Lord of the Mysteries

Holding onto the yellowish-brown paper bag full of herbs, Bogda staggered out of the Lawson’s Folk Herb Store.

While waiting for a tracked carriage, he suddenly came to a realization.

He had spent ten pounds to buy a bag of stuff?

This was nearly a month’s salary for him!

If it wasn’t for his trust in Anna and Joyce, he wouldn’t have brought that much cash to the Divination Club!

Could it be that the reason why Mr. Moretti only accepted eight pence for his divination, had something to do with his collusion with the boss of Lawson’s Folk Herb Store, so as to earn more? This was a classic scam written on the papers! When Bogda made this connection, he even began to suspect Klein a little. He even began suspecting Joyce and Anna.

When a tracked carriage stopped in front of him, he looked at the herbs in his hand. Unable to bring himself to return, he entered the carriage with a heavy heart.

…

Inside Lawson’s Folk Herb Store.

As the boss watched Bogda leave, he suddenly turned his head and shouted at the door where there was a pile of herbs, “Scharmaine, stop purchasing herbs from today.”

“W-why, Master?” A handsome-looking youth with disheveled hair walked out.

The boss smiled and said, “This is the sixteenth customer that has come because of my fame. If this carries on, I believe the Nighthawks, the Machinery Hivemind, and the Mandated Punishers will notice me. When the time comes, I’ll need to consider heading to other cities.”

“Then, do we need to sublease this store?” Scharmaine nodded in understanding as he asked with concern.

The boss chuckled.

“If you wish to stay, you can be the boss of this store. You are already capable at identifying herbs and concocting medicine. Of course, remember to deposit half of your monthly profits into my anonymous Backlund Bank account.”

“But, I haven’t learned what you are really good at.” Scharmaine was already sick of never staying in a city for more than a year, but he was unwilling to give up learning the magical formulas that his master was good at.

The boss leisurely rocked himself in his seat.

“That’s not something you can learn just because you want to…”

…

A blackish-green bubbling liquid appeared in front of Bogda’s eyes. It smelled of stinking socks and the color that makes one want to puke made him deeply suspicious about everything he had done today.

into the medicine, Bogda’s father looked at his son

liquid before vanishing. Bogda took a

father

Bogda had no intention of wasting the ten pounds. He raised his right hand and closed his eyes. Flicking his head back, he gulped down

pungent aroma that had the noxious smell of blood, swished around in his mouth as he nearly spat out everything

six times, and by the

period of time had passed, he jolted awake, having dreamed that he was being

work.” Bogda heaved a sigh of relief when he discovered that he felt

the sluggish state he

pressed the right side of his abdomen. He noticed that the region which previously hurt when under slight pressure felt normal. He only felt the pain from ordinary

Bogda was both surprised and doubtful as he

very long while as he muttered, “According to the apothecary, I still need to drink

how many times I can

still think he’s a

…

staff office of the Blackthorn Security Company, from his prior request, Klein received a space where no one would

spirituality. He seriously carved the incantations and

request to avoid disaster and was written in Hermes. The two mysticism symbols symbolized the Evernight Goddess as

that, Klein also added the Path Number that corresponded to the Goddess, 7, and

exact locations, or special formats was in the realm of mysticism. The ones that were

Klein had a lot of damaged materials to his right. Through repeated practise, and only after he confirmed

he calmed his mind, his spirituality spewed out from the tip of the carving knife. The number 7 appeared on the surface of the silver

finished carving the incantations and symbols on the other side

down his knife, all his spirituality chained together as Klein suddenly felt a

commotion quickly vanished as the incantations on both sides of the accessory became complete with Klein’s Spirit Vision. It emitted a

the silver accessory that was formed from a circle and a vertical piece. He felt a

that he had previously finished into his pocket,

Unless one used a high-level ritualistic magic and created a prayer set, a year was

the time comes, I can use my spirituality to make another one… Klein thought, nodding

deeper understanding of incantations before trying to pair it with ritualistic magic. That way he could create a few defensive amulets that could be activated

everything was finished, Klein walked out the office and prepared to hand over the damaged materials. That was when he saw Captain Dunn walk over in

and gray eyes swept across him as he

the Holy Cathedral has approved it. You’re now

That’s great!” Klein

said with a smile, “You can now receive a make-up pay of three pounds for this week. You’ll receive 4.50 pounds every

way, did I mention the

partners. In consideration of the outstanding performance you showed, I believe I can

replied without hesitation,