Chapter Summaries

Lynn investigated a cold, eerie presence on the Deep Sea floor and discovered that the supposed seafloor was actually black tissue belonging to an enormous creature. After the creature attacked and severed his eyeball’s connection to him, Lynn and the Sin Lord fled above the spreading black mist.

• Lynn sent an eyeball formed from erosion marks down to the barren seafloor to investigate the unusual presence he had sensed before.
• Lynn sensed the presence growing stronger and realized it had targeted him, despite the Clown advising him not to invite trouble.
• A pitch-black tentacle attacked Lynn’s eyeball, and the silt-covered seafloor revealed itself as vast black tissue studded with opening eyes and slits.
• The creature’s attack severed Lynn’s connection to the eyeball as black mist surged across the sea.
• Lynn warned the Sin Lord, who carried Lynn and the Clown higher while they viewed the images Lynn had captured.

Lynn, Sin Lord, and the Clown were attacked by a vast creature in the black mist, which the Clown identified as the King’s Knight’s shapeshifting war steed. They escaped its lethal illusions for the moment, but remained surrounded by the creature’s domain and needed to find its true form.

• The Clown recognized the black-mist creature as possibly resembling the King’s Knight’s shapeless mount and warned Lynn that they might be in danger.
• A gigantic maw erupted from the mist, and Sin Lord slashed it apart, only for its fragments to dissolve and reveal that the attack had been an illusion.
• The Clown identified the creature as the King’s Knight’s war steed and urged Lynn and Sin Lord to reach the seabed through the mist.
• Lynn used his primordial power to blast open a patch of real space, and he and Sin Lord escaped the illusion through it.
• Lynn raised a barrier of yellow sand to keep the mist from engulfing them, while the Clown warned that they could not dispel the creature’s far-reaching domain without finding its true form.

Lynn and the Sin Lord descended into the sea to find the creature behind the attacks, but they were overwhelmed by illusions and unseen assaults. Lynn set off a Primordial Power-infused nuclear bomb, leaving the Clown terrified as it detonated in his arms.

• Lynn persuaded the Sin Lord to descend with him into the sea, where he used his powers to move through the dark water.
• The Clown warned Lynn that their hidden attacker could strike with the Female Host's power, and a huge tentacle attacked them from below.
• The Sin Lord cut the tentacle while Lynn evaded it, then they pierced through an illusory decaying ship before more monsters attacked.
• As the illusions seized Lynn, the Clown, and the Sin Lord, Lynn pulled out a Hiroshima-Brand Atomic Hydrogen Bomb and charged it with Firstborn Power.
• The Clown begged Lynn to put the bomb away, but Lynn triggered it by pounding its fuse, and it detonated in his arms.

Lynn used nuclear bombs to clear a path through the sea and expose the black flesh covering the seabed. He fired Clown, empowered by a fully charged Firstborn fragment, into the creature, and Clown pierced its mass as countless eyes and tentacles reacted.

• Lynn and the Sin Lord found Clown floating in the sea after the first explosion, and Lynn discovered that the Firstborn fragment inside Clown had reached maximum charge.
• Lynn set off more nuclear bombs, blasting away the seawater and opening a path to the ocean floor.
• Lynn loaded the protruding Firstborn fragment into the Dragon Sniper Rifle and fired Clown toward the black flesh.
• The creature opened countless eyes and sent tentacles to stop Clown, but his charged power tore through them.
• Clown plunged into the black flesh with the Firstborn fragment projecting from his chest.

Lynn and his allies struck the Deep Sea Devourer with Primordial Power, forcing the colossal creature to emerge from the seabed. Lynn realized it had been corrupted by a Calamity and was being controlled from outside the world, just as it attacked him.

• Lynn's strike with the Firstborn fragment caused golden cracks to spread across the seabed and severely injured the Deep Sea Devourer.
• The Deep Sea Devourer rose from the seabed, and Lynn's panel identified it as a Root-Level miracle creature once tamed as the King's Knight's war steed.
• Clown recognized the Deep Sea Devourer, while its immense presence forced the Sin Lord to retreat.
• Lynn sensed the creature's gaze carried the power of a Polluter and concluded that a Calamity had corrupted it.
• Lynn pulled out the Coffin Beyond Time as the Deep Sea Devourer lashed its tentacles toward him.

