Vol. 20Dream Wilderness Preparations

Angel and Sanders developed the Dream Wilderness while investigating the ruins, prophetic threats, and a creature in the darkness beneath the Star Pool. Angel recruited helpers and prepared a high-magic training area, leaving the Dream Wilderness close to a wider trial opening.

  • Angel and Sanders built a virtual magic system in the Dream Wilderness, where Bobota chose to remain and help Jon.
  • Rhein and the others investigated the ruins and found a mysterious aura, while Maya’s prophecy showed a dark space and a blue-glowing monster.
  • Maya and Dodolo revealed prophecies of an apocalypse, the Peach Heart Theater, and Madeleine’s death, prompting Rhein to investigate the threats.
  • Dodolo warned Angel that Budding followers would target him at Savage Cave after failing to enter the Mirror World.
  • Angel repaired the ruins’ magic patterns and discovered a hidden room as Sanders prepared a trial opening of the Dream Wilderness.
  • Angel and Sanders investigated the dark passage beneath the Star Pool, where Angel sensed words and a recent call while Sanders saw shoes retreat into the darkness.
  • Angel recruited Babaya, Ku Doudou, and Baruba to research and build in the Dream Wilderness, then helped prepare a guarded high-magic training area.
  • Angel and Sanders planned to raise the Dream Wilderness’s energy before the Tea Party and decided to tell Rhein about it after Stargazing Day.
Chapters 1901–2000 Read from ch. 1901

Arc 77The Dream Wilderness and Stargazing

Angel and Sanders established a virtual magic system in the Dream Wilderness while Bobota learned what the place was and chose to remain. As Stargazing Day began, Rhein and the others investigated the sealed ruins and its mysterious knight armor, while Maya sought a prophecy about the Budding Believers and Angel.

  • Angel and Sanders arranged for Bobota’s consciousness to help Jon, then Angel found a personal message in Bobota’s cultivation notebook.
  • Sanders successfully bore the Energy Selection authority, allowing him to construct virtual energy systems in the Dream Wilderness.
  • Sanders created a basic magic power framework, and Angel tested its limits before confirming that virtual magic vanished when he left the Dream Wilderness.
  • Bobota explored Firstheart City, met Angel and Frod, swore the Winged Folk Oath, and learned how consciousness could persist in the Dream Wilderness.
  • Sanders revealed Angel’s concealed illusion node to the Tree Spirit, and Rhein joined them to inspect the knight armor found in the sealed ruins.
  • Rhein traced the armor’s magic patterns to the void about a hundred years earlier, and the group searched the ruins for a hidden passage or room without finding one.
  • Rhein and the others examined the study plaque, which Tizhalo had altered, and discovered a mysterious aura in a lower laboratory storage room.
  • Maya sought a prophecy about the Budding Believers and Angel during Stargazing Day, but her vision showed only a dark space, a starlit road, a box, and a blue-glowing monster.
Chapters 1901–1925 Summaries Read

Arc 78Doomscape and the Peach Heart Theater

Maya and Dodolo revealed alarming prophecies at Stargazing Day, including an apocalypse linked to Angel, the Peach Heart Theater, and a threat to Madeleine. The arc ended with Dodolo warning Angel that Budding followers would attack him at Savage Cave, while Rhein began investigating the dangers surrounding the visions.

