Chapter Summaries

Lynn studied the Divine Sparks of the God of Shadows and the Flesh God and uncovered how the Polluters had been infiltrating the Main Universe. He discovered a plan to use the Chaos Engine and other creations to spread Chaos until it could dismantle the Main Universe within years.

• Miss Dollhouse gave Lynn the God of Shadows Divine Spark and declined his offer to become the God of Shadows, choosing to remain on the Death Sequence path.
• Lynn took both Divine Sparks to Dark Night City and probed the memories lingering inside the Flesh God Divine Spark.
• Lynn learned that Archdemons had been sending controlled individuals carrying polluting agents through the Abyss's spatial hubs to infiltrate worlds across the Main Universe.
• Lynn discovered that the Broken Divine Realm had modified the Chaos Engine to let its creations pass through Curvature channels and spread Chaos across the Main Universe.
• Lynn learned that the plan aimed to expand the Chaos Domain until it eroded and dismantled the Main Universe within a few years.

Lynn learned that the Broken Divine Realm planned to use the Abyss to pollute the Whole Universe, and he gathered Dark Night City's leaders to share the threat and discuss their next steps. Aivier identified the Truth God King as a possible force behind the plan, and the meeting ended with the Captain asking how Old Gods could return through divine sparks.

• Lynn used Mental Splitting to direct operations across the Abyss while his true form stayed to nurture and purify the two Sea God Divine Sparks.
• Lynn summoned his family and Dark Night City's senior figures to the council hall and explained the Chaos Engine and the Broken Divine Realm's plan to pollute the Whole Universe.
• Clown condemned the Broken Divine Realm's experiments and warned that controllable chaos could make the war unwinnable.
• Aivier named the Truth God King as a possible figure behind the upheavals and said he had been an old adversary of her father.
• Lynn recalled sensing a hateful gaze in the North Sea and said the Truth God King might have awakened.
• The Captain asked Aivier how Old Gods could return through divine sparks if those sparks had been shattered before the New World was founded.

Lynn and the others considered whether the revived Truth God King was behind the Chaos constructs and resolved to focus on growing stronger. Clown then revealed a captured Nightmare, who recognized Lynn as Raven and hinted that Lynn already knew what the Nightmares were.

• Aivier suspected the Truth God King had revived and explained that his connection to the Universe's Primordial Source made him exceptionally powerful and difficult to kill.
• Lynn agreed that the Truth God King could have created the Chaos constructs, but said the group should focus on strengthening themselves and building an army of Demigods.
• Clown reported capturing a Disorderly Existence called Nightmare, which he linked to the corruption of Hell's Jailers and the construction of the Chaos Engine.
• Lynn, Aivier, and Self-Binding Angel recognized the name Nightmare from the Time War they had witnessed in the First Plane.
• Clown opened the Music Box, and Lynn trapped the escaping Nightmare in Firstborn Power and the Trinity's white flames.
• The Nightmare called Lynn "Raven" and asked whether the wisp of Lingering Consciousness in the Abyss had already told him about them.

Lynn learned that the Sleeper's Nightmare had helped erase the Great Lord's imprints and planned to destroy him, while warning that Lynn's father, the Lord of the End, would awaken and exact revenge. After the Nightmare destroyed itself, Lynn stayed behind with the Self-Binding Angel and began drinking with her in silence.

• Lynn confronted the Sleeper's Nightmare about the ravens' deaths and learned it had tried to kill him and had used the End Times Cult.
• The Sleeper's Nightmare revealed that it was also a nightmare of Lynn's father and warned that the Lord of the End would awaken and destroy the Main Universe's illusions.
• The Sleeper's Nightmare annihilated itself, and Lynn recognized its words as a declaration of war.
• Lynn assigned duties and set plans in motion to build a fortress throughout the Abyss.
• Lynn stayed with the Self-Binding Angel in the Divine Temple and asked her to drink with him.
• The Self-Binding Angel poured drinks for Lynn as he drank in silence.

Lynn drank through his liquor supply while grieving the Self-Binding Angel’s imminent departure, but she urged him to face loss and become strong enough to bring everyone back. Her teasing restored his fighting spirit, and he ended the conversation by asking to untie her knot again.

