Lord of the Mysteries

15 Minsk Street, in the dank, cold kitchen.

Klein rummaged for his newly bought large iron pot, poured fresh water into it, and carefully scrubbed it several times.

Then, he dropped some matches into it and snapped his fingers.

The scarlet flames soared, and under his control, they quickly burned the remaining water droplets dry, without harming the surface of the pot.

This time, there were no ingredients such as pure water in the potion recipe, so Klein was even more careful than the previous two times. He wanted to ensure that everything was in good measure to prevent any problems.

Although he was able to divine whether the concoction would be successful or not, at least to not endanger his life, such a result could still involve his potion being ineffective. Attempting to extract the Beyonder characteristics from the concoction would be relatively difficult, just like the removal of the mental corruption of a Rampager. He would need the corresponding technique, methods, or rituals, and Klein wouldn’t be able to gather a second round of ingredients within a short period of time either.

After finishing his preparations, Klein took a deep breath as he looked at the neatly arranged boxes. Finally, he recalled the potion recipe:

“Faceless:

Main ingredients: Mutated pituitary gland of a Thousand-faced Hunter, Characteristic of a Human-skinned Shadow.

Supplementary ingredients: 80 ml of a Thousand-faced Hunter’s blood, 5 drops of black Jimsonweed juice, 10 grams of Dragon Tooth Grass powder, 3 strands of hair from a Deep-sea Naga.”

He first picked up the cardboard box which came from Vampire Emlyn White. He opened the box and took out the glass bottle that contained 100 milliliters of a Thousand-faced Hunter’s blood.

Glancing at the scale, Klein unscrewed the lid and steadily poured the sticky liquid into the pot with a stable wrist. The liquid changed its color depending on the variation in the lighting.

As it was a supplementary ingredient, he didn’t pursue precision and didn’t use chemical experiment apparatus to separate and titrate the liquid.

The Thousand-faced Hunter’s blood was like thin honey that slowly filled the bottom of the pot. When Klein felt that it was about time, he stopped tilting it and allowed the liquid to flow back.

There’s still about 20 milliliters left; my spiritual intuition is quite accurate… Klein withdrew his gaze from the glass bottle and tightened the lid. This 20 milliliters of Thousand-faced Hunter’s blood could still be used to make mystical items, Beyonder weapons, extraordinary scrolls, or for drawing symbols or labels in some ritualistic magic. It was still very precious.

After putting the glass bottle back into the cotton-filled box, Klein went down the list and added the black Jimsonweed juice and the Dragon Tooth Grass powder. He saw that the liquid in the iron pot started to bubble.

Without pausing, he picked up three strands of dark blue hair that resembled tiny snakes with his black-gloved right hand, and he firmly placed them on the surface of the liquid.

Sizzle!

A faint mist rose from the iron pot, and the color of the liquid turned a deep blue.

main ingredients… As expected of a Sequence 6 potion… Klein reached out and grabbed the silver

snapping sound, Klein opened the lid of the box, revealing

directly touch the Thousand-faced Hunter’s mutated pituitary gland. Instead, he placed the tin box over the top of

object with the grooves and ridges of a brain

up, and the pituitary gland that was

with the

He picked up the last box and overturned the huge diamond-like Human-skinned Shadow characteristic

the gas lamps showed signs of being

Klein finally saw what the final potion looked

would produce a bubble the size of an eye, and as if it had a life of its

and during

combined to form a picture of different faces, and

into a glass bottle that he had prepared beforehand. Because of a potion’s characteristics, not one bit was left in the

harm was acceptable, which meant that the potion had been successfully concocted, Klein took the Faceless potion bottle and

edge of the bed and, with the help

cap off of the bottle, raised his right

in his mouth and esophagus, and finally, it fermented into a numbing sensation that made him lose his

to be extracted from his body as he had the feeling of being a bystander and saw his mouth, nose, ears, and eyes melting—his

face and head had turned into what seemed like scorched white wax. His body was similarly abnormal; it was as if his bones and skin were being

didn’t keep it

body,

brief but repeated attempt, he finally felt his body once again. He tried his best to

the melting and dissolving assaulted him again and again, Klein lost sense of how long he held on for, but when it finally came

through the threshold and was

feet and walked to the full-length mirror, trying to

gas lamp’s illumination, he took two sudden steps back and caused

in the mirror was

dense, pale granules. It would make any normal creature who saw those go numb and subconsciously resist. The more timid

having completely digested the Magician potion, my advancement to Sequence 6 was still rather difficult. I was only two to three steps away from losing control. I wonder how much of a risk those Beyonders who relied on the accumulation of time and barely qualified to consume the potion faced. The probability of failure definitely isn’t low… It’s no wonder Sequence 7 is relatively

of Cogitation, he was able to

his

walked back to the full-length

flesh and

hair, brown eyes, ordinary facial features, a clean face with a deep outline, and