Chapter Summaries

Lynn declared that Feather Pen’s quill proved she was still alive and vowed to change the future, while Dark Night City’s forces gathered under lockdown. Blood Saw learned how powerful his former apprentice had become and heard a rumor that the city’s Matriarch was involved with him.

• Lynn said Feather Pen would return and insisted that the quill gave them authority over fate.
• Dark Night City assembled its Night Doctors, Colossus forces, dolls, ghosts, and the Demon Association’s machinery-and-flesh monsters for the coming conflict.
• Blood Saw worried about whether Lynn still regarded him as a teacher and about the Colossus forces recognizing flesh used in his research.
• Madam Doll told Blood Saw that Lynn had manipulated the Colossus King and Queen into falling for him, leaving the Colossus practically under his influence.
• Madam Doll whispered that a rumor claimed Dark Night City’s Matriarch was involved with Lynn, and the nearby Night Doctors reacted angrily.

Lynn began a fate-authority attack on the Flesh Dominator while Dark Night City prepared for war. The Flesh Dominator sensed danger and strengthened his defenses, unaware that Lynn was influencing him, and began planning for an arriving guest called the Lord of Death.

• White Night received orders to seal Dark Night City and surrounded the Divine Temple's High Tower with Night Doctors.
• Lynn removed part of the curses binding the Twelve Wings Fallen Angel and Sir Awen, freeing them as origins.
• Lynn used the Feather Pen and his blood to write a fate-based command, while Sir Awen and the Holy Angel guided their mental power into Eve.
• Eve swallowed scraps of the Flesh Dominator's flesh, establishing a connection that let Lynn influence the Flesh Dominator without being detected.
• The Flesh Dominator grew wary, ordered his allies to strengthen their defenses, and turned to a deployment map before writing the title "Lord of Death."

Lynn and the others learned that an ancient Lord of Death might be a powerful ally or enemy in the war. Meanwhile, Eve’s shared perception quietly influenced the Flesh Dominator as he inspected his world, leaving him sensing danger while Lynn steadied the gaze from Hell.

• The Dollhouse revealed that an ancient captain known as the Lord of Death had once guided the dead and ruled the oceans of Hell.
• Sir Awen realized the Lord of Death could become another powerful enemy, and the Dollhouse explained that the Flesh Dominator could contact gods from earlier eras.
• The Flesh Dominator repeatedly inspected his world’s defenses and spatial leap array, persuaded by thoughts influenced by Eve’s shared senses.
• The Flesh Dominator questioned a flesh sorcerer about the world’s coordinates, then sensed an unknown force controlling him despite reports that everything was normal.
• Lynn pierced the parchment with his pen as black threads crawled over his wrist, and Firstborn power steadied the gaze from Hell.

Lynn used the Feather Pen’s authority to prepare for war and led Dark Night City through a Boundary Gate to ambush the Flesh Dominator’s world. The city arrived behind the Wasteland in the Southern Region, with the enemy’s world due to descend in just over twenty minutes.

• Lynn learned that using the Feather Pen’s authority would bring little backlash unless he forced it against its will, then told Sir Awen they had thirty minutes to prepare for war.
• The Self-Binding Angel donned her golden Archangel armor, while Sir Awen arranged to gather Titan and the Colossus at the Black Fortress.
• Lynn exchanged a reassuring gesture with Blood Saw in the square before he and the Origins prepared to open the Boundary Gate.
• Lynn, Sir Awen, the Matriarch, the Witch God, Titan, the Colossus, Eve, and the others combined their powers to open the gate.
• Eve and the others guided Dark Night City through the gate, bringing it to the reverse side of space behind the Wasteland in the Southern Region to prepare an ambush.

Lynn returned to the chaotic battlefield to collect five Jailer corpses in the Coffin Beyond Time, intending to use them as nuclear bombs in the coming fight. He brought the full coffin back to Alice's Happy Home as the final ten minutes approached.

• Lynn traveled to the battlefield in his upgraded Trinity Frame, then entered the chaos with his body protected by Firstborn Power and the Coffin Beyond Time.
• Lynn loaded five Jailer corpses into the coffin, which withstood the battlefield's chaotic aura.
• Lynn left the battlefield with the coffin and put his Night Doctor equipment back on.
• The Flesh Dominator continued searching for the source of its unease as the final ten minutes counted down.
• Lynn teleported to Alice's Happy Home with the coffin on his back.

