Chapter Summaries

Clown rejected the Jailers’ divided loyalties and resolved to travel with Eden to the Chaos Abyss to find Joybringer. A month later, Silver Fantasy emerged from repairs in her rebuilt body and learned that corruption incidents were increasing across Hell while neither the Jailers nor her Legion had investigated for corruption.

• Clown said the Jailers had abandoned their ideals and decided to fight alongside Lynn against the Polluters.
• Clown crushed the Music Box and asked Eden to accompany him through a route to the Chaos Abyss in search of Joybringer.
• A month later, Silver Fantasy’s eleventh repair session ended with her new body 88% reconstructed and her half-step divine spark’s rejection at 31.4%.
• Silver Fantasy learned that Lynn had awakened and returned to Dark Night City, and that hostilities between her Legion and the Jailers had ceased.
• The Main Brain reported rising numbers of corrupted or suspected corrupted across Hell, 51 suspected corruption-related incidents in Dark Night City, and no corruption searches within either the Jailers or the Legion.

Silver Fantasy discovered that she might be acting under outside influence and ordered an independent network to monitor her and alert Lynn if she deviated from her guidelines. Lynn returned after ending his seclusion, and Silver Fantasy struck him before embracing him.

• Silver Fantasy learned that she had repeated an unusual gesture 79 times in the past month and ordered an independent oversight network to monitor her actions and notify Lynn, Constantine, Titan, and Painter if she strayed from her memorandum.
• Lynn appeared beside Silver Fantasy while she was resting, startling her into reaching for her weapon.
• Lynn teased Silver Fantasy, and she punched the back of his hand before covering herself with a mechanical bodysuit.
• Lynn told Silver Fantasy he was awake and apologized for being away, offering to let her slap him twice.
• Silver Fantasy slapped Lynn and then hugged him tightly as he reassured her that he had come back.

Lynn reunited with Silver Fantasy and comforted her over what had happened before, then they shared an intimate farewell. He left her behind as he continued toward the war, promising to return to her and the others when it was over.

• Silver Fantasy admitted that she feared losing Lynn again, and he reassured her that she had done nothing wrong.
• Lynn embraced and kissed Silver Fantasy, and their passion deepened until he noticed the scars on her back.
• Silver Fantasy kissed Lynn to comfort him, and they spent several hours together.
• Afterward, Silver Fantasy asked whether Lynn was leaving soon, and he said he had more to do but would return when the war was over.

Silver Fantasy confessed her guilt over hesitating when Colossus was in danger, and Lynn refused to let her be devoured for the Trinity. He offered her the divine spark of all things, but she revealed that she had been acting strangely and losing time since she was injured.

• Silver Fantasy admitted that she had hesitated to help Colossus and believed Lynn should have devoured her to complete the Trinity.
• Lynn comforted Silver Fantasy and said he would pursue both paths without sacrificing her.
• Lynn gave Silver Fantasy the divine spark of all things, which he had taken from Painter to help her become a God King.
• Silver Fantasy asked Lynn about the origin and spread of corruption, then told him her behavior had become abnormal.
• Silver Fantasy showed Lynn footage of dozens of incidents during her month of recovery in which she pressed her forehead and lost time.

Silver Fantasy feared that Corruption might be altering her memories and will, so Lynn searched her body and soul but found no trace of it. She asked him to use Instant Kill if she ever lost control and planned to give him Ether's Primordial Source before he left, while Lynn departed with the afterflame as her safeguard.

• Silver Fantasy told Lynn about her memory gaps and feared that the Calamity had infected her with Corruption.
• Silver Fantasy described the Captain's deputy's betrayal and worried that Corruption could silently change someone's will.
• Lynn flooded Silver Fantasy with firstborn power to search for Corruption but found nothing.
• Silver Fantasy asked Lynn to kill her if she lost control and said she would extract Ether's Primordial Source for him.
• Lynn realized Silver Fantasy had been stripping away her past to remove Ether's Primordial Source and help him complete the Trinity.
• Lynn left Silver Fantasy with his afterflame as a safeguard, then vowed they would meet again in the Divine Realm.

