Chapter Summaries

Angel and Laplace tested Heart Space in the Empty Mirror Sea, where its mysterious aura protected it from the waves. Adanis accused Angel of using Olao’s true body to craft the Half-Body Mirror, but the Gleaming Mirror Casket proved her wrong; after apologizing, she returned to the material realm, and Laplace revealed a new discovery beneath Heart Space.

• Heart Space landed safely on the Empty Mirror Sea, and Laplace confirmed that its aura shielded it from the waves.
• Angel sensed someone probing Heart Space, and Adanis emerged through the Half-Body Mirror.
• Adanis demanded that Angel hand over Olao, believing he had used Olao’s true body to craft the Half-Body Mirror.
• Angel gave Adanis the Gleaming Mirror Casket, and she discovered that Olao’s true body was untouched.
• Adanis apologized and returned to the material realm through the connection to the Half-Body Mirror.
• Laplace resumed testing Heart Space and made its floor transparent, revealing a scene that left Angel frozen.

Angel and Laplace explored a mirror’s preserved memories in Heart Space before testing whether it could capture physical objects from the Empty Mirror Sea. The test failed, though Laplace retrieved a gemstone lid by hand, and Angel examined it as the chapter ended.

• Angel watched a mirror’s reflection reveal a family’s generations, the home’s abandonment, and the mirror’s eventual destruction.
• Laplace explained that Gleipnir could locate similar reflections and accelerate them, though Angel would need to contact her directly for continued help.
• Angel and Laplace discussed why reflections in Heart Space did not refresh and whether destruction and rebirth defined the Mirror Realm.
• Laplace showed Angel a gemstone lid being carried toward Heart Space by the waves, and Angel lifted the heart wall’s restrictions to test whether it could enter.
• The heart wall stopped the lid outside, so Laplace pulled it into Heart Space by hand and declared the automatic capture test a failure.
• Laplace handed the gemstone lid to Angel, who turned his attention to it.

Angel and Laplace examined a gemstone lid from the Empty Mirror Sea and arranged for Gleipnir to ask the Ancient Tooth Fairies to find its matching item. In the Dream Crystal Plain, Gleipnir struggled to raise her Black Cat’s taming level, then logged out to visit the Tooth Fairy Ruins.

• Angel determined that the gemstone lid’s rubies and sapphires were processed elemental gemstones, but he could not identify their materials or origin.
• Laplace suggested asking the Ancient Tooth Fairies to find the item paired with the lid, and Angel agreed to seek Gleipnir’s help.
• Angel and Laplace found Gleipnir in the Dream Crystal Plain, where she had been using the Black Cat as bait to raise its taming level.
• Gleipnir explained that the Black Cat’s taming level had fallen to 5 and dismissed Angel’s suggestion to tame it through affection.
• Gleipnir agreed to bring back an Ancient Tooth Fairy and asked Angel to share information about the Heart Space.
• Gleipnir put the Black Cat into the Wonderland space and logged out to visit the Tooth Fairy Ruins.

Angel and Laplace observed Luigi inside the special dreamscape "Uriel's Choice" and learned that he was trying to use music to unravel the pianist Uriel's heartache. After Luigi chose to keep repeating the musical challenge, Angel and Laplace left, and Luigi began another attempt as Uriel played an invitation-sealed piano piece.

• Laplace postponed inheriting the Authority until Luigi left the Dreamwalking Wonderland Instance, and she went with Angel to inspect the dilapidated attic.
• Angel saw Luigi playing a harp outside the attic while Uriel played piano inside, and he and Laplace concluded Luigi seemed to be joining him willingly.
• Angel used an illusion to show Laplace the scene, and they watched Uriel stop playing, freezing the attic while Luigi remained able to move.
• Luigi told Angel and Laplace that "Uriel's Choice" required him to use music to unravel Uriel's heartache, and that he had already failed the looping main quest three times.
• Luigi chose to keep attempting the quest, while Angel and Laplace left after confirming he could log off whenever he wished.
• Luigi restarted the quest as time rewound; Uriel examined a blank invitation sealed with a red wax heart, put it away, and began playing while Luigi accompanied him on the harp.

