Chapter Summaries

Lynn reached the Vengeful Ghost and used Curse Removal, then endured her hatred and memories to uncover the truth about Alice’s abuse and murder. He discovered that Alice’s birth mother had manipulated her and the Old Castle, and he found Alice’s soul within the hatred.

• Lynn stripped away the Vengeful Ghost’s curse, and she pierced his chest before he grabbed her.
• Lynn embraced the Vengeful Ghost and experienced Alice’s memories of imprisonment, abuse, and murder by her family.
• Lynn learned that Alice’s birth mother had turned her hatred against the people in the castle, while sparing the cook and doctor in Alice’s memories.
• Lynn realized Alice’s birth mother was controlling her daughter and using the Old Castle’s curse to lure creatures inside and kill them.
• Lynn fought through the malice overwhelming his consciousness and found Alice within the hatred.

Lynn reached Alice inside the Vengeful Ghost and showed her the truth about her birth mother's curse, turning the ghost's hatred against her. As the Vengeful Ghost struggled against Alice's resistance, Lynn confronted her in the Old Castle.

• Lynn reached Alice, was thrown away by the Vengeful Ghost, and used his broken spear to counter the ghost energy consuming him.
• Alice saw through Remnants of the Past how her birth mother cursed her family and twisted them into monsters.
• Alice's resistance halted the Vengeful Ghost, while hatred erupted through the Old Castle and into the sky.
• Outside the castle, Madam Doll asked whether she and Blood Saw should intervene, but Blood Saw refused because Lynn had not asked him for help.
• The Vengeful Ghost pleaded with Alice and blamed her family, while Lynn rose with the spear and told the ghost that hatred and revenge gave her no right to be Alice's mother.

Lynn condemned the Vengeful Ghost for her crimes, and Alice finally tore her apart as the Old Castle collapsed. Lynn survived with Zuo Zuo’s help, received quest rewards including the Curse Eye, and was left badly wounded as Zuo Zuo forced a Recovery Potion down his throat.

• Lynn accused the Vengeful Ghost of murdering the Countess, spreading plague, and abusing Carmel’s love, then told her she deserved to die.
• The Vengeful Ghost’s daughter Alice emerged from her body, and the Vengeful Ghost pleaded for forgiveness before trying to attack her.
• A broken spear pinned the Vengeful Ghost’s hand, and Alice and the ghosts of her victims tore her apart as the curse was purged.
• The Old Castle began collapsing, and Zuo Zuo pulled Lynn through the falling rubble and carried him outside.
• Lynn received the healing and extermination quest rewards, including the Curse Eye, 6,000 experience, and 6,000 Skeleton Coins.
• Zuo Zuo gave the badly wounded Lynn a Recovery Potion and angrily threatened to kill him if he got her killed.

After Alice devoured the Vengeful Ghost, Lynn approached her despite her overwhelming Ghostly Aura and comforted her until she fell asleep in his arms. The system rewarded him with experience and bonuses while labeling his actions as luring a little girl, and Lynn left the ruins carrying Alice.

• Lynn recovered from his injuries with Flesh Cataclysm and a Recovery Potion, then warned Zuo Zuo that Alice might attack them.
• Lynn recognized Alice's corpse among the ruins and realized her consciousness had returned after she devoured the Vengeful Ghost.
• Despite Zuo Zuo urging him to flee, Lynn walked through Alice's Ghostly Aura and told her she could think of him as family.
• Alice's hatred faded, and she fell asleep peacefully in Lynn's arms while clutching his clothes.
• The system granted Lynn an achievement and permanent bonuses, and Lynn objected to its description of him as a lolicon.
• Lynn carried Alice out of the ruins, explaining to Zuo Zuo that he would not abandon his patient or break his promise.

Lynn used a Skill Enhancement Scroll to increase his Limited-Time Curse Removal Ability to two uses, then removed Alice’s Earthbound Curse and carried her beyond the Old Castle. Alice found herself outside on Soul-Lost Street, free of the pain she had feared.

