Lord of the Mysteries

Lord of the Mysteries is a long Western fantasy novel by Cuttlefish That Loves Diving, a platinum author at Yuewen Group. It was serialized on Qidian Chinese Network from April 1, 2018, to May 1, 2020, in 8 parts and 1,418 chapters, about 4.465 million characters. The story begins when college student Zhou Mingrui wakes up one night in another world: he has become Klein Moretti, a history graduate of Hoy University in the Kingdom of Loen, with an older brother and a younger sister, living in poverty and caught up in a crisis of life and death. To protect himself and to find a way back, he follows a mysterious ritual to "above the gray fog," accidentally ignites a crimson star, establishes the mysterious Tarot Club under the name "The Fool," and summons members including Miss "Justice" and "The Hanged Man." He is then introduced by Captain Dunn to join the Nighthawks squad guarding Tingen City, tracks down the whereabouts of the Antigonus family notebook, takes the "Seer" potion, and formally sets foot on the path of the extraordinary. The novel builds a system of settings including the "22 Pathways of the Gods," "Sequence advancement," and "Acting Method to digest potions," weaving together Victorian social atmosphere, the technological landscape of the Industrial Revolution, and Cthulhu-style nameless dread. It tells the long journey of an ordinary person advancing step by step between madness and reason while questioning the truth of the world. The work won the Fourth Chenggua Online Literature Award for one of the year's top ten works; its English edition has accumulated tens of millions of reads on WebNovel, and in 2024 it entered the British Library's Chinese collection.