Chapter Summaries

Angel met a strand of consciousness belonging to Mirafael. Feng, who had been sealed in a painting to await him. Feng began explaining how his attempt to prevent a future Demon God Catastrophe had led to the chain of events surrounding Angel, and ended by recalling a suggestion to consult the Book of Kel.

• Angel recognized Feng from an old portrait, and Feng explained that he was a consciousness sketched into the painting and awakened by the Ojia Intricate-Pattern Key.
• Feng said he had been left to answer Angel’s questions, then asked whether the Demon God Catastrophe had been stopped; Angel confirmed the Lord of No Flame could no longer descend on the Southern Wizarding World but refused to explain how.
• Angel asked why Feng had woven him into fate, and Feng said there had been no player or game, only fate pushing events along.
• Feng recounted how losing his beloved and mentor in a Demon God Catastrophe made preventing such disasters his obsession.
• Feng explained that a prophecy wizard had learned through the City of Reincarnation that the Southern Region faced a future Demon God Catastrophe and had suggested that Feng consult the Book of Kel.

Feng explained that the Book of Kel had directed his actions to prevent the Demon God calamity, choosing Angel as the one who would ultimately stop it. He revealed that the Tidal Realm was an essential part of the same scheme and showed Angel the treasure he had paid as its price.

• Feng told Angel that the Book of Kel had chosen Angel and recounted how it gave Feng instructions through visions and whispers.
• Angel realized the Book of Kel, rather than Feng alone, had arranged the intricate events that led him to become the scheme’s protagonist.
• Feng explained that the Abyss and Tidal Realm events formed one scheme, with the Tidal Realm serving as Angel’s reward and an indispensable link.
• Feng said the Book of Kel’s fate would punish anyone who left the scheme incomplete, so he had to pay its price.
• Feng brought out a small metal box and told Angel it contained the greatest treasure Feng had left behind.

Angel accepted Feng’s mysterious magic pattern, Mad Hatter’s Coronation, as the price designated for him by the Book of Kel. After learning its rules, he prepared to test how it could replace the transformation corner in other magic patterns.

• Feng offered Angel the ornate box containing a treasure, and Angel first tried to return it to him.
• Feng insisted the box and its contents belonged to Angel, so Angel opened it and discovered a mysterious magic pattern drawn inside.
• Feng identified the pattern as Mad Hatter’s Coronation and explained how it transferred between objects and worked as a corner in complete magic patterns.
• Angel took out parchment and an engraving pen, learned the pattern would not be consumed, and considered a simple magic pattern for his first test.

Angel inscribed an Immaculate Magic Pattern using Mad Hatter's Coronation, discovering that it enhanced the pattern and let it draw energy from its surroundings. Feng explained that the mysterious pattern had further powers tied to the color of its hat, then told Angel the story of Louis, who became the Mad Hatter.

• Angel inscribed an Immaculate Magic Pattern while Feng watched, and Feng jolted the table, causing a slight deviation in one of its pattern angles.
• Angel used Mad Hatter's Coronation to complete the pattern, and a tiny figure appeared in its glow and tossed a white hat onto it.
• Angel activated the pattern and found its effects had expanded despite the flawed line, while Feng explained it could replenish its energy by absorbing external energy.
• Feng said the white hat limited the mysterious pattern's effects and asked Angel whether he knew the tale of Louis's Hat.
• Feng recounted how Louis entered the Teapot Kingdom, made a magical hat from Chacha's fur, and eventually became the permanently mad Mad Hatter after his wife left him.

Angel learned that Mad Hatter's Coronation could optimize flaws in magic patterns with its white hat, while its black hat could fundamentally transform a flawless pattern. After hearing Feng describe the black hat's rare appearance and effects, Angel began preparing to test the mysterious magic pattern himself.

