Lord of the Mysteries

Oh no! I’ve been controlled by the puppet!

Captain and company are either unconscious… or have yet to recover. They can’t even get up… They will not be able to… wake me up in time…

No… I have to… save myself!

Everything before Klein’s eyes was happening in slow motion. All his joints and his brain seemed to have been coated with an ever-thickening layer of glue.

He had no interest in becoming a human-version puppet, so he seized the opportunity of not being fully controlled by trying his best to seek a way to save himself.

I definitely can’t… hit myself… There must be an… external force…

External force… I’ll give it a try… There’s no time for hesitation… Without the luxury of time to think through things, Klein came to an idea in less than three seconds. He moved his “rusty” knee joint and took a counterclockwise step.

At the same time, he did not try to escape the invisible rope that “hung” around his throat. All he did was recite inwardly.

Blessings Stem… From The… Immortal Lord of… Heaven and Earth…

He wanted to use the mysterious world above the gray fog to awaken him and escape Sealed Artifact 2-049’s assimilation!

Creak! Creak! Creak! Klein’s knees and ankles let out an involved ear-piercing sound. With a slow contorted step, he took another step counterclockwise.

Blessings Stem… From The Sky Lord… of Heaven and Earth.

Klein’s thoughts turned increasingly sluggish as he felt as though he was a computer that had all sorts of bloatware and every antivirus software installed. He lifted his left foot in a jerky manner as he took another step in the required spot.

Blessings Stem… From The… Exalted Thearch…

Klein’s thought processes turned more and more rigid and sluggish. He took the final step purely out of instinct.

At that point, he knew he was almost fully under the puppet’s control. Even if Aiur Harson could get up in time to save him, he would probably be unable to be awakened.

But his strong desire to live made him chant the final line of the incantation.

Blessings… Stem… From The… Celestial… Worthy…

Just as he finished his incantation, the extremely chaotic and hysterical shouts and murmurs sounded. They quickly took over every corner of Klein’s sluggish thoughts, shattering them in the process and reducing them to thoughts he had no control over.

Klein’s brain became a boiling pot of potpourri as his stiff body turned light while his spirituality lifted.

Endless grayish-white fog and the dark red stars of varying distances appeared once again before his eyes. It was vast, mysterious, vague, and blurry.

Klein’s confused mind quickly settled down as he finally regained his ability to think, only to see the magnificent palace.

“Phew… Thankfully, it worked.” he whispered with a lingering fear.

According to his previous observations, he knew that once someone fell under the control of Sealed Artifact 2-049, it was equivalent to death. Normally, there was no medicine that could save the victim.

luck enhancement ritual and the mysterious world above the gray fog

times, Klein began considering the

just stay here the entire

wakes up and gather over,

the shell of my body, nothing more zombielike than

way to guarantee my safety… What if I get controlled

…

Klein suddenly smacked himself in the forehead and could

gotten used to my status as

honor in front of the long bronze table, sitting on the high-back

as a fountain

sentence on

real world

of a spirit pendulum from his packet. After a few Gatherings, he discovered that the items he brought

hand as he allowed the topaz to

his eyes. He calmly repeated the

to the real world is very

…

to the real

…

repeating it seven times, Klein completed

saw the topaz slowly oscillating, guiding the silver chain in a clockwise

negative… Returning to the real world is very safe… Klein heaved a sigh of relief as he habitually stored the chain away. Then, he released his spirituality and wrapped his body as he simulated a

his original position. He saw the brown puppet, halfway out of

and just as he was about to try to move his arm to determine his condition, he

awakened? You can be saved

one thing is to help me take that Antigonus

I know you are still

2-049 doesn’t seem like it’s attempting to control me… That’s right. It will not repeatedly influence the same person. There will be a break… Klein was shocked, but he did not show it

complete this matter. I know you are a Seer. I also know that the Church of the Evernight Goddess does not have Sequence 8 that

wouldn’t have dared return. To show you my sincerity, I can now tell you that the corresponding Sequence 8

Klein nearly did not maintain his “puppet”

made the connection between

the head honchos of a

and Lorotta were still unconscious. Borgia

in a bid

Klein attempted using the thought processes of a

Bieber would be destroyed

deal with us directly because he likely divined that it would contain immense risk. Therefore, he is suspecting Captain and Madam Lorotta are feigning their unconsciousness, or that this is a trap

the time. If he waited any longer, Mr. Aiur Harson and company would have regained some of

confident that I’m unable to escape the puppet’s control… He is using me as cannon fodder to probe

this also means that the luck enhancement ritual does not cause

of reasoning was clear. He was quite confident of the thoughts and goals of the suited

clown’s promise, he believed not one bit of it.