Lynn met the Painter after secretly becoming the new God King of Space, but he withheld his final ascension to preserve it as a trump card. The Painter planned to draw the enemy into attacking her and create an opening for Lynn to enter the Broken Divine Realm, then answered his question about her past with Nanako.

• Silver Fantasy saw a Divine Spark shine in the empty metal room after Lynn had disappeared into the rain.
• The Painter congratulated Lynn on becoming the new God King of Space, and he explained that he had contained the breakthrough and delayed his ascension.
• Lynn told the Painter that the Main Universe was being dismantled and the Broken Divine Realm remained threatened by the enemy.
• The Painter revealed that she had leaked her coordinates to lure the enemy into attacking her and give Lynn a chance to infiltrate the Divine Realm.
• Lynn asked whether the Painter was truly the Painter or Nanako, and she said some things were best left in the past.

In the Azure World, the azure figure told Lynn how to seek the Time Divine Spark and warned him that the Nightmares threatened the Main Universe’s root. She entrusted him with Aivier’s sealed Dragon Egg before he departed for the Divine Realm.

• The azure figure explained that Lynn’s Time War began when he achieved Transcendence of Time, with its cause in the future and its effect in the past.
• She told Lynn to search the Divine Realm’s deepest domain, the Main Universe’s root system, for clues to the Time Divine Spark.
• The azure figure warned that the Nightmares had conquered the Divine Realm to find and destroy the Main Universe’s Primordial Source.
• She urged Lynn to follow his instincts to the root system and hinted he might find something more important than the Time Divine Spark.
• The azure figure gave Lynn a Dragon Egg containing Aivier’s sealed essence and will, and warned him to protect it until he found her Anchor Point.

Lynn set out for the Broken Divine Realm after securing supplies from Painter and using his new authority over space to reach its hidden coordinates. As Lynn vanished, Painter and Hell’s forces prepared to hold off an enormous rune-like eye and the darkness advancing across the sky.

• Lynn pretended his injuries made him unfit for the mission, and Painter offered three Raven corpses, a portion of Ether’s primordial source, and Chaotic Colors to save his life.
• Lynn reached the third layer of space and used his spatial authority to reveal the Broken Divine Realm’s coordinates.
• A tremor shook Hell, and Lynn took the signal from Painter and vanished toward the Broken Divine Realm.
• Painter, the Four Kings, the King’s Knight of the Deep Sea, the King Beasts, and the Jailers gathered in the sky as darkness and a colossal rune-like eye approached.

Lynn entered the Broken Divine Realm and explored a ruined Divine Kingdom, where he discovered evidence of the horrific fate of its inhabitants. He reached a devastated city identified as the Kingdom of Fate and realized it had belonged to Feather Pen.

• Lynn arrived in the Broken Divine Realm, concealed his aura, and mapped the Divine Kingdom around him.
• Lynn traveled through the void toward the kingdom’s central region while avoiding powerful Polluters.
• Lynn found human beings twisted into plantlike growths, their souls shattered and consciousnesses trapped in torment.
• Lynn reached a ruined city and read the monument identifying it as the Kingdom of Fate.
• Lynn connected the destroyed kingdom to Feather Pen’s confession that she had slaughtered her subjects.

Lynn discovered a living woman being hunted in the ruined Divine Kingdom of Fate by two black knights wielding chaos. As the knights shattered the laws supporting her speed and thrust a lance at her, Lynn watched from nearby.

• Lynn studied the map of the Divine Realm and prepared to leap toward Aivier's palace, which lay beyond three more Divine Kingdoms.
• A woman raced out of the ruined city, and Lynn realized she was alive rather than a Polluter.
• Two black knights attacked the woman with chaos-charged spears and ordered her death.
• The woman denounced the knights and launched a rapid assault, but her laws could not harm them.
• The knights charged through her attacks and shattered the laws she relied on, leaving her unable to dodge as a lance closed in.

A woman regained control of her law and defeated two Black Knights after Lynn secretly weakened their chaos. She escaped with a bundle of crystals and led Lynn to a hidden refuge where other survivors were gathered.

