Chapter Summaries

Angel helped Napoli verify the pass rates of craftsmen’s artifact blanks and then visited Bubble workshops to investigate their methods. After the Mirror-Holding Banshee’s workshop proved inaccessible, Angel followed Napoli toward Moretta’s workshop and found a plaza where finished blanks rose from underground shafts, leaving him wondering how to reach the workshop below.

• Angel inspected samples from Napoli’s reserve warehouses and found that nominated craftsmen with stable standards had pass rates ranging from fifty to ninety percent.
• Angel and Laplace accompanied Napoli to warehouses across several areas, confirming that Napoli accurately identified craftsmen with stable standards.
• Angel asked to visit the Mirror-Holding Banshee’s workshop because her artifact blanks had an exceptionally high pass rate, but its blood-red Bubble showed she was not lucid.
• Angel chose to visit Moretta’s workshop instead, and Napoli followed one of Moretta’s distinctive crystal puppets to a plaza with underground shafts transporting artifact blanks and materials.
• Angel realized Moretta’s workshop was likely below the plaza and wondered how they could get down.

Angel and Laplace visited Moretta’s underground workshop with Napoli, where they learned that Bubble’s darkening color signaled the Mirror-Holding Banshee’s worsening frenzy. Napoli teleported away to investigate rising Ghost Domain aura at her workshop, while Angel and Laplace continued their tour of Moretta’s workshop.

• Moretta mistook Napoli’s visit as a complaint about his painted artifact embryo, but Napoli explained he had brought Angel and Laplace to look around the workshop.
• A crystal puppet led them through the hidden entrance beneath the Golden Scissors statue, and a Crystal-Eyed Race guard guided them down to Moretta’s workshop.
• The guard explained that Bubble’s color reflected the Mirror-Holding Banshee’s state, with darkening color warning of increasing frenzy.
• Elder Kongta reported that Ghost Domain aura was rising inside the Mirror-Holding Banshee’s workshop and that Bubble had darkened to purple.
• Napoli teleported away to investigate, while Angel and Laplace chose to continue visiting Moretta’s workshop.

Angel and Laplace met Moretta, who guided them through hidden passages to his underground Artifact Embryo Factory and explained why he had agreed to become a craftsman. Moretta said seeing his idol Han Da pursue her dream in the Dream Crystal Plain convinced him he could continue his own ambitions there, leaving him able to work as a craftsman without feeling he had abandoned his path.

• Moretta arrived and learned from a guard that Napoli had left after receiving a message about the Mirror Ghosts' Bubble Workshop darkening.
• Angel introduced himself and Laplace as members of Dream Mirror, prompting Moretta to welcome them formally and offer to show them his workshop.
• Moretta led Angel and Laplace through a concealed water-mirror entrance and down a spiral stairwell filled with hidden mechanisms.
• Moretta showed them his underground workshop, where Crystal-Eyed Race workers and crystal puppets transported materials and finished artifact embryos.
• Moretta explained that he had become a craftsman after seeing Han Da pursue her dreams in the Dream Crystal Plain, where he believed he could eventually follow his own ambitions.

Angel inspected Moretta's highly organized artifact-forging assembly line, found ways to make small improvements, and helped test a new coolant mixture that raised the average login count slightly. After leaving the workshop with Laplace, Angel discovered the area's crystal puppets had vanished and spotted a massive black encirclement behind them.

• Moretta asked Angel to assess his workshop, and Angel praised its stable, qualified artifact blanks while explaining that their login count was comparatively low.
• Angel explained that the mature assembly line left little room for major changes, then taught Moretta adjustments to hot melting, shaping, and the condensation pool.
• Moretta tested the revised coolant mixture against the original using several artifact blanks, and Angel recorded an average login-count increase of four to five.
• Angel and Laplace left Moretta's workshop after he promised to share any further problems they found.
• Angel noticed the crystal puppets had disappeared from their Bubble area, and Laplace pointed out a massive black encirclement behind them.

