Chapter Summaries

Klein used Reinette Tinekerr to expose and defeat the hidden Silver Knight guards, then entered the Giant King's Court with Colin, Lovia, and Derrick. As Audrey planted Mental Plague among the sleeping Intis and Feysac forces, Enuni and Klein’s mutated shadow confronted the group near the divine residence.

• Klein baited the Silver Knight guards, and Reinette possessed one while Klein destroyed the rabbit illusion and made the other his Marionette.
• Klein and the others opened the Giant King's Court doors, then Colin, Lovia, and Klein’s Marionette cleared most of the giant statues guarding the stairway.
• Enuni and Klein’s mutated shadow flew out from the palace area as Audrey saw them through the fog and briefly suffered signs of corruption.
• Audrey waited for the allied soldiers to fall asleep, entered their positions through dreams, planted seeds of Mental Plague, and escaped an ambush by using a false version of herself.
• Enuni and Klein’s shadow landed near the stairway, and Klein taunted them, noting that they seemed unable to leave their area before the shadow fired an Air Cannon shell.

Klein and the City of Silver's group returned to the Giant King's Court, where Enuni split into three bodies and attacked them. Klein revealed that he had prepared a Virtual Persona to protect his mind, leaving him able to face Enuni's assault.

• Klein withdrew from Enuni and the shadow with Colin Iliad, Derrick, Lovia, and his Silver Knight marionette, then returned to the Giant King's Court at dawn.
• Enuni explained that Klein and the shadow would cancel each other out, while Klein's marionette and the City of Silver demigods were meant to keep Enuni occupied.
• Enuni split into three bodies, creating a false vision of the City of Silver and then a Sun Saint, while Klein recognized the threats and mocked his strategy.
• Enuni's main body crossed the shadow barrier and attacked the City of Silver group as his elderly body used Mind Deprivation against Klein.
• Klein resisted the mental attack because Miss Justice had given him a Clown-like Virtual Persona, and he smiled as his composure returned.

Klein and the City of Silver demigods fought Enuni and the shadow in the ancient god’s divine kingdom. Derrick and Colin Iliad used repeated Solar Flares to wear down Enuni, but Enuni’s black wings suddenly detached and became a dark ocean.

• Klein used his Silver Knight marionette to attack the Spectator Saint while keeping the shadow from controlling their Spirit Body Threads or summoning Historical Void projections.
• Colin Iliad transformed into a Silver Knight and clashed with Enuni, who became a Black Knight, while Derrick and Lovia attacked the Sun Saint.
• Derrick left the Sun Saint to Colin and Enuni’s fight, then cast Solar Flare over both combatants despite the damage it caused Colin.
• Derrick cast Solar Flare again, following Colin Iliad’s plan to trade his injuries for a swift victory against Enuni.
• One pair of Enuni’s illusory black wings detached and transformed into a deep, dark ocean.

Klein appeared to succumb to the Spectator Saint’s Mental Plague, but he had secretly used the Silver Knight marionette to turn the attack against his shadow. He ended the chapter in control, hinting that the shadow had overlooked an advantage he possessed.

• Enuni wounded Colin Iliad with the Blade of Spirit and Flesh, but Colin used Mercury Transformation to escape the fatal blow and lost his left arm.
• Derrick and the Sun Saint attacked Enuni and Lovia, while Enuni corrupted Derrick’s Spears of Unshadowed and sent them back at him.
• Klein’s Silver Knight marionette kept the Spectator Saint occupied as Klein’s shadow fought him with illusions, flames, and combat hypnosis.
• The Spectator Saint planted a seed of Mental Plague in Klein’s island of consciousness, using the marionette’s deathly silent mind to infect Klein when he swapped places with it.
• Klein seemed to lose control, but the Silver Knight marionette suddenly attacked and killed the Mind Dragon, revealing that Klein had turned the trap against his shadow.
• Klein faced his shadow and said, “You seem to have overlooked something I have that you don't.”

Klein used the True Creator’s corruption to bait and defeat his shadow while the City of Silver’s Demigods destroyed Enuni and the Sun Saint. With his spirit restored, Klein prepared to enter the Giant King’s residence with Derrick and Lovia, where the Dark Angel awaited them.

