Chapter Summaries

Yota gave Angel the Starry Sky Book, then calmed the Servitor by replacing it with an illusion. The group returned to the Giant City Spirit, who apologized for her earlier neglect and offered to show them higher-level treasures another day, leaving Tunita’s position as the main uncertainty.

• Yota retrieved the Starry Sky Book from its Psionic Display Case and handed it to Angel, triggering the Servitor’s defense mechanism.
• Yota created an illusion of the Starry Sky Book to restore the Servitor’s sense of its treasure, explaining that the defense mechanism could only be shut down once per day.
• Yota led Angel and Laplace out of Servitors' Hall, where they met the Giant City Spirit in her true form.
• The Giant City Spirit offered to take Angel and Laplace to see Level 5 and Level 6 treasures, but Yota reminded her that those areas were forbidden zones.
• The Giant City Spirit asked whether Angel and Laplace had calmed down, and Angel said they had; he then considered that Tunita’s views remained the group’s main obstacle.

Angel discussed the Dream Crystal Plain with Giant City Spirit and Yota, addressing their concerns about its origins, governance, and effects on reality. Yota accepted a gradual entry process for the Sacred Corpse Crystals and proposed bringing Crystal-Eyed technical experts in first, but Angel could not answer whether the Plain had a Wonderland that could influence the outside world.

• Giant City Spirit and Yota recounted their experiences in the Dream Crystal Plain, and Yifuda's decision to remain as a New Resident had shifted Giant City Spirit toward supporting it.
• Yota questioned the Dream Crystal Plain's origins and whether Dream Mirror would guide its development, while Angel argued that every race could influence it in different ways.
• Yota concluded that the Crystal-Eyed Race could use Sacred Corpse Crystals to establish a presence in the Plain and agreed that their souls should enter through a gradual placement process.
• Yota requested that technical personnel enter first to build a town, and Angel approved bringing Lady Han Da in as its chief planner.
• Yota asked how the Dream Crystal Plain influenced the outside world, but Angel could not confirm whether it contained a Wonderland with such effects.

Angel could not guarantee that the Dream Crystal Plain had instances for the Crystal-Eyed Race or enough potential for Tunita, so Yota and the Giant City Spirit agreed to let Tunita enter and speak with Yifuda. They also decided to bring other slumbering ancestors into the Dream Crystal Plain first, beginning plans with Han Da.

• Angel admitted he could not answer whether the Dream Crystal Plain held instances for the Crystal-Eyed Race or could help Tunita advance.
• Angel urged Tunita to enter the Dream Crystal Plain and judge its potential for himself, while Yifuda hoped to speak with him there.
• The Giant City Spirit supported Yifuda's recommendation, and Yota agreed to arrange Tunita's entry as soon as possible.
• Yota proposed bringing a group of slumbering ancestors into the Dream Crystal Plain before Tunita, and Angel agreed despite postponing his visit to the Silver Forest.
• Yota and the Giant City Spirit began listing which Sacred Corpse Crystals to bring in first, placing Han Da at the top.

Angel, Yota, and the Giant City Spirit assembled an initial roster of Crystal-Eyed Race residents and laborers for the Dream Crystal Plain. While waiting for Yota and the Giant City Spirit to retrieve Sacred Corpse Crystals, Angel began examining the Starry Sky Book and noticed its writing seemed integrated into the parchment.

• The Giant City Spirit added Yuduo Da and several other specialists to the roster, while Angel questioned whether some of them belonged in the first group.
• Angel stopped the list at about one hundred technical personnel and proposed starting with roughly two hundred laborers from the guards' cemetery.
• Yota and the Giant City Spirit left to retrieve the Sacred Corpse Crystals, including those of historical figures and Tunita, and Bonida stayed behind to attend Angel and Laplace.
• Angel and Laplace discussed the unchanged Cloud Grotto venue and the Divine Blood Clone's blessing, which was not ready yet.
• While waiting, Angel took out the Starry Sky Book, examined its heavy parchment pages, and noticed that its characters appeared fused with the parchment.

