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

and walked to a cupboard. He suddenly reached out his hand and pulled open its wooden

there were about seven gray, stiff dead

downstairs to get patrolling cops and

and

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

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 of death will require a

turned to look at Old Neil and

in Spirit

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

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

later, faint footsteps grew louder as Leonard

Operations Department and began knocking on the

chevrons looked at the corpse

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

about thirty years old and is single. He inherited his father’s trade and earns about one pound and fifteen soli a week.

the policeman continued, Klein already knew the critical point that

it was unknown where Ray Bieber

notebook could very

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

the police department’s roster. His salary and various allowances were also paid according to his rank. Of course, it did not include his

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

Continue questioning the residents on the first floor. Ask

watched the police officer leave, he closed the

residents sleep

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

out a clump of powder and scattered it in

there was an

his lips mumbled a soft and indiscernible incantation. Without being prepared, Klein vaguely heard the words, “Goddess, give me strength,” “We look forward to the protection

the windows and

felt goosebumps all over him. He found it difficult to describe.

he had plunged into a state similar to what one would

eyes opened, his

on a piece of scrap paper on the table. He

saw a face with recessed eyes and

curly short hair was done, Old Neil wrote a single

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

The fountain pen in Old Neil’s hand fell onto the

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

The invisible forcefield that

in four spots, forming the shape of the crimson