After handing the playing cards to Shali, Angel had fulfilled the promise he had made back then. Leaving the hall for Shali to study them alone, he returned to the study.
The next day, after resting through the night, Toby entered the Heart House again for another trial. But after his earlier success, going to the Heart House was no longer much of a challenge for him. It was more about refining the details and accumulating experience.
Although Shali had spent the entire night studying the "Grotesque Playing Cards"—a name she had coined herself—she was not particularly tired. Her spirits remained high, and maintaining control over the magic energy array posed no problem.
Since the coming challenge was equivalent to a warm-up before facing his tribulation for Toby, both Angel and Gloria set aside their work and solemnly stayed by Toby's side. Gloria remained in reality, while Angel went to the Dream Wilderness to observe Toby's condition at any moment.
On Angel's first day in the Dream Wilderness, besides accompanying Toby, he took the opportunity to survey the entire Dream Wilderness from a god's-eye view, completing the most crucial part of New City's planning—selecting its location.
If one were choosing a site for a city in reality, there would be many matters to consider: the threat of war, environmental effects, the availability of water, whether the land was fertile, whether there were hidden risks of natural disasters, and so on. But for the time being, none of those conditions needed consideration in the Dream Wilderness. Angel did not have many requirements for the site. First: it had to be as far from Firstheart City as possible.
Firstheart City was a city of Dream Realm residents. More than ninety-nine percent of its people had completely become native inhabitants of the Dream