Chapter Summaries

Lynn forged a new Trinity Frame body and revealed that he had become strong enough to fight alongside his allies. He remained the vessel sealing Ether, and his friends welcomed him back with relief.

• Zuo Zuo called for Lynn after Ether was sealed, and Lynn answered that he needed time to prepare.
• A golden matrix assembled Lynn a new body from machinery and flesh, and he descended to rejoin the others.
• Lynn explained that he had fused his flesh, Atomic Machinery, and psionics, using Firstborn Power to create a higher-level Trinity Frame that sealed Ether within him.
• Lynn demonstrated that he could shift between physical, mechanical, and psionic forms, and Sir Awen recognized his power as Origin-level.
• Zuo Zuo rushed into Lynn's arms, and Sir Awen, the Matriarch, Azephala, and the others celebrated his return.

After returning safely, Lynn invited Silver Fantasy to join Dark Night City, promising to remember their time together as Little Refrigerator and suggesting they might be together someday. Silver Fantasy resisted his forceful recruitment, but his final words reminded her that he had never forgotten the girl who once took him on a train.

• Lynn called Silver Fantasy over and teased her about the debt she had said she could never repay.
• Lynn invited Silver Fantasy to join Dark Night City and said he might share a peaceful life with her someday, but she balked at joining his crowded group.
• Silver Fantasy tried to leave, but Lynn grabbed her wrist and declared that she had joined his crew.
• Lynn announced over the radio that Silver Fantasy loved painting and children, urging Dark Night City’s residents to befriend her.
• Silver Fantasy stopped struggling as Lynn told her he still remembered the girl who had taken him on the train.

Lynn comforted Silver Fantasy until she broke down crying, then reaffirmed that they were family and led her to join the others. Azephala realized Lynn had won over Silver Fantasy much as he had won over her and Colossus Brain.

• Lynn told Silver Fantasy he would stay with her and keep the promise they had made to be family.
• Silver Fantasy broke down in tears over years of suffering and betrayal, while the Giant Ship's crew watched in silence.
• Lynn comforted Silver Fantasy, let her punch his chest, and led her toward the people of Dark Night City; she followed without resisting.
• Lynn earned the Mechanical God achievement and a permanent attribute bonus, along with a 200-point relationship increase with Silver Fantasy.
• Azephala wondered how Lynn had won over so many powerful allies, and Colossus Brain revealed that he had drawn her in with similar promises.

After Ether’s defeat, Lynn explained that the Lord of Hell had lured Ether’s true form into Hell to devour him, while a Calamity threatened the Main Universe. Faced with the question of how Hell’s inhabitants could survive, Lynn promised to act when he could, but someone punched him before he could explain further.

• Lynn told the gathered Origins that the Lord of Hell had allowed Ether’s rampage to draw his true form into Hell.
• The group watched Hell devour Ether as Lynn warned that a Calamity was consuming the Main Universe.
• Sir Awen asked Lynn how they could survive if Hell could not withstand the Calamity.
• Lynn said he had learned a little about what was happening but could not yet explain, and promised to risk his life if he could make a difference.
• Someone punched Lynn in the face.

After Silver Fantasy and the others rejected Lynn’s apparent willingness to sacrifice himself, he revealed he had been joking and warned them that the second Great Fall was likely near. In the Far West, the God King returned carrying silver fluid refined from Ether’s information and memories, then said, “Time has never repeated.”

• Silver Fantasy punched Lynn, and the others declared they would disband rather than sacrifice him for his promise.
• Lynn told the group he had been joking, then warned that the second Great Fall was probably about to begin and urged them to return to Dark Night City.
• In the Far West, the Pighead Butcher said the Female Host had awakened and would protect Lynn, her last Raven, while he grew stronger.
• The Pighead Butcher and the Feather Pen saw a young man resembling Lynn emerge from the ruins and identified him as the God King.
• The God King held silver fluid infused with Reincarnation, spoke the words “Time has never repeated,” and returned to silent contemplation.

Lynn returned to Dark Night City after sealing Ether and began organizing recovery efforts while protecting the city’s people and allies. He considered Ether’s remaining secrets and asked whether Xiao Xiao had found Titan Big Brother.

