Recaps

At the Tarot Club gathering, members traded rare ingredients and mystical items while advancing their plans. Audrey secured the final ingredient for her Hypnotist potion, and the gathering ended with Klein attributing a Mentor of Disorder characteristic to a curly-haired baboon.

• Cattleya agreed to buy the Druid Beyonder characteristic from The World for 8,000 pounds.
• Alger told Audrey he had obtained the Hallucinatory Wind Chime Tree fruit, and she agreed to pay him 2,000 pounds for it.
• Cattleya offered the Wheel of Fortune card or a method to restore strength during weakness in exchange for Mythical Creature blood, and The World asked her to arrange a meeting with the Mystery Queen.
• Cattleya offered The World the Marauder pathway item Severed Finger for 500 pounds, and Fors requested a cursed item from an ancient Evil Spirit and its residual spirituality.
• Emlyn asked Derrick about a Sequence 5 artificial Vampire characteristic, but Derrick warned him that it carried serious mental corruption.
• Audrey asked where The World had obtained a Mentor of Disorder characteristic, and The World said it came from a curly-haired baboon.

Audrey reported a rumor of madness linked to the Mind Dragon, and Klein explained that dragon-worship customs could help stabilize it. The Tarot Club then examined a mural showing three Angel Kings eating the City of Silver’s Creator, leaving Derrick devastated and questioning whether his people could ever be saved.

• Audrey told the Tarot Club that an archaeological team in the Mind Dragon’s former region had gone mad and died, and Alger and Cattleya said the dragon was likely no longer there.
• World said dragon worship could stabilize the Mind Dragon and advised watching for similar customs appearing elsewhere; Fool suggested that gods spread their faith to stabilize their condition.
• Alger asked to show the mural he and World had found, and Fool gave permission for him to materialize it.
• The Tarot Club recognized the three figures around the Creator as Angel Kings, with Audrey identifying them as the Eternal Blazing Sun, the Lord of Storms, and the God of Knowledge and Wisdom.
• Derrick realized the mural showed his Creator being eaten and concluded that the City of Silver’s hope for salvation was an illusion.
• Alger dismissed the mural and asked Derrick whether he had finished investigating the former Chief’s mausoleum.

At the Tarot Club, Alger urged Derrick to gather allies in the City of Silver, while Audrey agreed to treat Gehrman Sparrow if his mental illness returned. Cattleya then offered Frank Lee a Druid Beyonder Characteristic, despite growing uneasy about his experiments.

• Alger told Derrick to make friends and unite people who could help save the City of Silver, leaving Derrick to consider the risks of involving them.
• Klein had The World ask Audrey to treat him, and Audrey agreed to help if she could reach him when symptoms returned.
• Klein arranged for Cattleya to send a crate of explosives with Severed Finger and warned the Tarot Club not to recall or draw the mural.
• Aboard the Future, Cattleya visited Frank Lee and found him experimenting with wheat, mushrooms, and Rose Bishop cells to create food from monster corpses.
• Cattleya offered Frank a Druid Beyonder Characteristic, and Frank eagerly accepted while Cattleya began to regret her offer.

Klein investigated the secret passage Hibbert was digging in the sewers and discovered that an unseen power repeatedly stole his thoughts, preventing him from detonating explosives. The explosives eventually went off anyway, and Hibbert canceled her operation after the blast, only to find a filthy gray rat on her balcony.

• Klein sent Senor into the sewer passage, where Severed Finger reacted to an unknown presence deep underground, and placed five explosives around the cavern.
• Klein repeatedly forgot whether he had detonated the explosives, concluding that a powerful Marauder-pathway being was stealing his thoughts and might be influencing Hibbert.
• Klein planned to expose the secret passage to Saint Samuel Cathedral, but an underground explosion interrupted him, and he retreated above the gray fog.
• Hibbert heard the tremor at Macht's home, canceled her operation, and saw a filthy gray rat appear on her balcony.

After the sewer explosion, Klein kept watch on the dangers around Böklund Street and negotiated with Will Auceptin over Admiral of Stars’ offer. Derrick struggled with the news that the Creator might be dead, while Klein’s dream was invaded by another presence after Will departed.

• Klein learned that officials blamed the sewer explosion on gang members trading firearms and decided to watch Hibbert rather than investigate the sewers.
• Klein wrote on the worn paper crane that Admiral of Stars had offered bargaining chips for Will Auceptin.
• Derrick saw City of Silver residents praying and resolved to rebuild friendships by sparring at the training grounds.
• Klein offered Will Auceptin a choice between seeing the Wheel of Fortune card and learning a method to regain strength while weakened; Will chose the method.
• Will said the transaction would take place around early July, after his birth, and explained that the Mythical Creature blood was intended for one of Bernadette’s subordinates advancing in the Mystery Pryer pathway.
• After Will disappeared, Klein detected a new force entering his dream.

