Recaps

Ye Yan explained that Stelle’s baseball bat was a shapeshifting weapon gifted by the Aeon of [Eternity], and Stelle accidentally transformed it into a trash can lid. As the Express prepared to warp to Jarilo-VI, Ye Yan and Himeko discussed the planet’s past and the effects of its Stellaron.

• March 7th learned that Ye Yan had found Stelle while searching for the missing Arlan and left her the baseball bat to defend herself.
• Ye Yan explained that the bat came from the Aeon of [Eternity], had been made from a modified [Elation] mask, and could change form.
• Ye Yan turned the bat into a longsword, then Stelle tried to do the same and transformed it into a trash can lid.
• March 7th said she would ask the Aeon of [Eternity] to spend time chatting with her and take a picture together.
• Ye Yan joined Himeko in discussing Jarilo-VI, its past as a tourist destination, and how the Stellaron and Fragmentum had changed it.

Sampo learned that Ye Yan, the Aeon of [Eternity], was traveling with the Astral Express and arranged an identity for him in Belobog. The Express reached Jarilo-VI, where a Stellaron anomaly forced an indefinite stop, and the crew prepared to investigate the frozen planet.

• Silver Wolf asked Sampo to arrange an identity for Ye Yan, and Sampo realized the Aeon of [Eternity] was with the Astral Express.
• Pom-Pom gave Ye Yan a cup of juice as March 7th and Stelle returned to the parlor car.
• The Astral Express arrived at Jarilo-VI, but Pom-Pom announced that abnormal spatial readings had made the star rail unstable and extended their stop indefinitely.
• Himeko and Ye Yan explained that a Stellaron was disrupting the route and that its influence had helped turn Jarilo-VI into a frozen world.
• March 7th recalled Ye Yan suppressing the Stellaron inside Stelle, and Stelle joked that the crew were cosmic heroes.

Himeko sent Stelle, March 7th, Dan Heng, and Ye Yan to Jarilo-VI to find its Stellaron, while Cocolia continued hearing the Stellaron’s demands to build a new world. The team landed in Belobog’s snowy wilderness and had yet to decide which way to go.

• Himeko assigned Stelle, March 7th, Dan Heng, and Ye Yan to retrieve Jarilo-VI’s Stellaron while she and Welt stayed aboard the Express.
• Bronya checked on Cocolia, who asked what she knew about elves and recalled seeing a silver-haired elven girl holding the Stellaron in a vision.
• The Stellaron urged Cocolia to honor their agreement and build a new world, warning that the world would face destruction and invoking Eternity.
• Ye Yan and the Trailblaze team landed in a snowy wilderness, where Stelle turned her bat into a shovel and Dan Heng asked Ye Yan to upgrade Cloud-Piercer.
• March 7th got Ye Yan to promise to upgrade her weapon after the expedition, then asked which direction the team should take.

Ye Yan led Stelle, Dan Heng, and March 7th across the snowfield, where they encountered Sampo and learned about Belobog, humanity’s last refuge from the Eternal Freeze. Sampo agreed to guide them into the city, and the group followed him while staying out of sight of the Silvermane Guards.

• Ye Yan told Stelle about a past snowmobile crash that had left him and his companions doing months of unpaid labor, and Dan Heng and March 7th recalled their own stadium mishap.
• The four crossed the snowfield and fought Fragmentum creatures, while Stelle used a trash can lid as a weapon.
• Stelle threw the lid at a moving snowdrift and hit Sampo, who jumped out and introduced himself.
• Ye Yan explained that Sampo had once taken a commission to find relics of the Aeon of [Eternity], and Sampo said he was searching for ancient relics of [Preservation].
• Sampo explained that Belobog was humanity’s sole surviving city and described the Silvermane Guards as its army and law enforcement.
• Ye Yan asked Sampo to lead them into Belobog, and Sampo guided the group onward while telling them to avoid the guards.

Ye Yan pursued Sampo into Rivet Town and captured him after learning more about Belobog’s troubles and the Astral Express crew. Meanwhile, Stelle, March 7th, and Dan Heng met Gepard and proved they were not Sampo’s accomplices before Ye Yan returned with the bound fugitive.

