Chapter Summaries

Lynn repeatedly used Mimicry to find a masculine form that satisfied the Filth Slime, eventually sending him out of the Hospital in a towering shape. Outside, the Filth Slime collided with Aier, who froze in shock at his appearance.

• Lynn reshaped the Filth Slime into a handsome human resembling himself, but the Filth Slime rejected the form.
• Lynn tried numerous forms, including a winged Slime lion, while the Filth Slime demanded something imposing and masculine.
• After an hour, Lynn gave the Filth Slime a towering form that he said would attract attention and impress women.
• The Filth Slime left the Hospital to test his new appearance in a crowd.
• Aier collided with the Filth Slime on the street and stared speechlessly at his imposing form.

After Lynn’s surgery gave the Filth Slime a confidence-boosting form, the Slime strutted through the City of Night and caused a public uproar. Lynn received a potion formula based on the Slime’s transformation, then met a wounded level-99 cyborg who demanded to see Doctor Aier.

• Aier screamed and fled when she saw the Filth Slime’s new surgical form.
• The Filth Slime went into the City of Night, where the crowd gawked and news of his appearance spread across the city.
• Lynn received the Filth Slime Mimicry Form Potion Formula as a reward for completing the Slime Makeover quest.
• A wounded cyborg entered the consultation center and demanded that Lynn bring out Doctor Aier.
• Lynn identified the visitor as a level-99 mechanical pioneer and wasteland wanderer who had returned to a flesh-based form.

Lynn recognized that the Wanderer had ties to the Demon Association, but the man discovered Lynn was the Root Knight who destroyed it and threatened him. The Night Patrol Squad ambushed the Wanderer before he could attack, then requested help from the Anti-Mechanical Unit.

• The Wanderer recognized Lynn from a projection showing him destroying the Demon Association and reached for his guns.
• Lynn denied being the Root Knight, then asked whether the Wanderer was a Demon Association remnant.
• The Wanderer admitted his ties to the Demon Association and threatened to kill Lynn for the bounty on his head.
• Lynn warned the Wanderer that he was in the City of Night and gave him three seconds to put down his weapons.
• A Night Doctor struck the Wanderer with an electric baton, and the Night Patrol Squad surrounded and beat him.
• A Night Doctor reported the attack and requested emergency support from the Anti-Mechanical Unit.

Lynn watched Sir Awen’s forces arrive in Dark Night City and overwhelm the Wanderer, then ordered them to stop and leave. He began repairing the battered Wanderer, offering surgery for a price.

• Night Doctors and anti-mechanical units teleported in, established a protective perimeter around Lynn, and joined the mob beating the Wanderer.
• The captains promised Lynn round-the-clock protection and insisted their forces would not beat the Wanderer to death.
• Lynn learned the Night Doctors’ forces resented Plague Doctors and had taken out some of that anger on the Wanderer.
• Lynn persuaded the squads to stop the beating and withdraw, then found the Wanderer badly damaged.
• Lynn refitted the Wanderer’s components and offered to operate on him if he paid.

Lynn attempted to repair the badly damaged Wanderer, whose treatment ended with Lynn earning a mechanical blueprint and the Wanderer waking up to an electric shock. Lynn left the Wanderer tied to the operating table and prepared to jolt him awake.

• Lynn carried the battered Wanderer into the operating room and diagnosed several mechanical injuries, including short-circuited wiring and continuous lower-body explosions.
• Lynn drove a crowbar into the Wanderer, snapped off his voice organ, then knocked him out and tied him to the operating table.
• Lynn spent over an hour dismantling and repairing the Wanderer, completing the treatment quest and receiving 400 experience, 300 Skeleton Coins, and a Heavy Bio-Grenade blueprint.
• Lynn reached level 28, put away the blueprint, and jabbed electrical wires into the restored Wanderer to wake him.

The Wanderer woke after Lynn repaired his body, only to discover that his new voice and charging setup had been radically altered. He ended the chapter horrified by Lynn’s claim that the changes were user-friendly.

