Chapter Summaries

Lynn decided to visit the Jailers’ main base to ask whether he and his family could leave Hell, and brought the reluctant Clown Doll to guide him. After crossing the black mist and Redstorm, Lynn reached the Space Gate above a mountain that stirred a connection to his primordial source, and prepared to enter the base.

• Lynn told his family he would visit the Jailers and raise hell if they refused to help them leave the Main Universe.
• Lynn forced the Clown Doll to guide him through the black mist toward the Jailers’ main base.
• Lynn dissolved a scarlet lightning strike with his firstborn power and used spatial laws to pass through the Redstorm.
• The Clown Doll directed Lynn to a towering mountain and warned him not to take the corpse inside, which might be Raven’s.
• Lynn flew toward the Space Gate above the mountain and prepared to enter the Jailers’ main base.

Lynn entered the Jailers’ base and met Lin Meng, the West King, an ancient Jailer who had served the Great Lord since the era of the Violet Empire. Lin Meng described the cost of surviving through the ages and said the Jailers had endured it to preserve the New World for their Great Lord.

• Lynn asked the Jailers to admit him so he could speak with their Female Host, but the Clown Doll warned that some Jailers were hostile to him and might regard the Calamity as their true Great Lord.
• The Jailers granted Lynn permission to enter and opened a Space Gate for him.
• Lynn and the Clown Doll arrived in an elegant sitting room marked with the flag of the Violet Empire.
• Lin Meng introduced himself to Lynn, and the Clown Doll identified him as the West King, one of the Four Kings.
• Lin Meng told Lynn that he had survived from the Violet Empire era, explaining that the ancient Jailers risked becoming mindless creatures of Chaos but had endured to preserve the New World for their Great Lord.

Lynn met Lin Meng to request that Hell’s restrictions be lifted so his army could return to the Main Universe and oppose the Calamity. Lin Meng agreed on the Female Host’s authority, leaving Lynn to wonder whether the Jailers saw him as an ally or merely a pawn.

• Lynn asked Lin Meng to lift Hell’s restrictions and let his forces return to the Main Universe to fight the Calamity.
• Lin Meng warned Lynn that the Calamity would target him as soon as he left Hell and that he had no chance of defeating it alone.
• Lynn argued that waiting in Hell would only delay their deaths, and Lin Meng recognized that Lynn would leave even without his approval.
• Lynn joked about the Great Lord, prompting Clown to angrily defend their former ruler before Lin Meng told Lynn not to provoke the other Jailers.
• Lin Meng agreed to ease the restrictions under the Female Host’s instructions, and Lynn left Hell questioning whether the Jailers trusted him or were using him.

Lynn and the Origins of Dark Night City planned their return to the Main Universe, concluding that they needed a foothold beyond Hell before they could reach its threatened defense line. Lynn revealed that the First Abyss Plane, where the Self-Binding Angel was born, was their likely route from Chaos Deep Space to the Main Universe.

• Lynn gathered the Origins of the Second Fall to plan an entry into the Main Universe and discussed contacting its surviving deities for help and information.
• Star Track identified the defense line’s node planets as the Polluters’ primary targets, since destroying them would open routes for more forces to invade from God Frontier.
• The Self-Binding Angel warned Lynn that they had lost contact with the Main Universe and questioned whether he could lead them across Chaos Deep Space and locate the node planets.
• Lynn said they could not travel directly from Hell to the Main Universe and revealed that he had chosen a base to use as a stepping stone.
• In the secured underground temple, Lynn told the Self-Binding Angel that the First Abyss Plane was their route, and she recognized it as the place where she had been born.

Lynn planned to reach the Main Universe through the Abyss and the Nether Sea, then prepared a secret expedition with the Self-Binding Angel, the Clown Doll, and Zuo Zuo. The group set out to meet the Jailers, though the Clown Doll protested being dragged into danger.

• Lynn told the Self-Binding Angel that the Nether Sea could provide a route from the Abyss to the Main Universe.
• Lynn kept the plan secret and chose the Self-Binding Angel, the Clown Doll, and Zuo Zuo to accompany him.
• Two days later, Zuo Zuo loaded Lynn's system space with huge quantities of food and supplies.
• Lynn and Zuo Zuo argued until the Self-Binding Angel struck them and rushed them toward their appointment with the Jailers.
• The Clown Doll objected to joining the dangerous expedition, but Lynn refused to leave him behind.