• Sampo fled from the Silvermane Guards, and Ye Yan left the others to pursue him while Stelle, March 7th, and Dan Heng fought the soldiers.
• Gepard Landau, captain of the Silvermane Guards, arrived and ordered the fighting to stop.
• In Rivet Town, Ye Yan questioned Sampo about Belobog, the Astral Express, and the lingering power of Destruction mixed with Preservation.
• Ye Yan stuffed Sampo into a sack and tied it shut, promising to help him get his mask back if he came along.
• Stelle, March 7th, and Dan Heng showed Gepard March 7th’s photographs to prove their identities and agreed to follow him toward Belobog.
• Ye Yan reappeared carrying Sampo in the sack, and Gepard thanked him for capturing the fugitive.

Gepard escorted Ye Yan, March 7th, Stelle, and Dan Heng to Kliperburg, where he explained Belobog’s history and learned Ye Yan could modify weapons. As they arrived at the Supreme Guardian’s residence, Gepard prepared to introduce the group to Cocolia Rand.

• Gepard led the group into the Administrative District while carrying the bound Sampo, and he recounted Belobog’s history as Dan Heng asked about the Fragmentum.
• Stelle showed Gepard that her trash-can lid could transform into a baseball bat, and March claimed it had been bestowed by the Aeon of [Eternity].
• Ye Yan offered to modify the Silvermane Guards’ weapons, and Gepard said he would seek his sister Serval Landau’s help if the opportunity arose.
• March asked the group to put Sampo down, but Gepard ignored him and led everyone to Kliperburg, the Architects’ headquarters and the Supreme Guardian’s residence.
• Gepard told the group that Cocolia Rand was Belobog’s leader and escorted them to meet her, prompting March to worry about her appearance.

Ye Yan stayed behind while Stelle, March 7th, and Dan Heng went with Gepard to meet Supreme Guardian Cocolia, and he encountered Pela giving children a tour of the Everwinter Monument. Cocolia heard the Astral Express crew’s explanation of their arrival, and Stelle opened their audience with an unexpected question about the Aeon of Eternity.

• Ye Yan refused to accompany the others to see Cocolia, citing a foreboding sense that the Stellaron had changed since his arrival.
• Stelle, March 7th, and Dan Heng left with Gepard, while Ye Yan stayed behind and joined Pela’s tour of the Everwinter Monument.
• A phantom mask appeared in the sky, leading Ye Yan to realize Aha had followed him again.
• Pela explained the monument’s history and symbols, and Ye Yan discussed Qlipoth’s followers and his church before Pela connected the church to Sampo.
• Cocolia struggled with the Stellaron’s voices until Gepard brought the Astral Express crew to her; she dismissed him and asked the visitors why they had come.
• Stelle greeted Cocolia and asked whether she would acknowledge the peerless beauty of the Aeon of Eternity.

After the Supreme Guardian released the Trailblazers from their movement restrictions, March 7th and Stelle found Ye Yan sharing stories about the universe with Pela near the Everwinter Monument. Ye Yan explained his contradictory praise and criticism of the Aeon of [Eternity], then left the other virtues a mystery.

• Gepard told Stelle, March 7th, and Dan Heng that the Supreme Guardian had lifted their movement restrictions and recommended Belobog sights before leaving for his duties.
• March 7th and Stelle headed to the Everwinter Monument, where Stelle found Ye Yan telling Pela and a group of children about Aeons and the wider universe.
• Ye Yan told Pela that the Antimatter Legion was responsible for Belobog's decline, and Pela reflected on the scale of the universe and the power of Pathstriders.
• Ye Yan returned to the group and explained that followers of the Aeon of [Eternity] would always be forgiven, even when they badmouthed their own Aeon.
• Stelle asked about the Aeon of [Eternity]'s other virtues, but Ye Yan refused to explain them until a future visit to Car Wash Planet, prompting March 7th to call him a Riddler.

