Chapter Summaries

Lynn confronted an ancient being in the Vision Realm, who urged him to negotiate with the Flesh Dominator and revealed that Feather Pen had come to protect him. Lynn laid out conditions for peace and left the decision to the Dominator, if he had not gone mad.

• The ancient eyeball told Lynn that he wanted to honor his departed comrades and argued that Lynn and the Flesh Dominator both wanted to escape Hell.
• Lynn refused to accept the ancient being's appeal alone, explaining that the Dominator had attacked his home and killed many people.
• Feather Pen appeared beside Lynn and warned the ancient being that she might wreak havoc if her kitty were harmed.
• Lynn agreed to negotiate only if the Flesh Dominator restored his flesh, stopped invading Blue Star and other Surface Worlds, freed Blue Star's captured souls, and severed ties with the Plague Doctor and the Flesh God Cult.
• The ancient being agreed to relay Lynn's conditions, and Lynn added that negotiations depended on the Flesh Dominator not having gone mad.

After returning from the Vision Realm, Lynn discussed the mysterious being’s ties to the Jailers and the Flesh Dominator with Feather Pen. He decided to rebuild his Trinity Frame and obtain death star crystals from the Mechanical Church while preparing to find the Flesh Dominator’s hideout.

• Lynn woke in Feather Pen’s study, hugged her despite her protests, and was briefly left stuck upside down after she attacked him.
• Lynn told Feather Pen he planned to make peace with the Flesh Dominator because turning against him could cost Dark Night City dearly.
• Lynn and Feather Pen considered whether the being from the Vision Realm was a former Old Days deity who had joined Hell and secretly protected the Flesh Dominator.
• Lynn concluded that the Flesh Dominator might act dishonorably, so they needed to find his hiding place and seize the initiative.
• Lynn decided to rebuild his Trinity Frame and get death star crystals from the Mechanical Church.

Lynn told the Feather Pen that the Pupil-less Eye array had led the calamity to him in the Main Universe, then seemed to point back at him after his return to Hell. The Feather Pen asked whether he had encountered anyone during a brief, unprecedented change in Hell, but Lynn could not remember the time between his fall and his arrival in Dark Night City.

• The Feather Pen told Lynn that Hell's gaze had vanished after his fall and that their connection to Hell remained a mystery.
• Lynn confirmed that the chaotic expanse of colors had appeared and said the calamity that caused the Feather Pen's fall was searching for him.
• Lynn drew the Pupil-less Eye and explained that its array had pointed to him in Hell, led the calamity to him in the Main Universe, and seemed to point to him again after he returned to Hell.
• The Feather Pen asked Lynn about the moment when Hell's black mist dispersed and its boundary briefly turned azure.
• Lynn tried to recall what happened after his fall but found his memories of the time before reaching Dark Night City indistinct.

Lynn showed Feather Pen the Moon Orchid he had carried back from the Main Universe, and they discussed the danger of the Calamity searching for him. He decided to help his friends return home even if he had to remain in Hell, then immediately asked Feather Pen to reveal her true appearance.

• Lynn showed Feather Pen the Moon Orchid, and she recalled an ancient legend about a flower that kept blooming for someone who had not yet returned.
• Feather Pen warned Lynn that the Main Universe was unsafe, escaping Hell could bring worse danger, and he needed to reconsider whether Hell was still his enemy.
• Lynn said he would get his friends home but would stay in Hell if returning to the Main Universe put them in danger.
• Feather Pen's trust in Lynn increased, and she told him he had the charisma of a leader.
• Lynn asked whether Feather Pen's Vision Realm figure was really her and pressed her to show him her true appearance.

Lynn invited Feather Pen into the Vision Realm, claiming he only wanted a quick look at her, but his preparations made her suspect he had planned a romantic encounter. Feather Pen ended the chapter suggesting she might have agreed if he had admitted his intentions, while Lynn denied them.

• Feather Pen reluctantly agreed to let Lynn see her and waited ten minutes before entering the Vision Realm.
• Feather Pen appeared in Dark Night City and attracted the attention of the Night Doctors with her starry ethereal form.
• Lynn invited Feather Pen to his private group, where Xiao Xiao appeared with a fiancée prefix and Feather Pen questioned Lynn about it.
• Lynn teleported Feather Pen to a luxury villa he had rented and dressed as a gentleman.
• Feather Pen spotted romantic props in the villa and accused Lynn of arranging an affair, then said she might have agreed if he had confessed.

