Chapter Summaries

Angel and Sanders examined Jon and learned that saving him would require solving the balance among three conditions, along with finding a suitable inscription and enough skilled wizards. Sanders said the task was difficult but possible, leaving Angel to consider how to protect Jon while pursuing a solution.

• Angel told Sanders he would keep trying to save the servants affected by Crimson Sovereignty, despite the likelihood that they would die.
• Sanders examined Jon and discovered that he was a human from another world, with no trace of origins in the Wizarding World.
• Sanders found that Jon's balanced condition kept him alive but meant that each of his three states needed a solution at once.
• Sanders identified Jon's unsuitable Abyssal Inscription as a major obstacle and warned that seeking one beyond the Southern Region could be dangerous.
• Sanders said the treatment would require three True-Knowledge Wizards skilled in calculation, with Sanders and Su Mishi available but the final position unfilled.
• Sanders offered to extend Jon's life while Angel considered how to resolve the problem, preferably within Demon Illusion Island.

Angel brought Sanders into the Dream Wilderness, where Sanders met Frod and began learning about Firstheart City. After seeing the city’s disorderly architecture and hearing about fugitives who had escaped its rules, Angel decided to bring Tulas back and leave the fugitives outside the city, where the emptiness itself confined them.

• Sanders asked Angel to take him into the Dream Wilderness, and Angel brought him to Firstheart City.
• Sanders questioned the city’s mismatched architecture, and Frod explained that Meng Lu had arranged a renovation.
• Frod gave Sanders his compiled research records and led him and Angel on a tour of the city.
• A worker knelt before Angel to beg for help, but Frod had him taken away and explained that the man’s brother had fled after spreading rumors about Meng Lu.
• Frod reported that more rule-breakers were escaping the city, and Angel said he would bring Tulas back and let the fugitives remain exiled outside it.

Angel toured Firstheart City, reunited with Jon and the children at the Ocean Theater, and promised Jon extraordinary items to study. After telling Frod that the manor’s servants were trapped and waiting for death, Angel heard Frod suggest bringing them into Dream Wilderness.

• Frod explained how Meng Lu’s reforms had given Firstheart City’s residents purpose and order, and Angel said Frod could share some truths about Dream Wilderness with her.
• Angel and Frod found Jon teaching Yada piano at the Ocean Theater, where Angel and Frod took over supervising Yada’s practice.
• Angel sensed that Jon and Sanders had spoken cautiously but amicably, then asked Frod about Yada, Sunny, and the orphanage.
• Jon told Angel he had abandoned plans to compile Golden Sparrow Empire history, and Angel offered to bring him extraordinary items and his old experimental tools to study.
• Jon asked about the manor and Leon, and Angel reassured him that the situation was mostly resolved and everyone was fine.
• Angel told Frod that the manor’s servants had no future and could only wait for death, and Frod suggested sending them into Dream Wilderness.

Angel tried to bring Head Maid Mana and other servants into the Dream Wilderness, but the Dream Gate rejected them because their bodies carried energy from the mysterious object Crimson Sovereignty. After discussing the problem with Sanders and Frod, Angel took Sanders to the Nightmare Domain’s main body to explore distributing authority, but Sanders declined to fuse with one for now.

• Angel brought Tulas into the Dream Wilderness, then tried to bring Head Maid Mana, but the Dream Gate expelled her and warned that anomalous energy had intruded.
• Angel attempted ten times to bring the dormant servants from Old Pat’s wine cellar into the Dream Wilderness, and every attempt failed.
• Sanders and Frod reasoned that energy from Crimson Sovereignty, a mysterious object, made the servants incompatible with the Dream Wilderness, and Angel concluded they might enter if that energy were removed.
• Angel and Sanders agreed they would need to wait for results from Xius to learn whether Crimson Sovereignty’s hidden master could be captured and the servants’ energy expelled.
• Angel showed Sanders the Nightmare Domain’s main body and asked whether he could obtain an authority, but Sanders declined and suggested they return to await news from Xius.

Angel gave Leon the Frost Moon Alliance’s Starfrost Meditation Method while Sanders continued assessing the Dream Wilderness. White Bear learned that his sister Yurika had awakened and that the Crimson Sovereignty had acted autonomously, and his prophecy ended with a vision of a ship rather than the culprit’s location.

