Arc 23The High Tower and Dream Trials

Anvis helped the nobles assault the High Tower, disrupted the Priest’s ritual, and was cast into the Deep Dream World when he escaped the Outer God through the Obelisk. There, he explored the dream inheritance, rescued Serle and Gretel, and entered a new trial with Emily before taking control of her body.

  • Anvis and his companions entered the Core Secret Realm, fought the cultists, and escaped its collapse in his Eternal Gold Safe House while Landon carried Luo Qi and Ailisha out.
  • Anvis joined Princess Starlight’s assault on the High Tower, slipped to the seventh floor, and disrupted the Priest’s ritual by sealing many captives.
  • Anvis and the nobles fought the Priest and his Familiars, but the Outer God’s green flames reached for Anvis and the Obelisk sent him to an unfamiliar place.
  • Princess Starlight’s forces destroyed the Altar, while Aranis gathered Anvis’s abandoned equipment and the Empire began purging the Star Praise Sect.
  • Anvis realized he was trapped in a dream in the Deep Dream World, survived the Dream Forest, and investigated a Candy House where he rescued Serle and Gretel from the Old Witch.
  • Anvis became a Nightmare Spirit and a trial-taker, then entered a trial as a White Rabbit and escaped Fiona into the Deep Rabbit Hole.
  • Anvis summoned Emily for help, brought her to a study at the bottom of the Rabbit Hole, found a Key, and took control of her body as the safe period ended.
Chapters 554–578 Vol. 6 Read

Ch. 554Where Hope Lies

The Temporary Alliance learned that a Chaos Fusion Monster could overwhelm their strongest spells, while Reginald Simms’s prophecy revealed that taking the High Tower was their only chance to survive. As three Magic Hours passed, Anvis watched Olbins strike an apparently empty location with Silver Thunder.

  • A Chaos Fusion Monster emerged from the High Tower, spiritually contaminated the attackers, and swallowed two warriors and a spellcaster before the remaining spellcasters escaped.
  • The survivors told Stars Princess that the monster resisted their Seventh Rank spells, and Third Princess Starlight sent them to help prepare defenses while she sought Reginald Simms.
  • Starlight found Simms amid the wreckage of a failed divination, and he warned that his visions showed only death approaching within a day.
  • A green glow appeared in Simms’s divination basin, and he saw that the Alliance had to attack the High Tower because it was their sole path to survival.
  • Anvis watched Olbins’s Silver Thunder strike an apparently empty location as three Magic Hours passed.

Ch. 555Forcing Their Way In

The Priest wore down the Silver Thunder guarding the Glory Secret Realm while Anvis and the others realized their defenses would soon fail. After outside attacks and the arrival of Ninth Rank Limit experts threatened his plans, the Priest exposed Landon and his companions, who forced their way through the portal toward the Key of Revelation.

  • The Priest sent Green Flame Masses into the Secret Realm, sacrificing them to deplete the Silver Thunder that Olbins had amplified.
  • Olbins and Anvis noticed the lightning was running out, and both sides continued fighting until the thunderstorm clouds nearly dispersed.
  • The Priest learned that Ninth Rank Limit experts were coming and that noble youths outside were attacking the cultists, leaving him less than six Magic Hours to act.
  • The Priest's Divine Flame exposed Landon and his companions as infiltrators, and Dark Crow destroyed the foreign divine power concealing them.
  • Aranis threw a Silver Rune Stone that unleashed Duke Carlot's power at the Priest, distracting him as Landon and the others charged into the portal with divine flames clinging to them.

Ch. 556Reunion

Anvis recognized the familiar power shielding four newcomers in the secret realm and reunited with his sister Aranis, who told him that Evan had died protecting her. As the group learned that a Silver Obelisk could provide a way out, the Priest's servants continued entering the realm while Silver Thunder attacked a Green Flame Mass.

