Chapter Summaries

Angel and Luigi connected the Uriel Instance’s early abnormal weather to Wonderland Authority’s actions half an hour before the vortex appeared. They concluded that Wonderland Authority had used the Stasis Zone to intercept Ligota while secretly targeting Blanche’s Dream Design, and Angel explained that it had anchored Blanche with a Legal Identity because it could not take her talent outright.

• Luigi connected the Uriel Instance’s abnormal weather to unforeseen changes and noticed it had appeared long before the vortex.
• Angel realized the weather began half an hour before the Authorities boiled over, showing that Wonderland Authority had acted earlier than he had assumed.
• Angel and Luigi deduced that Wonderland Authority had built the Stasis Zone to intercept Ligota as she tried to enter the instance.
• Angel argued that Blanche’s Dream Design, not Ligota, was what Wonderland Authority truly wanted, since the talent could rival or surpass fundamental powers such as the Text Rules.
• Angel explained that Wonderland Authority had granted Blanche a Legal Identity to anchor her, but could not take her Dream Design outright.

Angel explained to Luigi that Wonderland Authority had trapped Blanche into using her mystery-class Dream Design talent in the Boundary Wall Zone so it could analyze it. In Dawn’s Dream, Juanjuan connected several of the nine stone-pillar images to Dawn City, and the group began investigating the remaining anchors.

• Angel told Luigi that Wonderland Authority had used the Stasis Zone and the false rejection of stowaways to pressure Blanche into using Dream Design near the Dream Crystal Plain.
• Luigi asked why Blanche had received a Legal Identity, and Angel explained that it kept her anchored while avoiding the risk of forcing her to use Dream Design during ordinary visits.
• Luigi tried to enter Dawn’s Dream through the Tree Door’s vortex again, but it still did not react.
• Angel looked into Dawn’s Dream and saw everyone gathered around Juanjuan, who had identified clues about the nine anchors.
• Blanche explained that Sun-Moon Rotation, Nightfall Cold Raven, and Cosmic Tower each represented Dawn City, leading the group to consider whether the other pillars did as well.

The group deduced that the nine stone pillars represented Dawn City but needed nine living participants to activate them as anchors. They searched for a personal correspondence with each pillar, leaving the ritual nearly complete when the chapter ended.

• Camilo, Glaimo, and the others identified eight pillar images as symbols connected to Dawn City, while Juanjuan reasoned that the pillars were incomplete anchors requiring nine participants as intermediaries.
• Juanjuan proposed that each person choose a pillar and seek a sense of resonance with it; Angel observed that the nine participants and nine pillars confirmed her theory.
• Mr. Sun sensed a connection with the Sun and Moon Pillar, and Juanjuan concluded that each person had an exclusive corresponding pillar.
• Ms. Moon, Juanjuan, Blanche, and Camilo found their pillars through meditation, corresponding to Dusk Crow, Fairy, Sinking Dream, and Lonely Peak.
• Blanche taught Shi En, Ligota, Uriel, and Glaimo how to meditate, and they found the Torrent, Cloudwind, High Tower, and Ancient Tree Pillars, respectively.

The ritual transformed the Box Garden into a mist-shrouded Dawn City and carried each pillar and its person to a matching location. Blanche found herself in a theater and recognized Dawn City outside, while Angel watched the Instance take shape and its boundary form.

• The mist filled the hall, and Juanjuan warned everyone to stay by their pillars while the ritual continued moving them apart.
• Blanche was separated from the others and waited beside the Sinking Dream Pillar as the mist thinned around her.
• Blanche found herself on a theater stage, waited for further changes, then looked through a window and recognized Dawn City.
• Angel watched the Box Garden dissolve into mist and become a city, with Juanjuan, the Sun and Moon Wizards, Blanche, and the others carried to locations matching their pillars.
• The nine pillars settled across Dawn City, and golden beams formed a dome around the Instance as its inhabitants received a Wonderland notification.

