Chapter Summaries

Linsey and the survivors found a way to move their powerless ship when Anthony revealed that Nana’s bone flute could summon a Red Sea Kraken. After Anthony called the beast, the ship prepared to depart, but singing from the island suggested the danger there was not over.

• Linsey brought Anthony and the last survivors back to the ship and found the captain unable to get it moving.
• Ala Song suggested contacting the City of a Thousand Sails, but Linsey found there was no messenger aboard.
• Anthony revealed that Nana’s bone flute could summon a Red Sea Kraken, and Linsey recognized it as a token from the Kuwait Family.
• Linsey and Anthony entered the sea, and Anthony blew the flute underwater while another passenger swam back toward Mermaid Island to stay with the mermaids.
• Anthony said a giant sea beast was approaching, so Linsey returned with him to the ship as the captain and sailors prepared a towing line.
• As the ship waited for the Kraken, Linsey heard someone singing from the island, calling for a departed lover.

Linsey and his companions were overwhelmed by an island artist’s bewitching song, but Wala Wala and Linsey’s abilities bought them time. Linsey summoned a creature from beneath the sea and ordered it to tow the ship to the City of a Thousand Sails.

• An island artist’s song seized control of everyone aboard, while Wala Wala played her violin to disrupt its enchantment.
• Ala Song plugged his ears and knocked out passengers as Linsey used Datafication and the Ocean Current Crest to resist the song.
• Linsey used an Echo Grass blade to replay the island song after Wala Wala’s violin strings snapped and she collapsed.
• The Echo Grass’s voice clashed with the island artist’s song, giving a massive creature beneath the sea time to emerge.
• Linsey spoke to the creature in beast speech and ordered it to tow the ship to the City of a Thousand Sails.

On the island, the white-clad figure prepared to abandon his secret factory while arguing with the girl in the wheelchair about art and her belief in a heroic Singular Being. The girl remained convinced the hero would defy fate and save her, even as despair spread across the island.

• The white-clad figure said he would abandon the island after the Kuwait Family's Red Sea Kraken arrived to collect the ships, and he dismissed the fate of the mermaids and islanders.
• The girl in the wheelchair and the white-clad figure argued over whether spreading despair or creating dreamlike depravity could count as art.
• The girl revealed that she had opened someone else's life script and believed a Singular Being who awakened his Second Life would become a true hero and save her.
• The white-clad figure asked what would happen if the hero failed, and the girl's despair spread across the mountain, withering plants and briefly awakening people in town from Rainbow Dream Potion.
• The white-clad figure walked into the mountain, while the girl pushed her wheelchair toward the island's edge and said becoming an artist let her truly live.

After the mermaid attack, Linsey cared for Wala Wala and recorded new songs with his Sheet Music skill while the Fishing Boat continued toward the City of a Thousand Sails. That night, Linsey went fishing and was greeted by a voice from beneath the sea.

• The Red Sea Kraken towed the Fishing Boat safely toward the City of a Thousand Sails after the island vanished.
• Linsey fed Wala Wala and played new songs for her while she pretended to be recovering from emotional trauma.
• Linsey explained that activating the effect of "Faster Than Light" drained his source material because the song removed the limit of light speed.
• Wala Wala urged Linsey to put more personal emotion into his songs and start a band, but Linsey refused and planned to record "Spring Day Shadow" the next day.
• Linsey checked the effect of "M87," then went night fishing with several Advanced Gems and seventeen Ocean Element Crystals in his bag.
• A voice beneath the sea greeted Linsey as he fished.

Linsey spoke with the Red Sea Kraken, learned why it pretended not to understand most human languages, and claimed rewards for capturing Red Sea Mermaids. As the boat neared the City of a Thousand Sails, Wala Wala apologized for pressuring Linsey to reveal his secrets and asked to travel with him; he accepted.

• The Red Sea Kraken introduced itself as Vance Lotit Olsenrini Lukva and told Linsey that natural creatures could perceive the essence of his craft.
• Vance explained that it knew several human languages but pretended otherwise to avoid being burdened with every request.
• Linsey claimed rewards for capturing 435 Red Sea Mermaids, including titles, Mermaid Oil, and Mermaid's Throat.
• Wala Wala apologized for insisting on writing Linsey's story and asked to travel with him.
• Linsey took Wala Wala's hand and agreed to travel together.

Linsey and Wala Wala reached the City of a Thousand Sails after surviving an attack near Mermaid Island and completed the port’s routine registration. Linsey waited outside while Wala Wala’s art was reviewed, where a living statue asked him to stand with it a little longer.

