Chapter Summaries

Iver and Hellerchein fought Old Moriarty, who hid behind convincing illusions and used powerful spells to restrain them. After Moriarty was cut down, he revealed that he had completed a spell to bring down a meteorite across a fifty-kilometer radius, forcing Iver to choose how to respond with nearby residents at risk.

• Iver blocked Old Moriarty's thunderbird with Star Ice, then summoned Hellerchein and the Wild Hunt to attack the hidden mage.
• Old Moriarty restrained Iver with immense gravity, but Iver used the Shadow Cloak to expose his doppelgangers and escape the spell.
• Iver realized Moriarty's indistinguishable illusions created a paradox that activated webs of lies, and ordered Hellerchein to keep destroying the battlefield to disrupt Moriarty's hiding places and spells.
• The Wild Hunt struck down the real Moriarty, who revealed that his prepared spell had summoned a gigantic meteorite aimed at an area fifty kilometers wide.
• Moriarty told Iver that nearby residential areas were in danger and challenged him to show what the right choice was.

Iver rejected Old Moriarty’s Necessary Evil and used the old man’s accumulated sin to grow a colossal golden oak, preparing to protect Xingti from the falling meteorite. With Anastasia’s barrier, he caught the shattered meteorite, though the chapter left the destruction’s aftermath unresolved.

• Iver summoned Treant Anastasia and animated an oak, then refused to let Old Moriarty die before extracting the old man’s accumulated evil.
• Iver’s Sin Thorns consumed and spread through Old Moriarty, while the oak grew enormously and his Sin Beast conversion reached 55 percent.
• Old Moriarty urged Iver to bear the Necessary Evil, but Iver declared he would not follow the same path as his father and promised not to run anymore.
• As the meteorite approached, Iver fueled the oak with devotion and used flaming Sin Thorns to pierce and break the meteorite apart.
• Anastasia raised a golden barrier that caught the meteorite’s shattered pieces as a fiery shockwave spread across the night sky.

The Fallen Angel sat in the corrupted Stibium palace and watched a Dream Demon show him the Pope stopping a meteorite. Confident that the allied forces would succumb to corruption, he planned to face them the next day and use Sprengel’s returned Brand of Jealousy to humiliate the Pope.

• The Fallen Angel summoned a Dream Demon and asked her to show him what had happened.
• The Dream Demon showed the Pope catching a meteorite with a barrier while sin thorns battered it apart.
• The Fallen Angel dismissed the allied forces as weak and decided to keep spreading corruption across Stibium instead of attacking them directly.
• The Fallen Angel learned that Sprengel’s Brand of Jealousy had returned to him, though her soul had been destroyed.
• The Fallen Angel said he would activate the Jealousy Brand on the Pope when the allied forces challenged him, hoping to turn him into a Night Demon.

While Iver remained missing, Isabel impersonated him to rally the exhausted soldiers as the Children of the Moon turned the battle against the demons. The Mist Angel offered repentant Children of the Moon a way to escape blood hunger, and the chapter ended with demonic reinforcements arriving as the sun reached its highest point.

• Isabel, disguised as Iver, praised the miracle at the giant tree and rallied the soldiers for battle.
• The Children of the Moon fought beside the human soldiers, earning their trust and causing some to question their blood-drinking ways.
• The Mist Angel spoke gently to the wavering Children of the Moon, granting them the ability to become mist and promising them a bloodless, ageless future if they repented and fought the demons.
• The newly converted Children of the Moon fought with renewed vigor, while the soldiers and mages pushed the demons back and advanced across the battlefield.
• The demons called for reinforcements, and swarms of flies arrived with plague when the sun reached its highest point.

A Sixth Level Fly Demon and a gigantic Greed Demon attacked the army, overwhelming its defenses with disease and enchanted treasure. Saint Ruan, Isabel, Mu, and the others resisted the Greed Demon's lure, but the heroes fell into a hallucination and turned their greedy attention toward Iver.

• A Fly Demon led a plague-bearing swarm that consumed the magic power in the air and resisted the Mage Tower's weather attacks.
• A gigantic Greed Demon teleported into the army's camp and scattered gold, causing the soldiers to abandon formation and fight over treasure.
• Saint Ruan learned from the Great Sage that the stranger was a Sixth Level Greed Demon and urged the group to attack its true body.
• The Greed Demon offered treasure to the heroes, and Isabel, Saint Ruan, and Mu resisted while the others fell into a deep hallucination.
• The Greed Demon threw treasures onto Iver, and Isabel saw the bewitched people turn toward her with greedy smiles.

Ligeia and the others discovered that the Sixth Level Greed Demon depended on an old woman connected to it by an umbilical cord, then severed the link and killed it. The group concluded that the Sixth Level Fly Demon might also rely on a host, leaving them with a possible way to defeat it.

