Chapter Summaries

Angel learned from Ms. Moon that the Calamity Puppet could only be resolved by completing its challenge and that relocating mirror civilizations carried severe risks. After observing a mass arrival of God-Eyed Race members in Rabbit Town, he shared the Calamity Puppet’s challenge types with Laplace, who planned to ask Gleipnir to investigate them in the Ghost Domain.

• Ms. Moon warned Luigi against fighting the Calamity Puppet and explained that mirror civilizations could not safely relocate without risking spatial disasters.
• Luigi explained that Guta Lace had returned to Wetland Fort to prepare for relocation despite the dangers, since staying could leave Sumer Wetland Fortress exposed to the Calamity Puppet.
• Angel observed tens of thousands of newcomers arrive in Rabbit Town, including many God-Eyed Race members and Guta Lace, then logged off without approaching them.
• Angel returned to Silver Forest Space and discussed the Calamity Puppet with Laplace, sharing Ms. Moon’s information about its challenge types.
• Laplace decided to contact Gleipnir and ask her to pass the information to Granny Dragon Raven so they could investigate the Calamity Puppet in the Ghost Domain.

Angel reassured himself that the Login Device remained the Day Mirror Domain’s last route to survival, then continued researching the Nightmare Illusion Server while the Device Blank Factories began their work. Luigi brought news that Main Quest 6 was about to begin, giving Angel a new opportunity to study Dreamseeing.

• Laplace told Angel that the Login Devices had reached the races’ factories and that the Dream Crystal Plain remained a fallback even if they could not overcome the Calamity Puppet.
• Angel decided to keep researching the Nightmare Illusion Server instead of visiting the Device Blank Factory, and he silenced the animated furniture so he could work undisturbed.
• Luigi arrived to tell Angel that Main Quest 6, “Guard the Starry Crown,” was about to begin, and Angel finished his calculation before responding.
• Luigi explained that challengers would begin entering the Uriel Instance that night, and Angel welcomed the chance to study more Dreamseers.
• The Main Quest 6 notice announced a 12-hour countdown before challengers entered Wonderland at irregular intervals and ordered Luigi to defeat them until doubt about the Starry Crown was suppressed.

Luigi worried about defending the Starry Crown against unknown Challengers, while Angel and Laplace discussed his reliance on unconventional tactics. Angel and Laplace then examined a scale that opened the Artifact Embryo Factory, and Laplace revealed its connection to the ancient Cave Dragon Muna Wu, whose death had helped stabilize the Hundred Dragons Divine Kingdom.

• Luigi asked Angel how to prepare for the Challengers and admitted he feared losing the Starry Crown.
• Angel urged Luigi to gather information on harp prodigies through Ms. Moon and Glaimo, while Luigi decided to ask Glaimo which rivals posed the greatest threat.
• After Luigi connected to the Dream Crystal Plain, Laplace told Angel that his advice had encouraged Luigi to rely on outside-the-rules methods, but that Luigi's desire to win could still drive him to improve.
• Angel and Laplace set aside the Nightmare Illusion Server research and prepared to visit the Artifact Embryo Factory.
• Angel examined Gleipnir's scale, and Laplace identified it as belonging to Muna Wu, the ancient ancestor of Cave Dragons.
• Laplace recounted how Muna Wu's spatial power formed a stable demiplane within its scales and described witnessing the dragon return to the Mirror Realm and die.

Laplace explained that Muna Wu’s immense energy had been a brief final blossoming rather than miraculous power, and she and Angel used its scale to reach the device blank factory. They discovered the factory stood beside a vast crystallized forest, revealing the scale of the Crystal-Eyed Race’s resources.

• Laplace told Angel that Muna Wu’s energy had felt like a dazzling, short-lived blossoming before death, not miraculous power.
• Laplace explained that Muna Wu’s scale opened a route to a special space rather than to its demi-plane, and she and Angel left Silver Forest Space.
• Laplace activated the scale on Ring Fortress’s fiftieth floor, and she and Angel entered the tunnel leading to the device blank factory.
• Angel and Laplace emerged from the mine into fog and discovered that the surrounding trees were crystallized growths above a vast crystal ore deposit.
• Laplace said the Crystal Kingdom used its abundant crystal ore for device blanks and had many factories ready to produce them.
• Angel realized the deposit revealed only one part of the Crystal-Eyed Race’s foundations and wondered how much greater the high races’ resources were.

