Recaps

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.

Lord of Scales and Feathers explained how Supreme Heaven had been reborn as Bear Angel, while the Silver Crowned Dragon defeated him in both realms. Hourglass remained neutral toward Iver’s conflict with Ring Angel, and Iver learned that Wisdom and Supreme Heaven had once been two halves of the same person; Supreme Heaven then began to shatter after losing to the Silver Crowned Dragon.

• Lord of Scales and Feathers explained that Supreme Heaven’s divine blood had nourished a bear cub, allowing Supreme Heaven’s will to revive and the cub to become Bear Angel.
• The Silver Crowned Dragon stabbed Supreme Heaven through the heart and defeated him, while the Red Bear’s fall in the Material Realm caused disasters and sorrow as Supreme Heaven died.
• Hourglass praised Iver’s balance and declared that he would remain neutral in Iver’s conflict with Ring Angel.
• Lord of Scales and Feathers revealed that Supreme Heaven had once followed the Equilibrium Path and that Wisdom and Supreme Heaven were the same person, split into Mimir and Atlas.
• The Silver Crowned Dragon told Supreme Heaven that he had won, but Supreme Heaven claimed he had not lost to him alone and promised to wait at Twilight of the End as his body shattered into an Angel’s fragment.

After the Pillar Gods defeated Bear Angel, they discussed who would claim his remains and whether Iver deserved a reward for his role in the battle. Silver Crowned Dragon revealed that Isabel’s prayer had brought him to protect Iver, and Hourglass proposed acting as a middleman for a deal, displaying a notably changed demeanor.

• Silver Crowned Dragon shattered Bear Angel’s remaining form, and Lord of Scales and Feathers collected an Angel Shard and the essence of Supreme Heaven.
• Lord of Scales and Feathers and Hourglass declined the remaining essence, while Iver hoped to receive it; Hourglass warned that Iver could not yet digest it.
• Lord of Scales and Feathers explained that Iver had survived several near-deaths thanks to the Pillar Gods’ interventions, and Silver Crowned Dragon agreed that Iver deserved a reward.
• Silver Crowned Dragon told Iver that Isabel had prayed for him to protect Iver, and he thanked Lord of Scales and Feathers for making the encounter possible.
• Hourglass offered to mediate a deal, and Iver noticed that the old man’s sleeves had reversed and his manner had turned gentler.

The Lord of Scales and Feathers arranged for the Hourglass to restore the Great Sin Scholar and offered Iver a one-use way to separate his conflicting Paths. Iver chose the codename “Stars” for the Warrior Profession’s worldwide announcement, then received three upgraded traits before awakening.

• The Hourglass agreed to give the Great Sin Scholar the item and offered Iver the Gap of Dualities, which could split him into two people for up to five months to prevent his Paths from conflicting.
• The Lord of Scales and Feathers asked Iver to choose a codename for the worldwide announcement that the Warrior Profession had returned, and Iver chose “Stars.”
• Iver saw visions of the battles against the giants and Supreme Heaven, then received 7,800 promotion points and earned first place with a perfect promotion.
• The Lord of Scales and Feathers appeared to Iver in a golden-red palace, but the floor collapsed as Iver reached for his hand and plunged into the abyss.
• Iver awakened as the Lord of Scales and Feathers, the Silver Crowned Dragon, and the Hourglass each upgraded one of his traits.

During his Promotion Ritual, Iver weighed three golden Path Traits and rejected the Silver Crowned Dragon’s combat-focused gift and the Crown of Command. He chose Yin-Yang Harmonization, recognizing that he wanted to become an active planner in future battles rather than a protected pawn.

• Iver examined three golden Path Traits and eliminated the Lord of Scales and Feathers’ trait that empowered warriors under his authority.
• He compared the Crown of Command’s ability to make him a combatant with Yin-Yang Harmonization’s potential to link his mana pools and strengthen his Great Sin abilities.
• Iver considered how Yin-Yang Harmonization could help him capture more great beasts before facing the Fallen Angel.
• Iver realized he resented being kept away from the battle against the Bear Angel and wanted to take part in future plans and dangers.
• Iver chose Yin-Yang Harmonization after recognizing that the choice reflected his own ambitions and pace.

Iver completed his advancement and became a Great Sin Beast, gaining new abilities while feeling emotionally hollow. After recovering, he received the reward for Lord of Scales and Feathers' trial: a one-time rebirth trait called Adaptation—Essence of Atlas.

