Chapter Summaries

After two years as an apothecary assistant in a terrifying other world, Lynn awakened a system that turned his teacher’s orders and encounters into quests. He completed his morning chores and survived a trade with a scavenger before opening the system panel.

• Lynn received system quests to open the apothecary and feed expired potions to Little Darling.
• Lynn hung the Soul Lamp outside, then met the Human-Skin Scavenger and traded her two bags of bloody rubbish for her payment of two shop owners’ eyeballs.
• Lynn returned to the apothecary and poured the expired potions into Little Darling’s cellar, earning rewards as the creature roared.
• Lynn called out to the system, and a panel appeared before his eyes.

Lynn learned that his new system rewarded him for completing tasks and was left in charge of Bloodsaw Apothecary while Bloodsaw Maniac went away. His first customer, Blood Doll, asked him to treat her doll, and the system revealed that the girl’s family member had likely eaten the doll’s arm.

• Lynn received a task to watch the shop and learned that Bloodsaw Maniac would be away for up to two days.
• Bloodsaw Maniac gave Lynn a bone knife and warned him to stay within the Soul Lamp’s range and kill anyone who entered at night.
• Blood Doll came to the apothecary asking Lynn to repair her doll’s missing arm, and Lynn invited her inside.
• The system diagnosed the wound as a bite and identified the girl’s family member as the likely culprit.
• Blood Doll said she had dreamed of a feast, and the doll repeated her words, unsettling Lynn.

Lynn treated a girl who had swallowed her doll’s arm, retrieving it and stitching it back onto the doll. The girl could not afford the bill and tried to bargain with Lynn as he threatened to take collateral.

• Lynn diagnosed the girl’s stomach trouble as the result of eating her doll’s missing arm and offered surgery or physical treatment.
• Lynn reached into the girl’s mouth and stomach, retrieved the wriggling doll arm, and removed several other items.
• Lynn stitched the arm back onto the doll and applied medicine while the doll screamed.
• Lynn charged the girl 110 skull coins, but she had only thirty coins and tried to settle the remaining debt with medicine.
• Lynn refused to extend credit and offered to take the girl’s eye as collateral, so she asked if she could pay another way and offered to show him a good time.

Lynn treated a Blood Doll and removed her right eye as payment, then discovered organs inside her belonged to an unknown woman and received a quest to help the doll find her mother. When the Pighead Demon arrived seeking a replacement eye, Lynn gouged out his own and offered it for 200 Skeleton Coins, leaving the demon stunned.

• Lynn removed the Blood Doll's right eye, collected his rewards, and received a hidden quest to help her find her mother.
• Lynn found unknown woman's hair, ears, and a comb among the organs removed from the Blood Doll and bottled them for her next visit.
• The Pighead Demon arrived with one eye missing and demanded that Blood Saw replace it, triggering a quest for Lynn to find a suitable eyeball.
• Lynn showed the Pighead Demon the available eyes, but the demon threatened to take Lynn's own eyeballs.
• Lynn calmly dug out his right eye and offered it to the Pighead Demon for 200 Skeleton Coins, reducing the danger.

Lynn sold the Pighead Demon his stolen eyeball and began a gruesome procedure to restore it. After accidentally fitting the eye backward, Lynn insisted on correcting the mistake, leaving the terrified demon struggling as Lynn raised his hammer.

• Lynn revealed that the Scavenger had given him the Pighead Demon's eyeball and sold it back for two hundred Skeleton Coins.
• The Pighead Demon agreed to have Lynn install the eyeball at the counter rather than go to the operating table.
• Lynn removed stones and blood clots from the demon's eye socket without using anesthetic, making the Pighead Demon scream and lose consciousness.
• Lynn applied his homemade adhesive and used a hammer to fit the eyeball, then discovered he had installed it backward.
• Lynn pulled the eyeball out to reposition it, while the Pighead Demon begged him to stop and Lynn raised the hammer to continue.