Blanche explored Dreamsunk Theater, discovered that the mist-covered Dawn City contained beams linked to the pillars, and learned that Dawn’s Dream was a special area sustained by nine anchors. The chapter left her understanding that Anchor Managers could earn Dawn Points by guiding Dream Guests into the area, though she had not yet found the Dawn Store.

• Blanche touched the Sinking Dream Pillar, briefly resonated with its beam, and glimpsed buildings and other beams through the mist.
• Blanche explored Dreamsunk Theater and reasoned that the pillars might lead their managers to places associated with their images.
• Blanche stepped into Dawn City and found the city buried in unusual mist that reminded her of dream mist.
• Blanche spotted a beam rising from the River of Troubles and suspected that it belonged to Priest Sion.
• Blanche read the Text Panel and learned that Dawn’s Dream had nine anchors, Dream Bubbles, Dream Guests, and Dawn Points that could sustain the area and be spent at its store.

Blanche investigated how to leave Dawn’s Dream and reached the River of Troubles, where she reunited with Shi En. They worried that Ligota might have been placed in the sky, but Lianlian’s search found no pillars suspended above the city.

• Blanche questioned how anyone could leave Dawn’s Dream, then headed toward the pillar of light at the River of Troubles.
• Angel examined Dawn’s Dream and concluded that the Wonderland Authority had built the unstable instance from Dream Power using Blanche’s Dream Design talent.
• Blanche summoned Lianlian to search for Shi En, and the bird found him soaked on the riverbank after he had fallen into the river.
• Blanche worried that Ligota’s Cloudwind Anchor might have placed her in the sky, so she sent Lianlian to check the pillars’ locations.
• Lianlian returned and reported that no pillars were suspended in midair, easing Blanche and Shi En’s fears for the others.

Blanche and Shi En regrouped with Uriel, Mr. Sun, and Glaimo in Dawn’s Dream, then used Love-Love to locate the remaining anchors. Lianlian discovered abnormal mist near Uriel’s home on Mullen Street, so the group changed course to investigate it while heading toward the Suburban Manor.

• Blanche and Shi En followed Lianlian through Dawn City, and Blanche gave Shi En dry clothes from Snow Owl’s Wardrobe.
• Blanche and Shi En met Uriel near the Tower Anchor, and Uriel joined them to search for the others.
• Uriel and Love-Love guided the group to Mr. Sun and Glaimo, who shared what they knew about the anchors’ locations.
• Love-Love located the Cloudwind, Dusk Crow, and Fairy pillars, and Glaimo marked them on a map of Dawn City.
• Lianlian pointed out abnormal mist above Mullen Street near Uriel’s home, and Mr. Sun proposed investigating it on the way to the Suburban Manor.

The group investigated the motionless fog and followed the living wind toward Uriel’s courtyard, where Angel guided them into Black Stock Building. Angel discovered that the Uriel Instance was merging into Dawn’s Dream, leaving Luigi and the courtyard as unreachable phantom images.

• Blanche suggested that Dawn’s Dream was a dream region with dream mist, but Glaimo pointed out that the Dream Crystal Plain was already inside a dream.
• The group entered Mullen Street and found the wind growing stronger toward Uriel’s courtyard until they could no longer advance.
• Angel guided the group through the gale into Black Stock Building, where they found him on the sixth floor looking toward Uriel’s courtyard.
• Angel recalled seeing Luigi in the courtyard as a phantom image and discovered that he could not contact him.
• Angel searched the Sea of Authority Information and learned that the Uriel Instance was merging into Dawn’s Dream, and that Luigi was safe until the merge finished.

Angel entered Dawn's Dream to investigate the merging Uriel Instance and discovered that reality invading the dream caused the violent weather around Mullen Street. As the merger neared its peak, he brought Blanche and the others to safety in the Black Stock Building, where Mr. Sun introduced himself.

