Recaps

Angel explored the Star Pool Ruins with Rhein and Sanders, where they encountered Ifige and a strange creature that carried Angel into Duoling Garden. Impersonating Shava, Angel learned about Miying and followed the mushrooms to a lava lake, where he discovered a giant mushroom producing elemental creatures.

• Angel failed to repair the knight’s magic pattern and told Rhein and Tree Spirit he would reveal a refined variable soon.
• Rhein entered the passage beneath the Star Pool, found Demonic Beasts in the darkness, and later led Angel and Sanders toward the ruins’ gate.
• Angel recognized the gate’s rare alloy from his own ruins, while Rhein and Sanders fought Ifige and a Spherical Demon beyond it.
• A faceless creature called Angel “Your Excellency,” and a Void Traveler then seized Angel and carried him through the wall into Duoling Garden.
• Angel met Blair, pretended to be Shava, and learned that Misty Gold had brought him to the garden and that its exit lay on her castle roof.
• Blair explained that Miying, created by Lord Nuka, released a mist that could control humans, while three small mushrooms followed Angel toward Misty Gold’s castle.
• Angel followed the mushrooms into a fiery region and learned from nearby mushrooms that a human had reached Miying’s final stage.
• At a lava lake, Angel found a crystal island beneath the surface and saw a giant mushroom releasing winds that formed fire-element creatures.

Angel rescued Reeves’s spirit from the Jade-Green Light Mist and continued through Duoling Garden to Silver Night Castle, where he met Misty Gold and hosted a gathering of Moonlight Nobles. The banquet began with Davaxia and the Black and White Maids, then the Boiling Gentleman arrived and unleashed a crushing pressure.

• Angel discovered Reeves fused with Miying inside the Island Mushroom and used his Green Pattern and the three Miying larvae to restore Reeves’s awareness.
• Reeves told Angel about the ruin and his impending death, then died after asking Angel to deliver a farewell letter to Adelia and notify the Vansell Family.
• Angel used the Green Pattern to help the larvae remove the Jade-Green Light Mist from Reeves’s spirit and stabilized him in the Church of the Dead.
• Angel followed a song through the mushroom forest to Silver Night Castle, where he met Mad and found Misty Gold hiding in a portrait.
• Misty Gold apologized by singing for Angel, but Davaxia’s arrival interrupted her song, and Mad urged Angel to take the host’s seat.
• Davaxia greeted Angel as Lord Shava, ate the Demon Nourishing Meat Angel served, and asked for a thousand more plates.
• The Black and White Maids arrived and discussed the Boiling Gentleman and a powerful origin aura, while Angel recognized the Boiling Gentleman’s shoes from Lord Rhein’s earlier battle.
• The Boiling Gentleman entered the hall, causing the Nightmare Realm’s aura to boil and imposing suffocating pressure on Angel.

Angel attended Nuka’s banquet as Shava, learned about the regions and plans involved in Heart’s Descent, and followed Boiling Gentleman to inspect his work. The visit left Angel studying a power furnace and face to face with a captured Void Traveler demanding that he free its kin.

• Angel used Spotty Dog’s protective field to withstand Nuka’s pressure and keep up his Shava disguise at the banquet.
• Nuka and the region leaders discussed their construction progress, while Angel learned that Heart’s Descent involved projecting Nightmare Realm regions into reality.
• Nuka asked Angel to supply guards and attend future banquets, but Angel refused the first request and gave no firm answer about the second.
• Nuka warned Angel that Spotty Dog was Minister Dim’s foremost weapon, so Angel agreed to return the puppy through Boiling Gentleman.
• Mad gave Angel an Illusion Performance mushroom and explained that he hoped fulfilling his creator’s obsession would reveal the creator’s identity.
• Boiling Gentleman took Angel through the Rose District and Rainbow Mountain to the Misty Candle Corridor, where Angel inspected the modified beasts and laboratory.
• Boiling Gentleman demonstrated how he used Light Solvent to make a power furnace, and Angel agreed to leave Spotty Dog with him while he requested another solvent for Angel to study.
• Angel discovered a captured Void Traveler in a cage, questioned it, and then inspected the power furnace, finding that its sphere contained the Chaos Source’s madness but let some fiendish aura escape.

Angel escaped the Star Pool Ruins with a rescued soul and discovered how to repair the ruins’ hidden array. He introduced the Dream Wilderness to Savage Cave’s leaders, then arranged research into the dangerous mushrooms he had brought back as the group prepared for the ruins’ mysteries.

• Angel studied Boiling Gentleman’s Power Furnace, watched Mystic Mech Valen awaken its slaughtering drive in battle, and accepted the Void Travelers and their cage as gifts before leaving the laboratory.
• Angel escaped through the ancient gate with a Twisted Seed offspring, released the Void Travelers into the Black Dream Tunnel, and realized the gate’s magic patterns contained a map to a hidden room.
• Rhein entered the ruins’ passage as the group feared Angel was lost, then Angel emerged safely and explained that he had repaired the Star Pool Ruins’ array and found a possible hidden-room activation array.
• Angel showed Sanders and the Tree Spirit Reeves’s soul, then sent five monocles to the gathered leaders, who used them to enter the Dream Wilderness and meet with independent minds.
• Angel revealed that he had created the Dream Wilderness, explained how monocles and Gatekeeper authority controlled entry, and led the group through Firstheart City while presenting research topics and his Tea Party plans.
• Angel described the ruins’ Nightmare Realm threats and Miying crisis, then gave Rhein three Miying larvae for study while Gloria took Toby away to train.
• Angel arranged for Regina to study the dangerous mushrooms in a sealed laboratory, and Rhein agreed to fund cultivation of Yamen while Regina prepared to travel to Savage Cave.
• Angel told Sanders about Spotty Dog, Boiling Gentleman’s laboratory, and his discoveries, then repaired nearly one-fiftieth of the knight’s armor’s damaged magic patterns.