Klein realized a demigod of the Marauder pathway was invading dreams to find him, then arranged for Bernadette to make Senor appear eroded by an Evernight seal. The chapter ended with Bernadette playing the Requiem Horn to begin the erosion, while its music stirred Klein’s longing for home.

• A Marauder demigod invaded Klein’s dream, but Klein stayed lucid, escaped the sewer, and realized the experience had slightly digested his Marionettist potion.
• Klein asked Cattleya to tell Bernadette that an angel had accepted a transaction and requested a meeting; Bernadette later agreed to meet him in Backlund.
• Klein traveled to the southern bank of the Tussock River and met Bernadette on a path of pea vines suspended above the ground.
• Klein asked Bernadette to make Senor appear to have suffered prolonged erosion from the core of an Evernight seal, and she warned that the process would eventually destroy him.
• Bernadette said she could delay the erosion’s completion for at most two months, then used the Requiem Horn to play a sorrowful melody as Klein listened from a distance.

Klein prepared to steal the Antigonus Family Notebook by arranging a way to enter the cathedral unnoticed, while Audrey received a dangerous mystical glove and found a safe way to carry it. After divining that the theft carried ordinary danger, Klein began his preparations to summon Arrodes.

• Klein had Bernadette corrupt Senor’s appearance, then returned home and concealed the Wraith in a gold coin.
• Audrey examined the black gauze glove made from the Mentor of Disorder Beyonder Characteristic and learned about its powers and severe negative effects.
• Audrey decided to have Susie carry the glove in a little bag, and Earl Hall praised her solution as he reminded her of her birthday ball.
• Klein planned to disguise himself as a servant after Sunday’s mass and hide in the cathedral until he could replace the Antigonus Family Notebook.
• Klein divined that stealing the notebook involved danger within the normal range, set aside most of his belongings, and summoned Arrodes.

Klein infiltrated Saint Samuel Cathedral by disguising himself as a servant, then used Wraith Senor to incapacitate an internal guardian and take his place. He reached the underground passage behind the Chanis Gate and encountered Leonard Mitchell.

• Klein confirmed with Arrodes that the Antigonus Family Notebook was in a Grade 1 Sealed Artifact area on the second level of Saint Samuel Cathedral.
• Klein abducted a servant, took his appearance and clothes, and secretly entered the cathedral with the other servants.
• Klein used Wraith Senor to find an internal guardian, possess him, and make him drink a sleeping potion.
• Klein disguised himself as the guardian and followed the morning route to the concealed underground passage.
• Klein passed the priest’s checkpoint and turned left at the underground crossroads, where he met Leonard Mitchell.

Klein entered Chanis Gate to retrieve the Antigonus Family Notebook, but just as he reached it, a mysterious woman appeared and erased him. The chapter left his fate unknown.

• Klein encountered Leonard Mitchell at Chanis Gate and passed him without being exposed.
• Klein entered the sealed area and waited through the first five minutes before descending to the second underground level.
• Klein passed the Sealed Artifact "1-42" and found the Antigonus Family Notebook by following its summons.
• Klein sent Senor's hand toward the notebook when he heard someone approach the room.
• Klein saw the hooded woman who had erased Mr. A, then was erased before he could touch the notebook.

After being erased by a powerful Church member, Klein awoke outside the mysterious Foggy Town, where he discovered that neither his messenger nor the Gray Fog escape route worked. He sent Senor into the town to investigate and encountered a beautiful woman approaching.

• Klein awoke near Foggy Town, which he recognized as the place linked to disappearances in the Ruins of the Gods' Battle.
• Klein checked his condition, found that he could not summon Azik's messenger, and failed to reach the space above the Gray Fog.
• Klein decided to enter the town and sent Senor ahead while keeping his distance.
• Senor saw abandoned homes with meals left unfinished and a mill still turning, reminding Klein of ruins on the main peak of the Hornacis Mountain Range.
• Klein hid in the mill when he heard footsteps, and Senor saw a beautiful woman in a white robe emerge from an alley.

Klein, controlling Wraith Senor, met Panatiya in the foggy town and exchanged information about the place and its dangers. When Panatiya exposed a strange wound, Klein collapsed, and she revealed that she had found him inside the mill.