Lynn realized the colossal beast might still retain its reason because its contamination was only partial, so he and Clown unleashed a curse upheaval to awaken it. The beast began showing signs of pain and bodily change, while the Sin Lord and the surrounding sea were also affected.

• The colossal beast attacked Lynn, the Sin Lord, and Clown, while Lynn refused to flee and leave them behind.
• Lynn noticed the beast had a 47% contamination level and reasoned that it might still be bound by Hell’s curse.
• Lynn braced against the beast’s tentacle with the Firstborn Power in his coffin and ordered Clown to use his authority to upheave every curse on it.
• Clown’s chaotic music awakened the curses affecting the Sin Lord and the surrounding sea, causing the Sin Lord to suffer and the water to turn black.
• The beast’s flesh began to dry and crack, its tentacles began to wither, and pain appeared in its blood-red eye.

Lynn fled the rampaging Deep Sea beast after realizing the Clown was trying to use its attacks to break free of his control. The Clown was left trapped and battered, begging Lynn to return as Lynn rode away.

• The Deep Sea beast’s curse took effect, and Lynn put the screaming Sin Ancestor into his System Space.
• The Clown deliberately endured the beast’s attacks to weaken the Firstborn Power fragment inside him and escape Lynn’s control.
• Lynn realized the Clown’s plan and fled first on his coffin lid, leaving the beast to attack the Clown.
• The beast blocked the Clown’s attempt to escape, and the Clown begged Lynn for help.
• Lynn demanded that the Clown do a backflip, then rode away again when the Clown protested.

Lynn used the Dragon Sniper Rifle to recharge Clown’s fragment and weaken the beast’s corruption with Firstborn Power. After fusing the last of Raven’s corpse into his soul, he turned himself into a rain of golden blood and combined purification with Clown’s curse, leaving the beast calmer and confused.

• Lynn made Clown perform another backflip, then shot Firstborn Power into the fragment embedded in Clown’s chest, adding a trace of his own psionics.
• Lynn fired at the beast’s purple-black corruption, burning away a large area and making its pain more apparent.
• The beast submerged and surged toward Lynn, who crushed the last piece of Raven’s corpse and released his Firstborn Power.
• Lynn scattered himself across the beast as golden blood while Clown unleashed Curse Turmoil at maximum output.
• The curse and purification reduced the beast’s corruption from 47% to 30%, and its body quieted as bewilderment appeared in its eye.

Lynn purified the Deep Sea Devourer enough to restore his will, then tried to calm him and remove the remaining curses. The beast became less aggressive but remained nervous as Lynn prepared to treat him.

• Lynn regenerated after using his Firstborn Power to purify the Deep Sea Devourer, lowering his corruption level to 29%.
• The Clown doll praised Lynn, and Lynn struck him before turning his attention to the beast.
• Lynn used the Eye of Cthulhu to probe the Deep Sea Devourer and sensed fear and nervousness, realizing the beast had regained his will.
• Lynn reassured the Deep Sea Devourer and soothed his tentacle with Firstborn Power, reducing the beast’s agitation.
• Lynn began suppressing the remaining curses, and a prompt asked whether he would use his limited-time curse removal ability on the Deep Sea Devourer.

Lynn suppressed the curse afflicting the Deep Sea Devourer and learned that his Master had sent the War Beasts to kill him. As a corrupted force closed in across the Endless Sea, the Devourer swallowed Lynn and Clown and fled underwater, warning that the attackers were coming for Lynn.

• Lynn used white light to suppress the Deep Sea Devourer's curse, changing his attitude from hostile to neutral and triggering the Endless Sea Overlord quest.
• The Deep Sea Devourer revealed that his Master had mentioned Lynn and that a voice had commanded him to kill him.
• The Deep Sea Devourer recalled that the rebels had launched a Great Rebellion beyond the Border and warned that they were coming for Lynn.
• A scarlet thunderbolt struck the Deep Sea Devourer as black mist and enormous monstrosities swept in, and Clown recognized Redstorm and the Great Rebellion.
• The Deep Sea Devourer transformed into a colossal whale, swallowed Lynn and Clown, and fled underwater while warning that the Western Sea's Jailers and War Beasts had been corrupted and the attackers were coming to kill Lynn.

