine Secrets Meditation and began pushing back against the Red Angel evil spirit's control.

Kronos defeated the Red Angel evil spirit’s attempt to possess him and forced it to yield, but learned it did not know the Hermit Pathway formulas. Arianna intervened to take custody of the spirit, and Kronos left the chamber after noticing the Evernight Goddess’s statue was gone.

• Kronos used the Zhe incantation and Death God Mask to regain control of his body and force the Red Angel evil spirit to emerge.
• Kronos questioned Medici, Sauron, and Einhorn about Clairvoyant formulas, but they could not remember them; Medici said Stiano might know.
• Medici deliberately spoke Stiano’s true name to provoke the God of Steam and Machinery, so Kronos punished the Red Angel evil spirit with Tyrant’s Roar.
• Kronos followed a spiritual prompting outside the Time Barrier, where Arianna told him to spare the evil spirit and took it into custody after it tried to flee.
• Kronos returned to the hall and saw that the statue of the Evernight Goddess had disappeared.

Kronos studied the Blasphemy Cards while Duke Negan’s death reshaped Loen’s political balance, then accepted the Tarot Club’s mission to assassinate Ambassador Beckland Jean Madan. He planned to delay the killing so Klein could still face the events that would advance his growth.

• Kronos returned home and tried to activate the Justiciar and Door Blasphemy Cards, but they showed no reaction.
• Philip inherited the dukedom and took control of the navy, while Earl Levett replaced Duke Negan as leader of the Conservative Party.
• Kronos continued studying the cards until the Tarot Club gathered, where Klein issued a mission to assassinate Ambassador Beckland Jean Madan.
• Alger described the ambassador’s actions, and Kronos revealed that Beckland was a Sequence 6 Conspirer with a Sequence 5 bodyguard.
• Kronos accepted the mission in exchange for a future favor of similar difficulty and warned Klein to protect his Blessed.
• Kronos chose to postpone the assassination so Klein could encounter Rosago and continue advancing along his path.

Kronos discovered that knowledge could activate the Blasphemy Cards and tested how much power several cards could provide, while also seeking a way to wield that power more conveniently. On the afternoon of the third day, he put away his research and set out to kill Beckland before the planned attack on Klein.

• After the Tarot Club meeting, Kronos relaxed at Backlund University and realized that knowledge could activate the Blasphemy Cards.
• Kronos used the Justiciar Card to reproduce abilities through Sequence 4, but they remained attached to the card and could not be wielded directly.
• Kronos failed to activate Sequence 3 Chaos Hunter abilities, but the Sun Card provided a Justice Mentor's power for a single strike.
• Kronos tested the Door, Darkness, and Red Priest Cards, then began developing a mysticism spell to borrow the cards' powers more conveniently.
• On the afternoon of the third day, Kronos dismissed his attendant and used Spirit World Traversal to set out for the Five-Pound Ambassador-Killing Incident.

Kronos assassinated Ambassador Beckland and framed the Aurora Order, then contacted Mr. Fool to offer Beckland's body. He kept the valuable Beyonder Characteristic for himself, leaving Klein with only the corpse.

• Kronos checked on Klein near 15 Minsk Street and saw Rosago and Miss Sharron following him.
• Kronos infiltrated the Intis Embassy under an Invisibility Hat, killed Beckland with the Spear of Longinus, and took his body.
• Kronos immobilized the embassy guards with a match and escaped, while Admiral Selt and Lieutenant General Pantek investigated and blamed the Aurora Order.
• Kronos prayed to Mr. Fool and offered Beckland's body, but purified and kept the Conspirer Beyonder Characteristic before performing the sacrifice.
• Klein watched the ritual from Sefirah Castle and received only Beckland's corpse, realizing Kronos had kept the valuable characteristic.

After the Tarot Club questioned Kronos about the Aurora Order, he returned to his magical research and received a request to meet Marquis Nibais about the Sanguine. When Olnia revealed that she had lost contact with Duke Olmer, Lady Arianna relayed the Evernight Goddess’s oracle that the Sanguine needed Kronos’s help, so he agreed to go.

