Chapter Summaries

Angel entered the Inner World on his way to Black Castle and encountered a forest and cemetery filled with female undead. He reached the cemetery by jumping from a cliff, escaped a swarm of undead, and found himself beside an open coffin.

• Angel took Fiona from Centennial Hall, confirmed that a hidden path on Holy Mountain led toward its center, and then entered the Inner World through the altar’s teleportation array.
• After Angel left, the Gami Three Brothers arrived at Centennial Hall with a blood-written note asking Angel to leave Silent Hill and save them, but they found the hall empty.
• Angel followed a path through a storm-dark forest where naked female undead wept, then spotted Black Castle atop a distant rocky peak.
• Choosing the road below the cliff over the undead-filled forest, Angel jumped into a cemetery and drew hundreds of female undead out of a pit with the disturbance.
• Angel hid behind an open coffin while the undead searched unsuccessfully for him, then rose and looked at the coffin in front of him.

Angel searched the graveyard and found a child's remains with a hidden birthday keepsake, then followed Toby's unconscious guidance to a magical well. At the end of a cave beneath the well, Angel found a little girl in a yellow dress crying.

• Angel found a child's skeleton and retrieved a hidden silk picture from a heart-shaped necklace before returning it to the coffin.
• Angel saw a pit filled with nude female corpses and bones, suspected Black Castle was responsible, and left through the graveyard gate.
• Toby began moving in his sleep, and Angel carried him toward the left side of the graveyard as he pointed away from Black Castle.
• Angel followed Toby's direction to a well protected by dark magic and jumped down into the dry cave below.
• Angel followed a tunnel through the cave and found a little girl in a yellow dress crying.

Angel found a pure little girl’s soul holding a high-quality Soul Pearl and learned that a mysterious young lady named Gloria had given it to her. He left the girl with the pearl for now, but still planned to seek more for Toby and potentially return if he could not find any elsewhere.

• Angel entered the cave and found a crying little girl clutching a Soul Pearl that Toby desperately wanted.
• Angel recognized the girl as the owner of the skeleton he had seen in the open coffin and learned she had been taken from it and longed to return.
• Angel gained the girl’s trust by conjuring and coloring an illusion of her forgotten pet bird.
• The girl said a young lady had given her the Soul Pearl to ease her pain, and Angel saw it purifying the resentment from her soul.
• The girl offered Angel her pearl, but he returned it and asked the young lady’s name.
• The girl remembered that the young lady was called Gloria.

Angel gave the dead girl a comforting illusion and named her Huahua, then recognized that her accent resembled Dodolo’s and returned to investigate. Huahua accepted the name and gave Angel her necklace, while he asked whether she remembered where she had lived.

• Angel discovered that the girl had forgotten her name and gave her the nickname Huahua, which stirred a faint memory in her.
• Angel created a cozy bedroom illusion for Huahua, left two magic crystals to sustain it, and told her she could call him Big Brother Pat.
• After leaving the cave, Angel recognized that Huahua’s accent sounded like Dodolo’s and returned to examine her remains, finding no extra tail bones.
• Angel brought Huahua’s heart-shaped necklace and silk painting back to her; she asked him to keep the necklace and said she wanted the painting.
• Angel asked Huahua whether she remembered where she had lived as a child.

Angel entered Black Castle while hiding behind an illusion and following Shadow’s footprints. After defeating a blood-covered woman in the castle corridor, he found no wounds on her and wondered whether the blood belonged to someone else.

• Angel left the cemetery and approached Black Castle, where he found the road behind him blocked by tens of thousands of undead.
• The castle gate opened, and Angel entered, then followed Shadow’s footprints away from the main entrance.
• Angel created an illusion as a decoy, concealed himself with Boundless Silence, and followed the tracks to an open third-floor window.
• Angel sent the illusion through the window, where a blood-soaked woman attacked it with a cleaver.
• Angel stunned the woman and examined her, finding no injuries except a bruise on the back of her neck.

Angel discovered a hidden room in Black Castle where women were impaled above a bath of blood, and questioned a dying woman about Shadow. Her account confirmed that Shadow had entered the room after fighting the witch-woman, but left Angel with little hope of finding the captive Huahua had described.