• Klein used Wraith Senor to speak with Panatiya and learned that she suspected he was a member of the Secret Order.
• Klein identified himself as Gehrman Sparrow and told Panatiya that a mysterious hooded woman had brought him to the town.
• Panatiya said the town existed in a concealed state, that its church might hold the way out, and that people who ate food from the houses had vanished.
• Panatiya warned Klein that the clear red moon made the town dangerous and showed him a wound she had suffered during one such change.
• The wound revealed sinister patterns that overwhelmed Klein, and Panatiya entered the mill and whispered, "Caught you..."

Klein fought Panatiya, a Demigod Witch whose plague kept infecting him even as he fled. When the red moon pierced the fog, Panatiya retreated indoors, and Klein remembered her warning and sought shelter in another house.

• Klein escaped Panatiya’s threads with a Paper Figurine Substitute, then ignited the mill’s flour and used fire to flee.
• Klein sent Senor to attack Panatiya, but she burned the Wraith and destroyed him.
• Klein tried to escape through flames, but Panatiya’s plague weakened him and left him coughing on the ground.
• Panatiya identified herself as the source of a plague that could reach across the town and began eating Senor’s remains.
• The red moon emerged from the fog, frightening Panatiya into a house and easing Klein’s illness.
• Klein recalled Panatiya’s warning about the clear red moon, hurried into a house, and locked the door.

After escaping Panatiya, Klein recovered from the effects of her incomplete Mythical Creature form and navigated Foggy Town’s dangers while seeking refuge in its church. As he pondered the threat surrounding him, the shadows suddenly attacked.

• Klein meditated until he overcame the madness and bodily mutations caused by seeing Panatiya’s incomplete Mythical Creature form.
• Klein heard beastlike whispers outside and decided to reach the church, the place Panatiya had said she would not enter.
• Klein found that Travel could not take him into the Spirit World, and his attempt to light a candle drew the street figures’ attention.
• Klein used Traveler’s Door Opening to pass through walls and move closer to the church, then reviewed what he knew about Panatiya and Foggy Town.
• Klein’s spirit intuition warned him as the shadows around him contracted and burrowed into his nostrils, mouth, and ears.

Klein fought a shadowy opponent who revealed himself to be Mr. A, but the battle was interrupted by Klein's sudden cold and his enemy's overwhelming hunger. After feeding Mr. A Frank Lee's dried mushrooms, Klein questioned him about escaping the Ruins of the Gods' Battle, and Mr. A warned that the church and the outside were both dangerous as the crimson moonlight dimmed.

• Klein battled the shadows with Creeping Hunger and other abilities while trying to avoid attracting the dangerous figures outside.
• Klein's weakened constitution made him catch a cold, disrupting his control of Mr. A's Spirit Body Threads.
• Mr. A emerged from the shadows, and Klein recognized him as the Aurora Order oracle, who attacked out of intense hunger.
• Klein threw Mr. A Frank Lee's dried mushrooms, which Mr. A ate before retreating into the shadows.
• Klein asked Mr. A how to escape and why he avoided the church, and Mr. A said the church and outside were dangerous and that everyone who disappeared reappeared beneath the crimson moon.
• The crimson moonlight coming through the curtains suddenly grew extremely dim.

Klein escaped Panatiya by entering the ancient church, where he discovered that the hanging figures whispered the same words he had heard after advancing. He resisted the force drawing his Spirit Body Threads toward the church’s altar and found a statue resembling the angel who had sent him to Foggy Town, along with another figure seated nearby.

• Klein tried to use Mr. A to distract Panatiya, but Mr. A fled, leaving Klein to face the Witch of Despair’s plague and attacks.
• Klein passed through the ancient church wall and found human figures hanging from the ceiling, murmuring “Hornacis... Flegrea...”
• Klein used his Marionettist abilities to pull his Spirit Body Threads back as they drifted toward the church’s highest point.
• Klein approached the altar and saw a many-limbed stone statue whose face matched the eraser angel beneath Saint Samuel Cathedral.
• Klein noticed a figure sitting behind the statue.

Klein encountered a long-dead Seer named Zaratul, whose preserved image explained how to escape the cathedral and offered help. Zaratul summoned Senor as a temporary marionette and revealed his name, leaving Klein to seek the obsidian piece held by Panatiya.

