Chapter Summaries

Lynn used the Eye of Cthulhu’s erosion marks to take control of the Night Doctor Captain and confronted Silver Fantasy through his body. As Silver Fantasy revealed the Black Star Hive No. 03, Lynn announced that his own awaited arrival had also come.

• Lynn spread erosion marks through the seawater and took control of the Night Doctor Captain’s remaining marks.
• Lynn emerged through the captain’s body to taunt Silver Fantasy while the Night Doctor Collective faced the Mechanical Humanoids.
• Silver Fantasy recognized that Lynn was stalling and revealed the Black Star Hive No. 03 looming above the battlefield.
• Lynn smiled and said that what he had been waiting for had arrived too.

Lynn used an illusion of Cthulhu to intimidate Silver Fantasy and the Black Star Hive, then revealed he had called on another ally. The Mother Tree of Desire emerged from beneath the earth as the confrontation escalated.

• Cthulhu’s enormous image rose from the sea, and Silver Fantasy recognized the presence as an Old Days Deity.
• Lynn told Silver Fantasy that he had prepared for her, and the Night Doctors rallied around him.
• Lynn admitted to the Night Doctors that the Cthulhu manifestation was only an illusion created with Erosion Marks.
• Silver Fantasy argued that she could outlast Lynn because both were Root-Level and could upload their consciousnesses.
• Lynn called on the Mother Tree of Desire, whose fleshy vines erupted from the ground and covered the land.

Lynn revealed that the Mother Tree of Desire had been watching the battle, then agreed to fight alongside her against the Mechanical Church. As their forces clashed, Lynn jumped forward and immediately retreated, leaving Silver Fantasy’s forces facing them alone while he announced he would try his entrance again.

• Lynn exposed the Mother Tree of Desire’s hidden incarnation and explained how he had deduced she was nearby.
• The Mother Tree of Desire offered to help Lynn fight the Flesh Dominator if he joined her against the Mechanical Church, and Lynn appeared to accept.
• The Mother Tree of Desire attacked the Black Star Hive and Silver Fantasy’s legion as the machines returned fire.
• Lynn’s Night Doctors remained motionless while Lynn charged forward, then jumped back, leaving Silver Fantasy facing them alone.
• The Mother Tree of Desire angrily demanded that Lynn send his ancient being into battle, and Lynn said he wanted to try his jump again in a different pose.

Lynn kept the Night Doctors and Silver Fantasy convinced that he had summoned a genuine Old Days, while he secretly arranged for his people to escape and waited for the right moment. Once they were safely away, he revealed that he had been deceiving everyone and threw a pebble at the apparent Old Days.

• The Mother Tree of Desire demanded that Lynn join her fight against the Black Star Hive, but he delayed while arranging the Night Doctors' escape.
• Lynn told the Night Doctors to retreat, and they fled the battlefield while Silver Fantasy remained wary of him.
• Lynn released the man he had controlled and emerged from the Erosion Marks, then sent the Night Doctor Captain away and taunted Silver Fantasy.
• The Mother Tree of Desire demanded Lynn help her, but he waited until the Night Doctors had escaped and Silver Fantasy remained uncertain.
• Lynn picked up a pebble, declared that he had been playing everyone all along, and threw it at the apparent Old Days.

Lynn fooled Silver Fantasy and the Mother Tree of Desire with a phantom of the Old Days, then vanished and manipulated Silver Fantasy into attacking the Mother Tree. As the battle escalated, the Mother Tree accused Lynn of trying to tame her, while he questioned why she could not accept him as a partner.

• Lynn revealed that the Old Days apparition was a countermeasure and escaped Silver Fantasy's attack by dissolving into erosion marks as a wave swept over him.
• Silver Fantasy turned her forces against the Mother Tree of Desire after Lynn's disappearance, just as he had planned.
• Lynn watched from inside the Refrigerator and reflected that Silver Fantasy had an opportunity to strike while the Mother Tree was at his mercy through their shared curse.
• The Black Star Hive fired a Root-Level Particle Beam into the Mother Tree, and she retaliated by unleashing her vines and flesh tree realm against the mechanical forces.
• The Mother Tree vowed to resist Lynn's attempt to control her, and Lynn replied that she should consider why he could not treat her as a partner.

Lynn survived the destruction of his Heavy Mech and set out to find the Mechanical Maiden while preparing specially modified Flesh Plague potions. As the Mechanical Maiden charged the Mother Tree of Desire’s Main Trunk, Lynn planned to make her drink one of the potions.

