Chapter Summaries

Lynn comforted Xiao Xiao after the Godslayer Puppet slapped and cracked her tooth, then challenged the giant puppet while her affection and trust in him rose. The One-Horned Ghost King watched Xiao Xiao’s parents prepare to retaliate as Lynn stood against the Godslayer Puppet.

• Xiao Xiao cried after showing Lynn her cracked front tooth, and the One-Horned Ghost King realized her parents had seen the slap.
• The Titan Head and female head agreed that they were furious, then leaped toward the battlefield as the One-Horned Ghost King predicted the attacker was doomed.
• The Godslayer Puppet confronted Lynn and threatened to kill him and Xiao Xiao for destroying his biological puppets.
• Lynn fired every round in his Revolver at the Godslayer Puppet, who crushed a bullet and dismissed the weapon as weak.
• Lynn told the Godslayer Puppet that hurting a patient in front of her doctor angered him, and Xiao Xiao’s affection and trust in Lynn increased.

Lynn faced the Godslayer Puppet after it struck Xiao Xiao, and her two enormous Headhunter parents arrived to protect her. The Puppet’s attempts to explain away the slap failed, leaving it terrified and on its knees.

• The Godslayer Puppet mocked Lynn and claimed its power made escape impossible, but Lynn said he had more than one friend.
• Two gigantic heads fell behind the Puppet, crushing the Modified Hunters, and Xiao Xiao recognized them as her parents.
• The Titan Head and Female Head confronted the Puppet over slapping their daughter, and their auras terrified it.
• The Puppet claimed the slap was a friendly Demon Association custom and demonstrated by hitting a Hunter, whose head came off.
• The Puppet knelt and admitted it could no longer explain the situation away.

The Titan's Head and Witch God's Head rescued Xiao Xiao by tearing apart the Godslayer Puppet, forcing the Heart-Eater Demon to flee back to the Demon Association's Inverted Tower. He declared an existential emergency and ordered the Association to activate its zero-level defense protocol and transfer the colossus.

• The Titan's Head and Witch God's Head pinned down and brutally beat the Godslayer Puppet while Lynn learned of their curses and their connection to Xiao Xiao.
• Xiao Xiao told Lynn that her parents were strong and that she planned to introduce him to them.
• The two heads tore the flesh giant in half, and the Heart-Eater Demon escaped the Godslayer shell at the cost of severe damage to his consciousness.
• The Heart-Eater Demon returned to the Inverted Tower, ordered the Association to activate its zero-level defense protocol, and commanded an immediate warp-transfer of the colossus.
• The Inverted Tower sounded alarms, began locking down its gates, and instructed Association members to return to their posts.

The Demon Association activated its Zero Protocol as Blood Saw and Madam Doll raced toward Wandering Soul Alley to investigate. Meanwhile, Xiao Xiao introduced Lynn to her Root-Level parents, whose growing suspicion left him facing a private father-and-son chat with the Titan Head.

• The Demon Association sounded the Zero Protocol alarm throughout the Inverted Tower and the Dark World.
• Blood Saw recognized the emergency signal and hurried with Madam Doll toward the Inverted Tower to discover what had happened.
• The Titan Head and Witch God Head ate the Godslayer Giant while the Witch God Head affectionately lifted Xiao Xiao and explained that her parents had secretly followed her.
• Xiao Xiao introduced Lynn as her beloved doctor, and her parents' murderous suspicion toward him intensified as he tried to explain himself.
• Lynn gained achievements for surviving the malice of two Root-Level Creatures, while Xiao Xiao repeated a lyric that further alarmed her parents.
• The Titan Head promised to speak privately with Lynn after they ate the person who had slapped Xiao Xiao.

The Demon Association activated its Zero Protocol, transforming the Inverted Tower into a prototype colossus as the Heart-Eater Demon prepared for three Root-Grade Creatures he had provoked. Blood Saw and Madam Doll reached the wilderness and identified the construct as the Demon Association’s first-generation prototype war machine, built using the lost legacy of a technological civilization.

• The Inverted Tower emerged from underground and activated as a colossal flesh-and-machine war machine.
• The Heart-Eater Demon told the Demon Association’s senior officials that three Root-Grade Creatures were coming because he had provoked them.
• The Heart-Eater Demon ordered the Association to transfer its Colossus Project materials and other advanced Bio-Weapon research while the colossus bought them time.
• Blood Saw and Madam Doll spotted the activated Inverted Tower across the wilderness.
• Blood Saw explained that the prototype colossus drew on the Demon Association’s research and a technological civilization’s lost legacy.

