Chapter Summaries

Angel used a Peter Pan illusion to stop Little Whirlwind from crying and had Dangros question it as they approached Greenwild Plains. Little Whirlwind revealed that its name was Anoto, it came from Wind Island in White Cloud Township, and its older sister was Salmado.

• Sand Eagle escorted Angel across Toothpull Desert's border, then warned him that future air travel would require an escort and left.
• Angel showed the sobbing Little Whirlwind a Peter Pan illusion, which captivated it with the promise of a grand adventure.
• Dangros woke from its own illusion and asked Angel to show it more stories, but Angel promised more dramas only if it helped question Little Whirlwind.
• As the Gondola reached Greenwild Plains, Angel ended the Peter Pan illusion at a suspenseful moment, and Little Whirlwind stopped crying so it could keep watching later.
• Dangros coaxed Little Whirlwind into revealing that it was named Anoto, came from Wind Island in White Cloud Township, and had an older sister named Salmado.

Angel traveled toward White Cloud Township with Anoto, who agreed to return home after Dangros persuaded it to prepare before pursuing its sister. When Angel entered the cloud-filled Greenwild Plains, he noticed there were no wind-element creatures and brought Anoto outside the cage to investigate.

• Angel recognized that Anoto's sister was Salmado of the Sandwind Caravan and showed Anoto an illusion of Salmado and Aguado setting off on their journey.
• Dangros convinced Anoto that it needed knowledge, companions, and strength before traveling, so Anoto agreed to return to White Cloud Township.
• Anoto described White Cloud Township as peaceful, and Angel continued toward Wind Island while letting Anoto and Dangros watch Peter Pan.
• Angel entered the Greenwild Plains, followed the clouds toward White Cloud Township, and noticed that he had encountered no wind-element creatures.
• Anoto said that every cloud in the Greenwild Plains should contain wind-element lifeforms, so Angel carried its yellow-sand cage down onto a cloudbank for it to investigate.

Angel found an unawakened wind-element sprite in Greenwild Plains and concluded that the disappearance of nearby wind-element creatures might signal trouble in White Cloud Township. After Anoto received no reply from Wise One Camus, Angel took the group to ask the wood-element creatures of Greenwild Plains what had happened.

• Anoto sensed a sleeping white dove elemental sprite in the clouds, and Angel captured it to bring to Lord Gentle Wind on Wind Island.
• Angel reasoned that the wind-element creatures had vanished before they could care for the dove, suggesting that something had happened in White Cloud Township.
• Anoto sent a message to Wise One Camus, but no reply arrived after half an hour, raising concern about Wind Island or a possible interception.
• Angel comforted Anoto and took the Gondola down to Greenwild Plains to ask the wood-element creatures for information.
• Walking grass sprites gathered beneath the Gondola, then a huge green grass vine burst from the ground and rose toward them.

Angel and his companions encountered a demonic vine that mistook them for Anoto’s kidnappers, but Ermi subdued it and Anoto cleared up the misunderstanding. The vine then consulted the Wise One, revealing that nearly all wind-element creatures had returned to Wind Island while Gentle Wind Uranus had refused outside help, leaving the cause unknown.

• The demonic vine attacked the Gondola to rescue Anoto, and Ermi blocked its vines and restrained it.
• Anoto admitted that it had entered Toothpull Desert on its own and had cried because it was frightened, so the demonic vine apologized to Angel.
• Angel told the demonic vine about the strange events near White Cloud Township, and it pointed out that a wind-element creature had headed toward Wind Island.
• The demonic vine asked the Wise One, who reported that nearly all wind-element creatures had returned to Wind Island and that Gentle Wind Uranus had declined Proliferation Glaime’s offer of help.

Angel declined the Wise One of Greenwild Plains’ invitation to Birth Lake and continued toward Wind Island, where he hoped to meet Gentle Wind Uranus and ask about Feng. Jieke joined the Gondola with a magic bean as fare, and the group entered the vast cloud sea at the heart of White Cloud Township.

• Angel refused the invitation to visit Birth Lake, asked the demon vine for directions and taboos, and set course for Wind Island.
• Jieke approached the Gondola with the Wise One’s invitation and offered Angel a magic bean in exchange for passage to Wind Island to investigate what had happened there.
• Angel agreed to let Jieke aboard but said he would decide whether Jieke could investigate after consulting Gentle Wind Uranus.
• Angel learned that Jieke produced magic beans from natural power, though they took a long time to grow and could replenish magic only in limited amounts.
• After five hours of travel, the Gondola reached the vast cloud sea at White Cloud Township’s core and flew toward Wind Island against the wind.

