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

He methodically packed up the materials and the short yellowish-brown hair before opening the oriel window to let in the

this happened, Klein returned to the balcony, locked the door from the inside, and wiped off all the

held his hand to his chest and bowed towards the three men who were still sleeping

on his gloves and leaped, nimbly flipping out of

open window’s vertical latch and used a tarot card to hold its

seconds, Klein slowly pulled back the tarot card, and the vertical latch suddenly stopped in place and didn’t fall

Whoosh!

he closed the unlatched half of the window, then he jumped over to the window

so quick that the latch didn’t fall down until there was a vibration,

rang out, like a strong wind slamming onto the surface of the

that the three men in the bedroom were about to awaken. Without further ado, he

danger. It was just that he

Rose Street, but he didn’t directly take a rental carriage back to Cherwood Borough’s

few corners and headed to the

need an additional sweater for his future missions. He decided to buy charcoal on one of the following days and let the fireplace carry out

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

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

saw pairs of eyes appear in the deep darkness

from a vague distance away, in

He reached out for his

auras and saw the faces of the numerous

numbed expressions, vacant eyes, and

on the sidewalk, but soon, he came across a second wave, a third wave; all

just as he was about to move forward to inquire, he suddenly heard a

up! All of

“You sons of bitches!

for people like you to sleep

Klein was startled, then the corresponding term “Poor Law” popped up in his mind, and

experienced the

and headed for his

some of his spirituality, he went

location of Zreal’s

location of Zreal’s

…

long time with the help of the short yellowish-brown hair until he arrived

gradually built up an advanced sewer system in the capital and, in one fell swoop, surpassed “Roselle’s Heritage” of

the manhole cover out the way, Klein held his

he was unable to bring too many items due of the lack of pockets. He hadn’t brought Quelaag’s Oil which he had learned about from Frye.