Chapter Summaries

Angel completed a simplified sample Nightmare Illusion Server and tested it with Laplace and her clones. It connected users to the Dream Crystal Plain within a radius of about five hundred meters, leaving Angel with a working first step toward a more advanced version.

• Angel simplified the signal receiver and refined the Nightmare Illusion Server, stopping after connecting one hundred interfaces.
• Angel found Laplace and several of her clones gathered in the Illusion Cottage and asked them to test the server.
• Angel gave the group the password, and the Divine Blood Clone and the other clones entered the Dream Crystal Plain by reciting it.
• The group found that the shortened password worked only within twenty meters, while the full password extended the server’s range to about five hundred meters.
• Laplace said the server had already taken its first step, and Angel accepted the test results.

Angel agreed to let Gleipnir display his Nightmare Illusion Server sample as Laplace reported that the Calamity Puppet was expected to enter the Day Mirror Domain near No. 337 soon. Laplace planned to return to the Heart Space with Angel, while fragmentary footage revealed Sigmund had been trapped in a mountain and appeared to be secretly working with a woman.

• Angel agreed to lend Gleipnir the Nightmare Illusion Server sample for a leaders' gathering demonstration and possible testing.
• Laplace told Angel that the Calamity Puppet's Silver-White Wall had erased three calamity sites and that the puppet would likely enter the Day Mirror Domain through the spatial weak point near No. 337.
• Laplace said Gleipnir and Mystic Dragon were arranging frontline observers, while her Void Shadow Clone contacted old friends to search for the item demanded by the Calamity Puppet.
• Laplace reassured Angel that she believed his plan to save people through the Dream Crystal Plain would succeed, then proposed returning to the Heart Space with him.
• Laplace showed Angel brief footage of Sigmund trapped in a mountain, where a woman secretly gave him a note before they pretended to quarrel.

Angel and Laplace reviewed images suggesting Sigmund had been targeted in Moon Island’s hidden mountain, then discussed preparations for the coming apocalypse and their plans to leave Modern City. The chapter ended with the Mystic Dragon praising the Nightmare Illusion Server while arguing that its secret-key password was too short.

• Angel and Laplace examined images of Sigmund in a white room and a dark cave, and Angel guessed that Zaina might be trying to rescue him from a local faction.
• Laplace said she would go to Heart Space and then Rabbit Town to help prepare for a large influx of people fleeing the approaching apocalypse.
• Angel said he needed to resolve the Sacred Corpse Crystal issue before leaving, and he and Laplace planned to use the Oil Painting Space at noon to exit Modern City.
• Gleipnir told Laplace that the Mystic Dragon and Pufan had tested and analyzed the Nightmare Illusion Server and wanted to order more.
• The Mystic Dragon told Angel that the server’s secret-key password was redundant because it was too short.

Eya persuaded Angel to make Nightmare Illusion Servers that let outpost warriors enter the Dream Crystal Plain through consciousness expression, using a longer password to help focus their thoughts. Angel refined thirty-six servers and, after resting, logged in to the Dream Crystal Plain to ask President Lila to postpone their lesson.

• Eya explained to Angel that the servers could receive consciousness fluctuations through Heart-Web Thread and proposed replacing spoken passwords with longer passages recited mentally.
• Eya said the servers were needed at outposts near Region 337 so warriors could enter the Dream Crystal Plain quickly during the Calamity Puppet's invasion.
• Angel agreed to refine servers with a logically rigorous fairy-tale password while retaining the short password for exceptionally gifted users.
• Angel refined thirty-six Nightmare Illusion Servers, packed them for Laplace's Void Shadow Clone to transport, and rested.
• Angel logged into the Deep Earth Black Market, contacted President Lila through the Hermit Society, and asked to postpone their evening lesson.

Angel confirmed that Aduo had secured the First Pioneer's former residence to protect the sealed aether energy, and she entrusted the Oil Painting Space and its surrounding area to him. After meeting Laplace and learning about her new Mist Spirit clones, Angel tested whether the Dream Conch could bring items containing intense emotions into the Dream Crystal Plain, and Hertz detected a suspected spacetime signal.

