Recaps

Ian spoke with the Ancient Dragon about how powerful wizards could deceive time and history, learning that minor changes could be concealed while major changes required tricks or higher powers. The Dragon also explained the Dragon Slayer achievement, leaving Ian curious about the reward granted for killing twelve Dragons.

• The Ancient Dragon recognized the scent of multiple Dragons on Ian and deduced that he had traveled through time because it believed itself the last Pureblood Dragon.
• The Dragon told Ian about Rowena Ravenclaw’s research on deceiving time, explaining that history could smooth over small changes and that clever wizards could disguise larger ones with substitute events.
• The Dragon listed ways to avoid time’s notice, including leaving no traces, preserving key events, acting in temporal blind spots, and letting history explain ambiguous actions.
• Ian connected the Dragon’s account to Dumbledore’s plans concerning Ariana and wondered whether a higher power had hidden important events from history.
• Ian asked about becoming a Dragon Slayer, and the Dragon explained that killing twelve Dragons could earn a world-granted reward and mark someone as more important to Destiny.

Ian learned that slaying twelve Ancient Dragons could earn a Dragon Slayer privileges from the world, then told Hogwarts’ senior dragon about the Titans and their alien origins. The dragon begged Ian to summon it to the real world, while Ian left for the Ancient Castle to find Teacher Morgan and discovered a note on her bedroom door.

• Ian asked the senior dragon why twelve dragons mattered, and it explained that twelve represented a complete cycle and that Dragon Slayers could receive privileges from the world.
• Ian told the dragon about the gods, the Titans, and the World Ship, and the dragon excitedly begged him to summon it to the real world so it could meet the aliens.
• The dragon explained that Dragon Slayer rewards strengthened weak Legends who had taken a shortcut to attain Legend, and said it felt no sympathy for its extinct kind.
• Ian reflected on whether Dumbledore, Raven, Death, and the events in the Black-and-White World had also deceived time and history.
• Ian went to the Ancient Castle to see Teacher Morgan, searched the dining hall and her usual rooms, and found a note on her bedroom door.

Ian explored Teacher Morgan’s castle while she was away, discovering its sentient objects, strange garden, and magical rooms. In the observatory, he opened a hidden compartment and found a notebook that transformed into a book titled “The Mystery of Fairy Tales.”

• Ian read Morgan’s warning on her bedroom door, peeked beneath it at strange Crystal Vials, and learned from the Ancient Dragon that Morgan might be gone for two days.
• Ian decided to explore the castle and fled after an obsidian-like suit of armor told him to kiss it.
• Ian entered the enchanted garden, ate a magical apple, and encountered a self-sweeping broom and talking Mirrors.
• Ian found silent, magically locked books in the study and backed out of a kitchen where animated utensils were fighting.
• Ian reached the observatory, answered a mechanical owl’s password challenge, and discovered Morgan’s hidden notebook, which became a book titled “The Mystery of Fairy Tales.”

Ian discovered Morgan’s enchanted fairy-tale book and learned that her research linked the decline of belief in fairy tales to the decline of magic. He returned from the Misty Illusion just as Dumbledore tried to stop a girl from cooking Fawkes.

• Ian used the password “Knowledge knows no bounds, truth is eternal” to open the mechanical owl’s hidden compartment and found Morgan’s notebook.
• The notebook transformed into The Mystery of Fairy Tales, revealing animated stories that taught magical principles and Morgan’s handwritten research.
• Ian read Morgan’s findings that 1990 ± 5 years would mark the birth of the last true fairy tale, followed by an age without hope, and learned that belief in magical creatures was declining among Hogwarts freshmen.
• Ian wondered whether Raven sought to restore humanity and save fairy tales and magic before the Misty Illusion pulled him away.
• Ian woke to hear Dumbledore telling a girl that Fawkes was a companion, not an ingredient, while she described her phoenix stew recipe.

Ian woke from the Misty Illusion and told Dumbledore that he had spent time with Ariana, while Claire questioned him about the memories he had encountered. Dumbledore explained how he had reached Ian through the Bronze Door, and Claire began simmering her Phoenix, Red Feather, as Ian and Dumbledore watched in disbelief.

