Chapter Summaries

Savat and Fimbul questioned Lily Comier after she kidnapped Miss Kuwait, and Lily admitted she wanted to steal Yao Xing’s heart to improve her acting and win attention. After the Blue Robes rescued Miss Kuwait, Wala Wala offered to take her to the Purple District to find Anthony, subject to the Blue Robes’ requirements.

• Yao Xing recognized Lily Comier as her friend and a Fimbul Theater actress, but Lily rejected her and fell into a frenzy.
• Fimbul used his source essence to suppress Lily’s hallucinations, and Lily confessed that she had kidnapped Miss Kuwait to steal her heart and gain attention.
• Fimbul terminated Lily’s theater contract, and Yao Xing slapped her before leaving with him.
• Lily revealed that Miss Kuwait was in the Rose Curtain Preparation Room, and the Blue Robes found and awakened her.
• Wala Wala offered to take Miss Kuwait to the Purple District to find Anthony, and the Blue Robes said Miss Kuwait first had to make a record and Mr. Kuwait had to be notified.

Linsey and Wala Wala rescued Lina Kuwait from the Rainbow Dream Potion and reunited her with Anthony, only to discover that he was being transformed by an Erosion Worm. Linsey saved Anthony by cutting off his infected arm, while the task to find the writer behind the scenes remained unfinished.

• Fimbul advised Yao Xing to get closer to Selina rather than pursue the Rainbow Dream Potion as a shortcut.
• Linsey and Wala Wala questioned Lina Kuwait, learned she had lost her memory after leaving the Impression Channel, and escorted her to the manor where Anthony was staying.
• When Anthony failed to answer the door, Linsey broke in and found him unconscious with an Erosion Worm larva transforming his left arm.
• Linsey cut off Anthony's infected arm and burned the parasite, stopping the transformation and saving his life.
• Anthony woke and reunited with Lina, while Wala Wala suspected someone had deliberately brought Erosion Worms into the Seven Seas Alliance.
• Linsey checked the task bar and saw that finding the writer behind the scenes remained incomplete.

A mysterious girl returned to the City of a Thousand Sails and celebrated as the words recording Anthony and Lina’s tragic fate vanished from her notebook. After Linsey and Wala Wala discussed Fate Interference, Linsey realized someone had rewritten the lovers’ fates, leaving Wala Wala furious.

• A coughing girl in a wheelchair arrived at the City of a Thousand Sails, and her notebook’s account of Anthony and Lina’s tragic ending disappeared as she praised Linsey.
• The girl paid a father Gold Coins to stop him from making a scene after he beat his young son, then followed them to observe how his love for the child might change his behavior.
• Linsey and Wala Wala left Anthony and Lina, whose relationship still depended on their own efforts, and headed back to their room.
• Linsey asked Wala Wala about Fate Interference, and she explained that writers could guide people through existing causes and effects but faced severe backlash when altering fate.
• Linsey concluded that Anthony and Lina’s fates had been rewritten, and Wala Wala’s anger revealed how terrible their original ending would have been.

Linsey and Wala Wala struggled to find a way to identify who had altered Anthony and Lina’s fate, then suspected a Fallen Artist from Mermaid Island and waited for the Art Association’s investigation. The next morning, while Linsey translated an ancient scroll, several Red Robes arrived asking to see them.

• Linsey and Wala Wala concluded that they had no way to detect or prove who had changed Anthony and Lina’s fate, so they decided to tell the couple and leave the choice to them.
• Wala Wala recalled the actress who had kidnapped Lina to steal emotions, and Linsey connected the incident to a Fallen Artist he and Wala Wala had encountered on Mermaid Island.
• Linsey told Anthony and Lina about the suspected connection, then he and Wala Wala returned to their room to rest.
• The next morning, Linsey translated an ancient scroll describing the Divine Court, a leaked secret, and the rise of Combat Essence and the Defender while Wala Wala questioned him about it.
• A waiter knocked and told Linsey and Wala Wala that several Red Robes were waiting for them in the hall.

Linsey and Wala Wala received their rewards and decided to settle in the Orange District, while planning to investigate the fate-altering incident at Fimbul Theater. As they headed toward the district, Yao Xing appeared in disguise and stopped them.

