Chapter Summaries

The Mother Tree of Desire repeatedly disrupted Lynn’s attempt to inscribe the Violet Magic Array, so he abandoned it and retaliated with his M Strike. Their escalating attacks left them locked in a battle of desire as Lynn repeatedly activated M.

• The Mother Tree of Desire unleashed successive Desire Strikes that overwhelmed Lynn’s concentration and stalled his inscription of the Violet Magic Array.
• Lynn threatened to fight back and used his charged M Strike against the Mother Tree of Desire, disrupting her control and raising her lewdness.
• Humiliated and furious, the Mother Tree of Desire struck Lynn again, intensifying his malice and further halting the inscription.
• Lynn gave up on the Magic Array and repeatedly activated M, challenging the Mother Tree of Desire to see which of them would break first.

Lynn and the Mother Tree of Desire fought in the illusion, with Lynn using the darkness she feared to pressure her after he could no longer inscribe the Magic Array. They refused to back down and agreed to gamble on who would break first.

• The Mother Tree of Desire attacked Lynn with Desire Strike, while the Titan's curse kept his consciousness indestructible for a few minutes.
• Lynn threatened to let the approaching darkness suppress the Mother Tree of Desire unless she allowed him to leave and stopped interfering with his Magic Array.
• The Mother Tree of Desire increased her power to hold back the darkness and insisted she could defeat Lynn once his curse ended.
• Lynn dispelled the Self-Binding Angel curse and advanced through the forest, warning that he would keep using Desire Strike to interfere with her.
• Lynn asked whether they were going to gamble, and the Mother Tree of Desire accepted.

Lynn used his Limited-Time Curse Removal Ability on the Mother Tree of Desire, weakening the curse that fueled her power. Though she longed to return to nature, she chose to defend herself and her hope of obtaining the Colossus Heart, attacking Lynn as her branches engulfed him.

• The Mother Tree of Desire took her colossal tree form to hold back the encroaching darkness while Lynn struggled through the Tree Realm.
• Lynn reached the Forest Ravine’s border and activated his Limited-Time Curse Removal Ability on the Mother Tree of Desire’s branches.
• The silver light weakened the curses on her branches, revealing signs of nature and making her realize Lynn could remove Origins’ curses.
• The Mother Tree of Desire recognized that losing her curse would also strip away the power she needed to survive and obtain the Colossus Heart.
• The Mother Tree of Desire rejected her longing to return to nature, roared Lynn’s name, and sent her branches through the silver light to engulf his head.

Lynn’s attempt to make the Mother Tree of Desire send him away was interrupted when the Colossus Brain summoned the Colossus consciousnesses, revealing that the God of Ten Thousand Machines had reached it first. Enraged and overcome by the Titan Curse, Lynn attacked the Mother Tree as she launched a frenzied assault on him.

• Lynn explained that his Curse Removal ability could weaken the Mother Tree of Desire’s curse and urged her to let him go before she lost more strength.
• A blood-red pillar appeared as the Colossus Brain’s summons reached Lynn, showing him the God of Ten Thousand Machines driving Colossus consciousnesses toward a towering gate.
• Lynn realized the God of Ten Thousand Machines had found the Colossus Brain first and blamed the Mother Tree of Desire for delaying him.
• The Mother Tree of Desire dragged Lynn close and attacked him in a rage, no longer caring about the darkness pressing down on her.
• The Titan Curse overwhelmed Lynn’s remaining sanity, and he tore at the Mother Tree’s branches while using M’s attacks to strike her consciousness.

Lynn and the Mother Tree of Desire savagely fought inside her trunk as curse-weakening silver light spread and the God of Ten Thousand Machines bore down on her true body. Lynn lost his undying protection, and the battle ended in a blood-soaked frenzy where both were overwhelmed by hatred and desire.

• The Mother Tree of Desire blamed Lynn for ruining her plan and swallowed him into her trunk.
• The Mother Tree of Desire attacked Lynn in the form of a despairing girl, while Lynn used Curse Removal to weaken her curses and bind her with tentacles.
• The God of Ten Thousand Machines crushed the Mother Tree of Desire's canopy, and the damage caused pain to the girl inside the trunk.
• Lynn's Curse Eye stopped working, his undying protection faded, and the girl tore out his heart while continuing to wound him.
• Lynn and the girl lost control of their reason and fought in a blood-filled frenzy, driven by hatred, desire, and domination.

