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?

not dare think deeper, afraid that he

suddenly reached out his hand and pulled open

bread inside was moldy and there

patrolling cops and

and left

opened the door to two other bedrooms and did a

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 death will require

discover anything?” Dunn turned to

were no longer in Spirit Vision state shook their heads

from the corpse, everything else is normal. Actually, no, there was an invisible energy sealing the apartment in the beginning. As you know, there will usually be similar processes when we use ritualistic magic,” Old Neil thought for a few seconds

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

louder as Leonard walked up with a

his “colleague” from the Special Operations Department and began knocking on the doors of the residents on the second floor to gain an understanding of the situation on the third

silver chevrons looked at the corpse on

rented this apartment

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

policeman continued, Klein already knew the critical point

it was unknown where Ray Bieber had gone

could very well be on

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

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

return to the station

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

police officer leave, he closed

to you. If not, we will have to make all the residents sleep and obtain Ray Bieber’s looks. Yea, I don’t really trust sketches based on

out a few thumb-sized bottles from a pocket in his black classic robe

out a clump of powder

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

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

tore through the windows and blew up the

over him. He found it difficult to describe.

to relax. It felt as though he had plunged into a state similar to

Neil’s eyes

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

a face with recessed eyes and a

Old Neil

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

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

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

he turned back to his original spot and slowly circled it. The invisible forcefield that isolated things immediately dissipated in the form of

Lady.” Old Neil tapped his chest in four spots, forming the shape of the crimson