Chapter Summaries

Lynn realized Miss Azephala was alive and might have learned of the Great Rebellion through a trident connected to the Sea King Palace, so he ordered Clown to change course. Meanwhile, the scarlet figure hunted for Lynn and Raven, then noticed that sea creatures were migrating along suspiciously deliberate routes.

• Lynn connected Miss Azephala’s trident to the Sea King Palace and wondered if it was the weapon wielded by the Great Lord.
• Lynn ordered Clown to change their destination after learning Miss Azephala was alive.
• The scarlet figure searched the Western Sea for Lynn and warned that she would seize control of any corruption stripped from a King Beast.
• An attendant reported that mortal powers and sea creatures were panicking and fleeing, while the Barrier and suppressed Origins kept the situation under control.
• The scarlet figure noticed that fish and sea creatures were following concealed migration routes, demanded a sea chart, and began marking their movements.

Azephala detected coordinated signals in the sea and ordered Hell to exterminate all life within a ten-thousand-kilometer radius, suspecting the King's Knight was behind them. As Lynn and his companions raced toward the coordinates, curses surged through the ocean and caused every living thing around them to explode into blood mist.

• Azephala identified synchronized sounds at the fish schools' destinations and ordered an indiscriminate extermination across a ten-thousand-kilometer radius.
• Lynn hurried toward Azephala's coordinates with Clown and the Sin Lord, telling Clown to watch for the Jailers and the Sin Lord to keep paddling.
• Clown sensed something abnormal as curse threads emerged from him, Lynn, the Sin Lord, and the surrounding sea life.
• Clown urgently told them to enter Lynn's Inner Space, but the curse threads swelled and burst almost immediately.
• Sea creatures, microorganisms, vegetation, and seaweed exploded into blood mist, turning the ocean scarlet.

After Hell's extermination mechanism killed every living thing in the sea around him, Lynn chose to reveal himself and flood the lifeless waters with countless Erosion Mark doubles. A King Beast detected signs of life and the scarlet figure rushed to confront him, unaware that Lynn had filled the sea with copies.

• Clown explained that Hell's extermination mechanism detonated the curses inside every living creature and that only a few powerful Jailers and border Kings could activate it.
• Lynn concluded that his enemies had drained the region of life to make him easier to track, and decided to play along.
• Lynn left System Space, activated the Eye of Cthulhu, and implanted the Colossus Heart and Flesh Core into his body.
• Lynn used his powers to turn vast quantities of flesh into Erosion Marks and sent countless doubles spreading throughout the sea.
• The scarlet figure's King Beast detected a trace of living activity, and she sent King Beasts and knights to pursue it.
• The scarlet figure reached the suspected area and called on Lynn to accept his death.

Lynn counterattacked Scarlet Shadow by flooding the Scarlet Sea Region with erosion-mark duplicates, making it impossible to identify his true body. He scattered an arsenal of weapons through the waters to sow further chaos and weaken her control over the King Beasts.

• The God Eater Giant Shark destroyed the erosion marks and Lynn’s apparent body, but Scarlet Shadow detected Lynn’s presence appearing across the ocean.
• Lynn used his Eye of Cthulhu, Colossus Heart, Flesh Core, Firstborn Power, and Raven Armor to produce duplicates and conceal his true body from Scarlet Shadow’s mental tracking.
• The Clown Doll observed Lynn’s growth and the powerful Bio-Armor he had gathered.
• Lynn brought weapons and flesh constructs from his System Space and spread them throughout the sea, including nuclear bombs, a Mind Shocker, and a Geological Pulse Instrument.
• Lynn’s duplicates were destroyed as his planted weapons exploded across the ocean, increasing the chaos and making the King Beasts harder for Scarlet Shadow to control.
• Lynn challenged Scarlet Shadow to find him and said he would leave after they had enough fun.

The scarlet ruler trapped Lynn's forces inside a force field made by eight Suppression Banners and began destroying the seawater to expose them. Lynn recognized that destroying one banner could bring down the field and suggested he could repeat something the King had done in his youth, though he was unsure whether the opportunity remained.

• The scarlet ruler recalled the King Beasts from eradicating Lynn's erosion marks and ordered them to guard the region's perimeter.
• She summoned eight Suppression Banners and placed them at fixed nodes, linking them into a vast force field around the sea region.
• The scarlet ruler and the King Beasts used lightning and chaotic power to destroy the seawater inside the field and confine Lynn's erosion marks.
• The Clown Doll explained that the banners had been used in the Old Gods War and that destroying one could collapse the entire force field.
• Lynn asked whether breaking a banner would bring down the field, then told the Clown Doll he could imitate something the King had done when he was young.

