Chapter Summaries

Angel returned Babaya’s grandmother to her granddaughter, then traveled with Shadow back to the Surface World after another encounter with Sesserbilas. Meanwhile, Gloria and Felicia explored Angel’s illusion, where Felicia discovered a ghost ship emerging from the fog.

• Angel offered to take Babaya’s grandmother away from Sprout Village, and she chose to leave for the human world despite her frail health.
• Babaya reunited tearfully with her grandmother, while Shadow advised Angel to restrain his kindness toward mortals.
• Angel and Shadow encountered Sesserbilas again beneath the Dome, and Shadow admitted that its gaze had marked him too.
• Shadow explained that the Gami Three Brothers’ door-opening ability came from a bloodline talent granted by Lady Isabella, who had once been closely connected to the Fairy Tale World’s laws.
• Angel and Shadow returned to the Corpse-Hiding Cave, where Shadow repositioned the starving wizard apprentices before they teleported to the Surface World.
• Gloria and Felicia activated Angel’s illusion; Gloria followed Toby inland while Felicia stayed on the beach and watched a ghost ship emerge from the fog.

Felicia explored Angel’s illusion and became concerned when Gloria was frightened into yielding control of her body. Angel returned to the snow-covered Surface World with Shadow and Naga, released the controlled apprentices, and went back to his villa in Bay District.

• Felicia explored the ghost ship’s cabins, experienced an illusion of her soul leaving her body, and praised Angel’s detailed illusion.
• A scream abruptly ended the illusion, and Felicia found Gloria trembling after throwing the feather earring aside.
• Gloria yielded control of her body to another girl, and Felicia took the earring to her bedroom, planning to investigate the illusion further.
• Angel emerged from the Corpse-Hiding Cave into a snow-covered Grudgeful Forest and found Shadow teasing Naga.
• Shadow released the apprentices he had controlled, and Angel returned to Watergrass, gave Shadow money, and went to his villa in Bay District.

Felicia’s illusion revealed that the frozen-time sensation in the mountain interior recalled Gloria’s traumatic memories of the Nightmare Realm. Gloria resolved to retrieve the body she had hidden there, believing she needed it to preserve her chance to advance, and identified Sanders as the guide who could help her return.

• Felicia explored the harbor town and mountain interior in the illusion, then found Gloria had interrupted it because the frozen-time sensation had brought back memories of the Nightmare Realm.
• Gloria told Felicia that she had encountered beings far beyond legendary rank, escaped after separating her spirit from her body, and hidden her body on an island in the Nightmare Realm.
• Gloria declared that she intended to return and retrieve her body, despite Felicia’s warnings about the danger.
• Gloria explained that taking over her current body would mean abandoning her past and losing her chance to advance.
• Gloria said she needed Sanders as a guide because she believed he could enter the Nightmare Realm, possibly using Twisted Baworm as the medium.

Angel traveled aboard Gondola with Shadow, Naga, and Dodolo, while he studied the illusion cantrip Fear Spell and considered combining it with Nightmare Illusion. He decided Grandma Babaya could teach Dodolo during the journey, hoping the lessons would help him become more comfortable around others.

• Leonrick begged Shadow to return the shadows he had collected, and Shadow agreed after Naga grew jealous.
• Angel used Nightmare Illusion to silence Shadow, and Naga held him still while Angel resumed studying.
• Angel focused on Fear Spell and wondered whether Nightmare Illusion could make its induced fears tangible.
• Dodolo woke hungry, and Angel brought him food and reflected on his shyness around strangers.
• Angel spotted Grandma Babaya reading to the Kula Kuka children and decided to ask her to teach Dodolo.

Angel and Shadow reached Silent Hill and found its hidden entrance, then encountered the strange gatekeeper Talos. Talos let them enter after Shadow invoked his mentor, revealing a thriving settlement beyond the illusion.

• Shadow learned from Naga that Dodolo had unusually high spiritual power and was likely gifted, while Angel kept Dodolo's background secret.
• Shadow calculated the coordinates of Silent Hill's shifting entrance, and Angel stored Dodolo and Babaya's grandmother in his bracelet before they entered the Middle World.
• Shadow and Angel crossed through a man-eating flower that served as the entrance, while Naga entered the Middle World through her own power.
• Shadow led Angel to Silent Hill's illusion-covered black ridge and introduced him to the two-faced stone gatekeeper, Talos.
• Talos agreed to let Shadow and Angel enter for the sake of Shadow's mentor, opening a path toward Silent Hill's buildings.

