The Lord of Scales and Feathers' words couldn't really be called a "spoiler."
All Iver had to do was obtain the Flame Angel's Angel Shard from Grey, and he would immediately realize—
If Little Butterfly couldn't use the Geometric Angel's shard, the Great Sage's shard, or the Flame Angel's shard, then Little Butterfly was an exception.
This was a situation that could not possibly exist for any other Phantom Demon—if she couldn't use an Angel Shard from her own race, one of the same element, one from the same Path, or even one of the same origin, then there had to be something wrong.
And the reason Iver had obtained Illusory Blood was clearly that he possessed some element of the Path of Beauty within him. Yet he genuinely lacked the Path of Beauty's adaptability. Even Master Agnes believed that Iver possessed talent in the Path of Beauty, while the Pope believed that Iver was the offspring of the Butterfly Angel... All of that was actually hinting that another half of the Butterfly Angel's shard existed within Iver's soul.
Now that he thought about it carefully, there had actually been signs long ago...
The Paradox Flame Butterfly awakening the Power of Conflict was one such omen.
The Power of Conflict was the core of the sun's power—the "core of the sun" that the Horus had long dreamed of. Once one possessed this ability, they only needed a "container" to accomplish the feat of creating an artificial sun. The sun was, of course, an Angel-level existence; likewise, an Angel Shard needed a container to exercise its authority.
Then what was the oldest artificial sun?
—It was the Great Sage's Eye, Mithra.
In other words, even if Iver went through untold hardships to obtain the Butterfly Angel's Angel Shard, he might still