Chapter Summaries

Angel learned that Nausicaa had entered the Dream Wilderness using the one-time device he had given her, giving him a chance to meet her after she was swept away at sea. Nis became convinced Reynolds might possess an uncanny gift for luck and tried to recruit him, while Angel prepared to take Reynolds to find Nausicaa.

• Nausicaa considered using the one-time communicator Angel had given her as she faced danger at sea.
• Nis summoned Diya, a Pointed One prophet who could divine a person's rough direction using an object they had used, but Angel had no such object belonging to Nausicaa.
• Angel and Nis decided to head for the laboratory with Reynolds, since it was their best lead for finding nearby islands and searching for Nausicaa.
• Angel discovered that Nausicaa had just entered the Dream Wilderness with her marked login device.
• Nis believed Reynolds's prediction that they would see Nausicaa soon had come true and tried to recruit him as a lucky soul, but Angel stopped him and set out to meet Nausicaa.

Nausicaa used Angel’s monocle and arrived in the Dream Wilderness, where she reunited with Milu and learned that the city was called New City. After Angel appeared, Nausicaa asked him to help save someone, and the chapter ended with Reynolds arriving behind Nis.

• Nausicaa arrived in New City through Angel’s monocle and met Milu, who mistook the strange surroundings for a mission destination.
• Milu took Nausicaa to the Bluewater Corridor to see Jero, and Nausicaa questioned Milu about the city and how she had entered it.
• Angel appeared and explained that the place was the Dream Wilderness, the gap between reality and illusion.
• Nausicaa asked Angel to help save someone, and Angel sent Milu to speak with Jero before asking whether the person was Reynolds.
• Nis arrived with Reynolds, whom Nausicaa had not expected to see in the Dream Wilderness.

Nausicaa reunited with Reynolds in Dream Wilderness and explained that she had kept his soul-bound chain, which she hoped might help save Lunke. Angel and Nis arrived at Ghost Shipyard Island, where Angel examined Lunke and Nis said saving him would be simple.

• Nausicaa told Reynolds, Angel, and Nis that Reynolds had thrown her his chain before they were separated, and she described its power and the high cost of using it.
• Nausicaa returned to reality on Ghost Shipyard Island and waited while Lunke's condition worsened, refusing to let the others come in yet.
• Angel, Nis, and their companions arrived at the sickroom, and Angel gave Nausicaa a potion for spiritual damage after seeing her injuries.
• Angel examined Lunke and asked Nis to assess his condition; Nis said Lunke could likely form a soul after death, then added that saving him was simple.

Angel awakened Lunke’s consciousness enough to offer him a choice between immediate restoration and enduring Forging Water’s painful trial for the chance to overcome the poison himself. Lunke chose Forging Water, and Angel took out the golden potion.

• Angel used the Dream Entry Technique to bring Lunke’s consciousness to the surface so he could hear and choose.
• Angel explained that Lunke could either be restored to his healthy state from one day earlier or take Forging Water and risk death in a painful struggle against the poison.
• Reynolds said he would choose direct recovery without knowing Angel’s offer, while Nausicaa said she would choose Forging Water despite its suffering.
• Lunke chose Forging Water by moving toward the blue light, surprising the people watching.
• Angel took an exquisite bottle of golden Forging Water from his bracelet.

Angel treated Lunke with Forging Water, which began a painful process that could detoxify him and potentially raise his spiritual power enough to make him gifted. The chapter left Lunke screaming through the treatment as Nausicaa hoped he could endure it.

• Angel gave Lunke Forging Water, stabilized Barro, and went with Nausicaa to speak in the pharmacy.
• Little Flea told Angel that his medical training and instruments came from Axosania, whose books his deceased teacher had treasured.
• Angel explained that Axosania was an ancient country in the Fairy Tale World and said he had met Dodolo in its ruins.
• Nis explained that Forging Water could exhaust the body’s potential but might also temper Lunke’s mind and increase his spiritual power.
• Lunke awakened and began screaming as Forging Water took effect, while Nausicaa prayed he would endure the ordeal.

Nausicaa explained why she sought the Night Butterfly Witch's arm and revealed that its Anomalous Objects could form Soul Armaments, which resonated with and protected their users' souls. After Nis supplied Nausicaa with soul power, she began summoning Reynolds's chain-shaped Soul Armament.