After dying in his battle with the vine-wielding opponent, Lynn endured a painful resurrection that increased his constitution and granted him a trace of divinity. He woke in a Blood Mist clearing, where Sir Awen tested his rapidly regenerating body.

• Lynn died as vines crushed him, glimpsing emerald eyes just before his consciousness faded.
• During his delayed resurrection, Lynn received repeated Flesh Curse Power replenishments, gained constitution, and obtained a trace of divinity.
• Zuo Zuo repeatedly slapped Lynn to wake him while Big Tongue warned that she might kill him.
• Sir Awen examined Lynn and suspected he had used a resurrection chance, then cut off Lynn’s hand to test his improved constitution.
• Lynn’s blood and flesh vines reattached his hand, and the healing wound spat phlegm at Sir Awen before closing.

Lynn awoke after being rescued by Zuo Zuo, Sir Awen, and Little Darling, then remembered what he had done to the Mother Tree of Desire while under a curse. He ended the chapter by admitting he had slept with her.

• Zuo Zuo and Sir Awen discussed Lynn's strange bodily changes as he began to wake.
• Lynn woke and asked who had slapped him, then received a system notification for the epic achievement Arboreal Violation.
• Lynn remembered pinning the Mother Tree of Desire against a trunk and having sex with her while the curse had robbed him of his reason.
• Sir Awen, Zuo Zuo, and Little Darling assumed the Mother Tree had tortured Lynn and offered to help him retaliate.
• Lynn denied being tortured and confessed that he had slept with the Mother Tree of Desire.

After reviving, Lynn told Zuo Zuo, Little Darling, and Sir Awen that he had lost control and had sex with the Mother Tree of Desire, then wondered why she had spared him. Sir Awen pointed out that Lynn’s body had changed, and Lynn discovered he could turn his flesh into tentacles.

• Lynn insisted that his memories of losing control and doing absurd things with the Mother Tree of Desire were real, shocking Zuo Zuo, Little Darling, and Sir Awen.
• Sir Awen surmised that Lynn’s self-inflicted curses had shattered his sanity and caused their earlier Desire Strikes to take over his mind.
• Lynn learned that Sir Awen and the others had found him after his Left Hand and mount tracked him through the Colossus link.
• Lynn examined the battlefield and found fragments of vines, but could not tell whether the Mother Tree of Desire had escaped the projection or why she had spared him.
• Sir Awen warned Lynn that his revived body was different, and Lynn transformed his flesh into tentacles that gouged the distant ground.

After discovering that his level and constitution had surged, Lynn learned that only he could open the Colossus Brain’s sealed domain. Sir Awen promised to fight the Brain if it became their enemy, while Lynn wondered whether Zuo Zuo would leave him to reclaim her place as the Colossus Heart’s true consciousness.

• Lynn checked his system panel and found that he had reached level 55, with his constitution rising above a thousand and new control over his flesh and blood.
• Lynn wondered whether his encounter with the Mother Tree of Desire had caused his growth and sensed an unfamiliar presence within himself.
• Sir Awen explained that only the Colossus Heart could enter the Colossus Brain’s domain and open the door to its sealed consciousness.
• Lynn worried that awakening the Colossus Brain could lead it to reclaim the fragments and take Zuo Zuo and Little Darling away from him.
• Sir Awen promised Lynn that they would fight the Colossus Brain if it became their enemy, easing Lynn’s concerns.
• Lynn wondered whether Zuo Zuo would leave him and reclaim her place as the Colossus Heart’s true consciousness.

Lynn and Sir Awen reached the Colossus Gate and hid nearby while they waited for the God of Ten Thousand Machines. Lynn realized Sir Awen’s curse was affecting his memories, and Sir Awen could no longer clearly remember his past or his connection to Lynn.

• Lynn, Zuo Zuo, Big Tongue, and Sir Awen reached the Colossus Gate and found signs of a recent battle.
• Sir Awen explained that the Colossus Brain would eventually be cursed and that the group should hide rather than risk walking into the God of Ten Thousand Machines’ trap.
• Zuo Zuo and Big Tongue felt an unsettling pull toward the closed gate while Lynn urged Zuo Zuo to stay close.
• As Sir Awen searched through the blood mist, Lynn asked whether he remembered that Lynn was his name.
• Lynn recognized that Sir Awen’s curse was affecting him and reminded him of his history and duties, but Sir Awen admitted he could not remember clearly.

