Chapter Summaries

Jing used her [Instant Death] Sequence on Lin En, but he revealed that the curse could not kill him because he came from the Warp. He overpowered Jing and offered her a chance to join him, leaving her decision unknown.

• Jing activated [Instant Death], apparently killing Lin En, but the Sequence's backlash shattered her porcelain shell and left her badly injured.
• Jing approached Lin En's body and prepared to cut off his head, only for Lin En to open his eyes and seize her wrist.
• Lin En explained that [Instant Death] did not work on him because he came from the Warp, then lifted Jing by the neck.
• Lin En told Jing that her Sequence was powerful against beings of her own level and offered to protect her if she pledged loyalty to him.

Lin En uncovered White Rose’s past as a human child whose Sequence had caused a deadly fire, then used the vengeful spirits she protected to pressure her into submission. Salgon presented the captured spirits and threatened to eat them, leaving White Rose horrified and Lin En appalled by his servant’s tactics.

• White Rose resisted Lin En and threatened to expose his existence to the human Church rather than submit.
• Lin En read Salgon’s report and identified White Rose as a survivor of a church fire in Clockwork City that killed or injured hundreds, including orphans.
• Lin En deduced that White Rose had caused the tragedy through her Sequence and now sheltered the children’s vengeful spirits to atone.
• Children’s screams came from the church, and Salgon emerged with over a hundred captured vengeful spirits trapped in a net.
• Salgon threatened to eat the spirits unless White Rose pledged loyalty to Lin En, while Lin En silently objected to Salgon’s cruel approach.

The girl agreed to become Lin En’s servant to save the captured children, but Lin En released her and left her a Holy Flame magic circle that could awaken or purify the young wraiths. He departed with Salgon, leaving her bewildered and free to decide what to do.

• The lucid child wraith urged the girl not to sacrifice her freedom, reminding her that the children had chosen death rather than become their killers’ accomplices.
• The girl agreed to serve Lin En and begged him to release the children, but Lin En let her go and healed her injuries.
• Lin En told Salgon to pack up the net and head home, then created a Holy Flame magic circle that could awaken the wraiths or purify them into dust.
• Lin En left without explaining further, and Salgon abandoned the net to hurry after him.
• The girl remained behind, staring at the glowing magic circle and wondering what Lin En had done.

Mirror freed the trapped spirits and tested the Holy Flame, discovering it healed her burned arm and lifted the curse tormenting her. Lin En left without enslaving her, explaining to Salgon that loyal allies were more valuable than coerced subordinates.

• Mirror released the Young Spirits from the net and checked that they were unharmed.
• Mirror approached the Holy Flame and thrust her hand into it despite the spirits' warnings.
• The Holy Flame restored Mirror's burned arm and removed the curse that had afflicted her for over a decade.
• Salgon questioned Lin En about leaving after Mirror had been defeated and could have been enslaved.
• Lin En warned Salgon that forced subordinates would harbor resentment and could become dangerous enemies.
• Salgon concluded that winning Mirror's heart was better than subduing her, leaving Lin En at a loss for words.

Lin En left the girl he had defeated a magic formation to purify the children’s resentment, then tried to walk away while Salgon mistook his actions for a calculated plan. The girl followed Lin En and demanded to know why he had helped her and why he could wield Holy Flame, ending by asking, “Don’t you want me?”

• Salgon convinced himself Lin En had spared the girl as part of a scheme to win her loyalty, while Lin En grew irritated at his assumptions.
• The girl emerged from the black mist and followed Lin En and Salgon after Lin En cleared the mist away.
• Lin En told the girl he had already spared her and asked why she was following him, then ordered Salgon to leave with him.
• The girl said the magic formation had purified the resentment of more than a dozen children and asked why Lin En had helped them.
• The girl explained that Holy Flame had never helped the undead before and asked Lin En why he could use it.
• The girl approached the territory’s boundary, could not cross it, and asked Lin En, “Don’t you want me?”

Lin En tried to let the girl go out of genuine kindness, but his warning about the dangers ahead convinced her to become his servant instead. As Salgon interpreted Lin En’s actions as a brilliant scheme, Lin En welcomed the girl into his gang and asked whether she wanted a salary.

• Lin En warned the girl that growing stronger would draw enemies and urged her to look after herself.
• The girl asked to become Lin En’s servant so he could protect her and the children, explaining that she trusted him more than the other monsters she had met.
• Salgon’s admiration for Lin En reached its maximum, and he believed Lin En had deliberately made the girl beg to submit.
• Lin En checked that the girl was sure, welcomed her into his gang, and asked if she needed a salary.

Mirror returned to the Young Spirits and revealed that she had chosen to become Lin En’s servant in exchange for his protection and help restoring them. Lin En purified the Young Spirits by forcing them through the magic circle, and the chapter ended with Anna changing her tune when he offered her ten Spirit Coins.

