Chapter Summaries

Captain Barro took Boqi from Shipyard No. 4 toward Shipyard No. 1 to secretly investigate a woman in its pigsty, while Lunke followed them. Lunke discovered their destination and wondered what they meant by “pigsty.”

• Captain Barro calmed Boqi and told Lunke they were going to the seaside, and Boqi confirmed he was willing to go with Barro.
• Lunke let Barro and Boqi pass, then suspected their route was not leading to the seaside and followed them.
• Barro and Boqi left the Moonlight Tu Bird and headed toward Shipyard No. 1, where Master Man's Bloodbreaker was docked.
• Barro explained that Lunke's strength and sense of justice had kept Shipyard No. 4 orderly but prevented him from challenging Master Man.
• Barro led Boqi through the forest toward Shipyard No. 1's pigsty, relying on information from Little Flea, the Bloodbreaker's captive doctor.
• Lunke arrived after them and realized they had gone to Shipyard No. 1, then questioned what they meant by “pigsty.”

Barro and Boqi sneaked into Dock No. 1 to find the injured woman Little Flea had described, only for Barro to recognize her as Lady Asberu, his queen. Scarface caught them in the pigsty and raised the alarm, leaving Barro and Boqi surrounded by the dock’s men.

• Barro used a false insect-call signal to lure Half-Ear away from the rear hatch, then led Boqi inside Dock No. 1.
• Barro and Boqi visited the pigsty, where Boqi saw the abused women and began to understand why Lunke’s role mattered.
• Barro and Boqi found an injured, armed woman in a curtained stall, and Barro recognized her as Lady Asberu, the uncrowned ruler of the Blackberry Sea.
• Scarface emerged from the neighboring stall, kicked Boqi aside, recognized Barro, and shouted that enemies had attacked.
• Dock No. 1’s men rushed toward the pigsty, putting Barro and Boqi in grave danger.

Angel successfully refined Boiling Blood Red Water after revising Fritz’s formula, then planned to send the formula and potion to Fritz. Before leaving for Saint Saim City, he learned that Nis and Iron Armor Granny wanted to speak with him, so he entered Dream Wilderness to arrange the delivery first.

• Angel finished refining Rock-Born Liquid Sol and used it in another attempt to prepare Boiling Blood Red Water.
• Angel’s Boiling Blood Red Water succeeded, but it began to degrade before he bottled it, reducing its potency.
• Angel copied the revised formula and decided to send it with the potion to Fritz.
• Angel woke after resting and found Dangros asleep beside an empty bottle of quenching agent.
• Angel learned from Tulas that Nis wanted to speak with him, with Iron Armor Granny present, and decided to have Frod deliver the potion and formula to Fritz.
• Angel used Nightmare Illusion Dream Entry and entered Dream Wilderness.

Angel joined Iron Armor Granny and Nis as Zhulington recounted his team’s investigation into the Badger Family and Lady Silver. The clues identified her missing son, Angelo Silver Badger, as an extraordinary being with a “19” tattoo, linking him to the underground ruins.

• Angel recognized Zhulington, who nervously retold his team’s investigation of the Badger Family in Feilong Continent.
• Zhulington described two strange tales about Miss Silver: she survived a carriage fall and later recovered, while the viscount’s wife died; years afterward, Lady Silver was reported dead, then appeared alive.
• The team found that Lady Silver had died three years earlier, but her grave held no remains.
• Zhulington said Lady Silver’s son had disappeared at twelve, yet a Badger descendant reported seeing him at her funeral three years ago.
• Zhulington revealed that the young, cloaked Angelo Silver Badger had a “19” tattoo on his face, leading Angel, Nis, and Iron Armor Granny to identify him as one of the culprits behind the underground ruins.

Nis and Angel used Angelo’s return dates to narrow down his possible base to Sidro Mist Island, while Feiluo’s team searched there for clues. Cindy reported that Feiluo had captured a tattooed soul in the Devil Sea’s Mist Belt, and revealed that the soul was Number 1.

• Nis and Angel inferred that Angelo could have operated from Sidro Mist Island, and Nis tasked Zhulington with investigating Angelo’s history and possible wizard affiliations.
• Cindy arrived on Feiluo’s behalf and told Nis, Angel, and Iron Armor Granny that Feiluo had left Sidro Mist Island to investigate a location.
• Cindy recounted how Feiluo’s team followed energy traces from Sidro Island into the Devil Sea’s Mist Belt, where the trail vanished in the mist.
• Feiluo’s team found a soul with an X tattoo on the left side of his face and the number 1 on the right, then took him to an uninhabited island for questioning.
• Cindy told Angel that she recognized the soul as Number 1.

