Chapter Summaries

Amon brought Klein into the Forsaken Land of the Gods and offered him a chance to escape without using Parasitism, while Backlund reeled from King George III’s death and the threat of war. The chapter ended with Melissa questioning whether a better life could ever last.

• Amon led Klein through an Apprentice’s Door into the Forsaken Land of the Gods, where they arrived at a silent, illusory shore beneath the Giant King’s Court.
• Amon revealed that he had visited the Giant King’s Court and was seeking answers about the First Epoch, while waiting for other powerful beings to act first.
• Amon removed a Worm of Time from Klein and promised not to use Parasitism again before their destination, challenging Klein to try to escape.
• Audrey watched the aftermath of King George III’s death at the parliament building and learned that Intis had massed troops near the Hornacis Mountain Range.
• At home, Melissa recounted the family’s hardships to Benson and asked whether a better life was truly so difficult to obtain and keep.

Fors and Xio discussed George III’s death and whether Xio’s family would be safer in Backlund or a small town, while Fors planned to ask Mr. World for guidance. In the Forsaken Land of the Gods, Amon led Klein through the darkness with a stolen lantern, and Klein confirmed he could still reach Sefirah Castle before Amon stopped him from using it to draw the True Creator’s attention.

• Fors told Xio that George III’s death might indirectly avenge her family and that they could try to appeal her father’s case, while Xio worried about the coming war.
• Fors decided to ask Mr. World whether Backlund or a small town would be safer, and she prayed to Mr. Fool to pass along her questions.
• Klein followed Amon toward the darkness beyond the Giant King’s Court, wary of Amon’s power and the possibility that a Worm of Time remained inside him.
• Amon gave Klein a lantern stolen from the City of Silver’s camp in Afternoon Town, and the camp’s Dawn Paladin saw the two figures pass before discovering a lantern was missing.
• Klein used his connection to Sefirah Castle and confirmed it still worked in the Forsaken Land, then considered using it to attract the True Creator and create a chance to escape.
• Amon stopped Klein’s attempt and explained that the True Creator was called The Hanged Man, while claiming he had always been respectful toward the gods.

Klein and Amon crossed the Forsaken Land of the Gods and reached the ruins of an ancient city, where Klein rested. After waking, Klein secretly examined his mind and realized Amon could hear his thoughts through deep Parasitism; he suspected Amon had a hidden purpose and prepared to act as if he had noticed nothing.

• Klein turned a monster into a marionette, but Amon stole and crushed its Worm of Spirit, causing Klein intense pain.
• Klein told Amon he needed rest, and Amon led him to the ruins of a city destroyed during the Cataclysm.
• Klein fell asleep inside a half-collapsed building while Amon used his powers to prolong the lantern's flame.
• After waking to Miss Magician's prayers, Klein borrowed a past state to inspect his mind and found no abnormal thoughts.
• Klein concluded that deep Parasitism let Amon hear his thoughts directly and suspected Amon was using their escape game to pursue a hidden goal.
• Klein decided to conceal his suspicions and plan an escape attempt as Amon asked when he would begin.

Klein tried to escape Amon while they were stranded in the Forsaken Land of the Gods, using a meal and a mass summoning to conceal his preparations. Amon thwarted the attempt, and Klein was left with a new, unsettling source of food.

• Klein summoned a lavish meal from the Historical Void while Amon watched, then refused Amon's offer to become his Blessed.
• When Amon noticed Klein's luck had changed, Klein sent a hundred marionettes to summon Reinette Tinekerr, but Amon stole her projection and cursed the marionettes into animals.
• Klein emerged from the lantern and acted as though he had only meant to take a walk after eating, while Amon dismissed Reinette Tinekerr's projection.
• Klein tried to recite the Evernight Goddess's honorific name, but Amon explained that he could control when stolen thoughts and words manifested.
• Klein reviewed how Amon had thwarted his escape, and Amon pointed out that the cursed goats and rabbits could serve as food; Klein realized they were all versions of himself.

