Chapter Summaries

After trading for a Dreamweaver Ant, Angel returned to Flowering Garden and found it had commandeered the Soft-State Worm mother nest to sleep beside Axo's essence blood. He then opened the red-haired woman's parchment and discovered a blueprint for an elaborate jeweled crown whose appearance he was asked to reproduce.

• Angel noticed Little John following him on Manshi Street and used Boundless Silence to slip away.
• Angel returned to Flowering Garden under the moonlight and remembered Jon's hopes of returning to Earth during the Month of Slumber.
• Angel found the Dreamweaver Ant carrying the Soft-State Worm mother nest to Axo's essence blood, where it took a piece and fell asleep.
• Angel confined the Dreamweaver Ant in a small illusion and opened the red-haired woman's parchment.
• Angel saw that the parchment depicted an enchanted crown set with nine pigeon-blood rubies, and realized that reproducing its magical energy array would be difficult.

Angel struggled to identify the magic patterns on a parchment before preparing to enter the Nightmare Realm with Sanders. They arrived in Witch Town, where a huge creature in the fog drove Angel into a desperate flight that ended near a mysteriously lit cabin.

• Angel spent two days comparing fragments of the parchment’s magic patterns and identified only a connection pattern.
• Sanders explained Witch Town’s dangers and landmarks, gave Angel magic-pattern parchment scrolls, and opened a path into the Nightmare Realm with a Twisted Baworm.
• Angel entered Witch Town and found himself surrounded by dense fog, wooden fences, and barely visible buildings.
• Angel flew upward, encountered the shadow of an enormous creature, and was hurled to the ground by its wind.
• Angel fled through the fog using his Gravity Veins and stopped near a wooden cabin whose light shone through the fog.

Angel encountered a lamp-lit cabin repeatedly in Witch Town’s fog and discovered that the castle painting inside changed its viewpoint each time, drawing closer. He suspected the painting might trigger something once its view reached the castle, and decided to risk flying away rather than keep watching.

• Angel peered through the cabin window, saw a gold-framed painting of a moonlit castle, and recoiled from the terror it stirred in him.
• Angel found that his magic-pattern leather scrolls and bracelet were weightless illusions, then encountered the same cabin again and again in the fog.
• After entering the cabin, Angel found no hidden passage and noticed the painting seemed subtly different, then left and soon found himself back there.
• Angel noticed the cabin door had closed and confirmed that the painting’s viewpoint had moved closer to the castle.
• Angel repeatedly returned to the cabin despite running in different directions, watched the painting draw closer, and decided to try flying upward.

Angel repeatedly entered the looping wooden cabin and watched a painting reveal an aged witch, who opened a spatial gate and tried to kill him. He fled into the mist, while the witch realized he had already been marked by something growing on his back.

• Angel repeatedly tried to fly above the mist but was thrown back because the Nightmare Realm reached only one hundred meters high.
• Angel returned to the wooden cabin and entered it repeatedly, watching the painting's perspective advance toward a decaying castle.
• Angel saw a young blonde woman in a bedroom portrait become a middle-aged witch, then an aged witch who stared at him.
• The aged witch crawled out of the portrait's inner scene and opened a spatial gate, releasing a powerful aura as she threatened Angel.
• Angel fled into the mist, and the witch stayed behind, realizing that green patterns had begun growing on his back.

Angel was trapped in Witch Town by the old witch, who tried to invade his soul, but a mysterious figure intervened and helped expel the witch’s power. Sanders sensed Angel’s danger and rushed to the cabin, arriving just after the witch fled.

• The emerald mark on Angel’s back sent soul power through an unknown connection, awakening a figure in an azure ice coffin within a manor in the Nightmare Realm.
• Angel ran through the fog but kept returning to the cabin, then entered the mist again to stall for time while hoping Sanders would find him.
• The old witch appeared in a gale, immobilized Angel, and forced her wizard-level soul into his body.
• A golden-haired figure with crimson eyes appeared and frightened the old witch into fleeing; the figure’s fragrance helped expel the witch’s energy from Angel’s soul, and Angel collapsed unconscious.
• Sanders sensed Angel’s Gravity Veins and a powerful wizard’s aura, rushed toward the cabin, saw the witch’s cloak vanish inside it, and found Angel behind the cabin.

Angel woke from a dream to find his right hand transformed, with elongated fingers, green patterns, and a corporeal form in the Nightmare Realm. Sanders suspected the long-haired figure who met Angel in the dream was a projection of Angel himself and had drawn or merged Angel’s hand into the Nightmare Realm.

