Vol. 20The Ether War

Lynn and his allies battled Ether’s Atomic Revolution, then pursued him through Dark Night City and Hell. They sealed Ether inside a singularity, but Lynn remained in Ether’s Spirit World and Silver Fantasy lost her connection to him.

  • Lynn forced Silver Fantasy to help him assault the Mechanical Church and reach the Colossus, but Ether revealed the rescue was a trap and that he had eaten the Scholar.
  • Ether’s atomic vibration spread through the material realm as Lynn and Silver Fantasy’s forces converged on the Colossus’s prison.
  • Lynn and Silver Fantasy fought Ether as the Atomic Revolution consumed matter, data, and machines, then escaped to the Strange Otherworld using Lynn’s double-nesting trick.
  • Lynn invited Silver Fantasy to join the Seven Gods, then introduced her to Azephala, whose presence made the two women hostile toward each other.
  • Lynn’s allies built Megastructures to suppress Ether and opened a passage to Dark Night City, where the Origins joined the fight.
  • Lynn realized that curses from the Origins Ether had consumed could make Hell’s restrictions bind him, and ordered the Clown to unleash its Authority.
  • Lynn and his allies fought Ether across Hell and inside his Spirit World, using the Megastructures and stolen Firstborn Power to seal him.
  • Silver Fantasy sent Ether into a singularity, while Lynn stayed behind to maintain the matrix and she lost her connection to him.
Chapters 1901–2000 Read from Ch. 1901

Arc 77The Colossus Trap

Lynn forced Silver Fantasy to join him, then led an assault into the Mechanical Church to reach the Colossus while fighting the Machine Gods. The rescue proved to be Ether’s trap, and he revealed that he had eaten the Scholar as an atomic vibration shook the material realm.

  • Lynn threatened Silver Fantasy with the Intelligent Brain, securing her agreement to help him achieve the Trinity, then admitted he had staged the threat and saved the Brain.
  • Ether tracked Lynn’s group through the Meme Virus and attacked them in the data network, but Lynn lured him into reality and captured his clone with help from the Night Doctors, Eve, and the Witch God Head.
  • Lynn and Silver Fantasy split their forces, with Lynn leading the assault on the Colossus’s prison while his duplicates and Light Banquet targeted the remaining Light Banquet Machines.
  • Lynn’s forces broke into the Mechanical Church’s Terminal Space, and Silver Fantasy entered the Upload Hall to erase machine intelligence consciousnesses as they fought toward the Core Region.
  • Extinction deployed the planet-killing Extinction-Class Array, while Star Embracer’s Meson Fire forced Lynn back into the data network.
  • Lynn unleashed curses on Eve and the Witch God Head, then returned with them to battle the Machine Gods as Silver Fantasy searched for the Colossus and Light Banquet crippled the First and Second Areas’ networks.
  • Lynn’s forces converged on the Colossus’s prison, but Ether ambushed Lynn’s double before Lynn’s true form arrived and merged with him.
  • Ether revealed that the Colossus was missing and that he had eaten the Scholar, then said Star Embracer and the Light Banquets had been moved as part of his plan as an atomic vibration spread through the material realm.
Chapters 1901–1925 Summaries Read

Arc 78The Atomic Revolution

Lynn and Silver Fantasy fought Ether as the Atomic Revolution neared completion, then escaped into the Strange Otherworld after Lynn’s double-nesting trick. With Ether temporarily unable to reach them, Lynn invited Silver Fantasy to join the Seven Gods.

