Chapter Summaries

As Tzeentch’s tentacles eroded Rena’s soul, Lynn shouted one of Tzeentch’s true names in a desperate attempt to save her. The name briefly halted Rena’s dissolution, but Tzeentch’s backlash destroyed Lynn’s body.

• Lynn sensed his bond with Rena fading as Tzeentch’s tentacles drained her soul.
• Lynn recalled his history with Rena and, overwhelmed by despair, shouted Tzeentch’s true name.
• Tzeentch’s tentacles briefly loosened, halting Rena’s dissolution and rekindling their bond.
• Tzeentch mocked Lynn and unleashed a torrent of psychic particles as punishment.
• The torrent vaporized Lynn’s armor and dissolved his body into nothingness.

Lynn accepted his innate Warp Essence, sacrificing his mortal body to awaken the primordial authority of Domination. With his new perception, he saw Rena’s fading bond and discovered that Tzeentch’s avatar was only a fragile vessel anchored by Atia, leaving him a chance to act.

• Lynn embraced his Warp Essence, and the ascension ritual began as his mortal body disintegrated.
• A body of purple light stabilized, and Lynn realized his system’s powers had all derived from his authority of Domination.
• Lynn perceived Rena’s soul and saw Tzeentch’s magic eroding the golden thread connecting her to him.
• Lynn examined Tzeentch’s avatar and discovered that Atia’s overloaded soul served as its fragile vessel in realspace.
• Lynn recognized that he could not match Tzeentch himself, but the avatar’s weakness gave him a chance.

Lynn and Tzeentch began a clash between their domains of authority, with Lynn awakening the power of the God of Dominion. Their collision tore apart the space around Saint Garus Castle and annihilated nearly everyone on the battlefield, while Rena remained trapped in Tzeentch's psychic net.

• Tzeentch reflected on Lynn's transformation into a conceptual being and Rena's capture, then decided to test Lynn's power firsthand.
• Lynn instinctively expanded the God of Dominion's domain, imposing obedience on living beings and demanding their submission.
• Tzeentch spread his domain of endless change, twisting space, gravity, light, and color against Lynn's attempt to impose order.
• The opposing domains collided, tearing reality open and unleashing a psychic storm across the battlefield.
• The storm shattered Saint Garus Castle and destroyed nearly every other being present, leaving Lynn, Tzeentch's avatar, and the sheltered Rena alive.

Lynn and Tzeentch abandoned their struggle between domains and fought directly as towering divine avatars. After Lynn halted the battlefield and Tzeentch summoned a blade made to kill lesser gods, Lynn raised his jade seal to counter the attack.

• Leo remained outside the interstitial layer, while Toothy, Doudou, and the surviving Hokage Clan Ork Boyz escaped through the Waaagh! Field.
• Lynn and Tzeentch reined in their domains and clashed in the forms of their divine avatars.
• Lynn split Tzeentch's psychic storm with his Sword of the Son of Heaven and used the Power of Domination to counter his spells.
• Tzeentch summoned ninety-nine Lords of Change, but Lynn used the word "Suppress" to freeze them and the surrounding Warp storm.
• Tzeentch drew the Dove's Blade and charged at Lynn, who raised his jade seal and invoked the Supreme Heaven-Suppressing Seal.

Lynn struggled to defeat Tzeentch’s avatar while Tzeentch continued draining Rena’s consciousness. He devised a plan to use their soul bond and his domination authority to free Rena, then summoned terracotta warriors to distract Tzeentch as he prepared to act.

• Lynn used the Heaven-Subduing Seal to crush the ninety-nine immobilized Lords of Change, then clashed with Tzeentch’s avatar and Dove’s Blade.
• Lynn realized that neither avatar could defeat the other quickly, while Tzeentch continued extracting Rena’s consciousness through his psychic net.
• Lynn decided to use their soul bond and his authority of domination to guide Rena’s body out of the net.
• Lynn summoned a bronze tiger tally and called forth a hundred terracotta warriors to attack Tzeentch’s avatar.
• Tzeentch fought off the warriors, but their relentless assault occupied him and gave Lynn an opening to act.

Lynn used his soul bond with Rena to take control of the Tyranid swarm and gather its collective will outside the Warp pocket. After shielding Rena from Tzeentch’s attack, Lynn and the Hive Mind broke the psychic net, and Rena awakened.

