Chapter Summaries

Angel left Grave Street, returned to the polluted surface, and found Erika trapped beneath fallen bricks in Black Pipe Alley. After rescuing her indirectly, he entered Fourteenth Town disguised as a doctor and followed her father back to the alley.

• Angel left Kang Mu a contact mark before slipping out of Grave Street and returning to the surface through a tomb passage.
• Angel crossed the polluted city in the rain and used God's-eye view to locate Black Pipe Alley in Fourteenth Town.
• Angel found Erika pinned beneath fallen bricks with a severe head wound and woke her drunken father so he could rescue her.
• Angel reached Fourteenth Town, where the intelligence timer disappeared after Erika survived, then disguised himself as Doctor Pat and followed her father into Black Pipe Alley.

Angel completed the Book of a Hundred Fonts task and gained part of the Fashion Cutter puzzle, then discovered that Harietta was being used as an organ-growing vessel beneath the Beverly Care Center. Believing Harietta was a hidden NPC whose life was nearly over, Angel decided to seek her out.

• Angel examined Erika, reassured her father, and sent them to the Beverly Care Center for treatment before leaving.
• After Erika began receiving treatment, Angel observed the clinic and discovered a hidden laboratory where Harietta was chained to a bed and used to cultivate transplant organs.
• Angel found Harietta’s medical records, which warned that her body was near collapse, and suspected she had a hidden quest and rewards.
• Angel used illusion to assemble a two-thousand-word story from a hundred books, completing the Book of a Hundred Fonts task.
• The Fashion Cutter puzzle gained color and advanced to 1/2, and Angel decided to contact Harietta.

Angel completed the Fashion Cutter puzzle, then visited Beverly Care Center to contact Harietta. Turing identified signs of severe pollution and suspicious surface-style decorations, leaving Angel to suspect the care center was connected to Fashion Hospital and that Harietta herself might be the source.

• Angel absorbed a Creation Series Puzzle Fragment, completed the Fashion Cutter illustration, and chose not to unlock its abilities yet.
• Angel contacted Kang Mu and asked him to come to Fourteenth Town so he could borrow his luck for future card draws.
• Angel entered Beverly Care Center and used a Nightmare Illusion Node to slip past its security and reach the interior.
• Turing pointed out unusual decorations and numerous patients with secondary mutations, suggesting a highly polluted source was nearby.
• Angel connected the care center to Fashion Hospital and wondered whether Harietta's extreme mutations made her the highly polluted source.

Angel investigated Beverly Care Center and discovered that Harita was spreading the old Underground District virus, while the center's staff had received anti-mutation vaccines from Fashion Hospital. He found that Harita's quest, "No Survivors," required completing Connors's "Deadly Town" quest, whose countdown suggested Fourteenth Town might be in danger.

• Erika and her father were required to undergo dermatology examinations before leaving Beverly Care Center, but their reports showed no infection.
• Angel examined the care center's records and concluded that Harita was the source of the infections and that Fashion Hospital had supplied vaccines to the staff.
• Angel infiltrated the underground laboratory and learned from Harita's NPC information that her father had sacrificed her for his own ambitions.
• Angel discovered that Harita's "No Survivors" quest required him to complete Connors's "Deadly Town" quest first.
• Angel found Connors in the director's office and saw that his quest would become available after a countdown.
• Angel feared that the quests referred to a deadly threat to Fourteenth Town and its residents.

Angel discovered that Harietta’s impending death would likely unleash the Grotesque-Face Virus and doom Fourteenth Town, so he decided to intervene before the apocalyptic storyline began. After learning about the virus and Harietta’s history from Connors, he left Beverly Care Center to meet Kang Mu and prepare to stop the outbreak.

• Angel found that every corpse in Beverly Care Center’s morgue had undergone a secondary mutation and heard Connors tell Schneider that Harietta might die that day, which he believed would make the virus inactive.
• Angel concluded that Harietta’s death would instead trigger the Deadly Town and No Survivors storylines, and chose to prevent the disaster before it began rather than wait for quests and rewards.
• Angel used Nightmare Illusion Nodes to obtain information from Connors about Harietta, Beverly Care Center, and the Grotesque-Face Virus.
• Angel learned that Harietta was Fashion Hospital’s first experimental subject and that her father, Horace Beverly, had used research on her to advance his career while continuing to study her.
• Angel learned that the Grotesque-Face Virus’s gene sequence appeared unnaturally arranged, suspected it had been engineered, and identified controlling Harietta as the key to stopping the catastrophe.

