Chapter Summaries

Sinafa fought the Panas Succubus, whose speed, resilience, and combat skill proved far greater than she had expected. After revealing her battle form, Sinafa faced the succubus as it prepared to reveal its own true form.

• Sinafa sensed a hidden presence nearby and scattered the succubus's pink illusion mist toward the sea of flames, where Angel avoided it with the Wind Domain.
• Sinafa attacked the Panas Succubus with an ice-and-fire cross slash, but it evaded the killing blow and rapidly healed its small wound.
• Sinafa fought the succubus with relentless attacks, but it endured her assault and seemed increasingly excited by close combat.
• Sinafa decided to stop holding back and transformed into her battle form, growing mismatched wings, deer hooves, blade-like hands, and scales.
• The Panas Succubus told Sinafa it would reveal its true form so she could know why she was going to die.

Hai awakened into a massive, armored insectoid form and fought Sinafa, who eventually split the succubus in two with a combined attack. After Sinafa collapsed from her injuries, Hai regenerated and revealed that its awakened ability was immortality.

• Hai transformed into a giant insectoid form whose scales withstood Sinafa's Ice-Fire Blades.
• Hai attacked Sinafa with its tails of light, and Sinafa took a severe wound while continuing to fight.
• Sinafa combined Black Domain and white light, then split Hai from its head downward with her blades.
• Sinafa collapsed as her suppressed injuries and pain returned.
• Hai's divided body fused back together, and it revealed its awakened ability: immortality.

Sinafa discovered that Hai had awakened an immortality ability and nearly used Frost Moon’s trump card to stop her. Angel asked Hai to spare Sinafa, and Hai left, prompting Sinafa to call out to the unseen shopkeeper.

• Sinafa realized Hai’s Abyssal Awakening granted her immortality and tried to interrupt her regeneration, but Hai struck her with a mental thorn.
• With Sinafa near collapse, Hai approached to feed on her, while Sinafa prepared to use Lord Monchi’s frost-colored crescent pendant.
• Angel, feeling guilty that he had helped bring about Hai’s awakening, messaged her and asked her to spare Sinafa.
• Hai agreed to Angel’s request, told Sinafa that the shopkeeper had asked her to let her go, and vanished.
• Sinafa searched the flames and asked who the shopkeeper was, then received a reply in human common tongue.

Angel warned Sinafa that a demon was approaching and that someone in Prey Hall was about to ascend the throne, while Sinafa escaped and contacted the Frost Moon Alliance. She told Monchi she had important information and asked Sanders to explain Angel’s situation.

• Angel recognized the approaching Fire Attendant Demon and warned Sinafa to flee, then told her not to go to Prey Hall because someone there was about to ascend the throne.
• The Fire Attendant Demon watched Illusion Hut but returned to Prey Hall to protect Orucia, while Angel confirmed from Sinafa that Sanders was on the floating ice.
• Sinafa hid among the ruins, treated her injuries, and realized Angel’s warning could mean a demon lord was about to rise in Lasudelan.
• Sinafa used a communicator and Distant Voice spell to contact Maher, who brought the communicator to Monchi on the floating ice.
• Sinafa told Monchi that a succubus had intercepted her and depleted much of her energy, then asked Sanders to explain the situation with Angel before she shared her information.

Sinafa revealed that Angel had given her information about a demon in Lasudelan preparing to ascend the throne, prompting the wizards to investigate Angel’s presence and connections. The chapter ended with Monchi realizing the Lord of Fire might soon be born and that their group could be in grave danger.

• Sinafa told the wizards that Angel had given her information and that the awakened succubus had stopped fighting after he intervened.
• Kant confirmed Angel was in Lasudelan, explaining that Sanders had left him behind after being trapped by the Time-Space Labyrinth and that a powerful being had taken him away.
• Kant said he had seen Angel in the mysterious little shop, and Sinafa suspected Angel was connected to the shopkeeper who had spared her.
• Sinafa revealed that Angel had seen Orucia and reported a demon in Monchi’s target location was about to ascend the throne.
• Monchi looked toward the building in Lasudelan’s southern outskirts and feared that the Lord of Fire was about to be born.

Monchi sent Kant and Samantha to find Angel and learn what he knew about the imminent birth of a demon lord, while he weighed the risks to the wizards’ plans. As the wizards discussed Angel’s extraordinary rise, an old man revealed that Angel had been marked by the Time Thief.

