Chapter Summaries

Angel’s right hand absorbed the Nightmare Realm aura and opened a ring in the half-passage, allowing a golden-haired figure he identified as Shava to appear. After a dreamlike encounter with the figure, Angel awoke in the Dream Wilderness with green patterns spread to his elbow and resolved to continue testing how to sever the Dream Wilderness.

• Angel’s right hand absorbed the Nightmare Realm aura on its own, forming a ring of green patterns that opened the half-passage’s boundary.
• Angel recalled touching hands with a golden-haired figure in a mirror and recognized the figure before him as possibly Shava.
• Angel lost clarity in a dream within a dream, where he could not pull his right hand out of the mirror and pushed it farther inside.
• Angel awoke in the Dream Wilderness and found his right forearm had lengthened and become covered in green patterns.
• Angel tested his right hand and found he could control the Nightmare Realm aura more precisely, then set aside his worries and returned to his plan to sever the Dream Wilderness.

Angel used Nightmare Realm aura and Domain Glass to sever Dream Wilderness from the Nightmare Realm and create its boundary membrane, then tried to bear its core. The core resisted merging with the Ultimate Luxury Nightmare Domain and drifted back out of his body, leaving Angel holding it.

• Angel installed and activated 120 pieces of Domain Glass, using the Nightmare Realm aura absorbed through his right hand to replace Black Evil Elegy’s severing function.
• The Domain Glass connected into a web that severed Dream Wilderness from the Nightmare Realm and began forming a boundary membrane.
• Angel waited as luminous sand fragments filled the black hole, then caught the Nightmare Domain core and pressed it into his body.
• Inside a mysterious space, Angel saw Dream Wilderness and the Ultimate Luxury Nightmare Domain coexist without merging because they had different world attributes.
• Angel woke as the core floated out of his chest, and he grabbed it with his right hand before it could drift away.

Angel used the green patterns on his right hand to stabilize and bind the sphere of light at the core of the Nightmare Domain, then overcame his fear and began deciphering the patterns. He discovered they encoded functions including Containment, Release, Passage, and Door, and ended by investigating whether the patterns around the sphere could teach him to control it.

• Angel's green patterns released Nightmare Realm aura, stopped the sphere of light from fleeing, and restored the fading Dream Wilderness.
• Angel realized the green patterns had acted as a passage to the Nightmare Realm, though he could not merge with the Nightmare Domain himself.
• Remembering Sanders's advice to study unfamiliar changes, Angel faced the green patterns and began examining them without fear.
• Angel deciphered models for Containment, Passage, and Door, learning that the Door remained inaccessible.
• Angel studied another pattern and found it encoded Release, followed by Passage and Door, then placed the bound sphere on his palm to investigate its patterns.

Angel decoded the green patterns as Binding, Dissolution, Fusion, Passage, and Door, then fused the Dream Wilderness’s first power at great physical cost. The new perspective revealed the Dream Wilderness as a box garden watched by a colossal creature, which the golden-haired figure had kept at bay.

• Angel decoded Binding, Dissolution, and Fusion, realizing he could absorb powers from the sphere of light, then connected the models with Passage and Door.
• Angel attempted to dissolve and fuse the Dream Wilderness’s powers, endured overwhelming pain, and successfully absorbed its first power before collapsing.
• Angel began bleeding and weakening in reality, and Toby sensed his blood and rushed into the illusion.
• Angel saw through the Dream Wilderness’s perspective that it was a scene in a box garden watched by a gigantic creature with golden vertical pupils.
• The golden-haired figure stood between the creature and the Dream Wilderness, and the creature eventually retreated into the darkness.

Angel learned that his newly fused Dream Gate power let him control where objects entered the Dream Wilderness, then returned to the real world to test it. A painful transformation of his right arm and bloodline left him near death, but Toby saved him with potions, and Angel woke a week later, recovering.

• Angel identified Dream Gate as a pseudo-spatial power that let him choose where objects entered the Dream Wilderness.
• Angel secured the Nightmare Domain's main body high in the misty sky before returning to the real world.
• Angel's right arm transformed and a Projected Bloodline spread through his body, leaving him in agony and bleeding heavily.
• Toby gave Angel mild restorative potions, helping him recover enough to sleep.
• Angel woke a week later, used Purification Field to clear the filth around him, and thanked Toby for saving him.

Angel tested the Dream Gate and discovered he could control where and how external objects entered the Dream Wilderness, though he could not prevent their entry. He gathered buildings for Jon there and arrived at Bolai Town to let Frod enter the dream.

