Chapter Summaries

Lynn and the Silver-Haired Girl left the buried ruins of Curse City behind and reunited with the others after Titan Big Brother’s rampage ended. As the group prepared to return to Dark Night City, Lynn worried about the Matriarch’s fate.

• The Silver-Haired Girl sealed the underground hall beneath Curse City and said she would never return to disturb the dead.
• Lynn and Zuo Zuo resumed their bickering, while the girl watched their bond with envy.
• Sir Awen told Lynn that Titan Big Brother’s condition had stabilized and that the Titan was sleeping after his rampage.
• Lynn reunited with Sir Awen, the Witch God Head, and the others, then proposed leaving the devastated battlefield for Dark Night City.
• Lynn wondered whether the Matriarch could retain her sanity as the leader of the Night Doctors and the Origin of the Plague Doctors.

The God of Ten Thousand Machines began rebuilding the Terminal and planned to divide his consciousness into more powerful machine intelligence entities. He put Silver Fantasy in charge of the Mechanical Church and secretly programmed a device to keep her away from Lynn.

• Silver Fantasy awakened in the reconstructed plaza and worried that rebuilding the Terminal would worsen her father's curse.
• The God of Ten Thousand Machines decided to create more Origins by splitting his consciousness, despite Silver Fantasy's fears that the severed parts might rebel.
• He ordered Silver Fantasy to lead the Mechanical Church, recruit anyone willing to upload, and accelerate mineral extraction and exploration of Hell's core.
• The God of Ten Thousand Machines forbade Silver Fantasy from seeking out Lynn, but she questioned the order and he suspected she might disobey it.
• He secretly programmed a Space Warp Engine to teleport Silver Fantasy away from Lynn or trigger an emergency consciousness upload if she approached him.

After the battle against the Mechanical Overlord, the God of Ten Thousand Machines decided to split his unified consciousness to gain an advantage in Hell. Dark Night City celebrated the victory and welcomed Sir Awen’s returning fleet, but the flagship suddenly lost control and crashed outside the city.

• The God of Ten Thousand Machines resolved to divide his unified consciousness after realizing he could not escape Hell at his current strength.
• The Night Doctors in Dark Night City celebrated the victory and debated the strength of the Root-Level beings and the mysterious cameraman Twin Wood.
• The crowd spotted a vast fleet approaching, and Sir Awen announced that the forces were returning to Dark Night City.
• The flagship’s lights flickered, and it crashed outside the city in a massive explosion.

Lynn’s reckless dismantling of captured warships caused another explosion as the fleet arrived at Dark Night City. Sir Awen brought the group into the city with Lynn restrained in a welded wheelchair, then asked White Night about the Matriarch.

• Lynn activated a warship’s kinetic core without knowing how to deactivate it, and its explosion destroyed another ship.
• More than a thousand warships and the three Titan Heads arrived outside Dark Night City, where the Witch God Head tethered herself beside the fleet and led Xiao Xiao toward the city.
• White Night and the Night Doctors assembled to welcome the returning group, crediting Lynn with helping secure victory in the war.
• Black String Moon wheeled out Lynn, bound inside a welded wheelchair, while Sir Awen said his curse was acting up and cut off his power.
• Sir Awen asked White Night how the Matriarch was.

Lynn, Sir Awen, and their allies investigated why the Matriarch had stopped responding and found signs of a powerful black-magic ritual beneath her hall. The Witch God Head recognized it as a vicious summoning ritual, and the group hurried onward to reach the Matriarch.

• White Night said the Matriarch had ordered everyone not to disturb her and had not replied after being told the group had returned.
• Sir Awen led Lynn and the others to the Matriarch's hall, while Lynn warned the Witch God Head that the Matriarch's curse threatened all of Dark Night City.
• Sir Awen opened the enormous doors, and the group descended toward the Underground Grand Hall as the atmosphere grew increasingly oppressive.
• The Witch God Head sensed dense black magic, a barrier, and a vicious summoning ritual coming from below.
• Lynn and Sir Awen hurried the group onward after the Witch God Head warned that the Matriarch would never willingly use black magic.

