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.

but had the same result. Their developments followed logic. The coincidences were really

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

curtains and allow sunlight into

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

had unwittingly come across some insider information and was trying

across the dark room, trying to

steps. He suddenly

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 his drawer and took out

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

step he took, the wall of

divination above the gray fog,

…

divine hall above

the bronze table.

lifted a pen and tried writing the divination statement as he

Elliott was due

held the spirit pendulum and hung it low. Klein quickly

seven times, using his spirituality to

chain, Klein opened his eyes to look

made him freeze

was

there was an extraordinary

result he had gotten in the outside

behind this? Is my fate

down the topaz and rubbed his glabella. His expression was abnormally

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

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

saw a boundless, illusory grayish-white

fog dissipated slowly, revealing a

plains was folding

look forward, barely making out an image of a dark

this point, the scene before him shattered, putting an

straightened his back in the majestic divine hall. His heart was

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

of the table sometime later and slipped into deep

grass plains… How is this related to the person behind all of this? I cannot determine his motive from the coincidences, nor can I conclude that