Recaps

Iver witnessed the Mind Plague driving the world into chaos and encountered a frightened Winged Ones girl who called herself Inanna. After recognizing the voice as a narrator that shaped people’s actions, he concluded that they had to kill the author.

• Iver saw the Mind Plague trigger a sudden apocalypse on August 1, 1902, as Transcendents and gods attacked everything around them.
• A frightened Winged Ones girl resembling Inanna clung to Iver, and he realized she might be Amber before she took the Golden Apple.
• The girl begged Iver not to become like the frenzied people, and he comforted her while recognizing the narrator’s influence over his thoughts.
• Iver explained to the larger Feathered Serpent that the voice rationalized actions like a novel’s narrator and concluded that they had to kill the author.

Serpent Father revealed that opening a new Source River required a Pillar God’s sacrifice and sent Iver back through time to seek a future for the doomed world. As Serpent Father shattered the Veil of Spacetime, Iver was pulled into the past with his Angel Shard transformed into a Golden Apple.

• Iver rejected the claim that Ai Shiping’s forbidden research made him responsible for the world’s destruction, insisting that pursuing freedom and truth was not an error.
• Feathered Serpent confirmed that Iver was ready to open the Ninth Source River and explained that creating a new Source River often required a Pillar God’s sacrifice.
• Serpent Father told Iver to return to the past, find Zhuānxū, and become his student, warning that he himself would become an emotionless remnant.
• Serpent Father crashed into the sky to pierce the Veil of Spacetime, and his body exploded as Iver and Inanna were thrown apart.
• A black hole pulled Iver through the barrier of spacetime, while Serpent Father’s Angel Shard landed in his hand and condensed into a Golden Apple.

Iver survived the Spacetime Turbulence and arrived in an ancient era, where he recovered by consuming the Serpent Father's Angel Shard. He reunited with Lucifer and fell asleep, while the Material Realm faced chaos as the sun failed to rise.

• The Golden Apple protected Iver from the Spacetime Turbulence, and he landed in a prehistoric meadow near the Tower to the Heavens.
• Iver ate the Golden Apple and absorbed the Serpent Father's Angel Shard, healing his wounds and restoring his human form and Angel status.
• Iver recognized Lucifer resting beneath a tree, greeted him with a wave, and lay down beside him.
• Iver fell asleep as the Promotion Ritual reached its eighth hour, and the sun failed to rise over the Material Realm.

As the Serpent Father fell while attempting to cross the Twilight Wall, Iver joined Lucifer in the Dream Realm and named a Light-Eating Larva Inanna. The amber-bound Inanna awakened as time stopped, greeted Iver as her teacher, and shattered her egg.

• The Serpent Father charged into the Twilight Wall, and his divine body shattered as people across the Material Realm panicked at the sunless sky.
• Sultana Isabel urged the people of Wanning to believe that Iver would become the Fourth Sun, and their hopes gathered in the Dream Realm.
• Iver became friends with Lucifer and met a white Light-Eating Larva in the Tower to the Heavens.
• Iver named the larva Inanna and realized she had not regained her memories of him.
• The Inanna sleeping in the Amber Forest stopped time, greeted Iver as her respected teacher, and broke out of the Amber Egg.

Amber traversed the frozen Dream Realm and reunited with the Ring Angel, learning that he was Ai Shiping and had sacrificed himself to protect Iver. She turned the Tenth Source River into stasis to weaken the Void, then vanished, leaving the Ring Angel with a wineglass that became an Angel Shard.

• Amber walked through the frozen Dream Realm, visited Iver in the Trial Grounds, and found the Ring Angel watching Iver’s dream.
• Amber understood that the Ring Angel was Ai Shiping, that Iver’s Host had been the Ring Angel, and that his trials and apparent cruelty had been meant to protect Iver from the Void.
• Amber shared the wine Ai Shiping had brewed with the Ring Angel, left the glass behind, and said she would pave the way for him.
• Amber shattered into golden fragments and reshaped the Tenth Source River into stasis instead of letting it become the River of the Void.
• When time resumed, the Ring Angel caught Amber’s glass as it fell and watched it become an Angel Shard.