• Nis sealed off the pharmacy to block Lunke's cries while Angel asked Nausicaa to explain what happened at the laboratory.
• Nausicaa explained that she chose the Night Butterfly Witch's arm because its Anomalous Objects could create a Soul Armament and protect her soul.
• Nausicaa revealed that Reynolds had sought records on removing the soul marks on his face, and that he gave her his Soul Armament before pushing her into the sea to escape the Demonic Beast.
• Nausicaa explained that she had used Reynolds's Soul Armament on Ghost Shipyard Island, though it was difficult to wield and consumed more energy because it was not matched to her soul.
• Nis transferred purified soul power to Nausicaa, and she summoned a black hole from her chest as a pitch-black chain shot out.

Nausicaa’s soul armament unleashed Soul-Burning Fire during Nis’s test, revealing its power and possible connection to the Quest World. Afterward, the group realized Reynolds’s body was missing and decided to search for it, turning to a prophecy wizard if the laboratory did not have it.

• Nis provoked Nausicaa with malicious soul power, and her chain attacked him until it ignited with Soul-Burning Fire; Nis seized it and used a vibration to restore her clarity.
• Angel and Nis examined the chain, while Reynolds explained that soul armaments were bestowed through rituals and might depend on an origin substance from the Quest World.
• Nausicaa kept the chain after Reynolds said his soul could not nurture it without a physical body, and the group concluded that his body was likely under the laboratory’s control.
• Nis warned that Reynolds’s living soul was tainted by deathly aura and that his body was close to collapse, so Angel proposed finding it at the laboratory.
• Angel suggested seeking a prophecy wizard in the Dream Wilderness if Reynolds’s body was not at the laboratory, and he invited Reynolds to go with him.

Angel brought Nausicaa into the Dream Wilderness and explained how its services could support learning and exploration. When Dodolo could not leave the Star Tower, Witch Maya offered to divine the location of Reynolds’s missing body and finished her Correlative Divination, leaving its answer unrevealed.

• Angel showed Nausicaa how Savage Cave members could seek mentors and information through the Dream Wilderness and Mother Tree Interlink.
• Nis arranged for an apprentice to notify Dodolo, but Witch Maya arrived and said Dodolo was in the Star Tower searching for the future star chart.
• Angel explained that Reynolds had lost his memories and become separated from his physical body, so he wanted help finding it.
• Witch Maya chose Correlative Divination and questioned Reynolds to gather information without requiring him to answer aloud.
• Witch Maya completed the divination and announced that she had obtained an answer.

Angel, Nis, Nausicaa, and Reynolds waited in the Mist Belt for the ocean currents to shift so they could locate the mobile laboratory. Reynolds revealed the laboratory’s history and personnel, including the surviving experimental subjects and the strength of its numbered staff.

• Angel confirmed with Toby that the purple giant beast had not returned, and the group waited for the currents to change around noon.
• Reynolds explained that the laboratory used living subjects as expendable experimental tools and sent them on missions, including kidnappings and sacrifices.
• Reynolds said he had been marked as Number 1, that only five of the original nine subjects remained, and that the other survivors could become obstacles.
• Reynolds warned the group that X3 could control sea beasts with her Soul Armament.
• Reynolds estimated that the laboratory had at least ninety-nine staff members and said Number 30 had defeated a mutated Blood-Feeding Sea Lion with one move.

Angel and his companions followed the Devil Sea’s extraordinary current toward the laboratory, while Reynolds shared what he knew about the numbered subjects and worried that his body might not be there. Near the laboratory’s guarded area, Angel concealed the group as a large creature approached through the darkness.

• Reynolds told Nis and Angel that No. 01, No. 02, and No. 03 were likely official wizards, and that No. 11 had mentioned a possible No. 00 above them.
• Angel sensed the sea’s current change at noon, and the group followed the violent current toward the laboratory.
• Nausicaa recognized the reef-filled terrain as likely being near the laboratory, but Reynolds still felt no connection to his physical body.
• Reynolds warned that herded sea beasts patrolled the area and that the laboratory guards were now alert after the group had been discovered by Demonic Beast No. 17.
• Nis claimed there were ways to evade the patrols, but Angel concealed the group with an illusion and noticed a large creature swimming toward them.

Angel and his companions crossed the dangerous seabed toward the laboratory hidden inside the Sea-Splitting Water Wall, where they suspected Feiluo might be fighting. Angel waited for the energy inside to become chaotic, then opened a Void Illusion Gate through the wall so they could enter with less chance of detection.

• Nis advised the group not to attack a toxic sea beast, and it failed to detect their illusion before swimming away.
• The group navigated dangerous seabed vortices, noticed that sea beasts had nearly disappeared, and continued toward the laboratory.
• Reynolds explained that the laboratory was beyond the Sea-Splitting Water Wall and admitted he suspected its defenses might have detected him and Nausicaa before they entered previously.
• Angel chose to approach the waterless clearing from above, but the group sensed chaotic water and fire energy leaking through the wall and suspected Feiluo was inside.
• Angel opened a Void Illusion Gate behind the water wall during the energy disturbance and led the group into the laboratory.

