Chapter Summaries

Lynn revealed that Charles was the man who had murdered Lady Blood Cloak and their daughter, then let him flee and alerted Lady Blood Cloak. She caught him at the estate and exacted revenge by tearing into him as he had once tortured her.

• Lynn uncovered Charles's false identities and told him he would be handed over to Lady Blood Cloak.
• Charles begged Lynn to spare him, then fled when Lynn let him go and contacted Lady Blood Cloak.
• As Charles ran through the estate, he remembered how he had murdered his wife and daughter for the Flesh God Cult.
• Lady Blood Cloak appeared in her blood-red gown and seized Charles by the throat.
• Lady Blood Cloak cut Charles's throat with the Bone-Cleaving Knife and tore flesh from him while he remained alive and felt the pain.

Lady Blood Cloak avenged herself on Charles, but Lynn helped her choose to keep living and affirmed their bond as friends. After her conquest progress reached 100%, Lynn and Lady Blood Cloak returned to the Demon Capital, where White Night and the Night Doctors awaited them.

• Lady Blood Cloak killed Charles by cutting him apart, recalling the torment he had inflicted on her.
• Lady Blood Cloak questioned why she still wanted to live, and Lynn reminded her that he would not let her die and called her his first friend in Hell.
• Lady Blood Cloak cried as Lynn comforted her, and her conquest progress with him reached 100%.
• Lynn and Lady Blood Cloak returned to the Command Center, where White Night and the Night Doctors welcomed them.
• Lynn told White Night that they had taken care of Charles and that he had found the friend he had been searching for.

Lynn reunited Lady Blood Cloak with White Night, then brought her back to the cursed town after Lin Ying discovered the girl's last soul fragment was inside an old woman. Lynn recognized the old woman as the girl's first playmate from a hundred years earlier, but her reasons for keeping the girl there remained unknown.

• Lady Blood Cloak apologized to White Night, and he welcomed her back without blaming her for the trouble she had caused.
• Lin Ying told Lynn that the girl's final soul fragment was inside the white-haired old woman in the cursed town.
• Lynn returned to the town with Lady Blood Cloak, who rushed to embrace her sleeping daughter.
• The old woman shot Lynn when he tried to speak with her and demanded that the girl be taken back.
• Lynn inferred that the old woman had been the girl's first playmate a hundred years earlier.

Lynn discovered that Blood Cloak had given Yanying a fragment of her Good Thought long ago, and revealed it as he used psionics to draw it out. The discovery left the group facing the possibility of restoring the girl’s lost goodness.

• Lin Ying recognized Yanying as the child who had entered the cursed courtyard and survived.
• Lynn explained that Blood Cloak had met Yanying after her death, during a rare moment of lucidity.
• Blood Cloak and Yanying remembered their childhood friendship and their reunion beneath the locust tree after Blood Cloak became a Vengeful Ghost.
• Yanying recalled that Blood Cloak had given her a gift and told her to stay alive and seek her out if she ever left the courtyard.
• Lynn used psionics to reveal a glowing fragment inside Yanying and identified it as Blood Cloak’s Good Thought.

Lynn helped the old woman recover her granddaughter’s skeleton and released the soul fragment she had carried for a century. After the old woman left to lay her granddaughter to rest, Lynn and Lin Ying departed as the town’s dark clouds and deathly aura began to lift.

• Lynn raised the courtyard’s accumulated skeletons and helped the old woman find her granddaughter’s remains and soul.
• The old woman refused to see her granddaughter’s spirit, accepted Lynn’s help, and asked him to take the fragment as payment.
• Lynn removed the fragment from the old woman and restored the final piece of the girl’s soul.
• The old woman placed her granddaughter’s bones in the coffin and walked away, while Lynn told Lin Ying that she would soon die.
• Lynn and Lin Ying left the town as the deathly aura receded and dawn broke through the clouds.

Lynn explained to Lady Blood Cloak how he became mechanical and rescued her daughter, whose shattered soul might still awaken. As Lady Blood Cloak’s trust in him grew, she confronted him about the curse-clearing he had once promised but forgotten to provide.

