Chapter Summaries

Lynn broke free of the Dreamweaver Lady’s illusion and trapped her inside a law-bound barrier across the Battle of Heaven Ruins. As he challenged her with the Main Universe’s laws and his firstborn power, she revealed that psionics were not the only power she could use.

• The Dreamweaver Lady trapped Lynn in an illusion that emptied his body of supernatural power and subjected him to the agony of being repeatedly sliced apart.
• Outside the illusion, the Dreamweaver Lady explained that someone had awakened the Lord of the End and urged Lynn to become strong enough to help stop its final awakening.
• The Dreamweaver Lady swept Colossus and Silver Fantasy away, absorbed Sir Awen into her glass-shard body, and prepared to leave the Battle of Heaven Ruins.
• Lynn broke out of the illusion, revealed that he had secretly altered the boundary into a cage of laws, and stopped the Dreamweaver Lady from escaping.
• Lynn filled the region with the Main Universe’s laws and declared that his firstborn power could match her psionics, but the Dreamweaver Lady asked how he knew psionics were her only power.

Dreamwalker overwhelmed Lynn in the Battle of Heaven ruins, took Sir Awen, and invited Lynn to find her in the Violet World. Lynn accepted the challenge and planned a small expedition before the Legion’s counteroffensive, but Self-Binding Angel warned that his departure could destabilize their imminent advance.

• Dreamwalker used overwhelming power to tear through Lynn’s defenses, then vanished after taking Sir Awen and telling Lynn to seek her in the Violet World.
• Blood Core explained that Dreamwalker was the strongest of the three original Outsiders and that the figure Lynn faced was not even her true self.
• Lynn decided not to treat Dreamwalker as an enemy yet and declared that he would accept her invitation when he was ready.
• Lynn returned to the Abyss, kept Sir Awen’s abduction largely private, and planned to take a small team to the Violet World before the Legion’s counteroffensive.
• Self-Binding Angel urged Lynn not to leave the Legion’s ranks and suggested that the whole Legion undertake the mission instead.

Lynn decided to travel to Violet World with a small team rather than risk bringing the Legion into open conflict, and Aivier agreed to guide him to her homeland. As the others gathered in the Third Plane, Lynn prepared to depart for Violet World.

• Lynn rejected the suggestion that the Captain, the Dollhouse, and the others travel with him, choosing to keep the Legion’s forces from becoming a target.
• Lynn selected Aivier, Star Track, the Colossus, the Mother Tree, and Eden for the team and summoned them to the Third Plane.
• Aivier told Lynn she had not visited Violet World for several epochs but believed she could still help them find it.
• Aivier explained that ancient people avoided returning to Violet because it reminded them how much time had passed since her father left, then vowed to protect their homeland.
• Lynn announced that the group would set off for Violet World as the others arrived.

Lynn gathered his allies and traveled through the Abyss to find the Dreamwalker, who had taken Sir Awen. He reached Violet with Aivier, leaving the group gazing at her homeland.

• Lynn told Star Track that the Dreamwalker had fought him and taken Sir Awen.
• Lynn and his companions traveled to the Abyss's Seventh Plane, where Aivier recalled Violet's coordinates.
• Lynn used the Abyss's Spatial Tunnels to warp the group across the Main Universe.
• The group arrived in the void and saw Violet, Aivier's ancient homeland.

Lynn and Aivier arrived on Violet and headed for Winter Spring Valley, where a young girl complained about the valley’s fading traditions and its transformation into a tourist attraction. The chapter left them approaching a place that had once been the center of the world, while the Dreamwalker’s whereabouts remained unknown.

• Lynn and Aivier gazed at Violet, and Aivier reflected on her memories of the world before leading him onward.
• Lynn urged them to investigate the planet before deciding what to do about the Dreamwalker.
• A white-bearded old man lectured his granddaughter about Winter Spring Valley’s ancient history and former glory.
• The girl protested that she had heard the lesson many times and was freezing in the valley.
• The girl pointed out that Winter Spring Valley’s sacred grounds had become a tourist attraction, drawing visitors for ten bucks.