Klein endured the backlash of killing cursed marionettes, ate the transformed creatures, and continued traveling with Amon while looking for a chance to escape. In the City of Silver, Colin Iliad prepared a ritual involving Derrick Berg and revealed that he had chosen The Fool for a blessing because the city’s two god-level Sealed Artifacts would not provide one.

• Klein killed the cursed marionettes in batches, suffering severe spiritual pain after each batch.
• Klein cooked and ate a rabbit and goat, then prepared provisions while Amon watched and identified his stalling.
• Klein and Amon traveled through a concealed river valley, where Amon explained that fewer than ten human settlements remained in the Forsaken Land of the Gods.
• Colin Iliad summoned Derrick Berg to a ritual chamber and warned him that the Unshadowed Crucifix could protect him there for only fifteen minutes.
• Colin confirmed that he had chosen The Fool to bless the ritual, explaining that the two god-level Sealed Artifacts would not bestow blessings.

Derrick sought The Fool’s blessing for Colin Iliad’s Silver Knight advancement while Klein traveled through the Forsaken Land of the Gods with Amon and questioned him about the past. Amon revealed details about the Ancient Sun God and led Klein into a ruined city-state, where he planned to exploit old Phoenix-related arrangements to speed their journey.

• Derrick agreed to seek a deity’s blessing for Colin Iliad and prayed to The Fool from an empty room in the Afternoon Town camp.
• Klein heard overlapping prayers from Derrick and a woman, then asked Amon whether he could go to Sefirah Castle to answer them; Amon declined and invited him to ask questions instead.
• Amon said he had infiltrated the City of Silver’s exploration team because he foresaw learning important information there, and revealed that the City of Silver was hiding a significant secret.
• Amon confirmed that the Ancient Sun God created Dark Angel Sasrir from his own characteristics and rib, and said Adam was already close to resurrecting their father.
• Klein and Amon entered a ruined city-state once devoted to the Phoenix, where Amon explained that its inhabitants had been wiped out after generations of eating corrupted monsters.
• Amon said Phoenix-related arrangements in the city-state could serve as loopholes and shorten their journey to their final destination.

Derrick and Fors waited for answers from Mr. Fool and Mr. World, while Klein tried to escape Amon in the Forsaken Land of the Gods by using the Crimson Moon Corona and Master Key to summon help. Amon’s stolen daylight disrupted Klein’s summons, leaving him face to face with Amon.

• Derrick received no response from Mr. Fool and told Colin Iliad they needed to wait a few days.
• Fors wondered whether Mr. World’s silence and the suspended gathering were connected to George III, and Xio agreed it was likely.
• Klein and Amon entered a hidden part of a ruined church, where Amon tried to use a pale Door of Light to travel farther into the city-state.
• Klein used a marionette to send the Crimson Moon Corona and Master Key into the Door of Light, briefly distracting Amon and letting Klein switch places with the marionette.
• Klein turned nearby monsters into marionettes and tried to summon Reinette Tinekerr, Mr. Azik, and Will Auceptin, but Amon unleashed the True Creator’s ravings within stolen daylight and ruined the summons.
• Amon’s daylight drove the city-state’s surviving monsters to their deaths, and he appeared before Klein and told him, "Well done."

Klein accompanied Amon through the Door of Light, enduring another punishment and learning that their destination was less than three days away. In Pritz Harbor, Bernadette tried to contact Gehrman Sparrow, but Reinette Tinekerr returned with a message that he had disappeared.

• Amon severed Klein's connections to his marionettes and inflicted another painful punishment after praising his improved escape attempt.
• Klein questioned Amon about his monocles and watched him absorb most of the Beyonder Characteristics left in the church.
• Amon led Klein through the Door of Light to a ruined city-state that had worshiped the Mutant King and said their destination was less than three days away.
• Bernadette read news of the king's assassination, then summoned Gehrman Sparrow's messenger to ask about his situation.
• Reinette Tinekerr returned to Bernadette and said that Gehrman Sparrow had disappeared.

