Chapter Summaries

Book Fairy explained how the sealing ritual array could amplify the Cruel Scholar’s obsession with knowledge, keeping His divine thought occupied without alerting His main body. The group then considered what unfamiliar knowledge could hold His attention, and Book Fairy suggested seeking privately created techniques such as her art of creating Book Sprites.

• Rabbit Girl questioned whether baiting the Cruel Scholar with knowledge could count as a perfect seal if He could choose to seek outside help.
• Book Fairy explained that the Cruel Scholar’s pursuit of knowledge was an overriding instinct, and that the ritual array and His servants’ maxims amplified it.
• Gray Porcelain raised concerns about the obsession eventually fading, but Book Fairy argued that time would give the sealers opportunities to grow while the isolated divine thought weakened.
• Rabbit Girl suggested Gleipnir’s astrology, Gabriel proposed special cooking, and Gray Porcelain pointed out that they did not know what knowledge the Cruel Scholar had already studied.
• Book Fairy advised the group to seek secret, personally created knowledge and gave her own art of creating Book Sprites as an example.

The Book Fairy explained that sealing the Cruel Scholar’s divine consciousness required original knowledge deep enough to occupy Him for decades or centuries. Angel realized that his Fantasy Alchemy might fit, since its foundations depended on experiences no one else could reproduce, and the chapter ended with him considering it as a possible seal.

• The Book Fairy revealed that she had transformed the Cruel Scholar’s Book Demons into Book Sprites, astonishing Gray Porcelain and prompting Angel to consider the Cruel Scholar’s abilities.
• The Book Fairy explained that the team needed original knowledge the Cruel Scholar did not know, preferably a new system or work pursued far enough to hold His attention for decades or centuries.
• Gray Porcelain doubted that such knowledge could be found or shared, while the Book Fairy said the Cruel Scholar’s incarnations had pursued research for thousands of years.
• The Book Fairy described how she had spent about twenty years developing the Book Sprite, and Angel noted that magical research could take decades or centuries.
• Angel recognized that his Fantasy Alchemy was an exclusive technique built on personal experiences and might serve as original knowledge to seal the Cruel Scholar’s divine consciousness.

Angel decided to use his Fantasy Alchemy as the real knowledge lead needed to seal the Cruel Scholar’s divine thought and announced that Rabbit Hole would enter Perfect Clear Mode immediately. The Book Fairy and the others learned what he meant, and Rabbit Girl’s worry that she had pressured him eased when Angel praised her reminder.

• The Book Fairy explained that the seal required only a genuine lead to a field of knowledge, not a complete explanation, and offered to hold back other challenge teams while Rabbit Hole searched for one.
• Angel announced that Rabbit Hole would enter Perfect Clear Mode at once, despite not having found a sealing knowledge field.
• Rabbit Girl asked whether Angel blamed her for hinting at alchemy, and Angel reassured her that the reminder had helped him decide to use Fantasy Alchemy.
• Angel promised Rabbit Girl a rabbit park as a reward, and she shyly thanked him as Brother Angel.
• Gabriel used its illusion puppet to help Gray Porcelain realize that Angel’s knowledge was Fantasy Alchemy.
• Angel told the Book Fairy that Fantasy Alchemy would serve as the seal for the Demon God’s divine thought.

Angel explained Imaginary Alchemy to the Book Fairy, who came to believe it could draw in and ultimately exhaust the Cruel Scholar’s divine thought. The Rabbit Hole Team prepared to enter Perfect Clear Mode, while the Book Fairy withheld the full story of her connection to the Cruel Scholar and deferred Rabbit Girl’s invitation to join them.

