Chapter Summaries

Rhein activated the teleportation array in the golden cage and discovered that it connected to the Star Pool Ruins and to several linked teleportation array discs, including one held by Kulori at an unimaginable distance. He shut down the passage to the Star Pool Ruins and gave Angel a disc, making the ruin a potential transit point for him.

• Angel and the Tree Spirit examined the elaborate teleportation array and its protective metal bars, while Rhein prepared to activate it.
• When Rhein opened the cage, metal discs hanging above struck the door; Angel identified one as a linked teleportation array disc, and the group realized another disc was likely with Kulori.
• Rhein cast Light Sound Domain on himself and Angel, activated the array, and sensed its exit in the Star Pool Ruins as well as connections to the discs.
• Rhein shut down the passage to the Star Pool Ruins and revealed that the array could also sense Kulori's disc across an immense distance of space and time.
• After considering the discs' possible range and the danger of moving Nightmare Light, the Tree Spirit gave Angel a disc so he could return to the ruin from anywhere in the Southern Region.

Angel and Rhein secured the teleportation array disc, searched Kulori’s hidden room, and recovered its books and experimental equipment. Rhein left to discuss the Dream Wilderness and distribute log-in devices, while Angel and Tree Spirit organized the records and discussed customized devices for prominent witches.

• Rhein gave Angel the teleportation array disc and warned him to flee through a Planar Corridor if Kulori returned to the ruins.
• Angel, Rhein, and Tree Spirit searched the hidden room, found an unfamiliar alchemical device, and carried the desk of books and scrolls out of the Nightmare Light.
• Rhein asked Angel to keep the hidden room secret from others except Sanders, then collected Angel’s remaining log-in devices and requested more for the Dream Wilderness and Tea Party.
• Rhein proposed crystal-ball log-in devices, but Tree Spirit argued against them and persuaded him to consider more suitable customized designs for prominent witches.
• Tree Spirit brought Reeves’s soul to Angel, who said he would have Reeves testify about the Star Pool Ruins after Deep Sea Song arrived and then set him free.
• Angel and Tree Spirit discussed witches’ preferences while sorting Kulori’s books, and Tree Spirit became absorbed in The Kulori Records.

Angel discovered Kulori’s fourteenth chronicle, which revealed that Kulori and Belos had come to the Southern Region three hundred years earlier to deal with a Disorderly Object. Tree Spirit identified the event as the catastrophe that nearly destroyed Deep Sea Song, though the Inspector and Belos’s role in stopping it had remained hidden.

• Angel found an untitled volume written by Kulori and realized it was a missing chronicle from three hundred years ago.
• Angel read that Kulori had returned to the Star Pool Ruins, reinforced their restraints, and learned that Aldrich and Yuli the Witch were still pursuing their paths beyond the Southern Region.
• Angel discovered that Belos had accompanied Kulori on an Order Guild assignment to support a Legendary-level Inspector investigating a Disorderly Object in the Southern Region.
• Angel asked Tree Spirit about a catastrophe from three hundred years earlier, and Tree Spirit identified it as the disaster that devastated Deep Sea Song in the Endless Sea.
• Tree Spirit explained that the Extreme Sect had concealed the event and that the Inspector and Belos had likely dealt with the Disorderly Object while Deep Sea Song’s wizards prevented it from spreading inland.

Angel read Kulori Dracol’s final notes about the laboratory, the hidden bedroom, and the message Kulori had left for whoever might find them. After discussing whether to answer Kulori, Angel agreed he could leave a cautious message before departing.

• Angel read that Kulori had warned the Southern Inspector about the Twin Laboratory and shared secrets about the Devil Sea, Phantom City, and Crownstar Cathedral.
• Angel learned that the Magic Painting Witch had repeatedly returned to the Southern Region and wondered whether those visits were connected to a patterned key.
• Angel read that Kulori had left a damaged teleportation array and a small chance for future explorers to enter his hidden bedroom and study the Nightmare Light.
• Angel discovered Kulori’s message asking future visitors to record their Nightmare Light research or leave him a note, and learned that Kulori had written it in the hope no one would ever read it.
• Angel handed the journal to the Tree Spirit, who advised him to leave a message cautiously, and Angel agreed he could do so when he departed.

