Recaps

Angel rescued Nausicaa from Yorkshire’s puppet protoform scheme and escaped Sleepless City with Sanders, while Spotty Dog revealed strange powers and left Angel with a mysterious crystal. Back at Savage Cave, Sanders investigated Yorkshire’s lingering influence, and Angel reunited with Nausicaa on Demon Illusion Island.

• Angel searched the interlayer space for Nausicaa, killed Hukedik, and learned from Shan and Xiliu that Yorkshire had abducted Nausicaa and Ganke.
• Angel followed Spotty Dog through the city, found Ganke already lost to the void, and rescued Nausicaa from the golden threads binding her above a Rainbow Dragonfly nest.
• Sanders and Gloria confronted Yorkshire, while Angel carried Nausicaa and the others away and learned she had resisted becoming a puppet protoform.
• Angel met the captive Grak, then Sanders transferred Grak’s soul into Spivey and led the group out of Sleepless City with Spotty Dog.
• Sanders confronted Payne outside the Dark Domain as Angel rescued his companions, then sent Angel’s soul into the Gravity Garden to reunite with his body.
• Sanders took Angel through Pokladi’s planar passage, where Angel discovered that his right hand absorbed Nightmare Realm energy and accelerated his cultivation.
• Angel and Sanders returned to Savage Cave, where the Tree Spirit reported that rescued people were moving like puppets, and Sanders left to investigate Yorkshire’s remaining golden threads.
• Angel returned to Demon Illusion Island, reunited with Nausicaa, and learned that she had researched the Nide Demon bloodline and was seeking information about Serum.

Angel trained the Kula Kuka children, developed the Dreamscape Twins illusion for Gloria, and crafted a new home for Frod. As the Dark Domain crisis worsened, Sanders returned, warned Angel of dangers ahead, and examined Angel’s layered illusion worlds.

• Angel agreed to let the Kula Kuka people pursue wizardry, and Gloria’s Mermaid Shell Soup permanently increased his spirit power by 0.5 without consuming his potential.
• Gude reported that Babaya, Ku Doudou, and Luo Keke had shown wizarding talent, and Angel guided them into Savage Cave while revealing to Babaya what had happened to her ancestors’ souls.
• Angel developed the Dreamscape Twins brooch for Gloria, hiding its mysterious object within an illusion, while he and David discussed Sleepless City, the expanding Dark Domain, and copied illusion music boxes.
• Gloria struggled to derive Birth Art, but Toby’s delivery of Angel’s brooch calmed her and she began exploring its Catbus-linked illusion worlds.
• Angel moved Frod and his illusion into the Church of the Dead, then studied the Eye of Nalda to learn how to appraise Little Spot’s crystal.
• Sanders summoned Angel, warned him to stay clear of the Sleepless City crisis, and said he would leave for the Abyss Plane while Angel managed Demon Illusion Island.
• Sanders warned Angel about a possible threat from the Rat-and-Ant Underground Society and forbade him from joining the search for a mysterious attic in the Nightmare Realm.
• Gloria and Sanders discussed Sanders’s worsening soul-body mutation and the plan to retrieve Gloria’s body, then Sanders explored Angel’s illusion and asked him to make another version of Monument Valley for analysis.

Angel explored mysterious manifestations, learned the Soul-Dimensional Path, and witnessed Gloria pass the Great Will’s test and restore Demon Illusion Island. He then began testing Prelude of Reincarnation on an undead, producing a half-undead with basic consciousness and traces of language.

• Angel showed Sanders the Frost Moon Pendant, and Sanders identified Withering as the mysterious concept missing from its Snowfield Illusion Realm.
• Angel practiced the Eye of Nalda, then used it to appraise Prelude of Reincarnation and concluded that the item possessed an unidentified special effect.
• Sanders returned from the Nightmare Realm with a scarred eye, and he took Angel to Nis, who explained the Soul-Dimensional Path and the limits of Hukedik’s soul-based magic.
• A Black Cloud and lightning struck Demon Illusion Island as Gloria faced the Great Will and passed its test, then restored the island and created ordinary creatures from nothing.
• Gloria privately promised Angel a gift, then created a golden milk-fruit tree for him and concealed her suspicions about his mysterious ability.
• Angel absorbed the Soul-Dimensional Path from the diamond-shaped crystal, learned to cast cantrips in soul form, and lost a test fight to Sanders.
• Angel identified Gloria’s golden tree as a Milkfruit Tree and asked the Moon Bell Orchid Fairy to gather its harmless sap for the Kula Kuka people.
• Angel fired a White Light Bullet into an undead, which later awakened as a half-undead with weakened energy, basic consciousness, and some retained language.

Angel rescued Baruba from becoming Flora’s substitute puppet, settled his affairs on Demon Illusion Island, and took the Kula Kuka toward the Old Earth Continent. After finding the Eternal Night Kingdom threatened by spreading Domes, he sailed across the Devil Sea toward Feran Continent, where tensions with Roman Rovka emerged aboard the Cloud Conch.

• Gloria and Sanders agreed to explain Gloria’s Birth Art breakthrough through Angel’s Dreamscape Twins, while Gloria signed Taro’s Confidentiality Pact to protect the mysterious tangible object.
• Angel’s experiments showed that White Light Bullets increased an undead soul’s stable energy, but the Overture of Annihilation failed to preserve Eck Turner’s soul, prompting Sanders to identify a 98% energy threshold.
• Angel freed Baruba from Flora by trading her Bloodbathed Rose, then prepared to take the Kula Kuka and their relatives to the Old Earth Continent while leaving Baruba to pursue wizardry.
• Gloria warned Angel about Xius and the Rat-and-Ant Underground Society, and Hobson left him a pendant that led Angel to wonder whether Hobson and Huahua were connected.
• Angel handed Demon Illusion Island to Gude and left with the Kula Kuka, then encountered signs that the Eternal Night Kingdom was falling to Nightmare Realm Domes and parasitic creatures.
• At White Shell Sea Market, Angel arranged passage aboard the Cloud Conch toward Feran Continent and received Boro’s sailing schedules to help his relatives return across the Devil Sea.
• When a sea beast threatened the Cloud Conch, Angel protected the deck and crew with Flame Formation Illusory Slaughter, but Roman Rovka resented his intervention and agreed to cooperate only after Angel withdrew his attack.
• Helen thanked Angel for saving her, and Angel restored her faith in Lady Asberu by explaining that she was no longer mortal and could not have been captured by the Night Wolf Pirates.