Chapter Summaries

Angel discussed Monchi, Sanders, and the human camp’s internal divisions with Fafnir while watching Muying struggle to control three greater demons. The battle’s outcome remained uncertain, and Muying appealed to Monchi for help as his strength ran out.

• Fafnir pointed out that Monchi might have noticed Angel watching him, and Angel admitted Sanders had taught him illusion magic.
• Fafnir suggested the being who had called to Angel in Windwhisper Valley was not his mentor, but Angel avoided revealing what he suspected.
• Fafnir warned that friction among Sanders, Nereus, and Gravity Forest weakened the human camp, making victory depend on endurance and hidden cards.
• Iyadase appeared after Edesinos fell, and Monchi sent Nereus to fight him while Muying continued controlling the demons onstage.
• Muying ran low on magic while holding three greater demons, could not bring human allies onto the stage, and sought help from Monchi.

Monchi ordered Maher to fire the Chaos Mana Cannon at the demons trapped by Muying’s Puppet Theater, and the blast destroyed the stage and opened a spatial rift. As the wizards celebrated, a silhouette appeared inside the rift, while Sanders seemed to notice Angel watching.

• Monchi told Maher to bring out the Chaos Mana Cannon and asked whether Angel might be watching.
• Maher activated the cannon, whose power alarmed Angel and Fafnir, then fired it at Puppet Theater’s stage.
• Iyadase warned the trapped demons too late, and the cannon’s beam engulfed the stage in blinding light.
• After the light faded, the stage was gone and a dark spatial vortex remained; the wizards celebrated, believing the demons had been eliminated.
• Sanders looked toward Angel and murmured his name, then turned toward a faint silhouette appearing inside the vortex.

Angel watched Komodo arrive to protect the wounded Greater Demons as the wizards prepared to attack. Fafnir recognized that Essek carried the bloodline of a fallen Abyss Dragon and declared that the dragon’s fate belonged to its own kind.

• Baphomet emerged from the vortex but was consumed by black mist and destroyed, revealing that Edesinos and Minotaur had survived behind it as shields.
• Monchi urged the wizards to kill the injured demons before they recovered, and Essek led their charge toward Edesinos and Minotaur.
• Komodo appeared and blocked Essek and the other wizards with a fire shield, warning them that the Lord of Fire would soon descend.
• Angel identified Essek by his black dragon phantom, and Fafnir recognized that he carried the bloodline of a fallen Abyss Dragon.
• Fafnir told Angel that the Abyss Dragon clan had once hunted the fallen dragon and said its kin, not humans, should judge it.

Angel persuaded Fafnir not to attack Essek while the battle against Komodo worsened and the human wizards struggled to break its defenses. A frail Frost Moon wizard stepped forward to face Komodo, and Monchi gave him a potion, leaving his ability to help uncertain.

• Angel convinced Fafnir that attacking Essek now could make her seem allied with the demons, so she postponed her revenge.
• Angel, Fafnir, and Canaan realized Komodo had been restricted from using its Purgatory Flame, though its basic fire techniques had grown stronger.
• Komodo killed a black-robed wizard and devoured his heart as the humans' morale fell and Minotaur and Edesinos recovered.
• A frail Frost Moon wizard vomited blood, drank a blood-red liquid, and asked Monchi to let him confront Komodo.
• Monchi gave the wizard a coagulation potion prepared by Midora, while the others wondered whether he could stop Komodo.

Winchester stepped forward to face Komodo after Essek was driven back, while Samantha and Kant combined their abilities to attack Nitotip. Their strike severed Nitotip’s tentacles but left her unharmed, just as she noticed a startling upheaval in the sky.

• Winchester drank the coagulation potion Monchi had given him and advanced toward Komodo, revealing himself as Monchi’s apprentice.
• Komodo knocked Essek back, then turned its attention to Winchester and felt an unfamiliar sense of dread.
• Samantha evaded Nitotip’s tentacles and teamed up with Kant to trap the demon in a black-glass cube.
• Samantha shattered the cube, severing half of Nitotip’s tentacles, but Nitotip emerged unharmed and began recovering.
• Nitotip received news of an upheaval in the sky and looked toward the floating ice in shock.

Winchester entered the battle and neutralized Komodo’s flames, turning the fight in the humans’ favor as he charged toward the demon with Essek’s support. Vifit suspected Winchester had a rare special talent, but its nature remained unknown.

