Chapter Summaries

As the Geometric Angel’s body disintegrated, it passed its knowledge and unfinished work to Hassan, then unleashed the Analysis Cannon against the Abyss Angel. Hassan awoke in the Dream Realm River’s preparation area, grieving that he had not witnessed the Geometric Angel’s final mysteries.

• The Geometric Angel chose Hassan as its successor and let him absorb its understanding of the Source River of Truth.
• After its experts split evenly over whether to follow the Gray Angel’s plan, the Geometric Angel decided to continue with the Truth Plan.
• The Geometric Angel reminded Hassan that curiosity and the pursuit of truth had sustained the sages through suffering.
• The Geometric Angel formed the Analysis Cannon from sixty-three thousand Final Formulas and used its accumulated power against the Abyss Angel.
• Hassan’s consciousness shifted to the underworld’s preparation area, where he mourned the loss of the Geometric Angel and the chance to see its mysteries.

Lu Li trained with Whis and Beerus to control his power, learning to handle a delicate balloon-covered board without bursting its balloons. After four days of training and meals, they reached the North Galaxy and headed toward King Kai, who realized Beerus was coming and feared he would meet Son Goku.

• Whis gave Lu Li a board with fragile balloons and a durable crystal to teach him to concentrate his power, and Beerus advised him on inflating the balloons.
• Lu Li learned to inflate and tie the balloons, then used Beerus's demonstration to master swinging the board without bursting them.
• Lu Li served Beerus and Whis elaborate dishes, and Beerus praised his progress while urging him to finish training so they could spar again.
• After four days, Whis brought Lu Li and Beerus to the North Galaxy, where they planned to visit King Kai to locate Earth.
• Son Goku trained with push-ups on King Kai's planet, while King Kai panicked at the thought of Beerus meeting him.

Ron used Yuter’s recorded battle against Chaye to study how a Grand Wizard fought a Supreme Apostle and potentially learn Historical Projection. The simulation ended with Yuter summoning Cassandra’s projection to help face Chaye.

• Yuter warned Ron that his next Abyss exploration might bring him against an apostle-level enemy and offered him a memory crystal containing their battle.
• Ron connected the crystal to the Adaptive Chaos Simulation Device and experienced Yuter’s confrontation with Chaye in the Twisted Jungle.
• Chaye attacked Yuter with destructive beams, but Yuter evaded them with temporal clones and countered with a miniature star and a gravity well.
• Chaye unleashed Three-Phase Annihilation, and Yuter used Historical Projection to summon Cassandra, who redirected the attack and began mobilizing her power.

The Abyss Angel’s final form emerged after the Geometric Angel and Calamity Red shattered its crystal body, while Iver discovered the Great Abyss had knowingly carried his soul. As the Great Abyss’s consciousness departed, it gave Iver its remaining strength, leaving him transformed with a crown and ring of thorns of sin.

• Calamity Red’s breath shattered the wounded Abyss Angel, which then struck and destroyed the Geometric Angel, but the Gray Angel rewrote its death and restored it.
• A giant hand rose from the Abyss Angel’s remains and consumed one of the Gray Angel’s identities before the Gray Angel reappeared as a cat.
• Iver realized the Abyss Angel’s crystal whale head was an eggshell, and a headless remnant body emerged to house his consciousness.
• The thorns of sin pierced the remnant body as Iver met the Great Abyss in his consciousness and learned it was departing for good.
• Iver asked the Great Abyss to lend him its strength, and the Great Abyss agreed before its consciousness collapsed.
• Iver inherited the Great Abyss’s power, forming a ring and crown of thorns of sin crowned with white antlers.

Iver transformed using the Great Abyss’s Sin Thorns and fought the Gray Angel, whose imitation of the Analysis Cannon proved the Winged Ones’ spell research had reached Lost Paradise. The Gray Angel was torn apart, while Iver witnessed the history of the mages and the beginning of elven civilization.

• Iver emerged in a marble-white, deer-headed form covered in Sin Thorns and thanked the Gray Angel and Geometric Angel for helping him.
• The Gray Angel revealed that the Geometric Angel had become a four-colored crystal mace, then challenged Iver while concealing his own true form.
• Iver unleashed Lost Paradise against the Gray Angel, who used a barrier and a stolen fragment of the Analysis Cannon’s power to counter it.
• The clash awakened the petrified Parthians and triggered an illusion showing the Winged Ones’ rise, decline, and the elves’ discovery of their abandoned Mage Tower.
• The Gray Angel’s beam proved the mages’ Analysis Cannon had approached Lost Paradise, before Iver’s remaining golden rays tore the Gray Angel apart.

