Chapter Summaries

Angel declined to meet Charles XIII as the creator of the Dream Crystal Plain and chose to present himself only as the wielder of the Dream Gate authority. Luigi weighed whether to use Gleipnir’s favor with the Hundred Dragons Divine Kingdom to obtain music for Uriel’s instance, but postponed the decision while practicing a score.

• Gleipnir told Angel that Charles XIII had arrived in Rabbit Town and wanted to meet the Dream Crystal Plain’s creator.
• Gleipnir advised Angel not to reveal himself as the creator, and Angel agreed to identify himself as the wielder of the Dream Gate authority.
• Luigi showed Angel the scores he had found and said that “Night Sparrow’s Dancing Rhapsody” was his best option for Uriel’s instance.
• Luigi explained that entering the Hundred Dragons Divine Kingdom required either a long application process or Gleipnir’s help, which would use up a favor owed to her.
• Luigi decided to practice “Night Sparrow’s Dancing Rhapsody” and to reconsider asking Gleipnir for help if he still lacked a suitable score near the deadline.

Angel spoke with Olao about discovering his own individuality and making plans now that he was free from the contract. Olao chose to restore his silver hair and shared goals of meeting Augustine, Adegou, and a complete Adanis, while explaining that his sealed abilities were gradually returning.

• Angel left Luigi practicing and called Olao to the quiet room for a conversation.
• Olao explained that Dox had advised him to show individuality with eye-catching hair, and Angel urged him to discover what he genuinely liked.
• Olao changed his hair from rainbow to black and then to its natural silver-white, which Angel associated with his freedom from the contract.
• Olao said he had freely chosen to follow Angel and hoped to meet Augustine, Adegou, and a complete Adanis.
• Angel asked about Olao’s immediate plans and personal improvement, and Olao explained that his sealed power was returning and he needed to uncover his buried abilities.

Angel warned Olao against possessing mirrors to learn about the outside world and suggested safer ways to broaden his knowledge. He introduced Olao to the Unbreakable Heart Mirror and its uses, leaving Olao astonished by Angel’s ability to refine a Half-Step Mystic object.

• Olao proposed possessing mirrors to observe other people, but Angel warned him about the dangers and showed him Laplace resting in the Unbreakable Heart Mirror’s Buffer Space.
• Angel explained that Olao could learn about the present through safer means, and Olao persuaded him that Shadow Boxes could teach him about contemporary stories and culture.
• Angel decided to use Shadow Boxes as entertaining study materials and considered making Olao customized lessons.
• Angel explained that he wanted Olao to understand the Unbreakable Heart Mirror, help him in the Mirror Realm, and temporarily oversee Heart Space.
• Olao learned that Angel had recently refined the Unbreakable Heart Mirror himself and was deeply shocked by Angel’s achievement.

Angel brought Olao into Heart Space, where Olao discovered it could withstand the Empty Mirror Sea and learned about its ability to operate an Object Collector. Angel showed Olao the objects recovered from the sea and invited him to try operating the device, while privately intending Star Attendant to become its operator.

• Angel and Olao entered Heart Space, and Olao saw that its heart walls endured the Empty Mirror Sea’s destructive tides.
• Olao met Luigi and learned that Gleipnir and Luigi were Laplace’s Time Doppelgängers.
• Angel showed Olao items recovered from the Empty Mirror Sea, including Star Attendant and his Wishbook from Hante World.
• Angel demonstrated how to operate Heart Space’s Object Collector, moving the space and explaining how it could fish objects from the sea.
• Olao agreed to consider operating the Object Collector, believing it might let him prove his value to Angel.
• Angel privately thought Star Attendant, not Olao, should operate the Object Collector.

Angel let Olao explore Heart Space, contacted Wang Wang through Hyde Land, and learned Luigi had only advanced to Thirteenth Seat in Uriel’s challenge. He then asked Broy to select a score for Luigi’s next attempt, promising to provide a view of Uriel’s reactions to guide the choice.