Lynn and his companions learned that ancient corruption had triggered a rebellion among the Western Sea’s war beasts, who had trapped their master beyond the border. The rebellion’s scope and the Female Host’s absence remained uncertain, but Lynn believed the group was still on the correct timeline and had survived the Western Sea.

• The Deep Sea Devourer explained that corruption planted during a war over two thousand years earlier had awakened and triggered the rebellion when the Queen fell asleep months ago.
• Lynn admitted that he had led the Calamity to their world, and the Devourer described how corrupted war beasts seized the Western Sea, concealed the rebellion, and prepared an ambush for Lynn.
• The Devourer revealed that the rebels had banished their master’s troops into the Outer Cosmos as their master tried to return, leaving him to face the Calamity and its Polluters alone.
• Lynn wondered whether corruption had spread among Jailers beyond the Western Sea, while Clown questioned why the Female Host had not intervened.
• Lynn reasoned that the Female Host might be fighting the Time War and that their survival meant they were still on the correct timeline; he joked that Clown had probably died and promised to visit his grave.

The Deep Sea Devourer fled the corrupted Godslayer Giant Shark by dragging Lynn and the others through a domain of ninety-nine overlapping illusions. The pursuer broke into the illusions, and the Devourer warned that they had to escape before he saw through them.

• The Godslayer Giant Shark attacked the Deep Sea Devourer, and Clown recognized him as an ancient War Steed who had fought in the Old Gods War.
• The Deep Sea Devourer used the impact of the shark's blow to dive into the seabed, dissolve into black fluid, and escape through mist.
• Lynn and the others emerged aboard a sailing ship in an illusory ocean, but the Godslayer Giant Shark broke into the domain and swallowed numerous ships.
• The Deep Sea Devourer shifted them through layers of illusions, scattering their auras across ninety-nine overlapping worlds.
• The Deep Sea Devourer warned Lynn and the others that the illusions would not hold for long and urged them to escape.

The Deep Sea Devourer and Lynn tried to escape the Western Sea as corrupted former allies attacked them from both sides. The Deep Sea Devourer revealed his loyalty to Lynn as the last raven left by his master, then transformed to hold back the attackers and help them escape.

• The Deep Sea Devourer fled through the sea with Lynn and Clown, but the waters ahead began boiling and a colossal lava sword struck them.
• Lynn recognized their attacker as the Lava Giant God, a once-gentle ancient creature now corrupted and violently blocking their path.
• A frost-covered fin pursued them from below, trapping them between the Lava Giant God’s heat and the unknown creature’s freezing cold.
• Lynn questioned why the Deep Sea Devourer was helping him, and the Devourer explained that his master had stayed behind as an eternal watcher and left Lynn as the last raven.
• The Deep Sea Devourer transformed into a giant in black armor, seized the frost-covered fin, shattered the ice, and urged the others to fight.

The Deep Sea Devourer fled underground with Lynn after sacrificing much of his strength to deceive the pursuing Origins, hoping to reach safety in the Great Rifts. Instead, they found the Clown doll and a scarlet figure waiting with corrupted knights, and she revealed that God the Father had foreseen their arrival.

• The Deep Sea Devourer’s apparent corpse dissolved into black fish, revealing that his death had been an illusion.
• Lynn offered to suppress the Devourer’s spreading corruption, but the Devourer refused and hurried deeper underground to avoid detection.
• The Devourer told Lynn he intended to reach the border and open a door for his master if he remained sane.
• The Devourer carried Lynn and the Clown doll into the Great Rifts, where they encountered rows of corrupted knights and a scarlet figure.
• The scarlet figure said God the Father had told her the Devourer would bring them to her.

Lynn and his companions learned that Navigator Silia had secretly controlled the rebellion and willingly served Father God. As corrupted Deep Sea Knights charged, the Deep Sea Devourer shielded Lynn and Clown, unleashing an ominous power as his body began to dissolve.

• Clown recognized Silia as a Navigator and accused her of betraying the Dark World by embracing the calamity.
• Silia admitted she had controlled the rebels and revealed that she had helped banish Master, who she expected to become Father God's servant.
• Silia singled out Lynn and said Father God wanted him dead, then ordered the corrupted Deep Sea Knights to attack.
• Clown told Lynn to pull out the fragment so he could unleash his full power.
• The Deep Sea Devourer rose to shield Lynn and Clown as his body dissolved and a chilling aura of annihilation emerged.

