Chapter Summaries

Lynn confronted the First Apostle, the Flesh Dominator, who offered him a chance to join his faction. After Lynn mocked him over losing the Mother Tree of Desire, the First Apostle attacked, and Lynn opened his Curse Eye to gamble on a one-in-six chance.

• The First Apostle revealed his identity as the Flesh Dominator and offered Lynn a chance to become his dependent.
• Lynn taunted the First Apostle by boasting about his relationship with the Mother Tree of Desire and how he had gained divinity through her.
• The First Apostle flew into a rage and bombarded Lynn's position with blood energy.
• Lynn told Messiah to go deeper underground and opened his Curse Eye to curse the First Apostle, risking a one-in-six chance.

Lynn fought the First Apostle, using curses and hidden Mechanical Church weapons to create openings for an attack. The First Apostle resisted the assault and caught Lynn in a distortion that twisted his body midair.

• Lynn cursed the First Apostle, then warped away as the Apostle smashed the hill and tore the curse threads from his body.
• Lynn activated the hidden Mechanical Church weapons scattered through the mountains and escaped underground to recover.
• Lynn gave Messiah a remote control and ordered her to press it if he failed to return after its light turned red.
• Lynn used the bombardment as cover to curse the charred First Apostle, but the Apostle turned toward him and trapped him in a distortion that twisted his body.

Lynn sacrificed a decoy body to detonate Gene Missiles, then used the opening to curse the First Apostle with a permanent, area-wide Ninefold Nightmare. He recovered from the curse’s backlash and watched the nightmare’s depths, where the First Apostle finally moved.

• The First Apostle tore a bomb from Lynn’s distorted body, but Lynn told him that was not the weapon he meant.
• Messiah activated the signal, detonating Gene Missiles hidden in every cell of Lynn’s decoy body and blasting open a gap.
• Lynn used a Curse Eye hidden in the surrounding hills to inflict Ninefold Nightmare on the First Apostle, and a Fate’s Dice roll made the area curse permanent.
• Lynn emerged from a shriveled hill, recovered with potions, and realized Mental Splitting had permanently damaged part of his mind.
• Lynn accelerated his recovery and the Curse Eye’s cooldown while watching the nightmare, then saw the First Apostle move within it.

Lynn’s third curse failed to stop the First Apostle from escaping the Ninefold Nightmare, leaving Lynn badly injured and nearly out of mental power. He summoned Messiah to heal and replenish him as the First Apostle neared the boundary and tried to turn her against Lynn.

• The First Apostle began forcing his way through the Ninefold Nightmare, and Lynn used Curse Eye a third time, but Fate’s Dice rolled 3 and Earthbound Spirit barely slowed him.
• Lynn removed the damaged Curse Eye and called Messiah to help, revealing that the First Apostle suspected Lynn was gambling on an unknown ability.
• Messiah emerged from the underground shelter and found Lynn bloodied, with his right eye socket empty, amid the devastation of the mountainside.
• Messiah used her holy power to heal Lynn and transfer her mental power, suffering a violent shock when she touched his consciousness.
• The First Apostle approached the nightmare’s boundary and mocked Messiah for siding with Lynn, asking whether she had forgotten how the Hidden Cultivation Society raised her.

Lynn forced Messiah to leave, then used his Curse Eye to gamble his life against the Flesh Dominator. The dice stopped with Lynn rolling 3 and the Flesh Dominator rolling 2, but the outcome had not yet been shown.

• Lynn took enough mental power from Messiah to cast another curse, then ordered her to flee and drove her away with gunshots.
• Lynn confronted the approaching Flesh Dominator, who mocked him and threatened to capture and torment him.
• Lynn activated the Curse Eye and cast the 100% Miss curse, triggering a Life-and-Death Gamble between them.
• Lynn rolled 3, and the Flesh Dominator rolled 2 as the dice dissolved.

Lynn’s lightning strike nearly destroyed the Flesh Dominator’s projection, but the being survived and used its authority over flesh to make Lynn’s body decay. As Messiah rushed to save him, Lynn pulled them both into System Space before losing consciousness.

