Chapter Summaries

Lynn was torn from the battlefield after Black String Moon rescued him, leaving him unable to return to her. Realizing his enemies had targeted the people he loved to break him, he hid Zuo Zuo and ran back toward the battlefield to summon Violet's Pupil-less Magic Array.

• The Clown snapped the threads controlling the Star Embracer, unleashing a curse and throwing the battlefield into chaos.
• Black String Moon used her Cursecraft Thread to pull Lynn to her, then sent him through the Teleportation Hollow as the Blazing Sun closed in.
• Lynn found himself stranded in the wilderness, unable to warp back to the sealed battlefield coordinates, and realized the Clown had let him escape to torment him.
• Lynn asked Zuo Zuo whether she would stay with him if he changed, then used the Death-Binding Curse to make her unconscious and buried her in the mud.
• Lynn ran toward the battlefield and began tracing Violet's Pupil-less Magic Array, saying, "In my name, I summon you..."

Black String Moon realized the Clown had engineered her arrival so Lynn would return and the Clown could kill her. As Lynn rushed back onto the battlefield, Black String Moon transformed and understood that the Clown had been waiting for him to come back so he could kill her.

• An Origin intervened to protect the wounded Doll Manor forces, then withdrew from the conflict after repaying a debt of friendship.
• The Clown thanked Black String Moon and revealed that her arrival had helped make Lynn return, prompting her to recall the scheme in Curse City.
• Black String Moon tried to break through the barrier and warned Lynn to go, but he ran toward the battlefield anyway.
• The Clown walked toward the distant sky as Lynn returned in his bloodred-eyed human form, and Black String Moon recognized his familiar refusal to abandon them.
• Black String Moon's doll skin began to recede as she realized the Clown had been waiting for Lynn to return so he could kill her.

Lynn surrendered and began using the Violet Magic Array in exchange for the Clown sparing his family, but the Clown revealed that he wanted Lynn to change through unbearable upheaval. After the Clown struck down Black String Moon, the Magic Array awakened further, and a black Ouroboros appeared at its center.

• Lynn offered to become the white-haired man if the Clown let his family go, then began forming the Violet Magic Array.
• The Clown told Lynn that using the array’s power was not enough and that Lynn had to change.
• The Clown pierced Black String Moon through the barrier around Doll Manor, and she collapsed into her sisters’ arms.
• The Clown revealed that he had sent Black String Moon to Lynn and explained that her death was meant to shatter Lynn’s remaining hope.
• The Magic Array’s awakening accelerated as Lynn’s pain intensified, but a black Ouroboros began emerging in the Pupil-less Eye.

After Black String Moon fell, Lynn’s grief and the black Ouroboros twisted Violet’s awakening into a terrifying, ancient force. The Clown recognized the catastrophe, failed to stop Lynn, and sounded an ancient horn as a last resort.

• Lynn saw Black String Moon lying in blood and felt his grief give way to a cold, overwhelming power as the Ouroboros appeared in his eyes.
• The Clown realized the magic array was awakening something other than the King they had guarded and summoned the Origins, promising to restore their former stations as Ancient Gods.
• The Clown charged at Lynn to disrupt the array, but Lynn’s yellow-sand radiance swallowed his attack and hurled him into the battlefield.
• The Clown sensed that the being had not fully awakened and, unable to rely on the Origins, tore open space and sounded an ancient horn.

Lynn began reversing Black String Moon’s death, but stopped as his emotions vanished and he seemed to become someone else. After the battlefield’s destruction and a seemingly endless dream, he awoke to system messages showing that his Resurrection Progress had changed.

• A horn warned that Hell faced a crisis as Lynn approached Black String Moon’s lifeless body.
• Lynn used the Ouroboros to reverse reincarnation, restoring time, soul, and wounds, but stopped halfway and withdrew his hand.
• The Clown recognized that Lynn had transformed, and dozens of Jailers arrived as the Vision Realm was shattered in the ensuing upheaval.
• Later records described the battlefield’s destruction, the disappearance of the Flesh Dominator, and the Seven Gods’ silence.
• Lynn endured a repeating dream of another life until he jolted awake and saw Resurrection Progress notifications of 47% and 34%.

