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 place himself on the trajectory of losing

walked to a cupboard. He suddenly reached out his hand

and there were about seven

patrolling cops

turned and left

to two other bedrooms

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

discover anything?” Dunn turned to look at Old Neil and

in Spirit Vision state

normal. Actually, no, there was an invisible energy sealing the apartment in the beginning. As

outside the door. A few seconds later, Klein

louder as Leonard walked up with

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

his two silver chevrons looked at

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

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

the policeman continued, Klein already knew the

it was

notebook could very well be

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

was indeed a high-ranking inspector on the police department’s roster. His salary and various allowances were also paid according to his rank. Of course, it did not include

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 for us to have pictures of every single

first floor.

officer leave, he closed the door and

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

a few thumb-sized bottles from a pocket in his

out a clump of powder and scattered it in a circle

smells in the room. Klein also suddenly noticed that there was an invisible forcefield around him. It separated him from

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

tore through the windows and blew up

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

had plunged into

Neil’s eyes opened,

from his pocket and began drawing on a piece of scrap paper on the table. He was so fast

with recessed eyes and a tall

hair was done, Old Neil wrote a single line beneath

eyes. Left of his mouth is

Neil’s hand fell onto the paper as his body

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

original spot and slowly circled it. The invisible forcefield that isolated things immediately dissipated in the form

the Lady.” Old Neil tapped his chest in four spots,