Chapter Summaries

Lynn used a staged outburst to demand a massive supply of weapons from the Exosuit Factory, then argued that every squad needed the equipment to fight the Mechanical Maiden. After his superior backed him and the factory official collapsed from rage, Lynn earned the Silver Tongue achievement.

• Lynn pretended to be furious, then presented a prepared list of weapons and supplies to the First Chamber.
• The Exosuit Factory official objected to the enormous request, while Lynn's superior examined the list and saw that its quantities were measured in tons.
• Lynn argued that every squad in Leviathan should receive the equipment, and his superior immediately endorsed the proposal.
• The factory official pleaded with Doctor 315 to reject the request, but Lynn and his superior accused him of hoarding the Plague Doctors' weapons.
• Lynn's verbal assault made the factory official vomit blood, triggering Lynn's Silver Tongue achievement and its permanent bonuses.

Lynn proposed an elaborate plan to capture the Mechanical Maiden, use her as bait to provoke the God of Ten Thousand Machines and expose the Night Doctor, and profit from the spectacle. When he asked for a volunteer to impersonate the Night Doctor, every Plague Doctor stepped away.

• Lynn argued that the Plague Doctors should commit all their resources to hunting the two intruders and explained how grafts could weaken the Mechanical Maiden.
• Lynn proposed combining corrosive and mind-affecting grafts with desire-stirring grafts to subdue the Mechanical Maiden and record the spectacle.
• Lynn suggested livestreaming a staged assault with a Night Doctor impersonator to provoke the God of Ten Thousand Machines, expose the Night Doctor, and make money.
• Lynn asked the Plague Doctors to volunteer for the impersonator role, and they all shuffled away from him.

Lynn persuaded Doctor 315 to approve a plan to impersonate Night Doctor Lynn and corrupt the Mechanical Maiden, earning First-Rank Plague Doctor authorization and promotion to Leviathan's eighth steward. He left the meeting with the appointment and promised his subordinates they would become his trusted aides.

• Lynn proposed livestreaming the Mechanical Maiden's corruption, and the Plague Doctors objected to the plan's depravity.
• Lynn offered to lead the operation, and Doctor 315 granted him First-Rank authorization and promised him the eighth steward position if he eliminated the two intruders.
• Lynn accepted the mission and triggered a quest to execute the plan while impersonating Night Doctor Lynn.
• Lynn received the eighth steward appointment, authorization chip, and exclusive equipment from the First Chamber.
• Lynn's subordinates celebrated his promotion, and he promised to make them his trusted aides.

Lynn used his grasp of Doctor 315’s predicament to pose as Luo Shi, win a promotion, and volunteer to handle two dangerous intruders on Leviathan. Doctor 315 and the other Plague Doctors discussed their suspicions but dismissed the idea that Lynn could have infiltrated them so quickly, while Lynn confirmed he intended to carry out his outrageous plan.

• Lynn explained to Zuo Zuo how he had exploited Doctor 315’s need for a volunteer to earn a promotion and an assignment.
• Lynn told Zuo Zuo that he intended to carry out the plan involving a mechanical woman, shocking her.
• A senior Plague Doctor questioned Doctor 315’s decision to entrust the intruders’ capture to Luo Shi, citing his sudden rise and suspicious timing.
• Doctor 315 acknowledged the suspicion but argued that the Night Doctor could not have taken control of Luo Shi and joined their call in less than half an hour.
• The Plague Doctors concluded that the sequence of actions was impossible for a normal creature to accomplish.

Lynn bribed his superior, Iron Face, into giving him command of the department and covering up his misconduct. He used his new authority to locate operatives across Leviathan and spy on Silver Fantasy, then set off with his squads to collect supplies and target her.

• Doctor 315 appointed Luo Shi’s superior, Iron Face, to supervise him and report any misconduct.
• Lynn and Iron Face agreed to embezzle most of the department’s supplies, and Iron Face gave Lynn command of every squad in exchange for a tribute.
• Lynn used his authorization chip to access the operations network and locate operatives throughout Leviathan.
• Lynn controlled an eyeball in a corridor to watch Silver Fantasy fighting an Aberrant, but severed the connection when she sensed she was being watched.
• Lynn dressed as the Eighth Steward and led a dozen-odd squads toward the Exosuit Factory to collect supplies and prepare to move against Silver Fantasy.