Lynn and Sir Awen confronted the God of Ten Thousand Machines at the Colossus Gate while Sir Awen refused to restore his memories and stayed to hold off their enemy. Lynn exploited the God of Ten Thousand Machines’ reluctance to kill him and reached the gate, but what happened when he touched it remained unknown.

• Lynn offered Sir Awen the Memory Chip, but Sir Awen refused to restore his memories because losing his Origin rank would leave them vulnerable to three Origins.
• Sir Awen revealed that he intended to contain the Colossus Brain and hoped it would side with Dark Night City.
• The God of Ten Thousand Machines attacked and demanded that Sir Awen hand Lynn over, but Sir Awen transformed into a Psychic Giant and fought him.
• Sir Awen redirected the God of Ten Thousand Machines’ beams as Lynn, Zuo Zuo, and Little Darling raced toward the Colossus Gate.
• Lynn charged at the God of Ten Thousand Machines’ dragonflame, forcing him to divert it rather than risk killing Lynn, then struck the gate with his hand.

Lynn and Zuo Zuo escaped through the door into the Forbidden Knowledge Vault while Sir Awen held off the Flesh Dominator and the God of Ten Thousand Machines. Inside the Colossus Brain, Zuo Zuo felt an unexplained familiarity, and Lynn found a golden book written in an unfamiliar language.

• Lynn urged Zuo Zuo to flee as the Blood Mist and the Flesh Dominator approached.
• Sir Awen blocked the Flesh Dominator and the God of Ten Thousand Machines, allowing Lynn and Zuo Zuo to enter the door.
• Lynn and Zuo Zuo arrived in the Forbidden Knowledge Vault, where their bodies had become insubstantial and golden.
• Lynn led Zuo Zuo through the vast hall, and she felt as if she had known the place for countless years.
• Lynn found a golden book among the towering shelves and identified it as a likely record of the Colossus Civilization's achievements.

Zuo Zuo read an ancient Colossus text describing a raven that would return in winter to bring spring, prompting Lynn to connect the legend to Sir Awen’s tale and a past calamity. The Colossus Brain then summoned Zuo Zuo, and Lynn led her across a bridge of starlight toward it.

• Zuo Zuo unexpectedly read an ancient passage about the Colossus Civilization’s origins and its worship of a raven that would bring spring.
• Lynn remembered Sir Awen’s similar crow fable and wondered whether the raven was connected to the darkness that had struck the Main World three thousand years earlier.
• Books fell from the shelves as the Colossus Brain greeted Zuo Zuo as its Queen and called her to come closer.
• Lynn held Zuo Zuo’s hand and led her along a bridge of starlight toward the Colossus Brain.

Lynn and Zuo Zuo reached the Colossus Brain, an ancient consciousness that recognized Zuo Zuo as its twin Queen and offered to restore her memories and power. As Zuo Zuo’s awakening began, Lynn faced the possibility that she might leave him behind, and the chapter ended with the Colossus Brain warning that she would remember everything she had been as the Colossus Heart.

• Lynn reached the throne at the end of the bridge and discovered the weakened Colossus Brain, an ancient consciousness that had survived the fall of the Colossi.
• The Colossus Brain recognized Lynn’s connection to its heart and asked who he was and what role he played in Hell.
• The Colossus Brain recognized Zuo Zuo as its Queen and offered Lynn a heart to extend his life, help him return home, and clear the obstacles outside.
• The Colossus Brain told Lynn that Zuo Zuo would reclaim her Authority and memories, while Lynn silently considered whether she would leave him.
• The Colossus Brain explained that Zuo Zuo could not answer because her memories were already awakening, and that she would remember everything she had been as the Colossus Heart.

Lynn tried to leave Zuo Zuo behind in the Colossus Heart, believing it was her best fate, but her furious pleas made him turn back. He charged toward her as the Colossus's memories began to engulf her.

• Lynn said goodbye to Zuo Zuo and walked away across the bridge, leaving her surrounded by the Colossus Heart's memories and knowledge.
• Zuo Zuo accused Lynn of deciding her fate without asking and struggled to crawl toward him through the streams of light.
• As the Colossus's memories overwhelmed Zuo Zuo, Lynn stopped, opened his Blood-Red Eyes, and turned back.
• Lynn charged toward the curtain of knowledge, abandoning his careful plans to reach Zuo Zuo.

Lynn refused to let Zuo Zuo become the Colossus Heart, admitting how deeply he cared for her as he fought the Colossus Brain’s barrier. The Colossus Brain began the transformation anyway, but cursed chains suddenly bound Zuo Zuo, leaving Lynn’s defiance unresolved.