• Olao quickly mastered Heart Space’s limbs and the Object Collector, so Angel let him keep the Unbreakable Heart Mirror and return to the Strange Fire Alchemist illusion.
• Angel contacted Wang Wang through Hyde Land, learned a Void Traveler was being pursued by a Void Demonic Beast, and heard that Spotty Dog had not replied to his image.
• Luigi showed Angel that Night Sparrow’s Dancing Rhapsody had earned him Thirteenth Seat, one rank higher than his previous result, and Angel offered to observe Uriel during the next challenge.
• Angel went to New City’s mission center and found Broy screening the many musical scores submitted for the search mission.
• Angel showed Broy Luigi’s performance and its Thirteenth Seat evaluation, then promised to provide an illusion of Uriel’s expressions so Broy could choose a score suited to his preferences.

Angel studied Luigi’s reactions to Broy’s score, then took Olao and the spirits out to visit Bilen Tree Court’s Signal Tower. He went there to contact Bauxia about Qili, and waited amid a surge of representatives seeking to communicate after the attack on Bilen Tree Court.

• Angel read the background to “Three Chapters of Sbro” and watched Luigi study the score, confirming it suited the task of observing his preferences.
• Angel left the Travel Inn with Olao, the Wood Spirit, and Dangros, and Olao recounted his outing with Dox, including a planned visit to Muzi Tea Room.
• Angel found perception magic patterns monitoring the Starry District’s exits and concealed himself and Olao as they entered Bilen Tree Court.
• Angel explained the Signal Tower’s rules and told Olao that Bauxia had agreed to meet with him about Qili after Regina spoke in Qili’s favor.
• Angel reached the busy Signal Tower, where he waited to contact Bauxia and introduced Olao to the organizations represented there.

Angel and Olao used the Signal Tower to contact Sky Mechanical City, where Angel spoke with Midora about the turmoil at Bilen Tree Court. The chapter left Midora wondering about Black Earl’s plans, while Angel kept the reason for Black Earl’s presence to himself.

• Angel learned that the Bilos Family was enforcing strict rules at the Signal Tower to prevent trouble and protect its position.
• Angel and Olao entered the communications room, and Angel contacted Midora after Antonio verified his identity.
• Midora warned Angel that Sky Mechanical City’s affiliated factions were stirring up public opinion against the Bilos Family over the destroyed Sky Tower Registration Office.
• Angel explained that the Bilos Family would not collapse because it had gained Black Earl as a patron.
• Midora speculated that Black Earl might be joining the struggle over the Guman Kingdom, but Angel stayed silent about Black Earl’s true intentions.

Angel learned the details of Dongla’s declaration, which attacked his alchemical skill and Research Institute membership, but he remained unconcerned. He told Midora that he planned to release a new, broadly applicable alchemical tool at the upcoming Tea Party, leaving Midora and Antonio eager to learn more about it.

• Midora mistakenly praised Angel for ignoring Dongla’s declaration, and Antonio explained that it accused Angel of having no alchemical skill and being unqualified for the Research Institute.
• Angel asked whether Dongla had returned from the Abyss, and Midora reasoned that she probably had, though she had not appeared publicly.
• Midora warned that ignoring Dongla might not be enough if she appeared in person, but Angel said he did not intend to act against her and was not worried about the declaration.
• Angel told Midora that he was preparing a new alchemical tool and planned to release it at the upcoming Tea Party at Savage Cave.
• Angel offered to send Antonio one of the creations in advance, prompting Midora and Antonio to infer that it was a versatile tool that could benefit many wizards.

Angel confirmed that his new Login Device was a universal-type item, though only he could currently refine it, and kept its unveiling planned for the Dream Wilderness Tea Party. He asked Midora to help Qili, then learned that Midora and Bauxia were both involved in matters concerning the Life Forbidden Zone.

