Chapter Summaries

A traction wave swept Luolun and Luno into a Void Passage, where Luno used his sensitivity to waves to guide them safely through its dangerous forks. Afterward, Luolun found another void creature and set out to complete his atlas.

• A void creature was dragged into the hollow, and the resulting energy ripples swept Luolun and Luno into the Void Passage.
• Luolun used a Heart Reed to explain the passage's deadly forks and asked Luno to guide them, but Luno said he had no luck-enhancing items.
• At the first fork, Luno chose the left passage by sensing that its traction waves were more stable, and he correctly guided Luolun through another fork as well.
• Luno later told Angel that he had led Luolun safely out of the passage and helped him overcome his death calamity.
• After escaping, Luolun spotted another void creature and was eager to collect the information he had missed from the previous specimen.

Luno told Angel and Laplace how Luolun had tamed a Void creature in the Old Dream Instance and awakened with fragmented, unfamiliar memories. A new Recruitment Mission offered Luno the choice of freeing Luolun or fulfilling his wish, and Luno decided to pursue recruitment despite his dwindling trial time.

• Luno recalled that Luolun had tamed the Void creature and cleared the Old Dream Instance while Luno watched.
• After Luno exited the instance, Luolun descended into the Star-Dream Hall and explained that he remembered his core memories but had lost the details that made them feel like his own.
• Luno comforted Luolun, who soon chose to look toward the present and asked Luno to approve his departure.
• A Wonderland Recruitment Mission appeared, allowing Luno to free Luolun or fulfill his wish and recruit him as a special subject.
• Luno chose to complete the mission, but explained that his late entry into the trial left him with little time to clear Old Dream Instances and recruit subjects.

Luno asked Angel and Laplace to help recruit Luolun and the other special residents from Dream-Deciphering Starry Sky, and they agreed to investigate Luolun’s unknown wish. They found Luolun reading in Rabbit Town Library, where Angel used Hertz to search for people with stories, but the results did not identify Luolun.

• Luno explained that his temporary authority let him release Luolun from the instance, and Angel reasoned that seeing Dream Crystal Plain would help Luolun decide whether to trust him.
• Luno admitted that he did not know Luolun’s wish, since Luolun had refused to reveal it and only asked to be set free.
• Angel learned that Luno had already released Luolun the previous day and agreed to help, then joined Luno and Laplace in Rabbit Town.
• Luno led Angel and Laplace to Rabbit Town Library, where they found Luolun reading a book about Mirror Realm biology.
• Angel summoned Hertz and searched nearby for people with stories, but the three detected signals belonged to other visitors rather than Luolun.

Angel used Hertz to uncover fragments of Luolun’s life, learning that Luolun had founded Lorenbier before vanishing in a void passageway. He then brought Luolun, Laplace, and Luno to a private study in the library basement to speak with him.

• Angel had Hertz investigate Luolun’s story and watched scenes of Luolun’s life as Bill, from his shipwreck and bond with the Deer Spirit to his wizarding years.
• The scenes revealed that Luolun founded Loren Town and developed it into Lorenbier, then disappeared in a void passageway while researching void creatures.
• Angel approached Luolun, introduced himself as a Rabbit Town administrator, and invited him to talk with Laplace and Luno.
• Angel opened a hidden door in the bookshelf and led the group to a mist-filled basement space.
• Angel created an illusionary study, and Luolun praised how convincingly real Angel’s illusion was.

Angel met Luolun, a long-lost wizard from the Southern Region, and discussed his place in the Dream Crystal Plain and his uncertain future. Luolun revealed that his Recruitment mission required the fulfillment of a wish he could no longer identify, and Angel responded by producing a vintage radio as a possible magical animal.