Iver recognized that Autolycus had made Parthia’s prophecy come true through his own efforts, and learned that he had done so in the name of hope. As Autolycus faded away, he pleaded to see Heracles one more time.

• The Parthians knelt before Iver after his Preservation spell protected them from the Abyss Angel’s calamity.
• Iver realized that Sinthorn had been the umbilical cord that brought the Abyss Angel into being.
• The badly damaged Gray Angel revealed that he was Autolycus and had established Parthia’s prophecy himself, making its events happen over time.
• Autolycus explained that hope meant preserving civilization and seeking a new path, even when the present was dark.
• As Autolycus disintegrated into light, he recited a prayer and asked to see Heracles one more time.

Autolycus recalled her brief, joyful friendship with Heracles before revealing her hope for tomorrow as she disintegrated. Don Quixote inherited her illusory power, and Iver was left with the command to win.

• Autolycus remembered teaching and secretly protecting Heracles, regretting that she had never revealed her true identity or taught him to recognize lies.
• Don Quixote told Autolycus that he was not Heracles, though he felt a familiar connection to her through Croesus.
• As she disintegrated, Autolycus shared her prophecy and entrusted her illusory power to Don Quixote for safekeeping.
• Autolycus told Iver to win, then exchanged farewells with Don Quixote before vanishing into gray dust.
• The light screen revealed Don Quixote's Great Sin abilities, including Twelve Trials and the power to summon him as the Beast of Greed.

Don Quixote accepted his existence and fused with the Gray Angel’s power, transforming himself and gaining powerful damage immunity. The Gray Angel and Geometric Angel then returned power to the Material Realm, triggering a world ascension that left three Angel positions vacant and began a massive promotion ritual.

• Don Quixote’s Great Sin Card and abilities changed as he accepted that he existed in reality and that Heracles’ power was part of him.
• Don Quixote reappeared in gray-white robes with his face revealed, carrying a tower shield and holy sword.
• The Geometric Angel’s radiance stirred the four elements, while the Gray Angel’s radiance restored the Material Realm’s disturbances to normal.
• Iver sensed cracks in the Veil of Stars as the Path of Adaptation and Path of Wisdom surpassed their limits and the Material Realm began ascending.
• The returned Angel powers strengthened the Material Realm, changing life and learning for Transcendents and ordinary people and opening new possibilities between the Dream Realm and Material Realm.
• The Lunar Eclipse Ritual ended, three Angel positions became vacant, and Iver realized the Material Realm had entered a massive Promotion Ritual.

Iver accepted the Geometric Angel’s unusual Angel Shard and realized Plato had left it to help him rebuild his body. As he considered how to be reborn, he remembered that his Great Sin Beasts numbered seven, not six.

• Don Quixote presented the Geometric Angel’s shard to Iver, inspiring artists across the city with the sight of the knight kneeling before the Deer-headed Giant.
• Iver tried to use Lia the Paradox Flame Butterfly with the shard, but their powers did not resonate.
• Iver examined the shard’s curved Aether Dodecahedron and concluded that the Geometric Angel had left it to help reconstruct his body.
• Iver realized the Abyss Angel was still barely alive and that his own giant body was only a temporary vessel for his soul.
• Iver recalled his Yin-Yang Harmonization trait and summoned his unused Great Sin card for Moriarty, discovering that there were seven Great Sin Beasts.

Iver fused the Geometric Angel’s Angel Shard with his Great Sin Card and was reborn as the Angel-like Beast of Arrogance of Dawn. He recognized the immense power of his new card just as the battle in the Dream Realm reached its climax.

• Iver realized he could fuse his own Great Sin Card with an Angel Shard and joined the Geometric Angel’s shard to it.
• The fusion caused the giant’s flesh to disintegrate, leaving the Sin Thorn to burn with white flames and release information belonging to the original Ai Shiping.
• The light reconstructed Iver’s body, giving him white hair, golden eyes, six wings, a halo, and an Angel’s body that could travel between the Dream Realm and the Material Realm.
• Iver read his new Great Sin Card, which let him transform into the Beast of Arrogance of Dawn, copy another Great Sin Beast’s ability, and unleash Lost Paradise against enemies.
• Iver considered the power that would come from Hellerchein and Little Butterfly obtaining Angel Shards as the Dream Realm battle reached its climax.