Cindy’s companions survived the Mist Sea Beast’s approach, while the amnesiac soul Reynolds insisted that his luck had protected him. After Cindy identified him to Angel as Number 1, Angel remembered Reynolds and Nausicaa’s plans to enter the forbidden laboratory he had escaped from.

• A Mist Sea Beast approached the reef where Cindy’s companions were hiding, but it passed by without attacking and swam away.
• The apprentices blamed Reynolds for drawing the beast near, and Reynolds said he could not remember what important thing he had forgotten.
• Cindy told Angel that the soul was Reynolds, also known as Number 1 from the New Star Tournament.
• Angel remembered Reynolds telling Nausicaa that Number 1 had been his laboratory designation.
• Angel recalled that Nausicaa had decided to accompany Reynolds into the forbidden zone to pursue something important to her.
• Angel told Nis and Iron Armor Granny that Reynolds had taught combat techniques to Leon, then asked Cindy what had happened to Reynolds’s memories.

Cindy recounted how Feiluo found Reynolds, whose fragmented memories linked him to a numbered laboratory and the Night Butterfly Witch. Angel connected Reynolds to Nausicaa and concluded she may have gone with him to obtain a replacement right hand, but her fate remained unknown.

• Cindy explained that Reynolds had escaped from a laboratory where people bore numerical tattoos and that he remembered little beyond its horrors and approximate location.
• Cindy said Reynolds had reacted to the name Jinny Watson, the Slender Crimson Night Butterfly, by asking Feiluo whether he planned to fight her for it.
• Angel asked Cindy to contact Reynolds and find out whether he remembered Nausicaa, offering to question him himself if necessary.
• Angel recalled that Nausicaa had left with Reynolds after the New Star Tournament to retrieve something important, and remembered that she had lost her right hand.
• Angel reasoned that Nausicaa may have sought a bloodline-compatible right hand from the laboratory, possibly the Night Butterfly Witch's, while her present whereabouts remained uncertain.

Cindy asked Reynolds whether he knew Nausicaa, triggering fragmented memories that revealed their dangerous past and left him pleading for her to be found and saved. After Cindy reported back in Dream Wilderness, Angel and the others considered what Reynolds’s reaction meant and waited for Angel to decide what to do.

• Cindy woke from Dream Wilderness and told the apprentices that Lord Pat had asked her to question Reynolds.
• Cindy asked Reynolds whether he knew Nausicaa, and the name unlocked memories of their escape from a laboratory and Reynolds urging Nausicaa to live.
• Reynolds broke down in tears and repeatedly told Cindy to find Nausicaa and save her.
• Cindy returned to Dream Wilderness and reported that Reynolds would not enter, even when she activated the login device.
• Iron Armor Granny and Nis reasoned that Nausicaa might still be alive and suggested waiting for Reynolds to regain clarity, then asked Angel what he planned to do.

Barro, Lunke, Boqi, and Little Flea escaped the burning Dock No. 1 and hid in a concealed cave, but Little Flea discovered that Lunke had been poisoned by Master Man’s assistant. Their pursuer Half-Ear learned that Little Flea was a traitor and left to investigate what had happened at the Bloodbreaker.

• People at Dock No. 4 saw Dock No. 1 burning and speculated that Barro and Lunke had attacked it.
• Barro dragged the collapsing Lunke through the forest while carrying an unconscious woman, and Little Flea led them to a hidden cave.
• Barro refused to abandon the wounded woman, so the group followed a river to hide their tracks and reach the cave.
• Half-Ear spotted the group’s hiding place from afar, suspected Little Flea was a traitor, and retreated to check on the Bloodbreaker.
• Little Flea examined Lunke and found green poison seeping from a cut on his neck, which he believed had been inflicted by Master Man’s assistant.

Little Flea said Lunke might survive if they could find the poison and medical equipment, but Half-Ear revealed their hiding place to the Bloodbreaker's pursuers. As the group was cornered, Lunke took a lethal drug to hold off nearly a hundred attackers and give the others a chance to escape.

• Little Flea said he could not treat Lunke without identifying the poison and getting medical equipment, so Barro proposed returning to Dock One after the pursuers left.
• Lunke asked Boqi to carry news of his death to his family if he died, and Barro revealed that the unconscious woman was Asberu, the pirate king he admired.
• The group hid in a stone hollow, but Half-Ear told the Bloodbreaker's people where they were hiding and identified Little Flea.
• Lunke revealed that his secret art required a lethal drug, then took the pill when the pursuers uncovered the hollow.
• Lunke's strength surged, and he charged alone at the Bloodbreaker's force so the others could escape.