• Lady Blood Cloak told Lynn she had purified the deathly aura around her daughter and asked how he had become mechanical and restored the girl.
• Lynn recounted the Flesh God Cult’s invasion of Blue Star and his battle against the Flesh Dominator’s Projection, explaining that he had transformed himself to survive.
• Lynn warned Lady Blood Cloak that her daughter might not awaken because most of her soul had become part of the curse, though he had repaired it with uncontaminated soul fragments.
• Lady Blood Cloak thanked Lynn, and system notifications reported that her trust in him had increased.
• Lynn offered to clear Lady Blood Cloak’s curse, and she accused him of breaking his earlier promise to do so each day.

Lynn removed the curse from Lady Blood Cloak, restoring her true human appearance, and promised they would one day escape Hell together. Lady Blood Cloak then pinned him against a wall and offered him a reward.

• Lynn reassured Lady Blood Cloak before activating his curse-removal ability.
• Lady Blood Cloak transformed into her monstrous true form as Lynn cast the spell.
• Lynn's ability removed all of Lady Blood Cloak's curses, restoring her original appearance.
• Lynn promised Lady Blood Cloak that they would escape Hell and make their push against it together.
• Lady Blood Cloak pinned Lynn against the wall and asked if he wanted a reward.

Lady Blood Cloak teased Lynn about their old Contract and his mechanical body, then pulled him onto a couch. Lynn struggled to resist her advances, leaving their reunion poised to become intimate.

• Lady Blood Cloak reminded Lynn that he owed her payment under their Contract and teased him about his mechanical form.
• Blood Cloak discovered that Lynn had kept a few extra features and asked about his recent experiences.
• Lynn admitted that he had once accidentally been intimate with a tree, then insisted he had done nothing else.
• Blood Cloak took Lynn by the wrist and led him to the couch, where she pushed him down as his self-control continued to drop.

Lady Blood Cloak transformed into a childlike version of herself to tease Lynn, who was already struggling to resist her advances. She cited rumors about his supposed tastes and kissed him, leaving him unable to defend himself.

• Lady Blood Cloak reassured Lynn that Angel would not wake and continued pressing close to him.
• Lady Blood Cloak changed into a small, youthful form, triggering Lynn’s composure penalties and a special achievement.
• Lynn protested that the transformation made the situation feel even more immoral because she resembled the sleeping Angel.
• Lady Blood Cloak said she had followed Lynn’s exploits and heard rumors about his supposed preferences, including his turning the Colossus Brain into a girl.
• Lady Blood Cloak kissed Lynn and asked whether he truly felt nothing.

Lynn reassured Lady Blood Cloak that she and her daughter were his family, and she accepted his promise of a home. Their bond deepened, and the system awarded Lynn several achievements and stat bonuses.

• Lady Blood Cloak teased Lynn and asked whether he would give her a home.
• Lynn told Lady Blood Cloak they had been family since they fought side by side and promised he would never abandon her.
• Lady Blood Cloak hid her tears and accepted Lynn's reassurance, feeling closer to him.
• The system changed Lady Blood Cloak's attitude toward Lynn from Trust to Affection and awarded him experience, achievements, and permanent bonuses.
• Lynn decided he had finally become a proper man after earning the system's achievements.

Lady Blood Cloak’s daughter awakened during an intimate moment between her and Lynn, but Lynn discovered that only two untainted soul fragments were conscious. The girl showed an instinctive attachment to Lynn and called him “Daddy,” leaving both adults stunned.

• Lady Blood Cloak and Lynn resumed their intimacy on the sofa while her daughter lay unconscious nearby.
• Lady Blood Cloak noticed her daughter’s eyes twitch and watched her wake, then screamed in panic when the girl saw her and Lynn.
• Half an hour later, Lynn examined the girl and learned that she was awake but lacked awareness beyond two soul fragments representing kindness and nature.
• Lynn explained that the Colossus’s flesh had helped the fragments grow and that the girl might eventually regain herself and her memories.
• The girl fixed her vacant gaze on Lynn and called him “Daddy,” astonishing Lynn and Lady Blood Cloak.

