Chapter Summaries

Lynn persuaded the Intelligent Brain that Miss Machine Intelligence could be threatened by the other Seven Gods and offered to help in exchange for the Seven Gods’ history. The Intelligent Brain began sharing records about the civilization’s fleet pioneers and infiltrators.

• Lynn argued that Wànjī’s seven split consciousnesses might turn against one another and that Miss Machine Intelligence could be devoured by her siblings.
• Lynn warned the Intelligent Brain that Miss Machine Intelligence was vulnerable and said he would help if she first told him the Seven Gods’ history.
• The Intelligent Brain wavered and asked what Lynn intended to do, and Lynn requested the history before discussing any price for further help.
• The General record described how fleets sent out to find a new means of survival returned as an advanced civilization and were honored as the Purification Council’s commanders and pioneers.
• The Light Banquet record recounted how infiltrators endured captivity, gathered intelligence, and helped secure victory in the war of revenge.

Lynn pieced together the Purification Council’s history and pressed the Intelligent Brain about Miss Machine Intelligence’s origins and the secrets of the Hell era. As the Mother Tree of Desire launched a massive counterattack, Lynn prepared to sever his connection, though he struggled with the thought of abandoning Miss Machine Intelligence.

• Lynn concluded that the Seven Gods had been the Purification Council’s seven members, and that the council predated Wànjī’s fall into Hell.
• Lynn questioned what Miss Machine Intelligence was and whether she had existed for thousands of years, but the Intelligent Brain refused to answer.
• Lynn inferred that the Intelligent Brain felt guilty about something connected to Miss Machine Intelligence, and stopped pressing when she tried to leave.
• Lynn told the Intelligent Brain that he would soon sever the connection and escape if the Seven Gods appeared.
• The Mother Tree of Desire shook the battlefield, overturning the ground and causing its offspring and many Mechanical Units to fall among its roots.
• Lynn struggled to follow through with severing the connection, recognizing that his attachment to Miss Machine Intelligence was making him hesitate.

Lynn rejected the consciousness upload and severed his connection to the Hive as he fell underground, choosing to leave his former identity and Commander Sister behind. Above ground, Silver Fantasy fought on and begged the Intelligent Brain to give Lynn a chance to upload his consciousness before she reset her own.

• Lynn ignored the Hive’s order to return, destroyed his sensors, and fell into the depths as the fissure closed behind him.
• Before turning away from the sky, Lynn said goodbye to Commander Sister and resolved that only Lynn would remain.
• The Intelligent Brain lied to Silver Fantasy that the Hive had received no signal from Lynn, while Silver Fantasy continued fighting the Mother Tree of Desire’s forces.
• Silver Fantasy confronted the Intelligent Brain and begged her to let Lynn upload his consciousness before she reset her own after the war.

The Intelligent Brain confronted Lynn over his deception and Silver Fantasy’s fate, while Lynn insisted that they were enemies and that ending their connection was the least painful choice. As Lynn departed through the Mother Tree of Desire’s roots, the Intelligent Brain asked whether he had ever loved Silver Fantasy, and he said no before destroying their connector.

• The Intelligent Brain learned Silver Fantasy had accepted her inevitable reset and attacked Lynn, blaming him for the tragic outcome and demanding to know why he had deceived her.
• Lynn let the Intelligent Brain strike him and explained that they were enemies and that his choices had been an attempt to reach the best possible ending.
• Lynn’s separated souls reunited through the data network, and he told the Intelligent Brain to erase their contact records and refuse his consciousness upload.
• Lynn took his Monomolecular Sword and headed through the Mother Tree of Desire’s underground roots, intending to destroy his body and sever their connection.
• The Intelligent Brain asked Lynn whether he had ever loved Silver Fantasy, and he answered no before breaking the connector and walking on.

After Little Refrigerator disappeared, Silver Fantasy abandoned her command post and searched the Mother Tree of Desire’s roots for him. She found fragments of his body and tried to reach him as the roots attacked.

