Recaps

Iver and Arsene crossed the Dream Realm to find Sherlock, then entered Hypatia’s workshop and recovered her daughter’s doll and other treasures. After returning, they helped Lily stop an attack on Zula and learned they needed to reach Duke Vendôme’s Estate urgently.

• Iver met Scathach in the Shadow Land, agreed to help her against the Ring Angel, and learned that he could choose which Angel would descend next.
• Iver and Arsene traveled to Mirror Hall by telling Moon Deer Arnold an embarrassing story, then searched its shifting artworks for Sherlock.
• Iver and Arsene saw through Jester Angel’s disguises and reunited with Sherlock, who received the Crimson Puppet Mask and accepted it as the Riddle Mask.
• Iver, Arsene, and Sherlock reached Hypatia’s workshop through Serpent Vortex, broke its door with Arsene’s Blade of Separation of All Things, and found five elf dolls and valuable artifacts.
• The Lord of Scales and Feathers told Iver to bring all five flowers, especially Crocus, and revealed that Sherlock’s ancestor Hermes had helped Hypatia create the Fool’s Eulogy Grimoire.
• While Iver was away, Children of the Moon attacked Zula, but Lily killed them and learned Earl Rogers had ordered them to take the key and kill Mia’s body.
• Iver returned with Arsene, told Lily to protect Zula and the dolls, and hurried toward Duke Vendôme’s Estate because Sherlock’s soul had returned to his body.

Iver and Sherlock traced the Void Box’s manipulation of Iris to a Child of the Moon Earl while the Ice Heart Duke prepared for another rebellion. Iver and Aleister attacked the suspected estates, and Iver confronted Gaston de Orleans as he fled in bat form.

• Iver reunited with Annie and healed her and Argon, then learned that the Vendome family suffered from Cold Disease because of an ancestral taboo.
• Sherlock explained how the Swan King’s rebellion had been staged and revealed that the king’s soul remained in Iris, leading Iver to suspect the Child of the Moon had shaped the uprising.
• Iver connected the Swan King’s preserved head in the Void Box to a ritual that diverted Iris’s dreams and could make the king a Pillar God of the Path of Void.
• Iver and Sherlock investigated the Child of the Moon Earls, traced suspicious blood purchases to the Earl of Orleans, and concluded that the Void Box was distorting their reasoning.
• Iver and Aleister attacked Hallick’s castle, where Iver used frozen holy-blood threads to kill charging Children of the Moon and uncover the defenders’ trap.
• Iver and Aleister found humans being tortured to make King’s Blood Wine, so Aleister drained the Children of the Moon in the building and went to meet Iver at the Earl of Orleans’s estate.
• Iver, Sherlock, and Arsene entered the estate, where Gaston de Orleans transformed into bats and fled after Iver introduced himself as the former Eternal Pope.

Iver defeated the Earl of Orleans, freed the Blood Slaves, and learned more about the plans to shape Isabel and others into replacements for the Pillar Gods. After Iver and Isabel married, her illusions carried the wedding guests to the Theocracy, where they heard that the Fairy Queen and the Queen of the Shadow Land had sent gifts.

• Iver and Sherlock regained their memories, and Iver used Arsene’s opera to reveal their enemies before Sherlock destroyed them with Chain Lightning.
• Iver killed the Earl of Orleans with Withered Silence and illusion-enhanced Star Ice, then healed the Blood Slaves and restored their memories through Brewing Moon Dew.
• Iver confronted the Swan King, who erased himself and the Void Box from the Material Realm, leaving behind the book “Swan Knight” and an Angel Shard.
• Iver gave the Angel Shard to Aleister for Hypatia to make Isabel a gift, then brought Isabel to Glass Island to meet Annie de Vendome, his mother.
• Iver and Sherlock uncovered the plans to shape Isabel, Sherlock, Yulia, and others into replacements for Pillar Gods, while Isabel told Iver that Yunus had been taken to a Fairy Banquet.
• Iver and Isabel married and rode Pansy above the Theocracy’s warships as Isabel’s illusions showed their shared memories and feelings to the wedding guests.
• Isabel’s illusions carried the guests to a forest on the Theocracy’s third layer, where fairies and animals gathered and the guests heard that the Fairy Queen and the Queen of the Shadow Land had sent gifts.

Iver and Isabel’s wedding united Avalon and Stibium under Yulia’s new Herasul Empire, while Iver uncovered old secrets about Hermes, the Ring Angel, and a dangerous Golden Sword. The arc ended with Hypatia releasing the Sun Knight’s spirit so Iver could transfer it into Clarent.

• Iver and Isabel married before the gods, and Isabel introduced Yulia as Herasul’s rightful heir, leading Noel to unite Stibium and the Black Eagle Territory with Avalon under Yulia’s rule.
• Yulia founded the New Herasul Empire, declared equality and sweeping constitutional reforms, and faced opposition from the Iris Children of the Moon as the new government took shape.
• Iver and Noel entered the treasury beneath the Triumphal Palace and found a supernatural stone slab beneath layers of gold, while tests linked the Sea Burial Grimoire to the Paths of Taboo and Twilight.
• Iver summoned Viennes and Landon, opened the Bayard Family vault, and recovered Clarent, whose protective powers could strengthen his allies and defend Hellerchein.
• Hypatia revealed Hermes’s history, resurrected Croesus, and identified the Red Hilt Sword as the broken Golden Sword that Hermes had given Heracles.
• Iver learned that the Ring Angel had hidden unsealed memories in his mind, but rejected the Red Hilt Sword because its power could alter his identity.
• Hypatia destroyed the Red Hilt Sword’s shell and released its sealed spirit, and Iver asked her to transfer it into Clarent as a guardian for his Great Sin Beasts.