Chapter Summaries

Lynn and the Titan God discovered that a rift inside the canyon was protected by Firstborn power, while the Flesh Dominator retreated into an ancient hall and declared that he was the Raven’s Adam. Lynn stood before the rift, recognizing the place from the Raven’s memories, as the chapter left his connection to the ancient past unresolved.

• Lynn and the Titan God saw that chaos had annihilated the canyon’s outer reaches but could not penetrate the area around the spatial rift, which Lynn identified as protected by Firstborn power.
• The wounded Flesh Dominator fled into the rift’s ancient halls, where murals and monuments depicted an old war and its dead.
• A chained clown taunted the Flesh Dominator and revealed that a translucent fragment suppressed the chaos inside his heart.
• The Flesh Dominator said the Raven had raised him and promised to return for him and his ancestors’ corpses, calling the place the Garden of Eden and himself the Raven’s Adam.
• Lynn approached the rift and recognized the scene from the Raven’s memories, where a white-haired man had once stood in the same place.

Lynn used the ancient raven’s firstborn power to weaken the barrier around the rift while the Titan God held back the Shadows of the Old Days. Inside, the Flesh Dominator devoured the Clown and the remains of the Old Gods, and Lynn finally shattered the barrier, exposing the lair.

• Lynn identified the ancient raven as the likely creator of the barrier and used his inherited power to weaken it.
• Lynn told the Titan God to hold the rift’s shadows for ten minutes while he worked, and the Titan God attacked the emerging Shadows of the Old Days.
• The Flesh Dominator devoured the Clown’s power as his body disintegrated, then consumed the flesh and bones of the Old Gods to sustain himself.
• The Clown warned that the power of chaos would destroy the Flesh Dominator, who calmly accepted the risk.
• Lynn shattered the barrier and revealed the Flesh Dominator’s lair.

Lynn and the Titan God entered the Great Rift, where the Flesh Dominator erupted with chaos after fusing with the Clown's power and began transforming into a god. As the Flesh Dominator attacked, his Curse Deepening authority affected Lynn and drove the Titan God into a frenzied charge.

• Lynn and the Titan God found that the Shadows of the Old Days had vanished inside the Great Rift and decided to confront the Flesh Dominator.
• A storm of chaos and the Flesh Dominator's powers surged from the abyss, forcing the Titan God to evade its destructive sweep.
• The Flesh Dominator emerged as a mass of mutated flesh, used the Clown's power to challenge Hell's rank limit, and threatened to destroy Lynn and his allies.
• Lynn tried to warn the Titan God that the Flesh Dominator's unstable power would destroy him, but Curse Deepening affected them both.
• The Titan God fell under the curse, roared in fury, and charged the Flesh Dominator with his sword as Lynn realized they were in danger.

The Flesh Dominator unleashed [Curse Deepening] and shattered the boundary into the reverse side of space, spreading chaos through the battlefield. As the Origins succumbed to madness and collapse, he taunted Lynn for believing he could lead anyone out of Hell.

• The Titan God attacked the Flesh Dominator in a frenzy, losing his greatsword and suffering catastrophic damage from chaos.
• The Flesh Dominator shattered the boundary of space and confronted Lynn, accusing him of making false promises about escaping Hell.
• The Flesh Dominator’s chaotic composition spread [Curse Deepening] across the reverse side of space and struck the four Origins during their assault on the Mechanical Church.
• The Colossus disintegrated, the Witch God Head attacked indiscriminately, Sir Awen forgot who he was, and the Self-Binding Angel was restrained by chains.
• The Flesh Dominator called Lynn a deluded clown and challenged his belief that he could change anything or break out of Hell.

Lynn revealed that he had preserved the primordial power from the barrier protecting the Flesh Dominator’s lair and could control it, despite being unable to absorb it. He sent that power to the cursed Origins of Dark Night City to show his family what he could give them in the future.

• The Flesh Dominator’s stolen Jailer authority turned the battle, and Eve appeared to block its attack on Lynn before the curse made her writhe in pain.
• Dollhouse told the skeleton captain that she was staking everything on Lynn and urged him to watch before deciding which side to join.
• Lynn admitted he could not lead his family out of Hell if he could not fight a single Jailer, then declared that he had methods he had not yet used.
• Lynn summoned a vast storm of primordial power, revealing that he had gathered the power from the Flesh Dominator’s former protective barrier.
• Lynn sent streams of psionic energy carrying primordial power to the cursed Origins of Dark Night City.