• Angel gave Leon the Starfrost Meditation Method and warned him to keep it hidden after Xius identified it as the Frost Moon Alliance’s Guidance Method.
• White Bear emerged from Exile Space with a bottle of the Crimson Sovereignty owner’s blood, and Xius explained that Yurika had regained lucidity when she saw him.
• White Bear said that Yurika was his elder sister and confirmed that the Crimson Sovereignty had activated and fused with flesh and blood on its own.
• Xius and Sanders sensed a bloodline connection and concluded that the person controlling the Crimson Sovereignty was on the Old Earth Continent.
• White Bear’s first prophecy failed, but after trying again with the blood bottle against his forehead, he saw a ship.

White Bear’s vision led Angel and the others to identify the ship that carried the owner of Crimson Sovereignty to the Old Earth Continent as the Old Man, which Xius had escorted. They questioned the apprentices who had attacked Pat Manor and learned that a person named Jin had sent them there, leaving Jin as a new lead.

• White Bear described a cargo ship with red masts and a sea-eagle figurehead, and Angel and Sanders identified it as a White Shell Shipping Company vessel.
• Xius recognized the ship as the Old Man, which he had guarded on its voyage to the Old Earth Continent, but he could not identify the hidden mastermind aboard.
• Xius suggested questioning the ship’s apprentices, and Leon recalled that two apprentices had broken into Pat Manor days earlier.
• Leon explained that Misfire Treant Henry had been affected by Crimson Sovereignty and that Twin Snakes Fei Ling had been badly injured fighting him.
• Xius used spiritual power to compel Fei Ling to answer why she and Henry had come to Pat Manor.
• Fei Ling revealed that someone named Jin had incited them to go there.

Angel, Xius, Sanders, and White Bear learned that Jin was in Conia and set out to find him, hoping to uncover his connection to the Crimson Sovereignty. The chapter ended with the group arriving in Conia and White Bear beginning his search for Jin.

• Fei Ling identified Jin as an apprentice who knew the Old Man's passengers and was investigating energy fluctuations on Edge Island.
• Xius learned that Jin was in Conia, and Angel volunteered to confront him while Sanders stayed to guard against Yurika breaking free or the Guman King intervening.
• Angel questioned Fei Ling about her and Henry's purpose at Pat Manor, learning that their organizations had ordered them to remain on the Old Earth Continent and Jin had urged them to investigate energy fluctuations.
• Angel left Pat Manor with Sanders and White Bear, reflecting on his mixed hatred and gratitude toward Yurika during the journey.
• The group reached Conia, where Angel asked White Bear to use his prophecy to find Jin.

Angel and White Bear tracked Gold to a farm outside Conia after determining that the owner of Crimson Sovereignty was not nearby. Angel met Gold in a cave beneath the farm, where Gold revealed he had come to the Old Earth Continent to seek Angel.

• White Bear divined that the owner of Crimson Sovereignty was not within a hundred kilometers, then detected an energy-level lifeform on a farm near Conia.
• Angel left the Gondola and entered a suspicious warehouse as darkness and heavy snowfall surrounded the farm.
• A woman in red tried to frighten and attack Angel, but he exposed her as a living person pretending to be undead and demanded that she take him to Gold.
• The woman in red led Angel through a recently dug basement to a natural cave beneath the warehouse.
• Gold recognized Angel and said he had come to the Old Earth Continent to seek him after sensing his alchemical phenomenon.

Angel met Jin in his cavern laboratory and asked about the extraordinary individuals aboard the Old Man. Jin hinted that Angel was searching for someone connected to the Guman Kingdom, leaving Angel's purpose exposed.

• Jin admitted he had found Angel on the Old Earth Continent through methods he would not disclose, then showed him a laboratory filled with glass chambers containing human corpses.
• Jin joked that he wanted to exterminate humanity, then asked Silverstar to leave her spirit form and return to her true form as a gorgon.
• Silverstar rose from the pool as a gorgon, and Angel noticed that she protected humans even though Jin, a human, despised them.
• Angel asked whether Jin had been searching for him and learned that Jin had been tracking energy fluctuations on the Old Earth Continent; Jin also confirmed that Pat Manor was his family estate.
• Angel asked which extraordinary individuals had been aboard the Old Man, and Jin guessed that Angel was seeking someone connected to the Guman Kingdom.

Angel learned from Jin that a cloaked transcendent named Rolando had been aboard the Old Man and was connected to the Guman Royal House. After trading the information for an experience with Ocean Rhythm, Angel returned to the Gondola with Sanders and White Bear, who remained unsure of Rolando’s identity.