The Tree Spirit discovered records of Aldrich and Marisa in Kulori's chronicle and went to find Rhein, while Angel met Sanders, who warned him that Budding believers had appeared near Sky Mechanical City. Angel then visited Frod in New City and learned that Frod, Yada, and Sunny had reached the limit of their soul absorption, leaving him to consider the problem caused by their saturated soul power.

• The Tree Spirit read about Aldrich and Marisa in Kulori's chronicle and entered the Dream Wilderness to show Rhein an illusory copy.
• Angel received notice that Sanders had entered the Dream Wilderness and went to meet him at Skyvault Tower.
• Sanders warned Angel that Budding believers had been seen near Sky Mechanical City and urged him to stay vigilant and strengthen himself.
• Sanders asked Angel to check whether Rhein had found a puppet body for the Twisted Seed, then left to handle matters in reality.
• Angel visited Frod in New City and saw Liana and Baruba overseeing its early construction.
• Frod told Angel that he, Yada, and Sunny had reached their soul-absorption limit, and explained the difficulties this created for them.

Frod explained how excessive soul power and deathly energy were disturbing his and Sunny and Yada’s emotions, prompting Angel to consult Nis about a solution. Angel decided to help Frod learn Soul Sleight and planned to travel to Frod’s location, with a detour to investigate the Tidal Realm on the Old Earth Continent.

• Frod told Angel that deathly energy had made Sunny nearly kill students who had mistreated Yada, and that Frod himself was struggling to control his emotions.
• Angel summoned Nis, who described three ways to address deathly energy: expend soul power, stay in a protected area, or learn Soul Sleight.
• Nis explained that Soul Sleight could turn deathly energy into useful abilities, but learning it risked falling into undeath and required a wizard to supervise.
• Angel chose to protect Frod, Sunny, Yada, and Tulas while they learned Soul Sleight, and planned to visit the Old Earth Continent to investigate the Tidal Realm.
• Angel asked Frod to watch for Leon in Firstheart City and tell him about the planned return to the Old Earth Continent, then prepared to seek out Lord Rhein.

Angel learned that Budding believers from beyond the region were expected to seek him out, while Rhein prepared defenses and promised a host for the Twisted Seed. After Angel discovered that Marisa’s success in reaching legend had unsettled Rhein, he arranged for his departure and began preparing a login device in the hidden room.

• Angel told Rhein that Sanders had learned of the Budding believers, and Rhein said he would consult Rosen, strengthen defenses, and send Angel a possible host for the Twisted Seed.
• Angel told Rhein he planned to leave Savage Cave and travel overseas, and Rhein reminded him to finish refining the login device before he departed.
• Angel used the Eye of God to see Rhein studying Marisa’s name in Kulori’s Records, then asked the Tree Spirit about their supposed connection.
• The Tree Spirit explained that Marisa’s breakthrough to legend could influence Rhein and other powerful wizards who had thought the path was closed.
• Angel asked the Tree Spirit to deliver mushrooms to Regina and send materials and books, then spent the next day reading and copying books.
• Angel received the materials and began refining the login device in the hidden room, considering how he might safely study Nightmare Light.

Angel refined 299 varied log-in devices and discovered that a hidden-room machine was a customized Transcendent Extractor for magical ores. Rhein then brought Angel into his Exile Space to use the Dream Conch to transport precious materials into the Dream Wilderness, and Angel began sending them to New City's underground hall.

• Angel gave the Tree Spirit 299 log-in devices, each with 999 log-ins, and the Tree Spirit left to bring them to Rhein.
• Angel identified three discarded semi-finished products of Thexumir's Mirror and decided to keep them until he learned the Blackening Spell.
• Angel activated a hidden-room machine and recognized it as a customized Transcendent Extractor that could draw properties from low- and mid-quality magical ores.
• Rhein summoned Angel to the chasm, then took him into his Exile Space and asked to use the Dream Conch to move precious magical materials into the Dream Wilderness.
• Rhein showed Angel a vast store of magical materials and told him to send them to an underground hall in New City; Angel set the destination and activated the Dream Conch.