• Mirror returned with Lin En and Salgon and told the Young Spirits she had chosen to serve Lin En.
• Mirror explained that their weakness put them in danger and that Lin En promised to protect them and help fulfill their wish.
• Lin En threatened the Young Spirits into lining up and jumping through the magic circle while Salgon scooped them out.
• The purified Young Spirits regained their awareness and received Spirit Coins from Lin En as they came through the line.
• Anna insisted Lin En could not buy her loyalty with one Spirit Coin, then embraced Mirror when he tossed her ten.

Lin En purified the Young Spirits, exploited their anger to harvest emotional fragments, and purified Mirror despite her deep resentment. He promised to help her investigate her past, then admitted he had stopped her from looking down because he was naked beneath his robe.

• Lin En purified the Young Spirits and made them call him Dad while holding Mirror, earning a surge of emotional fragments from their anger.
• Lin En apologized to Mirror, then urged her to enter the magic circle for purification.
• As Mirror's purification revealed her body, Lin En shot Salgon unconscious so she could continue without worrying about him.
• Lin En added more fire to the magic circle until it cleared Mirror's deep resentment, and Mirror emerged purified.
• Lin En covered Mirror with his robe and offered to help investigate her past, then explained he had told her to look up because he was naked underneath.

Lin En and the Young Spirits burned down the Church to break the curse binding them there, then Lin En gathered an Undead Army and prepared to recruit Lilith. In the Second Layer of the Spirit Realm, Lilith was interrupted while playing with tentacles and attacked the Snake Woman who brought her news.

• Mirror chose to burn the Church, and Lin En used the Holy Flame to free the Deathbound Spirits from its curse.
• Mirror thanked Lin En for honoring her request, and her loyalty toward him increased.
• Lin En celebrated completing the first phase of his mission with Salgon, White Rose, and more than a hundred Child Soldiers behind him.
• Salgon told Lin En that Lilith was their next target and warned that her unusual kinks might require a small sacrifice.
• A Snake Woman rushed into Lilith's palace with news of an intruder, and Lilith seized her and threatened to make her play.

Lin En confronted Salgon over his plan to win Lilith’s favor, then entered her palace with Salgon and Mirror. Lilith welcomed them while secretly planning to take their valuables and kill them, and asked whether they had brought her toys.

• Lin En beat Salgon with a stool after learning that his proposed way to win Lilith over involved catering to her preferences.
• Snake Women emerged from the poisonous miasma and escorted Lin En, Salgon, and Mirror to Lilith’s palace.
• Lilith ordered her Snake Women to take the visitors’ toys and kill them, telling them to eat Lin En if he had nothing she wanted.
• Lin En entered the hall and insisted to Salgon that he was not a lolicon while Salgon defended his choices as efficient.
• Lilith examined Lin En and his companions, then asked whether they had brought her any nice toys.

Salgon brought Lin En and Mirror to Lilith to offer her a chance to swear allegiance, but his crude pitch provoked her to attack them. Lilith proved strong enough to cut through Lin En’s tentacles and charged at his exposed body.

• Salgon told Lilith that his master wanted her allegiance and claimed Lin En was exactly her type.
• Lilith laughed at Salgon’s approach, then ordered the Snake Women to kill the visitors.
• Lin En defeated the Snake Women with his tentacles, prompting Lilith to show interest in him and challenge him to prove he was stronger than her.
• Lilith attacked Lin En with a scarlet scythe, severing his tentacles despite their reinforced density.
• Lilith broke through Lin En’s defenses and swung her scythe at his exposed body.

Lin En transformed into his terrifying true form and defeated Lilith, then she used her soul ability to invade his mental world. There, she encountered the full scale of his essence and faced the danger her father had warned her about.

• Lin En reattached his severed body, then unleashed his true form as his five-second limit approached.
• Lin En struck Lilith once, shattering her limbs and leaving her alive in a crater.
• Lin En offered Lilith the chance to become his subordinate, but she activated her Soul-Eroding Serpent Shadow ability instead.
• Lilith entered Lin En's mental world and saw the colossal being at the heart of his soul.

After Lilith entered Lin En’s thoughts and suffered severe soul damage, Mirror found she could not heal the contamination from his aura. Lin En attempted Mirror’s proposed remedy himself, leaving Lilith’s soul reacting violently.

• Lin En asked Lilith what she saw, but the sight of his true form overwhelmed her and apparently cracked her soul.
• Lin En carried Lilith from the crater as Salgon and the others discovered her bleeding and unconscious.
• Mirror tried to treat Lilith, but contamination saturated with Lin En’s aura blocked her power.
• Mirror proposed opening Lilith’s skull and reaching her soul through her brain, so Lin En asked whether he could use another method.
• Lin En performed the so-called “Whale suction” on Lilith, who abruptly woke and struggled as if her soul were being pulled from her body.

Lin En struggled to remove the corruption his soul had embedded in Lilith, while her guards mistook his efforts for an assault. After Lilith woke and eagerly clung to him, she revealed that she wanted to become his possession because she considered serving an Outer God her greatest honor.