• Antonio asked whether Angel’s new product was universal, and Angel confirmed it was a Login Device that could not yet be widely distributed.
• Antonio offered points and Research Institute promotion, but Angel refused to move the unveiling from the Tea Party; Midora decided to attend in person.
• Angel asked Midora to help Qili, who was being made to clean Number One Raw Materials Warehouse after the incident at Fragrant Plaza, and Midora agreed to speak on her behalf.
• Midora said Bauxia might be able to help Qili and revealed that Bauxia had entrusted him with other matters.
• Angel explained that Bauxia had asked him about unusual magic patterns related to life alchemy, but he had not given her any useful information.

Angel learned that Bauxia was secretly conducting life alchemy and was advised not to trade her special magic patterns. Midora proposed borrowing Siting’s device to speed up Qili’s work in Number One Raw Materials Warehouse, leaving Angel to consider what price Siting might demand.

• Midora and Antonio explained that Bauxia’s material requests and point expenditures revealed her life-alchemy research, which Director Muse knew about but had chosen not to stop.
• Angel said he would avoid interfering in Bauxia’s research, and Midora advised him not to trade her magic patterns even if she offered them in exchange for help with Qili.
• Midora proposed speeding up Qili’s work by using an alchemical device to stabilize odor factors instead of hiring helpers or waiting for her to clear the warehouse at her usual pace.
• Midora revealed that Siting owned the unique Abnormal-State Structural Molecular Stabilizer and said it could shorten Qili’s task from a year or two to a month or two.
• Antonio explained that Siting had previously lent the device to Guxiluo for 20 points or three custom kinds of Moon Silver, and Angel considered what Siting might charge him.

Angel prepared to meet Bauxia alone to discuss life alchemy, while explaining to Olao why it was considered an alchemical forbidden zone. Their conversation raised questions about Margaret’s research and the strange life-alchemy knowledge Angel had found in Nightmare Realm, before Bauxia appeared on the light screen.

• Angel declined Midora’s offer to stand guard and arranged to meet Bauxia alone, while Antonio helped contact her.
• Olao asked Angel why life alchemy was forbidden and recalled that Margaret had searched for it ten thousand years earlier.
• Angel explained that life alchemy touched deep laws and that the Southern Region’s former strength and knowledge had made exploring it less dangerous.
• Olao insisted Margaret had never found a method of life alchemy, but Angel remembered finding transformation arrays in her alchemy books in Nightmare Realm.
• Angel abandoned his attempt to understand how Nightmare Realm could distort knowledge, and Bauxia appeared on the light screen and greeted him.

Angel met with Bauxia to discuss Qili’s predicament, but she first asked him to craft a hat for Dong Liz’s unseen sister. Bauxia explained that Shaluo Witch had requested the hat, and Angel was left to consider the strange demand and the need to communicate with someone he could not see.

• Angel introduced Olao to Bauxia as a trusted assistant and then told her about Qili’s situation.
• Bauxia said she had ideas for helping Qili but asked Angel to craft a hat before discussing them further.
• Angel recalled that Dong Liz had once offered to trade information for one of his hats, claiming it was for her sister’s hat museum.
• Bauxia explained that Shaluo Witch had asked her to prepare a hat for Dong Liz, but Dong Liz insisted it was for her unseen sister.
• Bauxia said Dong Liz’s sister wanted Fingernail Granny or Angel to craft the hat and wished to communicate before it was made.

Angel weighed Bauxia’s two ways of helping Qili and came to favor trading for Bauxia’s special extraction method, which could clear the Number One Raw Materials Warehouse while also easing the Fragrance Circle’s prejudice. Before agreeing to forge Dong Liz’s hat, Angel asked about her unseen sister, and Bauxia explained why she had come to believe the sister existed.

• Bauxia offered either to cancel Qili’s assignment and punishment herself or to teach Qili a unique extraction method in exchange for Angel forging Dong Liz’s hat.
• Angel realized that Bauxia’s direct intervention could cost her credibility and leave prejudice against Qili intact, while completing the warehouse task could help Qili earn the Fragrance Circle’s regard.
• Angel said he would choose the special extraction method if he were deciding, but he wanted to learn what was happening with Dong Liz’s sister before accepting the hat-forging request.
• Bauxia explained that the Truth Spell had not disproved Dong Liz’s claim, and that the Shaluo Witch’s support for the sister’s decision had made Bauxia reconsider her belief that Dong Liz was delusional.
• Bauxia said she believed the Shaluo Witch could not see the sister either, though the witch had confirmed her existence by some other means.

