Chapter Summaries

Angel used his Shava identity to coax Blair into revealing that Miying was created by Lord Nuka and that it could absorb its own green-glowing mist. He headed toward Misty Gold’s castle with the three little Miying following, intending to investigate the human Miying had controlled.

• Angel learned from Blair that Lord Nuka created Miying and that Miying itself could absorb the green-glowing mist it released.
• Three emerald mushrooms emerged beside Miying and devoured the mist, leading Angel to suspect they were Miying’s main body.
• Angel left Blair and set out for Misty Gold’s castle, while the three little mushrooms burrowed through the soil to follow him.
• Blair warned Angel that the human Miying had controlled was ahead and offered to remove him, but Angel insisted on handling the human himself.
• Blair accepted Angel’s order and returned, while Angel continued onward, curious about the human and Miying’s purpose.

Angel traveled through Duoling Garden and entered a blazing red region filled with fire elements, wondering how Nightmare Realm creatures recognized him as Shava. As he searched for the human controlled by Miying, he discovered that the surrounding mushrooms were alive and communicating through clear emotional signals.

• Angel considered how Nightmare Realm creatures recognized him as Shava despite his changed appearance, and decided to seek the answer later.
• Angel reached a fiery region of Duoling Garden filled with red mushrooms, scorching earth, and flowing lava.
• Angel checked that the three little ones could tolerate the region and continued onward.
• Angel extended his spiritual force to search for the human controlled by Miying.
• Angel sensed that the mushrooms around him were alive and transmitting clear emotional fluctuations.

Angel listened to the mushrooms’ chatter and learned that the three Miying following him had run away from home. He traced talk of a human entering a “final stage” to a crowded, fire-hot patch of the garden and arrived beside the mushroom that had mentioned the “filthy fellow.”

• Angel sensed the mushrooms praising Shava and realized that some were intelligent and potentially aggressive, though they remained quiet in her presence.
• Angel learned from the mushrooms that the three Miying had run away from home and decided to abduct them.
• Angel heard a mushroom describe a “filthy fellow” and suspect that it meant the human controlled by the Miying.
• Angel followed the conversation and learned that the human had entered a “final stage,” while mushrooms gathered nearby.
• Angel noticed the mushrooms growing denser and the heat and fire winds intensifying as he reached the mushroom that had spoken of the “filthy fellow.”

Angel discovered a lava lake where flame patterns sometimes became living creatures, and he watched a nearby mushroom devour one of them. He captured a flame butterfly and recognized it as an embryonic fire-element elemental creature, but decided it was not worth cultivating.

• Angel found a lava lake where eruptions formed vivid flame patterns that usually dissolved into sparks.
• A horned rabbit formed from the lava, became solid in a strange fiery wind, and was swallowed by a nearby Bone-Chewing Mushroom.
• Angel learned from the Mushroom Forum that the mushrooms were hungry for the flame creatures and that the Bone-Chewing Mushroom had stolen their prey.
• Angel used a Magic Hand to catch a newly formed flame butterfly before the mushrooms could hunt it.
• Angel examined the butterfly, identified it as an embryonic fire-element elemental creature, and judged it unsuitable for cultivation.

Angel discovered that a giant mushroom on a crystal island in the lava lake produced the fiery winds that turned flame patterns into elemental creatures. The mushroom resembled a mature Miying, and Angel left the chapter facing this unexpected discovery.

• Angel released the Flame Butterfly, and the mushrooms attacked it as soon as it flew away from him.
• Angel realized the mushrooms gathered at the lava lake to eat the fire elemental creatures emerging from it.
• Angel followed the fiery wind north and flew toward the center of the lava lake with three Miying mushrooms at his heels.
• Angel found a crystal island beneath the lava lake’s surface, where a giant mushroom released the winds that formed elemental creatures.
• Angel recognized that the giant mushroom resembled a mature Miying.

Angel discovered that the isolated mushroom radiated brutal malice and seemed connected to the Mushroom Forum’s “Dirty Guy.” When it attacked him with an explosive mycelium tentacle, Angel defended himself with Phantom Limbs and chose to confront the mushroom rather than leave.