Angel reached Silent Hill with Shadow, settled near the mobile market, and studied the Fear Spell while Shadow met with his mentor. Shadow later hurried Angel out after realizing Isabella had heard about him and would seek revenge, but Isabella found them through the Mind Tether.

• Shadow explained that Talos was Silent Hill’s gatekeeper and brought Angel to a room near the mobile market’s Sky Tower.
• Shadow left to meet his mentor, then returned at night and urgently told Angel to leave Silent Hill.
• Shadow revealed that Isabella had overheard him mention bringing a friend and might have identified Angel as the person who shattered her consciousness thread.
• Shadow warned that Isabella hated Angel’s golden hair and jade eyes, while his mentor might also target him because of his own obsession with those features.
• Isabella’s voice entered the Mind Tether and challenged Shadow for calling her a madwoman.

Isabella intercepted Angel and Shadow and nearly killed Angel after punishing Shadow for insulting her. Angel’s attempt to escape with the Nightmare Domain failed, while Talos recognized its connection to Phantom Demon and decided to sell the story to wizard magazines.

• Isabella appeared before Angel and Shadow, then struck Shadow down for speaking badly about her.
• Isabella restrained Angel and threatened to remove his eyes, while Shadow pleaded for his life and called him an outstanding alchemist.
• Isabella lowered Angel when Shadow mentioned that he had touched the mysterious realm, and Angel used the opening to summon his Nightmare Domain.
• Isabella blasted Angel away and dispersed the Nightmare Domain before he could use it to escape.
• Talos watched the confrontation, recognized Phantom Demon’s aura in the Nightmare Domain, and chose to sell the news rather than warn Isabella.

A mysterious wizard learned that Diablo had been badly injured by Isabella and recognized something valuable in the memories Dudu showed him. Meanwhile, Shadow rescued Angel from Isabella by having Naga hold her off, then sent Angel fleeing into the night while he headed for his mentor’s tower.

• At his tower, the wizard was preparing to modify a mermaid when Tuya arrived with Dudu and reported that Isabella had seriously injured Diablo.
• The wizard used a green-glowing finger to view Dudu’s memories and became excited by what he saw.
• After destroying Angel’s Nightmare Domain, Isabella brutally beat him and prepared to kill him.
• Naga blocked Isabella’s strike with her shield while Shadow grabbed Angel and ran into the forest.
• Shadow healed Angel and told him to use invisibility to escape, explaining that he was repaying his favor.
• Angel activated Boundless Silence and vanished into the night as Shadow ran toward his mentor’s wizard tower.

Angel tried to escape Isabella by erasing his tracks and circling through the forest, while Isabella captured Shadow and Naga. Angel reached the main road and chose his next move as Shadow watched Isabella encase Naga’s head in a blood sphere and finally cursed her.

• Angel noticed his tracks in the forest, changed direction, and heard Isabella torturing Shadow after she caught him.
• Angel saw Isabella carrying Naga’s head and the battered Shadow, then continued circling toward the main road.
• Isabella mocked Shadow for failing to protect Angel and said she could kill him even if Bogula were nearby.
• Angel calculated that the main road was safer than crossing the forest’s edge and decided to take it as his strength and concentration waned.
• Naga awoke and apologized to Shadow, but Isabella sealed her head in a blood sphere as a collectible.
• Shadow suppressed his anger and grief until he called Isabella an old witch.

Isabella nearly killed Shadow, but Bogula intervened and saved him, while Talos kept the gate closed. Angel reached Silent Hill’s boundary but discovered its illusion prevented him from escaping, leaving Talos as his only apparent way out.

• Isabella attacked Shadow after he provoked her, but Bogula intervened at the last moment and wounded her hand, saving Shadow.
• Dudu caught Shadow as he fell, and Tuya gave him a Glowing Velvet Potion to treat his bleeding head.
• Bogula confronted Isabella and asked where the blonde, blue-eyed beauty had gone, while Isabella concealed her jealousy of Angel.
• Talos debated whether to open Silent Hill’s gate, but Isabella and Bogula both demanded that he keep it closed.
• Shadow sent Tuya to find Naga’s body and went to witness a friend’s ending.
• Angel tried to cross Silent Hill’s boundary, but its illusion turned him back and left Talos as his only apparent escape route.

Angel was trapped by Isabella’s attack in Silent Hill, but Bogula rescued him and fought Isabella. Bogula offered to save Angel if he submitted, and Angel realized he intended to turn him into a puppet.