• Iver chose the golden star and saw a black-haired version of himself transform into the Beast of Arrogance, Moriarty, before their two arrays joined them together.
• Iver received the Great Sin: Moriarty Tarot Card and discovered that he could transform into the Beast of Arrogance when the other six Great Sin Beasts were on cooldown.
• Iver completed his advancement, gaining Yin-Yang Harmonization, Great Sin Ritual, and Phantom Demon Contract, while briefly feeling cold, detached, and emotionally empty.
• Sherlock asked whether Iver was all right and suggested eating or checking on Lily; Iver focused on a new prompt instead.
• Iver learned that he had completed Lord of Scales and Feathers' trial and gained Adaptation—Essence of Atlas, which would revive him once in a stronger form if he died.

After completing his promotion ritual, Iver received Resurrection Armor from Lord of Scales and Feathers and feared the gift foretold danger ahead. Revived with Sherlock’s Vitality Potion, he went to check on Lily as she performed a ritual to separate her Ovum Moon Grimoire.

• Iver interpreted Lord of Scales and Feathers’s Resurrection Armor as a warning that he might face death, though he reassured himself that the god intended for him to survive.
• Sherlock supported the weakened Iver and gave him a Vitality Potion made by Yulia, restoring his strength.
• Iver took a makeup mirror from Sherlock for his mirror-related ability and asked Sherlock to clean up the ritual site.
• Sherlock admitted that Iver’s promotion had inspired him to study harder, and Iver encouraged him.
• Iver went upstairs to check on Lily as she completed the separation ritual for her Ovum Moon Grimoire.

Iver found Lily in the middle of the Ovum of Lightlessness ritual, giving birth to a rapidly growing, sinister child. He fed Lily his blood and used the Shepherding Method to help the child emerge, and the newborn witch named herself Selene and called herself his little lamb, leaving Iver unsure whether the ritual had gone wrong.

• Iver entered the bathroom unseen and discovered Lily bleeding in the Blood Sea as a child drained her life force during birth.
• Iver realized Lily could not safely be healed and offered his blood after recognizing the Shadow Demon-like longing in her eyes.
• Iver cut his hand, recited the Shepherd's secret words, and activated the Shepherding Method.
• The child forced her way out of Lily, drank Iver's blood, and grew rapidly while Lily's eyes returned to gray.
• The girl introduced herself as Selene and called herself Iver's little lamb, while Lily remained silent.

Lily and Selene regained consciousness after their birth ritual, but discovered they could control separate bodies rather than fully separating their personalities. Iver used the Twin Mirrors to reveal that Selene resembled Fourteen, and Selene declared Fourteen her mother.

• Iver checked Lily and found her body healthy, but she remained unresponsive while Selene clung to him and bit his arm.
• Iver cut the umbilical cord connecting Lily and Selene, and both girls regained awareness as their bodies convulsed.
• Lily and Selene explained that they could each control one body, though Selene's consciousness had been suppressed during the ritual.
• Iver used the Twin Mirrors to compare Selene with Fourteen and discovered that the two girls looked strikingly similar.
• Selene hugged Fourteen and insisted that Fourteen was her mother because Selene's body had been born from her flesh and blood.

Iver realized the ritual had created Selene as a second body still linked to Lily, then began training Selene to obey him after she bit and drank his blood. A fragment of a Shepherd’s memory surfaced as he called himself Selene’s Shepherd, and he left the sisters to wash while he considered the ritual’s implications.

• Iver concluded that Lily and Selene shared control of two connected bodies and told them to practice testing the limits of their influence over each other.
• Selene bit Iver’s palm and drew blood, so Iver sent Lily back to her own body and reprimanded Selene.
• Iver struck Selene’s palm and warned her not to take what he had not willingly offered, then promised to give her blood if she behaved.
• Iver recalled a brief vision of a Shepherd taming a Punishment Demon and wondered whether the memory belonged to the Shepherd.
• Iver instructed Lily to help manage Selene and told Selene to listen to Lily and protect her, then waited outside while they washed.

Hai Na watched a Lizardman warrior defeat a flaming demon god with fluid halberd combos before Iver, appearing as a white-robed figure called the Star, revealed the lost history of the warrior profession. The vision left Hai Na overlooking a brutal battle between Lizardmen and a winged race.

• Hai Na awoke in a blood-soaked thicket and watched a Lizardman wield the Punishment Demon's halberd to attack a giant engulfed in flames.
• Hai Na recognized the Lizardman's chained techniques as Combos and saw him slay the giant demon god.
• Iver's voice asked Hai Na whether she wished to become a warrior, and a white-robed figure identified itself as the Star.
• The Star explained that warriors once followed the Pillar God Supreme Heaven and described the profession's origins and purpose.
• Hai Na found herself on a cliff overlooking a deadly battle between Lizardmen and a winged race.