Angel and Laplace entered the Mirror-Holding Banshee’s workshop and found Napoli using a Lava Lake to suppress a stone releasing dangerous Ghost Domain aura. Napoli explained that the Mirror-Holding Banshee remained subdued by Elder Kongta while they waited for her to awaken or for the aura to dissipate.

• Angel and Laplace found crystal puppets encircling the Mirror-Holding Banshee’s Bubble workshop, and Napoli let them pass inside.
• Napoli guided Angel and Laplace through the fog-filled workshop to a Lava Lake where he was replenishing his flame power.
• Napoli revealed that he was suppressing a pitch-black stone with flames and that the Lava Lake helped evaporate the Ghost Domain aura escaping from it.
• Napoli explained that the stone had affected the Mirror-Holding Banshee’s mind, while Elder Kongta continued to suppress her in a lower Partition space.
• Napoli admitted he could neither refine nor remove the stone safely, so he was waiting for its aura to dissipate or for the Mirror-Holding Banshee to awaken and offer a solution.

Angel and Napoli stopped trying to investigate the Forbidden Stone after Napoli’s Divine Pattern warned of danger. Laplace used her Divine Blood Clone to suppress and remove it, then suggested it might be a rule-bound object from a disaster zone in the Dark Mirror Domain.

• Napoli explained that his flame power could not enter the Forbidden Stone and that his Divine Pattern had warned him against probing it; Angel accepted the warning.
• Laplace offered to suppress the Forbidden Stone, and her Divine Blood Clone held it while preventing any Ghost Domain aura from escaping.
• Laplace said the Divine Blood Clone could suppress the aura for a long time and sent it, with the Forbidden Stone, to Anjing Town and then the Ring Fortress.
• Napoli hurried away to relieve himself after holding it in for over two hours, while Angel asked Laplace about the Forbidden Stone.
• Laplace said the stone might have come from a disaster zone in the Dark Mirror Domain and could be a rule-bound object, since its small size could not naturally contain so much Ghost Domain aura.

Angel, Laplace, and Napoli learned that the Forbidden Stone was likely a highly dangerous rule object and that the Calamity Puppet’s challenge type was Seeking. They went to find Elder Kongta and the Mirror-Holding Banshee, arriving at the cooling pool where she was being contained.

• Laplace explained that the Forbidden Stone’s powerful Ghost Domain aura suggested it came from a disaster zone, and speculated that the Mirror-Holding Banshee might have brought it as nourishment without knowing the danger.
• Laplace reported that Granny Dragon Raven had used a time-reversing rule item to glimpse Xulifa’s scythe, whose skull-and-flower handle identified the challenge type as Seeking.
• Angel said Seeking favored their ability to prepare through the Dream Crystal Plain, while Laplace hoped the Puppet would demand a physical object.
• Napoli returned after expelling excess lava fire, and Angel decided to leave the Ghost Domain fog for the Mirror-Holding Banshee to absorb.
• Napoli led Angel and Laplace through a primitive passage to an underground cavern, where they reached the cooling pool near which the Mirror-Holding Banshee was being suppressed.

Angel, Laplace, and Napoli entered the sealed space inside the cooling pool after discussing Napoli’s Divine Pattern, his origins, and the risks of letting it create abilities. Inside, they found Elder Kongta and the Mirror-Holding Banshee, with the banshee trapped in a crystal cage.

• Napoli explained that he avoided flying over the cooling pool because his flame-based Divine Pattern could disrupt the artifact blanks, and Angel stopped him from asking the Divine Pattern to create an unaligned ability.
• Laplace revealed that Gleipnir had information about Napoli’s origins and warned him that using his Divine Pattern to create abilities consumed something that could eventually end his extraordinary path.
• Angel explained that Napoli’s Divine Pattern responded to his fixation, then identified his people as Obsessionists and advised him to create abilities himself.
• Angel formed a staircase to the sealed space, and Napoli used the Dragon Scale to open the floating polyhedron.
• Inside the white, mist-filled space, they found Elder Kongta chanting and the Mirror-Holding Banshee imprisoned in a suspended crystal cage.

