Lord of the Mysteries

Vines grew all over the dilapidated garden outside the glass windows. The river flowed softly, reflecting the stars in the sky as warm glows suffused out of the nearby buildings.

Everything was silent, as if awaiting the arrival of night.

Trissy, who had ordinary features which combined to make her look surprisingly beautiful, retracted her gaze and walked quickly towards the clothes rack to retrieve a long black robe fitted with a hood.

She quickly put the robe on, fastened the buttons and belt before pulling the hood over her head, transforming herself into an Assassin.

Trissy raised her right hand and swiped her face, immediately turning her appearance under the hood blurry.

Right on the heels of that, she grabbed a handful of shimmering powder from the hidden pouch near her waist and scattered it over herself while reciting an incantation.

Trissy’s figure started to disappear bit by bit, her outline vanishing like how pencil marks were being erased by an eraser.

She silently left the bedroom after completing her concealment spell. She moved to the opposite room and then opened the non-grilled window.

With a light leap, Trissy stood on the window sill and looked over the grassy plains to the back of the building. She looked down at the steel fence that had seemingly fused with the night. There, she saw Corpse Collector Frye who was silently making his way over the fence.

She took in a deep breath and fluttered down like a feather, stepping onto the grassy field without a sound.

Frye, who was wearing a black windbreaker, cautiously surveyed the surroundings with his custom revolver in his hand, seeking out vengeful spirits or evil spirits that might appear.

He could see such entities directly!

Trissy approached Frye silently, made her way behind him. It was unknown when a dagger smeared with ‘black paint’ appeared in her hand.

Poof!

She struck quickly, plunging the dagger into Frye’s lower back.

But at this moment, the scene in front of her shattered, as if everything was an illusion.

Trissy realized that she was still standing on the window sill, still looking over the grassy field and the steel fence.

Except this time around, it wasn’t only Corpse Collector Frye who was standing outside the fence. There was also Leonard Mitchell who was aiming straight at the window sill, as well as Dunn Smith. The captain of the Nighthawks was hunched over as he pressed down on his glabella, his eyes closed as formless ripples spread outwards from him.

Trissy’s pupils constricted. She understood that everything that had happened was just a dream. She had fallen asleep unknowingly!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Leonard and Frye fired three shots, accurately hitting the invisible target who was still waking up from her reverie.

Crack!

cracking, then completely shattering into fragments of a

used a substitution spell, turned around to escape. She followed the corridor and the steps, sprinting all the way to

wind blew across the first floor, one that could freeze a person. Formless, transparent figures were numbly pacing around

through the spirits. She could no longer control

a figurine of a deity carved out of bone placed in the

a grown man’s head, with only a mere indication of her eyes, but the

extended from her head to her heels, each strand clear and thick, as if they

one eye situated at the tip of every strand of

puppets strewn around the figurine. The craftsmanship of the puppets was crude. Names

on the table, flickering with a yellowish-green flame despite

the deity’s figurine and

then pushed away the puppets and extinguished the

Whoosh!

they shook

Creak! Shards of glass

barge into the sacrificial altar recklessly. He shivered, feeling his blood turn cold and frosty. It was making

as though

sense of coldness spread upwards from the point of contact. A Sequence 9 Beyonder would have turned completely numb by now. But as a Corpse Collector, Frye

heels and pulled the trigger. It was as if he could see who the enemy was, and exactly

Bang!

bullet pierced the air, causing a shrill

figure dissipated and Frye regained

by avoiding a frontal assault on the altar, was similarly affected by the cold winds. His body froze as he stopped right outside

window lifted suddenly and engulfed Dunn, as if a monster had just

imbued with life. Dunn’s facial features began to press through the constricting

down with both feet. He straightened his knees and twisted

with his left hand and yanked it away

Bang!

a shot at the other half of the curtain behind the window, stopping it from attempting another

dark red

Whoosh!

poems and was also hit by the cold sinister winds infused with the intense sensation of death. His teeth chattered,

suddenly extended, wrapping themselves around his heels. A black shadow hurled itself at him

body had become rigid, failed to fire in time.

into his forearm, the thorns

pretty, bright-red flower, its