• Ian woke to find Claire trying to persuade Dumbledore to let her stew Fawkes, while Dumbledore protected the frightened Phoenix.
• Claire said Ian's encounter with echoes of history had not been caused by her, though she might have acted as a catalyst.
• Ian told Dumbledore he had played with Ariana and that she had given him a Star Candy, prompting Dumbledore to reminisce about her.
• Dumbledore explained that he had deciphered the Bronze Door's magical mathematics and causal logic to locate Ian's era.
• Ian confirmed that twelve Ancient Dragons could earn a Dragonslayer recognition from the world, as Dumbledore and Grindelwald had learned from Lady Ravenclaw's paper.
• Claire's Phoenix, Red Feather, climbed into her Cauldron, and Claire claimed that simmering Phoenix soup strengthened it through its nirvana cycle.

Ian watched Claire use a phoenix rebirth ritual to produce a powerful soup, while Dumbledore left to collect alchemical materials for her. Claire then revealed that the leftover soup could refine the ancestors of the Dumbledore family, claiming it was the family’s origin.

• Claire explained that her phoenix grew stronger by stewing and consuming itself, while Dumbledore refused to subject Fawkes to the same process.
• Dumbledore departed to collect alchemical materials that Claire said had uses including strengthening the body and enhancing phoenix rebirth.
• Claire successfully created a Phoenix Rebirth Soup, and the phoenix reformed as an egg in a nearby nest.
• Claire drank the soup and offered some to Ian, who declined because he did not want to turn into an egg.
• Claire told Ian that the remaining soup could refine the ancestors of the Dumbledore family and declared it was the family’s origin.

Ian learned that the Dumbledore family's connection to Phoenixes came from Claire's soup and that time could flow in loops and reversals. To uncover more secrets and eventually return home, he agreed to collect materials across different eras using a Time Machine Claire had already built.

• Ian questioned Claire about the Dumbledore family's origins, and she explained that her soup had given the family its affinity with Phoenixes.
• Claire revealed that Titan exile prevented her from traveling beyond her floating island, and Ian agreed to gather materials for her.
• Claire gave Ian a list of rare materials, including crystals from the volcanic crater in the Misty Illusion, and explained that he could collect them because he could interfere with Destiny.
• Ian asked Claire to teach him Time Magic, but she said she would build him a Time Machine and explained that it could not take him all the way back to his own era.
• Claire revealed that she had already built a Doraemon-like drawer Time Machine, and Ian took the list and climbed inside.

Ian used Claire’s disguised Time Machine to travel to 300 BC Greece in search of a talking rose and Epiphyllum Flower Nectar. He arrived in a city under attack and heard someone accuse Athena of betrayal.

• Claire explained the Time Machine’s controls, warned Ian not to alter history, and told him to return with the green button if he faced danger.
• Ian set the destination to 300 BC Greece and activated the Time Machine despite Claire’s warning that gods there might recognize its stolen power.
• After a violent journey, Ian arrived in an alley, where the Time Machine had disguised itself as a bronze ring and played a recorded tutorial message.
• Ian left the alley and found a Greek city in flames as Spartan warriors attacked Athenian soldiers.
• Ian heard an enraged voice shout, “Athena! You betrayed me!”

Ian arrived in ancient Rhodes Island during a war and tried to stop the soldiers from slaughtering civilians. As Zeus watched Kratos battle the animated Sun God, Ian appeared beside the god and greeted him.

• Ian recognized Rhodes Island as an ancient center of magical civilization as Spartan soldiers attacked the city.
• Ian protected a civilian, transformed the soldiers’ weapons into squeaking toy chickens, and bound the combatants with a spell.
• Zeus arrived in the form of a giant eagle and animated the statue of the Sun God, which began destroying the city.
• Ian recognized Kratos as he fought the Sun God amid the destruction of Rhodes Island.
• Ian appeared beside Zeus and greeted him, startling the king of the gods.

Ian met Zeus among the ruins of Rhodes and demanded a talking rose, Epiphyllum Flower Nectar, and Godslayer’s Blood. Zeus pointed him toward Kratos, then left as Kratos fought the Colossus of Helios; Ian also kept his search for a god’s heart secret, and Zeus later blamed Ian for wanting Kratos dead.