• The Intelligent Brain received Silver Fantasy’s plea, but she got no reply after Lynn left.
• Silver Fantasy handed command to her deputy, then removed her armor and plunged into the Mother Tree of Desire’s underground roots.
• The Intelligent Brain took over communications and repeatedly begged Silver Fantasy to return, but she continued searching through the roots and wreckage.
• Silver Fantasy found fragments of the body Little Refrigerator had occupied and tried to contact him, ordering Soldier AH3242 to respond.

Lynn rescued the unconscious Silver Fantasy after leaving her to believe he had died, then enabled her consciousness upload before vanishing underground. Silver Fantasy was left to awaken amid the war, while Lynn said goodbye to her as Commander Sister.

• Lynn reached the Mother Tree of Desire and used Curse Removal to contact it, while Silver Fantasy searched the devastated underground and collapsed after calling for him.
• Zuo Zuo berated Lynn for manipulating Silver Fantasy’s feelings, and Lynn carried her unconscious body toward the surface.
• Lynn brought Silver Fantasy to the battlefield and changed her consciousness upload setting from No to Allow.
• As the upload began, Lynn said goodbye to Commander Sister and disappeared underground.

Lynn confronted the Mother Tree of Desire inside her trunk as the three great hives’ attack and the curse weakened her. He pressed her to accept his support, arguing that she had little leverage and that he was choosing not to exploit his power over her.

• Lynn recalled that the Mother Tree had once trapped him and asked why she had made him her enemy instead of seeking his help.
• The Mother Tree attacked Lynn with tendrils and shouted at him, but he continued teasing her about accepting his support and becoming his family.
• Lynn argued that she feared being controlled, then admitted he had come intending to control and exploit her.
• Lynn told the Mother Tree that he was treating her with restraint, unlike other creatures in Hell, and that her fate would otherwise have been obedience and degradation.

Lynn persuaded the Mother Tree of Desire to submit and join Dark Night City, then offered to suppress her curse. The Mother Tree accepted his terms but remained angry as she revealed a hollow in her trunk for him to begin.

• Lynn told the Mother Tree of Desire that he would trust her only if she stopped betraying those loyal to her and accepted his people as her own.
• As the hives attacked and Lynn counted down, the Mother Tree of Desire accepted his offer to join him.
• The system awarded Lynn an achievement and bonuses for taking control of the Mother Tree of Desire, and gave him a gardening quest.
• The Mother Tree of Desire insisted Lynn could approach her only when she needed help suppressing her curse, but Lynn agreed to help immediately.
• The Mother Tree of Desire formed a small hollow in her trunk after Lynn said he could not begin without seeing her.

Lynn argued with the Mother Tree of Desire over the form she offered, then threatened to use Mimicry to turn her into a vulnerable humanoid form and let the machines outside attack her. Forced to relent, she opened a passage into her true body, where Lynn reached a brilliantly lit chamber and was stunned by what he saw.

• The Mother Tree of Desire offered Lynn a narrow tree hole, then enlarged it when he complained, but Lynn demanded the soft humanoid form shown in his photograph.
• The Mother Tree of Desire refused, and Lynn threatened to use Mimicry to transform her while the Mechanical Units and Hive attacked.
• The Mother Tree of Desire flew into a rage but eventually opened a corridor into her true body for Lynn.
• Lynn followed the corridor through the growing aura of diseased curses and entered a bright chamber, where the sight stunned him.

Lynn found the corrupted Nature Goddess imprisoned in a pool in Hell and bantered with her, but an anomalous force pulled him from his Mechanical Body into a flesh-and-blood form. The Nature Goddess asked him to take her out of Hell and kissed him, pledging everything to him as they sank beneath the water.

• Lynn recognized the corrupted Nature Goddess and greeted her by calling her beautiful, enraging her.
• Lynn joked about his shriveled body and tried to soak a piece of it in her pool, so she speared it with a branch and threw it away.
• An anomalous fluctuation pulled Lynn's soul from his Mechanical Body and left him submerged in the pool in a flesh-and-blood form.
• The Nature Goddess stood before Lynn and asked him to take her out of Hell.
• The Nature Goddess kissed Lynn and pledged everything to him as she pushed him beneath the water.

The Silver-Haired Girl disconnected from the collective and activated a command that would erase her seventeen years of memories and reconstruct her personality. As the Hive announced that Lynn had escaped with stolen weapons and was heading for the desire-domain battlefield, she faced the final confirmation.

