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.

mysterious world above the gray fog was not

began considering the situation he

can’t just stay here the

time Captain and company wakes up and gather over,

only have the shell of my body, nothing more zombielike than a

and return, there’s no way

…

his dilemma, Klein suddenly smacked himself in the forehead and

like I haven’t gotten used to

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

hand as a fountain

sentence on an illusory piece

to the real world

packet. After a few Gatherings, he discovered that the items he brought on him were projected above the gray fog, but

with his left hand as he allowed

half closed his eyes. He calmly repeated the words on the piece

the real world

…

to the real world is very

…

Klein completed the divination

saw the topaz slowly oscillating, guiding the silver

is an affirmation while counterclockwise is negative… Returning to the real world is very safe… Klein heaved a sigh of relief as he habitually stored the chain away.

and charged upward. Klein soon saw himself still in a daze in his original position. He saw the brown puppet, halfway out of

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

You can be

help me take that Antigonus

you are still capable of completing

is it? Yes… 2-049 doesn’t seem like it’s attempting to control me… That’s right. It will not repeatedly influence the same person. There

Seer. I also know that the Church of the Evernight Goddess does not have Sequence 8 that succeeds Sequence 9. But

I wouldn’t have dared return. To show you

Klein nearly did not maintain his

connection

become the head

again. The distant Dunn and Lorotta were still unconscious. Borgia seemed heavily injured as he moaned without moving. Aiur Harson and Leonard Mitchell were in relatively good shape as they

from before? After he escaped, he secretly returned in a bid to fish in troubled waters… Upon hearing the voice, all sorts of doubts instantly

Klein attempted using the thought processes of

because he divined ‘hope.’ He believed that Monster Bieber would be destroyed and that we would suffer a

would contain immense risk. Therefore, he is suspecting Captain and Madam Lorotta are feigning their unconsciousness, or that this is a trap

partially because firstly, he might not have the time. If he waited any longer, Mr. Aiur Harson

very well and is confident that I’m unable to escape the puppet’s

means that the luck enhancement ritual does not cause any

sluggish, Klein felt that his line of reasoning was clear. He was quite confident of the thoughts and goals of

one bit of it. Cannon fodder