Chapter Summaries

Lynn used Aivier to sense the hidden anchor point in the Chaos palace, but their connection revealed a chained presence identified as Truth and triggered a devastating backlash. After escaping and learning the palace was alerted, Lynn prepared to stop sneaking around and created a raven double called Zombie Lynn.

• Lynn coaxed Aivier into breathing in the Chaos mist, and she sensed something belonging to her deep inside the palace.
• Lynn connected with Aivier's mind and saw a vision of an underground chamber, where clashing chains sent a backlash through the link.
• Lynn pulled Aivier and Dragon Guard Lan away just before the area around them crumbled, and alarms sounded across Aivier's palace.
• Lynn told Dragon Guard Lan that the hidden chamber contained something he believed was Truth, though he could not confirm whether the Golden Youth was the Truth God King.
• Lynn decided to abandon stealth after the alarm and used firstborn power to animate a raven corpse into a human double he called Zombie Lynn.

Lynn infiltrated Aivier's Palace under cover of a diversion and discovered it was a vast factory producing War Machines of chaos. He left the story investigating the palace's defenses and the machines' construction, wondering who had created them.

• Lynn sent a raven to bomb the palace, drawing its nightmares away while he concealed himself and approached the gates.
• Dragon Guard Lan warned Lynn that the palace's Gazing Eye had detected shelters across other worlds, but Lynn said his Dream World concealment would protect him.
• Lynn slipped inside and saw nightmares growing stronger as the Lord of the End's revival progressed.
• Lynn discovered Arks of Doom and unfinished Chaos Engines being built in the palace by enslaved Polluters, guarded by elite Black Knights.
• Lynn and Dragon Guard Lan recognized the palace as a huge weapons factory and considered the danger its stockpiles posed to the Main Universe.

Lynn and Dragon Guard Lan infiltrated the factory hidden inside Aivier’s Palace, where laws were enslaved to manufacture components. Lynn sabotaged several machines to draw out the overseer, who appeared to be Truth alongside powerful gods, then ordered a lockdown after suspecting an intruder.

• Lynn and Dragon Guard Lan slipped into the Palace by clinging to a returning Ark of Doom.
• They discovered an immense factory where imprisoned laws operated machines producing megastructure components.
• Lynn disrupted laws inside dozens of cubes, causing the factories to malfunction and their maintenance crews to panic.
• Truth emerged with the God of Knowledge, the Goddess of Wisdom, the God of Craftsmen, and other deities to investigate the failures.
• Truth sensed interference, ordered a lockdown, and sealed the entrances as nightmares filled the guards’ posts.

Lynn infiltrated the palace and confronted a golden figure who looked exactly like the Truth God King. The figure revealed that he represented the God King's reason and wisdom, while the being controlling the Divine Spark was a Nightmare who had stolen it.

• The golden figure sent the Corrupted Deities away and told them to gather detailed data on the Main Universe's Laws Tide and keep the area safe.
• The figure detected Lynn's presence and invited him to reveal himself before the others returned.
• Lynn appeared and asked how the figure knew he would come and why he had not fled.
• The figure explained that he had guessed Lynn was behind the sabotage and knew Lynn had little time before the others returned.
• The figure revealed that he was the Truth God King's reason and wisdom, and that the Nightmare leading the expedition to Hell had stolen the Divine Spark.

Lynn learned that Dreamweaver was alive and imprisoned in the palace, and struck a deal with a captive fragment of the Truth God King to find her. He set out to reunite the fragment with its true form while resolving to rescue Dreamweaver.

• The captive fragment explained that it had been enslaved for thousands of years and offered to help Lynn in exchange for learning about its past and escaping.
• The fragment revealed that Dreamweaver had been brought back from the Main Universe months earlier and was imprisoned in the palace.
• Lynn agreed to help the fragment find its true form if it took him to Dreamweaver, and accepted a truth-law fragment that bound the deal.
• Dragon Guard Lan warned Lynn that restoring the fragment could unleash a dangerous Truth God King, but Lynn said he was willing to take the risk and vowed to rescue Dreamweaver.

Lynn helped the figure create a decoy while the figure prepared to escape the Nightmare King’s surveillance. The figure slaughtered his divine assistants, gave Lynn their divine sparks, and led him toward the prisoners held on the Palace’s Fourth Floor.