Lynn took Clown to the Great Rift and set out to use the Chaos Creature formed from a fallen Jailer as a chariot to break through their enemies. Scarlet Eye detected Lynn racing toward the King Beasts with the Chaos Creature surging behind him, and recoiled at the sight.

• Lynn brought Clown to the Great Rift, where Clown sensed the Chaos Creature lurking below.
• Lynn explained that he planned to ride the Chaos Creature through the battlefield, accepting the damage it might cause to Hell.
• Lynn summoned the Coffin Beyond Time and plunged into the abyss toward the Chaos Creature.
• Scarlet Eye detected an extreme surge of Primordial Power and spotted Lynn riding his coffin toward the King Beasts.
• Scarlet Eye saw the Chaos Creature following Lynn and recognized it as the Jailer from earlier.

Lynn lured a chaos creature toward the Suppression Banners, surviving the scarlet figure’s attack by hiding inside the Coffin Beyond Time. After the creature devoured the coffin’s Firstborn Power and turned toward the defenders, the scarlet figure ordered the King Beasts to retreat.

• The scarlet figure ordered the King Beasts to attack Lynn and used Redstorm against him, but the Coffin Beyond Time shielded him from the barrage.
• The King Beasts launched a concentrated assault that sent Lynn’s coffin into the chaos creature, where it lost its Firstborn Power but remained intact.
• The chaos creature shifted its attention to the Suppression Banners and the gathered King Beasts after Lynn’s power was concealed.
• The scarlet figure ordered the defenders to attack the chaos creature, but their assaults were absorbed and strengthened it.
• The scarlet figure ordered the King Beasts to retreat from the advancing chaos creature.

Lynn escaped Scarlet Shadow by using a double and a coffin to lure her toward the Chaos Creature, then fled while she focused on the decoy. Scarlet Shadow and her forces found the abandoned coffin and believed Lynn was still inside.

• The Chaos Creature destroyed the Suppression Banners and swallowed the barrier while Scarlet Shadow waited for it to leave, intent on capturing Lynn.
• Lynn's double and the coffin were consumed by the Chaos Creature as he secretly escaped through the currents in Black Feather Armor.
• Lynn revealed his deception to the Clown Doll and the Sin Lord, whose trust in him increased as he explained his escape.
• Lynn reassured the Sin Lord that Scarlet Shadow's forces would be distracted by the coffin and continued toward Miss Azephala.
• Scarlet Shadow and her forces found the mud-covered black coffin and prepared to open it, believing Lynn was trapped inside.

Lynn followed Azephala’s clues to an underwater cavern, where a tiny fish guided him and his companions to a hidden ancient palace. Its architecture resembled the magical world of Violet, suggesting it was a legacy of the Sea King Palace, and Lynn began exploring it.

• Lynn traveled to Azephala’s coordinates with the Clown Doll and the Sin Lord after escaping Scarlet Shadow’s pursuit.
• Lynn asked the Clown Doll whether a communicating trident might be connected to the Sea King Palace, and learned that tridents symbolized the Western Sea ruler’s authority.
• A tiny fish approached Lynn, and he recognized it as a possible guide sent by Azephala.
• Schools of unusual fish led Lynn and his companions through underwater caverns to a vast hidden palace.
• Lynn discovered that the palace’s architecture resembled the ancient magical style of Violet and concluded it was likely a Sea King Palace site.

Lynn, the Sin Lord, and Clown reached the Sea King Palace ruins, where a statue resembling Lynn led him to claim he was the Sea King's reincarnation. At the palace gates, they found another statue depicting a dragon and a young woman, and Lynn said they were the same person.

• Lynn and the others found a statue resembling him outside the palace, and Clown recognized it as the Sea King and knelt before it.
• Lynn teased Clown and claimed the statue represented his previous incarnation, leaving the Sin Lord impressed by his supposed status.
• The group crossed the ruined palace grounds and stopped before a second statue depicting a dragon curled around a crowned young woman.
• Lynn told the others that the dragon and the young woman were the same person.

Lynn and Clown discovered an ancient Sea King Palace hall beneath the sea, which opened when Lynn touched its doors and revealed rows of coffins. Lynn translated an inscription identifying the first buried knight as Erikson, who had served the Sea King Palace and was wished to return to Violet after death.

