Chapter Summaries

Angel rescued Toby from the giant snake’s lair, then fled through the underground river while pursued by several powerful Demonic Beasts. He escaped Shadow Cave through a broken tunnel, but the giant snake emerged from the collapsing ground behind him.

• Angel used an illusion to resist the giant snake’s emotional domain, grabbed Toby, and escaped with his physical body.
• Angel outran the giant snake until a giant sea anemone crab blocked the river passage, forcing him to dive into the water.
• Angel’s Light Spell revealed a giant demon drifting underwater, which awoke and pursued him as other Demonic Beasts attacked.
• After nearly being struck by the giant demon’s punch, Angel abandoned his attempt to stay near Watchtower Fortress and followed the current forward.
• The giant demon shattered a rock wall, and Angel escaped through the resulting tunnel into the steam hall beneath the tree hollow.
• The ground collapsed behind Angel, and the giant snake’s enormous skull emerged from beneath the hill.

Angel rescued Toby from Shadow Cave but was pursued to Watchtower Fortress by three wizard-level Demonic Beasts. Sanders killed the giant snake, the Frost Moon Guard fought the other two, and Sanders questioned Angel about how the beasts had been drawn out; their sudden relocation remained unexplained.

• Angel fled Shadow Cave with Toby as a giant snake, a giant troll, and a sea anemone crab pursued him.
• Sanders arrived, helped Angel return to his body, and fought the giant snake while the Frost Moon Guard took on the other two beasts.
• Sanders killed the giant snake and stored its corpse, while the guard squad and other wizards continued fighting the troll and crab.
• Sanders brought Angel back to the fortress and asked what had happened, and Angel explained that he had only gone to rescue Toby.
• Sanders suspected the three beasts had relocated through the underground riverways but did not know why they had moved together.

Angel left Watchtower Fortress with Sanders as the front line relocated, but their journey through the Gloomlight Mountains was beset by attacks and curses. After using his soul to escape a Half-Blood Demon, Angel realized Toby had remained unconscious for two days and could not be woken.

• Sanders gave Angel the giant serpent’s scaled hide and frost-poisoned fang, then warned that Axo’s essence blood might harm Jon in his current condition.
• Angel gave Sanders a bottle containing Mituan Silver Ring, then carried Toby out of the fortress as the relocation horn sounded.
• Angel learned that Madeleine had already left and gave the bottle of Mituan Silver Ring to Kant, prompting awkward reactions from both Kant and Sanders.
• The group traveled toward the Gloomlight Mountains, where Demonic Beasts and curse cultivators attacked them, leaving apprentices cursed or dead.
• When a Half-Blood Demon threatened Angel, he sent his soul out of his body and took Toby to safety, then discovered Toby would not wake despite having slept for two days.

Angel worried that Toby’s unconsciousness might be connected to the Five Flavors Tribulation, so he entered Toby’s dream to investigate. The dream seemed peaceful until Toby attacked the Moon Bell Orchid Fairy, while Gargoyles and demons appeared in the sky outside.

• Sanders examined Toby and found no physical or brainwave abnormalities, while Angel suspected Toby might have entered another Five Flavors Tribulation.
• Sanders suggested Angel enter Toby’s dream without using Dream Reading, and Angel crossed Toby’s Dream Bridge as Sanders watched over him.
• Kant asked whether Sanders planned for Angel to combine dreams and illusions to create spells, but Sanders did not clarify his intentions.
• Kant noticed Gargoyles and demons approaching the group through the Gloomlight Mountains.
• Angel found Toby’s dream set in an island manor, where Toby drove away Head Maid Mana and Aoli after eating crab meat.
• Toby ate sea anemones with the Moon Bell Orchid Fairy, then suddenly tore open the fairy’s clothes.

Angel witnessed Toby’s dream of jealousy and spite, and Sanders suspected the emotional domain had stirred the Grudge Tribulation. The chapter left Angel wondering whether Toby’s dream about crabs with sea anemones foretold something.

• In Toby’s dream, it tore the Moon Bell Orchid Fairy’s bubble skirt, bullied Leon and the Kula Kuka people, and complained to Angel while blaming Aoli for broken experimental tools.
• Angel woke aboard the Gondola and learned that a battle near Frostwing had ended with many casualties and an apprentice missing.
• Angel told Sanders about Toby’s strange dream, and Sanders suggested the giant snake’s emotional domain had brought Toby’s repressed negative emotions to the surface.
• Sanders warned that Toby’s Five Flavors Tribulation might be approaching, with the jealousy in its dream suggesting the Grudge Tribulation.
• Angel recalled that Toby had eaten crabs with sea anemones in its dream and asked whether this detail might foretell something.

