Honkai x LOTM: Godish of Mysteries

2013 March 4th

'IT HURTS.'

'IT HURTS'

'IT HURTS'

'WHO MISSES A DIRECT SHOT IN THE HEAD!'

In a darkened room filled with stacks of neatly stacked bookshelves and paperwork an individual seated in a chair, his expression filled with anguish eyes bloodshot, and elbow constantly hitting the table to ease his suffering.

His head throbbed with veins protruding red crimson and his eyes deepened with crimson. It felt like hell to the man, his hands shaking as and trembling as if a rusty spoon was shoved into his brain, prodding and scooping out all that gray brain matter.

After a while, the man's action stopped to a halt as the pain subsided, and his head not bulging with throbbing veins of blood. 

"Ha...Ha...Ha, It finally stopped."

His chest ached as he breathed to his heart's content as the torture pounding at his skull cleared but it didn't take too long to realize where he was and the current situation.

The familiar room housed several shelves adorned with documents and books. A mirror was on the side of the room to see one's appearance. As sunlight drifted into the room, numerous windows peered outside, and fluffy white clear clouds drifted outside.

Lin touched his face, and his hands grasped the unnatural smooth face, akin to something synthetic but real enough to deceive the eyes.

He took a long gaze at the mirror, and what reflected in his eyes was a man with long, lush blonde hair tied into a ponytail, emerald eyes that shone a dull green, and an outfit from the 15th Century.

He blinked twice and uttered in disbelief.

"Dogshit! Did I transmigrate? Honkai Impact 3rd...Just before the Third Eruption in Nagazora and as a Clown?"

The main antagonist of the First Part of Honkai Impact 3rd is a man fueled by his desire to revive his dear beloved childhood friend who instead falls in love with a pink-haired shrine maiden.

Seeing his reflection Lin lampooned in his heart with an elated depressing laughter.

'First day in and I already am wearing a green hat...'

Before he transmigrated, Lin Doe had a less-than-special childhood. His parents left him behind on a park street, and then a passerby took him to an orphanage.

The owner was a kind old man with a smile that could brighten up the world until he realized he was a greedy bastard, embezzling the donation money to his wallet, using cheap materials to build everything, and cutting costs for the orphanage's living conditions. 

The taste of moldy hard bread and grass soup still lingered in his mouth.

Having lived there for years he learned the harshness of the world but also a valuable lesson.

How can one scheme and plan someone's downfall? So he collected all evidence of Mr. Fox's misdeeds and submitted it to the nearby police department with a toothy smile...

He vividly remembered that day when he was seated in the back of a police crusher ready to comfort that greedy old man and save his fellow orphans from there but that delusion immediately broke as those cops in uniform started to have a friendly chat with the gray-haired as if they were old friends.

It seemed that sly Mr. Fox was bribing the entire department with goddamn tax-free money and so he was immediately beaten up by that crappy old man and shoved in the basement being barely fed with a single cup of water each day.

Luckily Mr. Fox didn't tie him up and only beat him with an inch of his life so that he couldn't even move a finger. 

The basement was damp and moist enough that the air tasted of watery musk. One side of the underground was mostly untouched junk covered in dust. The most important thing was some broken table legs nearby so the most reasonable development was to light a fire in the basement to get out of there.

Then boom he got out by rubbing the legs together, starting a fire, then throwing it at the door.

He didn't forget to fake his death by throwing one of his shirts into it...Knowing Mr. Fox, he couldn't search for some measly kid who had gotten some evidence.

Now having escaped from that forsaken place he had to get an identity and the usual fraud from what he gained from watching all those crime shows.

It was easy since the old man didn't even register him into anything.

So he took the name Bin Joe...It was quite foolish of him to choose that name but hiding in plain sight was the best choice and no one would expect a child to be idiotic enough to register with that absurd name.

After that to make a living he went around to various places finding odd jobs like working in a fast food where he had a specific job in placing fried potatoes in a paper bag or frying a flour-covered bird until golden brown.

Having worked in several places for years he finally got the opportunity to work at a paper company and acquire a proper position.

Being an office worker was quite tiring once you got into the jest of it. He made some friends with his Co-workers but most of them tended to work instead of making conversation.

