Chapter Summaries

Angel learned that Zoe, the Dark Corner Cult’s archbishop, had secretly guided Alfred into Dark Corner, and he set out to unlock the Dark Corner Instance after planning to finish the Miss Halloween mission first. As Angel walked toward Modern High School, Gleipnir relayed Abigail’s warning that Moon Eye might be Phantom Moon Eye, a Lord of a Layer.

• Angel told Gleipnir that Zoe had been the Dark Corner Cult’s archbishop and had guided Alfred’s choices until he found a way into Dark Corner.
• Angel explained that Zoe had helped Alfred to protect the cult’s membership list and because she hoped they might reunite in Dark Corner.
• Gleipnir declined to accompany Angel into the Dark Corner Instance because she had work to finish.
• Angel decided to let Zuniga meet the Mountain Folk first, then headed toward Modern High School to complete the Miss Halloween mission and seek Kang Mu’s luck.
• Gleipnir told Angel that Abigail identified the Moon Eye Zoe described as possibly Phantom Moon Eye, a Lord of a Layer.

Angel investigated the possibility that Moon Eye was the Dark Corner layer lord Phantom Moon Eye, then visited Modern High School’s style party to check on Danni’s Halloween Party. He found several students interested in joining and reached the party, where Kang Mu was among the onlookers.

• Angel learned that Phantom Moon Eye supposedly ruled the Moonlight Sea of Illusory Dreams, but doubted that Moon Eye was truly the same entity.
• Angel entered Modern High School during its crowded style party and headed for the Halloween Party in the old teaching building.
• A girl in classical robes told Angel she liked Halloween outfits and offered to help Danni if needed.
• Angel overheard that several girls were interested in Danni’s party and considered how easily the Miss Halloween mission might be completed.
• Angel reached Danni’s classroom and found Kang Mu mingling with the curious onlookers outside.

Angel discovered that the Halloween mission counted only people whose costumes suited them, then used Nightmare Illusion to make their appearances and presence fit their roles. Danni’s enhanced vampire-girl look drew a crowd to her party, while Angel’s mission progress began to rise.

• Angel dressed Kang Mu as a Skull-Opening Killer, but the mission count stayed at 0/20.
• Angel dressed a girl as a Bloody Nurse and realized her innocent eyes clashed with the costume.
• Angel used Nightmare Illusion to give the Bloody Nurse a chilling gaze, and the party’s frightened guests raised the count to 1/20.
• More guests came to Angel for makeup, and Danni followed them; Angel convinced her he was a friend of her father and promised to enhance her look.
• Angel strengthened Danni’s vampire-girl presence with an illusory mask, and her imposing appearance drew people into the party.

Angel completed the Miss Halloween mission after a crowd flocked to Danni’s party, then went to Moonlight Lake with Kang Mu to perform the Luck-Borrowing ritual before drawing cards. He began considering which Fashion Magic Book page to complete and studied Style Eye’s abilities.

• Angel gave costumes and illusion masks to dozens of students, completing the Miss Halloween mission as costumed partygoers spread across campus to scare others.
• Danni thanked Angel for helping her party, but he had already left, and she decided to ask the student council for more space.
• Angel took Kang Mu, dressed as a chainsaw killer, to Moonlight Lake and set up the Luck-Borrowing Magic Array with him.
• Angel summoned the Fashion Magic Book and weighed which puzzle pages to unlock, deciding to complete Style Eye before Time Radio.
• Angel examined Style Eye’s description and learned its standard ability could identify the original style of artworks and detect plagiarism or imitation.

Angel unlocked Style Eye and gained the rare Potential Eye ability, which revealed Kang Mu’s strongest potential lay in Fate rather than fashion or design. By examining that path, Angel learned that Kang Mu was best suited to become a prophecy wizard, with Efa Wizards and summoner as lesser options.

• Angel completed Style Eye’s puzzle page and unlocked its abilities, receiving Discernment and the hidden Potential Eye.
• Angel tested Potential Eye on Kang Mu and saw his seven-star potential, with Fate as his strongest development direction.
• Angel noted that Potential Eye’s recommendations were limited by the user’s knowledge and might not reveal every possible path.
• Angel tapped Kang Mu’s Fate entry and found a chart ranking prophecy wizard first, Efa Wizards second, and summoner third.

Angel completed the Time Radio puzzle and drew two normal abilities and a rare special ability that revealed the Time Radio’s first known special form. He summoned the Spacetime Broadcasting Station, which appeared as a tiny retro robot-like radio.

