Chapter Summaries

Angel showed Laplace his experiences in Modern City and White Fruit’s dangerous adventure in Dreamland Zoo, prompting them to discuss the value and risks of both Instances. They agreed to limit access to Modern City, keep Dreamland Zoo’s existence quiet, and Angel turned to Turing after their discussion.

• Laplace watched Angel’s Modern City experiences and planned how she would pursue Fashion Magic if she entered the Instance.
• Angel showed Laplace White Fruit surviving danger in Dreamland Zoo and fusing with the Corsac Fox to gain greater strength.
• Turing told Angel he had deciphered the Corner Code on the suitcase but needed Angel’s help to crack it.
• Angel and Laplace discussed how Wonderlands were appearing more often and why combat-focused Instances remained difficult to clear.
• Laplace and Angel agreed to control the number of entrants to Modern City while keeping Dreamland Zoo’s existence private.
• Angel turned his attention to Turing after discussing Dreamland Zoo’s creatures and information with Laplace.

Angel had Turing analyze the Corner Codes on a locked suitcase while using an illusion of Hidden Waters to help it search for clues. Turing found that the Underwater Church’s thirty-three murals matched possible password meanings, but the chapter ended before it identified the six correct murals or their order.

• Angel learned that Laplace had temporarily adopted his letter grading system for Instance difficulty, then asked Turing to analyze the suitcase’s Corner Codes.
• Turing explained that the six-digit password likely corresponded to six Corner Codes and asked Angel to find clues that would narrow down their possible meanings.
• Angel created a bird’s-eye illusion of Hidden Waters and equipped Turing to zoom in on locations with Magic Hand.
• Laplace examined Hidden Waters and suspected Dark Corner was dangerously concealed, while Angel said he would enter the Instance himself.
• Turing found that thirty-three murals in the Underwater Church corresponded to possible Corner Code meanings, though only six were relevant and their order remained unknown.
• After Angel suggested searching beyond the murals, Turing shifted the view and spotted a crucial detail.

Angel and Turing discovered that six murals marked the password sequence for the investigator’s suitcase, opened it, and retrieved repair supplies and recording equipment. Angel used the Low-grade Repair Water to repair a damaged recording wristband, bringing its progress to 100% as he waited to see the result.

• Turing found a running Corner Code formation beneath the church and used its blueprint to identify six core nodes beneath the murals.
• Turing traced the formation’s sequence and identified the six password entries as grassland, Sea of Flowers, forest, sky, ocean, and canyon.
• Angel entered the six Corner Codes into the investigator’s suitcase, which opened and revealed Low-grade Repair Water, a damaged recording wristband, and protective workwear.
• Angel took the Repair Water and wristband, then poured the liquid over the wristband to repair it.
• The repair progress reached 100% after Angel used the final drop, and he waited to see how the wristband would repair itself.

Angel examined the repaired recording wristband, learned how investigators recorded entities and dangerous assignments, and installed a second module. The new module added more records, including unsettling descriptions of Variety Elves, but the wristband still offered no clues about entering Dark Corner.

• Angel studied the repair liquid’s unknown energy and found that it had restored missing wristband components without using the power of time.
• Angel explored the wristband’s entity, video, and work records, learning about ether leaks, dangerous investigators, and the Man-Machine Doros/Luliana.
• Angel transferred the only intact module from the damaged wristband into the restored one, only to find that it was another recording module.
• Angel opened the added Demonic Beast Records and found Variety Elves described as evil creatures that created grim scenes and execution-themed entertainment.

Angel reviewed the investigator Light’s records and learned how he had encountered Doros and Luliana before leaving his wristband behind. A new side mission called “Cage” tasked Angel with resolving the conflict between their two consciousnesses, but he was left wondering how to alter the body’s instructions.

• Angel watched Light’s crafting videos and discovered that they drained the Record Wristband’s energy, leaving it with only 27%.
• Angel read Light’s work records, which revealed that Light had met Doros and Luliana on a hidden layer and left his wristband there for a future investigator.
• The Text Panel issued the “Cage” side mission, offering objectives from either Luliana’s or Doros’s perspective and requiring completion to activate the Dark Corner entrance.
• Angel favored altering the body’s instructions to free Luliana or give Doros control, hoping he might complete both objectives and learn about the being that created the body.
• Angel wondered how he could alter the instructions of the half-human, half-doll body.

Angel confronted Luliana, whose body commands prevented her from speaking or taking her own life, and learned she wanted to be killed in battle. He chose to change the commands controlling her body and began weakening her before the Primordial Code awakened.

