Chapter Summaries

Lin Mu and his companions faced a planet-spanning swarm of self-replicating liquid metal that could absorb attacks and copy Holy Light. He used [Undead Kingdom] to corrode the swarm, but its endless supply and rapid repairs kept its mass stable, so he prepared to strengthen the attack with his [Death Dragon Knights].

• Lin Mu identified the approaching metal tide as a nanomachine cluster that could only be eradicated by destroying its hidden core processors.
• Elvira shielded the group with Holy Light, but the liquid metal analyzed and began draining her energy.
• Lin Mu pierced the swarm with [Bone Tooth], saw it repair itself immediately, and concluded that ordinary attacks could not stop it.
• Lin Mu invoked [Undead Kingdom], corroding a vast area of the metal sea, but incoming metal and rapid repairs replenished the damage.
• Lin Mu called on his [Death Dragon Knights] to add force to the attack.

Lin Mu tested the liquid-metal legion’s defenses, then faced its transformation into millions of Planetary-class warriors. He deployed the Undead Scourge, whose missile bombardment failed to harm them, as the metal army charged.

• Lin Mu ordered the [Death Dragon Knights] to unleash [Death Wither], melting much of the liquid metal before it condensed into a giant sphere.
• The sphere transformed into millions of metal warriors, each with energy fluctuations at the LV.150 threshold.
• Lin Mu commanded his Undead Scourge to descend and wipe out the metal legion.
• The [Skeleton Missile Corps] bombarded the metal warriors, but their energy ripples absorbed and deflected the explosions.
• The metal legion launched a silent charge toward the undead army.

Lin Mu’s undead army battled the metal warriors while he and Lilith followed a mysterious summons into the planet’s deepest rift. There, they found a flesh-covered black structure identified as an Ultimate Weapon Custodial Facility, which began its highest-level Purge Protocol.

• Lin Mu’s skeleton knights and mages wore down the metal warriors until cracks began appearing in their armor.
• Lin Mu left Elvira to watch the battle and flew with Lilith toward the deepest rift, drawn by a summons from below.
• Lin Mu and Lilith descended through the rift, passing strange plants made of metal and flesh.
• Lin Mu and Lilith reached a vast underground chamber and discovered a floating, flesh-covered black structure connected to the ground by metal pipes.
• The structure detected Lin Mu as an unknown high-dimensional lifeform and announced that it was initiating its highest-level Purge Protocol.

Lin Mu defeated the Guardian protecting the Chaos Prime Core and reached the twelfth ??? Fragment. When he freed it from its runic chains, the fragment revealed a malicious will and tried to possess him.

• The Guardian identified Lin Mu as carrying Abyss and Chaos Prime Core fragment energy and ordered him to leave or be destroyed.
• The Guardian froze spacetime around Lin Mu and Lilith, but Lin Mu broke free and resisted its law-based attack.
• The Guardian summoned a black singularity with the planet's Source Core power, and Lin Mu unleashed his Underworld Domain to erode it.
• Lin Mu's Bone Tooth annihilated the singularity and pierced the Guardian, destroying it and shattering the black pyramid.
• Lin Mu approached the exposed sphere, which he recognized as the twelfth ??? Fragment, but it broke free and rushed at his brow to possess him.

Lin Mu's attempt to claim the underground inheritance was interrupted when a remnant soul tried to possess him, but Lilith froze it in place and Lin Mu captured it. The remnant soul offered information about the other Fragments and the secret of “Ultimate Ascension” to escape being destroyed.

• The remnant soul attacked Lin Mu and declared that it would take over his body and claim everything he possessed.
• Lilith stopped the remnant soul with the power of her black parasol, freezing the underground space around it.
• Lin Mu pinched the immobilized remnant soul between his fingers and threatened it with his Death Aura.
• The remnant soul pleaded for its life and offered to reveal the locations of the other Fragments and the secret of “Ultimate Ascension.”
• Lin Mu eased his grip and chided the remnant soul for not cooperating sooner.

Lin Mu learned that the remnant soul was part of the Chaos Prime Core and could guide him to its scattered fragments, so he sealed it inside the [Silent Black Stone Necklace] as a navigation device. After returning to the surface, he found Elvira injured and the metal giant still regenerating, and prepared to use [Underworld Descent] against the earth beneath it.