The Olof Tendril Crabs in Toby’s dreams were linked to a real colony originating beneath the Gloomy Dead Sea, where the Pilgrim of Misfortune knelt before a whirlpool. Sanders left the group with Angel to return to the Wizarding World, but their route through the Gloomlight Mountains was beset by powerful enemies, and they hurried toward a place where they could cross layers.

• A mature Olof Tendril Crab led a glowing line of crabs from the underground river back to the Gloomy Dead Sea, where the Pilgrim of Misfortune knelt on the seafloor.
• Frostwing continued deeper into the Gloomlight Mountains after Frost Moon concluded the missing apprentice had probably died.
• Sanders sent Kant away, saying he planned to return to the Wizarding World with Angel, and Kant reminded Angel to save a Shapeshifting Softworm for Qili if one hatched.
• Sanders left the group with Angel, while Sinafa advised Bruffin to postpone his experiment because the mountains had become dangerous.
• Sinafa’s group reached Kodo Port without further trouble, but Sanders and Angel fought repeated ambushes and stopped to recover in a cave.
• Sanders sensed that something unusual was happening in the Gloomlight Mountains and urged Angel to hurry toward a crossing between layers.

Sanders took Angel through the dangerous Gloomlight Mountains to Windwhisper Valley, planning to use his Fragment Mayfly to return them to Savage Cave. Angel worried that going back during the Pamiji Plateau’s planar fusion might disturb the secret Outer Eye, but Sanders chose an exit near Windmill Town.

• Sanders explained that he planned to use the Fragment Mayfly to return to the Wizarding World and take part in the Pamiji Plateau’s planar fusion to offset its cost.
• Angel worried that returning during the fusion might affect the Outer Eye, whose secret Jon had forbidden him to reveal.
• Sanders led Angel out of their cave, and they avoided bone-winged demons and other powerful demons rather than fight them.
• After nearly half a day of evasive travel, Sanders and Angel reached Windwhisper Valley and entered its underground shelter.
• Sanders rejected Angel’s suggestion to set their destination farther away and chose an exit near Windmill Town.

Angel and Sanders nearly died when the Fragment Mayfly’s cross-realm passage collapsed, but Sanders calculated a way out and led them to safety just before annihilation. After recovering in Windwhisper Valley, they discussed the accident, and Sanders planned to try the passage again the next day.

• The passage shattered into spatial vortices, forcing Sanders to turn back with Angel.
• Sanders asked Angel to use the Gravity Veins to shield them from external forces while he calculated a safe route.
• Angel’s strength nearly gave out, but Sanders finished calculating and pulled him toward the entrance at the last second.
• Sanders led Angel out before the passage was annihilated, and the cross-realm passage closed behind them.
• Angel recovered and asked what caused the collapse; Sanders suspected a problem with the passage and said they would try again tomorrow.

Angel and Sanders attempted to cross the interplanar passage again, but Angel sensed danger and Sanders disappeared inside it. As Angel waited in the Abyss, a Radiant Arrow shot from the passage and was swallowed by his necklace, while thousands of wizards gathered on Pamiji Plateau for the coming Moment of Plunder.

• Sanders changed the cavern and the passage’s destination beacon before opening another interplanar passage, but Angel felt an ominous warning and refused to enter.
• Sanders went through the passage alone to investigate, leaving Angel waiting in the cavern.
• After half an hour with no sign of Sanders, Angel stayed in the cavern, hoping Sanders was alive and would return.
• More than half a day later, a Radiant Arrow burst from the passage toward Angel, and his necklace swallowed it before floating in front of him.
• Thousands of wizards gathered on Pamiji Plateau and watched the other world appear in the sky as planar fusion approached the Moment of Plunder.

As the Moment of Plunder approached, Madam Daini and Saiban discussed the desert world, their feud with Savage Cave, and Gravity Forest’s plan to target Sanders with help from Imagan. The planar fusion then stalled, and thunderclouds and rain raised fears that it would fail as the Devil Sea fusion had.