• Angel detected expansion magic in the corridor wall and opened a hidden room.
• Angel found more than thirty women impaled above a bath filled with their blood and realized the bloodied woman outside had emerged from the room.
• Angel kept a dying, long-haired woman alive long enough to question her about her origins and Shadow.
• The woman said she was the Guman King's thirteenth daughter, had been sold into slavery, and was brought to Black Castle by slave traders.
• The woman told Angel that Shadow had fought the witch-woman, entered the room, and then left; she died after answering him.

Angel escaped the blood-soaked room after a resentful undead was teleported away, then used an illusion to manipulate Funes and investigate Diablo’s capture. As Funes dragged the fake Diablo toward the Blood Prison, a woman in black watched Angel and recognized a trace of Lord Phantom Demon’s style in his illusion.

• A resentful undead emerged from a dead woman, killed the other surviving women with its roar, and was teleported away by a magical array before it could attack Angel’s illusion.
• Angel connected Black Castle’s blood baths and graveyard to the legacy of Mary, the Blood Queen, then left the unconscious Funes alone before deciding to use her.
• Funes woke, found the blood bath ruined, and discovered the bloodied Diablo; after finding no treasure, she tied him up and dragged him toward the Blood Prison.
• Angel emerged after Funes left and decided to follow her, wondering how Shadow had ended up captured despite describing the test as easy.
• A woman in black watched Angel through a crystal ball, mocked Isabella, and noted that Angel’s illusion resembled Lord Phantom Demon’s style.

Felicia cared for Gloria, who had returned from the Nightmare Realm in another body with a damaged soul, and told her that the Frost Moon Alliance and other wizard organizations had captured most of her restaurant’s staff. Felicia also described a young apprentice who had infiltrated Black Castle, while Gloria’s awareness slipped back into an innocent state and she asked for more wine.

• Felicia gave Gloria a taste of Young Butterfly Dream-Return Wine, which briefly restored her mature personality and memories.
• Gloria told Felicia that Bud had starved to death in the Nightmare Realm and Granny Deer-Ape had abandoned them, while Felicia said the Frost Moon Alliance now controlled Hante World’s entrance.
• Felicia told Gloria that most of the Barbie Restaurant’s employees had been captured, and Gloria grew furious over their fate.
• Felicia reassured Gloria by telling her that Alan had become a successful chef at her tavern and said he might be wealthier than some Formal Wizards.
• Felicia gave Gloria Soul Pearls to heal her damaged soul, and Gloria worried about recovering her original body, which remained in the Nightmare Realm.
• Felicia explained that an apprentice had entered Black Castle to rescue Diablo, but Gloria’s demeanor turned childish again and she asked Felicia for more green wine.

Angel followed Funes through Black Castle’s hidden passages as she escorted an illusion of Diablo toward Blood Prison, while Felicia attacked him with enchanted butterflies. Angel vanished after being struck, leaving Felicia puzzled and determined to make him pay if he deceived her again.

• Felicia sent a specter butterfly after Angel as he secretly followed Funes through Black Castle’s concealed routes.
• Funes worshipped before Isabella’s statue until a door of light revealed a staircase to Blood Prison, while Angel hid and watched.
• Felicia’s specter butterfly exposed Angel’s illusion of Diablo, and a luminous butterfly struck Angel out of invisibility.
• Funes dragged the empty rope through the doorway without noticing Diablo had vanished, and Angel disappeared from the hall.
• Felicia used magic to investigate the blood Angel left behind, discovered it was tomato juice, and decided to let him rescue Diablo while warning that he would pay for tricking her.

Felicia let Angel continue toward the Blood Prison after shutting down Black Castle’s teleportation mechanisms, while Angel used illusions to mislead Funes and reached Shadow. Angel began pulling Shadow out of the blood pool, only to discover a black tail on him.

• Felicia watched Funes through her crystal ball, then shut down Black Castle’s teleportation mechanisms as a small punishment for Angel.
• Angel followed Funes under Boundless Silence, using an illusionary double and Nightmare Illusion aura to avoid detection and guide her to the hidden Blood Prison entrance.
• Funes argued with a woman bathing in blood because Angel’s illusion made each woman hear different words, then dragged the unconscious “Diablo” deeper into the prison.
• Funes found Shadow chained in a blood pool and fainted when Angel knocked her unconscious from behind.
• Angel revealed himself to Shadow, questioned him about his capture, and used a Magic Hand to pull him from the blood pool.
• Angel turned away while holding back laughter after noticing a black tail swaying from Shadow’s body.

