Chapter Summaries

William explained how Art created the original Meme Virus and how William developed it into a powerful infection transmitted through video. He persuaded Ruben to accept a brain-based game, and the equipment appeared for them to weigh matching pieces of brain matter and place them in two carriers.

• William told Ruben the story of Art Kramer and revealed Art’s clown face emerging from the back of his head.
• William explained that Art created the original Meme Virus and that William expanded it using his Mad Shell Virus and the Evil Circle.
• William said the video infected anyone within the Boundary and asked Ruben to let his performance continue by agreeing to a brain-based game.
• William offered his Mad Brain and the New Moon as stakes, and Ruben agreed to play.
• William proposed weighing equal pieces of brain matter, transplanting them into two carriers, and making the carriers fight; a balance and brain-cutting equipment appeared on the stage.

Ruben and William began their brain-tissue duel using specially prepared vessels, and William equipped his vessel with the Evil Sun to counter Ruben’s powers. The first attack badly damaged Ruben’s vessel’s hand but failed to defeat it.

• William summoned two modified vessels and revealed that Gap was secretly watching from above the abyss.
• Ruben and William each supplied brain tissue, and the matching weights were placed into their respective vessels.
• Ruben’s brain tissue transformed its vessel into a powerful likeness of him, while William’s tissue caused his vessel to undergo a rejection response.
• Duke and the Lord suspected William was buying time, but William began the duel by unleashing the Evil Sun.
• Ruben’s vessel blocked William’s scorching beam with an iridescent barrier, though the attack burned a large hole in its palm.

William used a fused clone and a staged game to challenge Ruben, but Ruben erased William and everything around him through dimensional reduction. William reappeared from a black hole and asked Ruben again whether he knew what cancer was.

• William revealed that his fused clone with Little Grape, G.S.W., had been engineered to fight Ruben, and its Stellar Collapse forced the first round into a draw.
• William claimed his Meme Virus had taken root in Ruben and tried to continue the game, but Ruben snapped his fingers to reset his consciousness and destroy William's domain.
• Ruben unleashed his high-dimensional chaotic hand and reduced William and all matter within a hundred meters to zero dimensions.
• Ruben prepared to control the Plague Lords and search for the New Moon, but William emerged from another black hole and again asked whether Ruben knew what cancer was.

William explained to Ruben that cancer represented life’s suppressed potential for immortality and infinity, then revealed that he had developed and implanted his own perfected William Cells. He began transforming into his Gestalt One form as the gathered Plague Lords and Abyss representatives watched.

• William repeatedly survived Ruben’s dimensional-reduction attacks and asked whether Ruben knew what cancer was.
• William argued that cancer was life’s original drive toward infinite existence, suppressed by rules imposed on the world, and claimed the Cancer Palace had falsely elevated benign tumors over malignant ones.
• William said he had studied cancer through the Evil Circle, created William Cells purer than malignant-tumor cells, and installed them throughout his body.
• William challenged Ruben to watch his peak form and asked him to score it.
• Tiny golden-vortex-faced infants pulled the Smiling Black Hole Video Tape from William’s mouth, and its activated genes began assembling his Gestalt One body as ominous music played.
• Ruben, the Plague Lords, and the Abyss representatives stared in shock as William’s bizarre new form began to take shape.

William transformed the Video Tape into his Perfect William form, turning the competing William Cells into a unified, adaptable body that overwhelmed the plague lords with biological pressure. He revealed the Evil Sun Eye and a strange pistol behind him as he asked Ruben how his Mental Hospital evaluation had turned out.

• The first version of Perfect William decayed as its selfish cells fought one another, exposing the Video Tape core.
• The Video Tape’s reel hub reversed its rotation, making the William Cells unite and assemble into a flawless human body.
• Perfect William’s appearance suppressed and absorbed nearby Pathogen, while Gap recognized the form that had terrified him before and hoped William would win.
• William opened the Evil Sun Eye on his brow, summoned an eyeball-filled sphere and a black-furred third hand holding a pistol, then asked Ruben about his Mental Hospital evaluation.

William and Ruben clashed in the abyss as William used his eye and reversal abilities to counter Ruben’s Iridescent attacks. The fight ended with William’s cancerous fingers breaking through Ruben’s defenses and gripping his face.