• After Ambassador Beckland’s assassination, Mr. A claimed that the Aurora Order was responsible, and Audrey, Alger, and Klein learned of the claim.
• At the Tarot Club meeting, Miss Justice asked whether Kronos was a Saint of the Aurora Order, and Kronos denied it while saying that even Gade II could make limited use of the True Creator.
• Kronos stayed silent during trading and returned to studying fairy-tale spells and developing his Playing Cards Magic.
• Archbishop Anthony wrote to Kronos, asking him to meet Marquis Nibais Audra about the Sanguine’s plan to join the Nighthawks.
• Kronos asked Olnia about the Sanguine, and Olnia told him she had lost contact with Duke Olmer three days earlier.
• Lady Arianna conveyed the Evernight Goddess’s oracle that the Sanguine needed Kronos’s help, and Kronos decided to meet Nibais and go to the Sanguine.

Kronos traveled with Marquis Nibais to the Sanguine settlement in the Amanda Mountains after Duke Olmer requested his presence. There, he discovered that all three Sanguine Dukes were unconscious and sealing an unknown object, just as someone emerged from a Spirit World passage.

• Kronos met Archbishop Anthony and Marquis Nibais, who asked him to visit the Sanguine settlement because a message from Duke Olmer had requested him.
• Marquis Nibais flew Kronos to the Amanda Mountains and escorted him through the Sanguine settlement to the Ancestral Hall.
• Nibais and Kronos learned that the three Sanguine Dukes were absent from the upper ranks' meeting, then followed five dignitaries beneath the Ancestral Hall.
• The dignitaries revealed that Olmer, Cecil, and Colin had been unconscious for days, sealing an unknown object, and that Olmer had asked them to bring Kronos.
• As Kronos and the others studied the Dukes and the object, a Spirit World passage opened and a figure emerged.

Olnia identified the danger in the Sanguine Ancestral Hall as corruption from the Nation of Disorder, and the Evernight Goddess summoned Kronos to test whether his Power of Time could contain it. After the test succeeded, Amanises asked Kronos to repay her favor by helping with a future task.

• Olnia told the Sanguine leaders that the three Dukes had sealed corruption from the Ghost Empire with their power of creation, but she could not save them.
• Olnia suggested that the Evernight Goddess had sent Kronos because he might have a way to help, and Amanises transported him to Darkened Heaven.
• Amanises asked Kronos to test whether his special ability could limit the spread of corruption, and he agreed.
• Kronos used a Time Barrier to contain and shrink the Nation of Disorder’s corruption until it formed a marble-sized clump.
• Amanises warned Kronos against using the contained corruption recklessly and asked him to help with a future task in exchange for repaying her favor.

Kronos returned from meeting the Evernight Goddess and stayed in the Sanguine settlement while the marquises worked to awaken one of their sealed dukes. At the Tarot Club, he learned that Lanevus had been killed, heard news about the pirates and his own reputation as Starship Ranger Klein, and suspected a Devil Dog was behind a series of Backlund murders.

• Kronos explained that his time barrier could restrain the corruption but could not penetrate the dukes’ power of creation, so Nibais proposed that the six marquises help the dukes until one awakened; Kronos agreed to stay for several days.
• Olnia left without speaking, and Nibais inferred that Duke Olmer had invited Kronos in hopes of drawing her out; Kronos then settled in the Sanguine village and researched his magic.
• At the Tarot Club gathering, Kronos confirmed that Klein’s revenge plan had killed Lanevus, and Alger reported that Vice Admiral Hurricane Qilingus’s fleet had been taken over and Vice Admiral of Ailment Tracy had emerged.
• Kronos warned the Tarot Club members to avoid Tracy because her mother was a ruthless Sequence 3, while Alger introduced the Four Kings, Seven Generals, and Starship Ranger Klein, revealing that he had met Klein and shared a meal with him.
• Audrey reported a series of murders in Backlund targeting women who had left street work, and Kronos suspected the Devil Dog he had overlooked after dealing with Jason Beria was responsible.

