Chapter Summaries

During the Salem play, Roman improvised an answer to the Queen of Sheba’s third riddle while Bai Mo discovered the imprisoned Tituba and was pulled into the Sea of Imaginary Numbers with her. Tituba revealed she was a Counter Force Servant sent to deal with the Singularity created by Demon God Raum, while Roman warned that Ritsuka’s group had run into trouble.

• Mata Hari asked Robin Hood a third riddle that was missing from his script, and Roman supplied an answer about a nation weathering a storm together.
• Bai Mo found Tituba tortured in Salem’s dungeon and began treating her, but a black-clad man shouted for guards and the dungeon’s space distorted.
• Bai Mo and Tituba were thrown into the Sea of Imaginary Numbers, where Bai Mo defeated a giant whale by striking its head.
• Tituba invited Bai Mo to become her partner, but he questioned her about Salem and learned she was a Counter Force Servant sent to confront Raum’s Singularity.
• Roman warned Bai Mo that Ritsuka’s group had encountered trouble, and Tituba said she wanted to ask him several questions before agreeing to cooperate.

Bai Mo explained to Tituba why he had entered Raum’s trap, and she chose to reveal her Heroic Spirit form as the Queen of Sheba and join his effort. In Chaldea, Olga Marie celebrated meeting the legendary figure while Roman worried about her reaction to the people who had considered abandoning her.

• Tituba asked Bai Mo why he had entered an obvious trap to save someone he barely knew, and he said he acted on his feelings and wanted to protect Abigail’s mental stability.
• Tituba asked whether Bai Mo’s companions had objected, then requested a knife and used it to transform into her Heroic Spirit form.
• The revealed Caster introduced herself as the Queen of Sheba, agreed to help Bai Mo, and recorded his assistance as a favor owed.
• The Queen of Sheba warned that she had noted whoever had suggested abandoning her, prompting Roman to worry about meeting her in Chaldea.
• Olga Marie excitedly praised the Queen of Sheba’s arrival, and Roman wondered how long he could take leave.

After Hopkins discovered Bai Mo and the Queen of Sheba had vanished, he arranged to hunt Abigail and arrest the theater troupe while preparing his witch-identifying knife. In Imaginary Number Space, the Queen of Sheba helped Bai Mo open a path out, and they set off to confront Raum, wary of Hopkins and the distorted Salem.

• Hopkins ordered guards to seal the cells, spread rumors against the theater troupe, hunt for Abigail, and prepare to arrest the performers after their show.
• Hopkins retrieved hidden verdicts, Spanish silver coins, and a short knife before heading toward the church.
• The Queen of Sheba told Bai Mo that Salem was a stage created by Raum and suspected the Demon God was trying to save humanity.
• Bai Mo supplied magical energy crystals, and the Queen of Sheba opened a path through Imaginary Number Space as Olga Marie invited her to Chaldea.
• Bai Mo and the Queen of Sheba departed to locate and confront Raum, while a strange ripple in the Sea of Imaginary Numbers formed an eye that watched their departure.

Circe guided Ritsuka’s group through Salem as the guards searched for them, but Hopkins confronted them outside Abigail’s house and accused them of harboring a witch. Just as the soldiers prepared to arrest them, Bai Mo appeared and disarmed the guards.

• Circe watched Bai Mo’s disappearance and warned Ritsuka’s group that the guards had moved out, prompting them to leave the performance and hurry home.
• A townsman proposed to Mata Hari onstage, then Abigail was grabbed from behind while the crowd was distracted.
• Robin Hood went ahead to sabotage the ambushes as Circe guided Ritsuka, Mash, Nezha, Sanson, and Mata Hari through town.
• Hopkins emerged from Abigail’s house with armed guards and declared the Chaldea troupe under arrest for harboring a witch.
• The townsman accused Mata Hari of witchcraft, giving Hopkins a witness, but Bai Mo appeared behind him and made the soldiers’ guns crumble away.

Hopkins tried to use Abigail and the townspeople to force Bai Mo and Ritsuka into custody, while the crowd turned against the Chaldea Theater Troupe. Bai Mo held back until Circe arrived and incapacitated Hopkins’s armed men, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Hopkins threatened to arrest the Chaldea Theater Troupe and sent Bai Mo a letter demanding a discussion, while the Queen of Sheba went to check on Abigail.
• Hopkins ordered Ritsuka to approach at gunpoint, but she calmly walked into the house and threatened the man who had harassed Mata Hari.
• Hopkins slashed Ritsuka’s arm with a dull dagger and told the crowd that he would take the witches into custody.
• Bai Mo and Ritsuka discussed the townspeople’s hostility as Hopkins tried to bargain with Bai Mo.
• Circe appeared upstairs and used invisible pressure to knock Hopkins’s armed men to the floor, prompting Bai Mo to defend her.