Lynn and Sir Awen prepared a coordinated attack on the Flesh Dominator's world, exploiting its scheduled Spatial Leap. After the Crimson World arrived in the reverse side of space, Lynn detonated three corpses at its bottom to strike its foundations.

• Lynn outlined a plan to destroy the world's teleportation hub, breach its barrier, and destabilize its structure with corpse-based explosives.
• The Flesh Dominator realized that his thoughts had been shared and recognized Fate's authority, but he could not stop the Crimson World's Spatial Leap.
• The Crimson World appeared in the reverse side of space near Dark Night City.
• Lynn tapped his temple and detonated three corpses at the bottom of the Crimson World, sending ripples spreading through it.

Dark Night City breached the Crimson World’s barrier and Sir Awen located the magic array sustaining its warp mechanism. Lynn warped into the array’s hub to confront the Flesh Dominator as the world began to crumble.

• Three precise chaos explosions ruptured the Crimson World’s barrier and destabilized its underground crust.
• The Four Gods of the Mechanical Church detected the impacts, while the Flesh Dominator warned the world of an enemy invasion.
• Sir Awen used his psionics to map the underground and locate the magic array and the Flesh Dominator.
• Sir Awen asked Lynn if he was ready, and Lynn prepared his Monocle, Feather Pen, and coffin before agreeing to their plan.
• The Flesh Dominator began splitting the crust to sacrifice the lowest section and stop the chaos from consuming the array.
• Lynn warped into the array’s hub, greeted the Flesh Dominator, and opened his coffin.

Lynn and Sir Awen destroyed the core of the Crimson World with the corpse of disorder, causing the world to lose stability and begin overturning into real space. As the Mechanical Church evacuated and the Sin Lord waited to learn whether the Flesh Dominator had survived, a terrifying howl rose from the central canyon.

• Lynn dropped the fourth Jailer bomb, and Sir Awen pulled him into a higher dimension and warped away as the corpse of disorder exploded at the world's core.
• The Crimson World's barrier began to fail, and the world tilted as it started sliding into real space.
• The Seven Gods General detected the destruction and broadcast that the world would overturn within thirty minutes, prompting Flesh Creatures to flee.
• The Mechanical Church lifted its vehicles and war fortresses into the air, while the Sin Lord and her chosen escaped the collapsing ground.
• The Sin Lord watched the central canyon, considering flight if the Flesh Dominator had been defeated, when a deafening, corrupting howl erupted from within it.

Lynn and Sir Awen planned to use psionics and the Feather Pen to sever nearly half the collapsing Crimson World from real space, weakening the Flesh Dominator before the final battle. As the Mechanical Church detected Dark Night City's Origins, its general recognized the tactic from an earlier war.

• Sir Awen explained that the Flesh Dominator had survived the attack, though it had disintegrated at least twenty percent of his mass.
• Lynn proposed closing the boundary between the reverse side of space and reality to cut off half the world, and Sir Awen agreed it could work with enough energy and mystical aid.
• Lynn offered the Matriarch, the Witch God Aunt, and the Feather Pen to help Sir Awen carry out the plan.
• The Mechanical Church detected the Archangel and the Witch God Head on the reverse side of space while the Crimson World accelerated toward its fall into reality.
• The Star Embracer urged the Seven Gods to move the battle into real space, while the Mechanical Church general recalled a past battle in which the Ascender had nearly sheared off half their body with a spatial rift.

Dark Night City split the Crimson World across real space and the reverse side, separating the Mechanical Church from the Flesh Dominator. The Colossus reunited into her complete form to face the Mechanical Church, while Lynn prepared to deal with the Flesh Dominator.

• The Archangel and the Witch God Head spread a psionic net around the Crimson World, and its contracting boundary sliced the world in two.
• The Mechanical Church's general ordered the fleet to ascend and bombard the boundary, but Lynn summoned Brain and the Colossus to confront it.
• The Colossus and Zuo Zuo merged with the Colossus subjects, forming the complete Colossus as Hell's backlash tried to tear her apart.
• Lynn used Dark Night City's remaining curse removal to stabilize the Colossus at Hell's power limit, and she blocked the Mechanical Church's fleet.
• Lynn left Brain to fight the Mechanical Church and set out to encircle the Flesh Dominator with the others.