• Angel forced his way into Dawn's Dream and discovered that dream power allowed people to enter and leave freely.
• Angel used his Dream Gate authority to arrive near Mullen Street and determined that reality invasion was draining dream power and causing the violent weather.
• Angel watched the merging Uriel Courtyard from the Black Stock Building and spotted Blanche and the others struggling through the wind.
• Angel guided Blanche and the others into the building, where they watched the translucent courtyard and wondered why the Uriel Instance was merging with Dawn's Dream.
• Mr. Sun approached Angel and introduced himself as Sun.

Angel formally met Mr. Sun, learned that Peach Heart Theater and other major events had drawn attention to the Southern Region, and granted Mr. Sun access to Wonderland Inscription. Mr. Sun received a torrent of information about the system and thanked Angel, though his frail body left him pale.

• Angel and Mr. Sun formally met, thanked each other for their help, and discussed Luigi and Angel's background as a wizard from the Southern Region.
• Mr. Sun told Angel that the Source World might reconnect its teleportation array to the Southern Region within a few hundred years and revealed that Peach Heart Theater had appeared there.
• Mr. Sun described other major developments in the Southern Region, including the attention of the great will of the myriad planes and Time Thief, while Angel silently recognized his connection to the events.
• Angel realized Mr. Sun wanted to know more about Wonderland Inscription and offered him eligibility to use it.
• Angel opened the Wonderland Inscription Record, sending a torrent of information into Mr. Sun's sea of consciousness; Mr. Sun endured it, turned pale, and thanked Angel.

Angel explained that Dawn's Dream was an open instance entered by possessing Dream Power, and the group deduced they might need to resolve a Dream Bubble and spend Dawn Points at Dawn Store to leave. As they planned to reunite with the others and deal with Luigi's situation, the wind and black mist gathered around Uriel Courtyard, signaling that its merging with Dawn's Dream was advancing.

• Blanche asked Angel how to leave Dawn's Dream, and he explained that it was an open instance with entry conditions tied to Dream Power and that special items could help people leave.
• Angel, Mr. Sun, and the others reasoned that resolving a Dream Bubble would earn Dawn Points, which they might use at Dawn Store to buy permission to leave.
• Glaimo argued that routing the exit through Dawn Points and Dawn Store gave the instance's process a pleasing structure, and the group agreed to seek Dawn Store after earning points.
• Blanche said finding Luigi and reuniting with the others mattered more immediately, and suggested they look for Dawn Store with Lianlian along the way.
• Blanche and the others noticed the weather growing darker and windier, and Angel explained that the wind was concentrating around Uriel Courtyard as reality's incursion there deepened.

Reality intrusion fused Uriel's Choice into Dawn's Dream, creating dangerous rifts and a quest to guide at least five dream guests within four hours. After the group discovered a map of dream bubbles, Mr. Sun entered one at Black Stock Building to investigate.

• The fusion of shared origins ended, making Luigi real in Uriel's courtyard as a violent tornado engulfed the courtyard and Apartment No. 01.
• A random quest tasked Dawn's Dream challengers with guiding at least five dream guests to stabilize anchors and heal rifts before the countdown ended.
• Angel and Mr. Sun explained how dream guests could help mend the damage caused by reality intrusion.
• Shi En showed the group a map of dream bubble locations, and Angel noticed the bubbles had appeared after the fusion.
• The group found a dream bubble on the third floor of Black Stock Building and learned only one person could enter it safely.
• Mr. Sun volunteered to enter the bubble before it disappeared.

Angel stayed behind to observe a Dream Bubble while the others searched for more, and used his god's-eye view to watch Mr. Sun fail to rescue its frightened Dream Guest. Mr. Sun returned after the girl woke and the bubble vanished, leaving Angel with clues about Dream Bubble rules for the team to use.