Kronos helped the Sanguine contain the corruption threatening their seal by enclosing it in a Time Barrier. Once the gray corruption vanished, a silvery-white substance appeared, and Kronos recognized its aura from the Justiciar Card.

• Kronos warned the Tarot Club members that a Devil could sense and trace malice directed at him.
• After three days, Kronos entered the Ancestral Hall and learned that the Sanguine Marquises had joined the Dukes in sustaining the seal.
• Duke Olmer awoke, scolded the Marquises for weakening the seal, and agreed to let Kronos deal with the corruption.
• Kronos opened a gap in the seal, placed a Time Barrier over it, and expanded the barrier inward while the corruption battered it.
• Olmer supplied Kronos with potions that restored his spirituality, allowing Kronos to contain the corruption and shrink the barrier.
• The corruption vanished, revealing a silvery-white substance whose aura Kronos recognized from the Justiciar Card.

Kronos contained the corruption on the Hand of Order Beyonder characteristic and returned to Backlund, where he joined Isengard's investigation of the Devil Dog. While searching Jason's House for the reason the dog kept returning, Kronos found evidence connecting Jason to the Twilight Hermit Order and a booklet that might still link him to someone else.

• Kronos contained the corruption on the Hand of Order Beyonder characteristic, and Olmer removed the seal after Kronos had it under control.
• Kronos returned to Backlund with the Sanguine's potions and learned from Isengard that the Devil Dog was suspected of committing serial murders to advance.
• Kronos warned Isengard about the Devil Dog's advancement ritual and offered to help stop it.
• Kronos compared Isengard's map with Backlund and concluded that the Devil Dog was likely searching for something at Jason's House.
• Kronos searched Jason's House and found a dangerous Beyonder pocket watch, a notebook of potion formulas that he burned, and a hidden booklet marked "Twilight."
• Kronos read the booklet's conversation between Jason and an unknown recruiter, whose final message asked whether Jason was dead, and realized the booklet might still connect to the other person.

Kronos brought the Twilight booklet to Saint Samuel Cathedral, where it merged into the Church of Evernight’s giant tome. He left the cathedral with the Devil Dog still at large, waiting for Marquis Nibais to return, and chose not to use the dangerous pocket watch he had obtained.

• Kronos placed his Eyes of Mystery Prying above Jason’s house to watch for the Devil Dog, then delivered the booklet to Saint Samuel Cathedral.
• Archbishop Anthony led Kronos through the Chanis Gate, where Kronos saw the giant tome bearing the word “Twilight.”
• Kronos removed the Time Barrier from the booklet, and it flew into and merged with the giant tome.
• Anthony explained that the tome transmitted information for the Twilight Hermit Order and that the Goddess had ordered confiscated booklets to be merged into it.
• Kronos told Anthony that the Sanguine’s problems had been resolved, while Anthony said their plans to join the Nighthawks awaited Marquis Nibais’s return.
• Back at his lodgings, Kronos decided against using the Gate of the Abyss pocket watch because its aura might corrupt him.

Kronos dreamed of Backlund in ruins and learned that Will Auceptin had drawn him into the dream to warn him about the Apocalypse and his possible death. Will tried to persuade him to stop advancing, but left without explaining Kronos’s fate, and Kronos woke drenched in sweat.

• Kronos dreamed of a ruined Backlund and saw the world’s barrier cracking under an attack by the Outer Deities.
• Will Auceptin appeared and showed Kronos the True Gods and archangels preparing to defend the barrier, including a future version of Will who had become a god.
• Will claimed Kronos would die in the first invasion and urged him to stop advancing until it had passed, promising that he could then resume his progress.
• Kronos questioned Will’s motives, and Will admitted he had already let Kronos go twice and threatened to haunt his dreams rather than kill him and help Ouroboros.
• Kronos asked whether the Angel of Fate would kill him and what his own fate was, but Will vanished without answering.
• Kronos woke drenched in sweat and realized Will’s influence had caused his unusual desire to sleep.

