Chapter Summaries

Canaan paid to join Angel’s Experience Journey, while a Poison Sting Demon’s aggression got it dragged out of the Illusion Hut. As the first guests experienced the stormy sea, one Half-Blood Demon awoke with a major increase in water affinity and energy control, and Angel considered how to accommodate more customers.

• Canaan hesitated over the price but paid two hundred demon gold coins to join the first group of six.
• The Poison Sting Demon objected to paying three hundred coins and mocked Angel, so a dark-skinned woman seized it and dragged it out through the window.
• Angel began the Experience Journey for the remaining five guests, sending Canaan and the others into a stormy sea.
• Angel discussed the three-headed crocodile’s valuable bloodline with Fafnir and considered making room for larger guests as the shop attracted more customers.
• A Half-Blood Demon awoke with increased water-element affinity and new insight, then chose to stay and watch the others finish.

Canaan’s Ocean Rhythm experience produced a spectacular anomaly, drawing attention to Angel’s Illusion Cabin. After noticing that other demons had begun questioning Angel’s identity, Canaan offered to help receive customers.

• The Three-Headed Crocodile awakened after its Ocean Rhythm experience, visibly strengthened and amazed by its gains.
• Canaan endured longer than the others and awakened with a colossal ocean-demon phantom, new fins, and a surge of water energy.
• Canaan’s phantom roared across Lasudelan, prompting demons including Plapa and Night to notice the Illusion Cabin’s latest anomaly.
• Angel worried that the demons’ rapid breakthroughs might strengthen future enemies, then prepared to welcome more customers.
• Canaan returned, questioned whether Angel was truly a native because of his Abyssal accent, and offered to help receive customers.

Sparrow Sparrow and Kaido entered Lasudelan and encountered the unexpectedly busy Illusion shop, while Fafnir recognized Sparrow Sparrow as a disguised human. Angel prepared to welcome another group of customers for an Experience Journey.

• Sparrow Sparrow admired Lasudelan in human speech, then switched to Demon Tongue when Kaido questioned him and boasted about the Demon Cities he had seen.
• Kaido mocked Sparrow Sparrow’s lack of clan origins, his name, and his choice of a chain weapon as they approached Lasudelan.
• Sparrow Sparrow watched customers, a lesser demon, and an Ice Troll emerge from the small Illusion shop, leaving Kaido unable to explain the scene.
• Fafnir realized Sparrow Sparrow was disguised and that his soul belonged to a human, while Angel said the discovery did not concern him.
• Canaan signaled Angel that a new group of customers had arrived and announced that their Experience Journey was about to begin.

Angel earned more demon gold from the Illusion Hut and continued repairing the half-door in his mind space, while growing wary of the attention his success attracted. When a Young Fire Demon joined a group of water-element guests, Angel decided to remove it because Ocean Rhythm could not help it and might injure it.

• Angel counted his earnings and told Canaan to gather thirty guests before calling him downstairs.
• Angel spent four hours repairing the half-door and sensed that its strange energy revealed a deeper layer of information.
• Canaan explained that Fafnir had suppressed demons who tried to seize Angel's supposed treasure after becoming jealous of the Illusion Hut's success.
• Angel learned that one of the thirty guests was a Young Fire Demon who had paid to join despite Canaan's warning.
• Angel ordered Canaan to throw the Young Fire Demon out because Ocean Rhythm could not benefit it and might harm it.

Angel closed the Illusion Hut after earning more than ten thousand demon gold coins, then went to Prey Hall to pay Night Innkeeper for the Undying Burning Bone and ask him to buy supplies. Night recognized Angel as human and asked whether he had earned enough money.

• Fafnir threw the Young Fire Demon out of the Illusion Hut, but it returned and was thrown away again after Angel shut the door on it.
• Angel counted his earnings, paid Canaan ten demon gold coins, and decided to visit Prey Hall to pay Night Innkeeper and request supplies.
• Angel slipped out the back of the Illusion Hut and reached Prey Hall without incident.
• Night Innkeeper led Angel through the dark hall, where Angel noticed a striking painting in the display room.
• Angel compared the painting to Night Innkeeper, and Night remarked that human eyes were more interesting than demon eyes.
• Night Innkeeper asked Angel whether he had earned enough demon gold coins.

Angel discovered that the painting “Night” was created by the legendary Magic Painting Witch, Mirafael Feng, and entered the world within it. Night revealed that Feng’s painting had restrained his flames and emotions, and that Angel’s arrival in Feng’s name meant Night could finally stop being bound by it.