With all the less free time he had and the amount of work piling up, gambling was always the one thing that kept his sanity fully refilled.

Not the usual popular attractions like a Casino or Lotteries but instead for collecting those sweet beautiful PNGs called a Gacha game.

He didn't know if this was a dream come true or a complete nightmare to be Transformed into a not-so-safe 'World' called Honkai Impact 3rd and its numerous connected games, Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail.

Lin had read numerous works of individuals being reincarnated, transmigrated, or sent into their favorite story but being too realistic he was quite...F*cked and mostly likely going to die like Himeko if he didn't focus.

His eyes turned blank as he examined himself in a nearby mirror where a blonde man with dull emerald eyes and a face of arrogance reflected towards his own eyes.

Lin touched his face and pinched hard to see if this was reality, he even punched himself to see if he could ever feel pain. 

He was in Honkai Impact 3rd as Otto Apocalypse.

He was sent away from Planet Earth into this hellscape, which was also called Planet Earth. Even the Solar System was completely the same except for the Moon being haunted by a Cocoon along with the rest of the planets being ruins of several ancient high-tech civilizations.

He could no longer live his comfortable life with insurance and everything.

Well, things were bad for him, the incoming Honkai Eruptions and Herrschers would be a struggle to deal with. 

In Honkai Impact 3rd, the World was quite similar to the World Lin came from, but now the difference was...He was in it.

Earth in the Honkai Universe was plagued with a worldwide disaster known as Honkai. It could take the form of natural disasters, plagues, monsters, and even people themselves known as Herrschers, beings with abilities akin to Gods. Its main purpose is to wipe out civilizations.

Honkai is also a form of Energy which you guessed is called Honkai Energy. It's one of the most beneficial things to come from Honkai but a byproduct of it invading Earth.

The Honkai is extremely corrupted without any proper use or equipment and to add to that...Honkai when in contact with any living or nonliving being will automatically corrupt it turning it into an aggressive being who will attack anyone.

Humans will turn into Zombies, and can even evolve into Zombies with wielding weaponry. Animals in some cases will turn into evolved beasts corrupted with Honkai Energy. 

When Honkai Energy is overloaded into an area an Outbreak occurs in which Honkai Energy runs wild, corrupting and spawning Honkai Beasts. When the surging energy reaches a higher point an Eruption occurs, a great event in which a Herrscher spawns, a direct Apostle of the Honkai and a former human taken over by the Honkai...

A Herrscher can be born first and then cause an Eruption but it's mostly rare.

As for a more in-depth topic about the Honkai...Lin would have to exposition dump himself later he needs to adjust his mind first.

Luckily, he gained the mind of this body and the most important things.

Otto Apocalypse had money and lots of it to the point of fueling Theresa's spending habits of buying Bitter Melon juice and funding several Valkryie schools while at the same time running a whole organization that runs the World called Schicksal and is one of the fighting forces against the threat of the Honkai.

Having looked through the memories of this Overseer, he winced at the number of plans and scheming this bastard planned. Otto was seen as a villain, anti-hero, or anti-villain in the game...One thing was clear he was one manipulative schemer and a patient one at that.

One of his longest plans was to make Herrscher regain their Humanity with the use of the bonds of friendship and love, having a teacher to properly guide them then break their peaceful life to a reality of hardship to further grow the Herrscher into a weapon for Humanity or a Hero in any case.

Now he was that same bastard with all those wretched memories. His stomach bubbled as he kept on viewing everything about Otto's memories as a Spectator. The blonde man with dazzling green eyes was 500 hundred years old...Lin clinched his face to face the incoming torrent of information about punching him

Within his mind, Lin was soon facing windows showcasing various scenes and each one was colored differently, most were blackened cold, others were with a warming pulse and lastly, the one that shined the brightest was with white lights shining akin to stars that engulfed everything

The first window was a moment of his birth born in the year 1452 when he first saw that light and those warm eyes as his Mother's face shined with pure joy seeing her child in her arms. Cries murmur from the baby and the mother sings a sweet tune to calm him down, her voice echoing throughout the chapel.