• Angel tested the Dream Gate by sending a boulder and other materials into the Dream Wilderness, choosing their landing locations and positions.
• Angel discovered he could preset landing areas to limit notifications, but the Dream Gate could not stop objects from entering.
• Angel let Toby explore the Dream Wilderness, but Toby soon left after finding it empty and unchanging.
• Angel decided to gain more authorities to protect the Dream Wilderness before bringing Jon there, and set out for Bolai Town to honor his promise to Frod.
• Angel diverted to Golden Tree City and brought two beautiful buildings, then more than twenty other buildings, into the Dream Wilderness for Jon before reaching Bolai Town.

Angel let Frod enter the Dream Wilderness, where Frod saw the buildings Angel had gathered and learned that the realm might enable remote communication. After Frod swore a Luo Oath and began renovating the buildings, Angel searched for a way to let others access the Dream Wilderness and found an alchemical array that could store a spell temporarily.

• Angel confirmed that the Dream Wilderness was safe enough for Frod to enter and showed him the buildings he had brought inside.
• Frod asked whether people in distant places could enter the Dream Wilderness and meet there, and Angel said he had not tested remote access yet.
• Frod swore a Luo Oath to Angel, then criticized Angel's mismatched building styles; Angel entered the realm and saw the problem for himself.
• Angel ordered Frod to tear down the buildings, but Frod instead proposed renovating them and recruited Sunny and Yada to help.
• Angel rejected having Sunny and Yada swear Luo Oaths, allowing them to enter under a confidentiality contract instead.
• While searching for a way to provide remote access, Angel found the Energy Storage Space array, which could store a spell temporarily but had significant limitations.

Angel refined a Dream Wilderness login device and left it with Frod so he could test remote access and whether the dead could enter the Dream Wilderness. After returning to Pat Manor, Angel reunited with Yurika and headed to the ice chamber, while Yurika suspected he had concealed part of what he learned about Jon.

• Angel refined a monocle-shaped Dream Wilderness Login Device and successfully used it to enter the Dream Wilderness.
• Angel gave the login device to Frod, asked him to test its range and the possibility of storing the dead in the Dream Wilderness, then left him to care for Sunny and Yada.
• Angel traveled back to the Old Earth Continent and returned to Pat Manor, where Mether had grown into a lush tree that refreshed the air and cooled the grounds.
• Angel met Yurika beside Mether and said he had not found a way to bring Mentor Jon back to life, while concealing his injured hand with an illusion.
• After Angel left for the ice chamber, Yurika told Bulei that Angel had probably concealed some things but would not expose their whereabouts.

Angel returned to the Dream Wilderness and discovered that a special Soft-State Worm egg had grown enormous after absorbing Axo's essence blood. He also learned that Frod had brought a terminally ill former royal ceremonial dress officer into the Dream Wilderness for an experiment on preserving consciousness.

• Angel visited Jon but decided to wait until he had confirmed whether Jon could become a permanent resident of the Dream Wilderness before telling him about it.
• Angel gently rejected Aoli's wish to accompany him, explaining that wizards were solitary and that he did not want to encourage her feelings.
• Angel inspected the Soft-State Worm nest and found that the special egg had grown to more than three times the size of ordinary eggs and turned pale gold.
• Angel entered the Dream Wilderness and confirmed with Frod that its distance restrictions were loose enough for him to return from Old Earth Continent.
• Angel heard metal scraping and learned that Frod had brought Daila, a terminally ill former royal ceremonial dress officer, into the Dream Wilderness to test whether consciousness could be preserved.

Angel discussed Daila’s adjustment to the Dream Wilderness with Frod and arranged to send her silk and sewing tools, then set off for Waterford with supplies. Along the way, Leon spotted Angel’s Gondola while training beneath a waterfall, lost his focus, and was swept into the pool below.

• Angel approved of Frod bringing Daila into the Dream Wilderness but warned him to be cautious and asked him to find more people for long-term observation.
• Frod explained that Daila was grinding an iron rod into a needle so she could make Sunny a dress, and Angel promised to provide silk and sewing tools.
• Angel asked Frod about a mutated Soft-State Worm egg, and Frod speculated that it might belong to a higher-ranking kind.
• Angel invited the upset Aoli to eat with him, then took silk from Nano and Jin Cancan after they argued over the twenty-third batch.
• Angel piloted the Gondola toward Waterford with supplies for the Dream Wilderness, while Leon recognized the vessel during his waterfall training and was swept into the pool after losing focus.

