Recaps

Angel and Laplace visited the Crystal-Eyed Race’s Artifact Embryo Factory, where Angel assessed the craftsmen’s Future Mirrors and helped Moretta improve his production. They learned about Napoli’s Divine Patterns and Obsession Bearers before finding Napoli suppressing a stone that had driven the Mirror-Holding Banshee into a frenzy.

• Angel entered the Crystal Kingdom’s Artifact Embryo Factory with Laplace and learned from Napoli that he was a Hollow Man with an unusual Divine Pattern.
• Napoli helped Pear preserve her teacher’s Phantom Metal hammer, and Laplace explained that the metal was an extension of Algalong’s body.
• Angel studied Napoli’s Divine Pattern and watched it grant him Flame Reflection, which recorded events around him and could expose flaws in simple illusions.
• Angel assessed Moretta’s and the Mirror-Holding Banshee’s Future Mirrors, finding Moretta’s work consistently qualified and the Banshee’s best pieces at the 999-login limit.
• Laplace told Angel that Napoli was an Obsession Bearer from the Tewari Realm and explained how the Kingdom of Myriad Thoughts granted Divine Patterns to people whose obsessions resonated with it.
• Angel visited Moretta’s underground workshop and helped him adjust his production process, raising the Future Mirrors’ average login count by four to five.
• Angel and Laplace found Napoli at the Mirror-Holding Banshee’s workshop, where he used flames to suppress a pitch-black stone emitting Ghost Domain aura that had affected her mind.

Angel and his allies investigated the Mirror-Holding Banshee’s Ghost Domain Stone while preparing the Artifact Embryos and following events in the Dream Crystal Plain. A ritual summoned Star Worm, whose mission ended with the Star Sea Train offering goodwill and asking Laplace to approve a permanent station.

• Laplace contained the Forbidden Stone, and the group learned that the Mirror-Holding Banshee had brought it from the Dark Mirror Domain after losing control of her mind.
• The Mirror-Holding Banshee absorbed the released Ghost Domain fog and returned to refining Artifact Embryos, while Laplace traced the stone’s source to a possible route of Calamity Puppet Xulifa.
• Angel enchanted the Artifact Embryos across ten warehouses as Napoli organized their distribution, and Star Worm’s Auxiliary Train No. 199 entered the Dream Realm and then the Gap Zone under Owl’s command.
• Angel and Laplace waited for Tarantino to challenge Luigi in a Star-Climbing Duel, but Angel spotted a message in a bottle beyond the Dream Crystal Plain’s boundary and retrieved its Star Mark.
• Angel, Laplace, and Gleipnir performed the letter’s ritual in Glutton's Banquet, awakening Star Worm, who identified himself as a conductor from Auxiliary Train No. 199.
• Star Worm explained that a powerful creature blocked his train in the Gap Zone and that his secondary mission was to gather information about the Dream Crystal Plain.
• Laplace accepted responsibility as the person in charge, and Star Worm revealed that the Star Lord had sent him to greet her and convey goodwill.
• Star Worm identified Gleipnir’s black card as a Hidden World Card and asked Laplace to approve a long-term Star Sea Train station, which could connect the plain to the train but expose it to the outside world.

Angel and Laplace investigated the Star Lord’s invitation to the Dream Crystal Plain, while Star Worm entered Modern City with Gleipnir and began pursuing its fashion-related quests. The arc left Gleipnir uncertain about settling there and Angel entering the instance alone to investigate its Fashion Demonic Beasts.

• Laplace and Angel activated the Hidden World Card and heard Conductor Owl explain the Star Lord’s invitation, the risks of establishing a station, and Star Worm’s need to return to Auxiliary Train No. 199.
• Angel and Gleipnir tested Star Worm’s perception, then let him leave the manor so the Dream Crystal Plain could reshape him and integrate him into the world.
• Gleipnir took Star Worm into the task-oriented Prada Beauty Pageant instance, where he unlocked a Text Panel and received fashion-related quests.
• Gleipnir and Star Worm crossed Modern City, encountered Fashion Magicians and underground-district residents, and reached Prada Media Company before its quest deadline.
• Gleipnir and Star Worm triggered a quest to persuade the chief planner to restore the beauty pageant, but Gleipnir failed to abandon it and decided against clearing the instance for resettlement.
• Angel investigated disputes over construction rights in the Dream Crystal Plain, while Laplace went to Rabbit Town to help Little Laplace.
• Angel entered Modern City alone, received the task of reaching Prada Media Company within two hours, and found himself in a deserted slum.

Angel pursued Fashion Demonic Beasts through Modern City, staged an illusionary variety show, and gained several Variety Elf abilities. After discovering that Scenic Design Expert could turn imagined designs into real objects, he decided to stay in the Instance rather than finish the second-round main quest.

• Angel found Fatty at the Sona District Carnival, learned how fashion mages attracted Demonic Beasts, and explored several stages before receiving quests from the Phantomlight Soundscape and Zuniga.
• Angel met Star Worm at North Ninth District Station, learned how Gleipnir had brought him to Modern City, and got directions to Prada Media Company.
• Angel infiltrated Tina Entertainment, learned where to find Pink Queen Diane, and chose a plaza by the company for a variety-show gala that could attract the Old Kings.
• Angel used illusions to stage the Variety Grand Prize at Tina Square, trapped the real peace officers and fashion magicians in a Nightmare Illusion, and drew a large crowd.
• Angel discovered that real audience participation was needed to advance the gala's mission, then completed it at 200% and received the Fashion Magic Book with the Variety Elf page unlocked.
• Angel used a Sky-Curtain Illusion to complete the Traffic Bat popularity task and approached Tina Entertainment planner Lily Tina Wilson, whose challenge involved creating a custom brand.
• Angel performed a luck-turning ritual at the Wishing Tree, unlocked the Variety Elf's abilities, and gained Broadcast Ambassador, Variety Master, and Scenic Design Expert.
• Angel named his Variety Master Turing, learned that Scenic Design Expert could manifest imagined designs using Nightmare Realm power, and decided to remain in the Modern City Instance to explore it further.