Recaps

Angel transformed Mandhaila back into a soul, then learned from Frost about mysterious objects and his lost chance to become a Mystic Alchemist. After Kou Wind triggered his breakthrough, Angel endured the stages of advancement beneath the Dome, where the arc ends with his power growing chaotic despite signs that he had become a wizard.

• Angel fought the Guman Princess and escaped with her after Sanders trapped her and Black Castle’s undead began preparing to explode.
• Isabella contained the blast at great cost, then let Angel use Prelude of Reincarnation on the Guman Princess as Frost arrived from beyond the Southern Region.
• Angel fired the White Light Bullets until the Guman Princess became a soul, and she chose the name Mandhaila while retaining her memories.
• Frost learned that Angel had created Prelude of Reincarnation and explained the dangers of mysterious objects, then revealed that Isabella’s taking half the Mystic Spirit had cost Angel a chance to become a Mystic Alchemist.
• After drinking Frost’s Kou Wind, Angel began breaking through, and Sanders took him to the Middle World while Isabella and the others prepared to guard him.
• Angel formed a Demonic Vortex Seed and endured the Soul Land Storm and fleshly transformation as Isabella drove away a Demonic Source Giant with the Sky Ghost Ship.
• Angel stabilized the demonic vortex and began drawing in primordial magic power, while his spiritual force took form and clouds gathered above the Dome.
• The wizards concluded that Angel had successfully broken through, but Isabella saw his energy turn chaotic as the clouds began to fade.

Angel stabilized his magic vortex, became an official wizard, and created a law connected to doors, gaining a permanent anchor while refusing Cassini’s offer to take it. As Angel settled into his new role and helped others, he brought Mandhaila to Dream Wilderness, restored Moliya’s soul for Isabella, and joined Sanders to investigate the Ice Cavern.

• Angel captured chaotic primordial magic and stabilized his magic vortex, guiding its pure energy into his Door Model as a Law-Creation Phenomenon descended around the Dome.
• Angel stepped through the transformed Door Model and glimpsed the Path of True Knowledge, while Frost, Sanders, and Isabella discovered a field of paired doors and an unmatched door in the void.
• Angel learned that the unmatched door was a Gift of Truth and a permanent target anchor, then refused Cassini’s offer to take it.
• Angel intervened when Sese Bilas attacked Wizard Ivan’s Sky Ghost Ship, and Falga recognized Angel’s power and let go of his grudge.
• Angel adapted to his breakthrough, studied the power systems of official wizards with Sanders, and explained to Frost that he had refused Cassini.
• Angel brought Mandhaila to Dream Wilderness, where she arrived in Firstheart City and was registered by Tulas and Frod as rumors spread that Angel had become an official wizard.
• Angel visited Baya at the Holy Mountain and showed him an illusion of the Kula Kuka people thriving before meeting Isabella to discuss Moliya.
• Angel used Prelude of Reincarnation to restore Moliya into an ordinary soul, then collected more White Light Bullets and joined Sanders in the Ice Cavern, where they found Gloria and Felicia working on the Feast.

Angel helped Toby survive the Extreme Grudge Tribulation, witnessed Black Castle’s land cleansed, and agreed to aid Bobota through the Dream Wilderness. After testing the Door Model, Angel’s consciousness entered a strange town, where he met Alex inside Kruya Church.

• Gloria identified Toby’s new tribulation as the Extreme Grudge, and Angel sought help from Isabella and Frost before Frost suppressed the grudge at the cost of a future favor.
• Frost destroyed the Cruel Scholar’s Descent Object, then left Black Castle after Zorn’s mysterious red scarf briefly seized Angel.
• Angel discovered that Toby’s suppressed grudge was influencing his dreams as Dream Angel, while Felicia and Gloria celebrated Toby’s awakening with wine.
• Gloria and Felicia’s Purifying World Feast removed Black Castle’s chronic blight, and Angel stayed behind to help Sparrow Sparrow cultivate the Shapeshifting Softworm.
• Sparrow Sparrow asked Angel to help Bobota, and Angel decided he could draw Bobota’s consciousness into the Dream Wilderness after his death and sever its connection to his soul.
• Muse invited Angel to judge the New Star Tournament, and Angel later activated the Door Model at Black Castle’s testing grounds.
• Angel’s consciousness passed through the Door Model into a small town, where he encountered Alex at Kruya Church and introduced himself as Pat.

Alex and Angel uncovered the truth behind Gust Town’s cage and its undead killings, but Alex was separated from Bolunlang and left in a strange realm after confronting Sister Tessa. Angel later returned to Sky Mechanical City, where he resumed his research and encountered new conflicts.

• Angel investigated the barrier around Gust Town with Alex, who suspected people were being killed for trying to leave and helped set Mrs. Connie up as bait.
• Alex and Angel discovered that Knight Riven, Camelot, and other victims had returned as undead, while the murders spread through Gust Town and residents tried to flee.
• Bolunlang revealed that Gust Town was a constructed space-time cage and that an unknown woman was using undead experiments to kill residents and disrupt the cage’s balance.
• Alex identified Sister Tessa as the undead controller and pursued her into the space of the dead, where Angel’s depleted gate left him to face the undead alone.
• Angel presented Sparrow Sparrow and Bobota with Shadow of the Cage, a play based on Alex’s story, then left Black Castle with Gloria and Sanders.
• Alex killed Sister Tessa but was stabbed by Knight Riven, then awoke in the Abyss of Sin Gods, where Emily warned him about the monstrous figures outside.
• Angel returned to Sky Mechanical City, studied how to transplant a Shapeshifting Softworm’s skin, and watched Falga fight the Flower Sickle Woman before heading toward Mansi Magic Material Street.