Anger freed Shadow from the blood pool, and the two agreed to work together while searching Black Castle for a way out. After discovering the portal had vanished, they forced Fennis to guide them and learned the normal route from the ninth underground level was not meant for humans.

• Anger freed Shadow from the chains and blood pool, and Shadow explained that a woman in Black Castle had altered the traps to capture him.
• Shadow offered to help Anger search for soul beads while pursuing Nightingale, and Anger agreed to temporarily work with him.
• Anger and Shadow found that the portal had vanished, so they returned to the blood pool and made Fennis lead them.
• Fennis confirmed the teleportation array was shut down and warned that the normal route from the ninth underground level was never meant for humans to walk.

Angel, Shadow, and Funes chose to take Black Castle’s main route after learning the lower levels were dangerous and the teleportation arrays were shut down. They reached the Ice Cavern, where Angel learned that low-grade materials might be stored, leaving their next move uncertain.

• Funes explained that the route out passed through dangerous levels filled with undead and soul barriers, while Shadow and Angel discussed how they might survive them.
• Shadow chose to force their way through, and Funes agreed to guide them as far as the third underground level while warning that she would go no farther without a guarantee of safety.
• The group passed through the empty Water Prison and confirmed that its teleportation array was shut down, then found no duty apprentices on the seventh or sixth levels.
• Funes realized Lady Butterfly had likely transferred the other apprentices and abandoned those left behind, while Shadow concluded she intended to bury them alive.
• The group entered the Ice Cavern, where Funes said it had become a cold-storage room for low-grade materials, prompting Angel to ask whether it held useful materials.

Angel and Shadow agreed to spend a day in the ice cave so Angel could make an item to deal with undead, and Funes led them to a store of low-grade materials. Angel gathered what he needed and entered the Nightmare Domain to begin refining a revolver engraved with Overture of Annihilation.

• Shadow questioned Funes about the ice cave’s dangers, and Angel persuaded him that he could make an item to drive away undead if given materials and one day.
• Angel gave Funes a fleece coat, and she pointed out that the materials were stored along the path toward the ice cave’s depths.
• As they traveled, Angel asked Funes about Soul Pearls and learned that they repaired souls and were kept away from underground areas because undead were drawn to them.
• Funes led Angel and Shadow to a spacious storage area, where Angel collected the low-grade materials he needed.
• Angel told Shadow to watch Funes, then opened the Nightmare Domain and prepared to refine a revolver engraved with Overture of Annihilation.

Angel and Shadow fled the ice cavern after discovering Funes frozen and apparently dead, then returned to level -9 to recruit a guide out of the prison. They found the black-haired woman still there, while the story left Funes awakening in the cavern with strange frost-white eyes and hair.

• Shadow sensed danger in the ice cavern and urged Angel to leave, but found Funes frozen with blood streaming from her eyes.
• Angel and Shadow fled the cavern, then Angel revealed that Fiona was inside his spatial bracelet; Shadow advised saving her as a last resort and returning to level -9.
• After Angel and Shadow left, Funes awoke with frost-white eyes and hair and wondered about Shadow's strange soul.
• Angel and Shadow reached level -9, where Shadow bound the black-haired woman with Puppet Threads.
• Angel asked Shadow to explain their situation to the woman while he continued crafting.

Angel’s alchemical anomaly engulfed Black Castle, drawing the undead into a vast cloud of departed souls that suddenly compressed under immense pressure. Felicia realized Angel might be overcoming the anomaly, while Diablo and a black-haired woman remained trapped near its source and close to death.

• The undead across Black Forest and Scorched Earth hid as Angel’s alchemical anomaly drew their negative aura into a growing cloud of departed souls above Black Castle.
• Felicia identified Angel’s tool refinement as the source of the anomaly and believed the surrounding undead had made it too dangerous for him to overcome.
• The cloud expanded beyond a hundred thousand meters before abruptly contracting to a hundred meters, clearing the sky and concentrating its pressure.
• Felicia suspected Angel might survive the anomaly and produce a tool of extraordinary rank, but she still could not see into the Blood Prison.
• Diablo and a black-haired woman struggled to breathe near the anomaly as Diablo frantically pleaded with Angel to stop through the Mind Tether.

Felicia and Diablo watched as Angel survived the alchemical anomaly and appeared to be forging a mysterious item from the gathered power. Just as the weapon neared completion, an unseen woman accused Angel of stealing Black Castle’s millennia-old accumulation.

