Chapter Summaries

Lynn replenished his power with the Main Universe’s faith and returned to sleep, leaving the Self-Binding Angel and Sir Awen grieving and determined to protect him. After the nightmares retreated and the Empire rallied behind its King, Sir Awen sought out a legendary figure, who revealed that Lynn had already asked him for help during the three minutes.

• Lynn returned to his Throne, replenished his fuel with faith power, and asked to be awakened for the next war.
• The Self-Binding Angel accused Sir Awen of hiding the price of victory and wept over Lynn’s willingness to face death.
• Sir Awen reassured her that Lynn’s family would never let him die, then left the Sanctuary.
• The nightmares retreated after their defeat, while the Empire’s victory and propaganda inspired more people to offer Lynn their faith.
• Sir Awen found the legendary being in Fate’s former dwelling and asked him for a favor.
• The being interrupted Sir Awen and said Lynn had already asked him during those three minutes.

Sir Awen accepted that his path followed the future ordained by fate, while the figure in the Fate Nation tried to make Feather Pen bind Lynn to every believer so Lynn would reach the projected ending. The former sprout intervened, and she left the nation with Feather Pen, urging her to choose for herself.

• Sir Awen left the ancient Fate Nation resolved to continue along the road he believed fate had set for him.
• The figure told Feather Pen that she had to forge a causal bond between Lynn and everyone who believed in him, using her books and connection to Lynn.
• Feather Pen resisted the task, grieving over the pain it would cause Lynn, but the figure raised her fate power and compelled her to reach for a pen.
• The former sprout struck Feather Pen aside and stood between her and the figure, asking whether fate had to be controlled.
• The awakened girl took Feather Pen out of the Fate Nation and told her she hoped Feather Pen would make her own choice.

After collapsing beneath the weight of her choices, Feather Pen awoke from a long fever on a mortal planet and saw how Lynn’s Empire had transformed people’s lives. A boy’s faith in the King and his account of his father’s sacrifice left her trembling and unsure what to do.

• Feather Pen collapsed in the starry sky after recalling the warning that delay would bring her fate closer to the Abyss.
• After more than ten days of delirium, Feather Pen woke with Miao Miao caring for her on a mortal planet.
• Feather Pen wandered through a thriving city and prayed before a golden statue of Lynn, asking him what she should do.
• A boy shared his relief food with Feather Pen and described how the Empire had ended the world’s brutal taxes and oppression.
• The boy told Feather Pen that his father had died fighting nightmares but had found purpose serving in the fleet.
• The boy vowed to grow up, fight alongside the King, and help win the war, believing Lynn would keep his promise to revive the dead.

The Feather Pen lived among the Empire’s people, where a boy’s hopes and the community’s hard-won future made her question whether she could destroy what they had built. After leaving with Miao Miao, she watched the world shatter, and war soon erupted across the Empire.

• The Feather Pen found purpose and companionship while working and living among the Empire’s people, and a boy gave her a wooden sculpture of herself before joining the Reserve Corps.
• The Feather Pen left the world with Miao Miao, leaving the boy a letter promising help if he sought her out in Dark Night City.
• Miao Miao said she planned to travel, and she and the Feather Pen embraced and promised to meet again.
• The Feather Pen watched the world explode and vanish in the distant stars.
• In the thirty-first year of the Imperial calendar, the Corrupted attacked more than a hundred Imperial industrial and agricultural worlds as nightmares assaulted the Main Universe.

After Lynn’s latest victory restored the worlds, the Feather Pen asked Sir Awen whether Lynn could defeat the calamity without taking the final leap and learned that only a sliver of hope remained if he succeeded. Beyond the River of Time, the Time God-King realized his elder brother had hidden the future from him, while the Flame of Finality’s role in the coming leap remained unresolved.

• Lynn defeated the Nightmare Demons, restored the shattered worlds, and returned to slumber on the Throne as the Main Universe celebrated.
• The Feather Pen, her hair now completely white, met Sir Awen and asked whether Lynn had any chance of victory without taking the final leap.
• Sir Awen told the Feather Pen that Lynn had no chance without the leap, and only a sliver of hope if he succeeded.
• Sir Awen explained that the leap was only the first step, and that Lynn would have to push the Blackfire to its ultimate limit as the Flame of Finality.
• The Time God-King realized his elder brother had concealed the future to prevent his interference.

The Time God-King died fighting the silent figure, who waited for the future at the Throne. Over the following decades, Lynn drove back the nightmares and united the Main Universe into a thriving society, while Clown returned to Dark Night City furious that he had missed the fighting.

