At first, they still refused to accept it and tried to fight back.
But after Lynn used his unmatched power to slaughter them one after another beyond the borders of that Calamity, they finally recognized the gulf between them.
They trembled in terror, not daring to cross the line.
Because they knew all too well.
If they dared take even one step beyond it, what awaited them the next instant was ruthless suppression and torment that would leave them screaming themselves hoarse.
Just as eternity was a torment for the entire Main Universe.
Lynn would not go back on his word.
He would make certain they, too, felt the ultimate agony that eternity brought.
The twentieth year.
The blackfire within Lynn had already burned to the very limit of what he could bear.
For a long stretch of time, Lynn even remained asleep upon that dust-covered supreme Throne, forced to personally suppress the black flames raging within him to keep them from leaking out or escaping. Even a single wisp of flame escaping could inflict terrifying, irreversible damage on all of Dark Night City and this starry sky in an instant.
He was too powerful.
So powerful that no one could understand or even imagine it anymore.
"So the threshold you spoke of was the blackfire?"
In that distant past, Lynn returned once again to that moment in time and met the figure who represented Reincarnation.
Lynn looked at him.
"Making the blackfire burn inside my Dream-that's the key to whether I can defeat that Calamity, isn't it? But I still can't take that step."
The figure remained calm.
He did not give him a definite answer. He merely repeated the words he had spoken to him before.
"Wait. The time has not yet come."
And ever since Lynn had