Chapter Summaries

Linsey, Ala Song, and Selina survived the stone colossus’s impact, but the Hallucination Dream’s laws began animating the city and scattering its fragments. With the route back to the real world seemingly gone, Linsey suggested Ala Song could create another Hallucination Dream.

• Linsey built a Stone Fort around himself, Ala Song, and Selina, then braced them against the stone colossus’s impact.
• The impact broke the city’s foundation, and Linsey, Ala Song, and Selina escaped the sinking Stone Fort by swimming to the surface.
• Linsey saw that the stone colossus had fallen asleep, but the statue at Actor’s Plaza had disappeared, leaving them unsure how to return.
• The city began breaking apart and drifting through the sea as All Things Have a Soul: City animated it.
• Linsey told Ala Song that Hallucination Dreams could exist inside worlds created by an Eighth Stage artist, and said Ala Song was their hope.

As the City of a Thousand Sails’ reflection world collapsed, Linsey and Ala Song used young Selina as a coordinate to open an Impression Channel to another Hallucination Dream. They arrived in a stable ocean world, where Selina remembered her name as Wala Wala and revealed that a gigantic whirlpool had pulled her there.

• Linsey proposed painting the sea to open an Impression Channel, and Ala Song agreed to use young Selina as the coordinate.
• Ala Song painted seawater on the ground, and Linsey led Ala Song and Selina through the channel just before the city fragment disappeared.
• Linsey and Ala Song emerged from the ocean into a stable Hallucination Dream and used a wooden plank boat to stay afloat.
• Selina remembered most of her past and asked Linsey to call her Wala Wala.
• Wala Wala told Linsey that a gigantic whirlpool had pulled her into this world and knocked her unconscious.

Linsey expanded the raft, used music to guide their drift through the ocean, and fished up a rare dream material. The chapter ended when Ala Song noticed the seawater around them was growing darker for an unknown reason.

• Linsey expanded the raft with his ability and had Ala Song put away the painted raft, leaving a hole in the deck.
• Linsey played "He's a Pirate" to summon a Wind of Freedom and help guide the raft toward Wala Wala's original body.
• Linsey checked the map, then fished up an Ink Fish and a chest containing Shadow Weave, manuscript paper, and ink.
• Ala Song warned Linsey and Wala Wala that the seawater was growing darker because of a fundamental change in the water.

Linsey, Ala Song, and Wala Wala drifted toward increasingly dark waters in the Hallucination Dream while Linsey crafted an Indestructible Blade from his Aetal Iron Dagger. As night approached, Linsey grew wary of the seemingly calm sea and questioned Wala Wala about who had created the unfamiliar dream.

• Ala Song noticed the seawater gradually darkening, and Wala Wala said the whirlpool they sought had been black as ink.
• Linsey studied Shadow Weave crafting formulas and used his Aetal Iron Dagger and other materials to make an Indestructible Blade.
• Wala Wala tried to lift the sword, nearly fell, and learned from Linsey that it was extremely difficult to destroy.
• Linsey continued fishing and collected Shadow Element Crystals and Shadow Gems instead of ocean materials.
• As night approached, Linsey checked the map, noted that the sea had darkened while its creatures seemed unchanged, and asked Wala Wala who had created the Hallucination Dream.
• Wala Wala said she did not know and had heard of no similar place in the City of a Thousand Sails.

Linsey suspected that the Hallucination World was connected to the Eighth Stage creator of Black Tide Island and questioned Hilude about the limits of the Destiny Script. After realizing the truth behind the crisis, he saw the black sea turn violent.

• Linsey asked Wala Wala whether she had entered the world through an Impression Channel, then suggested that its creator might be the Master of Black Tide Island.
• Wala Wala urged Linsey to escape, but Ala Song chose to stay with his companions and Linsey refused to leave her behind.
• Wala Wala explained that the Master of Black Tide Island could create scripts, prompting Linsey to suspect a connection to the Destiny Script.
• Linsey freed Hilude from mental control and asked what happened when the Destiny Script examined Eighth or Ninth Stage artists; Hilude said an Eighth Stage artist could cause severe brain damage.
• Linsey connected the artists' madness, Wala Wala's advancement, and the Rewritten Destiny Script, and the mission Hallucination World Lost Path registered as completed.
• Lightning flashed as the calm black sea grew turbulent and a disaster emerged.

