Chapter Summaries

Sean read a diary left by another Sean Wallop, who had become the God of Time, and pieced together clues about Herpo, the God of Wizards, and the World Rules. The diary revealed that its author had gone to Avalon to investigate its depths, but its entries ended with his daily hot-spring visits with Dorniya.

• Sean considered whether the other Sean had become the God of Time after failing to stop Herpo and restarting the Timeline, but found the available evidence contradictory.
• Sean read the diary and discovered that the World Rules blurred important passages, especially information about the God of Time and the world's origins.
• Sean inferred from the repeated blurred words that the God of Wizards had created the World Rules, imposed their restrictions, and later left the world.
• Sean read that the other Sean planned to explore the depths of Avalon, which seemed to reject him despite his status as the God of Time.
• The diary recorded how the other Sean repeatedly soaked in hot springs with Dorniya, while postponing his spell research and investigation.

Sean read his diary from Avalon and followed his growing unease about his relationship with Dorniya, his longing for home, and the strange influence affecting him. After exploring the starry sky and killing a god, he discovered the god’s authority could aid his research, but by year sixty he condemned himself as unable to control his own actions; the diary’s entries then shifted from days to years.

• Sean read that he spent his early days in Avalon with Dorniya, renovating his home and growing increasingly troubled by how quickly they became intimate.
• Sean’s anxiety and longing for his family, lovers, and friends intensified, though he could not explain his growing attachment to Dorniya.
• Sean researched a way into Avalon’s depths and made repeated journeys into the starry sky, where he encountered increasing resistance.
• Sean killed a god during his journey, returned seriously injured, and discovered the dead god’s authority had taken up residence within him.
• Sean used the fallen god’s authority to assist his research, then wrote that he had finally realized how powerless and out of control he had become.
• The diary’s entries changed from days to years.

Sean read the annual record left by his earlier self, learning that the first Sean Wallerup had deconstructed the God of Time’s authority and caused the Annihilated Timelines to appear. After finding a hidden fragment of time authority and parting from Dorniya, Sean flew toward the dangerous center of Avalon to begin his trial at Peak of Soul's Return.

• Sean read that his earlier self had spent nearly a century in Avalon, discovered how time had distorted his perceptions, and resolved to drag the whole world down with him.
• Sean realized the diary’s owner was the first Sean Wallerup and that his actions had created the many Annihilated Timelines.
• Sean found a hidden note saying his earlier self had left a fragment of time authority above his residence for him to take.
• Sean remembered Dorniya but could not tell her, and she left after asking him to return when he remembered her.
• Sean flew upward through Avalon’s storms and distortions toward the place where many things awaited him.

Sean crossed a distorted region of slowed time and reached a crossroads in Peak of Soul's Return, where a malicious presence impersonated Beibei and tried to mislead him. After exposing the deception and continuing along the black path, he met the real Beibei, who presented four routes for the next stage of the trial.

• Sean endured a divine lightning strike in the slowed-time region and used his Shadow Bugs and Trajectory Flash to escape while healing his injuries.
• Sean followed a stone path through endless whiteness until he reached a crossroads, where a voice impersonating Beibei marked routes as dangerous and urged him to choose.
• Sean recognized the voice's inconsistencies and stepped onto the black path, causing the false crossroads and the malicious voice to disappear.
• Sean continued along the path and met the real Beibei, who confirmed that time passed differently in the trial and revealed four branching routes.

Sean advanced through the Peak of Soul’s Return trial, exposing and killing repeated fake Beibeis that were malicious intent, and discovered the kills increased his Ancient Runes Talent. He reached the end of the stone road, where time slowed and a dark exit appeared, but he was frustrated that no more traps came to earn him talent points.

• Sean questioned a fake Beibei about the trial and gods’ influence, then exposed it by attacking and killing it.
• Sean deduced that Herpo’s malicious intent was trying to keep him from reaching the stone road’s end, and he killed several more impostors, including appearances of Dorniya.
• Sean noticed a ripple around his head and discovered that killing six wisps of malicious intent had raised his Ancient Runes Talent by one point.
• Sean continued killing fake Beibeis for more talent points while Hermione, Daisy, and Stephanie waited outside and saw black mist and heard screams rising from the mountain.
• Sean reached the end of the stone road, sensed time slowing, and found a dark exit, but complained that he had collected only four talent points.

