Chapter Summaries

Lynn struggled with the burden of becoming the Main Universe’s sole symbol of hope while holding back growing Nightmare forces. After another failed attempt to reach the Third Stage, he warned Self-Binding Angel that they could not afford to wait any longer.

• Fallen Angels reported to Lynn that the Star Domains were stabilizing, while Dark Night City had become the center of his authority.
• Lynn remembered the Great Lord’s fate and vowed that he could not fall, even as the people made him their hope.
• Across successive wars, Lynn used Sinfire to stop the growing Nightmare Demons, eventually confronting twenty of them in Chaos Deep Space.
• Lynn suffered a violent backlash while trying to advance to the Third Stage, and Self-Binding Angel helped him recover.
• Lynn explained that something beyond the incomplete Trinity was blocking his advancement and warned that the Nightmare Demons could soon overwhelm the Main Universe.

Lynn used his Firstborn power to suppress the chaos consuming Dreamweaver, who urged him to devour her so he could complete the Trinity. She asked him to pretend they had never met and continue his path, while Lynn remained unable to promise he would let her go.

• Lynn calmed Dreamweaver's violent chaos flare with his Firstborn power, despite the pain and danger to himself.
• Dreamweaver told Lynn that Sinfire worsened her condition and that completing the Trinity required him to absorb her primordial source and become the sole wielder of that power.
• Lynn refused to devour Dreamweaver and argued that Zuo Zuo or Miss Machine Intelligence might be able to transfer her instead.
• Dreamweaver called herself an outsider and insisted that her existence could block Lynn's progress, then struck him and asked him to pretend they had never met.
• Dreamweaver comforted Lynn and said she believed he might one day bring them back, while he could not promise to let her go.

Lynn brought the Trident’s primordial source to suppress the chaos corruption in Dreamweaver, then visited her every day as she prepared to teach him about the Trinity’s unknown Third Stage. Dreamweaver revealed that her former lord had died after a costly victory over the Lord of the End.

• Lynn returned the Trident from the core of the Main Universe, suppressing Dreamweaver’s corruption and restoring her lucidity.
• Dreamweaver scolded Lynn for visiting in silence and for bringing the primordial source while Nightmares threatened the Main Universe.
• Dreamweaver joked that Lynn should bring her a Nightmare Demon, and Lynn immediately prepared to hunt one before she stopped him.
• Dreamweaver explained that she knew little about the Third Stage’s black purgatory and suspected it carried a tremendous price or difficult restrictions.
• Lynn asked what had happened to Dreamweaver’s former lord, and she said he had died after their side barely won the battle against the Lord of the End.

Dreamweaver uncovered a terrible truth in the ancient Psionics records while searching for a way to reach the Third Stage of Black Purgatory. She shut Lynn out, grieving over what she had learned and the fate it implied.

• Dreamweaver told Lynn that the gods of her reality had likely vanished after paying a terrible price, then promised to seek the knowledge needed to unlock the Third Stage of Black Purgatory.
• Dreamweaver concealed her worsening Chaos-corroded wound and decided to avoid Lynn so their eventual parting would hurt less.
• Dreamweaver isolated herself behind a Barrier and searched ancient Psionics records while Lynn endured the Main Universe's uneasy peace and worried about her.
• Dreamweaver discovered an ancient message from her Forebear, realized why he had refused to pass it down, and broke down in despair.
• Lynn visited Dreamweaver's door and suggested she could remain in his dream, but she stayed silent and sobbed inside.

Dreamweaver was found gravely wounded and fell back into confusion, leaving Lynn to wonder what had driven her to harm herself. A new, overwhelming Nightmare assault forced Lynn to leave her side and fight at the Chaos Frontier, where the largest war yet erupted.

• Lynn sensed psionic energy from the Strange Otherworld, found Dreamweaver with a dagger in her throat, and saved her life.
• Lynn and the others could not determine why Dreamweaver had harmed herself, and Lynn resolved to stay and care for her.
• Nightmares launched a massive assault on the Main Universe, using their bodies to breach Lynn's sinfire defense as the Lord of the End was rebuilt.
• Lynn joined the battle at the Chaos Frontier, where more than twenty Nightmare Demons coordinated against him and he drew on the Trident's power.
• The Captain and Silver Fantasy awakened, the Legion and the gods were sent to the front, and the largest war in history erupted.