Madam Doll and Blood Saw discovered that the Demon Association had restarted the Colossus Project and saw three Root-Level Headhunters emerge from a rift. They spotted a human riding one of the Headhunters, and Blood Saw raised his binoculars to check.

• Madam Doll asked Blood Saw about the Inverted Tower, and he said it rivaled a Root-Level creature in destructive power but was far weaker than the original colossus.
• Three Headhunters emerged from a rift, and Blood Saw realized the Demon Association had provoked multiple Root-Level beings.
• Blood Saw warned that the Prototype Colossus could not defeat all three Headhunters.
• Madam Doll saw a human riding one Headhunter, whose expression turned affectionate, and told Blood Saw what she had spotted.
• Blood Saw dismissed her claim, then raised his binoculars to look at the Headhunters.

Lynn discovered that his teacher, Blood Saw, was alive and learned that Blood Saw was shocked to find him riding a Headhunter. As Lynn reached the Demon Association’s headquarters, the Inverted Tower, he unlocked the bestiary system and received ten free attribute points for recording it.

• Blood Saw recognized Lynn riding Xiao Xiao and sent him a message asking whether he was still alive.
• Lynn replied through the blood message and shouted that he was alive, inadvertently earning an achievement that left Blood Saw twitching unconscious.
• Madam Doll panicked as Blood Saw explained that the person riding the Root-Level Headhunter was his apprentice.
• The Witch God Head brought Lynn to the Inverted Tower, where Lynn identified the Demon Association’s biomechanical headquarters.
• Lynn unlocked the bestiary system, recorded the Inverted Tower, and received ten free attribute points.

Lynn unlocked the Bestiary System and gained attribute points by recording the three Headhunters, while the Demon Association unleashed its Prototype Colossus against them. The Titan Head immediately knocked the colossus down and beat it apart, leaving Lynn with a new quest to scavenge its wreckage.

• Lynn recorded Xiao Xiao, Titan Head, and Witch God Head in the Bestiary System, earning 41 free attribute points.
• The Heart-Eater Demon activated the Prototype Colossus beneath the Inverted Tower and sent it to hunt the Headhunters.
• The colossus roared at the Headhunters, triggering Lynn's emergency quest to escape the Desolate Wilderness.
• Titan Head struck the colossus with its tentacles and relentlessly thrashed it while Lynn and the Heart-Eater Demon watched in shock.
• The system canceled Lynn's escape quest and gave him a new quest to collect valuable items from the colossus's wreckage.

Lynn and Xiao Xiao charged into the underground Demon Association base while the Titan Head and Witch God Head battered the Inverted Tower’s colossus. The Heart-Eater Demon ordered an evacuation and defenses, and Lynn woke Zuo Zuo as they rushed toward him.

• The Heart-Eater Demon ordered the Demon Association’s senior members to gather classified documents and prepare to evacuate as the Inverted Tower rapidly failed.
• Alarms warned that the Inverted Tower was being destroyed and that the base had only minutes before its core structure failed.
• Lynn used an Evil Spirit Vertical Eye to locate the Demon Association personnel underground, then asked Xiao Xiao to take him into the pit.
• The Heart-Eater Demon recognized Lynn approaching the base and ordered the defense systems to fire at him.
• Lynn rode Xiao Xiao down the corridor and told Zuo Zuo to stop pretending to sleep and get to work.

Lynn bullied Zuo Zuo into obeying him by threatening to feed her to Xiao Xiao, then prepared to use the Dragon Breath Arm. The chapter ended with the arm linking to Lynn and the system warning that his body was severely overloaded.

• Lynn teased Zuo Zuo about her fear of Xiao Xiao and frightened her with threats of frying and feeding her to the creature.
• Lynn offered Zuo Zuo a lollipop or pesticide and threatened to serve her as cold left hand until she agreed to obey him.
• Lynn gave Zuo Zuo the lollipop, pleased that she had become more obedient.
• When Xiao Xiao spotted a door ahead, Lynn activated Flesh Cataclysm and attached the Dragon Breath Arm to his body.
• Lynn ordered the system to allocate all his attribute points to constitution after it warned that his body was severely overloaded.