• Lynn ordered the Matriarch and Sir Awen to recall everyone still outside Dark Night City and released the Night Doctor Forces to help rebuild.
• Lynn reassured the recovering Witch God Head and Eve that Ether had been sealed, then moved them and the Mother Tree of Desire Seed into his Strange Otherworld.
• Lynn discovered that the Mother Tree of Desire Seed held faint stirrings of laws and showed signs of promising change.
• Lynn told the Colossus Brain that Ether’s imprisonment in his body was temporary and thanked her for surviving the battle.
• Lynn asked the Matriarch whether Xiao Xiao had contacted her after leaving to find Titan Big Brother.

Lynn learned that a Calamity was rapidly approaching Hell and ordered the North Sea followers evacuated to Dark Night City. Before they could be rescued, the Calamity struck the North Sea, spreading black pollution and unleashing twisted creatures.

• The Matriarch found that Titan Big Brother and Xiao Xiao were traveling toward the Western Border after missing the battle against Ether.
• Lynn watched Ether being devoured but feared the Calamity Ether had lured toward Hell might still arrive.
• Constantine showed Lynn footage of a growing darkness approaching from beyond the Northern Border over the Endless Sea.
• Lynn warned Constantine to bring his North Sea followers to Dark Night City and alerted the Matriarch and the others.
• Black meteors crashed into the North Sea, spreading pollution as twisted creatures poured from them.

Lynn watched the calamity advance across the North Sea and saw an enormous eye open in the darkness, its gaze killing countless people and creatures. He called for Black Mist and Nanako, and the returning mist concealed the eye from Hell, though the North Sea had already suffered devastating losses.

• Lynn recognized the twisted phantoms from his visions, and Constantine warned that the calamity had arrived ahead of time.
• Lynn ordered Dark Night City's portals redirected to the North Sea so the Ocean Chosen could flee to the city.
• As the darkness spread rapidly toward Hell, Lynn climbed the tallest tower and saw it stretching across the horizon.
• An enormous eye opened in the darkness and fixed its gaze on Lynn, who called for Black Mist and Nanako to hide their world.
• Black mist rose across Hell and concealed the eye, lifting its pressure from Lynn.
• Countless sea creatures and people in the North Sea died when the darkness opened its eye.

Lynn was confronted by Nanako in an unknown realm, where she explained that she had followed a path laid out by a man who knew the outcomes of history. After devouring Ether, she confirmed that this was the final cycle and that the world was heading toward the Sleeper’s awakening.

• Lynn realized the Calamity’s pursuit had been aimed at him and wondered whether his death would erase the Great Lord’s last trace in the Main Universe.
• Time froze aboard the Giant Ship, and Lynn found himself in a vast grassland facing Nanako, the blue-haired girl from the Great Lord’s memories.
• Nanako walked away as Lynn accused her of using his fight with Ether to draw out and devour Ether’s True Form.
• Nanako said she had followed the right path after a man from the future warned her that her own attempts to change events had failed.
• Nanako explained that there was no more Reincarnation and that, after devouring Ether, she confirmed the world was moving toward its final destruction and the Sleeper’s awakening.

The girl explained that Ether was an Outsider and that the Calamity was a fragment of the true Sleeper, the Lord of the End. She and Lynn concluded that if the dream collapsed again, reincarnation might end and the Sleeper could awaken in the outside world.

• The girl told Lynn that Ether had briefly appeared in the early days of the New World but had never returned to see her.
• The girl said Ether had failed to become the Sleeper's will and that the true Sleeper was the Lord of the End, though the Calamity was only a fragment of him.
• The girl said she believed the Great Lord was still alive and resisting the Sleeper, who was hunting Lynn and erasing the Great Lord's Marks.
• The girl explained that Ether's memories of the time before he entered the universe had been erased and that his appearance suggested something had changed between cycles.
• Lynn and the girl considered that the dream's next collapse might end reincarnation, annihilate them, and allow the Sleeper to awaken in the outside world.

Lynn learned that the Main Universe was being consumed by a calamity whose Polluters slaughtered worlds, while Hell served as the last refuge for those pulled from the brink of death. The girl asked him to lend his Firstborn Power to help bring dying deities into Hell as the annihilation spread.

