Chapter Summaries

The black-robed figure defeated the Self-Binding Angel and the Fallen Alliance, leaving Hell terrified of his power. Recovering in Dark Night City, the Self-Binding Angel wondered whether he was another raven after he told her there was more than one.

• The black-robed figure threatened the Self-Binding Angel and said there had never been just one raven, then attacked her and demanded that she fight with all her strength.
• The Self-Binding Angel drew her golden blade and fought the black-robed figure.
• Sir Awen arrived with his team the next day and found the unconscious Self-Binding Angel on the devastated battlefield.
• News spread through Hell that the black-robed figure had defeated Dark Night City's two Origins and more than a dozen Origins from the Fallen Alliance.
• After recovering in the Sanctuary, the Self-Binding Angel told Sir Awen the black-robed figure was not Lynn and repeated his claim that there was more than one raven.
• The Self-Binding Angel wondered whether the black-robed figure was another raven.

Sir Awen and the Origins suspected that the black-robed figure was a second Raven and resolved to bring Lynn back before the figure’s promised final revelry. Silver Fantasy and Colossus believed Lynn had invented the story to hide his identity and was trying to unite Hell’s Origins against the coming calamity.

• Sir Awen and the Self-Binding Angel debated whether the powerful black-robed figure was another Raven and agreed to gather everyone and bring Lynn back.
• Sir Awen told the Origins in Dark Night City about the second Raven theory and warned that the figure had promised a final revelry after suppressing Hell’s last Origin.
• Silver Fantasy and Colossus discussed Lynn’s disguise and marveled at how much stronger he had become through training in the past.
• Silver Fantasy concluded that Lynn was using the second Raven story to unite every Origin in Hell.

A black-robed man challenged and defeated Origins across Hell, driving its strongest beings into panic and disorder. With Lynn missing and even the Dollhouse defeated, Sir Awen proposed giving Captain Constantine their Firstborn Power so he could strengthen his mastery of the laws and face the threat.

• Colossus and Silver Fantasy concluded that the black-robed man's attacks could unite Hell's Origins against a common enemy.
• Over five days, the black-robed man defeated Origins across Hell, including the Dollhouse and several ancient beings who had been hiding.
• Sir Awen and the others reviewed the defeats in Dark Night City and worried that the black-robed man would soon challenge them again.
• Sir Awen proposed giving Captain Constantine their Firstborn Power to help him advance his mastery of the laws beneath the Sea of the Mind.
• Sir Awen asked Constantine whether he could raise his mastery enough to fight the black-robed man.

Constantine proposed that the Ancient Gods cultivate laws in the Sea of the Mind, where time passed differently, and the group agreed to attempt the dangerous journey. The chapter ended as they set sail for the dark sea, prepared to face lingering projections of Ancient Beings.

• Constantine agreed to use the fragments of firstborn power to deepen his command of laws, while the others prepared to fight if he failed.
• Constantine proposed that the group cultivate in the Depths of the Sea of the Mind, where he could anchor their sense of self.
• Sir Awen supported the plan, and Colossus and the others agreed to try it despite the risks and uncertainty.
• The Dollhouse agreed to join them, and everyone boarded Constantine's Giant Ship for the dark sea of the mind.
• Constantine warned them about its dangers, then the group set sail.

Constantine led the Origins into the Sea of the Mind, where he went ahead to prepare for their descent while they adjusted to its strange passage of time. In Mirror City of Sin, Lynn fought the Sin Lord and lost his cool when he realized she had ignored his lessons on controlling laws.

• Constantine took the Origins beneath the Sea of the Mind and explained that one hour outside equaled roughly a hundred years there.
• Constantine left Sir Awen at the helm and transformed into a stream to travel deeper into the darkness.
• Lynn fought the Sin Lord in the ruins of Mirror City of Sin, easily deflecting her attacks and criticizing her weakness.
• The Sin Lord boasted that Lynn and other powerful figures in Dark Night City were her allies, then revealed she had not learned to use laws.
• Lynn unleashed a blade of light, shouted for the Sin Lord to dodge sideways, and fumed that she had ignored the lessons and notes he had given her.

Lynn let the Sin Lord’s transformation run out while he took a call from Dark Night City, then revealed that he was the Black-Robed Figure she had been fighting. He decided to train her personally and continued planning to unite Hell’s Gods and lead them back to the Main Universe.

