Chapter Summaries

Linsey fought the weakened deity as it unleashed a world-ending Law to kill him and claim Wala Wala. As the Sea of Wandering began to collapse, Linsey spotted his Source Flame burning toward the City of Law and realized the deity had reached a vulnerable moment.

• Linsey rejected the deity's demand for his identity and struck it again with his blade, worsening its injuries and thwarting its plan to seize the City of Law.
• The deity used Strategic Vision to identify Linsey's limited source essence, but resolved to kill him and claim Wala Wala rather than retreat.
• The deity invoked the Despairing Word Spirit, Doomsday, collapse, and unleashed a terrifying Law that froze Linsey and filled the Sea of Wandering with apocalyptic killing intent.
• Linsey resisted the fear with his demonic markings and judged that the deity's condition had grown even worse as it sustained the attack.
• Linsey saw his Source Flame burning across the World's Edge, consuming everything as it reached the City of Law.

Linsey fought the deity as meteorites threatened the Royal City, then injured it with a Nuclear Bomb attack. The deity offered him a place at its side, but Linsey revealed that his source material had recovered and returned to peak condition.

• The deity targeted Linsey with hundreds of falling meteorites while Alvitte and the Law Knights organized the Royal City's evacuation.
• Linsey replaced his Storm Shooter Mythic Arrow with a Nuclear Bomb Mythic Arrow and detonated it, damaging the deity and destroying the Palace and the mountain peak.
• The deity became fascinated by the physical power unleashed by Linsey's Nuclear Bomb and offered him an opportunity to stand beside the throne above the heavens.
• Linsey questioned the deity's assumption that his source material could not recover, and his source material surged back to peak condition.

Linsey used Truthful Lie to restore his source essence, then struck the weakened deity with Eternal Return and erased much of its body. The deity escaped by transferring its existence into faith, and Linsey realized it had hidden inside Nia and the people of the City of Law.

• Linsey revealed that his source essence had been restored after the deity believed his lie, activating the Truthful Lie scroll.
• Linsey unleashed Eternal Return with his restored strength, annihilating the deity's right hand and half its body.
• The wounded deity accelerated the apocalypse and tried to flee, but Linsey's next strike missed as it vanished into black particles.
• Linsey used Scouting Skill to trace the deity's escape through faith and concluded that it had hidden within Nia and the City of Law's residents.

Linsey and Wala Wala sought a way to reach the deity after it destroyed its body and hid within people's faith. Wala Wala's painting began forming an Impression Channel, leaving them poised to enter the faith space.

• Linsey explained that the deity had used Nia's faith anchors to hide within people's faith after destroying its body.
• Wala Wala recalled a story in which a painter created an Impression Channel to let heroes enter a deity's faith space, but Linsey could not reach Ala Song.
• Wala Wala tried using Linsey's Octopus Brush to paint a world of law, but the first painting failed to activate.
• Linsey suggested she paint the City of Law as ordinary people knew it, and gave her a photograph of the undamaged city.
• Wala Wala painted the city from the photograph, and the canvas floated in the air like a door.

Linsey and Wala Wala entered the City of Law’s world of hearts and faith to confront the deity, but its inhabitants detected them and spoke through them. The deity declared it would claim the secrets of their powers.

• Wala Wala insisted on entering the Impression Channel with Linsey, and they went in together.
• Alvitte found the painting in the ruins and recognized the Impression Channel, then reached toward it.
• Linsey and Wala Wala arrived in a peaceful version of the City of Law and went stealthily toward the palace on the Mountain Peak.
• Linsey explained that Eternal Return would be their main weapon against the deity, while Wala Wala offered to create an opening.
• The city’s inhabitants turned toward Linsey and Wala Wala, their eyes shining with black light, and the deity spoke through them, revealing it had detected the intruders.

Linsey and Wala Wala fought the faith-bound god in the World of Human Hearts, discovering that emotional attacks could harm its controlled residents. As the city’s masses closed in, Wala Wala prepared to use Storm’s Breath for a performance that could strike across the city.

