Chapter Summaries

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.