I Am the Orderkeeper at the End of the World

In 2049, humanity is in its thirtieth year of the interstellar age.

The Old Ones and the descendants of the Old Gods awaken from the cosmic fog, turning Earth into a battlefield for eldritch gods. Divine laws cripple the technological order, and billions of humans become sacrificial offerings to their believers.

The survivors establish three major powers: the domed cities on the surface, the interstellar refugee fleet, and the Asylum of Ordered Minds.

Lu Xun, an engineer from a domed city, is sent to this "crazies' camp" after accidentally encountering the apparition of a deity. The old man Chen, who wipes the walls, controls causality. Shen Qinghan, who plays chess against an unseen opponent, can reverse time. Su Nuo, who nibbles on bread, commands the laws of life.

The madness here is a way of interpreting divinity in reverse; the anomalies here are the price of awakening to the rules.

As the end-times fog engulfs civilization, Lu Xun must anchor fragments of the rules and become a Keeper of Order: not to destroy the gods, but to preserve humanity's last heart of order.