Recaps

Ian refused to promise Riddle a safe return to Hogwarts, but Riddle revealed that Voldemort had become Death’s servant and posed a future threat. As Pompeii’s destruction drew near, Ian ordered the “Priestess” to help him confront Helpo.

• Riddle offered to reveal a secret about Voldemort in exchange for being taken back to the future, explaining that Death had made Voldemort its servant and given him a dangerous mission.
• The “Priestess” confirmed that Riddle’s memories held no details of the secret, and Riddle said he could learn it only while linked to the other soul fragment.
• Riddle wrote down the Enslavement Curse for Ian, who quickly learned it and speculated that it could help create an Azkaban at Hogwarts.
• The “Priestess” warned Ian that Pompeii would be destroyed in seventeen hours and that fixed points in time could not be changed.
• After the “Priestess” struck Riddle for mocking her, Ian ordered her to accompany him against Helpo, and she accepted the order through their contract.

Ian, the Reckless Goddess, and Riddle led a force of priests to Mount Vesuvius to confront Helpo, but the battle began with Helpo unleashing Silent Mist Nightmares that threatened the Goddess. The chapter ended with the Goddess calling on her divine family for help.

• The Reckless Goddess explained that Helpo’s curse would end if he died, and Ian joined her in gathering the city’s wizards for an assault on Mount Vesuvius.
• The priests sealed the temple’s space and time while Cassandra sang for Ian, who gave her an alchemical bracelet for protection.
• Ian, the Reckless Goddess, and Riddle entered the temple, where Helpo’s voice accused Riddle of being a spy and shadowy creatures emerged beneath them.
• Ian discovered that the Silent Mist Nightmares fed on memories and could alter history, while his Patronus drove them back from him but not from the Goddess.
• With the Nightmares closing in and Apparition impossible, the Reckless Goddess refused to summon her true body and shouted for her father and siblings to save her.

The Reckless Goddess summoned her father, the Sun God, to aid Ian and Riddle against the Silent Mist Nightmares. After the Sun God examined Ian’s mind and encountered the secret within it, his avatar shattered, leaving the Reckless Goddess empowered and horrified by what Ian was hiding.

• The Reckless Goddess’s cry cleared the storm clouds, and the Sun God’s light destroyed the Silent Mist Nightmares surrounding her and Riddle.
• A Silent Mist Nightmare dragged Riddle into a memory of Dumbledore confronting him at Wu's Orphanage, where Riddle relived his fear and killed Dumbledore in the vision.
• The Sun God recognized Ariana as a Heroic Spirit and tried to take the Reckless Goddess away, but she showed him her ten-thousand-year contract with Ian and warned that Ian’s death would erase her.
• The Sun God confronted Ian, dismissed Ariana, and used a Divine Decree to probe Ian’s mind.
• Inside Ian’s subconscious, the Sun God saw Ian perched on a utility pole as Raven, panicked, and shattered his avatar before transferring his power to the Reckless Goddess.

Ian and the Reckless Goddess discovered that Helpo had transformed Pompeii’s population into mummified followers and was preparing to ascend as a Paradox God. The Reckless Goddess tried to flee with Ian after realizing Helpo intended to use Riddle—and possibly Ian—as his Paradox Angel.

• After the Sun God left, Ian tried to wake the unconscious Riddle, but the Reckless Goddess healed him with her divine light and persuaded Ian not to hurt him.
• Ian and the Reckless Goddess found Helpo missing from the temple, and she destroyed its metal doors so they could leave.
• Outside, Ian and the Reckless Goddess saw Helpo absorbing the city’s transformed inhabitants in Pompeii’s square, while Malfoy knelt in a marked groove beneath him.
• Ian discovered that the unconscious Riddle had vanished from the temple and reappeared in another groove beside Helpo, covered in black markings.
• The Reckless Goddess realized Helpo was in a paradoxical state and intended to become a Paradox God by using a Paradox Angel; she warned Ian that Riddle might be the angel and tried to escape with him and Cassandra.