• The girl told Lynn that the Main Universe’s order was being destroyed and asked him to help bring dying deities into Hell.
• Lynn offered to take on the burden in exchange for all the remaining Raven corpses, but the girl said she had tried giving him more power and could not spare the corpses Hell needed.
• The girl showed Lynn the Main Universe, where darkness had consumed vast regions and Polluters were killing inhabitants across world after world.
• The girl explained that the Polluters served the awakening Lord of the End and fought her future self in the Time War.
• The girl showed Lynn dying deities battling Polluters and said she had been bringing those near death into Hell to protect them.
• The girl told Lynn to release as much Firstborn Power as he could, explaining that she could not transfer every deity because of their resistance and the scarcity of power.

Lynn released his Firstborn Power to help the girl summon deities and powerful beings from across the Main Universe into Hell before a calamity destroyed them. He witnessed the summons tear Nus, the War King, from his homeworld as Polluters overran its royal capital.

• The girl ordered the Jailers and Navigators across Hell to begin the mass transfer ritual and told Lynn to release his Firstborn Power.
• Lynn poured his power into the veil, and the girl spread it across the marked locations in the Main Universe.
• Lynn saw Polluters attack the Soselon Dynasty’s royal capital and learned that Nus, the War King, had defended his homeworld for 274 years despite a mortal wound.
• Hell’s chains seized Nus as he led his Personal Guards into battle, and Lynn shouted for the summons to stop.
• Nus resisted the chains long enough to hurl his axe into a Polluter giant, but the giant slaughtered his guards as Nus was dragged into Hell.

Lynn witnessed the girl dragging dying gods from collapsing worlds into Hell, preventing their final sacrifices and leaving their people exposed to invasion. She told him that she chose the Main Universe’s survival over the fates of individual worlds, and that this was the difference between them.

• Lynn watched the Forger, the God of Nuclear Power, prepare to detonate himself and destroy an invading Polluter army, but Hell’s chains dragged him away before he could act.
• Lynn witnessed the God of Elements prepare to fight three corrupted Ancient Gods, but Hell’s summons cut her off from the elements and pulled her away.
• Lynn saw the girl drag deity after deity into Hell as their worlds fell, and he confronted her over the hatred her actions would earn.
• The girl asked Lynn whether he would let the deities die fighting or save them at the cost of their worlds, then said she had to protect the Main Universe while he focused on particular people.

Lynn learned that the girl was drawing the Lord of the End’s attention away from the Main Universe while preparing to take Hell into Chaos Deep Space. After she sent him back, the second Great Fall began as countless deities descended into Hell, shattering its long-standing order.

• The girl told Lynn that she would lead Hell into Chaos Deep Space and occupy the Lord of the End’s attention while the Main Universe remained under threat.
• Lynn asked whether he was facing the girl of the future or the present, and she answered that she was the version from this era.
• Lynn returned to Constantine’s cabin as time resumed and rushed onto the deck to see the rain and changes in the sky.
• The Matriarch, Sir Awen, Captain Constantine, and others witnessed enormous vortices open above Hell as the Matriarch recognized the start of the Great Fall.
• Countless chained deities fell into Hell, devastating its lands and seas and ending the order it had maintained for three thousand years.

Hell descended into chaos as newly fallen deities repeatedly tried to escape, prompting the Origins in Dark Night City to plan how to persuade them to accept their new reality. The meeting ended with Silver Fantasy revealing that Lynn had been fighting a Time War.

• Sir Awen reported that fallen deities had devastated cities across Hell and that their unrest was likely to continue.
• The Self-Binding Angel urged the Origins to find any fallen juniors they knew and bring them to Dark Night City.
• Titan Head, Sir Awen, Silver Fantasy, and Constantine offered to approach fallen deities connected to their former tribes, civilizations, or domains.
• Colossus Brain and Dollhouse said they were unlikely to help persuade the new arrivals because of their violent histories.
• The Self-Binding Angel asked where Lynn was, and Silver Fantasy said he had been fighting a Time War.

Lynn and Zuo Zuo returned to the wasteland outside the Demon Association headquarters two years in the past, where Lynn eliminated a Polluter invasion and watched the events of his own history unfold. He explained that he had been using another Raven as a vessel for his Time War missions, then left to retrieve that body before the God King could reach it.