Linsey prepared for the approaching Eighth Stage Fallen Artist, Dark Moon, by upgrading his shop, choosing new business options, and setting up a Production Line. The dark clouds advanced rapidly, leaving Linsey and his companions with at most fifteen minutes before the Sea Storm engulfed them.

• Linsey warned Ala Song and Wala Wala that Dark Moon had targeted them, and Ala Song vowed to stay and face the danger with him.
• Linsey upgraded his shop, gaining more staff slots, remote management, and the Popular Shop ability.
• Linsey claimed the Brocade of Flowers reward and unlocked the Production Line, then chose the Mysterious Shop option and bought all five February products.
• Linsey gave Ala Song and Wala Wala Random Teleportation Potions, but Wala Wala returned hers because she was only a fragment of the past.
• Linsey installed the Production Line in the backyard and began producing wooden planks, while the approaching clouds threatened to engulf them within fifteen minutes.

Linsey reinforced the raft into an enclosed vessel and protected it from lightning before sailing with Wala Wala and Ala Song into the storm. As the waves battered the ship, a ghostly girl passed through its wall and attacked them.

• Linsey reinforced the raft with wood and iron, then installed lightning rods and a Faraday cage to protect it from the storm.
• Linsey claimed the Nautilus and Dream Paint rewards, then encouraged Wala Wala and Ala Song by reciting The Stormy Petrel.
• The Wind of Freedom carried Linsey, Wala Wala, and Ala Song into the storm, where lightning struck the ship but the cage safely diverted it.
• Waves tossed the vessel violently, so Linsey secured himself and his companions with Corrupted Strain Spiderweb and told them to find the massive whirlpool.
• A ghostly girl passed through the ship's wall and charged at Linsey, Wala Wala, and Ala Song.

Linsey used his Willpower Source Material to wound an Unwilling Soul that his ordinary attacks could not touch. As more undead closed in on the ship, he prepared to change their situation before the next impact.

• An Unwilling Soul attacked Linsey, passed through him, and then targeted Ala Song and Wala Wala before a wave sent it back outside the ship.
• Wala Wala explained that ghosts were usually dealt with by Awakened from the School of Death or by powers suited to affect souls.
• Linsey infused his whip with Willpower Source Material and struck the Unwilling Soul, scattering its ghostly form and forcing it to flee.
• Linsey spotted more undead approaching from every direction as Ala Song reinforced the ship and expanded the spiderwebs.
• Linsey told Ala Song and Wala Wala to hold on because the next impact might be severe.

Linsey used a Disposable Wind Pouch to unleash a level-12 hurricane, carrying his boat through the storm and past the pursuing undead. After the wind subsided, Pale Specters closed in again, and Wala Wala asked to borrow Linsey’s violin so she could try to stop them.

• Linsey activated the Disposable Wind Pouch at maximum strength, summoning a hurricane that swept the boat forward and forced the Pale Specters and Sea Beasts beneath the waves.
• Linsey climbed onto the boat’s roof and challenged the storm, activating his Story Performance while Ala Song and Wala Wala watched from inside.
• After four hours, the hurricane subsided, and Ala Song and Wala Wala emerged from the cabin and vomited from the rough ride.
• Linsey confirmed that the boat had followed the right route and was nearing the black vortex Wala Wala had described.
• Pale Specters resumed pursuing the boat, and Wala Wala asked Linsey to lend her his violin so she could try to deal with them.

Wala Wala used her violin to calm the undead surrounding the boat, and the survivors warned that a Deep Sea Behemoth guarded the Central Great Vortex. Ala Song suspected the Fallen Artist had brought Wala Wala there because of the rules manifested within her.

• Wala Wala played a violin melody that soothed the Pale Ghosts, causing most of them to vanish and the remaining undead to follow the boat peacefully.
• Wala Wala spoke with the trailing undead, who warned that a Deep Sea Behemoth guarded the Central Great Vortex and devoured anything that approached.
• Wala Wala worried that her original body might already have been killed, but Linsey reassured her that the Fallen Artist had another purpose.
• Ala Song explained the stages of Awakened arts and proposed that the Fallen Artist had brought Wala Wala there because her Manifestation of Rules fulfilled a need.