A mischievous girl kicked the ancient Mage Tower, causing its ice coating to crack and fall away, while her grandfather feared they had angered Winter Spring Valley’s ancestors. As he prepared to punish her again, she spotted the Mage Tower’s doors opening behind him.

• The old man scolded and spanked his granddaughter for misdirecting mage enthusiasts and failing to promote Winter Spring Valley.
• The girl questioned why the legendary immortal founders had never returned, then kicked the Mage Tower’s great doors.
• The Mage Tower shook as cracks spread through its ice coating, and the old man pulled the girl away and begged the ancestors for forgiveness.
• The ice peeled off and the tower fell silent, so the old man relaxed before lifting his granddaughter to punish her again.
• The girl stared past her grandfather and cried that the Mage Tower’s doors had opened.

Aivier returned to Winter Spring Valley after countless ages and was recognized by its elderly steward. She later reflected with Lynn on her family’s history and her parents’ long separation, leaving with her memories still weighing on her.

• The old man tried to beat his granddaughter for claiming Winter Spring Valley’s ancient Mage Tower had opened, but Aivier caught his belt and appeared behind him.
• The old man recognized Aivier as Princess Aivier, and she greeted him and asked whether Winter Spring Valley had been well.
• Aivier and Lynn examined portraits of Winter Spring Valley’s past First Stewards, and Aivier recounted how she and her mother had led the valley across different eras.
• Aivier said her mother had waited for eternity for her father and wondered whether they would have been better off never meeting, but she accepted that they had made their own choices.
• Lynn reminded Aivier that her father had left to stop the Lord of the End from destroying the world, and Aivier said she did not blame him.

Colossus discovered that Shanaier’s photograph showed Dreamweaver, the Dreamwalker Blood Core had been searching for. Dreamweaver emerged from the photograph into a frozen, fractured reality and addressed Blood Core.

• Shanaier pretended to mourn her grandfather while demanding that he leave Winter Spring Valley to her and claiming she would raise the admission fee.
• Mother Tree delightedly hugged and teased Shanaier, while Colossus examined the identification cards Shanaier had dropped.
• Colossus saw a photograph of Shanaier with a woman whose face seemed to move, and Blood Core recognized the woman as Dreamweaver.
• As Colossus tried to leave and warn Lynn, reality froze and cracked around her.
• Dreamweaver rose from the photograph and spoke to Blood Core.

Blood Core confronted the woman in the photograph about the Trinity's past and learned that she planned to sacrifice him and Ether for a slim chance to avert Finality. Lynn arrived in the Violet World and attacked her, but she challenged him to come after her and Sir Awen; the chapter ended with a little girl mistaking Lynn's sudden appearance for an impressive display.

• Blood Core asked the woman in the photograph whether she had separated his essence from Ether's after the Battle of Heaven, and she confirmed that he and Ether were among the sacrifices required for a possible chance against Finality.
• The woman said she would also be sacrificed eventually and began to explain what she still needed to do.
• Lynn's golden-flamed trident shattered the frozen reality and struck at the photograph, but the woman deflected it and welcomed Lynn to the Violet World.
• The woman told Lynn to prepare to challenge her and reminded him that Sir Awen was still in her hands.
• Reality returned to normal, and Lynn found himself facing a frightened little girl and her grandfather in the Mage Tower.
• Lynn tried to reassure the girl, but she excitedly declared that his appearance had been cool.

Lynn and his companions discovered that the Dreamwalker had appeared as Shanaier’s teacher, Miss Dreamweaver, and learned she had fled to another continent. Shanaier vowed to protect her teacher and grandfather from the powerful visitors, but her grandfather promptly bonked her for the dramatic declaration.

• Lynn startled Shanaier with an attack, but she excitedly praised his move and asked for an autograph.
• Lynn wrote “[Lynn's exclusive loli]” on Shanaier’s hat, angering Colossus and the Mother Tree of Desire.
• Lynn identified the Dreamwalker as Shanaier’s teacher, Miss Dreamweaver, and told Shanaier they had come at her invitation.
• Aivier and Eden reported that they had lost the Dreamwalker but traced her last presence to the south, on another continent.
• Lynn reassured Shanaier that they meant no harm, but she stood in front of her grandfather and vowed to fight them if they threatened him or her teacher.
• Shanaier’s grandfather bonked her for her dramatic vow.

