Chapter Summaries

Lynn forced Silver Fantasy to cooperate by threatening the Intelligent Brain he had found hidden beneath Hive City World. Silver Fantasy agreed to help him achieve the Trinity, while Lynn kept the Intelligent Brain safe in the real world.

• Lynn argued that Dark Night City’s month-long fight against the Mechanical Church meant Silver Fantasy still owed him, then proposed they cooperate against their common enemies.
• Lynn revealed that he had found and taken control of the injured Intelligent Brain, and threatened to harm her if Silver Fantasy refused.
• When Silver Fantasy moved to draw her sword, Lynn restrained her with a psionic blade and used the hostage threat to force her agreement.
• Silver Fantasy agreed to help Lynn achieve the Trinity, and he withdrew the blade while continuing to taunt her.
• In a real-world service corridor, Lynn released the Intelligent Brain Core and explained that he had staged the attack to make Silver Fantasy cooperate.
• Silver Fantasy sat furious in the data network and called Lynn a bastard.

Lynn reunited with Silver Fantasy and learned that her portion of Old Wànkūn’s legacy contained powerful authority and forbidden knowledge. As the three discussed the legacy, they sensed an unknown presence in Silver Fantasy’s hiding place, and Lynn prepared to take them back to reality.

• Lynn pressured Silver Fantasy into cooperating and welcomed her back as an ally.
• Lynn, Light Banquet, and Silver Fantasy emerged from the data rift, and Silver Fantasy explained the legacy’s authority, knowledge, and importance to the Seven Gods.
• Silver Fantasy revealed that the legacy also held classified records concerning the Machine God and the trinity.
• Silver Fantasy sensed something nearby, and Lynn suspected the presence had followed them.
• Lynn told Light Banquet and Silver Fantasy to stay close while he took them back to reality.

Lynn, Light Banquet, and Silver Fantasy tried to escape the data network but were intercepted by Ether, the newly born Machine God. Silver Fantasy destroyed their location and led the group toward a data node while Lynn warned that the Machine Gods might hunt them together.

• Lynn used psionics to bring Light Banquet and Silver Fantasy across the boundary from the data network into reality, but Ether interrupted them with an attack of fluid blades.
• Lynn recognized Ether, who appeared as a silver-haired man and revealed that he had detected their presence in the hive city; his status showed that only 17% of him was present.
• Ether offered to explain how he had found them if they surrendered, but Silver Fantasy detonated the digital bombs around them and destroyed the data block.
• Silver Fantasy seized Lynn and fled through a network passage, warning that Ether was far more dangerous in the data network than in reality.
• Light Banquet questioned whether Silver Fantasy's permissions or bombs had exposed them, and Lynn stopped their argument and urged them to escape before Ether summoned the other Machine Gods.

Silver Fantasy revealed that the silver-haired Ether had helped shape the Machine Intelligence Civilization and its fall into Hell, while Lynn suspected their presence had led the enemy to them. After Silver Fantasy escaped, Lynn and Light Banquet were trapped in a sealed data block with the increasingly powerful Ether, who questioned their motives.

• Silver Fantasy told Lynn that the Ether had provided technologies behind the Machine Gods’ ascension and the civilization’s fall into Hell, and that her father had suppressed him there.
• Lynn told Silver Fantasy to split up and hide while he tested a theory about why the Ether had found them; she vanished using her permissions.
• Lynn and Light Banquet fled through Network Passages, but the data block turned scarlet and sealed its exits.
• The silver-haired Ether emerged with his strength increased to 24% and confronted Lynn and Light Banquet.
• Lynn accused the Ether of making contact with the pollution that the Machine Intelligence Civilization had fled, while the Ether dismissed the civilization’s politics.

Ether attacked Lynn and Light Banquet in the scarlet data space, then offered to spare Lynn if he answered a question about what lay outside and whether he had ever opened his eyes. When Lynn could not answer, Ether launched a far faster assault aimed at Lynn’s data core.

• Ether ambushed Lynn with brutal close-quarters attacks and sent him flying with a knee strike.
• Light Banquet rushed to help Lynn, but Ether wounded her and mocked her by comparing her to her brother.
• Lynn reasoned that Ether had not alerted the other Machine Gods and asked what Ether wanted from him.
• Ether offered to let Lynn go if he answered whether he had ever tried opening his eyes, but Lynn did not understand the question.
• Ether attacked Lynn at greatly increased speed, targeting his data core and battering him with a relentless barrage.

