Lord of the Mysteries

Minutes later, Klein—with the face of Gehrman Sparrow—walked out of 39 Böklund Street with Miss Justice Audrey and headed for places where the other Parasite victims were.

After a few silent steps, Klein suddenly looked ahead and said, “It’s not rare to see such matters happen among unaffiliated Beyonders. Without any suitable guidance, it often implies that they’re constantly dancing at the edge of a cliff with the possibility of falling at any time.”

Audrey tersely acknowledged and said after a few seconds, “I know. Compared to before, I’m not as… not as…”

She deliberated for a moment before breaking into a grimacing smile, as though she had found a suitable adjective she required to mock herself.

“Naive.”

Phew… She then exhaled without hiding it as she looked ahead. “If I had known that the mysterious world was so cruel and terrifying last June, I might not have raised the request of becoming a Beyonder.”

Klein turned his head slightly and took a look at the noble lady’s face. He asked in a seemingly casual manner, “If I were to give you the chance now to completely leave the mysterious world, would you accept it?”

Audrey was taken aback as she slowly pursed her lips and said, “No…”

After giving such a response, she seemed to relax a little as she smiled and continued, “Under the premise of knowing how cruel and terrifying the mysterious world is, the me from last June would’ve given up being a Beyonder. But the me of this year wouldn’t.

“This might be the price of growing up.”

“I understand what you’re getting at.” Klein continued forward at the same pace as he said, “After those victims are completely purified, a number of them will spit out Worms of Time. They can be used to create Fate Siphon charms. It’s a demigod-level item that can switch the fate between two parties for a short period of time. When the time comes, I’ll give you one as payment for today’s treatment.”

Audrey was about to decline it before she fell silent again. She then nodded gently and said, “Okay.”

Just as she said that, she suddenly paused. She turned her head to glance at Gehrman Sparrow and smilingly said with a mixed expression, “I know why you just asked me that question.”

Klein chuckled without giving a direct answer.

Audrey retracted her gaze and immediately felt a lot better. She asked as though they were having a chat, “I participated in the punishment operation at noon, and I dealt with the Amon aftermath in the afternoon. Today is really a ‘Tarot Day’…”

Her words were a double entendre as she said with utmost wistfulness.

From her point of view, noon was a cooperative operation that involved five members—The Moon, The Star, Judgment, Justice, and The Magician—with different levels of involvement. In the afternoon, the Tarot Club’s The World and Justice had involved themselves in the elimination of Amon’s avatars in different ways. This was indeed a day to remember, and in a sense, it could be considered a “Tarot Day.”

Klein nodded in agreement at Miss Justice’s words, but he didn’t tell her that The Star Leonard had also been involved in the afternoon operation. Furthermore, he was the main force in the operation.

“Amon’s avatar must’ve been difficult to deal with, right?” Audrey finally found an opportunity to raise the question.

Sparrow, making no attempt

Klein smiled.

you wouldn’t be seeing Gehrman Sparrow,

your destiny and identity stolen?” Audrey

Klein tersely acknowledged.

future. In short, to eliminate all of the Amon avatars in Backlund this time, we had

that you have the means to handle ‘Him’ alone. Immediately find an opportunity to seek help. Yes, ‘His’ trait is the wearing of a monocle. He enjoys pulling off

or the angel from the Fate domain, or… Audrey looked up at the sky and saw the clouds frozen

student listening to a teacher, she seriously nodded and said, “I will keep that in

silent, occasionally breaking out into a

minutes, inside the activity room of

and place their clasped hands before their mouth. They then began to piously pray and chant

an unknown period of time, they coughed in unison

Cough! Cough! Cough!

it, they separately coughed out worms with twelve

worms fell to the ground, they vanished without garnering any

happened in other places of Böklund Street, but everything was quickly restored to normal. And the darkness had faded away at some point in

puzzled as to how she fell asleep on the sofa

been in an excellent mood, but she just couldn’t bring herself to smile. She felt as though there was a feeling of indescribable

on her, not only wasn’t she touched, she even felt a little

her personality, but

or puzzling

same. They had a nagging feeling that there was something hazy about their memories,

In the master bedroom which

itself across the coffee table. It was the barefooted Ariannaleader of the ascetics, matron of the Evernight Cloister, head of the thirteen archbishops of the Church of Evernight. She was wearing a

about to leave the sofa. On the coffee table

your help, Amon’s avatars in Backlund have all been

been Parasitized, and

four times in a clockwise fashion and replied in a pious manner,

right hand, and two Worms of Time flew up

have to be careful in the future,” Arianna said simply before

picked up a pen and paper, writing

other effects the Worms of Time

believed that he couldn’t turn all the remaining Worms of Time into Fate Siphon charms, as it would be too monotonous. It made it easy to be countered, and it prevented him from handling different