• Lu Ying delivered Linsey's commendation, citizenship certificate, and check, along with Wala Wala's commendation and home-renovation authorization.
• Linsey asked about buying land, and Wala Wala chose the Orange District, where her studio was located.
• Mr. Kuwait took his daughter and Anthony away, and Wala Wala suggested asking Fimbul Theater's playwrights to investigate how someone had altered fate.
• Linsey and Wala Wala left the manor, and the Task Bar offered an upgrade and three Random Teleportation Potions for operating a shop in the City of a Thousand Sails.
• At the public gallery on 27 Meiwen Street, Wala Wala recognized the disguised Yao Xing, who had come to meet them.

Yao Xing sought Wala Wala’s advice about acting, but Wala Wala refused to discuss her stage experience and took Linsey to her seaside home in the Orange District. After an energetic cleaning spree, Wala Wala invited Yao Xing inside too, while making clear she would not cook dinner.

• Yao Xing praised Wala Wala’s performance and asked her to share her stage experience, but Wala Wala refused and left with Linsey.
• Wala Wala introduced Linsey to the Orange District’s stone guard statues as they traveled north through the district.
• The group reached Wala Wala’s seaside house, where she rushed inside to clean while Linsey and Yao Xing waited outside.
• Yao Xing told Linsey that Selina had not behaved this way at the theater and asked how he had met her.
• Wala Wala finished cleaning, jumped from a second-floor window, and invited Yao Xing inside, warning that she would not make dinner.

Linsey visited Wala Wala with Yao Xing, who confessed Mr. Fimbul had sent her to help Wala Wala resolve her emotional struggles. After Wala Wala agreed to let Yao Xing visit, she showed Linsey a nearby vacant lot, and Linsey said he could afford it and would build his own house.

• Wala Wala served Linsey and Yao Xing two-week-old cake, but they were amazed by Linsey's berry sweet biscuits.
• Yao Xing told Wala Wala that Mr. Fimbul had asked her to spend more time with her, and Wala Wala reluctantly agreed.
• Wala Wala explained that her former fans no longer recognized her after she left the stage and took off her mask.
• Wala Wala pointed out a vacant lot beside her studio and described its low prices and coastal drawbacks.
• Yao Xing offered to help pay for the land, but Linsey said the Art Association's bonus was enough.
• Linsey rejected Wala Wala's offer to introduce designers and said he would build the house himself.

Linsey’s newly upgraded shop appeared overnight as a forest-style house in Wala Wala’s neighborhood, stunning the residents. While Linsey tended his garden, a Sun Sunflower mutated into a Glorious Sunflower and produced Sun Radiance Essence, revealing a possible path toward crafting a Constellation Fragment; Wala Wala then found him fishing instead of preparing to open the shop.

• Wala Wala and the neighbors discovered that a sizable wooden house had appeared overnight on Linsey’s land, and Wala Wala realized it might be his solution.
• Linsey checked the plants in his shop and found that one Sun Sunflower had mutated into a Glorious Sunflower.
• Linsey harvested Sun Radiance Essence and found a Workbench formula for crafting a Constellation Fragment.
• Linsey tended to the garden, left the Little Wild Men to care for the plants, and went fishing from the platform.
• Linsey caught a broken picture frame, and Wala Wala arrived to ask about the house and scold him for fishing.

Linsey showed Wala Wala how his skill let him build houses and fish valuable items from the water. After pulling up a sword and a designer pendant, he remembered his plan to open a shop and headed inside to prepare.

• Wala Wala glided into Linsey's backyard and asked how the houses had appeared overnight, and Linsey said his skill was responsible.
• Wala Wala touched the mutated Glorious Sunflower and burned her finger, then Linsey explained that it gathered the sun's power.
• Linsey fished up a chest containing thirteen Silver Coins and a Gorgeous One-Handed Sword, which he set on the Workbench to reveal a crafting recipe.
• Linsey caught another chest with a pendant from the Avis design workshop, and Wala Wala said it could sell for one or two hundred gold coins.
• Linsey put away his Fishing Rod and went to prepare a display case for his planned shop, telling Wala Wala that Shop Management was also part of his skill.

Linsey’s plant shop thrived in the City of a Thousand Sails, and he considered what valuable equipment he could craft from his growing supplies. After Yao Xing bought a rare necklace for 300 gold coins, Wala Wala persuaded Linsey to accompany her on a delivery that afternoon.

• Linsey saw his shop nearing its next level and noted that selling river jewelry had increased his funds by 400 gold coins.
• Linsey reviewed his synthesis recipes and considered crafting equipment from Rainbow Fish Scales and other materials.
• Wala Wala asked Linsey to accompany her while she delivered a commissioned artwork, but he initially wanted to go fishing.
• Yao Xing recognized a necklace by Mr. Connavi and offered Linsey a check for 300 gold coins to buy it.
• Linsey sold Yao Xing the necklace and agreed to go with Wala Wala on her delivery.