• Angel concluded that the Potential Eye could guide people toward promising careers and planned to test its influence on others later.
• Angel completed the Fashion Magic Book’s eighth page and began drawing abilities for the Time Radio on the seventh page.
• Angel drew Person with a Story, which displayed stories that interested the Time Radio when used on humanoid creatures.
• Angel drew Story Resonance, which returned audio signals from objects carrying his intense emotions.
• Angel drew the special ability Spacetime Broadcasting Station, allowing the Time Radio to capture and receive drifting spacetime signals or signals on specific frequencies.
• Angel summoned the Spacetime Broadcasting Station and saw a palm-sized, bronze-colored radio shaped like a retro robot.

Angel tested the Time Radio’s signal-search and story-investigation abilities, discovering that it was powerful but had limited intelligence. It revealed Kang Mu’s history of improbable good fortune, while Angel decided to postpone drawing Brand-Name Cat’s ability.

• Angel tested the Time Radio’s signal-search function and found signals from a ring in the lake, a bottle beneath the holographic tree, and Kang Mu.
• Angel discovered that his noisy test had interrupted Kang Mu’s ritual, and chose not to restart it or draw Brand-Name Cat’s ability.
• Angel sent Kang Mu to search for the ring and bottle, then used the Time Radio to investigate Kang Mu’s story.
• The Time Radio projected scenes of Kang Mu’s past, showing how his luck had repeatedly protected him and brought him unexpected gains.

Angel used Story Resonance to uncover the emotional histories of a ring and a bottle, then left Kang Mu to decide what to do with evidence of a possible murder. After investigating the people connected to the ring, Angel concealed the Time Radio and began considering what to name it.

• Angel had the Time Radio resonate with the ring, revealing a troubled romance between Xialin and Xinke that ended amid sounds suggesting violence and a body falling into water.
• Angel let Kang Mu keep the ring, and Kang Mu decided to report the possible crime anonymously to the security officers.
• Angel used Story Resonance on Selina's buried time capsule and heard her vow to remember her failed crush on Tom and avoid falling for anyone again.
• Angel returned Selina's bottle beneath the holographic tree and warned Kang Mu that the ring's recordings might not reveal the whole truth about Xialin's disappearance.
• Angel recalled finding that Xinke had been a teacher at Modern High School and that Xialin and Blair had disappeared around the time he resigned.
• Angel gave Kang Mu an illusion mask for the scare party, concealed the Time Radio with a Nightmare Illusion, and started thinking of a name for it.

Gleipnir met Star Worm while Kaushike secretly tested whether she had the Time Radio fragment, then learned from Angel that Star Worm’s return to the Star Sea Train could be delayed. Angel decided to proceed with plans for a station on the Dream Crystal Plain and asked Gleipnir to help him with something.

• Kaushike visited Gleipnir and secretly used a magic array and a photograph to check whether she carried a Time Radio fragment, but detected nothing.
• Gleipnir and Star Worm spoke in code to avoid Kaushike overhearing, and Star Worm worried that he might still be trapped in the Instance when Auxiliary Train No. 199 returned.
• Gleipnir told Star Worm that a station on the Dream Crystal Plain might let him board the train later, but she said she could not decide whether to establish one.
• Kaushike asked Gleipnir whether Angel would visit, and Gleipnir said she did not know where Angel was.
• Angel contacted Gleipnir, discussed Star Worm’s predicament and the risks of forcibly removing him from the Instance, and said he and Laplace planned to establish a station.
• Angel asked Gleipnir to help him do something.

Angel used Gleipnir’s Nightmare Illusion Nodes to hypnotize Kaushike and learn the abilities of Fushehui’s original Time Radio inheritance. He revealed that he had drawn Time Radio’s special form, Hertz, and Gleipnir considered how its abilities might help recover items for the beauty pageant.

• Gleipnir led Kaushike to a secluded corner, where Angel used the Nightmare Illusion Nodes on her to hypnotize him.
• Angel asked Kaushike about Fushehui’s Time Radio and learned it had Echoes of the Past, Spacetime Broadcasting Station, and the hidden ability Signal Enhancement.
• Kaushike said Fushehui’s Spacetime Broadcasting Station had high intelligence, while Angel reflected that his own Hertz was not very smart and might have a different talent.
• Angel released Kaushike from hypnosis after suggesting he not dwell on Time Radio’s first fragment.
• Angel told Gleipnir that he had drawn Time Radio’s special form and named it Hertz, then explained its abilities.
• Gleipnir suggested using Person with a Story and Story Resonance to persuade owners to sell back beauty-pageant items, and Angel agreed to help if her attempts failed.

