Lord of the Mysteries

The initial preparations for building a marionette town were rather boring and tedious. At the very least, Klein believed so.

In the ancient palace, Klein sat on the high-back chair belonging to The Fool, holding a fountain pen. There were ordinary pieces of paper with the name, age, and the fate of every marionette. As he made the Worms of Spirit emerge from his body, they formed avatars beside him.

Some Kleins sat on the ground, while others occupied the twenty-one seats other than The Fool’s. Some conjured beds and lay on them…

Then, they summoned different books from the junk pile and started reading them seriously.

The books included but were not limited to:

“How to Brew Wine”

“Train Dispatching”

“Desert Making Compendium”

“A Clergyman Prepares”

“Gas Wall Lamps, Gas Meters, and All Kinds of Family Machinery Repair”

“DESI-licacy”

“Harbor Management”

“Foundations of Law”

“Ladies Aesthetic” magazines…

These were specialist knowledge that different marionettes needed to grasp. Only by doing so would they be able to act their roles well, allowing him to be realistic in every aspect. Even if they were to engage in a deep conversation with outsiders, they wouldn’t expose any problems.

It wouldn’t be difficult for Klein if he just needed to simply memorize the knowledge, but he had to truly grasp and apply it. Furthermore, he couldn’t confuse his characters. He couldn’t let a burly and strong switchman with a low income be talking about the wonders of a particular particular skincare product, or which silk cloth was flawed.

If such a situation were to happen in novels, plays, and operas, it might create a strange attraction, but putting it in the real world was clearly uncanny and not beneficial to the advancement of the ritual.

To avoid such a problem, Klein could only work harder in the early stages. He hoped that every character in a marionette town would be real, whole, and appropriate.

Fortunately, there weren’t many people in a city who needed to deeply understand the corresponding specialist knowledge. Most of the residents were half-illiterate, or really illiterate. They relied on experience to live their lives that they repeated via motions. For these characters, the knowledge that Klein needed to grasp was relatively little, just like workers who had gone through simple training—or even without any training—to be sent to the assembly line.

After an unknown period of time, Klein put down his fountain pen and rubbed his temples, letting out a long sigh of relief.

written down the information about nearly five thousand residents in the marionette town, and his corresponding knowledge preparation

movie directed by a director, and with me being the scriptwriter. Same for the lighting engineer, the makeup artist, and all the actors… For this ritual, I’m really on the verge of losing control. If I’m

a gentleman with manners, most of the residents in town have low socioeconomic status. Be it speaking or acting, they’re more inclined towards being vulgar… I can’t make a mistake during the acting and become set back by my psychological barriers… Klein sighed silently as the avatars around him disintegrated into Worms of Spirit before

who maintained his

Klein returned to the real world and took out

was located in the Berserk Sea

was the “stage”

There were no signs of human activity, only a large forest and

his right hand to his left chest and prayed

he said that, Klein raised his right hand and

open area became extremely flat. The surrounding forest also “receded” greatly, providing large amounts

stone and wood. The highest wasn’t more than four stories high. The style was closer

a city hall, a small hospital, a candy factory, a water plant, a gas company, a steam locomotive station, parallel train tracks, and

the town, a pointed-tip cathedral

the Evernight Goddess, as it was

hope this island has a deep-sea harbor.” Klein didn’t stop as

Pa!

his fingers again,

a small-scale harbor quickly took shape. There were two docks, five warehouses, a port hotel, a simple restaurant, a police

the harbor and town to

right hand and snapped his

a cargo rail instantly

by sea. The town was mainly for outsiders from

at the empty city with admiration, Klein pressed his top hat and “Teleported” to the municipal square. He

door was open, and it was

gentleman in a formal suit with

before stretching her neck. Then, she smiled and reached out her hands to hold the

faint smile on his face. As he allowed the lady to lean

little boy was skipping about, appearing very

actions were a little rough at first, but the more they walked,

more and more people walked out of Saint Arianna Cathedral. They consisted of the police, repair workers, gas company employees, restaurant chefs, white-haired old men,

different streets and went to

the limits of the cathedral’s capacity, but there seemed to be no end to

entrance of Saint Arianna Cathedral finally fell silent. However,

at the top of the cathedral opened. White pigeons

looked for hawkers, while some played a seven-string guitar, and others smiled

a top hat and a trench coat and carrying a cane left the municipal square. He came to the other side