Angel used a wishing ritual and a Luck-Borrowing Magic Array with Kang Mu to improve his chances of unlocking Fashion Cutter’s abilities. Though he initially thought the draw had failed, he discovered that he had gained the powerful hidden ability Golden Scissors and returned to considering how to use his creation points and Prologue: Co-Frequency.

• Kang Mu brought Angel the ritual props, and Angel drew a Luck-Borrowing Magic Array that placed Kang Mu at the sun position and himself at the moon position.
• Kang Mu performed the wishing ritual while Angel unlocked Fashion Cutter and entered the card-drawing scene.
• Angel drew Eye Cutting and a hidden ability, initially lamenting that he had not obtained Magic Scissors.
• Angel learned that Golden Scissors could remove every type of page from the Fashion Magic Book, including prologues, and realized how valuable the ability was.
• Angel reviewed Fashion Cutter’s abilities and decided to keep Prologue: Co-Frequency as insurance rather than use it immediately.

Angel sealed Harietta inside a Nightmare Illusion and created a comforting dream in which she reunited with her mother. He then discovered that his actions had triggered a hidden quest to stop the Mutant Aberration Virus from escaping Fourteenth Town.

• Angel learned that Kang Mu had no plans to add pages and sent him away after discussing how to contain the virus.
• Angel decided he could not save Harietta and instead used Nightmare Illusion Nodes to seal her away from the virus’s backlash.
• Harietta awoke inside the illusion, where Angel’s music and dream magic let her reunite with her mother in a memory of her childhood.
• Angel checked the Text Panel and found the hidden quest “Unsung Savior,” which required him to prevent the virus from leaking out before the countdown ended.

Angel discovered that Harietta’s containment had only brought the prevention progress to 50%, so he sealed Beverly Care Center with Nightmare Illusion and tested how letting people leave affected the progress. After raising it to 93%, he identified skin infection as the key risk and went to Connors’s meeting to organize containment and find the remaining breach.

• Angel and Turing considered sealing Beverly Care Center after realizing Harietta’s containment had not fully prevented the virus leak.
• Angel used Nightmare Illusion to seal the care center and keep everyone inside, raising the prevention progress to 93%.
• Angel opened the entrance to test departures and found that infected people leaving lowered the progress, while uninfected people leaving caused no change.
• Angel concluded that skin infection was the key to identifying infected people and that some containment measure still had a 7% gap.
• Angel went to Connors’s office, interrupted a meeting with Schneider and other department heads, and said they no longer needed to discuss their plans.

Angel and the doctors traced the leaked Mutant Aberration Virus to people who had received organs from Harietta, and he organized teams to find and contain them before Harietta died. As the search began, Turing started filming footage for a reality show about Angel, while Angel coordinated the teams from the care center.

• Angel explained that the virus had leaked through an unknown channel and asked the doctors to help find where it had spread.
• Turing regretted being unable to help Angel, then created a reality-show concept called “The Savior's Daily Life” and asked to record footage of him.
• Angel agreed to let Turing film source material after forbidding footage of his Nightmare Illusion techniques and authorities.
• Connors and the doctors deduced that Harietta's transplanted organs were the source of the remaining infections, and Angel examined records identifying more than a hundred recipients.
• Angel marked Connors, Schneider, and the care center's personnel with emblems containing Nightmare Illusion Nodes, then dispatched teams to find the recipients.
• Angel remained in the director's office and used the god's-eye view to coordinate the search while the care center continued operating under Nightmare Illusion.

Angel and the search teams raced to find every recipient of Harietta’s transplanted organs before the countdown ended. They contained the last recipient, Stacy, in Sixty-First Town just in time, bringing the progress bar to 100% as the countdown reached zero.

• Connors and Schneider searched Fourteenth Town while Angel used his God's-eye view to help teams locate recipients in nearby towns, pushing the progress bar to 99.883%.
• Angel directed Connors to intercept Zephyr in Late Winter Alley after Zephyr left Ruiseng Park, while the Fifteenth Town team learned that Stacy had moved away.
• Stacy’s sister and friends could not say where he had gone, but a homeless man recalled Stacy saying he was going to Sixty-First Town to seek a better future.
• Angel located Stacy working as a doorman at a Garment Workers' Union building in Sixty-First Town and redirected a search team there.
• With half a minute left, a young search team member contained Stacy in an invisible net, and the progress bar reached 100% as the countdown hit zero.

Angel witnessed Dark Corner take Harietta’s soul through a door inside his illusion, but arrived too late to follow it. After investigating the aftermath, he reviewed the rewards for completing “Unsung Savior” and considered how to test the new “Appendix: Viralization” magic-book effect.