Feiluo fought a mechanical head in the Mist Belt, using Flame Charging to evade its water attacks and briefly destroy its escape route before it vanished again. After Angel and Nis arrived, Feiluo proposed trapping it with his Flame Lawfield, which needed time to charge.

• Feiluo used Flame Charging to dodge the mechanical head’s water columns and destroy the water ripples beneath it, but the head escaped through ripples on its back.
• Feiluo restored his eighteen flame clusters, then noticed Angel’s illusion of himself fighting the mechanical head nearby.
• Angel, Nis, a woman in soft armor, and Reynolds’s soul emerged from concealment, and Angel explained that they had come for the laboratory.
• Feiluo told them the mechanical head had appeared that day and explained that its water ripples let it escape and recover.
• After the mechanical head attacked Angel’s illusion with water bombs, Feiluo proposed using his Flame Lawfield to suppress its water abilities.
• Feiluo explained that Flame Lawfield required all eighteen flame clusters and seven additional clusters to charge for about a minute.

Angel and Nis devised a plan to distract the mechanical head while Feiluo gathered power for his Fire Domain, using Dangros to impersonate Feiluo with real flames. The ruse drew the machine’s attacks, and Feiluo began gathering fireballs as Ermi appeared to protect Dangros.

• Angel judged Feiluo’s original plan too risky, while Nis argued they should remain hidden and let Feiluo draw the mechanical head’s attention.
• As the mechanical head began testing whether the fake Feiluo was real, Dangros offered to use its fire powers and agreed after asking Angel to answer one question later.
• Angel turned the illusion into a blazing elemental figure and used steam to cover Dangros as it replaced the illusion and attacked the mechanical head with flames.
• Dangros endured the machine’s concentrated water bullets and staged a fire summon, allowing Ermi to emerge while concealing its true nature.
• With fire spreading across the field, Angel told Feiluo to begin gathering power, and Feiluo started forming fireballs as the Fire Domain’s vein fluctuations spread.

Feiluo concealed his fire veins, switched places with Dangros, and trapped the mechanical head in a Flame Lawfield, forcing its hidden controller, No. 03, to reveal herself. After No. 03 attacked him and Feiluo exposed the weaknesses of her water ripples, she stepped out from hiding as the battle escalated.

• Dangros and Ermi masked Feiluo's fire-vein fluctuations while Feiluo gathered seven fireballs and switched places with Dangros.
• Feiluo approached the mechanical head and unleashed his Flame Lawfield, stopping its water bullets and burning away its protective water bubble.
• No. 03 spoke through the mechanical head, tried to negotiate, and warned Feiluo that destroying it would bring consequences.
• No. 03 attacked Feiluo with a flood, but Feiluo targeted her fragile water ripples and learned they could not open amid concentrated energy.
• Feiluo guessed that No. 03's companions had gone to a nest, prompting her to reveal herself as a formal wizard.

Feiluo and Nis cornered No. 03, but she escaped into Watermark and believed herself safe inside its protected space. As she began to notice that her surroundings were unreal, the chapter left her confronting the possibility that she was not truly inside Watermark.

• No. 03 emerged to face Feiluo, who revealed that Nis had been waiting nearby.
• Feiluo attacked No. 03, but she raised a Water Shield and opened water ripples to escape while Nis struck her with Soul-Splitting Hand.
• No. 03 entered Watermark and watched Feiluo and Nis vent their anger outside, convinced they could not reach her.
• No. 03 relaxed in Watermark's Crystal District, mocked the wizards through a water mirror, and began changing clothes.
• After hearing a swallowing sound beside her, No. 03 discovered that the pool's water only felt wet and was not real.

Angel impersonated Sanders to deceive No. 03 and pressure her into revealing information about her group’s operation in the Southern Region. No. 03 disclosed that Jade Chill and Deathspring were connected to Staven, but she remained bound by rules that prevented her from explaining further.

• No. 03 realized the water mirror and her surroundings were an illusion, and she concluded that Sanders had hidden himself behind Feiluo and Nis.
• Angel appeared as an illusory Sanders, and No. 03 accepted his identity and sought to negotiate rather than fight.
• Angel threatened to involve the Extreme Sect, prompting No. 03 to admit that oaths and a soul prison prevented her from revealing many details.
• No. 03 said Jade Chill and Deathspring were connected to Staven, and Nis recognized the name as the Staven Soul Safe Zone in the Quest World.