• Ligeia broke the Greed Demon's illusion and awakened the controlled Grand Guardian, Insect Amber Master, Cardinal Siegfried, and Cardinal Galatea.
• The Grand Guardian identified the Greed Demon's right hand as the likely link to its true body, and Siegfried, the Grand Guardian, and Mu attacked it.
• Saint Ruan's prayer empowered their weapons, while Ligeia's command repeatedly freed them from the Greed Demon's control.
• The Grand Guardian smashed the Greed Demon's fist and exposed an old woman connected to it by a red umbilical cord.
• Ligeia transformed into a dragon and bit through the cord, causing the Greed Demon to shrink back to Fifth Level before Siegfried killed it.
• Ligeia concluded that the Sixth Level Fly Demon might also depend on a host that they could kill.

After the Greed Demon’s defeat, Ligeia’s group teleported to confront the Fly Demon and its plague, bringing Yulia into the battle. The Insect Amber Master froze the sky and immobilized the Fly Demons, leaving the fight poised to begin.

• Ligeia and Siegfried decided to attack the Fly Demon quickly, while the group discussed what to do if Iver could not join them.
• Ligeia ordered the Mage Tower to teleport Yulia to them, and Yulia promised she would fight and protect herself.
• Saint Ruan embraced Yulia and promised to protect her before Ligeia ordered everyone teleported to the Fly Demon’s territory.
• Saint Ruan unfolded the Purifying Fire domain to clear the surrounding filth, while Ligeia prepared the group to attack the distant Fly Demons.
• The Insect Amber Master cast his Preservation spell, turning the sky murky yellow and freezing the clouds and Fly Demons in place.

Yulia and the Hero Party wounded the Fly Demon through the Insect Amber Master's time stop, Galatea's mirror trick, and a series of illusions, prompting the Fallen Angel to destroy it and appear. He confronted Iver, whom he identified as the undying serpent and his immortal friend.

• The Insect Amber Master stopped time, allowing Yulia to summon the Paradox Flame Butterfly and burn through the Fly Demon swarm.
• Cardinal Galatea reflected the group above the Fly Demon, and Siegfried and Ligeia attacked while illusions distracted it and Fafna tore Levekuhn away.
• Yulia's flames consumed Levekuhn before the Fly Demon could reconnect with him, leaving the demon weakened and unable to save its host.
• The Fallen Angel crushed the Fly Demon, absorbed its Great Sin Imprint, and erased the remaining Fly Demons.
• The Fallen Angel appeared before the party, and Iver revealed himself atop the giant tree with an older appearance.
• The Fallen Angel called Iver the undying serpent and his immortal friend, expressing hatred and recalling another self.

The Fallen Angel revealed his history with the Ring Angel and explained why the Brave’s salvation had been kept secret, then turned the confrontation into a spectacle for the whole world. He seized Iver with the Great Sin Imprint while Iver’s allies attacked, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Saint Ruan concluded that Iver might be the Ring Angel’s Snake Tail, an avatar destined to be devoured by Ouroboros.
• The Fallen Angel recalled the Ring Angel’s stories of the Brave and explained that the Brave had wanted his salvation kept secret to prevent people from creating a god and crushing him with their expectations.
• The Fallen Angel announced that he would do the opposite and projected the confrontation across the skies of Star Antimony and the surrounding regions.
• The Fallen Angel seized Iver from afar and activated the Great Sin Imprint, causing six rings to appear around him and his body to begin mutating.
• Ligeia and the others attacked while Iver drew the Fallen Angel’s attention, but the Fallen Angel brushed off the Grand Guardian and blocked Insect Amber’s Petrification Ray.

Iver discovered that the Fallen Angel’s restraints drew power from the land, while the Fallen Angel sealed him and unleashed a devastating attack on the gathered fighters. Saint Ruan summoned two apostles to hold back the falling sun, and the chapter ended with the Fallen Angel crushing his mask and revealing a face nearly identical to Iver’s.

• Iver realized his white wings could absorb the Fallen Angel’s land-sourced dark mana, but the Great Sin Imprint and the Fallen Angel’s curse sphere kept him restrained.
• The Fallen Angel struck Siegfried with a devastating kick, but Saint Ruan healed him before he hit the ground.
• The Fallen Angel sealed Iver in a pulsing curse sphere and summoned a purple-black sun that fell toward the battlefield.
• Saint Ruan summoned the Heaven Rakshasa to brace the falling sun, then called Kastenning to shield it from the Fallen Angel’s spell.
• The Fallen Angel crushed his bull-head mask in anger, revealing a face nearly identical to Iver’s, with purple-black hair and eyes.