Linsey, Wala Wala, and Ala Song discovered that the undead in the black sea were characters from famous stories whose fates had been twisted into tragedy by the Fallen Artist of Black Tide Island. As they prepared to confront him, Linsey suspected the artist was not truly alive or at full strength, and Wala Wala identified possible sea-monster figures connected to the vortex.

• Ala Song questioned Wala Wala about the rule-based power she had awakened, and she listed several possible abilities.
• Linsey recalled the undead shouting Adores and asked Wala Wala and Ala Song to investigate the name.
• Wala Wala asked the Pale Ghosts about their pasts and recognized them as characters from famous plays and stories whose endings had been altered.
• Ala Song proposed that the Fallen Artist of Black Tide Island had created a world to give famous characters tragic fates, and Linsey suggested the artist used those tragedies to evolve it.
• Linsey reasoned that the Fallen Artist was likely in an unusual, possibly dead state, and asked Wala Wala about stories of a deep-sea vortex or a giant sea monster.
• Wala Wala named the Abyssal Giant Whale Soroa and the Ocean Nightmare Krulu as possible sea monsters.

Linsey, Wala Wala, and Ala Song identified the monster in the whirlpool as Ocean Nightmare Krulu and sailed into its storm. Linsey struck Krulu with a Frost Poison Arrow, revealing its location, but its weakness remained unknown.

• Linsey and the others chose to confront Ocean Nightmare Krulu after discussing its control over storms and undead.
• Linsey's Horror Game level rose to 2, and he gained the Fear Chase skill.
• As the group approached the storm, Linsey chose “The High Seas” as the BGM and asked Ala Song to protect the boat while he fought.
• Wala Wala recognized the whirlpool as Krulu's nest, and Linsey found the monster's enormous marker on his map despite being unable to see it.
• Linsey fired a Frost Poison Arrow at the marker, freezing Krulu and causing its details to appear in the Hunting Notes.

Linsey fought through Krullu’s storm and whirlpool while Wala Wala supported him with a battle song. After using lightning rods and a Sea Oath Potion to survive the hazards, Linsey learned that Krullu’s weakness was its Resentment Core.

• Wala Wala played a battle song that temporarily boosted Linsey’s attributes, and Linsey charged toward Krullu.
• Linsey endured towering waves and headwinds, firing Frost Poison Arrows that left ice crystals around the monster’s position.
• Linsey used lightning rods to divert two lightning strikes, then dove beneath the surface to escape further bolts.
• The whirlpool’s currents swept Linsey away, but he brewed and drank a Sea Oath Potion, stabilizing himself in the water.
• Linsey checked Hunting Notes and learned that Krullu’s consciousness came from drowned souls and that agitating it could expose its Resentment Core.

Linsey faced Krullu underwater and used an Azure Sea Zircon engraved with the names Adores and Lily Danny to draw out the monster’s core. He exposed the core to attack and launched a blazing strike at it.

• Linsey learned from the Hunting Notes that Krullu was a roughly forty-meter body of disaster whose core was protected deep inside it.
• Krullu attacked Linsey with explosive undercurrents, and one strike cost him a tenth of his health despite his evasion.
• Linsey decided to use the Azure Sea Zircon, engraved with Adores and Lily Danny, to stimulate Krullu’s undead consciousness.
• Linsey switched Modules, accelerated through the water, and hurled the gemstone at Krullu.
• Krullu opened a passage to its core and cried out the two engraved names as the gemstone approached.
• Linsey attacked the exposed core with a crimson torrent from the Lava Jet Stream Sword and Indestructible Blade.

Linsey killed Krullu by striking its core, calming the storms and currents around the sea. As he regrouped with Wala Wala and Ala Song, he spotted another enormous presence rising from the seafloor.

• Linsey shattered the Azure Sea Zircon and pierced Krullu's core with the Indestructible Blade, killing the legendary giant beast.
• Linsey recovered his blade and Krullu's Prey Material, then found the Curse: Ocean Disaster and the Wronged Soul Core among his rewards.
• The storm and whirlpool weakened, the dark clouds cleared, and Linsey returned to the boat where Wala Wala and Ala Song praised his victory.
• Linsey checked the map and saw that the enormous Red Marker remained, then warned his companions that another giant creature was rising from the seafloor.