• Jin explained that he had investigated Xius and inferred Angel was seeking the other transcendent aboard the Old Man.
• Jin traded information about the cloaked man for one chance to experience Ocean Rhythm, and Angel agreed to keep the experience secret.
• Jin revealed that the man called himself Rolando and that Jin had spotted half an emblem of the Guman Royal House when Rolando used his powers.
• Angel activated Ocean Rhythm for Jin, who woke five minutes later and entered seclusion to cultivate.
• Angel returned to the Gondola, where Sanders confirmed Jin had told the truth and White Bear heard Rolando’s name and description.

Angel and his companions failed to locate Rolando through prophecy or the Old Man’s passenger records, then followed a possible lead to Waterford. There, Angel met the struggling private detective Richard Kaf and offered him a commission to find someone.

• White Bear failed to use prophecy to locate Rolando or determine whether Rolando was his true name.
• Angel and Sanders inspected White Shell Shipping’s manifests and found no record of Rolando aboard the Old Man.
• White Bear questioned the ordinary passengers and reported that most were cleared, but one man named Fullington had traveled to Waterford.
• Angel and White Bear went to Waterford and encountered Richard Kaf, who admitted he had approached them hoping for work.
• Angel asked Richard whether he would accept a commission to find someone.

Angel hired Richard to find Fullington, a sailor from Sea Moon City, while White Bear and Angel continued seeking Rolando, whom they suspected of controlling Crimson Sovereignty. After returning to Pat Manor, they discussed asking Dodolo to help with a prophecy, but Xius chose to search nearby first.

• Angel gave Richard a deposit and asked him to find Fullington, directing him to come to Pat Manor in Gelu Town once he found him.
• Richard accepted the commission and decided to begin his search in the refugee slums after checking City Hall records seemed unlikely to help.
• Angel and White Bear discussed seeking Dodolo's prophetic help if they could not locate Rolando, with Angel noting they would need Xius to provide materials for a Planar Corridor.
• Angel, White Bear, and Sanders returned to Pat Manor and told Xius that Jin's help had narrowed their search to Rolando, though they still did not know his location.
• White Bear suggested asking Dodolo to help, but Xius decided to search the surrounding area first because the Planar Corridor would be costly and he was reluctant to trust an outsider.

Angel waited for Xius’s alchemical puppets to search for Rolando while studying magic and experimenting with Soft-State Worms. A new insect egg hatched into a defensive but ineffective Hard-State Worm, and a week passed with no reported search results.

• Parsha and Jin Cancan watched alchemical puppets fly out of Pat Manor, while Angel and Sanders discussed Xius’s search, Toby’s condition, and Jon’s health.
• Leon reassured Gelu Town’s residents by claiming the manor’s activity came from inventors, as Angel focused on cultivation, cantrips, and building the Door Model.
• Angel used new variables alongside the Dreamweaver Ants to stimulate the Soft-State Worm queen into laying a new kind of egg.
• The egg hatched into a glossy black Hard-State Worm, which Angel judged to be a negative mutation because its increased defense offered little benefit.
• Angel made the Dreamweaver Ants defeat the Hard-State Worm and showed its corpse to the queen before introducing new variables into the nest; Xius’s search had continued for a week.

Angel received detective Richard Kaf’s report on Fullington, a sailor from the Old Man, and noticed that the man had traveled from Sea Moon City to Waterford impossibly quickly. Angel prepared to investigate, but Sanders, Xius, and White Bear arrived seeking his help, leaving the suspicious lead under Sanders’s review.

• Xius told White Bear that his alchemical puppets had found no energy fluctuations near them and decided to ask Angel for help locating Rolando and calming Yurika.
• A dark knight delivered Richard Kaf’s letter to Angel at Pat Manor, reporting that Fullington had found relatives in Waterford and planned to return to Sea Moon City.
• Angel noticed that Fullington had apparently reached Waterford less than a week after leaving Sea Moon City, a journey that should have taken at least half a month.
• Angel and Leon considered whether Fullington might be connected to Rolando, and Angel decided to go to Waterford to verify the report.
• Sanders, Xius, and White Bear arrived as Angel handed Sanders the letter, and White Bear suspected the detective had uncovered Rolando’s trail.

Angel and his companions investigated Fullington in Waterford and learned that an unidentified passenger from the Old Man had flown him there and asked him to bury a box near Fear Mountain Waterfall. The group took Fullington to find the box, while Richard watched them fly away in disbelief.

