Chapter Summaries

The Aberration Fortress discovered signs that a Mechanical Nanostorm had already infiltrated it, and Lynn hurried toward the core Link Chamber as the danger spread. A dying creature disintegrated in front of him, triggering an emergency quest to survive the nanostorm.

• The commander scanned the Aberration Fortress and found abnormal wear in several areas, revealing that nanomechanical swarms were moving through it from five directions.
• Lynn heard the fortress alarm and rushed toward the core Link Chamber to find the commander and learn what had happened.
• Lynn asked Miss Doll about the danger, but she could sense no more than its presence.
• Lynn found a tentacled flesh humanoid pleading for help as pits spread across his body and his flesh began to break down.
• The humanoid's body disintegrated and sent a faint breeze toward Lynn, triggering a Mechanical Nanostorm emergency quest with the objective of staying alive.

Lynn discovered that a Mechanical Race nanostorm was invading the Mother Goddess's root network and fleeing through the Aberration Fortress with Miss Doll. He ordered Commander Gauss to attack the swarms outside while he took responsibility for the ones inside, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Lynn recognized the nanostorm as it disintegrated the fleshy corridors and ran with Miss Doll as it closed in from multiple directions.
• Lynn used the Plague Doctor Mask's ghost mode to escape through the ceiling to the fortress's second level and keep fleeing.
• Commander Gauss warned Lynn that nanite swarms were pursuing him and had infiltrated the fortress, and said the Desire Sect had survived nanostorms only twice.
• Lynn told Commander Gauss to use every anti-machine measure to slow the swarms outside and said he would handle those inside.
• Commander Gauss ordered the Aberration Fortress to bombard the darkness with spores and cursecraft.

Lynn and Black String Moon fought the Mechanical Nanite Swarm with cursecraft and the Focusing Eye, but the swarm reproduced faster than they could destroy it. Lynn escaped to his room and equipped the Snowglow Leg Armor as the swarm continued closing in.

• Lynn admitted he had made up his claim about being able to handle the swarm and hurried toward his room, believing the Flesh God Cult's anti-machine methods might work.
• The nanites caught up beneath Lynn, dissolved his boot, and began consuming the corridor as Black String Moon struck them with a cursecraft magic array.
• Lynn replaced his left eye with the Focusing Eye and used its death curse to destroy thousands of nanomachines, but the swarm adapted and multiplied faster than he could kill it.
• Lynn used the Scythe's Warp effect to escape with Black String Moon, then activated ghost mode and returned to his room.
• Black String Moon raised a Cursecraft Barrier while Lynn equipped the Snowglow Leg Armor and received its prompt to connect to an Intelligent Brain for a software update.

Lynn realized the nanite swarms were linked to a remote controller and used his M-Power to strike through that connection. His attack reached Hive No. 3’s mainframe, which tried to suppress the effects as Lynn continued fighting the swarms.

• Lynn deduced that the nanite swarms received commands through an information link to a powerful signal source.
• Black String Moon warned Lynn as the walls, floor, and ceiling disintegrated and a vast swarm of nanites rushed toward them.
• Lynn struck the barrier with his M-Power, sending a surge through the nanites’ information link and affecting the Black Star No. 3 Hive Mainframe.
• Hive No. 3 identified Lynn as the source of the desire attack and established a firewall while the Supreme Rectification Council questioned whether the mainframe could control its effects.
• The mainframe claimed it could suppress the attack, but Lynn’s repeated surges made it cry out and display a heart symbol across the Hive’s collective consciousness.

Lynn used M-Power to disrupt the Nanite Swarm in the Aberration Fortress, then discovered that thousands of machine consciousnesses had taken over its control. He warped away as the swarm changed tactics and focused on destroying the fortress.

• Lynn fled through the Aberration Fortress with Black String Moon while Zuo Zuo bit him to charge his M-Power.
• Black String Moon kicked Lynn, filling his M-Power charge, and he unleashed a powerful M Fist that affected thousands of machine consciousnesses.
• Lynn realized the Nanite Swarm had switched from the Hive's Intelligent Brain to many machine consciousnesses, diluting M-Power's effect.
• The machine consciousnesses grew furious when Lynn mocked them and called himself their bastard daddy.
• Lynn warped away, and the machine consciousnesses decided to monitor him while directing the rest of the Nanite Swarm to dismantle the Aberration Fortress.

Lynn and Black String Moon prepared to disrupt the Nanite Swarm’s connection to its signal source as the swarm began devouring the Aberration Fortress. Lynn left the fortress’s interior to help Black String Moon trigger an energy upheaval, confident he could survive even if their plan went wrong.