• Feng explained that the white hat could optimize flaws in magic patterns, provided the flaws made up no more than three percent of the whole.
• Feng said the black hat could appear only when a magic pattern was flawless, and that complex magic energy arrays had a greater chance of triggering it.
• Feng revealed that Rekton had produced a black hat once, but Feng had left with Mad Hatter's Coronation after suspecting Rekton wanted to take it.
• Feng described the black hat as causing an almost complete transformation of the magic pattern it crowned.
• Angel took out treated parchment and an engraving pen to try the mysterious magic pattern, despite Feng warning that a black hat was unlikely to appear.

Angel engraved the Sunlight Garden magic energy array, and it unexpectedly received a black-hat crowning. He survived the ensuing flood of meaningless mysterious information, while Feng realized he had forgotten to warn him about the trial of wills.

• Feng watched Angel prepare his materials and began guessing what magic pattern he would engrave.
• Angel engraved the four-pattern Sunlight Garden array, completing its final stroke with the mysterious pattern from the metal box.
• A black hat appeared during the crowning, and dense black mist enveloped the parchment as Angel lost consciousness.
• Feng remembered that a black-hat crowning subjected its creator to a contest of wills and anxiously waited for Angel to recover.
• Angel awoke after experiencing darkness and a torrent of meaningless mysterious information, and told Feng that nearly a month had seemed to pass although only seconds had elapsed.

Angel learned that Mad Hatter's Coronation could overwhelm users with madness, then discovered that its black hat had transformed Sunlight Garden into a protective and cleansing magic energy array. The chapter ended with Angel naming the changed array Sunlight Sanctuary.

• Feng explained that the black hat's mysterious information could drive users mad, and that this was a characteristic of Mad Hatter's Coronation rather than disorder.
• Feng described how controllable mysterious objects could rarely become semi-uncontrolled, and warned Angel not to rely too heavily on them.
• Angel and Feng examined the changed parchment, which now bore a design of a black top hat above a glowing sunflower.
• Angel activated the transformed magic energy array, and he and Feng sensed its effects within the barrier.
• Angel discovered that Sunlight Garden now repelled beings he deemed evil and cleansed curses, then accepted Feng's suggestion to rename it Sunlight Sanctuary.

Angel tested whether he could recreate the Sunlight Sanctuary but produced only ordinary White Hatter-crowned Sunlight Garden scrolls. Feng warned him about three drawbacks of mysterious magic patterns, and the chapter ended with Feng using a truth-detecting spell after Angel claimed he had crafted a Half-Step Mystic object.

• Angel and Feng discussed the Sunlight Sanctuary’s limited uses because it was inscribed on parchment, and Angel tried to recreate it several times.
• Angel’s later attempts produced only White Hatter-crowned Sunlight Garden scrolls, convincing Feng that the earlier success had been luck.
• Feng warned Angel that Black Hatter’s Coronation could intensify alchemical omens and that a dangerous Red Hatter might possibly appear.
• Feng cautioned Angel that mysterious magic patterns emitted an obvious aura that could attract hunters and invite conflict.
• Angel told Feng that he had crafted a Half-Step Mystic object, and Feng reacted with disbelief before testing his claim with a spell.

Feng confirmed that Angel had crafted a Half-Step Mystic item and discussed Angel’s abilities, the Tidal Realm, and Naimeicui’s future. After giving Angel a message seed for Naimeicui and learning how Wang Wang had carried him through the Void Storm, Feng heard Angel’s final question about the Tidal Realm’s will.

• Feng used the Truth-Verification Art and confirmed Angel’s claim that he had crafted a Half-Step Mystic item, then heard Angel explain what had happened at Black Castle.
• Feng learned that Angel was a member of the Research Institute and advised him to reveal Black Hat Coronation works rather than works that might expose their origins.
• Feng told Angel that the Tidal Realm would have to pay a price for sealing itself away and said Angel’s leadership could make its opening gentler.
• Feng said the Book of Kel had arranged for Angel to help Naimeicui break through and gave him a glowing bud seed containing a message for Naimeicui.
• Angel summoned Wang Wang and explained how the Void Traveler had helped him pass through the Void Storm, and Feng warned him not to let Gruzdaiwald see it.
• Angel asked Feng why a wisp of the Tidal Realm’s will had appeared above the stone platform.