• Lynn drank nearly all the liquor in his system space, then poured a drink as an offering to the Self-Binding Angel, who scolded him and made him take it back.
• The Self-Binding Angel told Lynn to keep his grief in his heart and warned that his enemies might be sending people back to break him.
• She urged Lynn to grow stronger than the Calamity and bring the dead back to life, even if he had to search through time or recreate them.
• The Self-Binding Angel teased Lynn with the idea of putting up memorials, provoking him into protesting that he was a grown man who would not cry.
• After she challenged him to press forward and reminded him how he had untied her knot before, Lynn stood over her and said he wanted to untie it again.

Lynn clung to the Self-Binding Angel as he struggled with the fear of losing her, and she comforted him despite her own grief. After seeing her tears, Lynn regretted burdening the Matriarch with his pain.

• The Self-Binding Angel flushed with anger when Lynn's remark took a serious conversation in a dirty direction.
• Lynn embraced her tightly and said nothing, revealing how deeply he feared losing her.
• The Self-Binding Angel understood his attachment to Dark Night City and reassured him that they were still there.
• Lynn apologized, while the Self-Binding Angel wondered why her death had to torment the people she loved.
• The Self-Binding Angel cried and tried to restore her usual bearing, and Lynn regretted forcing his emotions onto the Matriarch.

The Matriarch comforted Lynn after the revelation of his future, urging him to face the coming war without fear. Before they parted, she gave him a golden feather as a keepsake and offered to remain his shelter when the road became difficult.

• The Matriarch hugged Lynn and urged him to defeat every obstacle, no matter how tragic his future became.
• The Matriarch and Lynn shared an intimate moment beneath her golden wings and agreed to keep it secret from the other girls.
• The Matriarch explained that she did not want to distract Lynn before the coming war and encouraged him to seek her out when he needed comfort.
• The Matriarch gave Lynn one of her golden feathers as a memento.

After receiving a golden Black Feather, Lynn accepted the fate awaiting him and his family, resolving to challenge it. He fortified the Seven Abyss Plane, prepared to study routes through the Spatial Hub, and concluded that his coming war against the Broken Divine Realm required a force of demigods.

• Lynn took the golden Black Feather and resolved to confront the fate that threatened him and his family.
• Lynn gave Silver Fantasy Ether and Mechanical Remains from the Battle of Heaven, and she began researching them to strengthen her forces.
• Lynn expanded the Abyss’s defenses across the Seven Abyss Plane and established temples where Origins could study the divine sparks of flesh and shadows.
• Lynn and the Angel Legion reached the Spatial Hub, where Aivier explained its dangers and recalled permanent passages once reinforced by Raven’s power.
• Lynn ordered spatial Practitioners to identify the passages and marked Polluter-afflicted regions on his Star Map as potential targets.
• Lynn judged that defeating the Broken Divine Realm near the Broken Eyes would require a force of demigods.

Lynn created a sealed spatial bubble where time flowed faster, allowing the Origins to cultivate at up to thirty-three times the outside rate. The bubble collapsed and exploded after he packed it with more than three hundred cultivators.

• Lynn proposed creating a sealed space with accelerated time so the Origins could cultivate in reality.
• Lynn formed a spatial bubble above Dark Night City and spent three days establishing a time difference of roughly three to one.
• Lynn expanded and reinforced the bubble until it spanned more than a dozen soccer fields and accelerated time by up to thirty-three times.
• Lynn announced the Time Hut, and eager Origins rushed to Dark Night City to try it.
• Lynn admitted the first fifty Origins into the bubble, then increased the number until more than three hundred were inside.
• As Lynn tried to admit the three hundred and first Origin, the overloaded spatial bubble buckled and exploded.

Lynn’s first Time Hut experiment altered the Origins’ ages unpredictably, so he modified the device into smaller time bubbles and tested one with a baby volunteer. The test exploded and reversed the baby’s age until he became a fertilized egg, leaving Lynn to investigate another faulty setting.

• Lynn’s first experiment aged some Origins by centuries and turned others younger, including Star Track, who became a loli.
• Lynn rebuilt the Time Hut as several time bubbles with strict limits of one hundred occupants each.
• When the other Origins avoided volunteering, Lynn tossed the baby into a bubble and increased its time acceleration beyond thirty-three times normal speed.
• The Time Hut exploded, and Lynn found the baby transformed into a tiny fertilized egg.
• Lynn discovered that he had accidentally set the bubble to reverse time instead of accelerate it.

