Traveling to the Cthulhu Mythos to Learn from the Outer Gods

Seeking pre-orders: Datang Tianwai Temple, Wisdom Life Game, and The Reborn CEO Says He'll Help Me Start a Business Blurb: Also known as The Unspeakable Gray Night The heroine, Ai Ye, was framed and killed, then awakened by a black cat she once saved. It asks whether she wants to make a pact with an evil god. The black cat tells Ai Ye that this world has its own Chosen Ones. Only they can thrive here, and all the wealthy and powerful people in this world are Chosen Ones. Unfortunately, Ai Ye isn't one of them, so no matter how hard she tries, she'll never succeed. But if she makes a pact with an evil god, she can become one of its followers, carry out the god's instructions, and eventually become a Child of God. The catch is that the world's chief god will hunt down the evil god's followers, so she'll have to flee to another plane for a while. Ai Ye: That's an option? I don't want to spend another day in this rotten world. Ai Ye makes a pact with the evil god and travels to a plane called Graylight City to temporarily escape the chief god's pursuit. Gray City is a metropolis combining Europe's electrical and industrial civilization with a modern Eastern aesthetic. The nights are long, divided into moonlit nights and moonless nights. The days are short, with a cold, gray light, and are known as Gray Days. The whole world is shrouded in a gray, indescribable mystery. The body Ai Ye transmigrates into belongs to a famous female detective in Gray City, also named Ai Ye. The System informs her that she has taken on a mysterious case. The victim's death is bizarre, the clues are concealed in cryptic riddles, and some indescribable terror lurks beneath Gray City's fog. The System tells Ai Ye that she must solve the case within a week, or her own life will be in danger. Ai Ye: This is even more baffling than a Kogoro Mouri case! Ai Ye also learns that the moonless nights, moonlit nights, and Gray Days correspond to the knowledge and supernatural abilities of the three evil god paths: Dark, Moon, and Gray. To become the ruler of power and wealth in this plane, a Child of God, she must master one path's evil god knowledge to the highest level. Ai Ye: Studying? I'm good at that. Learning is my golden finger. Can I study all three paths at once? System: The scholar who last had that idea has a tree growing on his grave, and it's already bearing fruit. Ai Ye doesn't know that the more one learns about these evil gods, the more likely one is to descend into madness. The Dark, Moon, and Gray paths also correspond to the evil gods of three separate planes. Once one's knowledge reaches a certain level, one can hear the evil gods whispering. Ai Ye: Every night, three men whisper in my ear... It's so distracting. As she uncovers more and more clues, she realizes that Gray City's secrets are far more complicated than they seem. An ancient book recording the city's eerie history comes into Ai Ye's possession. As the clues are gradually unraveled, people with supernatural abilities begin to emerge. Figures representing the royal family, capital, clans, parliament, and gangs all make their appearances. As capital and technology advance at a dizzying pace, the hidden currents stirred by the Old Ones grow ever more turbulent, and the whole world is caught in an inscrutable maelstrom. World setting: Europe in the age of electrical and industrial civilization, combined with a modern Eastern aesthetic: machinery, electricity, and industrialization. Mythology: The Cthulhu Mythos. Theme: Knowledge is power.