Chapter Summaries

Angel confirmed that the mysterious light screen appeared only for those who had entered a Wonderland Instance, then waited with Laplace for its hourglass to vanish. The screen revealed an initializing Announcement Board and two unknown functions, and a notification sounded as the page changed.

• Angel checked Rabbit Girl, Hound Butler, Little Red, and other instance entrants, confirming that all who had received a Wonderland prompt could see the light screen, even if they had failed to clear an instance.
• Laplace reasoned that the light screen was tied to clearing Wonderland Instances, and Angel clarified that merely entering an instance was enough.
• Angel suspected the light screen might be a chat window but kept his theory to himself because he could not explain his reasoning.
• As the lightning disaster intensified, Angel took Laplace into Deep Space, where they waited for the storm to settle while keeping the floating oil painting in sight.
• Laplace noticed the hourglass had disappeared, and Angel saw a page identifying the first activated function as an Announcement Board while two other functions remained unknown.
• A chime sounded beside Angel, and the light screen's page changed.

Angel and Laplace investigated Wonderland Authority’s first-clear announcement after it prompted Laplace to confirm and name herself. Laplace chose the name Silver Forest, while the announcement still awaited Gleipnir’s confirmation.

• Angel noticed a new first-clear announcement prompt and concluded that Wonderland Authority had copied features from the Holographic Tablet.
• Laplace revealed that her light screen had a confirmation button, and Angel guessed that Gleipnir was the other confirmer.
• Laplace pressed the button and entered a dark space, where she learned that she and another participant had first cleared the linked Wonderland Glutton's Banquet.
• Laplace tested the name Luigi, then waited without choosing a name as the countdown expired.
• A prompt explained that skipping the naming process would produce a garbled name, so Laplace chose Silver Forest.

Laplace completed the first-clear announcement setup for Glutton’s Banquet, choosing to keep her clearing process private. The announcement appeared across Dream Crystal Plain, and Angel discovered that its text could be operated when he touched “Silver Forest.”

• Laplace confirmed the name Silver Forest and learned that appearance settings controlled whether others could view her clearing process.
• Laplace declined to make her Glutton’s Banquet clear public because she and Greipnir had relied on strategy and Reverse Scale, which could expose Angel’s involvement.
• The confirmation period ended, and Dream Crystal Plain announced that Silver Forest and an unidentified partner had first cleared the special linked Wonderland, Glutton’s Banquet.
• Angel read the text panel instructions, including its manual, eye-tracking, and energy controls, but could not understand what it meant for some text to be operable.
• Angel touched “Silver Forest” in the announcement, and the light screen flickered.

Angel and Laplace investigated how the Wonderland Authority used Text Space rules to display a cleared instance’s information and playback, then considered why Glutton’s Banquet alone appeared in the first-clear announcement. Laplace tapped a new reward entry and vanished, arriving inside a text-created version of Glutton’s Banquet.

• Angel entered the Glutton’s Banquet projection through the Text Panel, but its playback was unavailable because the clearer had disabled it.
• Laplace explained that he had seen a separate option to reopen the playback but had refused to use it.
• Angel and Laplace theorized that only instances cleared to 100% exploration completion appeared in first-clear announcements.
• Laplace noticed a new Text Panel entry reading “Reward: Glutton’s Banquet” and tapped it, causing him to disappear from Angel’s side.
• Laplace arrived at a manor in a text-created version of Glutton’s Banquet, where even the paths, gardens, and fruit trees were formed from textual descriptions.

Laplace explored the Wonderland Authority’s Text Space, marveling at its refined living text creations while searching for a way out. In the manor’s main hall, she found a Spatial Painting displaying the Crystal Whip and suspected it could let her leave.