• Angel sensed intense hatred from the isolated mushroom and felt innate disgust from the three young Miying following him.
• Angel suspected the mushroom was connected to the “Dirty Guy” and descended to inspect it.
• Fire-element ores exploded, and a mycelium tentacle from the mushroom attacked Angel with blasts of flame.
• Angel evaded the tentacle and formed a defensive armor of Phantom Limbs, replenishing it with the demiplane’s Nightmare Realm aura.
• Angel considered fleeing or attacking the mushroom, then stayed after sensing it release unique signals.

Angel investigated the hostile mushroom on the lava islet after it unconsciously transmitted the name Adelia, suspecting it might be connected to the human Miying had imprisoned. He left the mushroom badly damaged but found no human, and the chapter ended with the mushroom slowing its attacks as it repeatedly called Adelia’s name.

• Angel detected the island mushroom unconsciously transmitting the name Adelia and suspected a human connected to her might be hidden inside it.
• Angel charged toward the mushroom, escaped through a door as its explosive tentacles collided with its tentacle net, and the resulting blast damaged the mushroom.
• Angel questioned the dazed mushroom, but it responded with anger and attacked using lava and fire hurricanes.
• Angel asked whether the mushroom remembered Adelia, and its attacks slowed as it repeatedly transmitted her name.

The Light-Chasing Chairman visited Adelia in the City of Truth to discuss a rare supplementary issue of Forest of Time, prompted by the Peach Heart Theater and events at Stargazing Day. Adelia agreed to investigate Dodolo and a genius alchemist at the Tea Party, while her memories of an acquaintance on Bode Island lingered.

• The Light-Chasing Chairman arrived at the City of Truth, and Kalapuye ignored his greeting before he flew to the palace.
• Adelia told the Light-Chasing Chairman that she had remembered an old acquaintance who lived on Bode Island, home of the Vansell Family.
• The Light-Chasing Chairman discussed a supplementary issue of Forest of Time, and Adelia agreed that the Peach Heart Theater should be reported as soon as possible.
• The Light-Chasing Chairman warned Adelia to explain the Peach Heart Theater's dangers and suggested featuring Dodolo in the magazine.
• Adelia agreed to investigate Dodolo and a genius alchemist at the Tea Party, and the Light-Chasing Chairman departed after wishing her peace.

Angel fought a mushroom creature that attacked him with its teeth, tongue, and luminous green mist, then spotted a human-shaped figure inside its mouth. He used the pressure ability of the Green Pattern in his right eye to freeze the mushroom and prepare to investigate.

• The mushroom grew agitated, opened its toothed mouth, and attacked Angel with bites and a fluid-coated tongue, but he dodged them easily.
• The mushroom exhaled luminous green mist, which the three Miying hatchlings devoured before it could reach Angel.
• Angel spotted the outline of a human figure deep inside the mushroom's mouth as it began to close its jaws.
• Angel activated the Green Pattern in his right eye, summoning a mask whose pressure stopped the mushroom, the hatchlings, and the mist.
• Angel sensed fear from the mushroom and suspected the Green Pattern's pressure had a stronger effect on Nightmare Realm creatures.

Angel investigated a humanoid figure fused with an isolated-island mushroom and discovered that the man and mushroom were closely linked. After the Miying larvae consumed the green mist around him, the man still showed no sign of humanity, leaving Angel searching for an explanation.

• Angel freed the three Miying larvae from fear and used his enhanced right eye to see a man fused with scarlet mycelium inside the mushroom.
• Angel lifted the pressure on the man, who awakened and attacked with the mushroom’s tongue and flames, so Angel suppressed the mushroom again.
• Angel speculated that the man had been assimilated by Miying and ordered the larvae to devour the glowing green mist around him.
• The man remained unresponsive after the mist was consumed, and Angel focused his attention on the man’s eyes.

Angel discovered that the green mist inside Reeves was a multiplying parasite and used three little fellows to draw it out, restoring Reeves's consciousness. Reeves thanked Angel and introduced himself as a member of the Vansell Family, while warning that the parasite would make him lose control again if the little fellows stopped.