Laplace told Angel that Gleipnir had been wary of him and had maneuvered Laplace into testing his secrets, prompting Angel to explain the powers behind him. Laplace offered her true body's coordinates and the prospect of an alliance, while Angel decided not to reveal the Heart Space to the arriving Ancient Tooth Fairies.

• Laplace told Angel that Gleipnir had contacted the Ancient Tooth Fairies and was bringing them to the Heart Space.
• Laplace realized Gleipnir had used their conversation to make her test Angel, and Angel said Gleipnir was likely wary of the powers behind him.
• Angel described the Savage Cave and his connection to the Nightmare Realm, and Laplace inferred that Gleipnir feared the Nightmare Realm's power.
• Laplace gave Angel the coordinates of her true body and proposed a formal meeting and alliance contract.
• Laplace asked whether Angel would meet the Ancient Tooth Fairies in the Heart Space, and Angel said he would keep the space hidden until he understood it better.

Angel and Laplace waited at Deep Abyss Cave for Gleipnir and Wolf Fang. Flute Bone, an ancient Honorary Elder, to use the Object-Finding Art, but his muddled memory made the search seem uncertain. After Gleipnir and the elder set off, Laplace admitted that Gleipnir was both her Time Doppelgänger and another possibility of herself.

• Angel and Laplace discussed whether Deep Abyss Cave concealed dangers that its darkness kept unseen.
• Gleipnir arrived with Wolf Fang. Flute Bone, an ancient Honorary Elder and survivor of the Hollow Tooth Fairy Outbreak, whom Laplace explained was influential among the Mirror Sea Scholars.
• Wolf Fang. Flute Bone repeatedly forgot details, mistook the gemstone lid for a different object, and even confused his name with his daughter's before Angel urged him to focus on the search.
• Gleipnir took Wolf Fang. Flute Bone to search for the matching object while Angel and Laplace stayed behind.
• Laplace told Angel that Gleipnir was her Time Doppelgänger but also another possibility of her.

Angel and Laplace discovered that the gemstone lid was paired with a teapot from a world of wondrous objects. When Angel opened it, he found a pink-haired boy inside who Gleipnir identified as a Hollow Man, leaving Angel wondering what the boy was muttering.

• Laplace explained that her Time Doppelgängers could cultivate independently and follow paths she had not taken.
• Laplace reported that Gleipnir and Wolf Fang. Flute Bone had found the item paired with the gemstone lid: an unusual teapot.
• Gleipnir gave Angel the teapot, which Wolf Fang. Flute Bone had sealed inside a ball of light during the salvage.
• Angel found that the teapot's gemstones formed an energy circuit that absorbed external energy and converted it into a power resembling mental strength.
• Angel opened the teapot and found a pink-haired boy inside, chanting the same unfamiliar words repeatedly.
• Gleipnir determined that the boy had been a weak transcendent lifeform but had become a Hollow Man after the Empty Mirror Sea washed away his memories.

Angel learned that the pink-haired youth’s memories had been erased permanently by the Empty Mirror Sea, though his intelligence could be rebuilt. He postponed deciding whether to cultivate the youth, planning to observe him and ask Dodolo to assess his aptitude.

• Gleipnir explained that the youth’s repeated words had once been longer and were his attempt to preserve important memories, but the Empty Mirror Sea had erased those memories completely.
• Angel handed the teapot to Laplace for safekeeping and secretly discussed what to do with the youth while Wolf Fang. Flute Bone rambled about his daughter.
• Gleipnir explained that the Ancient Tooth Fairies trained Hollow Men as loyal subordinates and that a Hollow Man’s intelligence could be cultivated again, though his memories could not return.
• Laplace suggested keeping the youth in the Mirror Realm to guard Heart Space, while Angel worried that the Extreme Sect might trace him and discover Jon.
• Angel decided to postpone the choice and observe the youth, intending to ask Dodolo whether he was worth cultivating.