• Lynn realized the Nanite Swarm had changed controllers, making his M Fist less effective, and said they needed to sever the swarm’s connection to its signal source.
• Black String Moon sensed a greater danger as the Nanite Swarm abandoned its pursuit of Lynn and began dismantling the Aberration Fortress.
• The commander warned Lynn that the fortress was being devoured, then saw bulges forming in the Link Chamber’s inner wall as the swarm broke in.
• Lynn and Black String Moon climbed onto the fortress’s outer wall, where she prepared to release most of her energy to disrupt information exchange across the area.
• Black String Moon cautioned that the uncontrolled swarm could become more destructive, but Lynn insisted he had a way to suppress it and could escape death if necessary.

Lynn and Black String Moon launched an energy surge to disrupt the Nanite Swarm’s connection to the Mechanical Church, despite the danger of the swarm going out of control. As part of the swarm advanced toward them, Lynn prepared to use the Flesh Regeneration Potion, and Zuo Zuo tried to stop him.

• Lynn assured Black String Moon he could survive the plan, and she warned him that she would be unable to protect him during the energy surge.
• Black String Moon unleashed a powerful cursecraft wave that disrupted the Nanite Swarm’s communication with the Hive across the Aberration Fortress and Root Network.
• The Special Response Team ordered one-third of the swarm to attack the interference source while the rest continued devouring the fortress.
• The fortress commander warned Lynn that severing the connection would unleash a rampaging Nanite Swarm, but Lynn did not respond.
• Lynn saw the Nanites breaking through the fortress walls and asked Zuo Zuo if she was ready for an explosion.
• Zuo Zuo realized Lynn intended to use the Flesh Regeneration Potion and warned him that the Nanite Swarm would consume his flesh.

Lynn transformed himself into a gigantic mass of flesh to shield Black String Moon and endure the Nanite Swarm’s attack. As his M-Power reached its limit, he revealed that he was betting on unleashing a plague among the nanomachines after their connection to the Mechanical Church was severed.

• Lynn removed his equipment and clothes, gouged out his eye, and replaced it with the Curse Eye.
• Lynn drank a Flesh Regeneration Potion and cast Flesh Frenzy on himself, transforming into a vast mass of rampaging flesh.
• Lynn enveloped Black String Moon inside his body as her energy disrupted the Nanite Swarm around them.
• The Hive sent the Nanite Swarm to decompose Lynn, rapidly draining his vitality and filling his M-Power.
• Lynn told Zuo Zuo that he was betting on a plague, reasoning that the nanomachines’ lack of coordination could make them vulnerable to its spread.
• The system prompted Lynn to apply the effects of Random Diagnosis to the nanomachines.

Lynn used Random Diagnosis on the Nanomachines devouring him until he created a virus that made infected machines attack their own kind, then fed the infected swarm with his flesh. As the Hive lost control of more Nanomachines, the machines broke through Lynn’s body and found a hollow space filled with uncontrolled swarms.

• Lynn repeatedly diagnosed the Nanomachines consuming him, searching for a condition that could destroy them.
• After his body had lost most of its mass, Lynn diagnosed a T-Type Intelligent Turmoil Virus that spread among Nanomachines and made infected units attack uninfected ones.
• Lynn fed the infected Nanomachines with his flesh and used Flesh Regeneration Potions to keep his body growing as Black String Moon’s energy surges disrupted the Hive’s control.
• The Machine Consciousnesses ordered the Nanite Swarms to keep consuming Lynn, unaware that the infected swarm was rapidly expanding inside him.
• Nanite Swarms broke through Lynn’s body and found a hollow space containing miniature machines that had already lost their information link to the Hive.

Lynn used the energy interference to infect the nanomachines inside his body with an intelligent chaos virus, turning them against their own kind and threatening the Mechanical Race’s swarms. As the machines lost control and rushed to kill him, Lynn revealed he had bred a much larger infected swarm, though Zuo Zuo warned that he had only 6% of his flesh left and was close to death.

• The nanomachines inside Lynn’s body stopped devouring him and attacked the Mechanical Race’s swarms, destroying thousands of units.
• The machine consciousnesses tried to regain control and capture the infected nanomachines while Lynn explained that he had created a virus to make them aggressive toward their own kind.
• Lynn warned the Special Response Team that the infected swarms could devour the uncontrolled nanomachines once the energy interference severed the machines’ control.
• A final energy burst cut off the machine consciousnesses’ screens, and they ordered their remaining controlled swarms to converge on Lynn.
• Lynn revealed that he had grown a much larger army of infected nanomachines inside his body using Flesh Regeneration Potion.
• Zuo Zuo told Lynn that only 6% of his flesh remained and he was about to die, but Lynn insisted on finishing his speech.