• The Sin Lord charged Lynn with her Blood Lotus technique, but her transformation ended as he stepped on her and she collapsed.
• Lynn spoke with Miss Machine Intelligence, who told him that Dark Night City’s people were beneath the Sea of the Mind to train, and he encouraged them to keep at it.
• Lynn explained that he wanted Hell’s powerful beings to become his common enemy so they would strive to grow stronger under the Laws.
• The Sin Lord recovered enough to scratch Lynn before he removed his disguise and revealed that he was the Black-Robed Figure.
• Lynn declared that the Sin Lord would train with him and threatened to hang her upside down if she failed to learn, while she continued to deny that he was the Black-Robed Figure.

The black-robed figure’s victories drove Hell’s Origins to realize that they had to master laws to keep pace with the new era. The Colossus and then an Archangel displayed breakthroughs in Dark Night City, drawing powerful beings from across Hell to seek the path of laws.

• The black-robed figure scattered an alliance of dozens of Origins across Hell with his spatial laws, convincing them that only control of the laws could let them challenge him.
• On the seventh day, the silver-eyed girl transformed into the Colossus and endured the laws carving her body apart as she tried to fuse them into her flesh.
• The Colossus emerged from the destruction and opened a vast spatial rift, revealing that she had advanced along her own path by adapting her body to bear the laws.
• Origins across Hell flocked to the locked-down Dark Night City, hoping to learn how the Colossus had begun cultivating laws.
• On the tenth day, an Archangel appeared above the Giant Ship and shifted from holy radiance into boundless darkness, prompting the Origins outside the city to recognize her as a second Laws Controller.

More than a hundred Origins gathered outside Dark Night City, waiting as the city’s powerful beings fused laws to prepare for the black-robed figure. After he appeared and left without attacking, several Origins emerged from seclusion with new powers, while Sir Awen and the second-generation God of Ten Thousand Machines failed.

• The black-robed figure appeared above Dark Night City on the fifteenth day, watched the Giant Ship, and vanished without attacking.
• Sir Awen emerged from the Giant Ship on the eighteenth day without any law fluctuations, then returned inside, leading the watching Origins to believe he had failed.
• The Witch God Head appeared the next day with a curse law fused into her body and briefly regained her immense Titan Tribe form and Ancient God Rank power.
• Colossus, the Self-Binding Angel, and the Witch God appeared repeatedly, each showing increasingly powerful auras as they fused laws.
• On the thirtieth day, the second-generation God of Ten Thousand Machines erupted from the Giant Ship as Atomic Machinery tried to replenish her withering frame.
• The second-generation God of Ten Thousand Machines transformed into a Mechanical Dragon, crashed into the wasteland, and disappeared after the abnormality in her body annihilated the surrounding ground.

Silver Fantasy suffered a catastrophic backlash while advancing along the Path of Laws, and Lynn saved her before warning her to stop cultivating in the Sea of the Mind. After they discussed Big Brother Awen and the Captain’s progress, Lynn prepared to face the Captain while learning that Dollhouse and Titan were also readying themselves to challenge him.

• Lynn used his Firstborn Power to halt the destruction of Silver Fantasy’s body and soul after her laws went out of control.
• Lynn explained that Silver Fantasy’s laws had suffered a backlash and warned her that returning to the Sea of the Mind could kill her.
• Lynn told Silver Fantasy not to compare her progress with Colossus, the Matriarch, and the others, and said her path could lead to the throne of the God King of All Things.
• Silver Fantasy said Big Brother Awen had struggled to meditate in the Sea of Minds and warned Lynn that the Captain might soon surprise him.
• Lynn revealed that he had been studying the Death Laws so he could challenge and defeat the Captain on the Captain’s strongest ground.
• Silver Fantasy warned Lynn that Dollhouse had entered the Sea of Minds to pursue him and that Titan had been building his fighting spirit.

The Captain broke free of Hell’s suppression and left Dark Night City as death laws tore at him. After bowing to an ancient Jailer, he began forming a divine spark under an unseen force’s restraint.

• On the third day, Silver Fantasy’s mastery of the laws triggered a terrifying manifestation above Dark Night City.
• The Giant Ship cracked open, and the Captain emerged as death laws converged on him and Hell’s curse dissolved.
• The Captain left Dark Night City to shield it from the laws and walked into the wasteland as they struck him.
• The Captain bowed to the ancient old man above the black mist, and the Jailer figures vanished after a sigh.
• The Captain raised his hand and gathered countless laws into a point that began to form an incomplete divine spark.