• The Red Sea Kraken released the Fishing Boat, and Linsey saw the seven towers and crowded harbors of the City of a Thousand Sails.
• Artists at Purple Port learned that the ship had been attacked by a Fallen Artist controlling a Red Sea Mermaid, then opened a channel so it could dock ahead of the queue.
• Linsey and Wala Wala registered at the port office, where they gave their names, origins, and Awakened stages.
• After Wala Wala mentioned her art, the clerk asked her to stay and went to retrieve new materials while Linsey waited outside.
• A living statue complained to Linsey that it had stood in the wind and sun for sixteen years and asked him to stand nearby longer.

Linsey and Wala Wala discussed Wala Wala’s artistic talents and troubled past before entering their lodging, a hidden estate inside a painting in the City of a Thousand Sails. They reunited with Anthony, while Linsey’s Bitter Journey of Love quest remained incomplete.

• Wala Wala explained that her artistic abilities made her an artist who pursued the Essence of Art and that her past in a counterfeit-making group had left her on the City of a Thousand Sails’ special list.
• Linsey reassured Wala Wala that he valued her and would face hardships with her, and she responded with joy.
• Linsey and Wala Wala followed their address to an open-air gallery and entered their lodging through the eleventh painting, which contained an estate.
• Wala Wala warned Linsey that entering a painting within another painting could leave someone lost in the void if the outer work was destroyed.
• Anthony greeted Linsey and Wala Wala at the estate, and Linsey checked that his Bitter Journey of Love quest was still incomplete.

Linsey and Wala Wala accompanied Anthony to the Kuwait Family manor so he could seek out Nana. As they waited outside, Linsey learned that the family’s plaque bore the White Star Imprint, an honor reserved for families with a current or former Eighth Stage Awakened.

• Anthony accepted Linsey and Wala Wala’s offer to help him find Nana and agreed to set out with them the next morning.
• Linsey told Wala Wala that his priority was returning to the City of Law to learn what had happened to his missing home and family.
• Wala Wala shared that Black Tide Island was her hometown and that the Art Association had destroyed it.
• Wala Wala guided Anthony and Linsey through the City of a Thousand Sails to the Kuwait Family manor in the Azure District.
• Anthony went inside the manor while Linsey and Wala Wala waited at the entrance.
• Linsey noticed the white heptagram on the Kuwait Family plaque, and Wala Wala explained that it marked the family as a White Star Family.

Linsey learned about the White Star Imprint and Hallucination Dreams while investigating the White Star Family, then witnessed Anthony being told to wait thirty years before he could see Nana again. Wala Wala reacted furiously and charged toward the estate’s main gate with Linsey.

• Linsey noticed that the White Star Imprint matched the symbol on his Peace Seven Stars Medal and asked Wala Wala about its origins.
• Wala Wala explained that Vanna Aurora might know the symbol’s history and described Hallucination Dreams created by Eighth Stage artists.
• Linsey and Wala Wala found Anthony pleading with a man to let him see Nana, who was an Awakened member of the White Star Family.
• The man told Anthony that Nana had gone to study under a teacher and that he could see her in thirty years if their feelings remained unchanged.
• Linsey tried to leave with Wala Wala, but she angrily condemned the man’s decision and pulled Linsey toward the estate’s main gate.

Wala Wala and Linsey helped Anthony regain his resolve to seek Nana, then continued by boat toward the Red District to ask about the Teleportation Array. Linsey received his quest rewards and learned that a hidden treasure was somewhere beneath the City of a Thousand Sails.

• Wala Wala painted strange shapes on the manor walls as revenge, then left Linsey to comfort the dejected Anthony.
• Wala Wala rented a boat from the Uriel merchant guild and challenged Anthony to pursue Nana rather than accept Kuwait's rejection.
• Linsey and Wala Wala persuaded Anthony to seek Nana and hear her answer for himself.
• Anthony decided not to give up, and Linsey and Wala Wala rowed him to the Purple District.
• Linsey received a Disposable Wind Pouch and a Hidden Sea Chart, which marked a treasure location beneath the city.
• Wala Wala took Linsey east toward the Red District to ask about using the Teleportation Array.

Linsey and Wala Wala learned that the Art Festival would delay their teleportation plans for nearly two months, then explored the City of a Thousand Sails and discussed a rumored Seventh Stage breakthrough. The next morning, five Awakened confronted them at breakfast over Miss Kuwait’s disappearance and ordered them to come along as suspects.