• Blood Saw praised Lynn to Madam Doll, whose affection for him surged as she decided he should marry several of her daughters.
• Lynn diagnosed Alice and realized he might be able to temporarily remove her Earthbound Curse, allowing her to leave the Old Castle.
• After Alice quietly said she could never leave, Lynn used a Skill Enhancement Scroll and gained a second use of Limited-Time Curse Removal Ability.
• Lynn removed Alice’s curses and stepped across the Old Castle’s boundary while holding her.
• Alice felt no pain, opened her eyes, and saw Soul-Lost Street and the shattered castle gates behind her.

Lynn helped Alice leave the Old Castle, and she gave him half ownership of Happy Home, restoring the castle and granting him authority over it. Their reunion was interrupted when the Pighead Butcher arrived to demand his heart, while Blood Saw recognized the butcher's aura from an encounter two years earlier.

• Alice stepped outside the Old Castle without suffering a backlash and hugged Lynn, grateful that he had agreed to become her family.
• Lynn accepted Alice's offer to spend more time with her and received a long-term quest to cleanse her lingering hatred and resentment.
• Alice granted Lynn half ownership of Happy Home, giving him authority over its supernatural phenomena and the ability to teleport there.
• The castle's curse returned after Lynn's Curse Removal skill deactivated, and the Old Castle restored itself.
• The Pighead Butcher emerged from the darkness and asked Lynn where his heart was.
• Blood Saw recognized the Pighead Butcher's aura as the monster he had seen in Wandering Soul Alley two years earlier.

Lynn offered his heart to the Pighead Butcher to fulfill their trade, but Blood Saw warned that the bargain could cost him his inner self as well as his physical heart. Alice then produced the Heart of Evil Thoughts and offered it in Lynn's place.

• Blood Saw and Madam Doll arrived outside the Old Castle, where Lynn explained that he had made a trade with the Pighead Butcher.
• Lynn offered his own heart as a substitute for the Heart of Extreme Evil, but Blood Saw warned him that the bargain included his inner self and could be twisted like a devil's contract.
• The Pighead Butcher confirmed Blood Saw's warning and gave Lynn thirty seconds to decide before declaring him in breach of their agreement.
• As Lynn reached for his chest, Alice stopped him and offered to make the trade in her brother's place.
• Alice summoned a black heart identified as the Heart of Evil Thoughts, formed from Madam Mary's jealousy and hatred, and told the Pighead Butcher she would complete the trade.

Lynn learned that the Pighead Butcher had deliberately left him outside Blood Saw’s shop two years earlier as part of a risky deal with an unknown being. After the butcher vanished, Lynn and Alice headed back to Wandering Soul Alley, unaware that Bai Yi was stranded atop the Old Castle’s flagpole.

• The Pighead Butcher extracted Alice’s mother’s spirit from her heart and departed with it in a pouch.
• Blood Saw confronted the Pighead Butcher about leaving Lynn outside his shop two years earlier, and the butcher confirmed it.
• The Pighead Butcher said he had agreed to a risky deal with an unknown being, then vanished before Lynn could question him further.
• Alice said her memories of hiring the butcher were hazy, and Lynn asked Blood Saw to explain how he had found him once they returned.
• Lynn, Alice, and Blood Saw left for Wandering Soul Alley while Bai Yi remained trapped atop the Old Castle’s flagpole, shouting that he feared heights.

Lynn discovered a blood-pact curse in Bai Yi’s broken phone and suspected it had caused Bai Yi to enter this world. After repairing the phone, he questioned Bai Yi about what he had done beforehand, and Bai Yi remembered visiting a disturbing website.

• Lynn apologized for leaving Bai Yi frozen on a flagpole overnight, then asked how he had arrived in this world.
• Bai Yi explained that a navigation app had led him into an alley, and Lynn found abnormal blood-pact curse fluctuations in his phone.
• Lynn took Bai Yi to the Basement and used his Mechanical Modification knowledge to repair the phone.
• Lynn asked Bai Yi to recall anything unusual before his arrival, and Bai Yi remembered clicking on a disturbing website at an internet café.

Lynn discovered that Bai Yi had unknowingly signed an evil god’s summoning contract before arriving in the Dark World. Blood Saw explained that Bai Yi would likely return to his own world within days as long as he survived.