Ian and the Reckless Goddess tried to escape Helpo’s Paradox Domain, but each attempt brought them back to the city. As Helpo began his ascension and nullified their attacks, Ian triggered Mount Vesuvius’s eruption to test whether Helpo’s paradox could withstand an inevitable historical disaster.

• Ian rode on the Reckless Goddess as she transformed them and Cassandra into golden light and tried to flee, but Helpo’s power returned them to the city.
• The Reckless Goddess explained that Helpo’s Paradox Domain trapped them and urged Ian to stop Helpo before he completed his ascension.
• The Reckless Goddess attacked Helpo, but black threads trapped her, while Ian’s Avada Plague: Fel Energy Burst vanished when Helpo touched it.
• Helpo invited Ian to join him as an angel, but Ian revealed that he had concealed magic capable of triggering Mount Vesuvius.
• Ian used Blazing Journey to set off the volcano, unleashing lava and ash as he challenged Helpo to overcome the inevitable eruption.

Ian triggered Pompeii’s historical eruption to defeat Helpo, then destroyed Helpo’s soul in his mindscape. As the survivors mourned the ruined city, Ian began awakening the Paradox Authority and approaching a new Legendary transformation, while the Sun God revealed that Pompeii’s destruction was a turning point in history.

• Ian used Time Magic to awaken Mount Vesuvius’s eruption early, and the Reckless Goddess shielded him, Cassandra, and the surviving wizards from the lava.
• As Destiny overwhelmed Helpo’s false godhood, Helpo tried to transform Ian into an angel, but Ian drew his soul into his mindscape and destroyed it.
• Ian and the survivors mourned Pompeii’s destruction, and Cassandra thanked Ian on behalf of the remaining priests.
• Ian began gaining the Paradox Authority, and the Reckless Goddess sensed that he was becoming a powerful Legendary Wizard.
• The Sun God arrived and told the Reckless Goddess that Pompeii’s destruction was a turning point in history, then recited a prophecy about a hymn leading the way and an ancient god awakening.

Ian completed his transformation into a Legendary Wizard and used the Authority of Paradox to restore the ruined city, then returned to his own time with Malfoy and Riddle. The Sun God concluded that Ian’s actions proved his belief that wizards were the true gods and the gods were false ones.

• As Ian became a Legend, he discovered that his Raven-shaped Authority let him plunder and possess power, including Helpo’s Paradox Authority.
• Ian rejected the Reckless Goddess’s offer to share her divine seat and declared that he would continue along the wizard’s path.
• Ian unleashed the Authority of Paradox and set a new outcome, restoring the destroyed city to life despite the ongoing volcanic disaster.
• Ian prepared to leave with the unconscious Malfoy and bound Riddle, promised Cassandra they would meet again, and vanished into the future.
• The Reckless Goddess and Sun God watched Ian depart, and the Sun God said Ian had acted on his belief that wizards were true gods while the gods were false ones.

Ian, Riddle, and Malfoy traveled through time from Pompeii but arrived in an unknown ancient era, where Ian agreed to teach a young noble girl magic in exchange for help finding a way back. The girl introduced herself as Miss Morgan, leaving Ian horrified by her identity while Riddle shouted that he wanted to return to Hogwarts.

• Cassandra sang a farewell hymn for Ian as the Sun God explained to the Reckless Goddess that the gods had permitted Destiny's temple as part of a transaction with Destiny.
• Ian, Riddle, and Malfoy traveled through history, but their passage weakened before they reached their intended destination.
• The three landed in a pigsty, where a boar attacked Riddle until he broke free and killed the pigs with wandless magic.
• Ian and Riddle realized they had arrived in an unknown ancient era and decided to seek a dark wizard with an Ancient Time-Turner.
• A young noble girl approached them with two armored Knights and offered to forgive the dead pigs if Ian became her magic teacher.
• Ian accepted the girl’s offer, called himself Mentor Medivh, and learned that she was Miss Morgan, the daughter of the Duke of Tintagel and princess of Cornwall.

