Chapter Summaries

Lynn defeated Miss Dollhouse by using time and mind laws to break her control over the Origins and puppets, then disarmed her in close combat. He spared her and told her to stay quiet until he returned to teach her mind laws, then left the Sea of the Mind.

• Lynn revealed that he had let everyone remember the time reversal and warned Miss Dollhouse that she could not defeat him the same way again.
• Lynn used mind laws to trace Miss Dollhouse’s control threads to their source and severed her connections to the Origins.
• Miss Dollhouse sent dozens of dolls and puppets against Lynn, but he invaded their minds and freed them from her control.
• Miss Dollhouse charged Lynn with a silver sword, but he knocked it away and held his blade at her throat.
• Lynn spared Miss Dollhouse, ordered her to stay quietly until he returned to teach her mind laws, and left the Sea of the Mind.

Lynn defeated the Dollhouse-controlled Origins and banished the Titan Tribe Chief to the North Sea. The battlefield fell silent as the remaining Origins realized that Dark Night City’s three strongest Origins had all been defeated or removed.

• The Origins awoke from the Dollhouse of Dark Night City’s control and recoiled when Lynn returned to the battlefield.
• Lynn challenged the Origins, but none dared confront him after the ancient Captain and the Dollhouse had lost.
• Young members of the Titan Tribe summoned their Chief, who charged at Lynn as the Origins regained hope.
• Lynn opened a rift and banished the Titan Tribe Chief, then scrambled the spatial coordinates to delay his return.
• Lynn told Zuo Zuo that the Titan Tribe Chief would probably take three to five years to find his way back.
• The Origins accepted that the Titan Tribe Chief would not return soon and saw no one left who could challenge Lynn.

Lynn taunted the Origins, humiliating them and attacking a Titan giant until Nus and the other gods intervened. Star Track rallied the Origins who had fallen in the second Great Fall to fight back, and Lynn prepared to defeat them again.

• Lynn mocked the Origins as cowards and useless trash, insisting that their weakness would doom them if they returned to the Main Universe.
• A Titan giant charged Lynn, but Lynn knocked him down and tortured him while blasting away other Titan giants who tried to intervene.
• Nus attacked Lynn to stop him from humiliating the giant, but Lynn dodged his blows and kicked him away; the Sky God caught Nus before he hit the ground.
• Star Track bound Lynn with elemental power and accused him of taking pleasure in slaughter, while the God of Nuclear Power, the Sky God, and other Origins joined her attack.
• Lynn evaded the Origins’ attacks and vowed to beat them down again.

Lynn overwhelmed the Origins and Fallen while the assembled powers watched in silence, and he began to draw his blade in disappointment. A young Night Doctor charged him with a blade, and the boy’s courage finally spurred the Origins to attack Lynn together.

• Lynn defeated and taunted the Origins and Fallen as they failed to fight back in an organized force.
• The Self-Binding Angel urged the others to attack, but Sir Awen stopped her and waited for an outcome.
• Lynn grew increasingly disappointed as the Origins watched in silence and began drawing his blade.
• A young Night Doctor ignored his captain, threw stones at Lynn, crossed the trench Lynn made, and hurled his blade at him.
• Lynn caught the boy’s blade and drew his own in response, while the boy stood his ground and challenged him.
• The Origins finally rushed to attack Lynn, and their combined assault drove him back as the battlefield erupted into battle.

Lynn fought the Origins of Hell while urging them to overcome their fear and fight together. As he revealed the laws through the attacks that wounded him, the crowd recognized the black-robed figure as Lynn.

• The Origins charged Lynn again, and Star Track rallied them with the Elemental System so they could coordinate their attacks.
• The Origins organized into battle groups and began countering Lynn's laws, forcing him back and leaving him wounded.
• Lynn laughed as he fought, urging the Origins to find their courage and keep attacking.
• Lynn exposed the workings of elemental, spatial, power, life, and other laws through the damage inflicted on him.
• An attacker tore away Lynn's black cloth, and Sir Awen, the Self-Binding Angel, and the others recognized him.

Lynn returned to the battlefield after revealing the path of laws to the blade-wielders, then awoke in darkness before the God King, who offered to give him the Fate God if he could wound him in three moves. Lynn failed to hurt him, and on his next attack his laws and Firstborn power turned against him, leaving him isolated and helpless.