• Komodo sent a tiny flame at Winchester, who caught it and erased its strange power before flicking it away.
• Essek joined Winchester, while Fafnir realized that Winchester had changed the flame’s nature rather than simply stopped it.
• Komodo unleashed Endless Fire, but Winchester dissolved the arrows as he charged through them, aided by a masked sound-type wizard’s war song.
• Komodo hesitated to dodge Winchester because Minotaur and Edesinos were recovering behind it, while Winchester and Essek closed in.
• Vifit connected Winchester’s feat to Maher’s earlier words, “Heaven’s Condemnation and Heaven’s Jealousy,” and suggested Winchester possessed a special talent.

Angel suspected that Winchester possessed a Fire Transmutation talent like Xiliu’s Water Transmutation, and Winchester used his power to turn flames inside Komodo into frost. With Komodo wounded and Essek attacking the Blood Cocoons alongside the wizards, dark clouds gathered overhead and rain began to sound.

• Angel explained Xiliu’s Water Transmutation talent and suggested that Winchester’s ability to change flames might be a similar talent.
• Fafnir considered Winchester a possible threat while Canaan feared encountering someone with Water Transmutation.
• Winchester reached Komodo and turned the flames connected to his body into frost, causing Komodo severe pain.
• Essek struck Komodo in the chest, injuring him and leaving Edesinos and Minotaur’s Blood Cocoons undefended.
• Essek and the wizards attacked the Blood Cocoons, but dark clouds rolled in as the attacks ended and rain began to patter.

As the aerial battle shifted, Nitotip abandoned her fight with Samantha and Kant to rescue the great demons, while Angel realized the Human Purge Plan might soon begin and sought a way to warn the floating ice. Fafnir refused to help him communicate with his mentor, leaving Angel to find another way.

• A tentacle emerged from the dark clouds and attacked Winchester, but Essek intervened with a black dragon phantom and protected him.
• Maher brought Lord Monchi news from Samantha and Kant, who explained that Nitotip had left their fight to rescue the great demons.
• Samantha and Kant discussed their orders to gather intelligence from Angel, investigate the supreme expert beside him, and receive Sinafa.
• Angel realized Nitotip’s arrival meant nearly all the Six Seats had entered the battle and worried that the Void Tremor was approaching.
• Angel asked Fafnir for control over a wisp of wind so he could send a message, but she recognized his intent and refused.

Angel decided to leave the demons’ encirclement and send word, but before he could act, Samantha and Kant arrived in the Scorched Earth and confirmed his identity. Kant began cautiously asking whether Angel was safe, while Samantha’s questions about the Human Purge Plan and Angel’s information remained unanswered.

• Angel decided that speed offered his best chance to break through the demons’ encirclement and considered asking Fafnir to watch Toby.
• Angel sensed shadows approaching through the smoke, while Samantha and Kant investigated his mental tendril from nearby ruins.
• Kant used the severance method to contact Angel, and the two confirmed each other’s identities.
• Samantha and Kant entered the Scorched Earth and found Angel, who recognized them and was glad he would not need to break through the demons’ defenses alone.
• Samantha questioned Angel about his location and the information he had sent, but Kant interrupted to ask whether Angel was safe.

Angel reunited with Kant and Samantha in Lasudelan but refused to leave until he lifted Toby’s Calamity Curse. He warned that the floating ice had to move because demons were launching a Human Purge Plan.

• Kant and Samantha asked Angel to return with them, but Angel said he had to help Toby first and explained that he needed to complete a senior’s task before lifting the curse.
• Samantha’s dismissive reference to Fafnir provoked a burst of spiritual pressure that overwhelmed her, and Kant took over the conversation.
• Angel confirmed that the Night Innkeeper was about to ascend the throne, then urgently warned that the floating ice had to leave its position.
• Angel stepped out of the Wind Domain to speak with Kant and Samantha, who examined him and asked whether he was the Mystery Shop’s owner.
• Angel avoided answering Kant’s question and revealed that demons were launching a Human Purge Plan.

Angel’s warning about the Human Purge Plan prompted Frost Moon to prepare for the Void Tremor, and Monchi promised him Frost Moon’s highest reward. Samantha then questioned Angel about Orucia and Prey Hall, but Angel withheld his information and redirected attention to Bobota and his Experience Journey.