• The Mother Tree of Desire’s attacks devastated the Black Star Hive’s mechanical legion and damaged the Heavy Mech carrying Lynn.
• The Heavy Mech pilot revealed that he had once been a washing machine, then ejected Lynn before his unit exploded.
• Lynn mourned Big Brother Washing Machine, picked up a gun, then dropped it and looted the wreck for mechanical parts and weapons.
• Lynn searched the battlefield for the Mechanical Maiden and retrieved specially modified Flesh Plague potions from his system space.
• The Mechanical Maiden charged the Mother Tree of Desire’s Main Trunk, and Lynn wondered how to make her drink a potion.

Lynn secretly planted Flesh Plague traps across the battlefield while Silver Fantasy and the Mother Tree of Desire fought. The Mother Tree unleashed a terrifying transformation, and a godlike girl emerged from a white flower bud.

• Lynn buried three Flesh Plague traps paired with makeshift nuclear bombs, arranging them to cover most of the battlefield, then hid in the wreckage to wait.
• Silver Fantasy used a Root-Level war blade powered by the God of Ten Thousand Machines to wound the Mother Tree of Desire, but the Mother Tree quickly healed.
• The Mother Tree accused Silver Fantasy of letting Lynn manipulate the Mechanical Church, but Silver Fantasy insisted that defeating the Mother Tree remained their priority.
• The Mother Tree withdrew her vines, grew enormous, and absorbed nutrients and blood mist as her flower buds shrieked and something began to emerge.
• The Black Star Hive detected divinity fluctuations, activated maximum defense, and fired its main cannon at the Mother Tree.
• A white flower bloomed from the Mother Tree's rotting trunk, and a godlike girl with branch-like hair and blood-red eyes emerged.

The Mother Tree of Desire transformed into her former divine glory and destroyed the Black Star Hive, leaving Silver Fantasy critically damaged. Lynn then triggered a hidden flesh-plague trap that engulfed Silver Fantasy, who was left imprisoned in darkness and realized Lynn had likely arranged it.

• The Mother Tree of Desire unleashed her divinity, suppressed the Black Star Hive, and pierced through its hull before dissolving back into the Mother Tree as the curse overwhelmed her.
• The Black Star Hive exploded, and Lynn saw Silver Fantasy falling with her body badly damaged.
• Lynn activated his prepared mechanism, releasing flesh plague that engulfed Silver Fantasy and the remaining Mechanical Bodies.
• The flesh plague invaded Silver Fantasy's damaged body, severed her connections to the Intelligent Brain and the mechanical forces, and imprisoned her in darkness.
• Silver Fantasy wondered who had released the plague and concluded that Lynn was the most likely culprit.

Silver Fantasy regained consciousness while the Little Refrigerator dragged her through the devastated battlefield, believing everyone else was gone. Hearing his grief over losing the home and companions he had just found, she felt moved to comfort him, though she could not speak.

• Silver Fantasy broke through part of the Flesh Plague restraining her and opened her eyes.
• She saw the Little Refrigerator dragging her beneath the corrosive rain and shielding her with an umbrella despite being struck by lightning.
• Silver Fantasy realized the Little Refrigerator was not Lynn’s disguise and wondered what had happened to the battlefield and the others.
• The Little Refrigerator cried that his new home and companions were gone and promised to repair Silver Fantasy and everyone else.
• Silver Fantasy silently reassured him that the others had returned to the Hive's Main Brain, and his trust in her increased.

Little Refrigerator dragged Silver Fantasy through the Dark World while she struggled against the Flesh Plague and watched his futile efforts to save her. As he kept searching for the Mechanical Church and refusing to abandon her, Silver Fantasy accepted him as a member and grew quietly attached to his company.

• Little Refrigerator continued dragging Silver Fantasy through the Dark World, and she wondered why he risked himself to help her.
• Silver Fantasy watched Little Refrigerator repeatedly try to tear away the flesh covering her, though it quickly grew back.
• Little Refrigerator vowed to save Silver Fantasy and return to the Mechanical Church, while she silently decided he was already a member.
• Little Refrigerator drew signs and waved at passing aircraft to attract the Mechanical Church, but no one noticed him.
• Silver Fantasy secretly regained some ability to observe and make sounds, yet stayed silent when Little Refrigerator tried to wake her.

