Starting a Cult

[Volume 4: Complete]

[If you're rereading, please don't post spoilers! If you see a spoiler in the comments, please leave a separate comment on that chapter. I'll delete it when I see it. Sorry in advance!]

When Ye Qiliu woke up, he found that the dream he'd had last night seemed to have become reality.

The problem was, in his dream he'd put on the secret identity of an evil god, saved an abused child, killed a deranged, worthless father, and shot his way in and out of all kinds of trouble... Then, for good measure, he'd founded a cult.

Ye Qiliu: blank stare.jpg

The door to the mysterious world had opened. Wanted posters and hounds followed one after another, and every new believer seemed crazier than the last...

From then on, Ye Qiliu had to play the evil god and keep his followers from going berserk, while also being a good student, writing papers, making money, and growing his cult.

Much later, he would be seen as the mastermind manipulating the course of history. His followers would lay the heads of gods at his feet, just as the prophecy he'd witnessed at the very beginning foretold:

[You summon the living, mourn the dead, and shatter thunder. You can uncover the mysteries buried beneath layers of history and become the mystery itself.]

[The world will eventually fall, but before then, you will continue to ascend.]

Reader's Guide

※ The setting takes inspiration from the game Cultist Simulator, but the story is original.

※ A Cthulhu-inspired world in an alternate modern setting. Please don't read it as a reflection of reality.

※ Everyone on the protagonist's side is a little crazy. The characters' values do not represent the author's.

※ Related character designs are on Weibo. Once the cover is submitted, it will be replaced with a character illustration.

Here's a preview of a future book. After finishing Cult, I'm probably going to take half a year off before starting this one [...].

The title is awful and will probably change, so don't worry about it for now!

※ My Roommate Still Hasn't Revealed He's an Evil God Today

In the center of the steam age, the city of a thousand cities, Lundeniel, evil gods are everywhere and heretics are as common as dogs.

Second-rate detective Helios spends his days catching adulterers and thieves, and looking for lost cats and dogs. Every now and then, he gets tangled up with heretics.

One day, he rescued a man from a heretical hideout.

The man was handsome and eloquent, but seemed a little naive. He'd been swindled as soon as he arrived in London, and now he was penniless and unable to go home. All he wanted was for Helios to let him stay as a lodger for a while.

Knowing his new friend would surely get swindled again if he left, Helios readily agreed.

After six harmonious months living together, Helios slipped into the sacrificial ceremony of the largest heretical cult in London.

There he saw a familiar man seated high upon the divine throne, looking down at the vast, towering hall with an amused, disdainful smile.

Heretics knelt prostrate across the floor, trembling before the evil god.

Helios: "Wow."

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Of the many evil gods entrenched in London, Alastor was the most powerful and infamous. Every Old God wanted him dead.

The reason was simple: he was the god who represented capitalism.

The God of Capitalism. The gods could put him on a lamppost.

He should, in theory, have thought nothing of mortals, and hidden his identity only to toy with the man.

But the longer Alastor spent with the little detective, the more he felt something was off.

Beneath that cheerful, straightforward, lively, smiling exterior that brightened everyone's mood, the man himself seemed, perhaps, to be terrifying...

With a sense of impending doom, Alastor slipped away to attend his company's annual meeting. Halfway through chewing out his subordinates, he suddenly spotted his roommate behind them.

The man gazed at him with bright blue eyes and drawled, meaningfully, "Wow."

Alastor: ...Is there still time to order my subordinates to run?

Thesis: Solve students' mental health problems and join hands to create a better tomorrow