After resisting Will Auceptin’s attempt to stop his advancement, Kronos continued his research and answered an urgent call from the Iron Anchor. He agreed to rescue Roel’s failing teacher and arranged for Todd to pursue demigod advancement, while considering whether Hal could safely advance as well.

• Kronos concluded that Will wanted to halt his advancement because it could affect Will’s chance of becoming a god, but he decided to keep progressing despite the risk.
• Kronos used Hal to answer Todd, Gner, and Roel’s urgent contact, and Roel asked him to help his teacher, whose Mechanical Puppet was close to failing.
• Kronos agreed to meet Roel’s teacher after handling business in Backlund and told the Iron Anchor to move closer so he could pick Roel up.
• Kronos learned that Todd had mastered his Sequence 5 potion and promised to bring him the Iron-Blooded Knight formula, telling him to gather ingredients for the Cataclysmic Interrer potion first.
• Gner questioned whether Kronos could withstand Hal’s advancement, and Kronos said he expected to manage it while reflecting on how the Time Stone or the Nine Secrets might strengthen his consciousness.

Kronos stayed silent through most of the Tarot Club meeting, then traded information about Flegrea for a favor from Klein. He later went to the Royal Museum to wait for Bernadette, watching Klein and Audrey arrive as preparations for their plans began.

• Kronos continued monitoring Jason's home for the Devil Dog and joined the October 15 Tarot Club gathering, where he declined to answer most questions.
• Derrick asked about the Seven Gods, and Kronos refused to trade details, telling him the other members could provide a general overview.
• Kronos offered to trade information about Flegrea for a favor from Klein and described the ancient demon wolf and his surviving daughter, the Mother of Heaven.
• Kronos retrieved his Eyes of Mystery Prying and went to the Royal Museum, where he concealed himself and waited near Roselle's Plagiarized Manuscript for Bernadette.
• Klein visited the exhibition and inspected the manuscript, while Kronos later watched Audrey perform reverence toward Roselle's belongings and noticed Susie becoming wary.

Kronos watched Klein steal several bookmarks from the Royal Museum, but Bernadette never appeared, disrupting Kronos's expectations. After Klein encountered the Devil Dog, Kronos tracked it to the sewers, killed it, and discovered its murders had been driven by an addictive urge to kill.

• Audrey examined Roselle's plagiarized manuscript and tested its bookmark with Susie's help during the museum tour.
• Klein set a fire to distract museum staff, stole several bookmarks, and escaped when Captain Max confronted him, while Bernadette failed to appear.
• Kronos followed Klein, who encountered a Devil Dog at a murder scene and escaped by shouting for help; Kronos secretly took one of the dog's hairs.
• Kronos tracked the Devil Dog to its sewer base, trapped it, and fatally struck it with the Spear of Longinus.
• Kronos searched the Devil Dog's memories and learned it had stayed in Backlund to seek potion ingredients through Jason's booklet, while its murders had been fueled by its killing addiction.

After Will Auceptin warned Kronos that he would use fate to obstruct his advancement, Kronos resolved to keep pursuing his goals and traveled with Roel to Roel’s hometown. There, they uncovered suspicious census workers searching for something stolen from the military, and Kronos revealed that Roel had been followed.

• Kronos received a message from Will Auceptin, who said he would disrupt Kronos’s fate and block his opportunities but would help him fulfill a wish if he reached Sequence One.
• Kronos returned to the Iron Anchor, left Todd and Hal the Iron-Blooded Knight potion formula and advancement ritual, and departed with Roel.
• Kronos and Roel traveled through Midseashire to the Republic of Intis, then continued to Roel’s hometown near Delis.
• Kronos detected a Sequence 6 Beyonder in Roel’s village and overheard two census workers discussing their search for something stolen from the military.
• After Roel met with villagers, he followed Kronos’s note to the mountain entrance, where Kronos told him that someone had been following him.

Kronos and Roel found Roel’s teacher, Fan Aistin, trapped inside a damaged puppet and removed its energy core to preserve his life. Fan Aistin revealed his connection to Emperor Roselle and explained how a suspected student’s betrayal had left him gravely injured.

