Chapter Summaries

Lynn guided Dreamweaver through the memories of people who suffered and died, helping her recognize their lives as real and abandon her plan to slaughter them indiscriminately. After a thousand years, Dreamweaver broke through her psionic bottleneck, but rushed outside to find Lynn facing an apocalyptic attack by Nightmares.

• Dreamweaver tried to intervene when she witnessed a man seek revenge for his destroyed home, only to be betrayed and killed, but Lynn stopped her.
• Lynn reminded Dreamweaver that she had once suffered similarly, and argued that every brief life mattered whether it was in a dream or the world she called reality.
• Dreamweaver told Lynn she would no longer slaughter people indiscriminately, then continued watching the world and gradually returned to him after leaving.
• A thousand years later, Dreamweaver broke through her psionic bottleneck by learning to empathize with other living beings.
• Dreamweaver rushed out to share her breakthrough and found chaos and Nightmares gathering as Lynn, seemingly gravely afflicted, faced their attack.

After recovering from his battle with the Agent of the End of Time, Lynn promised to repay Dreamweaver for the tears she shed for him. A thousand years later, Dreamweaver guided Lynn through memories preserved in her psionics, and he stopped her before they reached the most distant past.

• After a hundred days of worry, Dreamweaver saw Lynn recover and angrily confronted him, admitting she had cried for him and demanding that he owe her.
• Lynn told Dreamweaver that he had fought the Agent of the End of Time, nearly lost control, and faced an Execution Strike as both of them grew stronger.
• Dreamweaver agreed to help Lynn trace their shared past and said she might consider him a friend, though she still resented his having kept her there for a thousand years.
• A thousand years later, Dreamweaver held Lynn's hands and used the memories in her inherited psionics to guide them through the distant past.
• As they neared the far shore of ancient history, Lynn stopped Dreamweaver and asked her to leave what came next to him.

Lynn followed the legacy of Starfire back to its origin and encountered an echo of the Hunched Old Man, the Lord of the Trinity. He asked about the nature of the being whose power he was inheriting, and the old man revealed that the being was himself.

• Lynn traveled through generations of Psionic legacy and saw how the world beyond the Dream World resembled his own.
• Lynn witnessed the Hunched Old Man divide Starfire into three portions and pass them to three kneeling figures.
• The Hunched Old Man looked directly at Lynn, then spoke to him and led him farther into the past.
• Lynn told the old man that he carried his fire and asked why its power also led toward Finality.
• The Hunched Old Man answered Lynn that the being he feared was himself.

The old man told Lynn how he awakened in an eternally unchanging world, led others to resist its order, and gained Finality while saving them from being assimilated. He ended by explaining how he remade the world into one where life had beginnings and endings.

• The old man described a perfect world where nothing changed, aged, or died, and said he eventually woke from its endless cycle.
• He searched for others who could think independently and awakened more beings, beginning a struggle against the Eternal Ones and the world’s corrective mechanism.
• As the Awakened Ones faced defeat, Finality emerged within the old man, allowing him to kill beings of order and free his companions from eternity.
• The old man reforged the laws and built a new world where beings were born and died, and his companions welcomed mortality.

The old man revealed to Lynn that he was the master of a dream and described the cycle between eternity and finality that he had set in motion. Before losing himself to the Lord of the End, he created a second entity of finality and planted a sliver of order and eternity within it as a last hope.

• The old man told Lynn that everyone from his former companions had died, then revealed that the world was a dream and he was its master.
• The old man explained that the world cycled between eternity and finality, and that breaking the cycle might offer a chance for change.
• The old man said that burning through eternity had begun the world's descent toward finality and that he could not die without becoming the Lord of the End.
• The Lord of the End emerged while the old man was unconscious, and the world became a wasteland near collapse.
• The old man separated part of his will, created another self, and used the remaining world as fuel to form an entity of finality containing a sliver of order and eternity.

The old man revealed how he became locked in an endless struggle with the finality he had created, preserving a broken era as the battlefield between them. As the dream collapsed, Lynn awoke with the Dream Lord’s memories imprinted on him and faced the warning that he must use eternity without pursuing it.