• Klein revealed that the True Creator’s corruption had let him deceive his cautious shadow and set up the Spectator Saint’s defeat.
• Klein used Flame Manipulation and his Silver Knight marionette to block the shadow from reaching the Dark Angel’s palace.
• Lovia, Colin Iliad, and Derrick worked together to destroy Enuni and the Sun Saint, with Lovia using a Devil’s Words of Filth to slow the Sun Saint for Colin’s killing strike.
• Klein and the three City of Silver Demigods cornered the shadow, and Derrick’s Spear of Unshadowed destroyed it.
• Klein’s spirit became whole again, and he urged Derrick and Lovia to enter the Giant King’s residence because the Dark Angel was waiting inside.

Klein and the City of Silver team prepared to enter the Giant King's residence, where the sleeping Dark Angel's influence could turn allies against them. Across the world, battles and political upheavals were interrupted as twilight and darkness overtook the sky, while strange storms gathered over Bayam.

• Klein healed Colin Iliad and Lovia with the Staff of Life, then returned to Sefirah Castle and found the Giant King's residence shrouded in impenetrable darkness.
• Klein tested the darkness with a raven, lost contact with it, and entered the residence with Colin Iliad, Lovia, Derrick, and a Silver Knight Marionette, warning them that the journey could be deadly.
• Audrey fought a Feysac admiral outside Backlund, using mental abilities and a Mental Plague while allied forces bombarded the battlefield with flaming spears.
• The battlefield's fog vanished, Audrey and the admiral became too weak to move, and orange-red twilight collided with darkness as soldiers across the area fell asleep.
• Leonard saw the sky split between twilight and night outside Saint Hilan Cathedral, while Ikanser Bernard and the Machinery Hivemind looked on in bewilderment.
• In Bayam, Danitz and Alger watched the Resistance take control of the city before Alger noticed dark clouds, lightning, rising waves, and strange light gathering in the northwestern sky.

Anderson and the defenders faced an overwhelming supernatural attack while Backlund was transformed by rampant growth, as Klein and the City of Silver party entered the Giant King's palace. The darkness separated them from their companions and revealed a mysterious man asleep on the iron-black throne.

• Anderson taunted his soldiers about surrender, but the sun and an illusory tower appeared before they could act.
• Emlyn White saw weeds and trees rapidly grow across Backlund, turning parts of the city into primeval forest.
• Klein entered the Giant King's residence with Derrick, Colin Iliad, and Lovia, then found he could no longer reach the Fog of History.
• The doorway vanished, and Lovia, Colin Iliad, Derrick, and Klein disappeared one by one into the darkness before reappearing together in another part of the palace.
• Klein and the others watched a shadow curtain vanish, revealing a black-haired man asleep on the throne at the top of giant-sized steps.

Klein and the City of Silver demigods explored the palace where Sasrir slept, and a remnant spirit recognized the aura of Sefirah Castle in Klein. Sasrir revealed that the Primordial had awakened within him, leaving the group surrounded by deepening shadows and an unknown danger.

• Colin Iliad decided the group should not wake Sasrir, and Lovia sent a Grazed devil to scout, but lightning destroyed it and sacred flames purified its soul.
• Klein advanced with lit matches, and Creeping Hunger became depraved and tried to devour him before he subdued it with the Staff of the Stars.
• A figure that copied Klein appeared among the brass-colored eyes in the shadows, but it exploded when it sensed the aura of Sefirah Castle.
• The eyes said Klein’s fate intersected with Amanises, Leodero, Adam, Amon, Herabergen, Aucuses, Medici, Ouroboros, and the True Creator, whom it called another version of itself.
• Klein asked why Sasrir established Rose Redemption and assassinated the Ancient The Sun God, and the remnant spirit answered that the Primordial had awakened within him.
• The shadows grew darker and more threatening as Klein, Colin Iliad, Derrick, and Lovia reacted with fear to Sasrir’s words.

