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.

and clasped them together before placing

I have something

turned her head slightly and responded with her

said, “I would like to know how you advanced to Sequence 4 Manipulator. Where did you get your potion formula and Beyonder

frankly, “It

a Spectator demigod, and had paid the Manipulator potion

Derlau immediately laughed.

actually happened? These generous conditions resemble a father

tell me exactly what kind of

this matter, control of one’s mind was rather crucial.” Audrey simply

calm, as if she was talking about the homework given

eyebrows twitched as he said,

Audrey gave

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

“I was just

“Do you know where the client’s

straight with regards to this question.” Audrey gave an answer with a sentence she had long planned

he is?” Derlau

against the other party’s Virtual Persona from infiltrating her

to infiltrate her mind. All he needed to do was observe the fluctuations of the surrounding sea of collective subconscious to

didn’t make any attempts to

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

really trust me because of

remain an ordinary member and use my contributions in

smiled when he

secrets. This is very normal. What I need to assess is whether your secret will affect

and said, “Then can you tell me how

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

for what the real logical order to the answer was, it

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

from the table and placed

to ask: when was the

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

didn’t immediately cut off any contact with the Psychology Alchemists. She continued to maintain a certain connection with the upper echelons through Hilbert,

need to confirm it in

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

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

that day, I never saw

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