• The teleportation office told Linsey and Wala Wala that the Art Festival and its aftermath would occupy the system for nearly two months, so Linsey registered them to wait.
• Linsey and Wala Wala rowed toward the Purple District while discussing how the festival publicly celebrated a supposed Seventh Stage advancement that might conceal an Eighth Stage Awakened’s success.
• A painter on a stone bridge asked Linsey and Wala Wala to pose for a painting, and they cooperated.
• After returning to Painting Manor, Linsey and Wala Wala ate breakfast the next morning when five Awakened surrounded them.
• The leader accused Linsey and Wala Wala of visiting Mr. Kuwait’s home and said they were suspects because Miss Kuwait had disappeared.

Linsey and Wala Wala were accused of being involved in the Kuwait Family young lady’s disappearance, but Art Association officials intervened because they had saved passengers from Fallen Artists. As Savat took them in for questioning, Linsey noticed a change in the Task Bar and offered to help investigate.

• Linsey denied knowing where the Kuwait Family’s young lady was and challenged Savat to provide evidence before detaining them.
• Linsey and Wala Wala prepared for a possible fight as Savat’s five Awakened officers surrounded them.
• Lu Ying arrived with two men and confronted Savat, citing Linsey and Wala Wala’s role in rescuing passengers from Fallen Artists.
• Savat softened his stance and required Linsey and Wala Wala to explain themselves while remaining under the Art Association’s watch.
• Lu Ying promised them fair treatment and a reward within three days, and Linsey offered to help uncover information about the disappearance.

Linsey agreed to help Savat investigate Miss Kuwait’s disappearance after deducing that Savat had been rushed into the case. As the group headed to the disappearance site, Wala Wala explained why the authorities had not approached Anthony.

• Linsey used his observations to infer that Savat was a painter who had been drinking and was hurriedly called into the investigation.
• Savat was shocked by Linsey’s deductions, then agreed to let him join the investigation and asked him to explain what had happened the previous day.
• Wala Wala excitedly asked Linsey how he had figured out Savat’s circumstances, and Linsey said he had relied on his craft.
• Lu Ying and the other Art Association members returned to prepare Linsey’s reward while Savat led Linsey and Wala Wala toward the private club where Miss Kuwait had disappeared.
• Linsey asked why the investigators had not questioned Anthony, and Wala Wala explained that cases involving Awakened were usually handled within their circle.

Linsey investigated Miss Kuwait’s disappearance at Qingfeng Collection Hall and found that the fresh footprints belonged to a 54 kg person, not Miss Kuwait. The group concluded that the kidnapper may have used the Impression Channel to take her away.

• Linsey learned from Wala Wala and Savat how artists and ordinary people depended on each other in the City of a Thousand Sails.
• Savat led Linsey and Wala Wala to Miss Lina’s room at Qingfeng Collection Hall, where Linsey found her sketchbook and learned about Yao Xing from Wala Wala.
• Linsey discovered red footprints leading out the window and determined that their owner weighed 54 kg, ruling out Miss Kuwait.
• Linsey found Miss Kuwait’s older footprints by the desk and concluded she had been looking through the sketchbook before vanishing.
• Wala Wala ruled out an artistic space, and the Seven Seas Alliance locals identified the Impression Channel as the likely means of abduction.

Linsey and Savat traced the missing Kuwait Family young lady to Fimbul Theater, where her picture book may have sent her through an Impression Channel. At the theater, a noblewoman recognized Wala Wala as Selina and questioned why she had come after retiring from performing.

• Wala Wala explained that an Impression Channel could send someone to a place depicted in a description, but changes to the location could make the passage deadly.
• Linsey and Savat concluded that the picture book depicted Fimbul Theater, and Linsey suggested investigating how the Kuwait Family young lady had acquired it.
• Savat sent Neil and Fabes to trace the picture book's sales route, then led Linsey and Wala Wala to Fimbul Theater without revealing their investigation.
• As the group traveled through the performers' district, Linsey noticed Wala Wala seemed pleased and suspected she disliked actress Yao Xing, which Wala Wala denied.
• At Fimbul Theater, a middle-aged noblewoman recognized Wala Wala as Selina and asked why she had come after announcing her retirement from the performing arts.

Linsey, Wala Wala, and Savat entered Fimbul Theater to investigate a case involving the White Star Family, where the theater’s staff recognized Wala Wala as the former Masked Singer. Their search was interrupted when the popular actress Yao Xing arrived and confronted Wala Wala, calling her Selina.