• Laplace examined the Yellowwater Berry and other living text creations, then took a berry to study or give to Eya.
• Laplace tried the manor’s gates and dog holes but found an invisible barrier enclosing the Text Space.
• Laplace searched the Glass Conservatory for an exit but found only roses and no clues.
• Laplace entered the villa and found a Spatial Painting depicting the Crystal Whip, the former gateway to Glutton's Banquet.
• Laplace read that the painting held an inner space and decided to try retrieving the Crystal Whip from it.

Laplace retrieved the core creation of the Glutton's Banquet Text Space and learned that she and Greipnir had to complete its master recognition before its permissions fully unlocked. After Laplace returned to Angel, they examined the Text Space's creations and considered telling Eya about them, but Laplace pointed out that they would first need to explain how the Text Space came to be in the Dream Crystal Plain.

• Laplace touched the oil painting, drew out the crystal whip that served as the Text Space's core creation, and became one of its two registered masters.
• Laplace used her partial permissions to leave the Text Space and returned high above the ground, where Angel caught her with a cushion of wind.
• Laplace explained that Wonderland Authority had recreated Glutton's Banquet as a Text Space, and she showed Angel a Yellowwater Berry and a projection of the core creation.
• Laplace tried to bring Angel into the Text Space, but the crystal whip reported that permission was not unlocked until Greipnir completed master recognition.
• Angel and Laplace reasoned that Wonderland Authority had altered the rules of text, making the descriptions of the Text Space's creations unusually concise.
• Angel suggested telling Eya about the altered text to encourage him to explore Wonderland Instances, but Laplace asked how they would explain the Text Space's appearance in the Dream Crystal Plain.

Angel and Laplace speculated about the text panel’s unactivated functions and considered gathering more light-screen owners to unlock a possible communication feature. After they went offline, Yifuda chose to remain on the Dream Crystal Plain and rejoin its people, while Angel returned to the crystal-cluster room and found the Giant City Spirit and Yota still absent.

• Angel decided not to tell Eya about Text Space because doing so could expose the Dream Conch’s secret.
• Angel and Laplace reasoned that the text panel might have a communication function whose activation required more light-screen owners, and they considered having the races enter the Little Treasure Pagoda.
• After learning that the Giant City Spirit and Yota had gone offline, Angel and Laplace decided to leave without retrieving the drifting oil painting.
• Yifuda reflected that she would welcome an ordinary life on the Dream Crystal Plain, though she did not know whether Tunita would choose to stay there.
• Yifuda left Rabbit Tower’s balcony to seek out the natives, and Angel went offline after seeing her join them.
• Angel emerged from the Geometric Lock and found Laplace waiting in the crystal-cluster room, while the Giant City Spirit and Yota remained out of sight.

Yota and the Giant City Spirit apologized for keeping Angel and Laplace waiting and offered Scarlet Armor, but Angel declined and asked about the Crystal-Eyed Race’s position on the Dream Crystal Plain. The Giant City Spirit and Yota pledged the race’s support, then offered to exchange the gift for something else, leaving Angel reconsidering his refusal.

• Yota arrived on a spider-shaped Crystal Shell and apologized to Angel and Laplace for the long delay.
• Yota offered Angel the rare defensive Crystal Shell Scarlet Armor, but Angel declined it because its abilities did not interest him.
• Angel asked what the Crystal-Eyed Race thought about the Dream Crystal Plain, and the Giant City Spirit declared that the race would stand with Dream Mirror.
• Yota agreed with the Giant City Spirit and confirmed that the Crystal-Eyed Race supported the Dream Crystal Plain.
• The Giant City Spirit offered to replace Scarlet Armor with another gift, and Angel swallowed his prepared refusal.

Angel and Laplace learned that Crystal City's treasury held the Starry Sky Book, a Level 4 treasure coveted by Greipnir, and agreed to use their single selection on it. Yota brought them to the Rare Treasures Exhibition Hall, where they prepared to enter and view the displayed treasures.