• Klein saw a hooded old man whose Spirit Body Threads looped back into himself, and the man opened his eyes and recognized Klein as another Seer.
• The old man explained that he was an image preserved in a gap in history and fate, and that he would vanish once Klein opened the escape door; he asked that his ashes be scattered in the River Srenzo near Trier.
• The old man told Klein to place a piece of obsidian in a recess behind the statue and use a special symbol to open the Door of Escape; Klein recognized the symbol from the Antigonus Family Notebook.
• The old man said earlier Seers had been trapped or eaten, warned of the danger when the crimson moon became clear, and revealed that Panatiya held the obsidian.
• The old man summoned Senor from history for half an hour, strengthened Klein's control and connection to the marionette, and transferred Klein's illness into a paper figurine.
• When Klein asked his name, the old man identified himself as Zaratul.

Klein met a man calling himself Zaratul in Foggy Town and learned more about the Seer pathway and the Antigonus Family’s connection to the Nation of Evernight. When the red moonlight cleared, he fled the church after its suspended corpses turned toward a candle.

• Klein suspected the old man was the Secret Order’s leader Zaratul, though he considered that he might be another member of the family.
• Zaratul summoned minced fish from the hidden world’s history and offered Klein the Bizarro Sorcerer formula and a Door Opening symbol in exchange for an obsidian piece and scattering his ashes.
• Zaratul told Klein that Sequence 3 was Scholar of Yore and identified the stone statue as a descendant of an ancient god who was Antigonus’s sister.
• Klein linked Antigonus and the Nation of Evernight to Flegrea and the Hornacis Mountain Range.
• When the red moonlight became clear, Klein escaped the church and extinguished his candle after seeing the corpses turn toward its light.

Klein prepared Wraith Senor to impersonate Gehrman Sparrow and decided to negotiate with the Witch of Despair Panatiya rather than fight her. Their tentative plan was to cooperate to open a door out of Foggy Town, but Panatiya remained uneasy.

• Klein confirmed that the food in the town had Spirit Body Threads leading toward the cathedral and suspected it drew people there.
• Klein exchanged clothes and Creeping Hunger with Wraith Senor, making the marionette a convincing Gehrman Sparrow.
• Klein realized Panatiya wanted to escape Foggy Town and decided to offer cooperation instead of attacking her.
• Klein sent Senor toward the cathedral, where the marionette became infected with a disease, and had him announce that he had found a way to escape.
• Panatiya appeared with the obsidian piece needed to open the door, and Gehrman Sparrow explained the plan and promised to help her avoid the cathedral's danger.
• Panatiya demanded Gehrman Sparrow's hair and flesh as assurance, and he agreed to their terms, but she still felt uneasy.

Klein used Wraith Senor to negotiate with Panatiya and Mr. A over how they would escape the cathedral, then brought them to Zaratul for the Door Opening symbol. Zaratul also provided the Bizarro Sorcerer potion formula, but Klein noticed that the symbol differed slightly from the one in the Antigonus Family Notebook.

• Klein had Wraith Senor negotiate with Panatiya over who would leave the cathedral first and how they would prevent each other from betraying them.
• Mr. A offered to witness their agreement by hiding inside Senor, and Klein accepted after confirming that Mr. A was not lying.
• Panatiya agreed to the plan, and Mr. A entered Senor’s body before they approached the cathedral.
• Klein had Senor give Panatiya his hair and flesh so she could prepare a cursed puppet, then controlled their Spirit Body Threads as they entered the cathedral.
• Zaratul gave Senor a parchment containing the Door Opening symbol and the Bizarro Sorcerer potion formula, both of which would vanish after forty-five minutes.
• Klein noticed that the Door Opening symbol differed from the one in the Antigonus Family Notebook because two of its details had exchanged positions.

The author recapped May’s writing, acknowledged abrupt transitions in the notebook-theft setup, and discussed managing the Tarot Club’s growing cast. He announced a June trip to Italy and a reduced update schedule from June 3 to 16, then asked readers to cast their guaranteed monthly votes.

• The author explained that the notebook-theft preparations had been introduced too abruptly and described the challenge of balancing Dawn Dantès’s daily life with other characters’ storylines.
• The author said readers had mistaken the notebook theft for the volume’s final climax, though he considered it a normal stage in the plot.
• The author noted that the growing Tarot Club cast was difficult to manage and said he was limiting how many members would join.
• The author announced that he would travel to Italy with his wife from June 3 to 16 to visit churches and historic sites for research.
• The author said updates would be posted once daily at 12:30 p.m. during the trip, with the normal schedule resuming afterward.
• The author thanked readers for their tips and votes, then asked them to cast their guaranteed monthly votes for June.

Klein used Gehrman Sparrow to open the Door of Escape with Zaratul’s symbol, but the doorway revealed a horrifying hall controlled by a mass of transparent tentacles. Panatiya was trapped and killed, while Klein severed his connection to the marionette after seeing a tarot card naming Sequence 0: The Fool.