Ian and Riddle found themselves in King Arthur’s era, where Ian met the young Morgan and secured an oath contract with her before agreeing to teach her magic. The group left the farm together, with Riddle reduced to carrying Malfoy and leading Ian’s horse as they rode into the night.

• Little Morgan sensed Ian’s and Riddle’s fear, and Ian explained that his teacher shared her name before agreeing to teach her in exchange for an oath against harming each other.
• Ian transformed a longsword into a staff, then guided Morgan through an oath that bound their Destinies and protected them from harming one another.
• Morgan asked to learn the Killing Curse first, and Ian revived her two petrified knights with potions.
• Morgan led Ian, Riddle, the knights, and the unconscious Malfoy out of the farm, where she introduced her horse, Calamity.
• Riddle carried Malfoy and led Ian’s horse while Ian rode in a black robe and enjoyed his imagined medieval adventure.

Ian stayed at Morgan’s castle and received the Legendary Dark Witch’s cryptic instruction to “Follow history.” The next morning, Riddle began brewing a potion for Malfoy, secretly intending to make him the groom of the Dark God in Ian’s place.

• Morgan escorted Ian and Riddle to her family’s castle and gave Ian a luxurious guest room.
• Ian used the Patronus Charm to ask Ariana to consult their teacher, and the Legendary Dark Witch sent back the words “Follow history.”
• Riddle apologized to Morgan, then privately began devising a scheme while caring for the unconscious Malfoy.
• Morgan read The Dark Bible and recognized its author, Medivh, as a name tied to a mystery that would follow her life.
• The next morning, Ian found Riddle brewing a potion to treat Malfoy, while Riddle secretly planned to make Malfoy the Dark God’s groom instead of himself.

Ian explored the grounds of Gorlois’s castle with Morgan, discovered her talent for magic, and began teaching her Dark Magic. Meanwhile, Gorlois learned that Morgan had brought powerful wizards home and hired Soul Hall to investigate them.

• Ian ate breakfast, then followed Morgan past the castle’s knights, whose strength came from the Knight Breathing Technique.
• Morgan showed Ian the graves of fraudulent teachers and demonstrated her elemental magic and Dark Magic; Ian praised her talent and taught her Avada Kedavra.
• Gorlois heard that Morgan had brought three wizards to the castle and that the accompanying knights’ memories had been erased.
• Gorlois’s shadowy contact warned that the wizards were too powerful to investigate, but agreed after Gorlois offered more money.
• Gorlois reflected on Soul Hall, the organization that had promised to protect Morgan since her birth and valued shiny treasures.

Ian taught Little Morgan the Dancing Charm, an advanced corpse-control spell, then caught a living shadow that claimed to be a fairy-tale character. Merlin Ambrosius arrived to claim it, and Ian challenged him for a Time-Turner before revealing legendary power of his own.

• Little Morgan mastered the Killing Curse, and Ian warned her to control her killing intent before teaching her the Dancing Charm.
• Ian demonstrated how the Dancing Charm made corpses dance and wail, then taught Little Morgan to control one herself.
• Ian caught a shadow spying on them and learned it claimed to be the Big Bad Wolf from Little Red Riding Hood.
• Merlin Ambrosius emerged from the forest and asked Ian to hand over the shadow, offering magical knowledge in return.
• Morgan offered Ian her valuables, and Ian challenged Merlin for a Time-Turner.
• Ian released overwhelming magical power, leaving Merlin stunned.

Ian and Merlin fought as equals, revealing their Legendary powers and Merlin's demigodhood. Ian used a rain spell laden with future diseases to drive Merlin away and declared himself the winner.