Lynn and his companions used his forged authority as a high-ranking steward to seize equipment from Leviathan’s Exosuit Factory, while Lynn relaxed and collected the goods in his system space. The chapter ended with Lynn reconsidering his lackey’s offer to bring succubus girls to serve him.

• Lynn led a procession of Plague Doctors through Leviathan, using his appointment letter to clear their way.
• Lynn’s lackeys ordered the Exosuit Factory supervisors to prepare enormous quantities of weapons and exosuits for the campaign against the two intruders.
• When the supervisors objected, Lynn’s lackey produced an order signed by Doctor Dawn, and the Plague Doctors began hauling equipment from the warehouse.
• Lynn sat drinking black tea as the Plague Doctors carried goods into his system space, while Miao Miao and Zuo Zuo drank tea inside Luo Shi’s body.
• Lynn’s lackey offered to transfer two admiring girls to serve him, then clarified that they were succubus girls.

Lynn arranged for two succubi to serve as secretaries and indulged their provocative advances while insisting it was all for his undercover persona. He then praised his plague doctor squad for collecting supplies from factory supervisors and manipulated the list so the squad agreed to double the requested quantities.

• Lynn decided that hiring succubi as secretaries would support his corrupt-deacon cover and ordered his underling to find them.
• Two succubus sisters joined Lynn, and he reached inside their robes to check their claim that they wore nothing underneath.
• The plague doctor captain reported that the squad had collected all the supplies on Lynn's list from the factory supervisors.
• Lynn suggested that the list's 1 looked like a 2 and its 5 like a 6, prompting the plague doctors to revise the quantities and insist the altered numbers were correct.

Lynn led the Plague Doctors in taking more supplies from the factory than the list allowed, then persuaded them to deny the excess and accept it as a gift. Their loyalty and reputation for him rose, while staff in the First Chamber watched in outrage.

• A Plague Doctor Captain rallied the squad to haul more supplies while the managers begged them to stop.
• Lynn filled his system space with supplies and realized the squad had taken two hundred tons of Screechers and six hundred tons of Spider Exoskeletons instead of the listed amounts.
• Lynn convinced the Plague Doctors to claim they had taken the correct quantities and gave them the surplus, earning their reverence and boosting their reputation with the Plague Doctor Operations Department.
• Lynn told the squad to prepare for an upcoming battle, and they pledged fierce loyalty to him.
• Lynn earned the achievement “Feeding Your Own Dogs with Someone Else's Meat,” while First Chamber staff condemned the theft they had witnessed.

The First Chamber’s higher-ups watched Luo Shi loot the Flesh Implant factory and prepared to report him to the Doctor, but changed their minds when he arranged generous gifts for them. They ended by praising Luo Shi and dismissing the injured Elder at the Exosuit Factory.

• The First Chamber’s higher-ups watched Luo Shi and his men embezzle supplies from the Flesh Implant factory and decided to expose him to the Doctor.
• Luo Shi ordered his subordinates to distribute gifts to the department bosses, offering to contribute an extra twenty percent himself when they proposed giving only thirty percent.
• Luo Shi spoke emotionally about admiring the bosses and handed over the gifts, moving his subordinate and silencing the higher-ups.
• The higher-ups abandoned their plan to report Luo Shi and praised him as a promising colleague, while one dismissed the coughing Elder at the Exosuit Factory.

Lynn used his influence over the Leviathan’s operations department to prepare an ambush for Silver Fantasy while she pushed deeper into the facility. The chapter ended with Lynn ordering the doors shut and poison released as she reached the trap.

• Lynn rallied the Plague Doctors and led them to the command room, where he ordered exosuits positioned according to his blueprint.
• Lynn watched a surveillance feed of Silver Fantasy defeat the Aberrant and break through the wall of flesh, then planned to keep infiltrating while she advanced.
• Silver Fantasy escaped the first area and raced into a quiet corridor, convinced Lynn had slipped ahead of her.
• When Silver Fantasy had covered nearly half the corridor, Lynn ordered his lackeys to shut the doors and release poison.

Silver Fantasy raced through Leviathan’s corridor, resisting the Flesh Plague until Lynn’s hidden Desire Strike overwhelmed her and left her vulnerable. Lynn ordered the Plague Doctors to unleash mental attacks, while Silver Fantasy recognized his power and wondered whether he had defected to the enemy.