• Bai Yi showed Lynn the photograph of the strange webpage, and they found Bai Yi’s name and a dark figure reflected behind him.
• Lynn brought the photograph to Blood Saw, who identified its writing as an Ancient Kin incantation and a sacrificial contract to an evil god.
• Blood Saw explained that the contract summoned Bai Yi temporarily and that he would return to his original world when the summoning ended, unless he died.
• Lynn told the anxious Bai Yi that he should be able to return home within the next few days.

Lynn and Bai Yi tried to find a way for Lynn to follow Bai Yi back to his world, but Bai Yi’s summoning contract expired before they could attempt the ritual. Lynn sent him home with a ritual page, a piece of his flesh, and a letter, hoping Bai Yi might find a way to contact him again.

• Bai Yi realized he might return to his world when his summoning period ended and proposed summoning Lynn there in turn.
• Lynn searched his teacher’s underground library and found a forbidden ritual for summoning specific entities, then copied down its instructions.
• Bai Yi began turning translucent as his summoning contract ended, so Lynn gave him the ritual page and told him to remember Lynn’s name and the Dark World.
• Lynn cut off his little finger and gave it to Bai Yi as a possible beacon, then handed him a letter addressed to Lynn’s possible family in a parallel world.
• Bai Yi vanished before Lynn could finish helping him with the promised stainless steel, leaving Lynn alone with the hope that Bai Yi would send the letter.

Investigators searched for Bai Yi, a missing student, amid a wave of strange disappearances until he suddenly reappeared by crashing into an investigator. At the hospital, doctors and Officer Liu discovered that Bai Yi had suffered a concussion, crude chest surgery, and physical castration, while the cause of his ordeal remained unknown.

• Investigators in Demon Capital linked Bai Yi’s disappearance to a series of bizarre missing-person cases across the Nine Provinces.
• Bai Yi suddenly appeared out of thin air in the alley and crashed into an investigator, leaving both men unconscious or stunned.
• Doctors examined Bai Yi at the hospital and found a chest incision with crude stitches, though his vital signs were normal and he had only a mild concussion.
• The hospital director and an investigator discovered that Bai Yi had been physically castrated.
• Officer Liu arrived with the Special Investigation Team, reacted with shock to Bai Yi’s injuries, and ordered that he be kept safe while he recovered.

Bai Yi's parents learned he had been found and fainted after seeing his unusual condition. Hospital staff then discovered that his organs seemed to move on their own during X-rays, leaving the doctors stunned when his heart punched his lung.

• Bai Yi's parents forced their way into his hospital room, saw his condition, and fainted from shock.
• The director learned that Bai Yi was regaining consciousness and that his parents were receiving counseling.
• A doctor noticed Bai Yi's heart appeared on different sides in separate X-rays, then seemed to sag into his belly.
• The director ordered a full-body scan, and the doctors initially reassured themselves that Bai Yi's organs looked mostly normal.
• A doctor spotted Bai Yi's heart punching the lung beside it on the scan.

Lynn took Alice for a stroll through Wandering Soul Alley, where their presence terrified the local creatures, then asked the system to assess his combat strength. The system explained that ranks below Monarch could be overcome, but higher supernatural ranks exerted increasingly overwhelming suppression.

• Doctors watched Bai Yi’s heart grow limbs and fight his lungs, while the hospital director collapsed from a heart episode.
• Lynn carried Alice around Wandering Soul Alley, and a frightened Black Fog Licker fled after Alice seemed interested in eating it.
• Creatures across Wandering Soul Alley received a warning about a Death Omen Rank Vengeful Ghost and barricaded themselves indoors.
• Lynn returned to the Bloodsaw Apothecary, where Alice’s hatred decreased and her affection for him increased after the outing and a lollipop.
• Lynn asked the system to explain his combat rank and whether he could defeat a Monarch, and it said that anything was possible below the Monarch.

Lynn considered the different ways creatures grew stronger, then learned that those below level one hundred belonged to the rank “All Living Beings.” He bathed Alice and began removing her rough stitches so he could sew her body together properly.