  • Silver Fantasy saved Lynn from the collapsing Data Network, but Ether’s Atomic Revolution spread across the world and began consuming matter, data, and machines.
  • Lynn and the Witch God Head carried chaos into the revolution’s core while the General sacrificed Dragon Head and Ether transferred the nearly completed core into the General.
  • Lynn learned that Miss Machine Intelligence’s fragment was needed to finish the revolution, while Silver Fantasy met Karen inside the Mathematical Rubik’s Cube and decided to return to Lynn.
  • The Witch God Head fell into madness, and Silver Fantasy rescued Lynn before Ether could crush him, then fought beside him as Ether’s power grew.
  • Ether trapped Lynn and Silver Fantasy in the Mathematical Rubik’s Cube, but Silver Fantasy altered its formulas and broke them free before Ether pursued them again.
  • Lynn used a false Boundary Gate opening to distract Ether, then transferred himself and Silver Fantasy through System Space into the Strange Otherworld, leaving them cut off from reality.
  • Lynn and Silver Fantasy recovered in the Mother Tree of Desire’s spring water, and Lynn invited her to become one of the Seven Gods.
  • Lynn found Azephala had subdued the enemy in the Strange Otherworld and introduced her to Silver Fantasy as his indispensable companion, prompting the two women to regard each other with hostility.
Chapters 1926–1950 Summaries Read

Arc 79The Battle for Dark Night City

Lynn and his allies joined forces with Silver Fantasy and Extinction to build a device that could suppress Ether, then opened a passage to bring Dark Night City’s Origins into the fight. Ether pursued them to the city, where Lynn realized that curses from the Origins he had consumed could make Hell’s restrictions bind him.

  • Silver Fantasy persuaded Extinction to join Lynn’s side, but Extinction betrayed them and tried to merge with Ether until Lynn used Colossus Cells to defeat him.
  • Silver Fantasy absorbed Extinction and ascended, then used his knowledge to rebuild the Megastructure while Lynn gathered materials and prepared to test it on Ether.
  • Lynn powered the Megastructure with Firstborn Power, allowing it to imprison Ether, and the group built more devices before opening a Boundary Gate toward Dark Night City.
  • Ether attacked as Lynn’s allies widened the unstable gate, but Sir Awen arrived from Dark Night City and carried Ether into a higher-dimensional space while Lynn and the others stabilized the passage.
  • Dark Night City’s Origins and Night Doctors crossed the gate and fought Ether’s Mechanical Legion, while Lynn channeled Firstborn Power into his allies.
  • Ether’s machines rapidly reformed after being destroyed, so Lynn led the Origins to search for Ether’s true form and discovered it had escaped through a spatial rift.
  • Ether entered Dark Night City, killed the guards, and attacked the Mother Tree of Desire, but its curse dragged him back as Lynn and the Origins surrounded him.
  • Lynn deduced that Ether’s consumption of cursed Origins had made Hell’s restrictions affect him, then ordered the Clown to unleash its Authority as Ether became a storm of atomic machines.
Chapters 1951–1975 Summaries Read

Arc 80The Fall of Ether

Lynn and his allies fought Ether across Hell and inside his Spirit World, using the Atomic Machinery and Lynn’s stolen Firstborn Power to seal him. Ether vanished into a singularity, but Lynn remained behind and Silver Fantasy lost her connection to him.

  • Lynn led the Origins west to confront Ether’s true form, while Ether summoned his Atomic Machinery and threatened Hell’s Border.
  • Lynn and his allies battled Ether as Silver Fantasy completed more Megastructures, and Lynn used them to drain and seal Ether at the cost of his own life.
  • Silver Fantasy and Sir Awen entered Ether’s Spirit World with Lynn’s raven corpse and found Zuo Zuo climbing toward Lynn’s imprisoned soul fragment.
  • Zuo Zuo carried Lynn’s corpse to the summit, where it fused with his soul fragment and restored him, and Lynn then activated his plan to trap Ether from within.
  • Sir Awen, Silver Fantasy, Captain Constantine, and the others weakened Ether, while Silver Fantasy seized control of the machine gods and became the Goddess of Ten Thousand Machines.
  • Lynn used Hell’s azure Border to ensnare Ether’s true form and seal his consciousness, then stayed behind to maintain the matrix as his companions escaped.
  • Lynn revealed that his farewell had been a joke, but remained in Ether’s Spirit World as Constantine brought the others back to the real world.
  • Silver Fantasy warped the Megastructures into the collapsing Ether, which vanished into a singularity, and she lost her connection to Lynn, and Zuo Zuo called out for Brain.
Chapters 1976–2000 Summaries Read
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