• Linsey and Wala Wala realized the god existed within everyone’s will, making it impossible to defeat by attacking a single body.
• Wala Wala struck an attacking girl, but the girl’s body recovered after Linsey cut her apart.
• Linsey used the Blade of Emotion to overwhelm nearby residents with emotional pain, briefly restoring clarity to some of them.
• Linsey gave Wala Wala Mermaid’s Throat and Storm’s Breath, and she agreed to use her performance against the city’s residents.
• Linsey challenged the god to prove its power while Wala Wala took the stage with the Poetry Lyre woven from the Storm and announced her performance.

Wala Wala’s song and Linsey’s Music Module weakened the god’s hold over the residents of the City of Law, forcing It to manifest a body. The god then trapped Linsey and Itself in a domain that extinguished Linsey’s Sword Light and advanced on him with a flagpole.

• Wala Wala played the Poetry Lyre and sang a song that stirred the residents’ Willpower, while Storm’s Breath spread her melody through a citywide rainstorm.
• The god used the radiance of faith to regain control of the residents, but Wala Wala’s song and Linsey’s Music Module intensified the struggle and awakened many of them.
• Linsey guarded Wala Wala as the god gathered black-gold motes of escaping Willpower and formed a human-shaped body before them.
• Linsey identified the manifestation as a Faith Entity and prepared to attack with his Rainbow Light Hallucination Dream Blade.
• The god enclosed Linsey and Itself in a transparent domain, extinguished his Sword Light, and approached with a flagpole while promising to teach him true combat technique.

Linsey fought the deity inside its Purification Domain, where Awakened abilities and Source Material were sealed, but his experience-point attributes gave him overwhelming physical strength. As the Faith World and World of Human Hearts began returning to reality, Linsey realized he had to kill the deity before it escaped with the believers’ faith.

• The deity sealed Linsey’s skills and Source Material, then struck him through a cloth shop while claiming he could not fight without them.
• Linsey rose with his warrior techniques intact as Wala Wala continued playing outside to suppress the City of Law’s residents.
• The deity thrust its flagpole at Linsey, but he caught it and overpowered the deity with strength gained from years of accumulated experience-point attributes.
• Linsey slammed the deity into the ground and charged through the shop walls, smashing its head against the boundary of the enclosed area.
• Wala Wala warned Linsey that the Faith World and World of Human Hearts were disappearing as the residents returned to reality with the Source Flame.
• The deity revealed that its return was inevitable, and Linsey resolved to kill it before its power reached reality.

Linsey learned that the deity’s domain could only be ended by killing its true opponent, exhausting its source material, or using the complete Law power of the Eighth Stage, while the Source Flame consumed the City of Law. As the deity appeared certain of victory, Alvitte arrived and offered to help Linsey and Wala Wala.

• Linsey realized he could not use Eternal Return inside the deity’s domain and asked Wala Wala to scout for a way out while she kept playing.
• Wala Wala briefly paused her music to investigate and found three ways to undo the domain: a duelist’s death, exhausted source material, or the complete Law power of the Eighth Stage from outside.
• Linsey judged that none of the three solutions was feasible before the Source Flame consumed the remaining city, while the deity’s will rejoiced through the people’s hearts.
• Linsey heard familiar footsteps and saw Alvitte emerge through the rain and Source Flame.
• Alvitte recognized Linsey and Wala Wala’s predicament and offered to help.

Alvitte tried to break the deity’s boundary, but Linsey realized they needed the royal artifacts and human will. Alvitte summoned the White Steel Sword, and the chapter ended as the deity sensed the Human Wisdom Codex awakening within Linsey.

• Alvitte struck the boundary with her sword, but it remained intact, and Linsey told her that only complete Law power could destroy it.
• Alvitte offered to pay any price to stop the Source Flame, prompting Linsey to recall a passage about the royal artifacts.
• Linsey urged Alvitte to call upon the sword she had once wielded, and Alvitte appealed to the human hearts of the City of Law.
• The people focused on Alvitte, and their will manifested the White Steel Sword in her raised hand.
• Alvitte thrust the White Steel Sword into the boundary, which cracked but did not break, while the deity realized the Human Wisdom Codex was awakening within Linsey.

Linsey used the Human Wisdom Codex and the royal artifacts to defeat the god and complete God's Etching. After suspecting that another enemy remained beneath the Sea of Wandering, he chose to stay there with Wala Wala and investigate.