• Lynn exhausted his strength after showing the blade-wielders the path of laws, and the Mechanical Girl caught him as he fell.
• Lynn dreamed of resting in Dark Night City before waking in darkness and recognizing the God King.
• The God King offered to give Lynn the Fate God if Lynn wounded him within three moves.
• Lynn attacked with his laws but was easily repelled on the third clash, then insisted on trying again.
• As Lynn charged again, his laws and Firstborn power stopped obeying him and drifted out of his body.

Lynn confronted a mysterious figure who warned him to be careful of Nanako, then woke in a room full of allies who were furious that he had kept them in the dark. As everyone demanded answers, Lynn blamed the plan on Zuo Zuo.

• Lynn insisted that he, the figure, and the Great Lord were different wills split from the same soul, and the figure released his control over the Firstborn Power.
• The figure said he had wronged others and himself, asked Lynn to look at his homeland if he ever returned, and warned him to be careful of Nanako.
• Lynn woke in bed as Zuo Zuo berated him and bit his nose, then found that his allies had gathered around him.
• The Colossus, Silver Fantasy, the Captain, and Sir Awen revealed how much they had known about the secret plan, while Dollhouse and the Self-Binding Angel demanded answers.
• As the group turned on him, Lynn accused Zuo Zuo of devising the plan and urged everyone to condemn his left hand.

Lynn faced a public trial in Dark Night City after his chaotic return, where the Self-Binding Angel demanded to know what happened to her little sister. The Throne Angel reunited with her, and Lynn defended himself against accusations of kidnapping while revealing he still remembered the family’s raid on his vault.

• Zuo Zuo attacked Lynn after he blamed her, and the hotel collapsed when Xiao Xiao and Eve forced their way inside.
• The Origins tied Lynn to a chair in the Conference Hall, where the Self-Binding Angel interrogated him about her little sister.
• Lynn opened a Light Gate and revealed the Throne Angel, who ran to embrace the Self-Binding Angel.
• The Sin Lord emerged from the Light Gate, accused Lynn of abducting and enslaving her and the Throne Angel, then joined the others against him.
• The Throne Angel told the Self-Binding Angel that Lynn had not hurt her and that she had learned a lot during her training.
• Lynn denied taking revenge on the Self-Binding Angel and revealed he still remembered the raid that had cost him 35,121 Black Skull Coins.

Lynn explained that he had impersonated the black-robed figure to push his family toward mastering the Laws and preparing for the coming war. After revealing that he had spent vast stretches of time in the past mastering the Laws, he declared that it was time to unify Hell.

• The Self-Binding Angel demanded to know why Lynn had impersonated the black-robed figure and attacked everyone.
• Lynn explained that he had staged the fights to help his family cross the threshold of the Laws before the coming war.
• Lynn revealed that he had used the Time War to spend hundreds or thousands of years in the past mastering Laws, and Zuo Zuo confirmed that he had worked hard.
• The Self-Binding Angel and the others expressed concern that Lynn kept taking on burdens alone, while Lynn tried to lighten the mood.
• The Captain asked Lynn about his plans, and Lynn said it was time to unify Hell.

Lynn revealed himself as the black-robed figure who had defeated Hell’s origins and addressed them from Dark Night City’s walls. He challenged their anger by warning that the coming calamity would kill them all when Hell was breached.

• For three days after the war, Hell’s origins gathered outside Dark Night City, waiting for the black-robed figure to explain himself.
• Lynn appeared atop the city walls without his robe, and the origins recognized him as a resident of Dark Night City.
• Sir Awen warned Lynn that many origins wanted an explanation and asked if he could handle them; Lynn said he would win them over.
• Lynn dispelled the black mist around the city with his laws, silencing the crowd, and introduced himself as Lynn of Dark Night City.
• An origin accused Lynn and Dark Night City of manipulating them, while Star Track and the others reacted with shock at Lynn’s identity.
• Lynn questioned how long the origins thought they could survive and warned that everyone would die when the calamity breached Hell.

Lynn urged the Origins gathered outside Dark Night City to unite against the apocalypse, then exposed infiltrators corrupted by chaos among them. The attackers died without revealing their identities, and Lynn warned that the infiltration had already reached even the Jailers.

