Chapter Summaries

Kroya stabilized the Frontline Base and led the group through the Yavana Sacred Mine, where they gathered rare treasures and briefly trapped angel sheep before the creatures escaped. Meanwhile, Bishop Luthes discovered that Mifein was still sustaining Harvest Wheatfield, threatening the Church of Light’s plan to sacrifice the city and summon a Divine Envoy.

• Kroya confirmed that the Frontline Base was secure for now, then continued guiding the group through the mine in his angel form.
• Kroya asked Aili and the others to collect earth amber crystal, and the group rested before continuing onward.
• Kroya trapped a flock of angel sheep in a platinum curtain, collected the luminary crystal shards they shed, and watched them escape through a spatial passage.
• Kroya led the group past more underground resources, and the knights began to wonder whether they were fleeing danger or gathering treasure.
• The Cardinal told Luthes to prepare the Silverwing knights for sacrifice and summon a Divine Envoy through the Frontline Base’s magic array.
• Luthes found that Mifein was still maintaining Harvest Wheatfield and angrily demanded an explanation from the figure ahead of him.

Kroya confronted the Harp Angel’s attack on the Yavana Sacred Mine by composing music to counter its divine movement and reach his endangered friends. His first two movements weakened the angel’s rosy light, and he unleashed Symphony as the clash continued.

• Bevforcelis failed to control her Guardian Aura, and her attempt to invoke Zugmoy through a statue went unanswered as she and Luthes continued deeper underground.
• Kroya brought Aili to Celesty, but the Harp Angel descended before Celesty could complete a magic array, cutting off the Sacred Spring Trade Guild’s connection.
• The Harp Angel’s music controlled Mifein and drove the Orpheus Oak Divine Vessel toward the chasm beneath the mine; the oak severed Kroya’s Friendship Pact and plunged onward, believing it would meet its master.
• Kroya asked the angel in the lake for help and was transported to the Yavana Sacred Mine, where he learned the Harp Angel’s movement and began playing against it.
• Kroya’s Clear Sky and Rainbow Fantasy movements contested the Harp Angel’s music, and he unleashed his long-prepared Symphony.

Kroya joined the Harp Angel in directing the earth’s divine power, restoring the Yavana Sacred Mine and guiding the divine envoy’s descent away from Mifein and into a newly created magic water lily. After the Harp Angel sent Kroya to make a wish to the Earth Mother Goddess, Icarus reported the music to Beo Riel, who ordered him to bring it back to awaken the family’s laurel tree.

• Kroya’s Symphony struck the Harp Angel, who offered him an imprint and invited him to help play the earth’s score, then transferred control of the mission to him.
• Kroya discovered that the Orpheus Oak’s Divine Vessel had disintegrated and its consciousness had entered the healing fissure, while Mifein used earth and light magic to spread healing wheat fields across the Yavana Sacred Mine.
• Kroya created and imprinted a purple water lily with a Sweet Dream Score, then worked with Mifein to channel the descending Deimos into the flower and put him to sleep.
• The Harp Angel confirmed that the earth had been healed and the envoy’s descent completed, then urged Kroya to make a wish to the Earth Mother Goddess; the Church of Light’s Cardinal and his companions feared the missing envoy would bring them punishment.
• Icarus told Beo Riel he had recorded part of Kroya’s sun music, and Beo Riel instructed him to return with it to see whether it could awaken the family’s laurel tree.

Kroya used the Earth Mother Goddess’s power to bring back the Orpheus Oak and discovered that the guardian knight had survived in the Underworld with his companions. After Kroya escaped the mine, two church saints claimed the Yavana Sacred Mine, punished Bevforcelis, and left Mifein to reckon with the Church’s willingness to sacrifice him.

• Kroya wished for the Orpheus Oak’s revival, and the Earth Mother Goddess’s power drew the guardian knight and a young Orpheus treant from the Underworld mist.
• The knight gave Kroya a sword hilt for his descendant, then returned to the Underworld to rejoin his companions.
• An angel warned Kroya that church followers were approaching, so he gathered Water Lily, the Orpheus Oak, wooden planks, and magic crystals before escaping to the Lake behind Reef Island.
• The saints of the Earth Mother Goddess Church and the Church of Light arrived at the Yavana Sacred Mine, and the Earth Mother Goddess’s saint punished Bevforcelis with the Tears of Semurio.
• The two saints declared the mine a training ground for their forces, while the Church of Light’s saint left Bevforcelis behind at the Frontline Base.
• Mifein confronted Shang Tina about the Church’s actions, then resigned as bishop and vowed to spread the Mother Goddess’s gospel in the Nolant Kingdom.