• The woman narrowly dodged a Black Knight's attack when her law was suddenly restored, and its power unraveled the knights' chaos.
• The woman killed both Black Knights with her law blade and recovered her bundle of glowing crystals.
• Lynn followed the woman, realizing that his secret intervention had helped her defeat the knights and hoping to learn more about the survivors.
• The woman crossed the wasteland and entered a hidden refuge in a rift after reciting a password.
• Lynn detected the concealed refuge and used a spatial perspective to examine it.

Lynn discovered a hidden sanctuary where survivors purified themselves in a strange pool, and the Dragon Egg resonated with the pool’s power. When the egg flew into the water, Lynn plunged after it as the sanctuary’s guards sounded an alarm and surrounded the pool.

• Lynn secretly entered an underground cavern and found Yin Yin returning with Crystal Source for the survivors.
• Yin Yin explained that their people were injured and running out of supplies, while the guards warned her that leaving without permission could endanger the sanctuary.
• Yin Yin washed in a pool that drew black contamination from her body, and Lynn sensed the Dragon Egg resonating with the pool.
• The pool erupted into a vortex, pulling the Dragon Egg from Lynn’s hand and sweeping it into the water.
• Lynn dove into the pool after the egg as the guards raised the alarm and the sanctuary’s defenses surrounded him.

Lynn emerged from the boiling pool holding a naked fox-eared girl and the Dragon Egg, which hatched into a groggy baby Blue Dragon named Aivier. Dragon Guard Lan recognized the princess and reported for duty, while Lynn feared Aivier had hatched before her consciousness was fully restored.

• Lynn emerged from the pool with the Dragon Egg and a fox-eared girl in his arms as the guards and Dragon Guard watched.
• The Dragon Egg cracked, and a tiny Blue Dragon hatched, called Lynn her dad, and identified herself as Aivier.
• Lynn realized Aivier had hatched prematurely after absorbing power from the pool and worried that her consciousness had not fully recovered.
• Dragon Guard Lan recognized Aivier, knelt before her, and reported for duty.

Lynn found a hidden sanctuary established by Aivier’s Dragon Guard and discovered that its people recognized him as Raven, not the Violet Great Lord. Dragon Guard Lan explained that she had expected him to come to the Divine Realm because Aivier said its Time Divine Spark was important to him.

• The guards knelt when Aivier appeared, but she mistook the reunion for one of her father’s tricks and threatened to get her mother.
• Lynn realized the sanctuary was a stronghold Aivier had established during her guerrilla war and tried to command the Dragon Guards as her father.
• Dragon Guard Lan recognized Lynn as Raven and explained that she had served the Great Lord in the Old World and later guarded Aivier.
• Lan dismissed the other guards, who remained awed by Lynn’s resemblance to the Divine Emperor, while Lynn emerged from the pool with the struggling Dragon Egg.
• Lan said Aivier had told her the Time Divine Spark was in the Divine Realm and that she had expected Lynn to fight his way in with his people.

Lynn learned that the Dragon Guard and the last survivors of the Fate God's Divine Kingdom had hidden for thousands of years, and that their mysterious survival might hold a clue to the Time Divine Spark. The baby dragon Aivier broke free from her egg, attacked Lynn, and transformed into a crying little girl who called him Dad.

• The Dragon Guard told Lynn that she and Aivier's followers had returned to a devastated Divine Realm and were hiding with the kingdom's last survivors.
• The Dragon Guard explained that the survivors had awakened only in recent decades after apparently spending just days in a place where time may have been frozen.
• The Dragon Guard said Aivier had ordered her to watch for time-related abnormalities because the survivors' disappearance might reveal the Time Divine Spark's location.
• Aivier broke out of her eggshell, bit Lynn, and argued with him as he tried to shake her loose.
• Aivier crashed into Lynn, transformed into a blue-haired little girl, and tearfully called him Dad.

Lynn found Aivier reborn as a child with her will badly damaged, and Dragon Guard Lan pledged the guards’ loyalty to help him restore her. After learning that Aivier’s former palace might hold a way to revive her, Lynn asked about the current situation in the Divine Realm.

