Chapter Summaries

Lynn and Light Banquet destroyed the Mechanical Church’s data networks in the First and Second Areas, forcing the Machine Gods to divert computing power from the atomic revolution. Lynn then revealed that he had reinforcements, as Black String Moon brought his message to her teacher in the Black Fortress.

• Light Banquet overloaded terminals across the First and Second Areas, triggering explosions that crippled their data networks and disabled many machines.
• Light Banquet sensed that only about a third of the Light Banquet consciousnesses remained in the affected areas, leading Lynn to suspect that most had been moved elsewhere.
• Lynn concluded that the atomic revolution might be close to succeeding and that the Mechanical Church could have accelerated it by another means.
• Lynn told Silver Fantasy that the General would likely stay away from the battle and reminded her that they had reinforcements.
• Black String Moon left her bench in the Black Fortress and told her teacher that Lynn’s message had arrived.

Lynn confirmed the Colossus’s prison was deep beneath the Third Area and used the Trident to bring his forces there. The Trident tore through the underground defenses toward Lynn’s duplicate as Extinction and the others realized what he was doing.

• Lynn and Silver Fantasy reached the network node closest to the Colossus’s prison, and Lynn entered the physical world to verify its location.
• Lynn and Silver Fantasy questioned why the Mechanical Church had offered so little resistance, but Lynn decided to continue with the plan.
• Lynn used Curse Removal to suppress the curse affecting the Witch God Head and Eve, then drew them into the Trident and escaped through a Light Gate.
• Lynn’s duplicate summoned the Trident from deep underground to transport his forces toward the Colossus’s prison.
• Extinction and the others detected the Trident’s route through the Third Area and realized it was heading for Lynn’s location.

Lynn summoned his forces inside the Mechanical Church’s core territory, where Ether attacked his double. Dollhouse intervened, and Lynn’s true form joined the gathered allies as they prepared to face the enemy.

• Extinction reported the intruders to the General, who ordered him and Dragon Head to keep Lynn occupied while Star Embracer came to him.
• Lynn’s double continued summoning forces underground as Silver Fantasy disabled the mechanical guards swarming toward him.
• Ether emerged from behind the door and attacked Lynn’s double, but Dollhouse blocked the strike and restrained him with threads.
• Ether melted into mercury-like masses and retreated to the doorway while Dollhouse warned Lynn that the situation was a trap.
• Lynn’s true form emerged through the Light Gate and merged with his double, noting that their assembled allies might be able to defeat the six enemies.

Lynn and the Three Great Origins attacked Ether, but he overwhelmed them and revealed that he had taken Colossus and Brain before Lynn could rescue them. Ether then told Lynn that he had eaten her.

• Lynn faced Ether as the Three Great Origins emerged from the Strange Otherworld, and they launched a coordinated attack.
• Ether weakened Dollhouse’s restraints, tore through the attacks, and struck the Witch God Head with blood energy.
• Lynn recognized a familiar blood-energy fluctuation in Ether and found that Colossus was missing from the open vessel beyond the gate.
• Ether explained that he had anticipated Lynn’s plan and used his concern for his companion against him.
• Lynn asked Ether what he had done to her, and Ether replied that he had eaten her.

Ether revealed that he had devoured the Scholar and had fought someone named Lynn long ago, while Lynn realized Ether meant a different Lynn. Ether’s reinforcements arrived and triggered an escalating atomic vibration that struck the battlefield, leaving Lynn and the others facing a sudden crisis.

• Ether explained that his abilities were absent from the God of Ten Thousand Machines’ records and revealed that he had devoured the Scholar.
• Ether described his broken agreement with the God of Ten Thousand Machines and said he had discovered many kinds of power in the Ark, including Lynn’s primordial power.
• Ether told Lynn that they had fought long ago, and Lynn realized Ether was referring to a different person named Lynn.
• Dragon Head and Extinction arrived, while Ether said Star Embracer and the Light Banquets had been moved as part of his hidden plan.
• An escalating atomic vibration spread through the material realm, causing Eve to scream and Puppet to drop to one knee.

Lynn was caught in the atomic revolution’s ascension and lost control of his body and soul, but Silver Fantasy saved his digital consciousness from Ether. As she carried him through the collapsing Data Network, she explained that the revolution had created a new civilization of atomic beings.