• Lynn and Zuo Zuo destroyed the Polluters threatening the Demon Association headquarters, and Lynn confirmed the invasion at that point in time was over.
• Lynn recognized the wasteland and waited with Zuo Zuo as the Inverted Tower emerged, watching his past self and Xiao Xiao tumble across the battlefield.
• Lynn warned Zuo Zuo not to interfere with history and explained that he could travel to the past by descending into a suitable vessel, including another Raven.
• Lynn and Zuo Zuo departed to return the vessel and planned to retrieve it before the God King could get there.
• Lynn's past self sensed something watching him, but Xiao Xiao struck him and dismissed his suspicion.

After completing another Time War, Lynn returned stronger and reflected on his and Zuo Zuo’s possible future before joining Dark Night City’s Origins in the Conference Hall. He arrived ready to discuss the situation outside and retrieve Raven’s corpse, but immediately broke the serious mood by teasing Silver Fantasy.

• Zuo Zuo confirmed that time had not passed in the present while she and Lynn were in the past, and Lynn received attributes, Skill Enhancement Scrolls, and access to more distant points in time.
• Lynn considered how his mind and soul still lagged behind his Origin-rank Trinity Frame, while Zuo Zuo showed off her improving saber technique.
• Lynn wondered whether the white-haired man from Raven’s memories was his future self and what his future farewell to his companions had meant.
• Lynn contacted Big Brother Awen, changed into his Night Doctor Armor, and said he and Zuo Zuo would retrieve Raven’s corpse after speaking with everyone.
• Lynn teleported into the Conference Hall, where the assembled Origins noticed his increased strength, and he flirted with Silver Fantasy.

Lynn explained that Hell had escaped the Main Universe and was traveling through Chaos Deep Space, then revealed that the calamity attacking the universe was the [Sleeper], one of the Three Pillar Gods of Chaos. He left his family facing the truth that the gap between them and the calamity was immeasurable.

• Lynn told everyone that he was fighting a war across the timeline and warned that some fallen deities might have been contaminated by the calamity.
• The Self-Binding Angel reported that Hell was in chaos and that they planned to recruit fallen deities to their side.
• Lynn explained that Hell was outside the Main Universe in Chaos Deep Space, the origin of the calamity and other Chaos Creatures.
• Lynn identified the calamity as the [Sleeper], one of the Three Pillar Gods of Chaos, alongside the [Painter] and the [Joybringer].
• Lynn told his family that the [Sleeper] dwarfed the other Pillar Gods as greatly as the [Painter] dwarfed mortals.

Lynn told the gathered Origins that he could no longer promise victory against the Calamity, provoking the Self-Binding Angel to challenge his despair. He then revealed that he had thought of a way they might hold their own against the Calamity, though the others worried he was forcing himself.

• Lynn admitted he could no longer promise that they would win or return to the Main Universe.
• The Self-Binding Angel grabbed Lynn and reproached him for hiding away and giving up in the face of danger.
• The Self-Binding Angel reminded Lynn that the others had endured devastating losses without abandoning their resolve, and Dark Night City waited to see whether he would stand with them.
• Lynn clarified that he had not meant to suggest disbanding and revealed he had a possible method for facing the Calamity.
• The Self-Binding Angel, the Witch God Head, and the Titan Head urged Lynn not to put too much pressure on himself.

Lynn explained that true gods wielded divine sparks and that the New World had forbidden anyone from cultivating into godhood. He proposed that the vacant divine seats could let his allies become gods and give the Main Universe a chance to repel the calamity.

• Lynn insisted he had devised a workable way to change their situation and showed everyone a drawing of a divine spark.
• Constantine recognized the drawing and explained that he had once possessed a divine spark representing death, which had made him a deity.
• Lynn said Ancient Gods were only demigods compared with true gods, who possessed divine sparks and controlled laws, and described the ranks of gods.
• Lynn identified the Shattered World as the Divine Kingdom of the Rules Gods, including the Feather Pen, and said the New World no longer permitted gods to walk the earth.
• Lynn argued that the Rules Gods were mostly gone and their divine seats were vacant, so his allies could become gods and stand against the calamity.