• Angel dreamed of meeting a long-haired figure behind a door and touching their icy hand before Sanders woke him.
• Sanders questioned Angel about the dream and his encounter with a wooden cabin and an aged witch in Witch Town.
• Angel discovered that his right hand had longer fingers than his left, bore faintly glowing green patterns, and had become corporeal.
• Sanders said he had seen the long-haired figure merge with or pull Angel’s right hand into the Nightmare Realm, and warned Angel not to use it.
• Sanders suggested that the figure might be Angel as projected by the Nightmare Realm, rather than someone else.

Angel speculated that the golden-haired person in the Nightmare Realm might be his projection and investigated his altered right hand and the rules for bringing objects into the realm. By nightfall, he discovered how to bring a real item in, leaving Sanders astonished to find a usable magic-pattern scroll beside him.

• Angel considered whether the Nightmare Realm projected people, questioned whether the golden-haired person was his projection, and reflected on his powerful altered right hand.
• Angel found that his physical right hand let him use tricks, though he remained uncertain what would happen to it outside the Nightmare Realm.
• Angel tested why the Holographic Tablet could enter the Nightmare Realm and ruled out the Outer Eye's Earthly aura as the cause.
• Sanders found that the cabin's painting had become an ordinary Castle Under Moonlight painting, suspected the witch was hidden within it, and sealed it for now.
• Sanders searched Witch Town to test what items Angel could take out of the Nightmare Realm, then returned to find Angel depleted beside a real, usable Myriad-Defense Nova magic-pattern parchment scroll.

Angel awakened after ten days of soul exhaustion and explained that his Nightmare Soul Physique let him project certain objects into the Nightmare Realm, though the ability consumed soul power and had limits. After Sanders and Angel tested the ability, Sanders prepared to bring several items from Witch Town back with them and chose the mysterious sealed oil painting as they departed.

• Angel woke after ten days, and Sanders asked him about the physical hide scroll and hat that had appeared beside him.
• Angel explained that he could summon objects by thinking of them, but attempting to project his bracelet exhausted his soul power.
• Sanders concluded that Angel's projection ability could bring valuable items into the Nightmare Realm and encouraged him to grow stronger.
• Sanders and Angel tested the ability and found that ordinary objects cost little soul power, extraordinary items cost more, and projected objects had to be carried on Angel.
• Sanders gathered objects from Witch Town, including two Demonic Beast remains, then decided to take the sealed oil painting as well.
• Sanders opened a spatial crack with the Twisted Baworm and told Angel to take the painting so they could leave.

After Angel returned from the Nightmare Realm with his belongings, a bloodline from the transformed right hand fused into his body and greatly enhanced his existing bloodline. His soul retained its original appearance, but Sanders warned that other parts of Angel’s body had changed too.

• Sanders saw Angel bring all his Nightmare Realm items into the Wizarding World, including the corpse of the Blood-Vine Bone Woman.
• Angel suffered intense pain as his enlarged right hand released a bloodline that spread through his body and fused with his own.
• Sanders observed that the fusion succeeded without an omen or visible mutation and suspected the bloodline came from Angel’s Nightmare Realm projection.
• Sanders healed Angel, who saw that his physical right hand remained larger and unlike his original hand.
• Angel left his body to inspect his soul and found that its hands were unchanged.
• Sanders told Angel to look beyond his right hand, revealing that other parts of his body had changed.

Angel learned that his right hand and bloodline had been enhanced, and Sanders tested what the changes could do. The tests showed no identifiable fused bloodline, but Angel’s own bloodline quality and physical constitution had improved, leaving him close to the standard for advancing to formal wizard level.

• Sanders explained that Angel’s right hand had fused with a trace of bloodline, which he believed came from Angel’s Nightmare Realm projection.
• Angel easily punched through a second-level-cantrip ice wall with his right hand, then struggled with the idea that the hand belonged to another version of himself.
• Sanders revealed that he had transplanted a Phantom Mantis scythe arm and encouraged Angel to treat his unusual hand as an opportunity for research.
• Angel tried to smash a second ice wall with his left hand, but it remained intact and his fingers dislocated.
• After more than half a day of testing, Sanders found no identifiable bloodline traits but determined that Angel’s bloodline quality had risen from lower-low to lower-middle grade and his physical constitution was above standard for wizard apprentices.

