Recaps

Iver summoned Don Quixote, sought Constant Self’s view of the Blood Angel, and tracked Cain to the church cellar, where Dancing Skirt confronted her. Cain joined forces with Iver to defeat the Child of Void and died, but the Mist Angel restored her in a new body as the Children of the Moon lost their immortality and bloodlust; the story ended with Iver asking about Vortigern.

• Iver sealed the spirit within Clarent as a Great Sin card, summoning Don Quixote as the Holy Sword Wielder and resolving to seek Hecate’s counsel about the Blood Angel.
• Constant Self told Iver that Cain was an experiment and that she had abandoned her attempt to create a Perfect One, leaving Iver free to move against the Blood Angel.
• Iver and his companions found Dancing Skirt beneath the church, where she confronted the Blood Angel and revealed Cain had escaped her divine body.
• Dancing Skirt’s power brought forth the Child of Void, and Iver, the Blood Angel, and Don Quixote fought to stop its nothingness from consuming them.
• Arsene resisted becoming the Child of Void’s host, and Iver pierced the weakened entity after the Blood Angel fused it into herself.
• Iver used Lost Paradise to destroy the Child of Void and strip Cain of her Angel Shard, then prayed as Cain’s body shattered and the Children of the Moon lost their immortality and bloodlust.
• The Mist Angel restored Cain in a new body, and Cain remembered Iver as her big brother before the Mist Angel revealed that Vortigern had not fully descended into the Material Realm.

Iver confronted the consequences of the Angel descents, survived Thomas’s assassination attempt, and helped establish the Mist Demons and the Watchers in Iris. After learning that the Silver Crowned Dragon might be corrupted, he left Avalon for Parthia with Isabel and their companions.

• Iver awakened Aleister with the Blood Angel’s Shard and discovered her powers could preserve minds, while he and Sherlock considered how the Shard might support the Ring Angel’s plan.
• Thomas attacked Iver with Sin-Thorn arrows, but Iver survived, killed him, and learned Thomas had acted from resentment toward Hawkeye’s success without the Sirius family.
• Iver appointed Little Cain to lead the Mist Demons and proposed a neutral Mist City in Iris, while he and Sherlock debated the race’s risks and place alongside humanity.
• Sherlock linked the Source Rivers’ corruption to the Silver Crowned Dragon, and Iver agreed the dragon might be infected as he chose to address threats beyond Avalon.
• Iver confronted Pierre about Thomas’s assassination plot and ordered him to reform Hawkeye, protect its welfare homes, and lead its surviving assassins, who became known as the Watchers.
• Iver returned to Avalon with Sherlock and Isabel, then learned from Sine that Hassan had stolen the Fire Tetrahedron and might be in Parthia.
• Iver gave Sine a Water Shard to pursue the Fire Shard and set out for Parthia with Isabel, Sherlock, and their companions to secure water and establish diplomatic relations.

Iver uncovered Paradise City’s curse on Rock Cellar City, took the Benefactor’s power, and freed the city from petrification. He renamed it Dawn City and began building a refuge for Free People, ending the arc with Grandet Dead-Eye advising him on a major waterway project.

• Anar led Iver’s party to the Snake People Temple, where Jacob revealed that he had created Iver as the other half of an angel and warned him that Sixth-Level ritualists had advanced to Annihilation.
• Dong Ya told Iver that Generous Adil’s impossible demands had preceded a curse that petrified Rock Cellar City, and Iver cured her by absorbing the divine curse.
• Iver and his companions reached the city’s palace, found the ritual’s human-costly molar mural, and captured the ritualists who were sustaining the petrification.
• Viennes transformed the ritualists into demons, while Iver took Afuxin’s Benefactor contract and learned that he could use the Abyss Angel’s power to overturn Parthia’s water-based order.
• Iver set out to make slaves Free People, and Flame Fist Hassan rescued refugees from Slave Knights who had captured them on the road to Paradise City.
• Iver used Sin Thorns to dispel Rock Cellar City’s curse, and after Sherlock restored its water, Iver declared himself its Benefactor and renamed it the City of Dawn.
• Iver advertised contracts offering Free People status, education, and support, while residents and Afuxin’s former household began signing up and the Goblin Merchant Guild agreed to help build Dawn City’s water infrastructure.
• Grandet Dead-Eye reviewed Iver’s contract and said the guild could build the sewer’s main body in three days, then discussed the time and risks of widening the waterway.

Iver uncovered the Ring Angel’s plan to use Parthia’s war to eliminate the successors of the Path of Authority and secretly entered Paradise City to save its inhabitants. Hassan’s attack forced Adil to unleash the Amber Egg, which entered Iver’s eye after Amber destroyed Adil’s body.

• Grandet told Iver how he had supported Hassan’s rebellion after both had survived disfigurement and the loss of their families.
• Ruan Eternal warned Iver about the Ouroboros Ring Ritual, and Iver and Isabel connected Morgan’s approaching ascension to the Crowned Lord’s planned defeat.
• Iver revealed Lucifer’s six wings to Ero, accepted leadership of the Harpies, and learned that Hassan’s Red Hand Party destroyed oases and intended to summon the Abyss Angel.
• Iver and Sherlock deduced that the Ring Angel intended to eliminate the angels and potential successors of the Path of Authority through the war.
• Iver secretly traveled to Paradise City to obtain its petrification ritual, protect its inhabitants from the Abyss Angel, and kill the angel for its shard.
• Adil welcomed Iver as his brother and revealed that he guarded the Amber Egg, the unborn Amber of the current cycle, whose power had petrified Rock Cellar City.
• Hassan attacked Paradise City with fireballs, and Adil sacrificed residents to sustain a defensive water curtain before placing the Amber Egg inside his wounded chest.
• Adil stopped time, Amber’s power shattered his body, and the Amber Egg entered Iver’s right eye as Amber asked him to give birth to her again.