Angel and Laplace followed Gleipnir to Anjing Town, where they saw how the Crystal-Eyed Race moved materials through gates and coolant channels to the enormous Artifact Embryo Factory. They rode a cargo crate through the channels and entered the factory, where a humanoid figure flew toward them.

• Gleipnir met Angel and Laplace on the path and led them toward the Artifact Embryo Factory after Laplace urged her to ease her workload.
• Gleipnir brought Angel and Laplace to Anjing Town, where countless gates connected to material warehouses and channels carried supplies toward the factory.
• Angel watched Pirus pour crystal ore into the channels and learned that the flowing coolant also served as a material.
• Gleipnir led Angel and Laplace onto a cargo crate, and they rode the coolant channel toward the factory.
• Angel, Laplace, and Gleipnir entered the factory through a slide tube and emerged beside a lake of coolant as a humanoid figure flew toward them.

Angel and Laplace met Napoli, the weapon embryo factory’s manager and Lord De’s assistant, who guided them through the factory and explained that he was a Hollow Man. Napoli had once asked Gleipnir to divine his origins, but she could not identify his race, leaving his true ancestry unknown.

• Napoli greeted Gleipnir, Angel, and Laplace at the lakeshore, and Gleipnir introduced him as the weapon embryo factory’s manager and Lord De’s assistant.
• After Gleipnir departed, Napoli introduced himself as Dewa De Napoli and explained that Lord De was away inspecting other weapon embryo factories.
• Napoli led Angel and Laplace through a crystal passage toward the factory’s production area and gave Angel a map of the factory corridors.
• Angel asked whether Napoli was human, and Napoli explained that Lord De had identified him as a Hollow Man bought from the Mirror Sea Scholars.
• Napoli told Angel that he did not know his origins or race, and that Gleipnir had been unable to divine his specific race.

Angel and Laplace waited for Napoli after he entered a smelting area to help a Lairen worker, and they discussed why a Lairen was at the factory. Laplace revealed that divination could not uncover Napoli’s origins and that his unique Divine Pattern stored his power and skills.

• Napoli chose a corridor-only detour through the maze and led Angel toward the production area.
• A black-haired Lairen smelting worker stopped Napoli and asked him for help, so Napoli entered a vast magma-filled smelting room while Angel and Laplace waited.
• Laplace told Angel that the Changhuo Clan had its own equipment blank factory, so its members were unlikely to cause trouble at this one.
• Laplace explained that Gleipnir had been unable to divine Napoli’s origins or even identify his race, and suspected a powerful force concealed his entire civilization.
• Laplace revealed that Napoli’s Divine Pattern was an unusual external energy organ that stored his power and skills, which he could access through an innate form of communication.

Angel and Laplace watched Napoli use his divine patterns to smelt an unknown crystal ore, then learned that the work had been prompted by the Hammer Girl’s attempt to repair something. Napoli left after warning her to seek Dragon Scale and Lord De’s help; he then told Angel that the depleted lava lake would affect the artifact embryos and that the problem concerned more than their usability.

• Laplace and Angel entered the room and discovered that Napoli was using a giant hammer phantom to smelt translucent crystal ore with the lava’s heat.
• Napoli compressed the ore into a fist-sized orange-yellow crystal, noticed Angel and Laplace, and passed the crystal to the Hammer Girl.
• Napoli accused the Hammer Girl of trying to get him or Lord De to help, then told her that only Lord De could smelt the ore mixed with “it” and advised her to find Dragon Scale to repair it.
• Napoli joined Angel and Laplace by the lava lake, which had sunk after the smelting, and lamented that the artifact embryos produced there would be worse.
• Angel said the embryos could still be used if their core area was adequate, but Napoli replied that the issue was one of attitude and led them back into the corridor.