Angel guided the Gondola through the strengthening winds toward Wind Island, capturing several curious wind spirits along the way. When a huge wind-type creature approached and destroyed his greeting, it unleashed a tornado directly at the Gondola.

• As the gale intensified, Angel used Ermi's barrier to stabilize the Gondola and captured a silver-white flying fish that had drawn a hurricane toward them.
• Anoto showed unusual interest in the silver-white flying fish, and Angel later collected other wind spirits that approached the Gondola.
• Anoto sensed mature wind-type creatures nearby, and Angel stopped the Gondola when a mountain-sized shadow appeared through the clouds.
• The enormous creature's cyan eyes released a pressure that distressed the elemental spirits, so Angel dispelled it with invisible ripples.
• Angel sent the creature a gentle greeting, but it tore apart the light sphere and formed a massive tornado that charged at the Gondola.

Toby defeated a colossal black Whirlwind by trapping it in a force field that cut it off from the surrounding wind, then escaped its self-destruction with the Gondola. Afterward, Angel asked about the Lord Harriken the Whirlwind had mentioned, but Anoto had never heard of him.

• The black Whirlwind charged the Gondola, and Toby transformed into a Wrathful Griffin and pierced through it, dispersing it.
• Toby battled the mountain-sized black Whirlwind, whose wounds healed by drawing in wind from its surroundings.
• Toby surrounded the great Whirlwind with gray mist and created a force field that blocked its access to outside wind, exposing its elemental core.
• Toby cracked the elemental core, and the weakened great Whirlwind began to self-destruct while claiming it would witness Toby's destruction within Lord Harriken's body.
• Toby carried the Gondola to safety before the Whirlwind exploded, then returned to Angel's shoulder as the sprites celebrated its victory.
• Angel asked who Lord Harriken was, and Anoto, after grieving for the dead Whirlwind, said it had never heard of him.

Angel and his companions suspected that Harriken and the Great Whirlwind came from another wind territory, then encountered a massive force of foreign wind creatures near Wind Island. Harriken identified Angel's group as responsible for Aimoer's death and ordered them killed for capturing Feiwat.

• Bean Vine Jack suggested that Harriken and the Great Whirlwind might have come from another wind territory, and Angel connected the theory to White Cloud Township's strange behavior.
• Anoto sensed that the silver-white flying fish shared the abnormal wind aura of the Great Whirlwind, and Angel led the group toward Wind Island.
• Bean Vine Jack named Misty Sea Forest, Stormwind Ridge, and Longbreath Wind Cave as possible origins for the outsiders.
• Angel stopped the Gondola as dozens of mature wind creatures emerged from the black clouds, including four giants comparable to the Great Whirlwind.
• The wind creatures recognized Feiwat among Angel's companions and Harriken declared that Angel's group had killed Aimoer and abducted Feiwat.
• Harriken ordered the wind creatures to kill Angel's group, and their hatred surged toward the Gondola.

Gentle Wind Uranus chose war against Harriken’s forces, but news of an outsider clashing with Harriken led him to prepare a surprise attack. Above the Gale Cloud Sea, Angel and Ermi confronted Harriken while Toby protected the Gondola, and Angel followed Harriken toward a battlefield filled with wind elements.

• Gentle Wind Uranus struggled to choose between surrender and war, then declared war after Camus urged him to face the threat from Harriken.
• Gentle Wind Uranus and Camus learned that Harriken had withdrawn toward the Gale Cloud Sea after clashing with an outsider, and Camus proposed attacking his forces from behind.
• Angel persuaded Toby to protect the Gondola while Angel and Ermi went out to confront Harriken.
• Harriken attacked Angel with wind vortices but steered the fight away from the Gondola and toward a battlefield rich in wind elements.
• Angel dodged Harriken’s attacks and followed him onto the battlefield as Harriken sent a wind-element creature toward the Gondola to reclaim Feiwat.

Angel and Ermi fought Harriken and the wind-element creatures while Angel used illusion nodes to trap their forces in a dense mist. The three great wind generals continued pursuing Angel, unaware that they too had entered his illusion, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Harriken began the battle by summoning Aimoer’s final wisp of wind, and Angel sent Ermi to fight Harriken while he held back the other wind-element creatures.
• Toby confronted a giant black python, and Harriken recognized Toby as the creature that had killed Aimoer and urged the wind-element forces to attack him.
• Ermi’s wind vortex destroyed Harriken’s attack and its divine sense, after which Ermi and Harriken clashed amid thunder and raging winds.
• Angel raced past the pursuing wind-element creatures, and they followed the route toward Toby until Angel’s illusion buried them in dense mist and separated them from one another.
• The trapped creatures waited for Harriken or the three great wind generals to rescue them, while Angel continued fleeing and the three generals pursued him without noticing that they had also entered the mist.