Lynn used Miss Doll’s final Energy Burst to sever the Nanite Swarm’s connection to the Hive, turning the battle against the Mechanical Church’s forces. After completing the quest, he collapsed from exhaustion beside Miss Doll as the infected swarms continued their assault.

• Lynn timed Miss Doll’s Energy Burst to cut off the Nanite Swarm’s communications with the Hive, leaving the swarms uncontrollable.
• The Machine Consciousnesses realized the infected Nanomachines were destroying their forces and ordered warnings sent to the Purification Council and Miss Machine Intelligence.
• Lynn earned the Mechanical Nanostorm quest rewards, reached level 31, and told the Aberration Fortress commander to remain inside while the infected swarms fought.
• The infected Nanite Swarms attacked the disconnected swarms, though Lynn knew they might target the fortress once their numbers dwindled.
• Lynn deactivated Flesh Frenzy, returned to human form, and collapsed onto the shut-down Miss Doll with only 3.2% vitality remaining.

After containing the Nanite Storm, Lynn and Black String Moon lay too drained to move on the Aberration Fortress, leaving them vulnerable while they recovered. Black String Moon pierced Lynn with a Puppet Thread, triggering his Angel's Kiss blessing and fully restoring him.

• Black String Moon woke beside Lynn and confirmed that the Nanite Storm had been contained.
• Lynn and Black String Moon realized that neither could move, while Zuo Zuo also lacked the strength to help.
• Black String Moon confronted Lynn for touching her, and Lynn claimed he could not control his paralyzed body.
• Black String Moon asked why Lynn's life-saving blessing had not activated, and he said he was bursting with vitality.
• Black String Moon pierced Lynn with a Puppet Thread, triggering Angel's Kiss and restoring his vitality and mental power.
• Lynn told Black String Moon that she fought dirty.

Lynn and Black String Moon argued after she triggered his resurrection armor, and she promised to save him once by binding herself to a Puppet’s Oath. The chapter ended with Black String Moon furious at Lynn’s relentless teasing and ordering him to get dressed.

• Black String Moon explained that she had triggered Lynn’s resurrection armor to protect him before the nanomachine storm subsided and the Mechanical Church could attack.
• Lynn mourned the loss of his resurrection armor and hinted that he expected Black String Moon to compensate him.
• Black String Moon offered to save Lynn unconditionally once if he ever faced a life-threatening catastrophe, and the system established a Puppet’s Oath between them.
• Lynn protested that Black String Moon had bound herself to another contract without consulting him, but she turned away and refused to answer.
• Lynn repeatedly poked Black String Moon until her anger and emotional development increased, prompting her to threaten him and order him to get dressed.

Lynn rescued Black String Moon and led the surviving Desire Sect believers out of the Aberration Fortress after the Mechanical Nanostorm and another storm turned it into a battlefield. He set out with them for the nearest route to the surface, unaware that the first nanomachine he infected with the Intelligent Chaos Virus was watching him.

• Lynn carried Black String Moon away from the Aberration Fortress and learned that fewer than seventy survivors remained inside.
• Lynn ordered the commander to evacuate the fortress and warned the survivors to shield themselves with Cursecraft energy against nanomachines.
• The commander led the surviving flesh humanoids and tentacle monsters out, and Lynn met them outside with Black String Moon.
• Lynn learned that the nanite storm had spread through the Root Network and decided to lead the group toward the nearest surface node.
• As Lynn and the survivors hurried through the tunnel, the first nanomachine he had infected with the Intelligent Chaos Virus watched him from the microscopic realm.

Lynn and the survivors raced through the Root Network toward a surface exit, unaware that the Mechanical Church had tracked them and sent a mechanical sniper to intercept them. At the exit, Lynn feared they were walking into a trap, and the commander volunteered to scout ahead, but nobody joined him.

• Black String Moon warned that the group had left the Energy Burst’s interference range, while the commander sensed that a surface exit lay five kilometers ahead.
• The Hive tracked Lynn’s group and predicted they would emerge through Node 4525, then placed the Fifth and Eleventh Mechanical Clusters under a silver-haired machine intelligence’s command.
• The machine intelligence cloaked herself and aimed a heavy sniper rifle at the exit as war erupted above Curse City between the Mechanical Church and the immense flesh tree.
• Lynn’s group reached the passage to the surface, but Lynn suspected the Mechanical Church might have prepared an ambush there or along the other routes.
• The commander proposed sending scouts ahead and volunteered to go first, but none of the others stepped forward.

