Chapter Summaries

Angel examined Valery Laboratory’s biologically modified weapons and appraised Feikete’s Dagger, discovering that it could summon something linked to the creatures trapped in its pillar of blood. He left the exhibition after deciding the weapons offered little he could use, and Takiana received word that General Oleg would meet them.

• Takiana explained that Valery Laboratory was authorized to exhibit and sell some biologically modified weapons, then led Angel and Laplace to its VIP display area.
• Angel inspected Feikete’s Dagger, learned it was made from a Cane Snailfolk and that its full abilities were undisclosed, and gained permission to appraise it.
• Angel used Eye of Nalda and deduced that Feikete’s Dagger had a summoning effect, though the restricted appraisal left most of its information unknown.
• Angel told Laplace the dagger might compare to a high-tier alchemical item, and Laplace said it was the exhibition hall’s most powerful weapon.
• Angel continued browsing briefly, then left the exhibition; Takiana received Sypolov’s message that General Oleg had agreed to meet them.

Angel and Laplace met General Oleg in a hidden, warded tent, where Angel pressed for permission to enter Heartfire Hall and seek a Heartfire. Oleg argued that outsiders could not succeed, but Angel refused to give up, leaving the possibility open.

• Sypolov led Angel and Laplace to a secluded tent, where Uncle Ku's Heartfire avatar greeted them and said Oleg was inside.
• Angel noticed a barrier shielding the inner room from outside surveillance and entered with Laplace and Sypolov.
• Angel met Oleg, who treated Laplace with unusual solemnity, while Uncle Ku served warmed wine.
• Oleg told Angel that outsiders could not obtain a Heartfire, citing the failure of previous visitors and the legendary status of the sole outsider who had succeeded.
• Angel insisted that he still wanted to enter Heartfire Hall and was willing to accept failure, while Oleg left the possibility open despite discouraging him.

Angel and Laplace met with General Oleg to discuss entering the Heartfire Hall, but Oleg demanded that Angel prove his strength or offer a powerful background and benefits. Angel chose to postpone negotiations and leave for the Hundred Dragons Divine Kingdom Outpost to speak with Mystic Dragon first.

• Oleg rejected Angel's request to enter the Heartfire Hall, explaining that only a legendary figure, a powerful diplomatic arrangement, or an experimental subject had been allowed inside before.
• Angel and Laplace privately considered ways to meet Oleg's requirements, including using the Login Device to offer benefits, but decided the device's significance needed to become clearer first.
• Laplace proposed that they visit Mystic Dragon at the Hundred Dragons Divine Kingdom Outpost before resuming talks with Oleg.
• Angel refused to give up, but said it was too early to negotiate and left with Laplace.
• Uncle Ku called after Angel and said there was room to discuss entry, but Angel replied that they would talk later and departed with Laplace.

Angel and Laplace left the Yingji Race market and traveled to the Hundred Dragons Divine Kingdom's outpost, where they encountered a Crystal-Eyed Race youth who seemed to be fleeing the Sacred Corpse Crystal and the Giant City Spirit. They suspected he was another victim like Lita and learned that Greipnir had already arranged to invite Crystal-Eyed Race elders to discuss Login Devices and the Dream Crystal Plain.

• Angel reassured Sypolov, then asked him to tell Oleg that they were members of the Dream Mirror and said Oleg might soon seek them out.
• Angel and Laplace entered the Crystal Pavilion, where a frightened Crystal-Eyed Race youth rushed in and tried unsuccessfully to reach the negative first floor before guards arrested him.
• After reaching the four-thousandth floor, Laplace shielded Angel's conversation from the Giant City Spirit, and they concluded the youth might be a victim of the Sacred Corpse Crystal trying to escape through underground passages.
• Angel discussed using the Dream Crystal Plain to offer another kind of rebirth to consciousnesses inside Sacred Corpse Crystals, though he had no solution for how they could enter it.
• Laplace told Angel that Greipnir had suggested inviting Crystal-Eyed Race elders to discuss Login Devices and the Calamity Puppet, and that the elders should already have arrived at the outpost.