Angel met with Bauxia, who shared gossip and warned him that Dongla might challenge him at the upcoming Tea Party. Dong Liz arrived seeking a hat made by Angel, and he began questioning her before agreeing to anything.

• Angel agreed to meet Dong Liz, but Bauxia learned she was in the Endless Corridor and asked him to wait.
• While they waited, Bauxia shared gossip about Elysium Pavilion, poker, Drama Shadow Boxes, and rumors that Siting was using Angel’s name to recruit illusion-school talents.
• Bauxia warned Angel that Dongla might attend the Tea Party and use the event to cause trouble, prompting Angel to consider warning Liana.
• Dong Liz arrived with puppet-like movements and spoke as if accompanied by her invisible sister.
• Angel told Dong Liz he would need answers before refining a hat for her and asked why she needed him specifically to make it.

Angel and Bauxia learned from Dong Liz that Galatea insisted on a hat made by Angel or Fingernail Granny because it would raise Dong Liz’s survival rate on a dangerous mission. The mission was in the Ancient Ya Realm and tied to the Reincarnation Box, whose connection to Angel’s earlier vision suggested a looming catastrophe.

• Dong Liz demanded hats for herself and Galatea in exchange for relaying Galatea’s words, and Bauxia agreed to make Dong Liz’s hat after confirming with the Shaluo Witch that the price was substantial.
• Dong Liz relayed that only a hat made by Angel or Fingernail Granny could raise her survival rate to ninety percent on an upcoming mission.
• Bauxia explained that the mission was a dangerous Sky Tower cross-realm assignment to the Ancient Ya Realm, accepted by the Shaluo Witch because Galatea chose it.
• Angel realized the mission was connected to the Reincarnation Box, a Disorderly Object in the Ancient Ya Realm linked to his past and to Fingernail Granny’s deployment there.
• Angel recalled Maya’s Doomsday Sky Eye vision and recognized its apocalyptic setting as the pocket space inside the Reincarnation Box.

Angel realized that the Sky Tower’s long-distance mission would send apprentices into the dangerous Reincarnation Box, and learned that Galatea had sent Dong Liz for an opportunity to advance. He agreed to craft Galatea a distinctive hat bearing his alchemy insignia, while remaining concerned about the mission and why Lord Rosen and Dean Muse had issued it.

• Angel connected the red streamer in the Doomsday Sky Eye’s vision to Zorn and concluded that the vision had taken place inside the Reincarnation Box.
• Angel and Bauxia discussed the dangers of the long-distance mission, and Bauxia said Antonio knew its hidden circumstances.
• Dong Liz explained that Galatea had sent her on the mission because her opportunity to advance lay there, and that a prophecy recommended a hat made by Angel and Fingernail Granny to improve her survival chances.
• Dong Liz relayed Galatea’s requirements for a rounded, wide-brimmed Xinan Hat with a veil and dark coloring, and said its main requirement was that Angel’s alchemy insignia be engraved on it.
• Angel agreed to craft the hat on the condition that Dong Liz and Galatea would not attack anyone who recognized his insignia, and they accepted.
• After Dong Liz left, Angel declined to explain his suspicions about Galatea and asked Bauxia why Lord Rosen and Dean Muse had issued the long-distance mission.

Angel questioned the danger of the optional long-distance mission into the Reincarnation Box, while Bauxia arranged to provide him with a special extraction method and an assistant for refining Dong Liz’s hat. Antonio revealed that Fingernail Granny had initiated the mission, leaving Angel stunned and wondering why she would send apprentices into such danger.