Angel separated the Three-Headed Lion-Dog from the other Wind Generals and defeated it by exploiting its heads’ divided roles and limited coordination. After trapping all three heads in Mind Illusion, he turned his attention toward the remaining battle.

• Angel lured the Three-Headed Lion-Dog away from the other Wind Generals and confirmed that its Main Head, Secondary Head, and Tail Head had different responsibilities.
• The Three-Headed Lion-Dog attacked Angel with a continuous barrage of wind pillars, while Angel identified how its three heads coordinated the attacks.
• Angel disrupted the Lion-Dog’s battle rhythm, then waited for its tails to weaken after the Main Head unleashed three wind pillars at once.
• Angel touched the brows of all three heads and trapped each in Mind Illusion before placing the Lion-Dog in an external illusion.
• Angel watched the disabled Lion-Dog wander away, then looked toward the other battlefield.

Angel used illusions to split Chimera from Kraken and Lober, then faced Chimera in the mist. Chimera appeared to kill Angel with its three-headed attacks, but Angel reappeared unharmed and launched an attack with dozens of copies of himself.

• Chimera noticed that the Angel it pursued left no wind trail, while an illusory Lober fired its Wind-Tail Cannon and disappeared into the mist.
• Chimera split from Kraken to check on Lober, allowing Angel to decide to deal with Chimera first and keep the powerful Kraken occupied with an illusion.
• Chimera realized that Lober might have been an illusion and turned back, but Angel intercepted it and provoked it into attacking.
• Chimera struck Angel with hot, hurricane, and poisonous wind attacks, apparently killing him, but Angel reappeared without injury and explained Chimera's three-headed abilities.
• Angel summoned dozens of identical copies and sent them charging at Chimera.

Angel trapped Chimera in an illusion and raced to control Kraken before Harriken could break into the foggy battlefield. He charged through Kraken’s air rings despite being injured, and the chapter ended as Kraken failed to notice Angel’s changing aura.

• Angel used Nightmare Illusion and Mind Illusion to control Chimera, then sent it away as a special node in the external illusion.
• Angel learned from Ermi that Harriken was growing suspicious and might soon enter the foggy battlefield, so he hurried to control Kraken and complete the triangular illusion structure.
• Angel found Kraken pursuing his illusory duplicate, but its air rings and tentacles forced him to retreat from their first exchanges.
• After Ermi warned that Harriken might break in at any moment, Angel charged directly at Kraken, accepting injuries to close the distance.
• Kraken released more air rings after hitting Angel, but Angel became increasingly difficult to strike as his aura began to change.

Angel used memories of Fafnir’s wind Domain Field to approach Kraken and cast Mind Illusion through his right eye, completing the Mist Battlefield’s triangular structure. With the mist strengthened and Harriken entering the battlefield, Angel met Ermi to discuss the illusion and learn about Harriken’s abilities.

• Angel recalled Fafnir’s lessons about wind and used the insight to dodge Kraken’s air rings until he came within ten meters.
• Angel opened his Green-Patterned right eye and successfully cast Mind Illusion through it, controlling Kraken despite its wind-spike armor.
• Angel placed Kraken as the illusion’s final corner, causing the mist to overwhelm Harriken’s hurricane and stabilize the Mist Battlefield.
• Harriken stopped trying to disperse the mist and charged into the Mist Battlefield, while Angel changed clothes and went to find Ermi.
• Angel explained the battlefield’s layout to Ermi, then asked about Harriken and received memories of Ermi’s fight with it.

Toby nearly killed the black python before Gentle Wind Uranus intervened, prompting a fight that ended when Bean Vine Jack explained the situation. After learning Angel had acted in defense of the wind spirits, Uranus left to enter the Mist Battlefield and investigate Angel and Harriken.

• Toby trapped the weakened black python in a flaming cage after Gentle Wind Uranus stopped its attack with a wall of wind.
• Toby fought Uranus until Bean Vine Jack identified him as Gentle Wind, then returned to the Gondola.
• Anoto explained the situation to Uranus, who apologized to Toby and arranged for other wind creatures to take the python away.
• Uranus learned that Angel had trapped Harriken and his forces in the Mist Battlefield, while Camus and the others wondered what Uranus was thinking.
• Uranus decided to investigate and rushed into the Mist Battlefield before anyone could stop him.

Gentle Wind Uranus navigated Angel’s Mist Illusion and discovered that Harriken’s wind generals served as its energy nodes. Angel and Ermi defeated Harriken at Lober’s node, and the chapter ended with Gentle Wind Uranus emerging from the mist before them.