• Sanders and Frost Moon’s prophecy wizard confirmed that Angel’s warning was credible and that a vast conspiracy threatened them.
• Monchi reassured the gathered wizards, issued new orders, and promised Angel Frost Moon’s highest reward for his warning.
• Samantha told Angel she had relayed the Human Purge Plan to Monchi, then asked where he had learned about it, but Angel refused to answer.
• Samantha questioned Angel about Orucia’s visit to his shop, and Angel identified Bobota as the apprentice Kant had met at the Monument Valley checkpoint.
• Angel said Bobota had fought Infernal Slaves, while Samantha returned to asking what Orucia had said and why demons were drawn to Angel’s Experience Journey.

Angel discusses Orucia’s purpose in Lasudelan and the Night Innkeeper with Samantha and the wizards, revealing that the Night Innkeeper is a Half-Blood Demon who may not be hostile to humans. The wizards reconsider their plans, while Samantha suspects Angel is concealing more about his connection to the Night Innkeeper.

• Samantha questions Angel about the Experience Journey and the awakened Panas Succubus, while Kant guesses Angel created the journey and steers the discussion back to Orucia and the Night Innkeeper.
• Angel says Orucia is a descendant of the Lord of No Flame accompanied by a Fire Attendant Demon and a Young Fire Demon, then hesitates over Orucia’s reason for coming to Lasudelan.
• Angel tells Samantha that Orucia’s purpose is likely connected to the Night Innkeeper’s advancement, and says he has met the mysterious figure.
• Samantha asks whether the Night Innkeeper would attack them if they dealt with Orucia, and Angel judges that he likely would not act unless they forced their way into Prey Hall.
• Angel reveals that the Night Innkeeper is a Half-Blood Demon, stunning the wizards and prompting them to consider the benefits of establishing relations with him.
• Sanders remains wary of the wizards’ hopes, while Samantha concludes that Angel knows more about the Night Innkeeper than he has admitted.

Liwita’s question prompted Angel to reveal that the human who had spent time with the Night Innkeeper was the legendary Mirafael Feng, though he withheld the details of Feng’s role. The chapter ended with Sanders contacting Angel, acknowledging Toby and warning him to stay safe.

• Liwita recorded the conversation and asked whether the Night Innkeeper had once shared a bond with a human, prompting Monchi to have Samantha ask Angel about it.
• Angel named Mirafael Feng as the human, astonishing Samantha and the other wizards with news about the legendary Magic Painting Witch.
• Samantha pressed Angel for details about Feng’s connection to the Night Innkeeper, but Angel refused to elaborate.
• Maher sent Samantha a communicator, and Sanders spoke to Angel, saying he knew about Toby and urging him to stay safe.

After leaving the wizards, Angel resumed the illusion livestream and watched them debate the threat posed by the demons and the Frost Moon Alliance’s response. Kant revealed that Nitotip’s rain clouds made it nearly invincible, so the wizards sent wind users to try to disperse them.

• Samantha and Kant left to meet Sinafa, while Angel returned to the Wind Domain and resumed the livestream for Canaan.
• Liwita challenged Sanders for not questioning Angel, and Monchi defended Sanders while warning that pressuring Angel could offend the Night Innkeeper.
• Muying redirected the wizards’ attention to defeating the Blood Cocoons and Nitotip before their injuries healed.
• Maher asked Samantha about Nitotip, but she said they had found no weakness and that greater power might be needed to suppress it.
• Kant reported that Angel had said Nitotip was vulnerable outside its rain clouds, which had to be dispersed first.
• Maher sent wind-element wizards, including Liwita, to unleash a powerful gale against Nitotip’s rain clouds.

Liwita used a summoning ritual to scout the rain cloud and saw Nitotip, two Blood Cocoons, Iyadase, and Komodo inside before the light-wind banshee was killed. After the cloud hurled the wizards’ wind power back at them, Liwita and Monchi suspected it had domain-like properties, while Sanders concluded its power might not belong to Nitotip.

• Liwita summoned a light-wind banshee and sent her into the rain cloud to scout its interior.
• Liwita saw Nitotip, two Blood Cocoons, Iyadase, and Komodo before a huge maw killed the banshee and the failed ritual cursed Liwita.
• Liwita reported that the Blood Cocoons were growing lighter and might soon hatch, while the wizards noticed a violent gale blast out of the cloud.
• Liwita proposed that the rain cloud rejected outside power like a domain, but Monchi doubted Nitotip could wield a true domain.
• Sanders said Nitotip's revealed power exceeded a great demon's limits and suggested that the power might not come from Nitotip itself.