Kroya learned the Verdant Radiance Aria, which produced sunlight, rainbow grass, and a Rainbow Grass Angel, and the Orpheus Oak awakened with the Earth Mother Goddess’s blessing. After Mifein shared his grief over the Church’s betrayal and helped plan the Northern Frontier’s development, he agreed to settle on Reef Island and teach agriculture and environmental transformation.

• Kroya used the Verdant Radiance Aria to create sunlight and rainbow grass, which formed a Rainbow Grass Angel able to cast his spells wherever the grass grew.
• The Orpheus Oak awakened, explained that it had exhausted itself repairing the earth’s fissure, and received the Earth Mother Goddess’s divine power, restoring it to a living sapling.
• Kroya comforted the Orpheus Oak and reviewed his gains, then decided to stay on Reef Island while events outside unfolded.
• Mifein visited Kroya, grieved over Bevforcelis’s betrayal and the Church’s losses, and Kroya drank with him rather than trying to answer his doubts.
• Mifein helped Kroya refine plans for developing the Northern Frontier, accepted a permanent position teaching agriculture and environmental transformation on Reef Island, and celebrated with Kroya until they both passed out drunk.

A year after Kroya began reforming the Northern Frontier, his apprentices traveled along the newly completed highway to gather companions and birthday gifts for him. They reached the prosperous farmland where Mifein and Rhea worked, with plans to collect its harvest and return to Reef Island for Kroya’s birthday banquet.

• Jamie led the apprentices along Kroya’s new white-stone highway, inspecting the road and collecting apprentices and local specialties along the way.
• At Graystone Ridge, Lina showed Jamie’s group blooming Stone Lotuses, and villagers gave them a blue gemstone for Kroya in gratitude for their improved lives.
• The convoy gathered fish, pine nuts, and crystal watermelons at several territories before reaching the Nodule Bean Pasture, where Teacher Oak agreed to return for Kroya’s birthday.
• Teacher Oak presented Kroya with a robe woven by Elf Blood Silkworms and traveled with the apprentices in his Wooden Sports Car.
• The group crossed the Nodule Bean Pasture and reached Kroya’s orderly farms beside the Telai River, where they planned to meet Mifein and Rhea and collect crops for the birthday feast.

Mifein, Rhea, and the Orpheus Oak’s apprentices gathered an abundant harvest from Kroya’s fields, orchards, riverbed, and Wheat Valley Fief for his birthday banquet. As they approached the sea on their way to Reef Island, they spotted what looked like Kroya’s Pure White Sea Spirit Coconut trees dancing on the water.

• Mifein and Rhea praised the fertile wheat harvest until the Orpheus Oak credited Kroya’s soil improvements, then they set out to collect birthday banquet provisions.
• The group gathered enormous crops from the fields and orchard, where Crystal-Silk Spiders controlled the growing conditions and White Jade Spiders eagerly feasted on fruit.
• Beavers, pink finless porpoises, and the Telai River Consciousness contributed aquatic crops, fish, and water crystals as the cart traveled along the riverbed.
• The beasts of Wheat Valley Fief filled the carts with rice and prey, while a little snake kept a squirrel from leaving to attend Kroya’s banquet.
• As the group neared the sea on the way to Reef Island, they saw coconut trees apparently swaying and dancing on the water.

The apprentices, Mifein, and the Orpheus Oak returned to Reef Island after a year away, witnessing its growth and Kroya’s expanding magical work. They found Kroya finishing a rainbow grass dreamscape and inviting them to test it.

• The Pure White Sea Spirit Coconuts and Tredan summoned a Mist-Rainbow Dragon, then defeated and captured it with the help of Sunflower Sprites as a birthday gift for Kroya.
• Mifein noticed that the Sunflower Sprites’ faith was directed toward the sun, leaving him unsettled, while the Orpheus Oak warned him not to overthink Kroya’s unusual power.
• The travelers crossed Kroya’s expanded Air Coral Base and arrived at Reef Island, where Jamie and the other apprentices complained that they had not been assigned to help expand it.
• Rob told the group that Kroya was preparing a surprise connected to something from the Yavana Sacred Mine, and they followed the nature-filled path toward his Mage Tower.
• Kroya greeted them in the tower beside a lotus containing a dreamscape and invited them to try the nearly completed rainbow grass dreamscape.