Bai Mo confronted Hopkins over his witch trials and rejected his offer to work together. After Hopkins ordered his guards to shoot, Bai Mo disarmed them, exposed Hopkins’s stolen wealth, and forced him to swallow the silver dollars, leaving him to face his injuries and the crowd’s indifference.

• Hopkins offered Bai Mo wealth and a legal identity in exchange for helping him condemn people as witches, and admitted he had burned a starving woman for money.
• Bai Mo mocked Hopkins’s blunt witch-identifying knife, and Ritsuka realized he had used it on her earlier.
• The Queen of Sheba returned and reported that Abigail had been taken from the prison, but her trail could be followed.
• Hopkins drew his gun and ordered his men to fire, but Bai Mo dismantled the guards’ guns and hurled Hopkins’s personal guards outside.
• Bai Mo smashed Hopkins’s desk, revealed hundreds of Spanish silver dollars, and forced Hopkins to swallow them as punishment.
• Hopkins’s remaining allies watched without helping him, and he discovered that his medical kit’s blades were gone except for the blunt knife he had used on accused witches.

Ritsuka struggled with her helplessness over Salem’s cruelty while Bai Mo and the Queen of Sheba fought through the forest to find Lavinia. Bai Mo healed Lavinia and reunited her with the giant guardian, who transferred his warmth to her before his soul vanished.

• Ritsuka felt disgusted by Salem’s people celebrating bloodstained money, and Dr. Roman tried to ease her distress.
• Bai Mo and the Queen of Sheba followed the lamp’s smoke into a forest where ghouls surged toward Salem, and Bai Mo destroyed them with vacuum blades.
• Bai Mo and the Queen of Sheba entered a flooded cave and found Lavinia lying on a rock as a half-human, half-fish giant attacked.
• Bai Mo healed Lavinia and restrained the giant, then realized the creature was her guardian rather than a mindless monster.
• Bai Mo transformed the giant into a skeletal old man, who touched Lavinia and passed warmth to her before his soul disappeared.

Bai Mo learned that Raum had trapped Lavinia and her grandfather to drive Abigail to despair, then hurried back toward Salem. Ritsuka’s group fought off a ghoul siege, and Bai Mo arrived just in time to stop a ghoulified Hopkins from attacking Abigail.

• Lavinia told Bai Mo that Raum had brought her and her grandfather to the cave as part of a scheme centered on Abigail.
• Raum spoke through an echo magecraft device, but Bai Mo crushed it and left with Lavinia and the others to find Abigail.
• Ritsuka organized the Servants to defend Salem from the ghouls and refused to save the man who had framed Mata Hari.
• Circe’s large-scale attack destroyed most of the ghouls, while Nezha dealt with the elder ghouls.
• Abigail wandered into the town square, where ghoulified Hopkins lunged at her, but Bai Mo crashed down and pulverized Hopkins.

Raum prepared for the final battle while Bai Mo’s group realized that Randolph Carter was likely its disguise and that Abigail was being led away from Salem. On Abigail’s last night with her friends, Lavinia gave Bai Mo a powder that could expose Raum and strip it of the stage’s resources.

• Raum studied a map of Salem, confirmed that the bounded field was nearing its limit, and resolved to prove itself right in the coming battle.
• Abigail told Bai Mo and the others that Randolph Carter had given her a ticket to leave Salem for Newport, and Bai Mo concluded that Raum was impersonating her uncle.
• Bai Mo’s group agreed that the final battle would have to happen the next day and prepared to rest for the night.
• Abigail and Lavinia came to Bai Mo’s room, where Abigail said she would miss her friend before leaving Salem.
• Lavinia gave Bai Mo a powder made from her grandfather’s ashes and explained that it would expose Raum and cut it off from the stage’s resources.

Lavinia and Abigail shared a tender moment with Bai Mo before a thick fog gathered over Salem and the group headed for the harbor. There, Raum revealed himself and began Abigail’s judgment as the town’s accumulated memories and distortions erupted.

• Lavinia told Bai Mo she did not hate Abigail and wanted to stop the enemy’s plan, then fell asleep beside him.
• Abigail asked Bai Mo whether she could keep in touch with Lavinia, and he reassured her that their bond could withstand distance.
• Circe arrived hoping to spend time with Bai Mo, but fled in embarrassment when she found Abigail and Lavinia in the room; she later slept beside him.
• At dawn, the group followed Abigail through dense fog toward the harbor as silent, blood-scented figures joined them.
• Randolph Carter and the crowd repeated Abigail’s name as sealed memories and emotions erupted, while Bai Mo shielded the group and Lavinia struck Carter with the Powder of Ibn-Ghazi.
• Raum revealed its crow form and declared Abigail’s judgment had begun as the residents transformed into ghouls around the Demon God Pillar.