Monchi’s group investigated the limits of Nitotip’s power, and Liwita identified its umbrella as a possible external source. Canaan then recalled that its father had left to seek an umbrella in a mysterious sea, leaving the connection to Nitotip uncertain.

• Monchi summoned Luchi to prophesy about Nitotip’s weaknesses, but Luchi could not see through the layers concealing its Wheel of Time.
• Liwita recalled the sound “pitter-patter” coming from the mouth on Nitotip’s umbrella and proposed that the umbrella was the external force aiding it.
• Luchi began a new prophecy using “umbrella” as information.
• Angel asked Canaan whether the umbrella could explain Nitotip’s unusual strength, and Canaan recalled its father leaving to seek an umbrella in a sea deep within the Abyss.
• Canaan said that Nitotip and its father were both marine demons born from that sea, but it could not confirm whether they had sought the same umbrella.

Angel and the others learned that Nitotip’s umbrella was likely a naturally born mysterious item and the source of the rain-cloud space. Luchi inferred the space’s limits, leaving Monchi to decide how they would deal with Nitotip.

• Angel wondered whether the umbrella had appeared naturally, while Luchi’s prophecy revealed its bloody history and showed that it could evade the Wheel of Time.
• Luchi concluded that the umbrella was the most suspicious cause of the rain clouds, and Canaan identified its design as the craft of the Neya Clan.
• Luchi judged that the umbrella was probably a naturally born mysterious item, and Monchi confirmed that it was likely the source of the disaster.
• Luchi inferred that the rain-cloud space trapped others until Nitotip withdrew, made her nearly invincible without increasing her strength, and asked Monchi to decide what to do.

Monchi directed the wizards to move the floating ice toward Lasudelan’s core district, forcing Nitotip to reconsider how to protect the demons’ plan. As the wizards neared the Void Giant Tower and fought a swarm of demons, a gray-black shadow slipped away toward the rain cloud.

• Angel explained that the wizards were leaving Nitotip’s rain cloud to avoid its limited range and test the umbrella’s abilities.
• Monchi ordered Maher to steer the floating ice toward Lasudelan’s core district, and the wizards departed despite Nitotip’s attacks.
• Nitotip realized the humans were heading for the Void Giant Tower and ordered Iyadase to secure the tower and prevent Void Tremor from being activated.
• Iyadase broke off its clash with Nereus and rushed toward the core district, while Nereus and the wizards watched it leave with knowing smiles.
• A swarm of demons blocked the floating ice near the core district, and the wizards began fighting them as a gray-black shadow slipped toward the rain cloud.

Nitotip learned that the Shadow Mist Zone had appeared after the Void Giant Tower’s basement seal was broken, threatening the tower and all of Lasudelan. Angel watched the demons near the zone through an illusion as Fafnir’s wind reached it, and he began examining the strange dark-light barrier.

• A Shadow Demon told Nitotip and Komodo that Iyadase had entered the Shadow Mist Zone after reporting that the Void Giant Tower’s basement seal was broken.
• Nitotip and Komodo concluded that Jupiter may have broken the seal and that the basement’s master hub could endanger all of Lasudelan.
• Hai and the troll Gruda discussed the broken seal near the Shadow Mist Zone, while Hai sensed wind and flirted with Fafnir’s passing presence.
• Angel explained that Fafnir had sent a wisp of wind ahead of the floating ice, and Canaan identified the troll as Gruda and noted its unusual closeness with Hai.
• Fafnir’s wind circled the Shadow Mist Zone, prompting Angel and Canaan to examine the dark-light barrier around the Void Giant Tower.

Angel and Fafnir tested the Shadow Mist Zone, but the zone crushed their mental wisps and left Angel briefly injured. As Nitotip headed back toward the Void Giant Tower, the wizards recognized that the dim region was dangerous and sent puppets to investigate it.

• Angel asked Fafnir about the Shadow Mist Zone, and she explained that demons who entered it never returned.
• Angel and Fafnir sent wisps of consciousness into the zone, and its defenses crushed them, causing Angel intense pain.
• Fafnir concluded that a defensive mechanism of the Void Giant Tower had activated and sensed a strange presence within the zone.
• Canaan saw Nitotip abandon the rain clouds and head toward the Void Giant Tower, while Fafnir suspected the tower's situation was serious.
• Luchi's Wheel of Time calculations failed to reveal anything about the dim region, so Monchi ordered puppets to enter it.