Lord of the Mysteries

Eugh! Eugh!

Klein squatted there, vomiting involuntarily. He was soon done with his puking since he did not eat breakfast.

At that moment, a tin-colored square flask that looked like a cigarette box appeared in front of him.

The mouth which had lost its stopper emitted a mixture of smells akin to tobacco, disinfectant, and mint leaves. It cleared up Klein’s nose and rejuvenated him.

The pungent smell continued to linger, but Klein no longer felt nauseous. He soon stopped vomiting.

He traced the tiny flask up and saw a pale hand that did not seem to belong to a member of the living. He saw the mouth of a black windbreaker’s sleeve and saw Corpse Collector Frye with his cold and dark bearing.

“Thank you.” Klein recovered completely and with his hands on his knees, he stood back up.

Frye nodded without any expression.

“It’ll be fine once you are used to it.”

He put back the flask’s stopper and put it into his pocket and turned around, walking to the highly decomposed corpse. Without gloves, he began examining the old woman. As for Dunn Smith and Leonard Mitchell, they paced slowly around the room, occasionally touching the table’s surface or newspapers.

Old Neil pinched his nose and stood outside the door, grumbling in a muffled voice, “Seriously gross. I’m going to request for additional pay this month!”

Dunn turned his head over and touched the wall beside the chimney with his gloved right hand. While doing so, he asked Klein, “Does this place look familiar?”

Klein held his breath and constructed the silver pocket watch in his mind to calm down.

With him already in his Spirit Vision state, he immediately felt different. A scene that came from the deepest recesses of his memories flashed past his eyes.

Chimney, rocking chair, table, newspapers, the rusty nails on the door, the tin cans inlaid with silver…

The scenes were dark and dull, like a documentary from Earth. However, it was even more blurry and illusory.

The scene quickly stacked against what Klein was seeing. The feelings of déjà vu and having been here before presented themselves clearly. An illusory and ethereal scream seemed to pass through invisible walls:

“Hornacis… Flegrea… Hornacis… Flegrea… Hornacis… Flegrea…”

“It feels a little familiar.” Klein answered honestly while his brain felt a stabbing pain. Thankfully, he quickly tapped his glabella twice.

Hornacis… The Hornacis mountain range that appeared in original Klein’s diary?

That is content that was deciphered from the Antigonus family’s notebook…

The murmurs were very similar to one of the previous ones. It involved the word ‘Hornacis’ Is this a form of enticement?

not dare think deeper, afraid that he would place himself

cupboard. He suddenly reached out his hand and

was moldy and there were

cops and

Leonard turned and left the

door to two other

with him and said, “The time of death was more than five days ago. There are no external injuries nor are there any clear signs that it was a result of Beyonder powers. The exact

you discover anything?” Dunn turned to

no longer in Spirit Vision state shook their

there was an invisible energy sealing the apartment in the beginning. As you know, there will usually be similar processes when we use ritualistic magic,” Old Neil thought for a few seconds before

door. A few seconds later, Klein and Old Neil

grew louder as Leonard walked up with a

expression changed once he caught the noxious smell. He immediately cooperated with his “colleague” from the Special Operations Department and began knocking on the doors of the residents on the second floor to gain an understanding of the situation on

chevrons looked at the corpse on

rented this apartment with her son, Ray Bieber for more than

inherited his father’s trade and earns about one pound and fifteen soli a week. According to their neighbors,

the policeman continued, Klein already

To be more precise, it was unknown where Ray Bieber had gone

ancient notebook could very

Dunn looked at the

he was indeed a high-ranking inspector on the police department’s roster. His salary and various allowances were also

not sure… I’ll have to return to the station to search for it. It’s not typical

questioning the residents on the first floor. Ask them in detail.” Dunn gave

the police officer leave, he closed the door

not, we will have to make all the residents sleep

bottles from a pocket in his black classic robe and scattered the liquids in a

he pulled out a clump of powder and

the nauseating smells in the room. Klein also suddenly noticed that there was an invisible forcefield around him. It separated him from the environment and everyone else. It was like the room in

soft and indiscernible incantation. Without being prepared, Klein vaguely heard the words,

the windows

it difficult to describe. A terrifying “smell” that made him afraid of looking directly

tensed up, unable to relax. It felt as though he had plunged into a state

eyes opened,

his pocket and began drawing on a piece of

his gaze and saw a face with recessed eyes and

was done, Old Neil wrote a single line

eyes. Left of his mouth is a fully

onto the paper as his body convulsed a

the image of Ray Bieber according to what’s left in the room.” Old Neil whispered as the color of his

back to his original spot and slowly circled it. The invisible forcefield that isolated things immediately dissipated in

chest in four spots, forming the shape of the crimson