Ordinary young man Morgan Lynch is unexpectedly drawn into the bizarre 'The Acolyte Game,' forced to experience lethal stages such as an elevator hunt, workplace Life Points plunder, and church faction conflicts. Faced with unkillable monsters, a Mole hidden among the crowd, and humanity spiraling out of control, he breaks through one crisis after another with calm reasoning and exploitation of the rules, gradually closing in on one of the final twelve 'Acolyte' seats for deification.