Angel and Rhein tested whether an elemental lifeform could enter the Dream Wilderness, where Rhein’s flame companion retained its elemental body and briefly unleashed a powerful fire breath after eating Starfire Mystic Stone. Rhein then asked Angel to use the Dream Conch to test whether Aldrich’s Tidewave Garden could be brought into the Dream Wilderness, leaving Angel to consider the compatibility of laws.

• Rhein gave his flame companion a Starfire Mystic Stone, and Angel used the Dream Entry Technique to bring it into the Dream Wilderness.
• Rhein found the flame companion among the Dream Wilderness’s magical materials, where it ate another Starfire Mystic Stone and unleashed a powerful flame breath before becoming exhausted.
• Angel explained that the flame companion retained its elemental body but remained subject to the Energy-Level Restriction, and Liana arrived and planned to use elemental lifeforms to help construct the city.
• Angel and Rhein returned to Exile Space, where Rhein revealed a bead containing Aldrich’s miniature Tidewave Garden and asked Angel to test whether it could enter the Dream Wilderness.

Angel and Rhein tested whether Tidewave Garden could be brought into the Dream Wilderness after Rhein had exhausted its power of laws to reduce the risk. The garden appeared in the Dream Wilderness amid a vast storm, and Angel and Rhein watched its glass bead glow in the darkness.

• Rhein showed Angel how Tidewave Garden had lost its ocean after Rhein exhausted its power of laws, and explained that he and Sanders believed the Dream Wilderness could withstand the garden’s weakened laws.
• Angel agreed to the test, prepared defenses for Firstheart City and Jon, and Rhein secured dangerous offensive items before they returned to reality.
• Angel sent Rhein to a remote corner of the Dream Wilderness, then activated the Dream Conch on the glass bead representing Tidewave Garden.
• Angel entered the Dream Wilderness and found a huge Black Cloud, violent winds, and lightning around the nameless hills, though the world membrane and cities appeared undamaged.
• Angel found Rhein hovering nearby, and the two saw Tidewave Garden’s tiny glass bead suspended in the darkness and glowing with a hazy watery light.

Angel and Rhein watched the Dream Wilderness restore Tidewave Garden after its real water-element laws collided with the realm’s virtual laws. They entered the garden and found its sea and vegetation restored, while Rhein confirmed that its law threads retained real power.

• Angel and Rhein concluded that Tidewave Garden’s tangible laws had entered the Dream Wilderness and let the realm’s will handle the clash without intervening.
• The Black Cloud dispersed, and the glass bead fell to the ground as the storm ended.
• Rhein activated the bead, and Angel and Rhein entered Tidewave Garden to inspect its laws.
• Angel and Rhein found the garden’s withered tree revived and its ocean restored, with abundant water-element threads spreading from the tower’s top room.
• Rhein tested the threads with Water Ball and confirmed that they carried the essence of real laws and could support water-element training.

Angel and Rhein discovered that real water-element laws had intertwined with Celestial Change’s authority in Tidewave Garden, revealing how real laws could strengthen the Dream Wilderness. Angel explained that the Dream Wilderness could only absorb laws through Wizard Gardens within its current energy limits, leaving large-scale integration for the future.

• Angel could not enter the room of blue Gloomlight, while Rhein entered because he had comprehended water-element veins.
• Rhein formed a genuine Water Arrow through the room’s real water-element laws and identified Dream Wilderness traces within them.
• Angel used his god’s-eye view and the Authority Tree to locate Celestial Change’s water-element sub-authority intertwined with the real laws.
• The water-element authority cleared a path for Angel, allowing him to enter the room, though he could not control the real laws themselves.
• Angel told Rhein that real laws could perfect Dream Wilderness authorities but could also affect native residents.
• Angel explained that the Dream Wilderness could currently integrate real laws only by pulling in tiny or small Wizard Gardens with the Dream Conch.