Lynn and Aivier discussed the forces guiding Lynn’s path and his willingness to accept fate, but Aivier condemned his self-sacrificing attitude because it echoed her father’s choices. After an emotional confrontation, she invited Lynn to walk around Winter Spring Valley before he left for the South to find the Dreamwalker.

• Lynn decided to leave for the South the next morning to find the Dreamwalker.
• Lynn and Aivier considered how her mother, the Dreamwalker, and Lynn himself had shaped the path Lynn was following.
• Lynn said he accepted his fate as long as he could protect the people and home he had gained.
• Aivier punched Lynn and accused him of being heartless for wanting to sacrifice himself and leave others to grieve, as her father had.
• Aivier apologized for taking her anger out on Lynn and invited him to walk around Winter Spring Valley.

Aivier explained to Lynn why her father had stopped fearing death and accepted the immense cost of remaking the world. She recalled the day Raven returned, when countless luminous ravens appeared in the dark universe, and Lynn realized the Great Lord had fulfilled his vision of a new world.

• Aivier and Lynn entered her preserved Mage Tower, where she remembered living there for more than a hundred years after the Violet Empire fell.
• Lynn asked whether the people of the Violet World knew the truth about the fall of the stars, and Aivier said they had never told them and never would.
• Aivier explained that her father's mindset had changed after he returned from the dead and said, "I no longer believe in death."
• Lynn understood that her father had believed he could restore the dead after creating a new world, though he still wondered what resolve such a choice required.
• Aivier told Lynn that after her father took control of the Sleeper, countless luminous ravens appeared in the dark universe, and she remembered that day as when Raven came.

Aivier told Lynn how the ravens restored every life lost in the war, fulfilling the Great Lord’s final plan, but the Great Lord himself fell into an eternal slumber and never kept his promise to return. After sharing her grief, Aivier bit Lynn and rested against him before his question about a father complex ended in a violent outburst.

• Aivier explained that the ravens carried the dead into new lives and brought the first epoch of the New World.
• She revealed that the Great Lord alone did not return, but instead fell into an eternal slumber from which only murmurs could be heard.
• Lynn suggested they stop dwelling on the past, and Aivier asked to slap or bite him because he resembled the Great Lord.
• Aivier bit Lynn, then rested her cheek against his chest and quietly thanked him.
• Lynn asked whether Aivier had a father complex, and a blast shook Winter Spring Valley as someone screamed in the Mage Tower.

Lynn, Aivier, and their companions prepared to find Aivier’s teacher, with Shanaier assigned to guide them. Aivier flew the group away from Winter Spring Valley in her dragon form, while Shanaier celebrated her first ride on a dragon’s back.

• The Mother Tree noticed Lynn’s dark circles, and Lynn complained after she poked them; Aivier then announced they would leave to find her teacher.
• Aivier promised the old man she would restore Winter Spring Valley’s glory before leaving Violet, and the old man assigned his granddaughter Shanaier to guide her.
• Lynn assured Shanaier they would not harm her teacher and swore an oath that triggered a lightning bolt, which he used to claim his words were accurate.
• Aivier transformed into an enormous Blue Dragon and invited the group to climb onto her back because Shanaier could not handle spatial teleportation.
• Aivier carried everyone into the sky, and Shanaier excitedly declared that she had become a Dragon Knight.

Aivier, Lynn, and the others crossed the modernized Violet World with Shanaier, who showed them Moon Orchid City and revealed her teacher, Dreamweaver, was important to her. After reaching Shanaier’s school city, Lynn assured her they would not harm Dreamweaver, warning that the teacher was far more formidable than she imagined.

• Aivier flew across the ocean with Shanaier and Lynn, astonishing passengers on a plane and revealing the modern cities of the Violet World below.
• Shanaier identified Moon Orchid City as the Violet Federation’s capital and shared her ambition to study and live there.
• Aivier told Shanaier that Moon Orchid was named after her mother, then teased her about finding someone to love.
• Aivier landed outside Shanaier’s port city, where Shanaier explained that Dreamweaver cared for her and pleaded with Lynn not to hurt her teacher.
• Lynn reassured Shanaier that his oath still stood and said Dreamweaver was far more terrifying than she imagined.