Elder Kongta suppressed the Mirror-Holding Banshee and scolded Napoli for bringing her into the Artifact Embryo Factory, while Angel learned that the Crystal-Eyed Race had placed his name on its Spirit Monument. The Banshee regained her sanity and escaped the ice coffin, then asked where her Ghost Domain Stone was.

• Napoli explained how Elder Kongta had sealed the Mirror-Holding Banshee in a Crystal Shell ice coffin and confirmed that the Forbidden Stone had been removed from the factory.
• Elder Kongta berated Napoli for risking the Artifact Embryo Factory and vented his fear and frustration before turning his attention to Angel and Laplace.
• Elder Kongta told Angel that the Elders' Council had unanimously inscribed his name on the Spirit Monument after learning of his contributions to the Crystal-Eyed Race.
• Angel suspected Prophet Yota had made him a symbol of hope without asking him, but decided to address the matter when they met.
• The Mirror-Holding Banshee awakened, copied Elder Kongta's hand seals to open the ice coffin, and asked Napoli where her Ghost Domain Stone was.

The Mirror-Holding Banshee learned that the Ghost Domain Stone she had carried from the Dark Mirror Domain caused the dangerous fog, then cleared the workshop’s Ghost Domain aura and agreed to keep refining Artifact Embryos. As Napoli began investigating how the stone had behaved, she revealed it had been with her for more than a centennial.

• Napoli explained that the Mirror-Holding Banshee’s Ghost Domain Stone had nearly caused a disaster and that Elder Kongta had sealed her in an ice coffin to protect her from the aura.
• The Mirror-Holding Banshee left the Partition space and absorbed the dense Ghost Domain fog; Laplace explained that her Banshee Phantom Body was taking in the aura through the mirror.
• Napoli assured the Mirror-Holding Banshee that they were not driving her away and asked her to continue refining the Artifact Embryos, which she agreed to do.
• Angel created an Illusion Cottage so everyone could sit and talk, and Napoli introduced Angel as the founder of the Login Device.
• Napoli asked where the Ghost Domain Stone came from, and the Mirror-Holding Banshee said she had brought it from the Dark Mirror Domain and carried it for more than a centennial.

Napoli and Angel questioned the Mirror-Holding Banshee about the Ghost Domain Stone’s unexplained eruption, and she recounted finding it in a Mirror Forest in the Dark Mirror Domain. Laplace contacted Grandma Dragon Raven for more information and returned with news about the stone, but had not yet revealed what she learned.

• Napoli questioned the Mirror-Holding Banshee about the Ghost Domain Stone’s abnormal change, and she said she had lost control of her mind after absorbing its aura.
• Angel asked about recent contacts and unusual events, and the Mirror-Holding Banshee identified her work at the Bubble Workshop as the only unusual activity.
• The Mirror-Holding Banshee described how her muddled self wandered through a Mirror Forest and emerged with the Ghost Domain Stone.
• Laplace asked the Mirror-Holding Banshee to describe the forest, then contacted her clone to consult Grandma Dragon Raven.
• Laplace returned about ten minutes later and said she had obtained information about the Ghost Domain Stone.

Laplace revealed that Ghost Domain Stones drew nearly inexhaustible aura from Lands of Rules and explained how the Mirror-Holding Banshee’s abnormal stone might be linked to Mirror Forest. Because Mirror Forest lay along one of Calamity Puppet Xulifa’s possible routes, the clue narrowed the likely approach from four routes to two, leaving Angel asking whether they could pinpoint where Xulifa would enter the Day Mirror Domain.

• Laplace explained that Ghost Domain Stones transmitted Ghost Domain aura from Lands of Rules, making them dangerous but scarce rule-based objects.
• Laplace said the Mirror-Holding Banshee’s Ghost Domain Stone had become abnormal and revealed that its source, Mirror Forest, lay along one of Calamity Puppet Xulifa’s possible routes.
• Angel deduced that Xulifa might have caused Mirror Forest’s abnormality, but Laplace clarified that the clue narrowed the possible routes only from four to two.
• Laplace told Angel that she had already sent the intelligence to Gleipnir and arranged for the Ghost Domain Stone to be delivered to Mystic Dragon.
• Napoli rejoiced that the incident could help their defenses, then asked whether they could determine Xulifa’s precise entry coordinates.