After boosting his constitution, Lynn led Xiao Xiao into the underground base and battled its automated defenses with Zuo Zuo’s protection and his revolver. He used the Dragon Breath Arm to overwhelm the Hunters’ molten flame, then charged through the fire to attack their leader.

• Lynn completed his constitution allocation, reducing the Dragon Breath Arm’s strain and raising his constitution to 154.
• Xiao Xiao smashed through the underground base’s steel doors while Zuo Zuo shielded Lynn from the automated turrets.
• Lynn destroyed the turrets with his Witcher Revolver and unlocked the A Hundred Shots, A Hundred Hits achievement.
• The Hunters behind the next doors attacked with molten-flame projectors, and Lynn countered with dragon breath from his Dragon Breath Arm.
• Lynn burst through the fire and brought his blade down on the lead Hunter’s neck.

Lynn and Xiao Xiao fought through the Demon Association’s base while the Heart-Eater Demon activated its self-destruct protocol and tried to escape. After Lynn’s attack crippled the energy core and ruined the warp system, Lynn and Xiao Xiao smashed into the warp hall, where Lynn confronted the Heart-Eater Demon.

• Lynn’s transformed Left Hand and Xiao Xiao helped him kill the Hunters, while Lynn increased his combat ability and Firearms Mastery.
• The Heart-Eater Demon ordered the base to self-destruct and headed to the warp hall with dozens of senior officers to escape.
• The warp device failed after Lynn smashed through the base’s energy core, leaving the Heart-Eater Demon trapped as the self-destruct countdown continued.
• Lynn and Xiao Xiao crashed through the warp hall’s steel wall, revealing a straight path of destruction through the base, and Lynn aimed his Revolver at the Heart-Eater Demon.

Lynn and Xiao Xiao attacked the Demon Association’s base, where Zuo Zuo saved Lynn from the Heart-Eater Demon’s psychic blast and helped him kill the demon’s current body. The quest remained incomplete, and the Heart-Eater Demon transferred his consciousness into a mechanical body.

• Lynn explained that Xiao Xiao had destroyed the base’s power transmission hub to stop the Heart-Eater Demon from escaping and activating the self-destruct system.
• The Heart-Eater Demon attacked Lynn with a psychic blast, but Zuo Zuo disrupted it by transforming into slime babies that cried out.
• Lynn shot the Heart-Eater Demon with Witcher Bullets, and Xiao Xiao severed his head with a tentacle.
• Lynn concluded that the Heart-Eater Demon had transferred his consciousness and set off with Xiao Xiao to find him.
• A mechanical body emerged from a container deep in the base as the Heart-Eater Demon announced that flesh was weak and machines reigned supreme.

The Heart-Eater Demon escaped his destroyed body by activating his strongest mechanical form, but Lynn intercepted him with Xiao Xiao before he could flee the base. As Xiao Xiao fought the Demon, Lynn prepared to use Random Diagnosis Technique on him before the base self-destructed.

• The Heart-Eater Demon emerged in his modified mechanical body and raced toward a secret exit as the base’s self-destruct countdown began.
• Lynn revealed that he was hiding inside Xiao Xiao and used the root entity to withstand the Heart-Eater Demon’s psychic attacks.
• Lynn confronted the Heart-Eater Demon about his attempts to kill him and his loved ones, while the Demon tried to escape before the countdown ran out.
• Xiao Xiao attacked the Heart-Eater Demon and pinned him in a fierce fight as the self-destruct alarm grew more urgent.
• Lynn activated the Random Diagnosis Technique and prepared to diagnose the Heart-Eater Demon’s mechanical body.

Lynn used Random Diagnosis to inflict multiple brain diseases on the Heart-Eater Demon, whose mechanical body depended on a vulnerable human brain. As Xiao Xiao battered him, the Demon struggled to transfer his consciousness but became increasingly confused as the base’s explosion countdown began.

• Lynn diagnosed the Heart-Eater Demon with several brain diseases, including cerebral thrombosis, cerebral infarction, Alzheimer's disease, and schizophrenia.
• Lynn realized the Demon’s mechanical body protected a physical brain, and he told Xiao Xiao to target its head.
• Xiao Xiao slammed the Demon’s mechanical head into the ground while his brain diseases worsened and his body’s warnings reported growing damage.
• The Heart-Eater Demon tried to transfer his consciousness to a fourth brain, but the impacts and illnesses disrupted his concentration.
• The Demon alternated between panic and nonsensical singing as he failed to complete the transfer, while the base’s final explosion countdown sounded.