After treating the Pighead Demon’s injured eye, Lynn noticed his swollen belly and diagnosed him with an ectopic pregnancy, provoking the demon’s fury. Lynn then suggested that an unnatural object inside the demon might have caused the apparent pregnancy, leaving the diagnosis unresolved.

• Lynn collected 546 skeleton coins from the Pighead Demon for surgery, medicine, and nursing, and the demon signed the report.
• Lynn triggered the Pighead Demon’s hidden Abnormal Belly quest and persuaded him to stay for a pulse diagnosis.
• Lynn told the Pighead Demon that his symptoms indicated an ectopic pregnancy, and the demon grabbed him in outrage.
• Lynn questioned the Pighead Demon about his symptoms and possible sexual activity, further humiliating and enraging him.
• Lynn soothed the Pighead Demon and proposed that swallowed unnatural power might have mutated inside his body and created the illusion of pregnancy.

Lynn diagnosed the Pighead Demon with Evil Spirit Parasitism and operated to remove the ghost growing inside his belly. He extracted an Evil Spirit Blood Infant, while the Pighead Demon lay dazed and asked to be stitched up.

• Lynn used a Demon-Summoning Potion to reveal a giggling face bulging from the Pighead Demon's belly.
• The Pighead Demon admitted he had eaten a little ghost a month earlier, and Lynn decided to cut him open.
• Lynn restrained the terrified Pighead Demon and began the surgery despite his protests.
• Lynn removed an Evil Spirit Blood Infant and declared the surgery complete.
• The Pighead Demon murmured for Lynn to stitch him up.

Lynn finished operating on the Pighead Demon, who fled the apothecary without his newborn ghost daughter. After leveling up and strengthening his body, Lynn discovered the infant was rapidly developing and had triggered a hidden quest about her worsening transformation.

• Lynn charged the Pighead Demon for the surgery and stitched his wound with hemp thread, then healed it with a potion.
• Lynn released the Pighead Demon, who ran away in terror, leaving his daughter behind despite Lynn's calls.
• Lynn healed his injured eye, checked his upgraded status, and put all four attribute points into Constitution.
• Lynn examined the ghost infant and saw that she had reached level 2 and was rapidly taking form.
• Lynn received an optional hidden quest warning that the infant's appearance and malice would worsen as her ghostly energy distorted her.

Lynn chose to wait for the Pighead Demon to return, but the ghost infant's face kept mutating until he began giving it a makeover. A Burned Ghost arrived seeking a new face and grew increasingly terrified as he watched Lynn work.

• Lynn rejected the other quest options, chose to wait for the Pighead Demon, and earned morality points for refusing to kill the ghost infant.
• As the infant's appearance worsened and cost Lynn sanity, he tied it down and began kneading its face into shape.
• The Burned Ghost entered the pharmacy seeking a new face, and Lynn told it to wait while he finished working on the infant.
• The Burned Ghost watched Lynn stretch, roll, and burst growths on the infant's face, losing sanity and panicking.

Lynn frightened the Burned Ghost into fleeing, then reshaped the Evil Spirit Blood Infant and earned a hidden-quest reward. As night fell, Demon Hunter Ocalos arrived at Lynn’s shop, and Lynn saw that the mysterious visitor was human.

• Lynn’s chainsaw-sharpening noises terrified the Burned Ghost, who fled and failed his quest, raising his fear of Lynn and earning Lynn Skeleton Coins and renown.
• Lynn sculpted the Evil Spirit Blood Infant into a cute face and burst an eye that appeared on its forehead.
• The infant’s fear outpaced its resentment, triggering a hidden quest and rewarding Lynn with Skeleton Coins, cosmetic surgery experience, and Vengeful Spirit Hair.
• Lynn watched the Soul Lamp dim and prepared to close his shop as night approached.
• Ocalos, a powerful Demon Hunter, arrived at the door, and Lynn’s status panel revealed that he was human.

Lynn, a human running a medical shop in the Dark World, agreed to treat a powerful Witcher's shoulder after learning it was ravaged by Black Butterfly toxin. The Witcher reluctantly trusted Lynn to perform surgery, but the chapter ended with Lynn sticking two knives into his shoulder while claiming he was testing his blades.