• Lynn told the Origins that the Main Universe was being devastated and that Hell needed to unite against their common enemy.
• When an Origin accused Dark Night City of seeking power, Lynn attacked him and discovered that something inside him had neutralized his laws.
• Lynn used Firstborn Power to activate the Origin's corruption, prompting several hidden attackers to strike at him.
• Lynn subdued the attackers, but chaos corruption consumed their wills and left their bodies as empty shells.
• Star Track and the others recognized the dead attackers as Polluters from the Main Universe, and Lynn said the infiltration had spread throughout Hell, including among the Jailers.

Lynn gave the Origins three days to decide whether to join Dark Night City's pact, promising to help them ascend to godhood and return to the Main Universe. Most eventually joined, while the Dollhouse persuaded the hesitant Origins of an earlier era to follow her into the pact.

• Lynn told the Origins they could leave freely but would receive no protection, and promised to let his followers ascend to godhood.
• Star Track asked whether Lynn would take them back to the Main Universe, and Lynn answered that Laws would let them fight the Calamity.
• On the second day, Star Track and most of the Second Fall's Deities joined Dark Night City's pact, and Saint Anna returned safely to her Collective.
• The following morning, Origins from the first Great Fall joined the pact as individuals after learning Lynn could lead them back to the Main Universe.
• On the fourth day, the Dollhouse beat the Origins of her era, showed them dolls made from Ancient Beings, and led them into the pact after they requested not to be turned into fried rag dolls.

As the three-day deadline passed, Lynn’s alliance gathered more than five hundred Origins and gained the allegiance of Hell’s major organizations. Dark Night City struggled to manage its new population, and the chapter ended with a Slime deity triggering a Curse Turmoil that destroyed nearly half the city.

• Captain Constantine persuaded ancient Origins in the Wasteland to join Lynn’s alliance, while the Weeping Clown used a Polluter-like anomaly to drive the remaining holdouts to Dark Night City.
• After the deadline, most Origins defeated in the previous war joined the alliance, while a small number chose to leave.
• Sir Awen reported that more than five hundred Origins and Hell’s major organizations had joined, bringing tens of thousands of troops to the alliance.
• Silver Fantasy proposed creating an Information Processing Center, while the Self-Binding Angel and Sir Awen raised concerns about finding accommodations for the Origins.
• Fights broke out between the Flesh District and Mechanical District, and between the Life Council and Church of Death.
• A Slime deity touched Lord Clown’s Music Box, triggering a Curse Turmoil that reduced nearly half of Dark Night City to dust.

With the alliance’s Origins clashing over their differences and Dark Night City in ruins, Lynn proposed an intensive training program to force them to cooperate. He announced that he would drill everyone daily for two months, starting the next morning.

• Sir Awen and Silver Fantasy called for expanded infrastructure and a plan to separate the rival Origins.
• Sir Awen discovered Lynn was asleep during the meeting, and Silver Fantasy shot him twice to wake him.
• Lynn admitted the alliance’s growth had made leadership difficult and agreed that it needed an effective management system.
• Lynn decided to train the Origins for two months so they would learn to work together against their common enemy.
• Lynn assigned the public order problem to himself and ordered the training to begin the next morning, threatening to make the Origins sleep in ditches if they rejected communal housing.

Lynn punished the Origins for causing chaos in Dark Night City and ordered them to settle their disputes under his supervision. The chapter ended as he challenged the troublemakers to fight until there was a winner and he was satisfied.

• Lynn bombarded Dark Night City and hurled Origins who attacked him out into the Wasteland.
• Lynn ordered all the Origins to assemble outside the city within three minutes or face a one-on-one fight with him.
• Hundreds of Origins gathered on the Wasteland, and Lynn demanded that everyone who had started trouble step forward.
• Two-thirds of the Origins stepped forward, while members of the Life Council and Church of Death renewed their accusations and nearly fought.
• Lynn descended and told the hostile Origins to fight until there was a winner and he was satisfied.

Lynn forced the Origins from the Life Council and the Church of Death to fight, repeatedly healing each side so neither could win. After explaining that the coming calamity would destroy everything they fought over, he ordered them to run laps around the Central Continent.

