Lord of the Mysteries

West Borough, Carlpensa Hotel.

Fors helped Lawrence into his room and laid him down on the bed.

It was a rather luxurious hotel, with thick, soft, grayish-yellow carpets everywhere except the washroom. On the walls hung imitations of famous oil paintings.

Lawrence gasped for air and said, “Thank you, Miss Wall, and please forgive a dying man for not being able to bow.”

“No, Mr. Lawrence, your problem has eased. As a former medical doctor, I can tell you without a doubt that you can still live. After some rest, we’ll go to a clinic or a hospital,” Fors consoled him.

Lawrence smiled. “I know my physical condition very well. You don’t have to comfort me. Besides, I’m an amateur astrologer. I already had a premonition that I’m going to die in this hotel in Backlund.”

Aside from some superficial concealment, everything he said was the truth. He was already close to eighty, and he was no longer that robust and spirited young man from before. If not for the Sequence potions that elevated his constitution, he might have already been buried in some random cemetery.

Originally, Lawrence thought he could live for another ten years, but who would have thought that he would encounter a rebellion caused by the former Traveler Botis. He suffered relatively serious injuries at the hands of the Aurora Order, and his remaining descendants all died in that disaster.

This dealt him a great blow, and he almost didn’t manage to recover from it. The search for his brothers and their descendants in Backlund had only resulted in him receiving news of their deaths, dealing him a significant blow to his mental wellbeing once more.

Compounded by all these things, Lawrence clearly felt that his life had come to an end.

His initial plan was to return to the graves of Laubero and Aulisa again and present a bouquet of flowers. He would then return immediately and meet with the other members of the Elder Council to set things in order before his death, but being an elderly man, his condition was beyond his control.

Without waiting for a response from Fors, Lawrence struggled to retrieve a palm-sized notebook from the inside pocket of his half-open coat.

The hard paper cover of the notebook was bronze green, giving off a very ancient feeling.

On its surface, the words: “I came, I saw, I record” was written in ancient Feysac.

Lawrence placed the notebook on the quilt in front of his chest and took a deep breath.

“Miss. Wall, if I die here, can you help me send it to Pritz Harbor?”

“Mr. Lawrence, you’ll be fine,” Fors emphasized.

At the same time, she subconsciously glanced at the notebook and found that it wasn’t thick at all. There were a total of three types of papers inside, one of which was a yellow type of parchment which had very few pages. The other was yellowish-brown goatskin and the number of pages was in the middle of the range. The last was comprised of ordinary white paper and was the most common.

Lawrence laughingly said with great difficulty, “I mean, Miss. Wall, will you help?”

“Pritz Harbor isn’t far. It’s not even a trip. If it needs to be rushed, then I can even make the round trip in half a day by taking the steam locomotive.” Fors nodded.

Lawrence breathed a sigh of relief as his mind seemed to recover a little.

“After I die, wait ten minutes. Retrieve the glowing object from my body, and then send it along with this notebook to Dorian Gray at the Pritz Harbor’s Fishermen Association. The forty-two pounds in cash in my wallet will be the reward and my gratitude. As for these clothes of mine, let it turn to ash along with me.”

me anything. No, you’ll

Lawrence whispered to himself, “Maybe Dorian will give you additional rewards, but it depends on you… I believe you. From

Fors, “Ms. Wall, can you go down to the first floor and bring me a jug of water? I don’t know when the waiter will

thinking, Fors took a water jug and walked out

jug in her hand was heavy, and there was

about to turn around and ask, she

then

approached, he could clearly sense that something was wrong with his body. He was

a human, not a monster, so he chose

last form of decency for

a monster, all his plans would

dejected. She waited outside for nearly ten minutes before she pushed open the door

bed, looking like he had aged

the window was constantly refracted by the “diamond,” forming

She found that the cause of

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then went above the gray fog, having plans to divine the situation with

the trash pile in the corner and made it land on the long bronze table in front of him. Then, he took out the topaz pendant

held the spirit pendulum in his left hand, Klein used Cogitation to adjust his condition before recalling the scenes he had seen in the

was certain that his spirituality wouldn’t miss any. This divination was mainly about using this

his preparations, Klein took out a goatskin parchment and wrote the

the divination sentence, almost causing

all the steps of the spirit

pendant was rotating counterclockwise at a fast

was a negative

that Will

it seemed to be within

for a moment, then he changed the divination statement: “That corpse

the spirit pendulum

did belong to

and he wrote a new divination statement: “Will

of calmly performing the divination, Klein saw

pendulum was rotating counterclockwise

corpse wouldn’t be

matter has something to do with the Snake of Mercury? Klein tried to divine additional information, but he failed repeatedly, including

he repeated the divination using dream divination and inquired “Will Auceptin’s current location.” He received a similar scene: a dark room with the

him

to get

the prior divination and everything that had happened before, he had a