• The Silver-Haired Girl left the room where she had lived and walked alone through the deserted city, leaving the Intelligent Brain disconnected.
• She activated Root Data authorization and received a warning that the command would erase her memories and personality data from the past seventeen years.
• The Hive announced that its god had completed the first stage of division and that the era of seven gods co-governance had begun.
• The Hive reported that Lynn had escaped the Main Hive with death star metal and the Supreme Frame, and was likely heading to the battlefield in the desire domain.
• The Silver-Haired Girl faced the repeated confirmation prompt to execute the formatting command.

As the mechanical swarms breached the Mother Tree of Desire’s trunk, Lynn told the willow-slender girl that joining their powers was their only chance to defeat the attackers. The Nanite Swarm poured inside as the defenders called for the Mother Tree to protect them.

• The three great Hives fired their main cannons at the Mother Tree of Desire, splitting open her Main Trunk.
• Lynn gained constitution and nature divinity, and the willow-slender girl warned that the attackers were breaking in.
• Lynn said the Mother Tree could not escape the swarms’ counters alone and urged her to merge their powers with his.
• The Nanite Swarm entered through the breach and overran the Desire Sect’s defenders.

Lynn took control of the Mother Tree of Desire and unleashed its reawakened power against the Mechanical Legion, whose forces and two Hives were overwhelmed by desire. Hive One severed its links in time and prepared its main cannon for a final attack on the Mother Tree.

• The curse on the Mother Tree of Desire began to recede as the legion forces poured through the breach.
• Lynn convinced the Mother Tree to unleash her chaotic power, then took control of her body and consciousness with her cooperation.
• Lynn directed the Mother Tree's power through its trunk, overwhelming the invading Nanite Swarms and Mechanical Humanoids with desire.
• The desire power spread through the shared consciousness network and affected two of the three Hives.
• Hive One severed its battlefield links, isolated the other Hives' data networks, and fired its main cannon at the Mother Tree.

Lynn used the Mother Tree of Desire’s restored power to cripple the Mechanical Units and breach Hive One, then tried to negotiate with the Intelligent Brain. As she refused and revealed reinforcements were coming, Lynn revealed that a hidden contingency inside the hive had just activated.

• Lynn restored the Mother Tree of Desire’s roots and unleashed a Desire Strike that disabled nearly a third of the Mechanical Units.
• Lynn drove the roots into Hive One and invaded its network, while the Intelligent Brain confined the attack to the outer network and activated automated defenses.
• Lynn proposed another deal, but the Intelligent Brain rejected him and said a new fleet was on its way.
• The Intelligent Brain admitted she had planned to destroy Lynn after his consciousness left the hive, but feared for Miss Machine Intelligence’s safety.
• Lynn suggested that part of him might still be inside the hive, as a gold-plated repair robot activated and drew out a vial of plague liquid.

Lynn used a hidden Repair Robot carrying the Flesh Plague to infect the Hive’s logistics sector and force the Intelligent Brain into a dilemma. As Hive One began to escape the Mother Tree of Desire’s grasp, Lynn joined his Curse Eye to the Mother Tree’s trunk and unleashed a curse at the ascending Hive.

• Lynn’s Repair Robot spread the Flesh Plague through the Hive’s terminal, severing the Intelligent Brain’s connection to Factory Sector Eighteen.
• Lynn revealed that he had secretly prepared the robot’s route while working inside the Hive, leaving the Intelligent Brain unable to stop it without risking his Desire Strike.
• The Intelligent Brain tried to connect to a nearby combat unit but had to sever the link when Lynn’s Desire Strike hit her, then ordered Hive One to rise and break free from the roots.
• Lynn switched to his Sea Spawn body and merged the Curse Eye into the Mother Tree of Desire’s trunk as Bio-Armor.
• The Mother Tree’s power surged through the Curse Eye, and Lynn activated its curse against the ascending Hive.

Lynn cursed the Intelligent Brain, grounding her hive, then used the Mother Tree of Desire’s power to open a Boundary Gate to Dark Night City. As he prepared to leave with the Mother Tree, a pale-silver streak suddenly raced toward her.