• The figure warned Lynn that the Nightmare King’s watchers would soon detect his absence and asked him to create a decoy with his firstborn power.
• Lynn transformed the figure’s outline into laws of truth as the figure resumed his work before the returning deities.
• The figure trapped the deities in golden chains that neutralized their chaos power, then killed them with a dagger.
• The figure melted the bodies and gave their divine sparks to Lynn as a greeting gift.
• The figure explained that he had long planned how to kill his assistants and declared that they were ready to leave for the Palace’s Fourth Floor.

Lynn and the golden figure made their way through the War Fortress as they discussed the Nightmare King and the Calamity’s possible followers. They entered the third level, where the golden figure warned that the situation was unusual, and Lynn faced an unexpected sight.

• The golden figure guided Lynn through hidden routes in the War Fortress and explained that the Nightmare King controlled its inner levels, where Causality had been revived.
• The golden figure told Lynn that Nightmares claimed to be born from the sleeping Calamity’s murmurs and planned to escape when their Master awakened, though he suspected they were the Calamity’s dependents.
• Lynn recalled powerful beings of turmoil descending alongside his future self on the First Abyss Plane and accepted that more Nightmares might exist elsewhere.
• The Silver Sun questioned Lynn’s willingness to trust Truth and warned him that his enemies extended beyond what he could see, while Lynn remained wary of the Time God-King’s remnant.
• The golden figure led Lynn through a barrier into the third level and warned him to stay close; a cold wind greeted Lynn, and he saw something he had not expected.

Lynn and the golden figure entered the Nightmare King's Hall under a disguise and crossed a corridor made from the corpses of deities slain in the Divine Realm's fall. After circling an ominous pillar behind the Throne, they stopped before a pitch-black corridor leading deeper into the hall.

• The golden figure disguised himself and Lynn as corrupted beings and carried Lynn across the chains to the hall's gate.
• The golden figure used a black rod bearing an eyeball to gain passage past the Giant God statues guarding the gate.
• Lynn saw countless deities sealed beneath the crystal corridor and learned they were Loyalists killed in the purge and stripped of their Divine Sparks.
• Lynn asked about a terrifying stone pillar behind the Throne, but the golden figure said he did not know what it was and warned Lynn not to approach it.
• The golden figure circled the Throne and pillar, then stopped before the dark corridor leading farther into the hall.

Lynn and Truth investigated an unexplained Time Stop in the Coffin Tomb and followed its source into a vast embedded world filled with immense stone pillars. Lynn glimpsed the distant Isolated Island through widening rifts in one pillar.

• A strange Time Stop froze Lynn, Truth, and the Nightmare guards, but a cool power freed Lynn and Truth from its influence.
• Lynn and the figure reached the fork leading to the Fourth Layer, but Lynn sensed the Time Stop's source down the other passage and chose to investigate it.
• The figure led Lynn into an embedded world where at least seventy-one enormous, chained stone pillars rose from an abyss.
• Dragon Guard Lan pointed out rifts widening across the third pillar on Lynn's left, and Lynn glimpsed the distant Isolated Island within them.

Lynn and Truth escaped the End of Time after a creature began breaking free, then launched an assault on the Fortress’s fourth-floor prison. Lynn slaughtered its guards with spatial power and found countless divine beings imprisoned and tortured there.

• A claw emerged from a time-rift-covered pillar as the End of Time’s restraints weakened, and Lynn and Truth fled the collapsing corridor.
• A soul-shaking howl erupted behind them, and Truth carried Lynn through the barrier to the Fortress’s fourth floor.
• Lynn and Truth killed the Nightmares guarding the entrance and saw black energy surge from the third floor’s world barrier.
• Lynn and Truth stormed the fourth-floor prison, where Lynn used spatial power to kill thousands of Polluter guards.
• Lynn pressed deeper into the prison and discovered countless divine beings tortured in cages, many reduced to barely living husks.

Lynn and Dragon Guard Lan discovered that the Fourth Layer prison held tortured prisoners, including Dragon Guards and former Sea King Palace Knights. At the deepest cell, Lynn found Dreamweaver barely alive, but her corruption wound made it dangerous to heal her.