• The old man told Lynn that his true form had died after he split himself between finality and eternity, and that the two halves began a struggle that threatened the world.
• The old man explained that he entered a new great dream to keep the conflict between eternity and finality trapped in a broken era.
• The old man said the Main Universe and its laws arose from the clash of concepts between him and the calamity.
• The old man warned Lynn that defeating the calamity would bring eternity, then disintegrated as the dream collapsed.
• Lynn awoke in reality with the Dream Lord’s memories and concluded that eternity could only serve as a weapon, not something to pursue.

Lynn received an ancient Sage’s memories and gained a way to unravel eternity, then said farewell to Dreamweaver before returning to his own time. He planned to study eternity beyond finality with Zuo Zuo before beginning the final battle.

• Lynn told Dreamweaver that he had encountered their ancestor’s trace in the psionic past and received a way to unravel eternity.
• Lynn wondered why the ancient Sage’s trace had spoken to him when Dreamweaver’s later attempt had revealed only the legacy of blackfire.
• Lynn left Dreamweaver in the snow, and she shouted that he was a good person, promised to help him, and urged him not to give up.
• Lynn revealed that he had heard Dreamweaver’s farewell from the river of time, then transformed into a raven and traveled upstream.
• Lynn asked Zuo Zuo to return with him so he could study eternity beyond finality before starting the final battle.

After returning to Dark Night City, Lynn encountered the black-robed figure, who revealed that his repeated invasions of history had been a trap. As reality and Lynn began to collapse, the figure explained that the death of one Raven in the past would turn Lynn’s descents through time into the cause of his death.

• Lynn returned to Dark Night City and sensed the black-robed figure beyond the void.
• Lynn confronted the figure, who said he had come to say goodbye and that his mission would end when Lynn died.
• Reality began to corrode, cracks spread across Lynn’s body, soul, and will, and black strands of causality bound him.
• The figure revealed that he had misled Lynn during the Old Gods War and used his repeated descents into history to scatter versions of him throughout the River of Time.
• The figure explained that one Raven’s death in the past would make Lynn’s descents through history the blade that killed him.

Lynn realized the repeated temporal invasions had been designed to erase a raven in the past and trigger a paradox that would destroy him. He raced to the beginning of the New World, where the final Time War had already begun, and reunited with the future Painter in Nanako’s body.

• Lynn understood that erasing even one raven in history would turn his many descents into a paradox that struck him in the future.
• Lynn activated the Time Divine Spark and traveled to the invasion point at the very beginning of the New World.
• Lynn descended into his original raven body shortly after the Old World’s final apocalyptic battle.
• Lynn encountered the Painter, who had descended into Nanako’s body, as temporal invasions began across the era.
• Lynn warned the Painter that the invasion had started and that this might be their final Time War.

Lynn and the Painter rallied to protect the Ravens as the Swarm launched an unprecedented Time War across the void. With one Raven still missing in Violet and the Agent’s whereabouts unknown, Lynn insisted they go there immediately.

• Lynn told the future Painter that the Agent planned to kill a Raven in the past and create an inescapable paradox.
• The Painter used her power to recall the Ravens, and she and Lynn prepared to intercept the incoming invasion.
• Tens of thousands of temporal rifts opened, and Lynn and the Painter fought separately to seal and destroy them.
• Lynn cut down the Swarm’s invaders but sensed that the Agent was still directing the attack.
• The Painter counted the returning Ravens and found that one remained in Violet, so Lynn urged them to go there without waiting.

Lynn returned to Winter Spring Valley and encountered a black-robed figure who could descend into Raven, revealing that he had engineered a trap to erase Lynn across time. The figure confirmed Lynn’s suspicion that he was the Great Lord and began explaining why he had chosen this moment to act.

