Chapter Summaries

After reaching level 5, Lynn used his temporary curse-removal ability on the revolver, then accidentally shot a distant monster while practicing. He woke at level 6 to find the Evil Spirit Blood Infant had spent the night trying to parasitize him, and its fear and tameness triggered a special quest.

• Lynn put all eight available stat points into Constitution and unlocked a 24-hour curse-removal ability.
• Lynn removed the revolver’s curse, but discovered that his Gun Proficiency was zero and missed several practice shots.
• Lynn accidentally hit a level 75 Night Corpse-Eater through the windowsill, then replaced the board and went to sleep.
• Lynn woke at level 6, unlocked the daily shop exchange system, and found the Evil Spirit Blood Infant beneath his blanket.
• Lynn checked the Evil Spirit Blood Infant’s panel and triggered the special quest Blood Infant Growth when its fear and tameness reached the required levels.

Lynn completed the Evil Spirit Blood Infant’s first shaping, changing her appearance and adjusting two traits each in her personality, psychology, and growth path. After she fell asleep for the shaping process, Lynn opened his shop and was stunned by its bizarre inventory.

• Lynn learned that the Blood Infant’s resentment would distort her body and make her hostile if left unchecked, then reshaped her tentacles into a cute form with animal ears.
• The system unlocked adjustments to the Blood Infant’s personality, psychological traits, and growth path, and Lynn changed two traits in each category while leaving some negative traits in place.
• Lynn confirmed the first-stage shaping, earned tameness and experience rewards, and the Blood Infant entered a period of slumber.
• Lynn cleaned his home, lit the Soul Lamp, opened his shop, and reacted in disbelief to the strange goods for sale.

Lynn bought a Flesh Regeneration Potion formula and Blood Demon flesh, then traded a sack of Root-Level Monster teeth to the Human-Skin Scavenger. After hearing that Abyssal Headhunters had devastated nearby streets, he received a still-beating heart from the old woman as thanks.

• Lynn bought Venomous Slime fluid, a Lucky Cat doll, baby diapers, a Flesh Regeneration Potion formula, and Blood Demon flesh from the system shop.
• Lynn waited for the Human-Skin Scavenger and gave her a sack of severed teeth from a Root-Level Monster, completing her quest and earning rewards.
• The Human-Skin Scavenger told Lynn that three Abyssal Headhunters had ravaged neighboring streets and killed half of the area's High-Rank Demon Hunters and demon spirits.
• Lynn called the Headhunter he had treated cute, leaving the Human-Skin Scavenger astonished and increasing his renown in Wandering Soul Alley.
• The Human-Skin Scavenger gave Lynn a still-beating heart she pulled from her own chest, and his sanity value fell by ten.

Lynn traded for a cursed heart, then faced a dangerous Blood-Robed Evil Spirit who tested whether he still found her beautiful. As her hostility surged and she closed in on him, Lynn kissed her.

• Lynn accepted the Faceless Demon's Heart from the old woman, then stocked the shop and waited for his teacher to return.
• A Blood-Robed Evil Spirit arrived at the Bloodsaw Apothecary carrying a covered plate, and Lynn triggered the quest to survive her for 30 minutes.
• The woman flirted with Lynn and threatened to eat him, while his sanity fell and her danger level rose.
• The Blood-Robed Evil Spirit split her face open and asked Lynn if he still thought she was beautiful as she moved close to him.
• Lynn kissed the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit when her face was inches from his.

Lynn treated a terrifying female ghost as a beauty in need of dental care before learning she was the mother of the Ghost Infant and had come to reclaim it. She summoned the Pighead Demon’s remains as proof and waited for her child to emerge, while Lynn warned her not to get her hopes up.

• Lynn calmed the female ghost by praising her tentacles and giving her a dental cleaning and breath-freshening treatment.
• The female ghost asked whether Lynn had operated on a Pighead Demon and removed an infant from its stomach, and Lynn confirmed that he had.
• The female ghost explained that the Ghost Infant had been a piece of her and demanded her child back, claiming it would become a calamity monster.
• The female ghost regurgitated the nearly corroded Pighead Demon’s head to prove what had happened, then threatened Lynn until he agreed to hand over the infant.
• Tiny footsteps sounded behind the curtain, and the female ghost eagerly turned to greet her child as Lynn warned her not to get her hopes up.