  • Anvis stopped the secret realm's lightning from striking the newcomers after sensing a familiar force among them.
  • Anvis sent a magic signal to Aranis, who rushed to reunite with him and told him Evan had died protecting her.
  • Aranis explained that the secret realm's sky was shrinking and that she had been pursued by cultists after entering the High Tower with Ailisha, Luo Qi, and Landon.
  • Anvis thanked the three companions with Ninth Rank Materials, while Landon asked about a Silver Obelisk that Dark Crow could use to teleport them out.
  • Pigeon told Anvis that the obelisk could serve as a higher-dimensional means of escape, and Anvis suggested Titan's residence might be connected to it.
  • Luo Qi spotted a Green Flame Mass entering the realm, whereupon Silver Thunder struck and destroyed it as the Priest continued sending servants inside.

Ch. 557Plan

The Priest responded to the Temporary Alliance’s advances by sacrificing noble descendants to create powerful vassal races, while Anvis and the others fought the Heretic Cultists inside the Core Secret Realm. Prince Lanno proposed luring the Priest into the realm so they could strike him with its remaining Silver-White Thunder.

  • The Priest sensed that Anvis and his companions had entered the Core Secret Realm, then ordered Heretic Cultists to pursue them and considered how to counter the Temporary Alliance’s surviving nobles.
  • The Priest sacrificed a red-haired noble descendant to the Dark Green Flame, and Earl Glimmer learned that the descendant’s Life Crystal Ball had shattered.
  • The Priest transformed three more unwilling sacrifices into near-ninth-rank vassal races and sent them beneath the tower to capture the Explorers.
  • Anvis and his companions fought the Heretic Cultists, using Prince Lanno’s giant Magic Construct, Anvis’s Cursed Plutonium Dragons, and two Mithril Golems.
  • After hearing Landon and the others describe the situation outside, Prince Lanno proposed pretending the Silver-White Thunder was exhausted to lure the Priest into the secret realm.

Ch. 558Secret Realm Collapse

Anvis learned that the Priest planned to exhaust the Thunder sustaining the Miniature Secret Realm and capture the Silver Obelisk when the realm collapsed. As the group fought the Star-Praising Cultists, the Thunderclouds began to vanish, signaling the secret realm's final days.

  • Dark Crow explained that the Miniature Secret Realm depended on Thunder and would collapse once its energy was exhausted.
  • Anvis deduced that the Priest intended to let the Core Secret Realm collapse so the Silver Obelisk would reappear within the city, and he considered how to stop the plan.
  • Anvis’s companions, Dragons, Golems, and constructs fought the Star-Praising Cultists while the Last Dragonborn livestreamed the battle.
  • Xia Ye Ying Huo and Lona worked together to target stronger cultists, but the numerous foes continued draining the secret realm’s core power with their divine energy.
  • The Thunderclouds silently dissipated, and Anvis realized the secret realm had entered its final days.

Ch. 559Escape

As the Glory Secret Realm began to collapse, Anvis chose to let it fall and organized a way for his group to survive. He left with the others in a heavily fortified Safe House, while Landon escaped separately with Luo Qi and Ailisha.

  • Anvis decided not to stop the Priest from destroying the Core Secret Realm, believing its collapse would weaken their enemy and help his group return safely.
  • The Last Dragonborn realized the secret realm was collapsing, and Olbins warned that teleportation through the unstable space could be fatal.
  • Landon claimed he could carry only three people to safety, but no one mentioned the Obelisk Dark Crow hoped to find.
  • Anvis promised to get everyone out and had Olbins set a spatial device to channel the collapse's turbulence toward the Priest's passage.
  • Anvis revealed his Eternal Gold Safe House, and the group entered it while Landon left with Luo Qi and Ailisha; Aranis chose to stay with Anvis.

Ch. 560Different Ideals

Anvis guided the Last Dragonborn to livestream the collapse of the Core Secret Realm, which overwhelmed the Priest and brought the group back to the Glory Secret Realm. After they escaped safely, Aranis warned Anvis not to rely too heavily on external power, but he argued that their dangerous situation demanded it.

