Recaps

William, Yi Chen, and Lainey infiltrated the Fourth Calamity’s domain and defeated Gap, then William recruited Gap and revealed plans to redirect an coming invasion of malice. Yi Chen and Lainey returned to the City of Evil, where they began training together.

• William led Yi Chen and Lainey into the Fatal Video Tape’s death loop, and Yi Chen broke free after nine cycles while Lainey secretly resisted by reproducing herself.
• The trio staged their way through the Wooden Cabin, found the blood-marked V/H/S tape, and escaped into the Fourth Calamity’s hidden warehouse.
• William, Yi Chen, and Lainey reached the Fourth Calamity’s laboratory, where William infected its giant body with a plague and used the Primal Video Tape to enter a new video world.
• William baited Gap out of the Old Building, and Yi Chen, William, and Lainey followed him Between the Seams to confront his true body.
• Yi Chen repeatedly fought Gap as he returned through gaps, while Lainey protected William and Yi Chen entered a thoughtless state under the yellow Murderer Mask.
• William stopped Yi Chen from killing Gap and indoctrinated Gap into becoming his student, then asked Yi Chen to help redirect the coming invasion of malice.
• The First Calamity examined Gap, who later contacted the Fatal Video Tape theme laboratory to strengthen himself, while Lainey discovered Yi Chen and the manager sparring in the hotel’s forbidden gym.
• Lainey created a powerful Sheep Head Person to fight Yi Chen for six hours, then collapsed from exhaustion, and Yi Chen carried her back.

William brought Yi Chen and Lainey into the circus and secured its cooperation while arranging the First Calamity’s approach to the Old World. Yi Chen recruited the Ninth Calamity to the Film Crew, then learned its undying virus might help confront the First Calamity.

• William brought Yi Chen and Lainey to Aunt Mei, where Lainey agreed to restore her Palace Body and William secured a bowl of Dumplings.
• William and his companions entered the expanding Fear Circus, survived its deadly performances, and reunited with its members, including Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Gian.
• William offered the original fetal body of evil to heal the sealed former Boss and asked the circus to help draw the Eighth Calamity into a performance.
• William arranged for the First Calamity to reach the Old World and revealed that he was preparing a Final Stage centered on Prison Boss and Lorien.
• William warned Yi Chen about the other calamities, and Yi Chen set out to recruit the Ninth Calamity through the Film Crew.
• Yi Chen invited the Zombie Virus to advise the Film Crew, then proposed moving the crew to the Plague Focal World to make zombie films with its help.
• Yi Chen tested his death powers against the Zombie, but stopped his strongest attack after seeing the dead rise as zombies across the Sea of Death.
• The Zombie offered to help Yi Chen draw the First Calamity’s attention because it could not be killed.

William's amusement park experiment ended with his imprisonment, but he secured a contract to kill the manager and secretly organized a stage to kill Ruben Victoriano instead. The Plague Lords approved his plan, and the manager joined construction while Yi Chen trained against former calamities.

• Yi Chen, Lainey, and the zombie entered William's Amusement Park, where William's experiments unleashed the Zombie Virus.
• The First Calamity subdued the zombie and imprisoned William, who secured a Soul Contract to kill the manager during the Great Annihilation.
• Ruben Victoriano examined Yi Chen's altered memories, cleared him of involvement in William's scheme, and challenged him to defeat the Second Calamity.
• Duke Garryson presented William's plan to lure and kill the First Calamity, and the Plague Lords approved it and committed resources to building the stage.
• William escaped confinement through his Clown Virus safety mechanism and secretly recruited the manager to help construct a stage capable of restraining Ruben.
• Yi Chen trained against the hotel's former calamity prisoners while William concealed her identity as the substitute manager.
• Deslin brought the manager to Duke Garryson, and the manager agreed to help construct the stage.
• The Manager helped expose an intruding malicious entity and accelerated construction with spatial abilities and The Fox Gentleman's Hotel.

Ruben launched the Great Annihilation and began seizing control of the Plague Focal World, while William challenged him with a hidden stage. Yi Chen survived Hannibal’s pursuit, killed the Second Calamity, and joined forces with the cured zombie as the final battle with Ruben approached.

• Ruben began the Great Annihilation, assigning the Calamities their roles and sending William with him to the Plague Focal World.
• NO.2 trapped Yi Chen and the blind old man in the containment facility, where Yi Chen fought Hannibal after killing the old man to satisfy Hannibal’s demand.
• William inverted the Plague Focal World into a stage and confronted Ruben, but Ruben sliced William in two as William’s recorded game began playing.
• Hannibal overwhelmed Yi Chen, but the Film Crew sacrificed themselves to revive him, and Yi Chen fled into the God Domain to complete his transformation.
• Yi Chen pursued Hannibal through the Pure Land and Three Pure Heavens, became an Apex Predator, and killed him after Hannibal’s monstrous transformation failed.
• Todd discovered that William’s Paradise threatened the Eighth Calamity, while the Manager restrained Aunt Mei and declared his support for William and the Plague Focal World.
• Yi Chen returned to Avalon, killed the zombie in Doomsday City-State, and destroyed the Chroma Substance Ruben had injected into him.
• The zombie returned to normal, remembered Ruben’s injection, and agreed to help Yi Chen confront Ruben.