• The Wanderer woke from a dream of being cut apart and heard Lynn announce that the operation had succeeded.
• The Wanderer discovered that Lynn had replaced his voice unit with a little-girl voice, and Lynn reassured him that he had snapped off the original while thrashing.
• The Wanderer searched for power because his energy reserves were nearly depleted, and Lynn directed him to a charging port that cost thirty Skeleton Coins per kilowatt-hour.
• The Wanderer found that his old charging cable was gone, and Lynn revealed that he had installed a new charger between the Wanderer’s legs.
• Lynn explained that he had combined the charging function with the Wanderer’s former anatomy and asked whether the result was user-friendly.

Lynn’s patient, the Wanderer, attacked him but was beaten by the Night Patrol and then received a second round of mechanical repairs. The chapter ended with Lynn presenting the Wanderer with a huge bill for his treatment.

• The Wanderer grabbed Lynn by the throat, but the Night Patrol Squad 23 emerged from the walls and beat him until Lynn ordered them to withdraw.
• Lynn helped the battered Wanderer back to the operating table and repaired his injuries, giving him grenade-shaped mechanical features for a nose and teeth.
• Lynn demonstrated how the Wanderer’s grenade nose could be activated, frightening him, then handed him a treatment bill that unrolled for over ten meters.

Wanderer refused to pay Lynn’s 35,000-coin surgery bill, but surrendered after Lynn threatened him with a revolver and the Night Doctors surrounded him. After handing out cash gifts and counting all his money, Wanderer was still 9,000 coins short, and Lynn said he would not take parts from his first perfect mechanical creation.

• Wanderer tore up Lynn’s 35,000-coin bill and defiantly refused to pay for his surgery.
• Lynn fired three shots around Wanderer’s head, and Wanderer apologized, gave Lynn a coin, and promised to pay the bill.
• Wanderer handed Skeleton Coins to the Night Doctors as supposed thanks for their work.
• Wanderer counted his remaining Black Skull Coins and found he was still 9,000 coins short.
• Wanderer offered to pawn the grenade attached to his nose, but Lynn said he would not take parts from him.

Lynn questioned the Wanderer about the Mechanical Church and learned that its members uploaded their consciousnesses into a shared network called the Hive, gaining a form of immortality at the cost of their free will. The Wanderer described the Church’s vast mechanized production and devastating weapons, leaving Lynn asking how the Flesh God Cult could withstand it.

• The Wanderer mistook Lynn’s request for information as an offer to make him pay with his body, and Lynn fired a warning shot before correcting him.
• Lynn asked the Wanderer about the Mechanical Church’s existence and combat methods, and the Wanderer explained that its members uploaded their consciousnesses into the Hive.
• The Wanderer said Hive members could return after their bodies were destroyed, but they lost their free will and most of their emotions.
• The Wanderer recalled how the Church used Beacons, Mechanical Pods, and automated factories to rapidly build armies and overwhelm enemies with coordinated weapons.
• The Wanderer said the Mechanical Church had a much higher win rate in major wars against the Flesh God Cult, and Lynn asked how the Cult held off its offensives.

Lynn asked Wanderer how to deal with the Mechanical Church and learned about its ruthless hostility toward outsiders, along with a parasite armor that could disrupt its targeting systems. Wanderer described how the Church had recruited an exceptional researcher, leaving Lynn to suspect that it would accept outsiders whose talents advanced its technology.

• Wanderer warned Lynn that the Flesh God Cult was too chaotic to organize and advised him to flee rather than fight the Mechanical Church.
• Wanderer explained that the Mechanical Church attacked flesh-and-blood creatures on sight and hunted down anyone who killed one of its units.
• Wanderer showed Lynn a Parasite Armor insect that could disrupt mechanical scans and target locks, then said such devices were sold openly on the black market.
• Wanderer recounted how the Mechanical Church rescued a persecuted master of Mechanical Modification and research, built him a mechanical body, and brought him into its organization.
• Lynn inferred that the Mechanical Church made exceptions for outsiders with valuable technological skills.

Lynn learned more about the Mechanical Church and the Flesh God Cult, then prepared to join the conflict over the Colossus Brain Tissue ruins. The Upside-Down Angel told him White Night would lead the expedition, and the chapter ended as Lynn made another request after she refused to give him blood.