Lynn saw Feather Pen’s true face and became so captivated that she erased his memory of it to protect him from the influence of a god. Feather Pen explained that her beauty came from being a Fate God and reflected her wish for everyone’s fate to be beautiful.

• Feather Pen warned Lynn that seeing her true appearance could affect him because her divine essence remained.
• Lynn lifted Feather Pen’s veil and became utterly captivated by her divine face.
• Feather Pen erased Lynn’s memory of her true appearance, leaving only a hazy recollection.
• Feather Pen explained that gods could draw people’s fates toward them and said many Rules Gods had courted her before their world shattered.
• Feather Pen said she had been made beautiful as the Fate God because a being representing all rules would want everyone’s fate to be beautiful.

Lynn took several books from Feather Pen before learning that the Flesh Dominator had leaked the Mother Tree of Desire’s stronghold coordinates to the Mechanical Church. Sir Awen and Lynn considered whether Dark Night City could use the resulting conflict to draw the Desire Sect away from the Flesh God Cult.

• Lynn asked Feather Pen to soothe his wounded soul, then fled with several books from her bookcase despite her protests.
• Two days later, Sir Awen received intelligence that the Flesh Dominator’s faction had deliberately given the Mechanical Church the Mother Tree of Desire’s stronghold coordinates.
• Lynn told Sir Awen that he had slept with the Mother Tree of Desire, then suggested the Flesh Dominator’s move was an attempt to use the Mechanical Church to strike its rival.
• Sir Awen reported that Flesh Cultists were withdrawing from some regions and that Plague Doctors had appeared in several parts of the Dark World.
• Sir Awen proposed using the conflict to bring the Desire Sect to Dark Night City’s side, citing Lynn’s special relationship with the Mother Tree of Desire.

Lynn led Dark Night City's Night Doctors through a Portal to meet the Desire Sect, despite warnings that the sect could make them attack its members. Sir Awen and White Night watched the troops depart with confidence, but soon learned Lynn's leadership group had been lured into a brothel and needed urgent rescue.

• Lynn decided to join the campaign against the Desire Sect in his refrigerator body, and Sir Awen told him to prepare for the mission.
• The Night Doctors assembled in Dark Night City's plaza, where their commander warned them about the Desire Sect and showed them wounded soldiers as a cautionary example.
• Lynn rallied the unit leaders to maintain their self-control, then led them through the Portal toward the Desire Sect's territory.
• Sir Awen and White Night praised Lynn's ability after the troops departed.
• A Night Doctor reported that over a dozen Succubi had lured Lynn's leadership group into a brothel after just two minutes, prompting an emergency rescue.

Lynn and the Night Doctor captains arrived at the Desire Sect to begin diplomatic negotiations, but the sect’s succubi immediately tried to seduce them. Lynn framed the temptation as a chance to challenge their weaknesses and sent the captains away while he stayed behind with the succubi.

• At the High Tower, White Night and Sir Awen speculated that Lynn had a deeper plan, then lost their composure when the Night Doctor described the succubi as small-bodied.
• At the Blood Miasma Swamp, Lynn and the Night Doctor captains met a group of succubi from the Desire Sect in a lavish room beneath a decaying town.
• When a captain protested that the gathering was not diplomatic, Lynn insisted that probing the succubi was part of the negotiations.
• Lynn rejected probing the succubi one at a time, then declared he would face them all together to spare his subordinates the challenge.
• Lynn told the captains to take the others outside and set up camp while he stayed behind with the succubi.

Lynn sent the Night Doctors away and indulged the succubi while Zuo Zuo tried to stop him, but a Mechanical Race force discovered his presence in the swamp. Silver Fantasy ordered a full assault on the target area and moved to kill Lynn.

• Lynn used his revolver to make the Night Doctors leave, claiming he needed to handle diplomacy with the Desire Sect alone.
• Lynn brushed off Zuo Zuo’s suspicions and continued enjoying the succubi; when she tried to drag him away, he detached her and trapped her in his system space.
• Mechanical Race machines scanning the swamp detected the Desire Sect’s alliance with Dark Night City and identified Lynn as an S-rank blacklisted target.
• Silver Fantasy received the report, ordered the Purification Council’s highest directive to begin cleansing the area, and led the machines toward Lynn.

The Mechanical Church launched a massive surprise assault on the Desire Sect’s hidden town, overwhelming its defenders and sending Silver Fantasy to kill the succubi. Lynn remained bound in refrigerator form as the succubi tried to summon the Mother Goddess’s roots and escape.

