Lord of the Mysteries

Klein started his first morning in Backlund under cold and humid weather conditions, with a light fog that provided very little visibility. For breakfast, he had one liter worth of cheap tea, costing one penny, and two pieces of toast with inferior butter in the center.

He was busy the entire morning, but he first went to the Cherwood Borough’s Backlund Bulletin to post a tiny advertisement for a month at the cost of thirty pounds.

From Tuesday, the Backlund Bulletin’s loyal readers would see a tiny advertisement along the seams of its seventh and eighth page.

Sherlock Moriarty. Good at various types of private investigations. Reasonable prices and strictly adheres to the principles of confidentiality. Resides at Cherwood Borough’s 15 Minsk Street.

The reason why Klein didn’t choose major newspapers like the Tussock Times or the Backlund Daily Tribune, that had a readership all across the entirety of the Loen Kingdom, was due to the fact that his business was temporarily limited to Backlund. Furthermore, he didn’t wish for a sterling reputation.

Therefore, the Backlund Bulletin, which was well-received locally and had low advertisement fees, became his first choice.

After leaving the Backlund Bulletin’s headquarters, Klein took out a map and followed it to purchase various herb powders and silver slices from various herbal stores, flower stores, jewelry stores, and accessory stores. He did it in preparation for holding a ritual. When items that didn’t have any spirituality were involved, most of the materials in mysticism could be purchased from ordinary stores. However, they weren’t all under one roof, requiring him to visit many stores to collect them.

To do so, Klein spent another 5 pounds. The humongous sum of 200 pounds that he withdrew broke below the 100 pound mark, leaving him only with 92 pounds.

“Spending money is as easy as drinking water…” Klein found a small cafeteria nearby and ordered a black pepper steak worth 8 pence.

He returned to 15 Minsk Street at one in the afternoon, and without rest, he spent his time using Slumber flower, dragon blood grass, dark red sandalwood, and mint powders to create Holy Night Powder, a key ingredient needed to create a wall of spirituality.

He could only make do with this method until he bought a real silver ritual dagger.

Klein speculated that he would have to advance to Sequence 7 before he could do away with this restriction.

Phew, Miss Justice, Mr. Hanged Man, and The Sun haven’t requested for leave yet. The gathering will be held on time today… I wonder what surprises Mr. Hanged Man will bring me, and how many pages of Roselle’s diary he can provide… Klein laid back on his bed in the bedroom and thought about all sorts of things.

To him, a private detective was a career that took into account both money and action. It allowed him to get in touch with people from all walks of life and slowly discover the Beyonder circle in Backlund. From there, he could slowly find clues regarding the Secret Order.

Of course, if he was lucky, he would even be able to figure out the Sequence 7 which corresponded to the Clown through a particular circle of Beyonders and buy the corresponding potion formula and main ingredients.

As for Ince Zangwill’s whereabouts, Klein temporarily chose not to take the initiative to seek him out. He might even avoid him a little. However, if he were to accidentally discover this enemy of his, without exposing himself, he wouldn’t mind doing a good deed and sending an anonymous letter to the Church of the Evernight Goddess.

A private detective’s income can, at most, support a middle-class standard of living. If I want enough money to buy the potion formula and Beyonder materials, It will either depend on Miss Justice, or it will be through investments with the remaining 100 pounds that I have left in my anonymous account… Yes, I can’t touch the 92 pounds that I have for the time being. Perhaps, I wouldn’t be having any income for some time… With this in mind, Klein suddenly sat up. He came to the first floor and began reading the various newspapers he bought in passing.

These newspapers often carried news about what had been invented and required investments, or how someone wished to form a joint venture with others to do a particular business.

on his knowledge from Earth and his understanding of this era to carefully sift through the projects. Unfortunately, none of the ones on

bedroom, locked the door, drew the curtains, and used Holy

chair belonging to The Fool before extending his spirituality and touching the crimson star that symbolized The Sun as if he was responding to

one of the few things in my new life that hasn’t changed…

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of

gathered around a blazing bonfire, chatting about

guarding the perimeter, prepared for any possible attacks that might break out from the

had used their blood to teach them

times, never let your guard down. The monsters in the

Once they were completely enveloped in darkness, it wasn’t impossible for them to all disappear—no one could say

silent as he quietly listened to his companions reminiscing about the monster they had encountered before.

finish off the monster, their patrolling team suffered a heavy price with five injured, and two of

blurred, and he felt himself being enveloped in a thick gray

depths of the gray fog, a blurry figure sat on an ancient high-back chair,

“Prepare for the gathering.”

Fool’s voice echoed in Derrick’s ears, but

moved to the very

the six-member council and Elder Lovia were unable to discover the existence of Mr. Fool, he gradually believed that as long

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Backlund, Empress Borough.

the excuse that she was tired,

her excitement and didn’t pace back and forth; instead, she sat quietly on the bed, waiting for Mr. Fool’s

about the proposed bill, and the Beyonder guard isn’t tailing me constantly. Thank you Goddess; my life has finally returned to normal! Two weeks have passed, Mr. Hanged Man must’ve prepared the pituitary gland of a mature Rainbow Salamander… I’m about to advance to Sequence 8! Audrey

exciting and worth looking forward to than the thirty thousand pound bounty and the large plantation worth at least

crimson surge towards her like a tidal wave,

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On an ancient-looking sailboat.

the captain’s cabin and sat behind a sextant and the ship logs. He kept memorizing the contents

he left the bustle of Backlund without any qualms after being rewarded by the upper echelons and returned to the sea, carrying a batch of secretly copied

the formula and ingredients… However, this will expose the fact that I know the “acting method.” There are advantages and disadvantages… Alger shook

recalled the face of Rear Admiral Hurricane Qilangos whose flesh and blood quickly rotted as pieces

head, allowing the crimson tide to

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