Chapter Summaries

Fan En discovered that the Doll in the Hunter’s Dream could use Blood Echoes to strengthen him, and he reached level thirty before deciding to return to the gravestone rather than leave for the dangerous outside. Meanwhile, Yi Sha spotted a crowd of parasitized approaching the survivors’ shelter, including people who had gone out to search for supplies.

• Fan En spoke with the Doll, learned she could turn Blood Echoes into strength, and found a portal back outside.
• The Doll helped Fan En spend his Blood Echoes and items to reach level thirty, greatly improving his combat ability.
• Fan En decided to seek a few hundred more Blood Echoes and returned to the gravestone instead of leaving through the portal.
• Gong Qiying saw Fan En’s Kindred portrait and recognized him as the first person from Reed to become a Kindred.
• Yi Sha watched the street from the shelter and rang the warning bell after spotting a crowd of parasitized, including several missing supply-seekers.

Yi Sha led the survivors through a desperate escape as parasitized overran their shelter and blocked the escape tunnel. Just as the mutant parasitized middle-aged strongman cornered them, Fan En arrived and attacked it.

• Yi Sha discovered that parasitized surrounded the shelter, including the middle-aged strongman and the other survivors who had gone out for supplies.
• Yi Sha guided everyone into the escape passage, but parasitized broke through the shelter and blocked the tunnel’s exit.
• Trapped between monsters on both sides, Yi Sha and the survivors fought back as the mutant middle-aged strongman attacked them.
• Yi Sha prepared to detonate her magic scroll, but a Saw Cleaver struck the middle-aged strongman and knocked him down.
• Fan En emerged from the escape passage and shot a parasitized with his Hunter Pistol, prompting Yi Sha to recognize her brother.

Fan En rescued Yi Sha and the other survivors from the parasite-infested shelter, revealing that he had become a ruthless and powerful hunter. After defeating the mutant parasite, he led the survivors toward a safer place, while Yi Sha confirmed he was her brother and noticed that he was injured.

• Fan En emerged from the escape tunnel after saving the trapped survivors and killed an attacking parasite with a gunshot and a bare-handed strike.
• Yi Sha recognized Fan En as her brother just before Hidden Blood Parasites burrowed into his body, but he reassured her and confronted the parasites.
• Fan En killed the parasitized middle-aged strongman, then repeatedly wounded and burned the mutant parasite while using his blood to draw the other parasites away from the survivors.
• Fan En finished off the mutant, burned the Hidden Blood Parasites gathered around him, and set an oil-fueled fire at the entrance to block the advancing swarm.
• Fan En carried Yi Sha and led the survivors out, confirmed he was her genuine brother, and told her they were heading somewhere warm and hospitable.

Fan En led the survivors to a hidden building with a portal to Zane Dungeon and urged them to become hunters capable of reclaiming the city. As a second group entered Zane, Gong Qiying and You Lei Sha faced a mutated parasite that had grown into a towering monster.

• Fan En guided the survivors through the escape tunnel and killed the few parasitized they encountered while keeping an open wound to draw parasites away from the group.
• Fan En brought everyone to a hidden building, where the survivors recognized him after he removed his mask and explained how blood therapy in Zane Dungeon had strengthened him and protected him from parasites.
• Fan En persuaded the survivors to enter the dungeon and train as hunters, declaring that they would take the city back; even Bell agreed to go.
• The survivors entered Zane as its second group, while Gong Qiying focused on a mutated parasite that had grown to more than twenty meters by devouring other parasitized creatures.
• You Lei Sha offered to support Gong Qiying and suggested calling Red Fang, but Gong Qiying said he would face the monster first.

Gong Qiying used a borrowed authority to open a safe second portal into Zane Dungeon, then trapped and defeated the powerful parasite Meat Mountain. You Lei Sha came to trust Godwyn’s ability to protect the dungeon, while the newly arrived survivors succumbed to the hunters’ blood-fueled madness.

• Gong Qiying borrowed Surprise Expansion through You Lei Sha and opened a second portal so survivors could enter Zane Dungeon safely at any time.
• You Lei Sha watched Gong Qiying lure parasites into the dungeon and recognized him as the capable Godwyn Red Fang had trusted.
• Gong Qiying used Temporary Modification to close the portal behind Meat Mountain, trapping it inside the dungeon.
• Meat Mountain absorbed nearby creatures and grew to twenty-three meters, but Father Gascoigne, Old Hunter Henryk, and a hunter with a Gatling gun overwhelmed it.
• Gong Qiying checked on the survivors and saw Bell, Yi Sha, and the brave man attacking wildly under the influence of their hunter gear, then told You Lei Sha she had seen nothing.