Napoli explained why Pear had tried to smelt her late teacher’s Phantom Metal hammer, and Angel learned that the metal was actually Algalong’s innate creation. Laplace revealed that Gleipnir had just learned this origin directly from Lord Mystic Dragon.

• Napoli told Angel that Pear had stayed at the Anjing Town factory hoping to reach Lord De and have her teacher’s damaged Phantom Metal hammer recast.
• Pear tried to smelt the hammer to draw Lord De’s attention, but Napoli intervened and stabilized the Phantom Metal before it was destroyed.
• Napoli explained that Phantom Metal, also called Orichalcum, could only be smelted by Lord De and had supposedly been made using a secret method.
• Laplace corrected Napoli, explaining that Phantom Metal was created by Algalong as a talent and was effectively an extension of its body.
• Laplace said Gleipnir had asked Lord Mystic Dragon about Phantom Metal’s origin two minutes earlier, and that she had learned the answer through their connection.

Angel learned that Napoli could submit an application under the Inter-Clan Cooperation Treaty for him to study phantom metal, giving him a legitimate way to examine the rare material. After agreeing to write a research report for Algalong, Angel asked Napoli about his Divine Pattern and began learning how its abilities worked.

• Angel learned that Algalong alone could smelt phantom metal, and Napoli said Sypolov's weapon contained only a few grains of it.
• Napoli offered to submit an application to Lord De for Angel to research phantom metal under the Inter-Clan Cooperation Treaty.
• Napoli warned Angel that submitting too many material research applications could damage his reputation and the Artifact Embryo Factory, so Angel agreed to apply only for phantom metal.
• Napoli explained that Lord De enjoyed reading failed studies of phantom metal and would likely approve the application if Angel wrote a research report.
• Napoli explained that his hammer tattoo was the outward manifestation of a higher-dimensional Divine Pattern that remained with him as long as he lived.
• Napoli told Angel that his Divine Pattern recorded his abilities, which seemed not to require the learning that Mirror Realm extraordinary arts did.

Angel listened as Napoli explained how his Divine Pattern restored and independently developed abilities, including one that let him win a dangerous forging competition. The chapter ended with Angel proposing that the Divine Pattern’s ability to create skills came from its immense computational power, while Napoli’s origins remained unknown.

• Napoli told Angel that his Divine Pattern had preserved his abilities while he was a Hollow Man and later restored his fire-related powers.
• Napoli explained that his Flame Mimicry, combined with his other fire abilities, let him create powerful constructs such as the flaming giant Angel had seen.
• Napoli recounted how his Divine Pattern developed the Spirit-Burning Secret Art when he wanted to forge legendary Demonic Blood Ore, allowing him to win a forging competition in Unfallen King City.
• Laplace joked that the Divine Pattern resembled a portable old grandpa from a novel, then speculated that it might have a hidden will.
• Angel rejected Laplace’s fictional comparison and suggested the Divine Pattern used immense computational power to develop abilities, though he admitted he could not confirm the explanation.

Napoli entered the divine-pattern kingdom and gained Flame Reflection, an ability that recorded his life from a third-person perspective. After testing its limits with Angel and Laplace, they remained uncertain about the divine patterns’ origins and how Napoli could obtain more abilities.

• Napoli’s tattoo briefly came alive as he entered the divine-pattern kingdom and emerged with the new ability Flame Reflection.
• Napoli demonstrated Flame Reflection, which recorded nearby events from a third-person perspective without initially producing detectable energy fluctuations.
• Napoli explained that he had wished the divine patterns could preserve memories, leading Laplace to suspect his desire had prompted the ability.
• Napoli tried wishing for other abilities, but the divine patterns gave no response, leaving the group to speculate about a cooldown or limits.
• Angel and Napoli tested Flame Reflection and found that it centered on Napoli, could record through his eyes at high energy cost, and could not see through walls or clothing without other spells.

Napoli showed Angel a Flame Reflection memory of their first meeting, then tested the ability’s limited power to expose basic illusions. They reached the Artifact Embryo Factory’s manufacturing area, where Angel inspected exceptionally pure crystal ore before discovering that the workshops were suspended above a vast artificial plain.