Lynn woke inside the Hive after the catastrophe in Dark Night City, with the Intelligent Brain telling him that his soul had been severely damaged and that it had rescued him. As memories of the battle returned, Lynn rushed to the Data Upload center and gained control of the Hive’s machine bodies.

• Lynn woke in a Glass Container and learned from the Intelligent Brain that it had saved him and brought him to the Hive.
• The Intelligent Brain showed Lynn a recording of the devastation around Dark Night City and asked what part he had played in the catastrophe.
• Lynn remembered the burning sky, the Clown, Violet, Ouroboros, and the shattered Black Umbrella, then broke out of the Glass Container.
• Lynn raced through the Hive toward its Data Upload center while the guards and uploaded consciousnesses let him pass.
• Lynn connected his consciousness to the Data Upload center and requested control of the Hive’s machine bodies, which the Intelligent Brain granted.

Lynn rushed to Doll Manor to find Black String Moon and the other dolls gone, then used Remnants of the Past to discover that Black String Moon had vanished on the night of the battle. He returned to the devastated battlefield and, despite its lethal force, pushed toward its center in search of her.

• Lynn left the Hive in a 051-Type Mechanical Humanoid Combat Frame, raced to Doll Manor, and searched the empty manor for Black String Moon.
• Lynn used Remnants of the Past to rewind the manor’s history and saw Black String Moon read his note, tear it up angrily, and then suddenly close her book on the night of the battle.
• Lynn raced back toward the battlefield with the book in hand after realizing the women had not returned for days.
• Lynn crossed the battlefield’s deadly boundary in his damaged Trinity Frame, used the Undying Curse to keep moving, and advanced toward its center.
• Watching forces were shocked to see Lynn enter the battlefield, where even powerful Origins and Jailers had fallen.

Lynn searched the battlefield for memories of Black String Moon and discovered that his past self had stopped trying to revive her. After returning to Bloodsaw Apothecary, he contacted Bai Yi and began arranging a complicated magic array to send a response from Hell.

• Lynn used Remnants of the Past on the battlefield and saw his past self stop trying to bring Black String Moon back to life.
• Lynn concluded that neither version of himself in the visions had truly been him, then left the battlefield and asked the Intelligent Brain to find the Dollhouse.
• Lynn returned to the basement of Bloodsaw Apothecary and used his blood to establish communication with Blue Star.
• Lynn asked Bai Yi to copy a magic array in twenty-one parts and bring it with Messiah and Yin Qin to the Hidden Cultivation Society's forbidden grounds beneath the sea.
• Lynn explained how to connect the array to the Dark Night City communication array and apologized to Bai Yi in case he did anything.

Lynn returned to the stronghold outside Dark Night City after arranging for Blue Star to construct a Pupil-less Magic Array, restoring his flesh-and-blood body, and leaving Wandering Soul Alley and Alice behind. He found fewer than a thousand surviving Night Doctors grieving the destruction of their faction, and they looked to him as their last hope.

• Lynn inscribed the Pupil-less Magic Array diagram, sent it to Blue Star, and expected the array to begin taking shape within three days.
• Lynn restored his flesh-and-blood body, cleaned and closed the Bloodsaw Apothecary, then sent Alice a letter before leaving Soul-Lost Street.
• Lynn returned to the stronghold outside Dark Night City, where the surviving Night Doctors recognized him and gathered around him.
• The Night Doctors' leader told Lynn that the city had burned, many residents had died, and the survivors had been unable to enter the ruins to save them.
• The surviving Night Doctors told Lynn that he was all they had left.

Lynn entered the devastated Dark Night City, determined to save whoever he could and exact revenge if no one survived. He found the Mother Tree of Desire consumed by her curse and used Remnants of the Past to witness how she had sacrificed herself to draw most of the diseased growths away from the city.

• Lynn told the surviving Night Doctors that Dark Night City still existed as long as he remained and promised to salvage whoever he could.
• The Night Doctors urged Lynn to act as he saw fit and declared they were willing to spill their blood for revenge.
• Lynn crossed the psionics tide by retreating into system space whenever it twisted reality and pressed toward the city's center.
• Lynn found the Mother Tree of Desire's trunk covered in diseased growths and activated Remnants of the Past across her roots.
• Lynn saw that the Mother Tree had summoned the curse's growths onto her roots and drawn seventy percent of them away from Dark Night City before falling into turmoil.

