Recaps

Iver’s fleet approached Leipzig and opened fire on a vast demon host, but Greater Demons counterattacked and devastated the ships. As the Night Demon’s curse disrupted the demons, the Grand Guardian led the Griffins in a charge.

• Yulia spotted the demons gathering above Leipzig, and Iver confirmed that Fallen Angel had noticed their actions.
• Saint Ruan shielded the fleet while Iver enhanced the warships, which fired a volley that pierced the demon clouds.
• Greater Demons teleported into the sky and unleashed chaotic domains, destroying more than a dozen ships within seconds.
• The Night Demon’s curse disrupted the demons and turned the sky into a rainstorm of blood.
• The Grand Guardian commanded the charge and led silver-armored Griffins into the Greater Demons.

The demons repeatedly harassed the fleet with coordinated teleportation attacks, inflicting heavy losses and exposing the limits of the Theocracy’s defenses. Iver assigned the Night Demon and Lily to help guard the fleet, but a demonic trap then exploded among the mages at the front.

• The Grand Guardian and the griffins battled demons as meteors and living flames devastated ships and turned the dead into attacking puppets.
• The demons retreated under the mages’ lightning spells, then reappeared to concentrate their attacks on the Iris Legion and sink troop transports.
• The Iris Soldiers’ morale collapsed, and the ships scattered until the Griffin Legion returned and forced the demons to teleport away.
• Iver concluded that the demons were using disciplined tactics and kept the Holy Griffin Knight Order near the fleet to guard against further attacks.
• The Night Demon volunteered to stay with Lily and part of the Griffin Legion to protect the fleet, and Iver agreed.
• Mutagenic Flesh Bombs planted among civilians exploded when the mages reached them, shocking Iver.

After civilians transformed into bombs injured the allied forces, Iver and Saint Ruan healed the survivors and accelerated the march toward the Spirit Tower. Iver realized his allies’ judgment and behavior had been altered, and suspected griffins were immune because they were Winged Ones.

• The Children of the Moon raised barriers when frightened civilians approached, limiting casualties when the civilians exploded, and Iver and Saint Ruan healed the wounded.
• Iver ordered the forces to maintain formation and advance toward the Mage Tower while Saint Ruan accelerated their movement with divine arts.
• Philip questioned why the army had not used the existing Iris border fortress or transported the Spirit Tower with Black Aspect, prompting Iver to realize he had chosen the sea route because it matched the original plot.
• Iver noticed that the Grand Guardian and Saint Ruan were unusually accepting of his decisions, while the Dream Demon’s curse was helping protect the rear forces from demon attacks.
• Iver grew suspicious that his companions’ minds had been altered and wondered whether Philip was unaffected because griffins were Winged Ones.

Iver realized the Fallen Angel had corrupted the minds of the allied forces and reexamined his assumptions about the enemy’s plans. As the military situation in St. Sarnath worsened, Anna Kingsford appeared and offered to help him win.

• Iver spread his six wings, clearing his mind and recognizing that the Fallen Angel had degraded everyone’s thoughts through mental corruption.
• Iver reconsidered his earlier decisions and suspected that the Red Hilt Sword had influenced his aggression and that the Fallen Angel had already anticipated his plans.
• Iver concluded that the Fallen Angel was actively changing his fate and that charging ahead or waiting both risked disaster.
• Anna Kingsford emerged from a Demon Portal, and Iver stopped the Grand Guardian and Saint Ruan from attacking her.
• Anna said she had come to win Iver victory, called him her master, and revealed the name Anna Moriarty.

Iver confronted Anna about her role in the Fallen Angel’s corruption ritual and learned the Ring Angel had sent her with an offer to borrow its power. He rejected the offer’s assurances and ordered Anna killed.

• Anna admitted she was the Ring Angel’s apostle and had helped arrange the corruption ritual and the events involving the Red Hilt Sword.
• The Grand Guardian grew furious at Anna, while the Eternal Pope remained lost in thought under the ritual’s influence.
• Anna relayed the Ring Angel’s message that Iver could call on its power without a contract, ritual, or apparent price.
• Iver asked whether Anna would obey him if he ordered her to die, and her stunned reaction made him laugh.
• Iver abruptly ordered Anna killed.

Iver saw through how the Ring Angel and the Fallen Angel were using him, then devised a plan to turn their schemes against each other with Isabel posing as a perfect version of him. He accepted that he was a key to their plans but vowed that he would ultimately become the Beast Lord's Key.