Lynn split the Flesh Dominator’s world, sending its larger half crashing into the Dark World and drawing the Lord of Death to harvest the resulting souls. As Lynn prepared to face the Flesh Dominator, the Dollhouse entered the Lord of Death’s domain and greeted the captain aboard his ghost ship.

• Sir Awen sealed the smaller half of the Crimson World in the shadows of space and redirected the Mechanical Church’s cannon fire, greeting its Four Gods.
• The Titan Head demanded to join the fighting, so Lynn assigned him to face the Flesh Dominator while Sir Awen and the others handled the Mechanical Church.
• The larger half of the world crashed into the Dark World, devastating the southern wilderness, while a dark domain shielded the smaller half from the impact.
• Lynn and Black String Moon realized that the Lord of Death was gathering the souls killed in the collision, and Black String Moon said the Dollhouse had gone to confront him.
• The Dollhouse entered the ghost ship’s domain, found the withered captain, and greeted him as a senior.

Lynn sent the Dollhouse to occupy the Lord of Death and set out with Xiao Xiao to confront the Flesh Dominator. The Flesh Dominator assessed his losses and tried to rally his remaining allies as Dark Night City’s forces kept the Mechanical Church pinned on the reverse side of space.

• Lynn told Black String Moon to have Eve prepare for an opponent, then declared that he would challenge and kill the Flesh Dominator.
• Xiao Xiao arrived from Dark Night City, and Lynn rode on her head as they headed toward the shattered world.
• The Flesh Dominator surveyed the devastation and realized that most of the Flesh God Cult’s forces had been destroyed in the collision.
• The Flesh Dominator learned that the Mechanical Church was trapped fighting four Dark Night City Origins and received no answer from the Sin Ancestor.
• The Flesh Dominator ordered his remaining Leviathans to gather so they could break through to the reverse side of space and aid the Mechanical Church.

Lynn and Xiao Xiao attacked the Flesh Dominator, destroyed two Leviathans, and drew his attention away from the Mechanical Church. After Lynn escaped his attack range, he left behind a strange book that made the Flesh Dominator tense with fear.

• The Flesh Dominator summoned his Leviathan forces and tried to break through space to reinforce the Mechanical Church.
• Lynn appeared with Xiao Xiao and destroyed Leviathan Two and Leviathan Four using his power of chaos.
• The Flesh Dominator attacked Lynn with giant tentacles, but Xiao Xiao carried him out of range while Lynn taunted him.
• The Flesh Dominator decided not to pursue Lynn and resumed trying to destroy the structure of space.
• Lynn returned briefly and left the Flesh Dominator a book titled The Book You Die From Reading, which made him tense up.

Lynn lured the Flesh Dominator into breaking through space, then turned the breach into an ambush by reviving the Titan Head as the Titan War God. The Titan charged the Flesh Dominator while Lynn warped away, leaving the battle to him as the others continued fighting the Mechanical Church.

• The Flesh Dominator endured Lynn's attack with the derivative of authority and ordered the remaining Leviathans to pursue him while he tore through space toward the Mechanical Church.
• When the Flesh Dominator opened the breach, the Titan Head rammed through from the other side and struck him, while Lynn warped onto the Titan Head.
• Lynn activated Remnants of the Past on the Titan Head, restoring him to his former Titan War God form, several times larger and clad in Golden Armor.
• Lynn told the Titan to fight the Flesh Dominator while the Matriarch and the others finished off the Mechanical Church, then warped away.
• The Titan War God drew his golden sword and attacked the Flesh Dominator, furious that he had missed the earlier assaults on Dark Night City.

The Flesh Dominator used Flesh Plunder to strip the Titan God of his flesh, but the Titan God revealed that anger, not his body, sustained his power and counterattacked. Lynn watched the fight from afar, only to discover that Xiao Xiao had also been reduced to a skeleton.

• The Flesh Dominator unleashed Flesh Plunder, turning the Titan God and all other nearby creatures into skeletons while suffering severe backlash.
• The Titan God remained standing and explained that he had died long ago and drew his strength from anger rather than flesh.
• The Titan God seized the Flesh Dominator and attacked him with his greatsword and a crushing fist.
• Lynn cheered for his father-in-law from hundreds of kilometers away and promised to marry Xiao Xiao if the Titan God won.
• Lynn noticed Xiao Xiao had lost all her flesh and reassured her that being a skeleton was merely slimming down.