Lunke held off Master Man’s men so Barro, Boqi, and Little Flea could flee with the unconscious woman toward the Moonlight Tu Bird. At Dock 4, Master Man blocked their route, revealed that Little Flea had betrayed him, and knocked Barro down while he protected the woman.

• Lunke broke through the encirclement and ordered Barro, Boqi, and Little Flea to escape while he held back their pursuers.
• Barro carried the unconscious woman as the group ran toward Dock 4, and he refused to leave her behind.
• Master Man appeared at the bridgehead and confronted Little Flea, whom he identified as his ship’s doctor and a traitor.
• Master Man attacked Barro with his bone club and knocked him down as Barro shielded the woman.

Barro and Boqi were nearly killed by Master Man while helping Nausicaa escape, but Nausicaa revealed her power, killed Master Man, and saved Barro. She left Little Flea to treat Barro and Boqi and went to check on Lunke, though her strength was nearly exhausted.

• Barro sacrificed himself to hold off Master Man and sent Boqi and Little Flea across the bridge with the woman.
• Master Man hurled his bone club at Boqi, struck him in the chest, and sent him into the lake, where a glowing chain pulled him back from death and a woman healed him.
• Nausicaa emerged from the water, revealed her name, and killed Master Man by piercing his soul with a black chain.
• Nausicaa healed Barro and told him to live; he asked her to save Boqi and Lunke before falling unconscious.
• Little Flea dragged Boqi from the lake, and Nausicaa left the two in his care as she headed to check on Lunke, weakened by the chain's dwindling power.

A cargo ship caught in the Devil Sea faced multiple towering Inverted Sea Walls, and Sea Dragon used a Floating Cloud Bottle to lift it into the clouds. With the ship trapped above the storm and the bottle exhausted, a young formal wizard arrived in a flying boat, but his fire elemental Dangros burned through Sea Dragon’s escape carpet and fell onto the ship.

• The captain followed Sea Dragon’s order to sail into the storm, where multiple Inverted Sea Walls rose and blocked every route.
• Sea Dragon released the Floating Cloud Bottle’s cloud vapor to lift the cargo ship above the sea, but the ship reached its altitude limit without clearing the walls.
• Sea Dragon offered to escape on his magic carpet with four others, and the captain chose to remain behind while the rest prepared to leave.
• A dreamlike flying boat arrived overhead, and Sea Dragon sensed that its young passenger was a powerful formal wizard.
• Dangros jumped onto the magic carpet, accidentally burned a hole through it, and fell onto the cargo ship as the carpet and its passengers dropped.

Angel cleared the Inverted Sea Walls for a cargo ship, then learned the route to Sidro Mist Island and continued toward the Mist Belt to find Nausicaa. He reached the island at dusk and entered the forbidden Mist Belt as night fell.

• Angel apologized for Dangros’s damage by summoning Swift Spirit, which destroyed the Inverted Sea Walls and cleared the cargo ship’s route.
• Angel asked the navigator for directions to Sidro Mist Island, then departed aboard the Gondola with Swift Spirit.
• Angel lectured Dangros about behaving responsibly among humans and confined him in an illusion of a fireplace.
• Worried that Nausicaa might be in danger, Angel sped toward Sidro Mist Island using the Gondola, Toby’s forms, and his Gravity Veins.
• Angel followed Cindy’s marker to the guiding beacon and entered the Mist Belt after reaching Sidro Mist Island.

Angel and Toby traveled through the Mist Belt, where huge, aggressive sea beasts filled the waters, and reached the territory of an even more powerful creature. After its buzzing roused Toby and drew its attention, Angel avoided a fight and flew toward Cindy and the others' reef area.

• Angel entered the Mist Belt, where a Twisting Ray attacked the Gondola, and Swift Spirit cut off its tentacles before Angel collected them and continued on.
• Angel had Toby transform into a Snakebird and carry them underwater, where they sped through a sea crowded with enormous beasts.
• Angel slowed Toby as its Snakebird form stirred dangerous emotions, then noticed that the surrounding waters were unusually free of sea beasts.
• A distant buzzing drove the nearby fish and shrimp into hiding, and Angel concluded they had entered the territory of the giant sea beast Cindy had described.
• The buzzing affected Toby and grew angrier after it hissed, so Angel calmed Toby, had it change back, and flew out of the water as a massive shadow approached.

