Chapter Summaries

Linsey and Wala Wala guarded their shelter while the Star Holder fought the [Gray Sea Mist], and the Sea of Wandering began to reappear as the battle ended. Before leaving, the Star Holder explained that the [Abyss School] had fused a divine spark with the sea and advised Linsey to keep fishing for a chance to find its weakness.

• Linsey and Wala Wala reinforced their shelter while Linsey judged the Star Holder too powerful to be an ordinary Creator God.
• A force rose into a higher dimension, and fragments of law converged as the chaotic fog began to resemble seawater again.
• Linsey wondered whether he could fish in the changing sea, and Wala Wala urged him to take the opportunity.
• The Star Holder protected their floating ice, thanked them for helping capture the [Gray Sea Mist], and said the [Abyss School] had fused a divine spark with the Sea of Wandering.
• The Star Holder advised Linsey to wait until the divine spark's gathered will took physical form, and said Linsey could fish about two more times before he left.

Linsey used his final fishing opportunity as the Star Holder faded away, catching a strange gray box after the Star Holder intervened to neutralize a deadly fish king. Linsey opened the box and found an item called the Dead's Return to Slumber.

• Linsey cast his Fishing Rod into the Sea of Wandering and caught a clump of seaweed.
• Linsey and Wala Wala sensed the Star Holder's presence fading as he ascended beyond the Sea of Wandering.
• Wala Wala asked the Star Holder for advice about the Abyss School, and he began explaining that the homeless people's power did not come from life and death.
• Linsey hooked a dangerous fish king, but the Star Holder's blue radiance washed away the threat and left a hazy gray box on the line.
• Linsey opened the box and found gray powder, which his Appraisal Skill identified as the Dead's Return to Slumber.

Linsey and Wala Wala planned to use [The Dead's Return to Slumber] and [Twisted Stillbirth] to choose the battlefield and prepare a vessel for the [Abyss School] god's revival. Linsey then learned that [Rebels in the Darkness] had been completed and suspected an unknown ally had helped the people he once aided.

• Wala Wala realized their boat had vanished with Ice Island, so Linsey gave her planks to build a new one.
• Linsey proposed using the enemy's traits to choose the final battlefield instead of continuing to sail in pursuit.
• Linsey revealed [Twisted Stillbirth] and explained that it had been cultivated as a vessel for a god's body.
• Linsey noticed that [Rebels in the Darkness] had been completed and shared the task update with Wala Wala.
• Linsey suspected someone unknown had secretly helped the oppressed people in the Barren Land World.

Ailini and Yanafeien searched for a way to reach Linsey in the Sea of Wandering, but the City of Law and their allies could not intervene immediately. Meanwhile, Linsey and Wala Wala prepared another raft after surviving dangerous sea beasts, and Wala Wala detected a possible whirlpool ahead.

• Ailini asked Yanafeien whether the City of Law could rescue Linsey, and Yanafeien explained that entering the Sea of Wandering was beyond the city's current strength.
• Ailini described her requests to the Seven Seas Alliance and Platinum City, while Yanafeien reported that the Messengers and Life Scholars had plans but had not acted yet.
• Ailini remembered Linsey's search for a girl and told Yanafeien that the legendary warrior Red had recently risen to fame in Nal Kebandek.
• Linsey and Wala Wala built a fourth raft after two sea beasts attacked them during the previous week, including an Evil Spirit that trapped them in an illusion and let their boat drift away.
• Linsey examined his Spotlight Stone reward while Wala Wala proposed a bet that their new raft would be their last.
• Wala Wala sensed water churning far ahead and told Linsey it sounded like a whirlpool.

Linsey and Wala Wala discovered that only Wala Wala could sense and be affected by a colossal whirlpool, despite their normal status and the calm sea Linsey perceived. They realized the whirlpool might be the passage out of the [Sea of Wandering], which Star Holder had said lay to the west.

• Wala Wala sensed a whirlpool about forty-five kilometers away, while Linsey's senses and Map Skill detected nothing.
• Wala Wala used Linsey's [RPG] Module Seed and sent him a map image showing a vast whirlpool more than two hundred kilometers across.
• Linsey and Wala Wala checked their equipment and status panels, found no sign of an attack, and confirmed they perceived different conditions.
• When the current pulled at Wala Wala, Linsey grabbed her and anchored their vessel, then stepped into the water and found it calm.
• Linsey recalled Star Holder's warning that heading west would lead to the exit whirlpool, and Wala Wala realized that was what she sensed.

Linsey and Wala Wala identified the Final Vortex in the Sea of Wandering and prepared an elevated platform before approaching it. They discovered sleeping souls being swept through the water toward the vortex’s center.

• Linsey and Wala Wala used the Adventure Pointer and their Scouting Skills to learn that the Final Vortex drew in people with powerful wills and shredded unprotected entrants into source material.
• Linsey mobilized his Willpower Source Material and confirmed the vortex’s location, then agreed with Wala Wala to prepare for the coming fight before helping gather the target’s body.
• Linsey and Wala Wala built a floating wooden platform above the turbulent sea, using Module Seeds to extend it toward the vortex.
• Linsey spotted Yellow Markers beneath the platform, and Wala Wala saw phantom figures drifting through the water toward the vortex.
• Linsey identified the figures as souls sleeping in the Sea of Wandering and said they were flowing into the end.

Linsey and Wala Wala built a wooden combat platform across the [Sea of Wandering] vortex while discussing the souls lost within it and Wala Wala’s hope of finding someone she cared about. Near the vortex’s center, Linsey sensed an Abyssal Divine Source and realized an Eighth Stage Awakened was nearby.

• Wala Wala asked Linsey whether people from the [City of Law] might be among the souls in the [Sea of Wandering], and he said he could not tell.
• Linsey explained that souls could dissipate, distort, or revive with their corpses, and Wala Wala wondered whether all souls ultimately ended in the vortex.
• Wala Wala revealed she hoped to find someone she had cared about, and Linsey told her Game Players could not bring the dead back to life.
• Linsey and Wala Wala spent eleven hours extending a wooden platform over the vortex, then realized they were approaching its center.
• Linsey caught the scent of an Abyssal Divine Source and sensed that an Eighth Stage Awakened was nearby.