Lord of the Mysteries

Chapter 224: Metaphysics-styled Detective

The dim room was covered in a thin veil of crimson moonlight, and everything was indistinct.

The three men in the black coats were sleeping in different spots. And on the sofa, Klein’s eyes half-blended into the darkness by closing them, it was as if he had entered a deep slumber.

His dream was a gray, distorted world, occasionally flashing with brilliance.

Finally, the brilliance settled to form a scene.

It was a gloomy corner, the ground sloshed with sewage. A man with short brown hair, a white shirt, and a brown vest was leaning against the wall, surrounded by a dense mischief of gray rats.

Half of the man’s lips had been bitten off, revealing his yellowish teeth and rotten gums. His nose was only stained with blood, mixed with some short hairs, and the flesh on his face had disappeared, piece by piece, revealing white bone. White, fat maggots were crawling around everywhere, constantly squirming, and his throat seemed to have been the victim of some wild beast; at least half of it was missing.

Klein could just barely make out that this was Zreal Viktor Lee. It was nearly impossible to relate him to the mature and handsome man in the black-and-white photograph he had taken with Ian.

Zreal is already dead. In a few days, he would probably be gnawed to the point where he would only be bone. He might not even have a complete skeleton left…Klein left the dream and recalled what he had just seen.

His past experiences had allowed him to witness similar corpses more calmly.

Looking out of the window at the crimson moon, Klein thought for more than ten seconds and decided to try communicating with the soul of the man in black next to the sofa.

During the last few days of preparations, he had concocted a bottle of Amantha extract and Eye of the Spirit medication. As for Serenity Agent, Klein had no need for it. He was personally capable of invading the dreams of others and forcefully communicating with their souls while maintaining calm and rationale.

After setting up a simple altar and letting the quiet and tranquil fragrance waft out to create a half-dreaming state, Klein prayed to himself, “The Fool that doesn’t belong to this era.”

Following that, he entered the world above the gray fog and used more than two-thirds of his spirituality to give a response.

When I advance to Sequence 7, such prayers should also allow me to use a little of the power of the mysterious space above the gray fog, just like my summoning and bestowment rituals… Looking around, Klein made a rough judgment and quickly returned to the real world.

He passed through what seemed like a starry sky and a chaotic storm of thoughts, entering the mental plane of the target. There, he saw the man’s illusory figure floating in midair.

“Who sent you to Zreal’s home?” Klein looked at him and asked in a deep voice.

The man replied in a daze, his illusory eyes vacant, “Meursault. Meursault sent me to wait for the boy named Ian.”

The light in his spiritual world changed, revealing a lean, capable-looking, dark-skinned man. He was none other than the leader of the group who was chasing Ian on the steam train.

As expected, it’s him… Klein, who had exhausted so much of his spirituality in responding to the prayer, was beginning to feel exhausted. He hurriedly asked, “Who ordered Meursault?”

“No idea… He’s an ‘executioner’ of our Zmanger gang. No one can order him other than the boss,” the man said, blankly.

Zmanger… The word “warrior” in the language of the highlanders… Klein, a pseudo-historian but a true mysticism scholar, suddenly felt a sharp pain in his head, and his body involuntarily flew out of the storm of thoughts.

he exited the mediumship and

yellowish-brown hair before opening the oriel window to let in the cold night wind to disperse the smell of the Amantha

the balcony, locked the door from the inside, and wiped off all

to its original state, he then held his hand to his chest

nimbly flipping out of the oriel window. He stood firmly, tiptoeing in the abnormally tight

vertical latch and used a tarot card to hold its bottom. With his Clown

a few seconds, Klein slowly pulled back the tarot card, and the vertical latch suddenly stopped in place

Whoosh!

he jumped over to the window with a latch. His right hand jerked inward, closing the other half

speed of the action was so quick that the latch didn’t fall down until there was a vibration, accurately inserting itself

like a

bedroom were about to awaken. Without further ado,

the height from the second floor wouldn’t pose any danger. It was just that he couldn’t maintain his silence

well as Rose Street, but he

a few corners and headed to the

night, and the wind sent a biting chill right into his bones. Klein shivered and decided that he would need an additional sweater for his future missions.

time, he entered Backlund’s East Borough despite not having a map. He had

that the dark clouds hadn’t covered the crimson moon, Klein believed that

he suddenly saw pairs of eyes appear in the

sauntered over from a vague

sudden halt. He reached out for his Requiem Charm and tarot cards, and he

unhealthy and weak colored auras and saw the faces

living people with numbed expressions, vacant eyes, and weak movements. There

still walking on the streets… Confused, Klein warily leaned to one side, passing the group on the sidewalk, but soon,

frowned slightly, and just as he was about to move forward to inquire, he suddenly heard

of

“You sons of bitches!

for people like

was startled, then the corresponding term “Poor Law” popped up in

experienced the same thing

exhaled, picked up the pace, and headed for his one-bedroom house on Black Palm Street in the East

recovering some of his spirituality, he went

of Zreal’s

location of Zreal’s

…

divinations, Klein walked for a long time with the help of the short yellowish-brown hair until he arrived at a corner of East Borough where there was a sewer

Kingdom gradually built up an advanced sewer system in the

way, Klein held his

of pockets. He hadn’t brought Quelaag’s Oil which he had learned about from Frye. Klein felt especially