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

was indeed overthinking things. Mr. Azik is merely a divination enthusiast…” Klein stabilized his pendulum

about to draw the curtains and allow sunlight into the room when he

a mere divination enthusiast, he wouldn’t have interacted with me like that… And the memories of original Klein has nothing about him liking

come across some insider information and

this?” Klein paced back and forth across the dark room, trying to recall the other divination techniques

steps. He suddenly halted as an idea came

that these coincidences are dubious. I’m unable to divine a result either 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 open

flow out from the

each step he took, the wall

divination above the gray fog, to

…

the magnificent ancient divine hall above the

on one end of the bronze table. Before him was a

a pen and tried writing the

Elliott was due to

it low. Klein quickly composed himself as he

eyes, he recited the statement seven times, using his spirituality to interact with the spiritual world that stood above

the silver chain, Klein opened his eyes to look at the

sight made

pendulum was

that there was an extraordinary element behind

completely different from the result he had gotten in the

were no traces of any interference… Such power or means is terrifying… What’s the motive of the person behind this? Is my fate intertwined with the Antigonus family’s diary? Klein was immensely shocked. He lost his calm and the rotation of the

the topaz and rubbed his glabella. His

didn’t attempt to divine the other two events. Instead, he wrote a

the statement seven

a boundless, illusory

slowly, revealing a colorful grass

and the plains was folding into itself, like a monster that

to look forward, barely making out an image of a

the scene before him

back in the majestic divine hall. His

It felt like I had just spied on a terrifying thing… He took in two deep breaths to stabilize his

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 that there is