Chapter Summaries

Lynn tried to deter the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit by claiming he had powerful friends and family in Wandering Soul Alley. He then showed her a Root-level fragment and hinted that the Abyssal Headhunters had spared the alley for a reason, leaving her wary and uncertain.

• Lynn showed the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit the Witcher's Revolver and claimed the Witcher would come to his aid if he fired it.
• Lynn presented a chest hair as a token from the Black Knight, claiming the two men were close to him despite their constant fighting outside the alley.
• Lynn said his teacher and Granny in Wandering Soul Alley would protect him, frustrating the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit with his growing list of connections.
• Lynn showed the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit a small white fragment carrying a Root-level aura and mentioned the Abyssal Headhunters.
• Lynn asked why Wandering Soul Alley had been spared when the Abyssal Headhunters devoured other nearby gathering places, making the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit recoil.

Lynn used his supposed connection to a Root-Level Monster to stop the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit from attacking, then tried to win her over by praising her room, her flower, and the care she showed her baby. His words touched her grief over her lost human life, and a quest to resolve her resentment began at 11%.

• Lynn showed the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit a piece of tartar with a root-level aura and claimed the Headhunter was his favorite private dentist, making her fear retaliation.
• The Blood-Robed Evil Spirit vented her fury but stopped attacking, while Lynn urged her to calm down and insisted he had noticed her good qualities.
• Lynn pointed out the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit's decorated room and night lily, then drew attention to the handmade clothes she had made for her baby.
• The Blood-Robed Evil Spirit grew flustered as Lynn suggested she loved her daughter and praised her as fundamentally different from other Evil Spirits.
• Lynn's words reminded the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit of her life as a human and her grief over dying, triggering a quest to resolve her resentment at 11%.

Lynn used his Limited-Time Curse Removal Ability to strip the evil spirit curse from the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit, restoring her true human form. She stared at her reflection in disbelief, while Lynn kept the extracted curse contained in his palm.

• Lynn offered to give the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit a human appearance, but she revealed her monstrous true form and challenged him to remove the curse that had twisted her.
• Lynn diagnosed her curse as one formed from the resentment of the dead and activated his Limited-Time Curse Removal Ability on her.
• Lynn removed the curse, causing the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit's monstrous body to dissolve and a pale human body to appear.
• The ability extracted the curse into a dark rune in Lynn's palm and went on a twelve-hour cooldown.
• The Blood-Robed Evil Spirit examined her restored form in a mirror and struggled to believe that Lynn had removed a curse that had tormented her for over a hundred years.

Lynn removed the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit's curse temporarily, earning her gratitude and turning their hostile encounter into a chance for regular business. When she admitted she had no money, she leaned close and asked Lynn how much he thought she was worth.

• The Blood-Robed Evil Spirit reacted wildly after Lynn removed her curse, then calmed down and asked him to leave her alone for a while.
• Lynn waited downstairs as her favorability rose, and she later apologized for her earlier hostility.
• Lynn explained the curse removal would last only twenty-four hours but offered to treat her regularly for eight hundred Skeleton Coins per session.
• The Blood-Robed Evil Spirit said she had no money because she had always taken what she wanted by eating people.
• Lynn offered to accept other forms of payment, and the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit leaned close and asked how much he thought she was worth.

Lynn helped the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit break free from her curse, then succumbed to her seduction and gained affection, experience, and a level. He spent his attribute points on Constitution and realized he was one level away from meeting the system’s class-change requirements.

• The Blood-Robed Evil Spirit seduced Lynn after he freed her from her curse, and she offered to teach him about intimacy.
• Lynn and the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit spent several hours together, unlocking an achievement, raising her affection, and changing her attitude toward him to Fond.
• The Blood-Robed Evil Spirit asked Lynn to return the next night for further treatment, and he fled the shop.
• Lynn received the Blood Feast quest rewards, including the Blood Demon's Cloak, and leveled up to level 9.
• Lynn invested all 16 available points in Constitution and realized he needed just one more level to qualify for a class change.