• Lighthouse Mental Hospital updated William’s evaluation, but its equipment could only measure his Growth Potential at S+ and could not assess his other disaster ratings.
• William challenged Ruben to a fight, then dodged Ruben’s Iridescent finger attack through the precognition of the eye in his brow.
• William held apart Ruben’s closing Iridescent walls with reversal effects from his William Cells, then kicked one wall apart and damaged Ruben’s hands.
• William attacked Ruben with a series of kicks, while Ruben’s concentrated chaos color weakened and blocked the blows.
• William’s axis disk core switched to clockwise rotation, and his disordered, cancerous palm multiplied through Ruben’s defenses and clamped onto his face.

William used his fused malice abilities to battle Ruben, exploiting Reverse Playback and the energy supplied by the watching Plague Lords. He revealed that the fight had helped Ruben master chaos, then asked him to use his full strength; Ruben unveiled a Moon Eye as the Dreamscape overtook reality.

• William explained how he had fused malice, a vessel, and Abyss Inversion into abilities that could either spread his cells or invert matter and attack across dimensions.
• William repeatedly attacked Ruben with Little Grape, but Frame Skips and Ruben’s chaotic left half diverted the damage from his unharmed right side.
• The Duke realized Ruben had crossed beyond the limits of a Plague Lord and warned that William’s attacks were helping him adapt.
• Ruben’s mosaic began to fade as a power linked to the moon, Mobius, and the First Calamity prepared to emerge.
• William dropped to his knees, thanked Ruben for letting him stage an even fight that helped Ruben control chaos, and asked him to finish the performance with full force.
• Ruben admitted that he admired William’s disdain for Those Above, then revealed a Moon Eye as the Dreamscape erased the boundary between dream and reality.

Ruben revealed his new power, Creation, and trapped William in a Dreamscape where he could alter reality and nearly kill him. Just as Ruben began opening William’s skull, an ordinary butcher’s cleaver tore into the Dreamscape from outside and threatened Ruben.

• Ruben unveiled his transformed body and explained how accepting Lorien and entering the Dreamscape had helped him attain the power of Creation.
• Ruben erased William’s mouth and prevented him from escaping the Dreamscape, then forced his cells back into place when William attacked.
• Ruben snapped his fingers, turned William’s body to ashes, and held his surviving head while preparing to extract his brain.
• William resisted the forced opening of his skull with his Brain Hole and used his Video Tape voice to draw attention to the possibility of an outside rescue.
• An ordinary butcher’s cleaver cut through the Dreamscape from outside and appeared at Ruben’s neck.

Yi Chen arrived during William’s battle with Ruben and used Consciousness Slash to cut through the spreading Dreamscape. Ruben lost an ear, but the Dreamscape remained a threat as the confrontation continued.

• A nurse at Lighthouse Mental Hospital contained the spreading Wall Seams with dark-gray medicine and began sorting through documents at her station.
• Ruben healed from Yi Chen’s earlier strike as the Dreamscape separated from reality, then confronted Yi Chen and William onstage.
• Yi Chen arrived, and William recognized him as the ally he had awaited while warning that Ruben could control the laws of truth within the Dreamscape.
• As Ruben unfolded the Dreamscape again, Yi Chen concentrated his Slaughterous Aura and used Consciousness Slash to cleave the dream film and cut off Ruben’s ear.

Yi Chen and William joined forces against Ruben after Yi Chen cut through his Dreamscape, but Ruben revealed his half-transcendent power and overwhelmed them. They landed a coordinated attack that briefly infected Ruben with the Zombie Virus, yet he recovered, shattered Yi Chen’s weapon, and left him near death as William stood between them.

• Yi Chen slashed open Ruben’s Dreamscape, forcing him to withdraw it and stop spreading it across the diseased zone.
• Ruben applied his Dreamscape to himself, surpassing the Cosmic Domain’s limits, and struck Yi Chen and William with overwhelming force.
• Yi Chen and William continued attacking Ruben, concealing Yi Chen’s use of the Ninth Calamity’s zombie head to infect him when Ruben killed it.
• Yi Chen and William struck the immobilized Ruben together with Yi Chen’s slaughter blade and William’s inverted bullet, but Ruben’s Dreamscape neutralized the virus and stopped the bullet.
• Ruben shattered Yi Chen’s blade, tore apart his neck, and damaged the Sea of Death and the Five Viscera Gods, leaving Yi Chen unable to fight.
• Yi Chen struggled toward Ruben, but William stood in his path and looked at him with calm familiarity.

Yi Chen remembered how William had been his imaginary friend since childhood and had supported him through life at the Orphanage, then watched William sacrifice himself in the abyss to save him. Ruben retrieved the New Moon from William’s Brain Hole and prepared to transcend, unaware that Todd had just been killed and that his memories of the Tenth Calamity had been altered.