Lynn revealed that the adorable Evil Spirit Blood Infant was the female ghost’s missing fragment and daughter, but the ghost could not accept that a piece of her had become pure and kind. Lynn tried to calm her and was tasked with getting her to accept the child and stop bearing him malice.

• The female ghost recognized the pink baby as the fragment that had fallen from her body, while Lynn learned the Blood Infant had become a juvenile with a chaotic-good alignment.
• Lynn showed that the Blood Infant obeyed him instantly, then encouraged her to call the female ghost Mommy; the baby licked the ghost, sending her sanity plunging.
• The female ghost rejected the idea that the pure, affectionate baby could be her daughter and blamed Lynn, but the baby’s affection lowered the ghost’s danger level.
• The system gave Lynn the Evil Spirit Mommy quest, and he argued that the ghost should be happy to have a cute, healthy daughter.
• The female ghost asked whether Lynn would be happy if his child grew up looking like a ghost, and Lynn answered that he should be.

Lynn used the Ghost Infant’s cuteness and an impromptu speech to persuade the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit that her child reflected goodness within her and deserved to be cherished. The female ghost’s hostility fell to zero, and Lynn completed both quests and earned an achievement.

• Lynn argued that the female ghost should accept her child and compared the sweet Ghost Infant to the monster she feared the child might become.
• Lynn claimed the female ghost secretly longed for a beautiful appearance and had a gentle heart, while the Ghost Infant’s calls of “Mommy” lowered her danger level.
• Lynn insisted that the Ghost Infant’s purity proved the truth, goodness, and beauty within the female ghost, reducing her danger level to zero and raising her affection.
• Lynn urged the female ghost to cherish her child, and she reluctantly admitted that his argument made some sense.
• Lynn completed the Survive and Evil Spirit Mommy quests and earned the Impromptu Orator achievement.

Lynn persuaded the female ghost to hold her Ghost Infant daughter, easing her hostility before she left his shop. He learned a new persuasion skill, then faced a dangerous new customer, the Black Knight, whose demand for effective combat potions threatened to turn violent.

• Lynn handed the Ghost Infant to the female ghost, who was stunned by the baby's affection but warned him she might return to eat him.
• After the female ghost left, Lynn learned the Infectious Aura passive skill and resolved to improve his combat abilities.
• The Black Knight arrived at Bloodsaw Apothecary seeking powerful combat potions and triggered a quest for Lynn.
• The Black Knight tried Lynn's strength potion, found it useless, and pressured Lynn as the danger of the encounter became clear.

Lynn brewed a Critical Hit Potion to satisfy the black knight after the shop’s other potions failed. The knight drank it and felt a powerful surge, leaving its effects yet to be seen.

• The black knight dismissed Lynn’s potions and threatened to kill him unless he found one that met his standards.
• Lynn promised to brew a better potion and retrieved the Critical Hit Potion formula from his system storage.
• Lynn gathered ingredients, including tissue from a root-level creature, and brewed ten bottles of Critical Hit Potion.
• Lynn offered the new potion to the black knight, who smelled its pungent odor and sensed its power.
• The black knight drank the potion and trembled as an intense wave of heat and power surged through him.

Lynn sold the Black Knight a Critical Hit Potion that greatly boosted his strength but made him bald and caused his head to flash. The Black Knight bought the remaining bottles and rode off, while the Witcher waited for him in the wasteland.

• The Black Knight drank Lynn’s Critical Hit Potion, gained a powerful combat boost, and learned that his hair had fallen out and his bald head kept flashing.
• Despite raging at Lynn over the side effects, the Black Knight bought all nine remaining bottles for 1,000 Skeleton Coins each.
• Lynn completed his quest and received 200 Skeleton Coins, 200 base experience, and a 1% increase in the Black Knight’s return rate.
• The Black Knight rode away through the black mist, his flashing bald head still visible in the distance.
• The Witcher emerged in a desolate wasteland and said he had been waiting for the Black Knight.

