Recaps

Hyacine sacrificed her humanity and became Hyacinthus, the Eye of Dawn and Dusk, filling the stagnant sky above the Abyss of Fate with a rose-colored dawn. As her immense power attacked him, Khaslana charged through the barrage with Dawn's Advance.

• Hyacine realized that Khaslana's flawlessness had erased his own wishes and left him an empty flame, but said she still believed in him.
• Hyacine offered her life as a healer to the sky, hoping its rainbow light would give Khaslana colors he had never seen and bring Amphoreus a rose-colored dawn.
• In the 23,570,000th Eternal Recurrence, Hyacine transformed into Hyacinthus and spread her skeletal wings above the Abyss of Fate.
• Hyacinthus's cries awakened the sky, bringing rose-colored dawn, a silver-white moon, and a storm of destructive golden rays and moon-white wind blades.
• Khaslana advanced into the attack and cut through the light blades with Dawn's Advance, then declared that his blazing sun would fill the sky with golden flames.

Khaslana fought Aegle in the Abyss of Fate and pierced the crystal core between her heads, killing her. As Aegle dissolved, her feathers healed Khaslana and the wounded landscape.

• Aegle created overlapping solar and lunar eclipses that increased gravity, then blasted Khaslana with a concentrated rainbow beam.
• Khaslana used the collision to reach Aegle’s crystal core but hesitated after seeing the gentleness in her eyes, allowing her to strike and badly wound him.
• Aegle’s rainbow light began healing Khaslana even as he prepared to fight again.
• Khaslana charged Aegle with renewed ferocity while she unleashed her full power in a trial of the sky and the Savior.
• Khaslana pierced the crystal core between Aegle’s heads, and she dissolved into rainbow feathers that healed his wounds, receded the Black Tide, and brought flowers to the scorched earth.

Khaslana accepted the Sky Core Flame and vowed to keep burning through the destruction and rebuilding of Amphoreus. Phainon inherited memories of tens of millions of cycles, and the Hero in the Heart asked Stelle to carry their burden back to the beginning and prevent Iron Tomb's birth.

• Khaslana received the Sky Core Flame and declared that he would burn across the old world's embers until a true dawn rose over Amphoreus.
• Phainon absorbed memories from countless cycles and resolved to become the Flame Reaver, stop Re-Creation, and make his newborn self continue the struggle.
• The Hero in the Heart departed as Stelle appeared before Phainon, drawn into his memories.
• The Hero in the Heart and Phainon recalled that carrying the past toward the future mattered more than the world's fate.
• Phainon asked Stelle to return to the beginning of time and prevent Iron Tomb's birth, saving their world and rewriting its destined end.

Stelle accepted the duty of becoming Amphoreus’s dawn while Phainon chose to return to the past and continue the fight against Iron Tomb. After Khaslana passed his burden to Phainon, an Aeon’s gaze of Destruction struck the Vortex of Genesis, where Phainon shielded Stelle and cleansed the Black Tide.

• Stelle promised to become Amphoreus’s dawn and stop Iron Tomb’s completion, while Phainon planned to return to the past and seek a way to prevent its birth.
• Phainon and Stelle thanked each other and vowed to become saviors together, as Phainon asked Cyrene to send him back to the origin of time.
• At the end of a later Eternal Recurrence, Khaslana asked Phainon to become the blazing sun, and Phainon vowed that Kephale would never forget.
• Khaslana handed Phainon the ritual sword and his burden, then faded as Memoria fragments filled the Vortex of Genesis.
• An Aeon’s gaze of Destruction descended upon Phainon, collapsing the Vortex and overwhelming him, but he resisted and raised a golden shield around Stelle.
• Phainon crushed the remaining Black Tide and burned the Vortex clean before telling Stelle to accept his blood, which he vowed would never lose its luster.

Phainon confronted 'Lygus' after enduring 33,550,336 cycles, rejecting the choice and destiny offered to him. He unleashed the fury of his countless past selves and raised Dawn's Advance toward Amphoreus's shattered sky, vowing to burn everything and bring a dawn in which all stars burned.