A hooded man stayed behind on a frontier planet so refugees could escape while nightmares advanced, then used the black rain to destroy the invading horde. When reinforcements arrived, they found the planet deserted and the nightmares reduced to ash.

• A hooded man sent the last refugees aboard a ship and told a little girl he would remain to defend the planet.
• The girl asked to see his face, then hugged him despite his scar and called him the very best person.
• After the refugees departed, the man and the remaining warriors prepared to make a final stand against the approaching nightmares.
• The nightmares overwhelmed the planet's defenses, and the hooded man stopped the rain across the planet and used it to bury them.
• Reinforcements arrived through the Abyss's rifts and found the planet deserted, with nightmare corpses turning to ash beneath the continuing black rain.

Sir Awen continued saving worlds from the Nightmare invasion while refusing to answer those who recognized him. On another battlefield, a woman in a red dress found him and asked to talk.

• Sir Awen defeated the final Nightmare invasion swarm on a shattered world and warned its Governor to prepare for the remaining scattered Nightmares.
• The Governor recognized Sir Awen as a former leader of Dark Night City and pleaded for him to return, but Sir Awen left without answering.
• Sir Awen rescued survivors from a falling Planet-Destroying Warship and fought the Nightmares threatening the Near-Earth Defense Line.
• A woman in a red dress appeared behind Sir Awen and asked how long he would continue his self-imposed exile.
• Sir Awen turned on the woman with his psionics ready, and she told him she wanted to talk.

Dreamweaver told Sir Awen that he must hide the future from Lynn and guide him toward the dark throne so the world could survive the apocalypse. After Lynn returned to Dark Night City, he learned that Dreamweaver had died without saying goodbye.

• Dreamweaver admitted to Sir Awen that she regretted manipulating his life and said she was running out of time.
• Dreamweaver ordered Sir Awen to return to Lynn, help him master the Third Stage's blackfire, and deceive him about the future.
• Dreamweaver explained that Lynn had to ascend the dark throne to oppose the coming calamity, and that Sir Awen must keep her secret.
• Sir Awen watched Dreamweaver collapse and weep, then understood why the Second Stage's fire was called Sinfire.
• Lynn returned from Chaos Deep Space to Dark Night City and rushed to Dreamweaver's room, where he learned she had left forever.

After returning victorious, Lynn learned that Dreamweaver had died while he was away and grieved alone as the universe celebrated. More than twenty years later, he angrily rejected Sir Awen’s return and the need for the Trinity’s final ascension, asking whether growing up meant losing.

• Lynn found that Dreamweaver had died before he could see her again, and he silently mourned beside her bed.
• After defeating the Nightmare Demons in Chaos Deep Space, Lynn returned to a universe celebrating his victory.
• Lynn buried Dreamweaver beside another grave and watched the fireworks while mourning her.
• More than twenty years later, Sir Awen returned to Dark Night City, and Lynn told him he did not want to see him.
• Sir Awen explained that his return was necessary for the Trinity’s final ascension, but Lynn insisted he could fight the calamity without it.
• Sir Awen shoved Lynn against the city wall and told him to face his duties as King, and Lynn asked whether growing up meant losing.

Sir Awen told Lynn that Dreamweaver had sacrificed herself to give him a chance to reach the Third Stage, Black Purgatory, and explained that it required immense Faith from all living beings. Lynn learned that pursuing this power would bring a lethal backlash and that he would die even if he achieved Transcendence.

• Sir Awen explained that Dreamweaver had foreseen Lynn’s danger and sacrificed herself to enable another Ascension of the Trinity.
• Lynn grieved over the people who had sacrificed themselves and admitted he did not know how much farther the road would go.
• Sir Awen promised to break through the Third Stage and revealed that Dreamweaver had reached him through her Psionics before her death.
• Sir Awen explained that Black Purgatory required the Trinity to reach a critical point and Lynn to gather the Faith of all living beings, whose doubts would painfully assail him.
• Sir Awen told Lynn there was no fourth stage and warned that Lynn would die from Blackfire’s backlash or on the path to Transcendence.

Lynn accepted that he might have to sacrifice himself to bring the catastrophe to an end and asked Sir Awen to hide the truth from their allies. Sir Awen returned publicly as the Empire’s highest-ranking official beneath Lynn and began reforms to unify its scattered Star Sectors.