• A Sequence 6 Beyonder attacked Kronos and Roel, but Kronos restrained him and hurried with Roel into the mountains to rescue his teacher.
• Kronos and Roel entered a hidden chamber, where Roel found Fan Aistin housed inside a failing Mechanical Puppet.
• Fan Aistin explained that Kronos needed to destroy the puppet carefully and remove its Sequence 4 energy core intact, so Kronos cut open the puppet’s chest.
• While examining the machinery, Kronos learned that Fan Aistin had worked with Emperor Roselle and had helped the Church of Steam and Machinery bring Roselle’s son under its control.
• Fan Aistin recounted how an unknown student had likely leaked his location before his attempted advancement to Sequence 3, leaving him wounded and stranded in the puppet.

Kronos recovered Fan Aistin’s energy core and sent Roel to escape while he drew their pursuer away. After being framed for stealing General Adri’s Defense Map, Kronos fought the general and James Rhodes’s father, ending the chapter after striking the latter with Mind Breath.

• Kronos removed Fan Aistin’s energy core, then gave it to Roel and urged him to flee to Midseashire while Kronos drew their pursuer away.
• Kronos lured the pursuer into the mountains, where a Wheel of Fortune Pathway attack and a widening fissure and unnatural flames struck at him.
• A middle-aged man framed Kronos for stealing General Adri’s Defense Map, and General Adri demanded that Kronos surrender and pledge allegiance to the republic.
• Kronos attacked General Adri with Tyrant’s Roar and trapped him in Playing Cards Castle, then recognized the other man as James Rhodes’s father, a Misfortune Mage seeking revenge.
• Kronos’s Wonderful Horn and Spear of Longinus wounded James Rhodes’s father, but the man redirected the spear’s injury back onto Kronos; Kronos healed with a potion and struck him with Mind Breath.

Kronos fought a Misfortune Mage while General Adri battled the forces inside the Playing Cards Castle. After defeating both enemies, Kronos faced a meteor shower summoned by the dying Misfortune Mage.

• Kronos struck the Misfortune Mage with Mind Breath, but the mage used misfortune to disrupt Kronos’s spells and started an earthquake at the cost of his own life force.
• Kronos used Time God Domain to withstand the earthquake and took control of the battle against General Adri inside the Playing Cards Castle.
• The Secrets Sorcerer broke General Adri’s steel transformation, and the Justice Mentor killed him with Holy Light.
• Kronos escaped the earthquake fissure and charged the Misfortune Mage, whose stronger curse was stopped by Kronos’s Time Barrier.
• The Misfortune Mage died, and a cluster of meteors fell from the sky toward Kronos.

Kronos escaped the meteor shower and hid until the lingering misfortune faded, while investigators failed to understand the battle that killed General Adri. Back in Conston City, he reunited with Roel and Fan Aistin, then decided how to use the Demigod characteristics and Beyonder Items he had recovered.

• Kronos used his Time Godbody to wait out the meteor shower, then took the Misfortune Mage’s and General Adri’s corpses to Fan Aistin’s secret room and concealed himself with ritual magic.
• Investigators concluded that two Demigods had killed General Adri, but later learned that the three Demigods had not been allies; by then, Roel was already nearing Midseashire.
• After three days, Kronos recovered from the misfortune and returned to Conston City, where he found Roel and agreed to let Fan Aistin remain with him in hopes of making a new Puppet.
• Roel turned Fan Aistin’s Energy Core into a ring, and Kronos left the Iron-Blooded Knight characteristic with Roel before deciding to help Todd advance to Demigod.
• Kronos kept the Misfortune Mage characteristic for later and examined the recovered Beyonder Items, including Winner’s Protection and the Demigod-level Curse of the Marionette.

Kronos resolved his feud with the Misfortune Mage family, attended the Tarot Club, and agreed to help Cattleya earn the Clairvoyant potion formula. Because he expected to advance within months rather than years, he asked Cattleya to contact Queen Mystic for another way to obtain it.