Ye Yan and March 7th visited Serval's workshop and learned about her family and rock band. At the Goethe Hotel, Stelle and Dan Heng discussed earning Shields, the Supreme Guardian's reaction, and the false story about the Aeon of [Eternity]'s ascension.

• March 7th and Ye Yan entered Serval's workshop after she invited them inside.
• Ye Yan praised the [Perpetual Motion] workshop, and Serval introduced herself as Gepard's sister and explained that rock music was her main occupation.
• March 7th expressed interest in Serval's band, [Mechanical Fever], and declared that they should stay in a band for life.
• Stelle considered searching trash cans for Shields, but Dan Heng suggested exchanging Credits instead.
• Stelle and Dan Heng discussed the Supreme Guardian's reaction and concluded that the story about the Aeon of [Eternity]'s ascension had been fabricated by the History Fictionologists.

Ye Yan protected the Trailblazers with his power of [Eternity] after Dan Heng warned that the Supreme Guardian might be hiding something. The group abandoned plans to sneak away overnight, but Stelle suggested investigating Kliperburg after dark.

• March 7th and Ye Yan returned from shopping, and Ye Yan explained that he had bought local specialties for a teahouse owner.
• Dan Heng shared his suspicions about the Supreme Guardian and proposed that the group withdraw and wait for morning to reveal the truth.
• Ye Yan used [Eternity] to grant Dan Heng, March 7th, and Stelle protection and concealment, sparing them from keeping watch or leaving the hotel.
• Dan Heng recognized Ye Yan's power as similar to what he had sensed when Presiding Seat Blake appeared.
• Stelle wondered whether the concealment meant nobody could see them and suggested sneaking into Kliperburg at night to investigate the Supreme Guardian.

Ye Yan returned to his room to rest while Silver Wolf visited through a sensory hologram and teased him about the Astral Express’s next destination. As March 7th and Stelle returned from shopping, Stelle revealed that Ye Yan had transferred her eight hundred million Credits.

• Stelle dropped the idea of looking for the Stellaron, and Ye Yan went back to his room while March 7th persuaded Stelle to explore more with her.
• Dan Heng watched the two women leave and noticed they had forgotten the map in Stelle’s room.
• Silver Wolf appeared in Ye Yan’s room and admitted she had placed a nano imaging device on Stelle at Kafka’s request.
• Silver Wolf tried to spoil the Astral Express’s next destination, and Ye Yan guessed they would be returning to the Xianzhou.
• Ye Yan offered to take Silver Wolf to the Silvermane Guard Restricted Zone after nightfall to experience Jarilo Warriors, warning her not to bring a planet-destroying bomb.
• March 7th questioned Stelle about her shopping money, and Stelle said Ye Yan had transferred her eight hundred million Credits as compensation.

Stelle defeated March 7th in a pillow fight while Ye Yan upgraded Dan Heng’s Cloud-Piercer with new firing and chain-linked modes. Ye Yan later walked out with Silver Wolf, who recounted how she and Sampo had ended up in Belobog’s dungeon.

• Stelle challenged March 7th to a pillow fight and soundly defeated her, while Silver Wolf secretly recorded them.
• Ye Yan finished modifying Cloud-Piercer, adding retractable spearhead, rapid-fire, and chain-linked spear-and-staff modes for Dan Heng.
• Ye Yan left his room after Silver Wolf joked that her real body was relaxing in an ice-water bath, and she followed him from the Goethe Hotel as a hologram.
• Ye Yan told Silver Wolf that Sampo might have escaped from prison or gone to the Underworld, and Silver Wolf laughed at his repeated arrests.
• Silver Wolf explained that Presiding Bishop Blake had caught her after she graffitied an Aeon [Eternity] statue, punished her with copying from the Book of Eternal Virtues, and put her in the dungeon, where she met Sampo.

Silver Wolf recalled how she and Sampo had both been arrested by the church of [Eternity] and considered teaming up to escape, before returning to the present as she followed Ye Yan. Ye Yan described his close ties to the church, and Silver Wolf hurriedly shook off the church's strange teachings.