• Lynn followed his soul bond to Rena and began taking over her control of the Tyranid swarm.
• Lynn organized the wills of billions of Tyranids outside the pocket while Tzeentch finished off the terracotta warriors.
• Tzeentch noticed the gathering Hive Mind and fired calamity lightning at Rena’s body.
• Lynn blocked the attack, damaging his avatar while the Hive Mind isolated Rena from the Warp.
• Lynn used Domination to wrest Rena from Tzeentch’s psychic net and gathered her into his arms.
• The tentacle net crumbled, and Rena opened her eyes.

After Rena escaped Tzeentch’s soul web, she reunited with Lynn and merged her will with his, completing the godhead of Domination. Their transformed avatar sealed Tzeentch’s domain beneath a purple membrane, and the Lord of Change recognized it as the Shadow in the Warp.

• Rena woke in Lynn’s arms after escaping Tzeentch’s attempt to erase her independent self.
• Tzeentch prepared to curse Lynn and Rena, but Lynn asked Rena to join forces with him.
• Rena and Lynn dissolved the barriers between their souls, and Rena’s body flowed into Lynn’s avatar.
• The completed godhead transformed Lynn’s avatar into a 150-meter-tall fusion of Domination and Tyranid traits.
• Tzeentch unleashed Chaos storms, but Lynn’s avatar spread a purple membrane over both domains.
• Tzeentch recognized the membrane’s power as the Shadow in the Warp.

Lynn severed Tzeentch’s avatar from the Warp with the Shadow in the Warp and destroyed it in a brutal close-quarters fight. But Tzeentch’s hidden Ritual of Annihilation continued without the avatar, engulfing Brevis in blue mist and preparing to sacrifice the planet and its billions of inhabitants for a godslaying sorcery.

• The Shadow in the Warp cut off the magic feeding Tzeentch’s avatar, and Lynn used his Rena Link form to overwhelm it in close combat.
• Lynn battered Tzeentch’s avatar until its remaining magic dwindled and its limbs repeatedly shattered.
• Tzeentch activated a hidden ritual, but Lynn struck the avatar’s core and destroyed its material form.
• The domain opened through Atia’s sacrifice remained after the avatar’s destruction and began expanding through the Warp Rift.
• Spectral blue mist spread across Brevis, resisting the PDF’s weapons and Psykers’ spells as it eroded the planet and extinguished the lives of its inhabitants.
• The Ritual of Annihilation began using Brevis, its biomass, and its billions of souls as fuel for a sorcery intended to reach godslaying power.

Lynn tried to cross from the Warp into Realspace to save Brevis, but the material universe rejected him without an anchor. As Brevis continued to collapse, he contacted Toothy, who was dying alone on the battlefield and heard Lynn’s voice.

• Lynn resolved to save Brevis and the friends, allies, and resources trapped there.
• Lynn charged toward the rift, but the barrier between the Warp and Realspace repelled him.
• Lynn realized he needed an anchor in the material world and used the system to contact Toothy.
• Toothy, dying amid the psychic mist after losing his mech and companions, heard Lynn’s voice and recognized him as Boss.

As the Ritual of Annihilation consumed Brevis, Lynn guided Toothy through a Divine Power Descent Ritual, using the Ork as an anchor to project his power into realspace. Just as the ritual neared success, Tzeentch intervened, destroyed the energy gathered by the ritual, and began unraveling Lynn’s sense of self.

• Lynn reassured the wounded Toothy and sent him the instructions for a Divine Power Descent Ritual.
• Toothy agreed to become Lynn’s vessel and performed the ritual as the psychic mist consumed Brevis.
• Eighty-one bolts of purple lightning struck Toothy, transforming him into a towering vessel as Lynn’s divine power flowed toward realspace.
• Tzeentch appeared in the Warp and mocked Lynn and Rena, threatening to send Lynn back where he belonged.
• Tzeentch pointed at Lynn’s avatar, dispersed the energy gathered by the Ritual of Annihilation, and caused Lynn’s consciousness to unravel as memories began replaying backward.

Lynn lost all memories of his life with Rena and woke in his former rented room, overwhelmed by grief he could not explain. After his parents found no medical cause and brought him home, his friend Leo concluded that Lynn was suffering from a breakup.