Bernadette prophesied that Gehrman Sparrow had vanished into a dire crisis, and her warning reached Cattleya and Leonard. Klein remained trapped with Amon, while Leonard learned that Klein had disrupted George III’s apotheosis ritual and might now be in Amon’s hands.

• Bernadette prophesied that darkness, desolation, mutation, apocalypse, negativity, and error surrounded Gehrman Sparrow, then sent word of his disappearance.
• Cattleya received Bernadette’s letter and prayed to The Fool, whose crimson star responded above the gray fog.
• Klein walked through a desolate wilderness with Amon, weighing whether another escape attempt would expose too many of his abilities.
• Leonard learned from Reinette Tinekerr that Klein had disrupted George III’s apotheosis ritual and might have been hunted by Zaratul.
• Pallez Zoroast connected the disturbance in Sefirah Castle to Amon, and Leonard concluded that Klein may have fallen into Amon’s hands before praying to The Fool.

Leonard and Alger learned of the growing crisis around Mr. Fool and acted as Amon’s struggle with Klein continued. Alger received news that George III had been assassinated and prayed to The Fool, while Amon told Klein they would reach their destination within half a day.

• Leonard received no reply after praying to Mr. Fool, and Pallez warned him that Mr. Fool and Amon might be clashing over Sefirah Castle.
• Alger planned to land on Sonia Island with his crew to avoid the main fighting, then received a message that George III had been assassinated.
• Alger stopped hesitating and recited The Fool’s honorific name.
• Klein endured the overlapping prayers while following Amon through the wilderness, and Amon said they would reach their destination in half a day.
• Klein suddenly reached into the void beside him.

Klein used a prepared sequence of actions to bring Zaratul and Arianna into the Historical Void and ask Arianna to kill him before they reached their destination. Amon interrupted Arianna’s attack, leaving Klein unharmed and observing the confrontation with interest.

• Klein prepared a repeated plan to summon Zaratul after Amon stole his initial suicidal thought, then summoned Zaratul’s Historical Void image.
• Amon stole the summoned image, but Zaratul’s true body entered the Historical Void and gave the projection consciousness, turning it against Amon.
• Klein escaped into the darkness by swapping places with a marionette and summoned Arianna, whose projection also gained consciousness.
• Klein asked Arianna to kill him, and she sent a tide of deadly darkness surging toward him.
• Amon slowed the darkness with his time authority, then let it engulf Klein without harming him and remarked that the situation was interesting.

Zaratul summoned Roselle, Antigonus, and a member of Medici’s Red of War legion to help Klein fight Amon, but Amon erased the projections and revealed that he was the original. Klein, seemingly trapped, suddenly regained his composure and told Amon to kill him.

• Zaratul summoned projections of Roselle Gustav, Antigonus, and a Red of War legion knight to join the battle against Amon.
• Arianna and Klein attacked Amon while Klein redirected the battlefield’s attacks toward the Red of War knight, who was destroyed by the combined assault.
• Amon used his clock’s power to steal time from the projections, causing them to disappear.
• Amon told Klein that Historical Void images had a flaw he could exploit, then confirmed that he was the original Amon.
• Klein recalled Amon’s earlier words, calmed down, and told Amon to kill him.

Klein deduced that Amon was trying to make him consent to a transaction for Sefirah Castle, but Amon insisted he would only take Klein’s fate at a supposedly safe destination. Meanwhile, Audrey, Fors, Xio, and Emlyn prayed to Mr. Fool, and their prayers stirred the Gray Fog as Klein and Amon reached the ruins called Chernobyl.

