Recaps

Yi Chen learned why the Ninth Calamity was effectively immortal and heard the zombie explain why he had chosen to support Yi Chen’s plan instead of seeking the Great Annihilation. The zombie and William both warned Yi Chen to distrust the other, and a balloon William gave him burst to reveal three tickets to Smiling Black Hole Amusement Park.

• Yi Chen concluded that the zombie’s S-ranked infection could transfer his consciousness to another individual whenever his body and viruses were destroyed, making him impossible to kill while individuals existed.
• The zombie told Yi Chen that his interest in movies and his experience in Halloween Eve had given him a reason to live and made him choose Yi Chen’s plan, but warned that the manager might still intend to bring about the Great Annihilation.
• Yi Chen began questioning the hotel’s intentions after hearing the zombie’s warning.
• William appeared and told Yi Chen that the zombie might be pretending and could still side with the First Calamity, then said he would watch the zombie through the night.
• William gave Yi Chen a white balloon, which burst at the hotel entrance and dropped three tickets to Smiling Black Hole Amusement Park.

Yi Chen, Lainey, and the zombie entered William Berens's Amusement Park to test its facilities, but the dark, perception-suppressing plaza trapped them without a visible exit. Yi Chen found a set of dangerous Amusement Park Rules, which reminded him of the Cemetery as William remained absent.

• Yi Chen decided to visit William's Amusement Park with Lainey and invited the zombie to use the three tickets.
• Yi Chen, Lainey, and the zombie entered the Amusement Park through a Smiling Black Hole entrance in the alley.
• The three found themselves in a pitch-black plaza where the entrance had vanished and their perception was sharply limited.
• Unseen footsteps approached and disappeared, leaving a flashlight and a sheet of Amusement Park Rules for Yi Chen to find.
• Yi Chen recognized similarities to the Cemetery and noticed that the rules seemed more dangerous, while William did not appear.

Yi Chen and his companions entered the malignant amusement park and followed its rules while searching for batteries. They began the carousel attraction, whose flesh-and-bone design threatened to merge riders with the horses, as a clown watched from the grass.

• Yi Chen recognized that William had adapted the organization's old plague-prevention rules for the amusement park, and Lainey urged the group to find batteries as their flashlight dimmed.
• The group found a snack shop that violated the rules and left when its shelves shook and leaked pus.
• Yi Chen and his companions passed a security booth staffed by two guards wearing rabbit masks.
• The group accepted the Poker Face's invitation to ride the carousel, which required them to remove their pants and wear safety helmets for ten minutes.
• Yi Chen saw that the carousel's flesh-and-bone horses absorbed riders through flesh conversion, then spotted a clown watching from the grass as he mounted one.

The First Calamity investigated the close ties between Yi Chen, Lainey, and the zombie, then went to William’s Paradise to learn what they were doing. There, the attractions repeatedly triggered the zombie’s urge to eat meat, while Yi Chen suspected the trip had a hidden purpose and spotted a clown watching them.

• Gap and Todd reported that Yi Chen, Lainey, and the zombie had been spending time together and that Yi Chen and the zombie had visited William’s Paradise.
• The First Calamity decided to visit the Paradise with Todd after learning that Nine and Ten had also been visiting each other’s territories.
• Yi Chen, Lainey, and the zombie rode the carousel, whose illusion briefly made Yi Chen believe he had a family and awakened the zombie’s craving for meat.
• The zombie resisted the craving by eating weeds, then vomited after the supermarket’s fresh meat triggered it again.
• Yi Chen suspected the visit targeted the zombie, questioned whether the apparent purpose was too simple, and spotted a clown’s head watching them from the weeds.

Yi Chen and Lainey investigated Mr. Zombie’s disappearance in Paradise and discovered that the Lainey with them was a tumor creature disguised as her. After Tomie sensed a connection to William, Yi Chen set off to find him, while another version of Tomie urged him to investigate William’s true intentions before acting impulsively.

• Yi Chen and Lainey discussed whether William planned to provoke Mr. Zombie’s instincts or confine him to the hotel.
• Yi Chen and Lainey searched the dark restroom and found Mr. Zombie missing.
• Yi Chen exposed the supposed Lainey as a Balloon Tumor Person, which admitted it had been made from a tumor near William’s Birth Gate.
• A Tomie head appeared and questioned the Balloon Tumor Person, but it refused to reveal William’s plan.
• Yi Chen crushed the Balloon Tumor Person into a meatball and let Tomie eat it.
• Tomie sensed a direction connected to the creature, so Yi Chen broke the flashlight and headed after it as another Tomie warned him not to act impulsively.