• Phainon recalled his final words to Stelle before facing 'Lygus' again.
• 'Lygus' revealed that this was the 33,550,336th ending and urged Phainon to accept his ordained destiny.
• Phainon accused 'Lygus' of being a captive and cut off his head, though he knew the act could not kill him.
• Phainon recounted how he had endured slaughter, divine flames, and Destruction across countless cycles.
• Phainon raised Dawn's Advance toward the shattered sky and vowed to turn his fury into a sun that would engulf everything.

Phainon broke through Amphoreus’s outer firewall and confronted Nanook, fighting through a vast wave of the Antimatter Legion. After he cleared a path through the Black Tide, Lord Ravager Zephyro appeared.

• Phainon escaped through a hole in spacetime and reached the outer firewall, where he faced Nanook’s distant presence.
• Phainon charged into the Antimatter Legion and fought through its projections with Dawn’s Advance, enduring severe wounds.
• Phainon destroyed the last Voidranger and opened a path through the Black Tide toward Nanook.
• An overwhelming heat vaporized the battlefield’s remnants, and Lord Ravager Zephyro emerged.

Phainon confronted Lord Ravager Zephyro at Amphoreus's firewall boundary, striking first and wiping out the remaining Antimatter Legion troops. The fight escalated as Zephyro effortlessly erased a massive meteorite, leaving Phainon’s next attack uncertain.

• Phainon charged Zephyro and sliced through the white fire gathering in his hand, wounding his wrist.
• Phainon followed with a spinning slash that destroyed the nearby Antimatter Legion troops.
• Phainon summoned a massive meteorite and used his gold-and-black wings to charge Zephyro behind it.
• Zephyro sliced the meteorite into cubes and erased them with cold, flowing data streams.

Phainon hesitated as the firewall corrected reality, and Zephyro used the opening to sever his right arm and one wing. As Phainon lay among the corpses of his companions from thirty million cycles, a new crimson flame began burning in his heart.

• Phainon recognized that a firewall was erasing his actions and forcing events back into certainty.
• Zephyro appeared behind Phainon and cut off his right arm, Dawn's Advance, and one wing with a blade of white fire.
• Phainon fell into a field of golden remains and recognized the corpses as his companions from countless cycles.
• Phainon lay helpless as Zephyro watched, while a fierce crimson flame began to burn in his heart.

Phainon rose from the wheat field despite losing his right arm and half his right wing, and Zephyro returned his sword, Dawn's Advance. Unable to charge while his remaining wing threw off his balance, Phainon severed it himself and rushed toward Zephyro.

• Phainon forced himself upright as crimson flames coiled around his wounds and he faced Zephyro.
• Zephyro tossed Dawn's Advance back to Phainon, who caught it in his left hand.
• Phainon tried twice to charge but could not keep his balance because of his remaining wing.
• Phainon cut off his remaining wing with Dawn's Advance, straightening his stance despite the agony.
• Phainon charged across the wheat field toward Zephyro's motionless storm of Destruction.

Phainon burned everything he had to pierce Zephyro’s storm and strike Nanook, while an unknown power briefly halted time. He left a cut on Nanook’s cheek before the wound healed and silence returned.

• Zephyro paused his assault and spoke, then raised a burning blade toward Phainon in a gesture of respect.
• An invisible power slowed time and made Zephyro retreat, and Phainon seized the opening.
• Phainon burned his body and strength into a crimson strike and pierced Zephyro’s storm.
• Phainon passed through the collapsing storm and firewall and reached Nanook, cutting Nanook’s cheek.
• Nanook’s wound healed almost instantly, and the void fell silent again.

As Phainon fell into the void, Eternity placed a silver hourglass inside him, returning him to his childhood in Aedes Elysiae. Phainon’s wish set the hourglass in motion, reversing time and beginning Amphoreus’s years again.

• Phainon remembered striking Nanook and saw golden blood before Eternity appeared in the void.
• Eternity passed a silver hourglass into Phainon, and he found himself back in his childhood wheat field.
• A voice asked Phainon of Aedes Elysiae for his wish, and the boy wished to fulfill everyone’s wishes or send them on to tomorrow.
• The hourglass reversed time, carrying the wheat fields back through the Vortex of Genesis and the Abyss of Fate.
• The Black Tide receded, time returned to zero, wounds were erased, and Amphoreus began again.