Angel and his companions decided to seek Dragon Fang. Qin’s help identifying the teapot and its connection to the youth inside it. They headed toward Hot Gold City, where Dragon Fang. Qin was studying, and Angel also planned to contact Aguro about meeting Granny Yitai.

• Angel questioned Laplace about whether the teapot was a wondrous object, and she admitted it might be one but could not judge without sensing its energy.
• Wolf Fang. Flute Bone recognized the teapot as one he might have sold but could not remember its origin, so Gleipnir suggested asking Dragon Fang. Qin.
• Wolf Fang. Flute Bone used his cane to show a recorded message from Dragon Fang. Qin, who said she was studying in the Hundred Dragons Divine Kingdom and would meet him in Hot Gold City if he brought Shark Fang. Scale.
• Angel chose to bring Shark Fang. Scale, and Gleipnir left to find him while Angel, Laplace, and Wolf Fang. Flute Bone continued toward Hot Gold City.
• Angel thought about contacting Aguro in Hot Gold City and asking whether he would meet his elder sister, Granny Yitai.

Angel and Laplace reached Hot Gold City, where Shark Fang. Scale explained the moving Pipi City and its Pirus inhabitants. Angel declined to visit Pipi City and waited at the Tooth Fairy Ruins branch for Dragon Fang. Qin, while Laplace raised the question of what Angel planned to do about the Vansell Family.

• Laplace brought Gleipnir and Shark Fang. Scale to the group, and Shark Fang. Scale gave Angel an honored guest tooth for the Tooth Fairy Ruins.
• Angel recognized the golden streak outside Hot Gold City as the moving Pipi City, and Shark Fang. Scale described the Pirus and their inventions.
• Angel declined Laplace's suggestion to visit Pipi City, saying he wanted to meet Dragon Fang. Qin first; he learned that Dragon Fang. Qin had entered the Hundred Dragons Divine Kingdom with an invitation earned by Brother Note.
• Shark Fang. Scale arranged for Angel and the others to wait in a VIP room at the Tooth Fairy Ruins branch while Dragon Fang. Qin traveled from the Hundred Dragons Divine Kingdom.
• Angel declined to choose a free item from the catalog, joked about taking the Tooth-Bone Staff, and said he might visit the Tooth Fairy main branch; Laplace then asked what he planned to do about the Vansell Family.

Angel arranged for Reeves to meet Dudu Bi, the amnesiac Aguro, while Dragon Fang. Qin arrived in Hot Gold City. After examining Angel’s jeweled teapot, Dragon Fang. Qin identified its origin as the Psionic Realm.

• Angel released Reeves and asked whether he was willing to meet Aguro; Reeves chose to meet him.
• Shark Fang. Scale arranged for Dudu Bi and Dudu Li to enter the adjoining room where Reeves was waiting.
• Dragon Fang. Qin arrived in Hot Gold City, and Gleipnir explained that adult Mirror Dragons secretly guarded hatchlings because a juvenile had disappeared and died two thousand years earlier.
• Angel showed Dragon Fang. Qin the jeweled teapot and asked about its origin.
• Dragon Fang. Qin said the teapot came from a world its inhabitants called the Psionic Realm.

Angel learned that the teapot’s energy came from the Psionic Realm, known to Southern wizards as the Hante World, and that the boy inside it had likely been a Psionic Master. After Dragon Fang Qin explained the psionic system, Angel revealed he had formed an idea to try involving the teapot, though he kept its details to himself.