Yi Chen encountered the Amusement Park’s zombie outbreak and raced toward a Haunted House while avoiding infection. At the entrance, the Boss and the barber arrived, discovered that killing zombies caused reverse infection, and realized they had to stop Virus No. 9 from spreading.

• Yi Chen restrained a transformed rabbit guard instead of killing it, then fled toward the location Tomie had identified as a horde of zombies surged through the Amusement Park.
• Yi Chen reached a brightly lit Haunted House, sent Tomie back, and entered with the parasite formed from Nash.
• The Boss and the barber forced their way into the Amusement Park and learned from the Rulebook that its rules concealed a malicious design.
• The barber slit the throats of approaching zombies and sent them to his barbershop, but one escaped and attacked the Boss.
• The Boss smashed the attacking zombie, suffered a conceptual infection in her index finger, removed it, and healed it with her Frame Skip ability.
• The Boss identified the outbreak as Virus No. 9 and said they needed to suppress it before it spread beyond the park.

Yi Chen entered William’s Clown Zombie Haunted House and found the Ninth Calamity being used in experiments to spread its virus through Paradise. After Yi Chen attacked what he thought was William, the Ninth Calamity broke free from its container and faced him.

• Yi Chen subdued the clown ticket seller, read the Haunted House flyer, and entered the attraction after the Director dismissed his question about William as a mishearing.
• Yi Chen smashed the ore cart and followed the track toward the Ninth Calamity, while the boss and the barber entered a different, maze-filled route and were attacked by explosive Clown Zombies.
• Yi Chen reached an experimental field where William and the fellow enthusiasts' society were extracting the Ninth Calamity’s virus and spreading it through Paradise to dilute the original’s consciousness.
• Yi Chen grabbed and twisted William’s neck, but William’s head turned into a balloon, revealing that he was a Tumor Clone.
• The society members gathered around the Ninth Calamity’s container and chanted until it shattered, allowing the freed Zombie to confront Yi Chen.

Yi Chen suppressed the modified Ninth Calamity, but William ambushed him and forced the zombie to bite. William escaped infection by abandoning his body, and two masked figures arrived as Yi Chen prepared to act.

• Yi Chen dodged the zombie’s spatial bite and severed its mutated arm before binding and pinning it with chains.
• The zombie regenerated, corroded Nash’s chains with its virus, and attacked Yi Chen again.
• William grabbed Yi Chen from behind and urged the zombie to bite him to test his resistance to the Zombie Virus.
• The zombie bit William instead, and he exploded his head to abandon his infected body while warning Yi Chen that he was losing control.
• Two masked men descended in front of Yi Chen, and one signaled that he would handle the rest.

Yi Chen realized William had staged the Zombie Amusement Park incident to divert the First Calamity’s suspicions and test whether the zombie was truly on his side. The First Calamity subdued the zombie and William, then told Yi Chen he still trusted him, leaving Yi Chen free to leave the Amusement Park with some memories blurred.

• Yi Chen pieced together that William had used the Amusement Park to make himself appear responsible for gathering the Calamities and to prove the zombie’s loyalty to Yi Chen.
• Yi Chen found and ate a sugar cube William had hidden in his pocket, which was meant to alter his memories before the First Calamity could inspect his mind.
• The First Calamity overwhelmed the zombie and sent it to Lighthouse Mental Hospital.
• William emerged, admitted he had wanted to study the Zombie Virus, and was turned into a human stick and imprisoned deeper in the Mental Hospital than the zombie.
• The First Calamity told Yi Chen to explain the incident later and said he trusted him, while the Fifth Calamity gave him a barber’s Business Card.
• Yi Chen was teleported outside the Amusement Park, where Todd the Barber invited him to share the story, and Yi Chen walked away with parts of the night already blurred.

The boss confronted William in a series of increasingly horrific hospital corridors and offered to release him in exchange for killing the manager. William proposed trapping the manager in the Old World during the search for the New Moon, and the boss accepted, though William remained imprisoned pending an investigation.