Lynn’s primordial power purified the curses and restored his family, allowing the Self-Binding Angel, Colossus, and Sir Awen to ascend as Ancient Gods. As they attacked the Flesh Dominator, Lynn discovered that Titan and Witch God depended on Hell’s curses to remain alive.

• Lynn’s primordial power drove the curses from Eve, Sir Awen, the Self-Binding Angel, Colossus, Titan, and Witch God, restoring their clarity and strength.
• The Self-Binding Angel, Colossus, and Sir Awen broke free of Hell’s restrictions and ascended as Ancient Gods.
• Lynn told the Flesh Dominator that chaos could be countered and that he would lead his family into a future without him.
• Titan and the Self-Binding Angel attacked the Flesh Dominator, while the Witch God joined the battle.
• Lynn realized Titan and Witch God were rapidly losing vitality without Hell’s curses, so he let Hell’s power envelop them again.

Lynn and his allies killed the Flesh Dominator after Lynn revealed the raven’s corpse, driving the monster into a final, desperate charge. Once the battle ended, Lynn collapsed from exhaustion as the system confirmed the quest’s completion and granted its rewards.

• Lynn ordered Titan Head and Witch God Head to withdraw while Sir Awen used his psionics to restrain the Flesh Dominator.
• Lynn showed the Flesh Dominator the raven’s corpse and told him that his father had died long ago.
• The Flesh Dominator went mad and charged toward Lynn, fighting through flames and attacks until the Self-Binding Angel pierced his final flesh and killed him.
• Lynn said the Flesh Dominator had wanted to see his father one last time, then collapsed as the Self-Binding Angel caught him.
• The system announced that Lynn had completed the Fall of the Flesh Dominator quest and received five system levels, a Skill Enhancement Scroll (+10), and the Old Gods Flesh Core.

After killing the Flesh Dominator, Lynn reassured his family that he would find a way to defeat the Jailers and lead them out of Hell toward a better future. Above the black mist, the old man in black ordered the Administrators to withdraw, though some questioned his command.

• Lynn received the Old Days Flesh Core and a Skill Enhancement Scroll (+10) for defeating the Flesh Dominator, then stored the core in his System Space.
• As the Primordial Power faded, Sir Awen, the Colossus, the Titan Head, the Witch God Head, and the Self-Binding Angel lost their restored strength and helped Lynn stand.
• Lynn told his family he had fought the Flesh Dominator to reassure them and promised to show that the Jailers could die without Chaos empowering them.
• Lynn vowed to take responsibility for giving everyone a future beyond Hell, not merely sending them out of the prison into another dark world.
• The old man in black watched Lynn from above the black mist, ordered the Administrators to withdraw, and heard them question why.

Lynn survived the Jailers’ silent threat after using the firstborn power, and concluded that they were allowing him to grow as part of a larger scheme. He pledged to take on Raven’s responsibilities, earning the Origins’ trust as his damaged Mechanical Body remained in need of repair.

• The black-robed elder told the figures in the Black Mist that Lynn might enable the Great Lord to awaken, while some Jailers demanded confirmation from the Female Host.
• The Mechanical Church escaped after the Flesh Dominator used the Authority of the Curse to suppress the Origins, and Lynn watched the Black Mist settle.
• Lynn confirmed that the Jailers had been present and said their inaction suggested he and his companions could move through Hell unhindered for now.
• Lynn connected the elder’s revelations and the corpses he had found to a possible effort to guide him toward mastering the firstborn power.
• Lynn explained that the power had wrecked his Mechanical Body and exhausted him, then promised to take on Raven’s responsibilities.
• The Self-Binding Angel, Colossus Brain, Sir Awen, and Titan Head each showed increased affection and trust toward Lynn.

After the war ended with the Flesh Dominator’s death, Lynn negotiated with Dollhouse about recruiting the Lord of Death. The ancient captain emerged from the rain-filled gate, leaving Lynn and the others facing a powerful potential ally.

• Lynn switched back to his flesh-and-blood body after the Self-Binding Angel stopped him from leaning against her as a machine.
• With the Jailers no longer attacking, Lynn confirmed that the war had ended and looked toward the gate where the Lord of Death remained.
• Dollhouse emerged and declared that she had chosen the right person to follow, then declined Lynn’s offer to become his aunt.
• Dollhouse explained that the Lord of Death wanted to escape Hell and sought the Flesh Dominator’s corpse to sustain himself.
• Lynn refused to give up the corpse as payment and offered to welcome the Lord of Death if he joined them without extra demands.
• The Lord of Death emerged from the gate, and Lynn and the Origins sensed his immense power.