Sean passed through the exit and relived his life while observing time as a soul, discovering that his memories grew less clear as he approached the present. He returned to his body after realizing that his soul had never been whole.

• Sean left the trial with his Ancient Runes Talent increased and entered the pitch-black opening.
• Sean watched scenes from his life unfold, then found himself observing his unconscious body in a strange space filled with archways and clocks.
• Sean noticed that his sleeping expression changed when he came into contact with information from another Sean Wallop.
• Sean realized that his soul should have carried far more influence from the Annihilated Timelines than he had noticed.
• Sean connected the changes time brought to the soul with Voldemort and Horcruxes, then returned to his body and concluded that his soul had never been whole.

Sean discovered that his soul was incomplete while exploring a strange realm of the God of Time, where archways represented choices. At a still, black archway resembling the Ministry of Magic’s Death Veil, he heard voices arguing about the Dark Lord before a pale, suffering man sprang through.

• Sean realized his soul had been incomplete since birth and worried that this might prevent him from completing the rituals to achieve godhood.
• Sean explored the realm’s archways and clocks, noticing that the clocks marked consecutive seconds and searching for their starting point.
• Sean found a black archway resembling the Ministry of Magic’s Death Veil, and his soul gave no warning when he approached it.
• Sean resisted the archway’s alluring pull and heard voices arguing about sending someone through to find the Dark Lord.
• A pale, suffering man sprang out of the archway, leaving Sean stunned.

Sean encountered Barty Crouch Jr. in the realm beyond the Death Veil and secretly freed him from his restraints. After impersonating a transcendent version of Voldemort, Sean convinced Barty that he was his true master and appointed him his sole agent in the real world.

• Barty Crouch Jr. emerged from the Death Veil, and Sean realized that he could see Barty even though Barty could not see him.
• Sean secretly loosened Barty's bindings, allowing Barty to break free, heal himself, and destroy his ankle shackles.
• Barty tried to return through the archway but found he could not, so he began examining the clocks and preparing to explore the realm.
• Sean used an illusion and a hoarse voice to appear to Barty as his master, claiming that Voldemort was merely his worldly name.
• Sean told Barty that he needed the only agent in the real world, and Barty pledged his loyalty before Sean asked who had sent him there.

Sean questioned Barty Jr. about the Returners who had experimented on him and uncovered a possible connection between Philippus Hoenheim, Nicolas Flamel, and the God of Alchemy. At the far end of the strange space, Sean found that its red archway drew out Barty Jr.’s strength and memories, and he prepared to use Barty Jr.’s death to escape.

• Barty Jr. told Sean that Philippus Hoenheim had tortured him and that a Potion Master had directed him to find Voldemort.
• Barty Jr. recalled Hoenheim cursing Nicolas Flamel and speaking of a God of Alchemy, prompting Sean to connect the alchemist to a slain god and the life-related Philosopher’s Stone.
• Sean reasoned that the strange space was a transit point to the Underworld and confirmed that Barty Jr. could not pass through the other archways.
• Sean and Barty Jr. reached a red-lit archway that drew Barty Jr. toward it and drained his strength and memories.
• Sean asked whether Barty Jr. would die for him, then told him he would have to die first.

Sean used Barty Crouch Jr.’s death to create a Horcrux and an army of Inferi, then sent them through every archway to locate the one connected to his present Timeline. He reached a clock room containing part of the God of Time’s authority, where Beibei appeared and showed him three safe routes.

• Sean guided Barty Crouch Jr. into sacrificing his life to create a Horcrux, then duplicated his corpse into Inferi and attached a Shadow Bug to each one.
• Sean sent the Inferi through the archways with copies of his memories, testing every route until only one archway preserved the memories and let him sense the Shadow Bug.
• Sean concluded that the archways represented Annihilated Timelines and entered the one leading to a place belonging solely to him.
• Sean emerged in a clock room and recognized the device inside a crystal dome as containing a severed portion of the God of Time’s authority.
• Beibei appeared on Sean’s shoulder, dimmed the spinning clock faces, and revealed three routes she considered safe.

Sean entered the center of the Clockwork House despite Beibei’s warning, seeking the God of Time’s authority, and found a recording left by an earlier Sean Wallop. The recording revealed how that Sean’s defeat by Herpo led him to create a World Rule, build the system, and begin hunting gods, leaving the current Sean with a clearer account of the legacy he had inherited.