• Lynn’s lightning strike devastated the mountain region but left the Flesh Dominator’s projection alive and badly injured.
• The Flesh Dominator crushed Lynn’s tentacles and declared that its authority over flesh would make Lynn unable to remain human.
• The Flesh Dominator caused Lynn’s flesh and tentacles to decay, overwhelming the Colossus Heart’s healing.
• Messiah arrived and enfolded Lynn in her Seraphim wings as his body continued to rot.
• Lynn used his remaining will to pull himself and Messiah into System Space before his consciousness faded.

After Lynn vanished from the Transdimensional Sense, Zuo Zuo mourned him but continued preparing the Summoning Ritual, while the Flesh Dominator searched the battlefield for him. Messiah awoke in a sealed storage space and followed a trail of bloodied crawl marks, leaving her to discover what had happened to Lynn.

• Zuo Zuo accepted that Lynn might be dead and resumed inscribing the Magic Array for the Summoning Ritual as Blood Doll tried to comfort her.
• The Flesh Dominator ordered the Flesh Cultists to search the ruined battlefield, convinced Lynn was still somewhere nearby.
• A cultist told the Flesh Dominator that his authority had stripped Lynn of his flesh and that Lynn would eventually die.
• Messiah woke in a sealed, airless space after Lynn had brought her through a Light Curtain.
• Messiah followed dried traces of someone crawling across the space and froze when she saw what lay at the end of them.

After the Flesh Dominator destroyed Lynn’s control over flesh, he was reduced to a beating heart and crumbling remains. Refusing to accept defeat, Lynn revealed his plan to build a Supreme Frame with Messiah from the machinery around them.

• Messiah found Lynn reduced to ashes, a bloody hand, and a beating heart, and learned that the Flesh Dominator had severed his dominion over flesh.
• Messiah offered her body as a vessel, but Lynn explained that his will would destroy any flesh that came near him.
• Messiah broke down over her inability to save Lynn, and he tried to comfort her with a joke about her calling him Dad.
• Lynn told Messiah to look at the piled-up mechanical devices and decided to use his sealed blueprints.
• Lynn opened the Cyber Mechanical Blueprint and the Machine Intelligence: Star Core Furnace Blueprint, then asked Messiah to help build a Supreme Frame.

Lynn and Messiah built a Stellar Furnace from Death Star Crystal so Lynn could abandon his vulnerable flesh-and-blood body and prepare to fight the Flesh Dominator. The furnace produced a psychic consciousness storage chip for Lynn’s soul, and they planned to finish his mechanical body before killing a god.

• Lynn used Mimicry to make furnace components from Death Star Crystal while Messiah helped assemble and weld them.
• Lynn explained to Messiah that civilizations and gods existed throughout the universe, including in Hell.
• After the Stellar Furnace was completed, Lynn told Messiah he needed to become a machine to escape the Flesh Dominator’s control.
• Lynn used the furnace and his mental power to forge a Cyber System: Psychic Consciousness Storage Device, nearly exhausting himself.
• Messiah resolved to help Lynn build the best possible body, and Lynn said they would make the next component and then kill a god.

As unrest and parasite infections spread across the world, Zuo Zuo waited in Shu Capital for Lynn before deciding to summon Dark Night City. Her ritual opened a passage to Hell and alerted the Flesh Cultists, who rushed toward Shu Capital to stop it.

• Zuo Zuo waited through the day for Lynn to return, then activated the Summoning Magic Array with Leviathan Flesh as an offering.
• The ritual sent a huge pillar of light into Shu Capital's sky and spread powerful summoning waves across the city and the battlefield.
• The First Apostle and the Flesh Cultists realized someone was summoning reinforcements from Hell and feared Dark Night City would join the fight.
• The First Apostle ordered some cultists to keep searching for Lynn and led the rest toward Shu Capital.
• The summoning array opened a fissure, and a blurred human figure began to emerge.

White Night arrived after Zuo Zuo summoned him and learned that Lynn had apparently died fighting the Flesh Dominator. Enraged, he attacked the Flesh Cultists, but the Flesh Dominator appeared and threatened everyone.