• Night told Angel he trusted and helped him because Angel was human and had come in Feng’s name, then directed him to the painting.
• Angel found Feng’s signature on the painting and recognized it as belonging to the legendary Magic Painting Witch, Mirafael Feng.
• Night took Angel by the wrist and pulled him into the painting, where Angel witnessed a painter calm a fire-covered demon who became Night.
• Night explained that he had been born in a fire that destroyed his mother clan, and Feng had used the painting to restrain his flames and emotions.
• Night revealed that Feng had predicted a human would come in his name when Night no longer needed the painting’s restraints, and Angel’s arrival marked that time.

Angel discussed Feng’s prophecy and Night’s future with Night, then arranged to collect the prepared White-Ash Fire Solvent while waiting for Fire-Passing Stone fragments. Back at the Illusion Hut, he agreed to let the persistent Young Fire Demon experience Ocean Rhythm the next day and noticed a suspicious red-robed figure watching him.

• Angel questioned why he had become important to Night’s fate, and Night said Feng’s prophecy might have brought them together but warned Angel not to trap himself within its script.
• Night said he had bought ten-thousand-year-old Earth-Vein Fire Rock and the materials for White-Ash Fire Solvent, which he would prepare with Hellfire by the next day.
• Night told Angel that Fire-Passing Stone fragments would take two or three days to arrive, so Angel decided to keep the Illusion Hut open and use the extra time to gather supplies.
• Angel found the Young Fire Demon still waiting outside the Illusion Hut and agreed that it could experience Ocean Rhythm the next day, provided it did not disturb other customers.
• Angel noticed a hooded red-robed figure watching him suspiciously while it spoke with the Young Fire Demon.

Grewu explained to Orucia why it wanted to return to the Illusion Hut, but Orucia ordered it to focus on finding the Source Fire first and promised to inspect the shop later. Meanwhile, Angel considered the Outer Eye’s activation and wondered about the world it had shown him.

• Butler Tandin warned Grewu that the Illusion Hut’s owner and a native with a fire-beast mark were unusually powerful, and Grewu insisted on returning.
• Tandin sensed a faint Source Fire-like presence near Prey Hall, but Grewu detected nothing and asked Tandin not to tell Orucia about its visit to the shop.
• After Tandin contacted Orucia, Grewu admitted that Ocean Rhythm seemed to strengthen demon patrons and that it hoped the experience might help it transform.
• Orucia told Grewu to search for the Source Fire because humans were targeting it, and promised to inspect the shop in Lasudelan before deciding whether Grewu could go.
• Tandin encouraged Grewu to find the Source Fire quickly so Orucia could arrive sooner, and Grewu became eager to search.
• Angel considered Sanders, the door, and the Outer Eye, concluding that plane-fusion energy had activated it and wondering about the world it had revealed.

Angel examined the dormant Outer Eye and learned from Fafnir that the Young Fire Demon and its attendant carried traces of a Demon God’s aura, raising the possibility that a Demon God descendant was near Lasudelan. Canaan returned bloodstained after taking revenge, and Angel tried to determine whether the city had noticed anything unusual before focusing on how to handle the Young Fire Demon.

• Angel recalled the Strange World’s extreme rationality and considered whether the Outer Eye’s true form existed in another dimension, but found it dormant.
• Fafnir warned Angel that the Fire Attendant Demon carried a trace of Demon God aura and advised him to protect the Young Fire Demon if he received it.
• Angel connected the warning to the Frost Moon Alliance’s hunt for a Demon God descendant and wondered whether it might appear in Lasudelan.
• Canaan returned to Angel’s shop bloodstained and thanked him for Ocean Rhythm after taking revenge on the snake-tailed demon that had humiliated it.
• Angel asked Canaan whether anything major had happened in Lasudelan, then felt reassured when Canaan reported no unusual news.
• Angel returned to the attic and decided he still needed to resolve how to handle the Young Fire Demon.

Angel closed the Illusion Hut after earning a fortune, while the aftermath of the Evil God's attack devastated Sky Island. Sanders and Kant joined the surviving wizards at the central hall, where Lord Monchi and Rheinmut were gathered.

• Angel served five batches of guests, earned more than forty-five thousand demon gold coins, and closed the Illusion Hut to avoid attracting greedy demons or facing the Young Fire Demon.
• The Evil God's attack left Sky Island in ruins, killing Daski and many others while the braided apprentice mourned his friend.
• Kant and Sanders discussed the disaster and learned that Bruffin's doom-tainted Olof Tendril Crab had helped trigger the calamity.
• Lord Monchi's Trace-Free Snow healed the surviving apprentices and summoned Sanders and Kant; Monchi and Rheinmut had recently suppressed the Evil God.
• Sanders worried that Angel and the blood essence had returned to the third level of the Abyss, then joined the surviving wizards in Sky Island's central hall, where Monchi and Rheinmut stood.

