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?

as he did not dare think deeper, afraid that he would

He suddenly

bread inside was moldy and there were

downstairs to get patrolling cops and

Leonard turned and left

two

clues as well as any sign of the Antigonus family’s notebook, Frye also stood up. He wiped his hands with a white handkerchief he brought along with him and said, “The time of death was more than five

turned to look at

were no longer in Spirit Vision state shook their heads in

there was an invisible energy sealing the apartment in the beginning. As you know, there will usually be

just about to say something when he looked outside the door. A few seconds later, Klein and Old Neil

footsteps grew louder as

smell. He immediately cooperated with his “colleague” from the Special Operations Department and began

with his two silver chevrons looked at

Has rented this apartment with

was formerly a gem artisan. Her son is about thirty years old and is single. He inherited his father’s trade and earns about one pound and fifteen soli a week. According to their neighbors, they have not seen them

policeman continued, Klein already knew the critical point

be more precise, it was unknown where

could very well be

Ray Bieber?” Dunn looked at the

roster. His salary and various allowances were also paid according to his rank. Of course, it did

officer shook his head nervously and said, “I’m not sure… I’ll have to return to the station to search for it. It’s not typical

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

he closed the

have to make all the residents sleep and obtain Ray Bieber’s

a few thumb-sized bottles from a pocket in his black classic robe and scattered the liquids in a

pulled out a clump of powder and scattered it in a

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

being prepared, Klein vaguely heard the words, “Goddess, give me strength,” “We look forward to the

wind tore through the windows

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

relax. It felt as though he had plunged into a state similar to what one would have

Old Neil’s eyes opened,

his pocket and began drawing on a piece of scrap paper on

and saw a face with recessed eyes and a tall nose

done, Old Neil wrote a single

his mouth is

Neil’s hand fell onto the paper as his

left in the room.” Old Neil whispered as the color

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

in four spots, forming the shape of the