• Yota told Angel and Laplace that Crystal City's treasury contained human treasures and the Starry Sky Book, prompting Laplace to recognize its value to astrologers.
• Angel apologized to Laplace for refusing the Scarlet Armor without consulting her, and she explained that she had not wanted it but wanted the Starry Sky Book for Greipnir.
• Laplace confirmed that Greipnir wanted the Starry Sky Book, and Angel agreed to use their one Level 4 treasure selection to obtain it.
• Yota confirmed that the Starry Sky Book was a Level 4 treasure, while Laplace asked to visit the treasury before making the selection.
• The Giant City Spirit teleported Angel, Laplace, and Yota to the Rare Treasures Exhibition Hall, and Yota transformed into a giant before leading them toward the crystal palace.

Angel and Laplace toured the Rare Treasures Exhibition Hall with Yota, learning that the fifty-person limit came from the number of Giant City Spirit split spirits monitoring visitors. Yota guided them through the halls to collect the required auras for entry to the Level 4 treasure area, leaving them at Premium Exhibition Hall No. 66.

• Yota explained that fifty Giant City Spirit split spirits each monitored one entrant, accounting for the exhibition hall’s fifty-person limit.
• Yota led Angel and Laplace into Ordinary Exhibition Hall No. 1 and described the sixty ordinary halls and nine premium halls and their treasure levels.
• Angel admired the exhibition hall’s architecture and discussed with Laplace why they should not bring it into the Dream Crystal Plain.
• Angel examined examples of Level 1 and Level 2 treasures, including a rare Windhair Crystal and Gryffindor’s Travelogue of Desolate Lake.
• Yota explained that they needed the auras of six exhibition halls and Premium Exhibition Hall No. 66 to enter the Level 4 treasure area, then teleported them to Hall No. 66.

Angel learned that the Rare Treasures Exhibition Hall and its elaborate designs were created by the deceased designer Han Da, and persuaded Yota to arrange her revival in the Dream Crystal Plain. After Yota secured Han Da’s Sacred Corpse Crystal, they entered Hall 66, where Angel discovered that its centerpiece Jellyfish was a specialized Crystal Shell.

• Angel learned from Yota that Han Da designed the Rare Treasures Exhibition Hall and its themed premium hall plaques, and that she became famous only after her early death.
• Angel confirmed Han Da’s Sacred Corpse Crystal remained intact and persuaded Yota that reviving her in the Dream Crystal Plain could help design a new Rabbit Town for visitors from across the Day Mirror Domain.
• Yota contacted Han Da’s family and the Giant City Spirit, who agreed to the revival plan and obtained her Sacred Corpse Crystal for Angel.
• Angel and Yota entered Hall 66 through an aquarium-like passage and examined the ocean-themed exhibition hall.
• Yota explained that the enormous centerpiece called Jellyfish was a specialized Crystal Shell whose effects differed from ordinary Jellyfish shells.

Angel examined the Microscopic-Specialized jellyfish Crystal Shell and learned about other treasures in Exhibition Hall No. 66 while absorbing its ocean aura. After ten minutes, Yota led Angel and Laplace to a teleportation formation that was expected to take them to the Level 4 treasure area.

• Angel read the jellyfish's plaque and learned that its Microscopic Specialization let it create intricate worlds within tiny surfaces, then asked whether the Crystal-Eyed Race might sell it for alchemy research.
• Yota explained that buying the Level 3 jellyfish required unanimous Elder Council approval, and Angel declined the option to use his Level 4 treasure right to select three Level 3 treasures.
• Angel learned that the Ten Thousand Trees Mirror held a fragrant forest prized by the Aroma-Seeking Tribe, and that the Summon Seawater secret art could provide scarce seawater in the Mirror Realm.
• Angel and Laplace spent ten minutes in Exhibition Hall No. 66 absorbing enough ocean aura to meet the entry requirement for the Level 4 treasure area.
• Yota led Angel and Laplace to a hexagram formation, and Angel regained his footing after it teleported them.