• Angel contacted Aduo and learned that she had built a steel wall around the old residence after failing to enter the Oil Painting Space and sensing aether energy there.
• Angel explained the glass bead’s role in sealing the aether, and Aduo apologized before entrusting the Oil Painting Space and the surrounding area to him.
• Aduo withdrew the guards and mechanical dogs, and Angel waited at the old residence for Laplace.
• Laplace showed Angel her new Mist Spirit clone, explained its abilities and spatial-isolation weakness, and borrowed Turing before heading to Rabbit Tower.
• Angel went to Text Manor and used Hertz to scan the miscellaneous items he had left there, prompting the device to report one suspected spacetime signal source.

Angel investigated an emotionally charged pinecone through Story Resonance, then entered Silver Coral Island and discovered a newly built commercial street. The chapter ended as he touched a shopkeeper’s one-to-one Crystal Golem replica and received a Wonderland message.

• Angel used Hertz to resonate with a wilted pinecone and heard how a child’s father killed the squirrel that had been holding it.
• Angel inferred that the squirrel’s emotions lingered in the pinecone and planned to ask Napoli about its connection to the Wandering Forest.
• Angel joined the queue to enter Silver Coral Island and found that the Wonderland Directory listed around sixty cleared Instances, though none clearly featured a new energy system.
• Angel instructed Hertz to search nearby for spacetime signal sources and appraise unowned items, raising his energy point limit through the pinecone’s successful appraisal.
• Angel entered Silver Coral Island and found a bustling commercial street filled with shops and members of different clans.
• Angel touched a Crystal Golem replica after its shopkeeper claimed it matched a real golem in scale and materials, and a Wonderland message appeared.

Angel learned that Amber Shadow Market used the Shapeshifting Civet’s empowered creations to display goods online and the Amber Shadow Clan’s speed for delivery. As the market’s founder, Dong Laifeng, watched it thrive, a commotion broke out and he hurried to investigate.

• Angel learned from Kubota that the Crystal-Light Illuminator was a customized empowered creation and that Amber Shadow Market’s products were made with the Shapeshifting Civet’s abilities.
• Kubota identified the young Amber Shadow Clan genius as Nan Laifeng, while the account later described the market’s founder as Dong Laifeng.
• Dong Laifeng sent Little Civet and its summoned companions to shops to empower new products for the market.
• Dong Laifeng recalled how his younger brother’s idea had turned the Shapeshifting Civet’s empowerment ability and the clan’s delivery skills into an online shopping market.
• Kubota explained the market’s origins and growing influence to Angel, who wondered how the Amber Shadow Clan would respond to adversity.
• A crowd gathered on a market street, and Kubota and Dong Laifeng both hurried toward the disturbance while Angel stayed behind.

Dong Laifeng learned that the approaching apocalypse threatened Tooth Fairy Paradise and the Day Mirror Domain, and despair over Amber Shadow Market’s future made him collapse. His younger brother Bei Chasing Light and the shopkeepers reminded him that the market’s reputation as the first market was its lasting advantage, and Laifeng rallied to lead it forward.

• Dong Laifeng learned from two distressed Tooth Fairies that an apocalypse threatened Tooth Fairy Paradise and the Day Mirror Domain, while a Doomsday Defense Plan and the Dream Crystal Plain offered possible safeguards.
• Nan Laicai arrived with an apocalypse announcement from the Amber Shadow Clan, and Dong Laifeng collapsed in despair over Amber Shadow Market’s prospects.
• Bei Chasing Light confronted Dong Laifeng and argued that Amber Shadow Market’s early start, reputation, and established place on the Dream Crystal Plain remained valuable even if its current advantages disappeared.
• The Woodleaf Shop owner and other shopkeepers told Dong Laifeng they had stayed because Amber Shadow Market was the first and only market on the Dream Crystal Plain.
• Dong Laifeng regained his resolve, vowed to keep Amber Shadow Market open and expand it, and Bei Chasing Light teased him for announcing plans that might anger the Mirror Sea Scholars.