• The boss used the nurse’s keys to pass through repeated corridors and found William bound and being eaten by cockroaches in the final cell.
• William defended his plan to use the Ninth Calamity and claimed he had worked for malice, then pretended to give up hope.
• The boss offered to restore William’s status as a Calamity if he killed the manager, while requiring Paradise to stay closed and forbidding him from contacting other Calamities.
• William proposed luring the manager to the Old World and sealing the world with the abyss after the boss found the New Moon, and the boss agreed to the plan in a Soul Contract.
• The boss said William would remain imprisoned until the amusement park memory search and a full examination of his brain were complete, then shut the cell door.

The First Calamity oversaw the cleanup of Paradise’s Zombie outbreak, then summoned Yi Chen to his Mental World for an examination. Yi Chen entered the world and saw Lorien tortured into a blood moon before the First Calamity revealed his true form.

• The First Calamity’s employees found that William’s infected Fertility Tumor was producing Zombies with dangerous Plague Traits, including Clown Zombies, and NO.1 ordered Paradise sealed and its research destroyed.
• The First Calamity returned to Lighthouse Mental Hospital, confirmed NO.9’s Zombie and William were secure, and ordered memory examinations for those involved in the Paradise incident.
• The First Calamity invited Yi Chen to his office and explained that drinking a brain-tissue medium would let Yi Chen enter his Mental World.
• Yi Chen drank the medium and saw a vast Brain Tree rooted in a metallic island beneath a blood moon.
• Yi Chen realized the blood moon was Lorien, skinned, pierced by wires, and curled into a ball, as the First Calamity descended and revealed his true appearance.

Ruben Victoriano searched Yi Chen’s memories, confirmed that William had used him in the Paradise incident, and offered him a path to break free from his limits by killing the Second Calamity. Yi Chen returned to the rainy night, where his teacher and the dead gathered beneath an umbrella to welcome the New Year.

• Ruben Victoriano revealed his grid-like true face and examined Yi Chen’s memories, finding scenes from the Orphanage and Yi Chen’s later life.
• Ruben confirmed that Yi Chen had known nothing about the Paradise incident and had ultimately opposed William, then explained his plan to escape his role as a disposable tool of the Great Annihilation.
• Ruben invited Yi Chen to follow him and named the Second Calamity as the strongest killer Yi Chen would need to defeat to ascend.
• Yi Chen accepted the challenge, and Ruben vanished, leaving Yi Chen back at the base of the high-rise.
• Yellowhide formed an umbrella over Yi Chen as his teacher, the parasites, and the dead joined him in the rain.
• Yi Chen and his teacher wished each other a happy New Year as they walked together.

The chapter described how the fused worlds changed after World Infection, including the rise of the Abyss and the establishment of the Genetic Tower as a gathering place for powerful diseases. The Supreme Lord went to the Cancer Palace’s Incineration Cave to retrieve Jin for a meeting.

• The fused worlds restored their rules and gained widespread routes between them, while the Abyss expanded and the Tenth Abyss grew under William Berens’s influence.
• The Genetic Tower became the meeting place where Plague Lords and other powerful representatives discussed matters affecting the Focus of Infection.
• The Supreme Lord received the Genetic Tower’s meeting signal and chose to attend in person.
• The Supreme Lord visited the Incineration Cave, where Blazer reported that burning could no longer affect Jin.
• The Supreme Lord told Jin to put on her armor and come with her to the meeting, not to a fight.

The Supreme Lord and Jin arrived at the Genetic Tower for Duke Garryson’s Supreme Plague Council, a gathering of the Old World’s Plague Lords and other major figures. The attendees assembled as the meeting was about to begin, while several William impersonators also tried to enter.

• The Supreme Lord brought Jin to the Genetic Tower and explained that Duke had built it to unify the Plague Lords and provide the Infected World with a way to escape the Great Annihilation.
• Duke Garryson presided over the gathering in the tower’s meeting hall, where the current Plague Lords and representatives of major organizations assembled.
• The attendees included the Evil Sun Twins, the warden and Baron, Pilvina and Blood Emperor Pride, Director Yousef, Bern Douglas, the fish origin, and Sheep Mother.
• Regan Ludwig, Principal Deslin Baldivia, and the Tenth Abyss also attended, while Fear Circus was absent.
• Several William impersonators arrived at the Genetic Tower and attempted to enter the meeting using William’s identity.

At the Plague Council, the Duke revealed that William Berens had become the Eleventh Calamity and proposed turning the lesion into a stage for a final battle against the First Calamity. The council was left to judge whether William’s plan was trustworthy, while his message urged them to believe he had dealt with every other risk.