• Silver Fantasy shielded herself from the Flesh Plague and charged toward the Rest Area entrance.
• Lynn waited until Silver Fantasy neared the door, then triggered concealed pulses that carried his M-Power through her defenses.
• Silver Fantasy cried out as the Desire Strike overwhelmed her, and the Plague Doctor Captains reacted in astonishment.
• Lynn bluffed that concentrated desire bio-augmentations had caused the effect, then ordered the Captains to attack Silver Fantasy with consciousness-targeting weapons.
• Silver Fantasy recognized Lynn’s Desire Strike and wondered whether he had defected to the enemy.

Lynn used his cover as Steward to torment Silver Fantasy and broadcast the attack across the Leviathan, hoping to provoke the hidden Night Doctor into revealing himself. Silver Fantasy resisted the psychic assault and prepared a nuclear strike, but Lynn’s next attack disrupted her launch and affected her again.

• Silver Fantasy struggled through the blood mist while Lynn watched her from the Main Command Room and discussed exploiting the apparent division between the intruders.
• Lynn ordered the surveillance feed broadcast throughout the Leviathan to provoke the hidden Night Doctor, then commanded an attack on Silver Fantasy.
• Screecher faces and exploding cysts assaulted Silver Fantasy’s consciousness, but she adapted and prepared to fire a miniature nuclear warhead.
• Lynn snapped his fingers, releasing more flesh plague and crimson fluctuations that interrupted Silver Fantasy’s launch sequence and overwhelmed her with psychic attacks.

Lynn’s staged attack made Silver Fantasy believe he had betrayed his team, and he decided to impersonate Luo Shi and appear before her to make the deception convincing. After transforming his appearance and taking Luo Shi’s clothes, he prepared to play himself as a defector.

• The Mechanical Maiden accused Lynn of betraying her after his Desire Strike left her furious and vulnerable to the psychic implants.
• The Plague Doctors celebrated as Silver Fantasy blamed Lynn, unaware that Steward Luo Shi had delivered the attack.
• Lynn told his subordinates he would impersonate himself and make his supposed defection convincing in person.
• Lynn transformed into Luo Shi, took his clothes, turned Miao Miao into a belt, and stored Luo Shi’s corpse in system space.

Lynn impersonated the Night Doctor while posing as Luo Shi, using the Plague Doctors’ belief in his act to provoke Silver Fantasy and draw out the real Lynn. Silver Fantasy saw him on Leviathan’s screens and became convinced he had betrayed their alliance, while Lynn urged her to surrender to the Doctor.

• Lynn entered the Main Command Room disguised as Luo Shi and convinced the Plague Doctor Captains that he looked exactly like the Night Doctor.
• Lynn ordered the Plague Doctors to monitor Leviathan closely so they could catch the real Night Doctor when he reacted to the impersonation.
• Silver Fantasy struggled through the corridor under an assault on her consciousness, but the shrieks stopped and a screen appeared in the flesh wall.
• Lynn appeared on the screen with two Succubi and teased Silver Fantasy by suggesting he was only pretending to defect so he could assassinate the Doctor.
• Silver Fantasy accused Lynn of betraying their alliance, and Lynn mocked her anger before inviting her to surrender to the Doctor.

Lynn pretended to betray his allies while tormenting Silver Fantasy, allowing Doctor 315 to broadcast the scene and strain the alliance between the God of Ten Thousand Machines and Sir Awen. Lynn then staged an attack on himself, leaving the identity of the masked attacker unresolved.

• Silver Fantasy fought through Leviathan as Lynn’s screens taunted her, while Doctor 315 praised the scheme to frame Lynn as a traitor.
• Doctor 315 broadcast Silver Fantasy’s ordeal across the sky, and the God of Ten Thousand Machines confronted Sir Awen over Lynn’s apparent betrayal.
• Sir Awen insisted he trusted Lynn and warned that breaking their alliance would cost them the war, so the God of Ten Thousand Machines held back.
• Lynn told Zuo Zuo that he planned to make the deception more convincing and silently signaled Alice to act.
• A black blade pierced Lynn’s shoulder, and the wounded Lynn cut the feed as a masked figure appeared in the corridor and the attack was broadcast throughout Leviathan.

Lynn let the Night Doctor wound him so the First Chamber would believe he was Luo Shi and trust him with Leviathan’s armed forces. After securing a Level One Leviathan Access Chip, he prepared to put his plan into action.