Angel helped Daluk bring his grandfather into Waterford and discovered that Daluk had a terminal illness resembling Jon’s condition. Angel offered to let Daluk live on elsewhere, but Daluk hesitated because he did not want to leave his grandfather behind.

• Daluk begged the city guards to let him take his grandfather, who was covered in sores, into Waterford for treatment, but they refused.
• Angel arrived, allowed Daluk and his grandfather through the gate, and entered the city after Daluk thanked him.
• Angel moved shops into the Dream Wilderness and headed to the Ocean Theater, where he found Daluk and his grandfather again.
• Angel explained that Daluk’s grandfather was physically healthy, then learned that Daluk had Twilight Syndrome and was expected to die within a week.
• Angel offered to let Daluk live on elsewhere if he left the Old Earth Continent, and Daluk struggled to choose while worrying about his grandfather.

Angel placed Daluk and his grandfather in the Dream Wilderness, then moved the Ocean Theater there as well. Xius arrived on Edge Island after sensing a mysterious fluctuation and confronted Angel, who explained that he had been testing the Dream Conch.

• Angel placed Daluk’s dying grandfather in the Dream Wilderness, and Daluk followed him there.
• Angel used the Dream Conch to move the Ocean Theater into the Dream Wilderness, then left Waterford.
• Xius disembarked at Vichy Harbor, and a smiling fat man with a golden fish scale jumped into the sea after wondering why Xius had gone to Edge Island.
• Xius crossed a Planar Corridor to investigate a mysterious fluctuation and encountered Angel near Waterford.
• Angel recognized Xius and greeted him, while Xius mentioned Angel’s Half-Step Mysterious reputation and asked about the fluctuation.
• Angel said the mysterious fluctuation had been produced while he was testing the Dream Conch.

Angel traveled to Gelu Town with Xius, worrying that Xius’s return would endanger Jon, while Xius accepted the loss caused by Angel’s Dream Conch opening a Planar Corridor. The journey ended with Yurika reuniting tenderly with Xius, revealing that the wanted fugitive and her pursuer were lovers.

• Angel decided to move Jon into Dream Wilderness to preserve his consciousness, regardless of whether Jon’s body could be cured.
• Xius questioned Angel about Gondola, Silver Palm Island, Jiebo, and Leon, and confirmed that Leon showed bloodline-side talent.
• Xius praised Angel’s alchemy and asked to see Ocean Rhythm, leaving Angel unsure how to refuse.
• Angel and Xius arrived near Gelu Town and saw knights and Head Maid Mana riding out from Pat Manor in apparent haste.
• Yurika flew up to Gondola and exchanged affectionate looks with Xius, while Angel pretended to admire the scenery.

Angel searched for his missing brother Leon and found him gravely injured, suspended in a swamp by thorny vines. Xius warned that cutting the vines could release the Swamp Tide Spider poison in Leon’s body, leaving Angel to consider how to save him.

• Aoli told Angel that Leon had vanished after training at Terror Mountain Waterfalls, where his armor and clothes had been found.
• Xius traced blood at the waterfall and concluded that Leon had fallen into the river and been swept downstream.
• Angel searched the river with scouting puppets and found Leon unconscious in a forbidden swamp, bound to a green cocoon.
• Angel discovered that Leon had multiple broken bones and severe internal injuries, then prepared to cut the vines holding him.
• Xius warned Angel that cutting the Bewildering Vines could trigger the Tide Spider poison, and Angel recognized the danger of a Swamp Tide Spider.

Angel learned that Leon had been poisoned by Swamp Tide Spider venom, which the Bewitching Vine sap could suppress only temporarily, and began searching Midora's Alchemy Notes for a way to make the antidote. Xius and Yurika discovered that Angel had the notes and that he was known as the “Half-Step Mystic” for nearly refining a mystic item.

• Yurika explained the rarity and value of Swamp Tide Spiders and their symbiotic Bewitching Vines as Xius offered to catch one for her.
• Angel realized that cutting away the Bewitching Vine could trigger the venom inside Leon, so he tried to cast a detoxification spell before Xius warned that it could make the venom erupt.
• Xius said Leon needed Tide Spider Antidote within two days and offered to travel to Sky Mechanical City, but Angel said he could try to refine the antidote himself.
• Angel searched a pale green notebook, and Yurika recognized it as Midora's Alchemy Notes.
• Xius told Yurika that Angel excelled at metallurgical alchemy and had nearly refined a mystic item before Lady Isabella interrupted the process, earning him the nickname “Half-Step Mystic.”

