Lord of the Mysteries

Most of the areas in the Forsaken Land of the Gods didn’t have paths that one would consider normal, but it wasn’t that difficult to walk through them. This was because large swaths of the land were barren. Everything was mostly black in color.

On the moors, there were occasional sightings of plants that stubbornly grew. They were of a variety of strange shapes and distorted sizes. Klein had no way to tell what they originally were.

Around them, in the areas that the lantern couldn’t illuminate, the darkness seemed to have a life of its own. It seemed to move silently, as though it wanted to devour everything that they could blanket.

As a Scholar of Yore, Klein just needed one glance from the corner of his eye to see the Spirit Body Threads extending out from the darkness around him. They were illusory, dense, and countless. This meant that there were many monsters lurking in the darkness.

These monsters were extremely silent. They stared at Amon, who was dressed as an ancient mage, as well as Klein, who looked like a present-day gentleman. Under the dim yellow light, they walked through the wilderness.

With his eyes fixed ahead, Klein casually held the animal hide lantern in his hand, not worried about when it would be extinguished.

Just as the two of them were about to leave this barren wilderness and enter a hilly region, a deformed monster of mangled flesh with two heads and five arms suddenly trembled in the darkness behind them.

It had become Klein’s marionette.

Controlling Spirit Body Threads was silent to begin with, and it wasn’t more than 500 meters away.

In the next second, the monster collapsed silently, losing its life.

Walking to Klein’s left, Amon, who was wearing a pointed hat, smiled. “He” raised “His” right arm and opened “His” palm, revealing something.

It was a transparent maggot with three-dimensional patterns.

A Worm of Spirit!

This was stolen from the marionette, along with the Spirit Body Threads.

Without waiting for Klein to speak, Amon easily crushed the transparent maggot with “His” fingers.

Klein immediately felt a pain that came from deep within his soul. His head felt like it was about to split open.

Thankfully, he had gotten used to this feeling from him repeated creating Yesterday Once More charms and Control Spirit Bullets. He only grimaced without losing his composure.

Amon maintained “His” smile and threw down “His” palm.

“You’re too reserved. You can be more daring.”

from the pain, Klein raised his hand to rub his temples, feeling exhausted. Every Worm of

mostly expended. There was still the continuous “Traveling” after that. By using Angel’s Embrace to remove traces, he was already nearing his

from Amon, which resulted in him being parasitized. He had been tormented all the way to the Forsaken Land of

Klein put down his right hand and

more he failed at escaping despite trying his best, the more he could satisfy this God of Mischief’s desire

slightly as “He” said while facing the hillside, “There’s a resting place there. We’ll arrive soon. Of course, I don’t mind if you want to camp out in the wilderness. I just feel that you humans might prefer a place that

Jump, but his drained spirituality stopped him. He could only follow Amon and rely on

the way, with a mind of asking more questions, he said to Amon, “Why don’t you ‘steal’ the distance

“His” head and glanced at Klein with “His” monocled right eye. The corners of “His” lips curled

one who wants

mouth and quietly

of lightning flashes, Amon raised “His” hand

“We’re here.”

hill less than a hundred meters away, there were a few buildings that looked like half-steeples. More than ten giant stone pillars protruded out from the ground, reaching only the height of Klein’s knees. A few strands of wild grass grew

people living here?” Klein rubbed his temples

place used to be a very large city. When the Cataclysm happened, the land cracked open and devoured the entire city, leaving behind

mind. He sped up his pace and arrived at the destination

instinctively looked around

murals that had been washed away by thousands of years. They were already indiscernible, and he could tell that the people in the

breathing, Klein threw away the animal hide lantern in his hand. Leaning against a thick stone pillar, he

dangers of

he fell asleep, Klein

at him before casually sitting

burn out in the lantern stopped melting,

to last a few more minutes, it seemed to

an error that violated the laws of

for an unknown period of time of feeling groggy, Klein finally recovered his energy and was woken up

to this. He closed his eyes and pretended that he

can only tell if my thoughts are harmful to “Him”… With a thought, he secretly

state from his past self through the Historical Void,

when Hvin Rambis invaded his island of

wasn’t stopped or

to maintain his lucidity in dreams and the mind world regardless of any intrusions, he split

to examine if there were any abnormalities in his mind and thoughts

confirmed that there

other words, even if there was still a Worm of Time in his body, it was still considered being parasitized at a superficial level. It was impossible to monitor