Angel examined the incomprehensible Starry Sky Book and asked Gleipnir to explain its prologue, learning that its Astral Spirits referred to a realm rather than spirit creatures. Gleipnir then challenged his understanding of the stars, explaining that they were projections, including both worlds and the shadows of countless silent planets.

• Angel used the Eye of Nalda to inspect the Starry Sky Book's parchment, found only unknown material readings, and struggled to understand its prologue and star charts.
• Angel handed the book to Laplace, who explained that memories did not confer the talent needed to read it and offered to relay his questions to Gleipnir.
• Angel asked what the prologue meant by the Son of the Stars being a messenger of the Astral Spirits, and Gleipnir clarified that the Astral Spirit Realm was not a spirit creature.
• Gleipnir asked what Angel thought the stars were, prompting him to recall Jon's childhood explanation that the Wizarding World's skies followed different laws from Earth's.
• Angel said he had heard that stars were projections of worlds, and Gleipnir replied that this was partly right: some were projections of worlds, while most were shadows of silent planets.

Angel questioned Gleipnir about the Astral Spirit Realm and learned about its planets, intelligent astral spirits, and the star-descenders who could leave it. He wondered whether Jon’s Earth might exist there, but the lack of human civilization and any known way to enter the realm left that possibility uncertain.

• Angel asked Gleipnir what planets were, and she described the Astral Spirit Realm as a vast expanse of dark voids and countless world-sized planets whose light appeared as the starry sky in other worlds.
• Gleipnir explained that inhabited planets could produce intelligent astral spirits, which guided their civilizations, but she knew of no human civilization in the Astral Spirit Realm.
• Angel questioned whether Earth might be in the Astral Spirit Realm, then grew less confident when Gleipnir said its civilizations were not human and that no one knew how to enter the sealed realm.
• Gleipnir said summoning wizards from the Source World could call astral spirits as projections and were known as astral spirit warlocks; she added that the Son of the Stars had reportedly been one.
• Gleipnir explained that star-descenders were beings with real bodies who had left the Astral Spirit Realm, but no evidence showed that anyone could enter it.
• Angel compared the Astral Spirit Realm to the Soul Plane and concluded that its supposed one-way nature might change as knowledge and methods developed.

Angel learned why Astral Spirit Warlocks seek Descenders and revealed that he wanted to find out whether the Astral Spirit Realm had a planet with human civilization. Laplace and Gleipnir offered to help him find information, while Angel decided he would need to grow stronger before traveling to the Source World; he then turned his attention to questions about lifeless planets in the Starry Sky Book.

• Angel learned from Gleipnir that Descenders usually had no idea how they left the Astral Spirit Realm, and that entry into it was currently impossible.
• Laplace explained that Astral Spirit Warlocks sought Descenders as mediums for contacting and contracting with the astral spirits tied to their home planets.
• Laplace described how a young Astral Spirit Warlock used a Lightfolk Descender to summon a golden mosquito astral spirit and contracted to care for the Lightfolk in exchange for the spirit's aid.
• Angel told Laplace and Gleipnir that he wanted to verify whether the Astral Spirit Realm contained a planet with human civilization, and they offered to watch for information about Descenders and Astral Spirit Warlocks.
• Angel decided that traveling to the Source World would have to wait until he was stronger, then asked what purpose the countless lifeless planets in the Starry Sky Book served and whether life could be introduced to them.

Angel learned that the Starry Sky Book helped starry-sky power wielders avoid the deadly power of dead stars, and he became more interested in visiting the Astral Spirit Realm. He then began bringing Crystal-Eyed Race geniuses and guards into the Dream Crystal Plain, where the Giant City Spirit and Yifuda helped receive the newcomers.