• Luolun introduced himself as a summoning wizard from the Southern Wizarding World, and Angel recognized that he had known the Savage Cave's former leader Aldrich at least four thousand years earlier.
• Angel and Luolun warmed to each other as they discussed Luolun's missing memories and the difficulty of leaving the Dream Crystal Plain.
• Angel encouraged Luolun to stay for now and pursue something he wanted, and Luolun accepted the Heart Reed to communicate with him.
• Luolun revealed that his Text Panel described a Recruitment mission requiring both his recognition and fulfillment of his wish, which he could not identify.
• Luolun said his remaining core memory held a wish to see magical animals, including void creatures, and Angel produced a vintage radio in response.

Angel offered Luolun access to Fashion Demonic Beasts and Wonderland pets, but Luolun’s recruitment mission remained unfulfilled because he could not identify his deepest desire. After seeing Where Are the Magical Beasts?, Luolun revealed that its entries and illustrations came from his unpublished manuscript, Illustrated Encyclopedia of Magical Animals, and suspected his friend’s death had led to the manuscript reaching the magazine’s publisher.

• Angel explained Fashion Demonic Beasts and Wonderland pets, and Luolun became eager to investigate Dreamland Zoo, but his mission still would not let him accept the offer.
• Angel showed Luolun Where Are the Magical Beasts?, prompting Luolun to disclose that much of the magazine had copied his manuscript, Illustrated Encyclopedia of Magical Animals.
• Luolun recounted founding Lorenbier and leaving his manuscript with a friend before departing to study magical animals.
• Angel identified Ancient Riverbank Press as a Lorenbier-affiliated publisher connected to the Yamushu family.
• Luolun recognized Shalong Yamushu’s surname as belonging to one of his friend’s students and suspected his friend had died, allowing the student to inherit the manuscript.

Angel proposed that Luolun lead a press in Dream Crystal Plain to continue publishing his Illustrated Encyclopedia of Magical Animals, and Luno promised to support it and share knowledge of Ordovician animals. Luolun agreed to become Luno’s territory resident, and the new bond granted him Special Territory Resident status and Dreamwalking privileges, conditional on Luno clearing Dream-Deciphering Galaxy.

• Angel told Luolun that his wish to complete and share the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Magical Animals could continue through a press in Dream Crystal Plain.
• Luno promised to provide information about magical animals, take Luolun to the Ordovician World if possible, establish a press, and distribute its publications across the Pan-Plane.
• After Angel approved Luno’s offer, Luolun agreed to become his territory resident.
• A contract-like light formed a bond between Luolun and Luno, and the Text Panel announced that Luolun would join the territory if Luno cleared Dream-Deciphering Galaxy.
• The Text Panel explained that Special Territory Residents could leave their lord and become free citizens, while their Dreamwalking privileges came from Luno’s Dream Core talent and could let Luolun reach Dreamland Zoo without a ticket.

Luolun discovered that his unique Dreamwalking Authority, Astral Dream Enlightenment, could teach others abilities through dreams, though it remained inactive until Luno cleared Dream-Deciphering Starry Sky. After Luno set off for the instance, Luolun stayed at Angel’s base and explained the abilities he could teach.

• Luolun learned that special residents each had distinct Dreamwalking Authorities and discovered his was Astral Dream Enlightenment, which could impart Heart Chain and a simplified Beast-Taming Arcana.
• Luolun explained that teaching was limited by daily uses and class size, required students to complete practical tasks, and could affect both his and the students’ spirits.
• Luolun said his authority would activate only after Luno became the official lord of Dream-Deciphering Starry Sky, prompting Luno to prepare to clear the instance.
• Angel offered Luolun a temporary base and decorated it with an emblem honoring the Deer Island wizards and Lorenbier.
• Luno took the Heart Reed fragment and hurried toward Dream-Deciphering Starry Sky, while Luolun explained the effects and limitations of Heart Chain and Beast-Taming Arcana to Angel.

Angel discussed Luolun’s Beast-Taming Arcana and other abilities, then welcomed him to the Dream Crystal Plain as a future skill trainer. After studying with President Lila, Angel returned to Rabbit Town, where people eagerly awaited Sandbox Wonderland’s opening in Region 1.