Linsey discovered that the island rising from the sea was the Abyssal Giant Whale Soroa, whose power petrified Wala Wala and Ala Song. After using the Mountains Crest to resist the petrification, Linsey stored his companions in his shop and began attacking the whale, but its wound healed immediately, and stone footsteps approached.

• Linsey stopped the boat from capsizing as the whale surfaced and revealed an island-sized back.
• The whale's aura petrified Wala Wala and Ala Song and began turning Linsey to stone.
• Linsey switched to the Mountains Crest, reversed his petrification, and learned that killing the whale could free his companions.
• Linsey placed Wala Wala and Ala Song in his shop and dug through the island to the whale's skin.
• Linsey struck the whale's back with lava, but the wound healed instantly, and he heard stone footsteps approaching.

Linsey found the Guardian Stone Statues and hundreds of petrified humans on Abyssal Giant Whale Soroa, then planned to enter the whale through its blowhole and kill it. He prepared a Bang Bang Fish Stunning Hammer and asked the statues for help with the dangerous plan.

• Linsey jumped out of the hole expecting enemies, but found the Guardian Stone Statues protecting the City of a Thousand Sails.
• The statues told Linsey they had been dragged into the Hallucination Dream and had gathered hundreds of petrified humans in a mountain hollow.
• Linsey searched the statues for Wala Wala, but none had seen her.
• Linsey explained that the island was Abyssal Giant Whale Soroa and that killing the whale could free the petrified humans.
• The statues debated entering through the whale’s poisonous mouth or its sensitive blowhole, which could wake it and endanger everyone on its back.
• Linsey volunteered to enter the blowhole and showed the statues his Bang Bang Fish Stunning Hammer, asking them for a small favor.

Linsey descended through the Abyss Whale’s blowhole, avoided its toxic waste gas, and followed its heartbeat to the heart. He hurled an explosive-laden spear into the whale and fled, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Linsey entered the Abyss Whale through its blowhole while the stone statues prepared to strike the beast with the Bang Bang Fish Stunning Hammer.
• Linsey used an Emergency Respirator to overcome mild carbon dioxide poisoning inside the whale.
• Linsey followed the whale’s steady heartbeat through its lungs until he reached the membrane nearest its heart.
• Linsey forged a Shining Flame Hell Spear, loaded it with explosives, and hurled it toward the heart.
• Linsey ran in the opposite direction without looking back.

Linsey killed the Abyss Whale by detonating explosives inside its body, freeing the petrified people and earning several hunting rewards. His Hunting Simulation Level rose to 7 as the chapter ended.

• Linsey's explosives damaged the Abyss Whale's heart, and the dying behemoth's final convulsions stirred the surrounding sea.
• The Abyss Whale died, and the petrified people regained their movement as Awakened from the City of a Thousand Sails calmed the sea and the whale's body.
• Linsey checked the Hunting Notes, collected a Giant Whale Heart, and climbed out through the blowhole after the blast had swept away his rope.
• Linsey claimed Whale Oil, the Legendary Creature Hunter title, and a Dragon Hunting Black Arrow after completing the Legendary Behemoth Kill Achievement.
• Linsey's Hunting Simulation Level increased from 6 to 7.

Linsey freed Wala Wala and Ala Song from the Abyss Whale’s petrification, but Wala Wala began fading as time stabilized. Before vanishing, she revealed that the events continued from Black Tide Island and that someone was using scripts to challenge the pinnacle of artistry.

• Linsey told Wala Wala and Ala Song that the Abyss Whale had petrified them and that he had dealt with it with help from others.
• As Linsey led them down the hill, Wala Wala began fading, and Linsey explained that she was a Time Remnant disappearing as the rules of time stabilized.
• Linsey took a photograph with Wala Wala and Ala Song as a keepsake while Wala Wala continued to fade.
• Wala Wala received a surge of memories and asked whether she was merely a false character in a script, then urged Linsey to run.
• Wala Wala revealed that the events continued from Black Tide Island and that a woman had created scripts to challenge the pinnacle of artistry before vanishing.