Angel planned to investigate Dark Corner by finding the Underwater Church, while Gleipnir continued managing Prada Media and enlisted Abigail to help reconcile accounts. After testing Potential Eye, Angel discovered he could not use it through God's-eye view or on himself, then examined a doorman and encouraged him to try writing before heading for the East District.

• Gleipnir told Angel that Star Worm had accepted his fate and would help the group complete the main storyline tasks.
• Angel explained that he planned to investigate Dark Corner and find the Underwater Church, which periodically intersected with Modern City.
• Gleipnir caught Abigail trying to avoid her and persuaded him to help reconcile accounts by invoking his agreement with Kiss.
• Angel tested whether Potential Eye worked through God's-eye view and whether it could reveal his own potential, but both attempts failed.
• Angel used Potential Eye on a doorman, discovered that writing was his strongest potential, and suggested that he try writing novels or submitting news articles.
• Angel continued through the building to the city-circling train platform and set off for the East District.

Angel investigated how Style Eye and Time Radio restored energy points, then waited at Companion Star Lake for Hidden Waters to approach Modern City at six in the morning. He planned to find the special entity beneath the lake and learn how to enter Dark Corner.

• Angel discovered that using Potential Eye and Person with a Story raised their energy caps and restored some of the points he had spent.
• After his energy recovered on the train, Angel used Potential Eye on two attendants, then traveled to East Nineteenth District.
• Angel reached Companion Star Lake and waited for the Starry Sky Dome to shut down at six, when Hidden Waters was expected to approach.
• Angel reviewed the completed quest The Missing Knight and the new quest, Step into Illusory Dreams, Ask and Behold the Truth, which sent him to find Hidden Waters' special entity.
• Angel wondered whether the quest's reference to illusory dreams pointed to the Moonlight Sea of Illusory Dreams, then prepared to use Potential Eye on a woman approaching the lakeshore.

Angel discovered that Potential Eye could not discern the potential of beings at the True-Knowledge level. At six in the morning, he used God's-eye View to search beneath Companion Star Lake and found a newly opened passage leading to a sunken underground church.

• Angel used Potential Eye on seven passersby and increased his maximum energy by seven points.
• Angel's Potential Eye assessed an extravagant woman as one who defied heaven and changed fate, revealing that the ability's limit was the True-Knowledge level.
• At six in the morning, Angel activated God's-eye View to search beneath Companion Star Lake for Hidden Waters.
• Angel spotted whirlpools erupting from a dark cavern and followed them to a new opening leading into a vast underwater area.
• Angel saw a dilapidated underground church at the center of the newly revealed waters.

Angel explored the Hidden Waters, learned that Oxygen Breath Factors enabled underwater breathing but caused dangerous hallucinations, and discovered supplies that refreshed among the ruins. He remained under the effects of hallucinations as he continued searching, while the Dark Corner’s supply system raised new questions about an unknown outside force.

• Angel learned from the Text Panel that Oxygen Breath Factors were widespread in the Hidden Waters and that excessive exposure caused hallucinations and declining Sanity.
• Angel opened a woven sack and inhaled concentrated Oxygen Breath Factors from a leaking bottle, triggering a brief hallucinatory state.
• Angel identified the sack’s remaining contents as Low-Grade Nutrient Water and Luminous Water, then used the glowing bottle to light his way.
• Angel postponed visiting the Underwater Church until his hallucinations passed and searched nearby ruins for more supplies.
• Angel found refreshed Nutrient Water and brand-new non-slip gloves, prompting him to suspect that the Dark Corner was raising its inhabitants.

Angel scavenged supplies in the Hidden Waters and realized the half-human, half-doll in the Underwater Church had used its song to amplify his hallucinations and try to lure him into a trap. He discovered that the entity was likely imprisoned on the church’s stage by a mechanism tied to three pressure panels, two of which Alfred had activated five years earlier.

• Angel found nutrient water, glowing water, volatile fire oil, medical supplies, and Investigator equipment while scavenging the ruins.
• Angel discovered a locked Investigator’s leather case containing repair water, a severely damaged record wristband, and protective workwear, and inferred that solving a puzzle would reveal information about the half-human, half-doll.
• As the hallucination countdown ended, Angel recognized that the humming from the Underwater Church had combined with the hallucinations to try to make him approach the mermaid illusion.
• Angel used his god’s-eye view to find a pressure panel beneath the mermaid’s former position and traced its patterns to the church stage and two other panels.
• Angel found Alfred’s five-year-old warning beside a panel and concluded that Alfred had activated two of the three panels before resisting the entity’s illusions.
• Angel inferred that the panels formed a mechanism restraining the half-human, half-doll on the church stage, and that activating all three might free it.