As the apocalypse approached, the races of the Day Mirror Domain faced different choices about whether to remain or seek refuge in the Dream Crystal Plain. Wandering Forest split its fleet, the Yingji Race chose to defend Ice Country, and the Lairen committed to the Dream Crystal Plain.

• Wandering Forest's council debated sailing beyond the Day Mirror Domain, staying at its outpost, or entering the Dream Crystal Plain; after the captain woke, the ship split, with a smaller vessel heading beyond the Psychological Boundary and the larger one going to the outpost.
• The Yingji queen told her general that leaving the Day Mirror Domain would extinguish Heartfire, the foundation of their race, and ordered the Yingji to stay and fight.
• The general rallied Ice Country's soldiers to hold their ground, while the queen entered the Dream Crystal Plain.
• The Lairen grand elder declared that their future lay in the Dream Crystal Plain, and his Mouth-Sealing Art confirmed the statement as a truth that would come to pass.
• The Lairen leader pledged the race's full cooperation with Lord Eya and Astrologer Granny, accepting the death of their physical bodies as the beginning of a new life.

Naluoduo explained why the Changhuo Clan’s Phantom Lineage would remain in the Day Mirror Domain and use the Dream Crystal Plain to discover the Calamity Puppet’s demand, hoping to claim the title of savior. Meanwhile, Angel investigated Bei Chasing Light and learned that his missing legs reflected his lifelong difference from the Amber Shadow Clan, not an injury.

• Nawat questioned Naluoduo about why she rejected Yute’s plan to leave the Day Mirror Domain, and she argued that the routes to another Mirror Realm were unworkable.
• Naluoduo told Nawat that the Calamity Puppet’s trial would demand an item, and that the Dream Crystal Plain might reveal what it was asking for.
• Naluoduo planned to use her Greenland Island Flesh Exchange Machine to obtain the demanded item and secure the savior title, which she hoped would help her reach a new level of power.
• Angel observed Bei Chasing Light in Amber Shadow Market and discovered that he had been born without legs, so the Dream Crystal Plain had not restored them.

Angel learned that Mei Ji had taken an unexplained interest in Bei Chasing Light, then met Dudu Bi and received a completed magic energy array called Sacred Corpse Spirit Awakening. Dudu Bi planned to leave with Dudu Li for the Maw of the Nether Eels, while Angel urged them to depart before the Calamity Puppet reached the Day Mirror Domain.

• Angel sensed Mei Ji's aura on Bei Chasing Light and told Rabbit Girl, who used the lead as an excuse to leave her duties and investigate Silver Coral Island.
• Angel found Dudu Bi fishing with Dudu Li, who had logged into the Dream Crystal Plain the previous day because she had feared Dudu Bi would stop liking her if she became frail there.
• Dudu Bi gave Angel the complete design for the Directional Soul-Wave Locking Magic Rune Pattern and an integrated magic energy array, which Angel named Sacred Corpse Spirit Awakening.
• Angel praised Dudu Bi's work, learned that Dudu Bi and Dudu Li planned to stay at the Maw of the Nether Eels, and offered to take Dudu Bi to the Southern Region to meet Grandma Yitai.
• Dudu Bi chose to stay with Dudu Li, and Angel urged them to leave for the Maw of the Nether Eels soon before the Calamity Puppet arrived.

Angel met Rabbit Girl and Yifuda at Amber Shadow Market, where they discussed Mei Ji’s unusual perception that Bei Chasing Light could excel in the Large Treasure Pagoda. Yifuda devised a plan to loosen Bei Chasing Light’s doubts about entering the Little Treasure Pagoda by letting him hear about a disabled girl who cleared a combat stage and won an item that granted flight.

• Angel waited for Rabbit Girl at Heartfire Weapons Guild and asked how the Yingji Race could see in the Dream Crystal Plain; Rabbit Girl explained that adults fused Heartfire into their souls, while children navigated by sound and vibration.
• Rabbit Girl told Angel that Mei Ji sensed Bei Chasing Light had the potential to perform exceptionally in the Large Treasure Pagoda and wanted him to challenge the Little Treasure Pagoda, but Rabbit Girl had not encouraged him.
• Yifuda arrived and said Bei Chasing Light’s disability made him unlikely to attempt the tower unless his beliefs changed.
• Yifuda proposed having a frail ten-year-old girl who cleared a combat stage and obtained the flying White Crow Feather Robe fly around Amber Shadow Market, then arranging for Bei Chasing Light to overhear her story.