Lynn baited Ether into beating him while his true form approached, then escaped the data space when the terminal was destroyed and joined Eve, the Witch God Head, Zuo Zuo, and the Night Doctors in overwhelming Ether. Light Banquet watched in shock as Lynn explained that Ether’s arrogance had given him time to set the trap.

• Ether battered Lynn and kicked Light Banquet aside when she tried to help him.
• Lynn taunted Ether as a second version of himself merged with him, increasing his power and collapsing the boundary between data and reality.
• Eve and the Witch God Head attacked Ether in the terminal room after the group fell into reality.
• Lynn, Zuo Zuo, and the Night Doctors joined the beating while Light Banquet watched in confusion.
• Lynn told Light Banquet that his true form had been heading toward them and that Ether’s showboating had let him stall for time.

Lynn realized Ether’s true body had returned to the real world, so he and his allies fled with Ether’s clone and brought him to the Strange Otherworld. There, the Night Doctors continued beating Ether while Lynn taunted him and avoided his counterattack with a decoy.

• Lynn recognized that Ether’s true body was furious and ordered everyone to retreat through a Light Gate with the captured clone.
• Ether’s true body arrived in the real world, discovered that over twenty percent of his mass had been severed from him, and raged at Lynn’s escape.
• Lynn brought Light Banquet to the Strange Otherworld, where the Night Doctors and Eve had been beating the captured Ether.
• Lynn told Eve to stop so they could question Ether, but Ether suddenly lunged for Lynn’s throat and struck only a decoy.
• Lynn revealed he was several hundred meters away and ordered the Night Doctors to resume beating Ether.

Lynn revealed that he had prepared for Ether’s attack and captured him, then questioned him about his origins and what lay beyond opening one’s eyes. After warning that Ether might have allowed himself to be caught, Lynn turned to examine Light Banquet and asked how Ether had found them.

• Lynn taunted the battered Ether and explained that he had prepared for their confrontation rather than recklessly fighting on Ether’s turf.
• Ether claimed that Lynn had only defeated part of him and refused to explain his origins or his cryptic question about what lay beyond opening one’s eyes.
• Lynn ordered the Night Doctors to keep attacking Ether and asked the Witch God Head to watch him in case the capture was part of a plan.
• After saying goodbye to the Witch God and Eve, Lynn pulled Light Banquet aside to examine her and asked how Ether had found them.

Lynn investigated how Ether had located them and discovered that the Meme Virus in Light Banquet contained a tracking signal planted by the Scholar. He disabled the signal but refused to remove the virus, and Light Banquet accused him of keeping her under his thumb.

• Lynn explained that he suspected the Meme Virus had been used to reveal their location, though he had first considered whether Light Banquet had betrayed him.
• Light Banquet resisted Lynn's demand that she undress, then let him examine her data body after striking him.
• Lynn found a tracking matrix hidden in the Meme Virus and reworked its code to disable the signal.
• Lynn admitted he could not remove the virus, but Light Banquet accused him of deliberately leaving it inside her because his firstborn power could extract it.
• Lynn reacted with surprise when Light Banquet said he was keeping her under his thumb.

Lynn forced Light Banquet to cooperate, then regrouped with Silver Fantasy and assessed the danger posed by Ether and the other Machine Gods. The group decided to rescue Colossus before their enemies could use it against them, and Lynn revealed they had another ally to help.

• Lynn admitted he had leverage over Light Banquet and demanded she take off her clothes, prompting her to beat him.
• Lynn and Light Banquet met Silver Fantasy in the data network after using the password ritual Lynn had chosen.
• Lynn explained that a Meme Virus targeting Silver Fantasy had exposed their plans, though Silver Fantasy said they could still plant pieces among the other Light Banquet Machines.
• Lynn warned that Ether could enlist the other Machine Gods and use Colossus to trap them.
• Silver Fantasy proposed rescuing Colossus before the enemy could act, and Lynn said their group had one more helping hand.

Lynn and Silver Fantasy traveled together toward the Colossus’s prison while discussing her past feelings and the life she might choose after the war. Silver Fantasy confronted Lynn about the harm caused by his deception, and they left their unresolved history behind as they continued on.