• Dragon Guard Lan recognized a tortured prisoner as her sister, while Lynn found other prisoners whose souls had been shattered.
• Lynn heard an old Jailer of Hell affirm that the Third Legion Under the King had never betrayed him or the Female Host, then watched the old man's lingering echo vanish and took his violet emblem.
• Lynn sensed Dreamweaver in the deepest part of the Fourth Layer prison, tore open a path through the cells, and freed her from her chains.
• Lynn found Dreamweaver gravely injured and tried to restore her with psionics, but the power dissipated from her body.
• Lynn tried to neutralize the corruption in Dreamweaver's chest with firstborn power, but it caused agony and threatened to destroy her body and soul.
• The golden figure crouched beside Dreamweaver and pressed a finger between her brows.

Lynn learned that the Nightmare King’s corruption had entered Dreamweaver’s primordial source and could not be reversed, though his power could slow it. As Lynn and the golden figure raced toward the Sixth Layer, a monstrous pursuer closed in and the power of Destruction began to awaken beyond the gate.

• The golden figure warned Lynn that the Nightmare King’s corruption was transforming Dreamweaver and that forcibly removing it would kill her.
• The figure advised Lynn to use his firstborn power and psionics to suppress the corruption, and Lynn wrapped Dreamweaver in his powers before placing her in his Trident World.
• Lynn vowed to stop the Lord of the End’s revival, then the golden figure led him toward his true form as they sensed their pursuer approaching.
• A monstrous nightmare killed and devoured the raven Lynn had sent ahead, absorbed its memories, and sent a ripple across the Divine Realm toward Chaos Deep Space.
• Lynn and the golden figure raced through the Fifth Layer toward the Sixth Layer, where a blast of destructive power shattered the gate and heralded the awakening of Destruction.

Lynn destroyed the array that was channeling Destruction’s divine spark into a flesh giant, but Nightmare emerged from the spark and revealed that Beast King’s projection had descended. Lynn stayed behind to fight while the golden figure headed for the Seventh Layer to recover his true form.

• Lynn and the golden figure entered the temple, where spellcasters were channeling Destruction’s divine spark into a chained flesh giant.
• The golden figure killed the spellcasters, and Lynn shattered the magic array and obliterated the flesh giant before seizing the divine spark.
• The divine spark repelled Lynn and formed into Nightmare, who revealed that the truth divine spark had a new master and that Beast King’s projection had descended.
• Lynn attacked Nightmare with Star Stillness and told the golden figure to go to the Seventh Layer and recover his true form.
• The golden figure left without turning back, while Lynn faced the twisted form in the Fifth Layer and prepared to destroy it.

Lynn overwhelmed the Nightmare wielding the Destruction Divine Spark, using his Firstborn Power and Sinfire to try to kill him and claim the spark. Before he could finish, the Beast King arrived in the Sixth Layer and confronted him.

• Lynn fought through the Nightmare’s black mist and used his Firstborn Power to overpower him.
• Lynn dragged the Destruction Divine Spark close and struck it with his Sinfire-wreathed trident, grievously wounding the Nightmare within.
• Lynn smashed the divine spark into the ground and began refining it with Firstborn Power, intending to kill the Nightmare and keep the spark.
• The Beast King suddenly attacked Lynn with a skeletal claw, forcing Lynn to block with his trident.
• The Beast King landed in the corridor as a towering, many-armed skeletal monster, and Lynn recognized him as the Wraith freed from the End of Time.

Lynn fought the Beast King, who devoured the Destruction Divine Spark and gained its power. As the Beast King tried to reach the Seventh Layer to devour Truth's true form, Lynn destroyed the skeleton he sent ahead, but the Beast King's fate remained unresolved.

• Lynn clashed with the Beast King as they raced for the Destruction Divine Spark, and the Beast King swallowed it along with the Nightmare inside.
• The Beast King absorbed the divine spark's power and transformed, revealing an ability to incorporate what he devoured into his body.
• Lynn pursued the Beast King, realized he was heading for the Seventh Layer, and stretched the space between them to block his path.
• The Beast King split off a human skeleton and sent it toward the Seventh Layer while his main body stayed to fight Lynn.
• Lynn unleashed Star Stillness, destroyed the Sixth Layer in their clash, and used the returning Trident to annihilate the skeleton bound for the Seventh Layer.