Angel gave Yifuda a Demon Energy Array that would let the Crystal-Eyed Race awaken Sacred Corpse Crystal souls using Nightmare Stones and decide for themselves whom to bring into the Dream Crystal Plain. He then sought a quiet settlement site for the first hundred thousand arrivals and arrived at the Crystal Palace to discuss it with the Giant City Spirit.

• Angel told Yifuda the Demon Energy Array would let the Crystal-Eyed Race awaken Sacred Corpse Crystal souls themselves, and Yifuda left to arrange preparations.
• Angel explained to the Rabbit Girl that awakened Crystal-Eyed Race members could deepen divisions between new residents and those still living in reality, and the Rabbit Girl described complaints about Han Da and Lei Beida receiving important design roles.
• Angel drew the array on a disk, gave it to Elder Mosida, and began searching for a calm gathering place near the Crystal-Eyed Race settlement for roughly one hundred thousand awakened souls.
• Angel traveled to the Crystal-Eyed Race settlement and encountered Laplace's Mist Spirit and Gabriel near the Crystal Palace.
• The Mist Spirit led Angel and Gabriel to the Giant City Spirit, where Angel found Yifuda already discussing something with her.

Angel and the Crystal-Eyed Race chose a stream valley as the settlement site for souls awakened from Sacred Corpse Crystals, using its easy-looking instance to help newcomers adapt. After Angel expanded the Dream Crystal Plain’s spawn points and public areas to handle the growing influx, his Text Panel vanished and a red exclamation mark appeared in its place.

• Angel discussed settling the Sacred Corpse Crystal souls with Yifuda and the Giant City Spirit, and they agreed to place them in the stream valley east of the settlement.
• Angel learned that the valley’s F-rank instance, “The False Hero's Adventure,” involved rescuing children in a game of house, but finding later children made full completion difficult.
• Gabriel explained that he had tried nearby instances because people feared and rejected him, and that the Crystal-Eyed Race farmed materials from Ethan's Dream despite its low completion rate.
• Angel designated the stream valley as the new residents’ settlement site and established more than a hundred spawn points and over a dozen public areas to ease overcrowding.
• As the population continued to rise, Angel’s Text Panel disappeared and a red exclamation mark appeared in its place.

Angel examined the Text Panel’s new Regional Module, Sandbox Wonderland, and Rankings, which tied regional authority and rewards to clearing instances. The update prompted the Crystal-Eyed Race’s Yifuda and the Giant City Spirit to ask Angel for the Dream Mirror Organization’s guidance.

• Angel saw the Text Panel update and read about its Regional Module, Sandbox Wonderland, and Rankings.
• Angel learned that perfecting a region’s Sandbox Wonderland would grant its virtual sandbox, while rankings would reward participants with random Wonderland items and chat opportunities.
• Angel concluded that the update mainly concerned the major races and could guide future territorial divisions in the Dream Crystal Plain.
• The major races began considering the update as a basis for organizing their regions.
• Yifuda and the Giant City Spirit caught up with Angel and asked him to explain the Dream Mirror Organization’s views.

Angel advised Yifuda that the Crystal-Eyed Race members who had become natives needed to compete for regional modules because Dream Crystal Plain was their only homeland. He then investigated The False Hero's Adventure and found a Hero Statue depicting a young man, despite the Instance's hero being a child.

• Angel told Yifuda that the transformed Crystal-Eyed Race members should fight for regional territory, while Yifuda worried that their interests would conflict with members who could log out.
• Giant City Spirit reassured Yifuda that internal conflicts would not destroy the Crystal-Eyed Race, and Yifuda confirmed she planned to bring Tunita into Dream Crystal Plain.
• Laplace summoned Angel to discuss the Text Panel update and proposed a small Dream Mirror meeting, which Angel agreed to attend at Text Manor.
• Angel visited The False Hero's Adventure with Gabriel and saw many outsiders using its risk-free challenge to gain access to the Text Panel.
• Angel studied the Hero Statue and noticed that it depicted a young man, although the hero in the Instance was a child.

