Chapter Summaries

Lynn and Azephala turned the Tidecaller’s Cthulhu-controlled tentacles against her, helping the Apostles and confronting the impostor who had attacked them. Lynn pinned the Tidecaller with his sword after Azephala cut her off from the contamination, declaring that no one would save her.

• The Apostles burned their angelic bloodlines and charged the Tidecaller, but Cthulhu’s tentacles overwhelmed them.
• Lynn asked Azephala to choose between the Apostles and the Tidecaller, and Azephala stopped a tentacle from killing an Apostle.
• Azephala revealed herself, declared the Tidecaller an impostor, and took control of the tentacles, turning them against her.
• Lynn attacked the Tidecaller with his Monomolecular Sword while Azephala kept the tentacles under control.
• Azephala withdrew the surrounding contamination, and Lynn pinned the wounded Tidecaller to the ground with his sword.

Lynn killed the Tidecaller and plundered her memories, learning that cultists were approaching Azephala’s Sealing Ground with a barrier-breaking Cursed Object. After Azephala revealed that she had joined the Deep Sea, Lynn tried to win over her shocked apostles by presenting himself as their new, holier Heavenly Lord.

• Lynn interrogated the Tidecaller, then used psionics to plunder her memories and killed her.
• Lynn told Azephala and the others that cultists had reached her Sealing Ground and were breaking its outer barriers with a Cursed Object.
• Azephala revealed to the blood-burning saints that she had become a follower of the Deep Sea, horrifying the apostles who had once served her.
• Lynn offered to replace Azephala as Heavenly Lord and used Angel Hair, holy power, and the Matriarch’s apparition to impress the apostles.

Lynn used his angelic ties and holy feathers to persuade Azephala’s Apostles to accept him as their divine brother-in-law and new Heavenly Lord. He united them against the invaders and led the group through the gate, dragging an enraged Azephala along.

• Lynn claimed that the Archangel was his elder sister and that he was an angel’s chosen, convincing the Apostles to call him their divine brother-in-law.
• Lynn declared that Azephala remained on his side because of love and said he would redeem her, while Lady Blood Cloak and Messiah restrained her furious attempts to attack him.
• Lynn explained that his mechanical body did not change his holy soul, and the Apostles accepted him as their new Heavenly Lord.
• Lynn rallied the Apostles to crush the invaders threatening their holy ground.
• Lynn grabbed one of Azephala’s tentacles and led the Apostles through the gate to attack the invaders.

Lynn and his allies raced toward the Hermitage's core as the Flesh God Cult broke through another layer of the seal. He reached the final sealing gate and attacked the cultists as they began their last attempt to free the deity within.

• Lynn argued that Azephala should help unite forces against the Flesh God Cult, warning that the Seraphim might not have merged with Cthulhu.
• Lynn, Azephala, Messiah, and Blood Cloak hurried toward the core, but a tremor revealed that the cultists had breached another layer of the seal.
• At the final gate, the Flesh Cultists prepared to corrode the barrier and awaken the deity sealed beyond it.
• Lynn arrived at the gate, shot several cultists with an azure death ray, and charged the group in high-power combat mode.

Lynn confronted the Flesh God Cult’s last leader, the Blood Demon, and resisted their Flesh Plague while fighting to stop their ritual. Azephala arrived and turned Cthulhu’s Tentacles against the Tidecallers, declaring that she would avenge her brother and kill the usurpers.

• Lynn charged the Flesh God Cultists, who unleashed the Flesh Plague against his mechanical body.
• Lynn used Flesh Cataclysm to cover himself in flesh, consume the plague, and destroy a Flesh Kin with his Monomolecular Sword.
• Lynn recognized the Blood Demon as the cult’s last decision-maker on Blue Star and the man responsible for Lady Blood Cloak’s family tragedy.
• Three Tidecallers summoned Cthulhu’s Tentacles to attack Lynn while the cult continued trying to break the barrier.
• Azephala emerged from the darkness and seized control of the tentacles, which killed one Tidecaller.
• Azephala confronted the remaining Tidecallers and declared that she would avenge her brother and kill them.

Lynn and Azephala used the Torch to turn Cthulhu’s Tentacles against the Flesh Kin, while the Blood Demon and his followers tried to break the seal. Lynn charged through the rampaging tentacles to reach the Torch and Cthulhu, then drew the tentacles toward the Soul Lamps he threw ahead.

