Chapter Summaries

Lynn bullied the Blood Radish until she cried, then used yellow sand power to begin dissolving the Vampire Clan’s curse. She revealed that the curse had driven her predecessors mad and that she had survived partly because she had few desires, though her reason for avoiding blood remained undisclosed.

• Lynn lifted the Blood Radish by the scruff, and she lost control of herself before screaming in humiliation.
• The Blood Radish blamed the potion and Lynn’s sealing of her powers, then attacked him and sobbed when he held her upside down.
• Lynn received a system achievement for making a Root-Level loli cry, then promised the Blood Radish something sweet.
• Lynn touched the Blood Radish’s forehead and sent warm yellow sand power into her, causing her curse to begin dissolving.
• The Blood Radish recalled that the Vampire Clan’s curse afflicted its strongest members with unfulfilled cravings, and that she had survived because she had few desires.

Lynn suppressed the Sin Lord’s curse with a Sugar Date, and she discovered that her bloodthirst and urge to study had vanished. The chapter left Lynn testing whether she truly fainted at the sight of blood while she stubbornly denied it.

• Lynn reminded the Sin Lord that he had promised to suppress her curse, and she realized the rumors about his ability were true.
• The Sin Lord celebrated as the curse’s effects receded, including her bloodthirst and compulsive desire to study.
• Blood Radish explained that her elders had died pursuing forbidden knowledge, while she had resisted the curse because she hated studying.
• Lynn questioned whether Blood Radish fainted at the sight of blood, and the heart reluctantly confirmed it.
• Lynn cut his wrist and waved the bleeding wound before the Sin Lord, who nervously denied fainting and threatened to drink his blood.

Lynn learned that many creatures who had fallen from the Main Universe developed purple-black lesions after their blood was consumed, reminding him of the contaminated Bell Ringer. He went with the Sin Lord to inspect the imprisoned servants, but she had forgotten the lock’s code and locked up the code keeper inside.

• The Sin Lord told Lynn that blood food from the Main Universe had poisoned some of her servants, leaving them mad and covered in purple-black blotches.
• Lynn connected the lesions to the Bell Ringer he had encountered three years in the past and asked to see the surviving servants.
• The Sin Lord led Lynn into the Castle’s underground prison and explained that she had locked up the affected servants.
• The Sin Lord forgot the combination-lock code and revealed that she had locked her code keeper inside.
• Lynn used his Trinity Frame to begin cracking the lock while the Sin Ancestor asked if it was for sale.

Lynn and the Sin Lord opened a sealed dungeon beneath the City of Sin, where polluted time and a ritual to summon a being from another era had transformed the space and sacrificed the Sin Lord’s servants. They entered to confront the threat, and a spear-pierced woman emerged from a rift holding two daggers.

• Lynn decoded the dungeon’s combination lock, and the Sin Lord opened the door as a pulse of blood-red light faded from its barrier.
• Polluted time surged out of the dungeon, freezing dust and light wherever its ripples spread, and Lynn pulled the Sin Lord out of their reach.
• Lynn summoned the Trinity, integrated the Colossus Heart, and warned the Sin Lord to stay close as they entered the time ripples.
• Inside the dungeon, Lynn, the Sin Lord, and the heart saw the Sin Lord’s servants twisted into a corpse-made eye surrounding a forming rift.
• Black blood formed a bleeding eye around the rift, and a spear-pierced woman with a red blindfold and two daggers slowly emerged.

Lynn and the Sin Lord encountered the Blood Sin Spirit, a future-born Polluter who looked like the Sin Lord and wielded identical daggers. The Blood Sin Spirit ignored the Sin Lord, killed Lynn with a single strike, and then fought the heart, whose chaos power had no effect on her.

• The Blood Sin Spirit appeared, and Lynn's system panel identified her as a being from another time.
• Lynn suggested the Blood Sin Spirit was the Sin Lord's future self, but the Sin Lord dismissed the idea and attacked her as an Aberrant that resembled her.
• The Sin Lord's daggers passed through the Blood Sin Spirit, who ignored her and turned toward Lynn.
• The Blood Sin Spirit appeared behind Lynn and severed his head before the Trinity Frame could warn him.
• The heart transformed into a Calamity Heart and attacked, but the Blood Sin Spirit evaded its tentacles and shredded them.
• The heart realized its chaos power did not affect the Blood Sin Spirit and recognized her nature as the same as the Jailers'.