  • Maya saw a vision of Madeleine being killed by a pale girl in Thorn Ridge and later witnessed an apocalyptic scene filled with Evil Spirits, a bone army, and colossal beings.
  • Dodolo announced that the Peach Heart Theater would arrive from the long river of illusion, and Hastur explained its deadly history and his mentor Mibury’s fate as one of its actors.
  • Shura warned Miya Witch that a powerful returnee would attack Elysian Pure Land, while Maya showed the prophecy wizards her vision of the apocalypse.
  • Tuvalu told Maya that his vision showed creatures carrying spatial magical materials deeper into the ruins, and Shikel offered Dodolo a position at the Temple of Time in exchange for his secrets.
  • Dodolo told Maya that he had seen several dozen prophetic fragments, including the same apocalyptic eye she had witnessed, and Maya identified Ye He and Dong Liz among the fleeing figures.
  • Angel suspected the apocalypse took place inside the Casket of the Undead's Reincarnation, while Rhein privately worried that creatures were gathering spatial materials to breach the Dome.
  • Maya identified Dongla as Madeleine’s future killer, and the Tree Spirit arranged for Wizard Duncan to warn Madeleine and ask her to return to the Southern Region.
  • Dodolo described further Peach Heart Theater prophecies, including an attack on Elysian Pure Land, then revealed that Budding followers would fail to enter the Mirror World and fight Lord Phantom Demon while targeting Angel at Savage Cave.
Chapters 1926–1950 Summaries Read

Arc 79The Hidden Passage

Angel repaired the ruins’ magic patterns and uncovered a hidden room, while Sanders prepared a trial opening of the Dream Wilderness. As threats from the Eternal Night Kingdom grew, Angel and Sanders investigated Rhein’s ruin and sensed a creature lurking beyond its dark passage.

  • Angel repaired the ruins’ magic patterns, activating a three-dimensional map that revealed an unknown room beside his study.
  • Angel and Sanders agreed to use the witches’ tea party as a small-scale trial opening of the Dream Wilderness, while Rhein examined the map without finding an entrance to the hidden room.
  • Maya shared prophecies warning that the Eternal Night Kingdom’s creatures would expand, putting neighboring regions at risk.
  • Angel and the Tree Spirit traveled to Rhein’s ruin, where Duncan’s White Bone Guard attacked before Duncan recognized them and led them inside.
  • Sanders and Angel discussed Dodolo’s cryptic prophecy and concluded that the Time Thief might soon try to steal Angel’s choice about the Dream Wilderness.
  • Sanders showed Angel the dark passage beneath the Star Pool, where the missing Deep Sea Song wizards had entered, and asked him to sense the lingering emotions.
  • Angel sensed the words “minister,” “descent,” and “repair,” along with a recent call of “Shava... my lord,” while Sanders revealed that he had seen a pair of plain leather shoes retreat into the darkness.
Chapters 1951–1975 Summaries Read

Arc 80Dream Wilderness Preparations

Angel recruited Babaya, Ku Doudou, and Baruba to help with research and construction in the Dream Wilderness. He and Sanders began preparing a high-magic training area and considered when to reveal the Dream Wilderness to Rhein and Gloria.

  • Angel learned that a minister might be repairing something in the ruins and arranged for the Tree Spirit to monitor the site while Rhein investigated its passage.
  • Angel visited the Mirror World, rescued Zhen from an assassin, then found Ku Doudou and learned he was taking dangerous jobs to buy Blood Arts for Babaya.
  • Angel revealed himself to Babaya and Ku Doudou, offered Babaya Blood Arts and Ku Doudou cantrip books in exchange for joining his research, and tested their ability to manipulate illusions.
  • Angel recruited Baruba to help with construction and brought Baruba, Babaya, and Ku Doudou to the ruins, where he gave them monocle devices to enter the Dream Wilderness.
  • Babaya and Ku Doudou registered as residents of Firstheart City and met Frod, Shalu, and Jon, while Baruba was assigned to study plans for building New City.
  • Angel asked Sanders to create a high-magic area outside Firstheart City, and they planned a restricted testing ground guarded by the Sin-Hunting Group.
  • Angel invited Babaya, Ku Doudou, and Baruba to train in the high-magic zone, while he and Sanders planned to raise the Dream Wilderness's energy level before the Tea Party.
  • Angel and Sanders decided to tell Lord Rhein about the Dream Wilderness after Stargazing Day, and Angel asked when they should tell Gloria.
Chapters 1976–2000 Summaries Read
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