• Angel found Talos pretending to sleep and decided to return toward the floating market when Talos would not open the gate.
• Isabella trapped Angel in a blood-red barrier, revealed him with blood, and sent a giant blood beast’s attack at him.
• Angel constructed and cast Wind Tornado, but Bogula’s Magic Hands pulled him away from the blood sphere at the last moment.
• Isabella used Angel’s blood to inflict a blood curse, and Bogula sent two blond, blue-eyed sisters to attack her and interrupt the curse.
• Bogula offered to save Angel if he submitted, and Angel recognized him as Diablo’s mentor and suspected he wanted to refine him into a puppet.

Angel faced Bogula’s offer to turn him into a puppet while Isabella prepared a bloodline curse, and Shadow’s silent warning led him to suspect Isabella was the real danger. Isabella revealed she had been gathering power for Blood Ritual, forcing Bogula to flee while Angel was left in the spell’s path.

• Bogula offered to preserve Angel’s consciousness by refining him into a puppet, while Angel struggled to choose between submission and death.
• Shadow arrived and shook his head at Angel, leaving Angel to wonder whether he was warning him against Bogula’s offer.
• Isabella began a bloodline curse, and Bogula gave Angel thirty seconds to decide before the curse made him useless as a puppet.
• Angel used Super Calculation to reconsider Shadow’s warning and suspected it concerned Isabella rather than his choice of master.
• Isabella revealed that she had been gathering power for Blood Ritual, and Bogula fled into the void, dispelling his Magic Hand and dropping Angel to the ground.
• Isabella unleashed the massive spell, leaving Angel motionless and on the verge of being reduced to dust.

Angel stopped Isabella's Blood Ritual by claiming her mentor, Isabella, had returned to the Southern Region and proving it with convincing illusions. After Angel collapsed, Shadow persuaded Isabella to spare him and began explaining how Angel had saved her mentor, while Bogula took the unconscious Angel into his care.

• Angel imitated Mentor Isabella's voice, then told Isabella that her mentor had returned to the Southern Region.
• Angel created illusions of Isabella and a memory involving the Soul-Severing Murmur, convincing Isabella to suspend and withdraw the Blood Ritual.
• Angel collapsed from exhaustion, and Isabella lifted him by the throat to demand the full story before Shadow intervened.
• Shadow told Isabella that Angel had saved her mentor and offered to explain everything in exchange for the Naga's head.
• Isabella spared Angel and allowed Bogula to catch him, then asked Shadow why Angel had saved her mentor.

Shadow convinced the gathered wizards that Angel had encountered the mysterious and that Isabella had returned to the Southern Region, though his account mixed truth with speculation. Isabella left to return home, while Talos decided Silent Hill would not move against her yet and judged Angel beyond its grasp.

• Shadow told the gathered wizards his account of Angel, the Mystic Spirit, and Isabella's return, and their lie-detection spells confirmed he had not knowingly lied.
• Isabella warned Shadow not to lie, returned Naga's head, and left Silent Hill as a blood bat to find the injured Isabella.
• Shadow asked Bogula whether Naga could be saved, and Bogula said Shadow would need to become an official wizard to awaken her.
• Talos dismissed calls to attack Isabella, then sent Oroba to visit Yuedi Temisa and test the situation around her.
• Talos rejected the idea of intercepting Angel, saying Silent Hill could not hold onto him, and wondered what Bogula would do with him.

Angel woke in Silent Hill after Bogula left, learned Shadow intended to help him escape, and revealed that he planned to stay in Sky Mechanical City. Meanwhile, Promi and David discussed Angel’s disappearance before Nausicaa and Serum arrived at the alchemy shop.

• Angel woke with his hair scorched by fire elementals, shaved his head, and thanked Shadow for supposedly helping him deal with Isabella.
• Shadow explained that Bogula would not force Angel to agree to become his puppet, warned that Bogula might try to persuade him, and said they would leave for Sky Mechanical City the next morning.
• Angel told Shadow he did not plan to leave Sky Mechanical City soon and handed him a concealed Sky Tower information card, prompting Shadow to suspect he wanted to enter Purification Garden.
• At Promi Alchemy Shop, David completed a Tang saber with a sharpness effect, and Promi praised his work while comparing it with Angel’s.
• Promi and David reflected on Angel’s unexplained disappearance from Savage Cave, and Nausicaa and Serum arrived at the shop.

Nausicaa prepared to travel to Sky Mechanical City under a wizard’s protection, while Sanders learned that Deep Sea Song had joined Lord Monchi’s plan and considered a possible link to a demon god’s true name. The chapter left Nausicaa hoping to meet Angel in Sky Mechanical City and Sanders preparing to investigate changes to Purification Garden.

