Recaps

Kronos rose to angelhood, took charge of the Enlightenment Monastery, and uncovered the Hidden Sage’s origins while forging a powerful new artifact. As war began, he intervened in the Sonia Sea conflict and killed Gluttony, then offered Gluttony’s Beyonder characteristic to Audrey as Klein prepared to oppose George III’s apotheosis.

• Kronos restored the Ghost Empire with a Life Diamond, replaced Qonas with Kohler among his Fallen Servants, and helped Olmer remove the Nation of Disorder’s corruption from the ship and its guardians.
• Kronos gained fame through his microscopic-world lectures, was named a Scientific Pioneer and navy colonel, and learned that Klein was testing him through a message about a demoness.
• Kronos helped free Olnia from the Underworld’s mark with Amanises’s aid, then revealed his angelhood to Anthony and Randall when they sought his help investigating the Blood Emperor’s ruins.
• Arianna brought Kronos to the ruins, where he sensed the Visionary Pathway’s power, and Adam later invited him to join the Twilight Hermit Order.
• Kronos took charge of the Enlightenment Monastery, accepted Ivan’s assignment to investigate the Moses Ascetic Order, and forged God Almighty’s Substitute (False) by balancing five powers into the Wings of Light.
• Kronos uncovered Constantin’s history and the Hidden Sage’s origins, gave the Hidden Sage the Knowledge Emperor formula in exchange for a promise, and sealed away his location.
• When Feysac attacked, Kronos killed the Fallen Earl with a redirected cannonball, helped Marquis Argel command the Sonia Sea Fleet, and killed Gluttony after Adam’s intervention, and Adam took Gluttony’s mask and rings in a trade.
• Kronos offered Gluttony’s Beyonder characteristic to Audrey at the Tarot Club, while Klein sought Mr. Fate’s help against George III and Bernadette gave Klein her Wheel of Fortune Card.

Kronos helped bring down George III’s bid for the Black Emperor, resurrected Trunsoest, and plundered the Perfect Land before becoming a Knowledge Emperor. After helping evacuate the Forsaken Land of the Gods, he returned to Loen and prepared a coup with Marquis Argel, while the Evernight Goddess summoned him.

• Kronos, Klein, Bernadette, and Trissy attacked George III’s linked ruins, while Kronos and the Sanguine captured William Augustus and Trissy’s actions helped trigger George III’s death and the war.
• Kronos purified the Hand of Order characteristic, helped Trunsoest take over William’s body, and received the characteristic as his reward.
• Kronos warned the Tarot Club that Adam had advanced George III’s scheme, then stole the Hermit Card and plundered the Cathedral of Machinery and Perfect Land for the Knowledge Emperor characteristic and other treasures.
• Kronos used the linked Blasphemy Cards to escape Stiano, while Adam became a True God and Amanises arranged the postwar settlement with Stiano.
• At the Giant King’s Court, Kronos killed Sasrir’s evil spirit, recovered the First Blasphemy Slate, and helped Klein evacuate the Forsaken Land’s survivors aboard the Ghost Empire.
• Kronos drank the Knowledge Emperor potion and stabilized his divinity with worshippers’ chants, becoming a Sequence One Knowledge Emperor.
• Kronos brought the survivors near Bayam, then joined Marquis Argel and Trunsoest in preparing a coup in Backlund and sought support from the Church of Evernight.
• Lady Arianna bowed to Kronos at Saint Samuel Cathedral and told him that the Evernight Goddess requested his presence.

Kronos seized the Pirate Duchy, pursued the powers of time and fate, and used them to challenge the Hidden Sage. He defeated Constantin and accommodated the Hermit Uniqueness, but delayed his final apotheosis potion while Adam prepared to distract Stiano.

• Kronos helped Marquis Argel overthrow Gawinton, then secured the Pirate Duchy by defeating Nast and making him its grand duke.
• Kronos joined Adam’s Twilight Hermit Order, studied the Blasphemy Slate, and traded a captured Lightseeker to obtain Leodero’s divinity and complete God Almighty’s Substitute.
• Kronos found Roselle’s Knowledge Emperor characteristic, helped Bernadette advance, and created twenty-two Pathway figurines before advancing to King of Angels.
• Kronos obtained the Die of Probability from Will and secured cooperation between Azik, Reinette, and Klein against the Rose School.
• Kronos helped Ouroboros restore the True Creator’s lucidity briefly, received Ouroboros’s Sequence One characteristic, and gained a mark that strengthened his authority over fate.
• Kronos changed his own past to erase himself from his family’s memories, suffered severe backlash, and resolved to defeat the Hidden Sage before his name vanished from history.
• Kronos ambushed the Hidden Sage with rituals and his figurines, then altered an earlier battle so a Scholar of Yore could wound him with the Judgment Revolver.
• Kronos tore open the Hidden Sage’s wound, helped Constantin die while containing the Uniqueness’s consciousness, and took his Beyonder characteristic and cloak.
• Kronos recovered and merged with the Hermit Cloak, then asked his allies to distract Stiano while he delayed his final potion.