The Fallen Angel revealed a face identical to Iver’s, and Iver realized that the Fallen Angel contained a part of himself while he contained a part of Lucifer. After shedding his restraints and regaining his strongest form, the Fallen Angel attacked the gathered forces and left them struggling to withstand him.

• Iver recalled that the Shepherd had looked like him and understood that the Fallen Angel carried the part of himself the Ring Angel had failed to reclaim.
• The Fallen Angel shattered his living armor and rings, restored his former appearance and power, and taunted the assembled allies.
• The Fallen Angel struck Kastenning twice, breaking his shield and nearly destroying him before Saint Ruan recalled him to prevent his death in the Dream Realm.
• Heaven Rakshasa predicted the Fallen Angel’s third strike and countered with his halberd, but the punch shattered the weapon and gravely wounded him.
• Saint Ruan sent Heaven Rakshasa away, while the Fallen Angel steadied his injured arm and declared that his opponents’ strength was not enough.

The Fallen Angel overwhelmed the defenders and began casting the Tower to the Heavens’ ultimate spell, but Iver escaped his Curse Orb and unleashed Lost Paradise with Lucifer’s help. The chapter ended as Iver’s golden blades collided with the Fallen Angel’s purple-black spell across the sky.

• The Fallen Angel defeated the Grand Guardian and Philip, then battered Ligeia and attacked Worm Amber with a slab of earth.
• Mu shielded Worm Amber and Saint Ruan, deflecting the Fallen Angel’s attack and provoking him to cast the Tower to the Heavens’ ultimate spell.
• The Fallen Angel’s spell drained mana and stripped away spells, blessings, and protections across the battlefield.
• Iver used Shadow Cloak to escape the Curse Orb after his allies had bought him time to drain the Fallen Angel’s stored mana.
• Iver and the Fallen Angel each cast Lost Paradise, and their golden and purple blades collided in the sky.

Iver and the Fallen Angel clashed with Lost Paradise, the taboo spell capable of slaying gods, while Cardinal Galatea recognized its forgotten origin as the Ouroboros Ring. As the duel continued, Worm Amber and Saint Ruan revived the Grand Guardian, who emerged from his amber casing unharmed.

• The collision between Iver’s and the Fallen Angel’s Lost Paradise shattered the magical canopy and disrupted spells throughout Xing Antimony.
• Cardinal Galatea identified Lost Paradise as the Ouroboros Ring and recalled how Ouroboros and Lucifer had created it, and how Ouroboros had used it to slay a god and ascend.
• The Fallen Angel intercepted Iver’s attacks, while Iver refused to defend and forced him to choose between blocking every strike or risking mutual destruction.
• Worm Amber used his amber spirit fluid to form a wax-like casing around the Grand Guardian’s corpse, with Saint Ruan preparing to restore his vitality.
• The Grand Guardian tore open the casing, broke the wax covering his face, and emerged alive and unharmed.

Saint Ruan and the others rescued the badly mutated Ligeia while the battle against the Fallen Angel continued. After Lost Paradise weakened him, Siegfried and Hellerchein overwhelmed him, and Siegfried severed his left forearm.

• Philip carried the Grand Guardian into the forest and found Ligeia alive but grotesquely mutated after her interrupted moulting.
• At Saint Ruan’s direction, Siegfried and the Grand Guardian cut away Ligeia’s tentacles and twisted limbs, and Saint Ruan used an Illumination Spell to restore her body to a still-mutated form.
• Lost Paradise dispelled the halos and buffs of Iver and the Fallen Angel, allowing Cardinal Fafner to surprise the Fallen Angel with cyan-black flames before Great Sin Imprints bound her.
• Saint Ruan restored the group’s blessings, and Siegfried used fivefold speed to keep the weakened Fallen Angel from escaping or recovering.
• Hellerchein entered the Twilight Domain and pierced the Fallen Angel’s left shoulder with a Dragon Spear, while Siegfried struck at the same moment.
• Siegfried’s holy sword severed the Fallen Angel’s left forearm.

Iver and the others faced the Fallen Angel as he entered his final Corruption phase, where his aura could overwhelm even those who stood at a distance. As the first wave of corruption threatened to cloud Iver’s mind, Saint Ruan stepped forward to act.

• Hellerchein and Siegfried severed one of the Fallen Angel’s arms after his mana was drained, and the wounded Angel screamed as his power erupted.
• Iver ordered George to withdraw with Cardinal Fafner, Cardinal Galatea, and the Insect Amber Master; Galatea stayed behind, and Saint Ruan explained that the Fallen Angel’s Angel-law power was causing him to lose control.
• The Fallen Angel regenerated his arm as a demonic hand, transformed his eyes into black holes, and entered his final Corruption phase, floating beneath a growing black sun.
• Iver shielded the others from the spreading corruption aura, but its first wave flooded his mind with overwhelming dark impulses.
• Saint Ruan declared, “I will,” as Iver struggled against the corruption.