• Beibei marked three possible paths for Sean and warned that the center path and all other routes were extremely dangerous.
• Sean chose to follow his own instincts, let Beibei leave, and entered the glowing door at the center of the Clockwork House.
• Sean arrived in a dusty tower resembling Hogwarts’s spired tower and heard a recording from an earlier version of himself.
• The earlier Sean explained that Herpo had taken control of the world after killing Dumbledore, while he escaped to Avalon as the God of Time.
• The earlier Sean said he had used the God of Time’s authority to establish a World Rule that would annihilate and restart reality while Herpo remained a threat, with himself as its Anchor.
• The earlier Sean revealed that he created the system using the God of Time’s and God of Alchemy’s authorities, then began hunting other gods.

Sean received a fragment of the God of Time’s authority and gained the ability to rewind a designated area by one second, then emerged from the Peak of Soul’s Return after spending twenty-four days inside. He reunited with Daisy, Hermione, and Stephanie at their camp, recovered from exhaustion, and woke to an embarrassing encounter with Hermione.

• Sean heard his predecessor warn that Herpo sought to master the Love God’s authority and that few chances remained to save the present world, then absorbed an incomplete authority and gained the power to rewind time within a limited area.
• Sean emerged from the Peak of Soul’s Return, exhausted, and Daisy rushed to embrace him after he had been missing for twenty-four days.
• Daisy explained that she, Hermione, and Stephanie had waited at a forest camp and taken turns watching for Sean; he reunited with Hermione and Stephanie there.
• Sean ate, slept for about twenty hours, and examined his system panel, finding his Ancient Runes Talent had returned to 8+5 while his new time ability remained unlisted.
• Hermione brought Sean food after he woke, then accused him of being a pervert when she realized he had slept without clothes.

After completing the Peak of Soul's Return trial, Sean explained his experience to Hermione, Daisy, and Stephanie while concealing the secrets of the gods and the Timeline. The group resumed their journey through Avalon, where Sean encountered another Guardian Fairy who remembered him and accused him of having slept with her.

• Sean reassured Hermione that his earlier confession had been sincere, then joined Daisy and Stephanie for breakfast and discussed their trials.
• Sean described meeting Voldemort and Barty Jr. in his trial, released Voldemort's Soul Fragment from their Unbreakable Vow, then recaptured its Horcrux and stored it in his ring.
• Sean told the others that stopping Herpo from reaching the water of Avalon's lake remained their goal, and the group rested for another day before continuing through the forest.
• After traveling through the seemingly living forest without obstruction, Sean established a guarded camp and spotted a figure among the trees.
• Sean followed the figure and met a petite Guardian Fairy, who complained that he had forgotten her and accused him of sleeping with her before.

Sean learned that preserving Avalon's lake water required taking a Guardian Fairy's life, and Little Fang Fairy urged him to kill her because she wanted to die and the water was vital to stopping Herpo. He led Hermione, Stephanie, and Daisy to Avalon's deepest castle, where they found the World Origin corrupted by the damage Sean had caused through repeated Timeline resets.

• Little Fang Fairy revealed that Sean had to mix a Guardian Fairy's heart blood into Avalon's lake water, a process that would kill the fairy.
• Sean refused to kill Little Fang Fairy, but she insisted he had to take the water and said she wanted to die; Sean then decided to continue toward the lake.
• Sean returned to camp and told Hermione, Stephanie, and Daisy they would leave that night to obtain Avalon's lake water, without explaining his debt to them.
• Sean's group crossed Avalon with almost no resistance and reached the castle at its deepest point.
• Sean and the girls found the castle covered in dark green, pus-like fluid, and Sean realized the damage reflected the World Origin's failing state and his own past actions.

Sean and the girls approached Avalon Castle, where a strange head emerged from the ground and its hair fused with Sean before dragging something out of his body. The ground revealed itself as a mass of corpses, and Sean woke from an apparent trance after the girls restrained him.

• Stephanie determined that the foul ring around Avalon Castle had once been a lake, and Sean found strange, fibrous black soil beneath his feet.
• The soil in Sean’s hand transformed into a head whose hair wound around his arm, but his spells could not stop it from reaching his neck.
• Daisy’s Patronus strengthened both Sean and the head, and the black hair wrapped around Sean before melting into his body.
• Black hair emerged from Sean’s mouth, pulled a black, white-furred lump from his body, and the ground swallowed both.
• Sean saw the soil open to reveal corpses that called to him, then tried to join them until Hermione, Stephanie, and Daisy restrained him and he woke.