Iver endured countless rewinds in the Promotion Ritual, eventually recalling who he was as the world fell to the void. He recovered his sealed powers and began to transcend the ritual’s collapsing world.

• Iver repeatedly reset the world, growing weary of endless reincarnation while continuing through memories of his past selves.
• He saw the Nine Pillar Gods and others sacrifice themselves across earlier loops, but even his most perfect efforts could not prevent the world’s destruction.
• As Iver lay dying in the ruined world, Inanna urged him to use the Ouroboros Ring, and he remembered that he was in the middle of the Promotion Ritual.
• Inanna tried to take Iver’s Ouroboros Ring and Pillar God position, but Iver stopped her and affirmed his love for his fate and the world.
• Six sealed powers returned to Iver, who rose as a Pillar God and faced the corrupted white dragon as the Promotion Ritual’s world began collapsing.

Iver completed his final Promotion Ritual by inheriting Ai Shiping’s memories and accumulated miracles, then received the power to open a new path. The system confirmed his transformation and left him able to become either the Dawn Angel or the Miracle Angel.

• Iver shattered the ritual’s sky, and Ai Shiping’s recovered memories reshaped the barren ground into a field of glowing lilacs.
• The Hourglass, Odin, the Candle Holder, the Lord of Scales and Feathers, the Winter Maiden, and Hai Na appeared to support Iver during his Promotion Ritual.
• Constant Self sacrificed herself, turning the moon into a brief source of pure light that purified the void before the moon shattered.
• The Lord of Scales and Feathers explained that Constant Self’s power of miracles had been preserved in a cup, and Iver drank it.
• The system revived and completed Iver’s tasks, then granted him the rainbow trait Angel Will—Proof of Dawn and Miracles, allowing him to choose the Dawn Angel or Miracle Angel path.

After Amber’s fall ended the preservation arts, Grunewald’s lich existence began to collapse, but he reached the Sixth Level and destroyed intruders in the Spirit Tower. He tried to become the Ring Angel through a sacrificial ritual, and as the ritual began, he remembered his son, the Vendome lineage, and Iver’s radiance.

• Amber’s fall caused the preservation arts to fail, freezing time to end in the Spirit Tower and its intruders to regain their powers.
• Grunewald appeared as a Sixth Level lich, killed the intruders with his spells, and watched his son’s preserved pomegranate wither into powder.
• Grunewald opened the Spirit Tower’s ritual array and asked whether his decaying body could become the greatest sacrifice and vessel of the Ring Angel.
• Grunewald recalled Iver’s willingness to become an Angel and his wish to shine like the sun, then admitted his jealousy of the young man’s radiance.
• Grunewald remembered how his erased son’s legacy became the Vendome surname and entered the purple sacrificial circle, adding his jealousy to the ritual.

The Ring Angel descended into the Material Realm and began using the Endless Knot to destroy the world by accelerating time and transforming the sky and earth into a purple-black vortex. After only one day, his destruction halted when a white light appeared at his fingertip, revealing what he identified as a painting.

• The Ring Angel emerged above the Spirit Tower as the Ouroboros Ring shattered and transformed into a purple infinity symbol.
• The Ring Angel spread his power across the world and declared, “Let everything return to nothingness.”
• The sky and earth dissolved into a growing vortex as the Ring Angel accelerated time toward the world's destruction over eight days.
• After one day, the time acceleration abruptly stopped at the edge of the vortex's meaninglessness.
• The Ring Angel saw a white light at his fingertip and recognized the object within it as a painting.

Iver used a painter’s final work, created with light and mixed with the power of miracles, to weaken the Whisper of the Void and restore the world with a new sun. The Ring Angel attacked him with the Four-Colored Element leaders, while Iver recognized that the Void’s weakness had finally been exposed.