• Silver Wolf asked Sampo why he had been imprisoned, and he explained that the church had charged him with mocking and offending the Aeon of [Eternity] while he secretly planned to bomb the Aeon's statue.
• Sampo warned Silver Wolf that the church attacked followers of [Destruction] and asked her to help with his jailbreak plan; Silver Wolf agreed to try working with him.
• Silver Wolf remembered that Sampo had been locked up for a month and that she had also been arrested after visiting the statue during her stay at the church.
• Silver Wolf asked Ye Yan about his relationship with the church, and he said they were family and that the church welcomed believers in [Eternity].
• Silver Wolf recalled the church's teachings about forgiving sins and confronting followers of [Destruction], then banished the thoughts before she felt assimilated.

Silver Wolf and Sampo escaped their cell in the Church of Eternity, where Silver Wolf learned more about the strange doctrine and Blake's role in the church. They opened the dungeon door and found a solemn church with no one in sight.

• Silver Wolf used virtual projections to help Sampo escape their restraints, and she covered the dungeon walls with graffiti.
• Silver Wolf and Sampo discussed Blake, the presiding bishop, and a legendary Punklorde hacker who had retired at the church.
• Sampo read the church's draft doctrine, which urged believers to blame Nanook and offered a baseball bat for joining.
• Silver Wolf resisted defacing the rest of the walls and recalled the Book of Eternal Virtues' call to forgive outsiders.
• Silver Wolf and Sampo pushed open the dungeon door and found a solemn church with no one outside.

Silver Wolf and Ye Yan watched the Silvermane Guards fight Fragmentum Monsters while discussing Ye Yan’s abilities and the rumored relationship between the Aeons of [Permanence] and [Preservation]. Ye Yan decided to help the Guards, and Silver Wolf asked to borrow his amber hammer as they prepared to join the fight.

• Silver Wolf analyzed the battle with a combat-power-detection monocle and asked Ye Yan how he had targeted enemies from a distance; Ye Yan credited a blessing from the Aeon of [Permanence].
• Silver Wolf speculated that the Aeons of [Permanence] and [Preservation] had a thing going on, while Ye Yan considered how they might reach the Underworld and decided to help Gepard and the Silvermane Guards first.
• Ye Yan pulled out an amber hammer and then a living salted fish, prompting Silver Wolf to marvel at how much his pocket could hold.
• Ye Yan and Silver Wolf turned their attention to the Silvermane Guards’ fight against low-grade avian Fragmentum creatures, and Silver Wolf asked to use Ye Yan’s hammer to play whack-a-mole.

Stelle dreamed that she was Cocolia and heard a strange voice speak of Eternity, then woke to find her baseball bat missing. Meanwhile, Ye Yan and Silver Wolf helped the Silvermane Guards defeat Fragmentum Monsters, and Ye Yan began his promised weapon modifications.

• Stelle dreamed she had become Cocolia and approached a Stellaron during the Eternal Freeze.
• A voice addressed Stelle and spoke of the Lord of Eternity and the “Book of Eternal Virtues,” before she woke in the Goethe Hotel.
• Stelle discovered her baseball bat was missing and despaired over losing her signature weapon.
• Silver Wolf used Ye Yan’s amber hammer to wipe out the Fragmentum Monsters at the Silvermane Guard Restricted Zone.
• Ye Yan explained his visit and offered to modify the Guards’ weapons, while Gepard welcomed his help and introduced him to the front line.

Ye Yan upgraded Gepard’s instrument-case Bulwark with amber and the power of [Eternity], strengthening its defensive abilities and adding a hidden gun. The chapter left Gepard with a new weapon for protecting Belobog and its defenders.

• Gepard asked Ye Yan about Silver Wolf’s amber hammer, while Ye Yan examined the guards’ weapons and criticized the Bulwark’s limitations.
• Ye Yan used a toolbox and sparks to upgrade Gepard’s Bulwark with amber and the power of [Eternity].
• Ye Yan explained that the upgrade strengthened the Bulwark’s protection for Gepard and the Silvermane Guards.
• A concealed gun muzzle extended from the Bulwark, revealing its new ranged attack capability.