Sanders tested Angel’s Projected Bloodline and right hand, finding the bloodline unusually compatible with Angel but leaving its risks and the hand’s abilities uncertain. After Sanders gave Angel a glove to conceal the hand, they divided their recovered materials, and Angel revealed that a painting had been left behind in the Nightmare Realm.

• Sanders recorded conjectures about Angel’s Projected Bloodline and advised him to avoid fusing another bloodline before becoming a formal wizard.
• Sanders assessed Angel’s right hand as roughly as strong as a peak bloodline-side apprentice’s unactivated hand, but said he would prepare further tests.
• Sanders gave Angel a glove that concealed the green pattern and the hand’s extra length, and Angel recognized its stable Nightmare Illusion enchantment.
• Sanders discarded mundane items, gave Angel the magical plants, Water Demon liquid, and blood vine, and kept the Blood-Vine Bone Woman’s remains for research.
• Angel asked whether they had brought everything back and said a painting had been left behind, surprising Sanders.

Angel and Sanders discussed an oil painting in Witch Town that Sanders could not remember, and suspected it was a Mystic Spirit item. Angel then researched the red-haired woman’s commission, found six of the crown’s seven magic patterns, and reunited with Gloria, who began training Toby.

• Angel recreated the oil painting’s history for Sanders, who remembered the witch but had forgotten the painting itself and suspected it was a Mystic Spirit item.
• Sanders planned to investigate the witch and attend Sky Mechanical City’s auction for an ancient scroll about the Nightmare Realm, and Angel asked to join him.
• Angel spent a week researching the crown and identified six magic patterns, then discovered that a seventh pattern remained unclear.
• Angel left seclusion and found Toby transformed into a Wrathful Griffin, pleading for help while Gloria threatened to make him use Flame of Fury.
• Gloria told Angel she had come to discuss matters with Sanders and would train Toby, then stopped Angel from pleading on Toby’s behalf.

Angel watched Gloria train Toby and learned that she had created the Mana-Replenishing Flower from Morning Dew After Rain to restore Demonic Beasts’ magic power. He identified the crown’s enchantment as Bloodline Tracing, successfully refined it, and faced an unexpected visitor after passing its alchemical vision.

• Gloria trained Toby in his griffin form and used Mana-Replenishing Flowers to restore his energy, explaining that the flowers replenished refined magic power in Demonic Beasts.
• Angel searched the Encyclopedia of Enchantment—Advanced Edition and narrowed the crown’s enchantment to Bloodline Refinement or Bloodline Tracing.
• Angel concluded that the crown bore Bloodline Tracing, which linked an object to its owner’s heart’s blood and allowed the owner to sense its location.
• Angel practiced the inscription for a week, then refined the crown using a pigeon-blood ruby as the Month of Slumber neared its end.
• Blood clouds spread above Flowering Garden as Angel faced the alchemical vision, crossed a sea of blood in a skiff, and reached shore.
• Angel opened his eyes to the completed crown, but a person suddenly appeared before him.

Angel learned from Sanders that the blood-red crown he had crafted resembled the lost secret treasure Crimson Sovereignty, which was tied to wizarding conflicts and a kingdom’s succession. He delivered it to Storm Shop and discovered that the red-haired client, Eliza, was an official wizard.

• Sanders recognized Angel’s crown as resembling Crimson Sovereignty and warned him to hand it over without accepting further requests.
• Angel recalled that a former Guman princess had been framed for Crimson Sovereignty’s theft, and that Xius had pursued the supposed thief to the Old Earth Continent.
• Angel went to Storm Shop on Secret Copper Street, where the shopkeeper recognized the design and led him to Eliza.
• After waiting for Eliza’s spell practice to end, Angel entered the basement and found the red-haired woman who had commissioned the crown.
• Eliza greeted Angel, and he realized she was an official wizard.

Angel delivered the Crimson Sovereignty replica to Eliza and discovered that she had only meant for him to make a simple crown model, while he had painstakingly inscribed Blood Source Reversion. Eliza realized the enchantment could help her deceive the Guman King and rewarded Angel with a Storm Shop VIP gold card.

• Angel told Eliza that he had completed the replica and wanted no further involvement, citing Sanders’s message.
• Eliza denied knowing about Blood Source Reversion and showed Angel the hide scroll, prompting him to identify the magic runes in its design.
• Angel presented the crown, and Eliza marveled at how closely it resembled the genuine Crimson Crown.
• Angel realized Eliza had only wanted a simple model to fool the Guman King, but Eliza saw that Blood Source Reversion could help her replace the real crown with the replica.
• Eliza thanked Angel and gave him a VIP gold card for a fifty-percent discount on Storm Rock at Storm Shops throughout the Southern Region.