• Linsey bound the god with the Thorned Necklace, unified the royal artifacts, and used the White Steel Sword to pierce its chest with the power of Eternal Return.
• The god's faith anchors collapsed, its body vanished into the Sea of Silent Death, and Linsey's God's Etching task was marked complete.
• Wala Wala embraced Linsey, while Alvitte returned to the City of Law as it was restored to reality.
• Linsey noticed the Sea of Wandering had gone quiet and concluded that the Abyss's power slept there, waiting to be awakened.
• Linsey told Wala Wala they had to remain in the sea and sent his conclusion through the Friend Channel.

Linsey and Wala Wala remained stranded on the Sea of Wandering after Linsey threw the City of Law's royal artifacts into the Source Flame, trusting that his future self needed to find them. He claimed rewards for killing a god and chose Apex Predator as Hunting Simulation's final skill, then continued building a raft with Wala Wala.

• Linsey threw the royal artifacts into the Source Flame, believing that leaving them behind preserved the cause and effect that would let his future self obtain them.
• Linsey and Wala Wala began expanding their raft and accepted that they had given up the known route out of the Sea of Wandering.
• Linsey claimed the God Slayer circlet for completing God's Etching and equipped it.
• Linsey claimed the God Hunter title and God Spawn item after Hunting Notes recorded his deity kill.
• Linsey chose Apex Predator from Hunting Simulation's three final skills, deciding it would help them survive on the Sea of Wandering.

Linsey and Wala Wala studied his new survival equipment and fighting module while stranded in the Sea of Wandering. They decided to ambush the Abyss School when it returned, and Linsey revealed another Source Flame.

• Linsey explained that Apex Predator gave him wilderness survival skills, a Survival Guide, and a Survival Dagger.
• Linsey and Wala Wala reviewed the fighting module options, and Linsey chose Fighting Command before giving Wala Wala the Module Seed.
• Linsey and Wala Wala tested the fighting controls and found that they could precisely control their bodies through mental commands.
• Linsey and Wala Wala reasoned that the Abyss School would assume they had been left behind in the Sea of Wandering and planned to ambush it when it returned.
• Linsey lit a white Source Flame, surprising Wala Wala, who thought he had already used it to send the City of Law back.

Linsey explained that he had used Strange Matter to create more Source Flame, then used it with Wala Wala’s help to synthesize a powerful World Rune. The Adventure Pointer located the Abyss School’s Source of Slumbering Power to the east, and Linsey asked Wala Wala to steer while his source essence recovered.

• Linsey showed Wala Wala Strange Matter’s properties and explained that he had used its Strange Hypothesis function to copy the Source Flame.
• Linsey told Wala Wala he planned to use the Source Flame to craft a Flame Dominator’s Mark rather than escape the Sea of Wandering.
• Linsey and Wala Wala combined the Flame Dominator’s Mark with three other Imprints and their source essence to synthesize a World Rune.
• Linsey examined the World Rune’s powerful effects, noticed the workbench listed further rune recipes, and dismissed them as a trick.
• Linsey used the Ecosystem Radar to locate the Abyss School’s Source of Slumbering Power due east, then asked Wala Wala to steer their boat while he recovered his source essence.

The Abyss School’s leader learned that its revival plans had suffered multiple setbacks and decided to enter the Sea of Wandering through the Great Rift. Meanwhile, Linsey and Wala Wala sailed toward the School’s dormant power and considered seeking out the earliest Awakened for help.

• The black-robed man learned that Awakened from the City of Law had disrupted the School’s plans and that his people had failed to recover the Extinction One’s corpse from Nal Kebandek.
• The black-robed man decided to enter the Sea of Wandering through the Great Rift and ordered his followers to awaken the Child of To Dark.
• Linsey and Wala Wala built sails and an automatic rudder, then sailed toward the Abyss School’s dormant power.
• Linsey suggested that the expeditionary’s story might lead them to powerful early Awakened who could help them leave the Sea of Wandering and defeat their enemies.

Linsey and Wala Wala survived an encounter with the Gray Sea Mist, the mysterious ruler of the Sea of Wandering, then resumed gathering supplies and building a ship. Two days later, they spotted blue-white lights in the distance, and Linsey’s map revealed what appeared to be an iceberg.