• Ian appeared before Zeus, who recognized him as Raven and anxiously asked why he had returned.
• Ian requested a talking rose, Epiphyllum Flower Nectar, and Godslayer’s Blood, and Zeus agreed to obtain the first two while pointing to Kratos for the blood.
• Kratos fought the Colossus of Helios, denounced Zeus and the gods, and was knocked unconscious; Zeus revealed Kratos was his son and said he would let the colossus kill him.
• Zeus warned Ian not to interfere in the gods’ affairs, then flew away, while Ian secretly noted that he also needed a god’s heart.
• At Port of Rhodes, Kratos continued fighting after Zeus had drained his divine power, and Zeus descended in hawk form atop the colossus.
• Zeus told Kratos that someone wanted him dead and pointed toward Ian, whom Kratos then saw nearby.

Zeus stripped Kratos of his divine power and killed him after destroying the Spartan Legion, while Ian watched and protected the surviving civilians. Zeus gave Ian Kratos’s blood, but Ian predicted that Kratos would return.

• Zeus pointed out Ian to Kratos, who rejected the warning and charged at Zeus.
• Zeus used the Colossus of the Sun God to overpower Kratos, whose mortal body could not harm the God-King.
• Zeus unleashed the Sword of Olympus and annihilated the Spartan Legion, blaming their deaths on Kratos.
• Kratos bit Zeus and drew divine blood, but Zeus impaled him with the Sword of Olympus and killed him.
• Zeus collected Kratos’s blood and gave it to Ian, who said Kratos would come back.

After Zeus destroyed Rhodes Island, Ian buried the dead and urged the survivors to stop depending on gods and build their own future. Zeus considered killing them to suppress their new hope, but the Sun God stopped him by reminding him of his fear of Ian.

• Zeus gave Ian Kratos's blood and promised to deliver the Talking Rose and Epiphyllum Flower Nectar, while warning Ian to stay away from Mount Olympus.
• Ian used magic to bury the corpses and the fallen Sun God statue beneath the earth, then revealed the civilians he had secretly protected.
• When the survivors called Ian a god and offered to worship him, he urged them to rely on themselves, unite, and establish their own order.
• Ian transformed into a Raven and flew away, leaving the survivors with a new sense of hope instead of kneeling or praying.
• Zeus prepared to destroy the survivors, but the Sun God intervened and warned that doing so could bring Ian back; Zeus ultimately held back.

Zeus spared the surviving mortals and returned to Olympus while Ian searched the mountain for a dead god’s heart. With Athena’s guidance, Ian found Ares’s tomb, took his heart, and then traveled to Thebes, where he observed the gods’ influence among mortals.

• The Sun God warned Zeus that killing the mortals might give Ian a reason to attack, and Zeus released him before flying back to Olympus as an eagle.
• Ian followed Zeus toward Mount Olympus and searched for a dead god’s grave so he could obtain a God's Heart.
• Athena guided Ian to the Forbidden Land, where he opened Ares’s coffin and removed the God of War’s heart.
• Zeus told Athena to help Ian find the rest of his requested items so the gods could learn his purpose and send him away.
• Ian flew to Thebes and watched priests, divine incarnations, and a holy water procession spread the gods’ influence among the people.

Ian explored a city ruled by the gods, healed an injured hippogriff, and joined a secret gathering of Witches. When temple forces raided the gathering, Ian confronted them and challenged the gods to face him.

• Ian saw the city's people punished for blasphemy and witnessed a Divine Grace test that tied magical power and education to the gods.
• After Artemis's Priestess ordered unmarked wild magic users to register, Ian healed a hippogriff that temple healers had refused to help.
• Ian followed a Witch into a hidden gathering where attendees traded forbidden magical knowledge and discussed a bounty on a wizard matching Ian's description.
• Temple Knights and a priest raided the gathering, froze the Witches' magic, and prepared to arrest them.
• Ian addressed the temple forces and declared that if their goddess rejected Witches, the gods could face him.

Ian intervened when Temple Knights raided a Wild Wizard gathering, defeating them and freeing the wizards while Athena ignored the priest’s prayer. He drove the temple forces away and invited the Wild Wizards to continue their discussion.