• Monchi decided to contact Angel, and Sinafa suggested he might be hiding in the Mystery Shop beneath the sea of fire.
• Unable to send the occupied Sanders, Monchi tasked Kant with finding Angel and sent Samantha along to monitor the mission.
• Monchi refused Maher’s proposal to attack the Quasi-Lord, warning that interfering with the Heaven-Bestowed Throne could provoke the Abyss’s great will.
• The wizards shared what they knew about Angel’s rapid advancement and exceptional alchemy, and agreed that his potential was extraordinary.
• A hunched old man told the gathered wizards that Angel had likely been marked by the Time Thief.

As the Flame Throne began gathering the fires of ten thousand flames, Angel struggled to protect Toby from his vanishing, unruly flames. Meanwhile, Monchi brooded over Angel being marked by the Time Thief, and Kant and Samantha searched the ruins of Lasudelan for Angel.

• Vifit confirmed that Angel had been marked by the Time Thief, provoking admiration from the wizards and jealousy in Monchi.
• Monchi argued that the Time Thief could obstruct a wizard's pursuit of truth, while Vifit agreed and withdrew into the crowd.
• Angel pulled Toby's ice sphere close and shielded it from the restless flames before the flames around him and throughout the sea of fire disappeared.
• Fafnir explained that the Flame Throne had entered construction and was drawing in the fires of ten thousand flames.
• Kant and Samantha crossed the ruins of Lasudelan, where Kant collected demon materials and a lesser demon's remains as they discussed Angel and Sanders' regard for him.
• Samantha heard a strange dripping sound while she and Kant searched for Angel.

After a mysterious woman used rain, smoke, and illusions to trap Samantha and Kant in Lasudelan, they discovered she was a Greater Demon with tentacles hidden underground. The demon surrounded them with a tentacle cage, and the source of the eerie “pitter-patter” voice turned out to be her talking umbrella.

• Samantha heard dripping and sensed they were being watched as ash-black smoke spread through Lasudelan.
• Rain and steam obscured their sight while a woman with a white umbrella appeared and vanished around them.
• Samantha attacked the woman and expanded her Glass Realm, but the woman gave off no detectable presence.
• Samantha and Kant tried to leave, then Samantha sensed danger underground as tentacles burst through the glass.
• Samantha and Kant dodged the ambush but found themselves surrounded by barbed, compound-eyed tentacles.
• The woman rose on her tentacles, revealing herself as a Greater Demon, and they realized her umbrella had been making the “pitter-patter” sound.

Sanders tried to contain Minotaur with the Black Tower Nightmare Domain, but Baphomet arrived and attacked him. Sanders trapped both Greater Demons in the domain, though their attacks injured him and threatened to break it.

• Sanders planned to trap Minotaur for five minutes so Monchi and the other wizards could kill it.
• Baphomet launched a surprise axe attack at Sanders, who used Nightmare Substitute to exchange places with Minotaur.
• Minotaur struck Baphomet while mistaking him for an illusion, and Baphomet revealed that he had come to help.
• Sanders expanded the Black Tower Nightmare Domain around Minotaur and Baphomet, but their attacks wounded him and made the domain tremble.
• Sanders changed the domain so that each Greater Demon faced an identical demonic double.

Angel used scouting puppets to explore war-torn Lasudelan and found a hidden passage leading to a lava-pool smithy strewn with weapons and bloodstains. He heard someone named Sparrow Sparrow tormenting a surviving demon, who accused Sparrow Sparrow of killing Kaido and the entire clan.

• Angel sent scouting puppets through Lasudelan, but demons destroyed those he flew toward the sky, so he searched the city’s outskirts instead.
• Angel discovered a cloud-shrouded area where combat sounds came from, then investigated a red light near some ruined buildings.
• Angel found a ground-level door and followed its stairs through an underground passage to a vast lava pool lined with furnaces and forging materials.
• Angel spotted fine weapons abandoned beside blackened bloodstains, but found no sign of their owners or bodies.
• Angel heard Sparrow Sparrow mock a surviving demon, who begged for mercy and accused Sparrow Sparrow of killing Kaido and every member of the clan.