Lynn explored the Vision Realm and learned that it functioned like a vast online marketplace and quest system, including a Contract Territory that might let him return to Earth. He left the plaza to visit the trading area, where he saw shops selling weapons, reconstruction services, and a fox girl.

• Lynn entered the Vision Realm and found the Evil Spirit Queen telling the Region Channel that he had made her feel good and used too much force.
• Lynn closed the channel and explored the Vision Realm's channels, shops, and quest system, becoming suspicious that its supreme will came from a world like his own.
• Lynn discovered that the Contract Territory connected prayers and sacrifices from other worlds to the Dark World, and wondered whether he could use it to return to Earth.
• Lynn teleported to the trading area and saw listings for a greatshield, limb reconstruction, Mana Cores, and a fox girl.

Lynn entered the Vision Realm and discovered his teacher’s Bloodsaw Apothecary, where he learned that his teacher sold monster organs and had recently gone to investigate strange incidents at the Hanged Man Tower. Lynn then prepared to promote his own potions in the Vision Realm, brewing thirty Critical Hit Potions.

• Lynn tried to create a Vision Realm shop called Bloodsaw Apothecary, found the name was already taken, and teleported to his teacher’s shop using the passphrase “I. Love. Lolis!”
• Lynn entered the shop and read its logs, discovering his teacher had been selling powerful monsters’ organs for profit.
• Lynn found a recent log saying an old friend from the Demon Association had invited his teacher to investigate strange incidents at the Hanged Man Tower.
• Lynn decided to use the Vision Realm to promote his potions and began brewing Critical Hit Potions with the ingredients he had left.
• After two hours, Lynn had brewed thirty Critical Hit Potions.

Lynn’s potion promotion initially drew no customers, so he resorted to provocative advertising and fake trading-channel testimonials. The shop was soon mobbed by eager buyers, who bid up the price of his limited stock as Lynn encouraged them to pay by direct transfer.

• Lynn spent 5,000 Skeleton Coins on promotions but attracted no customers to his shop.
• Lynn posted a provocative ad and sent anonymous messages praising the Critical Hit Potion in the trading channel.
• A crowd of buyers teleported to Lynn’s shop and demanded the potion.
• Lynn claimed only thirty bottles were available, with ten already reserved, and the buyers began bidding against one another.
• Lynn urged the buyers not to overspend, then pointed them toward the payment method.

Lynn earned a fortune selling combat potions and worried that his customers might suffer hair loss, so he promised to make hair-growth potions. On the front line against the Abyssal Swarm, the dark elf captain and four others drank the potions, gained a tremendous boost in strength, and went bald as their armor and hair exploded.

• Lynn earned 300,000 skeleton coins from potion sales and unlocked the All Potions Are Equally Shady achievement.
• A dark elf reported that the Royal Court had sent over a hundred potions, including five that were said to nearly double combat power.
• The dark elf captain ordered the potions distributed and led his soldiers into battle against the Abyssal Swarm and its broodmother.
• The captain drank a combat potion and felt his strength surge as his armor burst apart.
• The captain and four other potion users became bald, dazzling the elves with their gleaming scalps.

Lynn finished brewing Flesh Regeneration Potions and waited for customers at the Bloodsaw Apothecary. A badly injured Black Moth Fairy arrived seeking treatment for her severed arm, and Lynn prepared to help her.

• Lynn gained renown from the Critical Hit Potions sold earlier while brewing seventeen Flesh Regeneration Potions and mastering Intermediate Alchemy.
• A Black Moth Fairy with a torn-off arm entered the shop and asked Lynn for treatment.
• Lynn reassured the Black Moth Fairy that his apothecary could heal her, and she asked whether he planned to drug and imprison her.
• The Black Moth Fairy relaxed when Lynn denied it, and her affection toward him increased.

Lynn discovered that Yueyue was remarkably gullible and learned she had traveled in the wrong direction while leading her fairy race’s migration. He sold her a compass at a huge markup and earned an achievement.