• Angel explained that Imaginary Alchemy used Nightmare Illusion power and still obeyed equivalent exchange, and the Book Fairy accepted that it could serve as a seal.
• Rabbit Girl, Gabriel, and Gray Porcelain vouched for Imaginary Alchemy, and the Book Fairy encouraged the team to begin Perfect Clear Mode.
• The Book Fairy explained that Book Sprite trials could vary slightly, the rift’s location could change, and the Book Demon aphorisms and hidden-space furnishings would remain unchanged.
• Angel asked about the Book Fairy’s connection to the Cruel Scholar, and she said she would explain it after the team perfectly cleared Echo Library.
• Rabbit Girl invited the Book Fairy to join the team if they perfectly cleared the library and sealed the divine thought, and the Book Fairy said they should discuss it after the challenge.

Rabbit Hole solved a greenhouse library-entry assessment by placing five plants that looked like flowers but were not, then Angel led the team through new territory in Perfect Mode. They cleared several trials quickly, but Rabbit Girl was chosen to fight in their first Book Demon trial.

• Rabbit Hole searched the greenhouse for a pattern and, with help from botanists Laplace contacted, Angel identified the answer as five plants that looked like flowers but were actually leaves or branches.
• Angel placed the five correct pots on the flower stand, revealing a door and prompting the team to recognize that the trials were designed for the learned.
• After leaving the greenhouse, Rabbit Girl proposed following the old route if they found it and otherwise exploring new ground.
• Angel took the lead and used his abilities to guide Rabbit Hole quickly through two Book Sprite trials and into a Book Demon trial.
• Gray Porcelain joined the Book Demon trial with the team, but the Book Demon selected Rabbit Girl to fight.

Rabbit Girl, Gray Porcelain, and Rabbit Girl’s group collected proverbs by defeating Book Demons, then found the first rift and debated who should stay behind. Angel later discovered that reaching the distant rift would require another trip through the Mechanism Corridor, leaving the group to prepare for the difficult route and a possible meeting with Nomephins.

• Rabbit Girl imprinted the first proverb successfully, and the group inferred that each person could hold up to three proverbs.
• Gray Porcelain agreed to face the next Book Demon alone, defeated it with its Danger Sense talent, and obtained a proverb imprint.
• Angel cleared a Book Sprite trial, Rabbit Girl won the third Book Demon trial, and the group found the first rift in a reading pavilion.
• The group debated how to distribute proverbs and who would stay behind on the first floor, ultimately leaving Rabbit Girl there.
• Angel found a route toward the distant rift and told the group they would likely have to cross the Mechanism Corridor again to reach it.

Angel, Gray Porcelain, and Gabriel cleared the Mechanism Corridor, though Nomephins' Sigh effect had changed. Nomephins revealed that the maxims determined who faced the sealing ritual's trials, leaving Rabbit Hole to decide how to distribute the node positions.

• Angel led Gray Porcelain and Gabriel through the unchanged early puzzles in the Mechanism Corridor.
• Gray Porcelain passed Nomephins' maze trial despite receiving six different Sigh effects, including Slippery Feet for Angel.
• Gray Porcelain asked Nomephins about the maxims and learned they represented nine anchors assigned to four white knowledge trials, four black battle trials, and one golden trial against the Demon God's divine thought.
• Angel told Rabbit Hole that he had to take the golden node position to achieve a perfect seal, while Rabbit Girl offered to take two white positions.
• Angel left Gray Porcelain and Gabriel to discuss whether to split the remaining black positions evenly or assign them one and three.

Angel, Gabriel, and Gray Porcelain divided the aphorism trials, gathered all hidden information, and closed the Echo Library’s three rifts. The library opened paths of light toward the All-Knowing Prison Hall, where the Cruel Scholar’s divine thought awaited.

• Angel assigned Gabriel three black aphorisms, Gray Porcelain one black aphorism, and himself one gold and two white aphorisms.
• Gabriel gathered three aphorisms on the second floor and stayed behind to guard its rift while Angel and Gray Porcelain continued to the Void Floor.
• Angel collected the final aphorisms, unlocking background information that identified the sealed being as a strand of the Cruel Scholar’s divine thought.
• Angel, Gray Porcelain, Gabriel, and the Rabbit Girl closed the three rifts at the same time.
• A gilded pillar of light rose through the Echo Library, and three illuminated paths appeared, guiding the team toward the Land of Finality.