• Lynn threatened to fight the Life Council and Church of Death Origins himself unless they fought each other, and they charged into battle.
• When the Church of Death Origins began to lose, Lynn healed them with law, allowing them to turn the battle around; he then restored the Life Council Origins when they were close to defeat.
• Lynn repeatedly healed whichever side was losing and threatened or struck down anyone who refused to keep fighting, forcing the battle to continue for a day.
• The Origins finally attacked Lynn together, but he defeated them and ordered them to resume fighting; they refused, saying they would rather die than be humiliated.
• Lynn told the Origins that the coming calamity would turn their world to ash and called them comrades-in-arms rather than enemies.
• Lynn ordered everyone to run laps around the Central Continent and warned that asking why would earn them another hundred laps.

Lynn forced more than five hundred Origins through increasingly demanding team training, using collective punishment to make them cooperate and combine their strengths. By the chapter’s end, they had become a coordinated high-speed machine that completed ten thousand laps, stunning Blood Feast.

• Lynn made the Origins run three thousand five hundred laps, then punished everyone in the Sea of the Mind when thirty-five failed to finish on time.
• After the fastest Origins refused to help the slowest and a brawl broke out, Lynn punished the group again and changed the exercise to carrying magically strengthened mountains.
• Strength-specialist Origins carried mountains for struggling teammates, and the group began helping one another; later, the speed-focused Origins supported the rear during a five-thousand-lap run.
• After another uprising, Origins proposed combining their abilities, with wind and light specialists boosting speed while life and healing specialists replenished everyone’s energy.
• When Lynn raised the quota to ten thousand laps, the Origins worked together with magical boosts and mechanical propulsion, racing around the continental plate without anyone falling behind.
• Blood Feast watched the Origins speed past Dark Night City and dropped the popsicle in Blood Feast’s hand.

Lynn reorganized the Origins into more than a hundred incompatible teams and launched a points-based war-training tournament in the Sea of the Mind. The teams entered brutal battle dreams, while Lynn and Captain Constantine watched their progress and hoped the trials would teach them to cooperate before they faced the Main Universe.

• Lynn broke apart the existing factions and assigned the Origins to teams of three, often pairing longstanding enemies and beings with clashing beliefs.
• The Origins protested their assignments, but Lynn crushed their third uprising and confined those who tried to leave the pact in the Sea of the Mind.
• Lynn and the Captain created thousands of war dreams where each team would face amplified enemies with their own strength suppressed, competing for points and a place among the top ten.
• Lynn announced that the top teams would receive a day off and lessons in controlling laws from the Black-Robed Figures, persuading some teams to accept the challenge.
• Captain Constantine collected the teams and sent them into their dreams, while Lynn watched their progress from a lavish dream alongside the Captain.

Lynn assigned rival Origins to teamwork-based war dreams while handling an enormous stack of paperwork, with each group needing five victories to qualify for his lessons on laws. Two groups completed the challenge, and Lynn learned how their shared purpose or a rotating rock-paper-scissors leadership pact had helped them cooperate.

• Lynn accepted paperwork from Captain Constantine, then discovered that the supposedly small stack contained tens of thousands of pages and kept growing.
• Lynn sent the Origin groups into difficult war dreams, where they had to cooperate to earn points and qualify for lessons on laws.
• Star Track's group became the first to complete a dream by holding a fortress against an insect swarm for three months.
• Karina, Nus, and Wriggling God became the first group to earn five points after uniting around their desire to protect and return to the Main Universe.
• Lynn praised Karina's group and promised to teach each member laws suited to their sequence.
• Achilleus, Flame Demon Andun, and Astua became the second group to qualify by rotating leadership through rock-paper-scissors before each dream.

Lynn finalized the top ten groups in the dream trials, rewarded them with rest, and taught them how to control Laws before sending them back into combat. After he revealed the rankings to groups still trapped in the first dream, they stopped fighting among themselves and began racing to catch up.

• Group 67, including the God of Wisdom and the God of War, took first place with eight points, while the Mind Aberrant, [Lord of Nightmare], [Spider Empress], and [God of Nuclear Power] claimed second.
• Lynn selected ten groups, thirty Origins in total, and gave them food, rest, and one-on-one instruction in controlling Laws.
• Lynn sent the top ten groups back into the dream trials to temper their skills through combat.
• Lynn projected the rankings into the minds of groups still stuck in the first dream, prompting them to stop fighting each other.
• The previously stalled groups united against outside competition, and some groups with zero points began rapidly climbing the rankings.