Recaps

Iver investigated the strange repetitions in Eagle Cape Village, sealed Alice as a follower, and prepared for the New Moon Ritual. Inside the Twin Mirrors ritual, Iver and Lily navigated the Blood Slave scenario, while Iver uncovered Miss Bayard’s history and learned that their world was a reflection of the past.

• Iver and Sherlock concluded that Hai Na’s memories and the unchanging village suggested a hidden ritual, and Iver suspected she was a clone carrying Lancelot’s Soul Shard.
• Iver sealed Alice into a Death card as an Earthbound Spirit and returned to Eagle Cape Village with Sherlock to prepare the New Moon Ritual.
• The Punishment Demon plotted with Prince Wolfram to seize the Book of Law, while Queen Sofia told Ligeia that Stibium was preparing for war and Avalon’s leaders resisted.
• Iver, Hai Na, and Lily began the Promotion Ritual, and Iver and Lily entered the Twin Mirrors scenario disguised as Miss Aleister and Mr. Gray.
• Iver infiltrated Crescent Moon Manor as Blood Slave No. 14, and Miss Bayard’s enchantment and blood-drinking gave him a chance to expose her vulnerability.
• Lily persuaded the Shadow Demon to reclaim her identity as Viennes Emil Zola Bayard, who revealed that the current Miss Bayard had stolen her identity.
• Iver and the Shadow Demon subdued Miss Bayard, then Iver persuaded her to guide him through the manor’s Secret Passage, where he identified Theresa Abbey and its hidden equipment.
• Bayard took Iver to her childhood tavern, where she explained that she was a false soul created by the Twin Mirrors and that the world around them reflected history.

Iver advanced through the Promotion Ritual, uncovered Stibium’s plans and Hai Na’s vision of Avalon’s possible future, then led his companions against the Punishment Demon and Wolfram. The Punishment Demon became a Tarot Card, and Iver ended the stretch contemplating the altered Wheel of Fortune.

• Iver completed the Promotion Ritual with the Golden Entry Child of the Moon, and Lily and Hai Na also advanced.
• Earl Leipzig revealed Stibium’s plans for Avalon and the Ouroboros Ring, while Merlin discovered that Jacob’s ritual could bring the Shadow Angel into the Material Realm.
• Hai Na described a possible future in which Stibium destroyed Avalon and vowed to kill the ritualist Cake Maker, while Iver promised to help her.
• Iver and his companions prepared to face the Punishment Demon, but Wolfram’s curses backfired and left him injured.
• The Punishment Demon summoned lightning across Eagle Cape Village as the Wild Hunt arrived, and it tried to draw the Wild Hunt King away from the village.
• Hai Na, Aleister, the Paradox Flame Butterfly, and Lily subdued the Punishment Demon, while Iver and Sherlock defeated Wolfram.
• Iver invoked the Wise Sage to destroy the Punishment Demon and capture its soul in a Tarot Card, gaining the Equipment Card Thunder Strike Halberd.

Iver obtained the Book of Law, uncovered more of his connection to the Ring Angel, and returned to Avalon as political forces moved against him. After Queen Sofia’s kindness helped restore his balance, he set a trap for the ministers conspiring against him, and Aleister publicly claimed responsibility for abducting him.

• Iver survived the Death Qi at Eagle Cape Village, where he and Merlin uncovered the Fairy Hole and the remains of the Dream Demon Daya.
• Iver received the Book of Law, learned its rituals could strengthen his spells, and realized his acquisition of it had preceded the classes it helped him gain.
• Iver connected the Sacred Entity’s message to the Ring Angel and resolved to become a Pillar God and reclaim the Path of Metamorphosis.
• Iver used Odin’s Trial to erase Wolfram, then asked Ye Zhi to teach Lily the Deceiver’s skills before leaving Eagle Cape Village.
• Iver returned to Glass Island and learned that Captain Camus had lost an intelligence letter accusing Aleister of being a Stibnite spy.
• Isabel and Ligeia warned Iver that his Path of Transcendence was unbalanced, while Queen Sofia’s kindness helped him regain his balance and reject a plan to seize control of Avalon.
• Iver investigated Camus’s missing letter, used a ritual to hide his movements from divination, and persuaded Camus to fight the ministers conspiring against him.
• Aleister delivered a bloodstained letter to Minister Ramos, then claimed she had attacked and abducted Iver as Ligeia confirmed her statements were true.

As Isabel succeeds Sophia, Iver guides her through Avalon’s political upheaval while investigating a minister’s murder and the plots surrounding Yulia and Aleister. His search at Griffiths’s estate leads him to Sister Sasha’s sealed relic, which he unseals at great personal cost.

• George interrogated Aleister, approved her oath of loyalty to Avalon, and permitted her to move freely while arranging for her to meet David.
• Aleister recognized David’s longing for a sacrificial death and directed him toward the Moulting Warlock path, while Iver and Ligeia learned that ministers had betrayed Avalon during the Ten Day War.
• Ligeia exposed the Minister of Maritime Affairs’s sale of naval maps, and Isabel succeeded Sophia as Queen with Iver’s public oath of loyalty.
• Iver coached Isabel through her first Round Table Conference as Avalon prepared for war, while Andre suspected that Iver and Isabel were planning a surprise attack on Stibium.
• Iver sent Lily to investigate Minister Griffiths, who had sought Yulia’s blood for Stibnite, and Lily killed him and framed the murder as a werewolf attack.
• Iver used the murder investigation to stir uncertainty between the Iris Flower Kingdom and Stibium, then learned from Lily that Yulia likely carried Heracles Blood and a Paradox Flame Butterfly fragment.
• The Eye Demon reported Aleister’s identity to Pengbo Naqi, who ordered Emma to capture Yulia for the Herasul Secret Treasure while choosing not to target Iver.
• Iver searched Griffiths’s estate with Ligeia and Lily, found Sister Sasha’s sealed living skin, and performed a ritual that brought Sasha down from her statue and left him with abundant Blood Energy.