Lynn tried to remove the curse consuming the Mother Tree of Desire, but the diseased growths overwhelmed his efforts and restored her to her former state. He retreated into System Space, left alone with the apparent failure.

• Lynn reached the Tree Realm outside Dark Night City and activated his limited-time curse removal ability on the Mother Tree of Desire.
• Silver light spread through the roots, and Lynn cleared 31% of the Mother Tree's curse-induced turmoil before exhaustion forced him to his knees.
• The diseased growths began multiplying over the cleared areas, and Lynn rushed to tear them away and protect the Mother Tree.
• The growths overwhelmed Lynn and covered the tree again, undoing his progress.
• As the psionics tide returned, Lynn withdrew into System Space and sat in silence, alone.

Lynn reached the Mother Tree of Desire's corrupted core and used Curse Removal and Spring of Nature to try to save her, but she remained unconscious. As his power failed and the disease closed in again, Lynn realized that cleansing the curse could not restore what had already been lost.

• Lynn climbed through the diseased Mother Tree and found the Mother Tree of Desire's distorted body in the dried-up core pool.
• Lynn activated Curse Removal, cleared the growths from the chamber, and placed her in the pool after refilling it with Spring of Nature.
• Lynn called for the Mother Tree of Desire to wake, understanding that she had spent her spring water containing the source of the second outbreak.
• Lynn tried to rouse her through desperate physical intimacy, and the growths on her body and around the chamber began to recede.
• The Mother Tree of Desire remained unresponsive, Curse Removal went dark, and the diseased growths began creeping toward Lynn again.

Lynn used Remnants of the Past to relive Dark Night City’s fall and witness how the Flesh Dominator’s carefully planned attack overwhelmed the city. The Colossus and Sir Awen fought to contain the upheaval, but both began losing control.

• Lynn left the Mother Tree’s body and returned to the ruined Dark Night City, then rewound time to the disaster’s beginning.
• Lynn saw the Psychic Giant move Dark Night City into a higher dimension, but hidden infected residents detonated and spread lesions throughout the city.
• The Flesh God Cult’s agents attacked the Matriarch’s barrier, forcing the Night Doctors to retreat as the city’s defenses collapsed.
• The Colossus awakened and fought alongside the Psychic Giant against the Flesh Dominator’s army while the upheaval continued to spread through the city.
• Sir Awen transferred uninfected Night Doctors out of the city, but the spreading upheaval destabilized both him and the Colossus.
• The Colossus rushed toward Sir Awen as a tidal wave of psionics erupted from him.

Lynn returned from Dark Night City carrying the ashes and pocket watch of Uncle White Night, then waited for news about the Dollhouse and its Origin. When the Mechanical Humanoid reported that the search had failed, Lynn told the Machine Intelligence to go into hiding, and she wondered whether different choices would have put her beside him on the battlefield.

• Lynn found Uncle White Night kneeling before the shattered doors, but his body crumbled into ashes when Lynn touched him.
• Lynn gathered Uncle White Night's ashes and pocket watch, then entered the Matriarch's hall and found a black feather frozen in diseased tissue.
• Lynn wandered through the empty ruins of Dark Night City while Sir Awen flickered between reality and a higher dimension.
• Lynn returned to the surviving Night Doctors three days later with blueprints and shut himself inside a hut to await news.
• The Mechanical Humanoid told Lynn that the search had found no information about the Dollhouse or its Origin.
• Lynn told the Machine Intelligence to go into hiding, and she asked whether she would have appeared on the battlefield if they had treated each other differently.

Lynn led the surviving Night Doctors into the ruins of Dark Night City to bury their dead and preserve lingering souls in the Soul Medium of Time. As the funeral began, the Night Doctors asked him to lead them in seeking revenge.

• Lynn gathered the surviving Night Doctors and led them into Dark Night City to collect and bury the dead.
• Lynn lit the Soul Medium of Time and used it to freeze the lingering souls within the lamp.
• The Night Doctors mourned the people who had lived in their home, while Lynn remembered several people he had known there.
• A Night Doctor asked Lynn to lead the survivors in avenging their fallen brothers and sisters.