• Napoli replayed an imagined, halo-filled memory of meeting Angel and gave him the Flame Mimicry box containing it.
• Angel advised Napoli to record truthful memories, and Napoli agreed to stop inventing scenes for Flame Reflection.
• Napoli and Angel tested Flame Reflection against illusions, finding that it exposed flaws in simple illusions but failed against more convincing ones.
• Napoli showed Angel crystal ore being transported from the smelting workshops, and Angel found the materials were uniformly pure enough for artifact embryos.
• Napoli led Angel and Laplace through a wall of light into the manufacturing area, where they saw a vast plain below and intense activity in the sky above.

Angel and Laplace toured the Artifact Embryo Factory’s vast Bubble Workshops with Napoli, who explained how the workshops and their craftsmen operated. Napoli took them toward a warehouse to inspect the artifact embryos, after Angel spotted a blood-red bubble holding a dangerous Mirror-Holding Banshee.

• Napoli showed Angel the Bubble Workshops, which used Bubble Crystal Shells supplied by the Crystal-Eyed Race, and explained that Kuntela had expanded their interiors.
• Angel recognized the shells as the kind used to protect corpses in the Bubble Cemetery, but chose not to reveal their intended purpose to Napoli.
• Napoli summoned Little Zero into a Flame Forest Deer and carried Angel and Laplace through the workshops, explaining how his fire spirits were summoned and enjoyed resting in Divine Patterns.
• Napoli showed Angel workshops belonging to craftsmen from different races and explained that black bubbles served as warehouses for completed artifact embryos.
• Angel asked about an isolated blood-red bubble, and Napoli explained that it contained a powerful Mirror-Holding Banshee whose bubble turned red when she lost her mind.
• Napoli said the Banshee produced more and better artifact embryos during her four lucid hours each day, then brought Angel and Laplace to the warehouse.

Angel and Napoli entered the Inspection Warehouse through a hidden passage to examine the screened Artifact Embryos, while Laplace stayed behind to ask Luigi to investigate Napoli’s Divine Patterns. Angel found that Moretta’s first and latest batches were all qualified, and the group could later visit the Reserve Warehouse.

• Napoli used Dragon Scales to guide Angel and Laplace through a hidden passage from the black Bubble to the Inspection Warehouse corridor.
• Laplace stayed behind and asked Angel to tell Luigi to consult Ms. Moon about Napoli’s Divine Patterns; after Angel relayed the message, Laplace entered the Dream Crystal Plain to fish.
• Angel found Napoli reviewing his Flame Reflection and criticizing his posture while driving the fire sled.
• Napoli opened the Inspection Warehouse with a Dragon Scale and explained that it held Artifact Embryos selected from the Reserve Warehouse.
• Angel examined Moretta’s earliest and latest batches of Artifact Embryos and found all six thousand-plus pieces qualified.

Angel tested the quality of Moretta’s Future Mirror artifact embryos and established login-attempt thresholds for products made from crystalstone ore. Moretta’s mirrors proved consistently qualified but not premium, and Napoli turned to inspect the Mirror-Holding Banshee’s work with confidence it would be superior.

• Angel approved Moretta’s decorative golden coating because it did not alter the Future Mirror’s function, while warning Napoli not to encourage craftsmen to prioritize designs over production.
• Angel asked Napoli for crystalstone ore and refined two Future Mirrors of different quality to test how refinement affected login attempts.
• Angel explained that a crystalstone Future Mirror needed at least 701 login attempts to qualify, while 901 to 999 attempts counted as premium quality.
• Angel enchanted five of Moretta’s artifact embryos and found they carried between 739 and 766 login attempts, making them consistently qualified but not premium.
• Napoli decided that a premium product would turn up in the inspection warehouse and placed his hopes on the Mirror-Holding Banshee’s artifact embryos.

Angel tested the Mirror-Holding Banshee’s artifact embryos and found that their login counts rose to the crystal ore limit of 999, then spot-checked the rest of the inspection warehouse. He began testing three enormous Future Mirror artifact blanks Napoli had forged, but the chapter ended before their login counts appeared.