• The Night Doctor stabbed Lynn in the shoulder, then escaped through a cloud of smoke as the Plague Doctors pursued him and sealed the area.
• Lynn contacted the First Chamber and claimed his plan had lured the Night Doctor into attacking him.
• Doctor 315 gave Luo Shi authority over Leviathan’s armed forces and promised him the position of Eighth Steward if he captured Lynn.
• Lynn earned Doctor 315’s complete trust, gained the Undercover’s Highest Honor achievement, and received a Level One Leviathan Access Chip.
• Lynn ordered the Plague Doctors to keep everyone away from the command room while he coordinated the armed forces.

Lynn used Alice’s disguise and a staged attack to earn higher clearance, gaining control of Leviathan’s armed forces and a near-complete view of the facility. He sent Alice to massacre Plague Doctors without triggering Tail Worm’s alarm, intending to use the killings to justify replacing their Bio-Armor and ultimately eliminate them all.

• Lynn revealed to Zuo Zuo that Alice had disguised herself as him, then used the authorization chip to gain authority over Leviathan’s armed forces and access to its internal locations.
• Lynn contacted Alice and ordered her to possess a Plague Doctor and kill the thirty Plague Doctors gathered in a monitored area.
• Alice paused to put away Lynn’s Night Doctor gear and change clothes before resuming the mission.
• Under Lynn’s direction, Alice killed the Plague Doctor he had sent to serve as her vessel and possessed his body.
• Lynn planned to use Alice’s massacre as grounds to target Tail Worm and replace the Plague Doctors’ Bio-Armor with identity-verification models.

With Lynn manipulating the Plague Doctors’ patrols and Tail Worm detector, Alice infiltrated the Rest Area and slaughtered Squad 32. Lynn feigned outrage and rushed to the massacre site, where he arrived to find the bodies and senior Plague Doctors gathered.

• Lynn redirected the patrols and tampered with the Tail Worm detector so Alice could enter the Rest Area undetected.
• Alice passed the guards using a stolen identification and claimed Steward Luo Shi had ordered her to Area 3.
• Alice revealed her Evil Spirit nature and attacked the Plague Doctors, killing dozens while leaving one survivor.
• A Plague Doctor Captain reported the massacre to Lynn and said the Night Doctor had escaped.
• Lynn pretended to rage at the news, brushed past officers who tried to stop him, and led his men to the Rest Area.
• Lynn entered the Rest Area and found corpses, blood, and several high-ranking Plague Doctors.

Lynn exploited a failed Tail Worm detector to blame the Exosuit Factory and secure Doctor 315’s approval to replace Leviathan’s identity checks. He went to the Plague Research Department, where he met its supervisor, Doctor 401, a powerful potion maker named Ryan.

• A Senior Plague Doctor reported that the Night Doctor had entered the Rest Area undetected, and Lynn feigned anger at the Tail Worm detectors.
• Lynn repaired a detector and stepped into its scan, prompting it to identify him as an unknown unit and sound an alarm.
• The Plague Doctors battered the detector to pieces, and Lynn blamed the Exosuit Factory before reporting the incident to Doctor 315.
• Doctor 315 gave Lynn control of Leviathan’s resources and authorized him to seek a replacement identity-verification method through the plague department.
• Lynn led a group to the Plague Research Department, where Doctor 401 introduced himself as the supervisor and the Doctor’s assistant.

Lynn posed as Steward Luo Shi to enter Doctor Ryan’s laboratory and inspect potions designed to detect infiltrators. After Ryan explained that the sealed chamber blocked all outside monitoring and communication, Lynn asked whether Doctor Dawn would know if he killed someone there.

• Lynn introduced himself to Doctor Ryan as Steward Luo Shi and requested identity-verification potions for detecting Plague Doctors.
• Ryan led Lynn through Leviathan’s experimental center, where Plague Doctors conducted gruesome experiments on creatures and mechanical bodies.
• Ryan brought Lynn alone into his laboratory and showed him potion samples, including new formulas that let Leviathan track anyone injected with them.
• Lynn questioned the laboratory’s lack of guards, and Ryan explained that its sealed design prevented outside surveillance and access to Leviathan’s neural network.
• Lynn asked whether Doctor Dawn would know if he killed someone inside the secret laboratory.