• The Whisper of the Void discovered the Extremely Pale Painting in the Void and realized it carried powers connected to the Sacred Number of miracles.
• The Ring Angel destroyed the painting, releasing the light hidden within it and staining the Void with the miracle it could neither control nor erase.
• Iver appeared as an Angel and explained that the painting’s light was a poison to the Void, not a trap he had deliberately devised.
• Iver performed the miracle "Let There Be Light," sending a torrent of radiance through the black hole to restore the world and create a new sun.
• The Ring Angel summoned and corrupted the Four-Colored Element leaders, then attacked Iver with its black hole and elemental wings.
• Iver remained calm as the attack began, realizing that he and his companions had exposed the Void’s weakness and its health bar.

Iver used Lia’s power to fight Ring Angel and the Four Element Kings, discovering that Ring Angel’s elemental immunity could be overcome with Lost Paradise. He left Ring Angel surrounded by petrified clones as Lost Paradise’s remaining attacks descended.

• Iver used Nuclear Fusion Furnace and Guiding Flame Stream to attack Ring Angel, but the flames could not hurt it.
• Iver killed the Kings of Wind, Water, and Earth, then realized that Ring Angel resisted elemental attacks because it controlled the four elements.
• Iver cast Lost Paradise, and Ring Angel created numerous clones while trying to evade the attack and strike Iver directly.
• Iver summoned Inanna, whose End of Civilization petrified Ring Angel and its clones and reduced their resistance.
• Lost Paradise destroyed the petrified clones, then its remaining attacks descended on Ring Angel.

Iver and Inanna fought the Ring Angel as its infinite power and multiplying attacks overwhelmed their defenses, so Iver used curses, chains, and the Angel’s own avatars to restrain it. After the Ring Angel ambushed Iver and lost its head to Withered Silence, it revealed that its headless body was the true vessel of the Whisper of the Void.

• The Ring Angel broke free of Iver’s Lost Paradise barrage and attacked him and Inanna with Ouroboros Rings and a Lightning Spear, while multiple avatars prepared further strikes.
• Iver used Light of Civilization’s Continuation to reinforce Inanna’s Preservation Art, froze four Ring Angel avatars with Star Ice, and attacked the original with Withered Silence.
• Iver summoned a Shadow of Corruption with 80% of the Ring Angel’s power, then weakened and bound the Angel with curses and Great Sin chains.
• Iver summoned Aleister, who used Holy Blood Baptism to animate four fallen Ring Angel avatars and transferred control of them to Iver.
• The Ring Angel stabbed Iver from a portal, but Iver’s fatal wound healed when the Nuclear Fusion Furnace’s thirty seconds ended, and he severed the Angel’s head with Withered Silence.
• The headless Ring Angel severed Iver’s left arm and mocked the power of miracles before its laughter revealed that its body was the true vessel of the Whisper of the Void.

Iver faced the unleashed Whisper of the Void, learned how the Twilight Kind’s civilization had destroyed itself, and resisted its attempt to make him abandon the world. After escaping a memory that nearly erased his purpose, he wounded the Void and created a new sun, declaring that he would illuminate the land.

• Iver recognized the headless Void as resembling the Great Abyss he had defeated before, and resolved to honor the Ring Angel’s plan.
• The Void described how its civilization’s dead had reignited a war that wiped out nearly everyone, while Iver summoned allies and refused to answer its questions.
• The Void shattered Iver’s weapons, overwhelmed Don Quixote, and used his past death and arrival in this world to tempt him into giving up.
• The Void sent Iver into a childhood memory, but Iver remembered his mission, left his family with Don Quixote, and returned to battle.
• Iver unleashed the Shadow Cloak, forty-nine cannons, Ring Angel clones, and Hellerchein to grievously wound the Void.
• Iver summoned Lia and used a miracle to create a sun, whose light spread through reflections across the world as he declared that he would illuminate the land.

Iver defeated the void’s manifestation and learned that the Ring Angel was also the Twilight Kind Ouroboros Ring, whose endless reincarnation could destroy the world. Instead of killing him, Iver used a miracle to bind him and the void together as the Great Sin of Nothingness, promising their return as Infinite Light, then began reforging heaven and earth.