Lynn and the others reached the underground temple and found the Matriarch’s evil personality had taken control as the Twelve Wings Fallen Angel. They confronted her as a corruption ritual pulsed behind her, while sinister malice spread through Dark Night City.

• Lynn and the others hurried underground through passages coated in black-speckled frost.
• Two guards transformed into Fallen Angel’s Servants, but the Witch God Head crushed them with her tentacles.
• The Silver-Haired Girl smashed through the temple doors, and Lynn and the others entered a hall covered in barbed chains.
• The chains parted to reveal the Twelve Wings Fallen Angel, whom the Witch God recognized as her holy elder sister.
• Lynn saw the Fallen Angel’s status panel and the ritual array behind her as malice began spreading through Dark Night City.

The Fallen Angel revealed that she had awakened fully and began the Mind Abyss curse ritual, which threatened to turn every living creature in Dark Night City into her slave. Lynn rushed to stop the ritual while Sir Awen and the others held off the Fallen Angel.

• Lynn confronted the Fallen Angel and learned that she had accepted the Jailers' invitation and planned to give them a gift.
• The Fallen Angel activated a purple-black Magic Array beneath her, spreading cursed energy through the hall and creating a vast array over Dark Night City.
• Lynn identified the ritual as Mind Abyss, which would corrupt every living creature in its range and turn them into the Fallen Angel's slaves.
• The Silver-Haired Girl charged toward the ritual, but the Fallen Angel blocked the hall with barbed chains.
• Lynn asked Sir Awen to buy him time and rushed out of the underground hall to seek a way to delay the ritual.

As a black Magic Array threatened Dark Night City, Lynn ordered White Night to evacuate people and rushed to seek help from the Unknown One, Number 002. He reached the Abnormal Creature Containment Center and stopped at the being’s door, declaring that he had come to return the books.

• Lynn blocked Night Doctors from entering the underground hall, then told White Night to seal the square and evacuate as many people as possible.
• Lynn explained to Zuo Zuo that the Fallen Angel wanted him to use Curse Removal and trigger the Magic Array, so he decided to seek help from the Unknown One who had fallen from the Shattered World.
• Lynn recalled that Number 002, Feather Pen, was contained at the Abnormal Creature Containment Center and hurried there.
• Lynn stopped to give Doctor Aier a flower from the Mother Tree of Desire, prompting Zuo Zuo to scold him before he rushed inside.
• Lynn reached the door marked Number 002 and announced that he had come to return the books.

Lynn returned the borrowed books to Number 002, the Feather Pen That Must Write Something, and discovered that its writing appeared to chronicle his experiences in Curse City. After the pen’s power forced him to follow its story, Lynn returned to ask for help stopping the Matriarch’s awakened evil personality from unleashing Calamity on the city.

• Lynn entered Number 002 in cat form, returned the books, and received increased favorability despite damage to one book.
• Lynn found the Feather Pen writing a story that depicted his adventures in Curse City and worried it might have recorded them in advance.
• The Feather Pen wrote that it would not help Lynn, and its supernatural power compelled him to act out the story, including leaving with dried fish.
• Lynn resisted the pen’s influence, returned inside, and pleaded with it to help stop the Matriarch’s evil personality from unleashing Calamity.

Lynn tried to persuade the Feather Pen to save Dark Night City, but she refused to act directly and instead offered him a trade: he would fill in the blank chapters of her book, and she would provide assistance. Lynn accepted the Feather Pen, uncertain what consequences the deal might bring.

• Lynn offered to stay with the Feather Pen for a month, but she struck him on the head and scattered his thoughts.
• The Feather Pen explained that she could not casually affect history, but proposed trading her help for Lynn filling in the blank chapters of her book.
• The book revealed gaps at crucial moments when Violet's eerie power had emerged from Lynn and during his journey into Hell Borderland.
• A system quest, Completion of the Chapters, promised increased affection, an unknown influence, and one instance of assistance from the Feather Pen.
• Lynn considered the uncertain consequences of the quest, then closed his paw around the Feather Pen.

Lynn completed the missing chapters in the book, prompting the Feather Pen to use blood-red ink to investigate the mystery surrounding him. After the attempt triggered a dangerous backlash, she warned him that something was searching for him and something else was protecting him, and told him he was lucky to have fallen into Hell.