• Gentle Wind Uranus followed traces of familiar wind through the Mist Illusion, learned from a trapped eye of wind that the battlefield gave no easy escape, and located Chimera.
• Gentle Wind Uranus realized Chimera, Kraken, and the Three-Headed Lion-Dog were illusion nodes supplying energy, and he suspected Harriken would need to kill his own generals to break the illusion.
• Angel and Ermi found Harriken waiting beside Lober, and Harriken chose to fight them rather than endanger his companion.
• Ermi overpowered Harriken while Angel restrained him with illusions, and Harriken refused to self-destruct because Lober was behind him.
• Harriken surrendered when his elemental core was exposed, and Angel stopped attacking as Gentle Wind Uranus emerged from the mist.

Angel spared Harriken at Gentle Wind Uranus's request and imprisoned it in a wind-made bottle. After deciding to bind the other captured wind-element creatures with the Dingyuan Merck Oath, Angel took Gentle Wind Uranus's warning about their longing for freedom into account and proposed limiting the oath to twenty years.

• Gentle Wind Uranus asked Angel to spare Harriken and offered compensation, and Angel agreed.
• Gentle Wind Uranus secretly communicated with Harriken, then confined it in a small bottle made of wind.
• Angel left Lober and the other captured wind-element creatures in Mind Illusion and explained that he planned to bind them with the Dingyuan Merck Oath rather than kill them.
• Gentle Wind Uranus warned Angel that the oath would torment wind-element creatures because they prized freedom, even if it allowed personal freedom and future development.
• Angel proposed adding a twenty-year time limit to the Dingyuan Merck Oath.

Angel amended the oath for Stormwind Ridge’s defeated wind elemental creatures to last twenty years, then gave Gentle Wind Uranus control of the Mist Illusion so it could find them and obtain their signatures. As Gentle Wind Uranus discovered that the illusion could repair itself and transfer its vital nodes, it realized the illusion could potentially be maintained indefinitely.

• Angel set a twenty-year term for the Dingyuan Merck Oaths, prepared the contracts, and made Gentle Wind Uranus’s harp the control core of the Mist Illusion.
• Gentle Wind Uranus used the harp to survey and manipulate the illusion, guiding a lost Wind Island guard while discovering that the mist could restore its own energy flow.
• Gentle Wind Uranus found a Fluffy Cat, explained the defeat and oath, and watched it sign willingly; other wind elemental creatures soon followed suit.
• After collecting roughly thirty signatures, Gentle Wind Uranus reached Lober and entered its Mind Illusion, where it persuaded the three heads to agree to the oath.
• Gentle Wind Uranus removed Lober’s Mind Illusion and saw its crucial node transfer into the harp, allowing it to assign the node to another wind elemental creature and potentially keep the illusion running indefinitely.

Angel handed control of the Cloudmist Illusion to Gentle Wind Uranus and gained its promise to share what it knew in exchange for future support. Gentle Wind Uranus secured the illusion for White Cloud Township, while Camus led the captured Stormwind Ridge creatures toward Wind Island.

• Angel spoke with Camus and learned that it guarded the secret of its true body, while the rumor tying it to Feng was false.
• Gentle Wind Uranus asked to keep the Cloudmist Illusion, and Angel agreed while warning it to maintain at least one illusion node.
• Angel secured Gentle Wind Uranus's promise to answer his questions and planned to seek its support for a Savage Cave resident branch in White Cloud Township.
• Gentle Wind Uranus issued oaths to the creatures in the illusion and appointed three Wind Island guards as nodes to maintain it.
• Gentle Wind Uranus brought the captured Stormwind Ridge creatures out of the illusion, and Camus led them toward Wind Island.

Angel arrived at Wind Island after the Stormwind Ridge invaders surrendered and helped Gentle Wind Uranus avoid taking false credit for the victory. He settled the elemental spirits brought aboard Gondola and followed Camus into the palace, where they encountered a wind spirit outside the grand hall.

• Angel pinned a mischievous blue-skinned puppy with Gravity Veins, and Camus apologized for the trouble caused by its adopted spirit, Qubige.
• Gentle Wind Uranus and Camus returned to Wind Island with the surrendered Stormwind Ridge captives, and the wind-element creatures cheered their victory.
• Angel told Gentle Wind Uranus that he did not care about receiving credit, so Gentle Wind Uranus let the celebrations continue and planned to explain the victory later.
• Angel brought the elemental spirits ashore, and Camus arranged for Jieke and the other spirits to be escorted while Anoto and Feiwat remained pending Gentle Wind Uranus's return.
• Camus led Angel through the palace, explaining that Gentle Wind Uranus had built its unusual floating structures by imitating Mr. Feng's remarks and paintings.
• Angel and Camus reached the grand hall and found a wind spirit waiting outside its doors.