Chapter Summaries

During the Twin Mirrors’ prophecy, Iver confronted a reflection of himself and rejected the god’s warning to ease the burden he carried. He chose his own path, and the Ouroboros Ring Ritual began as he returned to reality.

• As Aymar Nur led the hymn, Iver entered a vision where the Twin Mirrors showed him his reflection trapped before a mirror that became a door.
• The door revealed a burning mountain stronghold, and the Twin Mirrors appeared as Isabel to warn Iver against false oaths and carrying too much responsibility.
• Iver explained that the future kept changing and rejected endless proliferation as a solution to the void, declaring that he had forged his own path.
• The Twin Mirrors blessed Iver, and he returned to reality as Aymar Nur finished praying and the good gods invoked Gaia.
• The Great Abyss runes lit across Anxi, beginning the Ouroboros Ring Ritual.

As Aymar Nur and the Good Lords completed the Ouroboros Ring Ritual, the Great Abyss began crashing into the world. Iver sacrificed himself to redirect the ritual, and the golden hand-sword descended toward him.

• Aymar Nur completed the runes as the sky warped, a gigantic eye appeared, and the Great Abyss struck the world.
• The Good Lords watched for Iver to counter the ritual while Hero Ismayil worried that Iver had not acted on the stolen information.
• Aymar Nur began the final passage and a one-handed clock advanced toward Iver's position.
• Iver poured out golden liquid soul and prayed as the ritual's hand passed his position.
• Iver stabbed himself through the heart at the center of the shattered Holy Lake and declared, “This is mercy,” as the golden hand-sword crashed down.

Iver’s death triggered the collapse of Paradise and summoned the Abyss Angel, whose arrival flooded Holy Spring City with rain and seawater. Just as the tsunami was about to destroy the city, the sea suddenly froze.

• The ritual’s power burned through Iver’s body until he collapsed into a lightless point that swallowed the White Mist and dried up the Holy Lake.
• The sky over Paradise shattered, bringing a catastrophic downpour and pillars of water that tore through the city.
• Holy Spring City’s priests sang a sacrificial hymn to appease the Abyss Angel, but all except one Water Raven Guard were killed by the storm.
• The Abyss Angel descended into the Material Realm, smashed the Fourth Ring, and began drowning Holy Spring City.
• Part of the Abyss Angel’s eyes turned purple, and the advancing waves and falling water froze in place.

Plotinus used the Thorn Crown to draw the Dawn Angel into his mind and fight the headless Abyss Angel, interrupting its fusion with Iver. Iver awakened within the Abyss Angel’s body, stopped its power from leaking out, and restored the people caught in the frozen sea’s destruction.

• Plotinus and two Nephthys Guards began the Sun Incarnation Ritual atop the Clock Tower, and the guards sacrificed themselves to fuel it.
• Plotinus activated Iver’s Tarot Card, the Thorn Crown, and let the ritual bring the Dawn Angel’s consciousness into his body.
• The Dawn Angel attacked the headless young man in Plotinus’s ritual space while the creature’s tentacles began devouring Plotinus’s mind.
• Iver awakened inside the Abyss Angel’s body after its original consciousness vanished, realizing Plotinus had seized it and stopped their fusion.
• Iver halted the Abyss Angel’s destructive power and restored the injured people beneath the frozen sea with falling droplets of water.

Iver’s remorse and hope awakened a new power of miracles, which healed the wounded and resurrected the dead. The chapter ended with the Source River’s power entering Iver’s soul and revealing a new, white Path of hope and miracles.

• Iver realized the healing came from a new power born through the Shepherding Method, rather than the Dedication Path or another known Path.
• The Abyss Angel’s tears, guided by Iver’s hope, healed the injured, strengthened the weak, emboldened the timid, and brought the dead back to life.
• The Giant Whale rose into the crystalline sea and cried out melodiously instead of harming the city.
• Iver understood that miracles could correct mistakes and restore meaning, countering the meaninglessness imposed by nothingness.
• The Dream Realm shook as the Source River tried and failed to form a new tributary, but some of its water entered Iver’s soul.
• Iver sensed the seedling of a new Path’s power: a tender white light of hope and miracles.

Iver realized the Great Abyss’s grief and fury at the Void, then recognized the prophecy’s sun disk and heavenly fire as himself and the Encyclopedia. When enemies sacrificed the people of Holy Spring City to attack him, Iver used Gluttony Star to freeze and protect the city, leaving the battlefield set for his fight against the benevolent masters.