• Lynn distracted childlike Aivier with a lollipop and told Dragon Guard Lan how Aivier had released her primordial source to fight an Upper God, leaving her will confused and damaged.
• Lynn explained that Aivier’s former palace held a way to revive her, and Dragon Guard Lan pledged the Dragon Guards’ loyalty to him.
• Lan and the other guards examined Aivier and found that her will had awakened only as a nascent seed, while her mother’s power contained her unstable chaos energy.
• Lan explained that Aivier had absorbed primordial source power from the pool, which had caused her dormant will to sprout anew.
• Lan offered to guide Lynn to Aivier’s former palace or help him explore the Fate God Kingdom, and Lynn asked about the Divine Realm’s current situation.

Dragon Guard Lan warned Lynn that the Nightmares had hidden forces and were pursuing a secret objective, while the Divine Realm’s major kingdoms remained exposed after another expedition. Lynn assembled a team to investigate a possible lead on the Time Divine Spark and discovered that the refugee sisters Divine Sound and Momo wielded the laws of Speed and Tranquility, though they had lost most of their memories.

• Dragon Guard Lan told Lynn that a vast force of Nightmares had appeared in the Broken Divine Realm, vanished after the God Kings returned, and later departed with the remaining deities.
• Lynn realized Painter’s actions had drawn the enemy’s attention and decided to investigate a possible lead on the Time Divine Spark before the God Kings returned.
• Dragon Guard Lan assembled an eleven-member expedition team that included Divine Sound and her younger sister, Momo, two refugees from the region they planned to investigate.
• Lynn sensed that Divine Sound and Momo had unusual connections to the laws of Speed and Tranquility, and Dragon Guard Lan explained that neither sister bore the Fate God Kingdom’s mark.
• Divine Sound told Lynn that she remembered her own name and that Momo was her sister, but her other memories had gradually faded.

Lynn traveled with Dragon Guard Lan and her team to the City of Fate, where they investigated the Polluters’ search for the refugees’ mysterious place of origin. At the ruined sanctuary where the first refugees arrived, Lynn felt the quill Feather Pen had left him begin to resonate.

• Dragon Guard Lan erased the memories of everyone outside her team before she and Lynn departed the shelter.
• Lynn brought the group instantly to the City of Fate, where the fox-eared girl told Dragon Guard Lan she had killed two Black Knights.
• Lynn revealed traces of the Black Knights and explained that he had erased the trail to the shelter, then asked to be taken to the refugees’ arrival coordinates.
• Lynn transported the group deep into the ruined city, and Dragon Guard Lan identified the sanctuary where the first refugees had arrived, now occupied by the Polluters.
• Lynn felt Feather Pen’s quill resonate near the sanctuary and asked Dragon Guard Lan whether there were other arrival locations.

Lynn used his spatial power to discover an ancient underground Divine Temple beneath the Sanctuary, where the Polluters were guarding a possible entrance to the hidden region. He led Dragon Guard Lan and her fighters in a surprise attack, and as two Lesser Gods of Corruption arrived, Lynn seized one with an invisible force.

• Dragon Guard Lan explained that refugees had appeared within an eight-hundred-kilometer radius of the Castle and that the Polluters had increased their deployment after the arrivals began.
• Lynn searched the Sanctuary with his spatial divine spark and found an ancient underground palace guarded by Black Knights and several Corrupted Deities.
• Lynn ordered Dragon Guard Lan and her guards to prepare for battle, then transported them directly into the underground Divine Temple.
• Dragon Guard Lan and her fighters launched a surprise assault and routed the Black Knights guarding the temple.
• Two Lesser Gods of Corruption approached, and Lynn used an invisible force to seize one before he could finish speaking.

Lynn appeared in the Divine Realm and killed two Corrupted Deities, demonstrating the strength granted by the spatial god king spark. With the Dragon Guard’s forces fighting alongside him, the battle turned into a one-sided slaughter.

• Lynn revealed himself after one deity shattered the space, and instantly killed the God of Decay with Firstborn Power.
• Lynn seized the flame-covered deity, identified him as the Fire God, and demanded to know why the deities had come.
• The Fire God refused to cooperate, so Lynn killed him with the Trinity and collected his divine spark.
• Lynn taunted the terrified Black Knights as the Dragon Guard and her elite guards charged into the enemy ranks.
• Divine Sound and Momo watched in shock as Lynn’s power overwhelmed the deities and changed the course of the fight.