• Lynn watched his memories disappear, including his memories of Rena, before sinking into sleep.
• Lynn woke in his old room with no recollection of what he had lost and wept without understanding why.
• Lynn withdrew from work and social life, and his parents took him for examinations that found no clear cause for his condition.
• Lynn's parents brought him home, but his blank, unresponsive state continued.
• Leo returned from abroad, saw Lynn's condition, and declared that Lynn had suffered a breakup.

Leo took Lynn out to cure his apparent heartbreak, but neither luxury nor a rooftop party managed to lift Lynn’s mood. When Lynn finally asked about Leo’s plans, he learned that Leo was heading to the airport to meet his cousin Rena.

• Lynn’s parents left him in Leo’s care after Leo promised to help him recover within a month.
• Leo drove Lynn to a private club, dressed him in an expensive outfit, and introduced him to Vivian and the party guests.
• Leo offered a bottle of 2015 Romanée-Conti to anyone who could make Lynn smile, but Lynn remained unmoved.
• Xiaolu spoke with Lynn at the party, while Leo explained to Vivian that he wanted Lynn to see that he had more options than the one he was fixated on.
• After other attempts to help Lynn failed, Leo took him home, where Lynn asked about the cousin Leo was going to meet and identified her as Rena.

Lynn waited at H City Airport for Leo’s cousin Rena, feeling an inexplicable familiarity before they had even met. When Rena stepped off the plane, she seemed to recognize him too and asked whether they had met before.

• Lynn dressed carefully and waited with Leo at the airport for Rena’s arrival.
• Leo teased Lynn about his interest in Rena and described her achievements.
• Rena stepped off the plane, and Lynn felt an overwhelming sense that he already knew her.
• Rena removed her sunglasses, approached Lynn, and asked whether they had met before.

Lynn and Rena rapidly fell in love, became engaged, and began planning their wedding, while Leo wondered at their inexplicable closeness. On their honeymoon in Nottingham, Lynn felt a powerful familiarity with the Tyranids at Warhammer World and nearly cried at one model before an indistinct-faced man approached him.

• Lynn and Rena exchanged contact details, began dating, and became a couple after four days, astonishing Leo.
• Lynn and Rena traveled together, met each other's parents, and held a small engagement ceremony three months after meeting.
• Lynn and Rena planned their wedding, and a month before the ceremony they began their honeymoon in Paris, Rome, Iceland, and Nottingham.
• Rena revealed that Leo had told her about Lynn's love of Warhammer, and the couple visited Warhammer World and Bugman's Bar.
• Lynn saw a Tyranid display and felt the creatures were like family, then became emotional while looking at a Tyranid Warrior model.
• A tall, handsome Southeast Asian man approached Lynn, who could not clearly make out his face.

Lynn recovered his memories of his life with Rena and realized the exhibition was an illusion trapping him. He left the dream and returned through the rift toward the endangered world where the real Rena was waiting.

• A mysterious man told Lynn a story about a human and a Tyranid falling in love, triggering a flood of memories of his life with Rena.
• Lynn recognized the transparent Tyranid Warrior model as Rena’s original form and remembered who he was and where he belonged.
• Rena told Lynn she would rather face painful reality than live happily in a lie, and she supported his choice to leave.
• Lynn embraced and kissed Rena before purple light lifted him toward a rift connecting the worlds.
• Lynn saw Brevis being consumed by the Ritual of Annihilation, Toothy waiting amid the destruction, and the real Rena waiting for him.
• Lynn let go of Rena in the exhibition and flew through the rift as she tearfully said goodbye.

Dominic’s spirit drifted aboard the ruined Gemstone as the Warp consumed the ship, and he accepted the Emperor’s pact to become his agent. Reborn in a golden body, Dominic flew toward the center of the Warp cataclysm to uncover the secrets surrounding Lynn and Kerry Von.

• The Gemstone lay shattered in the Warp, and Dominic’s spirit began dissolving despite the Sisters of Silence’s protection.
• Dominic recalled the strange Tyranids and Orks that had fought the Chaos forces and suspected that Kerry Von was connected to the mysteries surrounding Lynn.
• The Emperor drew Dominic into a sealed mental space and offered him a pact: to wield his sword through his body in exchange for his soul’s annihilation after the mission.
• Dominic accepted the pact, and golden power rebuilt his body aboard the Gemstone with burning gold eyes and a crown of light.
• Dominic shielded himself from Chaos corruption and flew toward the center of the Warp vortex.