• Angel and his companions found Richard, whose hired watchers reported that Fullington was staying inside and planned to leave Waterford soon.
• Sanders sensed traces of residual energy on Fullington, and Xius, White Bear, Angel, and Sanders entered his home.
• Xius questioned Fullington, who confessed that an unidentified passenger from the Old Man had flown him to Waterford on a carpet and paid him to bury a box.
• Fullington revealed that he buried the unopened box near Fear Mountain Waterfall beside Gelu Town.
• Xius seized Fullington and flew with the others toward the waterfall, while Richard looked up and saw the group streaking through the sky.

Xius and the others recovered Fullington’s buried suitcase, but Angel recognized a hidden rune pattern in its stitching. The chapter ended with Angel confirming the pattern after touching it, before anyone opened the suitcase.

• Xius flew Fullington to Fear Mountain Waterfall and used energy to ease his symptoms before asking where the suitcase was buried.
• Fullington located the burial site beneath a solitary tree near Gelu Town, and Xius retrieved the suitcase with a Magic Hand.
• White Bear warned that the suitcase might belong to Rolando and could contain a trap or something dangerous.
• Angel noticed stitching beneath a clasp stud that resembled a modified carrying corner, though the others could not identify any rune patterns.
• Angel touched the suitcase and traced the suspected pattern, then confirmed that it was indeed a rune pattern.

Angel discovered that the leather case held a dangerous magic energy array and spent two days reverse-engineering its runes. He identified the array as Fire Containment, but the case’s contents remained unknown.

• Angel revealed that the case’s hidden inner runes included a flame pattern and warned that opening it could trigger a destructive array.
• Xius asked Angel to reverse-engineer the runes and offered him favors in return; Angel agreed, while Fullington’s frozen corpse was left behind.
• Angel moved the case to Gravity Garden to study it, as Xius and White Bear waited and searched for clues about Rolando.
• On the morning of the third day, Angel showed the runes he had mapped onto the case and identified Energy-Sealing, Spirit-Sealing, and High-Grade Incineration Runes.
• Angel named the combined magic energy array Fire Containment.

Angel and Xius safely opened Fullington’s suitcase and discovered bloodstained parchment bearing a trigger magic pattern. Yurika’s sudden daytime madness revealed that the parchment could control her Blood Source Reversion, and Angel identified its blood as belonging to the owner of Crimson Sovereignty.

• Angel explained how to disable the suitcase’s Fire Containment, and Xius destroyed its Advanced Incineration Pattern while Angel kept the other runes balanced.
• Angel said the remaining runes would only stay balanced for about three hours, then Xius opened the suitcase.
• The group found an old sheet of sheepskin parchment covered in a blood-drawn trigger magic pattern.
• Yurika broke out of Exile Space and tried to touch the parchment, but Sanders knocked her down and Xius returned her to Exile Space.
• Angel explained that the pattern could control Blood Source Reversion from a distance, and he identified the blood as belonging to the owner of Crimson Sovereignty.

Xius tracked the master of Crimson Sovereignty to the Old Earth Continent, but Sanders persuaded him to prepare carefully before attempting a capture. After Sanders and Xius departed with Angel’s Geometric Lock, Angel, Leon, and White Bear watched the quiet manor and reflected on the Pat family’s future.

• Xius used the Pig-Nose Technique to follow the parchment’s fresh blood scent and learned that its owner was still on the Old Earth Continent.
• Sanders warned Xius about the Guman King’s possible interference and convinced him to plan the capture carefully.
• Xius asked Sanders for help, and the two secretly agreed on a price before preparing their plan.
• Xius borrowed Angel’s Geometric Lock to prevent Rolando from sending information outward, then departed with Sanders.
• Angel returned to cultivation and helped Leon practice his meditation method while the manor remained peaceful.
• Angel, Leon, and White Bear watched the dark manor, and Leon declared that Lionheart’s Flame would endure as long as a Pat family member remained.

Angel told White Bear he could not yet forgive Yurika for the deaths caused by the Crimson Sovereignty, then brought Leon to the Dream Wilderness and explained that the dead could live there as Dream Realm residents. Their conversation ended when Jon called out to them outside Ocean Theater.

• Angel told White Bear that he understood Yurika had not acted of her own accord but could not yet forgive her for what happened to Pat Manor's servants.
• White Bear apologized to Angel and Leon, then left the Cloud Soil; Angel explained that White Bear had likely used his prophetic abilities to arrange the meeting.
• Angel silenced Leon when he teased him about an obsession with milk, then suggested that Leon travel and enter Sky Mechanical City's upcoming New Star Tournament.
• Angel brought Leon to Firstheart City in the Dream Wilderness and explained that Head Maid Mana and the others might live there as Dream Realm residents.
• Jon called out to Angel and Leon outside Ocean Theater.