Silver Fantasy endured the flesh plague while Little Refrigerator dragged her through the Dark World, unaware that his failing body was nearing its end. When he finally stopped and died beneath the black mist, she spoke to him for the first time, but he could no longer hear her.

• Silver Fantasy woke during a storm to find Little Refrigerator gone, then watched him return with a battery he had charged by getting struck by lightning.
• Little Refrigerator attached the battery to Silver Fantasy, mistakenly believing it would keep her alive, while she stayed silent in anger.
• As Little Refrigerator grew weaker, he wondered whether sunlight waited beyond the black mist and dreamed of charging beneath it.
• Little Refrigerator stopped moving and died while looking up at the sky.
• Silver Fantasy called to Little Refrigerator and offered him a new body and a place in the Mechanical Church, but he never answered.

Silver Fantasy struggled against the Flesh Plague to reach Lynn, but it dragged her away before she could touch him. In the System Space, Zuo Zuo broke down over the scene, while Lynn realized his performance had raised Silver Fantasy’s trust in him as a refrigerator far beyond what he intended.

• Silver Fantasy fought the Flesh Plague’s suppression and reached for Lynn’s rust-covered back, but the plague tore her away just before she could touch him.
• Zuo Zuo watched Silver Fantasy’s failed attempt and burst into tears, angrily blaming Lynn for writing such a painful script.
• Lynn apologized and explained that he had meant only to tease Silver Fantasy so he could slip inside, but had become too immersed in the role.
• Lynn checked his relationship list and saw that Silver Fantasy’s feelings for him as a refrigerator had reached an overall score of 89.

Lynn decided to keep using his disguise to win Silver Fantasy’s trust until he obtained the Death Star Crystal, despite Zuo Zuo’s objections. When the Mechanical Church’s rescue team found Silver Fantasy, she was badly infected by the Flesh Plague and could not be uploaded, and she could not find Lynn’s familiar voice among the rescuers.

• Zuo Zuo accused Lynn of cruelly manipulating Silver Fantasy, but Lynn insisted she was his enemy and he had already committed to his plan.
• Zuo Zuo asked Lynn to lower Silver Fantasy’s feelings after he obtained the Death Star Crystal, and Lynn agreed to change his plan only if Zuo Zuo accepted a condition.
• Lynn privately apologized to Silver Fantasy and resolved to exploit her until she saw through his disguise or he got what he wanted.
• The Mechanical Church’s search party tracked Silver Fantasy’s signal to the wilderness and found her chassis severely damaged and covered by the Flesh Plague.
• The rescue team began emergency treatment, but Silver Fantasy could not identify Lynn’s familiar voice among the mechanical voices around her.

After Silver Fantasy was rescued from the Flesh Plague, she used her last words to ask that the rust-covered figure be saved. Reawakened in the Hive, she learned that her memories and personality had become dangerously unstable, and the Intelligent Brain revealed how often she had dreamed of the figure.

• Silver Fantasy spotted the abandoned rust-covered figure and asked her fellow machines to save him before her consciousness uploaded.
• Seventeen hours after her rescue, Silver Fantasy awakened in Hive One and learned that fifteen days had passed since the wasteland battle.
• The Intelligent Brain showed Silver Fantasy an assessment warning that her humanity and emotional fluctuations required an immediate personality reconstruction and data reset.
• Silver Fantasy asked whether she was still fixated on Lynn, and the Intelligent Brain reported that she had called his name seventeen times.
• As Silver Fantasy turned to leave, the Intelligent Brain revealed that she had experienced 1,071 anomalies about another figure, called his name 371 times, and dreamed of him every time.

After recovering her memories, Silver Fantasy chose to return to Lynn and launched herself from the hive in her repaired body. Meanwhile, Lynn waited at a Mechanical Church outpost, unaware that she was on her way.

• Silver Fantasy remembered her past experiences and rushed out of the assessment room, choosing to act despite the Intelligent Brain’s warning.
• Silver Fantasy searched the rescue records, found footage of Lynn, and learned that he had survived and been repaired.
• Silver Fantasy activated her body before its repairs were complete, synchronized her consciousness, and flew out of the hive toward the wasteland.
• At a temporary outpost, Lynn wrapped himself in bandages and complained that he was dying because he could no longer refrigerate, while the mechanical humanoids told him he was merely out of power.