• Yueyue explained that her elder had warned the fairies about evil outsiders, but she trusted Lynn after he said he was friendly and revealed her race was migrating north of the Hellfire Plains.
• Yueyue introduced herself as the fairy race’s knight captain and claimed she was guiding the migration, though Lynn noticed she seemed confused about directions.
• Lynn pointed out that Yueyue had traveled two thousand miles despite the new territory being only five hundred kilometers from home, and she realized she might have gone the wrong way.
• Lynn offered Yueyue a compass for 200 Skeleton Coins, explaining how to use it to find north.
• Yueyue bought the compass, triggering Lynn’s Centuple Profit achievement and granting him 200 basic experience points, Intelligence +2, and Morality -1.

Lynn treated Yueyue’s severe arm wound, discovering that her supposed pain resistance did little to help during debridement. After the painful procedure, Yueyue said Lynn had made a deep impression on her and pointed out that he was the first man to put something so thick and sturdy in her mouth.

• Yueyue told Lynn that she trusted him and considered him a dear friend, and Lynn warned her not to trust strangers too easily.
• Yueyue explained that a giant had bitten her arm while she was asking for directions, and Lynn decided to clean the wound.
• Yueyue refused to remove her armor or accept anesthesia, insisting that her pain tolerance was maxed out.
• Lynn began debriding Yueyue’s wound, but she screamed, thrashed, and tried to bite him as the procedure hurt her.
• Lynn used a rolling pin to keep Yueyue from biting him while he finished the debridement, and his Knife Skills and Surgical Ability reached Intermediate.
• Yueyue recovered from the procedure and told Lynn he had left a deep impression on her, then remarked on the rolling pin he had put in her mouth.

Lynn treated the Black Moth Fairy Yueyue with his Flesh Regeneration Potion after she paid him in Black Skull Coins. The potion began regrowing her arm, but it also caused a tentacle to sprout from her shoulder, leaving Lynn shocked.

• Yueyue pulled a fortune in Black Skull Coins from inside her chest and offered it to Lynn to pay for treatment.
• Lynn offered Yueyue his Flesh Regeneration Potion, despite her warning that her unusual constitution resisted both poisons and healing potions.
• Lynn applied the potion to Yueyue’s severed arm and recorded her reactions as they waited for it to work.
• Yueyue’s arm began regrowing, and she praised Lynn’s potion as it overcame her resistance.
• A tentacle grew from Yueyue’s shoulder and caressed her cheek, while she mistook it for Lynn touching her.

Lynn used a potent proliferation potion to regenerate Yueyue the Black Moth Fairy’s severed arm, but it repeatedly caused strange limbs to grow that he chopped off. The arm was restored, and Lynn completed the quest while reassuring Yueyue that the extra chopping came free with his New Year’s promotion.

• A tentacle slipped into Yueyue’s helmet, and she panicked when she realized it was growing from her body.
• Lynn pulled out and chopped up the tentacle, then told Yueyue that strange growths were a normal side effect of the potion.
• Yueyue agreed to try the potion again, and Lynn repeatedly chopped off the tail, tentacles, and wings that grew as her arm regenerated.
• Lynn completed the Severed Limb Regeneration quest, and Yueyue worried that removing the extra growths would cost money.
• Lynn declared that his New Year’s promotion made the chopping free.

After treating the Black Moth Fairy, Lynn found her coin pouch and feared that a potion had turned a fake body part into a real one. When his teacher sent a bloody warning and a survival quest began, Lynn tried to flee the apothecary, but a massive figure emerged from the blood-red fog.

• Lynn treated the Black Moth Fairy and let her leave with the tissues removed from her body.
• Lynn found the Black Moth Fairy's coin pouch and feared that something had grown from her chest in its place.
• As evening fell on the third day of his teacher's absence, Lynn received a bloody warning telling him to leave immediately.
• Lynn triggered the Bloody Night quest, which required him to survive until dawn of the second day.
• Lynn packed his special items and attempted to leave for the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit's home, but a massive figure appeared in the black fog and its danger rating reached 100%.

Lynn was trapped in the Bloodsaw Apothecary when the Hell Walker broke in and destroyed the shop. After it pierced and began consuming him, Lynn shot its central eye and used the crimson cloak to escape by melting into the ground.

