Chapter Summaries

Lynn confronted the Ancient Fallen Heart, which revealed itself as the Clown and spoke of its loyalty to the Violet Great Lord. Lynn showed it evidence that the Pighead Butcher had sided with the monster released from Lynn’s body, leaving the Clown furious and in denial.

• Sir Awen warned Lynn that the Ancient Fallen Heart’s aura could make curses run wild, and Lynn identified it as the Clown’s Authority.
• The Clown lamented that he had failed to serve the Violet Great Lord and said he deserved the Female Host’s judgment.
• Lynn told the Clown that the Pighead Butcher had joined the monster released from Lynn’s body, not returned to the Jailers.
• Lynn played Black Fortress recordings showing the Pighead Butcher attacking him beside the terrifying figure.
• The Clown’s unstable power erupted, harming nearby Night Doctors, and he shouted that the recording was fake.

Lynn confronted the Jailer heart about helping bring back the Violet Great Lord and accused it of betraying its King’s ideals. The heart refused to apologize but agreed to stop opposing Lynn, who intended to keep it as a weapon and source of information.

• Lynn accused the heart of being manipulated by the Pighead Butcher and of triggering the resurrection of the Ancient God King instead of the Violet Great Lord.
• Lynn condemned the heart’s actions and declared that he would kill those who had controlled and meddled with him.
• The heart broke down sobbing after seeing the Ancient God King and its partner beside him in the crystal ball.
• The heart said it would still sacrifice Lynn if doing so could resurrect the Violet Great Lord, but admitted it had no reason to remain Lynn’s enemy after its mission failed.
• Lynn goaded the heart into recognizing that it was his prisoner and that he needed its authority and information.
• The heart agreed to stop opposing Lynn as the last Raven of the era, then accused him of plotting behind his reasonable words.

Lynn captured and brutally subdued the Weeping Clown, refusing to remove the fragment suppressing him and instead keeping him under his control. He brought the heart back to Sir Awen, claiming its authority would make Dark Night City a far stronger force in Hell.

• Lynn beat the heart for seven or eight hours, increasing the Weeping Clown's fear and anger toward him.
• The Weeping Clown asked Lynn to remove the Flesh Dominator's fragment so he could regain his strength as a Jailer.
• Lynn charged the fragment instead, causing the Weeping Clown intense pain, and warned him not to betray him.
• Lynn tied the heart up and told Sir Awen that Dark Night City's new authority would make it the most powerful force in Hell.
• Lynn explained that the Weeping Clown had nowhere else to turn, while the heart angrily objected to being called disposable.

Lynn and Sir Awen discovered that the Mother Tree of Desire had recovered physically but remained asleep, and the heart explained that her rampant curse had triggered a rebirth. The chapter left Lynn blaming the Clown Curse and insisting they should have separated the Mother Tree from her mutated flesh long ago.

• Lynn and Sir Awen found that the Mother Tree of Desire looked lush and had regained her physical strength, but her consciousness remained dormant.
• The heart warned Lynn that feeding the Mother Tree more flesh would not wake her and explained that her curse had caused her to enter a protective slumber.
• The heart revealed that the Mother Tree was transforming through a natural rebirth and needed her curse suppressed before she was transplanted from her mutated trunks into clean soil.
• Lynn blamed the Clown Curse for interfering with his judgment and preventing him from saving the Mother Tree, while the heart protested that its curse could not do that.

Lynn and Sir Awen began transplanting the Mother Tree of Desire’s soul into Lynn’s system space, using his curse-removal ability to prepare her body. The transformation began as the curse was stripped away, weakening the Mother Tree because the curse had become her source of power.

• Lynn carried the heart to the Mother Tree of Desire and asked Sir Awen whether transplanting her soul was possible.
• Lynn proposed moving the Mother Tree into his system space, and he dismissed the heart’s warnings about the space’s instability.
• Lynn opened a Light Gate to his system space and asked Sir Awen to handle the soul while he controlled the Mother Tree’s body.
• Sir Awen assumed an Origin’s aura as Lynn took control of the tree and activated his limited-time curse-removal ability.
• White light transformed the Mother Tree’s flesh-covered body into natural branches, leaves, and trunk, while the curse’s removal began to diminish her strength.