• Lynn redirected the Cthulhu’s Tentacles toward the Tidecallers and cut down Flesh Kin as the Tidecallers rushed back.
• The Blood Demon raised the Torch, unleashing the grief and resentment of fallen Old Gods and driving the tentacles into a rampage that killed nearly half the remaining Flesh Kin.
• The Blood Demon ordered his direct offspring to sacrifice themselves against the sealed door, while Azephala struggled to regain control of the tentacles.
• Lynn decided to reach the Torch and communicate with Cthulhu, then charged into the forest of tentacles as the Colossus Heart’s load increased.
• As the Flesh Kin’s explosions cracked the seal, Lynn threw out Soul Lamps that drew the rampaging tentacles toward them.

Lynn killed the Blood Demon and took the torch, but the damaged seal released the chaotic power of an Old God, swallowing Azephala and flooding the Sealing Ground with darkness. Lynn used the torch to save Blood Cloak, Messiah, and the other Apostles, while Azephala remained lost in the black tide.

• Lynn used the Soul Lamps to cross the tentacle forest, severed the Blood Demon's arm, and killed him while taking his torch.
• The seal cracked open, and a torrent of black blood and chaotic power burst out, destroying the Flesh Cultists near the gate.
• Lynn raised the torch to shield himself from the black tide, but he reached Azephala too late and watched her get swallowed.
• Outside the Core Zone, Blood Cloak, Messiah, and the Apostles saw the black tide approaching as the Sealing Ground shook.
• Lynn reached the group with the torch and pulled them into its firelight, saving them from the tide.
• Lynn told Blood Cloak that Azephala had been swallowed, though he hoped she would survive because she was a sea spawn.

Lynn and his companions learned that the Black Tide could disorder beings at their source and that the Flesh Dominator might descend again, leaving them to press deeper into the Sealing Ground. Meanwhile, White Night’s forces established a base near the Hermitage and learned from the Self-Binding Angel that Cthulhu may have been changed by Chaos during its long sleep on Blue Star.

• Lynn told Blood Cloak and Messiah that the Flesh Cultists had gathered Cthulhu’s flesh and might enable the Flesh Dominator to descend again.
• Lynn concluded that they had to venture deeper into the Sealing Ground to search for the Seraphim.
• White Night’s forces secured nearby islands and established communications with Dark Night City, where they received news of the possible second descent.
• The Self-Binding Angel confirmed that the Seraphim might be her younger sister and identified Cthulhu as an ancient lord of the oceans from a previous era.
• The Self-Binding Angel warned White Night that Chaos could disorder beings and suggested Cthulhu might no longer be itself.

Lynn led Messiah and the Apostles into the Angel Forbidden Zone, where he heard a faint call from the Seraphim amid the Old God's whispers. At the trench's end, they found the Seraphim still standing beside the cliff, and Lynn saw erosion spreading across her body.

• Lynn joined with Lady Blood Cloak and led the group through the Black Tide toward the seal.
• Lynn and the others entered the Angel Forbidden Zone, where he used psionics to shield the group from the deep sea's pressure.
• Lynn heard a voice calling for its sister in the Old God's whispers and believed it was the Seraphim, but the call vanished before he could get an answer.
• Lynn led the group deeper into the trench, where they found ancient Hidden Cultivation Society Apostles seated in golden flames beside the cliff.
• Messiah and the Apostles knelt before the Seraphim, while Lynn watched erosion marks creeping over her body.

Lynn and the Hidden Cultivation Society found the Seraphim, who had spent two thousand years suppressing an Old God and was nearing complete fusion with it. Before losing her remaining lucidity, she revealed that a mysterious Raven had foretold Lynn’s arrival and the events that brought her to this moment.

• Messiah and the others recognized the Seraphim as their god, but Lynn warned them not to approach because she carried a powerful aura of the Old Days.
• Black blood seeped from the Seraphim’s eyes, and Lynn’s panel showed that she had fused with an Old Days deity and had become a calamity.
• The Seraphim spoke to Lynn, mistook him for Raven, and said she had held on while waiting for Raven to take her to Hell.
• Lynn told the Seraphim that her sister had sent him, and she said Raven had predicted his arrival and her struggle against the Old God.
• The Seraphim’s fusion with the Old Days rose past 98 percent as she became tainted, and Lynn asked whether Raven had known he would come.