• Serum and David discussed missing Angel, and Nausicaa reminded them that their friends were free to leave and travel wherever they wished.
• Nausicaa bought potions from Promi and told David and Serum that a wizard had accepted their shelter mission and summoned them to Sleepless City in a week.
• David and Serum asked Nausicaa to greet Angel if she encountered him in Sky Mechanical City, since he had also qualified to enter Purification Garden.
• Flora told Sanders that Deep Sea Song had joined Lord Monchi’s plan and recalled a heretic’s claim that the group possessed a secret treasure connected to a demon god’s true name.
• Sanders said he had accepted the shelter mission to buy materials in Sky City and investigate changes to Purification Garden.

Tana and Alan received a letter from their mentor about Purification Garden, while the Extreme Sect and others prepared for the event in Sky Mechanical City. On the way there, Loki disobeyed Hermes by using Little White to save Horseshoe Town from raiders, and the pair continued toward the city after the townspeople feared Loki.

• A mechanical bird delivered the mentor's letter to Tana and Alan, who learned that Purification Garden would open in Sky Mechanical City during the Month of Revival.
• The Black-Robed Bishop announced that apprentices at the Extreme Sect's training gardens would have to win deadly contests to claim places in Purification Garden.
• Saladin Bu'er won the first training garden's death matches and received a card from the Black-Robed Bishop, who said the event in Sky Mechanical City might become a slaughterhouse.
• Hermes caught Loki wrecking buildings in Horseshoe Town and made him apologize, but sand raiders arrived before the townspeople could settle the damages.
• When Hermes refused to interfere, Loki sent Little White to kill the raiders, but the rescued townspeople recoiled from him; Hermes then led Loki toward Sky Mechanical City, where their mentor had already arrived.

Several powerful figures traveled toward Sky Mechanical City, while Xilia waited for a group arriving from Silent Hill in Fairy Tale World. The group materialized in the teleportation array, and Xilia’s covert contact was already inside the Teleportation Hall.

• A blue-scaled young man decided to travel to the Purification Garden after learning Man Yin planned to go there.
• Man Yin left Elysian Pure Land, saying she was going to kill someone, while the Greenfield Wanderer and other geniuses also set out for Sky Mechanical City.
• The chapter described Yirong Kingdom’s influence and Sky Mechanical City’s role as a major alchemical and trade hub.
• Xilia learned that six living entities were coming from Silent Hill and secretly alerted someone in the Teleportation Hall.
• A man in a coffee-brown trench coat and gray felt hat signaled Xilia, and the group from Silent Hill appeared in the teleportation array.

Angel arrived in Sky Mechanical City with Bogula’s group and explored the city’s crowded, magic-powered streets. Bogula again tried to tempt Angel into becoming his magic puppet, while Shadow used the city’s security system to put Falga on a watchlist after Falga tried to attack him.

• Angel examined the Teleportation Hall and noticed that attendant Xilia watched him strangely, though he did not know she had completed a mission involving him.
• Shadow explained that the black-clad youth was Falga, and the group left the hall to enter Sky Mechanical City.
• Bogula offered Angel anything he wanted if he agreed to become a magic puppet, but Angel said he needed nothing.
• Bogula flew away after ordering Diablo to take everyone to his fortress, while Shadow promised to help Angel escape.
• Falga challenged Shadow and sent bats to attack him, but a Magic-Energy Eye warned Falga that he would be expelled if he continued casting.
• Shadow pretended he had only been fixing his collar and asked the Magic-Energy Eye to watch Falga, leaving Falga furious and Angel confused.

Angel arrived at Bogula’s fortress with Shadow, Tuya, and Falga, while Shadow explained Sky Mechanical City and warned Angel about the dangers and expectations surrounding his growing reputation. Shadow planned to seek a place where Angel could hide and urged him to decide what to do about the Purification Garden before Bogula returned.

• Shadow told Angel that Falga resented his growing fame after formal wizards had tried to visit him.
• Shadow explained Sky Mechanical City’s front and reverse sides and the rules against fighting in the main district.
• Angel and the others reached Bogula’s fortress, where Shadow sent Falga to a guest room with the Mana Eye butler Kaza.
• Tuya asked Angel to make clothes for Dudu after spotting Toby, and Shadow scolded Tuya for trying to obtain an alchemical item without offering anything in exchange.
• Shadow showed Angel to a temporary bedroom, warned him not to let Dodolo out, and said he would look for a place where Angel could hide.
• Shadow urged Angel to consider the Purification Garden and make a decision before Bogula returned from handling a major matter.