Bai Mo and the others fought Raum as he tried to summon Yog-Sothoth through Abigail, and they learned he intended to make humanity the Outer God’s vassals. Raum’s attack and gift of soul-sight pushed Abigail toward transformation as Yog-Sothoth turned its gaze toward them.

• Da Vinci warned that Yog-Sothoth’s arrival was consuming the American Continent’s energy and disrupting the world’s Magecraft foundations.
• The Queen of Sheba and Circe guided Bai Mo through distorted space, allowing his Sword of Victory to strike and split Raum apart.
• Raum declared that summoning an Outer God was humanity’s only salvation, while Bai Mo continued cutting him into pieces.
• Raum sent a crow after Lavinia, but Bai Mo intercepted it and destroyed it with Zen-shaking Samsara.
• Raum’s bird head fired a ray into Abigail’s eyes, giving her the ability to see souls and forcing her to confront the fear that Lavinia would disappear because of her.
• The stage dissolved into a starry sky as Abigail transformed, and the entity among the stars turned its gaze toward them.

Bai Mo freed Abigail from the external divinity and the Servants destroyed its witch form, but Raum’s ritual drew the attention of the Crawling Chaos. As alien figures emerged beneath a light-devouring darkness, the group faced a new and terrifying threat.

• Bai Mo rejected Abigail’s offer to cleanse all sins and told the external divinity to leave her alone.
• The Queen of Sheba’s Territory Creation held back divine punishment while Bai Mo used an image of a flying whale to separate the false ship ticket and the witch from Abigail.
• Ritsuka ordered the Servants to attack the witch, and Bai Mo caught the unconscious Abigail after the external divinity dissipated.
• Ritsuka noticed the starry sky remained, and Chaldea’s broken transmission reported a leyline summoning.
• Raum revealed that its call had drawn an Outer God, while Lavinia killed Raum and the group saw the Crawling Chaos approach through the darkness.

Bai Mo struggled against the Crawling Chaos’s power as Abigail chose to stay and help him rather than escape. She transformed under a mysterious voice’s guidance and reached Bai Mo, who awoke after being exposed to the being’s influence.

• Bai Mo warned Ritsuka that Nyarlathotep’s avatars might signal the arrival of its true body, but Ritsuka refused to leave him behind.
• Bai Mo and the others entered the light surrounding Raum’s corpse, where the Haunter of the Dark seized Abigail and the light began swallowing everyone.
• Bai Mo overcame his paralysis enough to make the Haunter release Abigail, then sensed the Crawling Chaos watching him and recalled his earlier experience in the Sea of Imaginary Numbers.
• Abigail refused to leave while Bai Mo and Lavinia were in danger, and a voice resembling Raum told her she could save Bai Mo as the Lord of the Gate had no concern for time.
• Abigail transformed, approached Bai Mo, and met his gaze through the keyhole in her forehead; after an unknown time, Bai Mo awoke with Abigail beside him.

After Nyarlathotep’s interest in Bai Mo forced him to leave the world beyond the gate, he returned to Salem and helped Abigail decide what to do with her extraordinary abilities. The chapter ended with Abigail choosing to keep her memories and prepare to learn how to control her power, while Lavinia went with Bai Mo for treatment.

• Abigail explained that Yog-Sothoth had granted Bai Mo knowledge but erased most of it, and Bai Wunan warned that Nyarlathotep’s interest in him had grown.
• Bai Mo left the world beyond the gate with Abigail and said goodbye to her beside the sea in Salem.
• Randolph introduced himself to Bai Mo and offered Abigail the choice of having her abilities sealed or going somewhere to train.
• Bai Mo declined to become Abigail’s guardian for now, but offered to help her and said Lavinia could come with him for treatment.
• Abigail asked to spend one last day with Lavinia, then chose to keep her memories and asked whether she could visit Randolph later.

After Salem, Bai Mo arranged for Lavinia to recover and make friends in Chaldea, while Circe pursued a chance to get closer to him. A failed attempt to summon Bai Mo’s Greek companions left him determined to free their souls from the Heroic Spirit Hall himself.

• Bai Mo and Dr. Roman arranged for Lavinia to stay in Chaldea, where Nursery Rhyme welcomed her and took her to a tea party.
• Bai Mo asked Circe to find Lavinia a teacher, warning her not to turn the girl into a potion-making mage who transformed people into pigs; Circe then searched for Bai Mo’s room.
• The Queen of Sheba confronted Dr. Roman in his room and called him Solomon.
• Ritsuka and Bai Mo failed to summon any of his Greek companions, even using Heracles’s arrowhead as a relic.
• Bai Mo stopped the summoning attempt and said he would eventually bring his companions’ souls out of the Heroic Spirit Hall.