• The Grand Guardian attacked Anna on Iver's command, and Iver trapped her with a counterfeit version of himself before Saint Ruan prepared to seal her in the Amber Forest.
• Iver realized that the Ring Angel relied on predicting his choices while the Fallen Angel's influence made him act unlike himself, revealing a conflict between their plans.
• Iver concluded that Isabel could use the Puppet Mask Grimoire to impersonate a perfect Iver, drawing the Ring Angel's attention while he moved unseen against it.
• Iver recalled James and the Fallen Angel calling him a key, then vowed that anyone who tried to use him would pay the price.
• Iver declared that if he was a key, he would ultimately be the Beast Lord's Key.

After a dispute over a newly converted Mage Tower escalated into violence, Iver crushed the unrest and Isabel used his masked identity to restore order across the allied forces. With Antimony stabilized, Iver set out to find and kill James, both to disrupt Anna’s plans and avenge Yulia.

• Demons attacked the mages converting the Spirit Tower, and the surviving mages and Moon Children blamed each other for the delayed rescue.
• The Mage Tower entered alert mode, injuring soldiers outside, while divisions among the Moon Children and mages grew into a fight.
• Iver summoned the Paradox Flame Butterfly, executed the first mage and Moon Child to break discipline, and put Ligeia and the Grand Guardian in charge of a purge.
• Isabel remotely played Iver through a puppet mask while the Grand Guardian and Ligeia carried the role between camps, winning the soldiers’ trust and stabilizing Antimony.
• Iver used the Lord of Scales and Feathers’ Advanced Divine Arts to learn James’s true location, then headed into the wilderness to kill him and avenge Yulia.

Iver found Old James and Oswald at Theresa Abbey, where they fought the maddened Supervisor Cornelius. After James and Oswald brought Cornelius close to petrification, Iver revealed himself and asked Oswald about his level in the Dedication Path.

• Iver learned that Old James was in Antimony and followed his concealed astrological location to Theresa Abbey.
• Iver discovered Oswald fighting the Bloodmane Beast, the maddened Supervisor Cornelius, while Old James supported him with spells.
• Old James restrained Cornelius with Fivefold Gravity and struck him with a simulated Scorching Ray as Oswald attacked.
• Cornelius began turning into a pale stone statue, and Iver dispelled his invisibility and asked Oswald about his level in the Dedication Path.

Iver confronted Oswald and James Moriarty, discovering that Oswald’s Dedication Path power had weakened. James sent Oswald away, and Iver confirmed that he had come to fight him for the right to become the new Moriarty.

• Iver appeared before Oswald and James, revealing that he had not been where Oswald expected him to be.
• James explained that Oswald had lost some Dedication Path power after using it on someone else, and Iver questioned why Oswald seemed ashamed.
• Iver considered how Oswald’s weakened power could threaten his position in the church and wondered what had happened during the past two months.
• James asked Oswald to leave and keep watch, saying the dispute belonged to the Moriartys.
• Iver agreed that he had come to kill James and claim the Moriarty name, while Oswald silently left them alone.

Old James explained why he had manipulated Iver and Yulia, then admitted that Iver had outmaneuvered his attempts to read the future. He began a spell that named Iver Moriarty and warned him not to trust the future he thought he knew.

• Old James said Oswald's reaction to learning about Yulia's fate had surprised him and admitted he had misjudged the consequences of his actions.
• Iver told Old James that the Ouroboros Ring Ritual was the Ring Angel's plan, not his own, and Old James accepted the answer.
• Old James explained that he manipulated people by cultivating their hardships and argued that Iver's maturity made him progress too slowly.
• Iver questioned Old James's motives for coming, and Old James confessed that he had followed Iver's trail to guide him toward a destination of his choosing.
• Old James acknowledged that Iver had surpassed his ability to predict the future, then cast a spell declaring, "Iver, from now on, you are Moriarty," and warned him not to trust what he thought he knew.

Iver and Hellerchein fought Old Moriarty, who hid behind convincing illusions and used powerful spells to restrain them. After Moriarty was cut down, he revealed that he had completed a spell to bring down a meteorite across a fifty-kilometer radius, forcing Iver to choose how to respond with nearby residents at risk.

• Iver blocked Old Moriarty's thunderbird with Star Ice, then summoned Hellerchein and the Wild Hunt to attack the hidden mage.
• Old Moriarty restrained Iver with immense gravity, but Iver used the Shadow Cloak to expose his doppelgangers and escape the spell.
• Iver realized Moriarty's indistinguishable illusions created a paradox that activated webs of lies, and ordered Hellerchein to keep destroying the battlefield to disrupt Moriarty's hiding places and spells.
• The Wild Hunt struck down the real Moriarty, who revealed that his prepared spell had summoned a gigantic meteorite aimed at an area fifty kilometers wide.
• Moriarty told Iver that nearby residential areas were in danger and challenged him to show what the right choice was.