Iver realized that the changes caused by the fallen Angels would break the world’s stagnant order and threaten the void, forcing it to choose whether to become vulnerable and confront him. The void chose to descend into the Material Realm, and Calamity Red unleashed a devastating attack in the Dream Realm.

• Iver considered how increased lifespans, easier transcendence, and spreading power would transform the Material Realm and its societies.
• Iver understood that the Ouroboros Ring Ritual introduced the possibility of change and miracles, offering a way to dispel the void.
• Iver concluded that the void might abandon its intangible form to enter the Material Realm and kill him before he grew stronger.
• The void chose to confront Iver by descending into the Material Realm.
• Calamity Red fired countless crimson beams across the Dream Realm, devastating everything they touched and badly injuring the Silver Crowned Dragon.

Calamity Red unleashed the full power of war, destroying the Snow Mountain and attacking Silver Crowned Dragon and the others as his authority turned toward slaughter. Iver confronted him, and Mimir appeared, revealing that he was also Atlas and that he had been waiting for Arthur at Twilight of the End.

• Calamity Red decided he could no longer hold back and unleashed his power, collapsing the Snow Mountain and destroying the library and Round Table Knights.
• Calamity Red’s violence contaminated transcendent beings on the Path of War, and he resolved to become Supreme Heaven by killing anyone who opposed him.
• Iver summoned the Book of Law and Don Quixote, then faced Calamity Red and declared that he would pass the flame onward if necessary.
• Calamity Red fired a destructive beam at Iver, but Mimir raised a Deep Blue rune wall that swallowed it.
• Mimir removed his cloak, revealed his younger form and black-and-white wings, and told Arthur that he was also Atlas and had been waiting at Twilight of the End.

The Wise Philosopher regained part of his former power and revealed that he had given up being a Pillar God. Iver realized Odin had taken his place as the Wise Philosopher, but the chapter ended as the group considered what that meant.

• The Wise Philosopher’s golden wings grew into six intact wings, and Calamity Red accused Mimir of cheating.
• The Rider Angel healed herself and the Silver Crowned Dragon, who explained why a Pillar God could not absorb power from another Source River.
• The Silver Crowned Dragon recognized that the Wise Philosopher had abandoned his position as a Pillar God after a Deep Blue halo appeared above him.
• Wing Angel explained that Odin had become the master of the Fourth Source River in Mimir’s place.
• Iver recalled Odin’s Trial and understood how its sacrifice ritual had allowed Odin to gain the truth needed to bear the Wise Philosopher’s name.

Mimir revealed that he had raised Odin to replace him, develop pure rune magic, and inherit the title of Great Philosopher. He cast off his old identity as Uranus, struck down Calamity Red, and declared his return as his power began to split his body apart.

• Mimir explained that Odin had created new rune magic and would inherit the empty position of the Pillar God of Wisdom.
• Iver understood that Mimir planned to sacrifice himself and erase his knowledge so a new Great Philosopher could succeed him without corruption.
• Mimir declared that the void’s victory and pursuit of knowledge were his enemies, then reclaimed his forgotten identity as Uranus.
• Uranus threw a thunder spear that pierced Calamity Red and tore open the sky of the Dream Realm.
• Uranus’s power continued to rise, splitting his body as he stood ready to face Calamity Red.

Uranus fought Calamity Red, who transformed into a fortress-like seven-headed dragon to counter his unavoidable spear. Uranus gained the upper hand, but cracks spreading across his body revealed that he was also infected by the void and might collapse before Calamity Red was defeated.

• Calamity Red abandoned its wings, mobility, speech, and concentrated core, transforming into a fortress with seven dragon heads.
• Calamity Red unleashed seven layers of void breath, but Uranus blocked them with a rune wall and pierced the fortress with his thunder spear.
• Uranus dodged the dragon’s redirected breath, smashed one of its heads, and used his written words to make Calamity Red vulnerable to thunder.
• Uranus repeatedly struck the fortress with his returning spear, while Iver noticed the Winged Angel’s body cracking and showing signs of void infection.
• Iver realized Uranus might collapse before Calamity Red fell, leaving them to face two void entities.

The Silver Crowned Dragon explained why he had severed and sealed away the impure part of himself, then passed the Path of Authority to Lancelot. Lancelot refused to let his former king face Calamity Red alone and rode the Silver Crowned Dragon into battle as the new king.