Angel and Laplace traveled with Kuntela to the Cloud Grotto, where the Mystic Dragon was meeting Kukulus and Gleipnir. Along the way, Angel learned about the Red Danfur Crystal Shell he had received and examined a catalog of unusual Crystal Shells.

• Kuntela met Angel and Laplace and escorted them through the Hundred Dragons Divine Kingdom Outpost toward the Cloud Grotto.
• Kuntela explained that the Mystic Dragon had taken Gleipnir to meet Kukulus, while Angel realized he had gone to learn about Kukulus's Dragon-Eating Sunflower ability.
• Kuntela identified Angel's red crystal as a Red Danfur Crystal Shell that could withstand high temperatures and change shape when supplied with energy.
• Angel decided to make Red Danfur gloves for Dangros so the fire sprite could play without accidentally starting fires.
• Kuntela gave Angel a catalog of unusual Crystal Shells, and Angel learned that Pure Rock Crystal Clusters could withstand at least two of Kuntela's full-strength attacks.

Angel examined the Crystal-Eyed Race’s specialized Crystal Shells and decided the Vacuum Membrane might provide a cheaper way to create living space than Void Algae. He and Laplace arrived with Kuntela at the Cave Dragons’ Cloud Grotto, where their new-generation leader Kukulus came to greet them.

• Angel learned that Crystal Shells were difficult to alter through ordinary alchemical forging, though he considered whether Fantasy Alchemy could add external modules.
• Kuntela explained the specialized Rock Crystal Clusters, including one that protected users from spatial turbulence during teleportation.
• Angel examined other Crystal Shells, including the Vacuum Membrane, and reasoned it might replace scarce, expensive Void Algae in a living space.
• Kuntela offered to remember the Vacuum Membrane and teleportation-specialized Rock Crystal Cluster, but Angel asked him to wait until they could inspect the products.
• Angel, Laplace, and Kuntela crossed the cloud staircase to the Cloud Grotto and met Kukulus, who greeted them with visible awkwardness.

Angel and Laplace joined a gathering in the Cloud Grotto with leaders of the Crystal-Eyed Race and the Hundred Dragons Divine Kingdom. The Mystic Dragon Eya revealed that he regarded Laplace as his teacher, stunning the other attendees.

• Kukulus led Angel and Laplace into the Cloud Grotto, where Gleipnir and the other guests were waiting.
• Gleipnir introduced Prophet Yota, Mosida, and Kulinta as leaders of the Crystal-Eyed Race, while Angel recognized Mollyan as a Time Doppelgänger.
• Eya introduced himself to Angel with unusual courtesy, then showed Laplace even deeper respect.
• Eya knelt before Laplace and called her his teacher, shocking the Crystal-Eyed elders, Mollyan, and Kukulus.
• Laplace denied being Eya's teacher, but Eya insisted that she had taught him and remained his teacher in his heart.

Eya explained to Prophet Yota and the Crystal-Eyed Race elders that the Singers and Featherwood Clan were preparing the Day Mirror Domain for their own settlement, while revealing that the Gosen Mirror Domain’s main force would not come if the Day Mirror Domain faced a crisis of its own. The chapter ended with Eya confirming that the Day Mirror Domain was indeed in danger.

• Eya dismissed his emotional speech as borrowed from storybooks, and Mollyan teased him about changing into human form for his teacher.
• Eya began explaining the Singers’ and Featherwood Clan’s plans to Yota and the two elders, while Gleipnir briefed Angel and Laplace through the Mind Tether.
• Gleipnir explained that the Login Device could help spread the warning about Xulifa, the Calamity Puppet, and described how she had given one to Eya.
• Eya described the history of the Gosen Mirror Domain and deduced that its advance scouts were preparing the Day Mirror Domain for the Singers’ future settlement.
• Yota realized the Singers’ main force might not come if the Day Mirror Domain faced its own crisis, and Eya confirmed that it did.

