Lord of the Mysteries

Monday evening. 160 Böklund Street.

Klein set up a ritual and summoned himself. He planned on investigating the secret hidden in the sewers.

While responding above the gray fog, he was in a dilemma about the card to use—the Black Emperor or the Tyrant card. It was like the selection of clothes before heading out.

In consideration of how Backlund was a place where the Church of Storms was a very powerful faction, and being afraid that he would end up attracting High-Sequence irascible bros, Klein ultimately chose to use the Black Emperor card. He wore a crown and black armor with a cape behind him.

Aside from this Card of Blasphemy, he also brought Creeping Hunger, Azik’s copper whistle, Senor’s gold coin, and Broken Finger, the Marauder pathway’s mystical item which Cattleya had given him three hours ago, as well as some ordinary explosives.

Of course, Klein didn’t bring the entire crate of explosives. For a Spirit Body, it was just too heavy. He only took out five sticks and left Senor to hold them in his body.

As for Death Knell, he had left it in his room. This was to prevent himself from having the urge to participate in a battle. He had very clear goals, so once he discovered any problems, to avoid danger, he would immediately leave and not stay behind. On the contrary, a powerful weapon would end up making him act bold, making him wish to probe deeper and resolve the matter by himself.

This is Backlund. It’s best that I don’t create too great a commotion… As for what’s hidden in the sewers, I have no way of being clairvoyant about it. I can only divine whether it will be dangerous… Klein looked at the wall clock in his room, and he confirmed that there was another hour and a half before Hazel took action like she usually did.

His figure suddenly vanished as he passed through the balcony’s glass and flew into the streets before entering the sewers.

In the dirty and humid environment, Klein took out a Loen gold coin and made Wraith Senor appear in front of him with his dark red coat and old triangular hat.

Following that, he handed over the tweezers that resembled two ground bone fingers to his marionette.

Just holding it on him for a short period of time had nearly made him steal the sewer’s manhole cover.

Senor held Broken Finger and walked ahead. Dressed as the Black Emperor, Klein turned invisible and walked behind, allowing his marionette to open up a gap of at least fifty meters from him.

With this distance between them, he was no longer affected by kleptomania, and as a dead person, Senor also lacked the thoughts of stealing.

He didn’t even have any thoughts!

Turning in at the corresponding fork and passing through the hidden door, Wraith Senor held the grayish-white tweezer and appeared inside the half-natural, half-artificial cave.

Unlike before, the oilskin-wrapped tools like shovels had changed positions. The hidden passage on the right had deepened a little.

was clearly Hazel’s

Klein, who didn’t enter the fork, leaned against the water of the sewers, his back facing the

Senor came to

Klein suddenly felt the grayish-white tweezer in his marionette’s hand tremble

and profound like a calm ocean. It made it difficult to pry into its exact

spirit… Klein was only able to determine this as he immediately let Senor use Mirror Leap to return to the half-natural, half artificial cave, onto a shovel that hadn’t rusted. He didn’t attempt to head deeper underground

out the five ordinary sticks of explosives from inside its body, and placed them

was a demolition

Senor’s figure phased away, appearing on the surface of the gold

gold coin into his body, Klein raised his right hand, in preparation to snap his fingers and trigger the five sticks

was very simple. It was to deliver an explosion of a suitable scale in order to destroy Hazel’s hard work and traces. It would

regardless of what was hidden deep in the passage, it wouldn’t bring him

effective and safer than rashly attacking by himself. This was especially so when Klein wasn’t capable of determining

a self-deprecating remark, he prepared to snap his fingers to ignite the

as he lowered his arm, as though

returned above the gray fog. Then, he returned

gold coin, and the other items from the mysterious space above the gray

entire process of his late-night exploration when he was alarmed to realize that he had apparently

remember if he had triggered

turned his head to sense his surroundings and confirmed that the entire street was very silent, Klein began to believe that he hadn’t snapped

for the gray fog and my habit of doing an after-action review, I might not have discovered that my thoughts of triggering the explosives were stolen away… The other party might have also snapped his fingers, but without the Flame Controlling powers to work in concert, nothing happened… Klein’s expression turned grave as he

he still summoned himself and

Black Emperor card, Klein left 160 Böklund Street from another side, deliberately circling two streets away

far from the manhole, he used his enhanced Flame Controlling to sense the explosive and lifted

and lowered it as Klein rapidly ended the summoning and returned above the gray fog to

hurry to return to the real world, he sat at the chair of The World, doing a debrief

myself to recall this, I wouldn’t have even considered such a problem… Truly quite impressive. The one that steered Hazel to the sewers to dig is probably a demigod… Why didn’t he directly parasitize Hazel? Could it be due to particular reasons that he’s sealed somewhere in the sewers and can only release some of his powers to drive Hazel to help him via a dream? The one that caused Broken

he discovered that there was apparently no way of truly carrying out his

because his thoughts would be stolen once he entered the distance in which he could use Flame Controlling to ignite the explosives. Even if he recalled it later, there was no

affected by her dream, Klein suspected that the limits to the person’s powers didn’t stop at the manhole. If he discovered that Hero Bandit Black Emperor was related to