Angel arrived at Reefrock Island to meet Reynolds, but a huge purple mineral-covered Demonic Beast followed him there. As Angel and Nis prepared to fight it, the beast abruptly fled toward something in the distance, leaving the group to wonder whether Reynolds’s extraordinary luck had saved them again.

• Angel reached Reefrock Island, where Cindy and Nis greeted him and pointed him toward the dejected Reynolds.
• A buzzing sea beast pursued Angel to the island, so Angel and Nis prepared to kill it if it attacked.
• The beast flew from the sea, revealing itself as a beautiful purple-crystal-winged Demonic Beast that Nis recognized and warned them not to provoke.
• Nis withdrew his deathly aura and told Angel and the apprentices to avoid killing the beast, which he suspected had a powerful backer.
• The purple behemoth fixed its gaze on the island and released overwhelming pressure, so Angel and Nis prepared to lure it away while the apprentices protected themselves.
• The behemoth suddenly plunged into the sea and fled, and Cindy and the cloaked apprentice looked toward Reynolds as Angel recalled his remarkable luck.

Angel and Nis discussed Reynolds’s uncanny good fortune and learned that the purple behemoth might be related to the legendary Shiz, who had been taken to Phantom City by Gruzdaiwald. Nis then explained that Reynolds’s consciousness was split, leaving some of his memories in his body, and proposed using an emotional catalyst such as Nausicaa to awaken him.

• Cindy and the apprentices recalled how Reynolds’s presence had coincided with escapes from danger, but Nis found nothing unusual in his soul and concluded that Reynolds was still alive.
• Nis revealed that the purple behemoth might be Shiz’s descendant, while Angel explained that Gruzdaiwald had taken Shiz to Phantom City and warned Nis not to provoke it or spread word of its juvenile.
• Angel and Nis agreed to keep the Shiz Juvenile’s presence in the Mist Belt secret, and Angel dismissed speculation about why the behemoth had left.
• Nis said Reynolds’s consciousness had been split, with a portion and possibly his missing memories remaining in his body.
• Nis proposed disrupting Reynolds’s soul power to rouse his dormant thoughts and said that an emotional stimulus such as Nausicaa might serve as a catalyst.

Angel and Nis restored Reynolds’s consciousness and learned how he and Nausicaa escaped a secret laboratory before a Demonic Beast pursued them. Reynolds remembered Nausicaa being swept away by an ocean current, but her location remained unknown.

• Angel used an illusion of Nausicaa while Nis channeled soul power to awaken Reynolds’s consciousness.
• Reynolds woke, mistook the illusion for Nausicaa, and then recognized Angel as Lord Pat.
• Reynolds recounted how he and Nausicaa entered a secret laboratory to obtain the Night Butterfly Witch’s right hand, which contained an Anomalous Object.
• Reynolds explained that Number 17’s mechanism released a juvenile Demonic Beast, and he used his weapon before losing his memories.
• Reynolds said he had seen Nausicaa swept away by an ocean current, leaving Angel uncertain where to search for her.

After Bloodbreaker's defeat, the Moonlight Tu Bird crew waited anxiously as doctors treated Barro, Boqi, and Lunke. Nausicaa could not cure Lunke’s fatal condition, but she offered to suspend him temporarily, while Little Flea hoped a distant medical sanctuary in Axosania might save him.

• The Moonlight Tu Bird crew gathered on deck and learned that Boqi and Barro were improving, while Lunke had been poisoned and was dying from the effects of a forbidden drug.
• Nausicaa examined Lunke and exhausted her magic trying to help him, but she could not save him.
• Nausicaa said she could temporarily freeze Lunke and delay his death.
• Little Flea suggested taking Lunke to Axosania, where a sacred center of medicine might be able to cure him.

Nausicaa froze Lunke in a low-grade Freezing Coffin, but his condition continued to worsen because Poison Fungus interacted with his original poison. Little Flea’s antidote failed, and with only hours remaining, Nausicaa thought of a possible solution as she took a crystal monocle from her spatial pouch.

• Nausicaa used the Freezing Coffin scroll to freeze Lunke, but Little Flea noticed his complexion worsening within half an hour.
• Nausicaa examined Lunke and discovered that Poison Fungus had multiplied the effects of his original poison, leaving the coffin able to delay his death for only two days.
• Little Flea went to Dock No. 1 to study Lunke’s poison and returned with a smoky purple antidote, which Nausicaa injected into him.
• Nausicaa found that the antidote had no effect and that Lunke had only a few hours left, while Little Flea and the doctors despaired.
• Nausicaa recalled Angel’s alchemy expertise, then took a crystal monocle from her spatial pouch after thinking of something.