Iver rejected Old Moriarty’s Necessary Evil and used the old man’s accumulated sin to grow a colossal golden oak, preparing to protect Xingti from the falling meteorite. With Anastasia’s barrier, he caught the shattered meteorite, though the chapter left the destruction’s aftermath unresolved.

• Iver summoned Treant Anastasia and animated an oak, then refused to let Old Moriarty die before extracting the old man’s accumulated evil.
• Iver’s Sin Thorns consumed and spread through Old Moriarty, while the oak grew enormously and his Sin Beast conversion reached 55 percent.
• Old Moriarty urged Iver to bear the Necessary Evil, but Iver declared he would not follow the same path as his father and promised not to run anymore.
• As the meteorite approached, Iver fueled the oak with devotion and used flaming Sin Thorns to pierce and break the meteorite apart.
• Anastasia raised a golden barrier that caught the meteorite’s shattered pieces as a fiery shockwave spread across the night sky.

The Fallen Angel sat in the corrupted Stibium palace and watched a Dream Demon show him the Pope stopping a meteorite. Confident that the allied forces would succumb to corruption, he planned to face them the next day and use Sprengel’s returned Brand of Jealousy to humiliate the Pope.

• The Fallen Angel summoned a Dream Demon and asked her to show him what had happened.
• The Dream Demon showed the Pope catching a meteorite with a barrier while sin thorns battered it apart.
• The Fallen Angel dismissed the allied forces as weak and decided to keep spreading corruption across Stibium instead of attacking them directly.
• The Fallen Angel learned that Sprengel’s Brand of Jealousy had returned to him, though her soul had been destroyed.
• The Fallen Angel said he would activate the Jealousy Brand on the Pope when the allied forces challenged him, hoping to turn him into a Night Demon.

While Iver remained missing, Isabel impersonated him to rally the exhausted soldiers as the Children of the Moon turned the battle against the demons. The Mist Angel offered repentant Children of the Moon a way to escape blood hunger, and the chapter ended with demonic reinforcements arriving as the sun reached its highest point.

• Isabel, disguised as Iver, praised the miracle at the giant tree and rallied the soldiers for battle.
• The Children of the Moon fought beside the human soldiers, earning their trust and causing some to question their blood-drinking ways.
• The Mist Angel spoke gently to the wavering Children of the Moon, granting them the ability to become mist and promising them a bloodless, ageless future if they repented and fought the demons.
• The newly converted Children of the Moon fought with renewed vigor, while the soldiers and mages pushed the demons back and advanced across the battlefield.
• The demons called for reinforcements, and swarms of flies arrived with plague when the sun reached its highest point.

A Sixth Level Fly Demon and a gigantic Greed Demon attacked the army, overwhelming its defenses with disease and enchanted treasure. Saint Ruan, Isabel, Mu, and the others resisted the Greed Demon's lure, but the heroes fell into a hallucination and turned their greedy attention toward Iver.

• A Fly Demon led a plague-bearing swarm that consumed the magic power in the air and resisted the Mage Tower's weather attacks.
• A gigantic Greed Demon teleported into the army's camp and scattered gold, causing the soldiers to abandon formation and fight over treasure.
• Saint Ruan learned from the Great Sage that the stranger was a Sixth Level Greed Demon and urged the group to attack its true body.
• The Greed Demon offered treasure to the heroes, and Isabel, Saint Ruan, and Mu resisted while the others fell into a deep hallucination.
• The Greed Demon threw treasures onto Iver, and Isabel saw the bewitched people turn toward her with greedy smiles.

Ligeia and the others discovered that the Sixth Level Greed Demon depended on an old woman connected to it by an umbilical cord, then severed the link and killed it. The group concluded that the Sixth Level Fly Demon might also rely on a host, leaving them with a possible way to defeat it.

• Ligeia broke the Greed Demon's illusion and awakened the controlled Grand Guardian, Insect Amber Master, Cardinal Siegfried, and Cardinal Galatea.
• The Grand Guardian identified the Greed Demon's right hand as the likely link to its true body, and Siegfried, the Grand Guardian, and Mu attacked it.
• Saint Ruan's prayer empowered their weapons, while Ligeia's command repeatedly freed them from the Greed Demon's control.
• The Grand Guardian smashed the Greed Demon's fist and exposed an old woman connected to it by a red umbilical cord.
• Ligeia transformed into a dragon and bit through the cord, causing the Greed Demon to shrink back to Fifth Level before Siegfried killed it.
• Ligeia concluded that the Sixth Level Fly Demon might also depend on a host that they could kill.

