Lord of the Mysteries

2 Daffodil Street. Inside the living room that was painted with the luster of dusk.

Klein stood in front of the oriel window as he told Frye and Leonard.

“My divination revealed something. I saw a grayish-blue two-story building in my dream. The windows on the first floor were all shut tight, and the curtains were drawn. It’s surrounded by a few meters of brown soil without any greenery or flowers. It also has a terribly gloomy garden, just like the kind you find in a horror story.

“The only characteristic that can be used to identify it is a nearby river, a slightly broad river.

“It might be the Tussock River or Khoy River. We could only find out through process of elimination. Hopefully we can still make it in time.”

The Tussock River was the biggest river in the Loen Kingdom, coming down from the northwest where the Mirminsk mountain was. It flowed towards the southeast, passing by the Midseashire, Awwa County, and then passing through the capital, Backlund, and into the sea near Pritz Harbor.

The locations where it converged in Tingen City included the southwest corner of the West Borough and the harbor in the South Borough. The source of the Khoy River came from the northern York Mountain as it passed through the university district in the East Borough and locally merged with the Tussock River.

Those were the two main rivers around Tingen. The rest could only be considered streams, and none of them had an expansive water surface.

Upon hearing Klein’s description, the pale and cold Frye nodded lightly in agreement.

Since there were no other clues, process of elimination was the only efficient method!

Just then, Leonard smiled and said, “Perhaps we can narrow down the possible locations of the target.”

“How do we narrow down the possibilities?” Klein frowned and asked in reply as he looked at the silver vine-leaf pocket watch.

Leonard chuckled.

“A criminal with a plan and a goal would select targets somewhere far away from the location of his altar. This is a result of their natural instinct—to be safe.

“Only when there aren’t many soon-to-be-dead people left in the areas far from his altar would he consider the nearer targets.

“So, we should read through the information again, exclude the areas where the number of death incidents rose rapidly above average standards.

Klein’s eyes lit up when he heard that.

“Brilliant conjecture!”

At the same time, he sighed inwardly, I really don’t have the talent to be a detective!

Frye nodded and picked up the documents on the coffee table and started reading it again.

After a few minutes, he deepened his hoarse voice and said, “There really is such a region, and there’s only one possibility.”

“Which area?” Klein asked.

stack of information to Leonard who was next to him. He pursed

Klein clenched his fist and

the southwestern area of West Borough.

echoed as he waved the papers in his hands in agreement, as though he wasn’t the one

…

the red and orange glow of the sunset reflected off of a broad river that

from both sides of the carriage, inspecting one house after another. They were searching for a grayish-blue house with a

the wall of the carriage as

sight of a grayish-blue two-story building from the corner

front of the building was a gloomy garden that

it!” Klein said while

finished his sentence, Frye and Leonard squeezed over to look out the window. There was almost no space between

the carriage drew closer to the building, the dark curtains that were drawn on the first floor

building; he was completely certain that it was the building that he

but instead allowed the carriage driver to continue driving forward. They passed their target and continued away from it, as though they

the building when they turned around, Leonard told the driver

in this carriage and tell the Captain to come here for assistance.” Leonard snapped his fingers and smirked

a rookie and that I shouldn’t be involved in such a dangerous mission? This fellow is still quite a nice guy… Klein was stunned as he realized what Leonard

Frye nodded in agreement.

combat training and your job is a

to hold a ritual won’t be an easy opponent.

before forcing a smile and

a lot. Until the Captain arrives, we’ll only keep watch, and we won’t get

but

for a while, he then took out a copper penny and said, “Let

“What will happen here will lead to a good outcome.” He flipped the coin at the same

Dang!

air, then

and saw it was the King’s head. He immediately

be careful and prudent at all times,” he explained to Frye and Leonard like a Seer

He waved and jumped off

naggy as my eighty-year-old

seriously and got off with his

target building, Klein touched the revolver in his armpit holster and told the

been hired by the hour, didn’t object but

…

36 Zouteland Street.

Company, Rozanne, Mrs. Orianna, and the others had already gotten off work. It was

lamp was unlit, and he seemed to blend into the darkness in his black