Chapter Summaries

Lynn and the Silver Sun discussed the Divine Sparks and the Primordial Source before a mirror-covered Nightmare attacked them in the depths of the Divine Realm. Lynn fled, learning that the enemy could copy his abilities through reflections, while the Silver Sun warned that it was only the third such being and that stronger Nightmares remained beyond the Time War.

• Lynn asked the Silver Sun why he had revived differently from the other God Kings, but their conversation was interrupted by a spear attack.
• Lynn dodged the mirror-covered Humanoid's spear and saw his own reflection move independently, prompting the Silver Sun to warn him to flee.
• Lynn escaped through space as an eye identical to his appeared in cracks across the Humanoid's mirrored face.
• The Silver Sun explained that the Humanoid represented transformation and reflections and could imprint Lynn's abilities whenever they met.
• The Silver Sun revealed that the mirror-covered being was only the third Nightmare and that more powerful Nightmares had been held back by the Time War.

Lynn fought a mirror-faced nightmare that copied his combat skills and began imitating his spatial powers. He escaped after trapping it in a spatial maze, but the Silver Sun warned that the creature had locked onto him and would eventually catch up.

• The Silver Sun warned Lynn that the nightmare might imitate his connection to the Divine Realm's primordial source and find it before him.
• The mirror-faced figure caught up with Lynn, wounded him with its spear, and showed that it had copied his combat skills.
• Lynn used Warp to flee, but sensed the figure imitating his control over spatial laws.
• Lynn stretched and divided space into a vast honeycomb maze, then erased his traces and fled without stopping to fight.
• The nightmare shattered the spatial barriers and reached the place where Lynn had been, while an eye began forming in its mirror face.
• The Silver Sun explained that the nightmare locked onto aspects of its targets and grew closer to copying everything the more they fought.

Lynn used a second raven corpse to replenish his power while the mirror-like being gathered thousands of nightmares to attack the barrier between realms. Trapped in the Divine Realm and facing a growing threat, Lynn searched for another way to regain his strength and find the primordial source.

• Lynn rejected using his dream ability again and crushed the second raven corpse to restore his Firstborn Power.
• The mirror-like being received a warning about Lynn’s dream domain, then summoned thousands of nightmares to its side.
• Lynn replenished only about half his power and spotted a vast host of nightmares gathering ahead.
• The Silver Sun explained that the nightmares could force a breach through the barrier and let the monsters outside reach Lynn.
• Lynn realized the Divine Realm had become a prison cage and wondered how to return to his peak without using another raven.

Lynn tried to turn the Divine Realm’s laws back into firstborn power, drawing the mirror-surfaced figure and the Nightmares toward him. He used pieces of his soul to create decoy suns across the void, but the figure began destroying them as Lynn’s whereabouts remained unknown.

• Lynn began connecting with the full-spectrum laws and converting them into firstborn power despite the Silver Sun warning that the disturbance would expose him.
• The mirror-surfaced figure and nearly half the Nightmare army sensed the surge of laws and raced toward its source.
• The mirror-surfaced figure struck the golden sun, which exploded and revealed only a black feather made from a piece of Lynn’s soul.
• Lynn ignited multiple points of light across the void as decoys, leading the mirror-surfaced figure to realize he was dividing his soul.
• The mirror-surfaced figure warped through space and destroyed the rising stars one by one.

Lynn revealed that he had used Mirror’s attacks to spread his God Frontier across the God King Realm and bring its laws under his control. He fought the mirrored monster with the Frontier’s support, but the enemy guarded against Lynn’s killing move.

• The Nightmare King realized that the fading lights were Raven’s soul fragments and warned Mirror that Lynn was turning the God King Realm into his God Frontier.
• Lynn emerged and used the Frontier to restore order to the laws, explaining that he had used his dead brother Raven’s corpse to create the false starry sky.
• Mirror tore open the God Frontier and attacked Lynn, who met his strike instead of retreating.
• Lynn and Mirror exchanged hundreds of blows as the Frontier replenished Lynn’s power and its laws attacked Mirror.
• The Silver Sun warned Lynn that the Frontier restored him slowly, and Lynn recognized that Mirror was keeping room to evade his killing move.