In another, that same child bowling his eyes with tears as he learned of his Mother's death, and the world around turned into a dull color. His face smeared with tears as he attended the funeral. That light and warmth from her was put asunder by the cruelty of this world now covered in gray.

Another window appeared, and his siblings sneer at his actions, and his weakness to properly live like them because of his weak body.

Those piercing eyes of his sister Risa who smiled at him while behind a mask as she stared down at him like a chess piece.

The words of his Brothers at his inability to wield a blade prickled at him like needles.

Nights of him staying in his room constantly working on inventing to avoid that reality and hands always covered in blisters.

His life as a child was as gray as nihilism itself, a dysfunctional family filled with neglect and politics, what a dreaded place to be.

A toy plane flying through the sky and over that gray-brick wall, fell to the ground into the unknown.

The boy climbed with all his might as his brother mocked him with a sneering voice.

"You'll never get over that wall. You're hardly strong enough."

The Inventor didn't care and climbed over it, but to no avail; it was futile, and his hands were now covered in scratches.

Gazing at that high wall reaching the heavens, his face scowled in sadness—that is until he saw a white girl with orbs of blue light in her eyes.

It was a changing moment for Otto, the first time he saw that light again...A soon-to-be friend named Kallen Kaslana and his first love.

The memories constantly flickered as Lin watched with blank sunken eyes. He knew about Otto's story in-game but now experiencing his emotions, experiences, and life...It made his heart shake for a bit.

Regret as he released those Honkai Beasts to save Kallen from execution and ashamed of falling for his older sister's scheme for power, her smirking constantly in his eyes.

He felt despair as Kallen died right in his eyes protecting a girl from an Honkai Beast. Its claw pierced into her chest whilst smiling dying in the end as a Kaslana.

The scenes soon fast forward as the innocent Inventor was no more and now the Overseer of Schicksal took over. He has the sole purpose of bringing Kallen back to life to correct the one regret he made.

His eyes were lifeless as he spent his days finding ways to bring back Kallen Kaslana...He made an Android in a spitting image of her named Amber it was a failure so he made another being made from the genes of Kallen and so he forced them to force...The outcome was that the clone named Theresa spared the deficit.

Lin passed through another window, He felt arrogance as he stabbed a spear into the Father of Joachim and fought the First Herrscher of Reason, Welt Joyce in New York.

This led to the creation of Anti-Entropy to oppose him and Schicksal along with the passing of Welt Joyce's Herrscher core of Reason to the small boy named Joachim Nokianvirtanen.

He kept on taking in everything and with the overflow of memories piercing into him...He didn't lose his sense of self...He was Lin Doe an orphanage with an obsession with gacha...Not the Overseer of Schicksal who loved his childhood friend to death.

The next window appeared like a train and crashed into him...It was when one of his experimental zones was called Babylon Tower established in Siberian and took children to experiment for Honkai Resistance.

It led to the creation of the Second Herrscher, the Herrscher of Void, and the most dangerous Honkai Eruption to the current point. Once Ott discovered this was set on using the Herrscher to revive Kallen and even the cost of millions dying because of his actions.

In the war with the Herrscher of Void and realizing the risk of disrupting his plans, soon the sensation of pressing a button to fire off Honkai Fission bombs toward Siberian, killing the Herrscher and his strongest Valkriye.

As those memories passed a single fragmented window came into view a blonde man walking towards a tree made of blinding lights.

This wasn't from the Overseer of Schicksal but from Lin's memories and experience of playing Honkai Impact 3rd.

He ran toward the distant horizon as several darkened beasts rushed toward him. With his might, the Fool fought them off with False Divine Keys of gold and after the battle, he made his way onto that imaginary tree placing his fragile charred fingers onto that trunk of imaginary light.

His figure and body flicker as he slowly disappears into motes of light.

"This is the most selfish thing one can do."

A Shooting Star appeared in the eyes of the Saintess Kallen Kaslana

Thus Spoke Apocalypse.

Lin stopped his steps in his mind and closed his eyes returning to reality. The sensation of being back in his seat let him breathe a sigh of relief. 

He leaned back into a comfortable position and digested the memories and scenes he saw. 

