Lord of the Mysteries

Saint Samuel Cathedral, behind Chanis Gate.

Backlund Archbishop, Saint Anthony, stood at the staircase connecting the two different stories and watched as the Nighthawk deacons rushed about. Many of them wore red gloves.

As a spokesperson for the Church of Evernight in the kingdom’s capital, Saint Anthony had a clean-shaven face. His face didn’t betray his mood, and his deep black eyes similarly hid any upheavals he had. But everyone who passed by him would feel their souls tremble as an indescribable sense of horror arose in their hearts.

“Your Grace, an inventory count has been made. None of the mysticism ingredients are missing, including the potion main ingredients and Beyonder characteristics…”

“Your Grace, all the potion formulas are in their original locations. It can be preliminarily determined that no one had gone through them in the last eight hours…”

“Your Grace, all of the prisoners imprisoned on the first level are accounted for. None of them escaped, nor did anyone pass away…”

“Your Grace, none of the information or books suffered any damage or were moved…”

“Your Grace, the Grade 2 and Grade 3 Sealed Artifacts are all present. None of them have been taken away…”

“Your Grace, the three Grade 1 Sealed Artifacts remain in their sealed states. None of them show signs of having left their confines…”

“Your Grace, the core seal remains intact and didn’t suffer any damage…”

“Your Grace, it has been confirmed that there are no new items in here. There are no remnant setups that bring about danger…”

“Your Grace, we didn’t find the enemy who disguised himself as a Keeper. H-he seems to have evaporated into thin air…”

One deacon after another came over to make a report as the matter gradually turned somewhat odd.

They found it unimaginable that a scheming and powerful Beyonder would take such an immense risk and set up such a tight plan and use all kinds of means to pass through Chanis Gate. Yet, nothing was taken, and the perpetrator had left after circling the area once!

This made it seem like the person was only trying to prove themselves, or it was someone who had specially come to find flaws in the surveillance of Chanis Gate for the Church.

The deacon who led a Red Gloves team surveyed the area and deliberated as he came up with a theory.

“Your Grace, could it be the requirements of an advancement ritual of some Sequence?”

accustomed to making such guesses. And from Sequence 5, different pathways and different Sequences had different advancement rituals. The ones that the Church of Evernight was aware of wasn’t a large

already see the infiltrator’s mockery grin that said, “I’m free to go anywhere, even if it’s the Church of Evernight’s Chanis Gate. It’s no different from a department store. Those Nighthawks will only become raged after

caught! Soest silently clenched his red-gloved

Anthony was just about to say something when Nighthawk deacon, Daly Simone, raised

take some Sealed Artifact away and suffered the negative effects. He died on

nodded in thought and said, “I’ll head

said, he steadily walked to basement two, and in a secret location, activated the path to basement

deacons were lacking in rank or clearance, so all they could do was wait in their

span too big an area. He basically confirmed

observed 1-80 with 1-29 and found

from it thrice. Sometimes, he changed where he stood, and

temporary causing the seal on 0-17, even 1-29 and 1-80, which were rather dangerous items, to become ineffective. Saint Anthony didn’t wish to degenerate

a silent sigh of relief. He

Nighthawk deacons saw

from touching a Sealed Artifact,” Saint

additional explanations as he instructed, “Regardless, this matter needs to

the Keepers. He’s very familiar with how Nighthawks handle and take over matters, and has the ability or an item to change his appearance. In addition, he had obtained the help from a Beyonder with a sacred Evernight pathway

and priests to see if they have encountered any indistinct spirit channeling or enticement. Check if the bishops have betrayed the Goddess, as well as the believers who have recently come to the cathedral on a regular basis… At the same time, check on all the believers and the surroundings of their residences. Perhaps they had unexpectedly divulged something and had something stolen.

the missing servant and see if there are

Grace,” Soest and the other Nighthawk deacons

…

having his feet up on the

second time he had encountered a matter that targeted items behind Chanis Gate. It invoked the

encountered the fake Keeper before without

might not have… Leonard Mitchell’s lips pursed tightly as he looked at the documents in front of him,

has awoken. He didn’t see the infiltrator and only knew that he encountered the

cathedral?” Many Red Gloves

to him in the corner, he suppressed his

voice sounded in

observe the outside world all