Angel, Gray Porcelain, Rabbit Girl, and Gabriel entered the All-Knowing Prison Hall and learned they had less than two hours to arrange a new seal for the Cruel Scholar’s divine consciousness. Angel realized that only the hidden objective—a perfect seal of the Cruel Scholar’s body, heart, and intent—would keep Dream Crystal Plain safe, and the group began searching the hall for clues.

• Gray Porcelain overcame its fear and stepped into the pillar of light, then Angel, Rabbit Girl, and Gabriel followed it into the All-Knowing Prison Hall.
• Gray Porcelain landed in a circular hall and saw a dangerous cocoon of light wrapped in books at its center.
• The Text Panel revealed that the Cruel Scholar’s divine consciousness was repairing itself and that Team Rabbit Hole had to activate a new sealing ritual array before the countdown expired.
• Angel understood that the hidden objective required a perfect seal to prevent the Cruel Scholar from watching Dream Crystal Plain.
• Rabbit Girl searched the hall for the ritual array and noticed a single glowing sheet of paper floating beneath the cocoon of light.

Angel and Rabbit Girl approached the cocoon of light and discovered that the Cruel Scholar’s divine resonance tested their breadth of knowledge, forcing Gabriel and Gray Porcelain to retreat. After Angel and Rabbit Girl reached the floating sheet of paper, it revealed the positions for the sealing ritual array, and Rabbit Girl summoned Gabriel and Gray Porcelain to help arrange it.

• Angel learned from the Text Panel that the information torrents were the Cruel Scholar’s Myriad Phenomena divine resonance, which Gabriel and Gray Porcelain had failed to resist.
• Rabbit Girl told Gabriel and Gray Porcelain to retreat while she and Angel continued toward the cocoon of light, with Angel protecting himself using the power of the Nightmare Realm.
• Angel and Rabbit Girl reached the cocoon and examined the floating sheet of paper, while Gabriel and Gray Porcelain worried they might be unable to help arrange the sealing ritual array.
• Rabbit Girl messaged Gabriel and Gray Porcelain to prepare to arrange the ritual array, and the sheet of paper released a dome of light that revealed nine ritual positions.
• Rabbit Girl explained that the team needed to place ritual implements at the eight outer positions, while the floating sheet of paper already occupied the golden central position.

Angel, Rabbit Girl, Gray Porcelain, and Gabriel searched the hall for fundamental-theorem books to complete the sealing ritual array and assign its trial positions. With the array ready and the countdown running, Rabbit Girl instructed them to choose their positions and begin the challenges.

• Rabbit Girl explained that books containing fundamental theorems were needed to activate the array's positions, and Angel described how to identify them.
• Gray Porcelain and Gabriel tested books in the outer circles while Angel and Rabbit Girl searched for foundational works.
• Angel placed Species Birth Song in an inner circle, revealing a black combat-trial position, and Rabbit Girl moved it to an outer circle so Gray Porcelain and Gabriel could handle the combat trials.
• Angel, Rabbit Girl, Gabriel, and Gray Porcelain found the remaining fundamental-theorem books and completed the array with four black outer positions, one white outer position, three white inner positions, and a gold center.
• Rabbit Girl assigned the four black positions to Gabriel and Gray Porcelain, kept the other positions for herself and Angel, and told everyone to place an imprinted aphorism to activate their challenges.

Gabriel began the Species Birth Song challenge and faced a whip-wielding female demon who summoned Abyssal creatures. After she sacrificed six Little Demons to call forth a young Daoqiong Mojie, Angel recognized the formidable demon and wondered why a Blood-Scent Succubus was using summons.

