Chapter Summaries

Ultimus used Charles’s consciousness and his own brain to create the Omniscient Brain, revealing that Charles’s arrival had caused the Book of Causal Paths and its plane to come into existence. The ritual’s record suggested Charles had entered Ultimus’s brain in a previous cycle, and Ultimus tried to save the newly formed Omniscient Brain as it began to decay.

• Ultimus extracted Charles’s consciousness and his own brain, then combined them in a ritual to create the Omniscient Brain.
• Charles searched Ultimus’s memories and learned that the Book of Causal Paths and the plane containing it had appeared when he first entered the Wizard World.
• Charles realized the Book of Causal Paths’s account of its origins was mostly false and that his arrival had caused its existence.
• The Book of Causal Paths recorded, “Second cycle begins: Charles enters Ultimus’s brain,” before Charles’s consciousness dissipated.
• Ultimus held the briefly created Omniscient Brain, then put it inside his skull to protect it from corrupting knowledge and spent his last source power before his body shattered.

Ultimus sent his head through time as the universe collapsed, and Charles completed another cycle of reincarnation. After waking aboard the ship again, Charles discovered memories from thousands of his past reincarnations in Wu Duo Duo Mall and learned that his anchor had to remain in the Shadow Nightmare Realm.

• As the universe collapsed, Ultimus sent his head into the river of time, where it transformed toward the Shadow Nightmare Realm.
• Charles became a seven-ring Wizard King, killed the Omniscient Carbuncle, and traveled to the end of the universe, where the Book of Causal Paths announced a third reincarnation.
• Charles woke aboard the ship and began reliving his rise through the wizard ranks, but his memories gave him a sense of déjà vu.
• After becoming a Wizard King again, Charles found a Wu Duo Duo Mall shop selling fragments of his memories from many reincarnations.
• Charles examined the memories and learned that his attempts to change events had failed, Demogorgon had torn him apart when he left the Abyss, and his anchor could not leave the Shadow Nightmare Realm.

After countless reincarnations, Charles understood that he had entered Ultimus's mind by his own choice and had been shaping events toward this moment. He defeated Ultimus and used the multiverse's primordial power to begin creating a new universe capable of traveling through time.

• Charles tried countless ways to survive the multiverse's destruction, but each attempt ended in failure.
• After thousands of reincarnations, Charles returned with the Shadow Nightmare Realm to the universe's final moment inside Ultimus's mind.
• Charles revealed that he had entered Ultimus's mind of his own accord and that Ultimus had been born from the multiverse's will.
• Charles seized control of Ultimus's ritual, destroyed the primordial essence, and devoured Ultimus's consciousness, power, and existence.
• Charles restarted the ritual to create a new universe, and the words “Final reincarnation... complete!” appeared.