• Lynn questioned the Wanderer about the Mechanical Church and the Flesh God Cult, then let him leave without paying the rest of his fee.
• Over the next week, Lynn followed his routine and asked the Matriarch about the two factions' movements.
• The Upside-Down Angel told Lynn that the Night Doctors had established an outpost in the contested territory and arranged for him to leave that afternoon with White Night.
• Lynn learned that the Mechanical Church and the Flesh God Cult had entered the ruins containing the Colossus Brain Tissue, and the Upside-Down Angel warned him to avoid it.
• Lynn asked the Upside-Down Angel for blood to make potions, but she refused and threatened to kill him if he brought a washbasin to ask again.
• Lynn put away the washbasin and asked to make one more request.

After stealing two feathers from the Origin creature, Lynn returned to Wandering Soul Alley to obtain another useful item. He found his potion shop infested with undead, and a monstrous tongue attacked him as he interrogated a severed lower body.

• Lynn received the Origin Plucker achievement and kept the Matriarch's two golden feathers.
• Lynn used a Night Doctor teleportation point and traveled to Wandering Soul Alley, confirming that Black String Moon was still accompanying him.
• Lynn entered his dusty, bloodstained potion shop and found a living lower body in the operating room.
• Lynn kicked the lower body and threatened it while interrogating it, increasing the Flesh Wandering Soul's fear of him.
• A giant tongue with nested tongues and barbed teeth lunged from the dark corridor toward Lynn.

Lynn reunited with Little Darling, the sentient tongue living in the cellar of his teacher’s shop, and tried to persuade it to accompany him. He told it that its long-lost relative, the Colossus Brain, had been unearthed.

• Miss Doll trapped the creature that ambushed Lynn, and he recognized it as Little Darling.
• Little Darling broke free and fled into the cellar, but Lynn dragged part of its body outside and hugged it despite its furious resistance.
• Lynn introduced Little Darling to Miss Doll as a nimble tongue from the Bloodsaw Apothecary and learned it had been thriving on intruders and potions.
• Lynn explained that he had returned mainly to bring Little Darling along and claimed he had found its long-lost brain.

Lynn persuaded Big Tongue, whom he called Little Darling, to leave its cellar and carry him to the City of Night. At the Abnormal Creature Clinic, Lynn turned into a cat and slipped into room 002 to prepare for a perilous upcoming journey.

• Lynn offered Big Tongue potions and emotional apologies until its affection for him rose and it agreed to help.
• Lynn rode Big Tongue through the teleportation array to the City of Night, drawing stares as they traveled toward the Abnormal Creature Clinic.
• Lynn told Big Tongue to wait outside the clinic, then greeted Doctor Aier and used Mimicry to become a black-and-white cat.
• Lynn warned Miss Doll that room 002 housed a dangerous creature, picked the lock, and entered while acting like an ordinary cat.

Lynn prepared for an expedition by borrowing dangerous books, stocking up on supplies, and refreshing his blessings from the Matriarch. At the frontline camp, White Night revealed that the Flesh God Cult’s second Origin, the Mother Tree of Desire, had entered the battle for the cursed city.

• Miss Doll observed Lynn’s shifting personas as he sneaked into Feather Pen’s room and gained her favorability.
• Lynn borrowed several dangerous books from Feather Pen, gathered potions and grenades, and prepared his equipment for the expedition.
• Lynn visited the Matriarch to refresh his blessings, then set out with White Night for the frontline camp.
• White Night warned Lynn about the dangers ahead and explained that the Mechanical Church and Flesh God Cult were fighting over the city where the Colossus Brain Tissue had been unearthed.
• White Night told Lynn that the Flesh God Cult’s second-ranked Origin, the Mother Tree of Desire, had joined the battle.

White Night explained the escalating conflict over the Colossus Brain and told Lynn that the Night Doctors would limit the fighting and evacuate Curse City’s inhabitants. He then took Lynn into the city to observe the rival churches, while Miss Doll stayed behind and Lynn carried Zuo Zuo and Little Darling with him.

