Chapter Summaries

Iver spoke with Arthur after the battle, and Arthur criticized the Lord of Scales and Feathers for giving him no time to recover between trials. Arthur revealed that he and the Lord had fought together against Supreme Heaven, then suggested that Iver’s own way of fighting the powerful was to call in reinforcements.

• Iver told Arthur that less than ten minutes had passed since their parting, leaving him no time to consider Arthur’s question about what he could offer and sacrifice.
• Arthur condemned the Lord of Scales and Feathers’ trial for testing survival and Iver’s demon rather than Iver’s own abilities.
• The Lord of Scales and Feathers reset Iver’s Phantom Demon Card uses and mana, and Arthur approved of the change.
• Iver asked whether Arthur and the Lord of Scales and Feathers knew each other, and Arthur said they had fought together to overthrow Supreme Heaven.
• Arthur explained that the weak had their own way of fighting, and Iver realized he meant calling in reinforcements.

Arthur recounted how he defeated Supreme Heaven in the War of Heavenly Punishment and explained the sacrifices and events that led to his succession as a Pillar God. As time resumed, Iver met a younger Merlin and Lancelot I, and Arthur introduced him as a summoned Heroic Spirit named Sir Hellerchein.

• Arthur told Iver that six Angels participated in the War of Heavenly Punishment and described how he and Supreme Heaven repeatedly killed each other before Arthur won through strength.
• Arthur explained that Supreme Heaven lost because he had strayed from the Path of Strength, and named Antaeus and the Gray Angel as the two Angels who fell in the war.
• Arthur revealed that the twilight meant time had stopped and that the Amber Eye was watching Iver.
• Merlin explained that the Magic Cauldron was made through a ritual involving suffering souls, gems, and Supreme Heaven's divine power, and that genuine cauldrons could revive the dead.
• Arthur silenced Merlin and introduced Iver as Sir Hellerchein, a Heroic Spirit he had summoned to fight alongside them.

Iver met the young Merlin and Round Table Knights in the Silver Crowned Dragon's simulation, where they recognized him as Sir Hellerchein. After Merlin lost a sword duel to Mordred, he explained why Hellerchein was his childhood idol.

• Iver realized Arthur's companions were young figures from the Silver Crowned Dragon's simulation, and Merlin respectfully introduced himself as a knight.
• Mordred challenged Merlin to a sword duel, mocked his knightly claim, and defeated him in four rounds without using his Path.
• Gawain stopped Mordred from bullying Merlin and reminded the young knights to honor King Arthur and Mother.
• Merlin told the knights that Hellerchein had once traveled among human nations as the White Knight and stopped a planned massacre in the Parthian Ancient Kingdom.
• Merlin praised Hellerchein's actions and explained that many people named Ibn Hellerchein honored him, revealing that Hellerchein had been Merlin's idol.

Iver learned that Hellerchein had been betrayed by humans, captured, and executed by the giants, while his followers’ remains became the source of Raging Souls. Merlin proposed using Iver as the medium for a Wild Hunt ritual, and the knights prepared to face the Supreme Heaven’s apostle, Caligula.

• Gawain explained that Arthur’s Rebel Knights sought to overthrow the Giant Kingdom and establish a human nation on Avalon.
• Iver asked Merlin how Hellerchein had died, and Merlin revealed that he had been defeated by Wildfire Utgarda-Loki.
• Arthur told Iver that a human village had poisoned and betrayed Hellerchein, after which the giants tortured and executed him and his followers.
• Merlin promised to help the heroes’ remains find peace and asked Iver to serve as the medium for a Wild Hunt ritual, which Iver accepted.
• Merlin revealed that the knights were about to fight the Supreme Heaven’s apostle, the Tyrant Caligula, and Iver welcomed the challenge.

Merlin performed the Wild Hunt ritual to transform Hellerchein’s resentful soul, using Iver as the medium. Iver emerged as a powerful Wild Hunt King with Hellerchein’s combat techniques and new abilities linked to the Amber Egg.

• Merlin explained that Hellerchein had become a powerful Raging Soul and proposed transforming him into part of the Wild Hunt.
• Arthur and Iver agreed to Merlin’s plan, and the knights helped him build a ritual array of sixteen stones.
• Merlin invoked the Great Old One and began the ritual as a violent storm surrounded Iver.
• Iver saw Hellerchein’s memories, clasped his hand, and received Hellerchein’s riding and lance techniques along with four ancient martial techniques.
• Iver transformed into a colossal Wild Hunt King and unleashed thunder and lightning.
• Iver saw new abilities appear on his panel and recognized them as contact with the Amber Egg through the Path of Twilight.