Lynn established ten fiftyfold Time Huts, letting the Legion accelerate its cultivation in the First Plane. After a month, Dollhouse broke through to demigodhood as the second member of the Pact to reach that rank, while Colossus continued striving for her own breakthrough.

• Lynn tested ten new Time Huts, confirmed they safely accelerated time fiftyfold for up to eighty people, and moved the Legion inside to cultivate.
• Lynn relocated the temples containing the flesh and shadow divine sparks into the Time Huts and trained in the void to strengthen his trinity power.
• On the thirty-first day, Dollhouse emerged from a Time Hut amid surging laws and ascended to demigodhood.
• Dollhouse said she had entered the domain of mind, explaining that studying the Shadows God Divine Spark had helped her understand the power of divine sparks.
• Constantine and Dark Night City's senior figures congratulated Dollhouse, while Sir Awen worried about his own lack of progress.
• Colossus continued contemplating the Flesh God Divine Spark in another Time Hut, determined to become one of the first three demigods.

The Mother Tree of Desire returned after transforming in a Time Hut, growing into a vast nature-aligned Origin just short of Demigod. Her canopy then withered and her power vanished, leaving Lynn and Dark Night City fearing her transformation had failed.

• Lynn congratulated the Dollhouse on becoming a Demigod, while Xian Yue decided to enter the Time Hut and become an Origin so she could qualify for the Legion.
• Seven days later, two immense fluctuations stirred the First Plane, and Lynn shielded its Laws as everyone gathered in Dark Night City Square.
• A giant tree burst from a secluded Time Hut and spread its roots, trunk, and canopy across the First Plane, stopping just short of Demigod.
• Sir Awen and the others recognized the tree as the Mother Tree of Desire, who had been gravely injured and had spent years dormant after the North Sea and Dark Night City calamities.
• Lynn explained that he had created a separate Time Hut to accelerate the Mother Tree's transformation, and her healing nature power briefly revived plants across the barren First Plane.
• The Mother Tree's canopy abruptly withered and her nature power disappeared, making Lynn and the Dark Night City group fear that her transformation had failed.

The Mother Tree of Desire emerged from the deadwood in a new body and immediately confronted Lynn over his actions during the battle at the North Sea. After dressing and surveying Dark Night City, she asked whether they were no longer in Hell.

• The Mother Tree of Desire transformed as the tree withered and a new law stirred, drawing the attention of Silver Fantasy and others.
• The Mother Tree of Desire emerged from the deadwood as a young woman, stunning the onlookers with her appearance.
• The Mother Tree of Desire punched Lynn and blamed him for delaying his return during the fight against the King Beasts.
• Lynn argued that the Mother Tree of Desire had caused the danger by using the laws while in her weakened state, and they continued arguing as she dressed.
• The Mother Tree of Desire looked over Dark Night City and asked Lynn whether they were no longer in Hell.

The Mother Tree of Desire completed her transformation and reunited with the Origins of Dark Night City, while Lynn teased her about her freedom. When Silver Fantasy’s laws reached them from the Vast Cosmos, the Mother Tree began manifesting destruction-type laws.

• The Mother Tree of Desire reveled in her freedom, restored life to the land, and Lynn snapped her out of a somber mood by slapping her butt and teasing her.
• Sir Awen and the Origins of Dark Night City arrived, recognized the Mother Tree as the former nature sprite, and asked whether she had become a Demigod.
• The Mother Tree denied reaching Demigod rank and handled the Origins’ questions while they noticed her unusual closeness with Lynn.
• The Mother Tree sensed a gaze from across space, and Silver Fantasy’s laws enveloped the group.
• The Mother Tree’s green hair and willow leaves withered as she began radiating decay and rot, revealing destruction-type laws.

Silver Fantasy revealed that the Mother Tree of Desire had begun following the dangerous Path of Destruction, while Lynn offered to help her and she chose to postpone deciding between that path and Nature. Lynn then turned attention to another returnee, as Azephala entered the Strange Otherworld to become a Jailer and her companions waited anxiously.

• Silver Fantasy arrived and identified the Mother Tree of Desire as someone who had begun pursuing the Path of Destruction, which opposed the Creator’s laws.
• The Mother Tree of Desire admitted she had only crossed the threshold of Destruction and said wielding it burdened and eroded her existence.
• Lynn offered to help the Mother Tree of Desire advance along the Destruction path, but she chose to remain with Nature for now.
• Lynn reminded everyone that another being was returning to their faction.
• Clown warned the Self-Binding Angel and Saint Anna that Azephala’s attempt to become a Jailer was difficult and outside their usual oversight, and urged them to prepare for whoever returned.