• Clown recognized that the statue resembled Lynn's Female Host and King, then kowtowed to it and begged forgiveness.
• Lynn teased Clown about being called the Great Lord's descendant's father, provoking Clown's fury.
• Lynn and Clown concluded that the well-preserved, million-year-old hall had not been completely abandoned and approached its doors.
• When Lynn touched the doors, they opened and expelled the surrounding seawater, revealing an ancient temple filled with stone coffins.
• Lynn translated the inscription on a coffin, learning that Erikson had been a master sergeant of the Sea King Palace's Fifteenth Legion and that the inscription wished his soul would return to Violet.

Lynn discovered that the temple was a burial ground for the Sea King Palace’s ancient knights and reestablished contact with Azephala through the throne. Azephala warned him that a Great Rebellion had plunged the Endless Sea and the wider Main Universe into war, with many people seeking to kill him.

• Lynn, Clown, and the Sin Lord recognized the stone coffins as the final resting place of the Sea King Palace’s ancient survivors.
• Lynn heard Azephala’s voice and verified her identity through their conversation.
• Azephala told Lynn she was trapped in an unusual realm with her god, the Seraphim, who remained in an eternal slumber.
• Azephala explained that she was contacting Lynn through a trident and directed him toward the throne, where their connection became clearer.
• Azephala warned Lynn that a Great Rebellion had broken out across the Endless Sea and that a war had begun throughout the Main Universe.

Azephala told Lynn how the Black Eye’s calamity devastated the Endless Sea and how she discovered the Trident, which named Lynn its true master. Meanwhile, the Scarlet Shadow failed to damage the Coffin and was struck by a mysterious voice revealing that Lynn was not inside it.

• Azephala recounted how she reached the Endless Sea, witnessed the Black Eye’s arrival, and survived the deaths and destruction it caused.
• Azephala described the Jailers emerging from the seabed to defeat monsters pouring through the sky’s rifts, followed by the Trident’s arrival and the King Beasts’ rebellion.
• Azephala told Lynn that the Trident recognized him as its true master, the ancient, whole Lynn.
• The Scarlet Shadow struck the Coffin with Scarlet Thunder, but it left the Coffin nearly unmarked.
• The Scarlet Shadow tried to carry the Coffin toward the border, but purple-black patterns appeared on her face and a voice told her that Lynn was not inside.

Lynn learned that the Trident carried the final message of the King's Knight, who had been guiding Azephala. The King's Knight revealed that Lynn was the Great Lord's last remaining shred of humanity and that his survival kept the Eternal Sleeper from pulling the Great Lord fully into the Void and Chaos.

• Azephala suffered a painful vision of a ruined kingdom, a dark figure, and an invasion spreading into the Material Universe before she awoke beside the black coffin.
• Lynn confirmed that the Trident was likely the Great Lord's royal weapon and asked to speak with it.
• The Trident's ancient will stirred familiar memories in Lynn, but he rejected the identity of the Great Lord and guarded his spirit from being overtaken.
• The Trident revealed that its speaker was the King's Knight, prompting the Clown Doll to recognize him and Lynn to question how he had survived.
• The King's Knight said he had been betrayed and warned Lynn that he was the Great Lord's last remaining shred of humanity, whose existence restrained the Eternal Sleeper.

Lynn learned that the Calamity threatening the Main Universe was the Sleeper, the Great Lord the ravens had worshipped. The revelation left the Clown devastated as Lynn traced the Sleeper’s attack on the ravens to the universe’s failing system of renewal.

• The Clown recoiled in shock and angrily challenged the King's Knight for claiming that the Calamity was their Great Lord.
• Lynn recalled clues from his past and asked whether the Calamity had been killing every raven.
• The voice from the Throne confirmed that the Sleeper had hunted the ravens for years, leaving only a handful alive.
• The voice explained that the ravens, Hell, the Jailers, and the Great Purge had been created to prevent rulers from holding power forever and to renew the Ordered Universe.
• The voice said the ravens’ deaths and the Calamity’s arrival had disrupted the system, forcing Hell to take in gods as an ark beneath the apocalypse.
• Lynn identified the Calamity as the Sleeper, one of the Three Pillar Gods, and the Clown slumped to the floor as he understood that the Great Lord had become the threat destroying the New World.

Lynn learned that the Great Lord had once escaped an Ancient Being’s control, and the aged voice gave him the Great Lord’s Trident as he faced a similar fate. As the Divine Temple’s Barrier began to collapse under the Scarlet Shadow’s assault, Lynn took up the weapon.