After the loss of Dark Night City’s Night Doctors, Lynn decided to use Hell itself as a bargaining chip by attempting to kill everyone in it. With two Night Doctors’ help, he prepared Magic Arrays to reopen the connection between Dark Night City and Blue Star, then addressed all of Hell.

• Lynn asked the Night Doctors whether they would accept the deaths of innocent people and explained that their compassion had been exploited.
• Lynn sent most of the Night Doctors and the Soul Medium of Time into his System Space, then asked two Magic Array specialists to assist him.
• Lynn revealed that he planned to kill everyone in Hell and use Hell as a bargaining chip.
• The two Night Doctors chose to help Lynn, despite fearing the consequences.
• Lynn and the remaining Night Doctor activated the Magic Array in Dark Night City to reconnect it with Blue Star.
• Lynn declared, “I, Lynn, speak to you,” addressing Hell and the chaos above it.

Lynn used the amplified summoning array to expose his location to the Outer Cosmos and force Hell’s jailers to respond. When a chilling presence looked through the array and the Pupil-less Eye appeared in his mind, Hell’s powerful beings finally descended.

• Lynn warned the beings in the black mist that Blue Star would summon him in ten seconds and challenged them to stop the connection.
• The countdown ended without anyone appearing, and the Night Doctor realized the beings had chosen not to descend at first.
• A summoning array deep beneath Blue Star’s sea activated, linking to the arrays across China and broadcasting Lynn’s coordinates through the Main Universe.
• The Pupil-less Eye came alive, and Lynn sensed its cold gaze through the summoning connection as the system notification became distorted.
• The black mist and Hell’s laws reacted to the intruding presence, and a voice shouted for it to stop.
• Terrifying figures pierced the black mist and descended onto the wasteland outside Dark Night City.

Lynn revealed the Ouroboros and refused the Jailers’ attempt to bargain, allowing the unknown existence beyond Hell to breach its boundary. As destruction engulfed the wasteland outside Dark Night City, Lynn watched a bird fly overhead and apologized to his loved ones, vowing to fight for them if any future remained.

• Lynn’s Ouroboros appeared, and the terrifying figures outside Dark Night City stopped moving in fear.
• Lynn accused the figures of manipulating his life and said he had already triggered the arrival of the unknown existence.
• The Jailers offered to meet Lynn’s demands, but he refused and warned them that it was already too late.
• A pitch-black torrent breached Hell’s boundary, annihilating the wasteland outside Dark Night City and collapsing its laws.
• The Jailers called for their master to awaken as Lynn watched a bird fly overhead and apologized to his loved ones.

Lynn awoke in a strange blue-sky realm that he realized was still part of Hell, though his system space and revival value were gone. After a mysterious old man directed him along a cobblestone path, Lynn found a mage tower surrounded by kneeling jailers and suspected their master had salvaged the calamity.

• Lynn woke on green grass beneath a blue sky and found that he could no longer access his system space or see his revival value.
• A death-shrouded old man told Lynn that his master wanted to see him and led him across the grass without answering his questions.
• The old man vanished after directing Lynn to follow a cobblestone path to the master.
• Lynn reached a strange mage tower and saw countless terrifying beings kneeling outside it.
• Lynn recognized some of the kneeling beings as jailers from Dark Night City and concluded that their master had managed to salvage the situation.

Lynn reached the Mage Tower and met an azure-veiled girl whose presence stirred memories and sorrow he could not explain. As tremors struck the Dark World, he realized she was the vast expanse of chaotic colors across Hell’s skies.

• Lynn recognized the shackled figure kneeling among the Jailers as the Vision Realm Controller, but the figure did not answer him.
• Lynn walked past countless kneeling Jailers, including some whose auras matched those of corpses he had seen, and reached the Mage Tower.
• Lynn opened the courtyard gate and saw a broken ring on a dust-covered table as hazy memories of a life there flashed through his mind.
• A voice from inside the Mage Tower invited Lynn in, and he met a sorrowful azure-veiled girl who seemed strangely familiar to him.
• Tremors shook the tower as something struck the sky, and Lynn realized the girl was the vast expanse of chaotic colors across Hell’s skies.