Angel, Laplace, and Yota entered the Crystal-Eyed Race’s Level 4 Treasure Repository, a vast solidified interstitial space called the Servitors’ Hall. Yota revealed that colossal Crystal Shell Mechanical Soldiers guarded the treasures, then summoned an empty display case from the light overhead to show Angel how they could inspect them.

• Angel emerged from darkness into an immense marble space lit by a small sun and surrounded by colossal mechanical statues.
• Yota identified the place as the Level 4 Treasure Repository, also called the Servitors’ Hall, and explained that it occupied a solidified interstitial space.
• Angel recognized the statues as crystal mechanical people, and Yota explained that they were Crystal Shell Mechanical Soldiers jointly developed by the Crystal-Eyed Race and Pirus.
• Yota tapped the floor with his scepter, causing the servitors to reveal the Level 4 treasures they protected.
• Angel asked how visitors could inspect the treasures, and Yota summoned an empty glazed-crystal display case from the light overhead.

Angel learned how the Psionic Display Case worked and reviewed the Level 4 treasures he could select from, but he could only examine three per day. He and Laplace began weighing their choices, including whether to inspect the suspicious secret treasure Monde's Palette, and had not yet settled on the final two selections beyond the Starry Sky Book.

• Yota explained that the Psionic Display Case blocked spiritual probing and used a teleportation array to display Level 4 treasures, with a limit of three per day.
• Yota told Angel that he could learn the names of eligible treasures but not their effects, and Angel saw a list of thirty-six treasures available for selection.
• Angel became interested in Monde's Palette, the only available secret treasure, while keeping the Starry Sky Book as a required choice.
• Angel asked Laplace about Monde's Palette through the Mind Tether, and Laplace warned that the secret treasure probably had a major catch.
• Angel suggested that they inspect other treasures before deciding whether to display Monde's Palette, then asked Laplace which listed treasures she considered most valuable.

Angel and Laplace discussed secret tomes that might be considered for the psychic display cabinet, weighing their value and the secrets they contained. They set aside Chronicle in the Mirror and Travelogue in the Umbrella, kept the Starry Sky Book as their priority, and turned their attention to the alchemical tome Black Arts.

• Laplace explained that Chronicle in the Mirror let readers witness its recorder's journeys through other Mirror Realms, but Angel excluded it because its intelligence was not an urgent necessity.
• Laplace described how Naluoduo's Travelogue in the Umbrella had sparked wars after people gained great benefits from its hidden secret, and said it was now held by the Crystal-Eyed Race.
• Laplace relayed Gleipnir's rumor from Xiluda that Travelogue in the Umbrella concealed a passage to a Strange World, but Angel decided not to pursue it and kept the Starry Sky Book as their priority.
• Laplace described Black Arts, a human alchemy book acquired by the Ancient Tooth Fairies and later listed for auction, which recorded secret arts from an ancient alchemy school.

Angel and Laplace reviewed the available treasures and chose their final two selections, with Angel selecting Monde's Palette and Laplace choosing Black Arts on Luigi's intuitive recommendation. Angel began to suspect that the book was connected to the Death Faction, leaving him newly eager to obtain it.

• Angel explained that ancient alchemy techniques were not necessarily superior to modern ones and said he did not need to obtain Black Arts just because it interested him.
• Laplace described the remaining treasures, but their reliance on Aggregation Energy made them unsuitable for Angel.
• After considering the Crystal Shells, Angel proposed that he and Laplace each choose one of the two remaining slots besides Starry Sky Book, and he selected No. 90, Monde's Palette.
• Laplace chose No. 49, Black Arts, explaining that Luigi had picked it through intuition because Gleipnir's divination could be biased by her Starry Sky Book.
• Angel connected Black Arts to the Death Faction, whose alchemy revered black, and became eager to learn whether the book contained its philosophy and history.