• Temple Knights raided a gathering near Thebes and began arresting the Wild Wizards until Ian challenged them.
• Ian froze the charging Knights, struck down their leader, and used magic to defeat the rest and free the wizards from their chains.
• The priest called on Athena for aid, but the goddess did not respond, and Ian mocked the priest’s faith.
• Ian warned the temple forces to leave, and the Knights carried the injured priest out of the barn.
• Ian turned back to the Wild Wizards and asked them to continue their discussion.

Ian drove away the Temple Knights, then resumed the wizards’ gathering and taught them advanced magical theories while urging them to unite and build a haven. Goddess Athena arrived and offered to shelter the wizards if Ian would let her live when Ragnarok came.

• Ian frightened the Temple Knights into fleeing after their priest failed to receive an answer from Athena.
• Ian persuaded the wizards to continue their gathering, and they shared ancient magical research with him.
• Ian corrected the wizards’ theories on elemental magic, soul resonance, and stellar summoning while teaching them new principles.
• Ian urged the wizards to unite and establish their own order and haven, but said he would eventually leave and could not protect them.
• Athena appeared at the barn and offered to shelter the wizards in exchange for Ian letting her live through Ragnarok.

Athena approached Ian to ask for protection from Ragnarok, revealing that she believed his words could command Destiny. She showed him Kratos climbing out of the Underworld to take revenge on Zeus, and the chapter ended with Athena seeing Ian’s true form as a Raven.

• Athena appeared before the gathered wizards and asked Ian to keep her alive when Ragnarok came.
• Athena explained that she expected Olympus to fall and said Zeus had enough troubles of his own as Kratos’s soul climbed out of the Underworld.
• Athena showed Ian and the wizards Kratos fighting through the Underworld and forcing his way toward the mortal realm.
• Athena asked Ian to protect her, and the wizards reacted with awe at the god’s plea.
• Athena told Ian that his words were the will of Destiny and that she believed he was its master.
• Athena’s pupils reflected Ian’s true form as a Raven.

Ian learned from Athena that Raven had consumed the Creator’s authority of Destiny, then secured Athena’s protection for the Wizards and taught them before leaving to meet the Sun God. He accepted the items Zeus had sent and departed in Raven form, while the Wizards prepared to establish their own age.

• Athena put the Wizards in the barn to sleep and told Ian that the Titans had devoured the Creator, but Raven had first eaten the Creator’s authority of Destiny.
• Ian agreed to Athena’s request, and she promised to protect the Wizards until the end of the Age of Gods before disappearing.
• Ian woke the Wizards and told them Athena would protect them, then spent two days teaching them magic and learning their ancient spells.
• The Sun God arrived on the third morning, and Ian left the Wizards after promising they would meet again.
• The Sun God gave Ian the items Zeus had sent, and Ian transformed into a Raven and flew away as the Wizards discussed honoring their departing teacher.

After leaving Greece, Ian used the Time Machine to travel to Ancient Egypt in search of three items for Titaness Claire. He arrived in a prosperous city along the Nile, where a vendor hinted that sacred objects could be obtained by undergoing the gods’ trials.

• The Sun God returned to Mount Olympus after seeing Ian off, and Athena pretended she hoped Ian would never come back while Zeus focused on Kratos escaping the Underworld.
• Zeus vowed to stop Kratos, while Hermes warned that Kratos was a Godslayer and an exception to Destiny; Athena grew stronger as the gods lost wisdom.
• Ian evaded the gods’ sight, activated Claire’s Time Machine, and learned that his Egyptian objectives were the Fragment of the Eye of Ra, the Oar of the Underworld Ferry, and the Pharaoh’s Cursed Gold Leaf.
• Ian traveled to Ancient Egypt, disguised himself in local clothing, and reached a prosperous city along the Nile.
• Ian examined an Eye of Horus amulet and questioned a one-eyed vendor, who said the most effective sacred objects required the gods’ trials.

Ian explored Ancient Egypt while seeking the Fragment of the Eye of Ra, the Styx Oar, and the Pharaoh's Cursed Gold Foil. After priests exposed his presence in Thebes, he found the tomb of Ramesses III and entered it, reaching a chamber filled with scarabs.