Lynn discovered that the flesh used to create Lady Blood Cloak’s daughter made her instinctively recognize him as her father, then received a new skill after the worldwide parasites were eliminated. As White Night’s investigation turned toward the deep sea, missing Night Doctors and recovered bodies confirmed that a terrifying threat remained there.

• Lynn tested his theory by tossing a piece of his flesh onto a wall, and Lady Blood Cloak’s daughter called it “Daddy.”
• Lynn explained that the girl’s flesh resonated with his because he was the Colossus, while Lady Blood Cloak angrily tried to keep her daughter from staring at his body.
• Over the next few days, Lynn traveled between Demon Capital and his northern home as the military and Night Doctors hunted down the remaining Flesh Cultists.
• The System announced that all parasites had been eliminated, raised Lynn’s level to 65, and rewarded him with the legendary skill Gate.
• Lynn suspected Gate foreshadowed a coming threat connected to the ancient being sought by the Flesh God Cult.
• White Night reported that Night Doctors investigating the deep sea had suffered casualties, with several teams missing and bodies recovered from the waters.

Lynn and Lady Blood Cloak arrived near the Vatican to investigate a hidden route to the Hermitage, which might conceal the Old Days entity behind the Deep Sea mutations. As they approached the holy city, they discovered that its surface concealed a damp, decaying world crawling with immense tentacles.

• Lynn reviewed reports of Night Doctors whose bodies had mutated with sea-like tissues and ordered White Night to gather the group near the suspected sea regions while they waited for Messiah.
• Lynn and Lady Blood Cloak warped to a district outside the Vatican, where Lynn explained that Messiah had gone there to investigate a teleportation Magic Array leading to the Hermitage.
• Lynn told Lady Blood Cloak that he had sensed a faint Deep Sea presence in the Vatican and that the returning Night Doctors carried the same subtle sea odor as the corpses.
• Lady Blood Cloak noticed that people nearby were sweating, drinking water, and carrying towels, then saw gill-like folds expand behind an old man's ears.
• Lynn briefly saw the Vatican transform in his vision into a damp, decayed city covered in seaweed and crawling with huge black tentacles.

Lynn and Blood Cloak discovered that an uncanny oceanic contamination had spread beyond the Vatican, distorting what people could perceive. After Lynn’s unstable device revealed the true surroundings, they set out to investigate the presence behind it.

• Lynn realized the contamination might have spread from the Hermitage and waited until night to find a way to expose the distortions.
• Lynn built a Perception Amplifier and gave it to Blood Cloak to test.
• The device exploded, burying Lynn and Blood Cloak beneath the hotel ruins and setting Blood Cloak on fire.
• Lynn activated the damaged device, revealing seaweed-covered walls and a damp, oceanic landscape beneath the city’s apparent surroundings.
• Lynn concluded that an uncanny presence from the ocean, possibly an Old Days god, was spreading contamination beyond the Vatican, and he and Blood Cloak left to investigate.

Lynn and Lady Blood Cloak reached St. Peter's Square, where a living contamination spread from the darkness and attacked Lynn's senses. Lynn resisted its effects, but a system notification revealed that he had come under the Gaze of Cthulhu.

• Lynn explained to Lady Blood Cloak that powerful horrors could distort perception simply by existing as they walked toward the Vatican.
• Lynn and Lady Blood Cloak reached St. Peter's Square and heard a wet, gurgling sound coming from the darkness near the church.
• A tentacled, sludge-like contamination spread into the lantern light, rotting a streetlight and bringing a heavy, gloomy rain.
• Lynn stepped into the contamination to test it, and it made him lose sanity and began creeping up his legs.
• Lynn regained control and stopped the contamination from climbing, then heard whispers and received a notification that he had come under the Gaze of Cthulhu.

Lynn and Blood Cloak entered the Vatican’s corruption, which Lynn recognized as a derivative of Cthulhu, and received a quest to survive, find Messiah, and uncover the truth. After Lynn blasted open a church’s sealed doors, the Sixth Apostle burst out, covered in corruption.