• Gleipnir explained that the Starry Sky Book catalogued star signs containing Astral Spirits and helped its users avoid poisonous power from dead stars.
• Angel reflected that the Astral Spirit Realm might be connected to Earth and decided he wanted to visit it, possibly with Jon.
• Yota and the Giant City Spirit returned with Sacred Corpse Crystals holding three hundred Crystal-Eyed Race dead, and Angel suggested they receive the newcomers in the Dream Crystal Plain.
• Yota and the Giant City Spirit entered the Dream Crystal Plain, where the Giant City Spirit agreed to oversee the geniuses and Yota planned to organize the guards.
• Angel and Laplace sent the geniuses into the Dream Crystal Plain, where Yifuda guided them as they adjusted to their new circumstances.
• Angel confirmed the geniuses were behaving and began the slow task of bringing in the two hundred guards, resolving to find a way to transfer Sacred Corpse Crystals in bulk.

Hong Gemata recovered memories of his death in a supernatural tomb and awoke on a glowing bridge leading toward what he believed was Crystal City. When the undead who had killed his teammates appeared behind him, Hong Gemata attacked to protect his people, though both fighters found themselves without their powers.

• Hong Gemata remembered that he had led an advance exploration team into a mirror space containing a supernatural creature's tomb, where the shifting passage trapped him and his vice-captains.
• Hong Gemata recalled that an undead emerged from the tomb's coffin, killed Yimada and Tatakai, and left him believing he had committed suicide.
• Hong Gemata walked away from a black hole as his memories returned, then reached a glowing door that seemed to open onto Crystal City.
• Hong Gemata heard unfamiliar footsteps and recognized the approaching figure as the undead from the tomb.
• Hong Gemata charged the undead to keep him from entering Crystal City, but discovered he had no Aggregation Energy; the undead also could not sense his brain domain, and Hong Gemata punched him in the face.

Angel finished pulling the last of the first batch of souls into the Dream Crystal Plain, then entered with Laplace and Bonida to oversee the Crystal-Eyed Race arrivals. Bonida completed roll call and discovered that exploration team captain Hong Gemata was missing.

• Angel located Dida's soul and sent her into the Dream Bridge, completing the first batch of three hundred souls.
• Angel decided to research a way to locate and pull souls in batches, then entered the Dream Crystal Plain with Laplace and Bonida.
• Yota welcomed the revived Crystal-Eyed Race members and thanked Angel and Laplace, while Bonida began coordinating and recording the arrivals.
• Bonida finished counting the geniuses and the guards, then found that one person was missing from the two hundred soldiers.
• Bonida confirmed with the guards that exploration team captain Hong Gemata was missing.

Bonida reported that Hong Gemata was missing from the Dream Crystal Plain, and Angel used his authority to investigate the Dream Bridge. He found Hong Gemata fighting a strange, human-looking stranger, whom Laplace suspected was a Ruins Wraith.

• Bonida and Hong Gemata’s teammates wondered whether he had fallen from the Dream Bridge, and Bonida reported his absence to Yota.
• Yota rejected the idea that Hong Gemata had jumped from the bridge and told Angel that one member was missing.
• Angel checked the Dream Bridge and found two people fighting near the Dream Gate: Hong Gemata and a human-looking stranger with blue tubes on his face.
• Angel and Laplace considered whether the stranger was another of Hong Gemata’s personalities, but the two spoke different languages and could not understand each other.
• Laplace returned from questioning the team and told Angel that the stranger might be a Ruins Wraith.

Angel and Laplace investigated why Hong Gemata and a patterned-faced man shared one Dream Bridge, then waited as the Crystal-Eyed Race’s new residents settled in. After the two continued fighting, Angel secretly moved the Dream Gate beneath them, bringing them into the Dream Crystal Plain.

• Laplace told Angel that Hong Gemata and his two vice-captains had encountered a patterned-faced being in cemetery ruins, and Angel suspected Hong Gemata had sealed it within his Sacred Corpse Crystal.
• Angel and Laplace considered whether the patterned-faced being was truly undead and concluded they would need to ask Hong Gemata and the being directly.
• Angel arranged for Yifuda, Bonida, and the other Crystal-Eyed Race residents to move to Rabbit Town while Yota stayed behind to wait for Hong Gemata.
• Angel observed that Hong Gemata and the patterned-faced man kept fighting on the Dream Bridge, so he covertly moved the Dream Gate closer to them.
• Angel moved the Dream Gate beneath the fighting pair, and Hong Gemata and the patterned-faced man fell through it into the Dream Crystal Plain.