• Klein explained that Amon wanted his permission to obtain Sefirah Castle without bearing the danger of stealing Klein’s fate directly, and Amon said they had not yet reached the right place.
• Audrey prayed to Mr. Fool to contact The World Gehrman Sparrow and learn the truth about the king’s assassination.
• Fors and Xio worried that the Tarot Club gathering might not happen, so Xio prayed to Mr. Fool for an answer.
• Emlyn dreamed of Lilith and the Fool card, then prayed to Mr. Fool in hopes of escaping his predicament.
• The prayers of Justice, Judgement, and The Moon stirred the crimson tide above the Gray Fog, while Klein followed Amon deeper into the fog-shrouded wasteland.
• Amon showed Klein the dead Giant Badheil and the ruins where the Ancient The Sun God had awakened, then identified the sacred place as Chernobyl.

Klein realized that the world was Earth and fully digested his Scholar of Yore potion, strengthening his connection to Sefirah Castle. As he tried to escape there, Amon revealed his deception and sent a hidden Worm of Time to seize the castle.

• Klein recognized Chernobyl and connected the world's geography, ruins, and legends to Earth, realizing he had never truly left his homeland.
• Klein saw Earth’s ruined cities beneath the Gray Fog and fully digested his Scholar of Yore potion.
• Klein’s connection to Sefirah Castle strengthened, and he tried to enter it with a thought to escape Amon.
• Amon revealed that he had used the journey to help Klein digest his potion and deepen his connection to Sefirah Castle, intending to steal it through that opening.
• A hidden Worm of Time emerged from Klein and, while Klein was overwhelmed by Amon’s ravings, leaped toward Sefirah Castle.

Klein escaped Amon’s attempt to seize Sefirah Castle with the Evernight Goddess’s intervention, then used the castle’s power to destroy his own body and Amon’s phantom. He discovered he could resurrect through the Worms of Spirit in the past, while Amon remained near his corpse and Klein’s time to act was limited.

• Badheil blocked Amon’s phantom from entering Sefirah Castle, allowing Klein to regain clarity and reconnect with the crimson figure above the gray fog.
• Amon said “Evernight,” and Klein realized the Evernight Goddess had used the Death pathway’s Uniqueness to influence Badheil and conceal the illusory black tubes.
• Klein returned to Sefirah Castle, summoned the Sea God Scepter, and unleashed lightning that destroyed both Amon’s phantom and his own body.
• Amon stole the curse sustaining Badheil, causing the giant to rot away, then watched Sefirah Castle and called the situation interesting.
• Klein discovered that Worms of Spirit in the Historical Void could reconstruct his body, but he had only one resurrection left and could maintain his state for three days.
• Klein looked at the Tarot Club’s chairs and crimson stars and called them his anchors.

After learning that his homeland was the world he now lived in, Klein investigated his original transmigration and formed new questions about the Creator and the world's history. He planned to investigate the Forsaken Land of the Gods after reviving, while preparing to become a Miracle Invoker and seeking allies against Amon; the chapter ended with him silently watching imagined companions gather around the Tarot Club table.

• Klein traced a historical fragment and discovered that the Luck Enhancement Ritual had changed Zhou Mingrui before he went to sleep, despite Klein remembering nothing unusual.
• Klein theorized that Sefirah Castle had influenced reality and selected people through mystical objects and rituals, then considered whether the Creator was an amalgamation of contradictions.
• Klein decided to remain in the Forsaken Land of the Gods after reviving to seek answers and keep Amon from endangering his friends elsewhere.
• Klein planned to seek help from the Lord of Storms, the Eternal Blazing Sun, and the God of Knowledge and Wisdom, and to pursue the Miracle Invoker potion using knowledge from the half-Fool.
• Klein announced that the Tarot Club gathering would proceed as usual, then silently watched figures including Dunn and Daly appear around the table.

After Mr. Fool resumed responding, the Tarot Club members took his message as a sign that the crisis had passed, though Leonard remained wary of a possible Amon disguise. Trapped in Sefirah Castle while Amon guarded the place where he had died, Klein used the Antigonus Family Notebook to learn the Sequence 2 Miracle Invoker potion formula.