After Silver Wolf left Belobog, Ye Yan headed to Everwinter Hill to continue his plans. In Boulder Town, Silver Wolf and Sampo secretly watched High Seat Blake comfort cleric Lante, who had become infatuated with a portrait of Yaoshi and feared he had betrayed the Church of Eternity.

• Silver Wolf left Belobog after joking that the area ahead held a final boss, while Ye Yan went to Everwinter Hill and looked at the dormant Engine of Creation.
• Sampo returned to Boulder Town after escaping the Silvermane Guards' prison and warned Seele that his prison break could draw the Supreme Guardian's attention.
• Silver Wolf and Sampo hid in the Church of Eternity and listened as cleric Lante confessed that a painting of Yaoshi had stirred his desire for Idrila.
• Blake reassured Lante that the Church permitted love for anything except Nanook and the Antimatter Legion, then whispered a holy incantation to him.
• Lante declared himself clearheaded after repeating the incantation, while Silver Wolf and Sampo silently judged the Church's followers as lunatics.

Stelle tried to pray to the Aeon of [Eternity] to find her missing baseball bat, then discovered Ye Yan had borrowed it. Ye Yan quizzed her about [Eternity], and she faced one final question about the name “Milk Tea Demon.”

• Seele sarcastically dismissed Sampo after hearing his account and left.
• Unable to find her bat, Stelle tried several prayers to [Eternity], finally offering Ye Yan’s milk tea as a sacrifice.
• Ye Yan arrived at Stelle’s door with her baseball bat, apologized for borrowing it, and agreed to teach her how to grab things from a distance after she answered his questions.
• Stelle correctly answered Ye Yan’s questions about the Church of Eternity’s presiding head and Ms. Herta’s age.
• Ye Yan asked Stelle to explain exactly what “Milk Tea Demon” meant, leaving her sweating as she prepared to answer.

Stelle and the others emerged from the hotel under Ye Yan’s invisibility blessing and found Silvermane Guards surrounding it, with Bronya accusing them of conspiring with an escaped prisoner. Meanwhile, Ye Yan visited Clara and Svarog in the Mechanical Settlement, where Svarog had attacked him despite his attempt to offer milk tea.

• Stelle admitted she had barely learned the object-retrieval skill and was exhausted after practicing all night.
• Dan Heng noticed Silvermane Guards gathering outside the hotel, and the group went out to observe them while hidden by Ye Yan’s blessing.
• A guard announced that Bronya was waiting to apprehend the supposed infiltrators, and Bronya declared that they were plotting rebellion.
• A guard reported that the blue-haired prisoner had escaped, and Pela and Dan Heng suspected the group was involved in a jailbreak.
• Ye Yan met Clara and Svarog in the Mechanical Settlement, where Clara explained that Svarog distrusted people and had attacked him.

Ye Yan repaired Svarog and began trying to change his views, while Stelle and her companions struggled to clear their names after Bronya barred them from defending themselves. Cocolia convinced Bronya that the outsiders served the Aeon of [Eternity] and planned to overthrow Belobog’s faith in [Preservation].

• Ye Yan repaired Svarog, who reassessed him as no threat to Clara and agreed to communicate amicably with him.
• Ye Yan told Clara and Svarog that he knew them through the Aeon of [Eternity] and planned to help Svarog change his database.
• Stelle, March 7th, and Dan Heng appeared before the Silvermane Guards to explain themselves, but Bronya denied them a chance to speak, so they turned invisible and retreated.
• Dan Heng said Ye Yan had read their messages but not replied, while Stelle suggested they hide in trash cans.
• A guard reported that a blue-haired criminal had entered the Fragmentum, and Bronya considered whether the others had gone there too.
• Bronya recalled Cocolia claiming the outsiders served the Aeon of [Eternity] and intended to replace Belobog’s seven-hundred-year faith in [Preservation].

Ye Yan introduced Clara and Svarog to the Church of Eternity and discussed the Stellaron, while Stelle, March 7th, and Dan Heng followed Bronya into Backwater Pass. The trio was exposed after finding a Sampo plushie among unconscious guards, and Bronya accused them of conspiring against Belobog.