• Angel recalled that Gloria had used psychic power from the Hante World, which wizards called the Psionic Realm, and considered why the world remained unconquered.
• Dragon Fang Qin described the Psionic Realm’s dangerous subcontinents and explained that its Psionic Masters used projection, mind, or manifestation abilities.
• Dragon Fang Qin concluded that the boy in the teapot had probably been a Psionic Master, but Angel confirmed he had no license or other belongings to identify him.
• Dragon Fang Qin left with Shark Fang Scale and Wolf Fang Flute Bone after Angel thanked her for the information.
• Angel told Gleipnir and Laplace that he had conceived an idea to try with the teapot, but he did not reveal what it was.

Angel and Laplace discussed Angel’s mysterious inspiration while waiting for Reeves, and Longya. Qin invited them to a routine gathering in Crystal City a week later. Angel and Laplace agreed to attend when it began, while Angel remained focused on testing his inspiration after leaving Hot Gold City.

• Angel told Laplace that he would reveal his inspiration after they left Hot Gold City, and Laplace said she looked forward to what he might do.
• Laplace and Gleipnir privately discussed Gleipnir’s earlier actions while Angel thought in silence in the VIP room.
• Longya. Qin returned with Little Scale and Wolf Fang. Flute Bone, bowed to Laplace, and invited Angel to the routine gathering in Crystal City.
• Gleipnir explained that routine gatherings brought together trade, information exchange, and research on Aggregation Energy, with the upcoming gathering supported by the Pirus race.
• Angel expressed interest in attending, and Laplace agreed to go with him when the gathering began rather than visit Crystal City early.
• The neighboring VIP room’s door opened as Angel continued thinking about testing his inspiration after leaving Hot Gold City.

Angel helped Aguro reunite with Reeves and learned that Aguro wanted to meet his sister, Granny Yitai. As Angel and Laplace headed to Deep Abyss Cave, they discussed Dudu Li’s conflicting feelings and Laplace revealed that the Psionic Realm had once had a Four-Star psionicist who vanished after battling a giant beast.

• Dudu Li thanked Angel for helping uncover Dudu Bi’s past, while privately warning him not to bring Reeves back to the Mirror Realm.
• Reeves told Angel that Aguro wanted to meet Granny Yitai, whose gifts and notes had left a lasting connection despite Aguro’s lost memories.
• Dudu Li returned to ask Angel to help bring Granny Yitai to the Mirror Realm if she wanted to see Aguro, and Angel agreed to consider it.
• Angel left Hot Gold City with Laplace and Gleipnir and chose Deep Abyss Cave as his next destination.
• Angel explained to Laplace that Dudu Li’s outburst came from discomfort and excitement, while still supporting Aguro’s wishes.
• Laplace told Angel that a Four-Star psionicist had defeated a gigantic beast in the Psionic Realm before vanishing through shattered space.

Inside the Heart Space near the Deep Abyss Cave, Angel revealed his plan to make it move through the Empty Mirror Sea on its own. Laplace doubted the modification could work without harming the Heart Space, but agreed to help test it.

• Gleipnir entered the Heart Space, sensed its mysterious aura, and gained a new respect for Angel and what he had forged.
• Angel told Laplace and Gleipnir that he wanted to modify the Heart Space, and Laplace agreed to help test the results.
• Angel explained that Pipi City had inspired him to make the Heart Space move autonomously or under the control of those inside it.
• Laplace and Gleipnir warned that altering the Heart Space could damage its mysterious power and leave it unable to withstand the Empty Mirror Sea.
• Angel proposed adding mystic-rank feet and hands so the Heart Space could travel through the Empty Mirror Sea and retrieve objects there.
• Laplace questioned whether Angel was using the Heart Space as an experiment, but ultimately agreed to cooperate despite doubting his reassurance that it probably would not be damaged.

Angel began testing his Mystical Manifestation Grafting Technique by creating a physical-object collector compatible with the Heart Space. The collector took shape, and Angel prepared to test whether it could endure the Empty Mirror Sea and function as a grafted mystical item.