Lynn and Sir Awen separated the Mother Tree of Desire's soul from her cursed body, then replanted her in Lynn's Inner Space so she could begin transforming into a pure plant. The transformation began successfully, but Lynn asked the heart whether it was normal as the chapter ended.

• Lynn suppressed the Mother Tree of Desire's curse while Sir Awen used Psionics to sever her soul's connections to the tree over three hours.
• Lynn caught the freed girl and carried her into his System Space as the tree's vines tried to reach for her.
• Lynn poured Soul Spring over her, and her legs took root as leaves and vines spread into the soil.
• The heart explained that the Mother Tree needed abundant nourishment and continued curse suppression while she transformed into a plant cocoon.
• The heart questioned how Lynn's Inner Space could contain an Origin's soul without disturbance, and Lynn asked whether the transformation was normal.

Lynn and the heart discovered that the Mother Tree’s transformation had stalled because Hell’s contamination had become part of her nature. The heart said Lynn needed to nourish her with impure desire, leaving him stunned by its blunt suggestion.

• Lynn and the heart noticed that the Mother Tree’s transformation into a Cocoon had slowed despite her having Soul Spring left to absorb.
• The heart found blood-red contamination inside the Mother Tree and explained that the Curse and unclean energy had altered her Primordial Source.
• Lynn asked whether Hell’s contamination would eventually assimilate the Mother Tree, and the heart confirmed that ancient Origins would ultimately become part of Hell.
• Lynn struck the heart into a wall after it said the contamination could only be removed by gaining control of all Hell.
• Lynn demanded a way to restart the Mother Tree’s transformation, and the heart told him to feed her as he would a succubus.

Lynn struggled to find a way to save the Mother Tree after it transformed into a spiny plant, then used Mimicry with Zuo Zuo to help it absorb strange matter. The plant grew stronger, and Lynn resolved to continue despite Zuo Zuo’s protests.

• Lynn rejected the heart’s suggestion to organize a charity drive and decided to cover the cost himself.
• Lynn hesitated to contribute to the Mother Tree’s recovery, while Zuo Zuo encouraged him and drew a picture to help him imagine the plant as the Mother Tree.
• Lynn decided to use Zuo Zuo’s labor instead and caught her when she tried to flee.
• Lynn used Mimicry with Zuo Zuo, and the Mother Tree’s transformation visibly accelerated after it absorbed strange matter.
• Lynn praised Zuo Zuo’s contribution and insisted they continue, while she protested.

Lynn helped the Mother Tree of Desire undergo the first stage of metamorphosis by nourishing her embryo with soul spring water and firstborn power. She emerged in a juvenile form and began to wake, leaving Lynn and Zuo Zuo waiting to see whether she remembered them.

• Lynn discovered that his firstborn-infused nourishment had slightly worn away the curses and corruption in the Mother Tree's soul and considered selling it to strengthen Dark Night City's residents.
• Lynn and Zuo Zuo watched the Mother Tree's embryo seal itself into a spore as it absorbed the nourishment.
• Lynn poured soul spring water and nearly all his stored firstborn power over the embryo, causing it to bloom and reveal the Mother Tree in a juvenile, elflike form.
• Lynn read the Mother Tree's information panel and learned that she remained vulnerable during metamorphosis and would gradually recover her power and memories.
• Zuo Zuo and Lynn poked the sleeping girl and wondered whether she recognized them as her eyelashes began to twitch.
• The Mother Tree stretched awake with scarlet eyes, and Lynn's heart pounded.

Lynn and Zuo Zuo found the transformed Mother Tree in a newborn state, with only vague memories of Lynn and her former life as a nature elf. As she began recalling her forest family, Lynn promised to let her live through those memories gently, but the chapter ended when she tasted a strange substance on her plant embryo.