Angel and Laplace examined Monde’s Palette and learned that its seemingly useless color-copying ability came from the destroyed Sunlight Kingdom. Laplace revealed that the Extreme Sect had erased the kingdom to contain a spreading color-loss syndrome that originated in Morning Valley Town, where Monde had lived.

• Angel and Laplace chose Black Arts as their second exhibit and arranged to display the treasures in descending numerical order, with the Starry Sky Book last.
• Yota summoned Monde’s Palette from a giant Servitor statue and showed Angel and Laplace its description.
• Angel found that the palette could only copy an object’s color into permanent paint and saw no obvious practical use for it.
• Laplace recognized the palette’s origin story and identified Morning Valley Town as a settlement in Rosyglow Province of the Sunlight Kingdom.
• Laplace explained that the Extreme Sect had destroyed the Sunlight Kingdom after a color-loss syndrome spread from Morning Valley Town and threatened to spread beyond the islands.

Angel and Laplace suspected that Color Loss Syndrome was connected to Monde's Palette and the disappearance of the Sunlight Kingdom, while Yota's account of Mund's colorless diary supported their theory. Angel then examined Black Arts, recognized it as a Death Faction work by Odoros, and admitted he was interested in it.

• Laplace suggested that Color Loss Syndrome may have been a disaster accompanying the birth of Monde's Palette as a mysterious object, and Angel agreed that the Extreme Sect may have stopped that transformation.
• Angel asked Yota about Mund's diary, and Yota said its cover and pages were pure white while its writing was pure black.
• Angel and Laplace considered the diary's lack of color supporting evidence that Mund and the palette were connected to Color Loss Syndrome, but agreed the theory did not affect their present decision.
• Angel chose to switch treasures, and Yota summoned Black Arts into the psychic display case.
• Angel recognized Odoros as the author of Black Arts and concluded that it was a work of the Death Faction, then told Laplace he was interested in the book but not enough to give up the Starry Sky Book.

Angel explained the Death Faction’s philosophy of death and rebirth to Laplace as they investigated whether the “Black Arts” concealed secrets. Yota learned from the Giant City Spirit that divination had revealed hidden text in the book’s blank spaces, though nobody had found how to reveal it.

• Angel told Laplace that the “Black Arts” interested him because its author, Odoros, belonged to the Death Faction, and he explained the faction’s use of the Four Primal Bodies to transform matter.
• Angel argued that Death Faction alchemy might work through a special form of equivalent exchange, while Laplace accepted the idea as a useful way to understand its general philosophy.
• Laplace questioned Yota about the book’s annotation, and Yota said the Giant City Spirit had added the claim that something was amiss.
• Yota consulted the Giant City Spirit and reported that the Tooth Fairy Ruins had divined hidden text in the book’s blank spaces but failed to find a way to reveal it.
• Laplace suggested that the hidden text might be notes or insights clarifying the book’s contents, which helped explain why the Tooth Fairy Ruins had sold it.

Laplace explained why the Ancient Tooth Fairies could not decipher the hidden text in 'Black Arts,' and Angel considered whether Death Faction methods might let him read it. Angel left plans to acquire the book to Gleipnir, then confirmed 'Starry Sky Book' as his Level 4 Treasure Acquisition Right item as Yota brought it into the display case.

• Laplace explained that the hidden text in 'Black Arts' was likely meant for Odoros's students or the Death Faction, so the Ancient Tooth Fairies lacked the means to decipher it.
• Angel considered whether the Four Primal Bodies or Blackening Spell could unlock the hidden text, but admitted he could not yet do so.
• Angel said he still wanted to trade for 'Black Arts' and agreed that Gleipnir should handle negotiations with the Crystal-Eyed Race.
• Angel confirmed that he wanted to designate 'Starry Sky Book' as the item for his Level 4 Treasure Acquisition Right.
• Yota returned 'Black Arts' to its attendant and brought a glowing star from the colossus into the Psionic Display Case.