Recaps

Anvis used Emily and the Nightmare Lantern’s power to reconnect with the Prime Material Plane, then restored contact with his avatar Raphael after thirteen days away. He learned about the Star Praise Sect’s attack in the Glory Secret Realm and an upcoming meeting of Yar Continent’s leaders, while the reason for the passage of time remained uncertain.

• Anvis intercepted power from the Nightmare Lantern and used Emily’s consciousness to establish a connection to the Prime Material Plane.
• Emily sensed her body and wanted to return, but Anvis told her to wait until he finished his business.
• Anvis reconnected with his avatars and learned that Raphael had been absent for thirteen days and nine Magic Hours.
• Raphael met with Gaffman, who reported that the Black Ring Merchant Guild had operated smoothly and earned about four hundred thousand Rose Gold Coins.
• Gaffman reported that the Star Praise Sect had infiltrated the Glory Secret Realm and that the Federation had shelved the Empire’s request to suppress them.
• Gaffman told Anvis that Yar Continent’s three major powers planned a joint meeting to discuss abnormal phenomena.

Anvis ordered the Black Ring Merchant Guild to expand and recruit people affected by Ma'eilimu’s power, known as Contactees, hoping to find the group’s future protagonist before other Prophets. After settling his duties as Raphael and the Man in the Mirror, he returned to the Dream World with less than five minutes until midnight.

• Anvis told Gaffman to expand the guild into medium-sized cities and war-torn kingdoms, and authorized the Purification Troops to handle local obstruction.
• Anvis read that a joint meeting of the continent’s three major powers was being planned as Ma'eilimu’s lingering influence caused Overlapping Zones and widespread changes among civilians.
• Anvis learned that the Council had named those affected by Ma'eilimu’s power Contactees, many of whom developed mental abnormalities or unusual abilities.
• Anvis decided to increase the guild’s recruitment and investigation of Contactees because one of them was likely to become the group’s protagonist.
• Anvis finished his guild and Man in the Mirror duties, returned to the Dream World, and checked his pocket watch as midnight approached.

Anvis entered the dreamlike Fairytale City as the White Rabbit Lobbert and began a quest to deliver Golden Pepper to the Duchess. He discovered that Players were watching him and planning how to clear the dangerous secret realm.

• Anvis told Emily he would summon her about every seven days, then dismissed her and finished searching the room at the bottom of the Rabbit Hole.
• Anvis opened the little door with the Key and entered Fairytale City, where Little Lizard Bill told him the Duchess was looking for him.
• Anvis learned from Lobbert's memories that he needed to change clothes and retrieve Golden Pepper before meeting the Duchess.
• Anvis spotted four Players—a mouse, a frog, a Parrot, and a Duck—watching the White Rabbit's house, but went inside without exposing them.
• Teacher Gua persuaded the other Players that they should join a faction rather than fight the NPCs, while Anvis changed clothes and found the Golden Pepper.

Anvis recruited Broken Neck Swan and another Player as attendants while carrying the Golden Pepper to the Duchess. After accepting the pepper, the Duchess questioned the odd appearance of Anvis's servants, while Anvis suspected she was a powerful veteran trial-taker.

• Broken Neck Swan caught up to Anvis and offered help, so Anvis handed him the heavy Golden Box and gained a quest to follow the White Rabbit.
• Anvis ordered Broken Neck Swan to act as his attendant, and a mouse Player took over carrying the box when the Duck's stamina ran low.
• Anvis and the two Players reached the Duchess's estate before noon, where Anvis presented the Golden Pepper through his exhausted attendants.
• The Duchess opened the box, sneezed after sniffing the pepper, praised its quality, and asked Anvis why his attendants seemed strange.
• Anvis sensed that the Duchess was a powerful veteran trial-taker and wondered whether his trial was a large multiplayer instance.

Anvis traveled with the Duchess and the Players to the Queen’s tea party while learning that veteran Explorer Linna was investigating the Dream World’s strange reversions. The chapter ended with Queen Fiona arriving at the gathering.

• The Duchess invited Anvis and his companions to Queen Fiona’s tea party, and Anvis agreed to leave early with her.
• The Players discussed the fairy-tale instance and searched for guides while Anvis secretly listened to their party chat.
• The Duchess returned to her room and revealed that she was Linna, a veteran Explorer taking part in the Inheritance Land’s New World trial.
• Linna watched Anvis through a Crystal Ball and considered whether the White Rabbit was connected to the Dream World’s reversions.
• The Duchess led Anvis and the Players by Pumpkin Carriage to the White Castle, where she quietly met other trial-takers at the tea party.
• Queen Fiona arrived at noon with a Blue-Gray Kitten, a crystal dragon, and Arcane Card soldiers carrying her crown.