Angel entered the Underwater Church and met Luliana, a half-human, half-doll with two consciousnesses. He learned that he needed to find a magic array diagram to awaken her secondary consciousness and continued investigating her story through Hertz.

• Angel entered the Underwater Church through its chimney and approached Luliana on the stage.
• Luliana’s secondary consciousness used its brief time in control to explain that Angel needed to find a magic array diagram to suppress Luliana’s consciousness.
• Luliana took control again and glided around the stage with hostile intent while Angel studied her NPC information.
• Angel summoned Hertz and used “Person with a Story” on the half-human, half-doll.
• Hertz’s screening showed Doros praying to the Lord of the Layer to revive Luliana, then telling her that he was her husband.

Angel learned that Doros had burned Luliana and her wedding guests to death, then resurrected her and became her; he decided to restore Doros’s consciousness by solving the puzzle so he could open the investigator’s combination suitcase. Meanwhile, Laplace checked a newly recorded Wonderland instance and went to investigate an Earsi child who had been asleep for nearly a day.

• Angel read Doros’s NPC information and learned that Doros had killed Luliana and her wedding guests, resurrected her, and become her.
• Angel decided to solve the puzzle to suppress Luliana’s consciousness, prioritizing the chance to open the investigator’s combination suitcase and recover its contents.
• Laplace checked the Wonderland Directory and found that the Changhuo Clan had cleared Ghostly Long Street with a 60% exploration rate.
• Gray Porcelain and Turing reported that the Collapsed Mine was a simple, F-difficulty instance, and Laplace had them record its unknown details.
• Gabriel told Laplace that an Earsi child had been asleep for nearly a day and could not be woken even in reality, so Laplace headed into the settlement to investigate.

Laplace investigated why White Fruit, an Earsi person, had fallen into an unending sleep and concluded that he had likely entered the hidden Dreamland Zoo instance. Just as Laplace prepared to reassure White Fruit’s family, Angel’s voice appeared and remarked that White Fruit seemed strange.

• Laplace and Gray Porcelain visited the Earsi settlement and examined the sleeping White Fruit with Perilla and Mountain Hawk.
• Gray Porcelain sensed a dangerous aura around White Fruit that resembled a Fairyland Instance, leading Laplace to consider the hidden Dreamland Zoo.
• Laplace learned that White Fruit had been sleeping frequently and had recently described a nightmare, while his playmate Flesh Bone could not confirm whether he had also had a sweet dream.
• Laplace concluded that White Fruit had probably met the Dreamland Zoo’s entry conditions and explained that its dangers would not threaten his physical body.
• Angel’s voice suddenly reached Laplace and said that White Fruit seemed strange.

Angel asked Turing to decipher the Corner Code password in the investigator’s suitcase while he investigated White Fruit’s mysterious sleep. Following the Dream Realm power around White Fruit, Angel reached a vast Box Garden deep in illusion and saw White Fruit crossing a desert with a fox in his arms.

• Angel found Zuniga grieving with a former subject and chose not to interrupt him, so he contacted Laplace and asked her to bring Turing.
• Angel showed Turing the suitcase’s Corner Code through Nightmare Illusion, and Turing began analyzing it while Laplace explained its habit of using an encouraging reaction sticker.
• Angel told Laplace about Hertz and the Time Radio, but Laplace decided to wait until the third main quest’s preparations were complete before entering an Instance.
• Laplace told Angel that White Fruit had been asleep for a day and might have entered Dreamland Zoo, and Angel detected dense Dream Realm power around him.
• Angel followed the Dream Realm power into a vast Box Garden deep in illusion and saw White Fruit walking through a desert with a fox in his arms.

Angel watched White Fruit struggle through the desert to protect an injured fennec fox and reach Fox Hill, where A Lan observed him. When a vicious beast sent a poisonous sand tornado after them, the fox fused with White Fruit and helped him escape underground; White Fruit then set out for Fox Hill with the exhausted fox.

• White Fruit kept carrying the injured fox across the desert, refusing to log out until he could get it safely to Fox Hill.
• Angel spotted A Lan at Fox Hill, where A Lan watched White Fruit approach and noticed a viper creating a poisonous sand tornado to hunt him.
• White Fruit tried to flee the tornado, then dug into the sand with the fox secured in his arms as the toxic storm pursued him.
• The fox transformed into mist and fused with White Fruit, healing his hands and granting him wind-assisted digging while A Lan urged him to survive and reach Fox Hill.
• White Fruit broke into an underground cavern and escaped the sandstorm, while the fox returned to his arms and fainted.
• Warned that the vicious beast remained nearby, White Fruit headed through the cavern toward Fox Hill.