After the Greed Demon’s defeat, Ligeia’s group teleported to confront the Fly Demon and its plague, bringing Yulia into the battle. The Insect Amber Master froze the sky and immobilized the Fly Demons, leaving the fight poised to begin.

• Ligeia and Siegfried decided to attack the Fly Demon quickly, while the group discussed what to do if Iver could not join them.
• Ligeia ordered the Mage Tower to teleport Yulia to them, and Yulia promised she would fight and protect herself.
• Saint Ruan embraced Yulia and promised to protect her before Ligeia ordered everyone teleported to the Fly Demon’s territory.
• Saint Ruan unfolded the Purifying Fire domain to clear the surrounding filth, while Ligeia prepared the group to attack the distant Fly Demons.
• The Insect Amber Master cast his Preservation spell, turning the sky murky yellow and freezing the clouds and Fly Demons in place.

Yulia and the Hero Party wounded the Fly Demon through the Insect Amber Master's time stop, Galatea's mirror trick, and a series of illusions, prompting the Fallen Angel to destroy it and appear. He confronted Iver, whom he identified as the undying serpent and his immortal friend.

• The Insect Amber Master stopped time, allowing Yulia to summon the Paradox Flame Butterfly and burn through the Fly Demon swarm.
• Cardinal Galatea reflected the group above the Fly Demon, and Siegfried and Ligeia attacked while illusions distracted it and Fafna tore Levekuhn away.
• Yulia's flames consumed Levekuhn before the Fly Demon could reconnect with him, leaving the demon weakened and unable to save its host.
• The Fallen Angel crushed the Fly Demon, absorbed its Great Sin Imprint, and erased the remaining Fly Demons.
• The Fallen Angel appeared before the party, and Iver revealed himself atop the giant tree with an older appearance.
• The Fallen Angel called Iver the undying serpent and his immortal friend, expressing hatred and recalling another self.

The Fallen Angel revealed his history with the Ring Angel and explained why the Brave’s salvation had been kept secret, then turned the confrontation into a spectacle for the whole world. He seized Iver with the Great Sin Imprint while Iver’s allies attacked, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Saint Ruan concluded that Iver might be the Ring Angel’s Snake Tail, an avatar destined to be devoured by Ouroboros.
• The Fallen Angel recalled the Ring Angel’s stories of the Brave and explained that the Brave had wanted his salvation kept secret to prevent people from creating a god and crushing him with their expectations.
• The Fallen Angel announced that he would do the opposite and projected the confrontation across the skies of Star Antimony and the surrounding regions.
• The Fallen Angel seized Iver from afar and activated the Great Sin Imprint, causing six rings to appear around him and his body to begin mutating.
• Ligeia and the others attacked while Iver drew the Fallen Angel’s attention, but the Fallen Angel brushed off the Grand Guardian and blocked Insect Amber’s Petrification Ray.

Iver discovered that the Fallen Angel’s restraints drew power from the land, while the Fallen Angel sealed him and unleashed a devastating attack on the gathered fighters. Saint Ruan summoned two apostles to hold back the falling sun, and the chapter ended with the Fallen Angel crushing his mask and revealing a face nearly identical to Iver’s.

• Iver realized his white wings could absorb the Fallen Angel’s land-sourced dark mana, but the Great Sin Imprint and the Fallen Angel’s curse sphere kept him restrained.
• The Fallen Angel struck Siegfried with a devastating kick, but Saint Ruan healed him before he hit the ground.
• The Fallen Angel sealed Iver in a pulsing curse sphere and summoned a purple-black sun that fell toward the battlefield.
• Saint Ruan summoned the Heaven Rakshasa to brace the falling sun, then called Kastenning to shield it from the Fallen Angel’s spell.
• The Fallen Angel crushed his bull-head mask in anger, revealing a face nearly identical to Iver’s, with purple-black hair and eyes.

The Fallen Angel revealed a face identical to Iver’s, and Iver realized that the Fallen Angel contained a part of himself while he contained a part of Lucifer. After shedding his restraints and regaining his strongest form, the Fallen Angel attacked the gathered forces and left them struggling to withstand him.