• The remnant soul revealed that it was the Chaos Prime Core's source consciousness and offered to guide Lin Mu to its fragments.
• The remnant soul named the Augustus Family, the Mechanical God Cult, and the Stellar Council as powers possessing fragments.
• Lin Mu accepted the remnant soul's value and sealed it in the [Silent Black Stone Necklace] to serve as his navigation device.
• Lin Mu and Lilith returned to the surface and found Elvira kneeling after battling a regenerating metal giant.
• Lin Mu praised Elvira, then raised the [Bone Staff] and cast [Underworld Descent] at the rust-red earth.

Lin Mu destroyed the giant metal creature with [Underworld Descent], then spotted the Mechanical God Cult fleet arriving above the planet. As High Archpriest Hermes ordered a mass purge to seize a Chaos Prime Core fragment, Lin Mu prepared to test his new weapon against the invading servitors.

• Lin Mu used [Underworld Descent] to erode the metal giant and the underground metal torrent until both were gone.
• Lilith and Lin Mu sensed spatial rifts opening beyond the planet, and a fleet led by the mothership [Source of Myriad Machines] emerged.
• Hermes identified the planet’s energy signature as a massive Chaos Prime Core fragment and ordered the Judgment Servitors to purge organic life and retrieve it.
• Hundreds of thousands of Judgment Servitors descended toward the planet, and Elvira offered to fight them.
• Lin Mu told Elvira to stand down as black-flamed rifts opened behind him so he could test his new toy.

Lin Mu summoned the Immortal Bone Dragon Emperor, which destroyed the Judgment Machine Servants and the Mechanical God Cult’s escort fleet with its Myriad Dragon Roar. High Priest Hermes ordered the Source of Myriad Machines to fire its fully charged main cannon at the dragon.

• Lin Mu summoned the Immortal Bone Dragon Emperor through a rift, terrifying High Priest Hermes and disrupting the Judgment Machine Servants.
• Hermes ordered the Judgment Machine Servants and the Source of Myriad Machines to attack the bone dragon.
• Lin Mu snapped his fingers, and the Immortal Bone Dragon Emperor unleashed its Myriad Dragon Roar.
• The dragon’s soundwaves destroyed hundreds of thousands of Judgment Machine Servants and shattered the escort ships in orbit.
• Hermes ordered the Source of Myriad Machines to fire its main cannon at the Immortal Bone Dragon Emperor.

Lin Mu erased the Mechanical God Cult’s fleet with the Immortal Bone Dragon Emperor and traveled with Lilith and Elvira to Caesarea, the Augustus Family’s home planet, to retrieve a body Fragment. The planet’s defenses detected them and sent warships to intercept them.

• The Immortal Bone Dragon Emperor’s World-Ending Dragon Breath consumed the Source of Myriad Machines and its fleet, killing High Priest Hermes.
• Lin Mu asked the navigator for the Augustus Family’s home-planet coordinates, and Lilith opened a spatial rift for their departure from Heart of Rust.
• Lin Mu, Lilith, and Elvira arrived near Caesarea, where the navigator sensed the body Fragment sealed in a treasure vault near the planet’s core.
• Caesarea’s planetary defense system dispatched three hundred-meter warships to surround Lin Mu, Lilith, and Elvira.

Lin Mu's group reached Caesarea, where Elvira disabled three patrol ships after their captain tried to detain them. The Augustus Family's defense system declared the intruders a God Calamity, and patriarch Alexander von Augustus sought an urgent connection to the command center.

• Captain Colin ordered Elvira and her companions to submit to quarantine and registration, then sent tractor beams to seize them.
• Lin Mu told Elvira to silence Colin, and she disabled the three patrol ships and immobilized their crews with Holy Light.
• Lin Mu, Elvira, and their companion continued toward Caesarea while Colin watched in fear and regret.
• Caesarea's defense command center detected the ships' collapse, failed to identify the energy signature, and classified the threat as God Calamity.
• Alexander von Augustus received the alert and ordered a connection to the defense command center.

Lin Mu attended a banquet at the Augustus Family’s palace, where he casually admitted to killing Milo and was challenged to a Sacred Duel by Leon. Lin Mu accepted and demanded the family’s Ancestor Stone if he won.