Angel and Rhein investigated the Dream Conch’s limits after it copied Tidewave Garden’s laws, then went to the Filthy Wing Station to inspect a parasite for Angel’s Twisted Seed. Meanwhile, Sanders tracked down Flora and Su Mishi, who remained in Red Plague territory, and found Flora’s messenger.

• Angel explained that only small Wizard Gardens whose laws matched the Dream Wilderness’s authorities could be pulled in safely, and Rhein planned to borrow suitable gardens for future experiments.
• Rhein and Angel decided to develop Tidewave Garden as a water-element cultivation area in New City, then discovered that a water-element life-form had formed there.
• After further experiments confirmed that the Dream Conch had copied Tidewave Garden’s foundation of laws, Rhein took Angel to the Filthy Wing Station to see a parasite he had commissioned for the Twisted Seed.
• Sanders searched Red Plague territory for Flora and Su Mishi, then found Flora’s messenger, a little skeleton remotely controlled by Flora.
• Flora recognized Sanders and began to tell him what had happened, but Sanders told her they would talk when he arrived, and she sent Little Little Red to guide him.

Sanders reached Flora and Su Mishi in the underground Rose Castle and examined Su Mishi’s badly damaged Demon Abyss Nightmare Domain. As Su Mishi prepared to abandon it, Sanders revealed that Angel’s Dream Wilderness might be powerful enough to repair it.

• Sanders followed Little Little Red through the illusory blackwood forest and reached Flora’s Rose Castle, where he learned Su Mishi was in the Boiling Blood Bath basement.
• Flora told Sanders that the Extreme Sect’s Heresy Judgment Bureau had drawn the Red Plague believers’ attention, and she confirmed she intended to continue investigating the Blood Fusion Incident.
• Sanders used a Nightmare Stone to examine Su Mishi’s Nightmare Domain, then used his Black Tower Nightmare Domain to keep the damaged domain from collapsing during activation.
• Sanders explained that Su Mishi’s Demon Abyss Nightmare Domain was nearly destroyed and that recovery would normally require abandoning it or receiving help from a domain on Sleepless City’s level.
• When Su Mishi agreed to have his Nightmare Domain stripped away, Sanders said Angel’s Dream Wilderness might be able to repair it.

Little Saim fled Holy Echo Farm after killing its owner, who had tried to sacrifice him, but the knight patrol’s hounds closed in as he ran through the forest. Angel Pat rescued him aboard a flying boat and learned of the attempted ritual, then agreed to take Little Saim to Saint Saim City instead of returning him to the Silver Yun Duchy.

• Little Saim fled Holy Echo Farm after killing the farm owner, discarded his bloodstained clothes, and escaped through the gates before the alarm reached the guards.
• Little Saim ran into the forest, realized the farm owner’s noble allies might be involved, and tried to evade the trackers and their hounds despite hunger and exhaustion.
• Little Saim sprained his ankle and despaired as the pursuit drew close, but Angel Pat appeared, healed him, and rescued him aboard the flying boat Gondola.
• Little Saim introduced himself as Igo Saim Rulendar and agreed to guide Angel to Saint Saim City in exchange for silver coins.
• Angel asked whether Little Saim wanted to return to the Silver Yun Duchy, and Little Saim refused before explaining that the farm owner had planned to sacrifice him.
• Angel suspected the ritual might involve an otherworldly force and decided to have Frod inform Neya of Hurricane Tower.

Little Saim worried that Angel would condemn him for killing the farm owner, but Angel reassured him and continued watching recordings on the Imprint Stones. As Angel carried Little Saim toward Saint Saim City, Rhein learned that Angel had left and checked on Dodolo and Regina; afterward, the Tree Spirit found nothing amiss in the ruins, though a voice whispered from Kulori’s corridor after he left.