Lynn entered the Seraphim’s mental domain to seek answers about the Old God and how to leave Hell, while the black tide broke loose in the Deep Sea. A Tidecaller ritual summoned the Flesh Dominator’s projection, and the Self-Binding Angel prepared to descend with White Night and the others.

• The Seraphim opened a passage into her will and told Lynn to search for the answers there, triggering the timed Old Days Deities quest.
• Lynn told Messiah and the others to wait, then entered the Seraphim’s mental domain to look for the Old God’s will.
• The black tide escaped the Hermitage’s restraints and began spreading through the Deep Sea.
• Tidecallers sacrificed Cthulhu’s tentacles in a crimson magic array, opening a fissure through which the Flesh Dominator’s eye appeared.
• White Night saw the Flesh Dominator’s arrival, and the Self-Binding Angel ordered the group to prepare vessels using the Leviathan flesh Lynn had given them.

Azephala learned that the Seraphim had been the voice guiding her for over a thousand years and had made herself a vessel to contain the Old God. In the Seraphim’s memories, Lynn witnessed the crisis that forced her to choose how to protect the world.

• Azephala approached the Seraphim, who told her that she had been calling to her for over a thousand years and that Azephala need not blame herself for becoming a sea spawn.
• The Seraphim explained that she had made herself the Old God’s cage, knowing she might eventually merge with Him and become a calamity.
• Lynn wandered through the Seraphim’s mental domain and found memories she had preserved amid the chaos.
• The Seraphim recalled that, over fifteen hundred years earlier, the Old God’s turmoil came from a force inside Him that was breaking Him down, not from His own will.
• The Seraphim realized her seal could not contain the Old God’s worsening chaos and faced the choice to protect her people and faithful.

Azephala learned that the Seraphim planned to descend into Hell to contain the upheaval and offered to accompany her. At the Sealing Ground, the Flesh Dominator attacked Azephala, but the Seraphim blocked him, and he ultimately knelt and begged to see Cthulhu.

• The Seraphim told Azephala that she had to descend into Hell to keep the upheaval from spreading, even if doing so might kill her.
• Azephala accepted the Seraphim’s plan and vowed to serve her in Hell.
• The Flesh Dominator entered the Sealing Ground and attacked Azephala, blaming her for thwarting his plans and taking the power of his fathers.
• The Seraphim blocked the Flesh Dominator’s strike and warned that she could kill him or unleash an upheaval if he attacked.
• The Flesh Dominator pleaded to see Cthulhu and ask how to escape Hell, then dropped to his knees before the Seraphim.

Lynn reached the boundary of Seraphim’s Spirit World, where the chaotic thoughts of an Old Days deity began, but the Flesh Dominator’s Projection ambushed him. The two fought before the Flesh Dominator proposed an alliance, claiming that their torches were two halves of the key needed to enter the deity’s thoughts.

• Lynn reached a chasm where the mental pollution ended and prepared to cross into the Old Days deity’s thoughts.
• The Flesh Dominator’s Projection attacked Lynn with tentacles, and Lynn recognized him as the foe who had descended into Seraphim’s Spirit World.
• Lynn and the Flesh Dominator clashed with their blades, fighting as equals until the projection’s body began to destabilize.
• The Flesh Dominator said Lynn needed his torch to complete the key to the Old Days deity’s Spirit World and warned that breaking either torch would strand them both.
• Lynn questioned the Flesh Dominator’s honesty, and the two remained wary of each other as they considered working together.

Lynn and the Flesh Dominator entered the Abyss together, enduring a devastating assault from the Old God’s mind. As they pressed onward, the Flesh Dominator questioned how the supposedly middling Old God had survived when countless powerful beings had perished, while Lynn remained determined to find a way through the boundary.

• Lynn and the Flesh Dominator distrusted each other but finally agreed to enter the Abyss together while carrying their Torches.
• Lynn and the Flesh Dominator stepped into the Abyss and suffered a severe assault on their sanity from chaotic whispers and visions.
• The merged light of their Torches eased the attack, and Lynn asked whether they had entered an Old God’s mind.
• The Flesh Dominator wondered how the Old God had survived when stronger beings and ancient Origins had died, and explained that brute force could not break through the boundary.
• Lynn recalled the powerful corpses he and the Colossus had seen and resolved to keep searching for a way into the light for himself and everyone in the New Era.