• Lynn filled in the book’s missing chapters about the mysterious power inside him and the assault on Hell Borderland, completing the quest and earning the Feather Pen’s affection and promised assistance.
• The Feather Pen used eerie blood-red ink to try to uncover the mystery, writing the fragments “Violet’s” before a powerful resistance stopped her.
• Darkness swallowed the room, and when it lifted, blood covered the walls and floor while the pages lay shredded and the Feather Pen was badly weakened.
• The Feather Pen warned Lynn to protect himself, stay in Hell or avoid remaining away for long, and remember that something was looking for him while something else protected him.

Lynn confronted the Feather Pen after she erased her memories of what she had discovered, then used a recording from his mechanical eye to make her honor their deal. He claimed their second condition was that she become his girlfriend and cherish him, leaving her response pending.

• The Feather Pen rewrote a note about forgetting what she had discovered, then refused to let Lynn remind her of it.
• Lynn asked the Feather Pen to honor their deal, but she questioned whether they had made one.
• Lynn projected a recording from his mechanical eye that showed their agreement, convincing the Feather Pen to keep her promises.
• Lynn said the first condition was for the Feather Pen to help resolve the calamity facing Dark Night City.
• Lynn told the Feather Pen that the second condition was to become his girlfriend and cherish him.

Lynn convinced the amnesiac Feather Pen that she had agreed to become his girlfriend, using her increased affection for him as proof. The Feather Pen remained confused and panicked, while Lynn waited to see whether she would accept his proposal.

• The Feather Pen reacted with disbelief when Lynn claimed she had agreed to be his girlfriend.
• Lynn urged the Feather Pen to look into his eyes, and she realized her affection for him had increased.
• Zuo Zuo recognized that Lynn was manipulating the Feather Pen by turning her fondness for cats into fondness for him.
• Lynn offered to show the Feather Pen a recording, but she firmly refused to recover her forgotten memories.
• The Feather Pen agonized over whether she had agreed, while Lynn asked again if she would become his girlfriend.

Lynn coaxed the Feather Pen into agreeing to be his girlfriend and unlocked a bestiary entry identifying her as an authority-class anomaly tied to Fate. As the ritual began in Dark Night City, the Feather Pen offered to help stop it if Lynn shared the future backlash and supplied his blood as ink.

• Lynn pressured the Feather Pen into writing that she would be his girlfriend, and the system awarded him an achievement for abducting an authority-class creature.
• Lynn inspected the new bestiary entry, which described the Feather Pen as a mysterious Fate authority whose careless writing could bring calamity.
• An earthquake shook the room, and Lynn saw the Purple-Black Magic Array solidify in the sky as the ritual began.
• Lynn urged the Feather Pen to act before it was too late, and she demanded that he share the backlash and provide his blood as ink.

Lynn hurried to provide blood while Dark Night City faced a spreading black-magic ritual that the defenders could not stop. The ritual activated across the city, driving residents toward madness as Lynn struggled against its effects.

• Lynn cut his artery to provide the Feather Pen with blood for an urgent task.
• Dark Night City’s garrison tried to evacuate residents beneath the enormous magic array covering the city.
• The Colossus Brain and Xiao Xiao fought the Fallen Angel while the Witch God tried and failed to unravel her sister’s ritual.
• The Fallen Angel released the ritual’s final restraint, sending a black pulse through the city and activating the array overhead.
• The black magic drained residents’ sanity, and Lynn’s vision turned blood-red as he raced down the street.

The Fallen Angel activated the Ritual Magic Array to turn Dark Night City’s inhabitants into crazed servants and drain their vitality, but the Holy Angel’s hidden power exposed flaws in the array. As Sir Awen and the Witch God attacked its weak points, the Fallen Angel poured her strength into forcing the ritual to erupt, giving the Holy Angel a chance to fight for control of her body again.