• The Mechanical Church shattered the town’s blood mist with a precision bombardment, exposing the settlement and destroying buildings and guards.
• Mechanical Humanoids emerged from deployment pods and attacked the surviving Desire Sect followers.
• The succubi recognized the assault, suspected the Mechanical Church had targeted them over their alliance with Dark Night City, and found Lynn unresponsive.
• The succubi summoned the Desire Root System and expected its roots to reach them within two minutes.
• A Mechanical Pod broke through the underground chamber, and Silver Fantasy emerged to cut down the succubi with her upgraded frame.

Silver Fantasy led the Mechanical Church’s purge of the Desire Sect while searching for Lynn, who had disguised himself as a refrigerator and remained bound to a bed. The chapter ended when Lynn revealed himself to Silver Fantasy and the Mechanical Humanoids.

• Silver Fantasy authorized a nanomachine storm that hunted down the fleeing succubi, while her forces reported that Lynn and the Night Doctor Collective remained at large.
• Silver Fantasy learned that Lynn’s biological signature had not been found and ordered the search to continue, despite warnings that her personality module might need to be rebooted.
• Silver Fantasy recalled how Lynn’s actions in Curse City had disrupted her personality assessments and resolved to kill him rather than accept reconstruction.
• A dust-covered object on the bed moved, drawing the Mechanical Humanoids’ weapons and Silver Fantasy’s attention.
• Lynn’s refrigerator disguise blew away the dust, and he begged the Mechanical Humanoids not to attack him.

Silver Fantasy and the Mechanical Humanoids discovered Lynn, a bound refrigerator who claimed Dark Night City had created him using their technology and given him to the Desire Sect. His testimony raised fears that Dark Night City was advancing its research, and his imitation of Silver Fantasy’s voice left the machines pointing their guns at him.

• Silver Fantasy shot a Mechanical Humanoid and questioned the refrigerator, who identified himself as Lynn-Brand Refrigerator Model 021, a prototype created in Dark Night City.
• A Mechanical Humanoid scanned Lynn and confirmed that his components included technology taken from the Mechanical Church’s vessels.
• Lynn said that Dark Night City had given him to the Desire Sect so they could study how to inflict desire on Mechanical Lifeforms.
• The Mechanical Humanoids warned Silver Fantasy that Dark Night City’s technological advances could threaten their civilization’s dominance.
• Lynn claimed that his creator, Lynn, had altered and violated him, then imitated a woman’s cries in Silver Fantasy’s voice, prompting the machines to aim their guns at him.

Lynn disguised himself as a refrigerator and gained the Mechanical Church’s temporary protection, setting himself up to infiltrate its ranks. Hidden inside a Heavy Mech, he reached the surface beside Silver Fantasy and the Mechanical Church forces, planning to steal death star crystals and Monomolecular Swords.

• Silver Fantasy freed Lynn, disguised as a refrigerator, and ordered that he be taken to the Verification Center for inspection after the mission.
• The Mechanical Humanoids branded Lynn with a temporary identity mark and placed him in the Heavy Mech’s chassis to serve as its refrigerator.
• Lynn triggered the achievement for infiltrating the Mechanical Church and gained permanent bonuses to eloquence, happiness, and disguise ability.
• The Heavy Mech carried Lynn to the surface, where he saw the Mechanical Church forces assembled beside Silver Fantasy after the Town’s flesh-and-blood inhabitants had been exterminated.
• Lynn planned to collect death star crystals and Monomolecular Swords while remaining hidden near Silver Fantasy.

Lynn used a refrigerator disguised as a Mechanical Church recruit to warn Silver Fantasy about a supposed plan to infiltrate the Church’s consciousness upload stations. Silver Fantasy suspected the recording had been edited, and the full audio exposed Lynn’s compromising treatment of the refrigerator, leaving the machines’ suspicions unresolved.

• Lynn, posing as the Lynn-brand refrigerator, told the Mechanical Church squad that he had recorded Lynn discussing an infiltration plan and a titanium-alloy electric drill.
• Silver Fantasy and the machine consciousnesses reacted to the recording by ordering surveillance of all consciousness upload stations and considering a halt to new admissions.
• Silver Fantasy questioned why the refrigerator had captured such important information so easily and accused it of concealing something.
• The refrigerator admitted that it had cut out part of the recording, prompting nearby mechanical humanoids to aim their weapons at the heavy-duty machine.
• The refrigerator played the full recording, which included a Mechanical Maiden protesting as Lynn treated the refrigerator indecently while speaking.

