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

the fork, leaned against the water of the sewers, his back facing the target region.

Senor came to

moment, Klein suddenly felt the grayish-white tweezer in his marionette’s hand tremble subtly, as though it had been attracted by some

a calm ocean. It made it

Klein was only able to determine this as he immediately let Senor use Mirror Leap to return to the half-natural,

Senor appeared again, took out the five ordinary sticks of explosives from inside its body, and placed them

Wraith was

doing all of this, Senor’s figure phased away, appearing on the surface of the gold coin in

hand, in preparation to snap his fingers and trigger the

a suitable scale in order to destroy Hazel’s hard work and traces. It would attract the Nighthawks and resolve

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

rashly attacking by himself. This

remark,

a little as he lowered his arm, as though nothing had

the summoning and returned above the gray fog. Then, he returned to the real world and entered his

himself to bring back Creeping Hunger, Senor’s gold coin, and the other items from the mysterious space above the gray fog, he

process of his late-night exploration when he was alarmed

he had triggered the five sticks of

entire street was very silent, Klein began to believe that he

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

tracked, he still summoned himself and responded

from another side,

he didn’t approach the fork. Staying not far from the manhole, he used

raised it and lowered it as Klein rapidly ended the summoning and returned

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

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 Fingers to react abnormally via the law of Beyonder characteristic convergence is also

having a rough guess, he discovered that there was apparently no way of truly carrying out his original

entered the distance in which he could use Flame Controlling to ignite the explosives. Even if he recalled it later, there was no way to make up for

be 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