Recaps

Klein and his allies defeated Botis, recovered the Box of the Great Old One, and began resolving the Abraham Family’s curse while Amon advanced his apotheosis plan. Klein then reached Moon City, treated its people, and revealed a path toward life beyond the grayish-white fog as the story left the city preparing for change.

• Botis trapped Fors and the gathering’s Beyonders in the Box of the Great Old One, but Cattleya, Audrey, and Xio pursued him and killed him after a prolonged battle.
• Cattleya sacrificed Botis’s remains and the Box to Mr. Fool, and the Tarot Club divided the recovered spoils while Klein named the artifact 0-61 and stored it away.
• Leonard learned that Amon had killed Pallez’s avatar and taken his Sequence 1 Beyonder Characteristic, while Pallez warned that Amon planned to take another person’s place during an apotheosis ritual.
• Klein met Dorian through Fors, offered to protect the Abraham Family from its curse if it turned to the Fool, and received the Planeswalker formula, and Dorian then survived the full moon without the curse striking him.
• Alger obtained a deep-blue coral from a hidden palace, while Klein entered Moon City and told Adal’s hunting party about the City of Silver and the outside world.
• Klein tried the Staff of the Stars against the grayish-white fog, learned from Nim that Moon City had guarded it for 3,722 years, and heard the fog’s voices chant an invocation to the Celestial Worthy.
• Klein concluded that the fog could not be opened for more than ten years, promised Nim that he would remain nearby to heal and purify Moon City’s residents, and Colin and Derrick prepared for a future expedition.
• After Nim observed Adal’s hunting party, he led residents to Klein, who treated them and shared cooked mushrooms, and Ruth wept after tasting one.

Klein strengthened his position in Moon City, learned more about the Apocalypse, and helped the Tarot Club defeat the Rose School of Thought’s Warlock King. As unrest spread and the Wishing Lamp revealed a dangerous presence, Klein began his carefully concealed hunt for Kotar.

• Klein discovered that Kotar had taken a mysterious curtain from the grayish-white fog near Moon City, then investigated Chernobyl and encountered an Amon who tried to lure him toward a dangerous presence beyond the world.
• Klein learned the truth about the Outer Deities and the 1368 Apocalypse, then had Audrey hypnotize him so he would forget the dangerous secrets while she focused on helping people survive the war.
• Klein purified Moon City’s residents and taught Nim about The Fool, while Derrick advanced to Sequence 4 and brought sunlight to the City of Silver.
• Klein accepted Emlyn’s request to hunt the Rose School of Thought’s Warlock King, and the Tarot Club planned an ambush while Klein tested how Seer pathway Beyonders perceived Sefirah Castle.
• Emlyn, Sharron, Klein, and their allies defeated Calamity after Suah’s descent threatened the battlefield, and Emlyn received the Warlock King’s Beyonder characteristic and the Pupil-less General.
• Bernadette departed to search for her father’s secrets and left Cattleya the Wishing Lamp, while hunger drove a mass march in Backlund and Audrey tearfully thanked her parents for teaching her compassion.
• The Wishing Lamp’s genie offered Klein a Beyonder characteristic and three wishes in exchange for release, but Klein refused and warned Cattleya about the danger surrounding Bernadette’s search.
• Klein used a distant Historical Void projection to draw Kotar’s attention, then severed the connection after Kotar reacted to his invocation of Amon, concealing Sefirah Castle’s reverse contamination of the Dark Demonic Wolf.

Klein opened Sasrir’s palace and fought alongside the City of Silver to defeat the Dark Angel, but Amon seized the first Blasphemy Slate. The City of Silver’s curse and the war’s sudden end brought farewells and new questions as the story prepared to move into its next volume.

• Klein defeated Kotar with Reinette Tinekerr’s help, but the True Creator’s corruption compelled him toward the Giant King’s Court.
• Klein used Sefirah Castle’s power to help Danitz negotiate Rorsted self-government, then opened the palace doors and became entangled with Enuni and his separated shadow.
• Klein and the City of Silver demigods defeated Enuni, the Sun Saint, and Klein’s shadow before entering Sasrir’s dark residence.
• Sasrir explained that the Primordial had awakened within the Ancient The Sun God and that Rose Redemption had arranged his death and resurrection.
• Klein, Colin Iliad, Lovia, and Derrick fought Sasrir, but Lovia died protecting the human skull as Klein identified the first Blasphemy Slate as the source of Sasrir’s power.
• Colin Iliad and Derrick weakened Sasrir, and Derrick’s Spear of Unshadowed purified him, but Amon took the first Blasphemy Slate and escaped.
• Colin Iliad revealed that the remains of Giant Queen Omebella were Earth’s Gift and warned Derrick not to trust Rose Redemption’s account before he faded away.
• Lilith and the six-armed demonic wolf defeated the Twilight Giant, ending the war, while the author announced a break before Volume Seven, “The Hanged Man.”

Klein advanced to Miracle Invoker, learned more about the approaching Apocalypse, and began wandering the world while fulfilling wishes. In Beldan, he contained the rule-warping Trunsoest Brass Book, then turned toward preparing for his next advancement as Derrick’s team reached Bayam.

• Klein drank the Miracle Invoker potion and used his followers’ prayers to resist the awakened will in its Beyonder Characteristics, becoming master of Sefirah Castle.
• Klein questioned the Seven Lights about the Outer Deities and the Apocalypse, then learned that the Original’s fading power formed a barrier whose eventual disappearance would bring the Apocalypse.
• Klein met Leonard, learned how the war had changed Backlund, and warned the Tarot Club that the Apocalypse could destroy even the gods in a little over a decade.
• Klein traveled through the world granting wishes, then became trapped in Beldan as the rules of Sealed Artifact 0-02 tightened around the city.
• Klein and Arianna exploited the contradictions in 0-02’s rules, filled the Trunsoest Brass Book’s pages with clauses, and took it to the ancient palace on the Hornacis Mountain Range, where the half-Fool seized it.
• Klein gave Roy a Pugilist characteristic, erased Byers’s memories of 0-02, and teleported the group out of Beldan before introducing himself as Merlin Hermes.
• Klein confirmed the Fool card contained genuine formulas for the Attendant of Mysteries and The Fool, then accommodated the card and returned to Beldan to heal people.
• Derrick led the City of Silver scouting team to Bayam, where he saw a man in a Storm robe and felt calm.