Angel and the Giant City Spirit questioned Hong Gemata and the tattoo-faced man after they appeared together in the Dream Crystal Plain, suspecting that both consciousnesses had shared one Sacred Corpse Crystal. The chapter ended with Tatakai and Yimada identifying the tattoo-faced man as the wraith who killed them and recounting how they encountered him in the ruins.

• Yota told the group that Hong Gemata and the tattoo-faced man had appeared together, and Angel said they likely shared a Sacred Corpse Crystal.
• The Giant City Spirit questioned Hong Gemata and the tattoo-faced man, but the tattoo-faced man could not understand their language.
• Hong Gemata recognized the tattoo-faced man as the ruin wraith who had killed Yimada and Tatakai and nearly attacked him.
• Tatakai and Yimada entered the hall, confirmed the tattoo-faced man had killed them, and asked the Giant City Spirit for justice.
• Hong Gemata learned that he and his teammates were dead, while the Giant City Spirit postponed explaining the Dream Crystal Plain and asked Tatakai and Yimada about the ruins.
• Tatakai and Yimada recounted how a shifting tomb passage had driven them into the main burial chamber, where they encountered the tattoo-faced man.

Angel and the others questioned Hong Gemata about the patterned-faced man, but his forgotten memories left the man's apparent imprisonment in the Sacred Corpse Crystal unexplained. As the group tried to find someone who could understand the man, Angel discovered a swirling door in the direction of the mysterious call drawing him.

• Tatakai and Yimada insisted the patterned-faced man had seemed like an undead outside, while Angel suspected he had been a dead spirit from the start.
• Hong Gemata said he remembered killing himself after the patterned-faced man killed Tatakai and Yimada, but could not recall what happened afterward.
• Yota speculated that Hong Gemata had trapped the patterned-faced man's soul by using his own body as a prison, then asked the Giant City Spirit to find the linguistics specialist Wan Wanta.
• The patterned-faced man tried to leave Rabbit Tower, but the Crystal-Eyed Race members blocked the corridor and forced him to return to his seat.
• Angel noticed the man kept staring toward an unseen source of a call, followed the direction with his God's-eye view, and spotted a swirling door at the center of a depression.

Angel sought help translating the Patterns-faced man's language and learned that Little Red could consult All Things House's language specialists. Rabbit Girl suggested Spotted Deer might help communicate, and Angel heard how the child had earned the Wonderland item Heart Reed by soothing a hellhound puppy.

• Wan Wanta failed to recognize the Patterns-faced man's language and said he would need time and conversation to analyze it.
• Yota and Giant City Spirit considered asking the Mirror Sea Scholars or All Things House for help, and Angel offered to seek assistance from people in Dream Crystal Plain.
• Angel showed Little Red an illusion of the Patterns-faced man speaking, and she offered to ask Brother Kitty and All Things House's language specialists.
• Rabbit Girl suggested Spotted Deer, a young resident who had befriended her, might be able to help communicate.
• Spotted Deer secretly entered the Little Treasure Pagoda and cleared a monster stage by calming a newborn hellhound with a lullaby.
• Spotted Deer gave up the challenge after clearing the stage and received the Wonderland item Heart Reed.

Angel borrowed Spotted Deer’s Heart Reed and confirmed that it transmitted thoughts regardless of the language used. He brought it to Giant City Spirit and Yota, who prepared to use its split fibers to communicate with the pattern-faced man.

• Angel met Spotted Deer and learned that her Heart Reed let everyone within ten meters hear its user’s inner voice.
• Angel tested the Heart Reed by giving Spotted Deer instructions in several languages, confirming that its thought-based communication crossed language barriers.
• Angel let Spotted Deer touch an illusory cat that could be petted for one day, then borrowed the Heart Reed from her.
• Angel returned to the hall and explained the Heart Reed’s abilities to Giant City Spirit and Yota.
• Angel proposed splitting the Heart Reed so one person could communicate with the pattern-faced man while the others listened, and Yota agreed to try it.