Wala Wala delivered her commissioned sunset painting to the Iron Eagle design center while Linsey and Yao Xing accompanied her. As they waited, they saw a middle-aged man thrown out for presenting a design, but he refused to abandon his goal.

• Wala Wala stored her goods at the Stonemason Guild while Linsey and Yao Xing waited outside and talked about the stone statues’ greetings.
• Wala Wala grew suspicious of their conversation, then took them to the Iron Eagle—Architecture and Interior Design Center to deliver her painting.
• The designer praised Wala Wala’s vivid island-sunset painting and invited her to settle the payment.
• Linsey and Yao Xing heard a commotion and saw a middle-aged man thrown out of a neighboring studio after presenting his design.
• The man declared that he would not give up, despite being told he lacked source essence and should wait for the next Harvest Day.

Linsey met the struggling ordinary designer Will Palpatine and learned that Will hoped to enter a Hallucination Dream. After a day of shopping with Wala Wala and Yao Xing, Linsey used the unresolved situation on Mermaid Island as an excuse to head to the Messenger Hall, leaving Yao Xing curious about his connection to the Art Association.

• Linsey offered Will Palpatine a design commission, but Will left to honor his appointments with other studios, where he was repeatedly rejected.
• Linsey read Will’s card and asked Yao Xing about Hallucination Dreams, learning that they held dangers and extraordinary opportunities.
• Wala Wala showed Linsey and Yao Xing the money she had earned and invited them to go shopping.
• Linsey spent the day carrying the women’s shopping bags and tried to avoid shopping through the night.
• Linsey suggested visiting the Messenger Hall to check for news about Anthony and Lina on Mermaid Island, and Yao Xing asked whether he was connected to the Art Association.

Linsey, Wala Wala, and Yao Xing toured the City of a Thousand Sails, discussed trading his High-Grade Ocean Gems, and traveled by boat to the Messenger Hall. There, Linsey asked whether any new information had arrived about Red.

• The three dined at Dave's Fish Restaurant, where Wala Wala told Yao Xing about Mermaid Island and discussed Linsey's disguise ability.
• Linsey asked for a gem merchant to trade his High-Grade Ocean Gems for a fire-element gem, and Yao Xing offered to introduce him to jewelers she knew.
• After dinner, the three rented a pleasure boat and traveled east through the city's canals toward the Messenger Hall.
• Linsey spotted a girl in a wheelchair feeding a large waterbird and wondered whether he would meet the Red Sea Mermaids again.
• At the Messenger Hall, Linsey showed a messenger the token he had obtained in the Courtyard in the Forest and asked if there was new information about Red.

Linsey received news that Hong had reached the Eighth Stage and was training under the War King in Nal Kebandek, then learned the Fallen Artist who attacked his ship had fled toward the distant seas. A strange display of light and colors appeared in the City of a Thousand Sails as someone outside shouted about becoming a true artist.

• A messenger told Linsey that Hong was safe in Nal Kebandek, had reached the Eighth Stage, and was training under the War King.
• Linsey asked the messenger to tell Hong he would go to the City of Law before traveling to Nal Kebandek to find her.
• The messenger reported that the Fallen Artist who attacked Linsey's ship had fled toward the distant seas, and Linsey wondered whether another culprit was behind the incident.
• A commotion broke out outside as a person shouted about understanding the mysteries and being the true artist, while twisted colors rose above a distant street.

Linsey, Wala Wala, and Yao Xing raced north through the Hallucination Dream’s spreading influence to find its source. They reached a sealed entrance and, after the guards refused to let them enter, Linsey attacked while Wala Wala began putting the second guard to sleep.

• A messenger identified the strange light as an extension of the Hallucination Dream and announced that the Messenger Hall would enter lockdown.
• Linsey used his Map Skill to locate the disturbance in the north and led Wala Wala and Yao Xing toward it.
• Wala Wala used a song to light a path through the bewildering radiance as the group passed through streets where people were panicking and attacking others.
• The three reached a sealed entrance to the Hallucination Dream, but its guards refused Linsey’s request to investigate.
• Linsey knocked out one guard and attacked the other, while Wala Wala sang a spell to make him fall asleep.