• Harietta sensed that someone was calling her and left through a door into Dark Corner, while Angel’s divine consciousness watched from the body of her imagined mother.
• Angel rushed to the underground laboratory, where he found the mutants restrained by Nightmare Illusion and learned that Dark Corner had vanished after taking Harietta’s shadowy soul.
• Angel entered the laboratory and confirmed that the corridor he had seen in the illusion was no longer there, then wondered whether Dark Corner was connected to death.
• Angel told Turing to leave Harietta’s corpse untouched and considered what she had meant by the beings calling her.
• Angel checked his rewards for “Unsung Savior” and found numerous puzzle fragments and “Appendix: Viralization,” but decided he needed a new puzzle page to test it safely.

Angel received the hidden quest "Revival," which required studying the virus in Harietta’s corpse to restore the infected people’s sanity. He enlisted the Care Center’s doctors to research the virus while he contained the infected, then prepared to complete the Traffic Bat puzzle and test "Viralization."

• Angel chose Traffic Bat as the puzzle he would complete to test "Appendix: Viralization."
• Angel ordered the search team in Town Sixty-One to control the Garment Workers’ Union members and bring Stacy back to the Care Center; the manager admitted she had stopped them because she fancied him.
• Angel told Connors that Harietta was dead and gathered the Care Center’s doctors to study the remaining mother virus and find a way to save the infected people.
• Angel promised to take Turing to Rabbit Town to study film and television production after they left Modern City.
• Angel went to the Clear Water Canal to wash his hands before completing the Traffic Bat puzzle and testing Viralization.

Angel drew two ordinary Traffic Bat abilities, Traffic Gathering and Traffic Insight, and went looking for an event to test them. He discovered that Turing’s filming had nearly depleted his popularity points, leaving him unable to use either ability for now, though completing the Traffic Bat page had raised his maximum capacity to fifteen.

• Angel washed his hands and completed the Traffic Puzzle, then drew two blue spheres that granted him Traffic Gathering and Traffic Insight.
• Angel reviewed how the abilities could boost attention to an event and identify someone capable of turning an ordinary story into a hot topic, but decided Traffic Insight was of limited use to him.
• Angel returned to the street near Beverly Care Center and found Turing filming footage for The Savior’s Daily Life narration.
• Turing told Angel that recording continuously consumed popularity points, leaving only 0.5, and explained that Traffic Gathering required at least one point while Traffic Insight required twenty.
• Turing explained that it could act as Angel’s assistant and use same-origin abilities with his authorization, and that completing the Traffic Bat page had raised his popularity-point cap from ten to fifteen.
• Angel learned that popularity points could be restored and their maximum increased through public discussion and audience feedback, among other methods.

Angel used the Variety Grand Prize at Beverly Care Center to restore hype points and raise their maximum, then tested the Traffic Bat's Traffic Gathering ability on several events. He confirmed it could subtly attract attention to past events, including one advertised on a poster dozens of kilometers away.

• Angel played the Variety Grand Prize on the Care Center's lobby screen, and Turing tracked hype points as they recovered and their cap increased from 15 to 23.
• Angel left the Care Center with the show still playing and asked Turing to use one hype point of Traffic Gathering on a crying child across the street.
• An elderly woman and nearby neighbors noticed the child, and passersby gathered around him as Traffic Gathering drew attention through ordinary coincidences.
• Angel concluded that Traffic Gathering attracted attention subtly without directly controlling people, and estimated that one hype point had drawn nearly twenty people to the child.
• Angel tested Traffic Gathering on an art exhibition and a wasteland-style stage advertised by a poster in Fifth Town, confirming it worked through the poster from dozens of kilometers away.

Angel tested the Traffic Bat’s Traffic Gathering ability and found that it worked through believable coincidences, could reach across Modern City, and became more effective when used in advance. He then used Traffic Insight to seek a driving force for a struggling pastry seller, learning that three candidates had been identified, including a fashion magician Angel already knew.

• Angel confirmed that the variety-show screen at the care center had restored his Popularity Points and increased their capacity while he tested Traffic Gathering.
• Angel concluded that Traffic Gathering followed self-consistent logic, could influence events beyond his sight, and worked better when an event had time to prepare.
• Angel used Traffic Insight on a pastry seller whose wife wanted him to give up his stall and take a cleaning job, hoping someone could help the seller realize his dream of opening a pastry shop.
• Angel visited the seller’s stall, tasted his pastries, and found them excellent despite their limited customer base.
• Turing’s Traffic Insight identified three possible driving forces, first showing a powerful fashion magician in West Fifteenth District and then a chubby fashion magician in Fifteenth Town whom Angel recognized.