Kroya showed Mifein, Orpheus Oak, Rhea, and the apprentices a True Dream where Golden Apples and magical experiences strengthened visitors’ mental power. He revealed that he planned to use the sleeping Divine Envoy’s power and the mental power of living beings to create a lasting Dream Kingdom.

• Kroya guided everyone through a water lily into a dream island, where Mifein ate a Golden Apple and felt his mental power recover and grow stronger.
• The apprentices and knights explored a magical hot spring whose silver mist improved their mental power, while the knights went off to spar.
• Mifein, Orpheus Oak, and Rhea discovered living elven-style treehouses, and Kroya explained that visitors could leave their mental power in the True Dream to gain memories and experience.
• Kroya sent Rhea to visit the finless porpoises, then led Mifein and Orpheus Oak to the sleeping Divine Envoy.
• Kroya declared that he would use the mental power of all living beings and the Divine Envoy’s strength to build a real Dream Kingdom and keep the Envoy asleep forever.

Kroya opened Golden Apple Paradise as a dream city, using visitors’ and pets’ experiences to make the dream more realistic and testing a plan to influence the Divine Envoy Deimos. As Aili entered the city for its free opening day, her burrowing mouse Little Yellow ran to a food shop offering treats and a treasure-hunt challenge.

• Kroya explained to Mifein and Orpheus Oak that he wanted undead memories to enrich the dream, and suggested Bevforcelis help purify them for the Church of Light’s credit.
• Kroya returned to his dream-server room, where the tower spirit reported that the golden apple dream array had improved in realism and weakened Deimos’s mental fluctuations.
• Kroya sent his gopherwood harp toward the astral crystal dome, hoping its symphony would channel divine power back into Deimos and make the Divine Envoy his subordinate.
• At the Yavana Sacred Mine Frontline Base, Mir announced Golden Apple Paradise’s free opening day, and visitors put on helmets that transported them into the dream city.
• Aili entered the city with Little Yellow, which raced to the Mousey Food Shop alongside other pets.
• The Burrowing Mouse chefs offered visitors food that could boost their pets’ mental power in exchange for trying a treasure hunt, and the crowd rushed into the burrow.

Kroya used the Golden Apple Dream’s treasure hunt to study how visitors’ fantasies could enrich the dream, then met Aili and learned that her family elder opposed the mistreatment of the Orpheus Oak. The Angel revealed that Kroya’s Meditation Method was the sun chapter of the Poem of the First Source, while hinting that a restraint prevented them from sharing more.

• Kroya learned from the Tower Spirit that the Treasure Cave’s visitors were contributing fantasy mental power and planned to test whether they could create magic tools using knowledge gained in the dream.
• The Tower Spirit detected an ancient oak phantom attached to Aili’s mental power, and Kroya went to speak with her.
• Aili showed Kroya Jade Flowers and acknowledged that the Orpheus Family’s influence was implicated in the Orpheus Oak’s suffering, then offered the goodwill of an elder opposed to Lady Beo Riel.
• Aili began revealing an object connected to an ancestor and the original owner’s grandfather, but the dream’s scenery rippled; Kroya sent her to Reef Island and she warned that dreams could only manifest things already existing in the world or memory.
• The Angel told Kroya that his Meditation Method was the sun chapter of the Poem of the First Source and that people could learn only one chapter; afterward, the Angel’s platinum ring grew unstable as they lamented being unable to speak freely.

Aili visited Kroya on behalf of the Orpheus Family, bringing gifts and asking for his help awakening their sealed Laurel Tree ancestor. After playing music together, she saw Kroya effortlessly assimilate her magic and left promising to return with more scores, while Kroya went back to prepare for the Birthday Banquet.

• Aili arrived on Reef Island and showed Kroya the Laurel Crown, whose power transformed into a harp but resisted his attempt to play it because a god's seal suppressed it.
• Aili explained the Laurel Tree ancestor's history, revealed that Ilyst had protected Kroya's secret Sun music, and asked him to help awaken the ancestor.
• Aili offered Kroya a planar Crystal Card, a powerful defensive musical score, and banyan seeds; Kroya said he would consider helping if the seal was undone.
• Aili invited Kroya to perform a score with her and unleashed powerful tornadoes over the sea, which Kroya's music transformed into harmless blue-green feathers that returned the fish to the water.
• Aili admitted defeat and promised to return with more scores, while Kroya left to inspect his gains and prepare for the Birthday Banquet.