• Little Saim asked Angel whether killing the farm owner made him a bad person, and Angel told him he was not a bad child.
• Angel watched historical recordings on Imprint Stones, then shut off footage of himself refining Ocean Rhythm when Little Saim recognized the Gondola.
• Little Saim asked how he could reach the supernatural horizons Angel knew, and Angel said it would probably not be easy.
• Angel flew the Gondola slowly with Little Saim and reached the heartland of the Central Empire near Saint Saim City by dawn.
• Rhein visited the ruins and learned that Angel had left, Dodolo was staying behind, and Regina was persistently asking the Tree Spirit for mushrooms.
• The Tree Spirit checked Kulori’s corridor and found nothing unusual, but after he left, a soft voice said, “He’s gone...”

Angel accompanied Little Saim to Star-Lake Castle, where an undead spirit possessed Little Saim and Angel destroyed it. Angel revealed that dozens of hostile undead spirits haunted the castle, leaving him and Little Saim surrounded at its entrance.

• Little Saim asked Angel to stop at his ancestral Star-Lake Castle, and Angel agreed after sensing a familiar aura there.
• Little Saim reminisced about his childhood at the castle and approached its doors, but Angel pulled him back after spotting danger.
• An undead spirit from Queen Luo Lin's statue possessed Little Saim and tried to attack Angel.
• Angel used his Revolver to expel and destroy the undead spirit, freeing Little Saim.
• Angel revealed at least thirty undead spirits throughout the castle, and they all fixed hostile eyes on him and Little Saim.

Angel fought the undead surrounding the ancient castle while Little Saim explored his family home. When Little Saim disappeared through a hidden passage in the castle’s underground art chamber, Angel discovered a blood-drawn pattern that resembled an inscription.

• Angel protected Little Saim from the undead’s oppressive gazes and burned away the hair-like death energy surrounding them.
• Angel used Prelude of Reincarnation to destroy the attacking undead, and Little Saim recognized Maid Issa and Count Roland among them.
• Angel sent Little Saim into the castle and used Mist Illusion to keep the undead from reaching him before purifying them all.
• Little Saim explored his mother’s bedchamber and visited the underground chamber containing a collection of masterful artworks.
• Little Saim bypassed a wall in the art chamber and disappeared, leading Angel to find a blood-drawn pattern that looked like an inscription.

Angel and Little Saim entered the hidden inscription space beneath the ancient castle, where Little Saim learned about Queen Luo Lin’s connection to the Wizarding World and received a chest left for her descendants. Angel recognized the portrait’s artist and declined the chest, leaving Little Saim to discover its contents for himself.

• Angel chose not to activate the inscription until Little Saim returned, then heard that the boy had met Queen Luo Lin in a strange space.
• Little Saim told Angel that Queen Luo Lin had revealed family secrets and left gifts from a wizard, and he offered those gifts to Angel.
• Little Saim used his blood to activate the inscription, bringing himself and Angel into a narrow room containing Queen Luo Lin’s portrait and a locked iron chest.
• Angel explained that the figure in the portrait had been a spirit that delivered Queen Luo Lin’s message, then recognized the artist’s signature as Feng.
• Little Saim handed Angel the chest, but Angel said its contents were useless to him and told the boy to open it himself.

Little Saim discovered that Queen Luo Lin had left him a bloodline bottle and Witch’s Soup to help him become a wizard, and learned that the bloodline came from her own body. He chose to pursue wizardry despite his enslavement, but Angel warned that the Witch’s Soup might not raise his mental power enough.

• Little Saim opened the chest and found a bloodline bottle, a sealed flask, and a parchment; Angel explained that the bottle held a valuable purified bloodline compatible with Little Saim.
• Angel identified the flask as Windsor Double-Helix Witch’s Soup, which could raise the user’s mental power limit by three points.
• Little Saim read Queen Luo Lin’s parchment and learned that she had left the items for a descendant with the Near-Spirit Body talent, along with guidance for reaching the Prosperous Continent and finding an extraordinary organization.
• Little Saim worried that becoming a wizard would mean protecting the Silver Heron Royal Family, but Angel told him that preserving his own line would also preserve the Saint Saim Family.
• Little Saim resolved to become a wizard, and Angel cautioned that the Witch’s Soup would not make him gifted if his mental power was below seven points; they would need to test his value.