After Sky Island was devastated, Monchi gathered the surviving wizards and announced plans to hunt a Demon God's descendant in Lasudelan, while assuring them that the calamity might not reach the Southern Region. Sanders and Rhein then turned to finding Angel, whom Sanders believed was somewhere on the Abyss's third layer.

• Monchi apologized for Frost Moon's role in Sky Island's destruction and promised compensation, then thanked Sanders and Rheinmut for helping defend it.
• Monchi revealed that a Demon God's descendant would soon reach the surface and said he planned to hunt it, prompting wizards to question the risks and Frost Moon's preparations.
• Sinafa outlined Frost Moon's disaster-response measures, and Monchi announced that the descendant would emerge from Lasudelan rather than the Machine Gate or the Cave of Hidden Evil.
• After the meeting, Sanders rejected Rheinmut's attempt to match him with Samantha and said the essence blood he sensed suggested Angel was on the Abyss's third layer.
• Rheinmut brought Sanders to Sky Island's new cemetery, where an old man walked among the graves.

Sanders learned that Borus, an old acquaintance of Rhein’s, could use Fate Guidance to direct him despite Angel’s prophecy-blocking item. Fate pointed Sanders toward remaining on the Third Layer of the Abyss, while Grewu and Tandin searched a Prey Hall for the source fire.

• Rhein introduced Sanders to Borus, whose dual soul and prophecy talents had once propelled his rise before his refusal to choose a path stalled his progress.
• Sanders told Borus and Rhein that Angel’s item had blocked prophecy, even defeating an attempt by Gauss to peer into Angel.
• Borus used Fate Guidance with Sanders as the basis and directed him toward the Third Layer of the Abyss, where he was to wait and let events unfold.
• Rhein asked Sanders whether Gauss had truly peered into Angel after Borus left for another cemetery.
• Grewu and Tandin, unable to find the source fire in Lasudelan, went to a Prey Hall where Tandin had sensed its scent.

Grewu and Tandin discovered that Origin Fire was tied to Night, a Half-Blood Demon who emerged from a painting in Prey Hall. Meanwhile, Angel completed a new Pattern and obtained the remains of a wizard-level Demonic Beast, which he considered valuable materials.

• Grewu and Tandin entered Prey Hall, where Grewu heard whispers leading them to a painting of flames in the inner exhibition hall.
• Tandin touched the painting, causing its flames to spread, and Grewu sensed Origin Fire within it.
• The painting revealed images of creatures burned beneath a night sky, then opened to let a Half-Blood Demon named Night step out.
• Grewu identified an incompletely awakened Origin Fire aura in Night and introduced itself as Orucia's representative searching for Origin Fire.
• Angel completed a new Pattern, checked on Toby and the stalemate in the Soft-State Worm nest, and went downstairs to find Canaan covering Demonic Beast remains.
• Angel explained that the remains Canaan had bought from a Blood-Eyed Naga included valuable materials from a wizard-level Demonic Beast.

Angel bought twenty-three wizard-level Demonic Beast corpses from Canaan for a small amount of demon gold coins and began accepting such corpses as payment at his shop. When a Panas Succubus arrived and embraced him, Fafnir intervened to protect Odecras’s mark, leaving Angel to learn that the succubus had ties to several powerful demons in Lasudelan.

• Angel counted the twenty-three Demonic Beast corpses Canaan had bought and used Plapa’s tears to preserve their blood and organs.
• Angel added a shop rule offering to exchange goods for the corpses of high-level Demonic Beasts, then paid Canaan fifty demon gold coins for its errands.
• Angel returned to the attic to study the Fire-Passing Stone refining method while Canaan prepared to reopen the shop.
• A Panas Succubus approached Angel from behind, embraced him, and tried to lick the Flame Mark on his ear.
• Fafnir threw Angel away from the succubus and confronted her for threatening Odecras’s mark.
• Canaan warned Angel that the Panas Succubus had ties to several great demons in Lasudelan.

Angel tried to defuse a confrontation between Fafnir and Hai, a Panas Succubus connected to several Greater Demons, and persuaded Hai to pay for the Experience Journey. Hai offered a Demonic Beast corpse instead of demon gold coins, and Angel began appraising the remains.

• Canaan warned Angel that Hai had arrived and had ties to several Greater Demons.
• Fafnir threatened Hai with her overwhelming power after Hai spoke provocatively about Odecras.
• Angel intervened, calmed Fafnir, and convinced Hai to set aside the confrontation and join the Experience Journey.
• Angel told Canaan to collect payment from the waiting demons and asked Hai for three hundred demon gold coins or a high-level Demonic Beast corpse.
• Hai spat out a heap of bones and a hide, claiming they came from a void-flying Demonic Beast given to it by Iyadar.
• Angel suppressed his disgust and began appraising the remains with the Eye of Nalda.