Lynn and his companions began their mission to reach the Abyss by crossing Chaos Deep Space, relying on Lin Meng to send them beyond Hell. They arrived at the border near the Nether Sea, where their dangerous crossing was about to begin.

• Lynn warned his team that the Chaos Deep Space crossing could be fatal and kept the mission details from Awen and the others.
• Lynn used his control over the laws to bring the group to a wasteland, where Lin Meng was waiting to help them leave Hell.
• Lin Meng warned Lynn not to use his firstborn power in Chaos Deep Space and said they had three days to return before the Female Host passed over the Nether Sea again.
• Lin Meng used a special channel to transport Lynn and the others to the border of Chaos, where they saw the Nether Sea in the darkness beyond.

Lynn, Lin Meng, the Clown Doll, and the Self-Binding Angel crossed into Chaos Deep Space and survived by combining their powers. They set out toward the Nether Sea, which Lynn believed was essential to opening a future passage between the Main Universe and Chaos Deep Space.

• Lin Meng explained that the Nether Sea had once housed their King and that the group had to move quickly to catch the Female Host.
• Lynn grabbed the Clown Doll and the Self-Binding Angel and leaped into Chaos Deep Space before the Clown had fully raised his chaotic barrier.
• Lynn stabilized their bodies inside the Clown Doll’s barrier after Chaos Deep Space began to unravel their laws and matter.
• The Self-Binding Angel saw the enormous [Painter] pass by in the Colors of Chaos, and Lynn told her to compare such beings to the Main Universe instead of to themselves.
• Lynn and the others traveled toward the Star Sea while he held the struggling Self-Binding Angel close to conserve power.

Lynn and his companions entered the Nether Sea and learned from Clown that primordial black holes across the Main Universe fed its vast currents of matter. Seeing that the sea formed a corridor of order through Chaos Deep Space, Lynn proposed stabilizing its laws to create a route for long-range Spatial Leaps to the Abyss, but Self-Binding Angel warned that doing so could reveal them to calamity.

• Lynn, Self-Binding Angel, and Clown struggled against the Nether Sea’s force as they crossed its turbulent edge.
• Clown explained that countless tributaries from the Main Universe converged in the Nether Sea, with primordial black holes serving as its greatest source of matter.
• Lynn and his companions advanced deeper and sensed that the Nether Sea’s matter had carved an ordered corridor through Chaos Deep Space.
• Clown observed that the corridor might eventually become new territory for the Main Universe and could develop into a new world.
• Lynn asked Clown to make an opening so he could stabilize the sea’s laws and extend a route to the Abyss for long-range Spatial Leaps.
• Self-Binding Angel questioned whether Lynn could do so safely without letting calamity discover their whereabouts.

Lynn stabilized a route through the Nether Sea as he and his companions traveled upstream, where they encountered a colossal Chaos Creature. They then saw a masked, azure-haired figure fighting the creature with a silver blade, revealing a mysterious wielder of Chaos.

• Lynn opened a gap in Clown's Chaos Barrier and used the laws to stabilize a thread through the Nether Sea, placing anchor points as they traveled upstream.
• Clown spotted a gigantic Chaos Creature made of mirror-like fragments devouring matter at the edge of the Nether Sea.
• Lynn identified the being as a mature Chaos Creature and told Clown to steer them away without drawing its attention.
• Self-Binding Angel noticed a figure ahead of the creature, and Lynn and Clown saw her dodging its attacks.
• The masked figure wielded a pale silver blade and carved a vast scar into the Chaos Creature, leaving Clown shocked that she could wield Chaos.

Lynn and his companions traveled upstream through the Nether Sea, witnessed a masked blue-haired figure lure away a Chaos Creature, and reached the border of the Main Universe. They discovered the Chaos Domain, a region of edge worlds inhabited by powerful beings born as Chaos Creatures.

• Lynn saw a blue-haired, demon-masked figure draw a huge Chaos Creature downstream along the Nether Sea, and she briefly glanced toward his hidden group.
• After the Chaos Creature passed, Lynn led Clown and Self-Binding Angel upstream to avoid further danger.
• The group emerged from the Nether Sea and saw the immense, glowing border of the Main Universe, from which matter flowed to form the sea.
• Clown pointed out vast floating continents near the border, and Lynn recognized them as the Chaos Domain, once called that in the Old World.
• Clown explained that many inhabitants of the edge worlds were born as Chaos Creatures and became self-willed under the Main Universe's influence.