• Angel gave the group illusory Cyclones that protected them from the wind and let them communicate with him as they searched for other Dream Bubbles.
• Angel used his god's-eye view to observe Mr. Sun inside the Dream Bubble, where a frightened girl repeatedly evaded him.
• The girl became terrified when Mr. Sun tried to approach and grab her, and her fear caused her to wake early and the Dream Bubble to disappear.
• Mr. Sun emerged and told Angel that he had entered the room, tried to speak with the girl, and failed to bring her out.
• Angel concluded that Dream Guests controlled their dreams, the countdown continued while Challengers were inside, and force could make a rescue attempt fail.

Blanche quickly cleared a Small Dream Bubble by using fear and a carefully placed exit to guide its Dream Guest into Dawn's Dream. Angel learned that a Dream Guest had arrived and asked Blanche how she succeeded, while other Dream Bubble attempts remained underway.

• Mr. Sun left to try a Medium Dream Bubble, while Blanche climbed a clock tower and entered a Small Dream Bubble.
• Angel warned Uriel and Glaimo to wait before entering their Dream Bubbles and told them that Ligota was safe; he also checked in with Luigi about the anomaly and the task.
• Angel noticed the task count had risen to one Dream Guest and saw Blanche guiding a cloaked child away from the clock tower Dream Bubble.
• Blanche explained that she had set the exit on the second-floor corridor, then used approaching footsteps and a headless figure to frighten the Dream Guest into choosing the exit.
• Angel asked Blanche how she had cleared the bubble so quickly, and she described how she had driven the Dream Guest downstairs until he charged through the exit.

Blanche explained how she had forced a Dream Guest out of a Dream Bubble and what she learned about countdowns and Dawn Points. Angel shared the information, then entered a Large Dream Bubble to investigate what its size meant.

• Blanche told Angel that she had used Lianlian in a white cloak to frighten a Dream Guest toward the exit, and explained that ordinary guidance could instead awaken a sleeper’s self-awareness through interaction.
• Blanche reported that the Dream Guest’s remaining time matched the Dream Bubble’s countdown, that frightening him had shortened it, and that larger bubbles and longer countdowns could yield more Dawn Points.
• Angel and Blanche decided to leave the Dream Guest alone until he woke, while Angel shared their findings with the others.
• Mr. Sun abandoned a Medium Dream Bubble with only half an hour remaining and went to seek one with a longer countdown, while Angel advised Uriel and Glaimo to wait before exploring.
• Angel chose a Large Dream Bubble with twelve hours left, reached it through a damp culvert near the River of Troubles, and entered it.
• Angel found himself on the Star-Hung Plains amid a dreamlike glow.

Angel entered a dangerous Large Dream Bubble containing a highly lucid Dream Guest and tested how her dream worked. He guided her out safely, earning Dawn Points, and left with new information about the danger of Large Dream Bubbles.

• Angel discovered that a girl in a cartoon-pajama dream had unusually high lucidity and could reshape her dream to attack him.
• The girl repeatedly tried to grab Angel, and he confirmed that objects in the dream could physically injure an intruder.
• Angel used an illusion to distract the girl, investigated the unstable dream environment, and concluded that Large Dream Bubbles lacked dream mist and posed greater danger.
• Angel learned that the girl used lucid dreams to create dates with handsome upperclassmen, then led her through an exit disguised as a flower-framed white door.
• The girl emerged into a culvert in Dawn City, and Angel made himself disappear before she left.
• Angel received 291 Dawn Points for guiding the Dream Guest out and saw that she would remain in Dawn's Dream until her countdown ended.

Mr. Sun cleared a Medium Dream Bubble, and Angel used his account to compare the dangers and strategies of different Dream Bubble sizes. Another Dream Bubble was cleared by Ms. Moon, whose Dream Guest turned out to be a raven, as she headed toward Mullen Street.