  • The Priest prepared to find the Key of Revelation and summon the Lord, but an unexpectedly endless wave of Space Turbulence swallowed him and the Altar.
  • Anvis helped the Last Dragonborn use the livestream camera to record the collapsing realm, and Players gained new abilities and proficiency from witnessing it.
  • The Safety Pod emerged above the city ruins, and Anvis confirmed the group had returned to the Glory Secret Realm before inspecting the damaged hull.
  • Aranis suspected Anvis had acquired powerful equipment through a secret discovery and advised him to build his own strength instead of relying on external objects.
  • Anvis agreed that personal strength mattered but said their dangerous circumstances required them to use every source of power available.

Ch. 561The Road Ahead

Anvis reflected on his lack of a personal path as a diviner while he and his companions investigated the Glory Secret Realm. After joining the assault on the Central High Tower, they learned that the Third Princess’s forces were locked in a stalemate with powerful enemies above.

  • Aranis warned Anvis not to rely too heavily on summons or Alchemy Golems, and he agreed while privately considering his lack of a path as a diviner.
  • Prince Lanno proposed searching for the others, and he temporarily led the group as they explored the Ruins.
  • Anvis, Aranis, Lanno, and their companions reunited with Landon and decided to support the Third Princess’s assault on the Central High Tower.
  • The group entered the tower and learned from two guards that three powerful Foreign Objects had blocked the advance, leaving both sides in a wary stalemate.
  • The group learned that the Third Princess and her forces were based on the third floor and fighting enemies on the upper floors.

Ch. 562Dominating the Battlefield

Anvis and his group joined the battle on the High Tower’s third floor, where their powerful summons tipped the fight against the Foreign Objects. Princess Starlight stopped the green-flame Familiars from escaping, and the survivors prepared to advance toward the top floor.

  • Anvis and his group climbed to the third floor and found Professionals fighting Faceless Cultists and other Foreign Objects in the corrupted Magic Garden.
  • Anvis released three Cursed Plutonium Dragons and two Eighth Rank Mithril Golems, helping turn the battle in the Professionals’ favor.
  • The three green-flame Familiars forced back their opponents and tried to flee through the passage to the upper levels.
  • Princess Starlight used a powerful spell to destroy the strongest Familiar, then struggled to recover from the magic she had spent.
  • Anvis saluted Princess Starlight and withdrew most of his summons, and she ordered the group to continue toward the top floor.

Ch. 563Flanking and Sneaking Home

Anvis’s team fought through the High Tower to reach the sixth floor, where powerful Green Flame Familiars stalled their advance. Anvis secretly infiltrated the seventh floor and discovered the Priest draining fate from captives, including Evan, to help an Outer God return.

  • The Tower Assault Team broke through the fourth and fifth floors, but swarms of aberrant creatures delayed them for an hour and a half.
  • On the sixth floor, five Green Flame Familiars and the Flesh Nest’s defenses forced the princes, princesses, and family descendants into a stalemate.
  • Anvis used an independent Avatar to replace himself, then concealed his true body with Dark Side of the Moon and slipped toward the seventh floor.
  • Anvis disguised himself before entering the seventh floor, where he found the Priest conducting a ritual around a green flame.
  • Anvis recognized that the ritual was stripping fate from the kneeling captives, including Evan, to help an Outer God return, and he decided to disrupt it.

Ch. 564Anvis's Combat Techniques

Anvis disrupted the Priest’s ritual by rescuing many captives, then fought the Priest and his Minions while waiting for reinforcements. Third Princess Starlight arrived with the teams from the sixth floor, turning the battle toward a new phase.

  • Anvis shrank and sealed more than half the captives, disrupting the Altar’s ritual.
  • The Priest attacked Anvis with Divine Flame, but Anvis blocked it with Lai Eggshell’s crystalline shield.
  • The Priest recalled his three strongest Minions, and Anvis fought them while protecting the remaining captives and using powerful single-use artifacts.
  • The Priest realized Anvis had been concealing his strength as the Minions suffered injuries.
  • Third Princess Starlight arrived with the teams that had fought through the sixth floor.

Ch. 565Sudden Change

Anvis and Princess Starlight joined forces with the nobles to fight the Heretic God Priest, but the priest used the Three Attendants’ destruction to bring the Outer God into the hall. Anvis sensed the danger and prepared to flee as the god’s gaze fell upon them.