• Angel noticed that Reeves's eyes matched the surrounding green mist and had the little fellows try to absorb it, but they could not pierce his skin.
• Angel cut three small wounds in Reeves's neck, allowing the little fellows to suck glowing green mist from his body until his eyes returned to normal.
• After Angel lifted Green Pattern's suppression, Reeves briefly spoke but then became hostile, and Angel suppressed the Island Mushroom again when it attacked.
• Angel realized the green mist was continuing to multiply and persuaded the little fellows to keep drawing it out while he cautiously lifted the suppression again.
• Reeves regained control, thanked Angel, and explained that the parasite would make him lose control if the little fellows stopped absorbing it.
• Angel introduced himself and confirmed that Sanders was his mentor, and Reeves identified himself as Reeves of the Vansell Family.

Reeves told Angel how his failing family had sent him to seek a way to restore its fortunes, and how he came to Pamiji Plateau after the planar fusion failed. Captured in the ruin and convinced he would die there, Reeves began to explain what he knew about it.

• Reeves recounted how the departure of Aguro left the Vansel family in decline and how the family sent him to find a way to help it recover.
• Reeves explained that he came to Pamiji Plateau hoping to gain resources from the planar fusion, then discovered the ruin beneath a starry saltwater pool.
• Angel learned that Reeves had been the first person to enter the ruin and asked him what he had seen there.
• Reeves questioned Angel about his arrival and his encounter with Misty Gold, then decided to share what he knew because he believed his death was near.
• Angel offered to try to save Reeves, but Reeves said he could not be saved and that his soul would remain trapped in the ruin.

Reeves explained how Miying had assimilated and controlled him, turning his body into mycelium and transforming the barren ridge into a lava lake filled with fire energy and elemental creatures. He remained certain that he was beyond saving and would die soon, whether he stayed conscious or not.

• Reeves told Angel that Miying had irreversibly assimilated most of his body and that his magic vortex would collapse within ten days or half a month.
• Reeves recounted how his uncontrolled fire spells had turned the barren ridge into a lava lake and how Miying had converted his fire abilities into flame patterns and elemental creatures.
• Angel realized that Miying could be exploited as a source of power, but feared that spreading knowledge of it would lead humans to sacrifice wizards for its benefits.
• Angel asked whether the three Miying larvae could absorb the Jade-Green Light Mist and help Reeves, but Reeves explained that his body would still drain his energy until he died.
• Reeves declared that his death was inevitable, whether he lost control and died later or remained conscious and exhausted his energy sooner.

Reeves told Angel about his last request and the secrets of the ruin before dying as the Miying larva drained his life. Angel stayed to watch Reeves become an undead and discovered that mushrooms had grown across his soul.

• Reeves asked Angel to deliver a farewell letter to Adelia and notify the Vansell Family of his death if possible.
• Angel agreed and asked Reeves to explain the ruin's secrets.
• After an hour, Reeves died as the Miying larva drained his remaining energy, and his body burned away into ash.
• Angel waited for Reeves's soul to form and saw a humanoid undead with mushrooms growing from its body.

Angel discovered that Reeves’s soul was being parasitized by Miying and covered in growing mushrooms, while the Miying larvae failed to absorb the Jade-Green Light Mist inside it. As Reeves’s soul continued to deteriorate, Angel considered how to stop the mist from hiding and thought of using the ability of his right eye.

• Angel noticed mushrooms growing on Reeves’s soul and sensed that its green-eyed spirit was saturated with malice.
• Angel ordered three Miying larvae to test whether they could absorb the Jade-Green Light Mist from Reeves’s soul.
• Reeves attacked the larvae with Soul Howl, but Angel suppressed him, and the larvae recovered and bit Reeves without absorbing the mist.
• Angel concluded that the Jade-Green Light Mist might be hiding whenever the larvae tried to absorb it, while mushrooms continued to spread across Reeves’s soul.
• Angel worried Reeves’s soul might reach a terminal stage and began searching for a way to save it.
• Angel realized he might use the ability of his right eye to prevent the Jade-Green Light Mist from evading the larvae.