• Lynn reflected that different races gained strength in different ways and wondered what rank creatures below level one hundred belonged to.
• The system answered Lynn’s question with the rank “All Living Beings.”
• Alice told Lynn she felt uncomfortable as the sugary liquid leaked through the stitches in her throat.
• Lynn prepared a bath for Alice and reluctantly agreed to help wash her after she said she was 201 years old.
• Lynn wrapped Alice in a towel, brought out sewing supplies, and began removing the stitches from her ankle.

Lynn finished stitching Alice back together, then welcomed a lizardman who tried to rob his shop and intimidated him into becoming a patient. A diagnosis revealed that the lizardman supposedly suffered from more than a dozen serious illnesses, leaving him terrified.

• Alice felt safe and cared for as Lynn stitched her body together, and her affection and trust toward him increased.
• Lynn examined the Weeping Clown curse and guessed that it might cause derangement or loss of control.
• War Lizard entered Lynn's shop and tried to rob him, but Lynn fired several shots close enough to frighten him into surrendering.
• War Lizard asked Lynn to treat what he thought was a mild cold, triggering a quest and a flurry of diagnosis notifications.
• Lynn told War Lizard he had more than a dozen serious illnesses, and War Lizard panicked as Lynn sympathized with how long he had survived.

Lynn examined War Lizard and insisted that his long list of ailments was real, despite War Lizard's protests. After War Lizard broke his hand punching a lead-filled post, Lynn tested his response to drawings and concluded he was impotent before preparing to examine his hemorrhoids.

• War Lizard angrily denied being sick, then punched Lynn's lead-filled doorpost and fractured his hand.
• Lynn bandaged War Lizard's hand and offered to test his listed conditions one at a time.
• Lynn showed War Lizard drawings of a sexy lizardwoman and a muscular lizardman to gauge his reactions.
• War Lizard admitted that the muscular lizardman picture affected him more and that he had no physical response despite past strong reactions.
• Lynn diagnosed War Lizard with impotence and told him to remove his pants for a hemorrhoid examination.

Lynn diagnosed War Lizard with numerous serious illnesses, frightening him into buying thousands of Skeleton Coins’ worth of medicines. That evening, Lynn confirmed to Blood Saw that he would leave the next day to seek out the Night Doctors.

• Lynn let War Lizard inspect himself in a mirror, and War Lizard screamed in terror after seeing what he called the demon Eye.
• Lynn reassured War Lizard and spent several hours explaining his supposed ailments and prescribing medicines.
• War Lizard returned to his accomplice wrapped in bandages and carrying a huge supply of potions, saying he was terminally ill and had spent nine thousand Skeleton Coins.
• Lynn received quest rewards and pocketed the money War Lizard had paid him.
• Blood Saw visited Lynn, who confirmed he planned to leave the next day to find the Night Doctors.

Lynn accepted Blood Saw’s legendary potions and began the Night Doctor class change quest, arriving in Silent Town as monsters gathered outside its defenses. The town’s mayor and armed residents prepared to resist an imminent attack while Lynn approached unaware of the danger in the forest.

• Blood Saw gave Lynn legendary mental and physical enhancement potions before his journey to Silent Town.
• Lynn activated the class change item and received a quest to earn full recognition within the Night Doctor faction, with killing prohibited.
• Lynn teleported to Silent Town, drank both potions, and headed toward the town as red-eyed shadows moved through the forest behind him.
• Silent Town’s residents, including humans and several other peoples, prepared their rifles and defenses against the approaching monsters.
• The white-haired mayor refused to retreat and ordered the residents to keep watch as howls sounded from the black mist.

Lynn encountered a pack of Blood Moon Werewolves on the road to Silent Town, and their chief mistook him for a vulnerable outsider before ordering an attack. Lynn revealed his tentacles and swiftly overwhelmed the charging werewolves, leaving the chief alarmed.

• A scarred werewolf told the chief that a human outsider was approaching along the route to Silent Town.
• The chief spotted Lynn carrying the Night Demon Blade and ordered the pack to capture him, hoping he could become his son-in-law.
• Lynn recognized the attackers as Blood Moon Werewolves after reading one of their profiles.
• Lynn's tentacles burst from his back, grabbed more than a dozen werewolves, and slammed them into the ground.
• The werewolf chief watched Lynn's counterattack and realized the situation had turned bad.