• Ether explained that the atomic revolution required living beings to be sacrificed and reached to crush Lynn’s skull.
• A data assault from the Data Network briefly distracted Ether, allowing Lynn to be uploaded before Ether could kill him.
• Ether ordered Extinction and Dragon Head to find and kill Silver Fantasy, but they did not obey.
• Silver Fantasy carried Lynn through the collapsing Data Network, using what remained of her legacy from her father to save him.
• Silver Fantasy explained that the atomic revolution was an ascension that had forged a civilization from countless atoms, while Lynn struggled to speak through his collapsing will.

Silver Fantasy tried to carry Lynn out of the Second Area as Atomic Ascension consumed the surrounding region. She blasted a passage upward with a Terminator Mecha’s cannon, but Dragon Head caught up before she could reach the surface.

• Silver Fantasy discovered that Atomic Ascension had spread beyond the Third Area and that the collapsed Data Networks left her no way to escape through them.
• She manifested in a Mechanical Humanoid at the Second Area’s border, scattered Mechanical Forces to divert attention, and transferred Lynn into another body.
• Silver Fantasy carried Lynn through successive Mechanical Bodies, struggling toward the surface as the machines began to collapse.
• She activated a fallen Terminator Mecha and fired its Particle-Charging Cannon into the overhead strata, opening a narrow passage.
• Dragon Head’s disturbance caught up with Silver Fantasy, who fired the cannon again to break through the rock above.

Machine Intelligence sacrificed herself to send Lynn’s soul chip through a passage to the surface, where Extinction seized it. Lynn revealed he had escaped atomic revolution’s range and used Azephala and the Trident to capture Extinction and take him into the Strange Otherworld.

• Machine Intelligence fired the Particle Accelerator Cannon through the strata, then threw the chip containing Lynn’s soul into the passage before the mechanical dragon swallowed her.
• Lynn’s avatar rushed to catch the chip, but Extinction formed from surface micromachines and seized it first.
• Lynn warned Extinction that Ether would eventually consume him, while Extinction said he wanted their civilization to follow a new path through Ether.
• Extinction returned toward the Second Area with the chip, but Lynn’s firstborn power erupted from it and Lynn summoned the Trident.
• Lynn called Azephala, whose tentacles bound Extinction as the Trident drew him and his nanomachines into the Strange Otherworld.

Lynn’s Atomic Revolution plan collapsed after the Mechanical Church was used as fuel, and he confronted Light Banquet over whether she had secretly aided both sides to preserve her civilization. Though his body was gone and Ether was close to winning, Lynn revealed that he had prepared another contingency: the expanding Chaos.

• Azephala trapped an unnamed intruder beside Cthulhu and warned him not to leave.
• Lynn’s true form emerged from underground and merged with his avatar as the Atomic Revolution began dissolving the surface and his body.
• Light Banquet realized the General had used the Machine Intelligence Civilization’s data and wills as fuel to power the Atomic Revolution.
• Lynn accused Light Banquet of helping both sides so that the Machine Intelligence Civilization would survive whichever side won.
• Light Banquet challenged Lynn to explain how he could still win, and Lynn pointed to the enormous Chaos as his final contingency.

Lynn raced back to the Third Area and used an Earth Rules Crystal to split the ground, reaching Ether after he had consumed Eve and the Dollhouse. Lynn launched a desperate attack with the Coffin Beyond Time, but Ether dodged it.

• Lynn wrapped himself in Firstborn Power and charged through the lightless abyss, drawing it after him as he raced through the underground base.
• Lynn reached the Third Area and shattered the Earth Rules Crystal, opening a vast rift through the ground toward Ether.
• Ether dodged the rift and revealed that he had consumed Eve and the Dollhouse, while the Witch God Head remained trapped and partly covered in mercury-like substance.
• Lynn charged at Ether, who met him with a powerful attack and taunted him about his family.
• Lynn predicted Ether’s attack and swung the Coffin Beyond Time at him, but Ether dodged the strike.

Lynn used chaos and a Mind Rules Crystal to briefly disable Ether, then freed the Witch God Head from the atomic revolution’s mental influence. Ether recovered and attacked them, leaving Lynn and the Witch God Head fighting a stronger foe.

