[Lord of the Mysteries] What a Coincidence, You're a Follower of the Fool Too?

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Ilya transmigrated into the game he'd just been playing.

The good news: he was a veteran combat-focused player, well versed in the abilities of every Pathway and the combat techniques of Beyonders.

The bad news: he was a skip-everything player who'd never read a single quest description. He knew nothing about the game's common knowledge of Beyonders or its history and culture, making him a veritable occult illiterate.

Before he could regret choosing the Chained Pathway, which was powerful in combat but came with a laundry list of drawbacks, Ilya realized something was wrong.

From the start, he was told he was Blessed by a goddess. An incomplete True God and an angel were bound to the space he carried with him. Whenever he walked down the street, cultists took him for "the Lord's apostle"...

So why did every god and angel he met seem to know me, and insist on making me an offer?

Wasn't I just an ordinary Fool believer who'd only just transmigrated? I don't want to be Blessed by three gods and a believer in three churches!

What on earth did my past self do, and who did he know?

A survivor of the Alfalfa Tragedy, Blessed of the Evernight Goddess, fanatical believer and Blessed of the Fool, whom Mr. Fool himself didn't even know, freelance member of the Nighthawks and Red Gloves, apostle of the Creator and one of its first followers, close friend of the former Emperor of Intis, Mr. Tower of the Tarot Club,

and also the King of Desire and Curses, ruler of the aberrant and the abyss, master of the Shadow World...

Ilya Galahad sighed deeply:

First, there isn't room for all of you here.

Second, since things have come to this, let's praise the kind, great, lofty, and benevolent Mr. Fool first.

When two fellow transmigrators recognized each other and shared what they'd learned, eventually talking about their faith since arriving in this world:

Ilya: Then let's believe together in our beacon and savior, Mr. Fool, who exists in the past, present, and future...

Klein, who was Mr. Fool himself: Should I praise the Fool too?

Ilya: Yes!

Klein: ...Should I become a believer of the Fool too?

Ilya, again: Yes!

[He came from an unspeakable era, wandering through a wilderness teeming with aberrations;

He once walked in the Creator's divine kingdom, playing hymns to the Savior of humanity;

He witnessed light spread across the world, and watched the gods rebel and the Sun fall;

He followed fallen and twisted gods, remaining silent as nations rose and fell, before turning his gaze back to the world in an era when fate was anchored]

[At the world's end, he saw the remnants of civilization, watched a great tree woven from shadows connect heaven and earth, traveled through the dreams of all living things, and witnessed the false return of an ancient era. A blazing seraph with wings of flesh descended from the sky, and here, too, he became a god.]

PS:

1. I've tried to stay faithful to the lore. The setting comes from Lord of the Mysteries and Cuttlefish's official account. Any OOC moments are on me. I'll explain the more complicated bits of canon when they come up. I hope you all enjoy reading!

2. The protagonist remains on the Chained Pathway and never changes Pathways. The Prisoner Pathway and the Bound Pathway are both other names for the Chained Pathway.

3. No System. The protagonist hasn't read the novel and doesn't know the plot. He's an ordinary Earth native.

4. The protagonist's abilities lean toward evil, but he himself is upright and has strong morals.

5. I'll save people when it makes sense.

6. The character design is from Nika Qianlin, and commercial rights have been purchased.

[Coming Soon]

[Lord of the Mysteries: I Really Want to Be Mr. Fool's Dog]: I transmigrated into a demon wolf, but that doesn't change how much I want to be Mr. Fool's dog. You're right, but a person can be Mr. Fool's dog and build him churches and write his holy scriptures at the same time. (Second-run Klein x a transmigrator who's Mr. Fool's biggest fan)

[Lord of the Mysteries: Death Loop, but with the Fool]: It starts with a cult, and my golden finger is a death loop. No problem. But what do you mean my save point is Klein? (A hapless guy stuck in a death loop meets the god he was destined to find.)

[Lord of the Mysteries: Fanatic Believer Simulator]: Hunters and Medici / Secrets Suppliants and the True Creator / Corpse Collectors and the Death Archon / Sleepless and the Evernight Goddess / Vampires and Lilith / Spectators and Adam. This is the bond between us fanatical believers and the ones we worship! (I want to write fanfic about the history of Lord of the Mysteries!)

[Lord of the Mysteries: What's Wrong with a Physical Outer Deity?]: I transmigrate into the universe's most stat-heavy, highest-damage, and only sci-fi Outer Deity, the Supernova Dominator. How do I become an Old One-level double agent, elbow my mysterious mechanic siblings, then defect to Earth and praise the Fool? (I forgot what came before and after. Anyway, please support Mr. Fool!)

Theme: After struggling with myself for so long, I'd rather be myself.