Recaps

Angel’s group faced the trials set by the Wise Sovereign while Adanis prepared to stop them from reaching the Legacy Site. After Dox defeated the Wicked Woman, Angel entered the arena to face Gray Merchant and revealed a formidable shadow form.

• Wise Sovereign warned Angel’s group about the Nether Servant, and Angel proposed bypassing its territory with a Planar Corridor.
• Adanis ordered the Nether Servants to stop Angel and Noah’s descendants, then offered the Infant Spirit freedom if it killed anyone approaching the Slow-Paced Corridor.
• Angel contracted with Wise Sovereign for information, but the contract’s first trial began when a woman warned them to stop investigating the Clear Sky Poem Room.
• Wise Sovereign revealed the rules of the contest against Gray Merchant’s group, including that Angel had to fight, and moved both sides into an arena surrounded by Void Demonic Beasts.
• Dox fought the Wicked Woman, survived her blood-red spear using Angel’s Sunlight Sanctuary, and forced her out of the arena to win.
• Dox let both groups use Sunlight Sanctuary to recover, while Angel discussed the scroll’s effects and Dox’s growing debt to him.
• Angel faced Gray Merchant, filtered the surrounding beasts’ malice, and used Ermi’s possession to transform into a towering shadow form.

Angel defeated Gray Merchant and took a mirror fragment tied to the Noah descendants, while Gray Merchant sought a way to recover his sealed memories. The apprentice duels continued, with Wai and Kael winning their matches and Kael revealing the power of his Ximos Hide robe.

• Ermi defeated Gray Merchant after Angel’s illusion distorted Gray Merchant’s perceptions, and Angel claimed the mirror fragment before the Wise Sovereign declared him the winner.
• Gray Merchant asked Angel to trade for the fragment, which turned blood-red in response to Wai’s pheromones and exposed Mirror-Hider’s plan to identify Noah descendants.
• Angel and the Wise Sovereign explained that recovering Gray Merchant’s sealed memories required someone inside the mirror world to pass them to someone outside, and Angel considered asking Mirror Wraith for help.
• Wai overcame Ghost Shadow’s fungal attacks by tracking him with Death Scent while disguising his own pheromones, then won the duel and endured Black Earl’s removal of the mycelial larvae.
• Kael defeated Fen Mo after Angel’s Nightmare Illusion Mark protected him from her illusions and spiritual attacks.
• Kael fought the Shepherd, whose flute and black-faced sheep pressured him, but Kael’s robe strengthened his defenses and spatial magic until the Shepherd conceded.
• The Wicked Woman identified Kael’s robe as Ximos Hide, and Angel explained that its unusual fragrance came from Panas Succubus saliva and offered to trade it for something of equal value.

Wai survived Demon Elephant’s Ancient Mystery Eye by accepting Black Earl’s possession, while Angel’s group uncovered Luigi, Gleipnir, and the silver-haired Laplace behind a set of Old Stone masks. Laplace explained the masks’ ties to the Mirror Realm and delivered messages about the group’s bonds, leaving Angel with new questions about Ermi, demonkin, and the Panic Realm.

• Wai survived Demon Elephant’s attack after sacrificing his Death Scent talent, and Black Earl possessed him to restore his abilities while revealing that Ayla was still alive.
• Gray Merchant apologized and gave Wai a spatial pouch, while Angel refused Wicked Woman’s offers for the Ximos Hide and agreed to complete his transaction later.
• Angel’s group hunted a hidden presence in the passage and encountered Luigi, who gave them a puzzle before dispersing and leaving a broken Old Stone mask.
• Gleipnir interpreted an astral sign as the Evil God Demon Abyss, and Angel assembled Luigi’s, Gleipnir’s, and Rabbit Girl’s mask pieces into a complete mask.
• Laplace appeared and explained that the masks served as a Fate Bridge, then delivered Wise Sovereign’s messages to Wai, Black Earl, and Kael about their paths and choices.
• Laplace admitted that her tests had created unwanted Tethers, returned the group’s Tethers, severed their Bridges of Fate, and offered Shepherd God's Twin Faces as compensation.
• Laplace explained the Empty Mirror Sea, her origins, the masks’ lost memories, and Adanis’s ability to travel between reality and the Mirror Realm.
• Laplace discussed Ermi’s possible rebirth and challenged Angel’s companions to explain the Panic Realm and demonkin, while Kael recalled finding a hidden chamber whose mural faded after he opened it.

Angel’s group uncovered the Panic Realm’s hidden history, faced the Nether Servants, and passed the trial leading into the Legacy Site. Wise Sovereign revealed the history of the Clear Sky Poem Room and Adanis, then waited for someone familiar with its current state.

• Kael retrieved Lord Isos’s mural, and Laplace’s memories showed that awakened demon-humans and wizard cities had once existed in the Panic Realm.
• Laplace said Ermi’s Heart’s Reflection revealed his desire for a second awakening, while Angel explained how the Time Thief had altered Blood Night’s Shelter.
• Gengar and Second Treasure tested Angel and his companions with a magic-energy-array ambush, then let them continue after Angel controlled the array.
• Angel’s group passed Motherly Heart’s trial by redirecting the magic energy array, and Adanis recognized that Angel’s carving habits resembled Margaret’s.
• Wise Sovereign questioned Angel’s group with the Truth Book, then revealed that the Legacy Site was Augustine’s Clear Sky Poem Room, where Augustine and Margaret had met in secret.
• Wise Sovereign recounted how Adanis searched Warden Franklin’s residence, became Olao’s student, and later attacked Noah’s descendants despite his contract with her.
• Wise Sovereign said reaching the Clear Sky Poem Room could loosen the Underground Waterway’s deadlock, then invited the group to ask questions while they waited for someone familiar with it.