Lynn regained control of the fused Avatar of Domination just as Tzeentch summoned reinforcements to overwhelm him and Rena. The Emperor’s Walker Dominic arrived to join their fight, while an unidentified higher-dimensional observer watched the battle.

• Lynn broke free of the illusions and restored the Power of Domination, and Rena welcomed his return through their soul bond.
• Tzeentch summoned Greater Daemons of Change and Thousand Sons exalted sorcerers, who attacked the Avatar of Domination with psychic assaults, close combat, and fate-woven curses.
• Rena warned Lynn that their dwindling strength could not withstand the continued assault while the annihilation sorcery on Brevis gathered power.
• The Emperor’s Walker Dominic shattered the Chaos vortex’s barrier and entered the battlefield with his sacred greatsword.
• A mysterious higher-dimensional observer examined the combatants and their plans without intervening, while Dominic realized Lynn and Rena were in love.
• Dominic unleashed the Emperor’s faith against Tzeentch’s forces and stood alongside Lynn and Rena.

Lynn and Dominic’s avatars were close to defeat when Luna, secretly alive and driven by revenge against Tzeentch, stabbed his avatar with a Khorne-forged blade. Tzeentch’s anchor was grievously wounded, leaving Lynn and Dominic poised to launch a decisive assault.

• Lynn’s Avatar of Domination disrupted the Thousand Sons’ spells and restrained the Lords of Change while Dominic fought them with the Emperor’s power.
• Two Thousand Sons Exalted Sorcerers sacrificed themselves to breach Lynn’s defenses, allowing the others to curse his avatar as the Chaos forces gained the advantage.
• Lynn’s Supreme Heaven-Suppressing Seal missed Tzeentch after he distorted its path, and Tzeentch attacked Lynn while the sorcerers targeted Dominic.
• Luna emerged from a concealed rift and stabbed Tzeentch’s failing soul vessel with the Fang of the Forsworn, drawing power from Khorne.
• Tzeentch’s wound weakened the Lords of Change and disrupted the Thousand Sons’ spells, giving Lynn and Dominic an opening for a decisive attack.

Dominic's sacrifice forced Tzeentch to flee and ended the Ritual of Annihilation, while Lynn and Rena restored Brevis and gave birth to the new god Zhen Wantian, Master of Servitude. When the four Chaos Gods attacked their newborn divinity, Lynn scattered their thirteen offspring across the galaxy and prepared to face the storm alongside Rena.

• Dominic used the Emperor's Sword while Lynn restrained Tzeentch's avatar, forcing Tzeentch to abandon his plans and flee through a Warp Rift.
• Dominic's psychic form faded away, and Lynn and Rena's bond reached its peak as they united their souls and unlocked the special CG.
• The power of Lynn and Rena's union restored Brevis, but it could not bring back Toothy or Dominic.
• Lynn became Zhen Wantian, Master of Servitude, as the Tyranid Swarm's faith strengthened his new divinity.
• Lynn divided part of his power into thirteen offspring, then scattered them across the galaxy to protect them from the Chaos Gods' assault.
• Lynn stood beside Rena to face the Warp Storm unleashed by Khorne, Nurgle, Slaanesh, and Tzeentch.

Lynn returned from the Warp in a newly made body as an Ultramarines fleet arrived at Brevis. Roboute Guilliman granted Lynn a Warrant of Trade, and the Emperor’s psychic seal appeared on it when Lynn swore his oath.

• Rena used Tyranid biomass to create Lynn a powerful new body and a reforged Dragon of Frost, and Lynn returned to realspace with her.
• An Ultramarines expeditionary fleet emerged at Calixis’s Mandeville jump point and summoned Lynn aboard its flagship.
• The fleet announced that Lynn would receive an Imperial investiture, after Guilliman judged his actions on Brevis and his bond with the Tyranids valuable to humanity.
• Severus Agemman presented Lynn with a Warrant of Trade authorizing him and his bloodline to expand beyond the Imperium’s borders.
• Lynn swore allegiance and accepted the warrant, whose golden psychic seal revealed itself to be the Emperor’s.