• Lynn accepted the fate Sir Awen had revealed and asked him to keep the truth from the Matriarch and the others.
• Sir Awen watched Lynn disappear into the snow and resolved to deceive everyone who believed in him.
• Lynn publicly welcomed Sir Awen back and appointed him the highest-ranking figure in the Empire beneath the King.
• The Empire announced that Sir Awen had spent decades saving people across the frontier Star Domains, raising public morale and strengthening the Empire’s prestige.
• Sir Awen began sweeping reforms, starting with a Charter to establish systematic institutions and regulations across the Star Sectors.

The Main Universe reorganized under Sir Awen’s Charter as its defense line was restored and an official faith was established to help Lynn reach the third stage of trinity power. After Sir Awen collapsed from years of ceaseless work, the Self-Binding Angel questioned whether faith could truly defeat the coming calamity and what price it would demand.

• Sir Awen’s Charter reorganized the major planets by function, connected them through the Abyss, and activated a stronger stellar defense line with God Frontier’s reinforcement.
• The Empire began relocating planets and reshaping the Main Universe while Sir Awen told its leaders that the people’s faith could ignite Lynn’s blackfire into the third stage.
• Lynn confirmed Sir Awen’s explanation, and the Empire established official faith, built divine statues across the star sectors, and constructed three supreme sanctuaries at the Main Universe’s center.
• Sir Awen urged Lynn to win future wars decisively so victories could overcome the people’s fear, then collapsed after years without sleep.
• The Self-Binding Angel took over the Royal Court’s responsibilities and asked Lynn what price would be required for faith to help defeat the calamity.

Lynn prepared to ascend the Throne of Agony and ignite Blackfire, despite Sir Awen warning that the choice would leave him no way back. After sitting on the Throne, Lynn was overwhelmed by the faith, fear, and suffering of the Main Universe’s people.

• Lynn reassured the Matriarch that their path would lead to victory, though she feared he was hiding a dangerous plan.
• Sir Awen told Lynn that the gathered Faith Power would help ignite his Blackfire and warned him that ascending the Throne of Agony would leave him no way back.
• Lynn said he was willing to endure the pain so everyone could survive, then walked toward the Throne.
• Lynn heard a distant, indistinct voice before he sat on the Throne at the center of the Main Universe.
• Lynn fell unconscious and felt the hopes, fear, grief, and anguish of countless people flood into his Spirit World.

After Lynn ascended the Throne, he endured the crushing doubts and malice carried by the Empire’s faith, while Sir Awen remained behind to guard the Sanctuary doors. Two years later, a new invasion began as Chaos Beings joined the nightmares, and thirty great Nightmare Demons appeared in the undefended Divine Realm and Dark Night City.

• Lynn was overwhelmed by the conflicting voices within the Empire’s faith, but held on to memories of his family and those who still believed in him, resolving to bear their hopes and win the final war.
• A golden surge erupted from the Throne, and Lynn became the center of the Empire’s faith, destined to endure its doubts until the universe united behind him.
• Sir Awen closed the Sanctuary doors and remained to guard them; later, a small grave appeared beside two graves outside Dark Night City, covered with words meant for Lynn.
• In the second year after Lynn ascended the Throne, Chaos Deep Space trembled, the Trident hummed, and nightmares and Chaos Beings gathered at the Main Universe’s borders.
• As the Empire sent its forces to the border, Nightmare Demons breached the Divine Realm through the Nether Sea and found it and Dark Night City undefended.
• The Self-Binding Angel saw thirty Nightmare Demons and realized their numbers and strength would continue to grow until all seventy-two descended.

Lynn returned after years away, having taken a crucial step through the power of faith, and confronted the thirty Nightmare Demons outside Dark Night City. The demons discovered that faith had weakened his sinfire and distorted his will, and they prepared to attack while he was at his lowest.

• The Nightmare Demons bypassed the Main Universe Outer Defense Line and tore through the Divine Realm toward Dark Night City to force Lynn into battle.
• Lynn emerged from the Three Glorious Sanctuaries, and Sir Awen realized that he had succeeded in taking a crucial step through faith power.
• Lynn blocked the Nightmare Demons’ advance before the Divine Kingdom where Dark Night City stood, facing the Nightmare King and the other demons.
• The Nightmare King noticed that Lynn’s sinfire had weakened and that he had abandoned much of his firstborn power for faith.
• A Nightmare Demon entered the sea of the mind, saw Lynn’s will bound and distorted by countless wills, and urged the others to attack before he recovered.