• Lynn questioned whether the Great Lord had gone mad, and the aged voice said they could only meet again in another reincarnation if that were true.
• The Divine Temple shook as the God Eater Giant Shark attacked its Barrier, and the aged voice said the attackers had arrived.
• The aged voice gave the ancient Trident, once wielded by the Great Lord, to Lynn as its true heir.
• The Scarlet Shadow ordered the King Beasts and knights to break into the Divine Temple and seize Lynn.
• Lynn challenged the aged voice about whether he was being led toward the same fate as the Great Lord, and the voice said Lynn could become the true King by breaking free.
• As the Barrier was torn open, Lynn seized the Trident.

Lynn revealed that the King's Knight had sent the King's Halberd back to the Endless Sea as a contingency, and he used its authority over the ocean to face Scarlet Shadow's forces. As the Godslayer Giant Shark charged, Lynn prepared to turn the surrounding seawater to his advantage and escape with Sin Lord and Clown.

• Scarlet Shadow led King Beasts and corrupted knights through the shattered barrier and confronted Lynn in the Ancient Hall.
• Scarlet Shadow recognized the trident Lynn carried as the King's Halberd, an ancient Sea King Palace weapon.
• Lynn explained that the King's Knight had sent the halberd to the Endless Sea, and he felt its immense firstborn power and ocean authority.
• Scarlet Shadow dismissed Lynn's chances despite the weapon, while Lynn told Sin Lord and Clown to hide in his inner space once the fight began.
• The Godslayer Giant Shark smashed through the temple wall and charged at Lynn, who raised the halberd and sensed the seawater responding to him.

Lynn used the Trident to cleanse the God Eater Giant Shark of pollution and free him from Scarlet Shadow’s control. As Scarlet Shadow ordered an all-out attack, the restored shark shielded Lynn, who promised he could save more King Beasts if the shark took him to a certain place.

• Lynn redirected the seawater to evade the God Eater Giant Shark’s charge, then drove the Trident into him and began cleansing his mutations.
• Lynn appealed to the shark’s loyalty to the Sea King Palace as firstborn power battled the pollution and restored his memories.
• The God Eater Giant Shark recognized the Trident as the King’s Halberd and mistook Lynn for the Great Lord, while Scarlet Shadow lost control of him.
• The shark remembered the Great Rebellion and his former brothers’ betrayal, and Lynn confirmed that he remembered.
• Scarlet Shadow ordered the King Beasts and knights to attack, but the restored shark placed himself between them and Lynn.
• Lynn told the shark he could cleanse more King Beasts if they reached a place he knew, and the shark vowed to stop his maddened brothers.

Lynn used the Trident and the Clown Doll’s curses to turn the battle against the Scarlet Shadow’s King Beasts and restore one of them to himself. He left the God Eater Giant Shark guarding the rescued Kraken as the fight continued.

• Lynn ordered the grief-stricken God Eater Giant Shark to stop fighting recklessly, promising to help recover his brothers and invoking the King's Knight’s Trident to secure his obedience.
• The Scarlet Shadow attacked Lynn’s group with red lightning and coordinated strikes from the King Beasts, but Lynn blocked the lightning with the Trident and opened a chasm in the sea to slow their advance.
• The God Eater Giant Shark knocked two King Beasts aside, then seized the wounded Swift One · Kraken as Lynn drove the Trident into him.
• The Scarlet Shadow tried to detonate the pollution inside Kraken, but Lynn summoned the Clown Doll, whose curses immobilized the King Beasts and disrupted her control.
• Lynn’s firstborn power burned away Kraken’s pollution, freeing his suppressed identity and revealing him as an ancient King Beast once tamed by the Deep Sea King’s Knight.

Lynn fled the battlefield after the God Eater Giant Shark stayed behind to hold off the corrupted King Beasts. Guided by the Deep Sea Compass, Lynn and the newly liberated King Beast reached the canyon where the Ancient Captain slept, only to find a vast army waiting beyond the Barrier.

• Lynn liberated a second King Beast, but the burden on his soul left him weakened and unable to free many more.
• The God Eater Giant Shark held back the pursuing King Beasts while Lynn escaped on the Swift One, and Lynn used part of his power to help the Shark resist Chaos.
• Lynn and the Swift One outran their pursuers and reached the canyon indicated by the Deep Sea Compass.
• The newly liberated King Beast carried Lynn into the canyon toward the Ancient Captain's true form, despite Lynn's intention to continue alone.
• Lynn saw thousands of Deep Sea Knights and corrupted King Beasts assembled beyond the Barrier, revealing that the approach to the captain was a trap.