• The Time God-King realized the figure had helped the Raven sever time, then accused him of betrayal and launched a final attack.
• The figure pierced the Time God-King, who died in his arms as they watched fate converge on the Throne.
• After the fourth war, Lynn pushed the battlefront beyond the Main Universe and expelled the nightmare threat from its borders.
• During the fifth war, the Main Universe reclaimed lost worlds and expanded as Lynn transformed the God Frontier.
• Over the following decades, civilizations united beneath the Empire, and the Main Universe flourished amid the nightmare war.
• Clown and Eden returned to Dark Night City, where Clown berated Lynn for defeating the nightmares before he could join the fight.

Clown returned to Dark Night City after decades away, revealing that his journey had transformed him into a Chaos Being. As the Main Universe reached unprecedented strength, Lynn remained troubled by the Time War and whether the figures he had seen in it were real.

• Lynn set aside his usual wartime awakening to welcome Clown home, and the people of Dark Night City gathered to celebrate his return.
• Clown explained that Joybringer had long since been destroyed and devoured, then revealed his new Chaos Being form, nearly causing another Dark Night City Calamity.
• In the second month after Clown's return, Miss Machine Intelligence reached God King rank, and the Captain ascended to God King after Nirvana.
• Lynn considered the Main Universe's growing strength and wondered why the Time War had not begun and whether his visions of the Sin Lord and the Matriarch had been phantoms.

Lynn confessed to Sir Awen that thousands of dream simulations had shown him failing to defeat the calamity, despite the faith others placed in him. Fifteen years into the golden age, his growing blackfire had deterred the Nightmare Demons, while the final group of their seventy-two leaders had yet to descend.

• Lynn told Sir Awen that he had repeatedly simulated a battle against Him in his dreams and failed every time.
• Lynn admitted that he doubted he could create the perfect future everyone expected, even as faith in him spread through the Main Universe and among the New Gods.
• Sir Awen encouraged Lynn, saying the Gods' faith could stabilize his blackfire and help him reach the final Throne.
• Over the next ten years, the Main Universe recovered its former scale, and its Origins advanced to become demigods beneath the Royal Banner.
• By the fifteenth year, fifty Nightmare Demons had descended, but Lynn's accumulated blackfire deterred them from attacking as he waited at the border of Chaos Deep Space.

After decades of suppressing the blackfire and preparing for the Calamity, Lynn sensed its return as the Main Universe was struck by a vast tremor. The expected invasion did not come, but Clown, Aivier, and the Jailers began falling into chaos, leaving the threat unresolved.

• In the twentieth year, Lynn asked the figure representing Reincarnation about the blackfire and the second threshold, but was told to wait and walk the final stretch alone.
• In the thirtieth year, a tremor spread through the Main Universe, and Aivier and the legions entered combat readiness as darkness stirred in Chaos Deep Space.
• Lynn awoke on the Throne, blackfire blazing around him as he looked toward the Chaos Abyss.
• Sir Awen and the Self-Binding Angel helped stabilize Dark Night City while the Edge Worlds and Chaos Beings were swallowed by the spreading darkness.
• The tremors subsided without a large-scale invasion, but Clown collapsed in agony as chaotic music sounded within him.
• Aivier and the Jailers were seized by a frenzy, their eyes filling with disorder and chaos.

Lynn discovered that the Lord of the End’s approaching awakening was turning Chaos Beings into pure chaos and disrupting the Jailers. With the Chaos Abyss nearing its final crisis, Lynn prepared to complete his advancement while Sir Awen faced the possibility of sacrificing himself.

• Lynn suppressed the transformed Chaos Beings at the Jailers’ assembly point and used the Trident to stabilize Aivier and the other surviving Jailers.
• Fallen Angels reported that Chaos Beings near the Nether Sea were perishing and dismembering themselves as the sleep-talking spread.
• Lynn identified the upheaval as a signal that the Lord of the End had entered the final stages of awakening and said the Chaos Beings would return to pure chaos.
• Sir Awen reported that Clown’s condition had stabilized, while Lynn explained that the Trident had temporarily restrained the Jailers’ chaotic turbulence.
• Lynn said he had nearly finished purifying the Main Universe’s faith and that his blackfire was close to its critical point, then asked Sir Awen if they were ready.
• As Lynn walked with Sir Awen toward the three sanctuaries, Sir Awen admitted that he was afraid Lynn would be lonely.