Iver and his allies weakened the Corrupted Fallen Angel, and Iver used the Essence of Atlas to revive after deliberately killing himself. He unleashed an empowered Lost Paradise as the Fallen Angel remembered his first meeting with Lucifer.

• Saint Ruan dispelled Iver's Corruption and activated Ultimate Sacrifice to heal and protect their allies.
• Cardinal Galatea removed the Black Sun's reflective attribute, allowing Hellerchein to attack without suffering reflected damage, while the First Black Prime Minister struck the Fallen Angel with All Things Must Die.
• Iver decided to spend the Essence of Atlas's revival to use Lost Paradise again, then used Dissolving Soul to kill himself and trigger the potion.
• Iver revived in a stronger, divine form and fused Lia, Viennes, and Hellerchein into his White Wings with Great Sin Redemption.
• Iver unleashed an empowered Lost Paradise as the Fallen Angel recalled meeting Lucifer and closed his eyes against the dazzling light.

Iver completed the Ouroboros Ring Ritual by defeating the Fallen Angel, whose death changed the laws of the Material Realm and opened new possibilities for Transcenders. As the world began its ascent, Saint Ruan burned away after bidding farewell to her companions.

• Iver spoke with the crumbling Fallen Angel, who urged him to kill the snake before disappearing and leaving behind a black crystal.
• The crystal shattered, and a purple-black wave swept across the world, restoring the allied soldiers and opening the Gate of Transcendence's Possibility for Iver and other Transcenders.
• The Hourglass announced changes to the paths, promotion rituals, and boundary between the Dream Realm and the Material Realm, declaring that the Material Realm was about to ascend.
• Saint Ruan, still burning from her Ultimate Sacrifice, embraced Iver and said goodbye to her companions while Ligeia remained inside a silver-white egg.
• Saint Ruan blessed her friends, burned away into a ball of light, and flew toward the sky.

Iver used the Angel Shard to transform Viennes into a Great Sin Beast with the authority of a Fallen Angel. Across the Dream Realm, other powers reacted to the shifting age, while the Ring Angel accepted that his repeated attempts had failed and prepared for what came next.

• Iver joined the Angel Shard with Viennes's Great Sin Card, transforming her into Great Sin: Viennes of Corruption and granting her the Shadow of Corruption ability.
• Vortigern spoke with Arthur beneath the iceberg in the Crystal Mountain Range, while the wounded Heaven Rakshasa celebrated in the Primeval Wilderness that the little fox had succeeded.
• The Candle Heaven Holder told Kastenning that Xi had to leave and said he would go to the Source River to bring Ruan back.
• Loki asked the Lord of Scales and Feathers for the Gray Angel's shard, and the Lord revealed that the shard's authority of lies had already been transferred to him.
• The Ring Angel reflected on eight failed cycles and his depleted power, destroyed his photograph of Lucifer, and resolved to wait for the Whisper of the Void and World's Death.

After the Fallen Angel’s defeat, Iver returned to Avalon and put the Princess, Laro, and Yulia in charge of rebuilding the devastated Stibium Kingdom. Ligeia remained asleep in her egg, where Lucifer’s remnant power was transforming her into a Winged One.

• People across the Material Realm celebrated the Hourglass and hailed Iver and the Extermination Squad as heroes after their victory over the Fallen Angel.
• Iver returned to Avalon and prioritized relief and reconstruction in Stibium over retrieving the Clarent Sword or immediately rebuilding the Herasul Empire.
• Iver asked the Princess and Laro to oversee Stibium’s reconstruction, and the Princess agreed because her weakened kingdom could not withstand its rivals alone.
• Iver left Yulia in Stibium to support the Princess and Laro, relying on her connection to him to bolster their authority.
• Ligeia remained asleep in her egg, and the changes caused by the Fallen Angel’s remnant power were giving her three pairs of white wings and awakening the Winged Ones’ lineage.

After Iver returned safely to Avalon, Isabel rested in his arms and later revealed that she wanted Avalon to join the New Herasul Empire. She hoped to leave the throne behind and accompany Iver when he eventually ascended to the Dream Realm.

• Iver returned to Avalon with the egg, reunited with Isabel, and comforted her as she wept with relief in front of onlookers.
• Isabel slept peacefully beside Iver, then woke refreshed and playfully flirted with him.
• Iver asked Isabel what she planned to do about rebuilding Herasul, and she immediately said Avalon should join.
• Isabel explained that she had never wanted to be Queen and wanted to give up the Du Lac surname and her responsibilities as ruler.
• Isabel told Iver she wanted to follow him to the Dream Realm as an apostle, so Avalon needed to join the empire and be governed by Yulia; Iver agreed to support her.