• Angel told Luolun about Dream Realm behemoths and wondered whether a complete Beast-Taming Arcana could tame lesser creatures that might grow into behemoths.
• Luolun explained that he could currently teach Heart Chain and simplified Beast-Taming Arcana, and described Empathic Resonance, which let a person share a tamed beast’s talent.
• Angel considered whether a talent such as White Fruit’s Corsac Fox’s Fusion might work beyond the Dream Crystal Plain, but set the idea aside until Luolun could teach Empathic Resonance.
• Luolun said he did not mind teaching his abilities because Wonderland’s rewards and Angel’s promise of future freedom were fair payment, and Angel welcomed him to the Dream Crystal Plain.
• Angel left Luolun reading in the special residents’ temporary residence, then attended an overnight study session with President Lila before returning to Rabbit Town.
• Angel heard residents discussing Sandbox Wonderland, which was scheduled to open in Region 1 one hour later.

Angel watched Rabbit Town for Sandbox Wonderland’s descent while checking on Luolun, Yan Ling, and Luno. Laplace insisted he return to the Heart Space for safety, but he logged back in during the journey, and they joined Rabbit Girl and Yifuda to wait on the roof.

• Angel surveyed Rabbit Town from a tower roof and found Yan Ling, a new resident learning about the Dream Crystal Plain, whose bone-flute music calmed listeners in the library.
• Angel watched Luno use Laplace’s Misty Artwork to lure dishonest Pirus into Smoke Screen Cages, creating Mist Spirits for the Dream Crystal Plain.
• Laplace arrived and warned Angel that the Calamity Puppet could enter the Day Mirror Domain, urging him to return to the Heart Space before Sandbox Wonderland descended.
• Angel logged off, stored the materials Napoli had brought, then boarded a carriage pulled by Little Zero and logged back into the Dream Crystal Plain on the way to the Heart Space.
• Angel and Laplace met Rabbit Girl and Yifuda on a Rabbit Tower roof to wait for Sandbox Wonderland’s descent.

As Rabbit Girl and Angel waited for Sandbox Wonderland to descend in Rabbit Town, five Singers and Featherwood Clan members arrived and faced hostility from the crowd. They discussed Ms. Gosha’s plan to seize regional modules, but learned she was concerned they might not meet Sandbox Wonderland’s entry threshold.

• Rabbit Girl worried Sandbox Wonderland might descend in her office, while Angel said Rabbit Town had the highest chance of being its landing point.
• Rabbit Girl spotted a crowd clearing near a Rabbit Tower and realized the space had opened because three Featherwood Clan members and two Singers had arrived.
• Magic Zither and Magic Flute urged their group to occupy regional modules, especially Area One, to gain influence in the Dream Crystal Plain.
• Lady Roseleaf questioned the shifting mission, and Magic Flute said Ms. Gosha had identified regional modules as their opportunity to gain a voice.
• Magic Flute revealed that Ms. Gosha was worried the group might not meet Sandbox Wonderland’s entry threshold when it descended.

Angel and the others discovered that the mysterious Ms. Gosha was a tiny being hidden inside Magic Flute, but they learned little about her. As Sandbox Wonderland approached, Angel revealed that Gabriel and Gray Porcelain were trapped in a sealed Hero Dungeon along with thirteen other people.

• Angel used the wind to hear the Singers and the Featherwood Clan discussing Ms. Gosha and their plans to enter Sandbox Wonderland.
• Laplace and Yifuda deduced that Ms. Gosha was inside Magic Flute, and Angel confirmed she was a baby-sized being near his heart.
• Rabbit Girl contacted Gleipnir, who had no information about Ms. Gosha and said she would investigate whether Ms. Gosha was also inside Magic Flute in the real world.
• Luno arrived with his teacher Pirus for language lessons, while Gabriel and Gray Porcelain remained absent as Sandbox Wonderland's arrival drew near.
• Angel sensed that Gabriel and Gray Porcelain had entered the Hero Dungeon and triggered a hidden storyline that sealed it, trapping them and thirteen other people inside.