• The Rider Angel transformed into Lancelot and volunteered to fight alongside Iver, greeting him and recognizing Don Quixote as a knight.
• The Silver Crowned Dragon told Lancelot that he did not intend to reclaim the Pillar God position, and explained that killing Calamity Red could reunite him with the part of himself polluted by the void.
• The Silver Crowned Dragon declared himself an impure god and a disqualified king, then transferred the crown and the Path of Authority to Lancelot.
• The Silver Crowned Dragon tried to fling Lancelot away before charging into battle, but Lancelot mounted his neck and ordered him to fight alongside his new king.
• The Silver Crowned Dragon and Lancelot charged at Calamity Red and the First Generation King of Winged Ones as Iver closed the Book of Law and watched.

Uranus and the Silver Crowned Dragon defeated Calamity Red, and Uranus chose to die rather than return to the Material Realm. With Calamity Red dead, a new Pillar God of Unity took the place of War, and the Material Realm was declared on the verge of ascending.

• Uranus called down a storm of thunder that severed Calamity Red's seven heads, and the Silver Crowned Dragon froze the dragon's remaining life force.
• Uranus told Iver he would not return, explaining that he was polluted and that his complete death would allow Odin to become the true Great Sage.
• Uranus dissolved, leaving an Angel Shard of Mystery and Magic that imprinted itself into Iver's eye.
• The Silver Crowned Dragon and the sacred sword killed Calamity Red, completing the succession of the Pillar God of War.
• The new Pillar God of Unity accepted and strengthened people across the world, who praised White Robe/Silver Crown as the god of unity.
• A voice announced that the Path of Unity had surpassed its limits and that the Material Realm was about to ascend.

Iver understood how the Path of Unity had reshaped the River of Violence and learned the truth behind the world’s false firmament. Lancelot, Guinevere, and the Silver Crowned Dragon appeared together as the new Pillar God, calling themselves the Great Collective.

• Iver reasoned that the Path of Unity spread power among many people, relying on telepathy, Fusion, and cooperation rather than individual strength.
• Iver recalled that the Heaven-Eating Behemoth had been tainted by nothingness and concluded that the stars, sun, moon, and Veil of Equilibrium were part of the world’s protection against the hole in its firmament.
• Iver wondered which of the Silver Crowned Dragon, Rider Angel, and Calamity Red had died after the final explosion.
• Lancelot, Guinevere, and the Silver Crowned Dragon descended before Iver, and Lancelot tossed him Rider Angel’s Shard of Protection and Loyalty.
• Iver realized that Rider Angel had abandoned his own body and ascended as a Pillar God under Vortigern’s identity, forming a trinity with Guinevere and the Silver Crowned Dragon.
• Lancelot named their new collective the Great Collective, and Guinevere and the Silver Crowned Dragon said it was because they were many.

Iver learned how the Great Collective united distinct members while preserving their individual wills, and Lancelot planned to recruit Hai Na and others. After the mirror ritual collapsed and Iver returned to the sand sea, he considered using the Angel Shards with Lia and Hellerchein.

• Lancelot explained that the Great Collective could grow by welcoming people with different abilities and that Hai Na could join temporarily.
• Lancelot and Guinevere said the Great Collective valued unity and inclusion, while its members could keep their individual wills and disagree.
• Lancelot named potential recruits, including King Stibium, Heaven Rakshasa, Lanmalok, Titania, Morgan, and Merlin, though Silver Crowned Dragon disliked Morgan and Merlin.
• The mirror ritual collapsed after Abyss Angel and Calamity Red died, and Iver fell back into the sand sea.
• Iver took out the Angel Shards and the cards of Lia and Hellerchein, planning to test whether they could use the shards.

Iver used the Rider Angel's Angel Shard to awaken Hellerchein as a powerful Great Sin Beast, gaining a new combat summon and floating-cannon abilities. The chapter ended with Iver realizing Hellerchein's attribute-enhancement effect could be transferred to other Great Sin Beasts—or to Iver himself for forty-nine seconds.

• Iver tested the Wise One's and Rider Angel's Angel Shards, but Hellerchein failed to gain recognition from the Wise One's shard.
• Hellerchein resonated with the Rider Angel's Angel Shard and transformed into a towering armored Great Sin Beast with the Sin: Hellerchein of Wrath card.
• Iver summoned Hellerchein and learned that his authorities used his shield and gun barrel, while his abilities could call floating cannons and convert them into attribute enhancements.
• Iver recognized Hellerchein as his first dedicated damage dealer and considered passing his immense attribute boosts to Little Butterfly Lia.
• Iver realized Hellerchein's enhancement could transfer to another Great Sin Beast, including Iver himself after he unlocked Sin: Iver of Dawn.