• Lynn revisited Winter Spring Valley and paused outside a Mage Tower to look at two flowers on its windowsill.
• A black-robed figure attacked Lynn, then greeted him and revealed he had descended into a Raven Lynn had used repeatedly.
• The figure addressed Painter as Nanako, leaving her devastated, while Lynn and Zuo Zuo realized the figure might be the Great Lord.
• The figure explained that Lynn’s descents across the timeline had completed a causal trap that could erase him from history.
• Lynn asked why the figure had not descended into his past self, and the figure said overwriting Lynn’s place in time was too difficult and unpredictable.

Lynn raced toward the End of Time, seeking its authority to anchor his existence and survive the calamity. As Painter fought to buy him time, the skeletal figure at the End of Time began stepping into the past.

• The figure revealed himself as Finality and the last facet of order before He awakened, while Painter challenged him for abandoning his former convictions.
• Painter seized control of the ravens and urged Lynn to go to the future and break through to the End of Time.
• Lynn reunited with Zuo Zuo and they resolved to stake their lives on reaching the End of Time.
• Lynn used the Divine Spark of Time to force reality toward the End of Time and called for an answer from the one who had severed time.
• The skeletal figure at the End of Time rose and stepped toward the past as a girl watched him leave.

Lynn pushed through the collapsing River of Time toward his future self as paradoxes erased his memories and the Nightmare forces closed in. He gave Zuo Zuo control of the blackfire to hold off his attackers, while the former Violet Great Lord urged Lynn to abandon his past.

• Lynn carried the River of Time forward as Raven's death triggered a chain of paradoxes that began destroying his memories.
• Lynn approached the figure at the End of Time while the former Violet Great Lord appeared in his reality and argued that convergence would sever him from his past.
• The former Violet Great Lord attacked Lynn as the Seventy-One Great Nightmare Demons and their swarm broke through the End of Time.
• Lynn entrusted the blackfire to Zuo Zuo, who attacked the Nightmare army and fought the former Violet Great Lord to keep him away from Lynn.
• The former Violet Great Lord evaded Zuo Zuo and told Lynn that he should have freed himself from his attachments rather than let her risk her life for him.

Lynn reached the figure at the end of time, and their selves from different histories converged, awakening the authority of time. Zuo Zuo realized too late that convergence would let the other self take control, and Lynn sent her away before he was overwhelmed.

• Lynn's attempt to kill Zuo Zuo was interrupted when Nanako briefly stirred within the source of his power, allowing Zuo Zuo to burn his projection.
• As paradoxes tore through Lynn, he reached the figure at the end of time, and their contact froze the River of Time as their histories converged.
• Zuo Zuo encountered her counterpart from the obliterated original history, who warned her not to let time converge and suppress her Brain.
• The figure converging with Lynn opened his eyes and awakened the divine authority of time, while Zuo Zuo's cries could not reach Lynn.
• Lynn instinctively expelled Zuo Zuo from his body, unwilling to let her die with him, as the black-robed figure explained that time had never been on Lynn's side.

Lynn was overtaken by the Time God-King as the eras merged, and the black-robed figure prepared for the Lord of the End to awaken. Just as the dream began dissolving and the world entered its final countdown, a pitch-black Ouroboros awakened inside Lynn and restored his control.

• Lynn and his future self merged, leaving the Time God-King in control while Zuo Zuo was thrown aside.
• The black-robed figure asked the Time God-King why he had betrayed his lord, then announced that Finality was beginning and the Lord of the End would soon awaken.
• The dream and the world beyond it began to dissolve as the apocalypse returned and the countdown to the Lord of the End's return started.
• Lynn's eyes contracted, and he instinctively called out to his Older Brother.
• A pitch-black Ouroboros appeared in Lynn's pupils, overrode the Time God-King's control, and restored Lynn's control of his soul, anchoring the collapsing reality.

Reincarnation returned in control of Lynn’s body, tore the Authority of Time from the Time God-King, and fought off the Nightmares with Zuo Zuo’s help. He escaped their assault and accused the Time God-King of bringing him there, leaving the God-King shocked that he knew the truth.