Lynn discovered that the mirrored monster could not use spatial laws and primordial chaos at the same time, and used the Painter’s Colors of Chaos to exploit that opening. After impaling the monster’s eye, Lynn restored his corroded arms with sinfire and prepared to strike again as the monster tried to remove the spear.

• Lynn noticed the mirrored monster’s replication was nearly complete and struggled to keep pace with its spatial attacks.
• Lynn observed that the monster had to switch between spatial laws and primordial chaos when warping.
• Lynn broke the Painter’s box and used its Colors of Chaos to disrupt the monster’s switch, then drove a chaotic spear into its cracked eye.
• The Colors of Chaos began corroding the monster, while Lynn’s arms were destroyed by the power he had unleashed.
• Lynn summoned sinfire to form new arms and advanced, but the monster created a blade storm and grabbed the spear lodged in its eye.

Lynn used the chaotic colors to consume his laws and immobilize Mirror, then killed him with a desperate Sinfire slash. Exhausted in the God King World, Lynn learned from the Painter that the Nightmare King and the others had escaped and that the threat of Truth was gone.

• Lynn fed his laws to the chaotic colors inside Mirror, causing them to grow as they devoured him.
• Lynn bound Mirror and struck him with an all-out Sinfire slash that tore open the void and the God Frontier.
• The Nightmare King sensed his connection to Mirror vanish and realized Mirror had been killed.
• Lynn collapsed as the Sinfire faded, and the chaotic colors destroyed Mirror's remaining fragments before gathering into the Painter's silhouette.
• The Painter told Lynn that the Nightmare King and the others had retreated and that no Truth Divine Spark remained in the world.

Lynn learned that the Nightmares he killed would revive and that the pillars in Aivier's Palace served as symbols and beacons for their invasion. As Nightmare King and his forces battered the Divine Realm's boundary, Lynn left to find the Divine Realm's primordial source before the invaders broke through.

• The chaotic figure warned Lynn that the Nightmares would revive and urged him to find the Divine Realm's primordial source, explaining that Mirror Demon and the Beast King were combatants whose true forms were sealed at the End of Time.
• Lynn learned that the pillars in Aivier's Palace let the invaders become part of the river of time and bypass the world's rejection of them.
• A massive tremor revealed that the Nightmares were attacking the boundary between the God King World and the Divine Realm, so the chaotic figure vanished and the Silver Sun urged Lynn to deal with the remaining Nightmares.
• Lynn told the Silver Sun to leave the Nightmares to his god frontier and set off on his more urgent mission.
• Nightmare King and his forces repeatedly struck the Divine Realm's barrier while Causality watched the Beast King grow stronger by devouring Nightmares and remembered Truth's death.

Lynn found the Divine Realm’s primordial source and learned it was the Firstborn’s supreme divine spark, which asked him to devour it before the Nightmares broke in. As the Nightmare King’s forces breached the God King World, its laws gathered around a distant point, signaling that Raven might be ascending.

• Lynn followed the golden storm until it led him to a brilliant sun that communicated with him.
• The primordial source revealed that it had been created within the Firstborn, had evaded the Nightmares for thousands of years, and was the supreme divine spark of the Firstborn.
• The primordial source asked Lynn to devour it so it could help him stop the Nightmares, and the Silver Sun confirmed that Lynn was compatible with it.
• Lynn made his decision as tremors shook the God King World and threatened to tear open its barrier.
• The Nightmare King led his forces through a breach in the barrier, but the God King World’s laws surged toward a distant point of light.
• The Nightmare King and his companions realized that the primordial source had appeared and suspected Raven was attempting his final ascension.

Lynn used the Main Universe’s primordial source to hold back the Nightmare King, the Beast King, Causality, and their army while he pursued a fusion that could turn the tide. As the battle continued, Causality began to unleash the corruption within her.

• The Nightmare King led the nightmare army toward the Main Universe’s primordial source after learning Lynn had reached it.
• Lynn summoned golden phantoms and stretched space to slow the Nightmare King, the Beast King, Causality, and the nightmares behind them.
• The Beast King shattered Lynn’s spatial barrier by devouring its laws, causing Lynn to suffer a severe backlash.
• Lynn summoned divine warriors and armies drawn from civilizations remembered by the Main Universe to stall the enemy forces.
• The Nightmare King called to Causality, who apologized as corruption spread across her body and the distant nightmares raised their heads.