Angel and the others discovered that Sandbox Wonderland had appeared as a floating island above the Crystal Plains, but its challenge would not begin until after a three-day registration period. Registration required clearing a Wonderland, and Angel confirmed that clearing the Hero Dungeon qualified, leaving Yifuda and Luno unable to enter.

• Angel used his god's-eye view to find a floating island above Rabbit Town, then carried the group through the crowded passage and up to the barrier surrounding it.
• When the countdown ended, a message announced Sandbox Wonderland's arrival and opened registration for three days before the challenge began.
• Angel, Laplace, and Rabbit Girl registered successfully, while Yifuda and Luno discovered they did not meet the requirement to have cleared a Wonderland.
• Angel marked Ms. Gosha and spotted several thousand successful registrants, including Crystal-Eyed Race members who had cleared the Hero Dungeon.
• Angel confirmed that the Hero Dungeon counted as a Wonderland, and Yifuda regretted not clearing it before its hidden storyline changed it.

Angel told Laplace that the Sandbox Instance might combine challenges from Instances across Area 1, though its Authority Information would take about three days to complete. He then went to the Hero Dungeon, where a flood of newly revived Crystal-Eyed Race members had overwhelmed the valley, and gave Giant City Spirit illusion nodes to control them.

• Angel explained to Laplace that the illusory sand table was gathering information from Area 1’s Instances and might reveal the Sandbox Instance’s challenges once complete.
• Laplace agreed to use Angel’s theory to guide Instance intelligence gathering and said she would keep borrowing Turing from him.
• Angel estimated that the sand table’s Authority Information would take three days to finish, then left to check on the Hero Dungeon.
• Angel found the valley packed with confused, newly revived members of the Crystal-Eyed Race and rescued Yifuda from the crowd.
• Angel lent Giant City Spirit illusion nodes and told her to use them to control the arrivals before the nodes faded.
• Giant City Spirit began spreading illusion magic across the valley while Yifuda explained how Angel had arrived.

Angel contacted Gray Porcelain inside the sealed Hero Dungeon and learned that Gabriel and Gray Porcelain had uncovered a letter from the imprisoned hero Valentine. The letter revealed the town was a false world created by a Childlike Demon, and the two had begun searching for the demon hidden among its puppets.

• Angel used his authority to inspect the Hero Dungeon and saw Gabriel and Gray Porcelain hiding from the town's patrols after killing three kidnapped children, whose bodies vanished into smoke.
• Angel contacted Gray Porcelain and reassured him that Sandbox Wonderland had not fully descended and that he was not in trouble for missing it.
• Gray Porcelain explained how he and Gabriel broke into Fatty's sealed house and followed Fatty's nighttime clues to a hidden letter.
• The letter identified its writer as Valentine, a hero trapped in a false cage by a Childlike Demon, and said the demon's consciousness was dormant inside one of the town's puppets.
• Valentine's letter instructed them to find the Childlike Demon and bring it to him when the moonlight was brightest so he could escape.

Angel learned that the town was a game prison created by the Childlike Demon, where the hero Valentine’s consciousness had become a chubby boy. Gabriel and Gray Porcelain planned to leave before Sandbox Wonderland opened, but Angel warned that finding the Demon’s anchor might be harder than Gabriel expected.

• Gray Porcelain explained that Valentine had left clues about the Childlike Demon’s game prison and the hidden anchor needed to escape it.
• Gabriel confirmed that the three kidnapped children had reset and forgotten the incident, leading the townspeople to stop chasing them.
• Gray Porcelain wanted to leave the Instance, and Gabriel decided to leave with him so they could attend Sandbox Wonderland before returning to investigate.
• Angel questioned Gabriel’s assumption that the cat’s-cradle girl was the Childlike Demon and warned that other residents might also have supernatural abilities.