• A Witcher entered Lynn's shop seeking treatment and potions, and Lynn's system quest revealed a penalty for failing to treat him.
• The Witcher showed Lynn his badly injured shoulder and explained that a Red-Robed Vengeful Ghost had ambushed him.
• Lynn's system diagnosed the injury as severe Black Butterfly toxin that had penetrated the Witcher's bones.
• Lynn told the Witcher that treatment required surgical debridement, then admitted this would only be his second operation.
• The Witcher agreed to proceed without anesthesia, and Lynn stuck two boning knives into his shoulder while testing their sharpness.

Lynn treated a demon hunter’s poisoned shoulder by burning his tools and slicing away the dead tissue, while the patient endured the procedure without anesthesia. The wound cleaning ended with Lynn spitting a mixture of liquor and medical alcohol onto it, jolting the demon hunter awake in agony.

• The demon hunter threatened Lynn with a revolver and ordered him to clean the poisoned wound using knives.
• Lynn sterilized his tools in a brazier and explained that he had only watched his master perform similar work while removing bristles from pigs.
• Lynn laid out plates to collect the dead flesh and calculate the dose of Flesh Regeneration Potion, then began cutting with two red-hot knives.
• The demon hunter screamed and complained as Lynn sliced away the tissue, while Lynn gained Knife Skills EXP and argued that a single cut could hit a major artery.
• After more than ten minutes, the demon hunter passed out over the counter, and Lynn announced that the initial wound cleaning was complete.
• Lynn swished liquor and medical alcohol in his mouth, spat the mixture onto the open shoulder wound, and made the demon hunter howl in pain.

Lynn continued operating on the Witcher, scraping his blackened bone despite the Witcher’s pleas and attempts to fight back. When Lynn brought out a chainsaw, a Long-Haired Female Ghost arrived and found the Witcher begging her to save him.

• Lynn carved a heart into the Witcher’s shoulder bone, then blocked his revolver when he tried to shoot him.
• Lynn chained the Witcher up and scraped his bone with a knife while the Witcher screamed and struggled.
• The Witcher broke his chains and reached for his revolver, so Lynn shoved the gun into his mouth and ordered him not to move.
• Lynn fetched a chainsaw to scrape the Witcher’s bone faster, terrifying him into renewed screams.
• A Long-Haired Female Ghost arrived to buy Recovery Potions, and the Witcher grabbed her ankle and begged her for help.

Lynn frightened a customer away and treated a Witcher poisoned by Black Butterfly with a brutal operation, restoring his shoulder but provoking his fury. The Witcher confronted Lynn over the treatment, and Lynn tried to reassure him by claiming his only previous operation had been a successful C-section.

• Lynn's bloody chainsaw work frightened the Long-Haired Female Ghost into fleeing, earning him the Customer Frightener achievement.
• Lynn scraped toxin-damaged tissue and bone from the Witcher's shoulder, then used a regeneration potion and pork to replace missing flesh.
• The Witcher passed out during treatment, and Lynn earned the Pain Inflictor achievement for incapacitating a legendary Witcher.
• After waking, the Witcher fired at Lynn in terror, then discovered his shoulder had healed with a patch of pork in the wound.
• Lynn calmed the enraged Witcher by arguing that the painful treatment had saved his life.
• The Witcher accused Lynn of never having operated on a person, and Lynn claimed he had performed a successful C-section.

After Lynn healed the Witcher, the Witcher explained that they were in the lowest level of the City of Sin and gave Lynn two cursed revolvers that could not hit targets. Before vanishing, he warned Lynn to stay inside that night because dangerous newcomers had arrived in the neighborhood.

• The Witcher threatened Lynn to keep his collapse private, then offered to pay for the surgery, but Lynn refused payment and completed his quest.
• The Witcher told Lynn that Wandering Soul Alley was in the lowest level of the City of Sin and that only the strong had a chance to escape.
• Lynn chose one of the Witcher's revolvers, and the Witcher demonstrated that the cursed guns could only miss their targets.
• The Witcher forced Lynn to accept both revolvers because the curse prevented him from discarding them, increasing his affinity with Lynn.
• The Witcher warned Lynn not to leave or open the door that night because formidable newcomers had arrived, then vanished in smoke.