After the Lynn-Brand Refrigerator explained how he had lost his way while rescuing Silver Fantasy, she arrived unexpectedly at the outpost. She embraced him and revealed that she had been able to speak to him from the first time he called out to her.

• The Mechanical Humanoid scolded the bandaged Lynn-Brand Refrigerator for getting lost and taking Silver Fantasy away from the battlefield.
• A Projection Pod crashed into the outpost, and the Mechanical Humanoids surrounded it and demanded its occupant identify herself.
• Silver Fantasy stepped out of the pod, and the mechanical bodies recognized their commander.
• Silver Fantasy approached the frightened Lynn-Brand Refrigerator and embraced him instead of punishing him.
• Silver Fantasy told the Lynn-Brand Refrigerator that she had been able to talk to him the first time he called out to her.

Silver Fantasy brought the rust-covered Lynn-Brand Refrigerator into the Mechanical Church and reassured him that she did not consider him an outsider. In System Space, Lynn admitted he was still deceiving her to infiltrate the Church and obtain the Death Star Crystal, while anticipating her reaction when she learned who he really was.

• Silver Fantasy caught the Lynn-Brand Refrigerator when he tried to flee the Mechanical Church's Main Base.
• The refrigerator told Silver Fantasy he felt unqualified to join the Church and called himself an outsider.
• Silver Fantasy wiped the dust from his screen and reminded him that he had once protected her without treating her as an outsider.
• Silver Fantasy took the refrigerator by the arm and said she would bring him into the fold.
• In System Space, Lynn told Zuo Zuo he would continue his deception until he obtained the Death Star Crystal.
• Lynn wondered how Silver Fantasy would react when she discovered that he was the devil she had once hated.

Silver Fantasy tried to upload the Little Refrigerator into the Mechanical Church, but the terminal rejected him and flagged him for surveillance because his consciousness and body were anomalous. Trusting his promise that he had not lied, she overrode the Purification Council’s authority and welcomed him into the Church as family.

• Silver Fantasy filled out an application to upload the Little Refrigerator and named him Little Refrigerator after he gave his name as an RBQ-brand large refrigerator prototype.
• The terminal rejected the application, reported unexplained features in the Little Refrigerator’s consciousness and body, and designated him a level-one surveillance subject.
• Silver Fantasy asked the Little Refrigerator to promise that Dark Night City had not sent him and that he had never lied to her.
• The Little Refrigerator promised he had never lied, and Silver Fantasy accepted his assurance.
• Silver Fantasy invoked her supreme authority to bypass the Purification Council and made herself the Little Refrigerator’s reviewer.
• Silver Fantasy told the Little Refrigerator that the Mechanical Church would be his home and welcomed him as family.

Lynn gained the Mechanical Church’s recognition and joined its Iron-Blood Legion after completing his consciousness upload. He entered Hive One’s simulated world and met Silver Fantasy in her digital form, where she asked whether it differed from what he had imagined.

• Lynn and the Mechanical Maiden clasped hands, and Hive One approved his consciousness upload as Little Refrigerator.
• Lynn officially joined the Mechanical Church and Iron-Blood Legion, earning an achievement and the ability to upload his consciousness to a hive Main Brain.
• Lynn triggered the quest chain The Fate of the Mechanical Church, which tasked him with finding death star crystal, repairing the Trinity Frame, and deciding his relationship with Silver Fantasy.
• Lynn awoke in Hive One’s digital simulation of the Machine Intelligence Civilization’s former homeworld.
• Silver Fantasy appeared in a humanlike digital form and asked Lynn if the simulated world was different from what he had imagined.

Silver Fantasy told the Lynn-Brand Refrigerator how the Machine Intelligence Civilization destroyed its first world through industry and war, fled into space, and later restored its abandoned homeworld. She explained that the civilization first became terraformers, but the Refrigerator questioned why they came to regard other life as enemies.

• Silver Fantasy explained that the Machine Intelligence Civilization’s industrial expansion and nuclear wars devastated its homeworld and killed countless people.
• The surviving flesh-and-blood people escaped the ash-covered planet and traveled for thousands of years to a habitable world nearby.
• The civilization carefully protected its new home and eventually gained the technology to restore its abandoned first world to nature.
• Silver Fantasy said their civilization first embraced the path of terraformers and defenders of nature.
• The Lynn-Brand Refrigerator asked why a civilization devoted to nature became hostile toward other living beings.