Captain Constantine recovered his body and became a half-step rules god who controlled death. He accepted the black-robed figure’s challenge, and the two prepared to fight before the gathered Origins.

• Captain Constantine formed a mote of rules, merged it into his brow, and regained his prime body as a half-step rules god.
• The Origins and the people of Dark Night City witnessed Constantine’s transformation and discussed his return to godhood.
• Constantine addressed the black-robed figure, who revealed himself among the Origins and congratulated him.
• The black-robed figure explained that he had challenged the Origins to make them recognize their weakness, then drew his saber and challenged Constantine to fight at full strength.

Lynn and Captain Constantine began their long-awaited duel, first testing each other with weapons alone before both unleashed death laws. The fight was poised to begin in earnest as Constantine declared he would stop treating it as a sparring match.

• The black-robed Lynn attacked Constantine, who blocked his saber with a rapier and outmatched him through superior technique and experience.
• Lynn unleashed a rapid series of saber slashes, but Constantine evaded them and cut open the robe over Lynn’s left arm.
• The watching Origins roared as Lynn was suppressed in their first clash, and Constantine explained that he had learned his swordsmanship while serving as a mortal court guard.
• Lynn acknowledged Constantine’s experience and ignited his deathly aura, prompting observers to question how his power could rival Constantine’s.
• Constantine revealed his own death laws, rose into the air, and said he would fight at full strength rather than treat the duel as a sparring match.

Lynn fought Constantine, the Captain, in a deadly clash of Death Laws and was nearly overwhelmed by his attacks through the Sea of the Mind. He chose to stop matching the Captain’s technique and challenged him with sheer power, as the Captain’s scythe melted into his body amid their colliding Laws.

• Constantine unleashed his Death Laws and struck Lynn with a ghost ship, knocking him through the boundary into the Sea of the Mind.
• Lynn escaped the Sea of the Mind and blocked the Captain’s scythe, but the Captain assaulted his mind and summoned the dead against him.
• Zuo Zuo warned Lynn that the Captain had been the God of Death for countless years and urged him to fight with brute force instead of technique.
• Lynn calmed himself, drew on his firstborn power, and decided to challenge the Captain at the level of Death Laws.
• Lynn stood his ground as the Captain’s giant scythe struck him, then watched it melt inch by inch amid their colliding Laws.

Lynn abandoned his measured exchanges with Constantine and rapidly amassed death laws, while Constantine tried to disrupt his control and bind him with chains. With Zuo Zuo taking over the assault, Lynn and his partner fought Constantine two against one, ending with both blades shattering after a clash.

• Lynn changed tactics and converted his firstborn power into an overwhelming accumulation of death laws.
• Constantine attacked Lynn through the sea of the mind, but Lynn had isolated his mental imprint and repelled the assault.
• Constantine used chains and his control over death laws to interfere with Lynn’s growing power, while Zuo Zuo cut the chains and attacked him alongside Lynn.
• Constantine summoned the Giant Ship and sent anchors against Lynn, but Zuo Zuo’s blade shattered the ship and forced Constantine out of it.
• Constantine blocked Zuo Zuo’s close-range strike with a sword of laws, and both weapons shattered in the clash.

Zuo Zuo’s Godslayer slash severed the Captain’s arm, but the Captain used a trap to invade Lynn’s mind and battle him for control of the death laws. Lynn gained the advantage, then stopped when he saw a crack in the Captain’s half-step divine spark, leaving the duel unresolved.

• Zuo Zuo used the Godslayer slash she had practiced without borrowing Lynn’s laws, cutting off the Captain’s arm.
• The Captain triggered a prepared magic array that bound Lynn with chains and disrupted the death laws.
• Lynn shattered the Captain’s body, but the Captain exploited a brief opening to breach Lynn’s mind and attack his control of the death laws.
• Lynn and the Captain fought for control of the laws inside Lynn’s spirit world as death spread across the battlefield.
• Lynn’s control began to surpass the Captain’s half-step divine spark, and the Captain’s spark cracked.
• Lynn abandoned the struggle and called out to the Captain, bringing the clash to a halt.