Lynn, Clown, and Self-Binding Angel discovered that a distant nebula was an approaching army of Polluters and warped to a city on an Edge World as the border war began. The Polluters reached the frontier and destroyed several nearby Edge Worlds.

• Lynn recognized the apparent star field in Chaos Deep Space as an army of Polluters approaching the border.
• Alarms sounded across the Edge Worlds, and defenders fired beams of divine light at the advancing Polluters.
• Lynn warped himself, Clown, and Self-Binding Angel to a city on the largest Edge World, though Clown became stuck in a wall during the arrival.
• Lynn noticed that a barrier of laws stabilized the city and allowed beings from many species to survive there.
• Lynn and his companions watched as the Polluters destroyed several nearby Edge Worlds.

As Polluters invaded the fringe worlds, Lynn chose to defend the city without revealing his full power to the Calamity. He remained behind as the first wave descended and destroyed dozens of Polluters threatening the city guards.

• Lynn and his companions watched fringe-world forces mobilize against the vast Polluter army and decided to stay to protect a vital route to the Main Universe.
• Lynn sent his companions into his system space and went alone to the city’s Central Plaza, where he found a statue of his own face.
• Polluters broke through the defenders’ lines and began crashing into the city as guards urged Lynn to reach an underground shelter.
• Lynn swept away dozens of Polluters attacking the guards and concluded that most of the invaders relied on their numbers while stronger Polluters targeted the real breakthroughs.

Lynn unleashed his Atomic Machinery across the Edge World, rapidly turning its city and continent into a fortified mechanical war base. His machines joined the fight against the Polluters, leaving the Edge World’s defenders stunned and trying to contact the young lady about the unknown force aiding them.

• Lynn opened Light Gates and deployed countless Mechanical Units across the Edge World to attack the Polluters.
• Lynn's Atomic Machinery dismantled the city and surrounding land, converting matter into factories, turrets, and mechanical defenses while sparing the inhabitants.
• Lynn ordered the expanding machine force into the Nether Sea, where it used abundant matter to build more units and attack the Polluters.
• Mechanical Units swept into the frontline battle, destroying Polluters and helping the Edge World’s fighters counterattack.
• The War Lords at the Light Beacon Tower saw the machines fill their troop shortage and urged others to contact the young lady about the unknown force.

Lynn defeated the Polluters attacking the Edge World and revealed himself to its inhabitants as the Divine Emperor. The guards accepted his claim with fervent devotion, while Zuo Zuo grew increasingly alarmed by his antics.

• Lynn's Atomic Machinery rapidly transformed the city into a military base and drove back the Polluters attacking the Edge World.
• Lynn reassured the guards, removed his mask, and claimed he had returned after countless years.
• The guards recognized Lynn as the Divine Emperor, dropped their weapons, and knelt before him.
• Lynn told the guards their faith had awakened him, triggering notifications that their religious fervor had reached its maximum.
• Lynn asked for someone with a bigger dick to explain the situation, and several guards eagerly volunteered while Zuo Zuo stared in disbelief.

Lynn learned that the former Chaos Domain had become the God Emperor Frontier, then traveled to the Third Edge World to meet its Border Kings. He introduced himself as the God Emperor, though his dramatic entrance ended with a brick hitting him on the head.

• Lynn questioned the guards and learned about the God Emperor Frontier, its ninety-seven Border Kings, and the Supreme Royal Court's war against the Polluters.
• Lynn erased the guards' memories of meeting him and set out with Zuo Zuo for the Star Beacon High Tower to gain local help and control the Nether Sea route to the Abyss.
• The Border Kings tracked Lynn's appearance in the First Edge World and saw him vanish through the laws, prompting them to discuss contacting him.
• Lynn appeared through the council chamber's dome, accidentally freed himself from the wall, and introduced himself as the God Emperor.
• A brick fell from the dome and struck Lynn on the head as he finished his introduction.

Lynn entered the Star Beacon’s council chamber and persuaded the Seven Border Kings that he had come from Hell and served their Female Host. He left them stunned after revealing the Clown Doll as a genuine Jailer, despite the Doll’s furious protests.