Klein learned that the Primordial was the Original Creator, whose will could awaken within high-Sequence Beyonders, and heard how the Ancient The Sun God formed Rose Redemption to resist that corruption. After Klein recognized the first Blasphemy Slate on the throne, the sleeping Dark Angel Sasrir opened his eyes and Lovia collapsed into shadow.

• Klein asked Sasrir about the Primordial and learned that it had created the universe and could awaken within those closest to it through Sequence advancement.
• Sasrir explained that he created the Dark Angel as a separate self to resist the Primordial, then formed Rose Redemption with gods and Angel Kings to arrange his death and resurrection.
• Sasrir revealed that Leodero, Aucuses, and Herabergen betrayed him by devouring his body, forcing him to be reborn through his corpse and retain the Hanged Man pathway characteristics and the authority of Depravity.
• Klein spotted the first Blasphemy Slate beside Sasrir on the iron-black throne and realized it had likely helped Sasrir control the Chaos Sea.
• Sasrir opened his eyes, and Lovia collapsed into a mass of shadows.

Klein, Colin Iliad, and Derrick confronted the awakened Dark Angel Sasrir in the shadow palace, while Lovia revealed that she retained some control despite losing control of her body. Klein judged that Sasrir was a dangerous fusion tied to the Chaos Sea, and the group began their counterattack as Sasrir unleashed lightning.

• Sasrir's awakening caused Lovia to lose control, but she revealed that her spirit remained lucid and that she could still direct the Silver Knight she had Grazed.
• Klein and Colin Iliad realized Sasrir's influence had corrupted Lovia's body without fully overcoming her spirit, and Klein concluded Sasrir was an unusual being fused with the Chaos Sea's power.
• Klein raised the Staff of the Stars, Colin Iliad entered his incomplete Mythical Creature Form, and Derrick prepared to act as Sasrir rose and unfolded his black wings.
• Sasrir bound Lovia with her shadow cloak and sent a sea of lightning across the shadow palace.
• Klein reproduced the Angel of Time Amon's power with the Staff of the Stars, stalling the lightning while Colin Iliad and Lovia's Silver Knight created barriers and Klein vanished.

Klein and the City of Silver’s demigods fought Dark Angel Sasrir, but Lovia died protecting the human skull while Sasrir survived with only slight injuries. Klein realized that the Blasphemy Slate on the throne might be the source of Sasrir’s power, and Colin Iliad noticed it too.

• Klein used the Staff of the Stars to drag Sasrir into a dream, but the vision of the Chaos Sea shattered Klein’s control and forced him back into reality.
• While Sasrir was distracted, Colin Iliad, Lovia, and Derrick attacked, but Sasrir’s radiance destroyed their assault and dissolved Lovia’s Silver Knight spirit.
• Klein forced Sasrir into another dream, revealing his Sefirah Castle aura as Sasrir revealed his connection to the Chaos Sea.
• Lovia bound herself to Sasrir so Colin and Derrick could attack, but Sasrir broke free and used Mind Deprivation to weaken the group.
• Sasrir killed Lovia with sacred sunlight as she curled around and protected the human skull.
• Klein reasoned that Sasrir’s power came from the Chaos Sea and identified the Blasphemy Slate on the throne as its likely source; Colin also looked toward it.

Klein, Colin Iliad, and Derrick Berg fought Dark Angel Sasrir in the shadow palace, using concealment, lightning, and the power of dawn to weaken and restrain him. Klein stole the strands connecting Sasrir to the first Blasphemy Slate but was left unable to move, while Colin called on Derrick to attack the fading Evil Spirit.

• Klein concealed himself while Colin Iliad and Derrick Berg attacked Dark Angel Sasrir and kept him occupied.
• Klein struck the first Blasphemy Slate with Lightning Storm, severing the strands linking it to Sasrir, but Sasrir restored them with the cycle of fate.
• Sasrir used his Unshadowed Domain and a command to kill, but Derrick Berg's words helped Klein and Colin Iliad recover.
• Klein used Teleportation and Stealing to take the strands connecting Sasrir to the first Blasphemy Slate, then struggled against the Chaos Sea's influence.
• Colin Iliad transformed into mercury to restrain Sasrir, then unleashed Storm of Light, interrupting his power and weakening him.
• Colin Iliad restrained the fading Sasrir again and shouted for Derrick Berg to attack.