The Black Knight drank a potion from Lynn’s shop, grew bald and unnaturally powerful, and defeated the Witcher in a fight. The badly injured Witcher came to Lynn for treatment, then recognized the Black Knight’s potion bottle in the shop.

• The Black Knight drank a potion before fighting the Witcher, and his bald head began flashing as he claimed his critical hits were maxed out.
• The Black Knight charged the Witcher with overwhelming strength and left him severely injured.
• An hour later, the Witcher arrived at Lynn’s shop and asked him to treat his wounds, blaming the Black Knight’s power on a potion.
• Lynn suspected the Witcher might trace the potion back to him and went to fetch a stronger Recovery Potion.
• After drinking Recovery Potions at the counter, the Witcher spotted an empty bottle and recognized it as identical to the one the Black Knight had used.

Lynn admitted that he had sold the Black Knight potions and persuaded the Witcher to buy the same strength-enhancing Critical Hit Potion. The Witcher drank it, gained immense power, and went bald, while Lynn tried to console him by calling his shiny head a built-in light source.

• The Witcher confronted Lynn after recognizing that Lynn had supplied the Black Knight with potions, and Lynn confirmed the sale.
• Lynn convinced the Witcher to buy ten Critical Hit Potions and several Recovery Potions, completing the quest to treat the Witcher's injuries.
• The Witcher drank a Critical Hit Potion and felt his strength surge as his clothes burst apart.
• The potion made the Witcher lose all his hair, and Lynn told him his shiny bald head would save money on lighting.

The Witcher confronted the Black Knight again, and both men fought over whose bald head flashed more often. Back at his shop, Lynn unlocked the Vision Realm and logged in, finding himself in an unfamiliar place.

• The Black Knight tracked the Witcher to Wandering Soul Alley and found him bald, flashing, and ready to resume their fight.
• The Witcher and the Black Knight clashed blades and headbutted each other while arguing over who was stronger.
• Lynn earned the Potion Peddler achievement, reached level 6, and put his four new attribute points into Constitution.
• The system explained that the Vision Realm was a mirror world for dark creatures and that Lynn could enter it for 500 Skeleton Coins per login.
• Lynn activated the Vision Realm and opened his eyes there after feeling a vast will inspect his soul.

Lynn entered the Vision Realm, discovered how its paid broadcasts and region channel worked, and considered using it to grow his shop’s business. He found that the channel was already full of accusations about his shop and his treatment of its customers.

• Lynn entered the Vision Realm Square and learned that he had 1,000 Skeleton Coins and an identity panel.
• An informant broadcast a fight near Wandering Soul Alley, and Lynn paid 20 Skeleton Coins to watch the Black Knight and the Witcher clash.
• Lynn recognized the fighters as former visitors to his shop and saw viewers comment on their shining bald heads.
• Lynn opened the Region Channel and read a Long-Haired Ghost’s warning that his shop was a rip-off because its doctor had dismembered someone with a chainsaw.
• The Blood Doll agreed that the shop was a rip-off and accused Lynn of putting her through a painful examination.

Lynn discovered that the Evil Spirit Queen had learned about his treatment of her daughter and braced for the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit’s revenge. The Scavenger’s arrival saved him, but the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit then invited him to dinner and presented him with a dangerous choice.

• Lynn saw the Evil Spirit Queen accuse him on the Vision Realm’s Region Channel of harming her daughter, then hurried to close his apothecary.
• The Blood-Robed Evil Spirit arrived and approached Lynn, triggering a quest to survive as his danger level climbed.
• The Scavenger appeared, and Lynn gave her the Witcher’s long hair and the Black Knight’s white hair to keep her at his shop.
• Lynn completed the survival quest when the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit abandoned her hostility, earning a Curse Diagnosis Skill Book.
• The Blood-Robed Evil Spirit invited Lynn to her home for a meal and threatened him as a new quest offered him the choice to accept or refuse.