• Lynn split the group into two teams, sending himself and Silver Fantasy to the Colossus’s prison while his double and Light Banquet went after the remaining Light Banquet Machines.
• Lynn asked Silver Fantasy what she planned to do after the Seven Gods were defeated and encouraged her to pursue what she wanted for herself.
• Silver Fantasy stopped and told Lynn that she had once trusted him and pursued what she wanted, but had fallen in love with an imaginary person he created.
• Silver Fantasy said she no longer resented Lynn, though she would always distinguish him from the boy she had loved, and then came to his side.
• Lynn asked whether things might have ended differently in another world, and Silver Fantasy said they might have before he laughed and said he could picture it.
• In the Strange Otherworld, Zuo Zuo noticed Lynn looked down and poked his cheek.

Lynn confronted his doubts about the person he had become, then admitted to Silver Fantasy that he had lied about kidnapping the Intelligent Brain. At the Data Network Passage’s final firewall, he prepared to break into the physical realm and face five Machine Gods to reach the Colossus.

• Zuo Zuo challenged Lynn to stop dwelling on his past and keep walking the path he had chosen.
• Lynn watched Silver Fantasy and privately apologized for lying about the person beneath his mask.
• Silver Fantasy sensed Lynn looking at her, but he hid his feelings behind his usual smile.
• Lynn and Silver Fantasy reached the final firewall blocking the route to the lower core area where the Colossus was held.
• Silver Fantasy offered to disable nearby Nanomechanical Swarms, and Lynn agreed to break in through the physical realm despite the five Machine Gods.
• Before Silver Fantasy began the operation, Lynn confessed that he had saved the Intelligent Brain and had lied about kidnapping her.

Lynn launched an invasion of the Mechanical Church’s underground Terminal Space, leading his Night Doctor forces against its mechanical defenders. He broadcast the battle to the Machine Gods and taunted them, setting up a confrontation with their strongest fighters.

• Lynn infiltrated the Terminal Space through the network and materialized amid the mechanical guards.
• Lynn summoned the Night Doctors through Light Gates and ordered them to destroy the enemy forces.
• Eve and the Witch God Head joined the assault, helping the Night Doctors overwhelm the Mechanical Units.
• The Machine Gods received Lynn’s broadcast as his army crushed Terminator Mecha and surrounded thousands of Mechanical Humanoids.
• Lynn explained how the confined underground battlefield blunted the Mechanical Church’s numerical advantage and began to address its strongest fighters.

Lynn provoked the Mechanical Church into mobilizing its forces, then led the Night Doctor Collective through the gate into the Church’s Core Region. As the battle intensified, Lynn ordered the Anti-Mechanical Night Doctors to bring their heavy cannons to bear.

• Lynn mocked the Machine Gods during a livestream and vowed to hunt down everyone involved in the Dark Night City Calamity.
• Extinction took command of the Mechanical Church’s forces and ordered a massive mobilization against Lynn’s group.
• Lynn had Eve and the Witch God Head destroy the gate between the Third Area and the Second Area, opening the way to the Core Region.
• The Mechanical Church’s troops met the Night Doctor Collective with gunfire, Mechanical Mantises, and nuclear warheads.
• Lynn ordered the Anti-Mechanical Night Doctors to fire their Mechanical Heavy Cannons at the defending forces.

Lynn’s forces overwhelmed the Mechanical Legion while Lynn seized its central upload link and sent Silver Fantasy into the Third Area’s network. The clone entered the Upload Hall just as Silver Fantasy began destroying the machine intelligence consciousnesses inside.

• Lynn’s flesh plague and the Night Doctor Corps tore through the Mechanical Legion while his psionic shield blocked its bombardment.
• Lynn warned Eve and Aunt to stay ready for the Machine Gods, then located the Third Area’s isolated network nodes.
• Lynn found and seized the upload signal linking the Mechanical Units to the central server.
• Silver Fantasy confirmed she could use the connection, and Lynn sent her into the network through a clone while his real body stayed behind.
• Silver Fantasy attacked the newly uploaded machine intelligence consciousnesses in the Upload Hall and began erasing them with her Monomolecular Swords.

Silver Fantasy slaughtered the machine intelligences in the Upload Hall and helped Lynn locate the Colossus, while Lynn fought off Mechanical Church reinforcements. The chapter ended with Lynn’s group surrounded by Star Embracer, Extinction, a mechanical dragon, and the Church’s assembled forces.