• Lynn unleashed chaos from the Coffin Beyond Time, forcing Ether to sever part of his body to escape its pollution.
• Lynn struck Ether with the Mind Rules Crystal, briefly stopping him, and rushed to the Witch God Head.
• Lynn used the Firstborn’s power to shield the Witch God Head from the atomic resonance, helping her regain her senses.
• Ether quickly recovered from the mental assault and attacked, so the Witch God Head swallowed Lynn and fought him at close range.
• Lynn told the Witch God Head that Ether had eaten Eve and the Dollhouse’s puppets and that Miss Machine Intelligence was missing.

Lynn and the Witch God Head found their escape routes sealed by Ether, so they charged toward the planet’s core through a shield of Chaos to disrupt the atomic revolution. Ether pursued them and warned the general to complete the final ritual before Lynn arrived.

• Ether trapped Lynn and the Witch God Head beneath the collapsing base, blocking their route to the surface with mercury-like tendrils.
• Lynn asked the Witch God Head to contact Titan Big Brother, but she could not sense him nearby.
• Lynn chose to head for the planet’s core and used his Coffin Beyond Time to surround them with Chaos.
• The Witch God Head charged deeper underground as Ether pursued them and ordered the general to finish the final ritual.
• At the planet’s core, the general watched an immense data black hole consume matter, data, machines, and computing power as the atomic revolution took shape.

The general fed Light Banquets and Star Embracer into the data vortex to fuel Atomic Revolution, insisting that he alone would rule the new order. Dragon Head arrived with Silver Fantasy and admitted that she had split from him, then challenged the general’s vision of what their civilization should be.

• The general sent a High-Rank Light Banquet into the furnace and declared that he would become Atomic Revolution’s supreme decision-maker.
• Dragon Head arrived carrying Silver Fantasy and reported that his connection with Extinction had been severed, while the general said Star Embracer had also been burned.
• The general asked Dragon Head to sacrifice himself for the revolution, and Dragon Head agreed that preserving civilization was his duty.
• The general questioned why Dragon Head had become weak and conservative, then asked whether Silver Fantasy had split from him.
• Dragon Head acknowledged that Silver Fantasy had split away and reminded the general that their civilization once embraced nature, emotions, art, and individual choice.

Dragon Head explained that he created Machine Intelligence to preserve the Machine Intelligence Civilization’s memories of the Pastoral Era and its wish for individuals to live freely again. The general ordered him to relinquish the permissions she stole.

• The general challenged Dragon Head’s decision to create historical Hive Cities and absorb consciousnesses from the world.
• Dragon Head admitted that he created Machine Intelligence from the traditionalist sides of the six Machine Gods, hoping she would preserve their ancestors’ longing for freedom and happiness.
• Dragon Head explained that Hell’s suppression of the God of Ten Thousand Machines gave him a reason to split off an individual seven thousand years earlier.
• Dragon Head pleaded with the general to let Machine Intelligence remain as a seed of their civilization’s original wish.
• The general asked whether Dragon Head had fulfilled his mission, and Dragon Head said he had because Machine Intelligence was still there.
• The general’s killing intent subsided, and he ordered Dragon Head to relinquish the permissions Machine Intelligence had stolen.

The general was seized by the pollution’s hidden controller after refusing to sacrifice his brothers, and Dragon Head rescued Silver Fantasy before being swallowed by the atomic tide. Lynn and the Witch God Head reached the vortex’s core and charged inside to destroy the Atomic Revolution’s Core Hub.

• The general revealed that he had anticipated the God of Ten Thousand Machines’ pollution and refused to let it control his decisions.
• The pollution’s controller seized the general and turned him against Dragon Head and Silver Fantasy.
• Dragon Head freed Silver Fantasy, hurled her out of danger, and was swallowed by the atomic tide.
• Lynn and the Witch God Head blasted through the rock strata and reached the immense black vortex.
• Lynn and the Witch God Head charged into the vortex’s center, carrying chaos toward the heart of the Atomic Revolution.

Lynn escaped the collapsing underground after unleashing chaos against the Atomic Revolution, but Light Banquet detected that the revolution was still at 99 percent. Ether appeared above the abyss and threatened to kill Lynn before the process could be stopped.

