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 dream, Klein separately divined the other two incidents but had the same result. Their developments followed logic. The coincidences

things. Mr. Azik is merely a divination enthusiast…” Klein stabilized his pendulum and shook

about to draw the curtains and allow sunlight into the

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

come across some insider information and was trying to remind him by using divination as an

the dark room, trying

steps, three steps. He suddenly

by outside interference, but I can change my environment! I

his spirituality to flow out from

took, the wall

planned on doing the divination above the gray fog, to do

…

the magnificent ancient divine hall above the endless gray

the seat of 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

of Elliott was due

held the spirit pendulum and hung it low. Klein quickly composed

he recited the statement seven times, using his spirituality to interact with

of the silver chain, Klein opened

sight made him freeze

was

that there was an

was completely different from the result he

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 pendulum

the topaz and rubbed his glabella.

divine the other two events. Instead, he wrote a new divination statement: “The true reason for Elliott’s

the statement seven times. Klein leaned

saw a boundless, illusory

slowly, revealing a colorful grass

behind the flowers and the plains was folding into

barely making out an image of

the scene before him shattered, putting an end

majestic divine hall.

felt like I had just spied on a terrifying thing…

side of

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