Lynn met Captain Constantine, an ancient Lord of Death nearing collapse, and agreed to try to suppress his affliction in exchange for the Flesh Dominator’s corpse. Constantine left Lynn a compass pointing to his true form, while Sir Awen revealed that the captain could travel freely between the Sea of Loss and reality.

• Lynn saw Captain Constantine’s panel and sensed that the ancient Origin was dying and losing control.
• Dollhouse translated Constantine’s request for Root-Level souls to suppress his collapse, and Lynn offered to try using his power.
• Constantine extended his hand, and Lynn mistakenly shook it before Dollhouse explained he had been forming runes.
• Constantine gave Lynn a Deep Sea Compass and revealed through Dollhouse that his true form was sealed in the Ashen Silence Sea.
• Constantine dissolved into a blue tide, and Sir Awen told Lynn that the ship was sailing across the Sea of Loss.

After Dark Night City defeated the Flesh God Cult and the Mechanical Church, Lynn entered the Flesh Dominator’s hidden domain to investigate its connection to the Raven. He and Zuo Zuo discovered a vast temple documenting the Old Days War, where enormous monuments depicted ancient Old Gods.

• Lynn declared that the Flesh God Cult would no longer be Dark Night City’s enemy and planned to seek out a potential ally in the Deep Sea.
• Dark Night City’s victory spread throughout the Dark World, and its forces sealed off the Flesh Dominator’s remains while hunting surviving members of the Flesh God Cult.
• Lynn returned to the battlefield and entered the rift where the Flesh Dominator had hidden, intending to investigate the Raven he had called his father.
• Lynn and Zuo Zuo crossed into a vast, sealed space and followed a corridor whose reliefs recorded the Old Days War.
• Lynn reached an immense temple filled with mountain-sized stone monuments bearing images and deeds of the ancient Old Gods.

Lynn inspected the remains of the Old Gods beneath the Divine Temple, then followed a Night Doctor to a sealed gate deep underground. He used Remnants of the Past to reveal the Flesh Dominator approaching the gate seven days earlier, while privately considering how else he could use the ability.

• Lynn examined the rotting remains of the Old Gods in the hollow and saw that they had lost their lingering mental remnants.
• A Night Doctor told Lynn about a gate found deep inside the tomb, and Lynn ordered him to lead the way.
• Lynn reached the enormous rune-covered gate and inferred that a particular key or method could open it.
• Lynn used Remnants of the Past to replay events from seven days earlier, revealing the Flesh Dominator approaching the gate.
• The Night Doctors marveled at Lynn's ability, and Lynn quietly decided to try using it at the Women's Bathhouse another day.

Lynn implanted the Old Days Flesh Core in his chest to gain control over his flesh, enduring a dangerous surge of madness that his other powers eventually suppressed. He then turned his attention back to the sealed gate, whose verification still remained unresolved.

• Lynn copied the Flesh Dominator’s sequence of touches on the gate, but the gate did not respond to him.
• Lynn decided the gate might require the Flesh Dominator’s essence and chose to implant the Old Days Flesh Core as bio-armor.
• Lynn cut open his chest and fitted the Flesh Core beside his Colossus Heart while the Night Doctors and Zuo Zuo watched in alarm.
• The Flesh Core flooded Lynn’s mind with hatred and madness, and a burst of brain matter escaped through a hole in the back of his head.
• Lynn used his firstborn power, Colossus Heart, and Eye of Cthulhu to suppress the Core’s madness until the system confirmed its implantation and his increased flesh control.
• Lynn sensed the Old Gods’ flesh information within the Core and thought that devouring it might make him an Origin of flesh.

Lynn opened the stone gate and discovered an abyss filled with countless imprisoned souls, whose power fed a vast Flesh Machine connected to the Divine Temple. He left the machine intact, recognizing it as rich nourishment that could help revive the Mother Tree.

• Lynn used the Flesh Dominator's core to open the enormous stone gate.
• Lynn revealed countless souls in the abyss with the Evil Spirit Manifestation Potion, then confirmed their numbers with ghost vision.
• Lynn leaped into the abyss and found an enormous Flesh Machine siphoning power from the trapped souls.
• Lynn connected to the machine through a Neural Link and discovered that its conduits supplied soul power to the flesh of the Old Days beneath the Divine Temple.
• Lynn decided not to destroy the saturated Flesh Machine because its flesh could help revive the Mother Tree.

