Lord of the Mysteries

“What is this place?” Audrey asked without much change in her expression, as though she was asking about the location of the ball tonight.

Pauli Derlau, who claimed to be the president of the Psychology Alchemists, cast his gaze out the window as well. He smiled and said, “This is the city in everyone’s heart.

“It’s present wherever there are people.”

Audrey nodded in thought.

“In other words, you can enter this place from any corner of human society?”

Derlau stroked his wheelchair and said, “That’s right.”

He didn’t explain further and instead pointed at the pedestrians outside the carriage.

“Everything here has a corresponding psychological symbol; they are called ‘Bestial Desire.'”

Bestial Desire… Audrey repeated the word silently. As she maintained her dignified posture, she cast her gaze even further.

Among the pedestrians, there were werewolves, as well as walking upright bears. There were cats with lazy expressions, and there was a strange man with a face of a spotted spider, a huge mouse with red eyes, a python with its tongue sticking out, and a canine creature that studied every creature that passed it by with eyes filled with the desire to mate…

They were either wearing a top hat and trench coat or an exquisite and complicated long dark dress, doing their best to imitate humans in every detail, but they were unable to truly resemble a human.

The carriage traveled through the darkness of the night, traveling between pedestrians and all kinds of Gothic buildings. Soon, they arrived at a cathedral in the middle of the city.

The cathedral was more than eighty meters tall, propped up thanks to the numerous black columns. Each pillar was embedded with a certain number of skulls. Some of them came from humans, while others came from different creatures. However, their empty eye sockets were tilted downwards, as though they were observing at every living creature that entered the cathedral.

Just like most buildings here, every detail in the cathedral could be said to be exquisite, but they formed the elements that leaned towards nightmare, horror, terror, and mystery.

After getting off the carriage, Audrey saw a grand but empty hall through the main door.

In the depths of the hall stood a huge cross. Curled around the cross was a grayish-white dragon statue.

Unlike ordinary cathedrals, there were no pews for believers to pray, nor were there places for candle stands. However, in front of the dragon statue, there was a small long table. On both sides of the long table were five seats, and the seats at both ends were empty.

Pauli Derlau wheeled himself to the end of the long table where the seat of honor was. Then, he pointed to his left.

“Please take a seat.”

Audrey slowly followed behind him. She looked around and casually pulled out a chair before sitting down.

She wasn’t too close to the president of the Psychology Alchemists, nor was she too far away. She perfectly showed her vigilance and didn’t show any signs of guilt.

hands and clasped them together before placing them on

have

speak.” Audrey turned her head slightly and responded with her

know how you advanced to Sequence 4 Manipulator. Where did you get your potion

“It

the help of a Spectator demigod, and had paid the

Derlau immediately laughed.

happened? These generous conditions resemble a father finding

tell me exactly what kind of help

demigod. In this matter, control of one’s mind

was talking

twitched as he said, “And you

are obvious enough.” Audrey

realized that the noble girl on his left was a Manipulator who

“I

“Do you know where the client’s Manipulator potion formula and Beyonder characteristic came

regards to this question.” Audrey

he is?” Derlau asked after

party’s Virtual Persona from infiltrating her mind island. However, she had yet to notice anything

that the other party didn’t need to infiltrate her mind. All he needed to do

any attempts to

agreement between us. I believe honoring one’s promise is a moral standard that the entire world approves of. And

initiative to say, “If you can’t really trust me because of

can only remain an ordinary member and use my contributions in exchange for the psychological research materials that are available

smiled when he

This is very normal. What I need to assess is

at Audrey and said, “Then can you tell me how you got to know

remember that I once reported that, before joining the Psychology Alchemists, I’d already come into contact with some people in a mysticism circle and got to know a few Beyonders,” Audrey said a

the real logical order to the answer

investigation of Fors and Xio was something both parties had never

retracted his hands from the table and

ask: when was the last time you met Hvin

and said, “I remember

death, she didn’t immediately cut off any contact with the Psychology Alchemists. She continued to maintain a certain connection with the upper echelons through Hilbert, Stephen, and Escalante. Only when the war reached Backlund did she realize that she couldn’t contact the members of the Psychology Alchemists

confirm it in person,” Derlau

Hvin Rambis was in Viscount Glaint’s mansion. At that time, I hypnotized my two Beyonder friends I knew, as per his instructions, and asked them why they were investigating

Rambis was nearby, ensuring that nothing went wrong with the hypnotism. After he received the answer, he quickly

that day, I never saw

guarding against the invasion of her mind island. However, it was calm