Iver received Amber’s Wild Hunt inheritance during the Promotion Ritual and chose the Water Attribute mana option. After absorbing Hellerchein’s power and martial knowledge, he realized he could fight as a max-level Wild Hunt King rather than merely relying on the Silver Crowned Dragon.

• Amber contacted Iver during the ritual, granting him the Wild Hunt inheritance and advancing him to the First Level.
• Iver chose the Water Attribute mana reward, gaining the Clear Container trait.
• Iver considered the inheritance’s limits and questioned why Amber, rather than the Wise Philosopher, had bestowed it.
• Iver absorbed Hellerchein’s power and felt the intense suppression that Greater Phantom Demons endured in the Material Realm.
• Iver recognized that he now had the strength of a max-level, Sixth-Level Wild Hunt King and decided to test his abilities in the coming fight.

Iver realized that the Lord of Scales and Feathers was using his mission to lure the Bear Angel into a final confrontation. As a Blood Moon and storm descended, Iver prepared for battle as Hellerchein.

• Iver deduced that killing the Tyrant would enrage the Bear Angel and draw him into the Promotion Ritual’s final confrontation with the Silver Crowned Dragon.
• Merlin asked whether Hellerchein was all right, and Iver said he had never felt better.
• Dark Aura spread across the camp, extinguishing its lights and covering the ground and weapons with frost.
• Arthur and Hellerchein announced that they were preparing for battle as the moon turned blood-red.
• Iver summoned Fafna’s Dragonbone lance, mounted the transformed pegasus, and watched the Blood Moon and storm descend.

Iver used the Wild Hunt King’s power to charge through the falling Flesh Moon and shatter it, revealing the Tyrant Caligula. After Caligula blocked Iver’s Dragonflame Strike, Iver launched another attack and drove his lightning-wreathed lance into Caligula’s chest.

• As the enormous Blood Moon fell toward the knights’ camp, Iver calmed himself and mounted the Ghost Pegasus.
• Iver used Necromantic Charge to race through the Flesh Moon, splitting it with his lance and causing it to explode.
• Caligula emerged from the destroyed Flesh Moon with his left arm severed and hovering apart from his body.
• Iver struck Caligula with Dragonflame Strike, but Caligula used a shield formed from his severed arm to block the flames.
• Iver charged again through the curtain of fire and stabbed his lightning-covered lance into Caligula’s chest.

Iver and the Round Table Knights battled the apostle Tyrant Caligula, whose Scarlet Armor and Path of Love abilities let him split into multiple attackers. Arthur negated Caligula’s Word of Power, and Iver’s fourth charge pierced the giant hound with the Punishment Demon’s halberd.

• Iver’s spear could not pierce Caligula’s Scarlet Armor, but he knocked the giant down before Caligula hurled him away and blasted him with Scarlet Light Orbs.
• The Round Table Knights joined the fight and briefly held Caligula at bay with coordinated attacks, healing, and support.
• Caligula split his limbs into two scarlet hounds and the Winged Sword, then attacked the knights with lasers that Guinevere and Merlin countered.
• Merlin’s barrier began to crack under the Winged Sword’s strike, but Iver charged through Caligula’s Eye Shield and forced him to stop firing.
• Caligula froze the knights and slowed Iver with his Word of Power, but Arthur spoke “Ineffective,” dispelling the control.
• Lancelot severed a hound’s head as Gawain and Merlin fought the remaining attackers, while Iver’s fourth charge pierced the giant bear-like hound with a thunderous halberd.

Iver used the Thunder Strike Halberd’s echo effect to destroy Caligula’s Eye Shield and kill the giant hound, then helped the Round Table Knights defeat the Winged Sword. He seized and subdued the sword, revealing it as Caligula’s Right Arm, a powerful weapon.

• Iver activated the Thunder Strike Halberd’s echo effect and killed the giant hound with a lightning strike.
• Iver pierced and destroyed Caligula’s Eye Shield, then withdrew when Caligula’s armor proved too difficult to penetrate and his spells began targeting him.
• With the hounds and Eye Shield defeated, the Round Table Knights gained the advantage against the Winged Sword.
• Gawain and Lancelot coordinated their attacks, severing the Winged Sword’s wings and bringing it down.
• Iver pulled the Winged Sword into his hand and subdued it with the Thunder Strike Halberd’s lightning.
• The weapon’s attributes appeared, identifying it as Caligula’s Right Arm.