Angel went to Kirk Street to find out whether its slave traders had creatures from another world and how such beings could safely live in the Wizarding World. After entering Red Powder Hall to inspect its wares, he was interrupted by a group of Ravaging Wizards.

• Angel regretted losing more than half a month to his mistaken handling of the Crimson Sovereignty imitation and resolved to communicate before acting on others' requests.
• Angel arrived on Kirk Street and asked a cat-eared lady for the location of Pierre's shop, using an illusion to identify the fat man he sought.
• The cat-eared lady directed Angel to Punk Talent Trading Market and invited him into Red Powder Hall, where he inspected the slaves for signs of creatures from another world.
• A group of sword-bearing figures in tattered black robes barged into Red Powder Hall and swept their magic power over the merchandise.
• Angel recognized the intruders as Ravaging Wizards.

Angel encountered the Ravaging Wizards of the Extreme Sect inspecting the Red Powder Hall and learned their authority came from the will of the world. Saladin recognized Angel and reacted with terror, while the chapter ended with Angel considering a visit to Pierre's shop to find otherworldly slaves.

• The Ravaging Wizards entered the Red Powder Hall, drove off a frightened fat apprentice, and gently helped a mortal girl who had fallen from a cage.
• Angel questioned the cat-eared girl about the Ravaging Wizards’ inspections, and their black-robed leader said they acted with the assent of the will of the world.
• Saladin recognized Angel, sent the black-robed man a voice transmission, and fled in terror after Angel tested him with the words “A demon? Or the will of the world?”
• After the Ravaging Wizards left, the fat apprentice returned and demanded that the shop bring him a half-fox person.
• The cat-eared girl told Angel that Pierre’s shop had no resident wizards but gathered powerful goods, making the Ravaging Wizards reluctant to provoke it.

Angel left the Red Powder Hall and went to Pierre’s Punk Talent Trading Market, hoping to find a being from another world. After finding no such aura in the market, he asked Pierre whether he had any Crystalfolk.

• The cat-eared girl connected Angel’s Audio Illusion spell and young age to the Phantom Demon’s disciple.
• Angel entered the grim alley leading to the Punk Talent Trading Market and was watched by an alchemical owl.
• Pierre and a man in sunglasses greeted Angel as the market’s first customer of the month, and Angel learned the man was selling his skills for money.
• Pierre led Angel into the market’s spacious hall and offered to find him a slave or arrange a future order.
• Angel searched for signs of beings from another world, ruled out humanoid females, and asked whether the market had any Crystalfolk.

Angel sought a Crystalfolk but learned Pierre had none available, so he went to meet Nano, a Silkfolk prince skilled in tailoring and craftsmanship. After seeing Nano’s extravagant room and eccentric tastes, Angel learned that Pierre expected buyers to accept the slaves’ conditions and honor their promises.

• Angel asked Pierre for a Crystalfolk, but Pierre said they were too expensive and offered a Silkfolk instead.
• Pierre led Angel to the third underground level, where Nano lived behind a brightly colored bronze door he had designed himself.
• Nano emerged in a vivid outfit, questioned Angel about hiding his face, and agreed to speak with him.
• Nano proudly showed Angel his luxurious room and explained that he was a gifted prince of his clan.
• Pierre told Angel that his slaves were treated as friends and family and would accept a new master only if their conditions were met.

Angel negotiated with Nano over the conditions of his purchase and agreed to provide him a comfortable life among his mortal relatives. After Nano accepted Angel as his master, Angel bought him for three hundred magic crystals and turned to the purpose of his visit.

• Pierre explained that Nano wanted a secure, comfortable life rather than freedom or revenge, and praised his craftsmanship and valuable silk production.
• Angel examined Nano’s silk, found it suitable for magical use, and agreed to his request for a better life with Angel’s mortal relatives.
• Nano asked to see Angel’s face, recognized him as Angel Pat, and questioned whether Jiebo might threaten his family; Angel denied the rumors of their enmity.
• Nano accepted Angel as his master, and Angel paid Pierre three hundred magic crystals to buy him.
• After the purchase, Angel’s expression darkened as he prepared to begin the real purpose of his visit.