• The elderly Misfortune Mage accepted peace with Kronos, then advanced to Sequence 3 as a Chaoswalker after fate acknowledged the resolution.
• At the Tarot Club, Kronos warned Alger to abandon the Church of Storms' investigation into missing slaves and explained three ways to remove an evil god's corruption from a Beyonder Characteristic.
• Kronos agreed to shatter Klein's corrupted All-Black Eye when needed, while Klein postponed the decision to protect his World identity.
• Todd prepared the Iron-Blooded Knight advancement ritual with the Iron Anchor crew, and Kronos left the ship two days later.
• Kronos visited Cattleya aboard the Future to seek the Sequence 3 Clairvoyant potion formula, and she offered to pool their contributions through the Moses Ascetic Order.
• Because Cattleya estimated that earning enough contributions would take years, Kronos asked her to contact Queen Mystic.

Kronos tried to obtain the Clairvoyant potion formula through Cattleya and Queen Mystic, but Will blocked their attempt to contact Bernadette. After Cattleya warned him about the Hidden Sage, Kronos abandoned the idea of raiding the Moses Ascetic Order and was left searching for another way to get the formula.

• Kronos revealed that he knew Cattleya’s connection to Queen Mystic and asked her to arrange a trade for the Clairvoyant potion formula.
• Cattleya said she had no way to contact the Dawn of Elements, so Kronos recited Bernadette’s honorific name instead.
• Bernadette did not respond to either Kronos or Cattleya, and Will sent a letter saying she was absorbed in the mysteries of fate.
• Kronos told Cattleya that Bernadette was occupied, and she warned him that the Hidden Sage could easily kill him if he entered the Moses Ascetic Order.
• Kronos decided against raiding the Moses Ascetic Order and asked Cattleya for another way to obtain the formula, but she had no suggestions.

Kronos sought the Duke of Entropy potion formula from Nast Solomon, who had intercepted him aboard The Black Emperor to forbid Hal and Todd from becoming demigods. Learning that Nast lacked the formula himself, Kronos offered to request it from the Evernight Goddess in exchange for a trade, and Nast promised to protect Hal and Todd’s advancement and offer him a Beyonder Item.

• Kronos asked Cattleya about the Moses Ascetic Order, then decided to seek Leonard and investigate whether his grandfather could help with the Hermit Pathway.
• While traveling through the Spirit World, Kronos encountered The Black Emperor and boarded after Nast Solomon called him Mr. Klein and invited him to talk.
• Nast demanded that Kronos stop Hal and Todd from advancing, but Kronos asked what terms would let them become demigods; Nast said he would allow no changes to his control of the seas.
• Kronos realized Nast was pursuing the Duke of Entropy advancement and asked whether he lacked the Sequence Two potion formula; Nast admitted he had searched for it unsuccessfully for over a century.
• Nast offered to protect Hal and Todd’s advancement and grant Kronos a Beyonder Item if he could provide information about the formula.
• Kronos said he could request Emperor Roselle’s Black Emperor Card formula from the Evernight Goddess for a trade, and Nast accepted the proposal and repeated his offer.

Kronos traded the Duke of Entropy potion formula to Nast for a demigod-level Beyonder item and chose the dangerous Corruption Bracelet. After returning to Backlund, he sought permission to visit the Church of Serenity’s Cathedral to investigate Clairvoyant potion formula leads, and his visit was scheduled for next Tuesday.

• Kronos gave Nast the Duke of Entropy potion formula, and Nast took him through disorder to Solomon’s hidden Spirit World treasury.
• Nast offered Kronos five Beyonder items, and Kronos chose the Corruption Bracelet after learning that it could make its wearer a servant of the True Creator.
• Kronos told Nast he would test the bracelet on someone else and might trade it to the Aurora Order if it proved unusable, and Nast let him take it.
• Nast brought Kronos to the waters outside Pritz Harbor, but he had no useful leads on the Clairvoyant potion formula beyond Bernadette, the Moses Ascetic Order, and the Church of Evernight.
• Kronos reached Backlund and asked Archbishop Anthony to arrange a visit to the Church of Serenity’s Cathedral, which was approved for next Tuesday.