• Angel returned to the stage and deduced that body commands prevented Luliana from communicating, then told her he would fulfill her wish to die.
• Luliana saluted Angel and attacked with thunder-charged dance moves, but he evaded her strikes.
• Luliana vanished into the Black Cloud and launched a rapid area assault, so Angel used an explosive illusion that knocked her back.
• Angel reappeared and fought Luliana with a rapier while his real self watched from beneath the stage.
• Angel checked the Text Panel and learned that changing the body commands required making both Luliana and Doros unconscious, then defeating the Primordial Code.

Angel knocked Luliana unconscious with a series of self-destructive explosions, then beat Doros unconscious after he regained control of the puppet. Doros revealed that Origin could use Moon Eye’s Ether Core to restore itself, and Origin awakened as Angel prepared to face it.

• Angel struck Luliana with three explosions, leaving her body immobilized and her consciousness unconscious.
• Doros awakened in control of the puppet, but Angel repeatedly hit him with Magic Hand until he lost consciousness.
• Before passing out, Doros warned Angel that Origin could use the Ether Core to restore its body and that the Core must be stripped away without being attacked.
• Angel concluded that he needed a plan to safely remove the Ether Core, since damaging it could release Ether energy and endanger future visitors.
• The puppet revived amid spreading lightning, rose above the stage, and opened its eyes as Origin.

Angel studied Origin’s lightning attacks and calculated that defeating it required a sudden burst powerful enough to force it to reveal its Ether Core. He launched a swarm of strengthened illusion clones at Origin, whose five-meter electric grid triggered their simultaneous explosions.

• Origin killed Angel’s illusion clone with a full-stage electric grid, then narrowed the grid to five meters after analyzing the clone’s explosion.
• Angel concluded that Origin’s data-driven combat and Ether Core made a prolonged fight impractical, so he chose to damage it with one decisive burst.
• Angel entered the stage with a solid illusion body, and Origin attacked him with a massive Electric Bomb that Angel effortlessly dispersed.
• Angel charged to within five meters of Origin, then divided into more than a hundred illusion clones and sent them crashing into Origin’s electric grid.
• The grid ignited the clones’ chain of explosions, whose force had grown enough to make Origin’s supposed safe distance part of the blast’s core zone.

Angel repaired the Underwater Church’s shattered stained-glass window while Origin’s Ether Core restored its damaged body and empowered its attacks. Angel used Phantom Hands to seize the active Ether Core, and Origin fell as its energy vanished.

• Angel sealed cracks in the church with Nightmare Illusion and used the Variety Elf’s Scenic Design Expert ability to recreate the broken stained-glass window.
• Origin rose with Ether energy repairing its body, and the glass-bead Ether Core emerged from the hole in its brow.
• Origin aimed a growing barrage of electric spears at Angel, who summoned Phantom Hands that climbed across Origin’s body toward the Ether Core.
• The Phantom Hands surrounded the Ether Core, became physical together, and wrapped it in the Flower of Hands without being corroded.
• The Ether Core was pulled free, Origin’s energy and electric web disappeared, and its body crashed to the ground.

Angel defeated Origin and obtained the dormant Ether Core, but its corrosive energy badly injured him when he tried to examine it. He opened the Human-Machine’s hidden core instructions and found a possible link between the Dark Corner Entrance and the Sacred Eye Prayer Convergence Formation.

• Angel used hidden Nightmare Illusion Nodes to strip the Ether Core from Origin, leaving Origin broken.
• Angel found that the Ether Core could be bound only to Luliana or Doros, and its Ether energy corroded his spiritual power when he tried to investigate it.
• Angel touched the hollow in the puppet’s brow and activated the Human-Machine’s core instruction editing interface.
• Angel reviewed the instructions and saw that some restraints on Luliana could be edited, while others, including protecting the Sacred Eye Prayer Convergence Formation, could not.
• Angel wondered whether the Sacred Eye Prayer Convergence Formation was connected to the Dark Corner Entrance.

Angel completed the Cage mission by revising the Human-Machine's commands, then rescued Luliana's consciousness and made her its primary consciousness. Luliana woke and asked Angel to preserve Doros's consciousness core.