Lynn used a refrigerator persona and recordings of his abuse to persuade the Mechanical Church that the refrigerator was an innocent victim, earning its sympathy and protection. Silver Fantasy ordered the legion to continue pursuing the Night Doctors, while suspecting their retreat could conceal an ambush.

• The Lynn-brand refrigerator claimed Lynn had abused it and offered to play recordings as proof.
• The refrigerator broadcast audio and footage, prompting the mechanical legion to sympathize with it and condemn Lynn.
• Several mechanical units vowed to protect the refrigerator and gained a stronger desire to shield it.
• Silver Fantasy forbade anyone from discussing the simulated voice recording and ordered the legion to resume pursuing the Night Doctors.
• A Mechanical Humanoid warned Silver Fantasy that the Night Doctors' retreat might be a trap, but she said the legion controlled the airspace and pressed on.

Silver Fantasy’s Mechanical Church legion prepared to encircle the Night Doctors, while Lynn secretly brought out a Root-Level Ancient God's eye. The Night Doctors fled after following Lynn’s warning, but the Mechanical Church caught them in an aerial bombardment.

• Silver Fantasy’s legion divided into formations and moved to flank the Night Doctors as Lynn assessed its combat efficiency.
• Lynn concealed his actions from Zuo Zuo and took a Root-Level Ancient God's eye from his system space.
• The Night Doctor captain led his force north after reading Lynn’s warning that the Mechanical Church’s attack was a trap.
• The Night Doctors heard aircraft overhead, and the captain shouted a warning as a warhead appeared in the fog.
• A warhead exploded among the Night Doctors, and azure flying machines followed with a dense barrage.

Lynn communicated with the Night Doctor Captain through erosion marks while disguised inside the Mechanical Church’s mechanical legion. After warning the captain about another bombing wave, Lynn directed the Night Doctors to flee north toward the Extinction Sea, where he planned to unleash his ultimate.

• The Mechanical Church bombed the Night Doctors, and their captain ordered the survivors to regroup and keep retreating.
• Lynn tried to contact the captain through a patch of erosion marks, but the captain mistook the growing eyeball for a hallucination and crushed it.
• Lynn reconnected through the Eye of Cthulhu and told the captain to hide the erosion marks; the captain ate them.
• Lynn revealed that he was inside the mechanical legion and had infiltrated the Mechanical Church.
• Lynn warned that the second bombing wave was approaching and ordered the Night Doctors to run north toward the Extinction Sea and await his instructions.

Lynn warned the Night Doctor Captain that the Mother Tree of Desire and Silver Fantasy might be using the Mechanical Church to provoke Dark Night City into an all-out war. As Silver Fantasy pursued the Night Doctors, she realized they were heading toward the Dark Sea and questioned why.

• Lynn explained that the Mother Tree of Desire could be using the Mechanical Church to wipe out Dark Night City's advance force and force a larger war.
• The Night Doctor Captain grasped the danger, and Lynn ordered the group to reach a stretch of sea before the next air raid ended.
• Silver Fantasy led Mechanical Humanoids through the blood mist and learned that the Night Doctors were coordinating well enough to reduce their casualties.
• Silver Fantasy suspected Lynn had entered the fray and used a terrain simulation to track the Night Doctors' route.
• Silver Fantasy saw that the Night Doctors were heading toward the mountain and the Dark Sea, a route she considered a dead end.

Lynn led the Night Doctor Collective toward the Ashen Silence Sea while deliberately keeping Silver Fantasy uncertain about his true plans. After Silver Fantasy split the mountain with her Monomolecular Sword, Lynn ordered the Night Doctor Captain to release the swallowed Erosion Marks into the cursed seawater.

• Lynn used the Night Doctor Collective’s movements to deepen Silver Fantasy’s suspicions while keeping control of their route.
• The Night Doctor Collective climbed a mountain as Silver Fantasy ordered the Heavy Mechs to bombard it.
• Lynn told the Night Doctors to take shelter inside the mountain and continue toward the shore.
• Silver Fantasy merged her Monomolecular Swords and cleaved the mountain in two, trapping the Night Doctors between her and the Ashen Silence Sea.
• Lynn ordered the Night Doctor Captain to open his mouth, and the swallowed Erosion Marks crawled out and dripped into the seawater.