Lynn defeated Captain Constantine in their contest of laws, though Constantine said Lynn’s unusual path might let him one day stand alongside the Violet Great Lord. Lynn then confirmed he was considering unifying Hell’s Origins by defeating them, as the approaching calamity demanded swift action.

• Lynn tried to repair the crack in Constantine’s half-step Divine Spark, but Constantine admitted that he had lost because of his upper limit.
• Constantine praised Lynn’s potential and urged him to forge a path of his own rather than follow the Firstborn’s lonely road.
• Zuo Zuo arrived, and Constantine praised her powerful slash and the hard work behind it.
• Constantine asked Lynn how he intended to settle matters after defeating most of Hell’s Origins.
• Lynn said he was considering gathering the Origins under his command and planned to overcome their defiance by defeating them before the calamity arrived.

Lynn and Constantine prepared to restore godhood as a defense against a terrifying enemy, but an abnormal force disrupted their fight and pulled Constantine back to Dark Night City. A cloaked figure then left to confront Lynn, setting up his encounter with the other two dangerous members of the city.

• Lynn told Constantine that the threat to the Main Universe made the return of deities necessary, and Constantine pledged Dark Night City's support.
• Constantine warned Lynn to tell the Dollhouse and the Titan his true identity, then returned with him to the battlefield.
• Several Origins attacked as an unnatural silence spread across the battlefield, and Lynn saw invisible threads of Law attached to every Origin.
• A force pulled Constantine back to his Giant Ship in Dark Night City, where a cloaked figure said she had contacted Titan and left to finish the fight.
• Constantine stayed silent about Lynn's identity and warned him that he was about to face the other two crazy ones.

Lynn fought Dark Night City’s Origins while Dollhouse used her control over laws to reveal that she had secretly planted backdoors in them. She activated the network, stripping most of the Origins of their wills and sending them against Lynn, leaving him surrounded by a relentless army.

• Lynn recognized Dollhouse’s control over the Origins and confronted one of them, who revealed that the Captain had fallen and Dark Night City would fight rather than surrender.
• Dollhouse said she had secretly monitored Dark Night City and suspected that some of their allies had been exchanging information with Lynn.
• The Origin warned that Dark Night City might not survive the battle, and nearly eighty percent of the Origins’ eyes turned black as their wills were taken over.
• Dollhouse revealed that she had spent the past month weaving law-based backdoors through the Sea of the Mind into a network linked to the Origins.
• The controlled Origins charged Lynn without fear of death, and he fought them off as their numbers threatened to overwhelm him.

Lynn refused to retreat despite being surrounded by Origins, insisting that he had to face the kind of battle that awaited him in the future. Miss Dollhouse summoned Titan, who had spent over a month training through illusory wars, and Titan overwhelmed Lynn with his restored peak strength.

• Lynn ignored Zuo Zuo’s pleas to recover and fought the surrounding Origins, saying that real wars would not give him time to prepare or escape without consequences.
• Lynn gathered spatial power to teleport the Origins apart, but Miss Dollhouse ordered Titan to stop him.
• Titan charged across the battlefield, shattered Lynn’s spatial laws, and sent him flying with a blow.
• Miss Dollhouse explained that Titan had spent over a month fighting through an illusory realm filled with battles from the Sea of Minds, following the path of a War God.
• Titan relentlessly pursued Lynn and battered him despite Lynn’s short-range Warps; Lynn’s strength-law-powered punch failed to stop Titan, and Zuo Zuo used his blade to halt Lynn’s flight.
• Lynn wiped away his blood and praised Titan, calling him Big Brother.

Lynn used the time law to rewind the battlefield to before the fighting began, undoing the Dollhouse’s coordinated assault. He collapsed from the effort, while the Dollhouse retained her memories and realized that Lynn could control time, though only briefly.

• Transparent threads restrained Lynn, and Titan struck him as he tried to escape with repeated Warps.
• Lynn saw that the Dollhouse had organized the Origins into formations by law type and used their combined powers to trap him in a sea of fire.
• With Titan charging through the flames and Zuo Zuo urging him to flee, Lynn seized time and reversed the battlefield’s events.
• The battlefield returned to its state before the war began, and Lynn fell to the ground bleeding from his eyes.
• The Dollhouse realized that Lynn had turned back time, while the people of Dark Night City awoke shaken by what they had witnessed.