Angel recognized Jie's bone pile as the remains of Ximos, a True Knowledge-level Void Demon, and eagerly collected its valuable bones and Panas Succubus saliva. After Angel began the Ocean Rhythm Experience Journey for the demons, Jie's body suddenly emitted a brilliant azure light.

• Angel identified the bone pile as Ximos, a Void Demon, and examined its spatially charged bones.
• Jie offered Angel more bones at her home, but Angel declined and proposed starting the Ocean Rhythm Experience Journey.
• Angel used Ocean Rhythm to draw Jie and the other demons into an illusory sea, then rushed outside to collect Ximos's remains.
• Angel separated and stored the bones, flesh, blood, and Panas Succubus saliva while Fafnir and Canaan watched.
• A brilliant azure light suddenly burst from Jie's body inside the shop.

Jie's transformation into a colossal, unfamiliar form drew Greater Demon Iyadase to Angel's shop, where she revealed that the shop had helped her awaken. After Jie spoke to Iyadase in Ancient Demon Tongue, Iyadase turned on Angel and fired a streak of black light at him.

• Jie's body transformed into a gigantic, scaled creature, destroying the wooden house as Angel and Canaan watched.
• Iyadase arrived above the shop, and Fafnir shielded Angel from the Greater Demon's terrifying aura.
• Jie awakened from her transformation, praised Angel's Ocean Rhythm experience, and returned to her petite form.
• Iyadase descended and recognized Angel's Flame Mark and Fafnir, while Jie said Iyadase had sent her to investigate the shop and thereby helped her awaken.
• Jie spoke to Iyadase in Ancient Demon Tongue, and Iyadase raised a hand and shot black light at Angel.

Angel was rescued from Iyadase’s attack by Fafnir and sent to Prey Hall, where Night gave him White-Ash Fire Solvent and explained that Panas had undergone Abyssal Awakening. The revelation showed that Panas’s bloodline limits had been lifted, leaving her with the potential to rise far beyond her former rank.

• Iyadase attacked Angel, but Fafnir stopped the strike and sent Angel to Prey Hall so he could fight without protecting him.
• Angel found Night watching the transformed painting and learned that the fire was close to consuming the remaining night.
• Night gave Angel White-Ash Fire Solvent and told him the Fire-Passing Stone fragments would be ready the next day.
• Night reassured Angel that Fafnir was difficult to harm, then asked whether Panas had awakened at Angel’s shop.
• Night explained that Abyssal Awakening removed a demon’s innate limits, giving Panas the chance to surpass mid-rank demon status and perhaps contend for lordship.

Angel learned that Jie's Abyssal Awakening had made the Illusion Hut a likely target, while Fafnir explained that she had driven Iyadase and Jie away after their clash. With demons still watching the shop, Angel returned to the Illusion Hut and began preparing for the danger ahead.

• Night Innkeeper explained that Abyssal Awakening could grant demons immense power, and Angel realized Iyadase had attacked him over his connection to Jie's awakening.
• Plapa told Angel that Canaan had been searching for him, and Angel gave Plapa demon gold coins and asked it to buy materials through Night Innkeeper.
• Fafnir called Angel back to the Illusion Hut, where Canaan was relieved to see him and Angel paid it to restore the shop.
• Fafnir told Angel that Iyadase had wanted to kill him, while Jie had suggested taking him away, and that she had driven both demons off after an energy contest.
• Fafnir warned Angel that demons across Lasudelan were still watching the Illusion Hut, so they needed to prepare for the consequences of Jie's awakening.

Angel waited for the Fire-Passing Stone fragments while keeping the Illusion Hut open to appear unconcerned about the Awakened incident. After Jie sent compensation for the damage, Angel discovered it included the head of the rare spatial Void Demon Ximos, while Fafnir warned that new customers carried a foul stench.

• Fafnir agreed to wait another day for the Fire-Passing Stone fragments, and Angel decided to reopen the repaired Illusion Hut as usual.
• When Canaan asked whether Panas Succubus had experienced an Awakening, Angel claimed he knew nothing about it and insisted the shop would open.
• Canaan quickly repaired the Illusion Hut, but no customers arrived for hours.
• Three Lesser Gargoyles delivered compensation from Jie, and Angel found Ximos's head inside the bag.
• Angel preserved Ximos's head in diluted Floating Imp Water, and Fafnir told him that customers had arrived, including several demons with a disgusting stench.