• Lynn rejected the Colossus Brain’s argument that Zuo Zuo belonged with the Colossus and insisted she wanted to stay with him.
• Lynn confessed that Zuo Zuo’s place in his heart mattered more than his plans and that he feared asking whether she felt the same.
• Lynn activated the Undying Curse and the Calamity curse, and the system offered him a choice between letting Zuo Zuo transform or keeping her by his side.
• The Colossus Brain refused to stop the transformation and raised Zuo Zuo away from Lynn as it prepared to leave Hell.
• Cursed chains suddenly wrapped around Zuo Zuo, and Lynn declared that she had said she did not want to leave.

Lynn resisted the Colossus’s attempt to take Zuo Zuo, revealing a bone-carved Magic Array that let him withstand its power and propose a bargain. He offered the Colossus Heart in exchange for keeping his Zuo Zuo, leaving the Colossus to consider the deal.

• The Colossus attacked Lynn and argued that Zuo Zuo’s role in the Colossus’s will and the hopes of its billions of souls meant she could not choose for herself.
• Lynn warned that the Colossus could never escape Hell because a chaotic barrier sealed off the higher skies.
• As the Colossus’s force nearly crushed him, purple light emerged from Lynn and drove the attack back, revealing a Magic Array he had carved into his bones.
• Lynn explained that he wanted to keep Zuo Zuo while the Colossus wanted the one carrying the Colossus Heart, and offered to give it the heart so its consciousness might eventually return.
• Lynn reached into his body outside the Void, seized the beating Colossus Heart, and offered to serve as Zuo Zuo’s temporary vessel if the Colossus let her go.

Lynn forced the Colossus Brain to separate Zuo Zuo’s consciousness from the Colossus Heart, then carried Zuo Zuo away as the collapsing space broke apart. He believed the Colossus Brain would return to Hell and face a future threat.

• Lynn offered the Colossus Brain a choice between friendship and a fight, warning that he would take back the Colossus Heart by force if necessary.
• The Colossus Brain warned Lynn that separating her heart from him would burden him with powerful consciousnesses, but she began transferring Zuo Zuo’s consciousness anyway.
• Colossus script appeared on Lynn’s arms as his connection to Zuo Zuo grew clearer, and he caught her drifting body and held her close.
• The Colossus Brain declared that she and Lynn owed each other nothing, left him the Authority in his flesh, and took back the heart he had removed from his chest.
• Lynn carried Zuo Zuo toward the exit as the space collapsed, convinced the Colossus Brain would not escape Hell.

The Colossus Brain awakened after uniting with the Colossus Heart, drove the God of Ten Thousand Machines and the Flesh Dominator from its space, and expelled everyone inside. Sir Awen returned to Curse City and found Lynn alive but unconscious, with his heart missing and his consciousness still within the Colossus's space.

• Sir Awen continued fighting the God of Ten Thousand Machines and the Flesh Dominator as the Curse rapidly stripped away his memories.
• The Colossus Gate opened, and the awakened Colossus Brain emerged, badly injuring the God of Ten Thousand Machines and crushing the Flesh Dominator's eye into Blood Mist.
• The Colossus Brain swept golden light across its space, expelling the Origins and completing its awakening after uniting with the Colossus Heart.
• Sir Awen awoke back in Curse City with his injuries transferred to his body and realized Lynn's consciousness remained in the Colossus's space.
• Sir Awen saw Lynn kneeling on the distant wasteland with a hole in his chest and his heart missing, but sensed that he was still alive.

The Colossus summoned the consciousnesses and flesh scattered throughout the Dark World to rebuild itself and challenge the Upper Realm. As Hell’s phenomena tried to suppress it, the restored Colossus fixed its gaze beyond the black mist.

• The Colossus shattered the pale-silver High Tower and manifested as a vast phantom, while Sir Awen realized it intended to rebuild itself.
• The Colossus opened its Transdimensional Link and called every consciousness within its flesh to return in the names of king and Queen.
• Lynn entered the consciousness realm with Zuo Zuo, and Big Tongue arrived among the first summoned consciousnesses.
• Countless consciousnesses and masses of flesh returned through space, restoring the Colossus after three thousand years of dormancy.
• Hell sent darkness, chains, clawing hands, and burning ashes to suppress the rising Colossus, but it looked toward the heights beyond the black mist.