• Angel warned Bauxia that the Reincarnation Box could kill apprentices, and Bauxia said she lacked the details but believed the mission was not certain death.
• Bauxia arranged for her assistant Saliel to deliver a special extraction method to Angel at Bilen Tree Court and help refine Dong Liz’s hat.
• Antonio and Midora joined Angel, and Angel explained his suspicions that Bauxia’s dealings with the Shaluo Witch involved life alchemy.
• Angel said he still wanted to contact Siting so his machinery could help Qili clear the Number One Raw Materials Warehouse faster.
• Angel challenged Antonio about sending apprentices into the Reincarnation Box, and Antonio revealed that Fingernail Granny had initiated the mission.
• Angel was shocked by Fingernail Granny’s involvement and wondered whether her grief over Lord Ivo had led her to sacrifice apprentices.

Angel learned that Dan was a highly ranked Mystery Analyst from the Order Guild and had persuaded Fingernail Granny to launch the expedition by proposing that mysterious objects could counterbalance disorder. Dan planned to use the mysterious luck granted by the Seed of Death and Calamity to improve the Reincarnation Box’s clear rate.

• Antonio told Angel that Dan had prompted Fingernail Granny to issue the long-distance expedition mission, and that Dan claimed to be a Mystery Analyst seeking to rescue two guild seniors trapped in the Reincarnation Box.
• Angel consulted the Inspector in the Dream Wilderness and learned that the Order Guild trained Mystery Analysts to study Disorderly Objects; he confirmed that its thirty-first-ranked analyst was a wizard named Dan.
• Antonio confirmed that Dan’s appearance and void-like presence matched Angel’s description, making it likely that Dan was genuine.
• Antonio explained that Dan had convinced Fingernail Granny with a method of using mysterious objects to influence other mysterious objects, and Midora prevented Antonio from probing Angel’s sources of information.
• Antonio revealed that Dan intended to use Karmarzan’s Seed of Death and Calamity, which granted mysterious luck after a life-threatening trial, to help people clear the Reincarnation Box’s random stages.

Antonio explained the experiments showing that the Mark of Death and Calamity increased the chances of clearing the Reincarnation Box, especially for apprentices who experienced their death calamity inside it. Angel learned why the Long-Distance Mission had been issued, worried about Alex’s fate in the Doomsday Sky Eye, and then agreed to help Midora contact Siting before asking Olao to receive Saliel.

• Antonio recounted Dan’s experiments, which found that all three successful test subjects had undergone their death calamities inside the Reincarnation Box and that apprentices cleared the trials more often than formal wizards.
• Antonio explained that the Long-Distance Mission aimed to send enough people through the Reincarnation Box to reach and contain its core, potentially freeing Frost and Zorn.
• Angel considered whether Alex had also ended up in the dangerous Doomsday Sky Eye and wondered if he would ever meet him again.
• Angel asked Antonio for the list of Long-Distance Mission applicants so he could warn any friends who signed up.
• Midora raised the matter of finding Siting, and Angel agreed to speak with him alongside Midora.
• Angel asked Olao to go to the Teleportation Hall and receive Bauxia’s assistant, Saliel.

Angel searched Bilen Tree Court for materials to craft a hat for Dong Liz, then entered Heart Space to observe Uriel’s reactions to Luigi’s performance. He left with a Moon Silver ore and Ancient Silk Platinum thread, while the search for leather and gauze remained unfinished and Uriel’s changing gaze gave Angel hope of choosing a score that would please him.

• Angel took Dangros to Moonlit Silver Waves, where Dangros chose a water-rich Moon Silver raw ore that Angel bought for three hundred magic crystals.
• Angel had Dangros select tough Ancient Silk Platinum thread, but he found no suitable leather or gauze and planned to check the next day’s gathering or ask Saliel and Dox to visit the Muzi Tea Party.
• Back at the Travel Inn, Angel sent Wood Spirit and Dangros to watch Strange Fire Alchemist and entered Heart Space to observe Uriel during Luigi’s challenge.
• Luigi performed a new harp score for Uriel, whose gaze brightened at soaring notes and dimmed at sorrowful melodies.
• Angel memorized Uriel’s changing expressions and realized Broy could help determine his precise musical preferences.