Anvis used the Mercury Eye to investigate Fiona’s fate and discovered that his own destiny had become entangled with hers, casting him as an important ally in her story. He approached Fiona at the tea party and warned her that an unknown evil was targeting them, leaving the other Trial-takers alarmed.

• Fiona opened the tea party as Queen, and Anvis realized her presence meant she was likely real rather than a virtual existence.
• Anvis examined Fiona’s fate with the Mercury Eye and found it concealed by powerful Fate Mist and linked to the Olyvendi and Alfred families and the Three Great Empires.
• Anvis saw that Fiona’s fate now included him as an important ally who would sacrifice himself to save her from a final enemy.
• Anvis decided to interfere with fate and approached Fiona at the tea party.
• Anvis warned Fiona that an unknown evil had set its sights on them, startling Fiona and making the infiltrating Trial-takers fear their cover had been exposed.

Anvis warned Fiona and the guests that Nightmare Spirits were approaching, and Fiona raised a silver canopy to protect Fairy Tale Main City. As the spirits began corrupting the world outside the barrier, Anvis stepped out to confront them.

• Anvis warned that ancient Dark Beings threatened the Kingdom, and Linna and other Trial-takers urged Fiona to prepare for an invasion.
• Fiona used the rules of the Dream World to raise a silver canopy over Fairy Tale Main City, strengthening and sheltering its inhabitants.
• Anvis advised Fiona to intensify the search for the intruders, and Nightmare Spirits appeared in the sky when his pocket watch reached twelve o'clock.
• The Nightmare Spirits circled the canopy and corrupted the surrounding forest into a Withered Forest filled with Purple Poison Swamps and Deathbirds.
• Anvis recalled that the strongest Nightmare Spirit had killed him in fate and stepped beyond the barrier with a pitch-black rose on his chest, ready to fight.

Anvis hunted low-rank Nightmare Spirits to recover his strength and learned that their path to gathering Authority Fragments eventually stalled without powerful prey. After reaching the Seventh Rank, he used his improved ability to locate a high-rank Nightmare Spirit and confronted a Knight Nightmare Spirit, asking about the Four Nightmares.

• Anvis ambushed and devoured newborn Nightmare Spirits, absorbing their power and Authority Fragments as the Inheritance Land's suppression weakened.
• Anvis recognized that low-rank Nightmare Spirits offered diminishing returns and that higher-grade fragments required powerful Nightmare Spirits or high-level Trial-takers.
• Anvis stopped hunting the nearby low-rank spirits after his aura recovered to the Seventh Rank and used his mirror ability to find a high-rank Nightmare Spirit.
• Anvis saw a Knight Nightmare Spirit near a Giant Banyan with a human face, then stepped out of a mirror and approached it.
• The Knight Nightmare Spirit raised its Black Sword and demanded to know who Anvis was, while Anvis asked where the Four Nightmares were.

Marquis Beihim learned that the Inheritance Land had infiltrated a newly discovered large Dream World, whose owner might hold the two Authority Fragments he lacked. In the Dream World, Anvis left the Knight Nightmare Spirit and set out to kill one of the Four Nightmares and take its place.

• Marquis Beihim spoke with a subordinate, who reported that the Inheritance Land had entered a large Dream World but could not yet overcome its owner's defenses.
• Marquis Beihim ordered the Nightmare Spirits to wear down the dream's owner, hoping to obtain the final two Authority Fragments and claim the inheritance.
• Marquis Beihim recalled that he had spent 170 years pursuing the inheritance and had collected 98 fragments, while keeping the Nightmare Spirit King asleep.
• Anvis questioned the Knight Nightmare Spirit about the Four Nightmares, subdued it, and used its innate ability to leave through a mirror.
• Anvis decided to kill one of the Four Nightmares, assume its identity, and pursue his own Path of the Diviner.

Anvis drew Dark Tidis into a mirror realm where Tidis’s command over darkness was suppressed and his strength diminished. Tidis attacked Anvis’s Holy Light Domain while secretly preparing his innate ability, Dark Stars Summons.

• Anvis used a mirror to reach Dark Tidis’s pitch-black palace, where Tidis’s darkness failed to penetrate the Mirror World.
• Anvis trapped Tidis inside the mirror, silencing his control over darkness and revealing an aura comparable to Tidis’s own.
• Tidis realized Anvis had prepared the trap and attacked, but Anvis protected himself and the mirror with a Holy Light Domain.
• Tidis clashed with Anvis in a stalemate and secretly began preparing Dark Stars Summons.

