Lord of the Mysteries

The wooden puppet’s face was painted in red and yellow like the common clown. The corners of its mouth were upturned high, revealing an abnormally comical smile.

Its lips parted to reveal a dark and deep mouth. Klein, who had locked his gaze with it, felt his hair stand as intense horror leaped out of his heart in an uncontrollable manner.

Everything before his eyes grew dull, as though he was looking at the world through a piece of thick brown glass.

Klein’s thoughts slowed down gradually, and he instinctively wanted to ask for help, but his neck seemed to be held tight by a rope. He couldn’t make a single sound, and the single word was trapped in silence.

Just then, Dunn noticed his arm exercises becoming sluggish and pushed him heavily.

The brown glass before Klein’s eyes shattered in an instant. He blurted out the word “help” which had remained dormant in his throat. It reverberated within the carriage, with sharp panic.

“It’s getting stronger,” Klein spoke in a very certain tone.

Being next to a strange Sealed Artifact like 2-049 really placed on in terrifying peril if they were not careful. No, it was totally impossible to guard against it. It could only be avoided through other methods!

“It’s normal,” Aiur Harson said steadily, nodding.

Lorotta chuckled.

“It seems to like you? Don’t worry. It is a relatively less dangerous Grade 2 Sealed Artifact.”

In her naturally languid voice, the puppet whose joints clearly reflected a human’s stood up. It began tottering towards its left.

Its action was incomprehensible, just like a steam engine that someone had rusted due to a lack of lubricating oil.

Robot dance… Klein suddenly had the few Chinese words pop into his head. He had a new guess of the danger 2-049 posed.

It assimilates the living things that it seizes control of?

If I am not woken up in time by the others, would I have become a human-sized puppet, a real-life Barbie doll?

Just as thoughts flooded Klein, Aiur Harson was awoken by Dunn. He extended and bent his arms as he pointed in the direction that the puppet was walking slowly towards. He said to Leonard who was driving the carriage, “Over there!”

Leonard couldn’t make the carriage pass through the building, so he had to detour. During the detour, 2-049 constantly adjusted the direction that it was facing. It acted like a compass that pointed towards the Antigonus family.

Upon seeing the scene, Klein, who was constantly “exercising” his arms, nearly burst out laughing under the tension.

I heard that 2-049 was created by the Antigonus family… Is this an act of loyalty or the perfect example of screwing things up?

Leonard drove the carriage according to Aiur Harson’s occasional instructions.

Whenever the strange puppet 2-049 walked to the edge of the carriage, Aiur Harson would pull it back and start it all over again.

Every time that happened, its mouth would open and two people would be under its influence simultaneously.

realized that Sealed Artifact 2-049 was not as scary anymore. As long as there were more than three people present and they constantly

and quickly arrived at the harbor,

confirmed that 2-049 intended to enter the innermost grayish-white warehouse. Aiur Harson’s expression turned solemn. He grabbed the puppet carefully and stuffed it back into the black

Thump! Thump! Thump!

help of Borgia and Lorotta as he activated the mechanism with

the formless seal, Aiur Harson let out a long

down,” Dunn Smith said with a low and

six left the carriage and walked into the innermost warehouse. As

comical and ridiculous vibe to the

could only complain inwardly to ease such a

to detect it in time to prevent a more dangerous situation from developing, they only

blinking eyes and striking one’s eyebrows, they were either too easily ignored or the

Causeway Bay 1 triad members… Klein sighed in

they approached the warehouse’s door, the deeper

knew what kind of effect the notebook had

Klein did not dare pin his hopes on transmigrating

speed at which he

hand and made a pressing gesture to beckon everyone

It’d be better if you could tell

eyes looked deep as

stopped the hand exercise. He extended his right hand to his

moving his arms, Dunn realized his sluggish actions

the topaz to hang down naturally. Simultaneously, he moved his right arm, but with a much smaller range

his eyes, outlined the spherical light, and entered Cogitation. He then mumbled, “There’s

danger in the

…

he opened his eyes and saw the hanging topaz

faster and faster, and in the end, Klein

danger, great danger,” Klein replied

the chanted

using spirit dowsing could only determine if there was danger, but it was unable to obtain information regarding

that when he used spirit dowsing, the pendulum would spin at different

extremely vague, it allowed one to have a rough assessment of the actual

expected of a Seer potion… Klein was rather happy with

was about to put away the topaz pendulum, Leonard Mitchell, who had

if there is danger around

agreement. “Yes, I am worried that the Secret Order will not give up and that it has placed Ray Bieber’s house under constant surveillance. They could have followed us here and

took a deep breath and entered a calm, ethereal state

again, he

…

is danger