• Wala Wala and Linsey recalled how Wala Wala’s storm and Linsey’s fishing had drawn the terrifying fish king, forcing them to flee the Gray Sea Mist.
• Linsey read the Hunting Notes entry identifying the Gray Sea Mist as a phenomenon creature born from life and death concepts that could not be killed while its origin concept remained.
• Linsey and Wala Wala resumed fishing and gathering supplies while building another vessel.
• Two days later, Wala Wala spotted blue-white lights on the distant sea, and Linsey used his Adventure Map to identify what looked like an iceberg.

Linsey and Wala Wala reached a vast, unexpectedly mild ice island and confirmed that the Abyss School had hidden something there. Their search led them to the iceberg’s summit, where an unseen presence addressed them.

• Linsey and Wala Wala sailed toward the enormous ice island after the Ecosystem Radar pointed to it.
• Linsey and Wala Wala flew ashore, found patches of soil and rare plants, and used their Scouting Skills to investigate the island.
• Linsey and Wala Wala confirmed that the radar targeted the island but found no source material or sign of the hidden object.
• Linsey and Wala Wala discovered that their Scouting Skills could not sense the iceberg’s summit, where a mysterious presence asked whether they sought escape or coveted the power hidden there.

Linsey and Wala Wala learned the dangerous ways to leave the Sea of Wandering from a mysterious being on an iceberg. When Linsey asked about the expedition members, the being appeared before them and revealed interest in the humans above, while its immense gravity overwhelmed Linsey’s skills.

• Linsey told the blue light that he and Wala Wala wanted to destroy the power hidden in the Sea of Wandering, and it confirmed that they were telling the truth.
• Wala Wala asked how to leave, and the being described three methods: sacrifice to retrieve the Source Flame, reach the Eighth Stage and open a passage, or travel west to the Final Vortex.
• The being warned that the Final Vortex could assimilate them into source material and that Harvest Day’s stronger current was too dangerous to use.
• Linsey asked how people entered the Sea of Wandering and mentioned meeting former expedition members.
• The blue light vanished and a humanoid figure surrounded by gravity appeared before Linsey, whose skills could not operate against it.
• The figure asked about the humans above and expressed surprise that Linsey carried the scent of fog.

Linsey and Wala Wala met the Star Holder, who offered to reveal how to leave the Sea of Wandering and explain the Abyss School’s plans in exchange for summoning the Gray Sea Mist. After learning that he needed its concept to escape a contradictory state caused by his skills, they agreed to help, and Linsey began fishing for the mist.

• The Star Holder introduced himself by his current name and offered Linsey information in exchange for bringing back the Gray Sea Mist.
• Wala Wala challenged the Star Holder to explain why he wanted the mist, and he revealed that it was a conceptual entity formed from the Principle of the End Cycle.
• The Star Holder explained that he would borrow the mist’s concept without damaging the Sea of Wandering’s rules, and Wala Wala and Linsey accepted his assurances.
• Linsey and Wala Wala went to the shore of Ice Island, where Wala Wala played her Poetry Lyre to stir a storm.
• Linsey cast his Fishing Rod into the sea, and the Gray Sea Mist began to approach almost immediately.

Alvitte returned to the ruined Royal City with the three King's Vessels, and Yanafeien accepted them as the Awakened began searching for an ancient enemy. Alvitte and Yanafeien worried that Linsey and Wala Wala remained trapped in the Sea of Wandering, where the pair struggled to survive a catastrophic battle between the Star Holder and the Gray Sea Mist.

• Alvitte gave Yanafeien the White Steel Sword, Thorned Necklace, and Human Wisdom Codex, which Linsey had recovered and sent back from the Sea of Wandering.
• A young Righteous Walker reported that Lord Heart's Edge and other powerful Awakened were investigating an ancient enemy that had appeared in the south.
• Alvitte set out to share what she knew about the enemy and urged Yanafeien to contact messengers from other worlds.
• Yanafeien and Alvitte realized Linsey and Wala Wala might not have returned, but they could not contact them or reach the Sea of Wandering.
• Linsey and Wala Wala struggled to hold onto a shrinking ice sheet as spatial chaos tore apart their surroundings, and Linsey urged them to keep building shelter.