Recaps

Lin En uncovered his connection to the Lord of Crawling and fought the cultists pursuing Hana Ye. He defeated the Black Butler’s allies and confronted him at the cult’s castle, where the Black Butler invoked the Lord of Crimson’s power, only for Lin En to reveal that the restraints had not subdued him.

• Lin En revealed himself as the Divine Chosen, explained the Reality Collapse, and won Ophiel’s apology and Anthony’s renewed allegiance.
• Lin En established the Tribunal Office with Ophiel, Morgans, and Nero, then ordered an investigation into the Crimson Secret Cult and its Vessel experiments.
• Lin En synthesized Origin Substances, including one with four Flesh Sequences and a Feminization effect, and left the Arcane Academy with Hana Ye.
• At 156 Gear Street, Lin En discovered that his family served the Lord of Crawling and expelled the Outer God’s Blood before it could corrupt him.
• Black Butler and his allies ambushed Lin En to seize Hana Ye, but Lin En killed Black Widow and Phase Demon and pursued Black Butler in his altered form.
• Lin En caught Black Butler in the Spirit Realm, where Black Butler used Weapon Dissolution and then fled to a ruined cult castle to summon his master’s power.
• Black Butler invoked the Lord of Crimson’s power and bound Lin En with Soul-Devouring Shackles, but Lin En let him believe the restraints had worked before revealing he was unharmed.

Lin En outmaneuvered the Lord of Crimson, captured her avatar, and learned of her plan to claim the King of the Red Moon’s authority. In the Tyrant’s Tomb, he met Firstborn, obtained a ring of Origin Substances, and returned to the Second Layer as Firstborn prepared to act against a coalition of divine families.

• Lin En traded a fake Hana Ye and an explosive fake box for Tyrant’s flesh, then severed the Crimson Shadow’s avatar from the Lord of Crimson and captured her in the Warp.
• Lin En bound the Crimson Shadow to a painful new body and questioned Shinsen Saya, who explained the Lord of Crimson’s plan to claim the King of the Red Moon’s authority through a suitable vessel.
• Lin En resolved to protect Hana Ye and strengthen himself, then descended into his vessel and awoke in the Seventh Layer with Firstborn in Tyrant’s Tomb.
• Lin En and Firstborn survived the tomb’s monsters, and Firstborn revealed that he was the Tyrant’s Vessel and had been seeking the Tyrant’s authority.
• Lin En fought Firstborn until his vessel neared collapse, then learned about the Tyrant’s bloodline, the seven majesties’ flight, and Firstborn’s suspicions about the vanished Sun and stars.
• Firstborn led Lin En to the Tyrant Family’s ruins and uncovered three full-sequence, space-related Origin Substances, offering them to Lin En in exchange for marriage.
• Firstborn implanted his three Origin Substances, opened a rift to the Second Layer, and gave Lin En a ring containing the Origin Substances and an Image Crystal.
• Lin En left through the rift, while Firstborn told the Gravekeepers not to pursue him and ordered the Knights of God to investigate events in Clockwork City.

Lin En investigated Hana Ye’s origins, confronted the Church over the Vessel incident, and established the Religious Tribunal while arresting Tyrael. In the dungeon, Lin En revealed his identity as the Lord of Writhing and forced Tyrael to consider helping him create a vessel for an Outer God.

• Lin En learned that Hana Ye had been called a perfect Vessel and discovered that the Red Moon’s power had erupted around her before she collapsed.
• Hana Ye recalled the Church’s sacrifices and the Red Moon’s arrival, while Lin En reassured her that her choices—not her origins—determined whether she was a monster.
• Lin En gathered emotional fragments, forged origin substances, restored his masculine body with the Four Holy Flames and Dual Flesh Origin Substance, and decided to confront the Church.
• Lin En questioned Ophiel about the Lord of Crimson and the old Red Moon conflict, then identified Tyrael as a bishop tied to Mirror’s experiments.
• Lin En founded the Religious Tribunal at a banquet, ordered Tyrael’s arrest, and sent Mirror’s squad to capture people involved in the Vessel incident.
• Lin En accused Tyrael of masterminding the Vessel incident and had him detained, while Mirror confronted the captured prisoners who had once experimented on her.
• In the dungeon, Lin En deduced that Hana Ye could house the Lord of Crimson and the King of the Red Moon’s authority, then pulled Tyrael’s soul into the Warp.
• Lin En revealed himself as the Lord of Writhing, showed Tyrael the captive Valkyrie and Lord of Crimson, and demanded help creating a vessel before removing Tyrael’s golden sixth-tier origin substance.

Lin En used Tyrael to reach the Crimson Secret Cult’s vessel factory, where he fought the Lord of Crimson and captured another piece of her will. After his new Vessel emerged, Lin En and Tyrael became trapped in the Eighth Layer, where Firstborn rescued them and revealed the danger posed by sleeping gods.

• Lin En implanted the Origin Substance in Crimson Shadow, whose mind and body changed, then manipulated her into continuing their tentacle game while Tyrael agreed to lead him to the vessel factory.
• Tyrael explained the cult’s plans for Hana Ye and showed Lin En the factory, where abducted women and a captured Divine Scion served as hosts for making Vessels.
• Lin En ordered Tyrael to use his blood and Vessel flesh to create a new body, but the Lord of Crimson attacked the factory and her forces disrupted the gestation.
• Lin En confronted the Lord of Crimson, drove her through layers of the Spirit Realm, and vanished as his Vessel collapsed, while she tried to summon herself through a Rift.
• Lin En emerged from the mother as a powerful monster, defeated the Lord of Crimson, and escaped the collapsing factory with Tyrael and her unconscious avatar.
• Lin En named the captured avatar Little Red Number Two and brought her to the prison, where she witnessed his treatment of the first Little Red.
• Lin En reached Calamity Rank 3 and returned to the Spirit Realm, where he found the mother nearly frozen and contacted Firstborn for rescue.
• Firstborn rescued Lin En, Tyrael, and the mother from the blizzard, drove off the Snow Demon, and told Lin En that sleeping gods and sacrificial offerings threatened the Eighth Layer.