Gong Qiying watched Fan En’s survivors turn hunting into a dangerous way to grow stronger, but chose not to interfere and added a feast to Zane Dungeon for them. After a day of hunting and leveling, Yi Sha and the others ate the Doll’s meal and renewed their resolve to reclaim the city and kill every parasite.

• Gong Qiying discovered that Fan En had urged the survivors to hunt intensely to awaken their power, using leveling up to suppress their blood-healing-induced cravings, and decided to let them continue while asking Gilbert to warn them about the risks.
• Gong Qiying reviewed the Arnor Kingdom’s growing support for making Zane Dungeon its National Dungeon, then added a meal for the survivors and wondered whether Godwyn truly liked humans that much.
• Yi Sha told Fan En she felt fulfilled after a day of hunting, and he saw that the survivors had made encouraging progress in the dungeon.
• The Doll’s banquet appeared in the workshop backyard, and the hungry survivors wept as they ate the delicious food.
• Yi Sha and the survivors vowed to kill every parasite.

After five days of training in Zane Dungeon, Fan En and the other survivors hunted down the Cleric Beast together. Their victory left them with powerful rewards and a plan to take back their city.

• Ten trained survivors attacked the Cleric Beast on the bridge, using Molotov Cocktails, guns, and melee weapons to wear it down.
• Bell taunted the beast to draw its attention while the hunters attacked according to Yi Sha’s plan and treated injured teammates.
• The Cleric Beast feigned a moment of human consciousness, then suddenly killed a hunter; the enraged survivors resumed their assault.
• Fan En delivered the final blow as the Cleric Beast raised its hands, and the hunters received Blood Echoes, a Sword Hunter Badge, Beast Blood Pellets, and other items.
• Fan En declared that the survivors had proven their strength and urged them to take back their city.

Fan En and the Hunters nearly reclaimed Savis’s Fishing Port District after learning a dungeon portal drew in the strongest Parasite Hosts, and they prepared to scout the Pearl District. Meanwhile, You Fei slipped away from the Warrior Country’s troops and entered the disaster zone alone to search for survivors.

• A starving boy left his home, fought two Parasite Hosts, and was rescued by Fan En before the parasites could take control of him.
• Yi Sha carried the boy to the dungeon portal while Fan En continued clearing monsters from the streets.
• Fan En explained that Parasite Hosts were being drawn into the dungeon, leaving weaker monsters behind and allowing the Hunters to rescue over a hundred survivors in the Fishing Port District.
• Fan En ordered the survivors to be settled separately and sent into the dungeon, then set out with several Hunters to scout the Pearl District.
• You Fei disguised herself by having a soldier imitate her, then ran alone into the disaster zone despite the soldier’s concern.

Yi Sha and Fan En organized the survivors in the Fishing Port District and planned to lure parasites toward the dungeon portal while Fan En trained in Yharnam. At a house near a dangerous graveyard, a little girl recognized Fan En as a Hunter and asked him to find her mother.

• Yi Sha agreed to design routes and traps to draw parasites from other districts toward the dungeon portal, while Fan En headed into the dungeon to train.
• Fan En and the other Hunters collected Blood Vials from Doctor Yousefka and followed a dangerous route through Yharnam to gather Blood Echoes.
• Fan En amused himself by knocking on lit houses and provoking hostile Yharnam residents, while Bell startled the group by eagerly attacking a monster.
• Fan En led the Hunters toward a graveyard they had never explored, and the group stopped at a lit house to rest before the battle ahead.
• A timid little girl behind the door recognized Fan En by the smell of a Hunter and asked him to help find her mother.

Fan En and the survivors agreed to help a little girl find her missing mother and received her Music Box, which held a note naming Viola and Gascoigne. At the graveyard, they encountered the frenzied hunter Father Gascoigne, who charged at them.

• Bell comforted the little girl and agreed to search for her mother, who wore a Ruby Brooch.
• The girl gave Bell a Small Music Box to deliver to her mother and explained that its song helped her father remember his family.
• Fan En wound the Music Box and discovered it played a lullaby; a hidden note named Viola and Gascoigne.
• The survivors reached the graveyard and found a hunter hacking at a beast's corpse.
• Father Gascoigne warned them they would become beasts and charged at the group.