Angel used the Heart Reed to communicate with Luno, who introduced himself as an Aosen from the Ordovician World. The two agreed to exchange questions, and Angel began preparing to explain their surroundings.

• Angel took one strand of the Heart Reed while the group gave the other to the patterned-faced man, allowing them to hear one another’s inner voices.
• Angel and the man introduced themselves, and the man gave his name as Luno and said he came from the Ordovician World.
• Luno explained that he was an Aosen from Ocean Prefecture, with two layers of his brain domain opened, and described what Aosen called humans and what some humans called Aosen.
• Angel proposed that everyone take turns asking and answering questions, and Luno agreed.
• Angel offered to explain their current environment before they began questioning one another, and Luno welcomed the offer.

Angel explained how Luno had drifted from the Ordovician World into the Day Mirror Domain and then the Dream Crystal Plain, while the Crystal-Eyed Race listened. As their exchange of questions began, Luno described the deaths of two Crystal-Eyed Race members, prompting Angel to wonder how Luno could wield negative energy without becoming undead.

• Angel explained the Dream Crystal Plain and the Day Mirror Domain, and suspected Luno’s Trial Instance might be linked to the Nightmare Realm or Dream Realm rather than the Mirror Realm.
• Luno regained his composure and asked why he had entered the Day Mirror Domain and then the Dream Crystal Plain.
• Angel explained that mirror power may have severed Luno’s graveyard from the Ordovician World and carried it into the Mirror Realm.
• Angel asked what happened after Luno was awakened, and Luno called Hong Gemata and his teammates grave robbers.
• The Giant City Spirit silenced the protesting Crystal-Eyed Race members so Angel and Luno could continue their exchange.
• Luno said negative energy and mechanisms had killed the two Crystal-Eyed Race members, and Angel wondered how Luno could control negative energy without becoming undead.

Luno explained how negative energy, Hong Gemata’s Frost Spirit Thorn, and his possession of Hong Gemata led to both of them appearing in Dream Crystal Plain. He left furious that Hong Gemata’s suicide had prevented Luno’s planned revival, though both remained alive as residents of Dream Crystal Plain.

• Luno clarified that his brain-domain ability only repelled negative energy, and Yimada admitted that he and Tatakai had mistaken Luno for an undead before the cemetery mechanisms killed them.
• Angel asked Luno what had happened with Hong Gemata, and Luno recalled that Hong Gemata attacked him with a Frost Spirit Thorn after his teammates died.
• Luno said the thorn restrained him, and when he was wounded and began turning into an undead, he possessed Hong Gemata to keep his consciousness from dissipating.
• Luno explained that he fell asleep in Hong Gemata’s body and later woke on Dream Bridge, while Hong Gemata recalled killing himself after discovering the possession.
• Angel explained that Luno and Hong Gemata’s souls fused in the Sacred Corpse Crystal, bringing them both to Dream Crystal Plain.
• Luno told Hong Gemata that he had only intended to use him as a temporary host and was angry that Hong Gemata’s suicide had ruined his planned revival.

Luno learned that the voice calling him was guidance from a Trial Instance tied to his talent, which might let him use that talent in the Dream Crystal Plain. He revealed that his talent was fluctuation and insisted it came from neither a gift from the will of the world nor anything unique to him.

• Hong Gemata regretted killing himself after learning Luno had never intended or been able to control him, while Tatakai and Yimada tried to console him.
• Luno accepted that he could not be resurrected by the people of Dark Commandery, but regretted losing access to his brain-domain abilities.
• Luno asked Angel about the voice calling him, and Angel recognized it as guidance from a Trial Instance meant for him.
• Angel explained Trial Instances to Luno, Laplace, Yota, Giant City Spirit, and Yifuda, including that clearing a full series could unlock a talent gifted by the world's will.
• Angel warned Luno that clearing the Trial Instance might not restore his brain-domain power, and Luno revealed that his talent was fluctuation, a power shared by many Otaoans.