Angel investigated the Hero Instance after a one-eyed God-Eyed Race boy described clearing its games and seeing a child who resembled the Hero statue. Using God's-eye view, Angel discovered a hidden Dark Box Garden and began suspecting the chubby child held the key to the Instance's hidden story, but he left the investigation unresolved.

• A one-eyed God-Eyed Race boy cleared three mini-games, earned a Text Panel with a 12% exploration rate, and said the chubby hide-and-seek child’s eyes resembled the Hero statue’s.
• Angel questioned the boy, learned he had not seen the statue in the Instance, and touched the statue to inspect the Instance information.
• Angel used God's-eye view and found a dark, unactivated Box Garden beneath the town map, which he suspected was unlocked by hidden clues.
• Angel observed the chubby child and a little girl, recognized the child’s resemblance to the statue, and heard that the girl locked him inside because he might have an episode.
• Angel watched the girl seal the door with a red string and an incantation, but found no clear explanation for the child’s condition or connection to the statue.
• Angel realized he had blocked challengers waiting to enter the Instance, moved aside, and left.

Angel told Gabriel and Rabbit Girl that the Hero Dungeon had a hidden map linked to a strange boy, and Gabriel planned to investigate him after the meeting. Laplace arrived with Gray Porcelain and Luno, while the group learned that Rabbit Town residents had begun writing popular novels inspired by books in the library.

• Angel revealed that the Hero Dungeon had a hidden map and that a boy resembling the hero statue might provide a clue when found asleep at night.
• Gabriel decided to return to the Hero Dungeon after the meeting and investigate the boy, bringing Gray Porcelain along.
• Rabbit Girl planned to have Yifuda organize Rabbit Town residents to unlock their Text Panels in the dungeon, but Laplace said Yifuda had likely already reported on it.
• Laplace arrived with Gray Porcelain and Luno, then discussed the dungeon's map with Angel.
• Rabbit Girl, Laplace, and Gray Porcelain told Angel that Rabbit Town residents were writing popular novels based on books in the library.

Angel and the Dream Mirror members debated whether to seize Region 1 after the Text Panel update. After hearing their arguments and considering Crystal Mountain’s danger and location, Angel supported the plan.

• Laplace explained that Luno was a provisional task force member who wanted to meet Angel, and the group discovered that Luno had neglected to learn the common language because he relied on Heart Reed.
• Angel allowed Luno to remain at the meeting, and Laplace gave Heart Reed to Luno and Gray Porcelain so Gray Porcelain could interpret for him.
• Angel explained the Text Panel update and its rankings, then Laplace presented Gleipnir and Mystic Dragon’s proposal that Dream Mirror claim Region 1.
• Rabbit Girl and Gabriel supported claiming Region 1, Gray Porcelain gave a cautious response, and Luno offered to help explore Sandbox Wonderland if needed.
• Angel reconsidered the value of nominal ownership and noted that Region 1 covered the major routes to dangerous Crystal Mountain, then declared his support for claiming it.

Angel and Laplace agreed that Dream Mirror would not stop other groups from raiding Rabbit Town’s Sandbox Wonderland, while Laplace said she might be unable to join the raid. Luno then told them about his Trial Instance, Dream-Deciphering Starry Sky, where he had entered a human’s Old Dream and was tasked with helping him survive in the void.

• Angel postponed choosing the Sandbox Wonderland raiders until he could inspect the Instance, and he and Laplace agreed not to bar other groups from entering.
• Laplace said she might need to remain outside the Instance to manage the Mist Spirits, and the Dream Mirror meeting ended.
• Luno told Angel and Laplace that his Trial Instance required him to awaken twelve sleeping NPCs by clearing their Old Dream Instances.
• Luno chose Luolun’s Dream, where Luolun was collecting an illustrated guide to void creatures while a gigantic void creature pursued him.
• Luolun grabbed Luno and gave him an azure jellyfish and a colorless Butterfly to help him evade the pursuer, then Luno received a challenge to guide Luolun through a void passage.