Lord of the Mysteries

The more he thought about how a living person was playing cards with more than ten corpses in a dimly lit room into the night, the more his scalp tingled.

Klein suppressed his instinctive fear and looked at the pale face, the malicious brown eyes, and the man who was about twenty-eight years old that suffused madness. He pretended to be intimidated by the man’s dominance and took a step back. During this time, Kaspars left the room and closed the door.

The man asked in a deep voice, “You’re the one looking for a bodyguard?”

“… Yes.” Klein gulped deliberately.

The man’s strangeness made him feel fear, but it also brought him peace of mind.

The stronger the bodyguard, the safer he would be!

The pale-faced man in the black vest lifted his chin and asked, “Why are you looking for a bodyguard? How much are you willing to pay for this?”

Klein didn’t answer straight away. He thought for nearly twenty seconds before saying, “I’ll tell you the details of the mission first. Give me a price after you assess it. If I can pay for it, or if I have an item of equivalent value, we would have ourselves a deal. Otherwise, I can only give up and look for someone else.”

The fierce-looking man didn’t say a word. Instead, he nodded as a gesture for Klein to recount his story.

Klein deliberately looked at the zombies, treating them as normal card players. Then, he gave the man an inquisitive look saying: “Before I answer, do you want to kick these guys out of the room?”

“There’s no need for that,” the pale-faced man said in a deep voice.

Klein hesitated for a moment, then honestly said, “I offended a big shot who might have a country supporting him.”

The room suddenly turned still and silent. The man, who had a hint of madness and malice in his eyes, froze on the spot as if he had turned into a plaster statue.

After nearly a minute, he slowly said, “This mission is priceless.

“Get out.”

Ah? Klein didn’t manage to react until the man turned and walked back to the card table. Only then did he realize that there was no deal.

You played cards with a bunch of living corpses in the room and presented yourself as a person of high standing and strength. Yet, you were scared off just like that? You’re clearly a little crazy… Klein didn’t know whether to laugh or cry as he added, “The big shot doesn’t have that much freedom in Backlund.”

The man in the black vest ignored him and sat down again. The zombies began to hand out cards, look at their cards, and throw out chips.

Kaspars Kalinin. He had been waiting outside

to an arrangement.” Klein threw up

surprise as he pondered for a few seconds before saying, “Did he request too high a

mission too difficult.” Klein didn’t hide the

Kaspars frowned.

scariest person I know. He isn’t even afraid of bullets, and since he thinks the mission

pity.” Klein

his right fist and

the Storm be with

dead… Klein said with a smile as he made the best out of it,

asking around for me. I’ll pay you a fee.

melancholic. He didn’t even have the interest to play a game of

style to let someone else face the danger for me through deceit… As a Beyonder, if I constantly go against my heart’s true thoughts and my own principles, then I probably won’t be far from losing control… Feeling

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washing up, Klein didn’t waste any charcoal. He directly went to the bedroom and pulled the curtain to isolate the room

for a while and discovered that the possible danger wasn’t

killing me and channeling my spirit could be considered… If I let him know that I can’t find Ian either, he wouldn’t take the risk to deal with a hired detective

now, not when the situation is so tense and turbulent… Yes, this is building on the premise that the ambassador has brains, and he isn’t a good-for-nothing who got to his position through connections and only knows to act rashly… For him to be handling such an important matter, it must mean that he’s still rather

crux of the problem is Ian Wright’s

a Beyonder after his failure? That would make them find my strength questionable, and use them to retaliate against me… This can be done easily with

situation and suddenly had the urge

powerful Beyonders around

find an opportunity to silence him? Since he sent someone to kill me, I wouldn’t feel any psychological burden from killing him… Yes, I can consider setting a mission for the Tarot Club. Let’s see if Miss

this idea in mind, he calmed down a lot. He found some paper and a pen and wrote the

looked at the curtain that shielded him from prying eyes. He

quickly entered a dream and saw a dark, small, run-down room in the dreamy world. There was

curled up at the top of the bunk bed,

dream shattered, Klein opened his

Bridge area, but it’s an abnormally huge place. Even if all the police in Backlund are deployed, they still wouldn’t be able

He didn’t leave anything with me. Otherwise, I

few minutes of consideration, Klein picked up the pen and added a paragraph to each of the divination statements, making it an

I haven’t seen him since we

on the desk with a pen pressed against its