Angel used Traffic Insight to identify Fatty and a Gourmet Vanguard editor as people who could revive the stall owner’s pastry business, then arranged for both to discover the food. Their enthusiasm and offers to promote the stall convinced Angel that Traffic Insight could find people capable of turning an ordinary incident into a popular one.

• Angel chose Fatty and the Gourmet Vanguard editor as the two people to test, and used a Nightmare Illusion Node to tell Fatty about the pastry stall and its uncertain future.
• Angel learned that the editor was searching for an original food feature when her scout reported a pastry stall in the Underground District.
• Fatty and the editor arrived at the stall, tasted the pastries, and eagerly ordered more.
• Fatty offered to recommend the stall to his food-loving acquaintances, while the editor offered to write a food article about it.
• Angel concluded that their support would make the stall a focal point and that Traffic Insight had correctly identified people able to advance the incident.

Angel tested Viralization on Traffic Bat’s Traffic Gathering ability at the Beverly Care Center and found that it spread an incident to people’s minds while altering their perception and intensifying their urge to share it. After confirming its stronger effects, he prepared to test the second ability but discovered that ordinary people affected by the first test were compelled to gossip about the incident.

• Angel reflected that fashion magic’s Traffic Insight and Scene Creation abilities were stranger and more powerful than he had first assumed, though Traffic Insight did not suit him.
• Angel applied Appendix: Viralization to the Traffic Bat page, transforming its illustration and updating both of its abilities.
• At Turing’s direction, Angel tested Viralized Traffic Gathering on a nurse whose foot was stuck between courtyard tiles, drawing crowds and projecting the incident into affected people’s minds.
• Angel and Turing concluded that Viralized Traffic Gathering was at least ten times more effective and altered ordinary people’s cognition, though fashion mages resisted that effect.
• Before Angel could test the second viralized ability, Turing noticed that ordinary people affected by the black tide felt compelled to tell others about the nurse’s mishap.

Angel tested Traffic Insight: Viralization on the Mutant Aberration Virus and discovered that Harietta’s father, Horace Beverly, and several researchers were involved in its origin. The ability also sensed a deeper participant beyond this world, and Angel planned to use it to investigate the former Noble Knight’s disappearance once he had enough popularity points.

• Angel learned that Traffic Aggregation: Viralization spread the Confessional Urge Virus through at least one generation, and he decided not to broadcast it across the city because that could deepen his ties to the Modern City Instance.
• Angel used Traffic Insight: Viralization on Harietta’s corpse and chose to find the person behind the Mutant Aberration Virus outbreak.
• Turing identified Horace Beverly and several researchers as participants in the virus’s origin, while warning that an even deeper participant seemed to be outside this world.
• Angel connected the unknown participant to the Dark Corner and considered using Traffic Insight: Viralization to uncover the truth behind the former Noble Knight’s disappearance.
• With only four popularity points left, Angel decided he needed to find another source of points before testing the ability further.

Angel left the Modern City Instance to spread “Variety Grand Prize” among Dream Crystal Plain’s residents, then discovered that the Text Panel had updated with new features. After showing Turing the world beyond the Instance, Angel entered the Text Space of “Glutton’s Feast.”

• Angel returned Turing to the Fashion Magic Book and left the Modern City Instance, carefully passing through the threads of karma tied to its exit.
• Angel emerged on the crystal mountain amid the lingering Doomscape and found that the Text Panel had been replaced by a red exclamation mark.
• Angel opened the update announcement and explored the new Text Panel layout, Chat Panel, and Wonderland Directory.
• Angel learned that chat options required Instance clears or special items, while the directory listed cleared Instances and their exploration rates.
• Angel summoned Turing, sent it information about Wonderland Instances and Dream Crystal Plain, and used the Manor Pass to enter the Text Space of “Glutton’s Feast.”

Angel returned to the manor and showed Laplace Turing’s creation ability, then asked her to organize a Variety Grand Prize show in Rabbit Town to earn Heat Points. Laplace agreed to arrange it while continuing to search for a short Fairyland Instance, and Turing began exploring the text-filled manor.

• Laplace returned from Rabbit Town and learned that Turing could create objects through Scenic Design Expert, after Angel accidentally spoiled her tea with ice and a reed straw.
• Angel gave Laplace a Shadow Box summarizing his Modern City experience and explained that he had left the instance to earn Heat Points.
• Laplace described her work cataloging Fairyland Instances and said she preferred short instances, though Angel recommended Modern City for its complete ability system and intelligent assistants.
• Laplace agreed to arrange a high-traffic venue for Angel’s Variety Grand Prize show in Rabbit Town and left with the Shadow Box and illusion nodes.
• Turing finished digesting Angel’s information and was startled to find text descriptions floating around the manor.