Lynn trapped the Beast King in his golden dream and struck him with a world-shattering saber infused with firstborn power. The Beast King broke apart, leaving a black god king spark, while Lynn was left severely drained and looking toward the Seventh Layer.

• The Beast King abandoned his attempt to reach the Seventh Layer and lunged at Lynn, who trapped him inside his golden dream.
• Lynn combined his sinfire and firstborn power into a saber, then unleashed a strike that shattered the Fifth Layer and engulfed the Fourth Layer and Aivier's Palace.
• The Beast King's body cracked apart and burst into motes of light within the dream, leaving behind a black god king spark.
• Lynn refined the Beast King's fragments, seized the spark, and stood exhausted as he looked toward the Seventh Layer.
• The silver sun warned Lynn that he had taken too great a risk.

Lynn learned that the slain horror was one of the Seventy-Two Pillars, then confronted the restored Truth, who remembered their old resentment. Truth returned Aivier’s Dragon Heart and chose to honor their deal, leaving Lynn to sit and talk with him.

• The Silver Sun warned Lynn that he had killed only one of the Seventy-Two Pillars and cautioned him about the promise he had made.
• Lynn recognized Truth in the Seventh Layer and realized the Dragon Heart he held was Aivier’s primordial source of order and Painter’s anchor point for her.
• Truth recovered his memories and admitted that his old resentment toward Lynn had once fueled murderous intent.
• Lynn explained that he had gambled on Truth’s rationality and promise instead of killing him when he had the chance.
• Truth returned Aivier’s Dragon Heart to Lynn and said he would honor their deal, then invited Lynn to sit and talk.

Lynn recounted the history of the New World and the Lord of the End’s coming resurrection to the Truth God King, who concluded that his life had followed an unchangeable destiny. He recognized that Lynn was also betting on his hatred, and the chapter left their motives laid bare.

• Lynn told the Truth God King how the Great Lord became the Firstborn, fought Reincarnation, and helped establish the New World.
• Lynn explained that the Battle of Heaven and the Lord of the End’s invasion followed, and that the Great Lord was holding back the Lord of the End’s final resurrection.
• The Truth God King reflected on how his life and growing emotions had followed the destiny of truth, which he believed could not be changed.
• The Truth God King accused Lynn of gambling that his hatred toward those who controlled him would serve Lynn’s purpose.

Lynn parted from the Truth God King, who refused to join any faction and headed toward the Divine Kingdoms. As Lynn entered the collapsed Seventh Layer to seek the divine spark of time, the returning expedition arrived at the shattered palace and found Lord Truth seated on the Throne.

• The Truth God King told Lynn that the Dragon Heart settled their debt and that they owed each other nothing, then walked toward the Divine Kingdoms.
• The Silver Sun said the Truth God King had won control of his body but had no place in the world, and promised to help Lynn find the divine spark of time.
• Lynn leaped into the collapsed Seventh Layer and sensed that people had returned in the direction the Truth God King had gone.
• The expedition from Hell returned to the Divine Realm with a vast army of nightmares and deities, while the Beast King began breaking free of his pillar's seal.
• The Golden Youth, the Nightmare King, and Causality entered the ruined palace and found Lord Truth seated on the Throne; the Golden Youth recognized him, and Causality addressed him as Lord Truth.

Truth reclaimed his divine spark and blocked the Nightmare King, giving Lynn time to open the gate to the Divine Realm’s Bottommost Layer. Lynn entered the savage realm of active laws and learned from the Silver Sun that Painter had left it in its primordial state.

• The Nightmare King tried to pass Truth, but Truth sealed the way and declared that he would not let the Nightmare King destroy the world.
• Truth reclaimed his divine spark from the Golden Youth, while Causality cried out in grief.
• Lynn sensed the clash of divine power and rushed to open the gate to the Bottommost Layer before the Nightmare King arrived.
• Lynn used the Dragon Heart to open the gate and escaped the collapsing Seventh Layer.
• Lynn entered the Bottommost Layer, steadied himself with firstborn power, and heard the Silver Sun explain that Painter had left the domain in its original, law-ravaged state.