• Ian bound the shadow creature and gave it to Little Morgan before attacking Merlin with Fiendfyre.
• Merlin evaded the flames with an illusory form, then moved their battle from the burning forest to a desert with space magic.
• Ian's Fiendfyre and Avada Plague clashed with Merlin's golden flames and wings, while Little Morgan watched and became inspired by their magic.
• Merlin used Divine Decree to try to strip Ian of his ability to cast magic, but Ian's Paradox Authority resisted and reversed the pressure.
• Merlin proposed a draw, but Ian drenched him with rain containing poisons and future diseases, prompting Merlin to flee while Ian photographed him and claimed victory.

Ian defeated Merlin with his unconventional magic, then agreed to join him in excavating a legendary tomb. The chapter ended with Ian learning that the tomb belonged to Medivh, the God Eater who had killed three gods, and wondering whether he could break their contract.

• Ian taunted Merlin after defeating him, and Merlin admitted defeat while warning Ian against his underhanded magic.
• Merlin questioned Ian's strange fire magic and learned that Ian kept a well-behaved Dementor at Hogwarts.
• Little Morgan pressured the shadow creature into taking her through a spatial passage to find Ian and Merlin.
• Little Morgan reunited with Ian, who explained that he and Merlin had signed a contract to split the treasure from an excavation.
• Merlin revealed that the tomb belonged to Medivh, the God Eater, and Ian realized he was bound to the agreement.

Ian discovered that Merlin’s planned tomb expedition concerned his own hidden identity, Medivh, and joined Merlin despite the possibility that it was his future grave. They reached the tomb through its magical defenses and entered Helheim, where Merlin questioned why Ian had retained his body and magic.

• Ian learned that Merlin wanted to rob Medivh’s tomb, while a shadow creature warned that Medivh was the Soul Hall’s Chief Protector.
• Ian confirmed the shadow creature knew Xiao Yan, handed it to Riddle, and cautioned Little Morgan not to investigate Merlin’s unidentified companion, King Uther.
• Ian refused to let Little Morgan join the expedition, then traveled with Merlin by Portkey to the ancient site and opened its entrance by answering its question with a declaration of love.
• Merlin assembled the word Medivh on the Bronze Door, and he and Ian passed through its white mist into Helheim, the Land of the Dead.
• Merlin noticed that Ian remained colorful and had kept his body and magic in Helheim, where only souls were supposed to enter.

Ian and Merlin crossed Helheim’s strange, unguarded paths and discovered a palace where Medivh had enslaved the dead body of Ares as a guardian. When Ares mistook Ian for Medivh, Merlin began to suspect Ian had been targeted by the Witch-Slaying Disc.

• Merlin led Ian through Helheim, where Ian remained alive and unaffected by the world’s rules.
• At a fork in the path, Ian erased both roads and conjured a colored bridge that carried them toward a palace in the sky.
• Ian and Merlin saw Dementors bearing stone tablets below the bridge and questioned whether Helheim was truly a tomb.
• At the palace, Merlin identified the shadowed figure on the throne as the dead body of Ares, enslaved by Medivh.
• Ares called Ian by Medivh’s name and referred to an agreement, prompting Merlin to suspect Ian had been targeted by the Witch-Slaying Disc.

Ian and Merlin reached the palace in Ian’s tomb, where Merlin discovered that a colossal Silent Mist Nightmare surrounded it. After they opened the coffin, they found a black Raven inside, leaving Ian stunned to discover that his corpse was a bird.

• Merlin panicked when he realized Ian was Medivh, the tomb’s owner, while Ian explained that Medivh was his future self.
• Ares, God of War, revealed that he was guarding something else and then fell silent after warning Ian that Athena had told him not to talk to him.
• Ian persuaded Merlin to climb to the palace, where Merlin recognized the surrounding shadows as a gigantic Silent Mist Nightmare that fed on memories and history.
• Ian activated the palace door with his wand, and he and Merlin entered the tomb, where they found a coffin beneath the words “Death is a great gift.”
• Merlin opened the coffin and saw a tiny black Raven; Ian looked inside and exclaimed that he could not believe he was a bird.