Anvis trapped Tidis in a mirror world, took control of his body, and left an Avatar among the Nightmare Spirits. He returned to Fairytale City and rejoined Queen Fiona and the other guests playing Arcane Cards.

• Tidis used his ability to weaken Anvis and attacked him with Darkness Power, but Anvis resisted the effect and blocked the strike with a Holy Light shield.
• Tidis sent a dark arrow into Anvis's mirror and escaped into the darkness, but Anvis confirmed that no trace of Tidis remained in the hall.
• Anvis entered Tidis's Dark Palace through the mirror and used their reflections to control Tidis's body while Tidis's consciousness remained trapped in the Mirror World.
• Anvis found that Tidis had gathered ninety-five Authority Fragments and decided to keep him as an Avatar rather than kill him.
• Anvis left the Nightmare Spirit territory, returned to Fairytale City, and joined Fiona and the guests playing Arcane Cards.

Anvis warned Fiona and the other Trial-takers that Nightmare Spirits were gathering outside the Dream World, breaking through the Queen’s influence that had kept them playing Arcane Cards. As the guests departed to fight the enemies, Anvis stayed behind and watched the Authority Voids spread across Fiona’s map.

• Fiona picked up Anvis while playing Arcane Cards, and the Duchess’s Fate Judgment destroyed several creatures on the field without harming the players.
• Anvis warned Fiona and the Trial-takers that outside enemies were gathering and urged them to attack before the Nightmare Spirits could fully converge.
• Anvis realized Fiona’s status as Queen made others unconsciously obey her, and the Duchess and several guests agreed to prioritize the enemy.
• Fiona ended the tea party and showed a Magic Sand Table where black regions marked enemy locations and the largest areas indicated the strongest threats.
• The guests left to hunt Nightmare Spirits for their valuable Authority Fragments, while Anvis remained with Fiona and noted that her world authority was being eroded by the Inheritance Land.

Lustful Lilith was ambushed and defeated by a group of Trial-takers, who collected her Authority Fragments and considered attacking another Nightmare. Dream Eater Linna stayed behind to report the events to Marquis Vent, whose reaction changed when he saw Queen Fiona Olivenndi in Linna’s memory.

• Lilith was caught off guard by a coordinated attack from four top-tier Trial-takers and unleashed her Domain of Lust in response.
• The Trial-takers overwhelmed Lilith, and she collapsed as the group intercepted most of her scattered desire aura.
• The group counted their rewards and discussed attacking Dark Tidis at his nearby palace.
• Linna asked the others to go ahead, then contacted Marquis Vent and reported the Nightmare Spirits’ invasion.
• Marquis Vent saw Queen Fiona Olivenndi in Linna’s transmitted memory and reacted with surprise.

Marquis Vent learned that Fiona had appeared in the Dream World and decided to pursue her himself, while Anvis tracked down the wounded Lilith. Anvis found her hiding in a cave and trapped her in darkness as he announced his visit.

• Marquis Vent asked Linna whether she had encountered the Circle of Truth, then decided to go after Fiona himself.
• Anvis watched the Trial-takers through Fiona's Rule Sandbox and fled with the Tidis Avatar toward places where Lilith might have gone.
• Anvis found Lilith hiding in a cave, weakened and reduced to her small Nightmare Demon form.
• Anvis appeared behind Lilith, engulfed the cave in darkness, and greeted her while she realized she had nowhere to run.

Anvis used the White Rabbit's pocket watch to suppress Lilith, then bound her to his faction and questioned her about the other Four Nightmares. After Lilith identified Fiona to Marquis Beihim, he ordered her to guide the Nightmare Spirit King and secure Fiona.

• Anvis used the pocket watch to reverse Lilith's power and force her back into her weakened form.
• Lilith surrendered, accepted a Twisted Seed, and signed a Master-Subordinate Contract with Anvis.
• Anvis restored Lilith's adult appearance and asked her about Black Abyss of Despair and Madness of the Bottom Hughes.
• Lilith described Black Abyss's Hand of Despair and Hughes's form, strength, and unstable mental state.
• Lilith spoke with Marquis Beihim through a Dream Crystal Ball and showed him an image of Fiona.
• Marquis Beihim ordered Lilith to guide the Nightmare Spirit King and secure Fiona before anyone else could.

