Margot did not return to the kingdom of the deity he worshipped. He simply died in agony.
Nimrod picked up the "smiling face" from the ground, a serrated thing that seemed to have grown teeth. Margot's flayed face was now nothing but a large patch of exposed muscle, no longer bleeding.
He turned the mask over and pressed it onto his own face. His features and build gradually became indistinguishable from those of the recently deceased Margot.
As he stripped off Margot's clothes and changed into them, he casually gave the corpse a "slight" bit of processing before stuffing it into the nearby trunk.
Of course, after extracting two characteristics from the corpse, that "slight" processing had been rather extensive. The sight was somewhat gruesome.
The potion feedback from acting through a Beyonder really was excellent. The feedback gained by robbing a Sequence 8 Beyonder of his hope was even better. Nimrod felt another noticeable little portion of the Beyonder characteristic within him shatter.
Once he had finished everything, he nodded in satisfaction and settled leisurely into the chair before him, digesting the memories and details he had just inherited.
Margot's boss was Roger, the leader of the Stinger Gang, who possessed some wondrous, sinister Beyonder abilities. Recently, the Stinger Gang had also been clashing frequently with the Sava Party. Something seemed about to happen.
Before obtaining Margot's memories, he had only remembered that Margot was a minor Sequence 8 boss in the Stinger Gang. He had completely forgotten what background the gang had-even though Mystery Pryer had strengthened his memory, it could hardly help him recall things he had not remembered before transmigrating.
Now, however, things were a little different. From the memories he had inherited from Margot, the Stinger Gang's leader, Roger, could perform a mystical ritual using