• The Snake Women broke into Lilith’s palace and found Lin En holding her while her guards lay unconscious, so they charged at him and his companions.
• Lin En continued using his secret art to remove the corruption embedded in Lilith’s soul while Salgon and Mirror subdued the Snake Women.
• After Lin En finished, Lilith woke and asked him to keep kissing her, then threw her arms around him and said she wanted him to treat her roughly.
• Mirror intervened and held Lilith at swordpoint, demanding to know what she was planning.
• Lilith said she had accepted Lin En’s attention and was willing to become his possession, calling it the honor she had always dreamed of.

Lin En secured Lilith's allegiance, though her obsessive desire to bear his children unsettled him. After Lilith and Mirror fought over an insult, Lin En stopped them and ordered Lilith to respect the Gang's senior members, leaving him with a willing but troubling new servant.

• Lilith eagerly offered herself to Lin En, while he recoiled from her intense, invasive attention.
• Mirror challenged Lilith's loyalty, and Lilith insulted her as barren, provoking the two to fight.
• Lin En separated Mirror and Lilith, then told Lilith to obey him and respect the Gang's senior members.
• Lilith agreed to follow Lin En's orders and immediately offered to help him produce children, leaving him uncomfortable.

Lin En assigned Salgon, Mirror, and Lilith roles in expanding his forces, then prepared to give them the authority of his Emotion Devourer skill. The chapter ended as he agreed to bestow the ability on one of his followers.

• Lin En ordered Salgon to prove his worth by helping expand the group’s forces.
• Lin En appointed Mirror his second servant and told her to help Salgon settle her followers in his territory.
• Lin En made Lilith his third servant and warned her against stirring up internal disputes.
• Lin En accidentally exposed himself while turning around, then kicked Salgon for arguing when he asked for trousers.
• Lin En announced that sustaining him should be the followers’ priority and agreed to bestow his Emotion Devourer skill on one of them.

Lin En gave Salgon, Lilith, and Mirror the ability to see emotions and tasked them with collecting Emotional Fragments to sustain him. As Salgon and Lilith devised ways to gather fragments, Mirror asked to experiment in the real world and hoped to bring Lin En positive emotions in return for the kindness he had shown her.

• Lin En claimed to grant his followers the ability to see emotions, and Mirror found a fear fragment that had fallen from her.
• Lin En explained that he could consume any emotions, including positive ones, and Mirror asked whether positive emotions could help him become a True God.
• Lin En ordered Salgon, Lilith, and Mirror to learn their ability and prepare factories and production lines for gathering Emotional Fragments.
• Lilith and Salgon eagerly proposed ways to collect large quantities of fragments, while Lin En worried about their extreme plans.
• Mirror asked Lin En for permission to experiment in the real world and decided to bring him something positive in return for the fire he had once lit for her.

Lin En returned from the Spirit Realm with Salgon, reunited with Hana Ye, and prepared for a likely ambush in the real world. After emerging from a Spirit Realm Overlay, he noticed the Sun had dimmed further and hurried toward school.

• Lin En warned Mirror, Lilith, and Salgon not to reveal his identity or cause trouble while they acted in the real world.
• Lin En returned to the Grand Graveyard with Salgon, where Hana Ye greeted him and asked whether he had recruited two powerful lords.
• Salgon gave Lin En files about their squad and Shakira’s undercover intelligence, and Lin En explained that he expected enemies to use a welcome feast as a trap.
• Lin En emerged from a Spirit Realm Overlay with Hana Ye and escaped a changing room after a woman called him a pervert.
• Lin En observed that the Sun had grown smaller, then hurried toward school with Hana Ye.

Lin En went to the Arcane Academy with Hana Ye, expecting the Exorcists to suspect him of Shakira’s death and the reality collapse. The academy’s trap activated at the gates, and the Exorcists surrounded him as their prime suspect.

• Lin En changed into dry clothes after taking two gold coins from Hana Ye, then brought her toward the Arcane Academy despite expecting an arrest.
• Lin En told Hana Ye that he was an officially certified Divine Chosen and had nothing to fear because he was innocent.
• Headmaster Anthony learned that Shakira had been killed, Lin Ke’s clothing fragments were found near her body, and Reality Reversion had detected no clues even at the fifth tier.
• The Exorcists prepared to seize Lin Ke after secretly sealing off places he might visit, and their formation activated when he arrived at the academy gates.
• Black-robed Exorcists surrounded Lin En and aimed mithril crossbow bolts at him, while Lin En confirmed his identity.

Lin En was brought before Anthony and accused of Shakira’s murder and of being connected to the Great Demon behind the Spirit Bell incidents. He confessed to killing Shakira and revealed that he was the Great Demon.

• Anthony ordered Lin Ke and Hana Ye brought into the hall, where Hana defended Lin En and Anthony questioned him about his whereabouts.
• Anthony presented evidence linking Lin En to Shakira’s death, the reality collapse in the Southern District, Gear Street, and an Evil Spirit’s fear of him.
• Lin En dismissed the accusations and claimed he had been attacked near Gear Street and was simply going home.
• As the Exorcists prepared to strike, Lin En admitted that he had killed Shakira and declared that he was the Great Demon.