• Zaratul told Klein that the conditions had been met, then vanished and left behind an urn of ashes.
• Klein had Gehrman Sparrow show Panatiya and Mr. A the opening symbol and asked Panatiya to fit the obsidian slate into the wall.
• Klein chose Zaratul’s symbol over the Antigonus Family symbol, and the Door of Escape opened onto the stone hall.
• Panatiya used a mirror illusion to pass through first, but a curse trapped and killed her near the doorway.
• Black flames consumed Gehrman Sparrow, and Mr. A began vomiting mushrooms as Klein saw corpses suspended among tentacles reaching toward an ancient stone chair.
• Klein severed his connection to the marionette after seeing a tarot card depicting Roselle labeled Sequence 0: The Fool.

Klein interpreted the tarot card The Fool and the monstrous vision above the gray fog, then entered the church in Foggy Town and discovered a mutated mushroom monster made from Mr. A and Senor. After surviving its attacks until its temporary components disappeared, Klein watched it collapse and picked up the human-skin glove it left behind.

• Klein reasoned that his connection to the gray fog and his own choices could explain why The Fool card appeared, and he suspected the transparent worms were a Sequence 1 angel who had lost control.
• Klein entered the church and found a giant mushroom monster bearing Mr. A’s face, which he suspected had formed when Mr. A witnessed the Mythical Creature and merged with Senor and Creeping Hunger.
• The mushroom monster dragged Klein into a dream, attacked with a Magma Sword, and distorted his direction, so Klein fled the church using Flame Jump.
• Klein realized the monster would lose Senor’s summoned body and the fish meat sustaining it, then used the town’s streets and houses to evade it until it stopped moving.
• The monster collapsed into a thin human-skin glove, and Klein carefully picked it up.

Klein tried to escape the foggy town through the cathedral’s door, but the symbols from the Antigonus Family Notebook and The Fool’s symbol led nowhere useful. He finally opened a way out with the Sacred Emblem of Darkness and confirmed that he could enter the Spirit World.

• Klein inspected Creeping Hunger’s upgrades, retrieved his belongings and the obsidian slate, and discovered that Zaratul’s urn was empty.
• Klein drew the symbol from the Antigonus Family Notebook, but it led to the palace with the out-of-control angel, so he escaped the cathedral using Flame Jump.
• Klein concluded that the notebook’s symbol activated a trap and tried The Fool’s symbol, which failed to open the door.
• Klein drew a simplified Sacred Emblem of Darkness, opening the door onto a mountaintop outside the cathedral.
• Klein divined that the mountaintop was safe, stepped through the door, and successfully used Creeping Hunger’s Travel ability to enter the Spirit World.

Klein escaped Foggy Town and returned to 160 Böklund Street, where he secured his identity as Dawn Dantès and confirmed the Bizarro Sorcerer potion formula. After examining Creeping Hunger’s mutations and releasing one of its souls, he resumed his ordinary routine with Richardson.

• Klein divined that returning to 160 Böklund Street was dangerous, but traveled there and found that Dawn Dantès’s home had not yet been searched.
• Klein spoke with Arrodes, confirmed no one had come looking for him, and prepared a ritual to send Creeping Hunger and his other mysticism items above the gray fog.
• Klein verified that Zaratul’s Bizarro Sorcerer potion formula was correct and learned the advancement ritual required staging a grand drama to kill a demigod or equivalent creature.
• Klein examined Creeping Hunger’s changed souls and powers, then released the mutated Spirit Warlock soul to relieve the crowding.
• Klein returned to the real world, ended the ritual, refreshed his appearance, and asked Richardson to prepare home clothes.

Saint Anthony investigated the unexplained infiltration of Chanis Gate, while Leonard suspected Dawn Dantès and learned that the Parasite connected him to the Fool That Doesn't Belong to This Era. At 160 Böklund Street, Klein struggled with lingering mental contamination from the ancient cathedral.

• Saint Anthony confirmed that nothing had been taken from Chanis Gate and found its Sealed Artifacts and core seal intact.
• Saint Anthony ordered an investigation into possible accomplices, focusing on cathedral staff, bishops, frequent believers, and a missing servant.
• Leonard learned that the internal guardian had been possessed by a Wraith and noticed Dawn Dantès on the investigation list.
• Leonard added Dawn Dantès to his targets and questioned the Parasite, which linked him to the Fool That Doesn't Belong to This Era.
• Klein experienced lingering mental contamination from the ancient cathedral and used meditation to calm himself.