Laplace identified Deep Abyss Cave and the area near Undying Mirror Sea No. 337 as the likely entrances Calamity Puppet could use, shifting attention from Sumer Wetland Fortress to Tooth Fairy Paradise and its defenses. Angel then went to the Artifact Embryo Factory’s main warehouse to begin enchanting its semi-finished products for the Future Mirror.

• Laplace told Angel, Napoli, Elder Kongta, and the Mirror-Holding Banshee that Calamity Puppet could enter near Deep Abyss Cave or Undying Mirror Sea No. 337, near Tooth Fairy Paradise.
• Elder Kongta noted Tooth Fairy Paradise’s weak defenses and offered to seek support from the Crystal-Eyed Race, while Laplace said Sumer Wetland Fortress was no longer the main focus.
• Angel praised the Mirror-Holding Banshee’s craftsmanship and advised her to visit Moretta’s workshop to learn from his assembly-line methods.
• Laplace told the Mirror-Holding Banshee that Mystic Dragon had taken the Ghost Domain Stone, and the Banshee said her stored Ghost Domain aura would sustain her for several months.
• The Mirror-Holding Banshee recalled that Tooth Fairies were the first race she encountered after entering the Day Mirror Domain, and Elder Kongta decided to report the possible connection to Mystic Dragon.
• Napoli led Angel to the Artifact Embryo Factory’s main warehouse, where Angel began enchanting the semi-finished products for the first time.

Angel enchanted the Artifact Embryos in the warehouse with Nightmare Illusion power, astonishing Napoli and reinforcing Laplace’s suspicions about Angel’s connection to the Nightmare Realm. After beginning work in the next warehouse, the story shifted to a mysterious train arriving in a hidden spacetime.

• Angel summoned a green curtain that enchanted about one-fifth of the Artifact Embryos, while Laplace and Napoli sensed or glimpsed strange images within it.
• Napoli wondered whether his Divine Pattern had let him see the images, but Angel gave no clear answer.
• Angel recovered almost immediately, enchanted another portion, and said he would continue until the warehouse was finished.
• Angel went to the next warehouse, while Napoli stayed to distribute and replenish the Artifact Embryos and Laplace turned her attention to the Dream Crystal Plain.
• A featureless conductor crossed the Star Sea Train and reached the driver’s cabin, whose plaque identified it as Sub-Train No. 199.

Star Worm met the new captain of the 199th sub-train, the high-ranking Number 005, who planned to take the train into the Dream Realm. After sending off most passengers, the crew put the rest to sleep and sealed the train, and the owl revealed that they had already entered the Dream Realm’s domain.

• Star Worm entered the true cab and met the owl captain, who introduced itself as Number 005.
• The owl said it would lay a new star rail into the Dream Realm and asked Star Worm to report the problems left by Number 141.
• The owl explained that exiled passenger Mao Duosi had the backing of two miracle existences, but said there was no need to turn back for him.
• Star Worm and the other conductors sent off seventy percent of the passengers at the station.
• After the owl ordered the remaining passengers barred from disembarking, Star Worm and the conductors filled the train with sleep-inducing mist.
• The owl warned Star Worm not to look through the frosted Dome and revealed that the train had already entered the Dream Realm’s domain.

Star Worm and Owl navigated the Star Sea Train through a collapsing Dream Domain and escaped with help from Owl’s old friend. They entered the gap between the Dream Realm and the Nightmare Realm, where Owl warned that the mission ahead might involve an important old acquaintance.

• Owl explained that Dream Realm illusions and lifeforms could be dangerous, while Star Worm questioned the uncertain mission and its risks.
• The Dream Domain began collapsing as its dreamer woke, and the train sped along tracks that shattered behind it.
• Owl summoned a gigantic Dream Realm lifeform, which grabbed the train and hurled it into the stable void beyond the collapsing domain.
• Star Worm worried that the helper had fallen into the Deep Dream, but Owl said it had come from there and would eventually find its way out.
• Owl revealed that their destination was the gap between the Dream Realm and the Nightmare Realm, and hinted that the Star Lord might promote Star Worm if he played a major role in the mission.
• Owl looked into the empty void and wondered whether one of his old acquaintances was waiting there.