The Nightmare Demons discovered that Lynn’s Great Dream had run out of Sinfire and overwhelmed him with a full assault. As his followers’ faith began to waver, Sir Awen questioned whether they had erred by leaving their fate in the hands of a savior.

• The Nightmare Demons attacked Lynn while he appeared to be attempting a breakthrough, and their combined strike confirmed that his strength had declined.
• The Demons noticed Lynn’s Sinfire was being depleted and discovered that his Great Dream no longer held a reserve of flames.
• The Nightmare Demons unleashed their full power, breached the Great Dream, and wounded Lynn as the battle turned against him.
• Aivier, the Self-Binding Angel, and others watched from the core of the Main Universe while Lynn’s followers sensed his danger and their faith began to waver.
• Sir Awen argued that the people’s faith had rested on treating Lynn as a god and entrusting their fates to him.

As Lynn’s battle in the Divine Realm exposed his suffering to the people, many lost faith, but others chose to support him and fight alongside him. Their renewed belief surged into Lynn, strengthening his Sinfire as a tiny spark of blackfire ignited within it.

• Sir Awen told the Self-Binding Angel that true faith meant people recognizing that they mattered, even when they were weak.
• People across many worlds saw the brutal war through their connection to Lynn, and many faltered when they realized he was not invincible.
• A little girl shouted her support for Lynn and vowed to fight for him when she grew up, inspiring others to stand firm.
• The people who kept believing sent faith power to Lynn, and the decline of faith in the three Sanctuaries stopped as their light rose again.
• Lynn’s strengthened Sinfire blazed with golden radiance, and a tiny spark of blackfire ignited within it.

Lynn used the faith of countless living beings as kindling to unleash blackfire and cut down the Nightmare Demons as the Divine Realm collapsed. He seized the Nightmare King by the throat, leaving the enemy terrified and powerless.

• Lynn faced thirty Nightmare Demons as the Divine Realm began to shatter around them.
• Lynn turned the belief of countless people into kindling for blackfire after his Sinfire and Firstborn Power were exhausted.
• Lynn cut down the Nightmare Demons one by one, driving through the collapsing Divine Realm.
• The Nightmare King saw his companions fall and turned to face Lynn.
• Lynn clamped a hand around the Nightmare King's throat, sealed his power, and lifted him into the air.

Lynn defeated the Nightmare King with blackfire fueled by the faith of living beings across the Main Universe, but warned that the war was not over. Reunited with his family and allies, he recognized faith as the medium needed to advance and found hope that he could face the calamity ahead.

• Lynn burned the Nightmare King to ashes with blackfire and crossed the boundary that had held back his power for decades.
• Living beings across the Main Universe celebrated their victory, and their faith in Lynn surged as they understood they had fought alongside him.
• Lynn refused calls from his legions and subordinates to return, since the nightmare army beyond the Main Universe still threatened them.
• Miss Machine Intelligence embraced Lynn, and the Captain, Matriarch, Sir Awen, Mother Tree, and Xiao Xiao reunited with him.
• Lynn explained to Sir Awen that faith was the medium required for his next stage and said he would try to make blackfire burn in his dreams.
• Sir Awen bumped fists with Lynn and told him he believed they could win the war.

After destroying the Divine Realm, Lynn resurrected its countless victims and ordered the Empire’s center moved near the three Sanctuaries. He learned that blackfire consumed both his power and universal faith, then returned to the Throne and tasked Sir Awen and the Matriarch with concealing his weakened state from the Nightmares.

• Lynn ordered the Legion and Jailers to maintain strict defenses while he remained near Chaos Deep Space to deter an attack.
• Lynn declared that Dark Night City and the Empire’s decision-making center would relocate near the three Sanctuaries, then used the Trident to resurrect the dead of the Divine Realm.
• Lynn collapsed after returning to the Sanctuary and explained to Sir Awen and the Self-Binding Angel that blackfire burned through his trinity power and faith.
• Sir Awen reassured Lynn that the faith of living beings would sustain him until his power changed in quality, and Lynn accepted that he had no choice but to continue.
• Lynn ascended the Throne and asked Sir Awen and the Matriarch to make the Nightmares believe he could still defeat them alone.