Angel discovered that the demon at the lava pool was likely Bobota, wielding a transformed chain Angel had forged, and watched the demon destroy his scouting puppet. When Angel sent another puppet to investigate, Bobota and the other demons had vanished, leaving a chain scythe and black blood behind.

• Angel’s scouting puppet revealed a flame-wreathed demon devouring another demon beside a furnace, then accidentally made a sound that exposed it.
• The demon destroyed the scouting puppet and spoke of gathering strength before the throne descended, while his body and hand changed in strange ways.
• Angel recognized the demon’s bloodlit chain as one he had forged for Bobota and suspected the demon was Bobota in disguise.
• Angel recalled that Bobota had gone missing near the Gloomlight Mountains and wondered why he had come to Lasudelan and transformed the chain.
• Angel sent another scouting puppet to the lava pool, but found it empty except for a chain scythe and a pool of wet black blood.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Angel discovers a chain scythe in a lava pool, which devours its owner, a demon resembling Ta.
• Angel remembers Ta's sister, Hua Queque, and realizes the demon was Ta.
• Angel finds Jianan severely injured and bleeding out, trying to maintain a healing effect to stay awake and alive.

Character Developments

• Angel: Recalls memories of Ta and his sister, Hua Queque, and decides to investigate further when he has the chance.
• Jianan: Injured and desperate, she's trying to stay awake to maintain her healing effect, showing her strong will to survive.

Significant Themes

• The importance of names and identity, as seen through Ta's and Hua Queque's names.
• The struggle for survival and willpower, exemplified by Jianan's desperate situation.

Character Interactions

• Angel and Ta: Angel remembers their interactions and Ta's peculiarities, raising questions about Ta's true nature and origins.
• Angel and Jianan: Angel discovers Jianan's critical condition and must decide whether to save her.

Canaan was badly wounded and stranded in the wilderness, but Angel sent her Life Water and she made it back to the Illusion Hut. She revealed that Nitotip, one of the seven seats of the Void Giant Tower, had pierced her with a tentacle.

• Canaan fought to stay conscious and begged a hovering metal sphere to save her.
• Angel decided to rescue Canaan and sent scouting puppets with a bottle of Life Water.
• Canaan poured the medicine on her wound and survived long enough to return through the Wind Domain.
• Angel examined Canaan's wound, and she thanked him for saving her.
• Canaan revealed that Nitotip had pierced her, and Fafnir identified Nitotip as one of the seven seats of the Void Giant Tower.

Angel learned from Canaan that demons were preparing to trigger a Void Tremor to purge the humans gathered on the floating ice. Canaan explained how it overheard the plan and was injured by Nitotip, leaving Angel with the knowledge of a looming attack.

• Angel recognized Nitotip among the demons fleeing the Void Giant Tower, and Canaan confirmed it had attacked him by accident after mistaking his presence for a human spy.
• Angel discovered that demons were hiding underground and in other dimensions, while those watching the sky repeatedly destroyed his scouting puppet.
• Canaan revealed that the demons were hiding to prevent mistakes in a plan to shake the void and purge all humans.
• Canaan recounted overhearing Nitotip and a Veiled Demon discuss the plan before Nitotip wounded him with its tentacles.
• Canaan explained that the Void Giant Tower could be operated in reverse to cause a Void Tremor aimed at the floating ice where nearly all human wizards were gathered.

Angel learned that the Greater Demons planned to use a Void Tremor to destroy the floating ice and tried to find a way to warn the wizards. As Greater Demons joined the battle and time ran short, Sanders' Nightmare Domain began to fail, and Monchi called on Muying for Kundela's work.

• Angel learned that the Greater Demons were preparing a Void Tremor aimed at the floating ice and resolved to get the warning to Sanders and Kant.
• Canaan explained that the plan required preparations and that the Greater Demons were joining the battle to restrict the humans' movements before the strike.
• Angel realized he had little time to deliver the message but could find no safe way through the demon-guarded no-fly zone.
• Baphomet and Minotaur fought powerful mirror images inside Sanders' Black Tower Nightmare Domain, while Sanders suffered from the damage inflicted on it.
• Sanders told Monchi he could hold the Nightmare Domain for only one more minute, so Monchi summoned Muying and asked whether he had Kundela's work.

Muying used Kundela’s Bizarre Puppet Theater to bind Minotaur and Baphomet after Sanders held them off inside the Black Tower Nightmare Domain. The play emerged in the air with both demons controlled by its threads, though their fate remained unresolved.