• The Duke opened the Plague Council by warning that malice would soon sweep across every plane and begin the Great Annihilation.
• The Duke revealed that William Berens had gained malice’s trust and become the Eleventh Calamity, shocking the gathered Plague Lords.
• The Duke explained that William wanted the lesion prepared as the Final Stage, where he would lure and kill the First Calamity while the Plague Lords watched without interfering.
• The Lord questioned whether the Duke could use a transaction to verify William’s claims, but the Duke said William’s strength now surpassed his own.
• The Duke relayed William’s message that he had eliminated every risk except the First Calamity and promised an unprecedented performance.

The Plague Assembly voted on whether to trust William’s proposal to eradicate malice and build a stage for his plan. The proposal passed, and an eerie presence delivered a parchment blueprint to the meeting room.

• Fishsource urged the Plague Assembly to reject William’s proposal and cooperate with the gods, while Duke argued that William deserved basic trust.
• The Overlord warned that eliminating malice might leave the gods to cause another Great Annihilation, but Duke opened a vote requiring nine of thirteen votes for approval.
• Seven representatives voted in favor before Duke raised his hand, bringing the count to eight.
• The emperor confirmed that Mr. Yi was still alive, then voted in favor alongside Pilvina, giving William’s proposal ten votes.
• Fishsource demanded to see the blueprint, and an eye appeared in a Wall Seam as an emaciated arm delivered a parchment scroll before vanishing.

The plague lords agreed to support William’s blueprint and began organizing construction of the Final Stage. The First Abyss arrived at the conference and declared that his circus stood with William.

• The Duke offered the plague lords the choice to leave or help build William’s stage, and Fish Source agreed to provide the Vibrio Sea’s resources.
• Director Yousef, Principal Deslin, and the other representatives pledged materials and manpower, while the Duke took charge as chief engineer and Bourne committed transport routes.
• Principal Deslin saw a terrifying vision while examining the blueprint, and Regan remained silent about what he had noticed.
• The First Abyss entered the conference room with Mr. Gian and another plague lord, then announced that his circus would fully support William’s plan.

Jin accepted that she could not reach William and committed to supporting his work from the lesion. William left the deepest cell of Lighthouse Mental Hospital after his regeneration was restored, then appeared before the Lord, who confined him to the high-rise until the Great Annihilation began.

• Regan told Jin that reaching William would be too dangerous, and Jin decided to serve as the Lord's High Table knight and help protect William's work.
• A nurse entered the deepest cell of Lighthouse Mental Hospital and injected William with the regeneration the hospital had taken from him.
• William regenerated through a ceremonial process in which tumor-dwarves spread flesh across his bones, restoring his body completely.
• The hospital vanished, and William found himself in an ancient mansion with his arm on the shoulder of the Lord.
• The Lord ordered William to stay in the high-rise and avoid the outside world until the Great Annihilation, which was set to begin in the final week.

William used his new employee card to explore Mobius’s High-Rise, learning how Ruben Victoriano controlled the calamities and discovering that its stairwell led to strange spaces within the First Calamity’s body. In the Metabolism Room, a sewer-like waste-processing area, an Administrator attacked him and sucked him up as waste.

• William learned that Ruben Victoriano, the First Calamity, had gathered and supervised malice, building Mobius and the High-Rise as its headquarters.
• William used his employee card to enter the High-Rise’s stairwell and found that its exits led to separate spaces, though his basic card restricted his access.
• William entered the Metabolism Room and found a vast sewer filled with discarded Brain Tissue, which he suspected came from brain research.
• An enormous spider-legged Administrator pursued William through the sewer while continuing to suck up waste.
• The Administrator’s suction tube stripped William of flesh and bone and drew him into its body as Rotten Flesh waste.

William repeatedly died while exploring the high-rise and was sent to Lighthouse Mental Hospital, where he kept trying to approach the nurse. After Ruben had him heavily sedated and confined, William’s Clown Virus safety mechanism transferred his consciousness into a woman infected with the virus, and he left the underground club in disguise.

• William repeatedly explored the high-rise’s storage-room village, where the village chief killed him and sent him back to the Mental Hospital.
• After nearly twenty cycles, Ruben confronted William and refused his request for access to the high-rise library and archives.
• Ruben had William confined in a cockroach-filled ward, and the nurse sedated him with a powerful tranquilizer.
• William’s Clown Virus safety mechanism transferred his consciousness into a woman performing at his underground club.
• William told the club members to pretend he had not appeared, then dressed in disguise, bought a crystal skull ring, and headed for a chain hotel.