• Madam Daini pointed out that the desert world held valuable resources, including a giant wizard-level sandworm, while Saiban worried that Savage Cave would interfere.
• Saiban complained about Flora and Savage Cave, but Madam Daini told him to endure their provocation and focus on Sanders and his Gravity Garden.
• Madam Daini reminded Saiban that Gravity Forest could seek Imagan’s help, and she ordered their wizards to avoid Savage Cave while searching the new world.
• Madam Daini, Saiban, Rhein, Florence, and the other wizards prepared for the Moment of Plunder as the sky’s reflection of the desert grew clearer.
• The planar fusion failed to finish, the reflection turned illusory, and dark clouds gathered as the wizards feared a repeat of the Devil Sea disaster.
• A deafening rumble shook the sky, and torrential rain began to fall.

The planar fusion failed after an apparent energy collapse in the Void Realm, leaving the wizards on the Pamiji Plateau without the promised Moment of Plunder. As the world's will repaired the damage, Sanders remained trapped in a spacetime labyrinth inside the cross-realm passage, where a new change appeared.

• The desert reflection vanished in the storm, and the wizards realized the planar fusion had failed and the Moment of Plunder was gone.
• Crownstar Cathedral's prophecy wizards insisted Observer Shura's prophecies were never wrong, while the angry crowd demanded an explanation.
• Rhein told Florence that Isos had reported an energy leak in the Void Realm that dissipated spatial power, possibly because of an external force.
• Silver-serpent lightning repaired the spatial fissures across the Pamiji Plateau and reached a black spatial passage in the No-Man's Forbidden Zone.
• Sanders became trapped in a spacetime labyrinth while crossing the passage, unable to reach the beacon or return to Windwhisper Valley.
• A new change appeared in the labyrinth as Sanders questioned whether he had somehow drawn the Doom Pilgrim's calamity.

Sanders escaped the collapsing Time-Space Labyrinth after glimpsing a power beyond the laws, but the world's will destroyed his cross-realm passage before he could return for Angel. In Windwhisper Valley, Angel watched Outer Eye absorb the strange lights around him and suspected it was interfering with planar fusion.

• Sanders sensed a faint force dismantling the Time-Space Labyrinth and realized it might reveal the path to the miracle rank.
• The world's will began repairing the spatial rifts, causing Sanders's cross-realm passage to collapse before he could reach Angel.
• Sanders escaped to the borderlands of Pamiji Plateau and decided to return to Savage Cave for Rhein's help before opening another passage.
• A strange beam struck toward Angel, awakening Outer Eye and releasing points of light that circled him.
• Angel recalled Outer Eye's earlier disturbance during planar fusion and wondered whether it could cause the current fusion to fail.
• The points of light gathered into a starry river and flowed back into Outer Eye.

Angel witnessed the Outer Eye react to the plane fusion, then touched it and was drawn into a strange world as a radiance of consciousness. He reached a mysterious energy core connected to the Outer Eye, with its purpose still unknown.

• Angel watched the Outer Eye absorb energy during the plane fusion and settle back down, though its inner glow continued to flicker.
• Angel heard a powerful Demonic Beast roar from the center of Windwhisper Valley and discovered that the cross-world passage had vanished.
• Angel touched the Outer Eye, which burst into white light and drew his consciousness away from his physical body.
• Angel passed through a wall of light into a strange world, where his memories and thoughts were reread and his emotions were absent.
• Angel used thought alone to reach the special energy core that had guided him into the strange world.

Angel watched the Outer Eye’s special energy construct half a door in his mental space while teaching him the patterns and concepts behind it. He learned that the door was a cantrip model and began cautiously trying to complete it with his own magic power.

• Angel realized the energy core was deliberately constructing a door and considered leaving before it was finished.
• The door shattered when Angel’s desire to leave arose, and its point of light entered his mental space and began rebuilding it.
• Angel received information about each pattern as the door was constructed, spending what he estimated was three or four years learning its wizardry and spatial principles.
• After half the symmetrical door model was complete, Angel understood that he had to build the other half himself using magic power from his magic source.
• Angel hesitated to attach his first pattern because a failed attempt could collapse the entire cantrip model, which he suspected was precious.

Angel began connecting a rare spatial cantrip model in the Strange World, but ran out of magic power after completing only two Patterns and was forced back into his body. He returned to find a Demonic Beast approaching the underground cavern while his magic source was empty.