Anvis learned that Marquis Beihim had helped awaken the Nightmare Spirit King and prepared to confront the threat. At a meeting with Black Abyss and Hughes, the three planned to spread their nightmares through the world, but Hughes recognized that Anvis had changed.

• Anvis realized Marquis Beihim had influenced the Nightmare Spirit King's awakening and decided to prepare to change the fate in which he died.
• Anvis sent Lilith back to her stronghold to recover and return before the Nightmare Spirit King arrived.
• Anvis traveled to a ruined valley Altar to meet Black Abyss of Despair and Madness of the Bottom Hughes.
• Anvis told Black Abyss that Trial-takers had forced Lilith to leave, and Black Abyss accepted her absence as a temporary withdrawal from the competition.
• Black Abyss divided the world's regions among the three and proposed spreading their nightmares through Avatars while keeping their main bodies together.
• Hughes opened his eyes and told Anvis that he could see Anvis had become different again.

Anvis learned that Hughes had disappeared after declaring Anvis was nearing an awakening, while Black Abyss and Tidis remained under Anvis’s control. After Lilith returned with word that the Nightmare Spirit King was close to awakening, Anvis used what he had learned about the Dream World’s rejection of the Nightmare Spirits to prepare a special welcome for the King.

• Hughes told Anvis that the Inheritance Land was already mad and said Anvis had taken a step closer to waking up, before vanishing despite Black Abyss’s warning.
• Anvis subdued Black Abyss, planted a Twisted Seed in him, and then helped Black Abyss plant one in Tidis, keeping the pair together to deter the Trial-takers.
• Anvis returned to the Land of Wonders and discovered that Hughes had disappeared without leaving a detectable trace.
• Anvis learned that Fiona’s Adventures in Wonderland made Fiona the Dream World’s administrator, while the Nightmare Spirits had no identities within the world and were instinctively rejected by it.
• Seven days later, Lilith returned and told Anvis that the Nightmare Spirit King was about to awaken completely.
• Anvis decided to use the Dream World’s rejection of the Nightmare Spirits to prepare a special welcome Ritual for the Nightmare Spirit King.

After awakening under Marquis Beihim’s control, the Nightmare Spirit King entered Fiona’s Land of Wonders and confronted its defenders. Fiona’s first attempt to drive it away failed, leaving the city under threat as her fear strengthened the enemy.

• Anvis learned that Duke Carlot was traveling to find him and estimated that he would arrive soon.
• Marquis Beihim awakened the Nightmare Spirit King and controlled it to open a dream passage to Fiona’s Adventures in Wonderland.
• Anvis urged Fiona to prepare for the enemy, but she tried to sneak out with Kate and Fia to play.
• The Nightmare Spirit King emerged from a rift over the Land of Wonders, frightening its residents with its immense power.
• Fiona tried to use the world’s rules to drive the enemy away, but her incomplete authority could not overcome it, and her fear weakened her attacks.

The Nightmare Spirit King and the Four Nightmares threatened the Land of Wonders, putting Fiona’s city shield under pressure while Anvis tried to encourage her. As the Trial-takers hesitated, Anvis activated concealed arrays that triggered violent Rule Repulsion against the nightmare spirits.

• Anvis recognized that Fiona’s fear came from the Nightmare Spirit King’s innate power, while believing that facing it could strengthen her will if she prevailed.
• The Nightmare Spirit King’s arrival transformed the unprotected Land of Wonders into nightmare regions, and the Four Nightmares gathered near Madness of the Bottom Hughes.
• The Trial-takers debated fleeing, but Duchess Linna mocked the Dream Ferryman, while Marquis Vent waited outside the city to seize Fiona amid the chaos.
• The Nightmare Spirit King sent black mist to erode the city’s Rule Shield, and Anvis used spells to encourage Fiona while watching for threats from the Trial-takers.
• Anvis activated concealed conceptual Magic Arrays around the nightmare lands, causing the world’s Rule Repulsion and the Inheritance Land’s rejection of the nightmare spirits to turn violent.

Anvis's Magic Array caused the world to reject the Nightmare Spirits, weakening them and inspiring the Trial-takers to consider hunting them. Anvis noticed an unseen presence outside the city and sent Duck Broken Neck Swan and mouse to investigate, where their search disturbed the concealed Marquis Vent.

