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.

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

is merely a divination enthusiast…” Klein stabilized his pendulum and shook his

and

if he was always quarreling with Mentor, it was limited to academic topics, and each of them had their reasons… If he was truly a mere divination enthusiast, he wouldn’t have interacted with

suspected that Mr. Azik had unwittingly come across some insider information and was trying to remind him by using divination as an

across the dark room, trying to recall the other

steps, three steps. He suddenly halted as an idea came to

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

flow out from the tip of the

the wall

divination above the gray fog, to do

…

the magnificent ancient divine hall

honor on one end of the bronze table. Before

and tried writing

Elliott was due

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

using his spirituality to interact with the spiritual world that stood above

the silver chain, Klein opened his

sight made him freeze

pendulum was

that there was an extraordinary element behind

completely different from the result he had gotten

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 pendulum slipped into

the topaz and rubbed his glabella. His expression

to divine the other two events. Instead, he wrote

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

he saw a

revealing a colorful

folding into

best to look forward, barely making out an

the scene before him shattered, putting an end to his

straightened his back in the majestic divine

felt like I had just spied on a terrifying thing… He

of the table sometime

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