Linsey and Wala Wala killed a Light Horn Beast that had forced its way out of the Hallucination Dream, then discovered a human corpse inside it and suspected the beast had used the victim’s memories to reach their world. As Blue Robes from the Art Association entered the Stone Fort, Linsey remained unsure whether the incident had a deeper cause.

• Yao Xing entered the Stone Fort and saw Linsey and Wala Wala fighting a giant beast emerging from the Hallucination Dream.
• Linsey and Wala Wala worked together to restrain the beast, and Linsey killed it with a spear after blasting it with three explosive spheres.
• Linsey inspected the Light Horn Beast and its corpse, then severed the body to stop it from sliding back into the Hallucination Dream.
• Wala Wala pulled a half-digested human corpse from the beast, and Linsey concluded that it had absorbed the victim’s memories.
• Wala Wala said that people who disappeared in the Hallucination Dream were generally presumed dead, while Linsey questioned whether the incident was truly that simple.
• Blue Robes from the Art Association rushed into the Stone Fort and encountered Linsey, Wala Wala, and Yao Xing.

After helping resolve the Hallucination Dream riot, Linsey and Wala Wala were taken with Yao Xing to the Art Association’s Red District for questioning. Linsey suspected the chaos had been engineered, then found that the Light Fusion Membrane could be used to craft a camera, a device unfamiliar to Wala Wala.

• The Blue Robes recognized Yao Xing, accepted her explanation that Linsey and Wala Wala were her friends, and escorted the group to the Red District for investigation.
• While waiting at the Art Association, Linsey told Wala Wala he suspected someone had manipulated events to cause the riot, though he admitted he might be overthinking it.
• Linsey examined the Light Fusion Membrane dropped by the Light Horn Beast and saw that it could be used to craft Light Retaining Paper, a camera, or an Invisibility Cloak.
• Linsey asked Wala Wala whether the City of a Thousand Sails had a device for preserving images, and she assumed he meant painting.

Linsey crafted a camera, learned about the City of a Thousand Sails’ confinement punishments, and discovered that disturbances had broken out across the city. When a powerful song rang from the Red Tower, he remembered something underwater and leaped into the sea, leaving Wala Wala to ask Yao Xing to teach her to swim.

• Linsey crafted a Camera and discovered recipes for a Soul-Suppressing Camera and a Video Camera, but wondered where to obtain Battery Packs.
• Wala Wala and Yao Xing explained that the City of a Thousand Sails punished offenders with confinement in black or white rooms, and Linsey offered to pay their fine.
• Linsey spotted groups of battered people being escorted into the Art Association compound and learned from Savat that multiple Hallucination Dream entrances had malfunctioned and many people had taken Rainbow Dream Potion.
• Savat told Linsey, Wala Wala, and Yao Xing that the theater had paid their fine, and the three left the compound as the Red Tower’s melody calmed the city.
• Linsey said he had something to handle underwater and jumped into the sea, while Wala Wala asked Yao Xing to teach her how to swim.

Linsey descended into the deep sea to claim the treasure marked on the Hidden Sea Chart, using his equipment to breathe and see underwater. He gathered valuable Abyss Clump Algae and discovered that the marked minerals lay beneath hundreds of meters of seafloor sediment.

• Linsey equipped a catfish head and Jellyfish Lamp, then descended through the dark water without encountering danger.
• Linsey's Map Skill revealed the seafloor, and his gathering equipment marked nearby plants and minerals.
• Linsey harvested twenty-seven Abyss Clump Algae around a hydrothermal vent and checked their crafting uses.
• Linsey reached a mineral marker and learned that ocean sediment buried the ore, so he would have to dig hundreds of meters to reach it.

Linsey mined High Pressure Sea Stone in the deep sea, then followed the Hidden Sea Chart to a concealed location beneath an underwater rock. He entered a strange underwater studio that appeared to be the hideout of a Ninth Stage Artist.

• Linsey spent several hours mining and collected sixty-eight pieces of High Pressure Sea Stone, then cleared the area's mining and plant-gathering spots.
• Linsey followed the Hidden Sea Chart to an underwater hill, where his Sky Compass detected a hidden location.
• Linsey solved the colored spiral lock by arranging red, yellow, and blue, and a powerful current swept him through the rock.
• Linsey emerged in a room overlooking vivid, otherworldly currents and found ancient writing that affected his emotions.
• Linsey discovered an old easel, canvas, chair, bed, and chest, and realized the place might be a Ninth Stage Artist's secret hideout.