• Zuo Zuo punched Lynn as he tried to greet the newly transformed girl, who recognized Lynn's name but could not remember him clearly.
• The girl asked if Lynn was her gardener, and Lynn claimed he was her family while Zuo Zuo tried to stop his manipulative explanations.
• The girl remembered the little deer, the elves, Uncle Stump, and her wild boar, then asked where they were.
• Lynn explained that she had returned to memories from before her world was destroyed and would eventually relive the calamity that led her to Hell.
• Zuo Zuo made Lynn promise not to corrupt the girl or treat her indecently, and Lynn agreed to raise her like his daughter.
• The girl tasted a strange substance from a leaf on her plant embryo and said it seemed nutritious.

Lynn and Zuo Zuo stopped the plant girl from eating the strange matter she found, though Lynn’s explanations nearly encouraged her. The plant girl finally agreed to drink Soul Spring instead, and Lynn and Zuo Zuo left her convinced not to eat it.

• The plant girl tasted the strange matter on her finger and found it delicious and highly nutritious.
• Lynn and Zuo Zuo restrained the plant girl as she tried to eat more, and Lynn used his psionics to immobilize her.
• Lynn told the plant girl she could eat the matter when she was older, but Zuo Zuo struck him and insisted it was never acceptable.
• Zuo Zuo warned the plant girl that eating the matter would make her a bad child and offered her Soul Spring instead.
• The plant girl agreed to drink Soul Spring and said she would not eat the strange matter.

Lynn stopped the Mother Tree from eating more of the substance, but Plant Loli secretly swallowed the last bit anyway. He then turned to interrogating the Weeping Clown’s heart about its Female Host and chaotic power, and threatened it with an unusual potion.

• Lynn regained control of Plant Loli’s body and released her, but she immediately ate the remaining substance on her hand.
• Zuo Zuo tried to make Plant Loli spit it out, then despaired when Plant Loli bragged that she had absorbed every last bit.
• Lynn planned to keep the transforming Mother Tree in his system space and went to question the Weeping Clown’s heart in Dark Night City.
• The Weeping Clown’s heart refused to discuss its Female Host or the Jailers, and became furious when Lynn described its master as a loli.
• Lynn sprayed an unidentified potion from a syringe and threatened the heart with a potion that made large growths appear all over its body.

Lynn learned that his Female Host was the ancient Pillar God called Painter and heard how his King remade the world before genesis. The heart believed Lynn might be able to revive the King, but Lynn insisted he was only himself, and they ended the conversation by joking about their melancholy.

• The heart told Lynn that his Female Host was Painter, one of the three greatest Pillar Gods of Chaos, alongside Joybringer and Sleeper.
• The heart explained that the King had killed the gods to break the old world's order, then worked with Painter and the ravens to recreate the world and give its inhabitants new lives; only the King did not return.
• The heart said Lynn was a raven released by the King and wondered whether restoring the King's memories and mark could bring him back.
• Lynn rejected the idea, saying he was Lynn, the Night Doctor from Dark Night City, and did not want to become the King.
• The heart insisted the revival plan could work, but Lynn and the heart fell silent before joking about their gloomy conversation.

Lynn questioned the heart about the sleeping King, the Violet Great Lord, and the calamity in the Main Universe. The heart revealed that the calamity had once driven senior Jailers mad and might be linked to the Female Host’s slumber, while Lynn’s final question about time remained unanswered.

• Lynn asked whether the King was dead or merely asleep, and wondered if eternal slumber had granted the King the death he wanted.
• Lynn woke Zuo Zuo and warned her to bury herself or die if he ever failed to return; she attacked his face, and he grabbed the heart as it tried to escape.
• Lynn asked the heart what the calamity in the Main Universe was and whether it was connected to the sleeping King.
• The heart said it had never investigated the calamity closely, but recalled that several senior Jailers had gone mad thousands of years earlier, sparking a rebellion that was quickly suppressed.
• The heart said the calamity might have influenced the Female Host’s frequent slumber and had corrupted Deities, matter, space, and laws; Lynn then asked whether it could affect time.

Lynn questioned whether the Calamity could corrupt time and other foundational laws, then activated his second profession and discovered a quest panel linked to rifts marked with different times before the present. The chapter ended with him unsure what the time markers and enemies meant, while the system required him to enhance Remnants of the Past to +5.