• Lynn shut himself inside the back courtyard as the Hell Walker smashed into the Potion Shop and destroyed his stock.
• Lynn removed the curse from the Witcher Revolver, hoping the restored Blood-Robed Evil Spirit would sense the change and come to his aid.
• The Hell Walker reached the Operating Room and pierced Lynn through the chest, then began draining his blood.
• Lynn’s body reacted to the crisis, and he shot the Hell Walker’s central eye with a demon-hunting bullet.
• Lynn draped the crimson cloak over himself and melted into the ground as the injured Hell Walker began reassessing its target.

Lynn survived the monster’s ambush, healed his wounds, and gained controllable tentacles and an eye that could detect evil spirits. After his holy bullets proved only briefly effective, he fled the Bloodsaw Apothecary, but the monster concealed its aura and attacked him again from underground.

• Lynn used the Blood Demon's Cloak and Flesh Regeneration Potion to survive and recover from his severe injuries, triggering mutations that gave him two tentacles and an Evil Spirit Vertical Eye.
• Lynn used the cloak to approach the monster through the walls and fired six Witcher Bullets, briefly slowing it with holy electricity.
• The monster retaliated through the bullet holes, dissolving Lynn’s face with a cursed gaze, and Lynn escaped underground to heal.
• Lynn saw the monster push out the bullets and rapidly recover from the holy damage, so he decided to leave rather than continue fighting.
• As Lynn exited the Bloodsaw Apothecary, the monster vanished from his Evil Spirit vision and its Evil Spirit Hand burst through the ground, grazing his face.

Lynn battled a monster whose evil spirit hand could attack him through the Blood Demon Cloak, and he used potions and his tentacles to survive its assaults. With the monster closing in and his strength nearly spent, Lynn unleashed the Faceless Demon's Heart, leaving it badly damaged and struggling to control its own body.

• Lynn's body underwent a secondary mutation, giving him a second Evil Spirit Vertical Eye that revealed the monster's pursuing hand.
• Lynn entered the Bloodsaw Apothecary and used Evil Spirit Manifestation Potion to injure the monster's hand with his Boning Knife.
• A small hand emerged from the potion-covered floorboards and pierced Lynn's neck, but Lynn broke free, severed it, and pinned it to the floor.
• As the monster returned to the shop, Lynn grabbed the Faceless Demon's Heart and unleashed its power.
• The monster's eyes burst, its arms attacked its own body, and its emergency repair countdown began.

Lynn survived paralysis by using Flesh Regeneration Potion and a Level 3 Brain Snake mutation to slow the Faceless Demon's Heart, then fled toward Number 44 for help. He encountered the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit and her Cute Baby, who asked what trouble had brought him to her.

• Lynn's Flesh Regeneration Potion triggered a Level 3 Brain Snake mutation, and he directed the serpent to bite the second potion bottle before it attacked the Faceless Demon's Heart.
• The Brain Snake and the heart fought over Lynn's chest, slowing the heart's blood drain while the potion repaired his spine.
• The monster downstairs completed its repairs, marked Lynn as its highest-priority target, and broke through the ceiling to pursue him.
• Lynn regained control of his body, escaped into the fog, and ran toward Number 44 while the Brain Snake still struggled with the heart.
• The Blood-Robed Evil Spirit met Lynn on the street with the Cute Baby and three heads, then asked what problem he needed help with.

Lynn tried to bargain with the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit for help against the monster pursuing him, but she demanded that he submit to her. After he attempted to run, she dragged him back, then attacked the Flesh Puppet while Lynn held the Cute Baby and warned her about its abilities.

• Lynn offered to waive five months of the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit's tab if she helped him defeat the monster chasing him.
• The Blood-Robed Evil Spirit told Lynn to kneel and submit, but he joked and tried to flee into the black fog.
• The Blood-Robed Evil Spirit pulled Lynn back, embraced him, and then used her tentacles to hurl boulders at the approaching Flesh Puppet.
• The Blood-Robed Evil Spirit handed the Cute Baby to Lynn and transformed as the Flesh Puppet identified her as a high-priority target.
• Lynn retreated with the Cute Baby and explained the Flesh Puppet's traits and combat methods while the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit prepared to fight.