• As a child, Yi Chen began speaking to the drawing of William on his dormitory wall, and William first appeared physically when Yi Chen nearly killed a roommate for trying to destroy it.
• William repeatedly appeared to help Yi Chen through danger and the Orphanage, but vanished during Yi Chen’s escape; after Yi Chen shot himself rather than be recaptured, he saw William standing on the highway.
• In the abyss, William told Little Grape to follow their plan, then sent it into the descending stage-light shell to form a new Evil Sun and distract Ruben.
• William brought the dying Yi Chen to his side, revealed his Brain Hole, and let Yi Chen place his head inside it, sacrificing himself so Yi Chen could live and explore other worlds.
• Ruben shattered the Evil Sun, pulled the New Moon from William’s damaged Brain Hole, and declared that he would begin transcending.
• Todd arrived and spoke with Ruben about the missing Tenth Calamity; after Todd could not remember how Michael Miles had died, darkness filled his vision.

After the circus destroyed the Eighth Calamity, William’s aura vanished during his confrontation with the First Calamity, prompting the circus to reconsider its plans and return to the New Focus of Infection. Lainey sensed that a forgotten child had once existed, while Ruben noticed signs of an unseen danger after Todd was erased.

• The circus destroyed the Eighth Calamity, but its members sensed upheaval in the New Focus of Infection and grew restless.
• Catherine tried to leave to find William, but Mr. Gian blocked her; Boss then noticed William’s plan might have involved someone else and led the circus toward the New Focus of Infection.
• Lainey searched the Birth Gate for William, found battered gene sequences that seemed to belong to a lost child, and glimpsed a hanging shadow in her mirror.
• As the New Focus of Infection began reverting to its original form, Ruben found Todd beheaded and erased, then realized he had lost all memories connected to the number five.
• Ruben released his Dreamscape to search for the source of the danger, but found nothing before dreaming that he had been beheaded.

Ruben faced Yi Chen as he tried to complete his transcendence by absorbing the New Moon. Yi Chen decapitated him, and Ruben realized William had arranged the contest as a stepping stone toward another being’s transcendence.

• Ruben used the Lighthouse to scan for a hidden threat and attacked the black feet he saw, but they kept appearing closer to him.
• Ruben recognized the approaching Dark Shadow as Yi and fled across planes, yet Yi remained beside him.
• Ruben returned to the Plague Focal World and reached for the New Moon, but Yi’s Hand Blade decapitated him through his defenses.
• Ruben tried to undo his death with Time Control and dreams, but his head remained severed, the Chaos World connection broke, and his body began to dissipate.
• Ruben recognized Yi Chen and understood that William had arranged the contest to make him a stepping stone toward another being’s transcendence, then admitted, “I lost.”

After the Great Annihilation stopped, the Plague Lords and other Sick Ones gathered to repair the nearly ruined lesion, though they believed the odds of success were less than one in ten. At the hotel, Gapp and the manager revealed William’s plan to Lainey, whose negotiations with the gods set the plan in motion.

• The Plague Lords, organizations, and powerful Sick Ones gathered at the great pit, found the threat gone, and saw that the lesion was near collapse.
• The circus joined the World Mending effort, while the gathered leaders estimated that their chances of repairing the lesion were less than one in ten.
• In the City of Evil, the three surviving disasters sensed that an existence had passed and that their thoughts had changed.
• Lainey met Gapp and the manager at the hotel, where they showed her William’s blueprint and asked her to negotiate with the gods.
• Lainey went to the God Domain and secured the gods’ agreement to relinquish a fundamental sovereignty, officially starting William’s plan.

Lorien watched William’s plan reshape the Cosmic Domain around the lesion, while Yi Chen discovered that the lesion was using the Final Stage and William’s cells to transform itself and spread disease across the worlds. The chapter ended with a perfected being being nurtured inside the lesion’s core.

• Lorien saw the Manager and Gap push the Cosmic Domain’s coordinates so the lesion would become its center, while the gods and other powers sent energy toward it.
• The lesion’s World Consciousness absorbed the incoming energy and began expanding its sores rather than simply repairing its damage.
• The Dark Shadow, revealed as Yi Chen, searched the void for someone who was missing, then returned to the Cosmic Domain.
• Yi Chen realized William had used the Final Stage to preserve his cellular information and trigger the lesion’s biological programming.
• The lesion spread the Gray Domain and disease between planes as its core nurtured an anthropomorphic being with perfect proportions.