Feng explained how the First Manifestation Ritual could let Angel gain the Tidal Realm’s Heaven-Bestowed Authority and a slight advantage in its future development. After Feng questioned Angel about the Demon God Calamity, he painted and gave Angel a picture containing the Turing Cube’s special energy before vanishing, leaving Angel to carry it out of the collapsing painted world.

• Angel learned that Feng had arranged the First Manifestation Ritual and the void storm to prepare him to encounter the Tidal Realm’s will.
• Feng explained that Heaven-Bestowed Authority would give Angel an advantage in the Tidal Realm’s future development, but would not make him its ruler.
• Angel told Feng that the Lord of No Flame’s true spirit had fallen and said, “I killed him, but I was not the one who killed him.”
• Feng suspected another powerful person had acted through Angel and chose not to press him further.
• Feng painted their conversation, condensed the painted world’s energy into the picture, and gave it to Angel as a way to contact the Turing Cube or Feng’s true body.
• After Feng vanished and a passage opened, Angel sent Wang Wang back to the bracelet space, took the painting, and stepped through.

Angel reached the Tidal Realm’s will projection as the First-Phase Ritual collapsed, then woke to find the pressure and void storm gone. Unsure whether he had obtained Heaven-Bestowed Authority, he prepared to leave the void with Naimeicui and the message Feng had left for it.

• Angel saw the First-Phase Ritual’s Void Light Algae go dark and sent his mental power into the unstable projection of the Tidal Realm’s will.
• Angel dreamed of evolving through elemental forms and witnessing an elemental tide before waking on the stone platform.
• Naimeicui told Angel that the void storm had disappeared and that it had found him unconscious; Angel could not confirm whether he had gained Heaven-Bestowed Authority.
• Angel told Naimeicui that he had obtained the treasure and gave it Feng’s bud seed containing a message for Naimeicui.
• Angel and Naimeicui prepared to leave the void, and Angel spotted the gathered Void Travelers before releasing Wang Wang from his bracelet space.

Angel let Wang Wang leave with its kin and returned to the Vine House, where he concealed Feng’s painting with a Domain Field. After reading Feng’s message, Naimeicui pledged to help reshape the Tidal Realm and considered Angel’s invitation to meet Savage Cave’s wizards without leaving the Lost Forest.

• Wang Wang agreed to answer Angel’s questions through the Void Network, then left with its kin and entrusted a pale-purple Void Traveler to Angel.
• Angel placed the remaining Void Traveler in his bracelet and created an illusion to help it grow accustomed to him.
• Angel returned with Naimeicui to the Vine House, where Naimeicui studied Feng’s message and contemplated the dawn sky.
• Angel concealed the energy in Feng’s painting with a Domain Field, and Naimeicui praised the painting after reading its title, “Friends’ Night Talk.”
• Naimeicui told Angel that Feng’s message described the Tidal Realm’s future and pledged to help Savage Cave establish a new order there.
• Angel invited Naimeicui to learn about Savage Cave, and Naimeicui declined to leave the Tidal Realm for now; Angel suggested it could meet Savage Cave’s people in the Lost Forest.

Feng investigated the female Pope’s detection-focused mysterious object in Saint Isa Kingdom while speaking with Rekton about their missions and a vanished consciousness in the Southern Region. After learning the Book of Kel’s arrangement had unfolded and Mad Hatter’s Coronation had been sent away, Feng returned his attention to the Holy Selection, planning to test the Pope’s object before deciding whether to act.

