Lord of the Mysteries

After the crimson light in front of him dissipated, Derrick Berg saw his room once again. He saw the pure crystal ball in his hands.

Crack!

The crystal ball shattered from the inside. Some of it turned into pieces of illusory beams of light that flew into the void around him, while the other crystalline fragments fell noisily to the ground.

Derrick looked on, dumbfounded. He could see the traces of blood on his face reflected in the bronze mirror. He noticed a crimson light spiraling on the back of his right palm, forming a circle with lines extending out from the edge.

The strange symbol bore into the back of his palm and vanished.

Derrick fell into a daze in the time it took several flashes of lightning to illuminate the sky before snapping to his senses.

He looked at the fragments of the crystal ball on the ground, then looked at the back of his right hand as his gaze turned deeper.

He walked out of his bedroom, returned to the living room, and opened the door to look up at the sky above the City of Silver.

An arc of lightning streaked across the sky, illuminating the city with a silver sheen. Right on the heels of that was rumbling thunder. The world belonged to the dark. Without any speck of light, the heavy darkness only left people in despair.

Derrick clenched his fists. There was no joy in his eyes for they were still filled with the remnant grief and pain.

But he was no longer lost.

…

Phew, looks like I’ve managed to trick another person into becoming a member. No, I’ve managed to recruit another member… Klein shook his head and mocked the present strength of his Tarot Club.

The leader, The Fool, was only a Sequence 9, one who had just fully digested the Seer potion!

And there were at least three High-Sequence Beyonders at Sequence 4 in the hopeless City of Silver that The Sun spoke of!

“After mentioning the acting method one more time, I can start telling the Captain the specifics and hand in my special application. At the very least, I’ll stop being in charge of support once I become a Clown.” Klein didn’t stay in the world of fog. He extended his spirituality, wrapped it around himself, and initiated a descent.

Tearing through the gray fog and passing through the ravings, he returned to his room before dispelling the wall of spirituality.

Then, Klein picked up the key and headed out of the room. He first went to the two rooms booked by Dunn to take a look in order to confirm that the Captain and Frye hadn’t returned yet. He then headed to the first level and handed the key back to the boss.

The boss looked at the wall clock to the side and gave a thumbs up.

“Well done!”

booked an hourly room? Klein wanted to explain himself, but finally decided to

wronged, he tried

that I rented another room in front of the

heading out and going through the motions, Klein did a quick divination and returned to the inn based on the results. He headed

that the wraith appeared within the last three months,” Dunn summarized to Klein with a nod

immediately echoed, “My

of his questioning and concluded, “Heh, there’s a townsfolk named Scoundrel Gray who claimed that he had the portrait of the first Baron Lamud. He said that it was an antique oil painting more than a thousand

tell me you bought it?” Dunn’s eyes shimmered

so stupid to be fooled

lessons on archeology and have some degree of experience in this area. I can more or less determine if something is fake. Heh, the

mentioned the most

historical site. There will always be a myriad of ‘antiques’ here. I just saw

claiming that

asked, “Did you guys

looked at each other, and didn’t continue

half of the people in this inn will become

his hand slightly and smiled. “It’s still quite early, so I can come back and have a nice sleep later. We’re doing two-hour

found an opportunity to hand Sealed Artifact 3-0782 over to Frye when they split up to conduct their investigations. Otherwise, he would have

Frye took out the Mutated Sun Sacred Emblem from the inner

and interest. The metal was warm to the touch, as if hot water

smell. At the same time, Klein felt that the dark golden Sacred Emblem carved with the symbol of the Sun was cleansing his spirituality, removing

to have a fate worse than death… He muttered to himself as

he walked out of the room and left the inn

beside a sparse and deserted forest and

reminded, “I’ll come to take your place

replied with

tall boulder he had eyed previously. He picked up some leaves from the tree beside him and wiped the surface of the

then touched the top of the stone with his finger and inspected the stone under the light of the

confirming that it was clean, Klein put on his black windbreaker and

can sit! Klein thought to

scary forest. He couldn’t help but stand up, taking out several metal bottles from his hidden pockets and scattering their contents—herb powder and essential

of the materials, he created

rely too much on his premonition for danger as a Seer to defend against corpses and spirits launching a sneak attack against him.

times better than insect

a few minutes, Klein took out Sealed Artifact 3-0782 out

out the pen and paper he always had on him and wrote a statement: “The origin of the Mutated Sun Sacred Emblem in my