• Angel gave Gabriel an illusion puppet containing a Nightmare Illusion Node as a failsafe, and Gabriel entered the black-mist halo to begin his challenge.
• The challenge transported Gabriel to a white arena, where a female demon appeared and summoned a bone-winged demon and five Little Demons.
• Gabriel used illusion arrows to kill the five Little Demons, but their corpses and the bone-winged demon empowered the female demon's whip.
• The female demon used the empowered whip to summon a gigantic Daoqiong Mojie, which Gabriel recognized.
• Angel told Gray Porcelain and Rabbit Girl that Daoqiong Mojie could become a Formal Wizard-level demon, then wondered why the Blood-Scent Succubus had begun summoning creatures.

Angel and Rabbit Girl questioned why the Blood-Scent Succubus used summoning instead of her expected blood-scent abilities, while Gabriel continued fighting. Rabbit Girl entered the knowledge trial, where she found a wizard-level giant and entered a study to seek clues, but the chapter ended with her unable to speak and stuck in an unhelpful dialogue exchange.

• Rabbit Girl explained that Blood-Scent Succubi relied on blood scent, leaving Angel and her puzzled by the succubus Gabriel faced and her summoning abilities.
• Rabbit Girl entered the silver-lit knowledge challenge while Gabriel continued fighting Daoqiong Mojie and Gray Porcelain prepared for the black point challenge.
• Rabbit Girl found a sleeping wizard-level giant in a black chamber and chose to enter the study painting to look for clues rather than awaken it.
• In the study, Rabbit Girl met a human-looking figure who wrote in demon script and discovered that the Text Panel had silenced her and restricted her to dialogue choices.
• Rabbit Girl asked for materials, but the figure told her to find them herself, leaving her frustrated by the pointless exchange.

Rabbit Girl searched the study inside the painting for three books that could help with the troll, but Angel warned that the obvious books about breaking the Triangular Magic Array might be a trap. Angel proposed that the books would provide stars to place in the array’s three core nodes, though he had not yet explained what that would accomplish.

• The young man explained that Rabbit Girl could take only three books, and that each book’s demon-script cipher was known only to its author.
• After the young man finished guiding her, Rabbit Girl searched the shelves and found three books about understanding, studying, and cracking the Triangular Magic Array.
• Rabbit Girl worried that breaking the array would release the troll and possibly provoke it, so she contacted Angel for advice.
• Angel explained that the array restricted the troll’s movements and used runes to calm its emotions, making a violent outburst likely if it was freed.
• Angel told Rabbit Girl that the three array books would likely give her three stars for the array’s core nodes, but he suggested the stars could have another use besides breaking the array.

Angel and Rabbit Girl deduced that the trial’s embedded item had to counter the ice troll from Nierting, leading Rabbit Girl to choose the Flame-Pattern Gemstone. After obtaining its passwords and exchanging them for the gemstone, she was left in the black space holding it as the painting turned blank.

• Angel explained that the Triangle Magic Array’s embedded items could alter its effects, and he and Rabbit Girl concluded that the trial would lead to a battle with the troll.
• Rabbit Girl recognized that the troll came from the icy region of Nierting and reasoned that a fire-type item could weaken it.
• Angel identified a golden flame gemstone in the hidden space, and Rabbit Girl matched it to the three books about the Young Fire Demon and its Fire-Pattern Demon form.
• Rabbit Girl rejected the young man’s suggestion to choose a different book series and received the passwords for the three fire-related books.
• The study collapsed into ink as Rabbit Girl was expelled from the painting, whereupon she exchanged the passwords for the Flame-Pattern Gemstone.
• Rabbit Girl took the gemstone, and the painting faded to a blank sheet of paper.

Rabbit Girl weakened the giant demon with the Fire-Pattern Gemstone while Angel began a challenge involving twelve cages and their dangerous inhabitants. When Angel asked Rabbit Girl to identify the first cage’s world, she recognized it as the Savage World, leaving him with the answer to his first question.

• Rabbit Girl placed the Fire-Pattern Gemstone in the triangular magic array, weakening the sleeping giant demon, and then prepared to search the other paintings for more inlays.
• Angel entered his challenge and learned from a Fire Luo examiner that he had to identify the original worlds of twelve cages or fight the creatures released for wrong answers.
• The examiner revealed the first cage, where Angel found a venomous python nearly at wizard level in a strange landscape.
• Angel recreated the cage’s scenery for Rabbit Girl, who identified the world as the Savage World from its soil, insects, plants, and violet sky.