Eya explained that the Calamity Puppet Xulifa had reached the Dark Mirror Domain and that the Sealed Space’s spread would eventually threaten Day Mirror Domain. As the gathered leaders weighed fleeing against confronting her, Mollyan urged them to focus on how they could rise to the challenge.

• Eya told Yota that Xulifa had arrived in the Dark Mirror Domain and could cross into Day Mirror Domain by locking onto nearby living beings.
• Yota learned from Eya that Gleipnir had supplied the intelligence, then asked what strategies the gathered leaders could use against the Calamity Puppet.
• Eya said the races could either complete Xulifa’s challenge to make her sleep or flee, while explaining that Gosen Mirror Domain had chosen to emigrate.
• Yota proposed luring Xulifa into another realm, but Eya explained that the Sealed Space’s spread had already begun and that locating and luring her through the Ghost Domain was too dangerous.
• Yota and the Crystal-Eyed Race elders were left uncertain about abandoning their people, until Mollyan dismissed further discussion of fleeing and called for strategies to rise to the challenge.

Angel suggested that the Calamity Puppet’s challenge might be simple but impossible to complete without the right resources, and Gleipnir proposed using Login Devices to relay its requirements. The group agreed to deploy Login Device users throughout the Day Mirror Domain, leaving the devices’ price to be discussed later.

• Kukulus proposed that the Calamity Puppet’s task might be simple, and Angel illustrated how an easy request for Bostan Flower Tea could still be impossible to fulfill.
• Eya argued that learning the task’s exact requirements would let the Day Mirror Domain prepare, but Mollyan pointed out that challengers could not normally send information out of the Sealed Space.
• Gleipnir proposed that a challenger use a Login Device to enter the Dream Crystal Plain and relay the task, with sentries deployed throughout the Day Mirror Domain to increase the chance the Calamity Puppet chose one.
• Gleipnir said the Dream Mirror Clan could supply as many Login Devices as the races purchased, and Mollyan objected when Mosida suggested they should be free.
• Mollyan promised that the Hundred Dragons Divine Kingdom would pay Gleipnir’s quoted price, and Yota said the Crystal-Eyed Race would do the same before Gleipnir returned the meeting to the deployment plan.

Eya and the others refined a plan to deploy surveillance across the Day Mirror Domain, while Angel and Laplace considered whether the Login Devices would work despite the Calamity Puppet. Eya sent his Time Doppelgänger Fan to host them in a Dragon Feast and asked Angel about Login Device supplies and human alchemy.

• Eya agreed that full-realm deployment was feasible with enough Login Devices, and he began refining the surveillance plan with the others.
• Angel argued that the Mirror Realm’s collective will might help people log in, while Laplace reasoned that the Calamity Puppet would follow its rules and would not stop them from using the devices.
• Eya summoned Fan, his Time Doppelgänger who had originated as a painting spirit, and sent him to escort Angel and Laplace to a Dragon Feast inside the painting.
• Before Angel entered the painting, Eya asked whether Login Devices could be supplied without limit, and Angel said they could provide enough for the surveillance deployment.
• Eya asked whether Angel was an alchemist and invited him to meet Algalong; Angel expressed interest in witnessing Lord De’s forging techniques.

Angel, Laplace, and Mollyan entered Eya’s Text Space, where written descriptions became real objects, and Butler Fan explained how its wordcrafting worked. Angel learned that Eya’s ability could create extraordinary items and even living creatures under strict conditions, and Butler Fan went to fetch a textual creature for him to inspect.