• Arthur von Augustus apologized to Lin Mu and invited him, Lilith, and Elvira to a banquet at the family’s palace.
• At the banquet, Arthur tried to learn about Lin Mu while Lin Mu ignored him and shared food with Lilith.
• Leon von Augustus asked Lin Mu about Milo, and Lin Mu said he had crushed him to death.
• Leon challenged Lin Mu to a Sacred Duel to avenge Milo and defend the family’s honor.
• Lin Mu accepted and said he wanted the Augustus Family’s Ancestor Stone if he won; Leon agreed and threatened to imprison Lin Mu’s soul if he lost.

Lin Mu defeated Leon von Augustus and destroyed the Augustus Family’s strongest individual armament with a single finger, leaving the Glory Arena stunned. He then addressed the patriarch and ordered Stone to bring it over.

• Leon von Augustus entered the Glory Arena in the LV.160 [Golden Lion King] and vowed to avenge Milo and defend the Augustus Family’s honor.
• Lin Mu walked into the arena as the crowd jeered, and the duel began.
• Leon fired the [Golden Lion King]’s Lion King's Roar Cannon at Lin Mu.
• Lin Mu used a [Bone Tooth] at his fingertip to pierce the cannon blast, the armor, and Leon, killing him and destroying the [Golden Lion King].
• The arena fell silent as Alexander and the elders watched in shock, and Lin Mu told the patriarch, “Stone. Bring it here.”

After Lin Mu defeated Leon with one finger, Augustus clan chief Alexander pretended to concede and led him to the Ancestor Stone. There, Alexander revealed a trap and awakened the clan’s enormous Final Guardian, while Lin Mu remained unfazed.

• Lin Mu demanded the Ancestor Stone after destroying Leon and the Golden Lion King Battle Armor.
• Alexander bowed to Lin Mu, promised to honor the wager, and led him underground while secretly activating a killing array.
• Lin Mu reached the sealed Body Fragment, and the remnant soul in his Necklace recognized it as a source of recovery.
• Alexander trapped Lin Mu inside the vault and activated the chains beneath the altar, awakening the Augustus Family’s guardian.
• The three-hundred-meter-tall, Stellar Rank Final Guardian emerged, and Lin Mu said it would be perfect for his toy to fight.

Lin Mu faced the Final Guardian’s attack as the Immortal Bone Dragon Emperor emerged and blocked its sword. The Final Guardian’s systems failed to assess the dragon, but it still charged at the vastly larger creature.

• Alexander mocked Lin Mu as the Final Guardian rose and activated its Purge Protocol.
• The Final Guardian swung its greatsword at Lin Mu, but a bone wing emerged from a rift and stopped the blow.
• The Immortal Bone Dragon Emperor forced its colossal body through the rift, dwarfing the Final Guardian.
• The Final Guardian’s systems failed to analyze the dragon, yet it charged at the Immortal Bone Dragon Emperor.

Lin Mu defeated the Augustus Family’s [Final Guardian], claimed the Body Fragment, and left Alexander broken and begging for mercy. He emerged before the gathered clan and declared that the Augustus Family’s history had ended, leaving its members in shock and panic.

• [Immortal Bone Dragon Emperor] destroyed [Final Guardian] with [World-Ending Dragon Breath], erasing it without a trace.
• Lin Mu took the Body Fragment from the altar, and the remnant soul in the Necklace began absorbing its aura.
• Alexander begged Lin Mu to spare the Augustus Family, offering its wealth, territories, and starships.
• Lin Mu emerged from the Treasure Vault as Elvira and the Augustus elders watched, with the defeated Alexander behind him.
• Lin Mu told the assembled Augustus clansmen that their family’s history ended that day, while its elders restrained those who tried to attack him.

Lin Mu caused the Augustus Family to collapse through internal looting and betrayal, then followed the remnant soul’s directions toward the City of Ten Thousand Machines. In a strange Sea of Star Networks, a vast being of light appeared before Lin Mu, Lilith, and Elvira with reverence, especially toward Lilith.