• Lynn asked the heart whether the Calamity could corrupt time and whether changes to the past would affect the present.
• The heart explained the hierarchy of Truth, Time, Space, Causality, and other laws, and warned that corrupting the foundational laws would plunge the world into chaos.
• Lynn said he suspected his future self might operate beyond the present and activated the armband engraved with a raven and strange runes.
• The system triggered Lynn's second-profession questline and required him to enhance Remnants of the Past to +5 before proceeding to a target area and killing all visible enemies.
• A new panel showed several rifts marked with different spans of time before the present, leaving Lynn puzzled about what the markers and enemies represented.

Lynn traveled through a rift to three years in the past and awoke in his younger, frail human body at the Potion Shop. He realized this was the night he had lost his human heart, just as an unknown visitor knocked at the door.

• Lynn touched the rift leading to three years ago and was overwhelmed by pain as he traveled back in time.
• Lynn awoke in his younger body in the attic at Wandering Soul Alley and found that Zuo Zuo and his powers were gone.
• Lynn recognized the day as the beginning of the events that led him to lose his human heart.
• Lynn found his teacher's note saying the teacher had left for three days and remembered being warned not to open the shop at night.
• Lynn assessed his situation and tried his System Space, but it did not respond as the stranger continued knocking at the door.

Lynn realized his future self had traveled back three years and armed himself with potions, his teacher’s bone knife, and a trace of Firstborn Power. He entered the shop to face the monstrous customer that had broken through the door.

• Lynn searched the hidden counter compartment and took several of his teacher’s potions, confirming that his memories of the future were real.
• Lynn broke into his teacher’s room and took Bloodsaw’s Bone Knife, then decided not to release Little Darling from the Cellar.
• Lynn tried to draw Firstborn Power from his soul and channel it into the knife as the customer smashed through the front door.
• Lynn put on his Monocle, concealed the knife, and greeted the customer with a warm smile.
• Lynn saw a huge, misshapen bioengineered man covered in shifting boils and purple-black flesh.

A corrupted Bell-Ringing Demon from Wandering Soul Alley invaded the Bloodsaw Apothecary, and Lynn recognized the calamity-like power contaminating it. Lynn fought the creature and realized its weakness meant it was only a scout, leaving him alert to a greater threat.

• Lynn saw the corrupted Bell-Ringing Demon enter the apothecary, and his system panel failed to display its information.
• The demon begged for treatment, then its head exploded and its body mutated as it warned Lynn to run.
• Lynn recognized the eye in the creature’s chest as resembling the calamity he had encountered beyond Blue Star.
• Lynn used his Boning Knife and firstborn power to split the demon and fend off its tentacles.
• Lynn questioned why the invasion was so weak, then realized the creature was a scout.

Lynn killed the Bell-Ringing Demon by destroying the purple-black mist inside it, stopping its influence on time. Suspecting the Clock Tower was the source of the contamination, he armed himself with a chainsaw and prepared to investigate while checking whether his system abilities still worked.

• Lynn realized the Calamity might be opening a rift in time and sending reinforcements, so he decided to kill the Bell-Ringing Demon quickly.
• Lynn used explosive and corrosive potions, then bound and refined the monster with Firstborn Power.
• Lynn found purple-black mist inside the demon and destroyed it with his Boning Knife, causing the creature and its time distortion to vanish.
• Lynn suspected the Clock Tower in Wandering Soul Alley was where the Bell-Ringing Demon had been contaminated.
• Lynn retrieved a rust-covered chainsaw from the Potion Shop basement and planned to test whether his system abilities still worked.

Lynn discovered that his system abilities still worked in the past and used God's Equation with firstborn power to create powerful items. He headed toward the Clock Tower, where his strange appearance startled two new residents of Wandering Soul Alley.

• Lynn used Mimicry and God's Equation, transforming his Rusty Chainsaw into a nuclear-powered legendary weapon.
• Lynn modified his potions, producing several powerful items and one winged potion that flew away.
• Lynn decided not to modify his past body, covered his face, and rushed toward the Clock Tower with his weapons and potions.
• A jawless woman and her little girl discussed settling in Wandering Soul Alley and taking over an injured resident's house.
• Lynn sprinted naked past the pair, and the little girl cried out in astonishment.