Derrick’s strike helped purify Dark Angel Sasrir and collapse the Land of Slumber, but the True Creator’s corrosion activated and Amon seized the first Blasphemy Slate before escaping. As the palace returned to twilight, Klein witnessed Colin Iliad’s death, and Derrick rushed to his fallen Chief.

• Derrick attacked Dark Angel Sasrir with the Spear of Unshadowed, purifying the Evil Spirit and causing the shadow palace to collapse.
• The collapsing barrier intensified the corrosion in Klein, which separated from him and formed a giant shadowy hand reaching for the first Blasphemy Slate.
• Amon entered the Giant King’s residence and used a power stolen from the Chaos Sea to draw the Blasphemy Slate to himself.
• Amon caught the slate after Klein glimpsed the Sequence 1: Attendant of Mysteries formula, then escaped through the palace doors as the shadowy hand pursued him.
• The palace’s shadows vanished, revealing Colin Iliad dead before the iron-black throne, and Derrick rushed to his side and called him Chief.

Colin Iliad revealed the truth behind the City of Silver’s food and curse, then entrusted Derrick with the burden of leadership and the freedom to follow the Fool. As the war abruptly ended and the secret of the Earth Mother raised new questions, Derrick opened the Giant King’s doors so Colin could see sunlight before he faded away.

• Colin Iliad told Derrick that he would join the Council of Six and revealed that everyone in the City of Silver could now worship Mr. Fool.
• Colin Iliad explained that the sealed artifact Earth's Gift had enabled black-faced grass to grow but caused the City of Silver’s curse, and he revealed that the remains of Giant Queen Omebella were Earth's Gift.
• Colin Iliad warned Derrick not to trust the account of Rose Redemption and said that the Earth Mother could not be Omebella, leaving Klein to question who the Earth Mother was.
• Lilith and the six-armed demonic wolf defeated the Twilight Giant, whose scattered twilight devastated the battlefield and abruptly ended the war; Suah fled, and the allied armies retreated.
• Audrey returned to Backlund and found its citizens and her family bewildered by the sudden end of the disaster, while Bernadette continued sailing through dangerous seas.
• Derrick pushed open the Giant King's doors with the spirits of his loved ones beside him, revealing a sunlit sea as Colin Iliad smiled and faded away.

The author reviewed Volume Six’s themes, plot choices, strengths, and shortcomings, and previewed plans for future stories. The author announced a three-and-a-half-day break before Volume Seven, “The Hanged Man,” began on Sunday evening.

• The author described the Amon and Omebella revelations as Volume Six’s two major peaks and said they completed a framework for the world’s gods and mysteries.
• The author explained that the war and Audrey’s story were shaped to convey ordinary people’s confusion and insignificance before the gods, while Bernadette and the City of Silver brought the ending toward determination and hope.
• The author acknowledged that Volume Six had too many closely packed battles and a narrow setting, and said the Emperor’s storyline had been postponed to Volume Seven.
• The author discussed possible later books set in Intis, Feynapotter, and the Western Continent, but said a second book would not be the next project.
• The author announced a break before Volume Seven, titled “The Hanged Man,” began on Sunday evening, and asked readers for monthly votes and official subscriptions.

Derrick led the City of Silver’s pathfinding team out of the Forsaken Land of the Gods and into the outside world, where Danitz welcomed them aboard a ship. Meanwhile, Klein prepared and drank the Miracle Invoker potion, accepting the risks of advancing to angelhood.

• Derrick led twenty members of the City of Silver through the darkness and out of the Giant King’s residence, where they reached an island amid the golden sea.
• Candice thanked Derrick, and the team realized he had not betrayed the City of Silver.
• Danitz arrived aboard a ship and welcomed Derrick and the others to the world of light promised by God.
• Klein prepared the Miracle Invoker potion using the Beyonder Characteristic, a Worm of Star, a Worm of Time, and blood from Kotar.
• Klein considered the dangers of becoming an angel, then drank the Miracle Invoker potion.

