Recaps

Angel investigated the destruction of Bilen Tree Court while a rule-bound game trapped the Bilos Family in battle with the suited man, Stop. Black Earl and the others forced Stop to concede, but he escaped with Exus after admitting he had incited the attack to deliver Black Earl a gift.

• Angel met Lucia Dydia, bought her Witch’s Soup, and left the workshop with Lucia and Bulu after learning that Bilen Tree Court was under attack.
• Angel investigated the rampaging Shallow-Sea Strongman, rescued people, and found Kael and Dox safe beneath the Bilos Council Hall with Exus guarding them.
• Angel went with Dox and Kael toward Paradise after Swift Spirit reported that six of its breezes were trapped inside a sealed game.
• Wai and Black Earl joined the Bilos Family at the ruined arena, where the suited man trapped Gai Nuo, Elder Tree, and Starleaf in a game against the Desolate-Island Strongman and Ammit.
• Wai accepted the game invitation so Black Earl could enter the battle, and Black Earl’s earth giants helped Gai Nuo while the suited man enforced his rules.
• Black Earl identified Ammit as a legendary gatekeeping demon and fought it with stone giants until Stop recalled Ammit and Libya and conceded the game.
• Stop introduced himself, denied serving the Yalu Deity, and admitted that he had incited the Shallow-Sea Strongman’s attack to deliver Black Earl a gift.
• Stop repelled Elder Tree, Gai Nuo, and Shaina as he tried to disappear, but Exus appeared behind him and protected him from Elder Tree’s poisonous vines.

Angel and Dox entered Paradise, uncovered Witch Sharon’s games, and freed the people trapped there while recovering Swift Spirit’s avatars. Sharon, Stop, and Exus escaped through a rainbow gate, where Exus’s damaged mental state left them facing a spreading illusion energy.

• Exus rescued people beneath the council hall, then joined Stop in searching Paradise for Sharon as Angel and his companions discovered the Human-Faced Pattern’s game and its contract traps.
• Angel and Dox reached the Underground Arena Tournament, where the Masked Man defeated Elder Moon and revealed himself as Witch Sharon.
• Angel and Dox broke Paradise’s spatial seals, freeing the captives and ending Sharon’s games, then fought her while searching for Swift Spirit’s avatars.
• Angel used illusions to reveal Sharon’s hiding places, and Dox pressed her until four of the six avatars had been recovered.
• Exus and Stop arrived through a spatial gate, but Angel stole Sharon’s necklace as Black Earl and the others closed in, and Stop’s group escaped through the gate.
• Angel helped Lucia explain the Starry District incident and learned of Exus’s unusual abilities, while Black Earl suspected Exus had broken his confinement array.
• Stop, Sharon, and Exus emerged in a deserted forest near the Guman capital, where Sharon found Exus’s mental state severely damaged by expanding illusion energy.

Angel investigated Exus’s time-element abilities and helped Black Earl assess the attack on Bilen Tree Court. As Angel handled other matters, Spotty Dog’s footage revealed a Time Sacrifice linked to Shava, and Wang Wang identified the Golden Blood as one.

• Exus shattered the Spatiotemporal Barrier, but Witch Sharon, Stop, and Exus vanished when the Mist Illusion dissipated.
• Black Earl investigated Exus’s sword and explained how Chain Slash and Time Slip revealed Exus’s time-element abilities.
• Black Earl connected the attack on Bilen Tree Court to the Savage Realm bloodlines of the Sharkstar Pureblood Society and warned Angel about the Bilos Family’s likely response.
• Angel showed Black Earl and Dox the Unbreakable Heart Mirror, then explored the Empty Mirror Sea and recorded Laplace’s strange recollections of time-related phenomena.
• Angel met Kant, who asked him to help Qili end the fragrance alchemists’ blacklist by appealing to those who could intervene.
• Black Earl showed Angel and Dox Adanis’s portrait, and Olao explained that Adanis was asleep because Margaret held her missing body part.
• Angel watched Spotty Dog’s footage and heard that a Time Sacrifice had appeared near traces of Shava’s aura in the Black Outer Ring Belt.
• Wang Wang told Angel that Spotty Dog had identified the Golden Blood as a Time Sacrifice, and Angel began asking others what Time Sacrifices were.

Angel published intelligence about the Dream Wilderness, investigated Darknessless’s influence, and established Rabbit Town for the residents brought from Charles Imperial Palace. Jeanne entered a new Fairyland Instance on Silver Coral Island, while Angel watched Miu Miu confront the cycle erasing her memories in Tomorrow Town.

• Angel published the Wilderness Traveler Gazette to help humans and Dream Plant Fairies understand one another, and the Inspector verified that its reports about a Void Caravan and a Blood Tree were accurate.
• Angel learned that Darknessless may have withered into Deep Abyss Cave and warned Laplace that the cave’s repeated signals might have influenced her memories and behavior.
• Angel and Laplace chose Rabbit Mountain for a settlement, and Laplace built eight rabbit-shaped towers for the nearly five hundred residents arriving there.
• Angel and Laplace let Jeanne investigate a suspicious pond, where unseen hands pulled her into a Fairyland Instance and Mei Ji rescued her on Silver Coral Island.
• Jeanne solved the Little Treasure Pagoda’s first-floor puzzle, earned elite-challenger status, and learned that clearing all 120 floors would open the way to the Large Treasure Pagoda.
• Angel learned that Laplace had created Mei Ji as a prospective Time Doppelgänger, while Mei Ji explained that Wonderland had made her the island’s gatekeeper.
• Miu Miu collapsed in her Mind Space after questioning her identity, then wrote instructions for her next Reincarnation and set out to investigate the parents who did not exist.
• Angel decided not to interfere as Miu Miu pursued the truth about Tomorrow Town’s repeating day and erased memories.