Recaps

Angel questioned Day about Abyss clans and the dangers ahead, then led the group through the One-Eyed Wraiths and toward the Stairway of the Hanging Prison. After retrieving a pendant linked to Sanders, they entered the sewer and found evidence of an ancient Demon God follower, while hidden figures noticed their arrival.

• Angel learned from Day that Night was the sole known descendant in his branch of the Dantin Clan, then questioned him about the Stairway of the Hanging Prison and the Three-Eyed Blue Demon.
• Angel and his companions reached the plaza crowded with One-Eyed Wraiths and chose Dox’s route through the inspection court and dark alley.
• Angel spotted a special One-Eyed Wraith wearing a pendant marked with the Igulo Family crest and suspected it had been made from Sanders’s lost dagger.
• Angel used Ermi to learn how to draw One-Eyed Wraiths into shadow fusion, then took the pendant and replaced it with a disguised copy while the wraiths cultivated.
• Dox reconciled with his inspiration as the group reached a foul labyrinthine passage, and Angel gave them a booklet about One-Eyed Wraith fusion.
• Angel led the group through a sewer toward the Stairway of the Hanging Prison and showed them a corpse identified as a ten-thousand-year-old formal wizard and Demon God follower.
• After the group moved on, the corpse’s emblem flashed green, and a hidden being urged Adanis to inspect them before she dismissed the Noah descendants and returned to her supposed cultivation.

Angel led the group through a hidden passage to Xixia’s Casket, where he won passage by offering treasured items and introduced Xixia to Bobota in the Dream Wilderness. Xixia allied with Angel and gave him the Wood Spirit’s ring, which the group combined with three other objects to reveal part of a staff as they set out to find the Wood Spirit.

• Angel passed through the vine-guarded doorway with his companions and reached a platform above a chaotic void, where an alchemical puppet demanded a treasured offering for passage.
• Angel offered two personally meaningful gold coins to Xixia’s Casket, met Xixia, and learned that she was a Source-Worshipper hoping to learn whether her clan still had a future.
• Angel arranged for the group to exchange treasured possessions for tickets, then prepared a meeting between Xixia and Bobota in the Dream Wilderness.
• Xixia examined the group’s offerings, discussed Jon’s condition and the history of the Noah Clan, and identified Margaret and Augustine in the church’s hidden writing.
• Angel brought Xixia to meet Bobota, and she confirmed he was a Source-Worshipper before deciding she wanted to keep using the Dream Wilderness.
• Xixia gave Angel a ticket to the Stairway of the Hanging Prison, and Angel told the group they would seek the Wood Spirit after leaving the Exile Space.
• Angel explained that Xixia had taken the Wood Spirit’s ring and traded it to him, then combined the ring, a silver crown, an oval pendant, and Dangros’s silver band into one object.
• Angel showed that the silver object could form part of a short staff, and the group discussed its connection to the Wood Spirit before setting off to track it.

Angel and his companions passed through the Wise Sovereign’s hall to search the ruined Stairway of the Hanging Prison for the Wood Spirit. Angel found a resonant wooden log and pursued the signal deeper into the void, but withdrew from a spreading danger zone while suspecting the Wood Spirit was luring him elsewhere.

• Angel followed his separate red mark to the Stairway of the Hanging Prison, while Xixia returned to Pat Manor and shared fried rice with Mana before warning Angel that her information about the Wood Spirit was six years old.
• Angel and his companions found the hidden exit, encountered the Wise Sovereign, and learned they could search for Augustine’s legacy if they first tried to find and rescue the Wood Spirit.
• Angel sent Black Earl into the Stairway, then entered with Kael and used an immersive illusion to let the others follow and observe without entering the real ruin.
• Angel discovered that the first-floor prison room had powered Abyss City’s magic array by draining a nature wizard, then found a painting concealing a log made by or derived from the Wood Spirit.
• Angel shaped the log into a cane, whose emblem and resonance drew the Wise Sovereign’s suspicion and seemed to point toward the Wood Spirit’s location.
• Angel and Kael explored the void, where Kael detected increasingly chaotic spatial energy and a newly formed rift near the core node, so Angel withdrew from the spreading danger zone.
• Angel returned exhausted and continued along the right-hand path, while the Wise Sovereign watched him and Angel suspected the Wood Spirit had shifted the cane’s resonance to lure him away from the dangerous left path.

Angel found the Wood Spirit and revealed its connection to Sanders, while negotiating with the Wise Sovereign over their cooperation and the Spirit’s departure. The Wise Sovereign allowed the Wood Spirit to visit Sanders under a covenant, but an unnamed woman’s hidden pieces stood between the group and the Relic Land.

• Angel lured the Wood Spirit out of hiding and brought it away from the Stairway of the Hanging Prison, where it called the Wise Sovereign “Teacher.”
• Angel negotiated exchanges with the Wise Sovereign and the Black Earl, then chose to face the Wandering Merchants organization’s pursuers rather than have the Wise Sovereign drive them away.
• Angel used the Truth Book to confirm his account and explained that the Wood Spirit was Sanders’s lost staff, which had followed him in hopes of reuniting with its former master.
• Angel named Sanders Igulo as his mentor and revealed that he had not known about the woman in the oil painting before arriving in Abyss City.
• The Wise Sovereign agreed to let the Wood Spirit visit Sanders, and the Wood Spirit said it hoped the meeting would help it overcome its fear of non-human beings.
• The Wise Sovereign presented Angel with a Truth Book covenant governing the Wood Spirit’s departure, and Angel questioned when its terms would take effect.
• The Black Earl reported that the marked Dog Hole entrances had disappeared, and the Wise Sovereign warned that an unnamed woman had left obstacles the group must overcome to reach the Relic Land.