Lynn prepared for nightfall alone, then fought an evil spirit that tried to enter his shelter while pretending to be his teacher. He subdued it with a strand of Evil Spirit Hair and kept stabbing through the door to make sure it was dead.

• Lynn tested the revolver by shooting at the Ghost Infant, missed every shot, and watched the Soul Lamp go out as night fell.
• Lynn locked the shelter, triggered the Sleepless Night quest, and took the Ghost Infant and his weapons to the attic.
• At midnight, a voice outside claimed to be Lynn's teacher and begged to be let in, but Lynn stabbed through the door instead of opening it.
• A rotten hand punched through the door, and Lynn pinned it with the Boning Knife before using Evil Spirit Hair to choke and tear apart the attacker.
• Lynn stabbed through the door over a hundred times after the hand went limp, following the rule to keep stabbing even if the enemy seemed dead.

Lynn killed the Flesh Deceiver, but a Root-Level Monster soon arrived outside the shop and found him. The enormous baby-headed monster demanded treatment for its toothache, and Lynn opened the door to serve it rather than be eaten.

• Lynn learned that the Flesh Deceiver had finally died after he stabbed it over a hundred times.
• A Root-Level Monster approached, and Lynn hid as its eye peered through the hole in the shop door.
• The monster licked the blood from the door and Lynn’s face, then said it had found the doctor and that its tooth hurt.
• Lynn opened the shop door when the monster threatened to eat him if he refused treatment.
• Lynn saw the monster’s enormous baby head and tentacle-covered neck as it complained of tooth pain and threatened to eat him if he could not cure it.

Lynn treated a monstrous baby's toothache by pulling a holy spear from its molar, then prepared to stop the severe bleeding. The creature was still in pain, so Lynn cut off one of its tentacles to use in the treatment.

• Lynn climbed into the baby's mouth and found a damaged Holy Spear lodged in its back molar.
• Lynn and the baby's tentacles worked together to pull out the spear, earning an increase in the creature's favorability.
• Lynn saw that the molar was bleeding heavily and returned to his shop for anesthetics and blood-clotting medicine.
• Lynn examined the tooth and realized holy power had invaded its root, then cut off the baby's tentacle to help deliver the treatment.

Lynn treated the monstrous infant’s painful molar, using its tentacles and a potion to relieve the pain before drilling out the holy material and replacing it with a steel tooth. After the successful operation, he completed the quest and earned a special potion formula and a permanent achievement.

• Lynn injected potion into a severed tentacle and hammered it into the molar to ease the monstrous infant’s pain.
• Lynn drilled the holy material out of the tooth while the tentacles helped illuminate the work area and fetch supplies.
• The monstrous infant carried Lynn to a sheet-metal building and flattened Steel Puppets with its tongue so Lynn could use their steel.
• Lynn forged and attached a steel tooth, then polished it until the molar looked brand-new.
• Lynn completed the quest, received 1,000 Skeleton Coins and a Critical Strike Potion Formula, and earned the achievement A Root-Level Monster's Dentist.

Lynn cleaned the teeth of a Root-Level Monster, earned its affection, and named it Xiao Xiao. After the monster left, Lynn secured his apothecary and reflected on the danger of other powerful creatures nearby.

• Lynn offered the Root-Level Monster dental care, and it accepted his proposal.
• Lynn cleared debris from the monster’s mouth and gathered valuable items, then made toothpaste and taught it to brush its teeth.
• Lynn completed the dental-care quest, gained the monster’s affection, and gave it the name Xiao Xiao.
• Xiao Xiao left happily with sparkling teeth, and Lynn nailed the apothecary door shut to calm himself.
• Lynn suspected more Root-Level Monsters were nearby and credited his medical skills with helping him survive.