Lynn and the others waited as Aivier oversaw the Self-Binding Angel’s sister’s transformation into a Jailer. They entered the Strange Otherworld and reunited with Idenna, but her black eyes and altered aura revealed that she had changed.

• Saint Anna asked the Self-Binding Angel whether their sister could return, and the Self-Binding Angel said they could only leave it to fate.
• Lynn explained that Aivier was overseeing the Self-Binding Angel’s sister as she became a Jailer.
• Aivier emerged from the Strange Otherworld and revealed that the operation had succeeded, with help from Miss Sea Spawn.
• Lynn and the others entered the Strange Otherworld, where Saint Anna reunited with the former leader of the Seraphim.
• The Self-Binding Angel asked whether the changed woman was Idenna, and Idenna answered, “Yes, and no.”

Idenna completed her transformation into a jailer and reunited with the Self-Binding Angel and Saint Anna, who accepted her as their sister. Lynn learned that Azephala had absorbed most of the chaotic power in Cthulhu’s corpse to help Idenna and was trapped inside it.

• Idenna told Saint Anna and the Self-Binding Angel that she had inherited their sister’s memories and feelings, and promised to protect them.
• The Self-Binding Angel embraced Idenna and swore that the sisters would protect her.
• Lynn celebrated Idenna’s return, then asked Aivier where Azephala was.
• Aivier explained that Azephala’s calls had awakened the Seraphim’s soul fragments and helped Idenna complete her transformation.
• Aivier revealed that Azephala had volunteered to absorb most of the chaotic power in Cthulhu’s corpse, leaving Lynn alarmed that she was trapped inside it.

Idenna and Lynn helped Azephala fuse with Cthulhu’s remains, making her a powerful new Ancient God and Controller of the ocean. After Azephala awoke, Idenna invited her to become her younger sister, and Lynn claimed he would answer for her.

• Idenna used Lynn’s firstborn power to purify Cthulhu’s remains so Azephala could inherit them safely.
• Azephala emerged from the dissolved Old God’s body as its new Controller of the ocean, stronger than Idenna had been as Cthulhu.
• Lynn pinched one of Azephala’s sensitive tentacle tips, and she punched him in the face.
• Azephala knelt before Idenna, who told her she no longer had to worship her and invited her to become her younger sister.
• Azephala froze at the invitation, and Lynn stepped in, saying he would decide for her.

Lynn welcomed Idenna and the Mother Tree into his Pact and celebrated their return with a banquet in Dark Night City. The festivities brought Shiliye and the Self-Binding Angel together again, while the Mother Tree thanked Lynn with a passionate kiss.

• Lynn introduced himself to Idenna as family, and Idenna accepted Azephala as her younger sister.
• Lynn organized a day-and-night celebration in Dark Night City for the new members and those who had returned.
• Shiliye raised a glass to the Self-Binding Angel, who embraced her, and the two sisters began to reconcile.
• The Matriarch reunited joyfully with her three sisters and shared memories of her past.
• The Mother Tree gathered Hell's origins, danced through Dark Night City, and kissed Lynn before thanking him.

The ancient Elf King became Dark Night City's third Demigod by abandoning the path of the God of Elements for the path of shadows, hoping to leave the elemental path to Star Track. Star Track remained distant from him, while he declined Lynn's offer to lead a team and chose to explore the uncertain path toward godhood.

• After the banquet, the Origins returned to cultivation, and Lynn improved the Time Hut until time passed nearly a hundred times faster.
• The ancient Elf King ascended as Dark Night City's third Demigod, returning to his youthful form and taking the shadows path instead of the path of the God of Elements.
• Onlookers were shocked that the Elf King had abandoned his strongest path, while Lynn understood that he wanted Star Track to inherit the true path of the Elements Mother Goddess.
• Star Track watched her father ascend without speaking, then left when he turned toward her.
• Lynn congratulated the Elf King and offered him a team leader position, but the Elf King declined because his daughter still led his team.
• The Elf King said he would use the Shadows God Divine Spark to scout the uncertain path toward godhood.