• Ian learned from an old wizard and two dancers that the gods tested mortals and that Set might be returning.
• Three priests accused Ian of stealing temple offerings, but he disabled their scarab and erased the witnesses' memories before vanishing.
• Ian gathered leads on the Fragment of the Eye of Ra, the Styx Oar, and stolen funerary objects, then traveled to Ramesses III's pyramid.
• Ian slipped past the tomb guards, opened the shifting entrance with a Deconstruction Rune, and cut through the curse threads inside.
• Ian entered a burial chamber with a turquoise-inlaid sarcophagus and walls full of scarabs.

Ian raided an ancient Egyptian pyramid, collecting rare potion ingredients, magical artifacts, and secret texts before taking the Cursed Gold Foil. As dawn broke, he left for his next target: Anubis's Styx Oar.

• Ian put the tomb's scarabs to sleep, gathered them and their eggs, and harvested Styx Fluorescent Fungus from the walls.
• Ian cleared the coffin's curse, destroyed the awakened Mummy with Corpse-Dissolving Water, and took the Cursed Gold Foil.
• Ian collected the Pharaoh's Death Guard Scorpions, embalming formulas, and preserved ingredients from a workshop.
• Ian discovered a hidden alchemy laboratory and took the Book of the Sun, its tools, and a spirit-bearing bronze furnace.
• Ian looted a sealed chamber full of cursed objects, then left the pyramid at dawn to borrow Anubis's Styx Oar.

Ian explored the Egyptian desert for rare Fantastic Beast samples and discovered the buried tomb of the god Set. He ignored Set’s pleas, looted the palace, destroyed its magical guard system, and escaped as the temple collapsed, leaving Set imprisoned and furious.

• Ian transformed into a Raven and collected blood, venom, and research footage from rare desert Fantastic Beasts.
• A magical detector led Ian to a buried palace, where he deciphered inscriptions identifying it as Set’s sealed tomb.
• Ian ignored Set’s promises and threats while recording the palace and taking its alchemical tools, manuscripts, and other treasures.
• Set animated dozens of magic-immune metal guards, but Ian destroyed them with a Gatling gun and found the ceiling rune controlling their creation.
• Ian removed the control rune, causing the guards to collapse, and fled as the palace crumbled around Set’s still-intact seal.

Ian reached Anubis’s temple to obtain permission to enter the Underworld and borrow the Styx Oar. After passing three trials, he arrived at the River Styx and faced Anubis, asking directly for the oar.

• Ian left Set’s temple and traveled east to Anubis’s temple to seek the Styx Oar.
• Ian persuaded Anubis’s priest to let him attempt three trials for entry to the Underworld.
• Ian passed the wisdom trial by answering “the future.”
• Ian extinguished the trial’s sea of fire with a potion and passed the courage trial.
• Ian broke out of the coffin during the death trial and found himself beside the River Styx, where Anubis was waiting with the oar.
• Ian told Anubis he wanted to borrow the Styx Oar.

Ian accepted Anubis's trials to earn the right to hold the oar of the River Styx and crossed the river in Raven form, defeating the fallen wizard souls that tried to possess him. Anubis summoned an ancient arena and announced the first trial.

• Ian asked Anubis to lend him the oar, and Anubis required him to pass three trials before he could hold it safely.
• Anubis told Ian to cross the River Styx, then face heroic souls, an immortal wizard, and Anubis's will.
• Ian transformed into a Raven and flew over the River Styx, striking down the fallen wizard souls that tried to tempt or possess him.
• Ian reached the far bank, where Anubis praised his transformation and prepared the challenges.
• Anubis raised an ancient arena from the ground and announced that the first trial had begun.

Ian began Anubis’s first trial against the heroic soul Seti and used an enormous cleaver and powered armor with jet engines to overwhelm the ancient warrior without relying on magic. Seti struggled to fight back as Anubis realized Ian came from the future.

• Anubis began the first trial, summoning the legendary Ancient Egyptian Warrior Seti to face Ian.
• Ian filled half the stands with illusory spectators cheering for him and learned that he could use magic only three times.
• Ian revealed a forty-meter cleaver and powered armor, then used its jet engines to fly above Seti.
• Seti protested that the trial was unfair, but Anubis ordered it to continue, and Ian battered Seti’s shield with his oversized blade.
• Seti’s Khopesh failed to damage Ian’s armor, and Anubis realized Ian was from the future.