• Mollyan left the Cloud Grotto gathering and joined Angel and Laplace inside the painting, while the others began refining their plan against the Calamity Puppet.
• Eya redirected the gathering’s attention from Angel’s connection to the Login Device toward the Dream Mirror Clan’s deployment plan.
• Mollyan explained that the painting was a Text Space where written descriptions became objects, then demonstrated by writing herself a pair of gloves.
• Butler Fan revealed that he had written the tableware descriptions and explained the restrictions on creating extraordinary items and living creatures with words.
• Angel agreed to try wordcrafting, and Butler Fan went to fetch a completed textual creature for him to see.

Angel tested text creation by producing the scent of Demon-Eating Flower King's Saliva, though its soul-healing effects were omitted. Mollyan replicated the fragrance, and Butler Fan returned with a glass case whose contents generated a vast mass of textual information.

• Angel wrote a description of Demon-Eating Flower King's Saliva's scent, and the paper vanished without anything appearing at first.
• Angel revealed the created fragrance with a flame, and its textual description appeared in the air.
• Angel explained that the scent lacked its soul-soothing and healing effects because text creation corrected extraordinary effects out of the description.
• Mollyan asked permission to replicate the scent in the Arcane Archive, and Angel agreed.
• As the fragrance faded, Mollyan created her own version of it and found the result pleasing.
• Butler Fan returned carrying a glass case that produced an overwhelming mass of textual information, suggesting it contained the textual living creature.

Angel studied Eya’s living text earthworm and learned how textual creations evolved through chains of logic and self-correction. Intrigued by the possibility of replicating Text Space in the Dream Crystal Plain, he planned to borrow Eya’s painting through Laplace, then tested whether adding fertilizer would alter the black soil’s text.

• Butler Fan showed Angel and Laplace Eya’s living text creature, an earthworm, and explained how it represented generations of gradual development.
• Butler Fan explained that textual creations followed logical chains, and that Eya had learned to simplify descriptions for inanimate objects.
• Angel noticed that the earthworm’s activity had caused some black soil to self-correct into a more fertile version.
• Angel suggested bringing Text Space into the Dream Crystal Plain, and Laplace proposed borrowing Eya’s painting instead of relying on Mystic Dragon’s bloodline talent.
• Angel kept the Dream Conch secret from Eya, and Laplace agreed to handle borrowing the painting.
• Angel wrote nutrients into existence as fertilizer and added it to the black soil to test whether external changes would trigger textual self-correction.

Angel and Laplace met Evikato, a Mercury Dragon who was preparing a Dragon Feast under the influence of an Evil Witch's blessing. After Evikato ate fruit and asked which parts of its meat the guests preferred, Butler Fan revealed that the blessing made chosen organs duplicate themselves.

• Angel recognized Evikato as a Mercury Dragon and learned from Laplace about its mirror-based powers.
• Angel and Evikato realized that they shared the mysterious aura of the Evil Witch's blessing, and Evikato said its blessing would end the following week.
• Evikato began preparing the Dragon Feast by eating strange fruit, causing its mysterious aura to flare.
• Evikato asked the guests which parts of the meat they liked, and Mollyan recommended parts of a Mercury Dragon to Angel.
• Butler Fan explained that Evikato's blessing caused a chosen bodily organ to proliferate after it ate a specific fruit.

Angel, Laplace, and Mollyan learned that Evikato’s Dragon Feast consisted of Mirror Dragon flesh he produced from his own body. After Laplace and Mollyan ate a freshly multiplied heart, the group considered which parts to request next, while Angel weighed eating one against keeping it as an alchemical material.

• Butler Fan explained that Evikato’s redundant organs had been researched and that he was using the remaining days of the Wicked Witch’s Blessing to prepare a Dragon Feast.
• Evikato multiplied a new heart, then recovered his energy by absorbing customized Aggregation Energy made by Eya.
• Laplace and Mollyan split and ate the heart, while Angel declined Mollyan’s suggestion to use its bloodline essence because he already had a suitable bloodline.
• Mollyan requested chest meat, Laplace said any part would do, and Angel postponed choosing while he considered preserving an organ for alchemy.
• Laplace asked Butler Fan to describe the different parts and their effects, and he provided the details through a menu.