The author reflected on the creative process, challenges, and regrets behind the book, then discussed a planned crossover and a future novel. The crossover would return to the lesion and bring Han Dong into the current world, while the next book remained in preparation.

• The author explained that the book began as an original soul-like story before its direction shifted, and described how family illnesses and limited preparation affected its middle sections.
• The author praised the development of Yi Chen and William but regretted omitting Grey Domain exploration, travel to other continents, and team-ups with Plague Masters.
• The author thanked readers, supporters, and collaborators for their help with the book.
• The author said the upcoming crossover would focus on the lesion, feature incubated William and Yi Chen walking through higher-dimensional death, and bring Han Dong into the current world because Galon's Chaos World was World S-01 from Cell.
• The author said the next novel would use a different system and require substantial preparation, then closed with a formal bow.

Six months after Ruben Victorianno was erased, Lorien’s uncontrollable dreams drove him to investigate the Chaos World, where he discovered an approaching higher-dimensional entity. He realized the entity was causing his insomnia and resolved to warn the world.

• The Great Illness Era spread across the Cosmic Domain, while the lesion’s core remained sealed and rumors about William’s survival persisted.
• City of Evil maintained the Cosmic Domain’s balance as an unseen force erased dangerous Evils and vile incidents.
• Lorien suffered a week of insomnia after his dreams became chaotic, and a hospital-wide examination found no trace of Ruben’s remnants.
• Lorien’s staff prepared the First Operating Room, and the Female Doctor injected him with a drug to force him to sleep.
• Lorien entered the Chaos World in his dream and spotted an approaching chaotic entity with an egg-shaped head and writhing gray tentacles.
• Lorien recognized the entity as a higher-dimensional being from the outer world and decided he had to warn everyone.

Regan and Gap discovered a chaotic signal that led Principal Deslin and the Stargazers to glimpse a gray Transcendent entity from outside, triggering contamination and a crimson warning from Lorien. As the Cosmic Domain went on alert, the perfect individual being nurtured deep beneath the earth awoke and emerged.

• Regan and Gap's seam experiment captured a dangerous signal, so Regan went to Zion to report it to Principal Deslin.
• Regan encountered Jin at Divine Skin Manor and told him the signal might point to a second Great Annihilation.
• Principal Deslin summoned the Stargazers to conduct coordinated precognition, but one Stargazer was corrupted and Deslin was contaminated after seeing a gray Transcendent existence from outside.
• Regan burned the corrupted Stargazer and used instruments to stabilize Deslin, who warned that the threat came from outside and was not the Great Annihilation.
• Lorien sent crimson moonlight across the Lesion and the Cosmic Domain, prompting Zion and the Cancer Palace to prepare for danger.
• The crimson light reached the nurturing heart beneath the earth, which ruptured and released the awakened perfect individual, who formed a Gold and Black Suit from the blood on his body.

Lorien tried to seal the Dream Passage after sensing the Faceless Outsider, but the visitor crossed into the diseased Cosmic Domain anyway. William arrived in the operating room and faced the visitor, and the two began laughing as they sized each other up.

• Lorien felt corruption after glimpsing the Faceless Outsider and warned the Female Doctor to alert the Cosmic Domain.
• Lorien tried to close the Dream Passage, but a marked hand stopped the Stone Door; he cut off the dream and sealed his abilities in the hospital.
• A gray-robed visitor appeared in the operating room, and Lorien saw the vast world system in the man's eyes before preparing to fight him.
• The visitor assessed the Cosmic Domain with his shadow, while the medical staff ignored the shadow's lecture and turned toward the operating-room door.
• William entered to the staff's greeting of "Teacher," stared at the visitor, and joined him in a burst of laughter.

Regan, Jin, Lainey, and the Manager entered the New Moon to investigate the contamination and discovered that William had returned after an operation with the dangerous outsider Valen. Nicholas, who introduced himself as Han Dong, joined William in proposing cooperation between their Cosmic Domains, and the group headed toward the infection core.

• Regan, Jin, Lainey, and the Manager entered the New Moon hospital after failing to contact Gap and sensing William might still be alive.
• Jin rushed toward laughter from the First Operating Room, where Gap stopped her and confirmed William was inside.
• William emerged from the operating room alongside Han Dong, whom he introduced as the Outer Domain Visitor Valen. Nicholas.
• William explained that Han Dong had come to study the disease system and discuss cooperation between their Cosmic Domains.
• Han Dong noticed the Manager and Gap's unusual nature, and William invited them to discuss malice and what lay above at the infection core.
• Lorien emerged with the Female Doctor's support, and the group followed William and Han Dong toward the core.