Ruben became absorbed in research with Lorien and neglected the Evil Circle, allowing William to escape and approach the hotel manager. William asked the manager to help prepare a stage in the Plague Focal World to kill Ruben during the Great Annihilation.

• Ruben and Lorien combined Dreamscape and Brain Domain technology, studying the Void Seam and possibilities beyond their Cosmic Domain.
• Ruben reduced his supervision of the Evil Circle and stopped operating the lighthouse as he focused on pursuing transcendence.
• During the resulting chaos in the City of Evil, William reached the hotel and revealed herself to the manager.
• William explained that Ruben had spared her in exchange for a Soul Contract requiring her to eliminate the manager and hotel during the Great Annihilation.
• William told the manager she planned to kill Ruben and destroy Mobius, then asked him to secretly advise the Plague Focal World on building a stage that could restrain Ruben.

William agreed to manage the hotel’s unusual affairs while the manager went to help the sick, and he took charge of its prisoners. After returning from the Film Crew, Yi Chen followed the substitute manager to the gym and prepared to spar with three former calamities.

• The manager asked William to handle the hotel and its prisoners while the manager went to the disease zone, and William agreed to train them.
• Yi Chen finished work at the Film Crew with Lainey and returned to the hotel after the zombie had completed filming for the day.
• Yi Chen found a woman covering the front desk and learned that the manager had arranged for him to train with the hotel’s former calamity prisoners.
• Yi Chen chose Jeffrey Dahmer, Griffith, and Peter Novak as sparring partners, and the three prisoners took pills that began restoring their missing vital parts.
• At the gym, Yi Chen asked the substitute manager to join him in the arena, and she signaled him to keep her identity secret.

William’s brain tumor catalysts helped the former calamities recover their abilities, while Yi Chen fought Griffith in the fitness arena. In Zion, Deslin discovered the manager and, after hearing William’s recommendation, took him to the stage construction site as a technical consultant.

• The former calamities swallowed William’s catalysts, which temporarily restored their vital parts and drove them to seek knowledge.
• Yi Chen eliminated two opponents, leaving Griffith, who fought him in his Demon King form as Fermont.
• Deslin noticed a gray presence in Zion and tracked it to the Little Hotel of the Fox Gentleman, where she encountered the manager.
• William’s recorded message identified the manager as a technical consultant and warned Deslin to keep his identity secret to protect the plan against the Great Annihilation.
• Deslin agreed to arrange a prophet identity for the manager and took him toward the stage site in Middle-Earth.
• When Deslin began drawing a teleportation formation, the manager completed a quarter of it with a snap of his fingers.

The manager arrived in the Sick One to assess William’s stage project and met Duke Garryson, whose power and wealth changed his view of the small world. After sharing wine and stories with Garryson and Deslin, the manager grew intrigued by William’s abrupt change in personality and promised to help build the stage.

• The manager entered the Sick One and discovered that the stage’s construction was far larger and more dangerous than he had expected.
• Deslin introduced the manager to Duke Garryson, who invited him to discuss the stage privately in his castle.
• Duke Garryson persuaded Deslin to join them, and the three traveled away in the castle.
• The manager, Deslin, and Duke Garryson drank wine and exchanged stories about William’s life and experiences.
• The manager wondered whether William had changed his True Nature to achieve his goal and agreed to help construct the stage.

The Duke used Golden Yeast to uncover a second malicious entity in the lesion, which had already fled after being exposed. As construction of William’s multi-layered stage continued with the Manager’s help, Jin and Regan recognized that The Fox Gentleman's Hotel was connected to him, so the Duke brought them to the castle to protect his identity.

• The Duke demonstrated that Golden Yeast could trade wealth for information and learned that two malicious entities were in the lesion, one of them corresponding to the number five.
• The Manager urged the Duke to have the allied false gods drive out the other entity, and Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable and the Daoist patriarchs found a barbershop containing more than a thousand dissected Sick Ones before the entity escaped.
• The Manager’s spatial abilities accelerated stage construction and created The Fox Gentleman's Hotel, where workers could rest and gain architectural knowledge in their dreams.
• Jin and Regan entered the hotel and triggered their Hotel Sexual Stress Disorder, so the Duke took them to the castle to keep the Manager’s identity secret.