Xius revealed Angel’s extraordinary standing in alchemy, while Angel prepared and administered a Tide Spider Antidote to Leon. Leon awoke in severe pain, leaving Angel anxious about whether the potion would save him.

• Xius told Yurika that Angel had reached half-step Mystery, earned major alchemical fame, and was likely to appear in the next Forest of Time.
• Yurika accused Angel of hiding his alchemy skills, but Xius warned her against coercing him and explained that Angel had made an imitation of Crimson Sovereignty.
• Angel reviewed Midora’s notes, searched for a Swamp Tide Spider, and used an illusion to obtain its venom without killing it.
• Angel brewed the Tide Spider Antidote and, after checking its effects and Leon’s condition, administered it to him.
• Leon convulsed and awoke in agony as the antidote took effect, and Angel worried whether his mortal body could endure it.

After Angel helped treat Leon, Xius discovered that Leon had raised his mental power to the Will Tempering Method’s limit. Xius later took Angel into an Exile Space and asked him about the Crimson Sovereignty imitation that Angel had crafted.

• Xius treated Leon’s internal injuries, then found that his mental power had risen to 11 points after the Tide Spider antidote ordeal.
• Mana stayed to care for Leon while Angel met Xius and Yurika in the main parlor.
• Yurika asked Angel to replace Bulei’s broken glasses, and Xius discussed Jon’s worsening condition and the possibility of seeking Master Midora’s help.
• Xius brought Angel and Yurika into an Exile Space, where he pulled Yurika from Angel’s shoulder and into his arms.
• Xius showed Angel an imitation of Crimson Sovereignty and asked whether Angel had crafted it, which Angel confirmed.

Angel confirmed that the Crimson Sovereignty contained Blood Source Reversion and warned Xius that its blood-heart bond could not be removed without killing its owner, which might trigger the array’s destruction. He then entered the Dream Wilderness, where Frod greeted him as its master, while new arrivals Rabu and Sunny watched.

• Xius asked Angel to verify the Blood Source Reversion array on the genuine Crimson Sovereignty, and Angel confirmed it was present.
• Angel explained that Blood Source Reversion bound the item to its owner and would self-destruct if that person died; Yurika proposed finding the owner and turning him into a living puppet.
• Angel left Xius’s living room troubled and chose to return to his room instead of visiting Jon.
• In the Dream Wilderness, Angel found Daluk being pulled into a children’s game and met Rabu, who believed he had arrived in a new world through Lord Tisen.
• Frod respectfully greeted Angel as his lord, and Sunny told the bewildered Rabu that Angel was the true master of the new world.

Angel and Frod organized the growing settlement in the Dream Wilderness, and Angel named it Firstheart City. After checking that its residents remained stable, Angel tried to merge with a new authority but sensed he was not ready yet.

• Frod showed Angel how residents were being recorded, supplied with housing, and assigned work while experimental observations continued.
• Angel and Frod surveyed the settlement, and Angel named it Firstheart City after reflecting on its beginnings and his hopes for the future.
• The name was announced to the residents, and Daluk and Rabu read the notice and considered what it meant to belong to the city.
• Frod reported that the residents showed no problems so far, and Angel considered letting Jon enter Firstheart City to adapt while continuing to monitor the samples.
• Angel visited the Nightmare Domain’s main body and found that he was still not ready to merge with a new authority, so he returned it and left the Dream Wilderness.

Angel designed Breathless Confinement to protect the Nightmare Domain's core and conceal his Dream Conch's fluctuations, then visited Jon in his dream. When Jon revealed that his memories and dream were deteriorating, Angel decided to explain the Dream Wilderness to him.

• Aoli nearly lost herself in Angel's dangerous magic formulas, but Angel tore the draft and warned her to rest.
• Angel kept his final design for Breathless Confinement, a five-pattern array intended to hide the Nightmare Domain's core and suppress the Dream Conch's fluctuations.
• Bulei asked Angel to craft her a monocle, and he agreed to make one after she provided a sample.
• Angel entered Jon's dream, where Jon showed him visions of his parents and relayed his mother's message of love.
• Jon told Angel that his memories were fading and his dream had begun to blur, so Angel decided to explain the Dream Wilderness and consider bringing him there.