• Iver understood that the Great Abyss’s rage came from the Void and that its seawater might be its tears.
• Iver realized the prophecy’s sun disk referred to him and its heavenly fire to the Encyclopedia, the Dawn Angel’s coordinate.
• Vicious spells struck Giant Whale Iver as enemies drained the life force of the people he had revived in Holy Spring City.
• Iver revived the victims and activated Gluttony Star’s Light of Civilization’s Continuation.
• Iver crashed into the Fourth Ring, and Gluttony Star’s Preservation effect turned the city and its people into dusky-yellow statues, shielding them from the shock wave.
• Iver faced the benevolent masters as the Angel they had challenged.

The Good Lords confronted the Abyss Angel in Holy Spring City after Aymar Nur’s promised weakness failed to materialize. As they prepared a coordinated assault, the angel swept Hero Ismayil away and one Good Lord suddenly aimed an Instant Death Spell at Mahidfran.

• Mahidfran angrily challenged Aymar Nur over the Abyss Angel’s strength, but he said they had no way out and raised a Flawless Mirror Wall against its roar.
• Mahidfran agreed to empower the others with healing, and Hero Ismayil volunteered to draw the Abyss Angel’s attention.
• The Abyss Angel engulfed Ismayil in a wave of seawater, and he let it carry him out of the battlefield after casting Preservation on himself.
• The angel flooded Holy Spring City, while Aymar Nur protected the remaining Good Lords and they prepared spells and attacks against it.
• Calamity Red withheld its power from a Good Lord’s ritual, and as the Good Lords began to think they could defeat the angel, one of them aimed an Instant Death Spell at Mahidfran.

Iver, controlling the Abyss Angel, used its powers and knowledge of its battle mechanics to kill Mahidfran and most of the goodmasters. The Abyss Angel unleashed a catastrophic wave that injured the Dawn Angel, while Aymar Nur alone survived through the Chain of Friendship.

• Mahidfran was driven mad by the Thunder of Truth and killed by her maddened teammates before she could use her ritual spells.
• Aymar Nur recognized that the Abyss Angel understood their conversation and suspected Iver was controlling it, but Calamity Red did not respond to his call.
• The Abyss Angel gathered immense magical power beneath the sea as the goodmasters panicked and some were torn apart by its tentacles.
• Aymar Nur realized Calamity Red had betrayed their agreement as the Abyss Angel unleashed a towering wave that struck the Veil of Equilibrium and injured the Dawn Angel.
• The attack killed nearly all the goodmasters, but Aymar Nur survived by relying on the Chain of Friendship.

As the Abyss Angel descended on Holy Spring City, Hassan learned that the God of War would not join the benefactors against it. Autolycus revealed the old roles and rivalries shaping the conflict, then asked Hai Na whether she would accept an Angel’s power and fight a Pillar God to the death.

• Hassan watched the Abyss Angel’s descent from afar and admitted that its pressure made him feel powerless, while Hai Na insisted that facing a dragon required strength.
• Morgan appeared and explained that Hassan was punishing himself for being too weak to join the battle; she also revealed that the God of War had abandoned the benefactors.
• Autolycus appeared and explained that the God of War had recognized Iver’s connection to Arthur, while remaining unaware that the Crowned Lord had not completely died.
• Lily emerged from Hai Na’s shadow and confronted Autolycus, who revealed that he was the Gray Angel and had created evidence of his death to blend into lies.
• Autolycus and Morgan connected the present conflict to the roles of Arthur, Lancelot, Merlin, Morgan, the Round Table Knights, and the giants, then asked Hai Na whether she would accept an Angel’s power and fight a Pillar God.

Hai Na accepted the possibility of becoming the vessel for the Rider Angel Lancelot, despite knowing the ritual would require her death. She affirmed that she would carry out any responsibility entrusted to her and revealed she had written a suicide note on her first day as an Inspector.

• Autolycus explained that the shattered Veil of Equilibrium could be crossed again to summon other Angels, and that Hai Na could serve as the vessel for the Rider Angel Lancelot.
• Hassan offered to become the vessel for the Geometric Angel, but Autolycus said the Fire Tetrahedron could make up for his lack of compatibility and power.
• Hai Na realized becoming a Pillar God would require her to die in the Material Realm and reshape her body in the Dream Realm River.
• Hai Na admitted she doubted she was the best choice, but said she would not shirk any responsibility or give up before confirming failure.
• Hai Na revealed that she had written her suicide note on the day she began work as an Inspector.

Hai Na accepted that she might die in order to protect innocents, and Gray Angel helped her discover that her path could lead to a new Pillar God of Justice. Gray Angel revealed a plan to turn Hai Na and her companions into new Pillar Gods and use their combined strength to slay Calamity Red.

