Lord of the Mysteries

Ten at night. Backlund was drizzling again as a thin fog produced a blurry sense of beauty amidst the street lamps.

Isengard Stanton’s assistant, Bowen, surveyed the bottom level once before walking to the side of the oriel window and was prepared to shut the final window.

At that moment, a shadow scuttled in and landed firmly on the protruding wall.

It was a blue, short-furred stray cat!

Bowen saw the large pair of yellow eyes looking at him as he couldn’t help but chuckle.

“There’s no food here.”

As a detective’s work made him prone to revenge, and him having many secrets to hide, Isengard Stanton’s cook and servants were paid by the hour. There were a fixed number of hours a day, and they wouldn’t prepare too much food. This made it difficult for there to be any leftovers after dinner.

The blue cat opened its mouth but didn’t produce any meowing sounds. It began speaking like a human, “I’m Sherlock Moriarty. I’m here to meet Mr. Isengard Stanton.”

“…” Although Bowen was a Beyonder who was nurtured by the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom, he was a Low-Sequence Beyonder and his horizons were stilted. This was the first time he was encountering a speaking cat, so he was momentarily shocked and dazed.

After a few seconds, he came to his senses and recalled what the cat had just said.

It said… It said it’s Sherlock Moriarty?

This great detective really isn’t simple!

He actually changed into a cat, no—controlled a cat!

Such powers are really strange and terrifying!

Bowen rapidly calmed down and didn’t directly answer the cat. He reached out to close the windows.

After doing all of this, he said with a suppressed voice, “Follow me”

The cat immediately leaped from the platform behind the oriel window as it agilely followed behind Bowen with its tail up. It followed him all the way to the second story and watched him knock on Isengard Stanton’s bedroom door.

“Is there something?” Isengard, who was dressed in pajamas with faint lines, opened the door and asked.

He was just enjoying his tobacco before sleeping.

Bowen cautiously pointed to the crouched blue cat beside him.

“Mr. Sherlock Moriarty is looking for you.”

with his white sideburns and thin face raised his brows slightly and looked down. He took two steps back and

room and get some sleep. Wake up as per normal tomorrow. We still have a case awaiting us,” Isengard instructed

closed the door and turned to look at the blue cat who was sitting beside the reclining chair.

powers. I was worried you would directly come

the cat said

on a cat’s face was rather odd. It left anyone who witnessed it feel a

abnormally towards that as he sucked at his pipe, sat on a reclining chair,

compliments.” The cat politely

and rubbed its

understood what is

it will be quite troublesome for them if they get exposed, I believe that they

and tracked. Do you have the means to evade their tracking? Hmm… the sum of money isn’t

order to get me to deposit the money into a particular bank account, and then you’ll find

best

response as it

you to lend me an

for 12,000 pounds. The buyer is the daughter of Earl Hall, Audrey. Well, the hiring of lawyers and accountants, as well as the

tax on commercial, financial, and specialized

are gone just

tax-free. Later, as a private detective, his income was difficult to be monitored, so he never declared his income for tax purposes. Later, he became an adventurer, and since the bounties targeted at pirates enjoyed concessions, there was no need for him to pay taxes on them. Hence, he never realized that tax was something he

weren’t any taxes for the share transaction the previous time, taxes were waived by the Loen government

cat’s whiskers moved as it said, “Alright, give me the cash. Eh, move it to the

no problems with the money,

would be an insult to my intelligence.” Isengard stood up with his

on its way,” the cat replied,

walked to the safe inside the master bedroom, using a passcode and key to open it. Then, he took out stacks of cash, and he stuffed them into

with these briefcases and entered a guest room

cash on the ground as

cat said after taking a

and pointed to the

“There are candles inside.”

doorknob, and said with a smile, “I’m really curious how you would leave… I

Stanton closed the door with a click, leaving the guest room silent and

and an old

of the first few steps, he directly muttered in Elvish, “Blessed of the sea and spirit world, guardian of

devoted servant prays

pray for you