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?”

guesses. And from Sequence 5, different pathways and different Sequences had different advancement rituals.

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

be caught! Soest silently clenched

about to say something when Nighthawk

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

Anthony nodded in thought and said, “I’ll head to basement

that said, he steadily walked to basement two, and

other deacons were lacking in rank or clearance, so all they

Anthony quickly arrived at basement three which didn’t span too big an area. He basically confirmed that Sealed Artifacts 1-29 and 1-80 hadn’t undergone

and found 0-17 lying inside with eyes half-open, just like

this process, Saint Anthony approached thrice and opened a distance from it thrice. Sometimes, he changed where he stood, and at other times, he cloaked himself

on 0-17, even 1-29 and 1-80, which were rather dangerous items, to become ineffective. Saint Anthony didn’t wish to degenerate into an amnesiac who had to relearn how to eat and drink, much less become

of relief. He began

minutes later, the Nighthawk deacons saw the archbishop

died from touching a Sealed Artifact,” Saint Anthony said,

as he instructed, “Regardless, this matter needs to be investigated. The infiltrator might have a

means that the target is very familiar with this place and is familiar with the recent duty shifts of 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

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. I’ll carry out the investigations pertaining

the missing servant and see if

and the

…

wasn’t having his feet up on the table like usual. He sat very properly

a matter that targeted items behind Chanis Gate. It invoked the memories that he buried deep

importantly, he had encountered the fake

were a little stronger and had better observation skills, perhaps it might not have… Leonard Mitchell’s lips pursed tightly as he looked at the documents in front of him, but he wasn’t reading a

didn’t see the infiltrator and only knew that he encountered the possession ability of a Wraith,” the Red Glove that

can a Wraith move about inside the cathedral?” Many Red Gloves

to him in the corner, he suppressed his voice and seemed to mutter, “Old Man,

aged voice sounded in his

like I’ll observe the outside world all the time, especially when