Angel passed Madam Huo Luo’s twelve-scene identification test with Rabbit Girl’s help and returned to the great hall. He checked Gray Porcelain and Gabriel’s ongoing battles, then focused on Rabbit Girl’s side.

• Angel identified the first scene as the Savage World’s Violet Hour, then identified the Southern Wizarding World after Rabbit Girl pointed out the local Flame Footworms.
• Rabbit Girl supplied the answers to the remaining scenes, while Angel recognized the Day Mirror Domain, and they completed all twelve identifications in under seven minutes.
• Madam Huo Luo congratulated Angel, and the trial vanished as he returned to the great hall, where the transformed white halo displayed a praying follower of the Cruel Scholar.
• Angel saw Gray Porcelain fighting a Half-Body Demon and judged that Gray Porcelain was steadily dodging its attacks while probing its patterns.
• Angel checked Gabriel’s battle against the Blood-Scent Succubus and saw that Gabriel had gained the advantage, then turned his attention to Rabbit Girl’s side.

Rabbit Girl entered a glowing pool and learned from Angel that an underwater formation kept active elemental gemstones in balance. Angel guided her through rearranging the gemstones so she could take a fire gemstone, and the chapter ended as Rabbit Girl discovered the formation was called the Ascension Ritual.

• Rabbit Girl entered the second painting and found a glowing pool whose energy radiation had killed villagers who visited it.
• Angel identified an underwater formation that balanced active gemstones of different attributes and explained that removing one without rearranging the formation would cause an explosion.
• Angel instructed Rabbit Girl to move specific gemstones in order to establish a new balance and retrieve the brightest fire gemstone.
• Rabbit Girl dove into the pool and began following Angel's instructions, but paused when the Text Panel revealed the gemstones had been left by followers of the Cruel Scholar.
• Rabbit Girl learned that the formation was called the Ascension Ritual and had been bestowed upon the Cruel Scholar's followers.

Rabbit Girl solved the third oil painting’s secret-chamber puzzle with Angel’s guidance and chose the Fire Crow Gemstone. She placed it in the final socket, and the three fire gemstones destroyed the frost giant before it could awaken.

• Rabbit Girl rearranged the pool’s energy gemstones, took the Flame Gemstone, and added it to the triangular magic array, further weakening the giant.
• Rabbit Girl entered the third painting, where Angel identified the wall patterns as incomplete Magic Rune Horns and guided her to the matching floor-tile piece.
• Rabbit Girl fitted the piece into the Gaze of the Bright-Fire White Crow pattern and retrieved the Fire Crow Gemstone from the wall.
• Rabbit Girl chose the Fire Crow Gemstone, returned from the now-blank painting, and placed it in the array’s final socket.
• The three gemstones formed a blazing net around the frost giant, which melted into ashes without waking, leaving Rabbit Girl astonished.

Rabbit Girl, Angel, and Gabriel cleared knowledge and combat tests, revealing how completed challenges created faith-anchor phantoms around the Cruel Scholar’s sealed consciousness. Angel entered his second knowledge challenge, the Disparity Arena, where a masked referee explained that he would command a weaker contestant against a stronger opponent with amplified weaknesses.

• Rabbit Girl and Angel realized their knowledge tests allowed multiple paths to victory, then saw phantoms of believers appear above the halos they had cleared.
• Rabbit Girl and Angel identified the phantoms as faith anchors for the Cruel Scholar, and Gabriel emerged from a combat test and hurried into another challenge.
• Angel decided to begin his second knowledge challenge while Rabbit Girl stayed behind to observe and offer help.
• Angel entered an arena challenge and met a masked referee who explained the Disparity Arena’s rules.
• The masked referee told Angel that he would command the weaker side, while the stronger side would suffer amplified weaknesses.