Angel removed the shimmering green mist from Reeves, whose unstable spirit form he sheltered in the Church of the Dead. He flew onward through the mushroom forest to find Misty Gold, while the Mushroom Forum revealed that the mushrooms blamed Blair for Reeves's presence and planned to report him to Lord Mad.

• Angel used the Green Pattern in his right eye to immobilize Reeves and the mushrooms, allowing the little ones to remove all the shimmering green mist from Reeves's spirit form.
• Angel placed Reeves in an attic in the Church of the Dead, where its death aura stopped his spiritual power from leaking and helped stabilize his form.
• Angel left the island at the center of the lava lake and flew through the mushroom forest to seek Misty Gold.
• Angel listened to the Mushroom Forum as its members condemned Reeves and praised Lady Shava for supposedly being attacked by him.
• The mushrooms blamed Blair for placing Reeves there and decided to report him to Lord Mad.

Angel traveled through Duoling Garden toward Misty Gold’s castle while considering how the garden’s space had expanded without spatial fluctuations. A sinister song led him to a giant mushroom, where he overheard a mysterious conversation about guilt and moonlight.

• Angel wondered whether leaving Duoling Garden would require him to face both Misty Gold’s trial and the Mad Lord.
• Angel recalled Reeves’s account of Duoling Garden expanding as the Nightmare Realm’s strange aura rose, despite Reeves sensing no spatial fluctuations.
• Angel speculated that the garden’s expansion might be connected to Nightmare Realm creatures carrying spatial materials into the ruins.
• Angel heard a chilling song, found its source behind a giant white mushroom, and approached it cautiously.
• The song stopped, and Angel overheard a rough voice tell a faint female voice that guilt had nothing to do with moonlight.

Rhein returned from the ruins after a tense encounter with a powerful invisible creature, only to learn that Angel had disappeared. The wizards discussed how to find and rescue Angel, but prophecy seemed unlikely to help, leaving them without an immediate plan.

• Rhein emerged from the ruin passageway and told the gathered wizards that the invisible creature had returned to the ruins after a brief encounter.
• Sanders told Rhein that Angel had gone missing, and Iron Armor Granny explained what had happened.
• Rhein searched the place where Angel vanished, then returned and confirmed he had found no trace of him.
• Wallace suggested asking the Observers at Crownstar Cathedral to make a prophecy, but Rhein and Iron Armor Granny explained why prophecy was unlikely to locate Angel.
• Rhein urged everyone to focus on finding and rescuing Angel, but the wizards fell silent without a clear way forward.

Rhein decided to enter the ruins to search for Angel, but Sanders revealed that he had contacted Angel through a new method of information exchange. Angel was alive in a mushroom-filled area and searching for a way out.

• Rhein resolved to enter the ruins immediately to find Angel, despite the dangers and the Tree Spirit's warnings.
• Iron Armor Granny promised to leave the Source of Flow and intervene if Rhein encountered trouble.
• Sanders stopped Rhein by revealing that he had contacted Angel and confirmed Angel was not in immediate danger.
• Sanders explained that he had exchanged information with Angel through Angel's new research method, though real-time communication was not possible.
• Sanders reported that Angel was in an area filled with mushrooms, where the hands that had taken him had left without attacking him.
• Rhein learned that Angel was searching for a way out of the mushroom forest.

Angel discovered that Message Mushrooms carried conversations between distant mushrooms and suspected their parent was in Misty Gold’s castle. He reached a hollow mound whose center held a glowing castle amid a strange mushroom garden.

• Angel learned that the white Message Mushroom transmitted voices between parent and offspring mushrooms, and suspected the mushrooms feared Misty Gold.
• Angel heard the hoarse voice again, demanded its name, and continued onward when the Message Mushroom fell silent.
• After Angel left, the mushroom’s speakers worried that Lady Shava was angry and resumed arguing about a song.
• Angel found a mound with a glowing hollow at its center and saw a vast mushroom garden surrounding an enormous castle.