• Angel edited the Human-Machine's commands to release Luliana, elevate Doros, and loosen several restrictions before completing the Cage mission.
• Luliana's consciousness core began to dissipate, and Doros begged Angel to save her, declaring that it would sacrifice its own life for her.
• Angel knocked Doros unconscious and used the aether core to reinforce Luliana's consciousness, extending its countdown by a day.
• Angel changed the commands again, restored Luliana as the Human-Machine's primary consciousness, and removed Doros's consciousness core.
• Luliana awoke, explained that she had sensed what happened while inside her core, and asked Angel to save Doros.

Angel learned why Luliana could not hate Doros despite discovering his past betrayal: she had no memories or feelings connected to her former life after Moon Eye resurrected her. Angel then made a new body for Doros from the human-machine’s remains and gave Luliana the Ether Core, leaving the pair able to continue together in separate bodies.

• Luliana told Angel that she had secretly read Doros’s thoughts but could not feel genuine anger because she remembered nothing from before her resurrection.
• Angel wondered whether Moon Eye had truly resurrected Luliana, but kept his suspicion to himself.
• Angel placed Doros’s fading consciousness core in the Flower of Hands, and Luliana fashioned a crude iron shell that could house him.
• Angel gathered Origin’s remains and crafted a humanoid body for Doros from materials marked by Moon Eye.
• Angel gave Luliana the Ether Core, which repaired her body and let him use its recovered materials to finish Doros’s shell.
• Luliana recovered, kept the Ether Core at Angel’s suggestion, and thanked him.

Angel restored Doros in a newly forged shell and helped Luliana install a language module so he could speak. After confirming that the Sacred Eye Prayer Convergence Formation was connected to the Dark Corner entrance, Angel reviewed the Cage quest rewards and discovered a hidden reward selection.

• Angel forged a new shell from human-machine materials and, at Luliana’s suggestion, let her adapt parts of Light’s bracelet into an activator for Doros’s language module.
• Luliana installed Doros’s language module, and Angel placed Doros’s consciousness core into the shell; Doros awakened and began adapting to his new body.
• Angel asked Luliana about the Dark Corner entrance, and she explained that Doros had opened it through the Sacred Eye Prayer Convergence Formation, which was connected to Dark Corner Cult believers.
• Angel checked the completed Cage quest rewards and found a large puzzle fragment and a single-use Faith Crystal Block, which could activate the entrance.
• Angel discovered that completing both quest objectives unlocked a hidden reward selection, allowing him to choose two rewards from five options.

Angel chose the Faith Marker and Fashion Cage from the hidden rewards, discovering that the Faith Marker could continuously produce Faith Crystals and make Dark Corner explorable again and again. After Doros adapted to his new body, Angel asked to discuss the Sacred Eye Prayer Convergence Formation.

• Angel examined the five hidden rewards and decided the Faith Marker was essential because it could generate Faith Crystals.
• Angel chose the Faith Marker and Fashion Cage, and both rewards appeared before him as Luliana watched.
• Angel opened the Faith Marker and found the one-time Faith Crystal inside, then learned the marker could condense faith into more crystals.
• Doros adjusted to his new body, thanked Angel, and confirmed that his language module worked again.
• Angel asked Doros whether he was ready to discuss the Sacred Eye Prayer Convergence Formation.

Doros explained that the Sacred Eye Prayer Convergence Formation could draw the Dark Corner’s attention and pull Angel into it, while warning that escape was nearly impossible. Angel confirmed he would enter, then tested the Faith Marker and found it could gather faith far faster than the formation alone.

• Doros explained that the Dark Corner devoured beings with physical bodies and that its exits were rare, making escape extremely difficult.
• Angel said he had met people who left the Dark Corner in physical bodies, but still confirmed his decision to enter it.
• Doros explained that activating the Sacred Eye Prayer Convergence Formation drew the Dark Corner’s gaze, and Luliana said Angel’s mark made his capture certain.
• Doros told Angel the formation could activate without Faith Crystals after its prayer-based cooldown, which could take six months to a year.
• Angel protected the last surviving faith reception port and placed the Faith Marker there.
• Angel observed the Faith Marker collecting prayers and estimated that it would produce one Faith Crystal in about five days.

Angel learned that the Dark Corner's Moonlight Sea was governed by Lord Moon Eye, whose believers received protection, while Doros planned to recruit more believers in Modern City. When the Faith Crystal warned that the Dark Corner had not yet become a Wonderland and might offer no conventional way back, Angel postponed entering and decided to study the Dark Corner Guide first.