• Ye Yan shared the Church of Eternity’s teachings with Svarog, who concluded that its followers were companions worth befriending.
• Clara carried Ye Yan’s milk tea to distribute among the vagrants, while Ye Yan explained that Svarog could now discuss the Stellaron with him.
• Stelle, March 7th, and Dan Heng followed Bronya and the Silvermane Guards into the Fragmentum-corroded alleys of Backwater Pass.
• Bronya found her second squad unconscious beside a plushie resembling Sampo, and the trio’s invisibility spell wore off.
• Bronya accused the trio of aiding Sampo and said the Guardian believed they had fabricated their identities to undermine the Architects’ control of Belobog.

March 7th, Dan Heng, and Stelle fought Bronya and the Silvermane Guards before Sampo used a knockout gas to help them escape. Meanwhile, Cocolia followed the Stellaron’s plan to provoke the Aeon of [Eternity], and Sampo brought the travelers to Natasha’s clinic, where Stelle introduced herself as a believer in [Eternity] Yite.

• March 7th tried to explain that the Astral Express Crew had not insulted [Eternity] Yite, but Bronya ordered them to surrender, and Stelle and Dan Heng prepared to fight.
• The trio defeated most of the Silvermane Guards, but Bronya resisted until Sampo disguised himself as a guard and released knockout gas.
• Sampo was surprised that Dan Heng, March 7th, and Stelle were unaffected by the gas, then agreed to talk instead of fighting.
• Cocolia worried that slandering the Aeon might bring disaster, while the Stellaron urged her to destroy the old world and welcome the new world’s Eternity.
• Natasha treated Sampo’s injuries as he explained that he had brought Bronya and the four outsiders to the Underworld, hoping they could help [Wildfire].
• Natasha recalled Ye Yan’s visit and the strange objects he had shown her; at the clinic, Stelle introduced herself as the Galactic Baseballer and urged Natasha to believe in [Eternity] Yite.

Ye Yan watched the Underworld Fight Club before agreeing with Silver Wolf that he should fight and promote his Aeon. March 7th beat Hook at hide-and-seek to learn Ye Yan’s whereabouts, then arrived with Stelle and Dan Heng as Ye Yan prepared to face a robot squad in the ring.

• Silver Wolf suggested Ye Yan fight in the Club and promote his Aeon, and Ye Yan agreed.
• March 7th persuaded Hook to play hide-and-seek by promising to join The Moles and won with Stelle’s help.
• Hook told March 7th, Stelle, and Dan Heng that Ye Yan had returned to the Fight Club after visiting Clara.
• The group heard rumors about Ye Yan outside the Club, and Dan Heng suspected Sampo had invented his supposed history as a Silvermane Guard.
• Dr. Dig introduced Ye Yan, nicknamed the Little Black Dragon of the Abyssal Face, and announced his match against Svarog’s robot squad.

Ye Yan defeated the Automaton Soldiers in the Fight Club semifinals by teleporting them away, while Silver Wolf watched and remembered her humiliating run-in with the Church of Eternity. After reuniting with March 7th, Dan Heng, and Stelle, Ye Yan learned that Cocolia had branded them servants of [Eternity] and laughed when he heard how March 7th and the others had beaten Sampo.

• Ye Yan opened a digital gateway and sent the Automaton Soldiers to the Church of Eternity, winning the semifinal as the crowd cheered.
• Silver Wolf recalled her defeat by Presiding Seat Blake and the consolation bar of soap he had given her.
• Ye Yan left the Fight Club and reunited with March 7th, Dan Heng, and Stelle, who explained that their invisibility had failed and recounted their recent troubles.
• Stelle's mimetic compass detected Silver Wolf, forcing her to hide behind Ye Yan until the tracking stopped.
• Dan Heng told Ye Yan that Cocolia had summoned her and called the group evil servants of [Eternity] seeking to undermine Belobog.
• March 7th described how the group had beaten Sampo, and Ye Yan laughed at the thought of the amusement-seeker becoming the amusement.