• Wala Wala told the theater’s noblewoman that she had come to teach Linsey musical performance techniques, but the noblewoman tried to bar them from entering.
• Savat recognized Wala Wala as the Masked Singer and told the noblewoman that he and his companions were investigating a case involving the White Star Family.
• The noblewoman let the group into the theater and assigned Haini to accompany them as Savat searched locations shown in the picture book.
• Linsey asked Wala Wala about her former identities, and she explained that her acting career had made her famous and helped her buy a studio in the City of a Thousand Sails.
• Yao Xing arrived at the empty theater with a crowd of actors and followers, stared at Wala Wala, and said she had known Selina would return.

Linsey, Wala Wala, and Savat investigated Fimbul Theater for clues about the missing people while Yao Xing confronted Wala Wala about returning to the stage. After six hours, they narrowed the search to three locations, and Yao Xing said she might remember something from the previous night.

• Yao Xing asked whether Wala Wala had returned to perform, but Wala Wala rejected the name Selina and said she had no plans to return to the stage.
• Yao Xing told her entourage to leave, then accused Wala Wala of abandoning her and their shared pursuit; Wala Wala said the Selina Yao Xing knew had only been a performance.
• Savat finished inspecting the theater corner and led Linsey and Wala Wala to continue searching; Yao Xing caught up and offered to guide them through the theater.
• Linsey, Wala Wala, Savat, and Yao Xing searched for six hours and narrowed the suspicious locations to a second-floor rehearsal room, an empty theater's seating area, and the rooftop platform.
• Yao Xing said she might remember something from the previous night about those locations.

Linsey, Wala Wala, Yao Xing, and Savat investigated clues about the Kuwait Family’s young lady and identified matching footprints in the empty theater. As Savat and Yao Xing pursued the trail, Fimbul arrived with a senior Blue Robe official and invited Linsey and Wala Wala to join them.

• Yao Xing explained what she knew about the three suspicious locations, and Wala Wala reasoned that the empty theater seating was the likeliest place for an Impression Channel to have been used.
• Linsey identified two sets of footprints in the theater that matched those found at Qingfeng Collection Hall, including one belonging to the Kuwait Family’s young lady and one to a limping man.
• Savat thanked Linsey and Wala Wala, then followed the footprints out of the theater, while Yao Xing went after him to investigate the trouble inside.
• Wala Wala decided she and Linsey should leave for the Red District night market, but Fimbul appeared with a high-ranking Blue Robe official.
• Fimbul invited Linsey and Wala Wala to accompany them as they dealt with the theater’s reputation and the people who had caused trouble there.

Linsey and his companions followed Savat and Yao Xing to a theater steeped in Rainbow Dream Potion, where Savat broke into a room and triggered a fantasy performance. As Savat fought a deluded Lily, Yao Xing was overwhelmed by several guards, and Fimbul invited Linsey to join the fight.

• Linsey and his companions entered the theater and found Rainbow Dream Potion affecting the people inside.
• Somula and the others wondered why the theater’s occupants had kidnapped the Kuwait Family’s daughter.
• Savat broke down a door, and a woman’s performance transformed the theater into a fairy-tale Garden Enclosure.
• Lily mistook Savat for her prince and attacked him, while several guards confronted Yao Xing.
• Yao Xing’s attempt to start her play was interrupted, and she retreated under the guards’ attacks.
• Fimbul told Linsey he could join the fight as Yao Xing and the combatants moved toward them.

Linsey and Wala Wala defeated the enemy actors, while Yao Xing watched in shock and the Seventh Stage Awakened discussed Selina’s past and the threat of Fallen Artists. Back in the theater, Savat subdued the actress and demanded to know where the Kuwait household’s young lady was and who had targeted the White Star Family.

• Linsey swiftly defeated the Golden Amber Knight and the Fox Tail Knight as they attacked him.
• Wala Wala joined Linsey and killed the Dragon Bone Knight, leaving Yao Xing stunned by their strength.
• Somula and Fimbul discussed Selina’s decision to remain away from the theater and worried about trouble from Fallen Artists at sea.
• Linsey and Wala Wala defeated the remaining Third Stage fighters while Savat’s paint cocoon opened around him and the captured actress.
• The group returned to the theater, where Savat seized the actress and demanded the location of the Kuwait household’s young lady and the identity of the person behind the attack on the White Star Family.