Lynn’s defenses collapsed under Causality’s law, which let the nightmares reach his position within ten minutes. He expanded his Golden Dream to resist the law, but as his power failed and the final assault began, he summoned Painter.

• Causality imposed the command [Arrival] on the nightmares, allowing them to break through Lynn’s defenses despite his attacks.
• Lynn seized the causal chain, but calamity struck him; the Silver Sun warned that Causality had become his greatest enemy because the calamity empowered her.
• Lynn spread his Golden Dream into reality to push back the law of causality, forming a final defense line with the manifested creatures.
• The Nightmare King and Beast King attacked the shrinking dream as the Divine Realm Primordial Source’s will vanished, leaving Lynn without further aid for the final ten minutes.
• Lynn called out to Painter, and a black thread of Colors of Chaos pierced into the battlefield, where Painter’s cold azure eyes opened before the Nightmare King and the others.

Painter held back the nightmare army to buy Lynn ten minutes, but the Pillars of Finality suppressed her and the Nightmare King hurled his pillar at Lynn as the dream collapsed. With the blow about to strike, Lynn recognized that it came from outside his space-time and seemed poised to awaken in the body of a raven.

• Painter appeared and drove back the Nightmare King, Beast King, and their army, promising Lynn ten minutes.
• Painter severed the law of causality, but the Nightmare King’s forces continued attacking as her incarnation weakened.
• Mirror Demon returned with three Pillars of Finality, which manifested phantom versions of the nightmare demons and suppressed Painter.
• Painter destroyed Mirror Demon’s phantom and shattered his pillar, then weakened the Beast King’s phantom before disappearing.
• The Nightmare King hurled his Pillar of Finality at Lynn, and it broke through the golden dream and Lynn’s defenses.
• As the pillar neared him, Lynn saw the End of Time and understood that the blow came from beyond his space-time; a raven appeared reflected in his eyes.

Lynn survived the Pillar of Finality’s strike and emerged with overwhelming power, turning the battle against the nightmare army into a rout. As the Nightmare King ordered a retreat through the Path of Chaos, Lynn charged after him with the trident.

• The Pillar of Finality shattered against the trident, revealing that someone had intervened at the crucial moment to save Lynn.
• The Nightmare King ordered the nightmares to attack, but Lynn advanced through their ranks and slaughtered them with sweeping strikes.
• The Nightmare King and Causality began retreating toward Chaos Deep Space, and the Nightmare King finally commanded the army to fall back.
• Lynn tore through the nightmare army and raced toward the Path of Chaos, pursuing the Nightmare King with his trident.

Lynn defeated the Nightmare King and the Beast King without taking the Divine Realm’s Primordial Source, then destroyed the black pillars linking the present to the Nightmare Demons at the end of time. He vowed to pursue and kill the remaining enemies in the Time War.

• The collapsing God King World expelled Causality and the Beast King, and Causality fled as Lynn emerged and captured the Nightmare King.
• Lynn impaled the Nightmare King with the golden trident, killed him, and promised to kill him again if he returned.
• Lynn caught the fleeing Beast King, pierced him, and refined his bones to dust with Firstborn Power.
• Lynn arrived at Aivier's shattered Palace and confronted the surviving Black Knights, Corrupted Deities, and sixty-nine stone pillars.
• Lynn destroyed the pillars and their emerging projections, shattered an enormous rotting hand that tried to cross from the end of time, and vowed to face the Nightmare Demons in the Time War.

Lynn used the God Frontier and the Trident to pursue and defeat Causality, but a colossal hand from beyond time seized her before he could kill her. After his attempt to intervene failed, Lynn realized that the Time War involved both sides defending crucial parts of history.

• Lynn spread the God Frontier across the Divine Realm and then traveled to the Main Universe to hunt Causality.
• Lynn impaled Causality with the Trident and struck her again, leaving her pinned beneath his weapon.
• Causality told Lynn that she could not turn back and warned that the Time War would turn the past into a weapon against him.
• A colossal hand emerging from the River of Time seized Causality as a calamity from Chaos Deep Space engulfed Lynn.
• Lynn hurled the Trident at the hand, but it repelled him and carried Causality away through time.
• Lynn recalled Dreamweaver’s warning that changing the past could erase every trace of a person from history.