  • Anvis withdrew from the fight, and Princess Starlight proposed that he help the group defeat the priest; Anvis agreed.
  • The priest attacked with darkness that controlled several Professionals, while two Green Flame Familiars assaulted the group and the third kept Anvis occupied.
  • Anvis empowered the group with his words as they resisted the priest and began to wear down the Familiars.
  • The green flames on the Altar surged, and Anvis’s Annihilation Point scroll passed through them without effect.
  • The priest sacrificed all three Familiars, whose gathered power formed the Outer God’s presence in the dark green flames.
  • Anvis activated the Obelisk and reached toward Aranis, preparing to escape.

Ch. 566Coping with the Situation

The party faced the Altar’s mysterious green flames, which neutralized attacks and trapped them on the High Tower’s seventh floor. As a sea of fire engulfed them, Anvis realized it might be an illusion and heard a voice summon him to meet the Lord.

  • Last Dragonborn used his Origin Magic Eye on the green pillar, losing sight in his left eye as his Replacement Doll burned away to save him.
  • Anvis deduced that the pillar was a medium connecting the world to a god’s consciousness rather than the god itself.
  • Princess Starlight urged everyone to attack the Altar before its restrictions disappeared, and Anvis’s Avatar supported her with a ninth-rank Magic Scroll.
  • The group unleashed powerful attacks at the Altar, but the green flames swallowed them without a ripple and expanded into a sea of fire.
  • Two noble descendants discovered the passage to the sixth floor had vanished, while Anvis noticed the flames lacked heat or destructive force.
  • A hoarse voice told Anvis, “Godblasphemer, the Lord wishes to see you.”

Ch. 567Anvis's Death

Anvis escaped the Outer God's attempt to send him to its realm by using the Obelisk, but the power diverted him to an unknown forest beneath a purple moon. Back in the High Tower of the Glory Secret Realm, the others mistook his disappearance for death after finding his ashes.

  • The Priest completed his mission and let the Dark Green Fire Sea target Anvis, attempting to send him before the Outer God.
  • Anvis used the Obelisk to escape the Outer God's grasp, but its power disrupted his destination and sent him to an unfamiliar moonlit forest.
  • The Dark Green Fire Sea contracted into the flame at the Altar, and Anvis vanished from the High Tower of the Glory Secret Realm.
  • Aranis found Anvis's ashes and equipment and reacted with grief as the others realized he was the only one who had turned to ash.
  • Princess Starlight urged the group to destroy the Altar and its strange flame.

Ch. 568Mystic Realm Exploration Ends

After the altar’s destruction, a divination confirmed that the danger had passed, and the survivors regrouped amid renewed factional tensions. The Last Dragonborn accepted a quest from Aranis to find Anvis, while a Crystal Gate opened to provide the group an escape route.

  • Princess Starlight ordered continued attacks, and the altar and its Dark Green Flame were destroyed.
  • Sir Simms divined that the danger had lifted, and Princess Starlight allowed everyone to move around while she searched the altar’s remains.
  • The Last Dragonborn told Aranis that Anvis might still be alive, and she asked him to find Anvis in exchange for a reward.
  • Aranis gathered Anvis’s abandoned equipment and carried the Seal Box, which could not be put into a spatial item.
  • A deep-purple Crystal Gate appeared on the seventh floor, and Crystal Gate Bayer's Avatar stepped through to open the escape route.

Ch. 569The Empire's Response

The Gloria Empire purged the Star Praise Sect and investigated the attack in the Glory Secret Realm, while Anvis and Aranis Olyvendi drew attention for their roles in the crisis. At Moonrise Fortress, Evan told Aranis he remembered what happened while he was controlled, hinting that he could explain the truth behind her supposed rescue.