• Lynn used the Matriarch’s Self-Binding Angel’s Curse to bind the Intelligent Brain and drag her hive back to the ground.
• Lynn waited for the Mother Tree of Desire to gather power, then opened a Boundary Gate to Dark Night City.
• The gate consumed the Mother Tree’s power and swept wreckage and desire creatures into its opening as the Intelligent Brain failed to summon help from the other hives.
• Lynn said farewell and prepared to leave through the gate with the Mother Tree of Desire.
• A pale-silver arc streaked across the sky and charged toward the burning Mother Tree.

Lynn confronted Silver Fantasy as she broke away from the Hive and headed for the Mother Tree of Desire’s core. As they fought inside the tree, Silver Fantasy sought an answer about whether someone had acted for more than the death star crystal.

• Lynn saw Silver Fantasy approaching the Mother Tree of Desire’s core and used the tree’s power to intercept her.
• Lynn and Silver Fantasy clashed in the sky, and she struck the tree’s trunk to clear a path inside.
• Silver Fantasy charged into the Mother Tree of Desire, where Lynn blocked her with his Night Demon Blade.
• Silver Fantasy attacked Lynn again and said she only wanted to know whether he had not acted just for the death star crystal.

Lynn failed to kill Silver Fantasy after realizing she intended to die, then mocked her by claiming he had killed the Little Refrigerator she was searching for. After returning to the Core Region, he resumed his attempt to seize the Mother Tree of Desire and ordered Zuo Zuo to hold Silver Fantasy off.

• Silver Fantasy pinned Lynn against a wall and asked if he was the person she sought, but Lynn denied it and could not bring himself to strike her.
• Lynn escaped into the tree and taunted Silver Fantasy, claiming he had killed the Little Refrigerator and offering to make her replacements.
• The Mother Tree's vines engulfed Silver Fantasy as Lynn watched her eyes before returning to System Space.
• Zuo Zuo berated Lynn for his lies and recognized that he had acted cruelly because Silver Fantasy seemed ready to die.
• Lynn returned to the Core Region, merged with his double, and began opening the death line to take the Mother Tree of Desire.
• Lynn gave Zuo Zuo limited control of the tree's power and ordered him to hold Silver Fantasy off while he finished merging his soul.

Lynn decided to force the Mother Tree of Desire through the Boundary Gate rather than curse the pursuing Machine Intelligence, while planning to blame the Mechanical Church for what happened. Sir Awen ascended to Origin and powered the gate from Dark Night City, enabling Lynn to hurry the Mother Tree toward it.

• Lynn pushed the Mother Tree of Desire's power to its limit as the silver Machine Intelligence fought through her trunk, and Zuo Zuo warned that she was about to break through.
• Lynn rejected using a curse because it could drain the power needed for the Boundary Gate, then decided to take the Mother Tree through the gate and blame the Mechanical Church afterward.
• Lynn ordered Zuo Zuo to prepare to return to Dark Night City and made the Mother Tree tear herself free of the ground and crawl toward the gate.
• Sir Awen recognized that Lynn was opening a Boundary Gate to the Mother Tree's domain, handed his Psionics Chip to White Night, and ordered Dark Night City to prepare its defenses.
• Sir Awen ascended to Origin and sent his psionic power through the death line, easing the strain on Lynn as Lynn and Zuo Zuo drove the Mother Tree toward the gate.

Silver Fantasy unleashed her Origin power to cleave the Mother Tree of Desire, while Lynn charged toward her attack before the Curse Eye’s backlash forced him to retreat. Lynn tried to block the falling blade with the [Light Banquet] machine, and the strike disrupted the Boundary Gate’s coordinates.

• Silver Fantasy overloaded herself and joined her Death Ray, striking the Mother Tree of Desire as Lynn turned to face her.
• Lynn drew the Night Demon Blade, took the Curse Eye, and charged the giant blade while activating the Undying Curse.
• The Curse Eye triggered a backlash that disabled Lynn’s curse, so he abandoned his charge and ran back through the Void.
• Lynn used the [Light Banquet] machine to block the descending blade and activated the Undying Curse as it struck.
• White Night watched the Death Line collapse at Dark Night City, and Sir Awen reported that the Boundary Gate’s coordinates had been disrupted.