Kroya investigated the Laurel Crown, learned from Master Mette that the Orpheus Family descended from Phoebus, and opened the dark plane they had gifted him. He entered the plane and encountered a Tombstone-Eater Tree and a mysterious black kitten.

• Kroya resonated the Laurel Crown with the Phoebus Robe, saw a sunlike light disrupted by an arrow, and heard a woman whisper, "Cupid."
• Kroya used his Sacred Spring Crystal Card to access the Orpheus Family's dark plane and paid forty bottles of wine to speak with Master Mette.
• Master Mette revealed she was Dionysus's daughter, described ivy hidden in a transforming desert, and explained how Cupid's lead arrow drove Daphne to become a Laurel Tree.
• Master Mette told Kroya that the Orpheus Family's ancestor, Orpheus, was Phoebus's son, then ended their meeting and urged him to find the ivy.
• Kroya resolved to contact the Gray Sand Lord, inscribed the dark plane's entrance runes, and stepped through its portal.
• Kroya found gravestones and Tombstone-Eater Trees in the darkness, repelled a terrifying force with Rainbow Colors magic, and was joined by a black kitten.

Kroya discovered how sunlight and Gloom Lantern Flowers produced a level-three magical material, then delegated further work to Kashu and his apprentices. On his birthday, Reef Island celebrated with spectacular fireworks, blessings from Tredan, the Orpheus Oak, and angels, and a feast that lasted a day and a night.

• Kroya met the black cat plane spirit and discovered that sunlight made Gloom Lantern Flowers consume nearby tombstone-like plants, leaving behind a colorful magical material that the cat swallowed before Golden Ear Flowers appeared.
• Kroya left the work to Kashu, Baron Andy's son, and watched as the apprentices planted Sun Grass, built accommodations, and laid out conduits to light the Gloom Lantern Flowers efficiently.
• Kroya began his birthday celebration on Reef Island with fireworks and Starlight Blessing Scrolls that showered the islanders with beneficial magic.
• Tredan gave the islanders the Blue Sea Blessing, and the Orpheus Oak granted them protection from wild beasts and a double harvest within Kroya's Northern Frontier territory.
• Eight angel copies bestowed blessings on the islanders, and the guests presented Kroya with birthday gifts.
• Kroya opened the banquet, and the islanders, elves, and merfolk feasted with him for a day and a night.

Kroya began an infrastructure project in the unstable Gray Sand Desert, modifying evil-sea purple duckweed to support buildings and eventually purify Leviathan’s mana. After Jamie and the other apprentices built a village on floating-moon alloy bridges and platforms, Kroya sent them to continue the work in the desert.

• Kroya accepted the Gray Sand Lord’s offer of resource extraction rights in exchange for improving Gray Sand City’s infrastructure and studied the hazards of the desert.
• Kroya simulated the desert’s quicksand and floods, and Jamie tested the dangers before Kroya pulled him out.
• Kroya grew evil-sea purple duckweed across the sand and modified its roots to drain mana, regenerate, and adapt to the hostile environment.
• Jamie and the apprentices used the duckweed as a foundation for roads, houses, bridges, and platforms made from floating-moon alloy.
• Half a month later, Kroya shared a meal with the apprentices and sent them through a teleportation array to continue building in the Gray Sand Desert.

Jamie and the apprentices arrived in Gray Sand City to begin building shops and surveying a route to a nearby Oasis, but discovered the desert’s magic and shifting terrain made their plans difficult. As the daily flood swept across the desert at sunrise, Jamie remained confident they could find a way to build roads and bridges.

• Jamie presented Kroya’s gift to the Gray Sand Lord and explained the apprentices’ construction plans, but Gray Sand sent them to survey the desert before revising them.
• Nilanet showed Jamie and the apprentices their building site and gave them Scales Pendants required to leave Gray Sand City.
• Jamie led a surveying team into the desert, where they found residents digging up Gray Sand Root and began testing the terrain with Rat Golems, Crystal-Eyed Birds, and Evil-Sea Purple Duckweed.
• The apprentices’ devices revealed hidden creatures, shifting dunes, and magic power too complex for the plants to adapt to, so Jamie ordered them to continue collecting data.
• At sunrise, Nilanet shielded the apprentices as a towering flood carrying magical beasts swept across the desert and struck Gray Sand City’s protective barrier.
• Jamie declared that they would still build the roads and bridges after the flood suggested a possible approach.