Lynn used the Flesh Core to halt and compress the flesh machine, then searched the souls trapped in Hell for Azephala’s brother. He found the Hidden Cultivation Society’s former Holy One and placed his weakened soul in System Space so he could take him back to Azephala.

• Lynn connected to the flesh machine through the Flesh Core, stopped its soul-devouring passages, and compressed it into a solid block over a hundred meters across.
• Lynn discovered that the machine’s flesh was saturated with souls and found many souls of people who had died on Blue Star.
• Lynn used psionics and images of Blue Star to draw out its dead and search them for Azephala’s brother.
• Lynn found the former First Apostle, recognized the Seraphim’s power in his soul, and confirmed that he was Azephala’s brother.
• Lynn told the weakened soul that he would take him to Azephala, then placed him in System Space.

Lynn gathered every soul in the Abyss into his Soul Medium of Time and brought a massive soul-nourished lump of flesh to the Night Doctors for transport to Dark Night City. After enhancing Remnants of the Past, he prepared to use it to uncover the Divine Temple’s ancient history and investigate the raven’s connection to it.

• Lynn used the Soul Medium of Time to collect and preserve every soul in the Abyss.
• Lynn ordered the Night Doctors to transport the enormous lump of flesh to Dark Night City for Sir Awen.
• Lynn enhanced Remnants of the Past to +11 with a Skill Enhancement Scroll, unlocking a mysterious ability that required a second profession.
• Lynn examined an old armband engraved with occult runes and a raven, and suspected a connection to the white-haired man and his own past.
• Lynn called for Zuo Zuo and activated Remnants of the Past to reveal what had happened in the Divine Temple long ago.

Lynn used Remnants of the Past to search the Divine Temple’s history and discovered the raven’s arrival more than ten thousand years ago. The raven seemed to notice Lynn watching, while the young Flesh Dominator joyfully greeted him as his father.

• Lynn rewound the Divine Temple’s past and saw the Weeping Clown imprisoned inside the Flesh Dominator after the Dark Night City Calamity.
• Lynn recalled the raven’s appearances over two thousand years ago and realized that this conflicted with the Dollhouse’s account of finding the raven’s corpse beneath the Black Fortress.
• Lynn rewound through thousands of years, seeing the Flesh Dominator leave the temple during the era when the deities fell.
• Lynn saw the raven fly through the Passageway and take human form inside the Divine Temple more than ten thousand years ago.
• The white-haired raven glanced toward Lynn’s viewpoint, and the young Flesh Dominator rushed over and called him “Father.”

Lynn used Remnants of the Past to uncover how Raven raised and trained the Flesh Dominator, giving him the Flesh Core that now beat inside Lynn’s chest. He rewound the visions as far as one hundred thousand years, but still could not reach the Old Days War or discover Raven’s true identity.

• Lynn wondered whether the Raven from six thousand years ago was the same Raven he had devoured, or even himself.
• Lynn watched Raven reunite with the Flesh Dominator and heard him explain that the Flesh Dominator needed greater power to overcome Hell’s limits.
• Raven gave the Flesh Core to the Flesh Dominator and told him to master it to become the ruler of flesh.
• Lynn rewound time and saw Raven visit the Flesh Dominator every thousand years, guiding his growth.
• Lynn watched Raven meet the newborn Flesh Dominator twenty-seven thousand years earlier and saw the creature trust him as a father and god.
• Lynn pushed Remnants of the Past back one hundred thousand years, where the visions grew unstable before reaching the Old Days War.

Lynn returned to Dark Night City to help revive the Mother Tree of Desire after reflecting on the mystery of the white-haired man and the past. Sir Awen revealed that they had found a possible Authority of [Curse Deepening] in the Flesh Dominator’s corpse, and Lynn went to inspect it.

• Lynn considered whether the white-haired man was connected to him, Zuo Zuo, and the Trinity, then set aside the unanswered questions to focus on gaining strength and reviving the Mother Tree.
• Lynn returned to Dark Night City and met Sir Awen, who reported that the Flesh Dominator’s remaining soul had been destroyed in Chaos.
• Sir Awen told Lynn that they had found what might be the Authority of [Curse Deepening], but no Authority of Flesh remained in the corpse.
• Lynn said he suspected the Authority of Flesh might already be inside him and asked Sir Awen to take him to the possible [Curse Deepening] Authority.
• Lynn and Sir Awen reached the Flesh Dominator’s core, where a sharp fragment pierced a still-beating heart that radiated Chaos.