• The Fallen Angel activated the Ritual Magic Array, unleashed a beam into the sky, and used the array to spread madness and drain the city’s vitality.
• The Witch God Head and the Colossus Brain attacked the Fallen Angel, but she blocked them with chains and insisted the ritual could not be stopped.
• Golden traces of the Holy Angel’s power appeared at crucial nodes in the array, revealing that she had secretly compromised its construction.
• Sir Awen recognized the array’s vulnerability and directed the Witch God Head to attack the marked nodes.
• The Fallen Angel tried to force the array to erupt with her infernal power, weakening her hold over the Holy Angel’s consciousness.
• The Holy Angel seized the opportunity to struggle for control of her body again.

The Feather Pen’s writing disrupted the Fallen Angel’s control over the Ritual Magic Array, while Sir Awen and the Witch God Head found and attacked a weak point. The damaged array eased its influence over Dark Night City, and the Fallen Angel turned her fury on Awen and his allies.

• The Fallen Angel sensed the Holy Angel’s consciousness struggling to regain control and realized the Feather Pen was interfering with her plans.
• The Fallen Angel sent a giant black hand to destroy the Abnormal Creature Center, but the strike missed the Feather Pen’s room and demolished half the building instead.
• Sir Awen and the Witch God Head identified a weak point in the Ritual Magic Array, aided by the Feather Pen’s writing, and launched an attack on it.
• The attack cracked the array, causing its influence over the city’s inhabitants to ease.
• The Fallen Angel sent chains rushing toward Sir Awen and the others, and the Silver-Haired Girl appeared to shield them and knocked the chains aside.

The Silver-Haired Girl and Sir Awen weakened the Fallen Angel’s magic array while White Night and other Night Doctors activated Dark Night City’s holy barrier. As the Fallen Angel was driven to defeat, she revealed a Music Box carrying an unknown authority, prompting the Feather Pen to warn that the ending had changed.

• The Silver-Haired Girl kept the Fallen Angel occupied while Sir Awen and the others dismantled the magic array, reducing its effects across the City.
• White Night climbed the Sacred High Tower and struck its bell with the Cross, prompting other Night Doctors to ring bells and unfold Dark Night City’s protective barrier.
• The Fallen Angel was battered by the Silver-Haired Girl and suffered backlash as the magic array collapsed further.
• The Fallen Angel rejected the Silver-Haired Girl’s demand to surrender and summoned a Music Box containing a grinning Clown Statue.
• The Witch God Head recognized the Music Box, while the Feather Pen wrote that the Fallen Angel had gained a hidden derivative authority and that the ending had changed.

The Fallen Angel activated the Music Box, deepening the curses of everyone in the underground hall and driving her toward a massacre. As she fled toward Dark Night City, the Titan God began to awaken outside the city, setting the stage for a battle.

• The Witch God Head warned everyone about the Music Box, but the Fallen Angel activated it before the Colossus Brain could stop her.
• The Music Box’s melody deepened the curses of the Silver-Haired Girl, the Witch God Head, and Sir Awen, while its tune continued after it fell to the floor.
• The Feather Pen used its authority to redirect the Fallen Angel from repairing the magic array and toward unleashing vengeance on Dark Night City.
• The Fallen Angel flew out of the underground hall, while the Feather Pen wrote that the Titan God would awaken and fight her.
• The Titan Head began to stir outside the city, and White Night realized that a terrifying battle might soon threaten Dark Night City.

Lynn charged into the underground black aura to stop the Feather Pen from awakening his Titan Big Brother and provoking a battle that would destroy Dark Night City. He asked the Feather Pen to create an opening so he could bring the Matriarch back himself.

• White Night saw Lynn race toward the underground entrance and shouted for him to flee, but Lynn leaped into the black aura.
• Lynn slid deeper underground as Zuo Zuo warned him that the Feather Pen had not restrained the Matriarch and that his shattered eyes prevented him from using the Undying curse on himself.
• Lynn told Zuo Zuo he would protect Dark Night City and keep his promise to Sir Awen by stopping Big Brother from fighting the Matriarch there.
• Lynn asked the Feather Pen to stop writing its Script and awakening his Titan Big Brother, since the Magic Array had already been destroyed.
• Lynn asked the Feather Pen to create an opening so he could reach the Matriarch and bring her back himself.