Search, Fight, Extract: I Sacrifice Knowledge to Become an Old One

[Loot, Shoot, Extract + Cthulhu Mythos] [Knowledge Sacrifice + Eldritch Transformation] [Gray Mist Apocalypse + Shelter Survival]

Earth underwent the Great Subsidence, and we fell into an eternal gray realm without a single star.

If you want to survive here, you’d better learn the rules.

The System gives you a set of coordinates every day, and you must follow the route.

Run off on your own, and the ever-present gray mist will “assimilate” you.

You have to get back to your cabin before dark, because the monsters in the “Dark Tide” clock in right on time, and they love knocking on doors.

Oh, and you also have to pay the System an “existence tax” every month. Can’t pay? Then you lose the right to “exist.”

This is a hopeless, eldritch “loot, shoot, extract” game, and everyone is expendable.

Li Yuan is no exception. That is, until he awakens the talent [██’s Copyist].

He can sacrifice knowledge.

The price is a meltdown of his sanity. The reward is... transformation into an eldritch being.

While everyone else shivers in the gray mist, Li Yuan realizes that to fight madness, you have to be more monstrous than the things lurking in the fog.

But there’s a catch to this talent.

Every time he makes a sacrifice, that knowledge is “permanently erased” from his mind. He can never understand or remember it again.

To survive, he keeps sacrificing, keeps growing stronger, and keeps “emptying” himself.

When he has sacrificed all his knowledge, even his “humanity,” is he still Li Yuan?

Or will he become the highest of all beings in the gray mist: an “Outer God”?