• Hai Na reflected on how she had grown cautious after finding fulfillment, then resolved to risk her life for a sacred mission and protect innocents.
• Gray Angel seized the fading sword formed by Hai Na’s resolve and explained that her many conflicting qualities had kept her from committing to a single path.
• Hai Na said she did not want to become any existing Pillar God, and Gray Angel proposed that she become the Pillar God of the Thirteenth Source River, Justice.
• Gray Angel explained that new Source Rivers could emerge beyond the known ones and said he intended to bet on new possibilities with Hai Na, Hassan, and Morgan.
• Hassan realized Gray Angel planned for them to undergo the Ouroboros Ring and become Angels, then join forces to confront and slay Calamity Red.

Gray Angel explained that their willingness to die came from hope in a future their sacrifice would make possible, and Hassan recognized himself as The Fool who had repeatedly risked everything for change. Hassan and Hai Na agreed to help, and Jacob Alexander appeared to conduct their ritual.

• Gray Angel told Lily that their deaths would be meaningful because they believed their cause would be completed, describing the Twelfth Source River as the River of Hope.
• Hassan realized his past choices made him The Fool and asked Gray Angel what he should do.
• Hai Na agreed to join Hassan, and Gray Angel said a friend could help conduct the large-scale ritual.
• Angel Iver appeared, and Jacob Alexander introduced himself as Iver's grandfather and Hai Na's old friend.
• Jacob offered to conduct the ritual, leaving Hai Na stunned to see him again.

Iver’s Abyss Eye attack devastated the Good Lords and left Aymar Nur’s mind shattered despite the Chain of Friendship protecting his body. After Iver claimed the Chain, he sensed three powerful energy signatures flare at the city’s outskirts.

• Iver’s wave attack destroyed the Good Lords’ defenses and drove Aymar Nur’s converted injuries into a catastrophic mental collapse.
• Iver struck Aymar Nur repeatedly, leaving him motionless before the waves submerged him.
• The Chain of Friendship returned to Iver, who placed it atop his head.
• As Iver considered how to make the Abyss Angel kill itself, he sensed three powerful energy reactions at the outskirts of the city.

Three Angels descended outside Holy Spring City to reenact the War of Heavenly Punishment and target Calamity Red, while Iver realized his ritual role was Amber. The returning Abyss Angel took control of his body and unleashed a world-swallowing flood toward the three Angels.

• Iver recognized the descending figures as Geometric Angel, Rider Angel, and Gray Angel, and guessed that Hai Na and Lily might be their vessels.
• Iver understood that the Angels were recreating the War of Heavenly Punishment, with Calamity Red as their target and Iver playing Amber alongside Hourglass.
• Abyss Angel's battered consciousness returned to his body, and Iver yielded control without revealing his presence.
• Abyss Angel mistook the three descending Angels for challengers and surged toward them with an immense flood.
• Abyss Angel's waves submerged Holy Spring City and swallowed the surrounding landscape, covering the sky and threatening to drown the world.

Lancelot and Guinevere united as the Rider Angel while Loki fused with the Gray Angel, and the Geometric Angel revealed its origins as the Supreme Host Plato. As the Gray Nest sheltered the Red Hand Party from the approaching wave, Loki waited for Lily to finish hiding the mortals and prepared to summon Calamity Red.

• Lancelot and Guinevere became the Rider Angel through their shared power of the Path of Love, with Guinevere's flame awakening Lancelot's memories and knightly conviction.
• Cardinal Loki reunited with the Gray Angel by reclaiming his Angel Shard and lost power, inheriting the Gray Angel's memories, will, and divine essence.
• The Geometric Angel explained that returning to its true form offered little advantage and asked whether Loki had prepared a countermeasure.
• The chapter revealed that Plato was a construct formed from the transferred souls and knowledge of the ancient Winged Ones mages, and that its many consciousnesses operated as a council.
• Lily used the Silken Grimoire to hide the Red Hand Party within the Gray Angel's Gray Nest, shielding them from the approaching wave.
• Loki waited for the ritual to be ready and declared that Calamity Red should descend first.

Jacob and Angel Iver performed a two-person ritual that sacrificed them to summon a holy sword of light, which the Rider Angel used to split the Great Abyss between the Material Realm and the Dream Realm. The realms overlapped as the Abyss Angel became a fused red dragon and Giant Whale, recreating the scene of Arthur’s past ritual against Supreme Heaven.