• Lynn identified the spreading corruption as a derivative of Cthulhu and warned Blood Cloak to resist its whispers.
• Lynn and Blood Cloak crossed the corrupted square and found rotting marine life scattered through it.
• A system quest sent Lynn into the Vatican to find Messiah and investigate the corruption, with warnings not to awaken the old gods or approach other dangers.
• Lynn fired a missile at the church doors, and the explosion released the Sixth Apostle, who was covered in erosion marks.

Lynn rescued Lady Blood Cloak from the tentacle-filled square after severing a Deep Sea Touch, then escaped by Warp as the erosion marks erupted. At a guesthouse hundreds of kilometers away, he concluded that attacking within the erosion marks triggered an alarm and proposed returning to test its limits.

• The Sixth Apostle fled toward Lynn, but a Deep Sea Touch emerged from the gate and seized him.
• Lynn cut the tentacle with his Monomolecular Sword, increasing Cthulhu's attention and provoking tentacles to erupt throughout the square.
• As the square filled with tentacles, Lynn grabbed Lady Blood Cloak and used Warp to escape, leaving the Sixth Apostle behind.
• At a distant guesthouse, Lynn explained that attacking the Deep Sea Touch had triggered the surrounding erosion marks and attracted the Old Days entity's attention.
• Lynn reasoned that the mechanism operated within the erosion marks and decided that he and Lady Blood Cloak would return for more tests.

Lynn and Blood Cloak entered the church and found a damaged Seraphim's Soul Lamp beside a corpse in the corridor. Lynn used Remnants of the Past to witness the clerics' failed attempt to escape, ending as the Soul Lamp went out.

• Lynn tested the Erosion Marks and confirmed that their accumulated gaze and disturbances reset after he stayed outside them.
• Lynn and Blood Cloak crossed the square and entered the church, following drag marks toward the Vatican corridor.
• Lynn found a corpse carrying the Seraphim's Soul Lamp and used Remnants of the Past to reveal the corridor's history.
• In the vision, clerics fought mutated Sea Spawn while the Soul Lamp suppressed the surrounding uncanny phenomena.
• The Erosion Marks grew more violent as the clerics fought, and the Soul Lamp's flame went out.

Lynn and Blood Cloak learned that the Seraphim Soul Lamp had been the last defense for clerics trapped in the Vatican, but approaching it triggered a deadly attack and drew Cthulhu’s attention. After warping away to escape, Lynn returned with a plan to contaminate the erosion marks using a potion.

• Lynn showed Blood Cloak the final memory of clerics overwhelmed by corruption after the Soul Lamp went out, and said it had happened one day earlier.
• Lynn entered the Soul Lamp’s outer perimeter, where the upheaval erupted and giant tentacles attacked him and Blood Cloak.
• Lynn cut through the tentacles, driving Cthulhu’s attention and his sanity loss to dangerous levels, then used Warp to escape with Blood Cloak.
• Lynn paid two little girls with lollipops at a distant guesthouse and announced that he had figured out how to fight back.
• Lynn returned to the Vatican’s outskirts and brewed a potion intended to contaminate the erosion marks and weaken the tentacles.

Lynn poured potions on the erosion marks, transforming their tentacles into bizarre creatures that overwhelmed Blood Cloak while he retrieved Seraphim's Soul Lamp. He realized the lamp might require Seraphim blood and found Messiah's Black Tea Bag among his stored items.

• Lynn poured his Tainted Body Potion and Pink ??? Potion over the erosion marks, then struck them after waiting ten minutes.
• The erosion marks erupted into grotesque tentacles, and Blood Cloak lost sanity and hid inside the Church while Lynn called the transformed creatures cute.
• Lynn reached the corpse and retrieved Seraphim's Soul Lamp, suspecting it was fueled by blood with ghostly aura.
• Lynn recalled that Messiah carried an awakened Seraphim bloodline and searched his system space for useful items.
• Lynn took out Messiah's Black Tea Bag from his system space.