Ian and Merlin examined a mysterious raven in Ian’s tomb and speculated about mythology, godhood, and the path beyond Legend. When Ian touched the raven’s corpse, it linked to his magic and triggered an unexpected transformation.

• Ian found a lifelike raven clutching a broken crystal inside the coffin and said it resembled his Black Phoenix.
• Merlin recognized the raven as the Shadow Raven that had once caused him a terrible experience, and he believed its corpse was a rare alchemical material.
• Merlin guessed that Ian had become part of mythology to find a path toward godhood, while Ian said the future of wizardry might reach beyond gods and let a wizard’s will become Heaven’s will.
• Ian touched the raven’s corpse, which connected to his magic and began analyzing him as his cells grew abnormally active.
• Ian realized he was transforming, and feathers began growing from his body as Merlin watched in shock.

Ian transformed into a powerful Raven Animagus after analyzing the Raven’s corpse, and his flight awakened the Dementors and announced the King’s return of authority across connected worlds. As Ian explored his new form, Merlin feared possession, while Morgan, Pandora, Rowena, and the Dark Lord recognized the transformation’s significance.

• Ian’s magic analyzed the Raven’s body and memories, then merged them into him and triggered a painful transformation into a Raven.
• Ian developed a powerful force field, heightened senses, and immense speed, then burst through Helheim’s palace and flew into the sky.
• The Dementors bowed and cried out as Ian’s voice echoed across Helheim and into connected worlds, and he wondered whether he had inherited the Shadow Raven’s power.
• Merlin mistook Ian’s transformation for possession and prepared to attack, while Pandora and Morgan explained that the voice belonged to the King reclaiming his authority and gaining more power.
• Rowena recognized the sound as a reminder and hurried to finish forging the crown, while the Dark Lord watched Ian’s flight and warned that the Raven was weaving its own twilight.

Ian discovered that his Raven Animagus form could manipulate Destiny, then fought Merlin after Merlin mistook him for a possessed Raven. After Ares threw them out of Helheim, Ian collected Merlin’s wager and spotted a Phoenix with a young man in the forest.

• Ian transformed into a Raven, tested his ability to tug Destiny’s threads, and caused a distant mountain to decay and collapse.
• Merlin attacked Ian, believing the Raven had possessed him, but Ian’s body shattered the spells and he pecked Merlin until Merlin admitted he was not possessed.
• Ares, God of War, grabbed Ian and Merlin and hurled them out of Helheim, then reminded Ian to keep his promise to the gods as they left the ruins.
• Ian collected a stone and an Ancient Time-Turner from Merlin, then teased him by listing scandalous books about his love life.
• A young man appeared in the forest with a fiery red bird on his shoulder, and Ian recognized the bird as a Phoenix.

Ian and Merlin met Leonard Dumbledore, a young wizard who had mistaken his Phoenix Audrey for a turkey and feared a family curse called the Sorrow of Blood. Leonard revealed that his ancestor Ariana Dumbledore had served Medivh as one of the Seven Angels, leaving Ian stunned.

• Ian and Merlin emerged from an underground mausoleum and met Leonard Dumbledore, whose companion Audrey was a Phoenix.
• Leonard said he had mistaken Audrey for a turkey and explained that the Phoenix had stayed with him since childhood.
• Leonard told Ian and Merlin that Dark Wizards had killed his parents and that his family suffered the Sorrow of Blood, a curse of powerful magic and inevitable sorrow.
• Merlin offered to teach Leonard magic, but Leonard said he could not leave the valley because his family had been instructed to serve as Grave Keeper there until the curse was redeemed.
• Leonard recalled that his ancestor had served Medivh as one of the Seven Angels and identified her as Ariana Dumbledore, shocking Ian.