Fan En and the others fought Father Gascoigne in the graveyard, where Fan En discovered that the gravestones could deflect his attacks. Rather than use the terrain to defeat him immediately, Fan En chose to duel the experienced hunter so he and his companions could learn from him, then noticed a Ruby Brooch on a woman's corpse atop a nearby roof.

• Fan En and the others attacked Father Gascoigne, but his strength, combat skill, and gun parries quickly overwhelmed them.
• Fan En spotted Father Gascoigne's axe bounce off a gravestone and realized they could use the graveyard's terrain against him.
• Fan En drew Father Gascoigne away from the group and chose to duel him, hoping to learn the hunter's techniques.
• After Fan En was thrown onto a nearby rooftop, he saw a woman's corpse with a large Ruby Brooch pinned to it.

Fan En found Viola’s corpse and confronted Father Gascoigne, briefly matching his strength before the Small Music Box’s lullaby awakened Gascoigne to the sight of his dead wife. Gascoigne fell back into a stronger madness and killed the hunters, who revived in the Hunter’s Dream with Fan En wishing he knew nothing.

• Fan En discovered the dead woman’s beast wounds and hunter’s slash, identified her as Viola, and placed the Small Music Box beside her body.
• Father Gascoigne attacked Fan En from behind, and Fan En briefly blocked his great axe before being blasted into a tombstone.
• The fallen Small Music Box played Mergo’s Lullaby, briefly restoring Father Gascoigne’s clarity as he saw Viola’s corpse.
• Father Gascoigne’s madness returned stronger, and he transformed and killed the hunters.
• The hunters revived in the Hunter’s Dream, where Fan En said he would rather know nothing.

After learning the truth about Gascoigne and the little girl, Fan En’s group rested, and Fan En used the Ruby Brooch’s gem to strengthen his Saw Cleaver. Yi Sha then presented a completed road plan for drawing monsters from the other districts into the Fishing Port District, and Fan En prepared everyone for the next job.

• Fan En told the survivors that the hunter they had fought was the little girl’s father, Gascoigne, and the news left them deeply shaken.
• When the group was too exhausted to continue, Fan En reassured Bell that the little girl would remain in a loop unless they told her what happened, and Bell asked him to keep the Ruby Brooch.
• The Messengers removed the ruby from the brooch and turned it into a Blood Stone Shard, which Fan En embedded in his Saw Cleaver to strengthen it.
• Fan En warned the group to rely less on their old training method because Gascoigne showed how dangerous becoming obsessed with hunting could be.
• After the group left the dungeon, Yi Sha showed Fan En her completed plan for rerouting roads to lure monsters from the other two districts, and Fan En called everyone together for the operation.

Anzi III taunted the Evil God Hidden Dim Star from the royal capital, then escaped to Zane Dungeon when its influence surged. The Evil God's avatar investigated a parasite-free area in Red, but Fan En and the Savis City survivors lured its possessed parasite into Zane Dungeon.

• Anzi III used Blood Vials to suppress his beastification and launched ancient-language insults at the Evil God with magical light pillars.
• The Evil God's avatar grew angry at Anzi III's taunts, then went to Red to investigate the disappearance of Hidden Blood Parasites.
• The avatar projected its consciousness into a huge parasite and discovered the survivors' one-way routes through a ruined city.
• Fan En and the survivors threw blood-filled bags to drive the parasites toward a dungeon portal.
• The possessed parasite crashed into the portal and entered Zane Dungeon, while Fan En and his group praised the route they had built.

Gong Qiying used the dungeon to draw parasites into Savis City and feed them to Zane’s slaughter line, then encountered an evil god’s consciousness avatar inside a mutated parasite. He trapped the avatar in a new dungeon scene with the Mensis Brain, whose gaze drove the parasites into a frenzy.

• Gong Qiying strengthened the lure of Yharnam Blood and expanded the dungeon’s influence, drawing parasites away from Fan En and the others’ routes.
• Gong Qiying assessed how Red’s survivors could contain the remaining parasites and keep the disaster from spreading beyond Savis City.
• Gong Qiying spotted the mutated parasite carrying the evil god’s consciousness avatar and switched to Plan B.
• The consciousness avatar found its portal had vanished, threatened the Dungeon Lord, and was ordered to surrender by a Beastification Citizen.
• Gong Qiying transferred the avatar and nearby parasites into a new scene containing the Mensis Brain, whose gaze sent the parasites into a frenzy.