• White Night told Lynn that the Mother Tree of Desire had allied with the Flesh Dominator and that the Plague Doctors might also enter the conflict over the Colossus Brain and the Mechanical Church.
• White Night said the Night Doctors would avoid aiding either side, curb the war’s intensity, and evacuate the city’s inhabitants.
• A terrified Cyclops escaped from a Night Doctors’ surgery building before white smoke dragged him back inside, and White Night told Lynn that free surgery was necessary to cure the city’s cursed residents.
• White Night offered to take Lynn into the city to witness the rival churches’ conflict, and Lynn agreed to go with him.
• Lynn asked Miss Doll to remain at camp; she disappeared, while Lynn took Zuo Zuo and Little Darling with him.

Lynn and White Night entered Curse City under cover, where White Night explained that he survived as an evil spirit after a fire. They found Mechanical Church units patrolling the technologically advanced ruins and watched as the machines approached a hidden Flesh God Cult ambush.

• White Night carried Lynn through the Dark World at high speed and explained that the fire had killed everyone in his school, leaving him sustained by hatred and a new obsession.
• Lynn and White Night arrived in Curse City, where White Night activated stealth and warned Lynn not to stray because the Mechanical Church could detect intruders.
• Lynn examined the ruined city's advanced metal structures and wondered if its technology came from the Colossus civilization.
• A patrol of two Mechanical Vanguards and five Mechanical Jumpers advanced along the street, and White Night described the Mechanical Church's strength.
• White Night revealed that Flesh God Cult members were hiding underground beyond the machines' scans, just as the patrol drew near.

Lynn and White Night watched a Mechanical Church squad enter a Flesh God Cult ambush, where the cult cut off the squad’s link to the Main Brain and launched a rapid assault. The battle was still underway when a mechanical humanoid activated its plasma sword.

• A mechanical spider mistook a bird for an organic target and shot it, giving Lynn and White Night roasted meat as they watched from hiding.
• White Night explained that the Mechanical Church hated flesh-and-blood creatures and despised hybrids of flesh and machinery even more.
• The mechanical squad entered the Flesh God Cult’s ambush zone and began setting up a regional guard post.
• Flesh God Cult creatures erupted from underground, disrupted the squad’s communications, and severed its link to the Main Brain.
• The mechanical units scattered and shot the regenerating fleshy attackers, but a tentacle smashed one mechanical humanoid into a snare of fleshy snakes.
• The trapped mechanical humanoid switched to melee mode and activated its plasma sword.

Lynn witnessed the Mechanical Church’s machines sacrifice themselves to complete a Beacon and summon a devastating bombardment. As the mechanical swarm assembled, he saw its leader, the prototype Cybernetic Intelligence Silver Fantasy a01.

• The Flesh God Cult’s ambush destroyed several mechanical units, but the survivors sacrificed themselves to protect the Beacon’s construction.
• The Beacon completed its synchronization and established a spatial node, allowing a bombardment order to be issued.
• White Night grabbed Lynn and began turning them incorporeal as pale aircraft appeared and bombarded the street.
• Mechanical Pods descended through the flames, deploying more than a thousand armed machines in orderly ranks.
• Lynn saw the mechanical girl Silver Fantasy a01 rise from a shattered pod and identified her through his panel as a restricted prototype.

Lynn and White Night watched the Mechanical Church’s elite force use a Geological Oscillator to expose and destroy the Flesh God Cult’s hidden forces. When the mechanical girl detected them, she struck Lynn with her Monomolecular Sword, severely wounding him.

• Lynn realized the mechanical girl was leading the Mechanical Church’s reinforcements, and White Night explained why the Church could deploy its forces so lavishly.
• The mechanical spiders built a Geological Oscillator, which triggered an earthquake and forced the Flesh God Cult’s creatures out of hiding.
• The Mechanical Church’s troops annihilated the exposed flesh creatures and received permission to proceed to Area 1 and crack the Colossus Brain.
• The mechanical girl detected Lynn and White Night, rushed toward their hiding place, and pierced Lynn’s shoulder, triggering his pain-to-pleasure ability.