• Jacob began the forbidden chant while Angel Iver and the Geometric Angel joined and helped establish a ritual site.
• Jacob and Angel Iver synchronized their chants and opened a tilted mirror between the Material Realm and the Dream Realm, releasing the white dragon into the Dream Realm.
• Angel Iver and Jacob completed the ritual, sacrificing themselves as Angel Iver became light and Jacob vanished.
• The Rider Angel reached into the light and drew out a pure-white holy sword, then struck the Abyss Angel with an invisible spatial slash.
• The slash split the Great Abyss between the two realms, leaving a red dragon in the Dream Realm and a Giant Whale in the Material Realm fused across the divide.

The Silver Crowned Dragon used the Twin Mirrors to project an attack into the Material Realm, injuring the Abyss Angel and forcing it into its berserk form. As the former Pillar Gods fought in the Dream Realm, the Silver Crowned Dragon diverted the Abyss Angel’s counterattack toward Calamity Red.

• The Silver Crowned Dragon fired an Ice Storm through the Twin Mirrors, freezing the sea and striking the Abyss Angel in the Material Realm.
• The Abyss Angel transformed into its berserk true form, hardening its tentacles and launching a counterattack at the Silver Crowned Dragon.
• The Silver Crowned Dragon dodged the Abyss Angel’s pursuing tentacles through the gray mist.
• The Silver Crowned Dragon vanished and led the Abyss Angel’s tentacles into Calamity Red, which the Abyss Angel attacked in a relentless barrage.

The Abyss Angel ambushed Calamity Red and used his power over blood to overwhelm the Red Dragon, while Arthur fought Vortigern. Calamity Red summoned countless weapons and heroic afterimages to cut down the tentacles, then burned away what remained.

• The Abyss Angel ambushed Calamity Red and pierced him with tentacles empowered by the Taboo Pillar God's remnants.
• Calamity Red tried to flee as the Abyss Angel's tentacles pursued him and drained his blood.
• Iver recognized that the Abyss Angel countered Calamity Red's blood-based power and surpassed him in strength.
• Arthur and Vortigern resumed their Red Dragon and White Dragon fight, but the Abyss Angel's tentacles unexpectedly pierced Arthur.
• Calamity Red declared himself the Beloved of Ten Thousand Scars and summoned weapons and heroic afterimages that severed the tentacles.
• Crimson flames and blazing-white light burned away the remaining tentacles.

Arthur and Iver exploited the Abyss Angel’s fragile consciousness and the weakness imposed by the Chain of Friendship, while Calamity Red’s changing position disrupted his original plans. The chapter revealed that Morgan’s preservation of the White Dragon’s soul had already sealed Arthur’s fate, setting the two great beings on a collision course.

• Calamity Red escaped the sea monster’s restraints and refused to use his Pillar God authority against Vortigern.
• Iver’s explanation revealed that the Abyss Angel’s true body and consciousness were in the Giant Whale’s head, while its tentacles were merely controlled hair.
• The Chain of Friendship restored some of the Abyss Angel’s ancient power but also activated Lucifer’s Fortress of Faith, exposing the Angel’s fragile consciousness as a weakness.
• Iver recognized that the prophecy’s serpent referred to the Abyss Angel after Iver possessed it through the Shepherding Method.
• Iver reasoned that Calamity Red had changed sides after overpowering the Silver Crowned Dragon, though he did not know Morgan had hidden the White Dragon’s fragment.
• Iver understood that Morgan’s act of preserving the White Dragon’s soul had already determined Arthur’s death and forced Calamity Red and the Abyss Angel toward mutual destruction.

Calamity Red’s war legion pushed the Abyss Angel back while the Geometric Angel prepared a supreme spell in the Gray Cave. The Geometric Angel’s casting revealed that the mages had long sought to replace the Great Sage through their own knowledge, and the spell reached its final incantation as the Great Abyss remained distracted.

• Calamity Red summoned the dead of every war as an immortal legion, whose accumulated war aura began pushing the Abyss Angel toward the edge of the Dream Realm.
• The Abyss Angel grew furious and unleashed power that caused earthquakes across Parthia and Horus.
• The Geometric Angel gathered the four elements in the Gray Cave and began casting the highest-level elemental spell at immense speed.
• The chapter revealed that the Geometric Angel’s mission was to replace the Great Sage, a purpose the mages understood as sacrifice and inheritance rather than rebellion.
• The Geometric Angel’s spell began disintegrating the surrounding world and even Flame Fist Hassan’s body, while the Great Abyss stayed occupied fighting Calamity Red.