Sir Awen prepared for Lynn’s final leap, which he revealed would cost Lynn his life. The Self-Binding Angel learned the truth, but Sir Awen insisted they had reached the point where they could no longer turn back.

• Lynn shouted to Sir Awen that he was willing to be sacrificed so others could live and have hope.
• Sir Awen left the Sanctuary and told Feather Pen to prepare to send Lynn to the highest Throne during the Calamity’s next invasion.
• The Self-Binding Angel confronted Sir Awen in the Royal Court and demanded to know what he had hidden.
• Sir Awen confessed that Lynn’s final ascension would cost him his life.
• Sir Awen told the Self-Binding Angel that they had lost the right to choose and that the final leap still offered a chance for everything.

Sir Awen concealed the truth from the Self-Binding Angel, who realized he grieved because Lynn would be left alone after everyone else was gone. Lynn began his final ascension on the Throne, and the Main Universe united in faith as he prepared for the ultimate battle.

• The Self-Binding Angel struck Sir Awen, then collapsed after recognizing the sorrow in his eyes; the Feather Pen caught her.
• Sir Awen told the Self-Binding Angel that he grieved because Lynn would be the only one left and would be lonely.
• Lynn left Dark Night City without saying goodbye and seated himself on the Throne to begin his final ascension.
• Lynn sent a promise through the faith connecting him to the Main Universe, telling everyone to live well and await his return after he defeated Calamity.
• Living beings throughout the Main Universe stopped to pray for Lynn as he made his final gamble against Calamity.
• Silver Fantasy watched the light above the Sanctuary and prepared to follow Lynn through the final battle.

The network of fate and faith across the Main Universe was completed, and the final door to the Throne closed as Sir Awen collapsed. Across the world, those left behind watched the Sanctuary’s rain of light and hoped for a return, while the black-haired girl awoke and followed the thread toward the Sanctuary.

• The Captain and Dollhouse looked toward the distant radiance, and the Captain recalled a faint memory of guarding a crying girl before his death.
• Xiao Xiao visited the graves of Colossus and Dreamweaver, found another marker, and made herself a grave beside it.
• At Happy Home, Miao Miao and Eve argued over food while Alice remembered Brother Lynn and watched the light from the Sanctuary.
• The black-haired girl awoke in the Black Fortress, felt the bond leading toward the Sanctuary, and struggled outside as pain seized her heart.
• Sir Awen completed the network of fate and faith across the Main Universe, then collapsed as Feather Pen caught him and vowed they would not regret the price of reaching the future.

The Main Universe prepared for war as all seventy-one Nightmare Demons joined the calamity’s assault on its border, beginning the final battle. In Dark Night City, the Self-Binding Angel awoke to find the Captain and the others had already gone to fight, then struggled outside to face the distant battlefield.

• The Main Universe readied its fleets and deities for war while Lynn’s followers drew strength from their faith in their King.
• Aivier discovered that all seventy-one Nightmare Demons had returned and were gathering for a combined attack, but the news was kept from the public.
• Aivier put on her father’s armor, drew the Black Sword, and joined the forces assembled along the blackfire border.
• The calamity and all seventy-one Nightmare Demons advanced on the Main Universe, and the deities at the front lines vowed to resist.
• The Self-Binding Angel awoke in Dark Night City and learned that the Captain, Lady Machine Intelligence, and most of the forces had left for the battlefield.
• The Self-Binding Angel went outside and looked toward Dark Night City and the distant battle.

Lynn awakened as the calamity’s second invasion tore through the Main Universe’s defenses, but he could not leave the Throne. Awen appeared and confessed that he had lied to Lynn as the Empire’s forces fought a desperate retreat against the invading nightmares.

• The calamity breached the Main Universe’s outer defenses and overwhelmed the armies, New Gods, and Demigods holding the final line.
• Lynn awakened on the Throne, sensed the deaths of countless defenders, and realized the invasion had begun.
• Lynn tried to summon Awen and escape the Throne, but the Blackfire and faith binding him there prevented him from moving.
• Awen entered the Sanctuary looking aged and told Lynn, “I’m sorry, Lynn. I lied to you.”
• The frontline reports described the fall of the Edge Worlds, the destruction of defenders, and Nightmare Demons intercepting Aivier’s reinforcements.
• The remaining warriors refused to retreat and raised the Royal Banner, believing they could buy time for their King.

Sir Awen revealed that the faith and deaths of Lynn’s followers were being burned as fuel to make him ascend the dark Throne, and that he had deceived Lynn about the cost. Lynn rejected the sacrifice and called for his people to return, while Miao Miao confronted the figure who had woven the fates binding the Main Universe to the final sacrifice.