• Angel left the Faith Marker in the Underwater Church and asked Luliana to watch over it while he learned about the Dark Corner from her and Doros.
• Doros explained that Lord Moon Eye protected believers on the Moonlight Sea and advised Angel to place his faith in him, but Angel declined.
• Luliana chose to remain guarding the formation, while Doros planned to recruit believers in Modern City in hopes of returning to the Dark Corner and regaining a flesh-and-blood body.
• Angel placed the Faith Crystal at the center of the formation, completing the side quest and seeing a blood-red warning that the Dark Corner had not yet been converted into a Wonderland.
• Angel put the Faith Crystal away and decided to claim and study the Dark Corner Guide before choosing whether to enter.

Angel examined the Ether Society Badge and single-use Ether Converter, then opened the Dark Corner Guide and learned that Dark Corner was part of the real world and that Challengers would have to follow its rules. The guide explained their limited access to Dreamscape Layers and their main objective, but Angel still wondered whether he could use his own powers there.

• Angel claimed the Ether Society Badge, learned it granted protection from ether for up to 24 hours, and pinned it to his breast pocket.
• Angel read that the Ether Converter could create an Ether Core for the Fashion Magic Book, but worried that his other abilities might not work in Dark Corner.
• Angel opened the Dark Corner Guide and discovered it would provide personalized advice only after he entered Dark Corner, though its prologue described the realm.
• Angel learned that Dark Corner belonged to the real world and that Challengers were on an expedition governed by Dark Corner's rules.
• Angel read that Challengers could explore only Dreamscape Layers, could not trigger quests there, and would need to become a level lord or achieve a special milestone to return to Modern City.

Angel read the Dark Corner Guide and concluded that Wonderland Authority might be seeking control over the Dreamscape Layer, while the dangers and requirements made the expedition premature for most challengers. After deciding to remain at the Underwater Church, he used his god's-eye view to contact Laplace, who brought Gabriel and Gray Porcelain into Text Space.

• Angel learned that Dark Corner offered no quests beyond becoming the master of a level, and speculated that Wonderland Authority wanted to seize authority over the Dreamscape Layer.
• Angel read about Dark Corner's severe death penalties, sealed log-out function, charged Wonderland items, and protective maps with entity and Demonic Beast radars.
• Angel judged that ordinary challengers would need to become mid- or high-level wizards before attempting Dark Corner, then stayed at the Underwater Church because Hidden Waters had disconnected from Modern City.
• Angel used his god's-eye view to find Laplace at the Earsi Race settlement, where she discussed White Fruit's condition and warned the elders not to spread information about Dreamland Zoo.
• Laplace heard Angel's familiar whisper, left the settlement with Gabriel and Gray Porcelain, and took them into Text Space while asking Gray Porcelain to assess Dreamland Zoo and telling Gabriel not to disturb the chandelier.

Angel gathered Dream Mirror members through illusions at Text Manor to share important inside information. With Rabbit Girl, Gleipnir, and Luigi connected, he began the meeting, but the chapter did not reveal what he intended to discuss.

• Angel arrived at Text Manor as an illusion and decided to tell Laplace, Gabriel, and Gray Porcelain the inside story.
• Angel transformed the manor hall into an illusion of a flooded church, and Laplace explained that Angel and the dangerous skating puppets were illusions.
• Angel demonstrated that his illusion could extend the apparent space, allowing Gabriel to float freely without hitting the manor's ceiling.
• Angel connected Rabbit Girl and Gleipnir to the meeting through illusions while they remained in their own locations.
• Luigi joined the meeting, chatted with Gabriel and Gray Porcelain, and stopped when Laplace and Angel signaled him to be quiet.
• Angel confirmed that everyone was present and began the meeting.

Angel told the Dream Mirror group that the Dream Crystal Plain might launch an expedition into Dark Corner, a real world reached through a beacon and a dangerous passage. He decided to go, while Gleipnir proposed that Laplace and the Time Doppelgängers lead the initial exploration.

• Angel revealed that activating the Dark Corner instance had triggered an advance notice of an expedition into another world, which had to set out from the Dream Crystal Plain.
• Angel recounted how he found Dark Corner, entered Hidden Waters, and obtained the guide describing the perilous world and its severe death penalty.
• Gleipnir asked whether they should go, and Angel said he intended to explore Dark Corner after making preparations.
• Gleipnir supported the expedition but suggested that Laplace and the Time Doppelgängers lead because they could recover from death more safely than Angel.
• Angel explained that curiosity, his desire for knowledge, and possession of a beacon and safe route made Dark Corner worth exploring.