Iver used Caligula’s sword to attack him, but Supreme Heaven broke through the Hourglass’s barrier and struck at Iver. The Silver Crowned Dragon rescued Iver and helped him destroy Caligula, after which Iver returned to the night sky decades earlier holding a massive deep-red greatsword.

• Iver realized Caligula’s sword could disrupt weapons made from the Fallen Angel’s apostles and returned to retrieve it.
• Caligula called on Supreme Heaven, who appeared through a rift and shattered the Hourglass’s barrier.
• Supreme Heaven attacked Iver with deep-red lightning, but the Silver Crowned Dragon blocked the strike, rescued Iver, and bit Caligula.
• The Silver Crowned Dragon froze and tossed Caligula’s headless body into the air, where Iver struck it with Caligula’s greatsword and lightning.
• Iver returned to the night sky decades earlier beside Oligan, transformed with Death Qi and a Ghost Pegasus, holding a massive deep-red greatsword.

Hellerchein told Oligan that they had died after being betrayed and becoming man-eating evil spirits, but insisted that their future was not fixed. He led Oligan toward the three concentration points, determined to change the outcome of the war.

• Hellerchein revealed that he had returned from a future in which he and his followers died, and Oligan accepted that he was truly Hellerchein.
• Hellerchein described how giants boiled their bones into soup and fed it to the people they had wanted to protect, while they became undead spirits haunting Beheading Valley.
• Oligan asked whether they should seek funeral rites or destroy their souls, but Hellerchein said he intended to win this time.
• Hellerchein asked Oligan to guide him to the chest, tenderloin, and ribs concentration points, and Oligan agreed.
• Hellerchein declared that no future was unchangeable and vowed never to give up before his own death.

Iver and his allies slaughtered the giants at three gathering points near the Royal City, drawing the attention and fury of its defenders. When ten elite Skinless Ones charged him, Iver killed the first one with a rapid series of sword strikes.

• Iver sent Oligan and the Night-Demon through the three gathering points to kill every giant there.
• Iver realized the gathering points lay near Glass Island, and the giants raised a barrier over the Royal City to block the cursed blood rain.
• A spiked red eyeball found Iver and fixed a beam of light on him and his companions.
• Ten Skinless Ones rushed out of the Royal City, and Oligan recognized the elite giants as dangerous Fifth Level warriors fueled by pain and rage.
• Iver turned incorporeal to pass through a boulder thrown at him, then struck the giant who had hurled it eight times and cleaved its head apart.

Hellerchein slaughtered the giants' Skinless Ones, leaving the Giant Priests in disarray. El Nino Arctos arrived wielding Wounding Branch, Laevatein, and declared himself the new Grand Guardian.

• Hellerchein raced across the battlefield and killed a second Skinless One with a lightning-fast strike.
• The Giant Priests panicked and called for the Patriarch, Wounding Branch, and their Guardian as Hellerchein continued overwhelming the giants.
• Three senior Giant Priests realized that the Patriarch no longer possessed Wounding Branch and that the current Guardian was the Giant King.
• El Nino Arctos appeared in dark-red armor carrying Wounding Branch, Laevatein, and announced that he would protect everyone as the new Grand Guardian.

Elnino’s past revealed how the Supreme Heaven’s cruelty shaped him into a cunning Giant King who rejected giant traditions. As Elnino entered the battlefield, he summoned the Supreme Heaven, convinced the god would protect the Giant Kingdom where Wildfire could not.

• Elnino’s human teacher taught him human language and principles, but his father killed the teacher, Elnino’s human lover, and their newborn child, forcing Elnino to eat them.
• After becoming Giant King, Elnino learned that giants descended from the Supreme Heaven and that royal giants’ bloodline was a curse rather than a divine mandate to rule.
• Elnino concluded that giant traditions were built on deception and embraced human cunning alongside giant brutality, earning the Supreme Heaven’s favor and a promise to make him an apostle.
• Elnino took the Wounding Branch from the Wildfire Guardian without the Supreme Heaven’s rebuke.
• When Elnino joined the battlefield, the sky split open as he summoned the Supreme Heaven, believing the god would protect the kingdom even if Wildfire fell.