• Sir Awen confessed that he and Dreamweaver had lied: the dead and their faith had to become fuel for Lynn’s ascension, and the final Throne required him to bear the sin.
• Lynn rose from the burning Throne and refused to sacrifice his people, declaring that he would lead them into battle and fight in their place.
• The chains of causality began turning every departed soul and lost life into fuel for the blackfire, making Lynn’s ascension a betrayal built on his followers’ deaths.
• Miao Miao found the calm figure in the ancient realm of fate and demanded to know why he had woven the Main Universe’s fates into a sacrifice that could make Lynn kill everyone.
• The figure remained still as Miao Miao wept beside him, while the plan required Lynn to burn away his ties to the Main Universe so he could escape the calamity’s influence.

As the Nightmare Swarm overwhelmed the Empire’s defenses, Lynn remained bound before the Sanctuary by the faith and obsession of people who believed he would save them. After Awen and Feather Pen failed to release him, Lynn declared that they were no longer his family and refused to forgive them, while Dark Night City faced invasion.

• The Nightmare Swarm crushed the Empire’s defenses, invaded the Abyss and the Main Universe’s outer ring, and advanced toward Dark Night City.
• People across the rear stayed calm amid the apocalypse, believing their King would fight beside them until the end.
• Lynn struggled against the faith and obsession binding him before the Sanctuary and begged Awen to release him so he could protect Dark Night City.
• Feather Pen appeared, but Awen stopped her from approaching Lynn and refused to let anyone give up on their plan.
• Lynn realized Feather Pen had known the truth, called Awen and Feather Pen no longer his family, and vowed never to forgive them.
• As the Nightmare Swarm destroyed worlds and broke through the defenses, the people called for their King and offered him their faith as their final gift.

Nightmare Demons ravaged the Main Universe while Lynn remained absent, and Star Track’s wounded allies resolved to hold the line outside Dark Night City. As the survivors returned to the Royal Court seeking answers, the Matriarch asked them whether they still believed in Lynn.

• Nightmare Demons realized Lynn had not appeared, scattered across the Main Universe, and slaughtered its inhabitants as they advanced toward Dark Night City.
• Star Track rallied the wounded deities around Dark Night City and urged them to sacrifice themselves to buy time for the Instructor’s ascension.
• A legion commander encouraged the defenders to take their turn protecting the Instructor, and the allies joked, reconciled, and promised to meet again in the next life.
• The Captain and the battered survivors returned to Dark Night City as the defenders’ final flares blazed across the stars.
• The Matriarch blocked the survivors at the Royal Court and asked whether they still believed in Lynn.

As the Nightmare Swarm advanced on Dark Night City, Silver Fantasy and the last legion prepared to buy time while reinforcements from across the Main Universe gathered for the defense. The chapter left countless loyal warriors marching toward battle, unaware that their sacrifices were fueling the bound King.

• Silver Fantasy asked the last legion to hold off the Nightmare Swarm until their King completed his final leap, and the captain mobilized God Frontier to forge Dark Night City's final defenses.
• The Sin Lord promised to protect Alice's Happy Home after enjoying Alice's cooking and teasing Miao Miao.
• The Nightmare King led the swarm toward Dark Night City, seeking revenge on the Raven.
• Bound beneath the Throne, the King remained motionless as faith and the souls of the dead fueled his blackfire.
• Troops and fleets from across the Main Universe requested Warp to Dark Night City, then departed for the front despite knowing they were unlikely to return.
• The city's residents watched the reinforcements leave in tears, unaware that the warriors were becoming fuel for their King.

The defenders of Dark Night City fought the Nightmare Swarm in a desperate battle, but a Nightmare Demon’s attack killed the Witch God as she sacrificed herself to protect the city. Her husband Titan went berserk and joined Clown in striking back at the demon.

• Silver Fantasy and the Captain used the God Frontier to hold off the Seven Nightmare Demons while reinforcements from across the Main Universe fought and died in overwhelming numbers.
• A Nightmare Demon broke free and sent a devastating attack toward Dark Night City, piercing the God Frontier and annihilating everything in its path.
• The Witch God intercepted the attack, exhausting her curse and shattering her divine spark to stop it from reaching the city.
• Titan flew into a rage over his wife’s death and attacked the Nightmare Demon, his blows growing stronger with each strike.
• Clown rushed to the front lines and smashed through the Nightmare Demon’s chest with his Chaotic Movement as Titan raised his shattered Great Axe for another blow.