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?

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

He suddenly reached out his hand and pulled open

moldy and there

go downstairs to get patrolling cops and

Leonard turned and left

that, Dunn opened the door to two other bedrooms and did a careful

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 signs that it was a result of Beyonder powers. The exact cause

discover anything?” Dunn turned to look at Old

no longer in Spirit

the beginning. As you know, there will usually be similar processes when

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

footsteps grew louder as Leonard walked up with a

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

silver chevrons looked at the corpse on the

Stefania Bieber. Between 55 and 60 years old. Widow. Has rented this apartment with her son, Ray Bieber for

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

continued, Klein already knew

more precise, it was

very

Ray Bieber?” Dunn looked at the police officer. He was acting as the role of a

salary and various

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

first floor. Ask them in

leave, he closed

make all the residents sleep and obtain

nodded. He took out a few thumb-sized bottles from a pocket in his black classic robe and scattered the liquids in a particular

pulled out a clump of powder and scattered it

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

Klein vaguely heard the words, “Goddess, give

wind tore through the windows and blew up the

quaked suddenly as he felt goosebumps all over him. He found it difficult to describe. A terrifying “smell” that made him

felt as though he had plunged into a state similar to what one

Old Neil’s eyes opened,

a fountain pen from his pocket and began drawing on a piece of scrap paper on

with recessed

the natural curly short hair was done, Old Neil

his

Old Neil’s hand fell onto the paper as his

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

spot and slowly circled it. The invisible forcefield

his chest in four spots, forming the shape of