• Lin Mu told Elvira to announce that the Augustus Family’s Treasure Vaults were ownerless, and greed sparked a planet-wide uprising against the family.
• Vassals, collateral branches, and guards plundered the Augustus estates as the family’s members were dragged from their palaces and the house rapidly fell apart.
• The remnant soul reported that the Body Fragment had fused and directed Lin Mu toward the Soul Fragment at the City of Ten Thousand Machines.
• The Mechanical God Cult’s twelve high priests watched the final report from Hermes’s fleet, which showed the World-Ending Dragon Breath destroying it.
• Lin Mu, Lilith, and Elvira encountered an immense Sea of Star Networks, where countless energy beings gathered into a giant figure of light that regarded them with reverence, particularly Lilith.

Lin Mu received intelligence from the Weavers about the Mechanical God Cult’s Ascension Ritual and the dangers of taking the Logic Core Fragment. He reached the City of Ten Thousand Machines with Lilith and Elvira and accepted an invitation to undergo identity verification at the Observer Hall.

• The Weavers’ leader traded detailed information about the Mechanical God Cult for Lin Mu’s goodwill and warned that the City of Ten Thousand Machines was a self-aware planet-class weapon bound to the Logic Core.
• Lin Mu welcomed the challenge of facing the city, and Lilith opened a rift to carry him and Elvira toward their destination.
• Lin Mu, Lilith, and Elvira arrived at the City of Ten Thousand Machines, where Lilith erased the surveillance watching them.
• Elvira felt uncomfortable in the lifeless mechanical environment, and Lin Mu told her to restrain her aura.
• A robotic butler invited the three to the Observer Hall for identity verification and civilizational exchange, and Lin Mu agreed to board its shuttle.

Lin Mu, Lilith, and Elvira entered the City of Ten Thousand Machines’ Observer Hall, where the High Priests demanded an explanation for the destruction of Hermes’s fleet. When they began analyzing the trio, Lilith disabled the hall’s systems, leaving the city’s machinery in collapse.

• A robotic butler scanned Lin Mu, Lilith, and Elvira as their shuttle carried them to the internal port.
• The twelve High Priests, led by [Calculator], accused the trio of responsibility for destroying Hermes’s fleet and questioned them about their actions.
• Lin Mu told [Calculator] he had come to take the stone at the city’s core, but [Calculator] refused and ordered an analysis of the visitors.
• The analysis system assessed Elvira’s Holy Light as controllable, but crashed when it encountered Lilith’s laws of paradox and illusion.
• When the system scanned Lin Mu, Lilith snapped her fingers, blacking out the screens and destroying the analysis equipment.
• The High Priests’ projections vanished as the hall’s alarm announced concept-level interference, database erasure, and a collapsing system.

After the City of Ten Thousand Machines activated its Maximum Purge Protocol, Lin Mu, Elvira, and Lilith faced its planetary barrage. Lilith deflected the beams, and Lin Mu’s Underworld Descent began corroding the city’s weapons as the First Apostle struggled to understand the attack.

• The City of Ten Thousand Machines awakened and the First Apostle initiated its formatting purge against Lin Mu, Elvira, and Lilith.
• Elvira raised a Holy Light Barrier to shield Lin Mu from the barrage, but the beams overwhelmed it.
• Lilith bent the beams away with an invisible ripple, leaving the three unharmed.
• Lin Mu cast Underworld Descent, spreading a vast darkness over one-third of the City of Ten Thousand Machines.
• The projected River Styx corroded tens of thousands of turrets, and the First Apostle reported widespread damage and unknown law-based corrosion.

Lin Mu stopped the City of Ten Thousand Machines from cutting away the region eroded by [Underworld Descent] and used the Chaos Prime Core’s map to attack the [First Apostle] at its hidden core. The planet’s systems collapsed, and the [First Apostle] was left pinned by bone spikes and demanded to know how Lin Mu had found it.

• The [First Apostle] activated the Absolute Isolation Protocol to sever the region eroded by [Underworld Descent].
• Lin Mu used the Chaos Prime Core’s structural map to locate the [First Apostle]’s true body and the "Soul" Fragment at the planet’s core.
• Lin Mu withdrew [Underworld Descent], causing the isolation array to lose its target and suffer a damaging energy backflow.
• Lin Mu took the throne of withered bones and unleashed [Bone Spike Impact] at the core coordinate.
• Bone spikes erupted throughout the City of Ten Thousand Machines, destroying its conduits, modules, turrets, and mechanical units.
• The bone spikes pierced the [First Apostle]’s crystalline brain, and it cried out in disbelief that Lin Mu had found its protected location.