Those moments of emotions almost broke him...Five Hundred Years of coldly looking at the world through the eyes of this foul wretched man made Lin want to throw up in disgust but he couldn't since he wasn't even "Human" anymore.

The experiments and cloning of his beloved, Kallen Kaslana, and the crimes he committed all for the "good of the world." The number of corpses of a white-haired girl piled up and all of their cold dreaded eyes as they stared at him and he looked back with a blank face. 

Only when the Clown saw a white-haired Kaslana wake up in a tube full of green fluid did he finally smile at the being named K-423 and that poor girl soon to be delved in a script all for that man's selfish goal. A clone of the Herrscher of Void made from the genes of his strongest Valkyrie and a Kaslana. 

Even as the bitter cold memories settled in, there was a distant corner where orbs of warmth still held up. Those were the good memories when Otto Apocalypse truly was a morally just man.

The times running an orphanage and taking care of all of the children filled up the hole in his heart when Kallen was taken away from him on his own. Fighting against his Sister Risa to take control of Schicksal and to build as a way to fight against the Honkai.

His face contorted into a self-deprecating smile like a Clown from having experienced everything that blonde bastard went through!

"What a crappy Overseer...Cloning your beloved to fill up that hole in your heart, experimenting on the innocent, and causing an entire Eruption for your goal! I can respect your grit and determination but I won't use those methods of yours to protect this 'World'! 

You saw didn't you Clown bastard, Kallen lived in that new Branch of yours but at what cost? Millions are dead because of you...Lives tragedy ended and people were stripped away from their humanity. 

Hahaha, like I am any better! The real reason people despised you in this game wasn't the millions of people you murdered but the amount of pain you caused to our beloved Characters! I'd be an even bigger hypocrite if I didn't admit that! 

The Previous Era was wrong Rational isn't the way for Humanity to win against the Honkai...It's Human Kindness and keeping that Humanity is the way to transcend Finality! I don't care if someone calls me a Sinner or Wretch because I'll become an even bigger Fool than you, a Suffer who decided to stick with their Humanity. 

Who cares about becoming a Saint or Savior, I am neither just a gambling gacha addict who shed a tear when his favorite drunken hair teacher dropped into the endless void, a flat-chested bird being shot in the head, a Kaslana sending her in the sky with a bomb, watching a young girl seal herself in the Sea and a Pink Elf sacrificing herself for the future of Humanity.

Come watch me as I miss up your entire plan, enjoy the bloody show as I shove a gun in that Cocoon's Hole of an eye."

Lin muttered to himself with a calm sensation as if he were waiting for someone's response to his sneering mockery.

An imaginary sudden voice called out to him, a familiar tone of melancholy and acceptance.

'Alright...'

Lin didn't know if he was hallucinating or if this was real but it sent shivers down his spine. Otto Apocalypse responded...He only said that to mock him not for the Clown himself to call out in gratitude.

He started to laugh manically hearing that voice

'Oh god, what if I had said something outrageous before this...' 

A sense of burden was lifted off his shoulders and the overwhelming resentment was culled into a tranquil calming wave.

He looked at the nearby mirror and noticed those once dull emerald eyes seemed to gain back their luster. That once arrogant smirk was now a gentle demeanor of contentment. 

Lin clinched his gloved white hands and stared at the reflection of himself. He felt quite nervous being put in this situation but knowing how his favorite characters suffered from this man's schemes his eyes glared with determination he had to suck it all up and had to move forward.

'Might as well laugh through all this suffering!'

As emerald eyes reflected against the nearby mirror and that arrogant handsome-looking face...This wasn't fiction, this was his reality and most importantly he was now Otto Apocalypse...The most Foolish man.

He didn't have to be a Hero nor a Villian but a Fool who'll still help his dear Herrschers. There was no need for him to go with Otto's original plan of breaking down Kiana and hammering her down with angst to turn her into a Herrscher to fight for Humanity.

Instead, why not go for the lighter approach of directly training Kiana to become a Herrscher of Finality without...All the shooting of one of your classmates in the head.

So the first step to achieving a better ending, Otto stood from his seat and tried calling out one of his most important assets.

"Void Archives."

