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?

was gripped by shock as he did not dare think deeper, afraid that he would place himself on the

He suddenly

moldy and there were about seven gray, stiff

cops and explain the situation here,” instructed

Leonard turned and

two other bedrooms

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

to look at Old Neil

who were no longer in Spirit Vision

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

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

later, faint footsteps grew louder as

with his “colleague” from the Special Operations Department and began knocking on the doors of the residents on

two silver chevrons looked at the corpse on the rocking

old. Widow. Has rented this apartment with her son, Ray Bieber for more than ten

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

Klein already knew the critical point

it was unknown where Ray Bieber had gone

notebook could very well

looked at the police officer. He

salary and various allowances were also paid according to

to return to the station to search for it. It’s not typical for us to have

the first floor. Ask them

he closed the door and turned to

residents sleep and obtain Ray Bieber’s looks. Yea, I don’t really trust sketches based on verbal

few thumb-sized bottles from a pocket in his black

of powder and

smell spread and was not influenced by 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

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

the windows

it difficult to describe. A terrifying “smell” that made him

confused as he tensed up, unable to relax. It felt as though he had plunged into a state similar to what one would have after working on a highly advanced mathematical

Old Neil’s eyes opened, his

pocket and began drawing on a piece of

and saw a face with recessed eyes and a tall nose bridge rapidly

curly short hair was done, Old Neil wrote a single

hair, deep blue eyes. Left of his

hand fell onto the paper as his body convulsed a few

is the image of Ray Bieber according to what’s left in the

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

tapped his chest in four spots,