  • The Imperial Royal Family declared the Star Praise Sect an extremist evil organization and began a purge, but the sect had already moved its main forces into the Iter Free Federation.
  • Reformists denied responsibility for the attacks at a nobles' meeting, and the investigation was put on hold until more evidence emerged.
  • Anvis Olyvendi received recognition for arranging the Outsiders' exploration slots and helping send a warning, while the Last Dragonborn and Xia Ye Ying Huo were granted honorary Imperial Viscount titles.
  • Aranis Olyvendi received gifts from those she supposedly rescued, though she insisted that saving them had been an accident and felt uneasy about accepting credit.
  • At Moonrise Fortress, Evan told Aranis that he remembered everything around him while he was controlled by the strange creatures.

Ch. 570Guessing at Anvis's Secret

Evan told Aranis what he remembered from captivity and speculated that a mysterious ninth-rank figure was connected to Anvis, who remained missing. Aranis accepted that Anvis deserved the rescue credit, while Duke Carlot decided the families would pay the Players who completed Anvis's quest.

  • Evan explained that an Independent Personality in his mind had let him resist mental control and remain aware while captive.
  • Evan told Aranis that captives had been forced to form a circle around an Altar as something important was drawn from them, and that a mysterious man had sealed them away after clashing with the Priest.
  • Evan guessed that the mysterious man knew Anvis and had arranged for him to rescue the captives, and he suspected Anvis survived through an Avatar or substitute.
  • Aranis said their father was searching for Anvis and that their mother believed he had fallen into the Deep Dream World; she decided to pass the gifts meant for the rescuers to Anvis.
  • Players demanded the quest rewards Anvis had promised, and Duke Carlot decided that the Olyvendi Family and the other families would share the cost.

Ch. 571The Bizarre Deep Dream

Anvis used divination to judge when to leave a dangerous dream in the Deep Dream World, where time seemed tied to the forest’s changing state. Just as he prepared to cross into another dream, the forest attacked him with hostile eyes and Soul Impacts.

  • Anvis recognized that he was trapped in an unknown dream in the Deep Dream World and used a Coin of Destiny to test the danger ahead.
  • The coin repeatedly landed tails-up as Anvis waited through the dream’s backward-moving time and watched the forest grow increasingly eerie.
  • Anvis’s third divination landed heads-up, so he put away his tools and prepared to leave the forest.
  • Black slits opened in the trees, crimson sap flowed from them, and blood-red eyes appeared in the tree shadows, attacking Anvis with Soul Impacts and causing wounds to form on his body.

Ch. 572Unexpected Accident

Anvis escaped a cursed Dream Forest into a strange daytime forest and headed toward a house made of candy and biscuits. Meanwhile, Fiona and her pets entered the storybook’s dream world, but an unknown force threatened to take them before Esveil intervened.

  • Anvis resisted the Dream Forest’s curse, tore away a bloodshot-eyed shadow, and crossed into a shallower dream.
  • The shadow became a chocolate cake and Anvis’s wound turned into strawberry jam as he explored the sunlit forest.
  • Anvis sensed a candy-and-biscuit house and changed course to investigate it.
  • Fiona, Kate, and Fia entered the dream world inside Anvis’s book, and their bodies began to fade.
  • Esveil sealed Fiona’s room and restored the three figures, but when he touched them, they burst like bubbles.

Ch. 573Candy House in a Dream

Anvis explored a strange Candy House in the Deep Dream World and discovered two children whose presence seemed connected to the dream itself. Meanwhile, Duke Carlot learned Fiona had vanished and entered the dangerous depths of the dream world to find her; Anvis was left watching as the sleeping children triggered a new change.

  • Esvelle discovered Fiona had vanished and contacted Duke Carlot and another Rank 9 family member.
  • Duke Carlot sensed Fiona’s destiny power through her amulet, learned she was missing, and entered the Deep Dream World to search for her.
  • Anvis cautiously entered the Candy House and found a special Cream Cake Bed that seemed to hold part of the dream’s essence.
  • Anvis watched two poor children arrive with a White Rabbit, feast on the candy furnishings, and explore the house.
  • The children ate the bedroom’s sandwich-biscuit doorknob, then fell asleep together on the Cream Cake Bed as Anvis waited nearby.
  • After the children fell asleep, Anvis noticed a new change.