Lynn and the Flesh Dominator entered Cthulhu’s memories and witnessed the ancient rebellion against Hell Borderland, led by a raven who became a hooded figure. The vision shattered after the figure seemed to look directly at Lynn, leaving him uncertain why the raven’s gaze had found him across time.

• Lynn and the Flesh Dominator agreed to work together as their spirit worlds merged and hurried deeper into Cthulhu’s memories.
• They witnessed the Old Days Deities and countless Jailers assembling for the greatest rebellion against Hell Borderland.
• Lynn saw seven powerful Origins gathered at the rebellion’s center, including a being whose aura resembled the divine corpse he had encountered with Colossus.
• A black raven arrived, and the seven Origins bowed as the Old Gods recognized it as the uprising’s leader.
• The raven transformed into a hooded figure with white hair, and the ancient assault began against the Jailers.
• The vision shattered, and Lynn saw the hooded figure glance toward him rather than Cthulhu.

Lynn and the Flesh Dominator reached the dying Cthulhu in the Spirit World, where the Flesh Dominator asked whether his escape meant there was still hope. Cthulhu answered that he was still bound in shackles.

• The Flesh Dominator said he thought he had seen the raven before, but could not remember where.
• As the Spirit World collapsed, the Flesh Dominator led Lynn deeper into it.
• The Seraphim began undergoing calamity and parted the black tide so Messiah and the others could leave with their ancestors' bodies.
• Lynn and the Flesh Dominator found Cthulhu, gravely ill and dying in the depths of his mind.
• The Flesh Dominator held up his torch and asked Cthulhu whether his escape meant there was hope for everything.
• Cthulhu replied that he was still bound in shackles.

Cthulhu revealed that the Hell Borderland was a living being and that he had chosen to leave Hell despite knowing the chaos would eventually destroy him. As he faded, he told Lynn that Earth’s ancient ocean was where he had been born, leaving Lynn to understand Cthulhu’s longing for home.

• Cthulhu confessed that he had begged the living border for mercy after the Old Gods’ assault failed and his comrades died.
• Cthulhu explained to Lynn and the Flesh Dominator that the Hell Borderland was a sleeping living being whose mere existence had destroyed the gods who attacked it.
• Cthulhu said the border had offered him a choice: remain in Hell and live forever with little chaos taint, or leave and eventually disintegrate.
• Cthulhu revealed that he had chosen to leave because Hell was where he had been born.
• Lynn envisioned Cthulhu’s ancient life in Earth’s oceans before humanity existed, as Cthulhu reflected on growing old and remembering what mattered.

Lynn escaped the collapsing Spirit World after witnessing Cthulhu die and the Flesh Dominator reject the truth, then reunited with his worried family. He told them he had found a way for them all to leave Hell and return home.

• Cthulhu died after asking Lynn to take his remains to Hell, and Lynn received a quest to bring them there.
• The Flesh Dominator refused to accept Cthulhu's death and charged into the collapsing mental world, while Lynn fled toward the Seraphim's Spirit World.
• Lynn escaped through the Light Curtain as the Spirit World collapsed, leaving the Seraphim behind, covered by the spreading curse of the Old Gods.
• The Matriarch, Sir Awen, Titan Big Brother, Witch God Aunt, the Colossus Brain, and the Silver-Haired Girl arrived to check on Lynn and scolded him for risking his life.
• Lynn reassured his family that he had found a way for them all to leave Hell and return home.

Lynn promised the people of Hell that he would find a way to free them, even as he faced the Seraphim’s completed fusion and collapse. The Self-Binding Angel agreed to take them down to Hell, where they had only two minutes to stop Cthulhu and the Old God’s body from merging completely.

• Lynn told Sir Awen, the Matriarch, and the others that they could escape Hell if he lifted their curses, though he privately admitted he would need to find another way.
• Lynn reassured his companions and ran toward the Seraphim as the sea and earth began to collapse around them.
• The dying Seraphim recognized the Self-Binding Angel as her sister and shared news of the Holy World before her sanity collapsed and she fell silent.
• Azephala warned that Cthulhu and the Old God’s body would merge within two minutes and cause ruin across worlds.
• The Self-Binding Angel said she understood and prepared to take them down to Hell.