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?

did not dare think deeper, afraid that he would place himself on

a cupboard. He suddenly

bread inside was moldy and there were about seven gray,

downstairs to get patrolling cops and explain the

Leonard turned and left the

the door to two

were no 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 days ago. There are no external injuries nor are there any clear

Dunn turned to look

who were no longer in Spirit

everything else is normal. Actually, no, there was an invisible energy sealing the apartment in the beginning. As you know, there

something when he looked outside the door. A few seconds later, Klein and Old Neil sensed something and turned to

seconds later, faint footsteps grew louder

Operations Department and began knocking on the doors of the residents on the second floor to gain an understanding of the situation on the

his two silver chevrons looked at the corpse on

Widow. Has rented this apartment with her son, Ray Bieber for

is single. He inherited his father’s trade and earns about one pound and fifteen soli

the policeman continued, Klein already knew the

it was unknown where Ray Bieber had

very well

Ray Bieber?” Dunn looked at the police officer. He

was not really acting since he was indeed a high-ranking inspector on the police department’s roster. His salary and various allowances were also paid according to his

his head nervously and said, “I’m not sure… I’ll have to return to the station

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

police officer leave, he closed the door and turned to Old

to you. If not, we will have to make all the residents sleep and obtain Ray

pocket in his black classic robe and scattered the

out a clump of

and was not influenced by the nauseating smells in the room. Klein also suddenly noticed that there was an

a soft and indiscernible incantation. Without being prepared, Klein vaguely heard the words, “Goddess, give me strength,” “We

tore through the windows

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

though he had plunged into a state similar to what one would have after working on a

Neil’s eyes opened, his eyes

on a piece of scrap paper on the

face with recessed eyes and a tall nose bridge rapidly

curly short hair was done, Old Neil wrote a single line beneath

deep blue eyes. Left of his mouth is a fully ceramic

fountain pen in Old Neil’s hand fell onto the paper as his

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

original spot and slowly circled it. The invisible forcefield that isolated things

tapped his chest in four spots, forming