Jamie bought unfamiliar magical beasts and a Blue Water Lily in Gray Sand City, then worked with Agate to build a houseboat powered by Evil-Sea Purple Duckweed. Their successful trial carried them through the flood to a nearby settlement, showing that the floods could become a route between cities.

• After the flood vanished, Jamie decided to build a vessel that could use the floods instead of relying on bridges and roads.
• Jamie toured Gray Sand City's market with Nilanet and bought magical beasts to bring back to Reef Island.
• Jamie bought Agate's Blue Water Lily after promising to help him leave the city during the day.
• Over ten days, Jamie and Agate built a houseboat using Evil-Sea Purple Duckweed, Floating Dandelions, and floating-moon alloy.
• Jamie and Agate tested the boat as the flood arrived, and it withstood the impact and traveled through the current toward the nearest settlement.
• After about an hour, the boat reached the settlement, confirming that it could cross the flood safely.

Jamie presented his floating houseboat network plan for the Gray Sand Desert, and Kroya trusted him to carry it out while urging him to use his power to protect others. As Kroya watched a competition, he discovered a rare friendship imprint linking Sean and Robert and reviewed the Orpheus Oak’s banyan factory, which was producing valuable honey for a possible trade with the Elves.

• Jamie showed Kroya a plan for connected houseboats that could form passageways in normal conditions and float during floods, and Kroya gave him authority to carry out the project in the Gray Sand Desert.
• Jamie asked whether Kroya’s abolition of slavery would cause trouble, and Kroya explained that his strength and political standing let him act as he wished.
• Kroya told Jamie to use his power to keep others from suffering as he had, and Jamie thanked his teacher before leaving the dreamscape.
• Kroya spotted a mental resonance imprint connecting Sean and his Flame-Tailed Dog, Robert, and decided Sean deserved a reward and an invitation to Reef Island.
• The Orpheus Oak showed Kroya a banyan factory that produced evening-glow honey crystals, and they anticipated completing the harvest and opening trade negotiations with the Elves in a month.

Aili brought Melox to Reef Island to negotiate an elven trade contract, where the discovery of Kroya’s naturally cultivated tulips and spirit-infused honey shifted the bargaining power. The elves and Reef Island signed a two-thousand-year agreement, while the Orpheus Oak turned his attention to the negotiations with the Gray Sand Lord.

• Aili dragged the nervous Melox into the reception hall, where Ryan served them honey black tea that Melox recognized as magically rich.
• Melox visited the Banyan Factory and used his Lotus-Leaf Rain-and-Dew Tool to nourish the Scarlet Tulips as he examined them.
• Oak explained that Kroya had cultivated the tulips without magic arrays, and Melox confirmed that the banyan leaves naturally created their balanced magical environment.
• The Orpheus Oak revealed a Dewdrop of Spirit, prompting Aili to recognize the Dark Plane’s special materials and agree to trade elven goods for spirit-infused honey.
• Melox, Aili, and the Orpheus Oak finalized a two-thousand-year contract exchanging Moonwell blueprints and Moonlight Moss seeds for monthly batches of honey.
• Ryan resolved to ask Kroya for permission to conduct business elsewhere, while the Orpheus Oak wondered how Mifein’s negotiations with the Gray Sand Lord were going.

Mifein and the Gray Sand Lord inspected Jamie’s flood-ready bridges and houseboats, then signed a contract for two more routes in exchange for mineral locations. Jamie proposed expanding the project and freeing slaves, while Mifein arranged a vacation for the apprentices before they returned to work.

• The Gray Sand Lord tested the bridge with a Leviathan Fish, and Mifein and the apprentices inspected its strength and the houseboat’s facilities.
• A flood submerged the roadway, but the bridges rose to the surface and stabilized on ice, impressing the Gray Sand Lord with their usefulness.
• The Gray Sand Lord showed Mifein a map of mineral veins and signed a contract exchanging their locations for two bridge-and-houseboat routes.
• Jamie proposed rebuilding Gray Sand City as a mobile fortress, but the Gray Sand Lord deferred the idea and agreed to let Jamie use slaves for construction.
• The Gray Sand Lord warned Jamie to understand why slavery persisted, and Mifein told the apprentices that Kroya had arranged a paid vacation on Reef Island.