Lynn lured the last surviving Plague Doctors and their two Leviathans away from the battlefield, then baited them into attacking him. A sudden interference left him vulnerable, and the Sin Lord appeared behind him with a dagger at his throat.

• Lynn used his Trinity Frame to survive the effects of his true form’s authority and prepared to draw the Leviathans away from the battlefield.
• Lynn rode Xiao Xiao more than a thousand kilometers from the battle, where the Leviathans’ surviving Plague Doctors confronted him.
• Lynn taunted the Plague Doctors about killing their group and defiling their god, provoking them to attack.
• Xiao Xiao dodged the first death ray, but sudden interference stopped Lynn from evading the second beam and damaged his Mechanical Body.
• The Sin Lord seized Lynn from behind and held a dagger to his throat, and Lynn greeted the attacker by name.

Lynn was captured by the Sin Lord, but he tried to persuade her that the Flesh Dominator was using her and that joining his side would protect her from the curse. The Sin Lord’s resolve wavered, leaving Lynn to press his case for an alliance.

• The Sin Lord appeared behind Lynn, subdued him, and threatened him with a dagger while the Leviathans halted their attacks.
• Lynn appealed to the Sin Lord as a fellow native of the City of Sin, but the Plague Doctor urged her to kill him before he could manipulate her.
• Lynn warned that killing him would make the nine Origins of Dark Night City hunt her and argued that the Flesh Dominator would continue exploiting her.
• Lynn told the Sin Lord he knew about her conversation with the Flesh Dominator and offered to help control her curse if she joined his side.
• The Sin Lord stopped pressing her dagger into Lynn’s neck and observed that he had arranged opponents for everyone except her.

Lynn persuaded the Sin Lord to withdraw from the conflict by offering protection and help suppressing her curse, then called on Eve to devour the two Leviathans. The Sin Lord agreed to a contract, but Lynn switched the parchment to a contract of servitude and asked her to press her thumb again.

• Lynn offered the Sin Lord a soul-binding contract promising that Dark Night City's creatures would not harm her or her Chosen if she withdrew, along with help suppressing her curse.
• The Sin Lord accepted the contract despite the Plague Doctors' protests, while warning Lynn that the Flesh Dominator controlled a Jailer.
• When the two Leviathans charged at Lynn, he ordered Eve to kill them.
• Eve's blood vessels emerged from the reverse side of space, bound the Leviathans, and began dragging them away and devouring them.
• The Sin Lord admitted she could not read and pressed her thumb onto the contract, forming a soul connection with Lynn.
• Lynn swapped the parchment for a copy titled Contract of servitude and asked the Sin Lord to press her thumb again.

Lynn persuaded the Sin Lord to withdraw from the war, then recognized ancient resentments awakening in the canyon where the Flesh Dominator was being attacked. As the Shadows of the Old Days emerged, Lynn connected the place to a white-haired man from Raven’s memories, but the man’s actions remained unknown.

• Lynn tricked the Sin Lord with an Indenture Contract, but she recognized it and refused to sign.
• The Sin Lord withdrew from the war after Lynn promised to remove the technique the Flesh Dominator had implanted in her body.
• Lynn explained to Xiao Xiao that the Sin Lord had been seeking a suitable price to negotiate, and he planned to wait while Awen and the others dealt with the Mechanical Church.
• A skeletal hand seized the Titan God’s descending greatsword in the canyon, unleashing an ancient torrent of pain and hatred.
• Lynn identified the emergence as the Shadows of the Old Days, the lingering thoughts of fallen Old Gods gathered in Burial Valley.
• Lynn recalled Raven’s memories of a white-haired man entering a similar canyon and realized it might have been this place.

Lynn and the Titan God attacked the canyon where the Flesh Dominator had retreated, but a powerful barrier stopped the Titan God from reaching him. Lynn used his final Jailer Living Bomb to unleash a Great Annihilation that began erasing the canyon and its Old Shadows.

• Lynn asked the Titan God to suppress the ancient hatred within the canyon, and the Titan God shattered a skeletal hand with his golden sword.
• Countless Old Shadows crawled over the Titan God and attacked him as he drove his sword deeper into the canyon.
• A solid barrier and spatial force broke the Titan God's blade and forced him back.
• Lynn joined the Titan God, recognized the Flesh Dominator had withdrawn into the canyon, and prepared his last Jailer corpse.
• Lynn threw the Jailer Living Bomb into the Old Shadows, and its explosion began dissolving the canyon, matter, energy, and souls.