• Light Banquet lost contact with Lynn as the Witch God Head's collision collapsed the surface and unleashed chaos underground.
• Lynn sent the Witch God Head back to his Strange Otherworld, searched for Silver Fantasy, and escaped the chaos aboard the Coffin Beyond Time.
• Lynn told Light Banquet that Eve and the Dollhouse had been devoured and that he had brought chaos to the Atomic Revolution's underground core.
• Light Banquet sensed an atomic signal and discovered that the Atomic Revolution had reached 99 percent completion.
• Ether formed his upper body from gathering particles and told Lynn that he was about to die.

Light Banquet revealed that Ether had transferred the Atomic Revolution’s core into the General, preserving the unfinished ascension. Lynn escaped Ether’s attack with Light Banquet into his Inner Space, where they realized the revolution was missing only Miss Machine Intelligence’s fragment and that destroying Ether’s core before decentralization could stop him.

• Light Banquet sensed the Atomic Revolution’s core inside the General and explained that Ether had transferred it there to preserve the ascension.
• Ether unleashed a vast barrage of atomic machines, and Lynn escaped with Light Banquet into his System Space, losing much of his psionic body in the attack.
• Lynn activated the Trinity Frame and asked Light Banquet about the Atomic Revolution’s state.
• Light Banquet said the revolution had reached 99 percent completion and identified Miss Machine Intelligence’s fragment as the missing piece.
• Light Banquet explained that completing the revolution would decentralize Ether and make him extremely difficult to kill.
• Lynn concluded that destroying Ether’s core and main body before the ascension finished could stop the atomic machines.

Ether found Lynn through a fragment of his soul and attacked him in reality, while Silver Fantasy woke in a strange virtual space beside an unknown figure who said he was familiar to her. The chapter left Lynn facing an overwhelming wave of atomic machines and Silver Fantasy confronting the figure.

• Ether pierced Lynn’s System Space with a mercury-like spike and impaled Light Banquet.
• Lynn pulled Light Banquet into his Trinity Frame, escaped System Space, and discovered Ether had taken over his abandoned body using a fragment of his soul.
• Ether explained how he had tracked Lynn and sent the atomic machines converging on him as Lynn gripped the Trident.
• Silver Fantasy awoke on a virtual platform, remembered Dragon Head throwing her into the shattered Data Network, and cautiously searched the unfamiliar space.
• A figure appeared before Silver Fantasy, and she recoiled when he said, "It’s me."

Silver Fantasy learned that the aged figure was Karen, a remnant of Scholar who had rescued her and explained Ether’s rise and the nearly completed Atomic Revolution. She sought a way out to join her friend, convinced he would fight Ether to the death until he rescued his family.

• The aged figure revealed that he was Karen, the former Chief Governor of the Mechanical God Priest and a part of Scholar, and said he had saved Silver Fantasy in a Mathematical Rubik’s Cube.
• Karen explained that General had released the seventh Machine God to gain power, despite Karen’s warnings, and that Ether’s ambition had prompted the God of Ten Thousand Machines to suppress him.
• Silver Fantasy asked whether the Atomic Revolution had succeeded, and Karen said it was at 99% and Ether was searching for her permission to complete it.
• Karen warned that Silver Fantasy’s friend was fighting Ether but could not win, and that joining him could help Ether complete the revolution.
• Silver Fantasy searched for an exit, insisting that her friend would not retreat before rescuing his family and would fight to the death.

Lynn and the Witch God continued fighting Ether to prevent the Atomic Revolution from reaching its final ascension, while Silver Fantasy confronted the old man about whether the Machine Intelligence Civilization should resist Ether. She questioned whether her supposed weakness made her worthless.

• Lynn refused to retreat from Ether, warning the Witch God that leaving would expose Silver Fantasy and risk the Atomic Revolution's completion.
• The Witch God urged Lynn to withdraw as Ether grew stronger by devouring the matter around him, but Lynn told her to trust him and wait.
• Silver Fantasy argued that Ether would consume the Machine Intelligence Civilization, unlike the General, and asked whether that was the future they wanted.
• The old man admitted he did not want their civilization destroyed but doubted entrusting the Mechanical Church to Silver Fantasy.
• Silver Fantasy asked whether she was truly as worthless and weak as others claimed.