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.

raised his hands and clasped them together before placing them on the surface of the long

have something

Audrey turned her head slightly and responded

how you advanced to Sequence 4 Manipulator. Where did you get your potion formula and Beyonder

“It was from

client wished to receive the help of a Spectator demigod, and had paid the Manipulator potion formula and Beyonder

Derlau immediately laughed.

happened? These generous conditions resemble a father finding

what kind of

control of one’s mind was rather

talking

long and fluffy eyebrows twitched as he said,

Audrey gave an answer rather

sized her up and realized that the noble girl on his left was a Manipulator who could

thoughts and added, “I was just

the client’s

to this question.” Audrey

you tell me who he

infiltrating her mind

party didn’t need to infiltrate her mind. All he needed to

make any attempts to

believe honoring one’s promise is a moral standard that the entire world approves of. And in mysticism, this comes

can’t really trust me

contributions in exchange for the psychological research materials that are available to

smiled when he heard

very normal. What I need to assess is whether

“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

to the answer was, it was another

“disappearance” which stemmed from the investigation of Fors and Xio was something both parties had never talked about

hands from the table

like to ask: when was the last time you met

slightly and said, “I remember that I’ve been

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

to confirm it in person,”

hypnotized my two Beyonder friends I knew, as per his instructions, and asked them why they were investigating Viscount Stratford and who the mastermind

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

that day, I

was still guarding against the invasion of