Lord of the Mysteries

After folding the letter, Klein took out the copper whistle, put it to his lips, and blew hard.

In the silence, illusory white bones came flying up from the desk like a fountain and finally formed a huge monster. It was almost four meters tall, still covered in a faint glow. Its head was still poking through the ceiling, looking no different from before.

Klein flicked his wrist and threw the letter. The white bone monster caught the letter and gripped it tight

Klein blew the copper whistle again and saw the messenger break into illusory white bones and fall like rain before vanishing through the surface of the desk.

Klein felt much calmer after finishing everything, but he didn’t stop trying. He moved the chair back and stood up. He then walked four steps counterclockwise and entered the world above the gray fog.

The lofty palace and the ancient mottled table appeared before his eyes, as though it would stay the same for tens of thousand of years.

Klein sat at The Fool’s seat of honor. Then, he took out the spirit pendulum from his left sleeve and conjured a yellowish-brown goatskin and a fountain pen in front of him.

He wanted to divine the Captain’s situation that night!

After some thought, Klein wrote the first divination statement.

“Dunn Smith’s abnormality would lead me into danger.”

In mysticism, divination that involved any danger to the diviner was hardest to infer. It was an instinctual ability of spirituality.

In other words, as long as there wasn’t an extremely strong disturbance, Klein would be able to get an accurate result from the divination about his own situation.

This was also the reason why he would divine if there was danger in the mission even though he knew that Madam Sharon had the ability to interfere with divination. He also knew that Madam Sharon wasn’t strong enough to affect this kind of divination.

In order to determine Captain Dunn Smith’s situation, he decided to eliminate all disturbances and perform the divination above the gray fog.

He held the pendulum with his left hand as he recited the divination statement seven times. He closed his eyes and entered a Cogitation state.

After a few seconds, he opened his eyes and they returned to their normal color.

He looked at the topaz pendant, and he felt heavy-hearted because the pendulum was spinning clockwise. The rotation wasn’t small, nor was the speed slow.

It meant that the result was positive.

It meant that Dunn Smith’s abnormality would lead him to danger!

And the danger level was significant!

After he closed his eyes, Klein “wiped” away the previous content and wrote down a new divination statement.

“The reason for Dunn Smith’s abnormality.”

He put away the topaz pendant and leaned back into the chair. He recited the divination statement as he entered a dream with the aid of Cogitation.

the blurry illusory world, he couldn’t see or discover anything. There was nothing

the divination failed… Klein looked at the goatskin

feeling of exhaustion. He realized that it was the result

wrapped himself up with spirituality and stimulated a rapid

each dream was either Kenley vomiting his organs, or Dunn Smith

…

next morning, Klein was on duty at Chanis Gate so he arrived

Orianna, and the other clerks had yet to arrive for work. Klein walked through the partition and saw the wide open door and Dunn Smith,

black vest on. He sat in his seat while he held a cup of coffee in his hands. He was staring

seemed dry, his gray eyes looked dull, and his face was

for the Captain, who’s experienced many similar incidents, it’s still unbearable to lose two teammates in such a short period of time… Klein’s heart winced as the scene of the

teeth and looked

nearly twenty seconds, he composed himself and extended

Knock! Knock! Knock!

his coffee cup as his gray eyes

a deep breath and said, “I’ve reported the matter to the Holy Cathedral, and they gave an

pounds, and the police

of 364 pounds. Adding in any bonuses and additional income, he would make at least 380 pounds. Four thousand pounds is equivalent to ten years of his income…

all we can

couldn’t be faulted

pulled his collar and said in a deep voice,

“Alright.” Klein nodded slightly.

add as though he was talking to himself, “We’ll

his siblings, his fiancée, how will they react… Klein’s heart tightened, and

of seeing the agony in the eyes of Kenley’s parents, or how his fiancée would seem to lose her soul. He was afraid to

to Chanis Gate. He completed the shift change with

and occasionally took out his silver pocket watch

unknown period of time, Klein suddenly heard illusory sounds that overlapped one

back of his hand and understood that

till the notification ended, for more prayers to come, and until the next morning when he returned

maidservant Bella wiping the dining table while

Mass last week?” Klein asked

like the memory of a person who hasn’t gotten any

looked even more

of the Count’

and took off

recently. I totally forgot about

past three days… He added

some sleep. Benson and I thought that since we’re going out, we might as well drop

waved and bade his brother and sister farewell.

preparatory work, he took four steps counterclockwise and entered the world above the gray fog. He saw that Justice and The Hanged

Then, blurry images formed before