• Feng disguised as Sister Feng listened to candidate saintesses praise the Pope, then kept quiet when Sister Maria reprimanded them for gossiping.
• Feng used water in his bathtub to evade the Pope’s detection and told Rekton that the female Pope possessed a vast-reaching mysterious object that could probe people’s thoughts.
• Feng warned Rekton about the dangers of the Secret World, and Rekton explained that he planned to investigate Black Alchemy on its safer Surface Side.
• Feng discovered that his incarnated consciousness in a Southern Region painting had disappeared, and he and Rekton realized the Book of Kel’s arrangement had unfolded at the cost of Mad Hatter’s Coronation.
• Rekton considered finding the person who obtained the mysterious magic pattern, but decided to investigate Black Alchemy first.
• Feng agreed to test the Pope’s mysterious object during the next day’s Holy Selection before deciding whether to make a move.

Liana supervised construction in New City and discovered a natural vacuum zone in Dream Wilderness that Angel confirmed was caused by his experiment. Angel then arrived with the powerful wood-element creature Naimeicui from the Tidal Realm, who focused on the Tree Spirit.

• Liana reprimanded a construction supervisor after workers altered Jon's blueprints and removed a rooftop fountain.
• The Tree Spirit explained that Dream Plant Fairies had noticed a distant natural vacuum zone where Mother Tree Network nodes had vanished.
• Liana contacted Angel, who confirmed the anomaly was caused by a small experiment and said he wanted to speak with the Tree Spirit.
• Angel appeared beside Liana and the Tree Spirit with the emerald-green snake Naimeicui, whose presence made Liana instinctively avert her gaze.
• Angel introduced Naimeicui from the Tidal Realm, and Naimeicui asked the Tree Spirit whether he was a wood-element creature.

Angel brought Naimeicui, a half-step Legendary wood-element creature from the Tidal Realm, into the Dream Wilderness and alerted Savage Cave's leaders to the realm's potential and her wish to cooperate. While Sanders prepared to bring Su Mishi in to take on a dangerous Authority, Rhein entered the Dream Wilderness and asked Angel to discuss the Tidal Realm in detail.

• Naimeicui questioned Angel about the Dream Plant Fairies, and Angel left her with the Tree Spirit while he went to meet Sanders.
• Liana learned from Angel that Naimeicui was a half-step Legendary wood-element creature, while the Tree Spirit received Angel's overview of the Tidal Realm and its possible development.
• The Tree Spirit and Iron Armor Granny prepared to meet Naimeicui after learning she hoped to cooperate with Savage Cave in developing the Tidal Realm.
• Sanders explained that Su Mishi would take on an Authority suited to his Demon Abyss Nightmare Domain, which could push him to his limit, and outlined how he and Flora would monitor him.
• Angel waited at the Nightmare Domain's core for Su Mishi, then learned that Rhein had entered the Dream Wilderness and wanted to discuss the Tidal Realm with him.
• Angel sent Rhein the information about the Tidal Realm and briefly explained his location.

Rhein visited Angel in the Dream Wilderness, learned how Angel had found the Tidal Realm, and joined Sanders as he prepared Su Mishi to bear authority. Sanders laid out three restrictions on Dream Realm creatures, and Angel began the bestowal with the Lucky Scroll, activating Dissolution just as his Lucky Moment neared its end.

• Rhein asked Angel where the Tidal Realm entrance was, and Angel explained how he had found it in the Shannon Royal House’s underground treasury.
• Sanders lowered Firstheart City’s Luss level below ten, then returned with Su Mishi after bringing him into the Dream Wilderness.
• Sanders told Angel the three restrictions for Dream Realm creatures: they had to integrate with the Dream Wilderness’s energy system, stay within its energy-level limit, and pursue energy.
• Angel summoned the Nightmare Domain Main Body and prepared to bestow authority on Su Mishi.
• Angel opened the Lucky Scroll and activated the Green Pattern representing Dissolution as the Lucky Moment was about to end.

Su Mishi endured the painful fusion of a major Authority in Dream Wilderness, then used his Demon Abyss Nightmare Domain as a backup to share the strain. With help from Flora, he survived the ordeal and completed the Authority’s missing information.