Ch. 574Trials and Interference

Anvis hid beneath the cake bed as the Old Witch turned the children’s dream into a nightmare and chased Serle and Gretel. When he intervened to save them, the dream tried to erase him, but his cake and Dream Ripple deflected its power.

  • Anvis hid under the bed as the Old Witch entered and transformed the room into a dark hut.
  • The Old Witch chased Serle and Gretel through the hut, while a fading protective light repeatedly teleported them away from her grasp.
  • Serle and Gretel planned to lure the Old Witch beside her cauldron, but their trap failed to knock her in.
  • Anvis restrained the Old Witch with a Force Field and pulled the children from her grasp.
  • The dream’s power tried to erase Anvis, but he bit the cake and his Dream Ripple caused it to withdraw.

Ch. 575Old Fire Soup

Anvis used his newly acquired dream trait to act as an official participant in the dream, saving Serle and Gretel and helping them complete their first trial. After learning that the dream was an inheritance left by a Dream Spellcaster and that the children had died before arriving, Anvis considered whether to enter the next trial himself.

  • Anvis appeared in the room after the Dream Defense Mechanism stopped, restrained the Old Witch, and rescued Serle and Gretel.
  • Anvis tossed the Old Witch into the pot, triggering the end of Serle and Gretel's trial and restoring their sealed memories.
  • Serle and Gretel told Anvis they had died in the Federation and Empire before their spiritual bodies were drawn into the dream inheritance.
  • Anvis gave the children protective Magic Accessories and left them at the Candy House.
  • Anvis examined the Old Witch soup and wondered whether to join the next trial as a normal participant or a nightmare incarnation.

Ch. 576Getting a Fake ID

Anvis learned how trial-takers and Nightmare Spirits advanced, then created a Nightmare Spirit identity alongside his trial-taker identity. He entered his first trial and found himself transformed into a rabbit near Moonrise Fortress, where he spotted someone he thought might be Fiona.

  • Anvis learned that trial-takers gained strength and protections by clearing trials, while Nightmare Spirits advanced by devouring one another.
  • Anvis decided to pursue both paths, turning the Old Witch's soup into a Black Rose that transformed him into a Nightmare Spirit.
  • Anvis defeated the Dream Anomaly in his mirror and gained control over his reflection before switching back to his trial-taker identity.
  • Anvis answered the trial-taker call and entered a trial through a full-length mirror.
  • Anvis arrived near Moonrise Fortress as a formally dressed rabbit and heard a familiar figure he suspected was Fiona.

Ch. 577External Aid

Anvis entered a trial set in Fiona’s Adventures in Wonderland as the White Rabbit and narrowly escaped Fiona’s pursuit by reaching the Rabbit Hole. Inside, he found a temporary safe period and began preparing to summon Emily’s consciousness for help.

  • Anvis recognized his White Rabbit identity, saw that noon was approaching, and ran toward the Rabbit Hole while his magic was sealed.
  • Fiona woke and caught Anvis with an Ice Chain, then pursued him with a storm of spells after his Protective Light freed him.
  • Anvis partially unsealed his power, disrupted Fiona’s spells, and escaped into the Deep Rabbit Hole, where his pocket watch stopped.
  • Anvis decided to summon Emily’s consciousness during the safe period and began drawing a Magic Array in midair.

Ch. 578Rabbit Hole

Anvis summoned Emily to an Inheritance Land in the Deep Dream World's Inverted Layer and explained that he needed her help. After they landed in a strange study during a safe period, Anvis prepared to use Emily before opening the door to the next trial.

  • Emily appeared in a Magic Array beside a formally dressed rabbit and recognized him as Anvis after he revealed his identity.
  • Anvis told Emily he had summoned her for help, and she confidently offered to handle dangers up to Fourth Rank.
  • Anvis explained that they were in an Inheritance Land deep in the Dream World and that his Magic Array was protecting Emily from its influence.
  • Anvis and Emily reached a study at the bottom of the hole, where Anvis found a Key and noticed that his pocket watch had begun moving again.
  • Anvis inferred that opening the little door would end the safe period, then used his command to take control of Emily's body.
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