Owl and Star Worm traveled through a strangely empty Gap Zone toward its initial point, where Owl expected to find the being that had created it. After the Star Sea Train passed through a vast mirror, Owl discovered that the Gap Zone overlapped the Nightmare Realm, the Dream Domain, and the Mirror Realm.

• Owl explained that the Gap Zone could contain powerful creatures from both the Dream Realm and the Nightmare Realm, and kept the Dome blurred to protect Star Worm.
• Owl steered the Star Sea Train toward the Gap Zone's most stable space, hoping to find the mission target that had caused the Gap Zone to appear.
• Owl suspected the Nightmare Realm had taken control of the eerily quiet Gap Zone, leaving Star Worm afraid they might encounter its creatures.
• Owl spotted a vast mirror ahead, ordered the train to follow its edge, and then commanded it to pass through when no gap appeared.
• After the train entered the mirror, Owl sensed the auras of the Nightmare Realm, the Dream Domain, and the Mirror Realm beyond it.

Owl guided the Star Sea Train through the void until a Nightmare Realm aberration awakened and attacked. Unable to escape into the Hidden World, Owl accepted that the train was trapped and waited for an old friend or the mission target to appear.

• Owl slowed the Star Sea Train after a rift opened overhead and recognized it as the eye of a sleeping monster.
• The monster revealed a scarlet eye and attacked with a spiked tentacle after rejecting Owl's attempt to communicate.
• Owl drove the Star Sea Train into the Hidden World, but the tentacle caught it and dragged it back out.
• Owl told Star Worm it had no way to defeat the Nightmare Realm aberration and explained that the train's miraculous construction should keep it from being destroyed.
• Owl decided to wait for an old friend or the mission target, trusting that the Star Lord had sent it on this mission for a reason.

Angel finished enchanting the semi-finished products in the main factory’s ten warehouses and agreed to return in four or five hours to handle more shipments. He entered the crowded Silver Coral Island in the Dream Crystal Plain, where he encountered its busy inhabitants and reunited with Mei Ji on the beach.

• Angel completed enchanting the products in all ten warehouses, while Napoli coordinated their allocation and the Cave Dragons transported them to the various races.
• Napoli told Angel that more semi-finished products from other factories would be sent to the main warehouse, and Angel agreed to return in four or five hours.
• Angel found Laplace asleep in the first warehouse, made an Illusion Cottage and soundproof barrier around her, and entered the Dream Crystal Plain.
• Angel arrived on Silver Coral Island and reassured a group of Woodleaf Little Guards that he had not fallen from the cliff.
• Angel reached the crowded beach, where Laplace was fishing and Mei Ji explained that Angel had arrived five minutes earlier.

Mei Ji took a brief break from the overcrowded Little Treasure Pagoda before returning to it, while Angel and Laplace headed to the Uriel Instance to watch Luigi’s upcoming challenge. They left the Challenger waiting to arrive and discussed how newcomers were crowding Silver Coral Island and who the Woodleaf Clan were.

• Mei Ji told Laplace she was exhausted from managing the Little Treasure Pagoda’s continuous stream of Challengers, then flew back to the pagoda.
• Angel and Laplace logged into the Uriel Instance, where Luigi and the others waited for the Challenger to appear.
• Angel noticed that spectators were distracting Dudu Bi as he worked on a magical energy array, so he reinforced the illusion nodes around the building to give him more privacy.
• Angel told Laplace that Han Da and the Crystal-Eyed Race were building a New City near Rabbit Town, which could ease Silver Coral Island’s overcrowding.
• Angel and Laplace waited for the Challenger, who had not yet arrived, and Laplace explained that the nature-loving Woodleaf Clan had come to Silver Coral Island to help protect its environment.