Lynn uncovered that the bustling port city Shanaier called home was an elaborate illusion, then confronted the hidden Dreamwalker behind it. The city peeled away into a bare, line-drawn space, and Lynn called for Dreamwalker to reveal themself.

• Shanaier led Lynn and the others through the port city and described how much she loved living there.
• Lynn questioned Shanaier about her studies, her admission to college, and how long she had lived in the city.
• Lynn noticed the city's strange behavior, thanked Shanaier, and gently put her to sleep so she would not witness what was happening.
• Lynn accused the city of being fake, and the pedestrians, vehicles, and buildings froze and shed their illusory facades.
• Lynn recognized the place as a perfect illusory realm and called out for Dreamwalker to appear.

Dreamweaver revealed that she had created Shanaier using a drop of Aivier’s father’s blood and intended to make the girl a Vessel to help seal the Lord of the End. Lynn and Aivier attacked her, but Dreamweaver remained unharmed and spoke of the sacrifices needed for victory.

• Dreamweaver appeared before Lynn, Aivier, Colossus, and Mother Tree and welcomed Lynn to the Violet World.
• Dreamweaver claimed Shanaier was her child and revealed that she had created her using a drop of Aivier’s father’s blood.
• Dreamweaver explained that the Lord of the End could not be killed and said she wanted to name Shanaier the Vessel.
• Lynn lunged at Dreamweaver in fury, and Aivier attacked first with her Blade, destroying the city around them.
• Dreamweaver emerged unharmed and said that one or two more sacrifices would make little difference to their final victory.

Lynn erupted in anger at the Dreamwalker for revealing that his fate and even the young apprentice’s life were part of a plan, then attacked her alongside Aivier. The Dreamwalker overwhelmed him with layered psionic illusions, leaving him trapped in an unreal world.

• The Dreamwalker told Lynn that others had secretly guided him along the so-called correct path and that she intended to pressure him from then on.
• Lynn and Aivier attacked the Dreamwalker, while Lynn unleashed enough power to devastate the land and endanger the Violet World.
• The Dreamwalker evaded Lynn’s attacks and told him that his command of the Trinity and Firstborn Power could not overcome their difference in experience and circumstances.
• The Dreamwalker struck Lynn with psionic force and trapped him in successive illusions drawn from his memories.
• Lynn repeatedly destroyed the illusions, but each one gave way to another, leaving him unable to escape the layered dream.

After escaping Dreamweaver’s illusions, Lynn rejected the role and future she had arranged for him and walked away from the fight. He left Dreamweaver, Aivier, and the others behind, accepting that they and the world might die without him.

• Lynn broke through Dreamweaver’s illusion and nearly struck Aivier before Blood Core warned him that Dreamweaver could trap him in psionic realms.
• Lynn accused Dreamweaver of manipulating him to force him along a predetermined path, then discarded the Trident and declared he was done playing her game.
• Lynn turned away from Dreamweaver and told her to find someone else to save the world.
• When Dreamweaver challenged him about abandoning his loved ones, Lynn said she could kill his friends and destroy the Abyss, and he would accept the consequences.
• Lynn felt unexpectedly relieved as he addressed Zuo Zuo.

Lynn rejected the fate forced upon him, declaring that he and Zuo Zuo would rather die together than be used to save the world. In Moon Orchid City, Zuo Zuo explained that Lynn’s devotion to protecting everyone had become a shackle others could exploit, while he began to accept that his stubborn nature was both his strength and weakness.

• Lynn told Zuo Zuo that she had always mattered to him, and she declared they would face death together rather than let anyone threaten him through her.
• Lynn walked away from the people watching him, refusing to keep playing along with the fate laid out for him.
• At a secluded restaurant in Moon Orchid City, Lynn said he had no ambition to be a savior and questioned why he had to accept a destined role.
• Zuo Zuo explained that Lynn’s fear of losing his loved ones made him risk himself to protect them and allowed others to manipulate him into following their plans.
• Lynn acknowledged that he was stubborn, and Zuo Zuo reminded him that this trait was both his strength and his weakness.