Arc 8Kandria’s Fall
The Light Screen revealed Phanes’ betrayals and Khaenri’ah’s rebellion, then showed how Ilmin’s ambition turned Kong into a vessel for the Abyss. Kandria was destroyed by the corruption, and its Sages concluded that Kong had to die to stop it.
- The Traveler’s Will entered a boy who witnessed humanity’s growth, then fell in love with the First Primal Angel, whose defiance of Phanes ended in the Cold Heaven Nail’s destruction.
- The Light Screen showed Phanes’ response to humanity’s study of the Abyss and laid out the betrayals that led to Khaenri’ah’s punishment.
- Ilmin declared war on the Heavenly Principles, while Pierro and Capitano’s stories revealed their resistance and the suffering that followed Khaenri’ah’s fall.
- Rheindott’s creations and Ilmin’s plan to use the Descenders were revealed as Kandria’s scholars activated an array that pulled Kong and Ying toward the kingdom.
- Kandria captured Kong, erased his memories, and forced Abyss Power into him, while Ying remained sealed in a spaceship for five hundred years.
- Ilmin used Kong to open a path through the False Sky, and the Black Tide devastated Kandria as Ilmin pursued power and rejected Nicole’s warnings.
- The Maintainer’s Divine Punishment destroyed Kandria, while Abyssal corruption spread through Kong, the World Tree, and the world’s history.
- The five Sages and Dainsleif found Kong at the corruption’s source and declared that he had to die, prompting Zhou Weiqing and others to protest.