• Leonard heard Mr. Fool respond, but Pallez warned him that Amon might be impersonating the current Fool, so Leonard decided to check for a monocle.
• Cattleya, Alger, Audrey, Emlyn, Derrick, and Fors each reacted to Mr. Fool's response and looked forward to the Tarot Gathering, while Alger regretted testing Mr. Fool.
• Klein restored his spirit body's condition in Sefirah Castle and retrieved the Antigonus Family Notebook from the Historical Void to use as a divination medium.
• Klein divined the notebook's original owner and glimpsed the half-Fool with the Uniqueness in a ruined palace before Sefirah Castle shook and his spirit body re-formed.
• Klein recorded the Sequence 2 Miracle Invoker potion ingredients and advancement ritual: bring a lost piece of history back into the current era.

Klein analyzed the Miracle Invoker ritual and potion formula, realizing that helping the City of Silver return from the Forsaken Land of the Gods could fulfill the ritual. He then investigated the identity of the forgotten third transmigrator and found clues pointing toward the Goddess of Misfortune Amanises.

• Klein concluded that bringing the people of the City of Silver back to the Northern and Southern Continents could fulfill the Miracle Invoker ritual, though reaching the Giant King's Court and facing the Dark Angel Sasrir made the plan dangerous.
• Klein reviewed the Miracle Invoker ingredients and considered asking his allies for Worms of Star and a suitable main ingredient, while noting that he might later investigate the Ancient City of North for an Attendant of Mysteries characteristic.
• Klein mourned the valuable items he had lost during his battle and suicide, then wondered whether Chernobyl had been a shelter and who had occupied the third broken cocoon.
• Klein used Sefirah Castle to revisit the distant past and saw Zhou Mingrui, Huang Tao, and a woman inside separate cocoons.
• Klein reasoned that the woman would likely have connected with the Seer, Apprentice, or Marauder pathways, and his list of possible identities led him to the ancient god Flegrea and his subsidiary gods Salinger and Amanises.

At the Tarot Gathering, Klein reassured the members that he had used The World's body to confront Amon in the Forsaken Land of the Gods. He explained that George III had tried and failed to become the Black Emperor, then left the club wondering what the Seven Gods’ stance had been.

• Klein convened the Tarot Gathering, and Alger and Fors apologized for doubting whether it would take place.
• Klein said he had used The World's body to play a game with Amon in the Forsaken Land of the Gods, prompting the members to infer that he had fought the Angel King.
• Derrick asked whether the City of Silver's Chief could receive the Fool's blessing for an upcoming ritual, and Klein agreed.
• Cattleya asked about George III's death, and Klein revealed that George III had pursued the Black Emperor's apotheosis through atrocities and a war but failed when his necessary mausoleums were destroyed.
• Cattleya asked what stance the Seven Gods had taken toward George III's plan.

The Tarot Club members pieced together how Mr. Fool’s forces had thwarted George III’s attempt to become a Black Emperor, then discussed how The World Gehrman Sparrow could escape Amon. The meeting ended with Gehrman seeking Worms of Star and commissioning Cattleya to hunt Botis if the Abraham Family could not provide them.

• Klein explained that the Seven Gods had tacitly accepted George III’s bid for the Black Emperor, but Mr. Fool had opposed it and sabotaged his ritual.
• Cattleya asked whether The World could use a Sequence 3 Sealed Artifact to descend elsewhere, but Gehrman said his ability to respond while concealed was too restricted.
• Leonard agreed to seek advice from Old Man about Gehrman’s predicament with Amon.
• Gehrman asked Fors to find out whether the Abraham Family had Worms of Star available for trade.
• Gehrman offered Cattleya a mission to hunt the Aurora Order’s Saint of Secrets, Botis, if Fors could not obtain the Worms of Star.