• Silver Fantasy killed more than a thousand machine intelligence consciousnesses in the Upload Hall, absorbing them into herself so they would not fall into Lynn’s hands.
• Silver Fantasy connected to the Third Area’s data network to search for the Colossus, while Lynn used his M Fist to stop the incoming Electronic Mechanical Maidens.
• Lynn and Silver Fantasy advanced with the Night Doctors, who wiped out the mechanical troops remaining in the passageway.
• Lynn halted the Night Doctors when Star Embracer appeared in the passageway and threatened to kill them all.
• Extinction arrived with a vast nanite swarm as a mechanical dragon emerged nearby and the Mechanical Church surrounded Lynn’s group.
• Lynn remained unafraid and challenged Star Embracer, Extinction, and the dragon, asking whether they could defeat him and the other two with him.

Extinction deployed an Extinction-Class Array that wiped out half of Lynn’s army, and Light Banquet identified it as a weapon capable of turning planetary organic matter into ash. Lynn returned to the battlefield to counterattack, but Star Embracer’s black Great Furnace fire burned through his psionics and sent him back to the data network.

• Extinction formed a vast mechanical matrix, triggering Lynn’s crisis alert and destroying half of his army before he moved the survivors into his inner space.
• Light Banquet recognized the weapon from Lynn’s description as the Extinction faction’s Extinction-Class Array, a planet-killing weapon against organic life.
• Lynn learned that the array might not destroy souls and decided to attack while Extinction was burdened by using it.
• Lynn returned to the battlefield with the Witch God Head and Eve, but Star Embracer’s black Great Furnace fire burned through his psionics and sent him back to the data network.

Lynn prepared Eve and the Witch God Head to unleash their curses against the Mechanical Church’s overwhelming force, then activated his Curse Eye and pulled Little Eye Loli out to try to influence Fate’s Dice. The chapter ended with Little Eye Loli refusing his request to lock the dice at six.

• Light Banquet identified the Meson Fire as a weapon of mass destruction deployed by the Star Embracer Group and warned Lynn that the Mechanical Church had singled him out for extermination.
• Lynn explained that Firstborn Power could not raise Eve and the Witch God Head enough to counter the enemy, so he planned to strengthen them by unleashing their curses.
• Eve and the Witch God Head agreed to Lynn’s plan to go mad and fight the Mechanical Church’s forces.
• Lynn activated his Curse Eye, and Little Eye Loli crawled out of his eye socket.
• Lynn used Mimicry to transform Little Eye Loli into a small girl and begged her to lock Fate’s Dice at six, but she responded, “Prohibited.”

Lynn bribed Little Eye Loli into producing a curse, then unleashed full-scale Curse Turmoil on the Witch God Head and Eve before tearing open the Strange Otherworld's Light Gate to escape with them. He emerged at the Third Area's coordinate node, where the Machine Gods and their forces were waiting with weapons ready.

• Lynn forced Little Eye Loli to accept nourishment and an extra bribe until she produced a curse.
• Lynn cast the Undying Curse on the Witch God Head and triggered full-scale turmoil, sending her into a rage.
• Lynn cast the proliferation curse on Eve, causing her body to swell and sprout countless blood vessels.
• Lynn rerolled his own curse to avoid losing his reason, but his body still transformed into a giant head with tentacles.
• Lynn tore open the Strange Otherworld's Light Gate and banished himself, the Witch God Head, and Eve out of the world.
• Extinction ordered the Machine Gods and mechanical troops to open fire as Lynn's group appeared at the sealed coordinate node.

Lynn and the Origins battled the three Machine Gods while Lynn’s duplicates moved to rescue the Colossus from Block 75. As the main body kept the enemy occupied, the duplicates prepared a second assault to draw the General, Ether, and Scholar away from the Atomic Revolution.

• Eve’s Witch God Head and Lynn emerged from the bombardment, and the Undying Curse let them withstand the Extinction Matrix.
• Lynn hurled his Trident at Star Embracer as the battle against the three Machine Gods continued.
• Silver Fantasy found the Colossus’s likely location in Block 75, and she and Lynn’s duplicate entered the Third Area’s Data Network.
• Lynn’s duplicate said their chance depended on making the General and the others choose between stopping him and protecting the Atomic Revolution.
• In the Second Area, Light Banquet said she could cause enough destruction, and Lynn’s other duplicate told her to begin.
• Light Banquet activated the attack in the network.