Recaps

Iver transformed the Resting Desert, founded Wanning, and confronted the goblins while preparing for his final Promotion Ritual. The ritual brought him to the Dream Realm, where Serpent Father revealed the ancient civilization’s failed attempt to open a ninth Source River.

• Iver burned and purified the Sin Thorns, then summoned Inanna and used the Pearl Clam and Angel powers to turn the Resting Desert into fertile land.
• Iver made Sherlock Grand Vizier and established Wanning under Isabel, then ordered Grandet to bring the goblins and trolls into the country and end their slavery.
• Iver learned that the Dawn Angel had been overtaken by the Void and would burn away his entire self, while Morgan explained the prophecies and fragments connected to Iver and the Sacred Entity.
• Iver rejected Isabel’s offer to sacrifice herself and their unborn child, then spent two weeks in seclusion feeding part of his soul to the Paradox Flame Butterfly.
• Iver defeated the goblins’ forces in the Southern Continent with Don Quixote and Lia, sparing some goblins and uniting them with the rescued trolls as the fae.
• Iver approved Iris’s Ouroboros Ring Ritual, then began his final Promotion Ritual alone beneath Wanning’s palace on July 31.
• Ring Angel brought Iver into the Dream Realm and forced him into a long survival ritual, where Iver resisted the Void’s whispers and met Serpent Father.
• Serpent Father restored Iver’s body, shared the history of the ancient civilization and its failed ninth Source River, and asked Iver to open it before the world froze and the Void mocked him.