Ian summoned Ariana to verify Leonard Dumbledore’s claim that she was his ancestor, and Leonard recognized her from his family portraits. Merlin then identified Ariana as a heroic spirit and began investigating Ian’s power, but his test ended with Ian being punched.

• Leonard told Ian that Ariana Dumbledore was his ancestor, and Ian summoned Ariana with the Patronus Charm to check whether she resembled the family portrait.
• Ariana appeared, and Leonard recognized her as his ancestor; he mistakenly concluded that Ian was her husband.
• Ian dismissed Ariana and told her to give his regards to Teacher and Pandora, while Merlin watched Ian closely.
• Merlin said that Ariana was a heroic spirit and named Shadow Raven and the True Creator as the only others who had summoned the dead from the underworld.
• Merlin gave Ian a black sphere that transformed into a cybernetic Eyeball, then punched him after declaring that he wanted to verify his theory.

Ian fought Merlin after Merlin ambushed him, then left the canyon with Merlin’s hair and the Ancient Time-Turner, hinting that he would meet him again more than a thousand years later. Back at Little Morgan’s Ancient Castle, a resonating chess piece led Ian to the Duchess, whose unborn child was destined to become a legendary king of ancient Britain.

• Merlin struck Ian, and Ian retaliated with a barrage of punches before Merlin stopped him with a chest of treasure.
• Merlin identified an alchemical organ as belonging to the True Creator and declared that Ian, Medivh, the True Creator, and Raven were the same being.
• Merlin noticed a hidden space inside Ian’s Mirror of Erised, and Ian refused to let him inspect it.
• Ian ordered Leonard to record Merlin’s defeat in the Dumbledore family history, kept the Cyber Eye, and plucked Merlin’s hair before departing with the Ancient Time-Turner.
• A king-shaped chess piece in Ian’s Money Bag resonated and led him to the Duchess, whom Ian recognized as pregnant with the future legendary king of ancient Britain.

Ian discovered that a glowing chess piece from Slytherin’s Chamber of Secrets resonated with the unborn Arthur, then learned the chamber may have been entered again after Riddle emptied it. He also saw the soul inside the shadow creature clearly and transformed into a Raven, leaving the creature terrified and kneeling in its bottle.

• Ian watched Lady Igraine in the garden and noticed the chess piece glowing in response to her unborn child, likely King Arthur.
• Ian returned to Riddle, claimed he had defeated Merlin, and showed him the Ancient Time-Turner he had obtained from Merlin.
• Ian questioned Riddle about the chess piece, and Riddle said the Chamber of Secrets had held no such item and speculated that Slytherin might still be alive.
• Ian examined the shadow creature in its bottle and saw a gray wolf soul bearing the Raven’s Claw in its pupils.
• Ian transformed into a Raven, and the gray wolf stopped attacking the bottle and cowered on its floor.

Ian confirmed that the Big Bad Wolf recognized his Raven form as the Eternal Raven, then attended a banquet where Duke Royas asked him to name the child Lady Igraine was carrying. Ian named the child Arthur, awakening a sword-shaped image in his Proof of Legend.

• The Big Bad Wolf recognized Ian's Raven form as the Eternal Raven and begged for forgiveness, confirming Ian's connection to the Soul Hall.
• Ian changed back into a young wizard and decided to question the Big Bad Wolf privately, while Riddle remarked that he had expected Ian to become a serpent.
• Duke of Tintagel Royas hosted a lavish banquet for Ian, Riddle, and Malfoy, then offered Ian a tower, resources, and authority if he would remain in his territory.
• Ian declined the Duke's offer but agreed to name the child Lady Igraine was carrying.
• Ian first suggested Artoria, then named the child Arthur after learning the Duke expected a boy.
• As Duke Royas accepted the name Arthur, a sharp sword appeared within Ian's Proof of Legend.