Vol. 26The Blackfire War

Lynn fought the Nightmares across the Divine Realm and the Main Universe, while preparing to confront the Calamity and cross the thresholds of the Time War. After defeating the Nightmare King with blackfire fueled by the Empire’s faith, he remained near Chaos Deep Space as the war continued.

  • Lynn freed Dreamweaver, reclaimed divine power, and transformed the God King Realm into his God Frontier to defeat Mirror.
  • Lynn destroyed the Nightmare King and prepared the Main Universe for the Nightmares’ return, while learning how the Outsider had shaped his life.
  • Lynn returned to defend the Main Universe and joined Painter inside the Calamity, where she sacrificed herself to reach the chained Sleeper.
  • Lynn accepted the role of the Empire’s symbol and used its people’s faith to ignite blackfire and defeat the Nightmare King.
  • Lynn returned to the Main Universe and helped defeat the Nightmare Demons before following Painter into the Calamity.
  • Painter continued alone to reach the chained figure and sent Lynn back to protect the Main Universe.
  • Lynn left Zuo Zuo frozen in the void and accepted the burden of giving the Main Universe hope as the Nightmare attacks intensified.
  • Lynn endured the people’s fears and hopes on the Throne of Agony, then used their faith-fueled blackfire to defeat the Nightmare King.
Chapters 2501–2600 Read from Ch. 2501

Arc 101The God Frontier

Lynn infiltrated Aivier’s Palace, freed Dreamweaver, and confronted the imprisoned powers and Nightmares as the Lord of the End’s revival advanced. After Truth reclaimed his divine spark, Lynn entered the Bottommost Layer and fought Mirror while turning the God King Realm into his God Frontier.

  • Lynn and Dragon Guard Lan infiltrated Aivier’s Palace, where he discovered factories producing weapons for the Nightmare King’s forces and met the captive fragment of the Truth God King.
  • Lynn helped Truth kill the Corrupted Deities, then followed him through the War Fortress and found the Loyalists imprisoned beneath the Throne.
  • Lynn freed Dreamweaver from the Fourth Layer prison and placed her in his Trident World while suppressing the corruption that threatened her life.
  • Lynn and Truth confronted the Nightmare guarding Destruction’s divine spark, but the Beast King devoured the spark and fought Lynn across the Fortress’s layers.
  • Lynn killed the Beast King and took his black God King spark, then Truth recovered his memories and returned Aivier’s Dragon Heart to Lynn.
  • Truth reclaimed his divine spark from the Golden Youth and stood against the Nightmare King, while Lynn used the Dragon Heart to enter the Bottommost Layer.
  • Lynn fled the mirror-faced Nightmare, which copied his abilities, and learned from the Silver Sun that the being grew more like its targets the more they fought.
  • Lynn used Raven’s corpse and divided soul fragments to create decoys, then formed a God Frontier from the God King Realm’s laws and fought Mirror inside it.
Chapters 2501–2525 Summaries Read

Arc 102The Time War Begins

Lynn killed the Nightmare King and Beast King, reclaimed the Divine Realm, and prepared the Main Universe for the Nightmares’ return. As the war stretched on, he trained to cross the thresholds needed for the Time War and learned how deeply the Outsider’s imprint had shaped his life.

  • Lynn used the Colors of Chaos to destroy Mirror, then followed the primordial source’s call and devoured it as the Nightmare King’s forces attacked.
  • With the Painter’s help, Lynn held off the Nightmare army, killed the Nightmare King and Beast King, and destroyed the pillars at Aivier’s Palace, but Causality was carried away through time.
  • Lynn spread the God Frontier across the Divine Realm and returned to Dark Night City, where he told his allies the Nightmares would come back and ordered the Main Universe’s defenses strengthened.
  • Lynn entrusted Dreamweaver’s care to Colossus, left the Legion’s affairs with the Matriarch and Captain, and asked the Painter to manage the war while he drew the Calamity’s attention.
  • Lynn apologized to Lin Meng and learned that the Female Host had retained her humanity, then entered seclusion to fuse Ether’s true form and strengthen his trinity.
  • Over the following years, the Legion reclaimed star domains and its members ascended, while the Painter repeatedly defeated the Nightmare leaders and Silver Fantasy reinforced the Main Universe with her mechanical forces.
  • As Lynn trained in the River of Time, he learned that he had to create his power within a dream and give it tangible form, but he could not make his sinfire affect the figure he fought.
  • The figure revealed that Lynn’s life was tied to the Outsider through the Colossus Heart, Zuo Zuo, his transformation on Blue Star, and his later use of Colossus cells, and warned that studying Firstborn Power would deepen the imprint.
Chapters 2526–2550 Summaries Read

Arc 103The Calamity’s Awakening

Lynn returned to the Main Universe, defeated the Nightmare Demons, and joined Painter in confronting the Calamity. Painter sacrificed herself to reach the chained Sleeper, sending Lynn back to protect the Main Universe as the darkness receded.

  • After five years of war, the Nightmare armies withdrew from the Inner Ring as the Calamity awakened and the Nightmare King challenged Lynn.
  • Painter confronted the Calamity while the Nightmare Demons attacked the defenders, and Silver Fantasy led them into the Fourth Layer to keep them away from Lynn.
  • Lynn arrived, rescued Silver Fantasy, and killed the four Nightmare Demons before returning to Dark Night City and promising to reclaim lost territory.
  • Lynn helped stabilize the Main Universe’s Laws, then joined Aivier and defeated three more Nightmare Demons before setting out to help Painter.
  • Lynn reached Painter as she fought the Black Pupil, followed her into the Calamity, and learned she was trying to keep the Sleeper from awakening by restoring his will and letting him consume her.
  • Lynn pressed deeper into the darkness with the azure girl, fought through nightmares and phantoms of the Old Days, and collapsed near the chained figure.
  • Painter continued alone, promised to help the chained figure retain his humanity, and sent Lynn back to carve out a future as her light pushed back the darkness.
  • Aivier mourned Painter’s disappearance and remembered her father’s fall and her mother’s long vigil.
Chapters 2551–2575 Summaries Read

Arc 104The Throne of Agony

As the Nightmare war escalated, Lynn accepted the burden of becoming the Empire’s symbol and used the faith of living beings to ignite blackfire. He defeated the Nightmare King but remained near Chaos Deep Space, preparing for the still-unfinished war.

  • Lynn reunited with his companions after the Calamity receded, and Aivier joined Hell and the Exile Defense Line under his leadership.
  • Lynn found Zuo Zuo frozen in the void beyond time but left her there, promising to return after dealing with the Calamity.
  • As the Nightmare assaults grew stronger, the Self-Binding Angel urged Lynn to become the King who could give the Main Universe hope, and people came to recognize him as their Redeemer.
  • Dreamweaver told Lynn that completing the Trinity required him to absorb her primordial source, but he refused, after discovering a message from her Forebear, she later died, leaving Sir Awen to reveal her plan for Lynn’s ascension.
  • Sir Awen returned and reorganized the Empire, gathering the faith of its people so it could ignite Lynn’s blackfire and help him reach the Third Stage.
  • Lynn sat on the Throne of Agony and endured the hopes, doubts, grief, and fear of countless people as the Nightmare Demons attacked the Divine Realm.
  • When Lynn’s followers saw him falter, a little girl voiced her support, inspiring others to keep believing and sending faith power that ignited a spark of blackfire within his Sinfire.
  • Lynn used blackfire to defeat the Nightmare King, then stayed near Chaos Deep Space and asked Sir Awen and the Matriarch to convince the Nightmares that he could still defeat them alone.
Chapters 2576–2600 Summaries Read
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