Lord of the Mysteries

Late in the afternoon, Klein returned home and drew the curtains, allowing his room to slip into darkness.

He took out his pen and paper and thought for a long time, finally writing down a sentence: “The kidnapping of Elliott was due to extraordinary elements.”

As a Seer, Klein had tried to divine if those coincidences were a consequence of unnatural developments, but the results showed otherwise.

This time, he was influenced by Azik to look into these events again. He also drew lessons from the suited clown. He seriously designed an appropriate divination statement, eliminating any descriptions that might be vague or cause confusion.

“Yes, I should break down the three coincidences and divine them separately…” Klein nodded in thought as he slowly removed the topaz from his wrist.

He held the spirit pendulum with his left hand and allowed it to hang close over the divination statement on the paper.

He collected himself and entered a state of Cogitation. With his eyes closed, Klein started chanting repeatedly, “The kidnapping of Elliott was due to extraordinary elements.”

…

As he recited the statement over and over again, Klein opened his eyes and looked at the pendulum, only to see the topaz turning counterclockwise slowly.

“It’s still a negative…” Klein muttered to himself. He designed several other divination statements, but the results persisted—there was nothing strange about that incident.

He then separately divined the “event of Ray Bieber’s stay in Tingen” and “Selena’s magic mirror divination incident,” but the answers for both events were normal.

Heh, was I, a real Seer, frightened by the charlatan Mr. Azik? Besides, Captain and the others didn’t feel that anything was off… Klein laughed and shook his head. But he remained cautious. He planned on using the dream divination technique to get a final confirmation.

After some thought, he changed the divination statement to fit the change in method.

“The true reason for Elliott’s kidnapping.” As he scribbled with the fountain pen, Klein paused and pondered over his words.

After reading it over and over again, he tore the slip of paper and walked toward his bed. He relaxed and laid down.

With the divination statement in hand, Klein quickly fell asleep with the help of Cogitation.

He found himself in a contorted, broken world. Regaining his senses, he began swimming through the blur.

Gradually, he saw the few kidnappers. He saw them lose their final chip at a gambling table, saw them obtain guns from underground sources, and saw them survey the area. They even rented the apartment across Ray Bieber’s apartment as their hideout…

These didn’t form a continuous scene, instead, they were presented in the form of flashing pictures. Klein couldn’t find anything that was abnormal.

Furthermore, it had also aligned with the statements given by the kidnappers.

other two incidents but had

Azik is merely a divination enthusiast…”

curtains and allow

and each of them had their reasons… If he was truly a mere divination enthusiast, he wouldn’t have interacted

come across some insider information and was trying

forth across the dark room,

steps, three steps. He suddenly halted

enough or I’m being affected by outside interference, but I can change my environment! I can change my environment to someplace that is even more mysterious and even harder to understand.” Klein felt pumped. He pulled open

flow out from the tip of the dagger, becoming one

he took, the wall of spirituality sealed

gray fog, to do

…

divine hall

honor on one end of the bronze table. Before him was a piece of goatskin he willed

lifted a pen and tried writing the divination statement as he had

Elliott was due to

spirit pendulum and hung it low. Klein quickly

the statement seven times, using his spirituality to interact with the spiritual world that

Klein opened his

sight made him

was spinning

an extraordinary

completely different from the result he had gotten in the

fate intertwined with the Antigonus family’s diary? Klein was immensely shocked. He lost his calm and the rotation of the pendulum slipped

rubbed his

divine the other two events. Instead, he wrote a new divination statement: “The

held the paper in his hand and recited the statement seven times. Klein leaned back and fell into sleep above

a boundless, illusory grayish-white

revealing a colorful grass

was folding into itself,

best to look forward, barely making out

this point, the scene before him

in the majestic divine hall. His heart was beating wildly without

like I had just spied on a terrifying thing… He

on the side of the table sometime later and slipped into

grass plains… How is this related to the person behind all of this? I cannot determine his motive from the coincidences, nor can I conclude that