• Iver recalled that the Shepherd had looked like him and understood that the Fallen Angel carried the part of himself the Ring Angel had failed to reclaim.
• The Fallen Angel shattered his living armor and rings, restored his former appearance and power, and taunted the assembled allies.
• The Fallen Angel struck Kastenning twice, breaking his shield and nearly destroying him before Saint Ruan recalled him to prevent his death in the Dream Realm.
• Heaven Rakshasa predicted the Fallen Angel’s third strike and countered with his halberd, but the punch shattered the weapon and gravely wounded him.
• Saint Ruan sent Heaven Rakshasa away, while the Fallen Angel steadied his injured arm and declared that his opponents’ strength was not enough.

The Fallen Angel overwhelmed the defenders and began casting the Tower to the Heavens’ ultimate spell, but Iver escaped his Curse Orb and unleashed Lost Paradise with Lucifer’s help. The chapter ended as Iver’s golden blades collided with the Fallen Angel’s purple-black spell across the sky.

• The Fallen Angel defeated the Grand Guardian and Philip, then battered Ligeia and attacked Worm Amber with a slab of earth.
• Mu shielded Worm Amber and Saint Ruan, deflecting the Fallen Angel’s attack and provoking him to cast the Tower to the Heavens’ ultimate spell.
• The Fallen Angel’s spell drained mana and stripped away spells, blessings, and protections across the battlefield.
• Iver used Shadow Cloak to escape the Curse Orb after his allies had bought him time to drain the Fallen Angel’s stored mana.
• Iver and the Fallen Angel each cast Lost Paradise, and their golden and purple blades collided in the sky.

Iver and the Fallen Angel clashed with Lost Paradise, the taboo spell capable of slaying gods, while Cardinal Galatea recognized its forgotten origin as the Ouroboros Ring. As the duel continued, Worm Amber and Saint Ruan revived the Grand Guardian, who emerged from his amber casing unharmed.

• The collision between Iver’s and the Fallen Angel’s Lost Paradise shattered the magical canopy and disrupted spells throughout Xing Antimony.
• Cardinal Galatea identified Lost Paradise as the Ouroboros Ring and recalled how Ouroboros and Lucifer had created it, and how Ouroboros had used it to slay a god and ascend.
• The Fallen Angel intercepted Iver’s attacks, while Iver refused to defend and forced him to choose between blocking every strike or risking mutual destruction.
• Worm Amber used his amber spirit fluid to form a wax-like casing around the Grand Guardian’s corpse, with Saint Ruan preparing to restore his vitality.
• The Grand Guardian tore open the casing, broke the wax covering his face, and emerged alive and unharmed.

Saint Ruan and the others rescued the badly mutated Ligeia while the battle against the Fallen Angel continued. After Lost Paradise weakened him, Siegfried and Hellerchein overwhelmed him, and Siegfried severed his left forearm.

• Philip carried the Grand Guardian into the forest and found Ligeia alive but grotesquely mutated after her interrupted moulting.
• At Saint Ruan’s direction, Siegfried and the Grand Guardian cut away Ligeia’s tentacles and twisted limbs, and Saint Ruan used an Illumination Spell to restore her body to a still-mutated form.
• Lost Paradise dispelled the halos and buffs of Iver and the Fallen Angel, allowing Cardinal Fafner to surprise the Fallen Angel with cyan-black flames before Great Sin Imprints bound her.
• Saint Ruan restored the group’s blessings, and Siegfried used fivefold speed to keep the weakened Fallen Angel from escaping or recovering.
• Hellerchein entered the Twilight Domain and pierced the Fallen Angel’s left shoulder with a Dragon Spear, while Siegfried struck at the same moment.
• Siegfried’s holy sword severed the Fallen Angel’s left forearm.

Iver and the others faced the Fallen Angel as he entered his final Corruption phase, where his aura could overwhelm even those who stood at a distance. As the first wave of corruption threatened to cloud Iver’s mind, Saint Ruan stepped forward to act.

• Hellerchein and Siegfried severed one of the Fallen Angel’s arms after his mana was drained, and the wounded Angel screamed as his power erupted.
• Iver ordered George to withdraw with Cardinal Fafner, Cardinal Galatea, and the Insect Amber Master; Galatea stayed behind, and Saint Ruan explained that the Fallen Angel’s Angel-law power was causing him to lose control.
• The Fallen Angel regenerated his arm as a demonic hand, transformed his eyes into black holes, and entered his final Corruption phase, floating beneath a growing black sun.
• Iver shielded the others from the spreading corruption aura, but its first wave flooded his mind with overwhelming dark impulses.
• Saint Ruan declared, “I will,” as Iver struggled against the corruption.