• Iver’s Light Illuminating All Beings Realm destroyed the void clinging to the Ring Angel, who revealed that the void could return as long as meaninglessness persisted.
• The Ring Angel revealed that he was the Twilight Kind Ouroboros Ring, capable of destroying the world through eternal reincarnation, and asked Iver to erase him completely.
• Iver transformed into his six-winged form and overwhelmed the Ring Angel with Lost Paradise, but stopped the attacks before they killed him.
• Iver offered the Ring Angel a chance to erase the void and reunite with the one he loved, using amber liquor and the final Tarot Cards, the Sage and the Hermit, to bind their fates.
• Iver turned the Ring Angel into the Great Sin Card of Nothingness and swore that he and the void would perish together and return as Infinite Light.
• The Book of Law was completed, and Iver began a miracle to reforge heaven and earth and all creation.

The author announced a three-day break and outlined Volume Three, the final volume, before reflecting on Volume Two’s story, writing process, and shortcomings. The author planned to begin updates on the eighteenth and adjust the next volume toward adventure, collection, and strengthening.

• The author announced a three-day rest and said Volume Three would begin on the eighteenth and conclude the book, with Iver traveling to several regions and Sherlock and Edward returning.
• The author explained that Volume Two exceeded its planned length because the Theocracy and Antimony arcs ran long, and identified separation and reunification as its narrative core.
• The author described how Iver’s repeated self-severance and reconstruction led to Aleister’s self-sacrifice, which restored Iver and allowed him to create Aleister as a new life.
• The author said reader feedback showed that the Amber Style conflicted with mystery-solving, so Volume Three would emphasize adventure, collection, and strengthening while reducing mysteries and difficult matches.
• The author thanked readers for their feedback and support, shared a reading list, and closed by hoping to meet readers again after the break.

The author thanked readers for their generous rewards and described the book’s success, personal finances, and demanding writing schedule. After explaining that intensive updates were worsening their health, the author planned to return to two updates a day and recover before adjusting the posting time.

• The author thanked Warm Sun Bro for a Hundred Alliance and other gifts, and Ze Ze and other readers for years of financial support.
• The author reported the book’s subscriptions, readership, and writing achievements, while recalling earlier financial hardship and support from patrons.
• The author said that the book’s success made taking time off feel costly, and that health concerns had delayed getting a checkup.
• The author described worsening low blood sugar and declining stamina during three-a-day updates, then announced a return to two updates a day after the final day of the event.
• The author planned to rest and shift the update time back the following day, then shared recent reading, shows, and gaming habits.

The author reflected on finishing Volume One of Shepherd's Secret Covenant, discussed its performance and the lessons learned while writing it, and announced a three-day break before Volume Two began updating on the ninth. The author ended by sharing a reading list and wishing readers happiness.

• The author announced that 8,500 words had been updated and that Volume Two would begin updating at noon on the ninth after a three-day break.
• The author reported that Volume One had ended after 442 chapters and 1.43 million words, with average subscriptions above 22,000.
• The author described how impatience and rushed pacing had affected earlier books, and said Shepherd's Secret Covenant benefited from a more relaxed narrative pace.
• The author explained that the Glass Staircase served as the volume's narrative core, with Iver breaking Avalon's unreasonable rules and traditions.
• The author outlined plans to get vaccinated, visit family, rest, and write Volume Two's opening outline, then shared a reading list and wished readers happiness.

Eleven years after the world’s salvation, Iver reunited with his family as the Ouroboros Ring prepared to ascend as a Pillar God. When Aleister chose the new Path of Healing, Iver celebrated her dream of bringing happiness to everyone and invited the family to watch the ceremony.

• Isabel and Aleister left their reading to join the gathering for the Pillar God’s ascension ceremony.
• Yulia and Edward discussed choosing a path for Edward’s children, and Sherlock asked Aleister which path she wanted to take.
• Aleister declared that she wanted to become a Brave and follow the heroic path Iver had walked.
• Iver appeared with James, Lily, and Jacob, then told Aleister that a hero’s purpose was to make a world that no longer needed heroes.
• Aleister chose the Path of Healing and vowed to end suffering, while Iver encouraged her ambition and compared her journey to the Fool’s journey.
• Iver invited everyone to celebrate the Ouroboros Ring’s ascension and Aleister’s new journey.