• Lynn’s botched teleport into the council chamber triggered alarms, but the Seven Border Kings stopped the guards from attacking him.
• Penny questioned Lynn about the Mechanical Race and his identity, and Lynn claimed he meant the Border Kings no harm.
• Lynn joked that he was their Divine Emperor, then showed the Border Kings a Moon Orchid and said he had come from Hell to serve their Female Host.
• When the Border Kings doubted his claim, Lynn pulled out the Clown Doll and exposed its Jailer aura by stabbing its true form with a law.
• The Clown Doll cursed Lynn while the Seven Border Kings stared in disbelief at the rag doll’s genuine Jailer aura.

Lynn proved his identity to the seven Border Kings when one recognized Clown as a Jailer from an encounter thousands of years earlier. After promising to help repel the Polluters, Lynn learned that the attacks might originate from the corrupted Divine Realm beyond the Nether Sea.

• A Border King recognized Clown as the Jailer who had once visited his world, and Clown recalled hiding there during the Great Fall.
• The Border King credited a rune Clown had left him with helping him rise to his current position, confirming Clown's identity to the others.
• The seven Border Kings knelt before Lynn and offered him their highest respects.
• Lynn promised to remain until he helped drive away the Polluters, then asked the Border Kings to explain the attacks.
• The Border Kings told Lynn that Polluters had been invading the border worlds for months and might have come from the corrupted Divine Realm beyond the Nether Sea.

Lynn learned that the ancient Divine Realm was connected to the Nether Sea and that the Main Universe's defensive response at its borders had weakened, especially where he stood. He concluded that Chaos forces could soon breach the universe there, while the Painter and Calamity posed threats beyond what the defense line could withstand.

• Lynn realized that the old Divine Realm was the Shattered World from which Miao Miao, the Feather Pen, and others had fallen, and that invaders could attack through the Nether Sea as well as through breached Node Worlds.
• A greater demon explained that, after a mechanism activated two thousand years earlier, stars had shifted inward and the Main Universe's laws had begun repelling Chaos Creatures at its borders.
• The greater demon said the defense had weakened since the Polluters launched an attack a few months earlier, allowing half-chaotic beings to survive more than a hundred astronomical units inside the Main Universe.
• Lynn concluded that the Nether Sea's source was the border region most vulnerable to invasion and that its fall would open a breach into the Main Universe.
• Lynn recognized that the defense line could not stop Calamity itself if it gained a clear will, while the Painter and her corresponding ordered will retained authority over the firstborn power.

Lynn learned that the Main Universe’s territory was shrinking as the Polluters destroyed its frontline worlds, then discovered that the “Eldest Miss” supporting the defenders was Aivier, the Great Lord’s daughter. Clown revealed that Aivier had openly rebelled thousands of years earlier and that her relationship with the Female Host had been severed, but the details remained forbidden knowledge.

• Lynn’s mechanical army joined the Edge World forces, helping retake several frontline worlds, while the greater demon explained that destroyed outposts were shrinking the Main Universe’s territory.
• Lynn asked whether the defenders could push the Polluters back or make anchor point stabilizers, and the greater demon said only the Female Host had supplied them.
• The greater demon mentioned that the Eldest Miss had come from Hell to support the defenders, prompting Lynn and Clown to realize he meant Aivier.
• Lynn recalled that Aivier was the Great Lord’s eldest daughter and asked Clown what had happened to her.
• Clown revealed that Aivier had openly rebelled thousands of years earlier, severing her relationship with the Female Host, and said the incident was strictly forbidden to discuss.

Lynn and the Border Kings realized that a clearheaded Polluter commander had withdrawn into Chaos Deep Space to create a Chaos Creature. As the vortex consumed most of the Polluter army, Lynn warned that the creature would attack them once it emerged.

• Lynn told the Border Kings that the woman he had encountered in the Nether Sea was likely their Eldest Miss, Aivier, who had left to lure away a Chaos Creature.
• Lynn suspected the Polluters had timed their assault to draw Aivier away, while his Mechanical Legion forced their troops to retreat into Chaos Deep Space.
• Lynn explained that the Polluters had regrouped beyond the reach of his machines and appeared to have a rational commander directing them.
• Lynn and the Border Kings watched the Polluters feed their own troops into a growing lightless vortex, sacrificing nearly two-thirds of their army.
• The Border Kings recognized that the Polluters were creating a Chaos Creature, and Lynn warned that it would attack them once it took shape.