Lynn severed his connection to the Trident to evade the Firstborn’s pursuit, accepting that the Time War had begun and that he needed to strengthen his trinity power before joining it. As order began returning to the Divine Realm, the Painter and the Jailer Army approached its frontier.

• The Silver Sun told Lynn that the Time War had begun and that its outcome could not yet be changed.
• Lynn chose to sever his connection to the Trident, knowing its power would draw the Firstborn’s attention and bring lethal punishment.
• Lynn foresaw that three beings would repeatedly revive, making the conflict an endless war, and said he was not yet strong enough to join the search for the Time Divine Spark.
• Lynn returned to the Divine Realm as the God Frontier spread, restoring order and life across the shattered land.
• Lynn waited at the Divine Realm’s frontier as the Painter and the Jailer Army advanced through the Chaotic Colors.

After Lynn defeated the Polluters in the Divine Realm, he met the Painter and learned that she had hidden the Main Universe’s primordial source for him to use against the calamity. She warned that their future selves had failed countless times to stop the threat, and Lynn called for the Main Universe’s defenses to be strengthened before more Nightmares arrived.

• The Painter’s Jailer Army arrived, and Lynn met the azure figure who told him she knew he had liberated the Main Universe’s primordial source.
• Lynn confronted the Painter about why she had left the Divine Realm’s primordial source behind, and she explained that the God King World could not be found unless it revealed itself.
• The Painter explained that Lynn was the only suitable person to wield the Main Universe’s primordial source and said he had made the right choice by not fusing it into himself.
• Lynn asked whether history could be changed after he failed to save Causality, and the Painter revealed that their future selves had already failed countless times and repaired history to keep it intact.
• The Painter warned that more Nightmares would descend as the timeline approached its ending, and Lynn ordered them to strengthen the Main Universe’s defenses.

Lynn returned to Hell after driving the Calamity’s projection away and reclaiming the Divine Realm, then reunited with his family and explained what had happened. He warned the Legion that the crisis was not over and that they would need to defend the entire Main Universe.

• Lynn returned to Dark Night City, where the residents, Night Doctors, Captain, Dollhouse members, and others welcomed him home.
• Blood Radish described the devastation in Hell during the battle between the Calamity and the Painter, including the blue sky, earthquakes, Jailers, and ruined Mega Cities.
• At a conference, Lynn told the Matriarch, Captain, and Legion Demigods that he had reclaimed the Divine Realm and explained how the Painter had guided him to awaken the Firstborn’s supreme divine spark.
• The Self-Binding Angel asked whether the crisis was over, and Lynn said the enemies would return and the defense line would have to extend across the Main Universe.

Lynn ordered his Legion to cultivate in the Broken Divine Realm, then visited Silver Fantasy in the Hive and offered to help protect her from the risks of using a god king spark. They agreed to face the price of their powers together, and Silver Fantasy asked whether Lynn’s own spatial divine spark could also turn against him.

• Lynn ordered his Legion to prepare for deployment to the Broken Divine Realm in two days and focus on strengthening themselves.
• Lynn found Silver Fantasy in the Hive’s Virtual World, and she learned about his dangerous experiences in the Divine Realm.
• Lynn warned Silver Fantasy that a god king spark might awaken its original owner’s will, and she vowed that they would pay the price together.
• Lynn removed the divine spark from its mechanical restraints so he could place safeguards on it.
• Silver Fantasy asked whether Lynn’s spatial divine spark could cause him the same danger.

Lynn secured Silver Fantasy’s divine spark against the Spatial God King’s possible revival, then took her to the Strange Otherworld to see Dreamweaver. He revealed that Dreamweaver had survived but was now enduring terrible pain from her wound and nightmares.

• Lynn placed restrictions on Silver Fantasy’s divine spark that would alert him to the Spatial God King’s revival and suppress him within the God Frontier.
• Lynn told Silver Fantasy he had no way to completely transform her primordial source, but Ether’s essence might help protect her from corruption.
• Lynn transported Silver Fantasy to the Strange Otherworld, which he had preserved using the spatial divine spark.
• Lynn brought Silver Fantasy to Dreamweaver, whom he had believed dead after she sacrificed herself to help him escape.
• Lynn explained that Dreamweaver had survived but showed Silver Fantasy the severe wound that left her in constant pain.