Gabriel and Gray Porcelain left the Instance after finding no new clues about the Childlike Demon, while Gray Porcelain received a Dreamland Zoo ticket as a reward. Angel then watched Valentine’s mysterious elder behave like two different people and wondered whether she had forgotten her earlier actions or was someone else entirely.

• Gabriel and Gray Porcelain emerged from the Instance with the other thirteen trapped people, and Angel opened a passage through the illusory mist so the others could leave.
• Gabriel reported that he had learned nothing from observing the little girl or visiting Valentine’s protected house in the forest.
• Gray Porcelain showed Gabriel and Angel his first-clear reward, a ticket that let him choose a slime from Dreamland Zoo, while Gabriel regretted receiving only nutritious milk.
• Angel sent Gabriel and Gray Porcelain over the crowd toward the Tooth Fairy outpost, where Laplace wanted to see them.
• Angel watched the old woman who had seemed like a witch brew a potion, then saw her act like a kindly grandmother who did not remember the vat.
• Angel wondered whether the elder had forgotten her actions or whether the witch and grandmother were two different people.

Angel investigated the mysterious old woman but found no clues before the Singers and the Featherwood Clan discovered his illusion-hidden Hero Dungeon. He admitted them after they waited, then left when Lady Roseleaf lied about how they had found the entrance.

• Angel observed the old woman and found no trace of the missing medicinal broth or the house's protective barrier, leaving him uncertain whether she was the Childlike Demon.
• Magic Zither repeatedly crossed the illusory mist and returned to his starting point, so Magic Flute advised the group to wait for its creator to respond.
• Ms. Gosha told Magic Flute that the illusion likely belonged to Angel and predicted the Dream Mirror Organization would let them enter; the mist then opened a passage.
• Angel met Lady Roseleaf and Magic Flute beneath the hero statue and agreed to speak if they explained how they had found his hidden entrance.
• Lady Roseleaf claimed they had used a map from the Crystal-Eyed Race, and Angel left after warning them to watch for odd NPCs in the Instance.
• Ms. Gosha explained that Angel had likely detected their lie, while Magic Flute worried that telling the truth would have exposed her.

Angel observed Ms. Gosha’s group explore the Hero Dungeon and learned that she was gathering information about the townspeople. After Giant City Spirit and Yifuda invited him to the Crystal-Eyed Race’s awakening ceremony, Angel agreed to witness the arrival of their departed elders, including Yifuda’s teacher, Tunita.

• Ms. Gosha told Magic Flute that she intended to meet Angel, and Angel overheard her plan to search the Hero Dungeon for unusual NPCs.
• The Singers and the Featherwood Clan entered the dungeon and spent hours questioning townspeople as Ms. Gosha gathered information.
• Angel stopped observing the dungeon when Giant City Spirit and Yifuda arrived, and Giant City Spirit explained that she had cleared the crowd from the valley.
• Yifuda invited Angel to witness the Crystal-Eyed Race’s awakening ceremony, where the consciousnesses of departed elders would enter Dream Crystal Plain.
• Angel learned that Tunita, Yifuda’s teacher and father figure, would be among the awakened elders, and he agreed to attend.

Angel returned to Heart Space and found Luigi had filled it with magical flowers brought in by the Empty Mirror Sea, while Star Attendant had regained his intelligence after receiving a Cloudtop Flower. Luigi hoped to finish his current Uriel Instance quest in time to join Sandbox Wonderland, but Angel warned that the instance might continue beyond its current quest.

• Angel found a flourishing garden in Heart Space and learned that Luigi had transplanted the flowers washed up by the Empty Mirror Sea.
• Angel observed Star Attendant fishing for objects and learned from Luigi that a Cloudtop Flower had helped him regain his intelligence.
• Luigi told Angel that Olao had been teaching Star Attendant language and had wanted to discuss something with him.
• Angel explained Sandbox Wonderland to Luigi, who said he still had not completed Main Quest 6, Guard the Starry Crown.
• Luigi hoped to complete the quest within three days and join the Sandbox Wonderland mission, but Angel suggested that the Uriel Instance might continue with another main quest.