With his teacher still missing, Lynn learned that the Evil Spirit Queen planned to kill him and went to her home rather than risk staying alone at the Potion Shop. The Queen prepared to torment him in front of hundreds of Vision Realm viewers, while Lynn sat unaware of the mechanism she had set in motion.

• The Scavenger warned Lynn not to provoke vengeful spirits and left after helping him escape the Evil Spirit Queen.
• Lynn saw the Queen announce that she had invited him to her home and planned a show for that night, then equipped himself and left the Potion Shop.
• Lynn entered the former Pighead Demon's slaughterhouse and sat at a table surrounded by skinned corpses, calling out for the Queen.
• The Blood-Robed Evil Spirit watched Lynn through a mirror and began a live broadcast for 541 Vision Realm viewers.
• The Blood-Robed Evil Spirit vowed to break Lynn's mind before killing him and tugged a tentacle to activate a mechanism.

Lynn turned the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit’s haunted-corpse scare into a brutal counterattack, terrifying the spirits watching through the Vision Realm. He destroyed the puppets with his knife and chainsaw, leaving the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit to shut off the feed in frustration.

• Lynn watched the skinless corpses move closer, then calmly pulled a Gold Tooth from one of them.
• Lynn stabbed the puppets repeatedly with his Boning Knife, horrifying the spirits in the Region Channel.
• The Blood-Robed Evil Spirit ordered the puppets to kill Lynn, but he quickly took them all down with his knife.
• Lynn returned carrying a Chainsaw and began cutting up the fallen puppets, frightening the watching spirits.
• The Blood-Robed Evil Spirit shut off the feed and angrily called Lynn a bastard.

Lynn baffled the watching dark creatures by remaining unfazed as they sent ghosts to frighten him, even physically handling a female ghost. The ghost’s attempts to scare him failed, and Lynn left her embarrassed by admitting he would like to play along but thought it would not make her feel better.

• Lynn received EXP and renown after sawing up puppets, then sat down to drink liquor.
• The Blood-Robed Evil Spirit sent an icy breeze and a female ghost to frighten Lynn.
• Lynn noticed the ghost’s face on his shoulder, winked at her, and slapped her when she screamed.
• Lynn grabbed the ghost’s head, fitted it back onto her body, and explained that potions let him touch evil spirits.
• The ghost dropped her eyeballs in another attempt to scare him, but Lynn picked them up and told her he did not think playing along would make her feel better.

Lynn taught the ghost how to scare people by demonstrating a gruesome heart-removal and then startling her with a scream, terrifying the Wandering Soul Alley residents watching the livestream. After realizing he was being broadcast, he found and pocketed the device watching him, while the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit prepared to confront him herself.

• Lynn guided the ghost's hand into his chest and made her pull out his beating heart while explaining how to build fear.
• Lynn suddenly screamed, shattering the ghost's composure and terrifying the other residents watching the Region Channel.
• Lynn returned the Faceless Demon's heart to his pouch as the ghost trembled, and system notifications reported changes to residents' attitudes and traits.
• Lynn suspected that events were being livestreamed to the Vision Realm's Region Channel, while the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit decided to stop the livestream and deal with him herself.
• Lynn found the device watching him, pried it off, and put it in his pocket.

Lynn admitted to the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit that he had altered her daughter’s appearance, claiming he had acted out of fear and curiosity while also confessing a disturbing thought about marrying the child when she grew up. The enraged mother threatened to tear him apart, and Lynn tried to persuade her to discuss the matter instead.

• The Blood-Robed Evil Spirit returned downstairs, learned Lynn had gone to the backyard, and found him in her bedroom holding her awakened daughter.
• The Blood-Robed Evil Spirit accused Lynn of tampering with her daughter, while Lynn insisted he had not lied and invoked a lightning strike as proof.
• Lynn admitted he had altered the baby and explained that he feared for his life and wanted to test his sculpting skills.
• Lynn confessed that he had briefly imagined marrying the baby when she grew up, provoking the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit’s fury.
• The Blood-Robed Evil Spirit threatened to tear Lynn’s mouth apart, and he urged her to sit down and talk.