Giant King Elnino used the Wounding Branch to overwhelm the Night Demon and bombard the area where he suspected Hellerchein was hiding. As he reflected on why he had seized the Branch, Elnino concluded that his growing power proved he was Supreme Heaven’s favored child and a genius of the Path of Strength.

• Elnino unleashed the Wounding Branch’s Following Swords at Hellerchein, who vanished with Oligan using Necromantic Charge and Shadow Cloak.
• Elnino’s blades struck the Night Demon, breaking her defenses, though she was surprised the attack was weaker than she expected.
• Elnino feigned pursuit of the Night Demon while watching for Hellerchein, then sent thousands of Following Swords toward a figure appearing on the Royal City’s Clock Tower.
• Elnino’s indiscriminate bombardment devastated the surrounding area and killed giants caught in its path.
• Elnino reflected on taking the Wounding Branch from Utgarda-Loki and reasoned that schemes, authority, and collective strength were all forms of power.
• Elnino believed his rapid advancement proved he was favored by Supreme Heaven and a genius of the Path of Strength.

Elnino unleashed his Following Swords against the enemy forces, but a curse and a surprise assault left him badly wounded. As Hellerchein and the Night Demon kept him occupied, Iver advanced toward the royal court’s statue of Supreme Heaven.

• Elnino used his Following Swords to annihilate enemies in the city and suppress the Night Demon, demonstrating his different approach to the Path of Strength.
• A curse afflicted Elnino, and a black spear emerged from the ruins to pierce his abdomen.
• A Lizardman warrior killed Elnino’s three priests while Hellerchein attacked him and slashed his back.
• The Night Demon intensified her Implosion Curse as Elnino formed a wall of Following Swords to guard against Hellerchein.
• Iver carried Caligula’s Right Arm toward the statue of Supreme Heaven worshiped by the royal court.

Iver broke through the Royal City’s barrier and stormed the Royal Court, where he destroyed Supreme Heaven’s statue and called the deity out to fight. The blood rain stopped and a scorching presence descended, leaving Iver facing Supreme Heaven, whom he also named Bear Angel.

• Iver shattered the barrier, exposing the giants in the streets to the Night Demon’s blood rain.
• Iver charged through the Royal Court, killing the old giant who tried to speak to him and cutting down attendants in his path.
• Iver struck Supreme Heaven’s statue, causing its stone sphere to fall and smash the statue apart.
• The blood rain stopped, the night sky brightened, and a scorching aura descended.
• Iver raised his sword toward the sky and challenged Supreme Heaven, calling him Bear Angel.

Iver’s Promotion Ritual showed him Supreme Heaven’s attack on the Royal City merging with Arthur’s final assault, revealing the wars against the Pillar Gods. Hourglass and the Lord of Scales and Feathers explained that the Silver Crowned Dragon was witnessing Supreme Heaven’s seventh death, a battle that was not Iver’s to fight.

• Supreme Heaven’s descending finger crushed the Royal City into a glassy basin, and Iver realized the attack was weaker than the one he had faced as Hellerchein.
• Arthur transformed into a silver-white dragon and struck Supreme Heaven’s image, shattering it into ripples.
• Iver saw visions of warriors battling the Pillar Gods across overlapping spaces and returned to his original form as the Lord of Scales and Feathers placed a hand on his shoulder.
• Hourglass appeared and told Iver that the scars could not be seven and that the coming battle was not his.
• The Lord of Scales and Feathers explained that the Bear Angel was Supreme Heaven’s successor and that the Silver Crowned Dragon intended to witness Supreme Heaven’s seventh death.

Iver watched the Silver Crowned Dragon fight Supreme Heaven and learned how sacred numbers shaped the two deities’ powers and deaths. The Lord of Scales and Feathers explained that Supreme Heaven’s six deaths aligned him with survival, leaving him a chance to live.

• Iver watched the Silver Crowned Dragon wound Supreme Heaven and learned the combatants could hear spectators nearby.
• The Lord of Scales and Feathers explained that Supreme Heaven had once been a mortal who killed the Sky Eating Beast Nibiru through traps, poison, and hunting.
• Supreme Heaven gained the King of the Earth’s power by wearing the beast’s hide, which remained his mark of victory.
• The Hourglass explained that six represented adaptation and survival, seven strength and violence, and eight transcendence and replacement.
• Iver concluded that Supreme Heaven had not died completely because his six deaths had granted him exceptional vitality.