• Napoli summoned Little One in Hound Demon form, and it tracked the Mirror-Holding Banshee’s aura to her compartment.
• Angel learned that the Mirror-Holding Banshee’s name was an undecipherable frequency and inspected her many uniformly crafted artifact embryos.
• Angel tested ten of her artifact embryos, whose login counts climbed from 944 to 999, confirming their premium quality and her improving skill.
• Angel spot-checked the inspection warehouse but found no other products that reached 999 logins, then prepared to visit the reserve warehouse.
• Napoli asked Angel to test three oversized Future Mirror artifact blanks he had forged, including one customized for Lord De.
• Angel enchanted Napoli’s three artifact blanks, and their login counts appeared as the chapter ended.

Angel and Napoli inspected the Artifact Embryos in the preparatory warehouse, where Angel found that craftsmen with steadier records produced fewer failures. After Laplace hinted that Luigi had provided useful intelligence about the Divine Pattern, Angel joined her at a restaurant, where they learned its Crystal Golem attendant was a True Person from the Head-Mirror Race.

• Angel judged Napoli’s two crystal-ore Artifact Embryos to have reached their 999 Login limit and set aside the crystal marrow ore mixture for a separate assessment.
• Napoli led Angel and Laplace into the preparatory warehouse, where Angel examined screened-out Artifact Embryos and found that unstable craftsmen’s batches had especially high failure rates.
• Angel compared the screened-out work of several craftsmen and found that the Mirror-Holding Banshee’s rejected batch still had a 90 percent qualification rate.
• Angel asked Napoli to find compartments belonging to craftsmen with stable performance, while he and Laplace went to a nearby restaurant to discuss intelligence from Luigi.
• A Crystal Golem attendant told Angel that it was a True Person from the Head-Mirror Race inhabiting a golem body and that other restaurant staff were the same.

Angel learned that Napoli came from the Tewari Realm and was an Obsession Bearer, whose Divine Pattern drew power from the miraculous Kingdom of Myriad Thoughts. The chapter ended with Laplace revealing that wizards sought the Tewari Realm to study Divine Patterns, but finding it was the hardest step.

• Angel recognized that the lively crystal puppet was controlled by a member of the Head-Mirror Race, then heard from Laplace that Napoli had come from the Tewari Realm as an Obsession Bearer.
• Laplace recounted how Ms. Moon told Luigi and Mr. Sun that the Kingdom of Myriad Thoughts was a miracle left by a vanished miraculous being and granted Divine Patterns to people whose obsessions resonated with it.
• Laplace explained that Divine Patterns used the Kingdom of Myriad Thoughts' thoughts to create abilities, and that an Obsession Bearer's deep obsession could help them resist attempts to seal their pattern.
• Angel realized that Napoli's yearning to preserve his memories had prompted his Divine Pattern to create Flame Reflection.
• Laplace revealed that outsiders could become Obsession Bearers and that Ms. Moon and many wizards sought the Tewari Realm to study Divine Patterns, but no one knew how to find it.

Laplace explained why the Tewari Realm was hidden and how Obsession Holders could find their way there, while Angel reasoned that wizards might conceal their identities to protect their shared pursuit-of-truth obsession. The conversation ended as Napoli arrived, with Laplace asking whether they should tell him about Obsession Holders.

• Laplace explained that the Kingdom of Myriad Thoughts concealed the Tewari Realm and that Ms. Moon had sought Obsession Holders to gain a route into it.
• Laplace suggested that wizard Obsession Holders might avoid bringing others to the Tewari Realm because newcomers could divide limited shares of the Kingdom of Myriad Thoughts' obsessions.
• Angel reasoned that wizards might all share an obsession with pursuing truth, giving them reason to keep other wizards from claiming the same share.
• Laplace asked whether Angel wanted to visit the Tewari Realm, and Angel said he was interested but doubted he could become an Obsession Holder.
• Napoli arrived at the shop with a string of Bubbles, and Laplace asked Angel whether they should tell him about Obsession Holders.