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.

Bogda’s father looked at

vanishing. Bogda took a deep breath and said, “If this medicine is

will watch over you.” Bogda’s father gestured a

He raised his right hand and closed his eyes. Flicking his head back, he gulped down the medicine in

of blood, swished around in his mouth as he

bathroom six times, and by the time the crimson moon

passed, he jolted awake, having dreamed that he

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

contrast to the sluggish state he was in for

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

was really effective? That apothecary was clearly just fooling me…” Bogda was both surprised and doubtful as he got out

as he muttered, “According to the apothecary, I still need to drink it twice. Once I’m done drinking, I’ll go to the

how many times I can

think he’s

…

Blackthorn Security Company, from his

a carving knife and emitted his 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 well as the Empress of

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

addition to that, charms and amulets had to be engraved on both sides; and each side’s symbols, incantations, and characteristics, their exact locations, or special formats was in the realm of mysticism. The ones that were spread amongst

practise, and only after he confirmed that he

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

already finished carving the incantations and symbols on the other side of the accessory. All that was left was to finish

all his spirituality chained together as Klein suddenly felt a strange,

both sides of the accessory became complete with Klein’s Spirit Vision. It

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

he had previously finished into his pocket, planning to

bit. Unless one used a high-level ritualistic magic and created a prayer set, a year was the maximum one could use them for.

can use my spirituality to make another one… Klein thought, nodding as

didn’t make one for himself for the moment, because an amulet of that level had limited effects on him. Therefore, his goal was to gain a deeper understanding of incantations before trying to pair it with ritualistic magic. That way he could create a few defensive amulets

hand over the damaged materials. That

gray eyes swept across him as he

approved it. You’re now an official

great!” Klein expressed his

“You can now receive a make-up pay of three pounds for this week. You’ll receive 4.50 pounds every subsequent week until the

I mention

consideration of the outstanding performance you showed, I believe

replied without hesitation,