Angel considered which Mirror Dragon organ to choose from Evikato’s menu, weighing the Pure-Colored Lone Scale and Mercury Dragon’s Eye against two Aggregation Energy organs. Laplace chose Dragon Neck Meat, while Mollyan noticed Angel showed no reaction to its bloodline-stirring scent and privately wondered about his bloodline.

• Mollyan’s chest meat finished proliferating, and its dense energy aura formed the shape of a Fog Dragon above the plate.
• Angel weighed the Pure-Colored Lone Scale, Mercury Dragon’s Eye, Umbrella Core, and Tail Removal, favoring the first two for their potential talents and illusion-detection effects.
• Angel planned to use the server in his mind to simulate alchemy before deciding between the Pure-Colored Lone Scale and Mercury Dragon’s Eye.
• Laplace chose Dragon Neck Meat because it was delicious and could strengthen her incarnation’s body and energy ahead of its advancement.
• Evikato proliferated Dragon Neck Meat, whose scent stirred the bloodlines of those present, but Angel seemed unaffected.
• Mollyan wondered whether Angel’s bloodline was exceptionally high or too low to respond, and decided to observe him rather than ask.

Angel chose Mercury Dragon's Eye because he could refine it into an external Spell-Breaking Eye without sacrificing either of his own eyes. After Evikato created it and Angel secretly stored it away, he discussed plans to use it as the main material for a new item, though whether it could become a secret treasure remained uncertain.

• Angel chose Mercury Dragon's Eye, reasoning that the Spell-Breaking Eye was too difficult to learn and that he could not safely transplant another eye.
• Evikato proliferated Mercury Dragon's Eye, exhausted its reserves, and left the Painted World to recover.
• Angel swallowed the bitter eye whole, preserving it in his stomach, while Mollyan left for the garden after apparently guessing what he had done.
• With Laplace's help, Angel retrieved Mercury Dragon's Eye from his stomach and stored it in his bracelet.
• Angel told Laplace he planned to refine Mercury Dragon's Eye into an item, and they discussed the possibility of creating a secret treasure.

After the Dragon Feast, Angel learned about the side effects of Moria Dragonblood Wine and chose to take it away rather than drink it there. He gave Mollyan, Butler Fan, and Evikato specially crafted Login Devices, and the guests accepted them.

• Mollyan returned from the garden and praised Angel’s earlier Demon-Eating Flower King’s Saliva scent, while hinting that she might know about his maneuvers.
• Butler Fan served Moria Dragonblood Wine and explained that its bloodline-strengthening effects came with subconscious phantasms that stirred powerful emotions.
• Angel put the wine away to use or give away later, and Mollyan suggested it could also serve as a potion or forging catalyst.
• Angel offered Mollyan an Inkfeather Pendant, Butler Fan a Red Plaid Bow Tie, and Evikato a Gem-Encrusted Silver Crown, each equipped with a special function.
• Mollyan accepted and wore the pendant, while Butler Fan accepted the bow tie and put it on, agreeing to pass the crown to Evikato.

Mollyan tested the Inkfeather Pendant’s light-and-shadow effects, then entered the Dream Crystal Plain and arrived in Rabbit Town. Angel followed to investigate reports from new residents who had seen a Wraith in the Mist, but he found no sign of it and remained unsure what they had encountered.

• Mollyan used the Inkfeather Pendant to change her appearance and praised its detailed effects, comparing them favorably with Algalong’s Salinboto Earring.
• Mollyan activated the Login Device and entered the Dream Crystal Plain after Fan the butler declined to accompany her.
• Angel entered Rabbit Town, watched Mollyan arrive safely, and went to question the new residents about their reported Wraith in the Mist.
• The new residents described seeing a translucent figure wandering through thin mist while they surveyed the surrounding terrain.
• Rabbit Girl explained that she had investigated the reported location but found nothing, and Angel said the witnesses probably had not lied while admitting he could not identify what they saw.