Angel and Nis questioned No. 03 about the organization behind Snoke Base, learning that its public name was the Laiyi Association and that its laboratories studied organ transplantation and soul compatibility. Feiluo’s angry reaction suggested that Savage Cave had discovered an altar connected to the research, leaving No. 03 offering an apology and compensation.

• No. 03 revealed that Snoke Base was Tagong Xietu No. 4 Laboratory, but her oath prevented her from disclosing most information about the organization behind it.
• Angel inferred that the Source World laboratory might be No. 0, and Nis urged him to hurry the questioning before the base personnel returned.
• No. 03 gave her alias, Water Ao Jiasili, and identified the organization’s public name as the Laiyi Association, which cooperated with the Order Guild by sharing intelligence.
• No. 03 said the Laiyi Association was primarily a research organization and that its Southern Region laboratory studied organ transplantation and soul compatibility.
• Feiluo accused the research of involving evil and bloodshed, prompting No. 03 to realize Savage Cave had likely discovered an altar and to offer an apology and compensation.

No. 03 revealed that the Laiyi Association’s laboratory had conducted decades of research into Soul Armaments using living sacrifices and extraordinary organs. When Feiluo asked about the Night Butterfly Witch, an image from thirteen years earlier showed her arm at a ritual, and No. 03 traced it to a trade with No. 2 Laboratory in the Western Continent Wizarding World.

• Angel pressed No. 03 to disclose the laboratory’s research, sacrifices, and purpose, and she explained that the project involved Soul Armament Raw Solution supplied by a soul-related power from the Quest World.
• No. 03 admitted that the laboratory had performed at least twenty living-sacrifice rituals over more than forty years and used extraordinary organs to carry the raw solution and connect Soul Armaments to Soul Land.
• No. 03 said the organs came mostly from extraordinary creatures, prompting Feiluo to ask whether the laboratory had killed Jinny Watson, the Night Butterfly Witch, but No. 03 truthfully said she did not know her.
• Sanders showed No. 03 a clear image of a ritual from thirteen years earlier, where a figure from the laboratory handled a woman’s arm, and No. 03 recognized the scene and the arm.
• No. 03 revealed that the arm had been traded from No. 2 Laboratory in the Western Continent Wizarding World because it was highly compatible with a special batch of Soul Armament Raw Solution.

No. 03 explained how the Laiyi Association obtained Night Butterfly Witch’s arm, described ways of crossing vast distances, and offered compensation. Angel and the others pressed her for information about the laboratory and its members, but she refused to discuss No. 00 and revealed only limited details about No. 01 and No. 02.

• Feiluo doubted No. 03’s claim that she had not investigated the origin of Night Butterfly Witch’s arm, but Angel and Nis judged her account likely truthful.
• No. 03 explained that special raw fluid could help Soul Armaments evolve and described several methods of traveling between distant worlds; Nis became interested in becoming a Spirit Realm Walker.
• No. 03 said a void merchant caravan commissioned by No. 2 Laboratory had delivered Night Butterfly Witch’s arm, then offered Soul Armaments, information about an Illusion-type secret treasure, and the laboratory’s departure as compensation.
• Angel, Nis, and Feiluo questioned No. 03 about visiting the laboratory, but her admission that an oath prevented her from revealing certain information made them wary.
• No. 03 said she could not discuss No. 00, then described No. 02 as a Shadow wizard skilled in concealment and surprise attacks and No. 01 as a bloodline-side wizard with a giant’s bloodline.

No. 03 revealed No. 01’s Uya Giant bloodline, his control over the base’s plans, and the group’s failed attack on Leviathan before Angel asked her to explain the nest. Thunderous, law-like blasts shattered Angel’s illusion and disrupted everyone’s magic, and the chapter ended as No. 03 fled toward Feiluo’s Flame Lawfield when the blast weakened.

• No. 03 told Nis, Feiluo, and Angel that No. 01 had a partial Uya Giant bloodline and had led a failed attack on the injured Leviathan.
• No. 03 explained that No. 01 had chosen to come to the Southern Region and controlled the base’s operations and its planned departure.
• No. 03 confirmed that the nest was one of the group’s final objectives, but a thunderous blast interrupted her explanation and destroyed Angel’s illusion.
• No. 03 tried to escape into the Watermark as Nis, Feiluo, and Angel moved to restrain her, but another blast stopped their attacks and shattered the ripples around her.
• Angel used Sanders’s voice to warn No. 03 that the blasts might prevent her from escaping through the Watermark.
• When the blast weakened, No. 03 transformed into white water and rushed toward Feiluo’s Flame Lawfield.