• White Night recognized Zuo Zuo, who told him that the Flesh God Cult had killed Lynn.
• Zuo Zuo explained that Lynn had fought the Flesh Dominator to protect Dark Night City and had been unable to use his Root-Level Curse.
• White Night vowed that Dark Night City would avenge Lynn and shielded Zuo Zuo and Blood Doll from the Flesh Cultists.
• White Night slew the Flesh Cultists who attacked him, cutting down their leader and sending the others falling in a rain of blood.
• The Flesh Dominator appeared from shattered space and declared that White Night's arrival would not save them.

White Night confronted the Flesh Dominator after learning that it had killed Lynn, then revealed his Anti-Flesh Legion and attacked the weakened projection with weapons and powers designed to destroy flesh. The fight continued as White Night used speed and anti-flesh research to exploit the Dominator’s damaged vessel.

• The Flesh Dominator recognized White Night and mocked him about the curse and the undead being its subordinate had tried to create.
• The Flesh Dominator admitted that he had crushed Lynn’s soul, and White Night attacked him in a rage.
• White Night gauged the weakened projection’s strength and decided he had a chance to avenge Lynn.
• White Night revealed his green Bio-Armor and explained that he had founded the Anti-Flesh Legion to destroy the Flesh God Cult.
• White Night slashed the Flesh Dominator with his anti-flesh blades, causing its wounds to liquefy and resist healing.

White Night and the summoned anti-flesh Night Doctors used a fortified Magic Array and a raging firestorm to dissolve the Flesh Dominator’s projection, but its flesh regenerated faster than they could destroy it. The projection overwhelmed the array, leaving the defenders unable to suppress it.

• The Flesh Dominator expanded his body and sent tentacles after White Night, whose anti-flesh agent slowed them only briefly.
• White Night escaped the tentacle net and activated a binding Magic Array that corroded the Flesh Dominator’s flesh.
• White Night intensified the array with flames, while Zuo Zuo and Blood Doll summoned the anti-flesh Night Doctors to reinforce it.
• White Night warned the Night Doctors that they faced the Flesh Dominator’s projection and did not reveal that Lynn was dead.
• The Flesh Dominator regenerated faster than the array could dissolve him, grew to fill it, and rendered its suppression ineffective.

White Night and the anti-flesh Night Doctors failed to stop the Flesh Dominator, who began devouring the people of Shu Capital and threatened to use the remaining Leviathan flesh to accelerate his true body's arrival. Zuo Zuo fled with the last of Lynn’s Leviathan flesh as the Flesh Dominator turned his attention to her.

• White Night poured his strength into the Magic Array, but the Flesh Dominator’s regeneration overwhelmed its anti-flesh power and shattered it.
• The Flesh Dominator revealed his plan to devour White Night and the people of Shu Capital to restore his strength.
• The Flesh Dominator’s tentacles lifted residents into the air and burst them into blood mist as White Night attacked him with the Twin Blades.
• The Flesh Dominator trapped White Night and blocked the anti-flesh Night Doctors from reaching him while the flesh spread across the city.
• The Flesh Dominator noticed the remaining Leviathan flesh and said it could help accelerate his true body’s arrival.
• Zuo Zuo grabbed the Leviathan flesh and fled, but the Flesh Dominator recognized her connection to Lynn and asked how she expected to escape.

Zuo Zuo revealed that she had lured the Flesh Dominator to the array to avenge Lynn, then detonated the Leviathan Flesh in a blast that consumed her. As destruction engulfed her, she saw a mechanical blue-glimmering hand and felt her Transdimensional Sense pulse back to life.

• The Flesh Dominator struck Zuo Zuo aside, took the Leviathan Flesh, and began devouring it.
• Zuo Zuo told Blood Doll she had hidden Leviathan Flesh in the array and planned to detonate it, revealing she had lured the Flesh Dominator there to avenge Lynn.
• Zuo Zuo activated the Colossus's Transdimensional Sense, reversing the array and triggering a catastrophic explosion of Leviathan Flesh.
• White Night and the others realized Zuo Zuo had chosen revenge for Lynn, but the expanding blast swallowed their cries and engulfed her.
• As Zuo Zuo faced death, she saw a blue-glimmering hand before her and felt her Transdimensional Sense pulse again.

