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.

the other two incidents but had the same result. Their developments followed logic. The coincidences were

divination enthusiast…” Klein stabilized his pendulum and shook

and allow sunlight into the room when

of them had their reasons… If he was truly a mere divination enthusiast, he wouldn’t have interacted with me like that… And the memories of original Klein has nothing about him liking divination… Of course, this could be due

unwittingly come across some insider information and was trying to remind him

should I confirm this?” Klein paced back and forth across the dark room, trying to recall the

suddenly

because my Sequence isn’t high 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

flow out from the tip of

each step he took, the wall of

divination above the gray fog, to do the divination in that

…

magnificent ancient divine hall above

bronze table. Before him was a piece of goatskin he willed

writing the divination statement as

kidnapping of Elliott was due to extraordinary

held the spirit pendulum and hung it low. Klein quickly composed himself as he turned silent and

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

Klein

sight made

was spinning

was an extraordinary element behind Elliott’s

different from the result he had

the motive of the person behind this? Is my fate intertwined

topaz and rubbed his glabella.

seconds, he didn’t attempt to divine the other two events. Instead, he wrote a new divination statement: “The true reason

in his hand and recited the statement seven times. Klein leaned back and fell

he saw a

dissipated slowly, revealing a colorful grass plain filled

plains was folding into itself, like a monster that had come

best to look forward, barely making out

before him shattered, putting an end

his back in the majestic divine hall. His heart was beating wildly

thing… He took in two deep breaths to stabilize

Tap. Klein tapped on the side of the table sometime later and slipped into deep

to the person behind all of this? I cannot determine his motive from the coincidences, nor can I conclude