• A sphere of light shielded Diablo and the black-haired woman from the anomaly, and Felicia arrived to protect them.
• Felicia questioned Diablo about Angel and learned that he came from Savage Cave, though Diablo knew nothing of his mentor or identity.
• The black aura around Angel faded as the dead souls gathered into a powerful mysterious soul, and Felicia realized a mysterious item might be born.
• Angel announced that the refinement was complete, then directed the mysterious power into a silver weapon as Felicia and Diablo watched.
• An unknown woman accused Angel of stealing Black Castle’s accumulated power and using it to make a name as a mysterious alchemist.

Angel's attempt to forge a mysterious weapon was interrupted when Isabella, possessing Funes, took half its mysterious spirit as compensation for Black Castle. Isabella left Angel with a promise of a fortuitous opportunity, but Felicia then threatened him and tried to recruit him into Candy House.

• Felicia challenged the voice that accused Angel of taking Black Castle's accumulated resources, and Isabella began diverting half the mysterious power from Angel's weapon.
• Felicia attacked the white-haired woman, who crushed her butterflies and revealed that she was Isabella possessing Funes.
• Isabella restrained Felicia, told Angel she had considered possessing him, and took half the mysterious spirit, leaving his revolver a mid-tier item with a trace of mysterious qualities.
• Isabella returned the revolver and told Angel to meet her in the Negative Second-Level Soul Domain in one week for a fortuitous opportunity.
• After Isabella vanished and Felicia was freed, Felicia threatened Angel and urged him to join Candy House.

Angel’s connection to Gloria and Toby resolved Felicia’s suspicions, and Gloria took charge of treating Toby’s troubled soul. Felicia invited Angel to speak with her, while Angel left the Blood Prison relieved but still curious about the mysterious item.

• Angel explained that he had come to Black Castle seeking a Soul Pearl for Toby and revealed that Toby was with him.
• Gloria arrived, recognized Angel, and reclaimed Toby, explaining that she had entrusted the bird to him before leaving the Wizarding World.
• Angel recounted Toby’s coma and the High Priest’s discovery that powerful emotions were gnawing at Toby’s soul, while Shadow nervously listened.
• Gloria thanked Angel for caring for Toby, assured him the bird would recover, and told Felicia to stop antagonizing him because of his mentor.
• Felicia invited Angel to meet her in the first-floor hall to discuss his mentor and how he survived the anomaly.
• Angel reflected on his brush with mysterious power, and Shadow admitted that Angel’s identity intrigued him more than ever.

Angel and Shadow left Black Castle and returned to Soul Garden to investigate the secret treasure that purified souls and created Soul Pearls. The High Priest arrived at Centennial Hall, where Angel confirmed that Toby seemed to need Soul Pearls for nourishment.

• Angel and Shadow discussed the Silver Revolver, and Shadow decided to remain in Black Castle to pursue Naga.
• Angel activated the teleportation array, bringing Shadow and the unconscious black-haired woman to Felicia's hall in Black Castle.
• Angel decided to return to Soul Garden before the ceremony, and he and Shadow followed a mute servant through the Black Forest to the teleportation passage.
• Angel and Shadow returned to Soul Garden, released Fiona at Centennial Hall, and the High Priest arrived to meet them.
• Angel told the High Priest that Toby seemed to need Soul Pearls for nourishment and thanked him for the warning.

Angel accepted the High Priest’s request to seek freedom for one branch of the Kula Kuka clan and promised to investigate for a week. As preparations began for the ceremony at Centennial Hall, the High Priest revealed a mysterious disc that could purify souls, and Angel recognized a faint resemblance to the mysterious power he had recently wielded.

• The High Priest asked Angel to ensure that at least one branch of the Kula Kuka clan could live freely, and Angel agreed to try for a week before consulting his mentor if needed.
• Angel and Shadow concluded that freeing the clan would require undoing the bloodline-binding magic energy array beneath Xipolok, perhaps with Isabella’s help.
• The High Priest left to prepare the ceremony at Centennial Hall, while Angel and Shadow discussed settling the debt of gratitude before it grew harder to repay.
• Shadow used Fiona to deceive the divine officials and arrange the ceremony, then brought the High Priest to sit beside Angel and Shadow behind an illusion.
• The High Priest showed Angel a black disc that bore Isabella’s mark and could be touched only by him; Angel and Shadow sensed that it contained a trace of mysterious power.