Sean learned that the strange head had removed Herpo’s pollution from Pride, and Pride explained that it may have been a powerful projection of Sean’s incomplete soul responding through Soul Resonance. Sean led the group toward the castle to claim all the Avalon Lake Water, leaving behind a hidden space filled with countless corpses resembling him.

• Sean checked his Soul Floating Island and found Pride injured, with a huge hole in his chest after Herpo’s pollution had been purged from his Origin.
• Pride accused Sean of attacking him with a split-off soul, but they realized neither of them had intended the attack and that the pollution had been removed.
• Pride described Soul Resonance and questioned how Sean’s soul projection could have detected and removed Herpo’s pollution so powerfully.
• Sean asked Pride about Avalon and the other Sins, then decided that the other Sins should be sealed to prevent possible pollution from spreading.
• Sean told Hermione and the others that he understood some things, then led them deeper into the castle to take all the Avalon Lake Water.
• After Sean left, the ground opened at the place he had touched, revealing a hidden space packed with corpses that all looked like Sean Wallop.

Sean led Hermione, Daisy, and Stephanie through Avalon’s polluted castle maze while they avoided using magic, which would contaminate the remaining clear spring water. After reaching a vast black hall, they heard a woman address Sean as a polluter.

• Sean told Hermione, Daisy, and Stephanie to leave with the Avalon Lake Water and not interfere with him, and they agreed to follow his instructions.
• Sean led the girls through the castle maze, where they kept their distance and avoided casting spells despite its disturbing creatures and effects.
• A shadow baby attacked Daisy and stirred her Blood Curse, but she held still as instructed until Sean destroyed it.
• Sean explained to himself that he was Avalon’s greatest pollution source and could take the spring water without contaminating it further by connecting himself to the decay.
• Sean and the girls exited the maze into a vast black hall, where a woman called him a polluter.

Sean entered Avalon’s Throne Room and killed all eight Guardian Fairies, directing their heart’s blood into the spring so he could take on Avalon’s curse himself. He opened a passage for Stephanie, Hermione, and Daisy to escape with the scarlet lake water, then was swallowed by the dark creatures.

• Sean ignored the Guardian Fairies’ attempts to follow their planned script and demanded the Avalon Spring Water.
• Sean killed the eight Guardian Fairies and sent their heart’s blood into the fountain, learning that their deaths would bring Avalon’s curse upon him.
• Sean absorbed the curse as the Guardian Fairies’ blood turned the spring scarlet and Avalon’s space began to collapse.
• Sean told Stephanie, Hermione, and Daisy to take the lake water and leave through the opened passage.
• Stephanie departed with the water, followed by Hermione and Daisy, while dark Magic Creatures swallowed Sean in the Throne Room.

Hermione, Daisy, and Stephanie returned from Avalon with its crimson lake water, only to be ambushed by Herpo’s Half-Dead. They fought their way toward the seaside cliffs, where another group of enemies blocked their path.

• Stephanie told Hermione and Daisy that Sean might be dead and urged them to return to Hogwarts, contact Grindelwald, and protect Avalon’s lake water.
• Herpo’s Half-Dead ambushed the three girls, and Hermione raised a protective barrier as they discovered that Apparition and teleportation were blocked.
• Stephanie, Hermione, and Daisy fought through the attackers with earth magic, a Patronus, healing spells, and quick defensive charms.
• Hermione identified the cliffs as their best escape route, and Stephanie charmed some Half-Dead into attacking their own companions.
• The girls reached the seaside cliffs, where another group of enemies appeared, and Hermione declared that it was their final ambush.

Hermione, Daisy, and Stephanie escaped the Half-Dead ambush and fled by Grindylow while Sean remained behind to face Avalon’s curse. As the curse consumed his body and magic, Sean sensed the truth he had been seeking and used Rewind.

• Hermione identified the attackers’ hidden spellwork, and Daisy blasted the Half-Dead with a wide-area Explosion Charm.
• Hermione petrified and destroyed the enemy leader, then summoned stone knights as the three girls defeated the remaining attackers.
• Hermione, Daisy, and Stephanie reached the sea and escaped on a Grindylow, while Hermione’s delayed explosion engulfed the Half-Dead gathered at the cliff.
• Sean endured the curse’s creatures devouring his body and magic as he tried to experience death and approach the World Origin.
• As the curse reached for Sean’s soul, he understood something and cast Rewind.