• Mr. Sun kicked a leering Dream Guest into the River of Troubles and earned 130 Dawn Points for clearing a Medium Dream Bubble.
• Angel contacted Mr. Sun, learned how he had forced the Dream Guest through the exit, and compared the lucidity, dream mist, danger, and rewards of Small, Medium, and Large Dream Bubbles.
• Angel persuaded Glaimo and Uriel to wait for Blanche and Shi En before attempting Dream Bubbles, since two more clears would complete Same-Source Fusion.
• Angel noticed the Dream Guest count rise to four and determined that Ms. Moon or Camilo had cleared a Dream Bubble, then identified Ms. Moon as the one who had finished.
• Angel found Ms. Moon's Dream Guest wreathed in Dream Power near the manor and discovered it was a raven; Ms. Moon then set out toward Mullen Street.

Camilo brought the fifth Dream Guest into Dawn’s Dream, completing “Same-Source Fusion” and earning Angel 400 Dawn Points. After Shi En explained how an outside interruption had ended his attempt, the group compared Dream Bubble scores, heard how Ms. Moon had befriended a raven Dream Guest, and entered Mullen Street to check on the merging Uriel Instance.

• Camilo guided a dazed woman into Dawn’s Dream, completing “Same-Source Fusion” and bringing the number of Dream Guests to five.
• Angel received 400 Dawn Points and saw that the fog had thickened and the wind had weakened on Mullen Street as the Uriel Instance merged with Dawn’s Dream.
• Shi En told Uriel and Glaimo that his Dream Bubble attempt had ended when the child Dream Guest woke after a parent interrupted his sleep; the group learned that waking-world events could collapse a Dream Bubble.
• Blanche and Mr. Sun helped establish the base scores of Small, Medium, and Large Dream Bubbles as 10, 50, and 100 points, while Angel explained what he had learned about clearing them.
• Ms. Moon arrived and revealed that she had easily befriended a raven Dream Guest in a Large Dream Bubble, then taken him out after nearly half an hour of playing.
• Angel proposed checking the Uriel Courtyard before finding the remaining Anchor Managers, and the group entered fog-shrouded Mullen Street.

The group agreed to search for the other Anchor Managers while looking for the Dawn Store, which Luigi believed could help him activate Dream Trapping Authority. They headed for Tie Wu Alley, where Blanche found more items for Snow Owl's Wardrobe.

• Mr. Sun led the group to Mullen Street, where Angel met Luigi alone in the Travel Cabin and later rejoined the others.
• Blanche confirmed that the apartment building from their old home had appeared in Dawn's Dream, and Angel reassured her that they might find a way out.
• Luigi shared his interlude objective to activate Dream Trapping Authority and explained that he suspected the authority could be obtained from the Dawn Store.
• Angel proposed searching for the other Anchor Managers while keeping an eye out for the Dawn Store, and the group agreed to head toward Tie Wu Alley first.
• Luigi thanked the group for completing the Shared-Origin Fusion task that had freed him from the courtyard.
• Uriel guided the group along Brim Avenue and described its hat shops, while Blanche collected two hats for Snow Owl's Wardrobe.

The group found the Fairy Anchor inside Rumbadi Shop, a concealed wizard gathering place in Tie Wu Alley, where Juanjuan had stayed after discovering fairy writing. Juanjuan identified the writing as belonging to the Flower Moon Fairies and wondered whether Dawn City held the dream honey they used to brew Moon God Mead.

• Glaimo led the group through Tie Wu Alley toward its golden Anchor, and they found the Rumbadi Shop hidden behind a memory-concealing restriction.
• Blanche discovered a hidden space behind the shop's stage, where Juanjuan and the Anchor were waiting.
• Juanjuan explained that it had stayed to investigate fairy writing, which it identified as the writing of the Flower Moon Fairies.
• Juanjuan told the group that the Flower Moon Fairies lived in Cocoroya's Milk Spring Village and brewed Moon God Mead using dream honey gathered from a unique dream.
• Juanjuan wondered whether the Flower Moon Fairies' hidden dream honey source might be in Dawn City rather than Milk Spring Village.