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.

dream, Klein separately divined the other two incidents but had the

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

was about to draw the curtains and allow sunlight into the room

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

insider information and was trying to

back and forth across the dark room, trying to recall the other

two steps, three steps. He suddenly halted as an

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

to flow out from the tip of the dagger, becoming one with his

the wall of spirituality sealed off the

the gray fog, to

…

divine hall above the endless

of honor on one end of the bronze table. Before

a pen and tried writing

of Elliott was

spirit pendulum and hung it low. Klein

the statement seven times, using his spirituality to

the silver chain, Klein opened

sight made him freeze

was

that there was an extraordinary element

different from the result he had gotten in the

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

rubbed his glabella. His

divine the other two events.

paper in his hand and recited the statement seven times. Klein

he saw a boundless,

a colorful

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

look forward, barely making out an image of

before him shattered,

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

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

side of the table sometime later

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