• Anvis's Magic Array made the world's rules reject the Nightmare Spirits, weakening Marquis Beihim and the Four Nightmares.
• The Trial-takers recognized their chance to attack the weakened Nightmare Spirits, and Duchess Linna hoped Marquis Vent would help them defeat the Nightmare Spirit King.
• Anvis sensed surprise from an apparently empty, toxic swamp beyond the city and suspected a powerful hidden existence.
• Anvis gave Duck Broken Neck Swan and mouse a quest to investigate the hidden presence, promising them a level-sixty Purple Equipment Staff.
• Duck and mouse reached Marquis Vent's hiding place, and their probing fluctuation alerted him.

Marquis Vent was exposed after Anvis used the world's rules against him, and the Nightmare Spirit King and Marquis Beihim turned against him. Vent fought the Nightmare Spirit King, while his Rule Power began damaging the being's labyrinthine body.

• Marquis Vent recognized Broken Neck Swan and rat as Outsiders but ignored them, while the Players debated how to complete their mission and decided to provoke him.
• Broken Neck Swan returned to report, and rat hurled spells at Marquis Vent before insulting him until Vent killed him with Mana.
• Anvis detected Vent's aura, marked him through the pocket watch, and caused dreamlike lightning to expose him to everyone.
• The Nightmare Spirit King targeted Marquis Vent, and Marquis Beihim ordered him to leave because he suspected Vent had come for Fiona.
• Marquis Vent rejected the Nightmare Spirit King's threat and fought him, tearing through the dark canopy as his Rule Power damaged the King's labyrinthine body.

Marquis Vent was expelled after leaving a damaging surge of Rule Power inside the Nightmare Spirit King, but Anvis’s interference helped Marquis Beihim overcome Fiona’s citywide shield. Beihim invaded the royal city, and Fiona could only raise a small shield around the palace as its residents were consumed by nightmare creatures.

• Marquis Vent lost to the Nightmare Spirit King, then unleashed his remaining Rule Power inside it before dissolving into starlight.
• Marquis Beihim pushed his fear-rule Force Field against Fiona’s shield, but the two sides initially reached a deadlock.
• Anvis ordered the three Four Nightmares under his control to attack the barrier, and their assault caused Fiona’s silver shield to fade.
• Marquis Beihim descended into the royal city and transformed its fleeing residents into nightmare creatures.
• Fiona tried to protect the residents but could raise a silver shield only over the royal palace.

Anvis used the White Rabbit’s Pocket Watch to rewind Alice in Wonderland World, restoring the city and weakening Marquis Beihim. The Four Nightmares then turned on Beihim, pursued him into his own world, and revealed a connection to the Circle of Truth.

• As the Nightmare Spirit King threatened Fiona and the palace, Anvis activated the pocket watch and rewound the entire world to the moment Marquis Vent was defeated.
• The rewind restored the city and its residents, while Marquis Beihim’s remotely controlled body suffered further damage resisting the timeline shift.
• When Marquis Beihim attacked the restored shield again, the Four Nightmares changed targets and struck him, giving Fiona and three of them the advantage.
• Marquis Beihim fled through a spatial passage to his own nightmare world, expecting to defeat the Four Nightmares there.
• The Four Nightmares pursued Beihim alongside an unknown nightmare spirit, and the stranger declared that the Circle of Truth sent its regards.

Anvis confronted Marquis Beihim in the Deep Dream World, where Beihim destroyed the Nightmare Spirit King’s body to escape. After Anvis returned, he and the other Nightmares turned their attention to Hughes, the last member Anvis had yet to control.

• Marquis Beihim suspected Anvis was an ancient, inhuman existence and decided to self-destruct the Nightmare Spirit King to withdraw his consciousness.
• The Nightmare Spirit King's explosion devastated the Four Nightmares and seemingly reduced Anvis to dust.
• Lustful Lilith revived Anvis from the Old Days Secret Scripture after the explosion subsided.
• Anvis and the other three Nightmares surrounded Madness of the Bottom Hughes to find out what he intended to do.

Anvis accepted Hughes's offer to see the world's true face, and the leaf revealed a strange reality filled with red mist and altered forms. The group remained protected from the mist as Anvis prepared to examine his own appearance in the real world.

• Anvis formed a contract with Hughes and planted a Twisted Seed before using Hughes's leaf to awaken from the dream.
• The leaf melted into Anvis's eyes, revealing huge dark red ribbons of mist sweeping through the world.
• Anvis saw Hughes as an Elf Girl resembling Antinoya, and Hughes used a dark green branch to shield them from the mist.
• Hughes explained that the mist affected consciousness and revealed the changed forms of Lilith, Black Abyss, and Dark Tidis to Anvis.
• Anvis wondered what he and the Old Days Secret Scripture looked like in the real world, then conjured a Magic Mirror.