• Angel decided to solidify the half-built spatial cantrip model into a spell slot and successfully connected its first two Patterns using magic power.
• Angel realized that the spatial Pattern consumed far more magic power than the first, leaving his magic source nearly empty before he could continue building the model.
• Angel was ejected from the Strange World when his magic ran out and returned to his body as the ground shook with a Demonic Beast's roar.
• Angel remembered that the cross-realm passage had closed, Sanders had not returned, and a powerful Demonic Beast had come to Windwhisper Valley.
• Angel found himself unable to use Boundless Silence or dig another exit because his magic source was empty, while the Demonic Beast's footsteps grew louder as it approached the cavern.

Angel was trapped in a sinkhole by an Abyss Wind Dragon and believed he was about to die, but the dragon halted its attack after sensing a familiar scent on him. The chapter ended with the dragon lifting Toby from Angel’s pocket and questioning the strange power it sensed.

• Angel realized an enormous creature was approaching while his magic source was nearly depleted and searched for a way to escape.
• The creature’s arrival unleashed a tornado that destroyed the underground cave, forcing Angel to use the Gravity Veins to survive among the falling rocks.
• Angel saw that the creature was an Abyss Wind Dragon and despaired at its overwhelming strength and malice.
• As the Abyss Wind Dragon sent blades of wind at Angel, it abruptly stopped the attack and asked why he carried its scent.
• The dragon sensed a strange power around Angel, brought its head close, and used a gentle breeze to lift Toby from his pocket.

Angel protected Toby from the Abyss Wind Dragon, which recognized that Toby carried the aura of a Doom Pilgrim and had drawn demons to them. After the dragon spared them, Angel worried about surviving in the Abyss and asked whether Toby’s misfortune could be removed.

• The Abyss Wind Dragon examined Toby, recognized the aura of his former self, and returned him to Angel.
• The dragon revealed that Toby carried a Doom Pilgrim’s aura, which could explain the misfortunes and demons drawn to him.
• Angel chose to keep Toby with him despite the danger, and the Abyss Wind Dragon decided not to kill them.
• Angel realized that he and Toby remained vulnerable in the Abyss while Sanders’s fate was unknown.
• Angel asked the departing Abyss Wind Dragon whether Toby’s aura of misfortune could be removed, and the dragon challenged his right to ask.

Angel’s attempt to focus on the wound on his back awakened a green vine and drew the attention of a powerful being across time and space. After the vine withdrew and Angel collapsed from blood loss, the Abyss Wind Dragon carried him away; Angel later awoke beside a fire with his memories of the encounter returning.

• The Abyss Wind Dragon’s mental force overwhelmed Angel, who sat silently as it questioned his strength and resolve.
• A glowing green vine grew from Angel’s back, altered the surrounding spatial energy, and filled the Abyss Wind Dragon with fear.
• A voice asked Angel whether he had called it, and the Abyss Wind Dragon saw a pair of eyes beyond time and space before Angel shouted for the being to go back.
• Angel’s blood loss caused the vine to retract, and he collapsed near death; the Abyss Wind Dragon took human form and went to his side.
• Angel awoke beside a bonfire and recalled how his focus on the wound had summoned the vine and exhausted his soul, blood, and vitality.

Angel woke in a pit beside Fafnir, the Wind Dragon in a transformed human-like form, and learned that a strange Green Pattern on his back was trying to open a spatial passage. After Angel suppressed it, he asked Fafnir how to remove the misfortune taint keeping Toby unconscious.

• Angel woke beside a fire and recognized the woman who had saved him as the Wind Dragon, who called herself Fafnir.
• Angel suffered an unbearable itch and discovered a glowing green vine growing from his back.
• Fafnir warned Angel that the vine sought stable spatial energy and told him to pull it back, then refused to answer further questions until he did.
• Angel struggled to suppress the Green Pattern and eventually restrained it against his back, though it continued draining his soul power unless he focused on it.
• Angel asked Fafnir how to remove the misfortune taint from Toby, who remained unconscious.

Angel learned that Fafnir wanted him to deliver a message to Odecras, an Abyss Dragon who might remove the calamity curse afflicting him. Fafnir explained the Abyss’s seven Phase Faces and said Angel would need to find Odecras, though meeting the powerful dragon could be dangerous.

• Fafnir offered to answer Angel’s questions if he delivered a message, and Angel agreed after she warned him of the danger.
• Fafnir explained that the Doom Pilgrim’s calamity could be removed by only a few means, including help from Efa Wizards on the Greed Face.
• Fafnir told Angel that the Abyss was divided into seven Phase Faces connected by gates guarded by Demon Lords.
• Fafnir said Odecras was an Abyss Dragon skilled in curses who had once suffered calamity himself and might be able to remove Angel’s misfortune.