• Laplace and Gleipnir discussed Angel's illusion, deciding to respect his privacy while mistaking its purpose for secrecy around alchemy.
• Angel explained that he was using Nightmare Illusion arts and simulated mystical auras to graft new functions onto the Heart Space.
• Angel designed a trumpet-flower-shaped physical-object collector to separate physical objects from the waves and route each to the right destination.
• Angel found a mystical aura compatible with the Heart Space and infused it into the manifested collector.
• The physical-object collector took shape, and Angel prepared to test its compatibility, resistance to the waves, and ability to be grafted onto the Heart Space.

Angel successfully grafted the Object Collector and several other Mystical Manifestations onto the Heart Space, then tested them in the Empty Mirror Sea. The manifestations withstood the waves and the Heart Space stood on its new limbs, leaving Angel to test whether they could move.

• Angel brought the Object Collector into contact with the heart wall, and it fused perfectly, allowing him to control it with the Heart Space.
• Angel constructed the remaining Mystical Manifestations and merged them into the heart wall before asking Laplace to take the Heart Space to the Empty Mirror Sea.
• Laplace activated the golden point of light, and a golden trumpet flower—the Object Collector—bloomed from the front of the heart without being affected by the waves.
• Laplace activated the white and black points of light, and spider-like forelimbs and hind limbs extended from the Heart Space and raised it upright above the sea.
• Angel saw that the limbs had withstood the waves and told Laplace to activate the points again to make them move.

Laplace tested Heart Space’s limbs and wings in the Empty Mirror Sea, while Angel investigated how its imagined structures worked. The wings failed to lift Heart Space, but Angel identified a design flaw and turned to testing the golden trumpet flower, which could collect physical objects.

• Laplace learned to control Heart Space’s limbs and made it walk, demonstrating that it could move through the Empty Mirror Sea.
• Laplace activated the silver points, revealing wings, but her attempts to fly failed.
• Angel took over the wing test and detected wind leaking from the wings’ internal circulation, concluding that a design flaw—not a flaw in Imaginary Alchemy itself—had prevented flight.
• Angel erased the wings so he could redesign them, and Laplace and Gleipnir noted how quickly he accepted the failed test.
• Angel explained that the golden trumpet flower collected physical objects floating on the Empty Mirror Sea, but testing it depended on finding one.

Angel and Laplace searched the Empty Mirror Sea with Laplace’s tiny avatars and recovered a black booklet called the Wishbook, whose writing held extraordinary mental power. After Angel successfully tested Heart Space’s Object Collector, the booklet began emitting a ghostly flame, leaving its nature unexplained.

• Laplace sent hundreds of palm-sized replicas to search the Empty Mirror Sea, and one found a black leather booklet.
• Laplace identified the booklet’s title, “Wishbook,” as Psionic Realm script and explained that its surviving mental power was extraordinarily dense.
• Angel used Heart Space’s forelimb and Object Collector to retrieve the booklet, successfully testing the new mechanism.
• Angel considered wing designs for Heart Space and planned to test them using the Half-Body Mirror.
• A pale blue ghost flame appeared inside Heart Space, and Angel traced it to the Wishbook.

Gleipnir opened the Wishbook, releasing a ghostfire that Angel and Laplace confirmed had come from its illustration. Laplace identified the booklet as a wondrous object, and the group deduced that its creator, Star Attendant, was likely the youth they had found in the pot, though they still needed proof.

• Gleipnir scanned the Wishbook and opened it, causing a pale-blue ghostfire to emerge from its first-page illustration.
• Laplace struck the ghostfire, which dispersed and returned its psionic energy to the illustration, confirming that the fire had come from the page.
• Laplace identified the Wishbook as a manifestation-type wondrous object and explained its rules and the restrictions attached to its abilities.
• Laplace and Gleipnir examined the Wishbook's abilities and inferred that Star Attendant was a weak but promising psionicist who relied on tricks rather than direct combat.
• Gleipnir used astrology to match the Wishbook's residual psionic aura to the youth in the pot, suggesting he was Star Attendant.
• The group concluded that they could confirm the youth's identity if he used an ability from a page that only Star Attendant could activate.