After a moment there was only silence, the Divine Key made from the Previous Era seemed unresponsive.

Otto put a hand on his chin unsure how to approach this, it seemed after transmigrated he lost that voice in his head.

Void Archive is a library that holds all the knowledge and blueprints of the Previous Era made by the one and only Magician, Vill-V. 

The Previous Era was a time before 50,000 years ago, in which Humanity reached the peak of its technical logical development but then the Honkai came in...With so much evidence it's clear the Honkai came during the Previous Era...In which that Era had its own Honkai Eruptions and Herrschers.

There were 13 Herrschers before the Final Herrscher came and was about to reset the planet into nothingness until the efforts of P.E stopped that reset and gave the next generation a chance against the Honkai setting up plans for the next Era to defeat the Honkai.

One of the things the P.E. gave to the current Era were weapons called Divine Keys made from Herrscher Cores. A Herrscher had an Authority in which they called to manipulate a fundamental law or concept by the use of drawing power from a core within themselves.

The previously mentioned Void Archives was made from the Previous Era's Herrscher of Reason Core one of its abilities is that it could Mimic any Divine Key from what was stored in its database but at the cost of being severely times weaker than any normal Divine Key and not being able to use its Zeroth Power...An ultimate trump card of a Divine Key.

Otto latched out his hand and concentrated a shape in his mind, a gun-shaped with lines of synthetic flames and a barrel of a rectangle.

A golden warm light flashed in the room and condensed into the same image in his mind.

In his gloved hand was the Judgement of Shamash made from the P.E. Herrscher of Fire, a weapon made to combat Herrschers and even slay them but this was only a copy. 

Still, Otto admired the falsified gun in his hand and muttered to himself softly. 

"So no snarky voice...That's a plus. I wonder if I can make a mini firing square out of this and have them float beside myself."

Seeing that he had his Divine Key intact Otto decided to try an experiment that every cliche transmigration story has.

"Open Status..." 

Nothing.

"System."

Nothing.

"The taste of Herrscher Cores isn't bad!"

Nothing...But his institution foretold that would have work.

"Open Starter Gift."

In disappointment, Otto shook his head as nothing appeared again but it was at least an attempt.

He turned away from the mirror and stopped midway at the seemingly suddenly appearing window reflecting against his eyes.

[Choose Two Starting Pathways from the list]

God Almighty: Spectator, Bard, Sailor, Reader, Secrets Supplicant.

Lord of Mysteries: Seer, Marauder, Apprentice

Goddess of Origin: Planter, Apothecary

Eternal Darkness: Sleepless, Corpse Collecter, Warrior

Calamity of Destruction: Hunter, Assassin

Demon of Knowledge: Mystery Pryer, Savant

Key of Light: Monster

Father of Devils: Criminal, Prisoner

Anarchy: Lawyer, Arbiter.

Otto quickly skimmed through the window and unknowingly looked at his mirror once again.

His expression turned into a grinning smile filled with elated madness.

He picked up that Cabernet wine and toasted it with that same expression.

"Praise the Fool!"

A/N: Hello, I am back here with my Wish Fulfillment Story of Mr. Lin Doe becoming A Fool, Clown, and Overseer. 

There will be a lot of exposition to explain the World of Honkai and the Power System of the Lord of the Mysteries. 

I want to be as competent as I can, so sorry if there's a lot of in-story Yapping and missing details of Honkai Impact...So correct me if there's some inconstancy like how I always forgot Rita does not have brown but honey blonde hair

In the future, I plan for him to cross to other Worlds like Honkai Star Rail, Genshin Impact, and Mars from Part 2. 

As for relationships with other characters...It'll mostly be like, 'I despise him so much, I want to tear his heart out and kiss him simultaneously.' 

A perfect example of this is Elysia's Love for Humanity and her sacrifice akin to Jesus Christ.

Wouldn't it be so funny if she saw that Miracle in its darkest form by way of the Secret Supplicant Pathway, a path that represents Degeneration but also sacrifice and responsibility in a positive sense?

That even the most horrid power using flesh, blood, corruption, fallen, evil, and shadows is still the same light as Elysia is.

This isn't a story of Redemption but Regression.