Lynn tried to escape the Blood Sin Spirit, whose speed and chaotic power let her cut through his body and threaten his system space. He emerged from the space and called on Clown to hold her off while he prepared a way to counter her.

• The Blood Sin Spirit attacked Lynn's Colossus Heart, but he fled in his Trinity Frame while carrying his head.
• The Blood Sin Spirit caught up and sliced Lynn's Mechanical Body in half, but he moved his Colossus Heart into his system space to avoid her dagger.
• The Sin Lord tried to intercept the Blood Sin Spirit, but her daggers passed through the Sin Lord and struck Lynn's body.
• The Blood Sin Spirit tore open a rift into Lynn's system space and stabbed through its barrier with her daggers.
• Lynn escaped the system space in his flesh-and-blood body and urged Clown to hold off the Blood Sin Spirit while he found a way to deal with her.

Lynn escaped the Blood Sin Spirit by teleporting to Happy Home, where he reunited with Alice and took her with him. After suppressing Alice’s Earthbound Spirit Curse and gaining a Death Omen Rank boost, he flew out and contacted the Origins in Dark Night City.

• The Blood Sin Spirit attacked Lynn, draining much of his blood and repeatedly tearing apart his head as the Flesh Domain regenerated him.
• The heart restrained the Blood Sin Spirit with Chaos long enough for Lynn to activate Teleport to Happy Home and escape, enraging the heart and the Sin Lord.
• Lynn appeared in Alice’s bedroom, caught her as she bounced off the bed, and told her he had come especially to see her.
• Lynn removed Alice’s curse temporarily, let her possess him, and flew outside with her, gaining a Death Omen Rank boost.
• Lynn used Psionics to call out to every Origin still in Dark Night City.

After Lynn called for backup, his family gathered in Dark Night City and prepared to help him settle the score. Meanwhile, in the City of Sin’s castle dungeon, the Blood Sin Spirit continued attacking the heart while the Sin Lord was forced to cheer it on.

• Lynn shouted to his family that he had been badly injured and needed backup.
• Titan Head, Eve, Colossus, Witch God Head, Xiao Xiao, Dollhouse, Sir Awen, and Self-Binding Angel arrived in the square and joined the party.
• Lynn opened a Boundary Gate, and his family set out with him to confront whoever had attacked him.
• In the castle dungeon, the Blood Sin Spirit relentlessly attacked the heart after Lynn left.
• The Sin Lord asked to retreat, but the heart ordered him to stay and cheer.

Lynn led seven powerful Origins into the City of Sin to confront the Blood Sin Spirit, who had nearly killed him. Their attack devastated much of the city and left her surrounded, while the Sin Lord and the heart emerged from the rubble to witness the fight.

• Lynn and the seven Origins charged through a Boundary Gate into the City of Sin, terrifying its inhabitants.
• Lynn pointed out the underground location where the Blood Sin Spirit had attacked him, and Titan Head smashed through the Castle and the earth to reach it.
• The collapsing dungeon buried the Sin Ancestor, while the Blood Sin Spirit escaped into the shadows.
• The Blood Sin Spirit emerged and dodged Titan Head's charge, but the Archangel and the others struck and surrounded her.
• Lynn taunted the battered Blood Sin Spirit from a safe distance as the Sin Lord and the heart crawled out of the rubble and saw the battle.

Lynn brought seven Origins to overwhelm the Blood Sin Spirit while he and the Sin Lord searched for and sealed the Great Rift. After receiving his quest rewards, Lynn sensed a violent disturbance in the timeline and froze.

• Lynn rode Xiao Xiao to bring the Origins into battle, empowering them to gang up on the Blood Sin Spirit.
• Lynn caught the heart's punch and explained to the Sin Lord that his strategy was a righteous gang-up.
• Lynn and the Sin Lord dug through the ground and found the corrupted Great Rift underground.
• Lynn dodged a hand reaching through the rift and used his firstborn power to close it, severing the limbs reaching into their world.
• Lynn received a quest completion notification, then froze as a violent fluctuation in the timeline swept through him.

Lynn briefly displayed a power and sorrow that terrified the Sin Lord before embracing her, while the Origins defeated a Blood Sin Spirit whose aura resembled the ancient Calamity. The Origins noticed Lynn watching them from a distance and prepared to question him.