Lynn returned in a mechanical body and saved Zuo Zuo by redirecting the explosion. After revealing that he had abandoned his flesh and wielding the Colossus Heart, he prepared to fight the Flesh Dominator head-on.

• Lynn seized control of Zuo Zuo’s Transdimensional Sense and Leviathan flesh, redirected the explosion, and descended safely.
• Lynn reunited with Zuo Zuo, who cried and denied missing him.
• The Flesh Dominator recognized Lynn and attacked him with a tentacle, but Lynn shattered it with a punch.
• Lynn revealed his mechanical body, and the Flesh Dominator realized he had abandoned his flesh.
• Lynn explained how his mechanical body worked with the Colossus Heart and drew a Monomolecular Sword to face the Flesh Dominator.

Lynn unleashed the Colossus Heart’s power through his Supreme Frame and overwhelmed the Flesh Dominator in a direct battle. He continued attacking at more than full power, while the Flesh Dominator’s attempts to block or corrode him failed.

• Lynn accelerated toward the Flesh Dominator and cleaved his enormous body in two with the Monomolecular Sword.
• The Flesh Dominator split apart and attacked Lynn with hardened tentacles, revealing that he had been toying with White Night and the others.
• Lynn activated Annihilation Mode and pushed his frame’s power draw to 120%, then shattered the tentacles with a punch.
• Lynn fired scarlet beams from his eyes, cutting the Flesh Dominator into more than a dozen pieces.
• Lynn charged through the Flesh Dominator’s body repeatedly, while its flesh failed to corrode his frame.

Lynn overwhelmed the Flesh Dominator with the Colossus Heart, then countered his mental attack by switching to psionics mode. The Flesh Dominator realized Lynn had fused all three ascension paths and reacted with fear.

• Lynn unleashed an Energy Detonation and battered the Flesh Dominator, whose healing could not keep pace with his attacks.
• The Flesh Dominator launched mental contamination that overwhelmed nearby residents and threatened to overload Lynn’s processor.
• Lynn’s frame switched into Cyber Psionics Processor mode, greatly increasing his mental capacity and suppressing the intrusion.
• The Flesh Dominator sensed Lynn’s psionic power and realized he had achieved the trinity of mechanical, flesh, and psionic ascension.

Lynn used his newly awakened psionic power and the Colossus Heart to overwhelm the Flesh Dominator, who fled. Lynn set off with Zuo Zuo to pursue him, then told her she would have to give birth to him if he wanted his flesh back.

• Lynn entered the realm of the mind and used the Colossus Heart to power his psionic attacks against the Flesh Dominator.
• Lynn suppressed the Flesh Dominator’s mental projection, wounded him, and destroyed most of his body.
• The Flesh Dominator fled, and Lynn explained to White Night and the others that chaos creatures ran when they knew they could not win.
• Lynn detached his mechanical left hand, and Zuo Zuo transformed into a hand and attached herself to him so they could pursue the Flesh Dominator.
• Lynn told Zuo Zuo she would need to give birth to him to restore his flesh, leaving her shocked and demanding an explanation.

Lynn used his newly completed mechanical body to ambush the Flesh Dominator’s projection and vowed to destroy the Flesh God Cult. As Flesh Cultists arrived to protect their lord, Lynn began slaughtering them and their aberrations.

• Lynn warped behind the fleeing Flesh Dominator and battered his projection into the ground and a mountainside.
• Lynn promised to declare war on the Flesh Dominator and wipe out the Flesh God Cult, then pummeled the projection into a mangled mass.
• The Flesh Dominator called for help, and dozens of Flesh Cultists warped in to protect him.
• Lynn attacked the arriving cultists with searing eye beams as they transformed into Flesh Aberrations and sent tentacles and giant hands against him.
• Lynn burned and pulverized the attackers, killing several aberrations and projections.