• Angel guided the point of light into Su Mishi, and Sanders and Rhein watched as the Authority began to fuse with him.
• After three hours, Su Mishi entered deep fusion and suffered worsening pain that threatened to make his physical body collapse.
• As Sanders and Rhein considered ending the attempt, Su Mishi’s condition unexpectedly improved, and Sanders discovered he had activated Demon Abyss Nightmare Domain to share the strain.
• Sanders explained that Flora had used Su Mishi’s prior instructions to activate the backup, giving him time to endure the Authority’s information stream.
• Su Mishi sensed and absorbed information stored in Demon Abyss Nightmare Domain, completing the Authority’s scattered fragments.

Angel discovered that Su Mishi’s new Rhythmic Membrane authority created prismatic light around the Dream Wilderness, which he believed served as a birthplace for Dream Realm life. After Frod connected the light to theories about a Sea of Dreams, Su Mishi awakened, confirmed he was safe, and demonstrated the authority by summoning a figure.

• Angel unlocked information about the Rhythmic Membrane and saw prismatic light wrap around the Dream Wilderness from beyond its boundary.
• Angel told Sanders and Rhein that the membrane’s flowing light formed pools where Dream Realm life was born, and Sanders and Angel recognized it as strangely familiar.
• Rhein connected the light to descriptions of Dream Realm life, and Frod explained that some Dream-type wizards believed such life arose from information fragments in a rainbow Sea of Dreams.
• Su Mishi awakened, left the Dream Wilderness, and returned to confirm that Little Red had activated the Demon Abyss Nightmare Domain in time to keep him safe.
• Su Mishi learned that Angel had explained his authority to the others, then swept out a hand and summoned a figure in prismatic flowing light.

Su Mishi struggled to use the Rhythmic Membrane to create stable life, while Angel guided the Dream Wilderness’s native will to produce living mushrooms and other creatures. As the group prepared to leave, Su Mishi sensed that something was calling to the Rhythmic Membrane, and Angel and Frod suspected someone had high compatibility with it.

• Su Mishi summoned a ram-horned demon, a lava troll, and a bone-winged demon, but each creation quickly collapsed under minor physical or environmental changes.
• Sanders told Su Mishi to stop projecting demons from his Nightmare Domain and to begin by learning the Dream Wilderness’s fundamental rules.
• Angel used information from Tree Civilization to let the native will create running mushrooms, which Rhein, Sanders, and Frod examined.
• Angel explained that he had acted as an intermediary and that the process depended on his presence, available energy, and Tree Civilization’s limited information.
• Angel helped the native will produce many ordinary Dream Realm lifeforms, mostly fungi and creatures that aided plant growth.
• As the group prepared to leave, Su Mishi said something was calling to the Rhythmic Membrane, and Angel and Frod recognized that someone had high compatibility with it.

Angel and the others discovered that Gloria had high compatibility with the Rhythmic Membrane Authority while visiting her in the forest near the Mother Tree. After Angel created a fungal lifeform to demonstrate the Authority, Gloria snatched it and bared her fangs, leaving its fate uncertain.

• Angel led Su Mishi, Sanders, Rhein, and Frod to a quiet forest after sensing someone with high Rhythmic Membrane compatibility nearby.
• The group found Gloria cooking herbal flower broth from ingredients she had gathered and traded for with Dream Plant Fairies.
• Gloria explained that she had come at Liana’s request to find ingredients for the Tea Party, and that she also hoped to trade for a Golden Apple borne by a silver-skinned treant.
• Angel confirmed Gloria was the person compatible with Rhythmic Membrane, and explained that the group had come to discuss the Authority with her.
• Gloria asked Angel to demonstrate creating Dream Realm life, and Angel used Rhythmic Membrane to make a spotted mushroom.
• Gloria snatched the mushroom from Angel and bared her fangs.