• Reincarnation seized the Authority of Time from his forehead, forcibly stripping the Time God-King of his will.
• The black-robed figure attacked Reincarnation with Finality, but Reincarnation endured the strike by using his Dream.
• Reincarnation reconnected with Zuo Zuo and told her to use her link to Brain’s Subconscious to give him control of Brain’s fire.
• Using Zuo Zuo as his Medium, Reincarnation unleashed Star Stillness and annihilated half the Nightmares before moving to leave.
• The Time God-King confronted Reincarnation and accused him of betraying their shared ideal, but Reincarnation replied that the God-King had brought him there.

Lynn experienced memories of the Dream Lord, the Reincarnation God King, and his own life before awakening in the Abyss, where the Dream Lord told him he was about to die. As Lynn questioned his resolve, the Dream Lord reminded him that he had repeatedly refused to give up, and Lynn admitted he could not accept what had happened.

• The Time God-King unleashed rivers of time and joined forces with the black-robed figure's Finality, but the figure gathered Blackfire and told Lynn he would shield him from the final calamity.
• Lynn relived the Dream Lord's and Reincarnation God King's suffering, then revisited his own life, from meeting his beloved and companions to enduring the Great Cataclysm.
• Lynn awoke in a pitch-black void and recognized the ancient figure before him as the Dream Lord.
• The Dream Lord told Lynn he was within his memories and about to die, then pointed out that Lynn, like the others, could not let go of his obsessions.
• Lynn called himself cowardly for slacking off and doubting himself, but the Dream Lord reminded him that he had repeatedly refused to give up.
• Lynn said he could not accept what had happened, and the Dream Lord replied that the others had felt the same.

Lynn awoke after speaking with a memory of the ancient figure, only to find the figure had taken the burden of his collapsing past and was holding it back through reincarnation. Zuo Zuo explained that their era had converged with the End Times and the Time God-King had sided with Agent, while Lynn learned the figure had returned to restore his lost soul and keep him alive.

• The ancient figure told Lynn that stubborn resolve could change even a dreamlike world, then revealed he had left the future in the hands of those who remained.
• Lynn woke in Zuo Zuo's arms and saw the ancient figure sitting nearby, bound by black chains of causality and scarred by Finality.
• Zuo Zuo stopped Lynn from approaching, warning that the figure's reincarnation cycle was suppressing the collapse of Lynn's past and would break if disturbed.
• Zuo Zuo told Lynn that their era had converged with the End Times, Agent controlled an overwhelming mass of Calamity, and the Time God-King had reclaimed his authority and joined their enemies.
• The ancient figure told Lynn he had returned to restore the part of Lynn's soul he had lost, and was using reincarnation to delay the consequences of the paradoxes attacking him.

Lynn received the figure’s memories of endless painful reincarnations and prepared to confront the Agent before the Lord of the End completed his revival. He left Zuo Zuo with the figure, who planned to reclaim the authority over time and preserve the past.

• The figure warned Lynn that the Lord of the End was nearing completion and urged him to face the coming battle without waiting to be ready.
• The figure passed his memories of countless reincarnations to Lynn, who endured the anguish and stood his ground.
• Lynn thanked the figure and promised to give the battle everything he had, while the figure explained that Lynn might be able to restore the Agent’s clarity and release him.
• The figure said he would stabilize Lynn’s past and try to reclaim time’s authority, while Zuo Zuo stayed behind to help and promised to bring it to Lynn.
• Zuo Zuo embraced Lynn and asked him to wait for her, and Lynn accepted their parting before facing the dark sky.

Lynn confronted the God King at the End of Time as the collapsing world gathered around their final battle. The God King offered Lynn a chance to defeat him or return to finality with him.

• Lynn crossed the ruined Dark Night City, surrounded by Nightmare Demons that feared the Blackfire around him.
• At the River of Time, Zuo Zuo witnessed the God King plead with his Older Brother to enter finality with him, then attack when he was refused.
• Lynn reached the shattered Royal Court and confronted the black-robed figure on the broken Throne.
• The figure acknowledged Lynn’s unexpected second chance and challenged him to win an outcome or return to finality.