Klein drank the Miracle Invoker potion and reassembled his Spirit Body in the Fog of History, using the City of Silver’s history to complete the advancement. He became a Sequence 2 angel and master of Sefirah Castle, then examined his new powers and the balance he needed to maintain.

• Klein’s Worms of Spirit scattered through the Fog of History after he drank the potion, then converged around the City of Silver’s returned history and rebuilt his body.
• Klein used the Sea God Scepter and the prayers of his followers to resist the Beyonder Characteristics’ awakened will and recover his humanity and memories.
• Klein realized that anchors countered the mental imprints in Beyonder Characteristics by sustaining a balance between the deity’s perceived image and its true nature.
• Klein returned to Sefirah Castle without an incantation and confirmed that he had become its master, though he could enter only in spirit form.
• Klein reviewed his new abilities, including limited revivals through Worms of Spirit, influence over probability, summoning scenes from history, and granting wishes.

Klein examined the limits of his Miracle Invoker abilities and learned he could begin using Sefirah Castle’s power directly, while remaining wary of the forces that may have arranged his path. After reviewing sealed information, he reconstructed the Goddess’s long deception that led to the God of Combat’s defeat and left himself a warning about his identity.

• Klein realized that fulfilling wishes was necessary to build the ability to create miracles, and considered traveling the world to act as a Miracle Invoker.
• Klein touched the Door of Light and used Sefirah Castle to conjure a city from before the First Epoch, including the place where he had once lived.
• Klein chose not to release the people trapped in the transparent cocoons because Amon could take advantage of them.
• Klein read a paper revealing information about the Great Old Ones, the Outer Deities, and the Apocalypse, then concluded that the Goddess had won while the God of Combat had likely fallen.
• Klein deduced that the Goddess had concealed the Earth Mother’s identity and manipulated the other deities into overlooking the Earth Mother’s role in the trap.
• Klein wrote himself a warning to remember that he was a he, not a He.

The City of Silver’s scouting team sampled food aboard the Sea God while Klein prepared to leave for Backlund and instead met the Seven Lights in the Spirit World. Their discussion began with the Great Old Ones and Outer Deities watching the world.

• Danitz served the City of Silver’s scouting team a meal, and Derrick cautiously divided them into groups to test the food.
• Candice, Liaval, and eight others ate the Desi-style roast meat and asked for more, prompting Danitz to order another portion and arrange for the crew to fish.
• Klein left an uninhabited island in the Sonia Sea and traveled through the Spirit World toward Backlund, but stopped when he considered visiting the Seven Lights.
• Orange Light Hilarion greeted Klein and introduced the other six lights, who joined them in a sitting room Klein created.
• Klein asked what the Seven Lights knew about the cosmos, and Indigo Light Hilarion listed the Great Old Ones and Outer Deities currently spying on their world.

Klein questioned the Seven Lights about the Outer Deities, the origins of the pathways and Sefirah, and the approaching Apocalypse. The Seven Lights explained that the Original’s fading barrier would eventually fail, then identified the Celestial Worthy of Heaven and Earth for Blessings as the Lord of Mysteries.

• Klein used Sefirah Castle’s aura to sever a subtle connection to the celestial bodies after Indigo Light Hilarion described the gathered Outer Deities.
• Blue Light Kuthumi and Saint Germain explained that the Mother Goddess of Depravity, the Son of Chaos, and the Mother Tree of Desire had lost Sefirah and characteristics to convergence, and Saint Germain said the Moon and Earth pathways belonged to the Mother Goddess.
• Green Light Serapis and Red Light Al Moria discussed the Moon Primordial and its feminine pathways, while Yellow Light Venithan identified the Devil and Prisoner pathways as belonging to the Mother Tree of Desire.
• Orange Light Hilarion told Klein that the Original’s fading power formed a barrier keeping Outer Deities from invading, and that its eventual disappearance would bring the Apocalypse.
• The Seven Lights said the Original’s will would always remain capable of awakening in high-level beings, and Violet Light Saint Germain said the Attendant of Mysteries ritual was likely connected to the Spirit World.
• Orange Light Hilarion said the Seven Lights could not determine whether Klein was the Celestial Worthy, then named Him the Great Ruler Above the Spirit World and the Lord of Mysteries.