The Deep Sea Devourer annihilated his self to become a true chaotic creature and protect Lynn and Clown from Silia. As Lynn and Clown escaped, Clown desperately tried to preserve the Devourer’s name before every trace of him vanished.

• The Deep Sea Devourer charged Silia and erased his identity, creating a vast chaotic void that swallowed the surrounding sea, matter, and space.
• Clown grabbed Lynn and fled through the seabed caves while Silia shouted that Lynn could not escape the Western Sea.
• In System Space, Lynn asked whether the Deep Sea Devourer was dead, and Clown carved and wrote the name Deep Sea Devourer to keep them from forgetting him.
• Clown tried to carve the name into his own heart and told Lynn that the Devourer’s existence was being erased along with his identity.
• Lynn saw the carved name fading and understood why Clown was desperate to leave proof that the Deep Sea Devourer had existed.

Lynn watched the Deep Sea Devourer vanish from the world's memory after sacrificing himself, while Clown forgot him and Lynn alone retained his identity. Lynn freed Clown from the Chaos fragment and vowed to remain in the Western Sea until he killed the Navigator.

• The Deep Sea Devourer’s name and traces rapidly crumbled away as Clown desperately tried to remember him.
• Clown forgot the fallen comrade, and Lynn discovered that he remembered the Deep Sea Devourer but could neither say nor write his name.
• Lynn promised Clown that he would remember him if Clown ever met the same fate, and told him he could leave or continue following him.
• Lynn declared he would not leave the Western Sea until he killed the Navigator, then pulled the Chaos fragment from Clown’s heart.

Lynn assessed the rebellion and concluded that his Firstborn Power could purge the pollution controlling the Jailers, giving him a way to turn the fight around. He suspected the captain’s hidden refuge held the second corpse of Raven, which could strengthen his power, and resolved to pursue that lead.

• Clown chose to remain with Lynn and agreed they had reason to avenge the forgotten companion who had succumbed to Chaos.
• Lynn identified the Western Sea Jailers’ rebellion, the calamity’s ability to access hosts’ thoughts, and the danger facing Azephala and the captain.
• Lynn concluded that the enemy’s inability to find them and the possibility of freeing polluted allies gave them a chance to fight back.
• Lynn said that finding Raven’s second corpse would strengthen his Firstborn Power enough to purge pollution from their enemies.
• Lynn recalled that the captain’s true form had survived in a place with unusual properties and suggested it might contain Raven’s second corpse.

Lynn, Sin Lord, and the clown doll disguised themselves as sea creatures and followed Lynn’s Compass through the deep-sea caves toward the captain’s hiding place. After hiding from a passing Godslayer, they joined migrating marine creatures, leaving their destination still ahead of them.

• Lynn said they had to find the captain’s hiding place quickly and warned that failure would mean their funeral banquet.
• Lynn led Sin Lord and the clown doll out through the deep-sea karst caves, telling Sin Lord to conceal her bat form.
• Lynn’s Compass pointed the way, and the group reached a glowing stretch of seabed after swimming for over an hour.
• Lynn hid with Sin Lord and the clown doll in the sludge when a Godslayer passed overhead.
• After the Godslayer left, Lynn decided to follow the fleeing sea creatures, and the group joined a growing migration of marine life.

Lynn and the Clown Doll followed an orderly migration of sea creatures to a trench, where Lynn recognized the sounds of venting gas as Morse code left by Miss Azephala. Her message revealed that she was alive, warned that a higher-order being wanted to kill him, and directed him to a coordinate node where they could meet.

• The Clown Doll suspected a single consciousness was guiding the sea creatures, and Lynn followed their procession toward its destination.
• The migrating creatures gathered from every direction at a trench, then scattered chaotically upon arrival.
• Lynn recognized the trench's rhythmic gas whistles as Morse code and rushed to decipher them.
• Miss Azephala's message confirmed she was alive and explained that a trident's power had caused the migration.
• Miss Azephala warned Lynn about a higher-order being and gave him coordinates for a place where they could contact each other.