Lynn let the Flesh Humanoids leave first, reasoning that the Mechanical Church might be waiting to ambush him rather than them. As the commander reported a safe route aboveground, Lynn kept the others underground and prepared to send them out one at a time.

• The commander led fewer than ten Flesh Humanoids up the passage, while Lynn explained to Zuo Zuo that leaving first could reveal whether the Mechanical Church had set an ambush.
• Lynn climbed toward the surface with Black String Moon and watched the node from below.
• A silver-haired girl ordered the hidden mechanical swarm to ignore the departing Flesh Humanoids and keep waiting for Lynn, whom Hive surveillance still detected underground.
• The commander reported that he and the others had reached the surface without encountering mechanical units, but Lynn told him to wait.
• Lynn reassured the remaining Tentacle Monsters and Flesh Humanoids, then told them to leave one at a time and run in separate directions.

Lynn escaped the Mechanical Church’s ambush by using Warp, leaving the Flesh Humanoids behind as they fled through the node. The Mechanical Church pursued him through the Root Network, and Lynn began evading its encirclement as the silver-haired girl ordered a missile strike.

• Lynn urged the Flesh Humanoids to escape through the node, then vanished in blood mist when the last few refused to leave without him.
• The silver-haired girl learned that Lynn had warped away and ordered the Mechanical Church forces to clear the node and hunt the fleeing creatures.
• The silver-haired girl pursued Lynn while directing nanite and beetle swarms to intercept him along the Root Network.
• Riding Little Darling underground, Lynn detected the Nanite Swarm ahead and warped up one level to evade it.
• The silver-haired girl ordered thirty bunker-buster missiles to strike Lynn’s target area.

Lynn survived a Mechanical Church missile ambush by using a Doll Substitute, but the attack confirmed that the enemy was tracking him in real time. He fled through the Root Network with Little Darling and decided to keep pursuing whoever was hunting him rather than retreat to town.

• The Mechanical Church tracked Lynn as he emerged from the signal interference zone and bombarded his destination with annihilation warheads.
• Lynn activated Ghost Mode while Zuo Zuo shielded him, but the blast triggered the Doll Substitute's curse and cost him a life.
• The Mechanical Girl searched the crater, detected a Cursed Object, and found a half-annihilated rag doll she identified as a substitute.
• Lynn escaped on the badly wounded but rapidly healing Little Darling and realized the Mechanical Church could monitor his movements without information interference.
• Zuo Zuo urged Lynn to return to town, but Lynn refused and resolved to find and fight whoever was hunting him.

Lynn raced deeper into the Mother Tree of Desire’s Root Network, trying to evade Silver Fantasy and reach Curse City’s Core Zone while charging Black String Moon for the fight ahead. The group entered a nanomachines storm, and Lynn realized they were facing the same lethal microscopic threat he had sensed before.

• Lynn led his companions deeper underground, hoping the Root Network would let them escape the Mechanical Church’s tracking and turn the battle around.
• Silver Fantasy regained Lynn’s location and ordered mechanical swarms to surround him and block his escape routes.
• Lynn descended three thousand meters into the Root Network and took Black String Moon from the Loli Suitcase, learning she needed three minutes to recover.
• Lynn cranked the Winder on Black String Moon’s back while Little Darling carried them toward the Mother Tree’s deepest roots.
• Lynn sensed an overwhelming danger in a long tunnel, and the System warned that a nanomechanical swarm posed a 100% crisis.

Lynn was nearly consumed by Silver Fantasy’s nanite swarm until a hostile intelligent chaos swarm invaded his body and fought back. The nanomechanical swarm was eliminated, leaving Zuo Zuo to ask whether Lynn had created the rebels.

• Silver Fantasy ordered her beetle troops’ nanite swarm to attack Lynn’s brain, and the swarm began disintegrating Lynn and Little Darling.
• Zuo Zuo transformed to attack the nanites and urged Lynn to return to Happy Home as the Doll Substitute began to fall apart.
• Lynn felt his body connect with Little Darling and sensed two other presences, one at the center of Curse City and one nearby.
• Silver Fantasy’s Intelligent Brain identified a hostile intelligent chaos swarm attacking her nanites in Zone 1.
• The intelligent chaos swarm invaded Lynn and his companions, fought the nanomechanical swarm, and reduced its count inside Lynn to zero.
• Zuo Zuo asked Lynn whether he had created the rebels as the last nanites dispersed from his wounds.