• Monchi introduced Muying, whose flamboyant attire revealed his connection to Kundela’s Beacon Academy.
• Muying told Sanders he would create a stage and asked him to keep the demons occupied for one minute.
• Vifit explained Kundela’s signature spell frameworks and revealed that Muying had once tried to recruit Angel to Beacon Academy.
• Sanders silenced the gathered wizards after learning of Muying’s attempt to recruit Angel, while Minotaur and Baphomet battered the Nightmare Domain.
• Muying completed the Bizarre Puppet Theater, and its threads entered the Nightmare Domain and bound both demons.
• Sanders dispelled the Nightmare Domain, revealing the puppet theater and its eerie white-doll puppeteer controlling Minotaur and Baphomet.

Muying’s Bizarre Puppet Theater forced Baphomet and Minotaur to act out a violent nursery rhyme while the wizards watched. As Monchi’s group prepared to move, the archdemon Edesinos arrived and threatened to kill Muying, the caster.

• Muying’s puppet show bound Baphomet and Minotaur to an illusory stage, making them attack and dance according to the rhyme’s changing acts.
• The wizards watched the archdemons suffer, while Muying’s effort grew as the play reached its fifth act.
• Monchi failed to contact Samantha and Kant, then ordered the group to continue south and told Sanders to protect Muying and intervene if the archdemons survived until the seventh act.
• Sanders warned Monchi that it was too late as Edesinos flew to the floating ice and mocked the puppet show.
• Minotaur pleaded with Edesinos to cut the threads, but Baphomet found him and attacked; Edesinos then vowed to kill Muying.

Muying kept the demons and their allies distracted with the puppet show, while Nereus arrived to confront Edesinos. As Chapter Six ended, the strings pulled Edesinos onto the stage beside Baphomet and Minotaur, leaving it trapped in their grotesque performance.

• Baphomet and Minotaur begged Edesinos to kill Muying, but Edesinos delayed to watch their appearance and then prepared to fight.
• Monchi summoned Nereus, a Truth Wizard from Deep Sea Song and Imagan's strongest pillar, to face Edesinos.
• Muying announced a love scene, and the puppet show forced Baphomet and Minotaur into a grotesque, bloody kiss as Angel and Fafnir watched.
• Nitotip sent a message asking Iyadase to rescue Baphomet and Minotaur while Edesinos stalled for Jupiter to calibrate the Void Giant Tower device.
• At the end of Chapter Six, the puppet's strings dragged Edesinos onto the stage beside Baphomet and Minotaur.

Edesinos was forced into the puppet show while Iyadase flew to rescue the captives, and Angel offered Fafnir a way to record the performance. Fafnir used her power to let Angel see the stage in the sky, where he spotted Sanders on the floating ice.

• Baphomet and Minotaur restrained Edesinos and pulled it into the puppet show as the seventh act’s interlude began.
• Nitotip urged Iyadase to rescue the three demons, and Iyadase flew through the flaming horizon toward the floating ice.
• Angel offered Fafnir his crystal ball and demonstrated realistic illusions so she could record the performance.
• Angel used artistic techniques to enhance a battle illusion, and Fafnir approved of making the presentation more exaggerated.
• Fafnir sent a wisp of wind into the sky, letting Angel see the puppet-show stage and spot Sanders on the floating ice.

Angel watched Sanders and the battle atop the floating ice through a wisp of wind, then showed Fafnir a recorded illusion of the three great demons being controlled on Muying’s stage. Sanders mocked Nereus before Monchi intervened, and Monchi’s attention toward the wind left Angel and Fafnir wondering whether he had detected them.

• Angel saw Sanders standing on the floating ice and found Minotaur, Baphomet, and Edesinos trapped in Muying’s bizarre puppet performance.
• Angel returned his divided consciousness to the courtyard and showed Fafnir and Canaan an illusion recording the demons’ condition.
• Fafnir explained that Sanders had created the stage using a tool wielded by Muying, while Angel watched Sanders and considered how to tell him about the Human Purge Plan.
• Sanders mocked Nereus over an old scandal, prompting Nereus and nearby wizards to move toward him until Monchi intervened.
• Monchi assigned Nereus to face a newly arrived great demon, then glanced toward Fafnir’s wisp of wind, leading Angel to wonder whether Monchi recognized him.