• Lynn froze, then opened his eyes with an unfamiliar solemnity that made the Sin Lord suspect he was not himself.
• The Sin Lord tried to ready herself against Lynn, but an immense presence immobilized her and Lynn embraced her in sorrow.
• The seven Origins subdued the wounded Blood Sin Spirit as the Great Rift closed and Chaos began unraveling around her.
• Sir Awen and the other Origins recognized the Blood Sin Spirit's aura as resembling the Calamity that had preceded the first Great Purge.
• The Self-Binding Angel said they would question Lynn, and the Origins saw him standing far away watching them.

A powerful, unfamiliar Lynn took the Blood Sin Spirit through the Great Rift, erased the contamination in the City of Sin, and collapsed. He woke in Dark Night City to find Zuo Zuo had clipped his openings shut to make him breathe again.

• Lynn apologized to his family and used time powers to drive the Chaos out of the Blood Sin Spirit.
• Lynn carried the lifeless Sin Spirit to the Great Rift and sent her body through it as the Origins noticed how closely she resembled the little girl.
• Lynn sealed the Great Rift, destroyed the remaining infected Polluters, and collapsed as his family rushed to him.
• Lynn woke in his room when a clip popped from his mouth and Zuo Zuo claimed victory in a bet with the Colossus Brain.
• Lynn snatched the ten Black Skull Coins and angrily confronted Zuo Zuo, threatening to clip her in return.

Lynn woke with no memory of his unusual behavior in the City of Sin and concluded that his future self had briefly taken control of him. He gathered Dark Night City’s Origins to explain his theory that people could cross time, leaving them with the question of whether they believed it was possible.

• Zuo Zuo and the Colossus Brain questioned Lynn about sending the Sin Spirit away, but he had no memory of doing so.
• After the Colossus Brain recounted what happened, Lynn ruled out the God King and concluded that his future self had possessed his body.
• Lynn realized he could descend into his past self and that the same mechanism might apply to Raven.
• Lynn summoned Dark Night City’s Origins to the Divine Temple and asked about the Sin Lord, who had withdrawn into her room since arriving.
• Lynn told the gathered Origins that his theory had been confirmed and asked whether they believed time could be crossed.

Lynn revealed that he could travel back through time and warned his family that a Calamity had launched a Time War against Hell, with Lynn among its targets. He rallied them to keep fighting and vowed to protect their timeline, even if doing so required actions against his conscience.

• The Dollhouse woman suggested that time could be interfered with, and Lynn revealed he could briefly return to the past.
• Lynn explained that he had returned to his body three years earlier to face the assassin in the City of Sin, and that a future version of him had returned to close the rift.
• Lynn told the gathered Origins about the Time War, in which a Calamity was invading Hell's timeline and history and targeting Lynn and Hell.
• When the group fell into despair, Lynn urged them to fight for a future beyond Hell, and his defiant speech lifted their spirits.
• Lynn said he would cross through time to drive the enemy out while ensuring their present history remained unchanged, regardless of what he might have to do.

Lynn reassured his family that he would not face a hopeless future alone, then went to comfort the Sin Lord. The Colossus Brain offered herself as a sacrifice to help him reach godhood, but Lynn rejected the system quest that would require it.

• Sir Awen and the others worried that the Sin Lord might be their companion's future self, and Lynn promised he would not live on alone if all hope was lost.
• Lynn went with the Colossus Brain to visit the Sin Lord, who had shut herself away since returning to Dark Night City.
• Lynn told the Colossus Brain that she had joined his side in the future and claimed he could comfort the Sin Lord.
• The Colossus Brain promised that if Lynn ever had no other way forward, he should eat her, and said that finding the Complete Machinery piece would give them another choice through Trinity.
• Lynn shouted that he would eat the Colossus Brain immediately if she kept thinking that way, and she struck him with a stone.
• When the system offered a quest requiring him to absorb the primordial sources of the Three Ascenders to become a god, Lynn refused because he would never choose that path.

Lynn went to check on the Sin Ancestor after hearing she had shut herself away and was crying, but found her enjoying snacks and a tragic vampire love story. The chapter ended with Lynn confronting her over the misunderstanding.