Gong Qiying used the Mensis Brain to attack the Hidden Dim Star’s consciousness avatar, while the avatar tried to corrupt Zane Dungeon and transferred the damage to its sleeping true body. The Hidden Dim Star awakened and severed their connection, leaving the avatar suddenly vulnerable.

• The Mensis Brain drove the parasite hosts and Zane monsters into frenzy, while the consciousness avatar panicked at its Great One-like nature.
• Gong Qiying enlarged the Mensis Brain, and the avatar launched a corruption attack that drained Zane Dungeon’s stored Spirit Power.
• Purple starlight appeared over Savis City, transforming parasite hosts into grotesque monsters that chased Fan En and Yi Sha’s group.
• Gong Qiying and the avatar failed to break their stalemate as the avatar redirected the Brain’s and other attacks to the Hidden Dim Star.
• The Hidden Dim Star woke in anger, seized the link to its avatar, and snapped it, making the avatar feel the attacks directly.

Gong Qiying’s battle with the evil god’s consciousness avatar ended when it self-destructed, damaging the dungeon but leaving behind fragments of memory. As Gong Qiying began considering what those memories revealed, he noticed twisted monsters chasing Fan En and the others outside.

• The consciousness avatar lost the true body’s protection and succumbed to the Mensis Brain’s frenzy as Gong Qiying strengthened the Brain with his Spirit Power.
• The avatar gathered its remaining power and used Great Self-Destruction, tearing through the Mensis Brain and shattering Gong Qiying’s dungeon defenses.
• Gong Qiying found sparkling remnants and saw fragments of the avatar’s memories, including the origins of the Demon Kings and a ritual that dimmed purple starlight.
• Gong Qiying saved a copy of the memories and decided to learn more about demons.
• Gong Qiying noticed Cronenberg-style twisted monsters chasing Fan En and the others outside.

Fan En and the hunters fought their way through Pearl District, only to be trapped inside a museum filled with bizarre flesh balls and powerful parasites. He discovered the museum was connected to a tunnel leading toward Red’s capital, then found a companion had become part of a towering parasite monster.

• Fan En led the injured hunters through Pearl District, changing course when parasites blocked their route and fighting alongside Yi Sha and the others.
• The hunters reached a parasite-free area and realized they had been drawn to an old museum with no safe zone nearby.
• The museum floor collapsed, dropping Fan En and his companions into darkness among piles of blood-red flesh balls containing unusually strong parasites.
• Fan En saw parasitized people loading flesh balls into a tunnel that appeared to lead toward Red’s capital.
• Fan En found a three-meter-tall monster made of fused parasites beside the corpse of one of his companions, and the creature produced more flesh balls.

Fan En rescued Bell, Yi Sha, and the others from a parasite-filled museum, then stayed behind to fight three newly formed monsters. After he unleashed a beastlike frenzy and Yi Sha returned to find him attacking her, a mysterious woman intervened and kicked him across the museum.

• Fan En killed the parasite monster that had been producing meatballs and found Bell, Yi Sha, and the others alive inside mucus membranes.
• The meatballs burst open and formed three more monsters, while the rescued group discovered that parasites had drained their strength.
• Fan En sent everyone else away and fought the monsters alone, using Yousefka's Blood Vial to trigger a dangerous beastlike state.
• Yi Sha broke away from the group and returned to the museum, where she found Fan En mutilating the monsters and meatballs in a frenzy.
• Fan En lunged at Yi Sha, but a mysterious woman with a spear appeared and kicked him across the museum.

Jia Paer set out for Red to check on his daughter You Fei, who had reached Savis City and mistaken the wounded Fan En for a parasite-infected monster. After Fan En’s diluted sedative took effect, You Fei used her Empathy talent on him and froze after seeing something she could not comprehend.

• Jia Paer decided to leave the Imperial Capital for Red after learning You Fei had gone alone to the front lines.
• You Fei met Yi Sha in Savis City and tried to separate her from the apparently infected Fan En.
• You Fei killed a newly formed parasite monster with one spear strike and asked Yi Sha to judge her pose.
• Fan En’s transformed Saw Cleaver and Hunter Pistol caught You Fei off guard, and his diluted sedative finally restored his clarity.
• You Fei used Empathy to copy Fan En’s movements, but she stopped moving after experiencing something incomprehensible.