Bai Mo welcomed Chiyome into Shiki’s household and set boundaries on her service to him. After examining the knowledge Yog-Sothoth had left in his mind, he met Abigail in a dream, where she explained it was harmless inspiration and promised a future tea party.

• Bai Mo returned to Shiki’s residence and found Chiyome waiting to change his shoes; Shiki welcomed him and served dinner.
• Chiyome offered her loyalty and asked to call Bai Mo her lord, but Bai Mo told her they were equals and that her time and life belonged to her.
• Bai Mo meditated in the hot spring to search his mind for Yog-Sothoth’s remaining knowledge, then fell asleep to investigate it through a dream.
• Abigail appeared in Bai Mo’s dream and explained the knowledge was harmless inspiration shaped by his own mind.
• Abigail suggested they hold a tea party in his dream next time, and Bai Mo woke with a startled shout.

After recovering from the strain of the previous incident, Bai Mo visited Hephaestus to inspect a newly forged weapon. The weapon manifested as a fierce, living beast, and Ortlinde restrained it as she explained the forging method that had created it.

• Shiki brought Bai Mo illustrated fairy-tale books to help him calm down, then fell asleep in the opening between their rooms.
• After a peaceful night and breakfast with Shiki and Chiyome, Bai Mo traveled to Northern Europe to check on Hephaestus's weapon forging.
• Ortlinde welcomed Bai Mo at Skadi's palace and led him to the gathered Valkyries, where Hephaestus's furnace was opening.
• A powerful magnetic-field presence formed a green, dragon-headed beast that attacked Bai Mo, who dispersed it with a wave of his hand.
• The beast began to reform, and Ortlinde bound it with Rune Runes and magnetic field power while explaining how the dwarves forged weapons by pouring a wielder's power and Runes into molten iron.

Bai Mo forged a poisonous dagger from Nidhogg’s remains and named it Níðhöggs hǫgg after Ortlinde urged him to treat weapons as more than tools. After training Ortlinde and saying goodbye, he met Bai Wunan in the Iron Forest and received a boost to his power along with two strange remnants.

• Ortlinde read Skadi’s records and watched as Bai Mo endured the poison of the beast he forged into a dagger.
• Bai Mo examined the short dagger, accepted Ortlinde’s advice, and named it Níðhöggs hǫgg.
• Bai Mo discussed Northern Europe’s recovery with Ortlinde and trained her in martial arts, including Ryougi Lataib.
• Bai Mo escorted Ortlinde home, then headed toward Shiki’s place to take down the blade there.
• Bai Wunan sent a streak of light into Bai Mo, removing an obstruction and raising his estimated potential to 900,000 horsepower.
• Bai Wunan showed Bai Mo tiny remnants of Lan Wuji and Gale in Landao Tianwu’s primordial spirit and warned that they might bring bad luck.

Bai Mo learned that the Great Qin Lostbelt was undergoing upheaval and prepared to investigate and destroy the Blue Dream Organization. He left Chaldea with Ritsuka, carrying a new Garment of the Hawk from Circe.

• Bai Mo and Bai Wunan discussed the fragile soul and the possibility of cultivating Gale and Lan Wuji within Landao Tianwu's Primordial Spirit.
• Da Vinci and Olga Marie reported that the Britain Lostbelt had reached EX divergence while Great Qin's readings fluctuated between E and D after Qin Shi Huang's passing.
• Bai Mo decided to leave for Great Qin immediately to investigate the upheaval and wipe out the Blue Dream Organization.
• Ritsuka joined Bai Mo for the mission, and he warned her to stay back if they encountered powerful enemies.
• Circe gave Bai Mo a replacement Garment of the Hawk, hugged him, and asked him to return safely.

Ritsuka and Bai Mo entered the Great Qin Lostbelt to summon local Servants, where Bai Mo noticed a stark contrast between advanced orbital technology and the cave homes below. Their first summon brought forth Xu Fu, while the chapter also showed Hinako Akuta reluctantly leaving her mountain of paperwork to respond to Chaldea’s arrival.

• Ritsuka and Bai Mo entered the Lostbelt carrying Chaldea’s Spirit Origin Graph and discussed summoning suitable Servants locally.
• Bai Mo surveyed the land and noticed that people lived in crude cave homes beneath an orbital installation.
• Hinako Akuta watched a recording of Ritsuka and Bai Mo, then set out despite the old man’s attempt to keep her working.
• Ritsuka and Bai Mo prepared a summoning circle, and Ritsuka noted that Romani had not appeared since returning to his room.
• Bai Mo summoned Xu Fu, who introduced herself as an unmotivated Caster and complained that she was no good at fighting.