• Lynn approached the room where the Sin Ancestor was staying, and two Blood Thralls warned him that she refused to see anyone.
• The Blood Thralls told Lynn that their mistress had been in a bad mood and that they could hear her crying behind the door.
• Lynn knocked and heard sobbing, then ordered the Blood Thralls aside and smashed through the locked door.
• Lynn found the Sin Ancestor eating snacks and watching a soap opera while crying over its story.
• The Sin Ancestor asked Lynn what he meant by dying of grief after he grabbed and shook her.

Lynn confronted the Sin Lord about the Sin Spirit who resembled her, but learned that she had endured so much under her curse that she welcomed the possibility of death. After warning his allies about a possible Great Purge, Lynn prepared to travel to the Endless Sea Region with the Sin Lord, Zuo Zuo, the Mother Tree, and a newly assembled doll body for the Clown.

• Lynn asked the Sin Lord whether seeing the similar Sin Spirit had made her fear that it was her future self, but she dismissed the idea and explained that dying would have been a release from her cursed life.
• Lynn stayed in the Sin Lord's room and kept her company while she ate, then told the Matriarch, Sir Awen, and the others that a second Great Purge might threaten the Whole Universe.
• On the third day, Lynn prepared to leave for the Endless Sea Region, reassuring Sir Awen that he could return through a Boundary Gate if danger arose.
• The Sin Lord complained about being forced to go underwater, while Lynn brought her, Zuo Zuo, and the Mother Tree along.
• Dollhouse technicians assembled a doll body for the Clown, who objected to its appearance, but Lynn insisted that it suited his tastes.

Lynn set off for the Endless Sea Region with Zuo Zuo, the Sin Lord, and Clown, leaving Sir Awen to strengthen Dark Night City while he sought the captain and the fallen Seraphim. They emerged through a Death Line into a Redstorm, where the captain’s ship watched them fall into the lightning.

• Lynn told Sir Awen to prepare Dark Night City for war and left him in charge while he traveled to the sea.
• The Sin Lord offered to stay behind and help, but Sir Awen declined, and Lynn brought her along with Zuo Zuo and Clown.
• Lynn opened a Death Line so the group could find the captain’s true form, heal him, and enlist his people to search for the Seraphim.
• In the Endless Sea Region, the captain ordered his ship to flee the Redstorm by sailing west into Deep Sea Race territory.
• A Death Line tore open the sky, and Lynn’s group tumbled out into the storm, where red lightning struck them as they screamed.

Lynn rescued the Sin Lord from the redstorm by pulling her into his System Space, where the Clown explained that they had emerged near the prison’s dangerous boundary. The group learned that the lightning was a forbidden phenomenon tied to the Female Host’s power of disorder, and the Clown blamed Lynn for opening the gate too far out at sea.

• A ship’s crew watched distant figures get repeatedly struck by red lightning, and its captain ordered the ship to flee.
• Lynn pulled the Sin Lord from the sea into his System Space after she survived the redstorm and began drowning.
• The Sin Lord blamed Lynn for taking her into the water, then panicked when he pointed out that her clothes were soaked.
• The Clown warned Lynn not to use spatial powers near the boundary and said the region was outside his jurisdiction as a Jailer.
• The Clown identified the lightning as redstorm, a forbidden phenomenon born from the Female Host’s power of disorder.
• The Clown angrily told Lynn that opening the gate directly into the deep sea had brought them dangerously close to the boundary.

Lynn and the Sin Lord crossed the storm-wracked Deep Sea, following Captain Constantine’s compass while Lynn investigated the waters for signs of Azephala. The Clown revealed that a powerful border guardian known as the King's Knight, the knight of the King of the Deep Sea, ruled the region.

• Lynn waited for the blood-red lightning to subside, then used Captain Constantine’s compass to set a course across the Deep Sea.
• The Sin Lord carried Lynn through the air while he scanned the ocean and wondered why Azephala had not answered his message.
• Lynn sent an eyeball formed from his erosion marks into the depths, but it descended past a thousand meters without finding the seabed.
• Lynn asked the Clown who oversaw the Endless Sea, and the Clown identified the region’s guardian as the King's Knight, the knight of the King of the Deep Sea.
• The Clown explained that the four highest-ranking Jailers could cross borders freely and were powerful enough to wipe out the other Jailers.