Lynn escaped the Demon Association base before it self-destructed and earned a legendary skill, then recovered the Heart-Eater Demon’s nearly intact mechanical body from the ruins. As Lynn discovered a living brain inside it, Titan Head and Witch God Head hinted that they expected him to marry Xiao Xiao.

• Lynn and Xiao Xiao escaped the base as the Heart-Eater Demon was caught in the explosion.
• Lynn received the legendary skill Lingering Memory of the Past and a Skill Enhancement Scroll for completing his quests.
• Titan Head and Witch God Head arrived, and Witch God Head implied that Lynn and Xiao Xiao would soon become family.
• Lynn and Xiao Xiao excavated the mechanical body, and Lynn pried open its head to inspect the brain inside.
• Lynn found a flesh-and-blood brain inside the machine.

Lynn defeated the Heart-Eater Demon, helped destroy the Demon Association, and scavenged its ruins with Xiao Xiao. As they prepared to leave, the Witch God Head seized Lynn and offered him a private chat about something happy.

• Lynn learned that the Heart-Eater Demon was a bodiless Brain Demon, recorded it in his Bestiary, and packed its brain to give to Blood Saw.
• Madam Doll watched Lynn’s victory, decided she might lure him to meet her daughters, and kicked the unconscious Blood Saw off a cliff.
• The Informant reported the Demon Association’s destruction, while Dark World residents speculated about the humanoid whose face had been erased from the footage.
• Lynn scavenged the ruins for several hours, earned the Scavenger achievement, and celebrated with Xiao Xiao before they prepared to return to Wandering Soul Alley.
• The Witch God Head suddenly lifted Lynn, coated him with slime, and insisted they have a private chat about something that would make him happy.

Lynn was taken aside by the Witch God Head, who questioned whether he truly cared for Xiao Xiao. After Lynn defended their friendship with an impassioned speech, the Witch God Head began to suspect he might want to marry her daughter and demanded that he swear to treat her well.

• Xiao Xiao agreed to let the Witch God Head speak privately with Lynn, and the Witch God Head carried him away to the woods.
• Lynn worried that Xiao Xiao’s parents had discovered he had summoned her to help with the Demon Association’s threat, then decided to apologize.
• Lynn admitted he had a selfish motive for writing to Xiao Xiao but insisted that he cherished their friendship and liked her.
• Lynn argued that race and appearance did not matter to true friendship, impressing the Witch God Head and raising her affection toward him.
• The Witch God Head began to suspect Lynn wanted to become her son-in-law and asked him to swear he would treat Xiao Xiao well.

Lynn tried to convince the Witch God Head that his relationship with Xiao Xiao was sincere, but his careless offer of professional services was misunderstood as flirting. The Witch God Head approved him dating Xiao Xiao and said marriage would require her husband's consent, while Lynn desperately insisted they were only friends.

• Lynn argued that Xiao Xiao mattered to him and that he was not merely fooling around, softening the Witch God Head's doubts.
• Lynn offered the Witch God Head his professional services, and she mistook his words for a proposition before spinning him at high speed with a tentacle.
• Lynn earned the Human Windmill achievement after surviving the spin, and the Witch God Head called it a test and approved him dating Xiao Xiao.
• The Witch God Head said Lynn would need her husband's consent to marry Xiao Xiao, leaving Lynn stunned and denying that he wanted to date her.
• The Witch God Head played a recording as evidence of Lynn's supposed misconduct toward Xiao Xiao, rejecting his claim that their friendship was pure.

Lynn tried to convince the Witch God Head that his time with Xiao Xiao had been innocent, but she suspected he had been intimate with her daughter. He brought Xiao Xiao in to clear up the misunderstanding, and her eager answer left him bracing for the worst.

• The Witch God Head teased Lynn about being intimate with Xiao Xiao and threatened to eat him if he refused to take responsibility.
• Lynn insisted nothing had happened and proposed asking Xiao Xiao to confirm his story.
• The Witch God Head agreed, and Lynn and the Witch God Head brought Xiao Xiao over to question her.
• The Witch God Head asked Xiao Xiao whether she and Lynn had done anything strange in the alley that morning.
• Xiao Xiao remembered Lynn's care session, became excited, and began to answer, leaving Lynn alarmed.